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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1917 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter aawad 



WHrre AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We mike a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wajon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 

 Y our Inqulrlea aollcit* d 



ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust Building 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straight 



Northwestern 

 Cooperage and Lumber Co. 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN 



Western Office: Mills at Gladstone and 



516 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. Escanaba, Mich. 



Manufacturers of the following 



"PEERLESS" STANDARD BRAND PRODUCTS 

 Hardwood Flooring, Staves, Hoops, Heading 

 and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, 

 Posts, Poles and Ties, and Hemlock Tan Bark 



wagyn factory at Petersburg, Ind. C. Veeck, senior member of the Arm, 

 for a number of years was interested in a wagon factory at Hunting- 

 burg, lull. 



The I'laiufleld Lumber Company, Plainticld, Ind., has filed a notice of 

 dissolution. 



The various handle factories in southern Indiana and western Ken- 

 tucky report a good trade. The plant of the Whitmorc Handle Company 

 at Mt. Vernon, Ind., is being operated on steady time. The company 

 recently received a large order from a big hardware firm at Indianapolis 

 for handles. The stave mills in this section are also doin;: a good busi- 

 ness, most of them being operated on full time. The tie business is bet- 

 ter than it has been for a number of weeks, ami tug an<I towboats are bring- 

 ing in a great many ties from points along Green and Big Harren rivers. 



.V few days ago in the Vanderburg county probate court, Mrs. Eva 

 Maley, widow of the late Claude Maley of Maley & Wcrtz, was appointed 

 administratri.\ of the estate, which is valued at about ,$12."), 000. Mr. 

 Maley did not leave a will and the estate will be shared by Mrs. Maley 

 and two children, Henry and Margaret. Of the estate about $100,000 

 is in personals and the rest is in real estate. 



During the past few days a great many walnut logs have been recov- 

 ered from the bottom of Reelfoot Lake near Hickman, Ky. The logs have 

 remained in the lake since the great earthquake of 1S12. In fact it was 

 the earthquake that formed the lake and thousands of acres of valuable 

 timber were lost at the time. During the summer numths when the 

 water in the lake is low the walnut and oak logs may be plainly seen. 

 Some of the walnut logs taken from the lake have been shipped east and 

 and will be used in making blades for aeroplanes and hydroplanes. 



The building permits in Evansville for September showed a nice gain 

 over those of August. Architects and contractors say that there is good 

 building in sight for October and they expect to keep fairly busy. 



The Electric Planing Mill Company, Owensboro, Ky., is building an 

 addition that will cost about $8,000. 



The business of John A. Reitz & Sons, hardwood lumber manufac- 

 turers of Evansville, is being liquidated. The company was formed in 

 1S45 by John A. Reitz, who was one of the pioneer lumber manufac- 

 turers of southern Indiana. Upon his death several years ago the busi- 

 ness was taken over by his son, F. J. Reitz, president of the City Na- 

 tional Bank of this city. The mill of the company is located at Seventh 

 avenue and the mouth of Pigeon creek and the mill now in operation is 

 the fourth one built on the same site. The mill is sawing up all logs it 

 has on hand and as soon as all the lumber has been disposed of it will 

 be dismantled and the firm will pass into history. Mr. Reitz says the 

 firm is the oldest on this side of the AUeghenles that has been in con- 

 tinuous business for seventy-two years. From 1883 to 1893 the com- 

 pany sawed more hardwood lumber than any other mill in the United 

 States, according to Mr. Reitz. Mr. Reitz, who Is one of the wealthiest 



citizens of Evansville, is seventy-six years old and says he wants to 

 close out the business so that^his estate will not be bothered with it. 



Martin J. Conrad, a timber buyer at Lawrenceburg, Ind., recently pur- 

 chased a large oak tree from William T. Batchelor, who lives near Split- 

 rock. The tree measured seven feet one inch through the stump and 

 made four twelve-foot cuts between the stump and first limb. The four 

 logs scaled nearly 7,000 feet of lumber. 



=< MEMPHIS >- 



The Probst Lumber Company, Cincinnati, has paid $67,000 for 4,500 

 acres of hardwood timber in Arkansas County, Arkansas, and plans the 

 establishment of two mills for the development thereof. This firm has 

 heretofore been operating a mill in Mississippi. 



