October 25, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Special Lumber Section Authorized 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Associatiuu anuounced Oct. 5 that a 

 special lumber section of the car service division of the American Railroad 

 Association has been authorized and that this will be established in the 

 near future. Officials of this organization l)elieve that creation of this 

 sectiou will result in material improvement in transportation accorded the 

 lumber industry and much pleasure is expressed over this latest develop- 

 ment in the struggle for better service. 



The association also announces that tran.scontineutal lines have prom- 

 ised a substantial reduction in present rates on flooring, cooperage stock, 

 laths and other forest products going to the Orient via Pacific coast ports. 

 The present rate is $1.80, which represents an advance of SSVa per cent 

 over the rate of $1.35 effective up to Aug. 25. The proposed new rate is 

 $1.50, or much less than that resulting from the advance of 33% per cent 

 authorized by the interstate commerce commission on inter-group ship- 

 ments. 



The lower rates are to apply from Group E, points which include Mem- 

 phis, New Orleans and other points in the valley territory. 



Atkins Completing New Buildings 



The development in the sawmilling and woodworking industries has 

 been so excessive during recent years and the expansion so great in the 

 business of E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, lud., manufacturers of silver 

 steel saws, saw tooLs and machine knives, that the company has literally 

 been in the throes of a building program for a number of years. A short 

 time ago the addition of one story to the handle factory was announced. 

 .\s soon as this was completed a four-story addition to the power plant and 

 a brand new three-story building were started, these two new additions 

 giving added flooring space of 60,100 square feet. 



The new three-story building is an interesting structure, containing 

 forty-five foot spans without posts. Here also is built in a big eight-ton 

 crane. 



The new space has all been carefully allotted so as to gain the greatest 

 in efficiency, and while with these additions several of the departments 

 will be allowed to expand, the Atkins company says this is not sufficient to 

 relieve the congestion in all the departments. 



Organizes New Sales Company 



The Southern Hardwood Sales Company announceii its organization at 

 Indianapolis, Ind. The officers of the coBipany are all well known factors 



in the southern hardwood trade. The new company is located in the 

 Peuuway building, being designed merely as sales agents for a group of 

 representative southern firms. 



The organization was incorporated under the laws of Indiana, the 

 officers being : President, J. B. Robinson, who is general manager of the 

 Pelican Lumber Company, Mound, La. ; first vice-president, F. L. Adams, 

 secretary and general manager of the Newell Lumber Company, Eunice, 

 La.; second vice-president, A. N. Smith, sales manager of the Bomer- 

 Blanks Lumber Company, Blanks, La. ; third vice-president, G. P. Gam- 

 mill, general manager for the New Deemer Manufacturing Company, 

 Deemer, Miss. ; secretary and manager, F. H. Stanford, former sales man- 

 ager for the New Deemer Manufacturing Company. Deemer, Miss. Mr. 

 Stanford will be in' active charge of the business and will develop a sales 

 organization covering the consuming trade in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, 

 Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. 



While the mills above listed will maintain their own sales organiza- 

 tions, the Southern Hardwood Sales Company will act as sales agents for 

 all tour of them and will thus have a combined production of 50,000,000 

 feet annually. 



Jeffris Company Sues Southern Partner 



A suit involving a claim for $150,000 and extremely interesting allega- 

 tions has been instituted by the D. K. Jeffris Lumber Company of Chicago 

 against G. M. Plynn & Son of Columbus, Miss. The suit will be heard 

 in the Federal district court at Yazoo City, Miss.. October 27, and E. J. 

 Lundin, manager of the Chicago headquarters of the company, will go to 

 Mississippi to assist In its prosecution. 



The complainants aver that the sum mentioned in the suit is due to them 

 as their half interest and profits in the sawmill operation at Columbus, 

 which they say was conducted by Flynn as a partner with them. They 

 also ask a receiver for the company, alleging that the defendant in defiance 

 of the partnership existing took his son into the partnership and operated 

 the sawmill as G. M. Flynn & Son, instead of the D. K. Jeffris Lumber 

 Company, ignoring the Jeffris company in so far as division of profits, etc., 

 were concerned. According to a statement made by an official of the . 

 Jeffris company, the Mississippi company was not registered in that state, 

 and it was necessary, as the Jeffris company was an Illinois corporation, 

 to go to the Mississippi legislature and secure the passage of a special 

 "amnesty" bill before they could sue their partner to recover their hall: 

 of the partnership. 



