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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10, 191T 



HARDWOODS 



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WE MANUFACTURE bandiawed, plain and quarter uw«d 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wacon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 

 Y •ur Inquiries tollolt* d 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust Building 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straight 



ATTENTION 



"CHIEF BRAND" Maple and Birch Flooring 



in all standard widths, grades and 

 thicknesses, is just what you are 

 looking for on that particular order. 

 Write us, and we will convince you. 



Kerry & Hanson Flooring Co. 



Grayling, Michigan 



We are members of the Uaple Flooring Manufacturers Asa'n. 



are Harold Lake ana Ernest M. Morris. The company has opened offices in 

 the Farmers' Trust Company building, and later will open a mill. 



=< EVANSVILLE >■= 



that ot manufacturing cars ior use in coal mines. Tlie company had 

 ixporlenoed a Kreat deal of trouble in getting materials for hoes ond 

 (ilhor tools and decided to go into the otiier line ot linsincss. The con- 

 iirn Is now busy and lias no trouble in getting nil the lumber It needs. 



'i'lio plant of tile Henderson Wagon Worlts at Henderson, Ky., has been 

 ilosed down and will be offered for sale. The stoclt in the factory Is owned 

 largely by the banl<s and trust companies of Henderson, who were desirous 

 of realizing on their stocli, and it was decided for that reason to close 

 down the plant and quit business. The company recently refused to accept 

 a governmont order for .^.'iOO.OOO worth of army wagons. 



Newton .McKim, living at Aurora, Ind., on the Oliio river several miles 

 nortlieast of here, has had an old house torn down that was built more 

 tlian one hundred years ago by the grandpari'nts of bis wife, and the 

 walnut logs of which tlie liouse were built were sold. The logs were pro- 

 nounced as good as new and brought a good price. The old house was 

 known as tlie "Gray Gables," and was one of the landmarks ot Dear- 

 Ijorn county. 



The lienham-White Company of Crothersville, Ind., with a capital stock 

 (if .$17,000, has filed articles of incorporation. The company will manu- 

 facture woodenware. Directors for tlio first year will be Clayde W. Keacb, 

 Harlan li. White and Alex W. Benham. 



Thieves are said to be stealing thousands of dollars worth of walnut, 

 beech and poplar trees in Brown county, Ind., a few miles north of here, 

 and the authorities will make Qn investigation. Thousands of acres ot 

 timberlands in Brown county have never seen the ax and are many miles 

 away from the nearest house and it is said the thieves have been working 

 undisturbed day and night. 



O. Grimwood ot Grimwood & Ilinton has returned from a business trip. 

 He reports that the lumber manufacturers of this section are having 

 much trouble getting cars, and says that when they are not bothered by 

 the ear shortage they have to worry over the labor problem. 



Mr. Hinton of the hardwood firm ot Grimwood & Hinton has disposed 

 of his Interest in the Evansvllle CofBn Company and is now devoting all 

 his time and attention to the lumber business. 



Daniel A. Wertz of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers. 

 Is back from a business trip In the northern part of the state and says 

 that while trade is not booming manufacturers are holding their own 

 very well. Mr. Wertz is making arrangements for the annual of the 

 Indiana Hardwood Lumber Association, which will be held at Indian- 

 apolis in January of next year. 



The John C. Smith Hoe & Tool Company, one of the best known con- 

 cerns of its kind in the Central West, has embarked Into a new business, 



-< MEMPHIS >- 



The Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company, which has its headquarters at 

 Memphis and its mill at Richey, Miss., announces that it has already 

 received one of the new barges it ordered some time ago and that it will 

 use this for handling logs to its iiiants, as well as lumber therefrom, 

 as soon as the water in Sunflower river is high enough to make this plan 

 practicable. The barge has a capacity of 500,000 to 600,000 feet. Further- 

 more, the company has ordered several more of tliese barges and they 

 will be put into service as soon as they are delivered, provided the water 

 is high enough for this purpose. This company has been able for more 

 than a year to operate only one of its mills because of the poor trans- 

 portation service furnished by the Southern Railway in Mississippi, but it 

 believes that its transportation problem is in a fair way of being solved 

 through these barges. Sunflower river empties into the Mississippi at 

 Vitksburg and lumber will be handled south on that stream to the Mls- 

 sisippi and thence to such destination as can be reached thereby. 



J. F. Mclntyre & Sons., Inc., Pine Bluff, Ark., have traded all of the 

 hickory timber, 8,000,000 feet, on their 12,000 acres of hardwood prop- 

 erty near that point to the Archibald Wheel Company for all the hardwood 

 timber, except hickory, on the several thousand acres of timberlands 

 owned by the latter. It is estimated that there are 4,000,000 feet of 

 hickory on the latter tract which still belongs to the Archibald Wheel 

 Company, thus giving it control of 12,000,000 feet of this material. J. P. 

 Mclntyre & Sons, Inc., have entered into an agreement with the Archibald 

 company to saw all this hickory timber, all the logging to be done by the 

 latter. This is perhaps the largest hickory transaction ever put through 

 in this part of the country, and the negotiations have been materially 

 hastened by the big demand for hickory from the government and from 

 the builders of auotmobiies. ■ It is reported that the government is in the 

 market for 180,000,000 feet of hickory, and this one transaction involves 

 one-fifteenth of that amount. 



Brown & Hackney, Inc., with headquarters in Memphis, have purchased 

 from the Tensas Land & Lumber Company, near Transylvania, East Car- 

 roll Parish, La., 6,000 acres of hardwood timberlands and a single band 

 mill with daily capacity of 35,000 to 40,000 feet. The new owners have 

 already taken charge of the property and are preparing to begin opera- 

 tions as soon as possible. They have cut out their timber holdings at 

 Mounds. Ark., where they have operated for some years, and they are 

 removing all of their logging and other equipment to Transylvania, where 

 they are building seven miles of standard gauged road. The timber con- 

 sists principally of Cottonwood, gum, cypress and oak. Announcement 

 of the purchase and of the plans of the firm has just been made by 

 Mark H. Brown. 



' C. E. Van Camp, acting secretary of the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, is at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he is looking after the 

 handsome exhibit of gum lumber being made at the Better Homes Exposi- 

 tion at that point. Mr. Van Camp is taking the place of Secretary 

 Prltchard, who has been called to Washington to manage the Southern 

 Hardwood Emergency Bureau for the period of the war. He is also 

 replacing Mr. Pritchard in the capacity of listing officer for west Ten- 

 nessee and eastern Arkansas for the Twentieth Engineers (Forest). 



The Jorgensen-Bennett Manutacturlg Company has completed two dry- 

 kilns built to replace those destroyed by fire some weeks ago. This firm 

 is now able to operate at full capacity and take care of the requirements 

 of its customers. 



Among members of the lumber colony at Memphis who received com- 

 missions at the second officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorp, Ga., are: 

 D. E. Stanton, formerly assistant secretary of the American Oak Manu- 

 facturers' Association ; H. H. Clark of the office force of Penrod, Jnrden 



