HARDWOOD PECORD 



February 10. 191S 



of tlic pluiit for a period of three years. Mr. White receutly doubled the 

 capacity of his plant, and has been figuring on putting In machinery for 

 finishing spolies for nutos and wagons. 



Waller Bean of the Hon Lumber Company, Winchester, Ky., recently 

 returned from a trip tlirough eastern Kentucky, where he purchased a 

 lot of hardwood lumber for the Winchester plant. Mr. Bean is being Icept 

 very busy Just now, during the absence of Senator Hon, who is attending 

 the meeting of the legislature at Frankfort. 



A deal has been closed at Ellzabethtown. Ivy., whereby the Fred G. Jones 

 Lumber Company of Louisville, takes over the remaining interests of T. J. 

 Morrison, in the T. J. Morrison Lumber Company, established by Mr. 



FOR SALE 



HUNTSVILLE LUMBER COMPANY 



S. S. FLETCHER, Trustee, DECATUR, ALA. 

 All miK'liiner.v and equipment, belts, pulleys, etc.; 7 ft. Clark Band 

 Mill; 5 Builers; enfi:uies, dry kilns; also hardwood flooring plant. 

 Will sell as a whole or separately. For full list of machinery and 

 prices, apply S. S. Fletcher, Trustee, Decatur, Ala. 



STERNER 



r\ We Pay Cash for Hardwoods 



' \\uMBER co \ All sizes and grades 



r^ '"■ } I Send us your Stock and Price Lists 



CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED 



Lenox Lumber Co. 



OAK 

 POPLAR 



Soft 

 Texture 



Perfect 

 Manufacture 



HARDWOODS ^r; 



Grades 



American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter saw.d 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock In the rough. 

 Y our Inquiries solicit, d 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Monisou seventeen years ago, and in which the Jones eomi)any has held 

 an Interest for some time. Mr. Morrison has purchased a line farm near 

 the city, and retired from active business. A. M. Stoekard will manage 

 the Ellzabethtown office. The Jones company also has interests at Glen- 

 dale and at Vine Grove, Ky. 



\ groat deal of damage has been done in Kentucky within the past ten 

 ilays or two weeks as a result of melting snows, causing rivers and streams 

 to reach flood stages. This also caused several ice gorges to break, result- 

 ing in logging, boom and transportation companies losing heavily. The 

 recent breaking of a gorge at Padueah, Ky., wrecked a numl)er of steamers, 

 packets, towboats and barges. The -\yer & Lord Tie Company was one 

 of the heaviest hit. On the Kentucky river and its tributaries the log- 

 ging and lumber concerns wore also hard hit, as a number of booms broke, 

 rt'U-asing thousands of logs, ties, lumber, etc., which coulil not be salvaged 

 in any considerable degree because of the heavy ice. Reports from eastern 

 Kentucky show that quite a number of big concerns lost logging track- 

 age, river equipment, booms, lumber, logs, staves, etc. At Quicksand, Ky., 

 the Mowbray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati lost five miles of rail- 

 road, log booms and a large number of logs, the estimated damage being 

 .?50,000. The Kentucky Lumber Company is reported to have lost 75,000 

 logs when a boom broke near Burnsido, Ky., while other large losers were 

 Ihe Bassett Hardwood Lumber Company of Monticello ; the Bumside 

 Cedar Company. Burnside ; the Day Lumber and Coal Company, Jackson, 

 and the Chicago Veneer Company, while the Ferguson Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of Padueah. Ky., lost a barge and other river equipment. A 

 sudden freeze stopped the flood for a time, and it is hoped that the fol- 

 lowing thaws will be gradual enough to prevent further damage. How- 

 ever, heavy ice in the larger streams is doing tremendous damage to trans- 

 portatii.n companies, and this will result in a shortage of boats and barges 

 in the spring, as it is estimated that more than .?3, 000, 000 worth of river 

 equipment has been sunk or destroyed. However, this spells a busy season 

 tor the river shipyards, although it will cause much trouble in handling 

 shipments to river towns. 



The first February meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club was 

 scheduled for Tuesday, February 5. but was set up a few days so as 

 not to interfere with members who desired to attend the meeting of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at Cincinnati. Two visitors 

 wore present : Bob Carnahan of Brown Brothers & Carnahan, Pine Bluff, 

 Ark., and Maurice Welsh of the Welsh Brothers Lumber Company, Mem- 

 lihis, who for several years was with the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 

 of Charleston. Miss. Mr. Carnahan was formerly a Louisville operator, 

 and at one time a member of the Louisville Hardwood Club, but it has 

 been a number of years since he attended a meeting. Mr. Carnahan in a 

 short talk stated that in his opinion it was essential that lumber dealers 

 obtain a good percentage of government orders if they intended to conduct 

 a successful business in 191S, as transportation conditions are such that 

 other business does not look very promising. Mr. Welsh was much pleased 

 with the big improvement shown in the demand for thick oak. 



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Tlie Mechanics Lumber Company of Little Kork has increased its capital 

 stock .$25,000 to $40,000, and the Enterprise Lumber Company has taken 

 similar action, the increase being from ?15,000 to $25,000. 



The E. H. Ewing Lumber Company of Hober Springs, Ark., has filed a 

 certificate of dissolution and surrendered its charter. 



Frank F. Fee, president of the Foe-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. Dermott, was elected president of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association at the recent meeting in New York. Mr. Fee resides at 1000 

 Broadway street, Little Rock, and is well and favorably known among 

 the lumbermen of this section. 



The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court sustaining the 

 ruling formerly made by the federal courts to the effect that it Is not 

 necessary for the shipper to show actual loss to collect on overcharges 

 on freight shipments is looked upon as of importance to the lumbermen of 

 this section. The case Involved the collection of a claim for $2,061 by 

 way of overcharges by the American Hardwood I^umber Company of 

 Louisiana and -\rkansas. and arose when the reparation was allowed upon 

 the claim by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroads taking 

 the position that it was necessary, before the manufacturer or shipper 

 could collect for it, to show that it had been actually damaged and had 

 not passed on the overcharge to the ultimate consumer. This conten- 

 tion was overruled by the lower court, which held that it was only neces- 

 sary to show an overcharge, the collection of rates in excess of those 

 allowed by the commission's tariff, and now the Supreme Court has taken 

 the same view of the question and settled the matter favorably to the 

 lumtior manufacturers. 



The Lckhardt & Lennon Company has purchased the stave and heading 

 plant of the Pekin Cooperage Company at Paragould. which is one of the 

 largest of its kind In the state. The Pekin company still owns and 

 operates a number of stave and heading mills in Arkansas. 



The Mount Olive Stave Company of Batesville has increased its capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $15,000. It had the misfortune of losing Its plant 

 by fire on the night of December 24, 1917, but this is now being rebuilt, 

 and the company will soon be operating again on a bigger scale than 

 before. 



The Texarkana Broom Company of Hope has increased its capital stock 

 from $2.-1. noo to $50,000. 



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