HARDWOOD RECORD 



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and when erected was out in tbe woods five or 

 six miles from Louisville. 



Claude Sears of the Edw. L. Davis Lumber 

 Company has been out on another scouting ex- 

 pedition. He usually returns with scalps 

 dangling at his order belt. Business is good, 

 folks at the company's offlees said. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumljer Com- 

 pany said that while business is not rushing it 

 is picking up some and looks better than it did 

 iu October. Mr. Norman is much pleased with 

 the work of the Hardwood Club, which under 

 bis direction accomplished many things of value 

 to the local trade during the past year. His 

 annual report will tell about some of them. 



Clarence R. Mengel, president of C. C. Mengel 

 & ISro. Company, said that the company has 

 decided to put up a veneer mill, or mills, as it 

 will consist of two buildings, the larger one of 

 which will be 84x100 feet. The company has 

 heretofore been sawing mahogany veneers, but 

 the new plant will have slicing machinery. John 

 B. Hutchings is the architect. Work on the 

 new plant will probably begin in a few weeks, 

 and it will be in operation by May 1, 1910. It 

 will be built of wood. The machinery of course 

 will be the chief item of cost, the total outlay 

 being estimated at $50,000. 



Business with C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company 

 is good. The demand is improving in all lines, 

 the skyscraper people, the car construction com- 

 panies and the furniture manufacturers all tak- 

 ing mahogany in volume. The Advisory Tax 

 Commission of the state will meet November 15 

 at Frankfort for the purpose of framing its re- 

 port on amending the tax system of the state. 

 Mr. Mengel is a member of it and will make 

 recommendations relating to the lumber and 

 furniture proposition. He said that cars are 

 getting scarce locally, as well as elsewhere. 

 Other reports are to the effect that at mill 

 points it is getting increasingly difficult to 

 secure enough cars to take care of traffic. 



C. C. Mengel, president of tbe Mengel Box 

 Company and vice-president of C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company, is breaking into print right along. 

 He was elected vice-president of the Pendennis 

 Club, the exclusive social organization of this 

 town, and was recently a member of tbe Board 

 of Trade's delegation to the Lakes-to-the-Gulf 

 Deep Waterways Convention at New Orleans. 

 He has just been named by the Board of Trade 

 as a delegate to the National Rivers and Har- 

 bors Congress at Washington, December S. A 

 special train will likely carry the delegates to 

 the national capital. John B. Atkinson, a well- 

 known lumberman of Earlington, Ky., was also 

 appointed by the board. Mr. Mengel was a 

 witness last week in the Brannin will case, a 

 noted piece of litigation in w-bicb some of the 

 most prominent people in Louisville are in- 

 volved. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 said that tbe volume of business at his plant 

 was never larger. If prices were to assume 

 their normal level, he added, the Thanksgiving 

 turkey would by no means be out of reach. He 

 said that a meeting of the gum veneer men 

 will be held at Memphis November 12 for the 

 purpose of discussing prices. He is of the 

 opinion that the national convention next month 

 Trill suggest a schedule of prices to the trade 

 that will be considerably in advance of the 

 present market prices. 



The Bell-Coggeshall Box Company is one of 

 Ihose in town which received a rebate from the 

 railroads as a result of the Supreme Court de- 

 cision involving shipments on yellow pine from 

 the South. It got $3,300. Harry W. Embry, 

 secretary and general manager of tbe company, 

 said that cars are short and that at four mill 

 points last month seven cars were the total 

 received, when forty could easily hare been 

 used. This is depleting nearly all lines in the 

 company's yards, he said. 



James J. Hume of Muskegon, Mich., who, 

 according to local newspapers, is "a millionaire 



lumberman," passed through Louisville recently 

 on his way to the South. 



The Summers-Johnson Lumber Company has 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. 

 It will do a general lumber business at Buechel, 

 a small town near Louisville. J. W. Summers, 

 H. B. Summers, C. A. Seaton, F. W. Curry, J. 

 Fegenbush, T. S. Simpson, F. L. Johnson, J. H. 

 Anderson, J. G. Hikes, Philip Graf and George 

 H. Frey are the incorporators. 



The Rockport Sawmill Company has incorpo- 

 rated at Rockport, a town in the western part 

 of the state, with $100,000 capital stock. Ar- 

 ticles of incorporation were filed with the sec- 

 retary of state at Frankfort. 



The Traffic and Transportation Club, which 

 includes several hardwood men in its member- 

 ship list, has taken permanent headquarters at 

 128 South Fourth avenue. 



A new railroad, said to be planned by the 

 B. & O., is being surveyed through the eastern 

 part of the state to West Virginia. The coun- 

 ties through which the survey is being run are 

 Carter, Lawrence, Magoffin, Knott. Letcher and 

 Perry. If such a line were built it would open 

 up a fine timber belt containing poplar, walnut 

 and oak in large quantities. As there are no 

 streams close to this section the timber is prac- 

 tically untouched. 



K. L. Thomas, the turfman, who was stabbed 

 in New York by a jockey employed by him, is 

 a lumberman of Winchester, Ky. He has large 

 interests there. 



Building is on a boom in Louisville, 221 per- 

 mits being issued in October, representing $428,- 

 064, as compared with 244 permits and $254,695 

 for the tenth month of 1908. Several large 

 structures were included in those issued last 

 month. 



