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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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WE MANUFACTURE bandiawed, plain and quarter uwad 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We mtke a speciilty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 in«nt, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rouch. 

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ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



PALMER <Sr PARKER CO. 

 J^^^.„«.. MAHOGANY ebony 



ENGLISH OAK i»c-aie'C-ci«j DOMESTIC 



CIRCASSIAN WALUT VtlMCtRS HARDWOODS 



103 Medferd Street, Charlestown Dist. 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust Building 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straight 



there is goiiis tu be little relief from the railroail congestion and lack of 

 equipment. Lumber anil logs can be bandied to good advantage on the 

 Mississippi and its tributaries If the facilities are provided by the gov- 

 ernment, in conjunction with business interests throughout the valle.v, 

 and some lumbermen go so far as to e.xpress the belief that their salva- 

 tion lies in that particular direction. 



Si.Nty prominent lumber firms at Memphis have oSEered fuel wood to 

 the city of Memphi.s at nominal cost in lots of one to three car loads. 

 They have taken this step Ijecause of the threatened shortage of coal 

 and the desire of the city commissioners to put in a reserve supply of 

 10.000 cords of wood. But their offer has apparently come to naught 

 because the railroads hold that, if ears are furnished for transporting 

 this fuel wood to Memphis, thi'y will be charged against the pro rata of 

 the liunbermcn. The latter are receiving so few cars that they cannot 

 afford to have their pro rata reduced still further and the city will have 

 to look elsewhere for relief. The ruling conies from A. U. Egan, chair- 

 man of the Memphis committee of the Car Service Commission. 



Ralph May of May Brothers says that nothing will be done in the 

 immediate future toward getting out timber on the tract of 8,500 acres 

 acquired l>y the Arm some time ago near (Jrenada, Miss. He says that 

 his company has more than 1.000 cars of logs, cut from other lands, 

 awaiting transportation, and that it will await further developments be- 

 fore preparing more. Me also states that the company does not intend 

 l)eginning construction of the mill planned for the development of the 

 tinibi'r on this tract any time soon. 



The management of Moore & McFerrin. operators of a sawmill and box 

 factory here, announces that immediate steps will be taken looking to 

 the rebuilding of the sawmill which was recently destroyed by fire, with 

 an estimated loss of .'i;2.'-|.00(i. The box factory of the firm escaped dam- 

 age and is being operated at full capacity. 



The .\. T. Ilallock Lumber Company. .Tackson, Tenn., has secured a 

 building in which it will install machinery for the manufacture of wooden 

 containers for canning factories, packing houses and similar industries. 

 Modern box-making equipment will be installed and the management 

 plans to have the plant in o|)eration in the near future. 



The Columbus Lumber Company is making improvements involving 

 al)out .STO.OOO. according to n. F. McCullough, general manager. The 

 improvements include the l>uilding of a dry shed that will take care of 

 2,000,000 feet of lumber, installation of additional dry kilns, new boil- 

 ers, the building of machine shops and additions to the mill plant that 

 will bring the daily capacity to 100,000 feet, 



R. L. .Turden of Tenrod. .lurden & McCowen, Inc.. has gone to Wash 

 ington to act in an advisory caiiacity to the Southern Hardwood Emer- 

 gency Bureau, of which he is a member. Tie relieved W. B. Burke of the 

 Lamb-Fish Lumber Company at the end of the past week and will lie re- 

 lieved. in turn, by W. A. Ransom of the Cayoso Lumber Company, or 

 Ralph May of May Brothers. M.-niphls. two other members of the bureau. 



Russe & Burgess, Inc, have four stars in their service flag, represent- 

 ing that number of men who have Joined the colors from among their 

 forces, hicUidlng one from their London olllce. In the number is .lohn 

 K. Burgess, son of tile late George II. Burgess, former vice-president of 

 the lirm. 



=•< LOUISVILLE >= 



That transportatiun is in a serious way aud drastic measures are neces- 

 sary t*) protect the Interests of tile country were shown a few days ago 

 when W. B. Bryan, Kentucl<y fuel administrator, seized nearly :{,000 cars 

 111 coal on 'the Louisville & Nashville lines and turned this coal over to 

 1 he various cities of the state. Most of this coal was lieinj; held to he 

 turned over to the Kastern and Nortlu^rn lines at ('Incinnati. some of It 

 liaviuK heen held two weeks, as the roads were unatde In tiet it through 

 llu' t^ueen city on account of congestion. 



