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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 1918 



favor of the Southern Veneer Manufacturing Company, Louisville, against 

 the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Company, the judgment rep- 

 resenting the value of a car of walnut logs shipped from Slaughters, Ky., 

 Oct. 5, 1915, and which was lost in transit and never delivered. 



Charles M. Struck, son of Alfred Struck, prominent lumberman of 

 Louisville, who was injured at Ft. Benjanjin Harrison last summer, and 

 forced to resign from the OflBcer's Reserve camp, has enlisted in the 

 regular army and gone to Ft. Thomas, Ky. Mr. Struck is over the draft 

 age, but so anxious to get into the fray that he enlisted as a private, 

 which spells the right sort of patriotic feeling. 



John Churchill of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, Greenwood, 

 Miss., recently passed through Louisville on his way to Washington, where 

 he expects to spend several days. 



Authorities at Franklin, Ky., have been investigating for several days 

 the recent dynamiting of a hardwood mill on the MUliken farm, which 

 was owned by John Burk. The plant was entirely demolished by a heavy 

 explosion, shortly after 10 o'clock on May 16. No reason for the deed 

 can be assigned, nor no clue found. 



High water in the Kentucky river as a result of heavy rains in the 

 Bluegrass region has resulted in ,a number of good hardwood logs com- 

 ing down to the Banning and Kenney mills at Frankfort, and other 

 mills at Quicksand and points along the river. 



Edwin Norman of the Norman Lumber Company has gone to Wash- 

 ington to look after some interests, and will return within a few days. 

 W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company recently returned from the 

 same point. Washington is the center of attraction to many of the lum- 

 bermen just now, as everyone is after government orders. 



The management of the Louisville Veneer Mills is much pleased with 

 the success which has attended its etforts {■■ u - b in;i!r labor on lighter 

 work. The company for the past few days I ' : : n Ibirty-flve girls 



and women on its roll, and many of tb. m i ■ - ..ikers employed 



have becom..' experts on the work which \\i> : ' i! i^. 



An iiitri,-.tiii'.; si.ny is being told at i i, , K .. relative to a 

 letter r.r.niiv >, nt 1m il.M.rge Morris of Cin i : 'i ■ i -, .^"r of the Field 

 Division <•( r."y Sr.mt-. According to tbi> ; u- >. iii ., was written by 

 a contra. tnT- a luinMi- lia« \«'fn in circulation i,,i .,l , > ral years relative 

 to a bi^ I I't r \\:ilniii In- winch were cut and stolen from govern- 

 ment land in ilir ninl.ll.> \\.-i several years .ago, and which were later 



sunk when ilir rulinlls amc s.ared. It is claimed that between 300.000 



and 500.000 feet of logs, valued at $1,000,000, is in clear water, where it 

 has been for the past twenty years. It is claimed that the logs are in 

 three rafts and partly covered with sand. However, the story is rather 

 flshy. as sinking three rafts of such size would be an engineering feat in 

 Itself. Attention to the stnry was called when the boy scouts were called 

 upon to aid in locatiuc; walnut timber. This story is probably one that 

 has been mixed up with the story coneeruing walnut logs on Reefoot 

 Lake, near Hickman, Ky., where it is alleged thousands of good logs 

 have been for several years, or since a severe storm which swept through 

 that section. It is claimed that the action of water would not injure 

 walnut logs, but even if the logs were there it would probably cost more 

 to recover them than they would be worth. 



A new IiMiiiier i.mr.in has been incorporated at Whitesburg, Ky., as 

 the Miillin- r,,;,! .v l.nnii.er Company, with a capital of $5,000. The in- 

 corporatn.- .n. c c, Mnllins, N. B. Mulluns, Clarence R., John W., and 

 Fred Oerhii li i mulerstood that the concern plans to develop coal 

 and tin. I i. I ri- i^. i:i 



The I'll II !■■ I i.l.iss Works of Huntington, W. Va., which uses 



large qinnni: I II iieiial in crates and boxes, and operates its own 



box mannii iiinn- ilints for manufacturing cases for sale to outside 



interests. Im- i n a.l\ ei-tising in some of the eastern Kentucky papers 



for tupeb. -nrn. rii,~innt. spruce, oak. poplar, etc., offering to buy: "Inch 

 to inch and a half Imards, rough. Carloads, log run or on grade, f. 0. b. 

 mills, cash on loading." 



Harry Inman of the Inman Veneer & Panel Company, Louisville, who 

 lost a finger in a clipper a few weeks ago, has about recovered, although 

 the finger was very slow in healing. Mr. Inman claims that in the mean- 

 time he has learned to write and do many things with his left hand, thiit 

 he would have formerly considered impossible. 



The deal whereby the Foundation Company of New York plans to 

 taki- .iv. I- tlir Howard shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind., for building light 

 <lr:iii M .-.N, ship parts, etc.. Is still pending, but will probably be closed 

 ^In.rilv Sni\eyors have been busy on the premises for several days, and 

 bavi al-.i lai.l nut a route for a railroad switch to the plant. 



--< ARKANSAS >•= 



The Au.susta Railroad Company, with a capital stock of $30,000, of 

 which $20,500 has been subscribed, filed articles of incorporation with the 

 Arkansas secretary of state on May 8, 191.S. The company will succeed 

 the Augusta Tramway & Transfer Company, the property of which was 

 recently purchased at a receiver's sale by the parties Interested in the 

 new company. The line of railroad is twenty-two miles long and extends 

 between Augusta and new Augusta, the latter being a station on the 

 Missouri Pacific Memphis branch. The incorporators are: R. T. Har- 

 velle, president ; I. J. Stacy, vice-president ; J. C. McDonald, secretary, and 

 F. H. Kittrell, treasurer; H. P. Dale, T. E. Bonner, E. G. Thompson, W. N. 

 Gregory, J. H. Dale and C. L. Adamson. 



