HARDWOOD RECORD 



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begun at once by tbe Scutt-Lamburt Lumber 

 Company, recently organized at ElizabctUton, 

 Tenn., for the development of its harwood timber 

 in Carter county, Tennessee. The company al- 

 ready has its mills. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bus, O., which manufactures most of its hard- 

 wood stock in this section, is preparing for bigger 

 operations than ever this year. In addition to 

 the band mills and timber already owned in 

 West Virginia, the company has recently made 

 additional heavy purchases, while it has done 

 likewise in western North Carolina, where it is 

 installing another band mill. The band mill of 

 the company, at Hampton, Tenn., made a fine 

 record during 1000 and will continue to run 

 to its capacity, undisturbed. The company owns 

 a vast amount of virgin timber through this 

 region. 



Mr. McGruder, representing the Patton Lumber 

 Company of Philadelphia ; R, \V. Lucius of the 

 William H. Perry Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati, and L. M. Scifres of H. A. McCowan. 

 Salem, Ind., were among the numerous hardwoo^ 

 buyers in Bristol this week. 



"The weather has seriously interfered with 

 the country mills thus far," said a well-known 

 manufacturer. "The result is that they have 

 been able to accomplish almost nothing for 

 several weeks. However, much stock was nauled 

 to the railroads before the roads got im- 

 passable and shipments will hold up fairly well 

 for awhile. The larger mills are nearly all 

 getting in full time, despite the zero weather." 



After several months illness, H. M. Hoskins 

 of the H. M. Hoskins Lumber Company has 

 about recovered and will soon be able to attend 

 to his duties at his office. 



Local managers of numerous large eastern, 

 western and foreign lumber concerns report that 

 indications are that trade will be much heavier 

 during the present year. The exporters say that 

 the foreign market is not as promising as the 

 domestic, though there is a good feeling as to 

 the outlook for trade on all sides. 



J. A. Wilkinson has materially increased his 

 timber holdings lately and reports the outlook 

 for trade most encouraging. Mr. Wilkinson 

 has many country mills cutting on his timber 

 and is shipping out a vast amount of stock. His 

 plant here is running full time. 



The plant of the Standard Oak Veneer Com- 

 pany at Johnson City, which was recently tied 

 up by litigation, is again running and indi- 

 cations are that a brighter day has dawned for 

 the company. New money and new blood has 

 been put into it. 



The completion of the band mill and rail- 

 road which O. H. Vial is building in Greene 

 county, Tennessee, in a few weeks will be fol- 

 lowed by the starting of another new and 

 important lumber operation in east Tennessee. 

 The Honaker Lumber Company, which is erecting 

 three band mills in Russell County, Virginia, 

 not far from Bristol, together with planing mills, 

 dry kilns, etc., will be ready to start them 

 about April 1. 



The big band mill of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company at Buladeen, Tenn., near Bristol, made 

 a fine record last year and will equal or eclipse 

 it this year. The company has a large area 

 of timber land in that section and some five 

 years' cut remains. There is a large amount ot 

 stock on the yards and the mill is going full 

 time. 



E. V. Babcock & Co. have their mill at Tel- 

 lico Plains, Tenn., running full time, with a 

 large amount of stock in their Tellico .yards. 



Extensive lumber operations are being carried 

 on In Polk county, east Tennessee. The Pender- 

 grast Lumber Company of Marion, O., which 

 recently started its new band and planing mills. 

 Is going forward, while the Consuaga Lumber 

 Company, owning big mills and plenty of tlmbeT, 

 is running to its capacity. Numerous other 

 large mills in that county are making good 

 records. 



There seems to be little danger of an immedi- 

 ate car shortage in this section, despite the 

 fact that the demand for coal and coke, which 

 is one of the principal products of this section, 

 besides lumber, is the heaviest ever known. The 

 railrc-ads are able to cope with the present 

 situation without trouble, but have about all 

 they can do to handle the big traffic. Numerous 

 small lines of r.iilroad are being erected and 

 will be completed soon, while the completion of 

 the new Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, 

 a trunk line to the south Atlantic seaboard, 

 will serve to greatly relieve congested traffic 

 and give better service to shippers and con- 

 signees. There seems to be a revival of the 

 railroad building industry of late, as Immense 

 amounts of money are now being spent in this 

 kind of construction. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Hardwood Club has gotten down to business 

 for the new year by appointing its standing 

 committees, as follows : 



Advertising — S. E. Booker, E. B. Norman & 

 Co. ; Claude Sears, Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company ; T. M. Brown, W. P. Brown & Sons, 

 Lumber Company, and J. C. Wickliffe, C. C. Men- 

 gel & Bro. Company. 



Transportation — E. B. Norman, E. B. Norman 

 & Co. ; T. M. Brown ; H. J. Gates, Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company ; D. C. Harris, C. C. Men- 

 gel & Bro. Company. 



Executive Entertaining — T. M. Brown, Claude 

 Sears, and E. B. Norman. 



The Entertainment Committee will get busy 

 right away in connection with the convention of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association, and 

 is authorized to call on all the other mem- 

 bers of the club to carry out any of its plans. 

 They must do anything, as Secretary Harris 

 phrased it, from sweeping out an office to con- 

 tributing $1,000. 



Fred H. Behring of the Southern Railway 

 attended a recent meeting of the club at the 

 Seelbach hotel. Mr. Behring is assistant gen- 

 eral freight agent of his road, and is in close 

 touch with the hardwood situation. Mr. Cochran, 

 a New York hardwood man, was down a week 

 or so ago. 



