HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25, 191S 



BLISS-COOK OAK CO. 



BLISSVILLE, ARKANSAS 



MANUFACTURERS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK, ASH and GUM LUMBER 



Can furnish anything in Oak, air dried 

 or kiln dried, rough or dressed 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



Salt Lick Lumber Co. 



SALT LICK KENTUCKY 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Oak Flooring 



Complete stock of 3/8" and 13/16" in all 

 standard widths 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., has secured another 

 plant in which to manufacture walnut gunstocks, having purchased at 

 I .(1.1 ill sales the alien-owned plant at St. Bernard, O., owned by Theo- 

 I..I. I'laiike ot St. Bernard, O., and Hamburg, Germany. This plant was 

 . -lai.lUli. .1 about eight years ago to ship walnut to Germany. Over 



1,1 .Ill "I feet of hardwoods were contained in the yards, but were not 



iniluded in the sale, which brought .$30,100, and which was made by the 

 .\lien Property Custodian, Washington, under the Enemy Alien act. The 

 Wood-JIosaic Company has already started operations. 



R. R. May of the Louisville Hardwood Club, and Southern Hardwoou 

 Traffic Association, is back after si.\ weeks spent in the South for the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. Mr. Jlay visited many mills and 

 secured a number of new members for the association. 



W. R. Willett of the W. R. Willett Lumber Company, Louisville, is 

 back from a combined business and vacation trip spent in the East, re- 

 turning in time to aid the Louisville Country CUib golf club in a big match 

 with thi. .Vudubon Country Club. 



11. i;. Snyder of the Louisville Veneer Mills, who has been under th< 

 u.iili. a almost all spring, has gone to Hot Springs, where he will spend 

 a \a aih.n. and hopes to get back in shape again. 



Ki . I 1 1. >)ii|.p''U of the Louisville Point Lumber Company, who has 



I1..11 ;i n^iderable time during the past year at his mills in 



.\i I '.'11 spending a vacation at French Lick, Ind. 



Ai li. 11:11 ai I\y., the Lenox Railroad Company, with a capital of 

 $300, OUU has been incorporated by H. M. Collins, A. W. Overton and others 

 for the purpose of constructing a fifteen mile branch railroad in Morgan 

 county, connecting with the North Fork Railroad, at Wedwine. This 

 road will tap a very rich timber and coal belt, that has been awaiting 

 ilevelopment for several years. 



The Consolidated Coal Company, the big eastern Kentucky concej-n 

 which has several thousand acres of coal and timberland, is installing 

 piivat.' lookout stations in the heart of the mountains, and arranging for 

 laivat. protection of its forest lands during the dry period, aided with 

 111.- stat.. warden service. This company has been one of the leaders in 

 III., iii.ivrnient to replant cutover and burnedover lands. In past years 

 it has lost heavily through forest fires, but is endeavoring to prevent 

 such losses in the future. 



-Vnnouncement has been made by the O. C. Kenny & Son mill at Frank- 

 fort, Ky., that it is now buying all of the walnut that it can secure, ana 

 is manufacturing gunstocks and airplane blades in its own plant at 

 Frankfort. The company in a recent announcement stated that every bii 



he debt limit to 

 company has pla 



Its 



VON PLATEN LUMBER CO. 



IRON MOUNTAIN 



MICHIGAN 



Manufacturers of 



NORTHERN HARDWOODS 



75 M ft. of 4/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Birch 

 150 M ft. of 4/4 No. 1 & 2 Com. Birch 

 100 M ft. of 5/4 No. 1 & 2 Com. Birch 



75 M ft. of 5/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Birch 

 100 M ft. of 6 4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Birch 

 100 M ft. of 8/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr. Birch 



60 M ft. of 1 0/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Birch 



production by about uuu-third. 



Xt Paducah, Ky., the Paducah Lumber Manufacturing Company, 

 I'aducah Spoke Company, Paducah Cooperage Company, 3. A. Dossett 

 Lumber Company, Ferguson Hardwood Lumber Company, J. W, Little 

 Spoke Company, Sherrill-Russell Lumber Company. Paducah Box & Basket 

 Company, and some twenty other concerns have agreed to donate twenty- 

 live cents on each .$1,000 of capital to the Cincinnati zone of the War 

 Industries Board, to aid in maintaining offices, and handling; war in- 

 dustries work in the Cincinnati district. So far the Louisville district h(js 

 not been organized. 



At a meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club held last week a letter 



was received t r Th.- \ari.>iial Trade Acceptance Bureau, of New York. 



relative to its s. 1 vi. .■ an.l i.iin- i.n- use by the local club members. This 

 brought out a, laiih. i- .lis. ii-^iou .,( the recently adapted plan of the local 

 nun to Us., tra.l'- a. . . j.i a n. .'s wherever possible, and a number of members 



^i.ii.il iliar ili.\ ha.i 1 n using such acceptances very successfully in 



III. ir l.ii-ni.^-. aii.l w.ii' well pleased with results. 



liisi nssioiis oi l.usiiicss ronditions brought out that members were well 

 satished with the way things are going, it being stated that all woods 

 were satistactor.v. prices right, orders plentiful, and that the labor situa- 

 tion had shown remarkable improvement due to the fact that crops are 

 well along, and labor is returning to the mills, and due to the work or 

 right order. It was stated that there were plenty of logs at most of the 

 mills, and plenty of railroad equipment, with the exception of log cars 

 which are still scarce in the South. 



At this meeting F. B. Larson of the Memphis, Tenn., office of the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, received a rising vote of thanks 

 I'roni the Louisville branch of the Southern, aud the local Hardwood Club 

 members for his excellent services in handling affairs in Louisville during 



TEXAS 



Brown, manager of the hardwood department ot the Keaumimt 

 ;r Company, has just returned from a trip up into the sticks and is 

 ig one sore arm while keeping the other busy scratching ticks, pref- 



to going to one of the county dipping vats constructed for that 

 se. Eex had nothing to say about how his arm got injured — evading 



questions with the implication that what affected his body might 

 ly be classed as his own particular business. It leaked out, how- 

 tliat he was demonstrating the Beaumont traffic laws to one of the 



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