April 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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standing where brick structures burned on three sides of it, and numerous 

 cases of where bricli buildings burned while frame residences were left 

 standing by the side of them. At the last meeting of the club a resolution 

 was passed expressing the fact that according to the observation of the 

 Nashville lumbermen buUdings of frame construction offered better resis- 

 tance to the flames in the conflagration than did those of brick construc- 

 tion. The lumbermen felt that this fire unquestionably was favorable 

 to frame construction, and a testimonial against popular belief to the 

 contrary. 



Nashville lumbermen will contribute to the fund to be raised by local 

 shipping interests to combat the general advance made in freight rates 

 by the railroads of the South, becoming operative the first of the year. 



M. R. Silber, who has been with the Morford Lumber Company, has 

 accepted a position as inspector with Hunt, M'ashington & Smith. 



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The belief prevails among Louisville hardwood men that there will be 

 a big demand for lumber after the European war, but fear is expressed 

 that the diflSculty of getting ocean bottoms will continue as at present, 

 owing to the big demand for other commodities that can be trans- 

 ported with profit. 



Mrs. Jennie Smith Milton, mother of T. Smith Milton, secretary and 

 treasurer of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, is dead. She was 

 widely known in IjOuisville as an educator. 



J. V. Norman, commerce attorney, has returned from Memphis, where 

 he was attorney for the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association in the 

 hearing of Its complaint against proposed rate increases from producing 

 territory to points north of the Ohio river. 



The Kitchen-Miller Lumber Company is a new corporation in Boyd 

 county, Kentucky. It is incorporated by Ashland and Jellico interests. 

 Louisville building returns for March will show a large increase in 

 the number of permits issued, but owing to the construction of one big 

 factory plant last year, the total of estimated costs will not be so large 

 as last year. Building totals as a whole this year are running much ahead 

 of last year. 



K. Mansfield & Son have incorporated at $20,000 in Louisville. They will 

 continue the manufacture of store, bank and office fixtures. 



The Craft timber boundary on the north fork of the Kentucky river 

 near Sergent. Ky.. has been purchased by L. Dow Collins. It is reported 

 that Mr. Collins will build stave mills. 



The hearing of evidc^iice and arguments has been completed in the 

 case of Southwestern railroads against the TInited States government in 

 which they seek to restrain the Interstate Commerce Commission from 

 putting Into effect on April 15 lumber rate adjustments ordered to put 

 Paducah, Ky.. on a competitive trade basis with Cairo, 111. The case 

 was heard in the federal court here before three United States judges. 



Charged with securing six carloads of lumber under false pretenses two 

 years ago from X. D. Owens of White Plain, Ky.. Dee L. Ernst is held by 

 the authorities at ^Madisonville, Ky., having been delivered to them from 

 Evansville. Ind. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club was addressed recently by F. S. CoIIey of 

 the American .\nti-Boycott Association. Mr. Colley told of the fight that 

 the association is making against unjust boycotts on the part of labor 

 unions. He told of the Paine Lumber Company case now pending before 

 fhe United States supreme court, involving the question of whether a 

 sympathetic strike is a boycott. He told of increasing demands on the part 

 of labor unions that not only every man wo'"king on a contract shall be a 

 union man. but that all dealers furnishing supplies shall have union shops, 

 and said that the association is kept busy looking after strikes growing 

 out of recent business activities. 



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Swain -Roach Lumber Co. 



Seymour, Indiana 



Manafactnrers of Indiana Hardwoods 



TWO BAND MILLS 

 10 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. 



PLAIN BED OAK 

 5 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. & Blr. Plain White Oak. 

 4 cars 4/4 No. 2 Com. <Jld. White Oak. 

 1 car 5/8 No. 1 Com. .-iwh. 



We carry a well assorted stock of all Hardwoods. 



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INIarch receipts of luml.-er in St. Louis as reported by the Merchants 

 Exchange were 17.216 ca,rs of lumber, as against 17,G55 cars received 

 in March, 1915, a decrease of 439 cars. Shipments were 11,42S cars, 

 compared with in.,5P.5 cars last March, a gain of S63 cars. 



Last month's estimated value of new buildings and alterations was 

 $1,761,781, a gain of $492,903 over the corresponding month of 1915. 



Secretary Pier announces the organization of Tie and Timber Divi- 

 sion "E" of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, with all the 

 important tie companies of St. Louis as members. This division bids 

 fair to be one of the strongest bodies in the exchange. The organiza- 

 tion was effected at the Lumbermen's Exchange headquarters Tuesday 

 afternoon, April 4. The following officers were elected : 



Chairman of the division — P. R. Walsh, Walsh-Grifflth Tie & Timber 

 Company. 



Representative Director — A. .T. Gorg. 



First Vice Director— A. R. Fathman. Western Tie & Timber Company. 



Second Vice Director — Charles Murphy, Murphy Tie Company. 



A membership committee was appointed to get to work immediately 

 to bring in outside memliership. 



The gentlemen were all enthusiastic and the plans and scope of "the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange were discussed and explained fully by Secretary 

 Pier. Then followed a formal discussion of the needs of the tie and 

 timber concerns. 



Chairman Walsh announced that he would defer the appointment of 

 the members of the standing committees of the exchange until he had 



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Memphis, Tenn. 



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