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I THEO. FATHAUER CO. | 



I 1428 CHERRY AVENUE j 



I Telephone Diversey 1 824 | 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



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CHICAGO, ILL. 



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J. A. Ford ot the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good dcmanil 

 for West Virginia hardwoods with prices continuing rather firm. 



=^ CLEVELAND >>= 



An association, in which hardwood and other lumber interests, as well 

 as all building trades interests in this district will be identified, is being 

 organized here, and probably will be completed within a month. Witli 

 a competent secretary appointed, the organization will be ready to con- 

 sider the labor situation, for which it is primarily forming. It is the 

 belief of those interested in the project that the position of labor as 

 a whole is becoming more aggressive and that protective measures must 

 be taken by the lumber and allied industries against any possible unwar- 

 ranted activities by labor. 



Plans for a trip to Chillicothe are being made by the hardwood interests 

 of the city. This trip will be made in a body, with the idea ot cheering 

 up members of the trade and boys who formerly worked with tlie hardwood 

 interests here, and who now are at Camp Sherman. 



The big firms of Cleveland have been unusually fortunate this year, 

 now that Great Lakes traffic Is nearlng the end of the season, in that not 

 a single boat or cargo was lost In 1917. The Cleveland fleet is now up the 

 lakes taking on final cargoes. 



.< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Indiana lumbermen, who had been opposing a petition filed with the 

 Indiana Public Service Commission by railroads asking for an increase of 

 15 per cent in intrastate rates, won a partial victory last week when the 

 commission refused to grant the permission, but granted the railroads an 

 increase of 5 per cent in Intrastate rates. Lumbermen had joined hands 

 with shippers of other industries in opposing the increase on the grounds 

 that the proposed rate increase would prove almost prohibitive In many 

 cases. 



A sawmill owned by M. Moore & Co., Cromwell, Ind., was destroyed by 

 fire last week, causing a loss estimated at $7,000, covered by Insurance. 



The Wright-Bachman Lumber Company, Indianapolis, has increased its 

 capitalization from ?.30,000 to $1.50,000. 



The plant ot the Pierce Furniture Company, Anderson, Ind., was dam- 

 aged by fire to the extent ot $7,000. The loss was covered by insurance. 

 The plant will be rebuilt immediately. 



Samuel .^dams, sawmill operator near Connersville, Ind., has annoiinced 

 plans (or erecting a new plant, which will be larger than the old. 



Isaac Brewer and William Roach, owners of the Roach & Brewer Lum- 

 ber Company, Indianapolis, who recently were arrested and held under 

 $2,000 bonds on the charge of receiving stolen goods, have been released, 



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their cases having been thrown out of court. The two lumbermen were 

 arrested on warrants sworn out by the city, which alleged that the two 

 men had purchased timber which had been cut and stolen from property 

 owned by the city. An investigation by the prosecutor revealed that there 

 was no basis for the charges. 



-< MEMPHIS > 



The Madison Lumber Company has been formed at Talulah, La., by 

 stockholders in the E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis, and the principals 

 in the firm of Sneed & Jamison. It is capitalized at $50,000 and has 

 begun the erection of a mill of 35,000 feet capacity, single band, jt Quinby, 

 La. These gentlemen recently acquired the Wolf tract of timber near 

 the latter point arid are preparing to develop it as rapidly as possible. 

 Rudolph Sondheimer is president, Mr. Sneed, of Sneed & Jamison, is vice- 

 president, and Charles Dickinson, of the E. Sondheimer Company, is secre- 

 tary-treasurer. 



F. B. Larson, assistant secretary ot the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 .\ssociation, has returned from Alexandria, La., where he attended the 

 organization meeting of the Southwestern Manufacturers' Club. He says 

 twenty-three charter members were enrolled and that A. Deutsch of the 

 Sabine Lumber & Logging Company, Beaumont, Tex., was elected presi- 

 dent, and A. O. Davis of the Sabine Tram Company, acting secretary. The 

 next meeting ot this organization will be held at Beaumont, Tex., February 

 23, unless the president deems it necessary to call one for an earlier date. 

 Mr. Larson attended the meeting with a view to securing the affiliation 

 of this new body with the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, and 

 said on his return that he had received considerable encouragement from 

 the members. He will pursue tlie subject further between now and the 

 time of the next meeting. 



H. B. Weiss, secretary of George C. Brown & Co., president of the Gum 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and a member of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Emergency Bureau, is leaving for Washington tonight. He will 

 remain there two weeks, acting in an advisory capacity to the bureau. He 

 will be followed in due course by W. A. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber 

 Company, and Ralph May of May Brothers, each of whom have agreed 

 to give two out of every six weeks of their time to the affairs of the 

 bureau. R. L. Jurden ot Memphis Is at present serving the bureau In 

 Washington. 



Mr. Weiss, before-leaving for Washington, said, that he had about come 

 to the conclusion that "patriotism and profits" would not mix any more 

 than oil and water and that it was up to the lumbermen to place them- 

 selves, their plants, their entire capital and their whole resources squarely 

 back of the government, to the end that the latter might secure all the 



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