HARDWOOD RECORD 



lumber interests last week witli the NasUville Boosters' Club. The 

 Boosters made a tour to New Orleans and return by way of Memphis on a 

 special train, the purpose being for trade expansion. 



The charter of the B. & M. Lumber Company has been amended increas- 

 ing amount of authorized capital stock from $20,000 to $25,000. 



Tbe .\dams & Hampton Lumber Company of Johnson City, Tenn., has 

 purchased a tract of 300 acres of land near Stephens, and announces plans 

 to build a band mill with daily capacity of 15,000 feet of lumber. 



.\. J. Strand of Chicago, has tiled a bill in the Chancery Court here 

 against Petros Lumber Company of Petros, Tenn., and Fred W. Black 

 Lumber Company of Chicago. The complainant asks that the court grant 

 an injunction restraining the Petros Company from transferring its assets 

 to the Black Company, complainant being a minority stockholder of tho 

 Black Company. Complainant alleges that the Black Company is indebted 

 to Petros Company in sum of .'$33,000 for lumber shipped to Chicago. 

 Complainant says he Is denied access to the books and affairs of the 

 company, and seeks that an accounting be had by order of the court, and 

 that a receiver be appointed for the Petros Lumber Company. Officers 

 of both companies have been in Nashville in connection with the interests 

 involved. 



The Lewis-Wllson-Hlcks Company, formerly of Lexington, Ky., which 

 recently moved to Jelllco, Tenn., is now developing a tract of 10,000 acres 

 of timberland In Campbell county. The company has been operating a 

 circular mill, and Is now having Installed a large band mill. The opera- 

 tions will consist principally of white oak and poplar. 



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The Louisville Hardwood Club Is continuing to investigate fire insurance 

 rate, in spite of the fact that the lire insurance companies are not now 

 writing insurance in this state directly. The lumbermen believe that this 

 is as good a time as any, as the agents have plenty of opportunity to 

 look Into the matter. A conference with the underwriters has been 

 arranged, and a meeting will be held In the near future tor the purpose 

 of talking the situation over. The hardwood men believe that rates on 

 local yards are entirely out of line, and that many other cities, with no 

 better facilities in the way of (iretighting equipment, and not so good 

 a record In the matter of losses, are getting lower rates. The agents have 

 shown a disposition to assist In securing a reduction In the Insurance 

 charges, and it Is likely that by the time the companies come back and 

 resume writing, the situation will be in a shape favorable to the reduction 

 of the rates. However, the breach between the state officials and the 

 insurance companies is as wide as ever, and there seems to be little hope 

 of effecting a settlement in the immediate future. Most of the lumbermen 

 are well covered as to insurance, however, and the present trouble would 

 have to continue for months In order to cause any real hardships. 



A big delegation of local hardwood men will be In Buffalo next month 

 in attendance on the convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. Plans are now being made to secure a special car, and to 

 take enough members of the trade to Buffalo to let everybody know that 

 Louisville is on hand. T. M. Brown of the \V. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, who is a director of the organization, and Stuart R. Cecil, of 

 the Booker-Cecil Company, who is president of the Louisville Hardwood 

 Club, will lead the local delegation. 



The C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is not seriously disturbed over the 

 situation in Mexico, though operations at Its logging camps in Quintana 

 Koo, which were attacked by Federal soldiers, who confiscated commis- 

 sary supplies, have been interrupted. It does not appear that the com- 

 pany will lose any of its logs, but on the contrary It Is proceeding to get 

 these out. Quintana Roo is just across the river from British Honduras, 

 and the operation of the Mexican camp does not involve getting very far 

 away from "base." 



The yard of the Ruby Lumber Company, at Madisonville, Ky., was 

 destroyed by fire May lU with a loss of $40,000. The fire Is thought to 

 luave started in an ash heap in the yard. It was necessary to call on the 

 tire-fighters of nearby cities for help to prevent the fire from spreading to 

 other propert.v. 



Another Louisville concern is making arrangements for a southern 

 mill operation. The details of the plan are now being closed up, and the 

 formal announcement of the new deal will be made in the near future. 



W. P. Brown, the retired head of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany, who spent several weeks with his sons in Louisville, has returned 

 to Indianapolis. His health has not been good for some time, but he is 

 reported to be improving. 



Edward S. Shippcn, president of the Louisville Point Lumber Company, 

 is taking a keen interest in the Mexican situation, as his son, George, is 

 on one of Uncle Sam"s battleships which are in Mexican waters. I'oun:,' 

 Shippen wrote his father n good account of the taking of Vera Cruz. 



H. A. McCowen of the Ohio River Sawmill Company was in Louisville 

 recently, coming down from his home at Salem, Ind. He is taking an 

 active interest in the efforts of leading walnut houses, Including H. A. 

 McCowen & Co., to popularize the use of that splendid wood, and believes 

 that black walnut will soon be back on the map strong enough to take a 

 large part of the production for domestic factories. 



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