June 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



burg are operating on full time and tliat some very satisfactory orders 

 liave been received for boxes and box shooks recently. The Anderson- 

 Tully Company is also operating its sawmill and box plants at Memphis. 



J. H. Townshend, secretary and general manager of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association, has returned from a ten day business trip to 

 Denver, Col., and points in Texas and Oklahoma. He went to look 

 after traffic matters for one of the members of the association. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association has filed a complaint with 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission in behalf of the Carrier Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, Sardis. Miss., through which lower rates are 

 sought from Sardis to Spokane and other destinations in Washington. 

 The present rate is 92 cents. The rate sought is 75 cents. 



=■< BRISTOL y- 



J. H. Murphy- of the Lovelady Lumber Company of Jasper, Va., was 

 here this week to attend the Shriners' festival. He reports that his 

 company is cutting 100,000 feet daily at Jasper and is shipping out about 

 half of its daily output. 



William S. Whiting, a prominent hardwood lumberman of Asheville, 

 N. C, W'as a visitor in the city this week, en route home after a trip 

 to the East. It is understood that the Whiting interests are preparing 

 to develop a large area of hardwood timber on the North Carolina-Ten- 

 nessee border and that a large band mill will be installed at an early 

 date. 



The United States Spruce Company is building a new mill at Marion, 

 Va. The company is operating at Fairwood, Va., and will soon be operat- 

 ing again at Marion. It has a large acreage of timber in Grayson coun- 

 ty, Va. 



Fred Paxton of the Lewis Lumber Company has returned to Preston 

 county, W. Va., where his company is operating two mills. 



=■< LOUISVILLE y- 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, which operates a veneer mill at its New 

 Albany, Ind., plant, in addition to a s-awmili and flooring factory, has an- 

 nounced that it is going into the walnut veneer business. The company 

 has been actively buying walnut logs for some time, and though a good 

 many of these have been cut into lumber, the finest have been reserved for 

 veneers. The company believes that there is a growing field for black 

 walnut, and is prepai-ed to take care of the demand as it develops. 



The Louisville Point L«mber Company will begin sawing a big lot of 

 poplar logs which were purchased by H. J. Gates of that company at the 

 recent sale at Catlettsburg, Ky., following a log tide in the Big Sandy 

 river. Mr. Gates bought about a million feet, mostly poplar. He said 

 that the logs are very fine, and the resulting stock will be more than ordi- 

 narily desirable. 



. Alex. Schmidt of Theodore Francke Erhen, G.m.b.II. of Cincinnati, was 

 in Louisville last week, and called on various members of the trade. Mr. 

 Schmidt is well-known as a black walnut booster and as president of the 

 Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club. 



Inquiries from the East tor a large amount of thick mahogany are taken 

 by local concerns in that line as Indicating that mahogany is to be given a 

 chance in the manufacture of gunstocks. Walnut is about the only wood 

 that has been considered heretofore in this connection. 



The Norman Lumber Company has been booking business for July ship- 

 ment in large quantity, its poplar bevel siding trade showing the good 

 effects of the open season for building. The next three or four months are 

 expected to be the busiest of the year for this company. 



Ash is selling well for local hardwood concerns and seems to be about 

 the strongest Item on the list at present. Some of the local concerns got 

 a share of the 1,300,000 foot order placed by the Packard Motor Car Com- 

 pany for ash recently. It was generally understood, however, that the 

 prices paid were not particularly high. 



The new firm of Brown Bros. & Carnahan, which was formed to operate 

 at Furth, Ark., now has its band mill running, and will be in a position to 

 offer its stock for sale in the near future. Thick lumber is being cut for 

 the most part at present. Oak, gum and cypress will be the principal 

 woods manufactured. 



The Louisville Veneer Mills has been booming figured red gum of late, 

 and has been featuring it to consumers in connection with the Circassian 

 walnut situation, taking the ground that the scarcity -of this wood, coupled 

 with the difficulty of manufacturing it, makes it logical to use figured gum, 

 which has a similar appearance. H. E. Snyder, the clever advertising and 

 sales manager of the company, has been working up a campaign along this 

 line that is bringing home the bacon. 



Col. Clarence R. Mengel, president of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, 

 is nothing if not democratic. To show this, he is often seen at the wheel 

 of his Dodge touring car. He enjoys driving it just as much as if it were 

 his larger car, costing several times as much. It wouldn't even be a matter 

 for surprise if he were to be caught out somewhere in a Ford. The Mengel 

 company has a big pile of Mexican mahogany logs on its yard, and may 

 start its sawmill again, but will probably await developments in the trade 

 before manufacturing the timber. 



