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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Advices from Alexandria, La., state that the 

 Red Biver Hardwood Lumber Compapy of Alex 

 andria has purchased 18 acres of land near 

 the right of way of the Rock Island railroad in 

 the suburbs of Alexandria. This site will be 

 used by the company for its big mill. 



The Bayou Sara Lumber Company has in- 

 creased its capital from $8,000 to $60,000. At 

 a recent meeting of the directors the following 

 officers were elected : John F. Irvine, president ; 

 Joseph Birg, vice president; G. M. Lester, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. 



The fcannon Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at De Ridder, La., to manufacture staves 

 and ties. The company is capitalized at $5,000. 

 The incorporators are : J. C. Cannon, J. M. 

 Hanchey and J. W. Terry. 



The Bay Lumber Company has been organized 

 at Bay St. Louis, Miss., with au authorized capi- 

 tal of $100,000. John Ulysses, W. J. Gex, A. C. 

 Gex and others are the incorporators. 



A new company which will engage in the 

 manufacture of spokes and similar products has 

 been organized at Bay Springs, Jasper county, 

 Miss. It is the Bay Springs Spoke & Manufac- 

 turing Company and has an authorized capital 

 of $20,000. These are the incorporators : L. L. 

 Denson, R. J. Burnett. J. O. Denson. T. E. 

 Cooper and others. 



Insurance rates on lumber are attracting a 

 great deal of attention at the present time be- 

 cause of the manner in which the lumbermen are 

 contesting the advances the insurance companies 

 are attempting to make. For some time the 

 companies have been talking about increasing 

 rates and the announcement that such a step 

 was in contemplation brought a howl of protest 

 from the manufacturers of all kinds of lumber. 

 The controversy is as yet unsettled, with both 

 sides still on the firing line. 



Morehead, Ky. 



There is still quite a car famine here. S. M. 

 Bradley says he has over two hundred cars 

 ordered and several inspectors idle on account 

 of no cars. However, the situation is not as 

 bad as it has been. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company has just re- 

 ceived an American log loader to be used on its 

 railroad. The directors of this company held 

 a meeting in this city this week. They also 

 looked over their property and inspected their 

 new band mill which is now Hearing completion. 

 The company will build a number of houses and 

 an up-to-date clubhouse here soon. 



The S. B. Reese Lumber Company of Farmers 

 is running both mills steadily and will try and 

 run one mill nights to make room for more logs 

 should there be another log tide. 



The Farmers Lumber Company of Farmers has 

 a nice lot of lumber on sticks and is running 

 steadily. 



The Salt Lick Lumber Company, Salt Lick, 

 is getting a nice lot of lumber on sticks and has 

 enough logs to keep running most of the year. 



S. M. Bradley says his fifteen mills are run- 

 ning steady with a good supply of logs, and he 

 looks forward to the largest year's business he 

 has ever had. He recently bought several nice 

 tracts of timber, which he is now working. 



Louisville. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company says 

 that while the car shortage continues to inter- 

 fere with the movement of lumber considerably. 

 it has been making out very well and has by 

 strenuous efforts managed to get caught up with 

 shipments. The demand for oak and other hard- 

 woods continues excellent with the company and 

 it has all it can do to take care of trade. 



The Norman Lumber Company reports a splen- 

 did demand for hardwood, but experiences con- 

 siderable difficulty both in moving stock over 

 country roads and with railway transportation. 

 The country roads are some better than they 

 were, but farmers are now turning to their own 



work, and as a consequence there are not enough 

 teams available to move stock in the country as 

 rapidly as desired. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 says that it is still shipping out stock faster 

 than it is getting it into the yard here. Nat- 

 urally the management is worrying considerably 

 to see the yard so depleted when the company 

 has stock in the country if it could only be 

 moved. 



The A. I'. Turner Lumber Company, which 

 makes a specialty of ties, car stock and vehicle 

 stock, is enlarging operations in the woods, al- 

 though not as rapidly as desired. A while back 

 it could not do more work because the weather 

 was against it and now that the weather is 

 favorable sufficient help cannot be obtained. 

 However, it is turning out a fair amount of 

 stock these days and making preparations To 

 further increase operations as soon as more help 

 is assured. 



The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company 

 is very busy taking care of its heavy orders for 

 hardwood flooring. The company furnished 

 flooring for a number of the big up-town build- 

 ings just being completed and takes considerable 

 pride in the quality of the product as seen in 

 these, new buildings, among which are the Ather- 

 ton Building and the Stewart Dry Goods Com- 

 pany's new structure. 



The Bell & Coggeshall Company now has its 

 new box factory building under roof and 

 i- about ready to put iu the machinery equip- 

 ment. The new plant is a two-story brick struc- 

 ture with concrete floor, and alongside of it 

 there is a dry kiln being erected of hollow con- 

 crete blocks. 



The Peerless Veneer Mills Company has been 

 incorporated in Louisville to manufacture quar- 

 ter-sawed veneer, lumber, etc. The moving 

 spirit iu this concern is Marc O. Mundy, who 

 has been planning for a year or more to start a 

 new industry here, and has now started work 

 on the erection of their plant. The new plant 

 is located in the Parkland end of town adjacent 

 to the plant of the Kentucky Hardwood Flooring 

 i Yimpany. 



