September 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



43 



Bristol is cutting walnut logs e.\clusivcly on war ordiMs. wliilp otlici- mills 

 in this section are busy cutting them. 



The Hice Manufacturing Company has started its new mill at Johnson 

 City. Tenn. 



^■< LOUISVILLE >. 



The Vos^ Table Company, a l^'adin^- l.uuisvillo consuming factory, will 

 build an addition to its plant. .T. E. Kiddell. vice-president and general 

 manager, stated that the addition would be used chiefly for finishing and 

 car-loading purposes. 



Local hardwood men are much concerned with the proposed reclassifica- 

 tion of lumber and are hopeful that the various conferences which have 

 been held recently will result in a uniform proposition being put before 

 the commission. It is believed that if the lumbermen fail to get together 

 on the question it will weaken their case considerably. 



Allan McLean, who is in charge of the sawmill ilepartment of the 

 Wood Mosaic Company, has returned from a vacation of several weeks 

 spent in Canada. Mr. McLean states that business, especially in the 

 flooring department, is better, indicating an improvement in the building 

 situation. 



Improved collections are reported by most of the lumbermen, the result, 

 it is believed, of a general stimulation of trade all over the country. 

 More buyer.s are discounting their bills, fewer renewals of notes are being 

 asked, and the situation in this respect is generally improved. 



The cotton situation in the South is so much better than it was a 

 yciir ago that the consuming sllunlion in that territory is a lot better. 

 Southern furniture factories, which have been practically shut down, are 

 operating again, and with cotton selling around 10 cents, and agricul- 

 tural conditions in other respects favorable, it looks as if business with 

 consuming factories in the South ought to be very good this fall. 



H. E. Kline, superintendent of the Louisville Veneer Mills and president 

 of the Louisville Hardwood Club, is the latest victim of the golf bug in the 

 local trade. Mr. Kline wielded the clubs a few times while at Helena, 

 .\rk.. recently, and immediately decided that there was no reason why he 

 should not be able to emulate the illustrious example of the other Louis- 

 ville hardwood men, lie has now picked out a few weapons and is bat- 

 ting the little ball over the Cherokee links preparatory to taking on the 

 other hardwood men and showing them how the great Scotch game really 

 should be played. 



Tom Fullenlove. who handles sajes for the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company, is in the East. Business witli (he company has been good, and 

 ihe sawmill is operating full capacity. 



Emmett Ford, who is in charge of the dimension business of the C. C. 

 Mengei & Bro. Company, has been in the East for several weeks. Demand 

 in that end of the business is good. .T. C. Wickliffe, secretary of the 

 company, who has been abroad since last May, is expected to return home 

 in October, 



The Norman Lumber Company, which has been making a specialty of 

 siding for several years, has added cypress to its line and is now 

 featuring cypress siding in the regular grades and dimensions. Edwin 

 Norman, who is in charge of this department, reports business excellent. 



The general offices of H. A. McCowen & Co., which have been at the 

 yard at Sixth and Bloom streets, have been moved to the Republic build- 

 ing at Fifth and Walnut streets, a more convenient location in most 

 respects. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has returned 

 from Chicago, where he attended a meeting of the executive committee 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, of which he is a leading 

 member. 



Discussion of the mahogany situation has developed the proposition 

 that there is a strong probability of a log sliortage developing, so that it 

 seems that the present prices of mahogany are certain to .go up. Stocks 

 of logs in this country are generally light, and finished material, with 

 the possible exception of veneers, is also not in great supply. 



The Holly Ridge Lumber Company of Louisville has been doing well as 

 far as sales are concerned and has moved a large part of the dry stock at 

 its Louisiana mill. 



Local concerns manufacturing gum in the South are finding a better 

 demand for export. This has been moving both sap gum and red gum. 

 Prices on the former have been advancing sharply and the movement of 

 the upper grades has made sap gum boxboards extremely scarce, and 

 buyers in the domestic trade are therefore having to pay a premium, 

 though the price has heretofore been considered much too low. 



The Turkey Foot Lumber Company, which has its offices at Lexington, 

 Ky., and its mill at Cresmont, in Lee county, has a model plant, in the 

 opinion of many who have seen it. The company built an IS-mile rail- 

 road into its holdings and the town has electric lights, waterworks and 

 other improvements. 



-< LITTLE ROCK >■ 



The hardwood manufacturing plants at Paragould. Ark., most of which 

 have been operating on short time with small forces for several months, 

 bave resumed full time schedules and are now turning out large quantities 

 of staves, heading, handles, wagon spokes, automobile stock and materials 

 used in the manufacture of gun carriages for the warring nations of 

 Europe. 



The Pekin Cooperage Company's plant, which has been practically closed 

 <lown for several months, resumed operations last week. The Hickmon- 



Good Lnnil»er Properly Handled 



The Mark H. Brown 

 Lumber Company 



]\, lakers of 



St Francis Basin 

 Hardwoods 



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 BANK OF COMMERCE & TRUST BUILDING 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



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