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HARDWOOD RECORD 



COLFAX HARDWOOD LUMBER CO. 



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MANUFACTURERS 



OAK CYPRESS 



GUM 



All atock band sawn, well manufactured, carefully graded, good aver- 

 age widths and high percentage of 14 and 16 ft. lengths. 

 No manipulation of grades. 

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DUGAN LUMBER CO. 



Hardwood Lumber 



TENNESSEE 



Manufacturers 

 and Shippers 



MEMPHIS 



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 is Better Lumber 



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Products Represent Perfection, 

 Reliability, Results 



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 Moist Air 

 Lumber 

 Driers 



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Perfect Transfer Cars 



Perfect Dry Kiln Trucks 

 Canvas Dry Kiln Doors 



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The A. H. Andrews Co. 



115-117 S. Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Dermott Land and Lumber Company 

 DERMOTT, ARK. 



null in oiifrotioD in a tVw days. The innv mill will employ aliuiit tv.-^ 

 hundred men. 



The l>uai;:inn()n Lumber Company will resume operation of its band milt 

 at Clinehport, Va., within the next few days. 



The Pittsburgh Lumber Company last week resumed operation of Us 

 band mill at Hampton, Carter county, Tenn. The company is shipping? out 

 a large amount of stock fi'om its yards at Hampton. 



The H. r. Wyman Lumber Company of Bristol will soon begin the coft- 

 structlon of a logging road in lye county, Virginia, preparatory to the 

 immediate installation of a new mill. Tlie company acquired a boundary 

 of timber in Lee county last year. 



Several owuei"s of mountain lauds in this section, who have contracted 

 with the federal government for the sale of their lands for the Appa- 

 lachian Forest Reserve, are now anxious to have the contracts cancelled 

 Ix^cause of what they consider unreasonable delay in the payment by the 

 government for the lands. As yet very few of the landowners whose 

 property has been accepted have received any part of the consideration. 

 They not only lose the interest but are compelled to keep up the state 

 and county taxes. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



J. O. Stowart of the Stewart Lumber Company, New York, was in Louis- 

 ville recently, and talked onctiurasingly oi; eonditiony in tliat section, wlaicli 

 he said are improving. 



Jolin Smith, the Dickson. Tenn.. hardwood manufacturer who was in this 

 market a few weeks ago. is optimistic reganliufc business. Railroad trade 

 especially, he paid, is looking better to him. 



T. Smith Milton of tlie Churchill-Milton Lumber Compauy has returned 

 from a trip to Louisiana, where tlie mill of tl:e compan.v is located. He 

 visited N* w (Jrleans, Memphis and other southern points while he was 

 away. 



The new log grading rules of the Southern Loggers' Association have 

 been np for discussion regularly at meetings of the Ix)uisville Hardwodd 

 Club, and the general sentiment is very lavorable to them. The chances 

 are that thoy wili !>.,• formall.\ adopted, with possibly a few slight clianges 

 to meet local conditions, by the club in the near future. 



The Parkland Sawmill Company has bieu formed liy Olaf Anderson of 

 the Louisville I^laning Mill Company : Charles Talbot, log Imyer for the 

 North Vernon Lumber Company, and Hoseoe Willett of the Willett Lumber 

 Con:pany, and ha.s leased the sawmill of tlu- Anderson Veneer and Sawmill 

 v'oDipan.v, which Is headed by Mr. Anderson. The mill will he put in 

 operation al>out .\pril 1. Mr. Talbot will run the mill and .Mr. Willett. 

 who has been gradually working into the hardwood business for some time, 

 will hanrlle the selling end. 



Ilardwotwl- men have spoken with gi'eat satisfaction of the agreement 

 wliieh has been made by the National Hardwood Lumber .\ssoclation with 

 the Ke<leration of Furniture and i-Mxture .Mauiifaeturers whereby tlie 19i;-i 

 rules of the former will be ae<'epted by tlie members of the latter pending 

 tile working out of the grading question by means of test inspections. The 

 arrangmeiit. It is tigured. will benefit everyUidy, and will enable the whole 

 proiMisition to be threshed out on a business basis. 



Sawmill men and lumlier hu.vers operating in soutlu'rn Iiidian.-i. in tli'- 

 vicinity of Louisville, are fighting the etTort of the Southern Itaihvay to 

 i-ollect rental for the use of its right of way for storing logs and lumlier 

 prior to shipment. The railroad, it is said, is trying to discourage the 

 I.ractite of holding the material for an indefinite period, and to reiiuire 

 immediate movement of the stock. 



The pniblem raised by the institution of the seven and one-half per cent 

 war tax by the Canadian government is t>eing met l>y hardwood concerns 

 that ship into that territory by invoicing all lumber f. o. b. shipping t>oint. 

 The customer pays the duty, and as the tax is based on thi' invoice value 

 of the lumber, this is made net, instead of including freight to iioint of 

 destination. 



Thi' Louisville Hardwood Club is planning to have a series of talks oit 

 salesmanship in the near future. Frank Cassell, sales manager of the 

 I'.elknap Hardware and .Manufacturing Coin|iany. the largest commercial 

 house in Louisville, has been invited to make an address some time this 

 month. 



Following the action of creditors who filed suit for a receivership at Mt. 

 sterling. Ky.. against thi' Iloper-Keese Lumber Company of Morgan county. 

 K'^ntiicky. which L'ot into financial difficulties trying to build a railway to 

 eoiiiiect Its oi)erations with the market, a petition in involuntary bank- 

 niptc.i was HliMl against it in the federal court at Covington. Ky. W. A. 

 luinean. a Liberty. Ky., banker, was named receiver, and will act until 

 the liankrupto' petition Is passed on. It is said that outside interests are 

 'luleavoring to purchase the property in tolo, and to settle most of he 

 ilaims on an equitable basis. The ol)ll^ations amount to a considerable 

 sum. though the schedule of liabilities has not yet been filed. 



The John Wacker Cooperage Company at Taducah, Ky., which recently 

 went into bankruptcy, has been rcorganl/i^l. and will resume operations. 



The inactive condition of the whisky laarUet has resulted in the cooper- 

 .ige situation Iwing very quiet. This proliably means that timber which 

 would ordinarily be worked into staves will be made into crosstles or lum- 

 lii-r, or else will be allowed to remain in the tree. 



The Mowbray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati has completed and put 

 In operation its big flooring factory at Quicksand, Ky., which Is being oper- 

 ated In connection with its sawmill. The flooring business is aire of the 