Most of the Hardwood Club men had enjoyable 

 Christmases, though they have forgotten most 

 of the details by this time. The weather con- 

 sisted mostly of sleet and snow, and so the 

 hunters in the crowd weren't able to pursue their 

 accustomed avocations. C. R. Mengel stayed at 

 home, while Victor Lamb, treasurer of the 

 Mengel company, went to Memphis for the holi- 

 days. The Brown boys Christmased under the 

 paternal roof-tree in Indianapolis. R. F. Smith 

 of the Ohio River Saw Mill Company was 

 snowbound, too, and didn't leave town. Claude 

 Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company 

 was called to Indianapolis shortly after Christ- 

 mas by the serious illness of his aged father. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 bought another big yard. This time it was that 

 formerly occupied by the cooperage firm of Ber- 

 gen & Meehan, located between Brook and Floyd, 

 south of Shipp. It contains about sis and a 

 half acres of land, and has fine railroad fa- 

 cilities, a spur of the Louisville & Nashville con- 

 necting almost immediately with the Southern 

 Railwaj'. The yard will be used at once, and 

 an additional office of the company may be 

 started there also. It was announced that the 

 purchase price was in the neighborhood of $30,- 

 000. W. P. Brown, the retired head of the 

 firm, has started a sawmill at Madisonville, in 

 the western part of the state. It will have 

 an annual capacity between 7,000,000 and 10,- 

 000,000 feet a year, and will manufacture prin- 

 cipally oak, of which there is a good supply in 

 the western part of the state. 



E. B. Norman & Co. have been troubled a 

 good deal by Ice, the recent cold spell, one 



of the most severe Louisville has experienced in 

 a long time, having frozen the river over from 

 shore to shore. When the freeze started the 

 company had a lot of logs in the river, and these 

 were gotten to harbor in the lee of the Six- 

 Mile island without loss. The river has begun 

 to loosen up considerably now. The sawmill 

 of the company was closed during the coldest 

 Iiart of last week. 



H. J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company said that business is fine and that his 

 firm is being kept busy filling orders which 

 have been on the books and which are coming in 

 freely. Prices are considerably higher, he be- 

 lieves. Small stocks in the hands of consumers 

 are indicated by the "rush" telegrams which 

 the firm has been receiving. The mill ran 

 Ihrough the cold weather. Mr. Gates, who re- 

 cently returned from a trip to the mountains, 

 where he found the supply of labor rather 

 limited, had an automobile experience not long 

 ago. Someone took his machine out for a spin, 

 with his permission, and ran into a cab of the 

 Louisville Carriage Company. The collision up- 

 set the nerves of the driver of the machine and 

 he decamped. The police took the car Into 

 custody, and Mr. Gates wasn't able to reclaim 

 it until he had done a good bit of explaining. 



W. S. Bodley, a Louisville sash manufacturer, 

 has developed a plan for the protection of the 

 Point by the construction of a dike around 

 that section. The dike, if built, would enable 

 a large section now subject to overflow by the 

 river to be used as factory sites. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 has now completed twenty y^ars in his present 

 location. He has grown enough in that line to 

 feel pretty well pleased over it. He said that 

 he is being kept busy, and that the demand 

 in nearly all lines is good. Mr. Kline believes 

 that prices will be much improved if the veneer 

 men will only stand together. 



The new office building of the Mengel Box 

 Company is rapidly approaching completion, and 

 it is likely that the official family of tbe com- 

 pany will be able to move into their new quarters 

 by the end of this month. 



C. C. Mengel, president of the C. C. Mengel 

 & Bro. Company, is one of the nominees for the 

 directorate of the Board of Trade, of which 

 he is now a member. J. C. Wickliffe, secretary, 

 is expected home in a few days. He was on the 

 Haakon VII, south of Jamaica on Christmas day. 

 The Mengels have been much interested in the 

 announcement of H. N. Thompson, conservator ot 

 forests for Southern Nigeria, who says that hla 

 experiments show that mahogany trees grow four 

 times as rapidly as others, adding a ring each 

 season. 



J. V. Steger of the Flanner-Steger Land & 

 Lumber Company of Chicago has bought the con- 

 trolling interest in the Smith & Nixon Piano 

 Company of Louisville. 



W. L. Burton of Burton, La., a prominent 

 lumbermen, who formerly had his home in 

 Bowling Green, Ky., gave the Y.M. C. A. of the 

 latter place $250 as a Christmas gift, adding 

 it to $5,000, which he gave some time ago for 

 the erection of a new building. 



J. P. Jackson of Georgetown, Ky., has an- 

 nounced Uiat he will dispose of his lumber yard 

 at that place. 



W'est Virginia coal operators, it is reported, 

 have about closed a deal for 62,000 acres of coal 

 and timber lands on Troublesome creek, in Perry 

 and Leslie counties of Kentucky. If the prop- 

 erty is acquired the C. & O. will build an 

 extension into it, enabling both coal and timber 

 to be marketed. The timber consists of oak and 

 poplar. 



A report from Lexington says that the Louis- 

 ville & Atlantic, which was recently acquired 

 by the Louisville & Nashville, will be pushed 

 through the mountains of eastern Kentucky to 

 Virginia. This would be of great interest to 

 lumbermen. Thirteen counties rich in timber 

 without any railroad facilities whatever and half 



