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HARDWOOD RECORD 



will be accompanied by the annual election of 

 officers. Right now it looks as if A. E. Norman 

 of the Norman Lumber Company, who has made 

 an efficient head of the club since its inception. 

 will be re-elected, though he says that he is not 

 hankering for the job and will hold on only if 

 the members of the club desire it. T. M. 

 Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 has been spoken of prominently, because Mark 

 happens to be one of the shrewdest diplomats 

 and one of the most hustling lumbermen in this 

 part of the country. But Mr. Brown said nay 

 when the suggestion was first broached to him 

 and declared that he wants to remain a private 

 in the ranks. 



The Board of Trade of Louisville through its 

 transportation committee is preparing to take 

 up the matter of an advance in railroad rates 

 which accordiug to the newspapers is being con- 

 sidered by the railroads. Members of the Hard- 

 wood Club heard that this was proposed some 

 time ago and have consequently been on the 

 alert, as it is believed that any advance would 

 affect lumber. Several hardwood men are on the 

 Board of Trade committee and will be able to 

 speak for hardwood interests when the commit- 

 tee meets to discuss the situation. It is hoped 

 that the railroads will decide that the time is 

 ■not propitious for any advance. 



Official information received by the Hardwood 

 Club from the railroads has been that the pro- 

 test of the club regarding rates from Louisville 

 Into northern Illinois and Michigan has been 

 sustained and that a reduction in the rates will 

 be made. The reduction has not yet gone into 

 effect, but the hardwood men have been assured 

 by representatives of the roads affected that they 

 will be put on an even footing with other Ohio 

 river gateways. This action is not only a big 

 victory for the Hardwood Club, but means much 

 to the city. The transportation committee of 

 the club deserves much credit for the hard work 

 it did in putting the matter squarely before the 

 railroads. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Company 

 said that business is fair but there is no rush. 



T. M. brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company has returned from Detroit, where ho 

 witnessed the defeat of the Tigers by Pittsburg. 

 Mr. Brown is a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan 

 and rooted hard for Clarke's men to win. He 

 saw the opening games in Pittsburg. He was 

 one of the men responsible for the victory of 

 Louisville in the .\merican Association. lie said 

 that business is fine and prices are about steady. 

 Nearly all kinds and grades are now moving. 

 His company has been buying freely of late and 

 recently secured a big block of poplar from a 

 Nashville man. It looks for a rising market. 



The Ohio River Sawmill Company, of wbicb 

 John V. Smith is the local manager, is taking a 

 great deal of interest in the Hardwood Club, 

 which it recently Joined, at the same time be- 

 coming a member of the National association. 

 H. A. McCowen, the head of the company, was 

 in the city recently to attend a meeting of the 

 club. He has been in the East on business re- 

 cently. Mr. Smith said that business is good, 

 with prices steady, and that a lot of lumber is 

 being gotten in from the South. 



A big sewer being built by the Louisville 

 Sewer Commission as part of the .$4,000,000 

 system now in course of construction is being- 

 run through the yard-, of both the Ohio River 

 Sawmill Company and C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company. It has a big trench, wide and deep. 

 and a lot of machinery and men. The work is 

 not interfering with the handling of lumber, 

 however. 



C. R. Mengel, president of ('. ('. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company, is in Grand Rapids and Chicago, 

 where the company has a branch house. ,T. C. 

 Wickliffe, secrelary. has been in Naslivillc on 

 business. The company has Just chartered an- 

 other boat to bring a 1,000,000-foot cargo of 

 mahogany logs from Africa. It will probably 

 get back iu December. The Mengel company has 



announced its thirty-second anniversary by send- 

 ing out cards to its trade. It began business in 

 1877 and has been at it steadily ever since. 

 I'ost cards showing the cargoes of mahogany 

 imported by the company have also been issued. 

 C. W. Clinch, who represents the Mengels in 

 Asim, Africa, was in town recently. He lives 

 in Michigan and is home on a vacation. Reports 

 from New Vork have referred to trouble which 

 mahogauy importers have been having getting 

 their logs in Africa on account of the natives 

 becoming fractious. Officials of the Mengel 

 company report, however, that they have had no 

 difficulties of this nature. 



One of the most interesting social events of 

 the year in Louisville was the wedding of Miss 

 Julia Morsel Mengel, daughter of Col. C. C. 

 Mengel, and Dr. Cuthbert Thompson, which oc- 

 curred October 12 at high noon at St. Andrew's 

 Episcopal church. After a breakfast at the 

 home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mengel, Dr. and 

 Mrs. Thompson left on their wedding trip. They 

 will be at home in their apartment in the 

 Weissinger-Gaulbert after November 15. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company is hav- 

 ing a good business, and H. J. Gates said that 

 a trip through the North and East produced 

 good results. The makers of automobiles have 

 been buying steadily right along, ' he said, and 

 their business is holding up well. The company 

 is contempliiling the erection of a planing mill, 

 as it bandies a lot of lumber that has to be 

 dressed, and «hicb now requii'os the services of 

 local planing mills. Prices on tbi' higher grades 

 have advanced somewhat. 



Claude Sears of Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company has returned from Chicago. Mr. Sears' 

 father, who lives in Indianapolis, was seriously 

 ill a short time ago, and Mr. Sears went to see 

 him. He has improved considerably since then. 

 Mr. Davis reports business good, and the com- 

 pany's mill turning out a large quantity of lum- 

 ber. All the local hardwood men are looking 

 after production now as much as sales, because 

 they believe that the selling end will take care 

 of itself in a few months. 



