November 25, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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of this city, h{is returned from a business trip to Edinburg, Ind. Mr. 

 Wertz says there has been a checlslng up in trade during the past few 

 weel5S, and that he does not lools for any marlied Improvement in business 

 conditions for some time to come. 



Announcement has just been made by William J. Muenstermann, the 

 secretary and manager of the West Side Investment Company of this city, 

 that his company will build at least twenty dwelling houses on the West 

 Side here during the coming year, and he says that a larger number than 

 this will be built on condition that building materials become more rea- 

 sonable during the next six months. Several other building companies in 

 this city are getting ready to launch a building campaign at the first of 

 the coming year, and at present indications are that the year 1921 will 

 witness more building of homes than the present year has. 



William S. Partington, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Lum- 

 bermen's Club and trafBc manager of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers of this city, has returned from a business trip to Indian- 

 apolis. 



Joe Waltman, head of the Evansville Band Mill Company and president 

 of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, took an active part In the fail cere- 

 monial of Hadi Temple, Ancient and Arabic Order of the Nobles of the 

 Mystic Shrine, that was held here on Friday afternoon and evening, Nov. 

 19. A class of 160 novices was talien into the temple on that day. 



LOUISVILLE 



The United Casljet Company, Incorporated In Louisville some months ago 

 to manufacture coffins, and which purchased a site for a local plant, has 

 recently bought the unusued plant of H. H. Poutch, who formerly operated 

 a planer, and will install a temporary plant, which it is planned to place i,n 

 operation shortly. G. B. Zimmerman Is president and H. H. Keese, Sr., 

 superintendent. 



The Holly Ridge Lumber Company, Louisville, reports that it will soon 

 complete a new cooperage plant at Bunkie, La., to be operated in connec- 

 tion with its lumber mills, this plant to have a daily capacity of 10,000 

 staves or parts of heading, work on it having started last April. The 

 plant will cut oak, gum, hackberry, ash., etc. Barry Norman, W. N. Willis, 

 W. A. Watts, L. H. Wymond and other prominent men are directors of the 

 company, which has four sawmills in Louisiana and Mississippi. 



The Mengel Company of Louisville has recently chartered three addi- 

 tional steamers tor handling its logs from Central and South America and 

 West Africa, these being the Crickett, West Caruth and Ionia. Mahogany 

 logs are brought in at Pensacola and Mobile principally. 



J. L. Dawson, head of the Dawson Lumber Company of Louisville, has 

 recently returned from several weeks spent on the Pacific slope, having 

 visited large red wood mills in Oregon, Washington, California and other 

 states, with the idea of arranging to Job some of the western woods through 

 his Louisville office. Mr. Dawson was very enthusiastic concerning opera- 

 tions on the coast, and reported that while business was a little quiet with 

 the mills just now, the operators are optimistic, and the furniture manu- 

 facturers of the coast are apparently rather busy. 



H. E. Snyder of the Louisville Veneer Mills, after several weeks' absence 

 from the office as a result of serious illness, is again feeling good, and while 

 underweight is on the job steadily. 



W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has indefinitely postponed plans 

 for building an office building at Fourth and K streets, but will probably 

 take the matter up again in the spring. 



The Southern Wood Products Company has started work on an office 

 at its plant on West Market street, where it Is completing some new 

 buildings. 



Silas Cundiff, lumberman of New Haven, Ky., was recently found dead 

 near Muldraugh's Hill, a few miles distant, death having been from heart 

 trouble. 



The Ohio Valley Improvement Association has just wound up a meeting 

 at Paducah, Ky., at which arrangements were made for asking Congress 

 for further appropriations for speeding up deep water way work on the 

 Ohio river. 



J. S. Thompson, manager of the Louisville division of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, has recently announced a number of accom- 

 plishments in securing low'er freight rates. The Chesapeake & Ohio rail- 

 road has agreed to reductions from a number of Eastern Kentucky towns to 

 Louisville, these reductions figuring as much as QY^ cents a hundred. 

 Through rates have also been secured from points on the Mobile & Ohio in 

 Alabama to Kentucky and Tennessee points, carrying new rates on basis of 

 through rates to Ohio river crossings. Reduced rates have been secured 

 from C. N. O. & T. P. points in Kentucky and Tennessee to New Albany, 

 Ind., saving from one to three cents a hundred on logs. There has also 

 been new single line mileage rates secured in Indiana, which will save 

 considerably on logs and stave bolts. 



ST. LOUIS 



Changes in the location of some of the lumber firms in St. Louis are : 

 Lee Wilson & Co., in charge of J. I. Newsom, from Boatmen's Bank 

 building, to room 916, Title Guaranty building. 



Shawano County Hard Maple 



JS OUR SPECIALTY 



OUR STOCK OF NORTHERN HARDWOODS IS 

 NOW COMPLETE AND WE SOLICIT INQUIRIES. 



SOME SPECIAL OFFERINGS 



ASH 

 No. 2 & Btr. 5/4. aver, width & length. 9 mo. diT- 2 cars 

 No. 1 & Btr. 6/4. aver, width & length. 10 mo. dry 1 car 



Sel. & B, 6/4. 5" 



BASSWOOD 

 ; wider, aver, length, 11 mo. dry 2 cars 



BOCK ELM 

 No. 2 & Btr. 4/4, aver, width & length, 9 mo. dry 2 cars 

 No. 1 & B. 10/4. 6" & wdr.. S' & Igr.. U mo. dry 1 car 



HABD MAPLE 

 No. 1 & Btr. 4/4. aver, width & length, 9 mo. dry.lO cara 

 No. 1 & B. 10/4. 5" & wdr, 8' & Igr.. 9 mo. dry. 10 cars 



MAPLE 

 ; wdr., aver. Igth., 9 mo. dry, 10 cars 



No. 1 & B. 8/4. 4" 



WAUSAU 



Chas. Gill Lumber Co. 



WISCONSIN 



? LOOKING FOR ? 



DRY HARDWOODS 



Here are a few items of year old 

 stock that we want to ship quick: 



All Regular Widths and Lengths 

 ASH — Wisconsin Brown 



No. 1 & Btr.. 5/4 8 mos. dry 



No, 2 & Btr. 6/4 8 mos. dry 



BIRCH 

 No. 1 & Btr. 4/4. 10 mos. dry (good widths and lengths) 



No. 1 & Btr. 5/4. 8 mos. dry 1 car 



No. 1 & Btr. 6/4. 8 mos. dry 1 car 



No. 1 & Btr. 8/4. 8 mos. dry 1 car 



No. 1 & Btr. 10/4. 7 mos. dry 2 cara 



BASSWOOD 

 No. 1 & Btr. 6/4. 10 mos. dry 2 cai^ 



Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Co. 



WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



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inquiries for 



NORTHERN 



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WE WANT TO SELL 



the follozving 



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HARDWOODS 



6/4 



6/4 No. 2 & Btr. 11,000' 



Can furnish all kinds of 



Hemlock and Hardwood Crating 



BAND MILLS AT 

 CHASSELL AND ONTONAGON, MICHIGAN 



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