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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Tbe TeiiDessee Railroad Commission has dismissed the petition of the 

 Nashville Lumbermen's Club and Nashville Business Men's Association, 

 complaining against alleged discriminatory local rates. The complaint 

 averred that the mileage rates on logs and timber between local stations 

 and junction points, including Jackson, Martin, Union City, Gibbs, Paris, 

 McKenzie, Rives and Somerville, gave unreasonable advantage and prefer- 

 ence to these junction points. After the petition was filed various 

 ■operators in lumber and timber products intervened, and resisted the 

 movement to have the rates on lumber and logs changed. A vast 

 amount of testimony was submitted, including comparison of the local 

 rates in Tennessee with rates on lines in other states. From the 

 proof it was shown that there are 531 timber industries located on the 

 lines of the railroad in Tennessee, 235 of which are sawmills. It is 

 pointed out that the junction points enjoy certain advantages as to their 

 proximity to Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga, while the larger points 

 «njoy certain advantages on outbound rates. The intervenors averred 

 that the relief sought would drive them out of business. The commission 

 holds that the proof does not show that the rates are unreasonable. 

 The policy of the railroad in adjusting its rates so far as to foster busi- 

 ness at all points is taken into consideration, and recognizes the prin- 

 ciple that the railroad has a right to make the inbound rate lower when 

 it will get the outbound haul. The commission holds that there is no 

 unjust discrimination. The Lumbermen's Club has filed a petition for a 

 rehearing in the case, setting up various new matters. 



The Nashville Builders' Exchange has elected the following officers for 

 next .vear : James A. Daugherty, president ; J. W. Patrick and Joseph H. 

 Peters, vice-presidents ; William F. Holt, treasurer ; Lee Parrlsh, secre- 

 tary. R. T. Creighton, who has been president, declined re-election on 

 account of pressure of private business. 



been installed. The company has purchased the Preston tract of timber. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company reports a splendid outlook for 

 business. It has just been compelled to turn down an order for 1,000.000 

 feet of hardwood lumber, from an old customer, because its yard stock 

 is low. The company has acquired a new timber supply from which It 

 will begin drawing next year. 



The stocks on the yards in this section are probably not more than 

 twenty-five per cent of the amount usually carried. It is thought that 

 tbe action of the manufacturers in promptly curtailing the output of 

 lumber will hasten the improvement of prices. 



The R. C. Duff Lumber Company is operating Its band mill at Dut- 

 field, Va. The company has about 5,000,000 feet of stock on its yards 

 at Duflield and is shipping out considerable lumber. 



The Lovelady Lumber Company of Philadelphia, has about completed 

 its new mill at Jasper, Va., on the line of the Virginia & Southwestern 

 railway, near Bristol. 



The Honaker Lumber Company is preparing to rebuild its mill near 

 Hnnaker, which was recently destroyed by fire. 



=■< BRISTOL >.= 



E. H. Walker has purchased a good sized area of hardwood timber 

 near Clinchport, Va., in Scott county, and has installed two circular 

 mills, which are now running full time. He will soon begin shipping 

 lumber to the market from the new operations. 



The Bristol Door and Lumber Company has enough orders booked 

 to keep its mill busy until spring. The company has run regularly prac- 

 tically all year and reports the outlook for next year as encouraging. 



E. H, Wilkinson of the Kingsport Lumber Company was here this 

 week and reports that the company will begin the operation of its new 

 mill at Kingsport as soon as business improves. A new railroad has 



BAND SAWED WISCONSIN HARDWOODS 



Dry Stock For Prompt Shipment 



BASSWOOD 



20M 4/4 No. 3 common 

 30M 1x4 No. 2 and 3 common 

 15M B/4 No. 1 com. and better 

 25M 5/4 No. 1 common 

 lOM 6/4 No. 2 common 

 20M 5/4 No. 3 common 

 13M «/4 1st and 2nd 

 15M 6/4 No. 1 common 

 15M 6/4 No. 3 common 

 WHITE OAK 

 lOM 8/4 No. 1 and No. 2 com. 



DIRCH 



70M 4/4 No. 1 com. & bet. plain 

 lOOM 4/4 No. 1 com. & bet. red 

 SM 5/4 1st and 2nd red 

 lOM 5/4 No. 1 common red 

 6M 5/4 No. 1 common plain 

 3M 6/4 1st and 2nd plain 

 13M 6/4 1st and 2nd red 

 4M 8/4 1st and 2nd plain 

 6M 8/4 1st and 2nd red 

 ROCK ELM 

 50M 8/4 No. 2 com. and better 

 BARD MAPLE 

 40M 8/4 No. 2 common and better 

 Our 1914 cut of well assorted HARnWOODS AND HEMLOCK will 

 soon be in ghlpplnff condition. 



