Iieocmlicr 23, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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months, especially should bad wt-ather set in. wliirh. of course, would 

 hinder the operations. 



George II. Foote of the EvansviUe Baud Mill Conipau}* has returned from 

 a business trip to Vincennes, Ind. 



BEAUMONT 



It is predicted in some quarters that the hardwood men are going to 

 he compelled to reduce the cost of production if they expect to do business 

 at a profit in the future and this may bring about a retUiction in wages. 

 They claim that they have been carrying men on their pay rolls at 

 $4 a day who are not worth over $2.50. $2.75 at the outside, and this 

 class is likely to receive the first realization that a new order of things 

 has .superseded wartime feverishness. 



The Palmetto Lumber Company of Houston, Texas, has announced 

 that it has opened up a hardwood department. The company has a hardwood 

 mill lucateil at Oakhurst, Texas, where it has been mauufacturing yellow 

 pini' fur the past 20 years. Their timber holdings consist mostly of white 

 ;iud red oak, ash and gura. 



LOUISVILLE 



W. r. Llniwu & Sons Lumber Company will cut out logs on hand at the 

 Brasfield. Ark., plant about Jan. 1. and will close down there until spring 

 probably. The Fayette, Ala., plant has about forty-five days of logs on 

 hand, and will cut these out. and stop. The other plants are down for 

 the winter. The company quit logging in November, as its stocks are in 

 excellent shape. 



In refuting statements of overstocks of hardwoods in the South one 

 Louisville man calls attention to the fact that many mills have been down 

 for weeks, and were not overstocked then. On the other hand at two 

 of his large mills which, have been running full, stocks today are only 

 85 per cent of normal, as against 75 per cent on Jan. 1, 1920. and Jan. 1. 

 1919. and 100 per cent on Jan. 1. 191S. Stocks today are not equal to 

 th«^»«e of January, 1918. Prices are about fifty per cent under the top or 

 peak of last April, and are hardly expected to go lower, as stocks are not 

 heavy enough to warrant it in view of present production. 



A recent report of the Louisville Board of Trade showed 782 factories 

 in Louisville, of which there were 65 woodworking plants, metal working 

 plants being next with 62. and tobacco third with thirty. There were 

 seventy printers and allied tradesmen, but they don't count really as in- 

 dustries. 



<^ieorge Wilcox, of the I. B. Wilcox Lumber Company, Louisville. -vybJ*^!! 

 recently lost its mill at Burdette. Miss., is planning to buy or lease a 

 mill in that district, and cut up the logs he now has on hand, railing 

 them to the mill. This would save time over trying to move a mill or 

 rebuild just now. Again it could later be moved on cheaper labor at 

 lower costs. Only the boilers were left undamaged in the old mill. 



The Mengel Company of Louisville, will further reduce woodwaste 

 through installation of a new department which will manufacture wooden 

 toys for children, especially boys. It is planned to make numerous 

 wheeled toys. The company ha.s offered prizes of ,^5,000 to employes of- 

 fering the Iiest working model suggestions for future products, and 

 several of them are now lining tested out. 



Recent announcement that the Louisville & Nashville Railroad would 

 spend $33,000,000 on cars, engines, and impi'ovements. as made before 

 the Louisville Transportation Club at a recent meeting, brought with it 

 a good deal of optimism to Eastern Kentucky lumbermen who depend on 

 the road for service. Lumbermen also expect that it will develop some 

 hardwood and pine business in connection with the car building cam- 

 paign, which is under way. 



C. C. Mengel of the Mengel Company, in a recent statement said it was 

 too early to forecast the business future with anything like certainty. 

 He is inclineil to the belief, however, that the worst of the readjustment 

 period is over, or being experienced ju.^t now. and that a revival on a 

 more substantial basis is not far distant- 

 Graham Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, will leave 

 within a few days for Bethlehem. Pa., for a Christmas visit to the home 

 of his sister, Mrs. William Dugan. 



Harry Roy of the W. R. Willett Luml)er Company. Louisville, recently an- 

 nounced the arrival of a fine eight-pound daughter, which brought joy 

 to five boys that had long been wanting a litle sister. Miss Roy's full 

 name is Mary Moore Roy. 



J. L. Dawson of the Dawson Lumber Company, while a man who 

 weighs things closely, and isn't given to taking wild chances, feels that 

 present prices are about as low as they will be, and that business will 

 pick up after the first of the year. He doesn't believe there has been an 

 overproduction, and that prices will be higher by the middle of spring. 

 Therefore, he is adding 300 feet of siding at his yard, and planning to 

 start buying and stocking hardwoods, where tbey can be l)ought right 

 from the litle fellows who have cold feet. He is also planning to handle 

 some of the Western woods through this yard, such as fir and redwood. 

 tVith the milling-in-transit arrangements granted be believes that the 

 yard will become a good proposition, especially as he has planning facil- 

 ities. Heretofore he hasn't been using the yard to any extent. 



A jury in Judge Field's Circuit Court, Louisville, upon finding that 

 Han-ey Frye, of Louisville, was not knowingly employefl in March. 191S. 

 in violation of the child labor law on the part of Gamble Brothers. 



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