October 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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HILL-CURTIS CO. 



KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN 



Directors of the company arc I.fiiiy and M. A. Urmston and Abialiaiii I,. 

 Shipley. 



=^ EYANSVILLE >.= 



The regular monthly meeting of the EvansviUe Lumbermen's Club will 

 lie held at Hotel McC^irdy, Tuesday evening, November 1.?, when several 

 vacancies on standing committees will be filled by President Worland. 

 A report on several matters pertaining to rates and car shortage will be 

 given. 



Charles Maley, well-known lumber manufacturer at Jackson, Miss., 

 was here on business recently. He reported trade conditions in the 

 southern states coming along all right. 



George O. Worland, secretary and treasurer of the EvansviUe Veneer 

 Company, says veneer manufacturers of this section are getting a good 

 many orders, but that business is not quite .so brisk as it was during the 

 summer months. Some of the veneer manufacturers are reporting a 

 shortage on logs. 



Elmer D. Lulirlng and associates have purchased the interest of Charles 

 A. Wolflin in the Wolflin-Luhring Lumber Company in this city. The 

 name of the concern has been changed to the Lubring Lumber Company. 

 Mr. Wolflin has purchased the Interests of Mr. Lubring and associates 

 In the West Side Lumber Company and the name of that concern has 

 been changed to that of Wolflin West Side Lumber Company. Their 

 many friends will wish them prosperity in their changed positions. 



D. B. MacLaren of the MacLaren Lumber Company, who recently 

 returned from a successful road trip, says he found business 'conditions 

 very good and he sees nothing discouraging in the trade outlook. 



Fred W. Reitz of the Clemens Reitz Sons Company, hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers, who is a candidate for re-election as city councilman on 

 the democratic ticket, is making an active canvass. Many of the men 

 running for oflice on both the democratic and republican city tickets are 

 closely allied with the lumber interests in this section. Mayor Benjamin 

 Bosse. democrat, who is up for re-election, is also interested in other wood 

 consuming factories here. His republican opponent is Albert Rosencranz 

 Messick, sales manager for the Vulcan Plow Company. Frank Greise 

 who is up for re-election as ward councilman on the democratic ticket, 

 is connected with the EvansviUe Bookcase and Table Company. W. T. 

 Karges, republican nominee for councilman in the fifth ward, is head of 

 the Karges Wagon Works. 



John A. Bycrs, a well-known lumber man of Guthrie, Okla., was here 

 a few days ago on his way to his old home at Petersburg, Ind. Mr. Byers 

 was for many years engaged in the lumber business at Hopkinsville, Ky. 



Russel Wert and Miss Lillian Davis were recently united in marriage 

 at Greensburg, Ind., and immediately after the ceremony departed for 

 Wlnslow. Ind. For some time past Mr. Wert has been manager of the 

 .\llen Wilkinson Lumber Company at Waynestown, Ind., and a few days 

 before his marriage was made manager of the business and yards of the 

 same company at Winslow. 



H. J. I.,eacli of Mt. Carmel. III., a well known lumberman, has gone to 

 St. I-ouls, Mo., to become field manager for the Egyptian Timber Company. 



-< MEMPHIS >- 



James E. Stark & Co., Inc., who have been running their band mill ami 

 veneer plant on double shift during the past few weeks have cut out 

 running at night. The change of policy Is due to the fact that log re- 

 ceipts have been so reduced that they were not heavy enough to Justify 

 operations beyond ten to twelve hours per day. Some other mills are still 

 running on double time, but the general disposition Is to reduce the hours 

 because logs are not coming In fast^enough. The .Anderson-Tully Com- 

 pany recently abandoned the night shift at Vicksburg, Miss., because of 

 labor troubles. 



