August 25, iai5. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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We scrapped a plant only seven years old to build this one 

 which increased our efficiency 30' , and capacity 50% 



Importers and Mainifactiirers 



Mahogany and Cabinet Woods — Sawed and Sliced 



Quartered INDIANA White Oak, Red Oak, 



Figured Red Gum, American Walnut, Etc. 



Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross 

 Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels 



The Evansville Veneer Company 



EVANSVILLE, INDIANA 



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lacturing operations are concerned. W. M. Coulson, head of the company, 

 has removed to Memphis and, until conditions are such as to justify 

 manufacturing operations again, he will engage in the wholesale handling 

 of southern hardwoods and will at the same time dispose of the stock 

 of lumber which his firm now has on hand at Swifton. Mr. Coulson 

 says that it is possible to about break even in manufacturing operations 

 but that there is no real profit and that, for this reason he did not be- 

 lieve it wise to continue to convert timber into lumber under present 

 conditions. Mr. Coulson was for a number of years in charge of the sales 

 department of Lee & Wilson Co.. with headquarters at Memphis. His 

 present offices are in the Tennessee Trust building. 



T. M. Cathey, president of the Bellgrade Lumber Company, is on a trip 

 to points of interest in the West. Before returning to Memphis he will 

 visit San Francisco and San Diego jfnd will take in a number of places 

 in the Pacific Northwest. This same territory was recently covered by 

 John W. McClure, secretary of the same company. 



S. M. Nickey of the Green River Lumber Company, is also on a western 

 trip and will not return to Memphis for some time. He is accompanied 

 by his family. 



There is unusual activity among box manufacturers in Memphis. They 

 have recently booked quite extensive orders connected with the heavy 

 export business which is now being done with the allied governments of 

 Europe. One firm has received an order for 150 cars of poultry cases 

 and also an order for an enormous quantity of packages to be used in the 

 handling of oil shipments. There is also a good demand for packages 

 for the handling of shipments of lard and other provisions which are 

 in excellent export call. A single firm at Alemphis has already booked 

 enough business to keep its plant in full operations for the next six 

 months. There is, in addition to this demand for specialties, a good run 

 of orders from regular sources, with the result that the box manu- 

 facturers are finding an unusually active season. The time is close at 

 hand when the packers will be in the market for egg cases and when 

 there will also be a good demand from other standard sources. There 

 is only one fly in the ointment of the box manufacturers and that is the 

 comparatively low price at which stock must be sold. It is pointed 

 out that it has been necessary to meet rather keen competition in secur- 

 ing business which is now being done and that the margin of profit is 

 comparatively small. There is also an excellent demand for single ply 

 veneers. One firm here has sold its output for about six months and 

 others say that they are having no difficulty in disposing of their products. 

 The same complaint, however, is made in connection with veneers that 

 has already been noted in regard to box shooks. 



A somewhat new departure has been encountered in the fact that about 



two million feet of willow will be used i,n the manufacture of one of 

 the orders to which reference has already been made. This lumber has 

 been designated as the material for certain kinds of packages on account 

 of its lightness as well as its cheapness. Some willow has been used in 

 the manufacture of certain kinds of eases for some time, but there has 

 never been an order booked here previously calling for any such quantity 

 as two million feet. However, the firm which has accepted this order has 

 plenty of willow timber of its own which can be readily converted into 

 lumber fast enough to meet the requirements of this big order. As a 

 general rule for the past few years nearly all of the box shooks manu- 

 factured here have been made of either Cottonwood or gum or a combi- 

 nation of both. The placing of such a big order for willow is regarded as 

 directly in line vrith the policy of buyers in every direction, namely, 

 of taking the material which can be bought at the lowest price possible. 



=•< NASHVILLE >•= 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club is making a hard fight against the 

 Louisville & Nashville to secure transit privileges in the handling of 

 lumber in this city. In a brief filed with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission it is charged that the ownership, by the Louisville & Nashville, 

 of a majority of the stock of the Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis 

 Railway is responsible for the refusal to grant Nashville the reshipping 

 privilege accorded to other cities, and which is unjust and discrimination 

 against this market. It is insisted that Nashville is a logical center for 

 hardwood lumber traffic, and that transit privileges granted to other 

 points are a commercial necessity. The Nashville lumbermen declare 

 that they are not asking any more than an equality of rates with com- 

 peting points, and that the only way that this can be effected is by 

 establishing at Nashville a transit on hardwood lumber on the basis of 

 the through rate applied via Nash\'ille from the point of origin to the 

 point of destination, plus $5 per car, but in no case to exceed the combi- 

 nation of rates on the Ohio river crossings. 



Moore & Nicks is the name of a newly or,ganized firm at Dickson, Tenn.. 

 which is having erected a mill to manufacture tight and slack barrel 

 staves and lumber. W. A. Moore of Dickson and R. K. Nicks, formerly 

 of Charlotte, compose the new firm. 



The secretary of state has granted a charter to the L. D. Murrell 

 Lumber Company. Memphis. Teuu., with authorized capital stock of 

 .$10,000. L. D. Murrell. John A. Schutz, D. C. Balch, C. V. Runyon and- 

 G. Gwinner are incorporators. 



The Rock City Spoke & Handle Companv, Nashville, has filed a com- 



