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were destroyed. Mr. Worland says he has arrauged to have all orders 

 tilled and all business looked after promi)tly. The EvansvlUe Veneer 

 Companj' is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the Middle West. 



The Imperial Desk Company, located on West Florida street, this city, 

 has let the contract for the erection of an addition to its dry kiln to 

 cost $5,000, which, when completed, will double the capacity in the dry- 

 ing room. The addition wiH he completed by April. 



The ne.xt meeting of tlie Evansville Lumbermen's Club will be held 

 at the New Vendome hotel on Tuesday evening, March in, and Secretary 

 Taylor looks for a good attendance as there are several important busi- 

 ness matters to come up. 



George O. Worland, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Veneer 

 Company, has been elected a director of the Evansville I''urniture Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, of which he is an active member. 



The International Steel and Iron Company of this city has just had 

 plans drawn for a new planing mill on tlie Belt Railway, near Kead 

 street, to take the place of the one which was destroyed by Are several 

 weeks ago at a loss of about .f40,000. Modern machinery will be installed 

 in the new building, which will be used exclusively for planing mill 

 work. Work on the new structure will be started at once. 



William I'artington, chairman of the river and rail committee of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club, has received a letter from .1. H. Towu- 

 shend, secretary of tlie Southern Hardwood TrafBc Association, in which 

 he states that the association does not care at this time to agitate 

 further the milling-in-transit question on the Louisville & Nashville rail- 

 road. He does not state, however, that he regards the matter as fully 

 settled. The question has been hanging Are for the past two' .vears. 

 and several of the large hardwood manufacturers here are vitally inter- 

 ested in the question. Several months ago the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission decided in favor of the Louisville & Nashville and against 

 the local manufacturers on what is called the policing feature of the 

 milliugin-transit rate. Daniel A. Wertz, president of the Evansville 

 Lumbermen's Club, has announced that as soon as the Evansville Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, which was recently organized with a membership of 

 about l.:JOO, gets down to working order he wants the whole question 

 of milling-in-transit presented to the new organization and he hopes to 

 get results in this manner. 



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Sawmill men in the Louisville ilistrict report that logs are scarcer 

 and somewhat higher in price, the result of tlie wet weather, which has 

 made hauling difflcult. Besides, some of the veneer mills are evidently 

 finding a better demand for sawed quartered oak stock, and are in the 

 market for veneer logs, the result being to force up the price on this kind 

 of timlier to some extent. On the other hand, logging tides in the Big 

 Sandy, Kentucky and other streams are bringing a lot of timber to 

 market, and mills getting their supplies from these sources are in a good 

 position as far as logs are concerned, though even here reports of in- 

 creased quotations are heard. 



Leroy Halyard, resident manager of the I/Ouisville branch of the South- 

 ern Hardwoo<I TralHc -Vssociation of Memphis, is getting his offlcc organ- 

 ized, and will have a complete file of tariffs affecting this territory 

 properly arranged in the near future. Mr. Halyard has made a good 

 impression on the members of the bureau, who believe that the service 

 will be of greater value to the market. 



Will McLean, head of the Wood-Mosaic Company, reports that business 

 is line in all departments, including hardwoods, flooring and veneers. 

 Mr. McLean is much pleased with the consolidation of the Board of 

 Trade and the Commercial Club of Louisville, which it is believed will 

 make a much more valuable organization from the standpoint of results 

 accomplished, even though the merger of the two bodies resulted in his 

 dropping out of the directorate. 



It is rumored in Louisville that the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company 

 may erect a new mill to be devoted exclusively to the manufacture of 

 dimension stock. Owing to the fine demand for this class of material 

 which has been created during the past year or two, the mill is operat- 

 ing night and day, and enlarged facilities have become almost necessary. 

 Emmett Ford, manager of the dimension department, is given raucli 

 credit for the expansion of this business, which Is the result of per- 

 sistent and intelligent educational effort. 



Poplar manufacturers in Louisville are of the opinion that the sensa- 

 tional rise of gum will help their commodity, in view of the fact that 

 it will make the difference in the cost so slight as to give poplar the 

 edge, where the consumer has a preference in favor of that wood. Gum 

 has jumped on an average of $10 a thousand in the past ninety days. 



The Mengel Box Company's property at Hickman, Ky., consisting of 

 a veneer mill, hoop mill, sawmill and panel factory, has been under water 

 recently, the Mississippi river having been on a rampage and a good 

 deal of the town being flooded. The plant is on higher ground, how- 

 ever, than the remaining country, so that while the operation of the 

 mills was stopped, there was no real damage. 



State Forester J. E. Barton has advised that there is little chance 

 of H. B. 2,"4, recently introduced in the state legislature, the purpose of 

 which is to wipe out his department, being reported out of committee. 

 The Louisville Hardwood Club adopted resolutions on the subject, en- 

 dorsing the work of the forestry department and protesting against the 

 enactment of the bill. Mr. Barton is now working on the proposition 



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