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HARDWOOD RECORD 



hardwood code, containing less than a thousand 

 words and in pocket edition. All superfluous 

 matter and cumbersome tables have been cut 

 cut. The principle of the code consists in add- 

 ing suflixes to words to denote different grades 

 of lumber. 



BRISTOL 



Lee McCbesney will leave this week for Elk 

 Valley, near Knoxville. where he will begin the 

 work of installing a band mill. Mr. McChesney 

 stated this week to the Hardwood Record corre- 

 spondent, that he had a seven or eight years' 

 cut of the timber at Elk Valley and would get 

 his mill started just as quick as possible. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company reports a 

 steady increase in business, with a good outlook 

 for trade the remainder of the year. 



J. W. Henniger was here last week makfbg 

 arrangements to install mills to develop the 

 timber tract in Carter county, Tenn., which he 

 recently purchased at a cost of $40,000 from 

 C. C. English of this city. He will begin manu- 

 facturing the timber at once. 



As a result of the interest in good roads taken 

 by Lee McChesney, a Bristol delegate to the last 

 general assembly of Virginia, just adjourned, 

 Washington county will at once spend ?200,000 

 for grading and macadamizing principal road 

 arteries. 



The mortgage deed of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing Company to the Knickerbocker Trust Com- 

 pany of New York, conveying in trust a large 

 amount of timber land to secure a .fi, 000,000 

 loan negotiated in London recently by Frank E. 

 Whiting, is being recorded in this section. The 

 company will materially extend its operations 

 with the new capital. It already has two band 

 mills and several other large operations. 



The Came-Wyman Lumber Company is install- 

 ing a new engine and making other improve- 

 ments at its band mill in this city and will re- 

 sume operations in about two weeks. It has a 

 good log supply. The large woodworking plant 

 of the Bristol Door & Lumber Company, which 

 has been operated in conjunction with the band 

 mill, is running again after a shutdown of only 

 two weeks. H. P. Wyman of the company, ac- 

 companied by his wife, has gone on a six weeks' 

 tour of the West, during which time he will 

 visit Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver. 



W. H. Boiling, a well-known manufacturer of 

 Galax, Va., was a recent visitor in Bristol. 



.1. A. Wilkinson is back from Roanoke, where 

 he attended the meeting of the American Wagon 

 Oak Plank Association of which he is vice-presi- 

 dent and one of the leading spirits. He says 

 that with certain modifications, the association 

 will accept the inspection rules recommended 

 by the Timber Trades Association of Liverpool. 

 H. M. Hoskins of the H. AI. Hoskins Lumber 

 Company was also among the Bristol lumber- 

 men who attended the meeting. 



A recent prominent lumberman on the Bristol 

 market was Morris J. Dukes of the R. A. & J. J. 

 Williams Company of Philadelphia. He spent 

 several days at his company's Bristol office. 



The Bristol lumbermen report little change in 

 hardwood trade conditions. More inquiries are 

 reported and further than that the outlook is 

 g(>od and that the volume of business now being 

 done is satisfactory, little is given out. Ship- 

 ments are holding up well, while the railroads 

 have about all of the traffic they can handle. 



LOUISVILLE 



Members of the Louisville Hardwood Club are 

 getting down to business in connection with the 

 annual convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, which will be held here in 

 .lune. Definite arrangements for the use of the 

 Seelbach Hotel on that occasion have been com- 

 pleted, and the lumbermen will have full sway 

 in the magnificent hostelry, the finest in the 



South. The entertainment features will be ar- 

 ranged with reference to the business sessions, 

 and while Kentucky hospitality will be in evi- 

 dence, it will not interfere with the regular ses- 

 sions of the convention. From word received by 

 the local club from lumbermen all over the coun- 

 try the convention here will be one of the 

 largest ever held by a lumber association. 



Business was reported by the W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company to be very good, the de- 

 mand having developed in all lines, and all 

 grades moving freely. A lot of stock is being 

 received from the mills, which are now running, 

 the hard winter having delayed the beginning 

 ot operations beyond the usual period. The new 

 yard of the company has not been used as yet 

 on account of the fact that a big sewer is being 

 built through it. The company's new mill lo- 

 cated at Madisonville has been put in operation 

 and is cutting a big run of oak and poplar. It 

 is in a fine timber country and will add con- 

 siderably to the company's output of lumber. 



H. A. McCowen of the Ohio Elver Saw Mill 

 Company was in town last week. He made one 

 of his periodical visits from North Vernon. Ind. 

 It. F. Smith, local manager of the company, said 

 that cars are now much easier tu get than for- 

 merly, a decided shortage having been visible 

 last month. Business with the company is good. 



M. di Benedetto, manager of the British Hon- 

 duras and Yucatan branch of the' C. C. Mengel 

 & Brother Company, left last Sunday for Belize, 

 after a stay of two weeks in Louisville, during 

 which he conferred relative to mahogany opera- 

 tions for the Mengel company. M. di Benedetto 

 said that the company is now cutting 4,000,000 

 feet a year in Mexico, and yet seems to have 

 only scratched the surface of the supply. It 

 is operating twenly-one miles of railroad there. 

