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The A. H. Andrews Co. 



115-117 S. Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



crossties, to build sidings and put up uew buildings. One of the chief 

 causes of dull business in many quarters has been the retrenching policy 

 of the railroads, who have not been in the market for any more than their 

 most urgent needs. The railroads buy an immense amount of material iu 

 Kentucky, not only coal and crossties, but lumber for bridges, culverts, 

 buildings and cars, and I believe an immediate stimulation of the lumber 

 business is due from the transportation companies." 



An interesting feature of the trade situation is the way in which white 

 oak is pulling away from red. The former is selling better than its com- 

 panion material, and prices are also improved. This is the first time for 

 quite a while that plain oak has been moving in this way, though ot course 

 the dullness of lumber has resulted in a wide variation in prices between 

 quartered red and quartered white. 



Prospects are that the furniture shows will develop good business. This 

 is the opinion of F. B. Lane, Grand Rapids representative of the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, the local mahogany concern. Mr. Lane was home 

 for the holidays, and conferred with the officers of the company regarding 

 prospects. He said that the manufacturers have light stocks of lumber on 

 band, but that some of them are taking advantage of the reduced quota- 

 tions to stock up for some time to come at present prices. 



One of the leading concerns of Louisville, which has been operating its 

 southern mills, closed them January 1. The same policy is being followed 

 by other houses, and in view of the practical cessation of operations in 

 Memphis and other leading manufacturing centers, it is evident that the 

 disparity between production and consumption has disappeared, and that, 

 if anything, consumption is running considerably ahead. From now on, 

 with tills in mind, it is reasonable to look for stronger market conditions- 

 Louisville will be well represented, as usual, at the annual convention 

 of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, which will be held in 

 Indianapolis, January 20. 



Col. C. C. Mengel, president of the Mengel Box Company, which operates 

 several big hardwood mills in addition to its box factories, has expressed 

 himself as believing that the railroads should be permitted to advance rates 

 on lumber as well as other commodities. He believes that until they get 

 prosperous, the lumbermen can't be prosperous, and that for the good of 

 the country the lumber Interests ought to be willing to accept the advances. 



=-< KNOXVILLE >.= 



On December 30 C. F. Maples and Miss Laura Stephens were married 

 at Fountain City, Tcnn. Mrs. Maples is well known in Knoxville and Mr. 

 -Maples is president ot the C. F. Maples Lumber Company, Knoxville, 

 which company recently purchased the old plant and equipment of the 

 Knoxville Saw Mill Company. He Is well known in Knoxville. having 

 been connected with the lumber business for the past ten or fiftetm years. 



II. K. Kopcke of Kimball & Kopcke is back from a trip East. 



J. M. Logan, president of J. M. Logan Lumber Company, has just returned 

 from Cincinnati. He reports business at the company's Cincinnati branch 

 quiet at present, but orders are coming In fairly well. 



Several of the lumbermen are planning to attend the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association's annual convention in Cincinnati the latter part 

 of this month. 



=■< BRISTOL y. 



The Hice Manufacturing Company has about completed its plant at 

 Johnson City, Tcnn., and is purchasing logs with a view to resuming 

 operation at once. The company's plant was destroyed by Are some weeks^ 

 ago. 



It is probable that an important development will soon be undertaken 

 near Manchester, Ky., where Edwin Gearhart of Pittsburgh, and several 

 associates have purchased an area of over 20,000 acres ot hardwood 

 timber. Xo definite announcement of plans has been made. 



J. P. Moorman, who has been identified with the lumber industry at 

 Houston, Texas, Is a visitor in the city. He reports business in that 

 state very dull, but prospects for Improvement in the early spring. 



The United States Spruce Lumber Company is cutting hardwoods at 

 its band mills at Marlon, "Va., and Fairwood, Va., both of which are running 

 full time. 



A number of the Bristol lumbermen who operate small mills in this 

 section are simply resting on their oars, as it were, waiting for business 

 to improve Tbi'v expect things to pick up materially within the next 

 few \vci.k~ 



--<, ARKANSAS >•= 



.\ccordlng to T. E. Morrison, president of iho Arkansas Tie and Timber 

 -Vssociation, who has recently made an extended tour of the state, the tim- 

 lier business is at a standstill. Mr. Morrison attributes this condition 

 largely to the adverse legislation of the state and to the railroads. He 

 predicts that conditions will not right themselves properly unless some 

 remedial action is taken by the incoming legislature, which convenes on 

 January 11. He thinks that the present inactivity of the timber industry 

 is due chiefly to the fact that the railroads have been deprived of legiti- 

 mate profits, and their incomes have been so reduced that they cannot 

 afford to repair and reconstruct their rolling stock and road beds. He 

 also states that there are hundreds of men over the state, formerly era- 

 ployed by the woodworking establishments, who are now out of work. 



J. C. Clary, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ot Arkan- 

 sas, has Just completed and filed his biennial report, in which some fifty 

 pages are devoted to the lumber and timber industry. The report shows. 



