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HARDWOOD RECORD 



feature. It is expected that there will be 

 more than thirty kittens to be initiated. 



Heavy rains have occurred in this terri- 

 tory, which have greatly interfered with both 

 milling and logging operations. The most con- 

 servative do not believe now that the timber 

 supply for the winter will be even approxi- 

 mately close to the smallest in recent years 

 at this season. The situation is the strongest 

 in the hardwood market known here in recent 

 years and one of the most difficult for either 

 the manufacturer or the wholesaler to cope 

 with because of the scarcity of lumber and 

 the troubles encountered in hauling and load- 

 ing at points some distance from the rail- 

 roads. 



The Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, which 

 has been for some months constructing a 

 large band sawmill, veneer plant and box fac- 

 tory at Blytheville, Ark., has completed all 

 of these and they are now in operation. The 

 estimated cost is in the neighborhood of 

 $250,000 and the plant, in its entirety. Is one 

 of the most complete in this section. 



The Anderson-Tully Company, which manu- 

 factures boxes, box shooks, Cottonwood and 

 gum lumber, reports rapid progress on its new 

 box factory in North Memphis which is to 

 have a daily capacity of three cars of shooks. 



The W. E. Smith Lumber Company, with 

 headquarters here, announces that it has com- 

 pleted its big double band sawmill at Burdett. 

 Ark., and that this is now being operated. 

 The daily capacity is about 90,000 feet. 



The car situation is not giving the hardwood 

 trade here quite as much trouble as had been 

 anticipated, but this is no fault of the rail- 

 roads. The delay of about two to three weeks 

 in the picking, ginning and movement of cot- 

 ton, which has kept back the climax to the 

 cotton traffic which usually comes at this 

 time of the year, has given the railroads more 

 cars for other business than they looked for. 

 However, the indications are for a record- 

 breaking cotton movement during the next six 

 to eight weeks and it is therefore more than 

 probable that lumbermen will find the num- 

 ber of cars available far less than during the 

 past thirty days. 



New Orleans. 



The Stave Classers, Stave Filers' and Stave 

 Cart Drivers' Unions in New Orleans are on 

 strike and have been for the last three days. 

 The classers demand 85 cents an hour and the 

 pilers and helpers 20 cents. They were receiv- 

 ing when they struck 27 «• cents and 17 ' ,& cents 

 per hour, respectively. Both sides ate anxious 

 for a settlement and it is regarded as probable 

 that this will be brought about within the next 

 two or three days. 



Representatives of twenty-five lumber com- 

 panies and syndicates met in Hattiesburg, Miss.. 

 October IS, to talk over the labor question, 

 which has resolved itself into a serious problem 

 in the lumber territory in this part of the coun- 

 try. The matter of disposing of the timber 

 blown down in the storm-swept districts was 

 also discussed, and the consensus of opinion was 

 that the best policy for the mills to pursue was 

 to cut with portable sawmills all the timber 

 that can be reached. This policy will be 

 adopted. Grave fears are now entertained that 

 such action on the part of the big lumber com- 

 panies will seriously affect the export market. 

 It is argued that to cut this timber in this 

 manner will flood the export market and a 

 big decline in prices there is said to be proba- 

 ble. 



Millmen generally are suffering from the car 

 shortage which prevails throughout this terri- 

 tory and advices from the Hattiesburg district 

 and other sections state that the shortage is the 

 most serious ever experienced. In many in- 

 stances mills have entirely closed down, and 

 operators are unable to realize anything on 

 their big yard stocks simply because they can- 

 not get lumber moved to market. There are no 



indications of an early change for the better. 



The Consumers' Lumber Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been organized in New Orleans with a 

 capital of $50,000. It will operate saw and 

 planing mills and will manufacture all kinds 

 of lumber. The officers are : R. H. Hackney, 

 president; D. A. Hackney, secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



The two-story planing mill of the Benoit Lum- 

 ber Company and the company's storage sheds, 

 with a large quantity of lumber, located at 

 Watizit, Ouachita parish, were destroyed by fire 

 recently. The loss on the plant was about 

 $10,000 and the lumber $4,000. Five thousand 

 dollars' insurance was carried on the former, 

 but the latter was unprotected. This company's 

 plant was located in the heart of the hardwood 

 district of Louisiana. 



The Southern Wrecking Company of this city 

 aas lieen asked to dispatch tugs and lighters to 

 Fensacola to aid in the work of unloading the 

 lumber-laden schooners and steamers which were 

 beached and wrecked in the recent storm. Pensa- 

 cola wrecking companies will not bid on the 

 work because of the scarcity of lumber lighters 

 and there are no wharves at the port where 

 lumber can be unloaded. Consequently the New 

 Orleans companies have been asked to take a 

 hand.- 



Louisville. 

 The mills that log on land are having it a 

 little easy just now. but some of the river mills 

 are looking longingly up the river — in vain at 

 present. Kirwan Bros, hoped to get a good sup- 

 ply of logs out of the Big Sandy from the re- 

 cent rains, but obtained only a couple of rafts. 

 They are straightening up their yard and at- 

 tending to the many little things that lack of 

 help prevented while the mill was running, in 

 preparation for resuming operations. 



The Ohio River Saw Mill Company has a fair 

 stuck of logs at the mill yet and has a tow 

 coming down the river which will furnish a log 

 supply till about the first of the year. The 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company has enough 

 logs in boom now to run them till the first of 

 the year. 



