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coDfemplnrcd ImprovcDients have been completed It will be In position to 

 manufacture automobile wheels. These will then Ije forwarded to tU-,' 

 plant of the company at Detroit for the addition of the Iron rims. 

 John Kelscy, owner of both the Memphis and Detroit plants, and J. E. 

 l'"oley, manager of the Detroit plant, have been in Memphis during the 

 past few days in connection with these changes. The very large demand 

 for automobiles is largely responsible for the decision of the company 

 to extend the scope of operations at the local plant. 



=-< BRISTOL >■- 



T)ie Bristol Door and Lumlior ('(jiiipany is now operating both its 

 planing and band mills. The band mill was idle for some time on ac- 

 count of a scarcity of logs. 



II. G. Guyan of Pennsylvania, who several months ago purchased a 

 large area of timber in Wythe county, Virginia, and began the installa- 

 tion of a mill at Atkins, on the Norfolls & Western, has organized the 

 Atkins Lumber Company, Inc., with a capital stock of $100,000. The 

 mill is being installed as rapidly as possible and will soon be put intu 

 operation. The company has a cut of from ten to fifteen years and is 

 erecting a line of railroad. 



Beveridge & Taylor, Inc., this city, well-known lumber, hub and spoke 

 manufacturers, last week closed a deal for a large area of timber near 

 Glade Spring, Va. "We will at once Install mills and go to work,'" 

 said Franck Taylor of the firm. "We have every confidence In the lum- 

 ber business and do not feel any disposition to hesitate on account of 

 the present dullness in the market. We believe the worst is over and 

 that business will soon improve." The company is operating Its mil! 

 here full time. 



The Uonaker Lumber Compan.v, which recently lost one of its mills 

 in Russell county, Virginia, by fire, is preparing to rebuild the. plant 

 at once. 



The reler-McCain Lumber Company will resume operation of its band 

 mill in Kristol in the spring. The company will then draw from its 

 new timber supply In Johnson county. Tenne.e='p 



=■< LOUISVILLE y- 



One good turn deserves another seemed lo be the way the Louisville 

 Hardwood Clab regarded its annual election, held November 10, as all 

 of the old officers with one exception were reelected. The present roster 

 is H. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills, president ; H. J. Gates, Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company, vice-president ; C. M. Sears, Edw. L. Davis 

 Lumber Company, treasurer, and G. D. Crain, Jr., secretary. Mr. Sears 

 is the only treasurer the club has ever had, and is starting his seventh 

 year. Mr. Kline became president of the organization a few months ago 

 following the resignation of S. R. Cecil. 



A new organization in an allied trade was formed at Louisville on 

 Friday, November 13, the Iwx manufacturers of the fifth district, includ- 

 ing Kentucky, parts of Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana, getting together in a 

 section of the national organization. The meeting was held at the 

 Seelbach, Harry W. Embry of the Embry Box Company of Louisville be- 

 ing chosen president. The next meeting will be held at Cincinnati, C. 

 in December. 



Most of the local lumbermen interested in fighting the advance on 

 rates from the South are planning to .ioin with a committee formed at 

 Birmingham, Ala., In the employment of John R. Walker of the Lumber- 

 men's Bureau to handle the matter. Mr. Walker has made a fine im- 

 pression because of his knowledge of lumber rates and his ability to 

 present the shippers' side to the commission, and the Louisville hardwood 

 dealers think that he will be able to get results in the present case. 



Railroad orders are coming in more freely, according to a number of 

 concerns which specialize in this branch of the trade. One house re- 

 ported getting orders for 750,000 feet of hardwoods In one day recently, 

 most of this being from the transportation companies. Those In central 

 territory are feeling pretty good over their five per cent increase in 

 revenues, and are letting go of some of the business which they have 

 been holding back for so long. 



A better feillng In regard to plain oak, which has been the medium 

 of most of the price-cutting seems to exist, as local Interests declare 

 that they are turning down orders right along which call for delivery 

 at prices which are unsatisfactory, and are not sufficient to cover the 

 cost of replacement. In view of improving business, the cost of timber 

 and other factors, the hardwood men In this section are rapidly coming 

 to the conclusion that It is a mistake to cut prices on plain oak. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is much Interested in the workings of 

 the new federal reserve law and the operations of the regional banks, 

 and has Invited a prominent Louisville banker to attend a meeting of the 

 club In the near future and explain the details of the measure. 



One of the features of the situation which Indicates that conditions 

 are improving Is the fact that more Inquiries are being received from 

 the consuming trade. This means that the factory men are using up 

 their stocks, and are expecting to be In the market In the near future. 

 The furniture manufacturers are feeling better, and expect to do big 

 business at the forthcoming shows. The railroads are buying, and some 

 export business is being handled. Even the biillding situation Is Im- 

 proving, and while It is unlikely that heavy biisimss from this source 

 will develop before next spring, the trade is sure to be forthcoming, it 

 is predicted. All in all, lumbermen hereabouts have found the silver 



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