December 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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present at the funeral. Mr. Mehrlantler was born in Germany, where he 

 received a remarkable education, graduating from many universities. He 

 canjie to America early in life, and engaged in the lumber business in the 

 East. Later he came to the Middle West. Some of the leading hard- 

 wood and other lumber firms he was connected with during this period 

 were the Martln-Barriss Company, the C. H. Foote Lumber Company, the 

 Brown-Graves-Vincent Company, the Advance Lumber Company. His 

 loss Is felt keenly by the business which knew him so well. 



=< EVANSVILLE >-= 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz says he looks for sharp advances in the 

 prices of lumber between now and March or April next. This will be 

 due, he says, to the increased cost of logs and the additional costs that 

 manufacturers have been forced to pay for operating. Mr. Wertz says 

 that lumber manufacturers here are now paying twenty-five to thirty 

 per cent more for logs, and that other things have increased In propor- 

 tion. He thinks that in 191S furniture manufacturers of this section will 

 be able to do only seventy-five per cent of the business they did this year, 

 but says they will get all the business they can properly handle. 



Fire on December 13 did small damage In the mill and yards of Maley 

 & Wertz. It was started by hot coals that had been used to thaw out 

 the water pipes. 



Everett Miner, Browns, 111., recently purchased the walnut timber on 

 the farm of Mrs. J. B. Jolly near Grayville, 111., and men are now at 

 work cutting the timber. It will be shipped East to be used In the manu- 

 facture of gunstocks. 



Fire on December 16 destroyed the plant of the Indiana Cooperage Com- 

 pany at a loss of over $10,000. Insurance of $5,000 was carried. The 

 origin of the fire Is unknown. A temporary building will be rented at 

 ODce and operations resumed. 



The Wolfllnl.uhrlng Lumber Company and the West Ride Lumber 

 Company recently were granted permission to change their names. The 

 name of the Wolflln-Luhrlng Lumber Company was changed to that of 

 Luhring Bros, and will be managed by Elmer D. and Paul Luhrlng. The 

 name of the West Side Lumber Company was changed to the Wolflln 

 West Side Lumber Company and will be In charge of Charles A. Wolflln. 



J. C. Greer of the .7. C. Greer Lumber Company says that the demand 

 for staves is good and the mills of his company In Tennessee and Missis- 

 sippi are being operated on full time. The hardwood end of his firm, lo 

 charge of Bert Tlsserand, has been good for the past month and Mr. Greer 

 has no complaint to make. 



J. M. Blood & Bros., Grayville, III., have sawed up the logs they bad 

 on band and will not be able to get any more (or several weeks because 



the Wabash river Is frozen over and towboats and barges are not able 

 to operate. 



The log situation is causing many lumber manufacturers in this section 

 much worry. For several weeks flat cars from the railroad companies 

 have been hard to obtain and as a result few logs have been brought in. 

 Some of the manufacturers started to bring in a few logs by boat from 

 Green river, which stream empties into the Ohio nine miles above here, 

 but the Ohio river has been frozen over in places for the past ten days 

 and many large gorges are reported in the Ohio river, which makes 

 navigation at the time impossible. It may be several days before naviga- 

 tion is fully resumed on the Ohio river and tributaries. As a rule at this 

 time of year manufacturers have enough logs laid in to run them during 

 the bad winter months, but not so this year. The labor shortage is worry- 

 ing the manufacturers to some extent, too, and it is expected that the 

 next draft will take many of the men from the sawmills and wood con- 

 suming factories in this section. 



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

 Company, reports trade very good and taken as a whole the veneer busi- 

 ness has been of a larger volume than last year. However, the profits o( 

 the manufacturers have been smaller for the reason that the cost of 

 operating has increased. 



=< MEMPHIS >- 



The Mississippi river at Memphis Is practically a solid block of Ice 

 and transportation on that stream Is at an end for the time being. 

 Temperature Is moderating rather rapidly at present but It Is anticipated 

 that it will be some time before the river will be clear enough of Ice to 

 allow resumption of the handling of traffic. Some of the mills at Mem- 

 phis depend on Mississippi and Wolf rivers for their log supplies and they 

 are strictly up against It at the moment. Fortunately these mills are 

 better supplied with logs than the mills dependent on the carriers. They 

 have a surplus on which to draw and. If the ice does not remain too long. 

 It will be possible for them to get by without losing very much operating 

 time. 



Lumber Interests here are watching developments closely In connection 

 with the proposed revival of water transportation on a much larger 

 scale. B. L. Mallory, of Memphis, attended the conference held at St. 

 Louis recently to consider plana for co-operating with the government 

 which has made an appropriation for building twenty-four concrete barges 

 and a number of towboats for use on that strejim. Tlie movement Is 

 really assuming much more tangible shape and lumber interests believe 

 that prospects now arc for some definite accomplishment In the direction 

 of rehabilitation of water transportation. And they are awaiting such 

 a development with the keenest anticipation because they realize that 



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