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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 191S 



D. B. MacLaren of the D. B. MacLaren Lumber Company says that in 

 spite of the conditions caused by the war his business thus far this year 

 has been larger than for the first eight months of last year and things 

 are moving along all right. Mr. MacLaren returned a few days ago from 

 a visit to Indianapolis and the -central part of the state, where he reported 

 trade conditions active. 



Many lumber manufacturers and dealers attended a recent meeting held 

 at Owcnsboro, Ky.. to form a county organization of the Evansville sub- 

 division of the Cincinnati regional on war contracts. D. C. Stinson, a 

 well-known lumber manufacturer at Owensboro, is the county chairman 

 for Daviess county. 



Claude Wertz, son of Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, well-known hard- 

 wood lumber, concern of this city, will leave within a short time with the 

 selectives for Camp Zachary Taylor at Louisville, Ky. Young Wertz is one 

 of the most poplar lumbermen in this section and his going away will 

 add another star to the service flag of the Evansville Press Club, which 

 already has about forty. 



The Globe Coal Company, which has several thousand acres of valuable 

 coal land near Sugar Ridge, Pike county, Ind., under lease, has erected a 

 sawmill and will saw the lumber with which to build a town at Sugar 

 Ridge. A large number of houses will be built to house the coal miners and 

 a modern bridge will be built across the Patoka river at that place. Over 

 fifty convicts secured from the Indiana state farm are now working on 

 the grades for railroad switches at Sugar Ridge. 



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Shippers here are much gratified over the lifting of embargoes to 

 eastern points where it has been necessary for months to obtain permits 

 for shipment. Lumber may now be shipped without permit to points 

 outside Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and New York and not on the 

 main line of the Pennsylvania, B. & O. or P. & R. The demand for hard- 

 woods is good and little evidence is seen of the usual midsummer dull- 

 Jonathan Starr and others of New York have begun operations on a 

 50,000-acre boundary near Laxe Toxaway, the lumber to be used, it is 

 stated, by the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the Railroad Administra- 

 tion. They announce that 300 men will be employed. There is much fine 

 oak and poplar on the tract. Much oak will be used for ship knees ; the 

 locust will be made into tree nails. 



The Bureau of Aircraft Production, spruce division has assigned Cap- 

 tain J. L. Snyder to this territory, with ofiQces in Asheville, to aid lumber- 

 men in hastening production and shipment of clear spruce for airplanes. 



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While the general demand for hardwoods has been quite as keen durins, 

 the past month as it was prior to that time, as a whole midsummer busl 

 ness has been extremely good. One large operator stated that on small 

 lots he had been holding for his prices, and had been getting them with- 

 out difficulty. One car of three-inch elm which had been in stock for a 

 year or more was finally sold, but within a week after the sale the car 

 could have been sold for $2 per thousand more than It was actually sold 

 for. 



R. R. May, secretary of the Louisville Hardwood Club and manager of 

 the Louisville branch of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, has 

 taken the examinations for a course in the Field Artillery Officers' Train- 

 ing School at Camp Taylor, has passed the examinations, and expects to 

 be called upon to report within a few days. Preston Joyes of the W. P. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Company has applied for the same service. Both 

 men are married and have children, but are anxious to enter the fray. 



Barry Norman, bead of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, has motored 

 to Camp Shelby, Miss., where he will spend a few days with his son, Colgan 

 Norman, who is in the service. The latter expects to leave Camp Shelby 

 shortly, and has hopes of being included in one of the next quotas for 

 France. 



J. Van Norman, legal representative of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association in most of its interstate commerce cases, has been made chief 

 of the Jefferson county division of the American Protective League, a 

 national organization subsidiary of the Department of Justice. Offices have 

 been opened at room 510 Starks building, with F. F. Gilmore, Jr., secretary 

 of the league, in active charge. The principal work of the organization 

 will be that of detecting traitors and persons guilty of violation of the 

 espionage act and other laws relative to conduct in war times. 



The Frey Planing Mill Company has recently installed three large motor 

 trucks to aid in handling deliveries of lumber locally. The company at 

 present is busy on a nice contract for bungalow construction for the 

 Standard Oil Company's new refinery at Louisville. 



Raymond Jones, formerly with the Mengel Box Company but for the 

 past year with the 151st Ambulance Company at Camp Shelby, where for 

 some time he has been a corporal, has been transferred to Camp Taylor, 

 Louisville, where he enters the Officers' Training School. 



The Central Lumber Company, Indianapolis, Ind., has purchased at a 

 price of about $22,000 all of the timber of more than thirteen inches in 

 diameter on the famous Hillman tract of nearly 5,000 acres near Cadiz, 

 Ky. The sale was made through Col. George L. Berry of the Pressmen's 

 Home, Tenn. The Hillman tract, which was in litigation for several years, 

 is one of the most valuable timber tracks in western Kentucky. 