The llartwell Lumber Conip»"y bas made application for a charter 

 under the laws of Tennessee. Its capital stock is $100,000. The gentle- 

 men composing the new company recently purchased 2,700 acres of hard- 



AU Three of U* Will Be Benefited if 



wood timberlands in Chicot county, Arkansas. For the next few roooths 

 the firm will sell logs in the open market but next spring It proposes to 

 establish a hardwood mill at some convenient point to this tract and to 

 launch Into the manufacture of hardwood lumber. H. F, Hartwell, J. L. 

 McRee, Thomas H. Jackson and others are the incorporators. 



The L. D. Murrelle Lumber Company has taken over and begun operat- 

 ing the hardwood mill formerly owned by the Nickey & Sons Company. 

 The plant Is located in North Memphis and has been idle for more than 

 a year as the selling firm has been going through a jirocess nf voluntarj- 

 liquidation. The new owner will be bringing logs from Marks, Miss., 

 where it 'owns considerable timberlands, but the purchase of the Memphis 

 plant will not interfere In the least with the mill of the same flrm at 

 Marks. 



Box manufacturers and cooperage interests in Memphis continue to do 

 an exceptionally large business. Wooden containers of all kinds are in 

 unusual request and orders in volume can be had for either boxes or bar- 

 rels. Most members express the belief that the outlook is most flatter- 

 ing. Indeed, they foresee more business than they can handle in view of 

 the growing shortage of labor, the increasing scarcity of cars and the 

 approach of winter with its numerous restrictive influences. The prices 

 on all wooden containers are exceptionally well maintained. Veneers 

 interests too are enjoying an excellent demand for their output and are 

 frank enough to admit that they arc sold up for the remainder of the 

 year and to say that they foresee a large profitable business for 191S. 



The F. T. Dooley Lumber Company which suffered a loss of $15,000 

 from a fire in its yards In South Memphis some days ago was fully pro- 

 tected by insurance, and has already succeeded In repairing its trackage 

 and resuming shipments. The management is Inclined to be quite skeptical 

 regarding the theory that the fire was started by German sympathizers. 



Dispatches .received here from BIytheville, Ark., report the destruction 

 by fire recently of the mill of Lee Wilson & Co., at Armorel, Ark. The 

 loss was estimated at $.50,000, partly covered by insurance. 



J. H. Townsbend, secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, has returned from Washington where he attended the con- 

 ference between executives of the railroads in central and eastern ter- 

 ritory and members of the Interstate Commerce Commission arranged by 

 the former with the view to proposing a general advance in freight rates 

 from Ohio and Mississippi river crossings to dlstinatlon In Central Freight 

 Association and Eastern Trunk Line Territory. Mr. Townsbend says 

 that lumber is bearing all the freight the traffic will stand, and that the 

 association will vigorously oppose any further advances In rates on south- 

 ern hardwoods. He points out that the advances from Ohio and Missis- 

 sippi river crossings will make necessary a complete revision of lumber 

 tariff from southern producing points. The association has known for 

 some time that the railroads were going to attempt another advance In 

 rates on lumber and -Mr. Townsbend attended this conference In order 

 that he might secure first hand knowledge regarding the tactics to be 

 adopted by the. carriers in their efforts to saddle more freight burdens 

 on the lumber Industry. 



Killing frost throughout the Memphis territory has done great damage 

 10 the cotton crops and has seriously curtailed production on cut-over 

 lauds owned by lumber Interests. But the latter, like all other producers, 

 are finding much consolation and not a little compensation from the 

 unusually high prices prevailing for both cotton and cotton seed. And 

 they arc extracting sllll further encouragement from the tact that higher 

 prices for cotton and other crops are greatly Increasing demand for these 

 cut-over lands and are likewise materially enhancing' values thereof. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



One of the principal nmtlors under discussion In Louisville Is relative to 

 Ibc traflic situation, and the recently placed Southern Hallway embargo 

 against shlpineuls through Clnclnnall and Louisville Into the North and 

 East. This embargo covers lumber and general dead commoilltles, and 

 may remain In force for several days. However, from now on the lumber 



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