The Little Rock Barrel & Box Company, with a capital stock of $20,000. 

 has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, showing the 



following officers and incorporators : R. H. McNair, president ; B. E. 

 McNair, vice-president, and G. A. McLean, secretary and treasurer. 



The Arkansas Ash Company, which is incorporated under the laws of 

 Tennessee, has filed a certificate of its charter with the secretary of state 

 of Arkansas. E. S. Shippen and William Coffey of Keiser are named as 

 agents for service in Arkansas. 



The Round Pond Lumber Company of Round Pond, Saint Francis county, 

 Ark., has filed articles of incorporation with a capital stock of $7,500. 

 The incorporators are John R. Grobmyer, president ; John I. Jones, vice- 

 president, and Gazola Vaccaro, secretary and treasurer. 



Through its agents, T. E. Helm of Marianna, the Indiana & Arkansas 

 Lumber Company has sold to B. L. Mallory and Claude Beeson of Mem- 

 phis a tract of timberlands, comprising 1,600 acres, lying in Crittenden 

 county, Arkansas. The purchase price is given out at $175,000. The 

 new owners have two standard spur tracks of railroad running into the 

 timber tract, and will at once begin cutting and shipping logs to mills In 

 Memphis, Helena and Indianapolis. When the timber has been removed 

 the land will be developed for agricultural purposes. This sale is said 

 to dispose of the last of the Immense timber holdings of the Indiana & 

 Arkansas Company in eastern Arkansas. 



TEXAS 



One of the largest stumpage deals consummated in this territory in some 

 time has been brought about by the purchase of 50,000.000 feet of cypress 

 and gum timber by J. L. Baker and associates of Plattinsville, La. The 

 Baker-Wakefield Cypress Company of Plattinsville, of which Mr. Baker 

 is president, is said to be the concern which will cut and market the tim- 

 ber at Beaumont, probably meaning the moving of the Louisiana mill. 

 Thirty million feet of the timber is located on the property of the Bast 

 Beaumont Townsite Company and was acquired for a consideration of 

 approximately $50,000, one-third down. This property has a river front- 

 age of Dine miles and the remaining 20,000,000 feet was purchased from 

 the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company and J. Frank Keith, adding six miles 

 more of water trout. The timber is just across the river from Beaumont 

 and the site tentatively selected for the mill will give rail connections with 

 three lines. 



The Beaumont Hardwood Manufacturing Company, Beaumont, prac- 

 tically passed out of existence when the four and one-half acres of river 

 front property on which its mill is located was sold to M. T. Walker and 

 associates for $30,000. It has six months In which to remove the 

 machinery, which was not included in the sale. 



John W. Greer and Thos. Blake of Houston, who owned the Jno. W. 

 Greer Lumber Company at Louetta, Tex., have sold the plant and prop- 

 erty to the newly organized Warren-Cleveland Lumber Company. The 

 new company is composed of J. K. Warren, until recently head of the 

 Cummer Manufacturing Company of Paris, Tex., and Geo. Cleveland, Jr., 

 who has been manager of the hardwood department of the South Texas 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Cleveland will operate the mill, which has a 

 capacity of 30,000 feet, while Mr. Warren will conduct the wholesale 

 offices in Houston. Mr. Cleveland was succeeded as manager of the hard- 

 wood department of the South Texas Lumber Company by his father, 

 Geo. Cleveland, Sr. About the time all this was taking place, Geo. Cleve- 

 land III made his appearance on earth and is cutting a figure in both jobs. 



The hardwood department of the Keith Lumber Company has been thor- 

 oughly organized with D. H. Murphy as manager. Mr. Murphy was for- 

 merly manager of the hardwood department of the Whiting Lumber Com- 

 pany at Elizabeth, Tenn. He will be called upon to sell 50,000 feet a day, 

 the capacity of the new mill, and the yellow pine mill with 100,000 daily 

 capacity will enable the company to ship mixed cars of hardwood and 

 pine. It will also make a specialty of loading out oak and maple flooring 

 and red cedar shingles. 



The month of May will see four government ships of the Ferris type 

 launched in Beaumont. The Lone Star Ship Building Company and 

 McBride & Law will launch one each, while the Beaumont Ship Building 

 & Dry Dock Company will launch its second hull the latter part of the 

 month. All of the ships built on this district, fifty-two in number, will 

 have their machinery Installed in Beaumont by the Beaumont Ship Build- 

 ing & Dry Dock Company and the Lone Star Ship Building Company. 



Ben S. Woodhead, president of the Beaumont Lumber Company and 

 also president of the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed 

 chairman of the Red Cross campaign for Beaumont and has already put 

 over bis tiisk of raising $100,000 for that purpose. He set down the lum- 

 bermen for a good round sum to start with and then went out to raise 

 the balance. 



The Gulf Export & Transportation Company, operating between Beau- 

 mont and Mexican Gulf ports, will add two new steamers to the line 

 within the next thirty days and lumbermen are preparing to take full 

 advantage of the increased service. 



-•<, WISCONSIN y 



The Lake Shore Lumber Company. Washburn. Wis., has resumed oper- 

 ations for the season and is prepared to manufacture at least a normal 

 supply of lumber, the surplus or reduction depeiuling almost entirely upon 

 the supply of men and traffic conditions. A large supply of logs has been 

 accumulated at the mill, with a large reserve in the upper peninsula, in 