Send u9 your inquiries 



ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY 



Grand Rapids, Wis. ATLANTA, WIS. 



Saw mills and planln? mill at Atlanta. Wisconsin. 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



=-< LOUISVILLE y 



Harry E. Kline, president of the Louisville Hardwood Club, has ap- 

 pointed his committees for the year. They are as follows : 



Entertainment, Pl'bliciti and Program : John Churchill, Churchill- 

 Milton Lumber Company ; G. D. Crain, Jr. : Preston Joyes, W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company ; D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills. 



Finance : C. M. Sears, Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company ; Roscoe Smith, 

 Ohio Kiver Sawmill Company ; Charles Platter, North Vernon Lumber 

 Company. 



Transportation : T. Smith Milton, Churchill-Milton Lumber Company; 

 H. J. Gates, Louisville Point Lumber Company ; T. M. Brown, W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company ; J. C. WicklifTe. C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company. 



lyOGS and Lumber : Edw. L. Davis, Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company ; 

 E. S. Shippen, Louisville Point Lumber Company ; Charles Talbot, North 

 Vernon Lumber Company, and Roscoe Smith, Ohio River Sawmill Company. 



Bylaw.s : D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills, and Clyde Smith, Ohio 

 River Sawmill Company. 



Much interest was shown in the action of the Kentucky court of 

 appeals in declaring unconstitutional the workmen's compensation law 

 which was enacted at the last session of the legislature. This measure, 

 which put a compensation system into effect January 1, 1915, would 

 have affected every sawmill in the state, and lumbermen were making 

 preparations to comply with it. While the law made it optional with 

 the manufacturer whether he would come under the system or not, it was 

 provided that if he did not, the common law defenses which are usually 

 l>Ieaded would be taken away from him. On the other hand, he could 

 plead these. If he came Into the system, against the employe who re- 

 fused to subscribe to the plan. This was what the court regarded as 

 the essential flaw, a majority holding that this constituted coercion, and 

 that the elective plan was merely nominal. It will be several years, at 

 least, before another law can be enacted. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has decided to join forces with the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association of Memphis in opposing the 

 freight rate advances from the South, as in this way John R. Walker, the 

 regular representative of the association, will have an opportunity to look 

 after the local interests as well. Mr. Walker will come to Louisville 

 January 10 to attend the hearing of the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion and conduct the case for Louisville hardwood men. 



After a splendid effort to ward off death, James Elder, a sawmill 

 operator of Dexter, Ind., succumbed to injuries received at the mill, the 

 end coming at the Sts. Mary and Elizabeth's hospital in Louisville. Mr. 

 Elder slipped and fell against tbe circular saw in the mill, his right leg 

 being almost cut off, and other portions of his body being Injured. He 

 was taken In a buggy to the Ohio river, where a skiff was secured and 

 lie was rowed across to the Kentucky side. A Henderson train for Louis- 

 ville was caught, and a telephone message ahead resulted in an am- 

 bulance being at the station when the train arrived. The lumberman 

 was taken to tbe hospital and his leg amputated in the hope of saving 

 bis life. He apparently withstood the operation in good shape, but the 

 shock and loss of blood proved too much for him, and he died two days 

 afterwards. 



J. R. Burbank, manager of the E. L. Hughes Lumber Company of 

 Louisville, has been elected a member of the Louisville Rotary Club, one 

 of the leading business organizations of the city. 



Much activity in the purchase of railway ties is reported from various 

 points in Kentucky, the Queen & Crescent, with general offices in Cin- 

 cinnati, having purchased a large quantity In eastern Kentucky. 



The Day Lumber & Coal Company is having a big boundary of poplar 

 timber near Mayklng, Ky., logged, the logs to be cut up at the Jackson 

 mill. The timber Is said to be about the biggest remaining undeveloped 

 In that part of the country. 



George M. Adams has purchased a Frlck sawmill outfit for installation 

 at Sandlick, In Letcher county, Ky. 



J. W. Carter and others plan to establish a lumber yard at Middlesboro, 

 Ky. 



^■< MILWAUKEE >-= 



The McDonough Manufacturing Company, Eau Claire, Wis., Is expe- 

 riencing one of the finest runs of business since its establishment, and Its 

 big plant In Eau Claire la working overtime to get the desired material 

 out on schedule. Most of the business Is from the southern hardwood dls- 



