HARDWOOD RECORD 



proximately $18,000 was paid. The Gotshall Manufacturing Company 

 makes lumber, building equipment and materials. The present factory 

 is located on Dorr street near the Lake Shore tracks. It was not stated 

 definitely when the construction of the new factory would begin, but it 

 is the company's intention to build at an early date. 



The Skinner Bending Company reports a very quiet business, the 

 demand being light from every section of the country. Prices are off 

 somewhat both ways. 



The Booth Column Company, which recently went into the business of 

 making automobile bumpers, reports the new line as selling well. Presi- 

 dent Booth has just returned from Michigan, where he established 

 agencies. 



F. M. Fritch, president of the Eagle Woodenwa 

 ton, O., is extremely optimistic as to the future 

 general improvement is already visible and states that the busine 

 his plant is fifteen per cent better than was done a year ago a 

 same time. Within the past few weeks the force at this plant has 

 increased fifteen per cent. 



.-< INDIANAPOLIS y 



Local oflices of the Nebeker Tie Company, manufacturer of railway 

 ties, have been moved from the State Life building to the Fletcher 

 Savings and Trust building. 



Building permits issued by the city last month amounted to $411,628, 

 as compared with $67.'j.504 issued in September, 1914. The financial sit- 

 uation is held responsible for the decrease. 



The Huff-Stickier Lumber Company has been organized and incor- 

 porated with an authorized capitalization of $10,000 at South Bend by 

 O. G. Huff, B. E. Huff and C. F. Stickler. 



The next meeting of the Quartered Oak Veneer Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held in this city in December. It is expected the meet- 

 ing will be of much importance, as data will be presented showing the 

 amount of stock on hand and the condition of the market throughout 

 Indiana and adjacent states. 



-< MEMPHIS >- 



Amado & Co.. a Memphis firm, has made application for a charter to 

 carry on a brokerage, export and import business in South America, 

 Central America, Cuba and Spain. It has a capital stock of $10,000, and 

 among Its clientele are a number of hardwood lumber manufacturers 

 who win use the services of this firm In opening up new outlets for their 

 products In the countries named, with particular reference to South 

 America. This firm has already been doing some business with the coun- 

 tries in question, and Is incorporating in order that it might better 

 organize its forces and increase its facilities. 



The Shubuta Ice Factory, at Shubuta, Miss., will soon be operating 

 a woodworking plant in connection with its Ice manufacturing facilities. 

 This company is in the market for woodworking machinery and is 

 anxious to have catalogs and prices along this line. 



The Jonesboro. Lake City & Eastern Railroad has a contract with the 

 Creamery Package Company, Blytheville, Ark., to transport the timber 

 from 10,000 acres of land belonging to the latter. This was acquired 

 two years ago. It Is necessary for the road to construct eight miles of 

 track, but the returns will be in the neighborhood of $20,000 per year 

 in freight. 



For tlie first time in a number of years, makers of railroad ties in the 

 territory around Cotter, Ark., have found themselves without orders. 

 That section of the country has for .rears done a big business In ties, 

 but the railroads have stopped making Improvements and repairs wherever 

 possible, and this has practically cut off demand. 



A dispatch recently received from Pine Bluff, Ark., states that notes 

 of a face value of $18,000, executed by the Richland Stave and Lum- 

 ber Company, and held by the Bank of Pine Bluff, have been authorized 

 to be sold for $5,000. The order was Issued by Chancellor Jno. M. Elliott. 



The Line-Woods Lumber Company, of Louisiana, has filed articles with 

 the secretary of state of Arkansas, naming J. G. Boyce, of Texarkana. 

 as state agent. The capital stock Is $65,000, and It is scheduled that the 

 company has $53,860 invested in that state. Wm. Buchanan is president 

 of the company. 



=-< NASHVILLE >.= 



The hearing of the complaint of Nashville lumber firms against the 

 Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail- 

 way and Tennessee Central Railroad on rates on logs and lumber from 

 points In Tennessee to Nashville consumed several days of the time of the 

 Tennessee Railroad Commission last week. This case has attracted more 

 interest among lumbermen in this section than any contest brought up for 

 some time. General revision of intrastate rates is sought from many 

 points, and reductions of from ten to fifty per cent are sought. It is 

 claimed that the rates in force are entirely out of line with rates In adja- 

 cent states. A. B. Ransom, Henderson Baker, S. Lleberman, T. A. Wash- 

 ington, Sidney A. Dies and A. N. Trice are among the local lumbermen 

 who appeared as witnesses in the case. Charles Barham, general freight 

 agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, was the prin- 

 cipal witness for defendants, going Into a detailed statement of the rates 

 and the basis. When attention of the Tennessee Central management was 

 called to the fact that its rates on cedar, walnut and cherry were higher 



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