HARDWOOD RECORD 



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IMii.v, GosLen. Ind., bought a dozen cars of 

 walnut here last week. 



BRISTOL 



A federal plum was landed last week by a 

 Bristol lumberman. It was the Bristol post- 

 mastership, paying .$3.oOU per year, which went 

 to Gaylord E. Goodell. a wholesale lumberman 

 of Bristol, who was for many years in the sales 

 department of J. A. Wilkinson. 



Amung the visitors in Bristol this week was 

 George 11. Slell of the Montezuma Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Kane, Pa. He came here to look after 

 his company's opei-ations in this section. 

 . The Holston Club gave a farewell banquet this 

 week to B B. Burns of the Tug River Lumber 

 Company apropos of the moving of the offices 

 <•! the company to Huntington. W. Va. Mr. 

 Mums' departure is sincerely regretted by the 

 hardwood fraternity of Bristol. 



C. Boice, who was a visitor in Bristol last 

 week, and who has important connections in this 

 section, has just closed a deal ior the output 

 of a mill at Richlands. Va., to be handled 

 through his Richmond offices. 



Several lumber corporations in this section 

 may be subjected to fines for not h/iving made 

 full reports on March 1, under the law pro- 

 viding therefore, in connection with the federal 

 tax of 1 per cent of the net incomes of cor- 

 porations. It is said that at least in one or 

 two cases it was impossible to get the report 

 up, or rather to take an inventory. It is be- 

 lieved that the government will exercise leniency 

 the first time and allow the reports to be made 

 later 



J. A. Wilkinson reports the outlook lor busi- 

 ness as improving. Most of his mills are run- 

 ning and considerable new business is being 

 received. 



The Paxton Lumber Company is preparing to 

 put in a new circular mill near Galax, N. C, 

 on the Carolina, Clinchtield & Ohio railroad. 



W. U. Boiling, a prominent hardwood manu- 

 facturer of Galax, Va.. was a visitor on the 

 Bristol market the early part of the week. 



The Xorv.ood Lumber Company, which re- 

 tently purchased some l.'j.OOO acres of timber in 

 western North Carolina, is preparing to at once 

 dismantle its bandmill in West Virginia and 

 move it to North Carolina to develop the new- 

 property. The company's timber is situated on 

 the Murphy branch of the Southern railway, in 

 •western North Carolina. 



J. A. Stone of the Stone-IIuling Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip in Ten- 

 nessee. 



Several bandmills that have been forced to 

 close down on account of the extremely rough 

 weather of the past few weeks, will start again 

 this month. Spring has now set in and it is 

 believed that there will not be much more delay 

 on account of the weather. 



George W. Peter of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company has Just returned from a visit to Phila- 

 delphia and other eastern points. Mr. Peter 

 says that the lumbermen there are delighted 

 with the prospects for business. He says that 

 there seems to be a shortage of stock on the 

 yards and believes that prices will move upward. 

 1>. D. Hartlove. the well-known Baltimore 

 hardwood buyer, formerly of Bristol, is in this 

 section placing orders for immediate delivery of 

 stock. 



LOUISVILLE 



The sessions of the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 are divided into three parts, the discussion of 

 trade conditions, railroad rates and the coming 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 .Association, which will meet in Louisville .lune 

 !> and 10. The improvement in business is a 

 topic of never-failing interest, of course, while 

 the success of the Transportation Committee in 



securing better rates and traffic regulations for 

 Ibis market has encouraged the club to go into 

 this subject deeply. The result is being seen 

 in the fact that the hardwood men are now being 

 able to enter markets from which they have 

 been shut out by prohibitive railroad conditions. 

 While the Entertainment Committee of the 

 club, which is charged with the important duty 

 of seeing that the visiting lumbermen are prop- 

 erly entertained when they visit the Kentucky 

 metropolis three months hence, has not got down 

 to brass tacks yet. a meeting will be held soon 

 to go over the many plans the committee has 

 thought out. T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company believes that there 

 will be 1.000 here, and the plans of the club 

 will be made on that basis. Something rich, 

 rare and racy is promised for the visitors. 



Regarding the railroad question, the action 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission in tak- 

 ing up the whole subject of milling in transit 

 is expected to result, provided the commission 

 approves that plan, in Louisville securing the 

 reconsignment privilege, by which lumber 

 shipped into the yards here and then rebilled 

 to consuming points would get the benefit of a 

 through rate. This practice, it is asserted by 

 President A. E. Norman and other members of 

 the club, is in vogue at many other points, and 

 there is no reason why Louisville should be 

 discriminated against. It results in a consid- 

 erable decrease in the rate, and when it is in 

 I'ffect puts the lumberman who has the privilege 

 at a decided advantage over his competitor who 

 l.asn't it. The club has retained the firm of 

 nines. Chandler & Norman to represent it before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, and it is 

 believed by the members of the club that Louis- 

 ville will have the reconsignment privilege ex- 

 tended to it if the mining in transit proposition 

 is approved by tue commission. If it isn't, then 

 the privilege will be abolished everywhere, and 

 this market will be no worse off, relatively, than 

 others. 