Building operations in Memphis during September showed an excess 

 of about $13,000 over the corresponding month last year and, while the 

 increase is small, encouragement is taken from the fact that this is the first 

 single month this year which has shown any gain over the corresponding 

 month in 1916. 



It is announced that the Hudson & Dugger Company, Memphis, has 

 purchased the plant of the H. \. Bennett Heading Company at Pine 

 Bluff, Ark., and that it will have it going at full capacity by November 1. 

 It is suggested that the new owners, who paid $25,000 for the plant, will 

 materially increase its output, which is now on the basis of 300 cars of 

 heading per year. This firm bought the plant of the Kennedy Heading 

 Company here several years ago and since that time has branched out 

 materially in the manufacture of heading. 



A prominent member of a firm here dealing in sawmill equipment, 

 engines, boilers and similar products is authority for the statement that 

 there is an unusually active demand for everything in that line and that 

 business is several times larger than at any former time in his experience. 

 This is in rather striking contrast with the experience of some machinery 

 dealers here several months ago when they reported that the high prices 

 for machinery of all kinds had materially curtailed demand therefor. 



Lumbermen who own cutover lauds are finding an unusual demand there- 

 for at present and they are obtaining prices substantially higher than those 

 obtainable even a few months ago. This is due to the fact that agricul- 

 tural products of every kind are so high and to the additional fact that 

 the lands most wanted are located in the territory where boll weevil have 

 not made their appearance. The call is particularly strong in the counties 

 in eastern Arkansas. The opening of the bridge way into Memphis over 

 the Mississippi river for the use of wagons and other vehicles has likewise 

 materially stimulated demand for lands in all of eastern .Arkansas. Many 

 owners of these cutover lands have virtually withdrawn their holdings 

 from the market for the time being because of their belief in still higher 

 prices. But those who are willing to accept ruling prices are finding the 

 demand excellent and business unusually good. 



Two dry kilns, a small warehouse and some lumber belonging to the 

 Jorgensen-Bennett Manufacturing Company, North Memphis, were de- 

 stroyed by fire October 2. entailing a loss of about $20,000, fully covered 

 by insurance. A flying spark is supposed to have started the blaze. The 

 planing mill of the company, together with other warehouses, was saved 

 through heroic efforts on the part of the Memphis fire department. 



=-< NASHVILLE >= 



The Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company, Nashville, has been making 

 plans to begin developments of large holdings of tlmberland in Franklin 

 county, near Cowan, Tenn. The company is having installed two band 

 mills, which it expects to have in operation soon. It acquired about 35,000 

 acres of tlmberland in Franklin county several years ago, with a view to 

 meeting its future requirements. This land is said to embrace some of the 

 finest native hardwoods in this section, and when the two plants are In 

 operation will greatly increase the company's supply of raw- material. It 

 operates a large furniture plant in addition to its mills. 



Geo. B. Grover and J. J. Pate and Cassetty Bros, of Red Boiling Springs, 

 Tenn., have bought a tract of hardwood tlmberland from Cummins Bros, of 

 Cookeville, Tenn., where they will move their band mill and begin opera- 

 tions shortly. 



Among the new concerns incorporated recently are the following : Leonard 

 Land and Lumber Company, Nashville, by Robert C. t^eonard and others 

 to buy and sell timberlands and to manufacture lumber, capital stock, $10,-. 

 000; Dodd-Bruer Cedar Company, Murfreesboro, Tenn., by J. E. Dodd, 

 F. E. Bruer and others to deal in ceilar posts and cedar products, capital 

 stock $15,000 ; Ross Lumber Company, Ivnoxville, by John W. A. Ross and 

 others to manufacture lumber and deal in the same at wholesale and retail, 

 capital stock $35,000 ; Murfreesboro Block Company by O. S. Cannon, R. 

 L. Lytic and others to manufacture axe handles and other timber products, 

 capital stock $1,000. 



Fire at Kingsport, Tenn., destroyed the plant of the White Oak Veneer 

 & Lumber Corporation, causing a loss estimated at $50,000, partially cov- 

 ered by insurance. H. T. Spencer of Johnson City, Tenn., is president of 

 the company. 



Thomas Scanlon, who died at his home in Memphis, was a member of 

 the Reuther-Scanlon Handle Company of Nashville, and was one of the 

 large manufacturers of the South in this line. He was vice-president of 

 the Kelly Handle Works of Memphis. He leaves a widow and one son. 



John W. Whitesides, aged sixty-eight years, who was Identified with the 



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