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HaUaker Mill Work Company, Columbus, has been organized with a 

 capital of ?10,000 to do mill work of all kinds. The incorporators are 

 Ora W., J. S. and Pearl E. Halfaker, Charles F. AVeichola and B. F. 

 Earhart. 



E. W. Horton of the W. M. Bitter Lumber Company reports a continued 

 good demand for hardwoods, especially from manufacturing plants. Re- 

 tailers are also in the market for limited stocks. Betail stocks are gener- 

 ally good and only orders to fill out broken stocks are booked. Prices are 

 firm along the line. Much trouble is experienced In making shipments. 



=-< CLEVELAND:^: 



Hardwood interests are lined up with the balance of the lumber trade, 

 which in turn has identified itself with the employing faction, in the grow- 

 ing strike of union crafts. As the end of May comes In sight, it Is quite 

 apparent that the strike, which at first assumed small proportions, will 

 likely be as important a controversy as was the big lockout of last spring. 

 The controversy this year, as last, seems to have its basis in the move of 

 the unionists to make Cleveland a strictly closed shop. In this it appears 

 that violations of the famous Ten Cardinal principles, in which. In a word, 

 employers sought to run their business as they saw fit, have been violated. 

 Practically all building, especially the housing, which offers the principal 

 ontlet for hardwoods at this time, is at a standstill. The only improve- 



ment is the return of about sixty workers to jobs under way at factories 

 engaged in war work. This last move is called a patriotic effort on their 

 part. Hardwood trade is vitally affected by the strike, as the movement 

 of their materials into consuming channels is mostly through the interior 

 finishing of houses. The business has not been so drastically affected, 

 however, as a strong outlet for the lower grades of hardwood has developed 

 with the order to factories to speed up production. 



Brighter prospects for the trade are seen in the definite move of the city 

 authorities to obtain $1,000,000 appropriation for building houses here for 

 factory workers. A meeting of the City War Board and the housing com- 

 mittee of the Chamber of Commerce resulted In a survey of housing condi- 

 tions being ordered. This Information will be presented to Washington 

 within a week or so, when the appropriation will be asked for. At least 

 10,000 houses are needed here immediately, oflicials say. 



EVANSVILLE >-= 



The poplar and oak timber on the farm of Samuel B. Gabel, in Jeffer- 

 son county, near Madison, Ind.. was recently sold to a lumber firm at 

 Edinburg, Ind., for §26.000. It is said that this is one of the finest tim- 

 bered tracts in southeastern Indiana. There is still a good deal of gum 

 and beech on the Gabel farm that is valued at about §16,000. 



Lumber manufacturers in Evansville and cities in the tri-state terri- 

 tory, as well as owners of wood consuming factories, are complaining 

 that the labor shortage is becoming more and more serious and the prices 

 paid laborers are the highest on record. Manufacturers say that they 

 can not recall the time when labor was so bard to get. Farmers in 

 southern Indiana, southern Illinois and northern Kentucky are also up 

 against this proposition and it is feared that they will be greatly handi- 

 capped in harvesting their bumper wheat crop in June. The car shortage 

 problem is not so acute as it was a few weeks ago. 



George W. Worland, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Veneer 

 Co., is still confined to his home here with an attack of lumbago, but hopes 

 to be able to return to his work in a few days. The plant is being operated 

 on the day and night schedule and the company is so rushed that it Is 

 finding it a hard matter to ship the orders out on time. 



Charles F. Hartmetz, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Dimen- 

 sion Company, has returned from a trip to Xew York and the East. He 

 says trade conditions are encouraging, but that the freight congestion in 

 the East has been worrying the shippers to some extent. 



Hardwood lumber manufacturers in this section report that the demand 

 for walnut is getting better all the time. During the past month many 

 walnut logs were shipped into the local market. A recent report from 

 Petersburg, Ind.. stated that many people in Pike county are cutting down 

 walnut trees that have been used as shade trees for years and are con- 

 verting them into timber. 



Charles Fugate, who for a number of years was connected with the 

 Euby Lumber Company at Madisonville, Ky., and who was well and 

 favorably known to the trade in central and western Kentucky, has gone 

 to Lawton. Okla., to accept a position with a well-known lumber company 

 of that city. 



J. C. Rea, after spending several days here as the guest of his family 

 on Adams avenue, has returned to Jackson, Miss., where he is superin- 

 tending the cutting of timber from a large tract of land left him by his 

 late father, Thomas Jefferson Bea of Columbia, Tenn. Most of the timber 

 from the tract will be sold to the United States government, Mr. Bea 

 announced. 



The last regular meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club until the 

 second Tuesday in September was held at Evansville on May 14. There 

 was a good attendance and several Important business matters were dis- 

 posed of. It had not been intended to hold any more meetings until the 

 fall meeting, but the officials of the club decided that it might be well 

 to have one more meeting in order to wind up the affairs of the club that 

 were on hand. Daniel Wertz, chairman of the co-operative committee, 

 reported that the Indiana Public Service Commission had granted the 

 railroad companies in the state an increase of fifteen per cent on logs, 

 much to the disappointment of the manufacturers. Mr. Wertz said that 

 the lumbermen might as well make up their minds that other increases 

 would come from time to time and in his opinion the time is near at hand 

 when there will be a flat rate on logs. This will mean that the local 

 manufacturers wUl no longer be bothered with the milling-in-translt 

 question. 



The membership committee of the club, composed of Charles A. Wolflin. 

 chairman ; Daniel Wertz and Henry Kollker will conduct a "still hunt" 

 for members during the summer months. The club dtcided that it would 

 take an active interest in the war chest campaign in Evansville that 

 started on May 20. William B. Carelton, chairman of the committee on 

 publicity and resolutions, reviewed the work of his committee for the 

 past year. 



=•< MEMPHIS >•- 



J. 11. Townshend, secretary-manager of the Southf-rn Hardwood Traffic 

 ssociMtii.ti, has returned from Washington, where he w.-ut to take up 

 ith t'::i- Interstate Commerce Commission details regarding hearings in 

 isfs J:!'...:ving proposed advances in rates on lumber and forest products 

 -om tl,. ti rritory covered by the association. Due announcement of the 

 cari:.-- :.nil the dates and places thereof will be made later. 



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