Kiro on December 10 destroyed the plants of the I';irUland Veneer 

 '"oinpany and the Parkland Sawmill Company, owned by the Louisville 

 Planing Mill Company. The loss on the two plants was estimated at 

 hetween $);(i.00(> jind $70.(100 Iiy Olaf Anderson, head of the Louisville 

 Planing Mill Company. The Parkland Sawmill Company, of which \V. K. 

 Willett of the \V. K. Wilh-tt coitipany, is secretary-treasurer, has leased 

 the plant and had heen operating It for some time; Fire started from a 

 plundM'r's gasoline torch, which was dropped in a pile of shavings while 

 thawing out a frozen water pipe. On the same evening the plant of the 

 Leonard Brush & Woodenware Company, which has been working on a 

 government contract, was destroyed by tire, the loss being estimated at 

 $40,000. 



.T. V. Stinison. operator of mills at Huntinglnirg. Ind.. Memphis, Tenn., 

 ( )wensboro. Ky., and other points, recently suffered a fire loss at the 

 <)wensI)oro plant, when the saw tiling room, sevenil hiindrr-d dollars worth 

 of saws and the roof were destroyed. 



The plant of the Glasgow l-'looring Company. Olasguw, Ky.. controlled hy 

 the J. O. Ness Company of Chicago, was recently burned along with 

 finished flooring valued at $30,000. The fire started in the planer, and due 

 lo a high wind could not be held in check. 



In order to aid Louisville manufacturers who are anxious to obtain 

 war orders, the Louisville Industrial Foundation, the million dollar indus- 

 trial department of the Louisville Board of Trade, is planning to estab- 

 lish a war order bureau at Washington, to look after the interests of 

 Louisville manufacturers who are interested in such orders. This would 

 relieve sevei-al concerns of the necessity of keeping men in Washington to 

 look after their interests. 



The Paducah Cooperage Company, Paducah, Ky., has been having so 

 much trouble in getting shipments of material from its southwestern mills 

 that it has been advertising in the western Kentucky papers for local 

 shipments of white and red oak stave bolts delivered at mill. 



Ira T. Shannon, formerly superintendent of the Kelly Handle Com- 

 pany's mills in Arkansas and Mississippi, has taken charge of the Burkes- 

 ville, Ky.. plant of the Turner. Day & Woolworth Handle Company of 

 Louisville. 



.Tohn C. Lewis. Syracuse, X. Y.. who recently took up some timber at 

 Harts Branch, near Manchester. Ky,, has arrived in Manchester and has 

 started looking over his property in order to start devidojiments at an 

 early date. 



Almost a record price was paid for Kentucky mules when the Chatta- 

 hoochie Lumber Company of Lela, Ga.. recently purchased twenty-four 

 1.200-pound mare mules from Hansborough & Wakefield nf Shelbyville. 

 Ky., paying .$200 a head for the stock, which is needed in handling logs 

 at the Georgia mill. 



"The Federation of Social Agencies" was the topic of an address 

 delivered before the Louisville Transportation Club by Arthur D. Allen, 

 vice-president of the Mengel Box Company. Mr. Allen has been taking 

 much interest in this movement and is well posted on the subject. 



Meetings were recently held in Louisville by the T..ouisville branch of 

 the Southern Hardwood Traffic .\ssociation and the Louisville Hardwood 

 Club, the latter meeting closely following the traffic meeting at the Seel- 

 hach hotel. At the traffic meeting a general discussion of southern ship- 

 ping conjljtions was entered into, and shipping through southern ports 

 received consideration. Several members stated that they had found such 

 exporting very satisfactory except that there are nut enough vessels put- 

 ting into the southern ports. The meeting of the Hardwood Club devel- 

 oped the fact that government orders are about the only business that 

 can be readily handled, and about the only thing the trade is making 

 any effort to obtain. At this latter meeting a letter was read from 

 E. D. Tennant of St. Louis, secretary-treasurer of the Concatenated Order 

 of Hoo-Hoo, relative to obtaining funds for the comfort (if soldiers in 

 France, .\nother letter from J. E. Barton. Kentucky state forester, called 

 attention to the work of Miss Emma Dolfinger. a Louisville school teacher, 

 who is endeavoring to obtain samjiles of all native woods of Kentucky 

 to be used in the Louisville public schools in connection with study. 



Several lumbermen and men connected with woodworking organizations 

 were present at a recent meeting of the Kentucky Manufacturers' & 

 Shippers' Association, held in Louisville. The principal topics discussed 

 were: "War Problems as They Aflfect Kentucky Industries." "The Child 

 Labor T^aws," "State and Federal Tax Laws." "Workmen's Compensation," 

 and "Compulsory State Insurance." J. E. Edgerton. president, and 

 C. G. Gilbert, secretary of the Tennessee Manufacturers' Association, were 

 present as guests. 



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