C. M. Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany, Clay City, Ky., was among the recent vis- 

 itors in town. 



Charlotte, N. C. 



The plant of the W. H. Sikes Lumber Company 

 of Fayetteville, N. C, among the largest timber 

 and lumber operators in the T'pper Cape Fear 

 River valley, was entirely destroyed by fire a 

 few days ago. The loss will reach at least $40.- 

 000, which is only partially covered by insur- 

 ance. 



Maj. .T. E. Alexander, referee in bankruptcy, 

 who has charge of the accounts of the B. M. 

 Andrews Furniture Company, which recently 

 failed for $140,000, says that there are 600 cred- 

 itors. The'assets of the company will not exceed 

 $20,000. The company operated in North and 

 South Carolina towns and was considered one 

 of the leading firms of its kind in the Carolinas. 

 Several stores were also located in Georgia, all 

 being included in the bankruptcy proceedings. 



A number of hardwood concerns over in North 

 and South Carolina have entered suit against the 

 Southern Railway Company for judgment in 

 damages alleged to have been sustained because 

 of the failure of the railroa'd company to deliver 

 lumber in time to meet contracts. Considerable 

 loss has accrued to the lumber interest in this 

 section through the shortage of cars that has 

 prevailed during the past winter and spring 

 months. The situation is easing up now and 

 the railroads are preparing to meet the demands 

 of the lumber companies, as well as other in- 

 terests throughout this section, in the way of 

 furnishing more adequate and satisfactory serv- 

 ice. 



Ashland. 

 The local mills are all busy, with a steady 



demand for their output. Logs are plentiful, 

 and the supply will last several months. 



There has been a car shortage that interfered 

 greatly with shipments, but the condition has 

 improved somewhat within the last few days. 



Mr. Hall, of C. L. Munger Company, Phila- 

 delphia : W. A. Cool, of W. A. Cool & Sons. 

 Cleveland, O. : I. G. Ballard, of the Ohio River 

 Saw Mill Company, Louisville, and Mr. McNulty 

 of Stevens-Eaton Company, New York, were 

 among recent visitors to this market. 



J. H. Kester, of the W. H. Dawkins Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a visit to his 

 parents in Parkersburg, W. Va. 



Earl King, of the Keyes-Fannin Lumber Com- 

 pany, at Herndon, YV. Va., has returned to the 

 mountains after a few days visit here. 



Timber operations on Gilbert creek, a tribu- 

 tary of upper Guyandotte river in Mingo county, 

 are now in full blast and hundreds of men are 

 engaged in the work. The recent rise in Guyan- 

 dotte brought out an immense lot of stuff from 

 there and gave the .workmen room in which to 

 place logs for the next rise. This is the creek 

 in which Jeff Grill, of Cabell county, is doing 

 so much work and Crane & Cole are also inter- 

 ested in that locality. 



Many of the logs that came out of Guyan- 

 dotte river on the recent rise are reported 

 lodged in the bottoms which were overflowed, 

 and a great deal of labor will be required to 

 get many of them back into the stream. 



The Ironton Lumber Company of Ironton, O.. 

 in the fire of March 22 lost iis sawmill and all 

 i lie machinery, also the dry house. As the wind 

 was in a favorable direction the company was 

 able to save its lumber, and only what was in 

 the mill was destroyed. The loss is placed at 

 $25, with $20,000 insurance. Steps to re- 

 build the plant will lie taken immediately. A 

 modern fireproof building for the sawmill will 

 be erected. It has been decided that a planing 

 mill will not be constructed at present. 



Minneapolis. 



Building material men are considerably 

 alarmed over the serious prospect of a carpen- 

 ters' strike in Minneapolis. The union voted to 

 demand a raise from 40 to 45 cents an hour. 

 The builders at one time were ready to concede 

 12% cents, but the men refused this concession 

 and bung out. Then the contractors met and 

 agreed unanimously to stand pat on the present 

 basis of 40 cents. After the stiff position which 

 the men took a strike is considered very likely. 



The Minnesota Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, to 

 do a wholesale business in all kinds of lumber, 

 with northern hardwoods as a specialty. C. M. 

 Rohne, formerly with the Jaynes Lumber Com- 

 pany and later with F. E. Reynolds & Co., Is 

 manager of the concern, which has formed con- 

 nections with some good hardwood mills. It 

 has ample financial backing from outside Minne- 

 apolis. 



The Mercer-De Laittre Lumber Company, 

 which organized last fall to develop a tract of 

 timber in northern Michigan, has increased its 

 capital stock from $100,000 to $150,000. It is 

 now building a single band sawmill at Bass 

 Lake, in Ontonagon county, which will have a 

 capacity of 50,000 feet a day. It will turn out 

 both hemlock and hardwood lumber, and there 

 is about 100,000,000 feet of timber tributary to 

 the mill. 



Hardwood men with mills or yards in Minne- 

 sota are interested in the reciprocal demurrage 

 law which has been passed and will take effect 

 on July 1. There is a good deal of specula- 

 tion as to how this law will operate. It re- 

 quires the railroads to pay shippers $1 a day 

 for each car when they fail to furnish cars 

 within a given time, two days at terminal points 

 and three days at local points, when they fail to 

 move loaded cars an average of sixty miles a 

 day, or when they fail to deliver cars in a 

 given time after reaching the railroad yard. 