Leslie county, Kentucky, has formed a forest fire protection association 

 with 80,000 acres represented, and another is being formed in Clay county. 

 The Leslie organization has the following officers : H. M. Hensley, presi- 

 dent ; William Dlxson, J. Bledsoe and J. M. Minard, vice-presidents ; D. B. 



Wooten, secretary, and W. S. Eversole, treasurer. 



The West Virginia Stave & Lumber Company has begun operating a mill 

 at Cowan, Ky., with C. W. Hurst in charge. .V big timber tract was pur- 

 chased there from W. S. Vermillion. 



C. M. Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, who has been in 

 the northern consuming centers recently, has found prospects better than 

 for some time. Mr. Sears is as closely in touch with the cabinet trade as 

 anybody in the hardwood business, and is very strong with the furniture 

 manufacturers. 



=-< ARKANSAS >= 



The sawmill at Furth, Ark., owned and operated by the B. P. Ladd 

 Cypress Company, which has been idle for several months, will soon be 

 put into operation again. The machinery is being overhauled and put 

 in good condition. When the mill resumes operations about 150 men will 

 be employed. 



The Henry Wrape Company, one of the largest hardwood manufacturers 

 in Arkansas, has announced that at the earliest possible date all of its 

 mills win commence to opsrate on full time. The Henry Wrape Company 

 has a large stave and heading factory in Paragould, also mills at Searcy, 

 White county ; Reydcl, Jefferson county, and Brookland, Craighead county. 

 Most of the finishing work is done at Paragould. All of the mills have 

 been running with short forces during the past ten months. The action 

 of placing the mills hack on lull schedule was not decided, it is announced, 

 by reason of the present demand, but in anticipation of what it will be in 

 the near future. The increase in operations of this company will mean 

 much, not only to the men employed at the plants but also to timber 

 cutters and teamsters. 



Francis Kelfer, supervisor of the Ozark National Forest, has recently 

 let contracts for the sale of .3,228,000 feet of timber from the forest to 

 the Mount Olive Stave Company of BatesvUle, Ark. The sales were made 

 in two bodies, one for 1,335,000 feet of timber lying along Coon creek 

 watershed, in Stone and Cleburne counties, and the other for 1,893,000 

 feet of timl)er lying along Bothersome creek watershed in Stone county. 



The price of the timber embraced in the first lot for 1,335,000 feet, was 

 .$3.20 a cord for headings. The price for the timber embraced in the 

 second lot for 1,893,000 feet, was $4.20 per thousand feet board measure. 



=■< MILWAUKEE >= 



The Fifield Lumber Coniitaiiy of Janesville, Wis., has increased its capital 

 stock from .$17,000 to $31,000. 



Birdsoll & Griffith of Racine, Wis., with a bid of $31,368.76 were the 

 low bidders for supplying and laying creosoted block paving at Oconto, 

 Wis. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Odanah, Wis., has been awarded 

 the contract for repairing the street and building a new dyke at Odanah. 

 Odanah is the location of an Indian reservation and government sawmill, 

 and congress recently appropriated $8,000 to improve conditions at that 

 place. 



Among the new orders for safety just issued by the Wisconsin Industrial 

 Commission at the recommendation of a special committee on safety and 

 sanitation, made up of prominent business men of the state, is one desig- 

 nated as order No. 205, relating to swing saws in woodworking plants. 

 The order says : 



On the Following Stock We Will Make Special 

 Prices for Prompt Shipment: 



Bone dry stock. 

 35,000 ft. 1" No. 1 and 2. 

 19,000 ft. l" gummy. 



COJISION 



55,000 ft. 1" No. 1. 

 12,000 ft. 1" No. 2. 

 13,000 ft. 1%" No. 1 and 2 



CHERRY 



33,000 ft. Il4 

 32,000 ft. 1 J4 

 34,000 ft. 1 V2 

 36,000 ft. iVz 



5,000 ft. f/z 

 22,000 ft. 2 



8,000 ft. 2 



No. 1. 

 No. 2. 



No. 1 and 2. 



No. 1. 



No. 2. 

 No. 1 and 2. 

 No. 1. 



The Atlantic Lumber Co. 



70 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. 



