January 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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J Importers and Manufacturers 



I Mahogany and Cabinet Woods — Sawed and Sliced 



I Quartered INDIANA White Oak. Red Oak. Fig ured Red Gum, American \yalnut. Etc. 



J Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross 



m Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels 



I The Evansville Veneer Company 



i EVANSVILLE, INDIANA 



has announced a profit-sharing plan to its 400 employes which became 

 effective the first of the year. Every employe who has been connected 

 with the company for five years received a check for 5 per cent of his 

 annual salary, the scale graduating down to 1 per cent for the men who 

 have been employed only one year. By this means the company expects 

 to distribute annually to its employes about 5'10.000 of its earninss. 



The plant of the New Albany Lumber Company was damaged by fire to 

 the extent of about $7,000 last week. The flre is said to have resulted 

 from a short circuit near an electric motor. 



The firm of Brendle & Mandel, operating a planing mill at Huntings- 

 burg, Ind.. has dissolved partnership. J. L. Parberg, a well-known 

 lumberman in that part of Indiana, has purchased Mr. Mandel's interest. 



The Marlon Bench and Cabinet Company of Marion, Ind., has increased 

 its capital stock from $75,000 to $100,000, $25,000 of which represents 

 preferred stock. 



The Capitol Lumber Company of Indianapolis has announced that it 

 has established its fourth yard at East Tenth street and the tracks of 

 the Indianapolis Union Railway Company. It is one of the largest and 

 most conveniently situated of any of the company's yards. 



The Burnett-Lewis Lumber Company has erected a modern ofBce build- 

 ing at its Shelby street yards in Indianapolis. 



=^ EVANSVILLE >■= 



The next regular monthly meeting^of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 will be held .January 11 at the Lottie Hotel. The newly elected officers for 

 1916 will be installed and .several business matters will be disposed of. 



J. C. Greer, of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, has been enjoying some 

 fine bass fishing in Green river, near here, during the past few weeks. He 

 says there is no use for one to go to the Great Lakes for fishing when Green 

 river is so near. 



E. H. Humphrey, a well known lumber dealer at Corydon, Ind., recently 

 received several large orders for lumber, aggregating about one million feet, 

 and he is now arranging for sawmills in and around Corydon to cut this 

 lumber so that he may fill his orders promptly. 



An addition to cost in the neighborhood of $40,000 will be built early 

 this year by the Bockstege Furniture Company in tbis city. The addition 

 will be three stories high and 75x200 feet in dimensions. 



Quite a number of lumberman from Evansville will attend the annual 

 convention of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's As-sjociation at the Clay- 

 pool Hotel, Indianapolis, on January 20. Friends of Daniel Wertz have 

 started a boom for him for the presidency of the association and thus far 

 his name is the only one mentioned for the honor. He is now serving his 

 third term as president of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club. 



The Evansville Veneer Company reports that the New Year has started 

 in all right and it expects to do a large volume of business during 1916. 



Trade with the Indiana Tie Company, with headquarters at Evansville, 

 has been on tbc upward grade for some time. During the past three 

 months the company did more business than during all of the previous 

 three years. It has received orders for ties from many parts of the United 

 States and many railroads are now starting on a campaign of improvement. 

 Manager Robert Williams thinks this is a healthy sign. 



Francis J. Reitz, president of John A. Reitz & Sons, says everything 

 points to a good business year in 1916. 



The furniture, chair and veneer factories at Jasper, Tell City and Hunt- 

 ingburg, Ind., are now being operated on fairly good time and the business 

 outlook for the year is good. 



Two plants with tractors as their products will open in Evansville within 

 a short time, according to announcement just made. The Hercules Buggy 

 Company has purchased a tract of land, 900 feet by 378 feet, upon which 

 a plant will be erected in the spring to manufacture farm tractors. The 

 Vulcan Plow Company is now building an addition and will start to manu- 

 facture a tractor power lift plow. 



Frank M. Cutsinger, the well-known hardwood lumber manufacturer, re- 

 ports the trade outlook for 1016 fine, and looks for many of the manu- 

 facturers in this section to break .all previous records. 



A. F. Karges, president of the Karges Furniture Company and head of 

 the Mercantile bank, in speaking of the trade outlook recently, said : 

 "With big crops and war orders business will gradually improve. Busi- 

 ness is mighty good in the East just now and I look for the improvement to 

 move West and South." 



Local hardwood lumber manufacturers report that they are still getting 

 all the logs they want and that the prices are fairly reasonable. Basket 

 and crate factories as well as box factories are now being operated on 

 fairly good time. 



The Ohio river, which has been rising rapidly for the past week or ten 

 days, came to a stand here at about 41 feet. Little or no damage resulted 

 to the milling interests in tbc immediate vicinity from the high water. 

 Green river, which empties into the Ohio river nine miles above here, was 

 also on a rampage and spread out over the lowlands and several sawmills 

 and stave mills were submerged by the high water. Thousands of logs in 

 rafts and many ties were in danger of being carried away by the flood 

 waters. The Wabash and White rivers were also out of their banks and 

 farmers report the loss of some corn. This is the second flood in this 

 section in less than a month, the first flood having reached a stage of 41.1 

 feet. 



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