October 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



lumber business at Gallatin, Tenn., many years, died recently at his home 

 In Nashville. 



^-< LOUISVILLE >. 



Much interest is being manifestea at this time in the threatened car 

 shortage, and a number of the large hardwood concerns are planning their 

 business so that a severe car shortage later in the year will not tie them 

 up. Some concerns are making strong efforts to clean up all old orders 

 and secure surplus stock which can be shipped Immediately and at fall 

 market prices which promise to be higher. Logs have been moving toward 

 the mills fairly freely, and fair stocks of logs are generally reported. How- 

 ever, labor has been scarce, and it has been hard to keep things going to 

 full capacity, while the demand for thick stocks has been so steady that 

 very little material has accumulated. Few concerns figure on going into 

 the new year with much surplus stock on hand, and at the present time no 

 one is apparently looking for orders to run over into that period — that is, 

 not at present prices. 



As a rule shipments have been holding up well, and only a few cases are 

 reported where shippers are having much trouble in obtaining cars, even 

 in the South. However, a few shippers figure that another period of acute 

 car shortage will be developed about November 1. and that conditions will 

 be even worse than they were last year, when traffic conditions reached the 

 small end of the limit. That a car shortage may develop at most any time 

 Is being impressed upon buyers and consumers, who are told that they had 

 better arrange tor immediate deliveries. War stocks are being shipped as 

 fast as they can be made, but with cabinet woods, etc., the buyers in many 

 cases appear to prefer taking a chance with the market. Mail orders seem 

 to be the thing just now, and salesmen are making practically no effort to 

 sell, and then only at their own prices. 



At a recent meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club. J. H. Townshend, 

 manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, of Memphis, called 

 to attention a matter of considerable importance to the trade, this being 

 In connection with the present stake and dunnage allowance on loading 

 lumber and logs on flat cars. The carriers allow .500 pounds for stakes and 

 dunnage for loading lumber and just 250 pounds on logs. These figures 

 have long been under the actual requirements, and with capacity loading 

 increasing daily to a nearer maximum figure, the material required is 

 steadily advancing in weight. Mr. Townshend stated that the lumber in- 

 terests planned to shortly file complaint before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, requesting that the allowance be increased to a normal figure. 

 Mr. Townshend also advised against long time contracts, especially into 

 eastern territory, where based on the present car supply and freight rates, 

 stating that a contemplated advance w-as in sight in the East, and that the 

 outlook was for a severe car shortage. 



The complaint filed some two years ago by the Paducah, Ky., Cooperage 

 Company and the Paducah Board of Trade charging the Illinois Central 

 and other southern and southwestern railroads with discrimination in favor 

 of Cairo, 111., has been a long-fought and much troublesome case. At the 

 original hearing the Interstate Commerce Commission was convinced of 

 the discrimination and later ordered the rates reduced. The carriers re- 

 duced rates on lumber, but did not include staves, heading, and certain 

 other forest products, and, as these items were not specifically mentioned, 

 refused to reduce them, this resulting in a fresh complaint being filed, and 

 another hearing, at which the carriers were ordered to reduce. This order 

 was to have become effective on June 15, but the carriers had the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission enjoined, and the order was not carried out. 

 Early in October three federal judges heard the contentions of the carriers 

 In the federal court at Louisville, the carriers contending for a permanent 

 Injunction. 



The big government order for gunstocks, which was placed with the 

 Wood-Mosaic Company of New Albany some weeks ago, has been keeping 

 that company fairly busy. The company has done considerable advertis- 

 ing for 2,500 cars of such logs. The response was good, and the supply 

 of walnut coming in has been fairly satisfactory. 



The big gale which did much damage to shipping In the Gulf district 

 late in September caught "The Wasp." an SOO-ton steamer, under lease to 

 the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, mahogany importer and manufacturer of 

 Louisville. The vessel was loaded with 600,000 feet of mahogany logs from 

 Central America, and became so water-logged from high seas breaking over 

 her that the crew abandoned the vessel and was landed at a Gulf port by a 

 fishing schooner. Later the company received advices from the under- 

 writer to the effect that the vessel was securely anchored and could be 

 brought to port. 



The Booker Box Company after operating several years on "The Point," 

 has purchased the brick plant formerly operated by the Kentucky Cotton 

 Tarn Company, at Floyd and A streets, and will shortly move the plant to 

 the more central location. The old plant was on the river, while the new 

 location is some two miles or more inland. The deal involved an outlay 

 of about ?50,000. 



The big coal and oil developments in eastern Kentucky have created a 

 good demand for derrick timbers, tipple timbers, and special material for 

 mine supports, etc. A. H. Card of Pineville, Ky., is specializing in such 

 timbers, and has about twenty small mills operating in Bell county, these 

 mills cutting mountain woods such as switch ties, car dimension, hemlock 

 and pine framing, brattice lumber, motor ties, etc. 



At Jeffersonville, Ind., the American Car & Foundry Company has some 

 big government contracts on vehicle woodwork and at present is delivering 

 considerable material to the Quartermaster's depot at Jeffersonville, much 



Open Yard, Narrow Piles, 



Narrow Stickers, Assure 



Uniform Drying of 



LENOX LUMBER 



KENTUCKY SOFT TEXTURED 



White Oak, Poplar 

 Hardwoods 



American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



The following stock is in excellent 

 condition, ready for immediate shipment 



5/4 No. 2 Common & Better ASH 15,000' 



4 '4 No. 2 Common & Better BASS WOOD 25,000' 



5/4 No. 2 Common & Better BEECH 150.000' 



5/4 No. 3 Common BEECH 340.000' 



3/4 No. 1 Common & Better BIRCH 55,000' 



4/4 No. 1 Common & Better BIRCH 58.000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common & Better BIRCH 29.000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common BIRCH 120.000' 



4/4 No. 3 Common BIRCH 12.000' 



8/4 No. 2 Common & Better BIRCH 16.000' 



8/4 No. 3 Common BIRCH 10,000' 



4/4 No. 1 Common & Better HARD MAPLE 50,000' 



6/4 No. 2 Common & Better HARD MAPLE 25,000' 



S/4 No. 2 Common & Belter HARD MAPLE.. 150.000' 

 10/4 No. 2 Common & Better HARD MAPLE.. 15.000' 



4/4 No. 3 Common HARD MAPLE 40.000' 



5/4 No. 3 Common HARD MAPLE 250,000' 



8/4 Ko. 3 Common HARD MAPLE 100.000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common & Better SOFT ELM 68,000' 



4/4 No. 3 Common SOFT ELM 110.000' 



6/4 No. 2 Common & Better SOFT ELM 36.000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common & Better SOFT MAPLE. . . 50,000' 



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Are putting In pile every month two and ona-half 

 million feet of choicest Northern MIcbigan Hardwoods 



Stack Lumber Company 



Masonville, Michigan 



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