Logging at the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com- 

 pany's operations is being pushed energetically. 

 Mr. Berry says that there is an unusually good 

 demand for car stock and, in fact, everything is 

 selling well, with a bright outlook for trade this 

 winter. 



The Louisville Cooperage Company has se- 

 cured a contract to make 90,000 gum glucose 

 barrels and is enlarging its plant at Twenty- 

 ninth and Broadway considerably, putting in 

 machinery to make barrels, building a new 

 warehouse, etc. It already operates a large 

 stave finishing plant, two dry kilns and a big 

 hand cooper shop. 



The box factories here have been so busy this 

 fall that they have enlarged their ideas some- 

 what on lumber requirements and are now in 

 the market for low grade stock in either poplar, 

 cottonwood or gum. There are three of these 

 plants here, using large quantities of this lum- 

 ber — the Mengel Box Company, the Tyler Box 

 Company and the Bell & Coggeshall Company. 



The Voss Mantel Company is loaded to the 

 guards with business, and say this has been 

 about its liveliest year. 



J. E. Buscher of the Louisville Spoke & Bend- 

 ing Works, says there is a fair demand for vehi- 

 cle stock, but not at prices which should pre- 

 vail under present conditions. Raw material 

 be finds very scarce, high in price and diflncult 

 to secure delivered as promptly as wanted. 



Minneapolis. 



E. Payson Smith of the I'ayson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is absent on a business trip tak- 

 ing in Chicago and other points. A. S. Bliss 

 of the same company says they are enjoying a 

 seasonable demand for hardwood, especially good 

 in eastern markets. 



Osborne & Clark report that demand from 



the country yards is still quiet but somewhat 

 improved over the last writing. The factory 

 trade is very fair, and stocks available to supply 

 it are scarce and held at firm prices. 



The Minneapolis Lumber Company, whose 

 heads. P. R. Hamilton and W. H. Sill, are in- 

 terested in the Ruby Lumber Company of Ruby. 

 Wis., and other hardwood plants, reports that 

 there is great difliculty in getting men to fill 

 the logging crews this fall, and as a result the 

 log output is likely to be reduced. Last winter 

 their operations were curtailed by the heavy 

 snow, which impeded logging and kept the cut 

 down. It is not likely that there will be an- 

 other winter of heavy snow, and with fair 

 labor conditions there would be an increase in 

 the production of northern hardwoods this win- 

 ter, excepting white oak and possibly ash, which 

 are almost cut out. 



The sale of state timber held at the capitol 

 October 11 resulted in the disposal of about 

 :,r,. noil. oiiii feet of stumpage at good prices. One 

 piece of white pine sold for the record price of 

 $13.55 a thousand. The state received as first 

 payments the sum of $62,365, and expects in the 

 end to realize $350,000 from the sale. 



F. W. Buswell of the Buswell Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company of Buswell, Wis., is back 

 from a business trip to Chicago and other 

 points, where he was looking into market con- 

 ditions. 



Ashland, Ky. 



Building is unusually active, creating a big 

 demand for builders' supplies. Lumber is sell- 

 ing slightly above list price, but dealers are 

 turning down large orders owing to broken 

 slocks. Mill men are busy getting plants 

 cleaned up and in shape to begin work when 

 The fall log run comes, which is expected now 

 at almost any time. 



Adkins & Welsh, real estate dealers of this 

 city, and Hon. C. Breck Hill of Huntington. 

 W. Va., have closed a deal for 16,000 acres of 

 valuable timber land iu Breathitt county, Ken- 

 tucky on Tucksand Creek. The price paid is said 

 to be $300,000. The property was bought from 

 the Lexington & Eastern Railroad Company and 

 was purchased by them several years ago for 

 $15,000. This railroad will extend its lines 

 fifteen miles into the property. This is claimed 

 by expert timbermen to be the best large tract 

 of virgin poplar in the state. 



Edward Adams, an employe of the Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove, O., made a 

 misstep while walking on a tram road and fell 

 in front of a heavy truck of lumber, ^vhich 

 passed over his arm, tearing the ligaments 

 badly and bruising him up so he will be con- 

 fined to his bed for some time. Mr. Adams is 

 mayor of Coal Grove. 



Fred J. Stone of Detroit, Mich., and I. G. 



Ballard of the Ohio River Saw Mill Company, 



Louisville, were recent visitors to this market. 



R. H. Vansant has returned from a trip to 



Chicago. 



J. E. Walker has returned from Herndon, W. 

 Va.. and Graham, Va., where he looked after the 

 extensive interests of the Keyes-Fannin Lumber 

 Company. 



F. E. May, former treasurer and secretary 

 of the Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company, 

 has been elected general manager of the con- 

 cern to succeed M. A. Hayward, who recently re- 

 signed. 



D. E. Hewitt, a representative of the Hutchi- 

 son Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Hunt- 

 ington. W. Va., has closed a deal with the Lake 

 Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company 

 for a bill of lumber aggregating over one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars. 



The Licking River Railroad Company has 

 bought the large sawmill of Emery & Co. at 

 Farmers, Rowan County, Ky., and will begin 

 operating same immediately. The price paid 

 was $100,000. The plant has been idle for a 

 number of years. 