 All of the equipment for this is up to date, in- 

 cluding two Shea locomotives, one twenty-ton 

 Heisler and a big American loader. The logs 

 are hauled from the camps to the railroad by 

 cattle and then handled by machinery and rail 

 to the coast. A good deal of satisfactory labor 

 has been secured for the lumber operations from 

 the Bahama Islands. In regard to labor condi- 

 tions, M. di Benedetto said it is expected that 

 the British Honduras government will shortly 

 put into effect a new labor law, making condi- 

 tions more favorable for the employer. M. di 

 Benedetto has been in the mahogany business 

 for fourteen years and is an expert on conditions 

 in Central America. 



D. C. Harris, traffic manager for the Mengel 

 company, has returned from a business trip. 

 Clarence R. Mengel, president, has invested in a 

 handsome new Maxwell, a red beauty, which he 

 i< driving with a good deal of pleasure. The 

 Venus, loaded with 900,000 feet of African ma- 

 hogany, is due at Pensacola this week. She 

 hails from Axim, and the cargo is expected to be 

 unusually fine. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany is pretty busy these days getting out or- 

 ders. He is also planning for the removal of 

 his yards to his new Magnolia street site, but 

 said that this will not be done until a railroad 

 switch has been run into the yard. The demand 

 is good with his company. 



Claude Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company is in the East developing some good 

 business. The Rockbridge mill of the company, 

 near Glasgow, Ky., is now in operation, bad 

 weather having prevented it from being started 

 earlier. It will be run right along now, be- 

 cause it is felt that the demand will be good. 

 Orders for ail items on the stock list are com- 

 ing in in large volume now. 



The Hardwood Club was much Interested in 

 the Traffic and Transportation Club, which re- 

 cently elected officers, naming J. B. Ford of 

 the Southern railway president. Mr. Ford said 

 in his annual address that the object of the or- 

 ganization was to secure co-operation between 

 roads and shippers and to promote a feeling of 

 friendliness which would enable them to meet 



on a common basis and work out problems of 

 mutual concern. John H. Marble, special attor- 

 ney of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 spoke before the club last week, and in his 

 address said that reasonable rates are beneficial 

 not only to the shipper but also to the railroads, 

 since they encourage and develop traffic. On 

 the other hand, he added, rates which are too 

 low cause the service to depreciate and thus 

 hurt the shipping interests. 



The Hardwood Club, which first proposed the 

 average demurrage system, is well pleased at the 

 action of the Kentucky State Railroad Commis- 

 sion, which has put the system into effect. The- 

 Pennsylvania road adopted it March 1, and it 

 will become effective with reference to the others 

 April 1. As the regulations were approved by 

 the National Association of Railroad Commission- 

 ers, the average rules will practically be universal 

 in operation. The credit system is provided, 

 whereby time saved in unloading or loading a 

 car is credited ou" cars which require a greater 

 time than the maximum of forty-eight hours. 

 The Transportation Committee of the club pro- 

 posed this system to the association several 

 months ago prior to its annual convention ia 

 Washington. 



Agreement has been reached by the creditors 

 of the Kentucky River Poplar Company, which 

 has been in the hands of G. A. Roy, receiver ap- 

 pointed by the federal court, whereby they will 

 accept fifty cents on the dollar in settlement of 

 their claims. It is expected that this will be 

 approved by the federal court, and meanwhile 

 Receiver Roy will continue to operate the com- 

 pany. It has mills at Irvine and Valley View. 

 Its liabilities amount to $118,000. 



.1. W. McCulloch purchased the plant of the 

 Uickman-Ebbert Wagon Company at Owensboro 

 for $174,000 at a public sale decided on by the 

 stockholders. His was the only bid received. 

 The company was capitalized for $300,000. 



The Transportation Committee of the Board 

 of Trade has taken a stand against the proposed 

 Commission Court to relieve the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission o£ the labor involved in en- 

 iorcing its orders. The committee believes that 

 only the railroads would be aided by such a 

 court. 



The receiver of the Southern Mutual Invest- 

 ment & American Reserve Bond Company of Lex- 

 ington, has sold 40,000 acres of timber lands in 

 Missouri, represented by securities of the Austin 

 Land & Lumber Company, to the Federal Trust 

 Company of St. Louis for $65,000. 



W. R. Thomas, president and manager of the 

 Ford Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Win- 

 chester, died recently at the age of fifty-one 

 years. The company is associated with the Louis- 

 ville Point Lumber Company. 



Charles D. Edwards, a well known lumberman 

 of Elkton, Ky., died recently after a short ill- 

 ness. He was thirty years old. 



A rather odd lumber case has been disposed 

 of in the circuit court. R. M. Cunningham 

 bought a lumber order from the Marbury-Lukber 

 Company of Marbury, Miss. The order was 

 filled by the company on a different basis than 

 that expected, and more lumber than ordered 

 came in. Mr. Cunningham turned over the 

 surplus to the Bullock Lumber Company as 

 bailee. Some of it became lost in some way and 

 the Marbury company sued to recover. The 

 court approved the suit and ordered the Bullock 

 company to make good. The amount Involved 

 T.as $1,000. 



It is believed, from advices received from 

 Washington, that an increase in the appropria- 

 tion for the benefit of work on the Kentucky 

 river will be made so that the total available 

 will be $206,000. Efforts are also being made 

 to provide for the construction of dam No. 40 

 on the Ohio river at Madison, which would help 

 the Kentucky river navigation. 



Work is being rapidly pushed on the Wasioto 

 & Black Mountain railroad in the Cumberland 

 mountains, which will be seventy miles long and 