W. II. Bassett & Co., Orleans, Ind., recently purchased a monster poplar 

 tree ou the Carey Morris farm at Salem, Ind., at a cost of $900. The tree 

 is estimated to contain 12,000 feet of lumber, is over 100 feet in height, 

 and measures thirty feet in circumference at the base. 



The North Vernon Lumber Company, North Vernon, Ind., has been 

 issued a building permit for improvements to its Louisville yards. The 

 improvements will cost about $3,000. 



Bodley Booker, secretary-treasurer of the Booker Box Company, has been 

 accepted as a candidate to attend the Field Artillery Officers' Training 

 School at Camp Taylor, Louisville. Last month Mr. Booker went to 

 Chicago, whore he endeavored to enter the Great Lakes Training School. 



Suit has been filed by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company 

 against the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, for claimed 

 demurrage of $135 on four cars held in transit last winter on account 

 of congestion. It is alleged in the suit that one of the cars was delivered 

 on defendant's switch, consigned to the Bickel Asphalt Company, and 

 when emptied was seized and loaded by defendant company and consigned 

 to Lancaster, Pa. The carrier took the car as far as Cincinnati, but 

 claims it was unable to take it further due to embargoes on connecting 

 lines. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association has moved its offices from 

 the third floor of the Starks building to larger quarters at 1200-1201 Starks 

 building. 



C. M. Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company is now prac- 

 tically settled at Mobile, Ala., from which point he is handling the com- 

 pany's southern operations. Mr. Seers moved his family to that point, 

 as he was on the road so much that Mobile was a better location for him 

 than Louisville. 



J. S. Thompson, assistant manager of the transportation department of 

 the Louisville Board of Trade, has left that organization to go with the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association at the Memphis office. Mr. Thomp- 

 son at various times has been with the Louisville & Nashville and Illinois 

 Central railroads, having been stationed principally at Louisville, Chicago 

 and Memphis. 



William A. McLean, president of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New 

 Albany, Ind., was recently appointed representative of the manufactur- 

 ing interests of the city on the Community Labor Board, at a meeting 

 of the manufacturers at the Chamber of Commerce. State Senator M. C. 

 Thornton, county director of the United States Employment Service, 

 explained the nature of the work, Ferdinand Kahler, Jr., of the Kahler 

 Manufacturing Company, is a member of the committee which will slate 

 the labor requirements of the New Albany employers. 



C. B. Stafford, manager of the traffic department of the Louisville Board 

 of Trade, has been appointed by Freight Director Prouty a member of the 

 Louisville district freight traffic committee, to represent the general ship- 

 ping and consuming public. The Louisville committee will be under the 

 jurisdiction of the Southern General Committee. The appointment of 

 Mr. Stafford represents one of the few instances where membership on a 

 railroad freight traffic committee, charged with future adjustment of rates, 

 has been extended to a representative of a shippers' organization. 



J. G. Wells and others of the Whitesburg, Ky., district, have purchased 

 a quantity of oak and poplar trees in the Pine and Black Mountain dis- 

 tricts of Kentucky and Virginia, east of Whitesburg, and plan immediate 

 developments according to reports from Whitesburg. 



Indications are that considerable improvement will be shown in ter- 

 minals at Louisville, and improvement In handling traffic when the K. & 

 I. Bridge & Terminal Company completes big improvements to its yards, 

 and the Pennsylvania system completes double tracking its Louisville 

 bridge, and new terminals north of Jeffersonville, Ind. The K. & I. handles 

 switching for the Southern, Monon and several other lines. 



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The Gates Handle Company is erecting a small cutting mill near Hemp- 

 hill in Sabine county to keep its mill at Beaumont supplied with hickory. 

 It owns betweeij 150.000 and 200,000 feet of hickory in that district, but 

 found the steel on the Tall Timber tram too light to accommodate its 

 cars. To overcome this difficulty the supply mill will work the logs up 

 into length and will have a capacity of 125 dozen handles a day. 



J. A. Laird, who was connected with the Sabine Tram Company for five 

 years previous to the United States' entering the war, has been appointed 

 manager of the timber assembling plant established by the government in 

 Beaumont. A two-story office building has been erected in the park the 

 city of Beaumont gave the government free use of and three switch tracks 

 are being laid for the economical handling of the timbers. The yard will 

 have a capacity of 20,000,000 feet, and is used for the purpose of relieving 

 the mill yards of timbers the shipbuilders are not ready to take. 



Henry Piaggio, lumber exporter, launched the 3000-ton bark "City of 

 Dallas" in Beaumont July 30. The vessel will be towed to Orange to be 

 equipped with rigging and auxiliary power. 



J. J. Schultheizer, former manager of the Lone Star Ship Building Com- 

 pany, has purchased the equipment of the Piaggio ship yards in Beau- 

 mont and will begin the construction of six wooden barges for the govern- 

 ment at once. He leased additional water front from the city and will 

 have room enough to construct six additional ways, making eight in all. 

 Mr. Schultheiser was assured by Jas. O. Heyworth, head of the wooden 



