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buyers and sellers. They will enable the former to pay proper prices 

 (or the Tarlous grades of logs received and they will make It possible 

 for sellers to grade or classify their own stock. This book will be issued 

 from the press shortly and will then be distributed to members of the 

 association as well as to others who are desirous of obtaining it. This 

 association was organized here some weeks ago and has for its purpose 

 the solution of a number of problems confronting mill owners and han- 

 dlers of timber generally. This question of proper grading is regarded as 

 the most important of all. 



James Alexander has been elected president of the Memphis Builders' 

 Exchange for the ensuing year. L. T. Lindsay is first vice-president, 

 J. W. Clark is second vice-president, .1. W. Williamson is treasurer and 

 the following are directors : I. N. Chamber.^!, James E. Faires, J. W. 

 Garrison, P. A. Gates and L. J. Moss. The election was held February 2. 

 During the past two weeks the exchange has had an active membership 

 ■committee In the iield and thirty-three new members were captured as a 

 result of its aggressive work. This brings the membership of this body 

 to more than 175. The membership committee has been continued for 

 another ten days in the hope that the 200 mark might be reached. The 

 Memphis Builders' E.Kchange is closely atlnliated with the National Asso- 

 ciation of Builders' E.xchanges and is quite prominently identified with 

 the handling of issues of far-reaching importance. 



The Mississippi river at Memphis has already begun to rise rather 

 rapidly and predictions are now made that a stage of thirty-flve feet 

 win be reached here early next week. This is not enough water to mate- 

 rially interfere with any of the hardwood plants in this city or section. 

 It is also too small to affect seriously the levee system throughout the 

 lower Mississippi valley. In fact, this is only the indicated danger line 

 for Memphis and is between eleven and twelve feet below the maximum 

 stage reached here during the past period of high water. It usually 

 requires a stage of thirty-seven or thirty-eight feet to begin to interfere 

 with manufacturing operations in this city, and lumber interests here 

 will show very little concern until the water is well above thirty-five feet. 

 It Is possible that the thirty-flve foot stage will give high enough water 

 In both the Mississippi and its tributaries to greatly facilitate the handling 

 of timber by water. It is the general impression, however, that com- 

 paratively few logs have been prepared for delivery by this method and it 

 is not anticipated that river receipts at Memphis will be anything like 

 normal. 



Lumber exporters here are watching with much interest developments 

 at Washington where the Democrats are making strenuous efforts to 

 pass the shipping bill. It will be recalled that the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, during its recent session here, passed vigorous 

 resolutions in favor of larger ocean carrying facilities without specifying 

 the particular legislation which should be enacted to bring about this 

 result. In the meantime, rates on cotton are beginning to decline some- 

 what. Those to Bremen have dropped from $,3.50 to $2.50 per hundred, 

 to Barcelona from $1.35 to 85 cents and to Rotterdam from $2.50 to 

 $2.10. The Liverpool rate is the same as heretofore, $1.15 to $1.25. 

 It Is also reported that there is quite a decided increase in the amount 

 of freight room offered. .\ prominent cotton man said recently that he 

 could book freight room for at least 100,000 bales. \ short time ago 

 cotton interests were very much excited over the scarcity of ocean 

 freight room, as well as over the high prices demanded therefor. It is 

 pointed out by some exporters here that there is a good demand tor 

 southern hardwoods in Europe and that a reasonably large volume of 

 business could be put through with lower ocean freight rates. .\s it 

 stands, however, there is very little doing, although a few cars of lumber 

 have been exported from this city and section within the past fortnight. 



R. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell. Inc., is authority for the statement that 

 one of the two band mills of his firm at Leland, Miss., will resume next 

 week after having been closed down for quite a while. R. J. Darnell, 

 Inc., is running one side of its double band mill at Batesville and, when 

 the plant at Leland starts up, this firm will be operating at about fifty 

 per cent of its capacity. Mr. Darnell says that business is improving to 

 some extent but that there is still room for a great deal more betterment. 



F. T. Dooley of the Dooley Lumber Company has gone to Helena, Ark., 

 where he is looking after logs being cut for his firm at that point. He 

 is making arrangements to have a considerable quntitity of both oak 

 and cypress sawed for his firm. 



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Increased activity in the lumber trade is reported ■ at Burns, Tenn. 

 R. M. Holland reports the sale of about fifty cars in one week. The 

 S. G. Holland Stave Company is again in the market for stave timber, 

 and reports that its stocks have been about exhausted. Active demand 

 is reported at Burns for hickory handle and white oak wagon timber. 



Christian Kopp has purchased equipment for a new sawmill at 

 Bridgeport, Tenn., which he plans to have in operation at an early date. 



Shipment of 30,000 pickax handles Is reported by a firm In Franklin, 

 Tenn., to representatives of the allied governments in Europe, to be 

 used in war operations. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has vacated the suspension of 

 an advance of lumber rates on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 

 Railway between Nashville and Chattanooga. The commission finds 

 that the rate of eleven cents is Justified. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has changed the time of meeting 



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Indiana's 

 Original Giant 



This photograph was made while the tree 

 was being cut for our mill. 



It stood in Putnam County, Ind., and was a 

 ffenuine FOUKEU-LEAl' WHITE OAK — beyond 

 question the finest white oak that ever grew. 



Your customers were delighted with that 

 quiet beauty, that rich, even color and figure 

 that for all time hiivc ; iven to goods made from 

 Indiana uak no Individualitit. 



You can please them again. How? Simply 

 by buying a parcel of almost anything in lumber 

 or sawed veneers from our yards. You can 

 sele.;t from a full assortment. We positively 

 carry no southern stock and can prove it. 



And remember, we have built up our busi- 

 ness by giving 



Just a little better quality than you expect 



Charles H. Barnaby 



Greencastle, Indiana 



Have You Other Needs kor High-grade 

 Hardwoods? We Can Fill Them. 



Kentucky Hardwoods 



1" Is & 2s Chestnut— 25% 14-16' lengths, average 

 " wide. 



1" No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



^■^ Sound wormy Chestnut. SOCfc 14-16 lengths. 



r ," Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50% 14-16 lengths. 



r ;■' Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50% 14-16 lengths. 



4 4 No. 1 Common Poplar, 40% 14-16'. 



11 i" No. 1 Common Poplar, 60% 14-16 . 

 1" Clear Sap Poplar, 40% 14-16'. 



1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak. 



1" No. 2 Common Plain Red Oak. 



1" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 



1" No. 2 Common Plain White Oak. 

 i Pi" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 

 VY' No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 

 V/i" No. 2 Common Plain White Oak. 



Buskirk-Rutledge Lumber Co. 



LEXINGTON. KY. 



Quickiand, Ky., Straight Creek, Ky. 



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