November 25. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



St. Francis Basin 

 Hardwoods 



A Few Specials 



Thoroughly 

 Dry Stock 



For special Attention and Quick Shipment 



MILLER LUMBER COMPANY 



MARIANNA, ARKANSAS 



lumber .ind timbers necessary to its war program. He expressed pleasure 

 over tile enlargement of the bureau and over tile new policy it has out- 

 lined and believes that the new plan will make for effective co-operation 

 between the hardwood lumbermen and the government. He believes that 

 much of the uncertainty heretofore hanging over the lumbermen has been 

 removed and that in a little while it will be possible for them to handle 

 government orders in a manner that will be wholly satisfactory to the 

 government and distinctly to their own advantage, especially in view of 

 the fact that the government will see to it that cars are forthcoming for 

 the handling of all orders placed tor government use. 



J. H. Townshend, secretarjf-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, returned Sunday from Washington, where he spent all of the 

 past week In connection with tlie 15 per cent rate advance case before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. He is much encouraged over the out- 

 look for the lumbermen. 



Ralph May of May Brothers Is back from a trip to Washington and 

 from a business visit to a number of the larger centres in the North 

 and P^ast. He says that the outlook for business is very good, but that 

 It is becoming Increasingly clear that certain items are going to move 

 slowly and that the car situation is going to be so bad that those cater- 

 ing to any other than government requirements are likely to find much 

 difficulty In effecting deliveries of lumber even after the stock has been 

 sold. 



=-< LOUISVILLE > 



At the last weekly meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club the new 

 president, .\. E. Norman, J^, announced his committees for the year, as 

 follows : 



Entertainment — H. B. Kline, E. B. Norman and Edward Duvol. 



FiNANCF — P. P. Joyes, H. .T. Gates and Edward L. Davis. 



TRA.Nsi-niiTATio.v — D. E. Kline, T. M. Brown and 11. E. Snyder. 



Logs — E. S. Shippen, Will Day an<l II. E. Kline. 



Ll-mbee — E. L. Davis. E. B. Norman and T. J. Christian. 



As president of the club Mr. Norman Is e.\-offlcio member of all of the 

 committees named. 



Members of the association In discussing general conditions brought 

 out the fact that business has picked up well during the past two or three 

 weeks, and Is much better than It has been, orders coming freely and prices 

 being right. Government orders continue steady and good, but general 

 consumers are afraid of shipping restrictions on non-essentials and are 

 placing heavy orders for requirements. 



The plant of the Lack Singletree Company, Paducah, Ky., was recently 

 damaged to the extent of $:i.000 by the. which started from a generator, 

 shortly after the pUint had started up In the morniiit:. The blaze started 



in the woodworking department. Tlie loss was fully insured. 



A contract for approximately 2,000,000 feet of yellow pine was recently 

 placed with the W. R. Willctt Lumber Company, this lumber to be used 

 in building annexes at the Quartermaster's Depot, Jeffersonville, Ind., the 

 building contract being held by the Alfred Struck Company of Louisville, 

 planing mill operators and general contractors. The Willett company 

 handles both hard and soft woods, but this is one of the largest pine con- 

 tracts placed in Louisville in years, other than those on the canton- 

 ment, which were placed mainly witn the Southern Pine Emergency 

 Bureau. C. H. Willett and Harry Roy of the Willett company are back 

 from the southern pine districts, where they made arrangements to get 

 the shipments started to .Teffersonville, it being planned to have all the 

 material on the ground within three weeks. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company was successful on two small bids 

 for maple and poplar to be used by the Navy Department, the bids having 

 been opened in Washington a few days ago. The Mengel Box Company 

 recently received additional munitions box contracts. Only a comparatively 

 few number of direct government orders have been taken recently, but 

 a number of indirect orders are keeping things active. 



The United States Supreme Court has held In favor of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission and the lumber interests In connection wltli the 

 Paducah rate case, relative to tariffs on cooperage stock, and articles 

 taking the lumber rate, from southwestern territory to Paducah. This case 

 has been before the Interstate Commerce Commission a goodly part of the 

 past two years, and in every hearing the Paducah Cooperage Company 

 and I'aducah Board of Trade won. The last hearing resulted In the 

 commission ordering new rates applied, but injunction proceedings In the 

 l'"ederul courts held up execution of the order for some months. The 

 ruling of the supreme court dissolves the Injunction, and the new rates 

 win be applied about the first of the year. 



Manufacturers of specialties are advertising extensively In the country 

 newspapers for requirements, and at that arc not getting anything like 

 as much material as they need, although labor conditions are showing 

 some improvement since the crops were harvested, and more material Is 

 being cut. The Wood-Mosaic Company of New Albany, Ind., Is scouring 

 the country for walnut logs, and government employes have recently been 

 In New .Vlbany aiding In a movement to hurry up the logs for gunstock 

 manufacturing. The company is still advertising for 2,."00 cars, offering 

 spot cash at loading points tor all the walnut timber that can be pro- 

 cured. The Turner, Day & Woolworth Handle Company is having trouble 

 getting short dimension timber tor handle manufacturing, shuttle blocks, 

 golf stock, etc. The Columbus Handle & Tool Company of Columbus, Ind. : 

 the Stnnilard Wheel Company <if Berea, R. Burleigh & Sens of Dawson 



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