September 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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THEO. FATHAUER CO. 



1428 CHERRY AVENUE 

 Telephone Diversey 1 824 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



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 CHICAGO. ILL. 



Direct Shipments in 



CAR AND CARGO LOTS 



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HELENA, ARK. 



Address Correspondence to Chicago Office 



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through which it is sought to secure an appropriation of $100,000,000 to 

 be used by the president along the lines indicated in the resolutions sub- 

 mitted to the United States Chamber o£ Commerce. Members of the 

 association believe that the plan of building cars by the government for 

 the handling of freight from interior points to the seaboard is just as 

 feasible and Just as necessary to the winning of the war as is the building 

 of ships for transporting these products from the seaboard to the allies 

 in Europe. 



A conference was held here September 14 between the shippers' com- 

 mittee.- headed by James S. Davant of the Memphis Freight Bureau, and 

 the car service committee, of which E. H. Egan of the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley line of the Illinois Central, is chairman. There was much discus- 

 sion of car service, car shortage and other phases of the transportation 

 situation but the idea which dominated both shippers and representatives 

 of the carriers is that the character of service shippers will receive during 

 the next few months will be determined largely by the extent to which 

 individual shippers make use of the equipment furnished them. It is rec- 

 ognized on all sides that there is going to be a shortage of cars tha* 

 will affect all industries and all firms and individuals but it is likewise 

 recognized that this shortage will be minimized in proportion to the vigor 

 with which individual shippers load and unload cars promptly and with 

 which they load all equipment to full visible capacity. J. H. Townshend. 

 secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, attended 

 as the representative of lumber interests. 



The Gayoso Lumber Company, New South Memphis, began operating its 

 liig liand mill here last week on double shift and it is likewise running 

 its mill in North Mississippi on full schedule. This company has recently 

 acquired additional timberlands from the Luehrmann interests at St. Louis 

 and is bringing the logs from these holdings to Memphis for conversion 

 into lumber. Its output just now is larger than at any previous time 

 in the history of the company. 



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Much interest Is being centered in a movement launched by the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club in an effort to aid the small producer and consumer 

 through making "trade acceptances" standard terms in the lumber Indus- 

 try. At a recent meeting of the club the movement was favorably passed 

 upon, and a cominittee, composed of E. B. Norman, H. E. Kline and R. R. 

 May, was named to draft a letter and take the matter up with the guni, 

 oak, hardwood manufacturers' and other leading associations, the idea 

 being to get these organizations to adopt the term, and make it a standard 

 in the trade. 



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Lumber interests of Louisville are much interested in the proirosed 

 export movement through southern ports, which it is claimed will be 

 a life-saver this winter in case the car supply runs short, or shipment.s 

 for export run heavy. It is estimated that through the use of the south- 

 ern ports thousands of cars will be released in the South, and loaded back 

 with lumber and agricultural products for the North and East, meaning 

 an endless supply of cars in the big southern hardwood districts, ana 

 elimination of congestion and embargoes in the North and East. It will 

 also result in free movement of coal shipments if the railroads can remain 

 open for all traffic, and probably will make it possible to avert the 

 threatened coal shortage. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company has opened a pine department 

 in charge of Sam Taylor, a pine operator of long experience and well 

 known to the trade. Mr. Taylor believes that the pLne people will expe- 

 rience the best winter business on record. 



R. R. May, secretary of the Louisville branch of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, has taken up with the American Railway .Association 

 the question of whether or not shipments of hardwoods into Canada, for 

 consumption in Canada, will be affected by the recent export proclamation 

 of President Wilson, and asking for a ruling on the subject. .\t present 

 railroads are divided in their interpretation, some believing that it will 

 be necessary to obtain licenses to ship hardwoods into Canada even for 

 consumption there. Ij<;)cal operators do not believe that such a me-aning 

 was implied, and that the order affects shipments for direct exporting 

 abroad. Shipments of hardwoods to Canadian manufacturers of furni- 

 ture, etc., are heavy, and much time would be lost and trouble experi- 

 enced If licen.ses had to be obtained for such shipments. 



A recent visitor to Ivouisville was Frank Shippen of Shippen Brothers, 

 Elijay. Ga., a brother of Edward Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company. While here Mr. Shippen attended a meeting of the hardwood 

 club, and discussed conditions in the South, stating that agricultural and 

 stock prospects were better in Georgia than ever before known. 



Kentucky manufacturers are busy working up their tax sheets under 

 the new tax law, passed last spring and effective September 1. Under 

 this law machinery in manufacturing establishments, war materials, and 

 materials in course of manufacture are exempt from local taxation, and 

 subject to a state tas of forty cents a hundred only, as compared with 

 a former rate of flfty-flve cents. The new tax law has been drafted with 

 the purpose of bringing more capital, lahor and manufacturers to the state, 

 it being held that under the old laws industry was checked. 



Labor conditions not only in Louisville but through the state and the 

 South are in bad shape and mill operators are having trouble in securing 

 men. Locally the Mengel Box Ccuupany is advertising for 100 men, an<3 



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