HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Perkins Glue Fast Becoming the Standard 

 For All Veneer Work 



iMamifacturers who use glue for veneer laying and built-up panel work are 

 rapidly realizing the advantages of a glue that does away with the hot, 

 bad-smelling glue room necessary with hide glue and are adopting the modern 



and efficient 



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because it does away with the cooking 

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The use of Perkins Glue does away 



with blistered work and is affected in no 

 way by climatic changes, thus increasing 

 the advantages of manufacturers, who 

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Originators and Patentees 805 J. M. S. Building, SOUTH BEND, IND. 



its new band mill near Kingsport. The company will cut the Preston area 

 of timber, recently purchased from J. G. Preston by S. E. Wilkinson. 



J. P. Moorman of this city has gone to Waxahatchie, Tex., where he 

 has entered the lumber business. 



The Pa.xton Lumber Company reports business slightly better. It is 

 running its mills and doing a fair volume of business. 



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Edward L. Davis, head of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, who 

 was recently In southern territory, reports that sawmill men are gen- 

 erally very enthusiastic over the new rules for log grading, and he 

 believes that buyers will do well to use the rules. 



E. V. Knight of the New .\lbany, Ind., Veneering Company has recently 

 returned from the East, where business is quiet. Trade is brisk In the 

 Northwest and other agricultural sections, however. Mr. Knight believes 

 that all that business needs at present is a little more confldence. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has been having a number of interesting 

 meetings recently. At one held at the Seelbach hotel, February 9, Earl 

 S. Gwin, president of the American National bank, of Louisville, and 

 R. L. Callahan, a director of the institution, attended and discussed 

 business conditions. J. V. Stlmson was a recent visitor. 



Allan McLean is representing the Wood-Mosaic Company, which recently 

 afliliated with the club. He has been in the local field for only a few 

 months, having come from Rochester to look after the New Albany saw- 

 mill. Mr. McLean has already made many friends in Louisville, and 

 is an up-to-date lumber manufacturer. 



Prospects of a flood scared lumbermen on the "Point" a few weeks 

 ago, but the Ohio river behaved very nicely this time, falling to rise 

 high enough to even threaten the lumber yards. It has been only two 

 years since the last flood, however, and veneer, box and lumber manu- 

 facturers in that district have a vivid recollection of what the river 

 on a rampage looks like. 



Owing to the short supply of mahogany logs, due to the cessation of 

 operations both in Mexico and Africa, as well as the prohibitive ocean 

 freight rates which now prevail, mahogany lumber prices have been 

 advancing. Buying has been stimulated somewhat by the Increases, and 

 the mills of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, of Louisville, which Is 

 well stocked with logs, have been running steadily. 



The Indiana Veneer & Panel Company, of New Albany, Is one of the 

 concerns which has been operating on good time right along during the 

 past few months. It is runnng in all departments, and while less than 

 a full force is working, the hours have not been cut. 



The Mengel Box Company is developing Its glued-up business, having 



installed equipment at Hickman, Ky., for the manufacture of three-ply 

 gum panels for drawer-bottoms, backs, etc. Charles E. Davis, who is In 

 charge of the lumber department of the company, has been handling 

 sales, and reports that inquiries have been good. The gluing department 

 has been equipped with a lot of special machinery, the presses in par- 

 ticular being of unusually heavy design. 



Good quartered oak is in fair demand, but most lumbermen making 

 this stock report that the common grades are slow. Another oak pecu- 

 liarity is that while plain white is in good demand, with prices stronger, 

 red oak is slow, and quotations remain unsatisfactory. 



The raembersliip committee of the Louisville Hardwood Club reports 

 that several strong concerns will probably be added to the rolls In the 

 near future. In spite of the general condition of trade, members of the 

 hardwood organization are finding the weekly meeUngs profitable and 

 interesting, and club work is being maintained In all directions. 



R. F. Smith and Clyde Smith of the Ohio River Sawmill Company have 

 resigned in order to go into business for themselves. They eipect to 

 locate somewhere in the vicinity of Louisville, if cot in this market. 

 The probable name of their concern will be the Southern Star Lumber 

 Company. 



The Gemcrt Brothers Lumber Company has amended Its articles of 

 incorporation, fixing its capitalization at 5100,000. Fred and John W. 

 Gernert are the principal members of the concern. 



Final action in the bankrupt case of the Falls City Lumber Com- 

 pany, which was managed by the late Charles Stotz, will be taken in 

 the Federal district court In Louisville March 27. 



The Broadhead-Garrct Lumber Company of Winchester, Ky., wblcb 

 operates a large mill at Clay City, Ky., plans the construction of a 

 railroad into the Indian creek district for the purpose of reaching a 

 big boundary of hardwood timber In that section. 



A. R. Keeton, who formerly operated sawmills In Ohio and Grayson 

 counties, Ky., died in Louisville recently at the age of sUcty. 



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The members of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis and other 

 lumbermen interested in the higher freight rates sought by railroads on 

 lumber, are getting their data in shape to be submitted to the Mis- 

 souri PubUc Service Commission, at a hearing to be held at the Jefferson 

 hotel, St. Louis on Tuesday, February 23. The railroads of the state 

 want an Increase from two to three cents per hundred on Intrastate 

 shipments. The entire lumber Interests of St. Louis and throughout the 

 state are going to make a hard flght against the rates. E. Kauffman, 

 traffic manager of the Thomas & Proeti Lumber Company, St. Louis, is 