A feature suggested by some of the members 

 o£ the Hardwood Club in connection with the 

 annual convention of the National IlardwootI 

 Lumber Association, which will be held in Louis- 

 ville next year, is a trip around the city, taking 

 in all the hardwood plants. The belt line wbicb 

 circles Louisville touches practically all the 

 yards, and it is believed that arrangements can 

 be made for this. It is thought that the trip 

 would be of general interest to the visitors 

 Automobile rides and other entertainment fea- 

 tures have also be:.*n broached informally at 

 club meetings. 



Tliuugli the Roljiuson Hardwood Company has 

 not yet filed articles of incorporation, it has 

 practically completed its organization, which is 

 as follows : C. W. Robinson, New Orleans, presi- 

 dent ; R. G. Robinson, New Orleans, secretary, 

 and C. II. Stotz, Louisville, treasurer. Mr. Stotz. 

 who was formerly the manager of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Company, is in active charge of the 

 business, having established his offices in the 

 Keller building here. He recently said that the 

 company will incorporate with a capital stock of 

 .f25,000. The hardwood business will be done 

 on a mills-to-consumer basis, and no local yard 

 will be established. In addition to hardwoods, 

 (he company will handle the output of C. W. 

 Robinson's three yellow pine mills and a cypress 

 mill in Louisiaua. and Mr. Stotz said that busi- 

 ness along these lines is already developing sat- 

 isfactorily. Orders are already booked from cus- 

 tomers in Connecticut and on the Pacific coast. 



The rotary cut veneer men held an important 

 meeting recently at the Scelbach for the purpose 

 of discussing prices. Owing to the general be- 

 lief that the price of timber is going up while 

 its (piality is going down, thus making the cost 

 of producing veneers higher, the meeting went 

 on record iu favor of higher prices, and the 

 opinion was expressed that a new schedule, to 



cover all branches of the veneer trade, will be 

 put before the national meeting in December and 

 adopted. P. B. Raymond of Adams & Raymond, 

 Indianapolis, acted as chairman of the meeting, 

 and Howard S. Young, assistant secretary of the 

 National body, was secretary. D. E. Kline of 

 the Louisville Veneer Mills and J. C. Wickliffe 

 of C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company were Louisville 

 veneer men who were present. Mr. Kline also 

 attended a recent meeting in St. Louis, where 

 the gum men from Tennessee, Arkansas and the 

 Ohio valley got together. The feeling at that 

 meeting. Mr. Kline said, was also that the veneer 

 men are selling too low. Another meeting of 

 the gum cutters is scheduled for Memphis next 

 month. S. B. Anderson of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company of Memphis presided at the St. Louis 

 meeting. 



George Kretschmer of the Southern Veneer 

 Company said that the mill is being kept busy 

 all the time. The furniture and piano manu- 

 facturers are buying in large volume and prices 

 are steady. 



Business Is picking up, according to Treasurer 

 Geiger of the Kentucky Veneer Company. There 

 is considerable improvement in the piano trade, 

 these manufacturers having just begun to buy 

 in their old volume. Prices are fetill not what 

 they ought to be. he said. H: M. McCracken of 

 the company has been slightly ill, but is now con- 

 siderably improved. 



Many lumbermen attended the annual conven- 

 tion of the Ohio Valley Improvement Associa- 

 tion at Cincinnati October lo and 14. "A nine- 

 foot stage from Pittsburg to Cairo" was the 

 slogan of the meeting. C. C. Mengel, D. E. 

 Kline and Frank J. Fulton of the Kentucky 

 Stave Company were among those present at the 

 meeting. Itiver improvement talk has started 

 people in southern Kentucky, through which the 

 Cumberland river flows, to working for the im 

 provement of that stream, and many of them 

 will attend the convention of the Cumberland 

 River Improvement Association in Nashville No- 

 vember 12. If it were improved the lumber 

 business in that part of the state would be 

 greatly benefited, since railroad transportation 

 facilities are very meager. 



The Coquillard Wagon Works at Henderson, 

 which is a heavy consumer of hardwood lumber, 

 has assigned to the Ohio Valley Banking & Trust 

 Company and its president, .Tames E. Rankin. 

 It is capitalized at .$200,000. Its bonded in- 

 dfbteduess was a load that it could not finance. 



A syndicate of eastern capitalists, headed by 

 -M. J. Purkhurst of New Haven, Conn., has pur- 

 chased a basket plant at Paducah and will oper- 

 ate it with 500 employes. 



ASHLAND 



W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company is receiving 

 a larger number of onlers and inquiries than at 

 any time during the past two years. It advises 

 prices materially advanced within thirty days 

 and that more orders for firsts and seconds 

 and panel stock have been received than it is 

 able to supply at the present time. The com- 

 pany is operating its mill at Ironton, O., full 

 time and has enough timber to keep it running 

 until Jan. 1. W. H. Dawkins, buyer of the 

 company, is planning to get more timber the 

 coming season than he has ever contracted for 

 before. The company makes a specialty of 

 poplar and has one of the finest and best 

 equipped .yards of this section. 



C. C. McGuire of the Midland Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, O., was a business caller in 

 the city this week. He bought several cars of 

 stock from lumbermen here which he is loading 

 for his company. He advises business greatly 

 improved the past thirty days, with good future 

 prospects. 



W. E. Heyser of the Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati. O., was calling on our several 

 lumbermen this week. He advises that the com- 



