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HARDWOOD RECORD 



COLFAX HARDWOOD LUMBER Ca 



MANUFACTURERS 



ASH OAK CYPRESS GUM 



All stock band sawn, well manufactured, carefully graded, good a.ver 



age widths and high percentage of 14 and 16 ft. lengths. 



No manipulation of grades. 



COLFAX, LA. 



Located •■ 

 La. R. & N. Co, 



CoBsamers* 

 inquiries desired 



OUR STOCK OF 

 BAND SAWN 



Southern Hardwoods 



is one of the most complete 

 and largest in the state 



We can readily fill any requirement in 



RED GUM 



Oak , Ash , 



PAINSTAKING ATTENTION TO 



Elm 



YOUR INQUIRIES 



THE LANSING CO., Parkin, Ark. 



Dermott Land and Lumber Company 



DERMOTT, ARK. 



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^Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers 



p DAY LUMBER & COAL CO. 



I Mfrs. YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 



I tiK.NEK.VI. OFFICE — ,I.\< KSON, KV. 



I RIEMEIER LUMBER CO. 



"OAK, POPLAR, CHESTNUT 



SUMMERS AND GEST STREETS 



Vpnppr<?' CIRCASSIAN WALNUT AND ALL 

 V tiiccj. o . OTHER HGURED WOODS 



THE FREIBERG LUMBER COMPANY 



OFFICE AND MILL. CINCINNATI. OHIO 



JAMES KENNEDY & CO., Ltd. 



OAK, POPLAR AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



FtRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDINO 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 



Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



^ 2624-34 COLERAIN ATENCE 



decided to remove its plant from that point to Jackson, has held a con- 

 ference . during the past few days with officials of the Illinois Central 

 regarding the necessary trackage facilities at Duttoville, a suburb of 

 Jackson, where the plant will be located. Engineers are already making 

 the necessary surveys and plans will shortly be completed for the removal. 



The Poinsett Lumber Manufacturing Company of Trumann, Ark., has 

 opened offices at Memphis, through which the output of the firm will 

 be sold and through which the necessary timber requirements will be 

 purchased. The offices are located in the Exchange building and are 

 in charge of A. B. Turner. This company has a band mill and veneer 

 plant at Trumann. The former is in operation, but the latter is closed 

 down for the present. 



The Southern Railway has recently filed an order for 15.000 tons of 

 steel rails to be used on its system. Part of these will be laid between 

 Atlanta and Washington, but a considerable portion will be used for 1;he 

 .yards now being completed at Buntyn, just east of Memphis. These yards 

 are being constructed at a cost of about $1,000,000. This order is one 

 of the largest that has been filed by a southern railroad in some months. 



G. D. Burgess of Eusse & Burgess, Inc., has returned from an extended 

 business trip which carried him through Chicago and most of the northern 

 and eastern lumber centers, as well as through several points in Canada. 

 Mr. Burgess says that it was possible to sell some lumber but that the 

 demand is far from keen and that there is no disposition on the part of 

 either consuming or distributing interests to anticipate their requirements. 



Southern business men generally are congratulating themselves upon 

 the practical completion of the plans for a §150,000,000 fund to be loaned 

 to cotton planters for a period of twelve to eighteen months on the basis 

 of $30 per bale. It is believed that this is the most tangible effort which 

 has been made to relieve the situation in the South caused by the Euro- 

 pean war and bankers and business men generally are awaiting with 

 much interest the actual putting into effect of this plan. It is proposed 

 by this method to retire 5,000,000 bales of cotton from the market for 

 at least a year and the loans are so made that they can be renewed for 

 six months at the expiration of the first year. The loan value agreed 

 upon by the syndicate raising this fund is practically as great as the 

 selling price of cotton and there is no doubt that every dollar of the 

 money will be taken in very short order. Warehouse receipts are to be 

 given as the ba.sis for the loans. Every effort has been made to afford 

 relief to the people of the South because of the recognition of the fact 

 that undue depression in the South would necessarily be felt throughout 

 the United States. It Is believed that this plan will enable merchants 

 and farmers in the South to meet their obligations which begin to mature 

 around the first of November, and that it will bring about greater com- 

 mercial and industrial activity t'.ian could li:n-f been secured in any other 

 way. 



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Th<' mills throughout this section have nearly ail closed down, as a 

 result of dullness in the trade, and expect to remain closed until con- 

 ilitions improve materially. A goodly per cent of the mills now operating 

 expect to close soon, while others are working on timber that must be 

 moved in a specified time and are therefore compelled to run. Most of 

 the lumbermen do not anticipate that they will start up again before 

 .\pril 1, unless there should be radical improvement in the trade. 



The yards in this section are not so well stocked as last year. Only a 

 small per cent of the yards have more stock than at this time last year 

 while a large majority of them have less. It is believed that the present 

 curtailment will soon equalize the supply and demand, which will result 

 in improved business. The lumbermen here think business will rapidly 

 adjust itself to the present extraordinary conditions, growing out of the 

 European war. 



The Paxton Lumber Company of this city is still running one or two 

 of its mills, due to the fact that it has some timber that must be cut, but 

 expects to close down entirely at an early date. The Bristol Door & 

 IjUmber Company, the Peter-McCain Lumber Company and others are en- 

 tirely closed down. Both report less stock on hand than at this time last 

 year and the Bristol Door & Lumber Company over forty per cent less. 



Reports fnun east Tennessee and southwest Virginia, especially among 

 the larger mills, indicate that t'lere is a general movement to close the 

 mills and reniiiin closed until business improves. The lumbermen say 

 they do not believe It is profitable to operate under present conditions. 

 The situation has not. as yet. affected the price of timber as many 

 operators have their eyes on new boundaries they had hoped to buy at 

 a lower figure, as a result of the present depression. 



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The Smith-Howe Lumber Company, which was incorporated recently 

 with an authorized capital of $10,000, has opened offices in the Brunson 

 building to deal in wholesale lumber. T. E. Smith, formerly connected 

 with the South Side Lumber Company, is general manairer. 



A survey of building operations in Columbus shows that building Is the 

 most active on the East Side. This is due largely to the comparatively 

 low price of building lots. There is also an active building area around 

 Olentangy park in north Columbus. The buildings consist largely of 

 dwellings, double houses, fiats, apartments and small store buildings. 



Papers hR%e been filed with the secretary of state decreasing the capital 



