Novpmhor 10, 1U17 



llAKDWOOD RECORD 



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built on the river, seventeen miles below here i\n<1 known as Dam No. 48, 

 Is being rushed to completion and when finished will be the largest dam 

 along the Ohio river and will cost •>ver ?2.. '00.000. 



=-< MEMPHIS >-= 



J. V. Rush of Moffett. Bowman & Rush announces the purchase by his 

 firm of ilOO acres of hardwood tlniberlands In Coahoma county, Mississippi. 

 It Is estimated that there are about 4.000,000 feet of hardwood timber 

 thereon, principally oak. The new owners will bring the logs to Memphis 

 where they will be converted Into lumber. 



The Walnut Log & Lumber Company has filed an amendment to its 

 charter through which it seeks to lncrea.se the capital stock from $10,000 

 to ?50.000 and to change the name to the J. H. Ilines Lumber Company. 

 The application is signed by .T. II. Ilines. Mary L. Ilines and the other 

 principal stockholders. The company has Its headquarters in Memphis. 

 Mr. nines was for years a member of Barney & Ilines of Memphis. 



It is announced that Charles T. McManus has purchased the interest 

 of (Jcorge H. Temple in the Chisca Lumber Company which was organ- 

 ized here some time ago and which has a mill in operation in Mississippi. 

 The firm will continue along the same lines as heretofore under the man- 

 agement of Mr. McManus and W. I. Brashears. 



May Brothers, New South Jlenu'his. have attempted a solution of the 

 labor problem through the employment of negro women at Its plant and 

 yards. About eighteen of them are now lieing used to pile lumber, drive 

 wagons, and do other work that only men have done heretofore, and arc 

 proving a fair substitute. Other lumbermen are following suit to a mod- 

 erate extent, with indications that female labor will be used on an in- 

 creasingly large scale. Men simply cannot be had and the women are 

 being taken because they are available. \Yith the increasing scarcity of 

 labor, there is a notable advance in the wages lumber manufacturers are 

 having to pay. 



Harry Anderson, who joined the (irst Reserve Officers Training camp 

 at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga., this .summer and who won a commission as cap- 

 tain of ordinance. Regular C S. Army, is now "somewhere in France." 

 according to information received by his father. Col. S. B. .\ndersou, 

 president of the .\nderson-Tully Company. In private life the former is an 

 attorney and is also treasurer of the .\nderson-Tully Company. 



.T. II. Townshend. secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 .Vssociation, left for Washington November 3 to be present at the hear- 

 ing in the case involving a proposed advance of 15 percent on hardwood 

 frelglit rates from Ohio and Mississippi river crossings into Central 

 Freight .Vssociation and Eastern Trunk Line territory which began Nov. .">. 

 J. V. Norman, Louisville, and Edward A. Ilaid, St. Louis, attorneys 

 for the association, are also in Washington. It will require some time 

 for tile carriers to present their evidence in support of the higher rates 

 the railroads are asking but Mr. Townshend and the attorneys will listen 

 to the pre.sentation of this testimony in order that they may know how to 

 counter successfully. The association is strongly opposed to the advance 

 and will do everything in its power to defeat it. The lumbermen are open 

 to conviction on the proposition that the railroads In the territory in 

 question may be entitled to higher revenues but they are of the very 

 positive conviction that no further advance in freight rates should be 

 allowed on southern hardwoods on top of the many advances which have 

 been made in this item during the pa.st four or five years. Mr. Townshend 

 said, before leaving Jlemphis. that the association would have the earnest 

 co-operation of all the principal hardwood interests affected by the pro. 

 posed increase. It is representing about 90 percent of the southern hard- 

 wooil producing section at Washington. 



=•< LOUISVILLE >= 



With the exception of government business, placed either directly or 

 indirectly with lumber plants of Louisville and vicinity, the demand for 

 hardwoods this fall has not been especially sparkling, hut there has been 

 a very heavy demand for thick stocks of various hardwoods tor manufactur- 

 ing government orders, the demand in fact having been so heavy that the 

 mills in some cases have been curtailing production of ?,/4, 4/4 and fi/4 

 stock, and going stronger on stock of 0/4 and up. However, there is a 

 fair surplus stock of the thinner grades on the market, and ail orders can 

 be filled promptly, that is, they can be filled if the cars can be supplied, 

 and embargoes can be dodged long enough to hand the cars to eastern 

 roads. Not much trouble is being experlenceil in Louisville in getting cars. 

 or getting shipments out, but several of the carriers operating north of 

 the Ohio are placing embargoes on shipments originating in the southern 

 mills districts. 



Among the principal buyers of lumber or timber for handling govern- 

 ment orders In this section are the .\merican Car & Foundry Company, a 

 concern which has practically quit making coaches for railroads in order 

 to build wagon and truck bodies, parts, tabic tops, and specialties ; the 

 Continental Car Company, which is working on similar lines ; the .\fengel 

 Box Company, which has received several big orders ; the Ross Chair Com- 

 pany ; the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company, truck bodies, parts 

 and other equipment ; and the Wood-Mosaic Company, which has a big 

 gunstock order. 



Due in part to the recent death of T. Smith Milton, secretary-treasurer 

 of the Chnrchlll-Milton Lumber Company, the company has moved its 

 main offices from Louisville to Greenwood, Miss., where It operates its 



Open Yard, Narrow Piles, 



Narrow Stickers, Assure 



Uniform Drying of 



LENOX LUMBER 



• KENTUCKY SOFT TEXTURED 



White Oak, Poplar 

 Hardwoods 



American Lumber & MfgTCo. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



The following stock is in excellent 

 condition, ready for immediate shipment 



5/4 No. 

 4 '4 No. 

 5/4 No. 

 5/4 No. 

 3/4 No. 

 4/4 No. 

 4/4 No, 

 4/4 No. 

 4/4 No. 

 8/4 No. 

 8/4 No. 

 4/4 No. 

 6/4 No. 

 8/4 No. 

 10/4 No. 

 4/4 No. 

 5/4 No. 

 8/4 No. 

 4/4 No. 

 4/4 No, 

 6/4 No. 

 4/4 No. 



Common 

 Common 

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 Commim 

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& Better ASH 15.000' 



& Better B ASSWOOD 25.000' 



& Bettir BEECH 150.000' 



BEECH 340.000' 



& Better BIKCH 55.000' 



& Better BIBCH 58.006' 



& Better BIRCH 29.000' 



BIRCH 120.000' 



BIRCH 12.000' 



& Better BIRCH 16.000' 



BIRCH 10.000' 



& Better U.UtD MAPLE 50.000' 



& Belter HARD MAPLE 25.000' 



i BetUT HARD MAPLE.. I.'iO.OOO' 

 & Better HARD MAPLE.. 15.000' 



HARD M.M'LE 40.000' 



HARD ILVPLE 250.000' 



HARD MAPLE 100.000' 



& Better SOFT ELM 68.000' 



SOFT ELM 110,000' 



& Better SOFT ELM 36.000' 



& Better SOFT MAPLE... 50.000' 



Are putllno in pMo every month two and ono.half 

 million lect of choicest Northern Michigan Hardwoods 



Stack Lumber Company 



Masonville, Michigan 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD 



