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mill at tbat point wliicb will give employment to about tbe same number 

 of men. 



Jobn M. Woods of tbe John M. WooCs Lumber Company, bas returned to 

 r.ostoii after having spent about six weeks in Memphis. Wliile here he 

 attended the annual meeting of his company. A delightful dinner was 

 served at the Hotel Gayoso and during the evening the old officers were 

 re-elected, as follows : John M. Woods, president, W. E. Chamberlain, 

 vice-president, E. D. Walkfr, treasurer, M. E. Pbilbrick, secretary, D, D. 

 Nellis, manager. 



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The Tennessee Railroad Commission has heard evidence in the case of 

 the city of Nashville, opposing the advance of railroad rates to local points 

 within Tennessee. Under the new fourth section system rates of the cities 

 are reduced to a parity with the small points on many commodities. The 

 small towns are clamoring to sustain the railroads. The lumber interests 

 are concerned as to the outcome, John M. Smith of the John M. Smith 

 Lumber Company, Dickson, Tenn., and J. K. Williams of the Williams 

 Lumber Company, Fayetteville, Tenn., being in Nashville in behalf of the 

 small towns. Four or five days were consumed in taking evidence and 

 the commission has the case under advisement. 



Nashville shipping interests have another big fight to make against the 

 general advances of rates made In the southeastern territory, becomin'.; 

 effective January 1. 



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J. C. Wicklitfe, secretary of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, who 

 recently returned from abroad, believes that the mahogany business is on 

 the eve of a big boom, on account of the shortage of supplies. Nothing 

 is coming into England, and the stocks of mahogany there have been 

 greatly reduced by the purchases of .\merican buyers, as well as by 

 domestic consumption; for, Mr. Wicklitfe points out, through the activities 

 of the munitions factories and other lines, the working people in England 

 are probably more prosperous than ever before, and are buying cheap 

 furniture to such an extent as to inake the manufacturers of this class 

 of goods unusually busy. The Mengel company happens to be well lixed 

 as to mahogany supplies, having a big stock of logs on band, with cargoes 

 coming up from Central America, as well as from Africa, so that it 

 believes that it will be able to lake advantage of the situation that is 

 developing. 



Manufacturers of plain oak lumber are taking courage from the big 

 prices now being paid for oil staves, which are intrinsically about as good 

 as common plain oak. Oil stock has risen in a few months from .$27.50 

 a thousand to $45, and even at that buyers are unable to get all of the 

 stock that they need. Mills which have been closed on account of the 

 poor demand for w-hisky barrel stock have reopened in order to make oil 

 stock; for w-hile ordinarily the manufacture of oil staves is not suffi- 

 ciently remunerative to enable the mills to run on this class of work ouly. 

 the present price of oil cooperage material, which can be made with less 

 waste than whisky stock, has enabled operations to be carried on on a 

 profitable basis. In this connection it looks as if plain oak ought to be 

 somewhat affected by the cooperage situation, and some of the lumbermen 

 believe that plain oak prices will undoubtedly be benefited by the develop- 

 ments referred to. 



The date for the opening of the Louisville branch of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association of Memphis was fixed at January 24. Head- 

 quarters have been established in the Courier-Journal building. This 

 branch, which is in charge of Leroy Halyard, will be run by the following 

 hoard of governors: W. A. McLean. Edward L. Davis, T. M. Brown, D. E. 

 Kline, W. R. Willett, T. Smith Milton, W. A. Watts and H. J. Gates. 



H. A. McCowen of H. A. McCoweu & Co. has returned from Cincinnati, 

 where he attended a meeting of the American Walnut Association, of 

 which he is president. The meeting was held at the Sinton hotel. January 

 20, and the walnut men, who have been conducting an aggressive and suc- 

 cessful advertising campaign In behalf of their wood, decided to continue 

 their promotion work during 1916. G. D. Crain, ,Tr., of Louisville, who is 

 assistant secretary and treasurer of the association, will continue in 

 charge of the advertising. 



W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company has been honored by the 

 Board of Trade of LouIsTille by election to the directot-ate of the organiza- 

 tion, which is doing more work for business men in Louisville now than 

 ever before. After his election President Smith appointed him a member 

 of the executive committee of the board, which at present is handling many 

 important matters in connection with a new scheme of financing the 

 work. Col. C. C. Mengel, president of the Mengel Box Company, has 

 withdrawn from the board of directors of the board of trade because of 

 numerous business engagements which prevented his taking an active part 

 In the work, and Mr. McLean has been appointed chairman of the lumber, 

 furniture and building committee, and will be tbe official spokesman of 

 the hardwood trade in the commercial body from now on. 



Louisville lumbermen are breathing easier since the Ohio river, which 

 went on a rampage a few weeks ago, has retired to its normal channel. 

 The water never reached the danger line, but until a cold snap came along 

 it looked as if this were going to happen. The Mississippi, however, did 

 some damage In western Kentucky, Hickman, which is on the stream, 

 being flooded in parts. The Mengel Box Company of Louisville, which 

 spent several thousand dollars building a levee around Its plant there, is 



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