The report of the Louisville & Nashville rail- 

 road for the first three months of its fiscal year 

 bhows a handsome gain over tbe same period of 

 last year. Its operating revenues were $12,138,- 

 000, compared with $11,285,000 for last year, 

 and its operating income $4,410,000. compared 

 with $3,043,000 a year ago. According to the 

 railroad commission, which is planning to as- 

 sess all the railroads in the state, they all did 

 a much larger business last year than in the 

 preceding twelve months, showing a greatly im- 

 proved condition of business. 



One of the features of .the November election 

 in which the lumbermen and particularly tbe 

 hardwood men were interested was the passage 

 of the Bosworth-Wyatt amendment to the state 

 ccnstitution permitting the state to assist coun- 

 ties in building roads. It looks now, though no 

 definite returns have been given out, as if the 

 amendment carried easily. This will mean much 

 to the lumbermen, who say that logging opera- 

 tions have always been hampered by poor roads. 

 Tbe state will probably begin where they are 

 needed worst and where they will do the lumber 

 business the most good — in the mountains. 



The sawmill of the Falmouth Milling Com- 

 pany was burned at Falmouth November 3. The 

 loss, according to press reports, was $10,000. 



The sash and door department of W. J. 

 Hughes & Co., a local retail lumber company, 

 was burned, causing a loss of $75,000. The 

 company will rebuild. The rest of its plant 

 was not damaged, and it continued business the 

 next day, aided by Its competitors, who allowed 

 it to use anything needed to fill up Its orders. 

 The loss, according to A. P. Witty, president of 

 the company, was covered by insurance. The 

 lilant of the company is at Fourteenth and 

 .Maple streets. 



ST. LOUIS 



Building operations for October, as compared 

 with October last year, showed a considerable 

 falling off. The aggregate of the permits issued 

 by the St. Louis building commissioner, according 

 to his monthly report, was $1,206,694, or but 

 little more than sixty per cent of the business 



for October, 1908, aggregating $2,280,050. As 

 compared with September, the October figures do 

 not show so badly, but even then a considerable 

 decrease is shown, September having had $1,784,- 

 059, against $1,483,016 for the corresponding 

 month last year. 



The following is a report of the movement In 

 lumber at this market during October: Receipts 

 by rail during October, 1909, were 15,539 cars ; 

 during October, 1908, they were 11,510 cars, or 

 an increase of 4,029 cars in 1909. Receipts by 

 river during October, 1909, were 134,000 feet ; In 

 October, 1908, they totaled 90,000 feet, or an 

 increase of 44.000 feet this year. Shipments by 

 rail during October, 1909, %verc 10,125 cars. 

 Shipments by rail during October, 1908, were 

 11,510 cars, or a falling off this year of 1,385 

 cars. Shipments by river during October, 1909, 

 were 43,000 feet, as compared with 90,000 feet 

 in October, 1908, a decrease of 47,000 feet. 



The lumber inspected and measured by the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis during Octo- 

 ber was as follows, as reported by Secretary 

 A. H. Bush : 



Feet. 



Oak 198,856 



Quartered oak 8^,448 



Poplar 70,584 



Cottonwood 46,107 



Ash 107,108 



Gum 72,207 



Cypress 61,826 



Maple 15,739 



Yellow pine 6,808 



Total 663,683 



The following circular letter has been sent out 

 to the members of the Lumbermen's Club of St. 

 Louis. The meeting mentioned in the letter, 

 which will be held on November 9, promises to 

 be one of the most important as well as the most 

 interesting of the year : 



Your entertainment committee is very proud 

 of its achievement in securing for the speaker of 

 the evening and guest of honor at our next meet- 

 ing, Tuesday, November 9. at the Mercantile 

 Club, Mr. J. B. White, of Kansas City. 



In deference to so prominent a lumberman as 

 Mr. White and in appreciation of the efforts of 

 your committee, it behooves every member of the 

 club to be present at the meeting, and this ad- 

 vance notice of the event is ample to prevent 

 coufiicting dates of our members. Make a memo- 

 randum on your date tab to this effect. 



There will also be committee reports and con- 

 siderable business to transact. Very truly yours, 

 J. B. Kessleb, Secretary. 



Capt. White is connected with the Missouri 

 Lumber & Land Exchange of Kansas City and 

 his subject will be "Forest Conservation and the 

 Merchandising of Lumber." 



E. L. Page, manager of the hardwood lumber 

 department of the Alf. Bennett Lumber Company, 

 s.iys business has been exceptionally heavy. The 

 sales the company made during the past few- 

 weeks were frequent and many of them were for 

 large amounts. Good prices were received for 

 all the sales made. Some of the buyers for the 

 company have placed good-sized orders for hard- 

 wood and thus the company is able to accommo- 

 date all orders received and to furnish quick 

 shipments. 



The company has recently considerably in- 

 creased its selling capacity by the beginning of 

 the operations of a new mill, just completed by 

 the company at Campbell, Mo., and declared by 

 competent lumbermen to be one of the best 

 equipped mills in the state. 



Mr. Page spent some time at the new mill, 

 where he saw that it got a good start. The 

 plant consists of a single band mill, edger, trim- 

 mer and all other necessary equipment of the 

 most up-to-date type. It has a capacity of 

 40,000 feet of hardwood daily. 



Business is reported as having been quite good 

 at the Lothman Cypress Company, and E. W. 

 Blumer, sales manager, says that prices are 

 being well sustained. While some little trouble 

 was encountered in getting in shipments from its 

 mills, as every lumberman has, the mills are so 

 located that the delay has not been serious 

 enough to cause any worry to either the com- 

 pany or to the buyers. With the big stock car- 

 ried in the local yards, it is not handicapped. 



