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HARDWOOD RECORD 



incident to the requirements of those roads, 

 suits would be brought against the railroad com- 

 panies themselves. 



On top of all of the foregoing troubles the 

 lumbermen are threatened with an advance of 

 from two to six cents per hundred pounds on 

 northbound shipments of lumber as well as an 

 advance of about two cents per hundred pounds 

 on shipments to ship side to New Orleans and 

 other ports. This Is a result of an effort on the 

 part of the railroad companies to bring about 

 uniformity of rates as between hardwood and 

 yellow pine shipments. It is certain that this 

 proposed advance will be vigorously contested. 

 This, so far as the lumbermen here are con- 

 cerned, will be handled before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission by the Lumbermen's Traf- 

 fic Bureau, which was recently organized here. 



Announcement is made that the last spike has 

 been driven in the new link of the Iron Moun- 

 tain between Memphis and Marianna, Ark,, 

 known as the Memphis-Marianua cut-off. It will 

 be necessary to ballast the road before it can 

 be used, however, and the cut-off will not be 

 available before Dec, 1, This cut-off reduces 

 the distance between Memphis and New Orleans 

 over the St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern, 

 28.3 miles, and gives that road a splendid line 

 for export shipments. It is regarded as the most 

 important piece of railroad work undertaken in 

 the Memphis territory foi\ some months. 



The new mill of the Grayling Lumber Com 

 pany at Arkansas City. Ark,, which has been in 

 process of construction during the past few 

 months, has been completed and placed in op- 

 eration. The mill is equipped with a double 

 band saw and is capable of cutting 100,000 feet 

 of hardwood lumber every twelve hours. The 

 company is giving employment to about four 

 hundred men. It has purchased a railroad which 

 it is using in handling Its timber and it is like- 

 wise making use of the Iron Mountain for that 

 purpose. 



C. K. Tew and F. Cason are interested in a 

 company which has made plans for the building 

 of a plant at IMne Bluff', Ark., to manufacture 

 a new jjateuted collapsible crate. These gentle- 

 men have obtained the American rights of this 

 patent. 



The chair plant at West Helena, Ark., which 

 was closed down some time ago for repairs, has 

 resumed operations. It has a full crew of one 

 hundred men at work. Peter Shaw is the new 

 superintendent in charge. lie was formerly con- 

 nected with the Haywood-Wakefleld Chair Com- 

 pany of Chicago and will seek to materially in- 

 crease the output of the plant. 



W. IS. Barksdale, who has been proraiuently 

 identified with the hardwood trade of Memphis 

 for a number of years but who is now spending 

 a considerable portion of his time on his orange 

 ranch at Fresno, Cal,, has just returned from a 

 visit to the latter. 



R. J. Loekwood, secretary of the Memphis 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, has gone to the 

 Pacific coast In the interest of his firm. 



F. M. Baker, representing the Hardwood Mills 

 Lumber Company of Chicago, is in Memphis. 



John Pernod of Kansas City, who is inter- 

 ested in a number of hardwood enterprises in 

 the South, has been spending some days in Mem- 

 phis as the guest of E. T, Bennett of the Ben- 

 nett Hardwood Lumber Company. Mr, Penrod 

 has been playing golf over the local links and 

 was very much elated early this week by virtue 

 of his victory over .Judge Prouty, of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. Mr. Penrod has 

 been playing golf for a number of years but it 

 would be rather hard on Judge Prouty to say 

 too much about the game of the former. 



NASHVILLE 



in the suburbs, where considerable building has 

 been in progress. 



I.oiiging operations are now in progress on 

 the Cumberland river and its tributaries. Lic- 

 berman, Loveman .t O'Brien state that they havi' 

 contracted for between i3,000,000 and 0,000,000 

 feet of timber in the river territory, and that 

 advices received indicate large logging operations 

 this year. 



There has been a brisk demand for walnut. 

 Kcpresentatlves of foreign companies have been 

 in this section, and have been buying all desira- 

 ble walnut available at attractive prices. Mc- 

 Cowan & Co., of Salem, Ind., have established 

 yards here to buy walnut exclusively. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company is 

 making plans to increase its dry-kiln facilities 

 from 700,000 to 900,000 feet. This company has 

 recently had a number of export orders for floor- 

 ing, as well as a brisk domestic trade. 



John W. Love of New York was in Nashville 

 recently. Mr. Love has charge of the New York 

 offices of Love, Boyd & Co. 



The plant of the Jackson Lumber Company 

 at Jackson, Teun,, was recently damaged by fire, 

 causing a loss estimated at about .$ao,000. llie 

 plant is owned by Evansville men, and was in- 

 sured. It is understood that steps will be taken 

 at once to replace the damaged building and 

 machinery. 



Local lumber shippers are beginning to feel 

 the effect of the car shortage, which has been 

 gradually increasing throughout this section. 