Lumbermen were interested and rather disap- 

 pointed in the action of the state legislature, 

 which, after passing the forestry bill through 

 the senate, turned it down in the house by a 

 1 arrow margin. The bill provided for the cre- 

 ation of a State Forestry Commission, which 

 was to have charge of forestry in this state 

 tnd to exercise general supervision over the 

 limber operations. The lumbermen raLsed no 

 objections, and it is believed that had the bill 

 been passed conservative steps would have been 

 taken in the direction of scientific lumbering 

 without injuring the lumber business of the 

 i-iate. The bill was defeated because of the 

 appropriations it carried. 



Members of the Hardwood Club are much 

 pleased at the interest being taken in the organ- 

 ization by the North Vernon Lumber Company, 

 which recently became a member. The com- 

 pany, which has its principal offices in North 

 Vernon. Ind.. conducts Its hardwood business 

 here and operates a good-sized band sawmill. 

 The officers of (he concern are: Frank M. Plat- 

 ter, president : Charles E. Platter, vice-presi- 

 dent ; Joseph H. Powell, treasurer, and Orval R. 

 Platter, secretary. The club now has ten mem- 

 bers and is in a flourishing condition. 



The Norman Lumber Company has not yet 

 had an opporlunit.v. because of bad weather, to 

 begin moving to its new quarters on Magnolia 

 street. Conditions have settled considerably, 

 however, and it looks as if the process of chang- 

 ing base will commence shortly. Mr. Norman 

 believes that the new site will be an improve- 

 ment over his present one. 



H. J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company is in the mountains looking after stock 

 of the company. The heavy demand has cut 

 into that held at the Louisville yards, and Mr. 

 Gates is getting the lumber at the Ford mill in 

 shape to ship. The company sells freely to man- 

 ufacturers of automobile bodies, and has a good 



trade in wide poplar, exceptionally good grades 

 of which are required by the makers of the ben- 

 zine buggies. W. P. Brown & Sons' Lumber Com- 

 pany has also done well in this line, though the 

 trade is unusually difficult to handle on account 

 of the extreme care which must be taken with 

 the stock. Prices on all grades are going up, 

 E. L. Shippen of the Louisville Point company 

 said. He added that good weather is enabling 

 his concern to ship out a lot of orders that bad 

 weather delayed the movement of. 



Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co. has re- 

 turned from a trip down the Ohio river. He 

 went down on a scouting expedition to recover 

 as many as possible of the logs which the ice 

 and high water deprived him of. He lost 1,100 

 and succeeded in getting 700 of them back. 

 There was a payment of twenty-five cents salvage 

 for each log recovered on the Kentucky side of 

 the river and fifty cents for those picked up on 

 the Indiana side. They were gotten into fleets 

 and will be towed back to the Louisville mill 

 as soon as possible. Mr. Norman's company was 

 the only loser here, but thousands of logs he- 

 longing to C. Crane & Co. of Cincinnati passed 

 Louisville and landed — if the term may be 

 used — in the Mississippi river. 



S. E. Booker, who has charge of the box de- 

 partment of E. B. Norman & Co., has returned 

 from French Lick, Ind., where he attended the 

 convention of the National .\ssociation of Box 

 Manufacturers. He enjo.ved the meeting a great 

 deal. While there he discovered that he had a 

 chorus girl in his family, a fact of which he 

 had not been aware. It turned out that Bodley 

 Booker, his younger brother, had that sort of 

 l^art in "Turvyland." a musical comedy produced 

 rc'cently in Louisville by the Arcadian.s, the 

 dramatic organization of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, where young Booker is acquiring a higher 

 education. 



J. T. Armstrong of the Tyler Box Company, 

 A W. Cornwall. Jr., of the Mengel Box Com- 

 pany and II. W. Elbry and Wallace Embry or 

 the Bell-Coggeshall Box Company, all of this 

 city, who attended the French Lick meeting, 

 are back, and pronounced the convention un- 

 usually interesting and profitable. Mr. Corn- 

 wall was accompanied by his wife, who assumed 

 his name just three weeks ago. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Company is making hay while the sun shines, or, 

 to put it more accurately, is shipping lumber 

 while the sun shines. Bad weather put him, 

 like the rest of the hardwood folks, behind, but 

 he is rapidly catching up. Business is fine, he 

 said, and the scene in the big yards of the 

 company at Sixth and A streets testified to that. 

 H. A. McCowen of the Ohio River Saw Mill 

 Company came down for a little while from 

 Salem. Ind.. where the furniture factory iu 

 which he is interested is located. Business "with 

 the company is good, according to R. F. Smith, 

 the local manager. The McCowen furniture 

 factories absorb a large part of the saw mill's 

 output. 



C. R. Mengel and D. C. Harris!, president and 

 traffic manager, respectively, of C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Co., arc back from a two weeks' trip in 

 the South. Mr. Mengel had the pleasure of 

 seeing one of his African cargoes of mahogany 

 logs come in at Pensacola. and was much pleased 

 at the sight. They also visited Mobile while 

 they were away. Business with the company is 

 excellent, J. C. Wickliffe, secretary, who is back 

 on the job after a trip through the West Indies 

 and various other sections of this hemisphere, 

 saying that February was one of the best months 

 the company ever had. Building reports are 

 very encouraging, also. In order to take care 

 of the increasing demand for yard room, the 

 company has filled in a low part of Its tract 

 in South Louisville, and has added several acres 

 to its available space. 



Though rain has interfered somewhat with 

 shipments, business generally is good, said Ed- 



