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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1918 



Claude Wertz of Maley & Wertz, Elmer D. and I'nul W. Luhring of the 

 Luhrlng Lumber Company, Charles A. WoKlin of the Wotlln-West Side 

 Lumber Company, J. C. Greer of the .T. C. Greer Lumber Company, Frank 

 M. CutsiuKor and Joseph Waltmau of the EvansvUle Band Mill Company, 

 Louis lloltman of the Schnute-IIoltman Company, George O. Worland of 

 the EvansvUle Veneer Company, Koy Foster of the McFerson & Foster 

 Company, Bert Tlsserand of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, Theo. E. 

 Rechtin of the Theodore E. Rechtin Lumber Company and many others. 

 Plow manufacturers In EvansvUle report they are having a good run 

 at the present time and the four large factories here are being operated 

 on steady time. A great many plows turned out here are being shipped 



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to the South and manufacturers report they are getting more freight 

 cars than they were able to secure a few weeks ago. They say the out- 

 look for Inislucss is good. 



=< MEMPHIS >-. 



Lumber Interests here are breathing much more freely on the Bcore 

 of flood conditions. They felt certain a little while ago that there would 

 be one of the most lUsnstrous stages in the history of the Mississippi, but 

 they are rapidly coming to the conclusion that they have nothing to fear 

 In this line this season. No high water is indicated at the present time, 

 and so much of the snow and ice in the upper valleys of the Mississippi 

 and its tributaries has disappeared that no danger is feared from that 

 source. 



Moore & McFerrIn are rebuilding their sawmill in North Memphis, which 

 was destroyed by lire a short lime ago. The new jjlant will be equipped 

 ■ with a banil saw, .ind will have a capacity of twenty-live thousand to thirty 

 thousand feet daily. This firm is engaged in the manufacture of box 

 shooks, but is only able to operate its box factory on partial time because 

 of the difBculty of getting low grade cotton wood and gum therefor. 



S. H. Stout has been chosen by the AndersoB-TuUy Company of Mem- 

 phis to operate its big band mill at Vicksburg, Miss. He succeeds N. J. 

 Shepard, who has accepted the position of manager of the plant which 

 is being constructed by the Utley-Holloway Company of Chicago at Clay- 

 ton, La. This mill will be ready for operation in a few days and will 

 have very large capacity. It will be used to develop the timber on thirteen 

 thousand acres of land acquired by that firm last year. 



The H. W. Darby Lumber Company of Grenada, Miss., has opened a sales 

 otHce in the Bank of Commerce Building here. It is In charge of F. A. 

 Brewer, sales manager of the company. Mr. Darb.v will remain at Grenada 

 and will superintend operation of the four mills of the company located as 

 follows : One at Kosciusko, Miss. ; one at Greenwood. Miss., and two at 

 Money, Miss. This firm w'lil have a yearly output of about twenty million 

 feet of hardwood lumber. It owns 6,000 to 8,000 acres of stumpage in 

 Mississippi. A large part of this output is tupelo gum and cypress. 



Four more new members have been received by the .\merican Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, as follows : Port Barre Lumber & Tie Com- 

 pany of Port Barre, La. ; H. B. Blanks Lumber Company of Vicksburg, 

 Miss. ; M. E. Leming, Leming Lumber Company of Cape Girardeau, Mo. ; 

 Cybur Lumber Company of Cybur, Miss. This makes a total of fourteen 

 members the association has received who were not identified with either 

 the old gum or oak associations which it succeeded. 



Box manufacturers at Memphis are doing the largest business In their 

 history. Indications are that they will continue to operate on this phe- 

 nomenal scale for quite a while, as they are receiving more orders than 

 they can promptly handle. They are paying the highest prices ever known 

 for low grade cotton wood and gum and are likewise securing higher prices 

 than ever before for their output. There is a scarcity of this class of 

 lumber and the box plants are not able to operate on as full schedule as 

 the managements thereof would like. Orders are having to he turned 

 down almost every day and it is beginning to look as If this unusual 

 demand will continue for the period of the war. 



Manufacturers of tight and slack cooperage stock are likewise finding 

 their books unusually full of orders. Wooden contaiuers of every kind 

 have been in extraordinary demand for quite a while, and members of the 

 trade believe that this unusual call will continue indefinitely. Ever,v effort 

 is being made by the manufacturers of cooperage stock, as well as finished 

 barrels, to get together all the material that can be assembled. They are 

 meeting with much difficulty on this score because of the serious shortage 

 of cars. Most of these plants, however, are able to operate on pretty full 

 time now, as the situation is improving from both a weather and trans- 

 portation standpoint. 



Walker Wellford, general manager of the Chickasaw Cooperage Com- 

 pany, has returned from Pt. Arthur, Texas, where the Pt. Arthur Cooper- 

 age Company has begun operation of a new finishing plant. Mr. Wellford 

 is president of this now firm. 



^-< KNOXVILLE >= 



C. F. Maples of The Maples Lumber Company, was in Cincinnati last 

 week in the interest of his concern and reports a very successful trip. 



The Andes Lumber Company has recently closed a big contract for a 

 large amount of pine lumber sold to the government for shipbuilding 

 purposes. 



J. M. Logan of J. M. Logan Lumber Company, has just returned from a 

 trip in Alabama where he is operating several mills and reports business 

 very active in all departments. 



H. C. Kopcke of the Kimball & Kopcke Company, spent the month of 

 February in Sheffield, Ala., where he went to assist the government in 

 its large work in building the nitrate plant number two at Muscle Shoals. 



The Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Company is filling a government 

 contract and getting out large quantities of dimension oak. Its mill at 

 Ponde, Ky., has been out of logs for a short time and on account of the 

 bad weather had not been running full time but at present is running to 

 capacity. 



J. Marlon Miller of the Miller Lumber Company, has just closed a 

 trade for a large tract of timber containing some fine oak and poplar 

 which he expects to manufacture in the immediate future. Mr, Miller ia 



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