 Many hundreds of cars are needed now in Nash- 

 ville in all lines of business, and the outlook 

 si'cMiis to be for a further shortage. 



band mill at Waynesville, for the development 

 of a large area of hardwood timber near that 

 city. A new line of railroad is being built 



BRISTOL 



Building permits at Nashville for September 

 amounted to If84,144.73, against iflll,207.55 for 

 the corresponding month of last year. The offi- 

 cial list does not include important operations 



Irving Whaley of the Whaley-Warr.u Lumber 

 Company, who was appointed trustee for the 

 creditors of the J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Inc., and those of J. A, Wilkinson indl 

 vidually, at the first meeting since the filing of 

 bankruptcy petitions, which was held in Bristol 

 last week, is now engaged in making an ap- 

 praisement of the property. The business will 

 be wound up under the direction of the cred- 

 itors. Another meeting will be held here Oct, 

 H, in the office of Ucferee in Bankruptcy II. II. 

 Shellon, at which time J. A. Wilkinson will be 

 further examined. 



Work Is soon to begin on the extension of the 

 Virginia-Carolina railroad from Its present ter- 

 minus in Johnson county, Tennessee, to Wlles- 

 boro, N. C. The extension will penetrate a rich 

 timber section and will result in the installation 

 of a number of new mills. 



Mr, Griffin of Pierce & Pierce, Ltd., London, 

 England, is in the city arranging to take up ex- 

 port lumber contracts made by Mr. Wilkinson, 

 with small mills in this territory, to the extent 

 of $300,000. He will have the stock taken up 

 and paid for as loaded. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company has put 

 its band mill in Bristol in operation and is now 

 uperating this mill and its planing mill full time. 



Bristol hardwood lumbermen report more ac- 

 tivity in business than for some time. Most of 

 the mills are running and are behind with or- 

 ilers. The roads are in fair condition and there 

 Is considerable hauling from the small mills in 

 this territory. 



The Tyro Iliver Development Company is go- 

 ing forward with plans for the Installation of a 

 large mill in Nelson county, Virginia, where it 

 has purchased a large area of hardwood timber 

 land. 



Fred K. Paxton has returned from Charleston, 

 W. Va., where he has been looking after the es- 

 tablishment and operation of the Paxton Lum- 

 lirr Company's new mill near that city, which is 

 now running and cutting on a large new tract 

 of hardwood timber recently acquired. 



O. II. Vial of Waynesville, N. C, formerly of 

 Llizahethtou, Tcnn., was a visitor here last 

 week. He is engaged in the installation of a 



LOUISVILLE 



J. F. Barton, state forester of Kentucky, ad- 

 dressed the members of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club and their guests on Oct. 8 on the sub- 

 ject of "Forestry." Mr. Barton, who recently 

 took charge of the newly organized work in this 

 state, showed plainly that the lumberman and 

 the forester may work hand in hand, since the 

 efforts of both are to make the woods as profit- 

 able as possible. He was well received and his 

 conference w-ith the lumber manufacturers in 

 the club proved mutually profitable. 



Ed S. Shippen. president of the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company, is considering locating 

 a sawmill in the South and has been inspecting 

 timber tracts in that section of late. Exact plans 

 for the new operation have not yet been made. 



Wagon manufacturers have announced to the 

 vehicle trade that prices are to be advanced 

 Jan. 1. This is the first increase in a good 

 luany years, demand heretofore not having justi- 

 fied the step. Business has improved to a marked 

 extent, however, and in view of the increased cost 

 of materials the wagon men believe that they 

 will be able to get the higher figures which are 

 to be quoted. 



Lumbermen took part in a trip of the Trans- 

 portation Club around the city last Tuesday, the 

 occasion being the second of a series of excur- 

 sions to local industrial plants. The views of 

 new terminal construction work by the railroads 

 were particularly illuminating. 



The state insurance board of Kentucky, which 

 was created by the legislature last winter, has 

 begun its work by cutting dwelling rates twenty- 

 five per cent. Mercantile and special hazards will 

 now be taken up. Sawmill men and planlng-mill 

 operators are uncertain as to whether they will 

 get a decrease, as the insurance men have claimed 

 that this line has been unprofitable, but they 

 would welcome any action which would reduce 

 the heavy burden of Insurance expense. In this 

 connection they have expressed interest in the 

 plans for liability insurance through a mutual 

 company being organized in Chicago. Details of 

 the project have not been received, but it is 

 hoped that the organization will operate all over 

 the country. 



Th.' car situation is getting more acute. 'While 

 the shortage of equipment is not so great in 

 Louisville as to cause serious discomfort, it is 

 hard to get cars at mill points, and this is result- 

 ing first in delay and next In cars being piled 

 onto local .switches "all ia a bunch," This has 

 resulted in difficulty in handling and excessive 

 car service bills. 



ST. LOUIS 



\V. W, Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 I'oiiipany was in Kansas City recently, where 

 he obtaiueil some good orders for his house. He 

 says conilitions at the mills are all right in every 

 way but in the car shortage. Tliat is very bad 

 and Is greatly handicapping shipments. 



i:. W, Blunter, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, recently returned from an ex- 

 li'uded trip through the North. Conditions in 

 that territory are satisfactory, be says. Orders 

 are pbntiful and good prices can be obtained 

 for prompt sbipmeuts. lie looks for a big fall 

 trade in this market from the northern section. 

 .Mr. Hlumer was able to obtain a good volume of 

 business. 



Frederick Ilooton, a lumber exporter from 

 London, England, was a recent visitor in this 

 city. From what he says, England is beginning 

 to look to other countries than the United States 

 to supply the English market. He says he found 

 that nearly all the lumber cut and grown In this 

 <-r.iiulry is nredcd for home use. England re- 



