October 10. 191S 



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We Are Prepared to Furnish 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



on 



OAK TIMBERS 



Cut to 



SPECIAL SIZES 



Up to 16-Foot Lengths 



JAMES E. STARK & CO., Inc. 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



BAND MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN., DYERSBURG, TENN. 



VENEER MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



niont also facilitates the procuring of workmen. The company will manu- 

 facture gum timber, which is found In great abundance on the tract owned 

 by the Great Southern Lumber Company, the latter doing the logging and 

 delivering the logs at the mill. 



When the new annex, which was brought into the city by an act of 

 Legislature, sustained by the courts after a suit carried to the highest 

 tribunal, comes to be developed, the plan will call for the erection of what 

 are known as daylight houses, that Is residences, every window of which 

 opens on the outside and lets in plenty of daylight. Account will be 

 taken fully of probable and possible future requirements, and everything 

 will be done with due regard to necessities to come. The lumber trade is 

 expected to beneflt to a great extent from the development. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here within the last few days was T. M. 

 Ralston, rcprcjonting William Horner, the extensive manufacturer of 

 mapi.' (l.Miriiiu- and other materials at Eeed City, Mich., with another plant 

 at \i'wl»rr.v. th.' same state. Mr. Ralston stated that there had been 

 quito a sraii ity uf the lower grade flooring largely because of the action 

 of the government in taking extensive quantities of this lumber, and that 

 the mills had also run short of rough stocks. But this need was being 

 met more adequately, with every prospect that matters would soon be 

 fairly normal again. He reported the demand generally to be quite good 

 and sail! values were holding Arm. 



=< COLUMBUS >-- 



A contract has been awarded to Yoho & Mocker, Akron, O., for the con- 

 struction of seventy-five houses for government employes at this place. 

 The work of construction has started. 



Papers have been filed with the secretary of state changing the name 

 of the E. L. Hendricks Lumber Company of Bowling Green to the E. L. 

 Hendricks Company, and increasing the authorized capital from $35,000 

 to $50,000. 



E. G. Dillow, H. B. Walker and 0. H. Craft, formerly connected with 

 the Brasher Lumber Company, Columbus, have organized the Franklin 

 Lumber Company, with offices in the Joyce building. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods from manufacturing plants. Plants manufactur- 

 ing boxes, implements and furniture are the best customers at this time. 

 Recent embargoes are restricting deliveries to essential plants. Prices are 

 firm all along the line. 



The Columbus building department in a recent report shows that build- 

 ing operations during September 191S were slightly better than during the 

 corresponding month last year. During September, 1918, the department 



issued 1G9 permits, having a valuation of $261,155, as compared with 181 

 permits and a valuation of $220,840 in September, 1917. For the nine 

 months in 1918 the department issued 1491 permits, having a valuation of 

 $2,324,125, as compared with 1707 permits and a valuation of $3,208,030 

 in the corresponding period in 1917. 



=-< CLEVELAND^-- 



Hardwood lumber interests have united this week with the Cleveland 

 Board of Lumber Dealers in the effort of that organization to obtain an 

 official of the car serviro Kpction of the War Industries Board for Cleve- 

 land. A petition, riM|ur-tiiiu- tliis appointment, has been drawn up, with 

 the additional co-opt'raii"n <ii iIk' t'hamber of Commerce, and Washington 

 made acquainted witli its ir()ui-i> an-ordingly. The claim is made that 

 Cleveland, as one of the most important lumber centers of the country, 

 will suffer delays incidental to the obtaining of permit from Washington, 

 and that this will not only interfere with the transaction of the lumber 

 business as a whole, but may reflect adversely upon the Industries depen- 

 dent upon it. Attention ,il>o is ,all,Ml to the fact that Cleveland is one 

 of the largest war work inn.hi, mj < inti-rs in the country. All manner of 

 materials for war uso an n-iw i.. in- produced here, and contracts involv- 

 ing the large use of hanlWHui- -u.li us tni.-ks, truck bodies, chassis of 

 automobiles, airplane part.s, miTi i - ,■ I nuiiy other Items are to be filled. 



Some relief from the rcstrini ;. ,i i building operations is seen 



in the appointment of a Cl.v.lif, i ..unnii :■■•• to supervise the issuing of 

 permits, under the stati- ami iiaiiiiial (omiiilttees of the War Industries 

 Board. The committ.o iioind' s K. \V. Cunningham, buikliEg commissioner; 

 J. A. Kling of the K. II. v I-laua I.ime & Transport Company and F. H. 

 Chapin of the Uydraulir Tr. ss I'.iick Company. This committ.'c held 

 its first meeting this wck, and will have its plans shaped for workicj 

 procedure within another week. Already it has issued some permits, held 

 up others and rejected some more. Here also a tedious method is In 

 effect, for the action of the local committee must pass through Columbus 

 and Washington for approval. 



< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The Huntington Lumber Company, Huntington, whose plant recently 

 was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of approximately $100,000, has 

 announced plans for rebuilding the plant. J. W. Morrison, head of the 

 company, has announced that immediate steps will be taken to rebuild the 

 plant, which will be as large, if not larger, than the one that was destroyed. 

 The plans and specifications, however, for the structure have not been 



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