HARDWOOD RECORD 



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filed with the commission, asking reparation. A 

 supplemental decision has just been handed down 

 by Commissioner Lane awarding the amounts to 

 the various companies represented by the over 

 charge they paid from the time the original suit 

 was filed. 



The American Car & Foundry Company of 

 Bingbamton, a suburb of Memphis, has booked 

 an order for 450 cars for the Mexican Central 

 railroad. This means that it will give employ- 

 ment to from 300 to 400 carmakers who were re- 

 cently laid off. Furthermore, the management 

 states that the time of year Is at hand when 

 large orders are usually booked and the opinion 

 is expressed that this plant will be running on 

 full time early this summer. When operated at 

 full capacity it gives employment to about 1,200 

 people. 



The Bureau of Publicity and Development has 

 succeeded in raising the fund of $50,000 for the 

 purpose of advertising the advantages of Mem- 

 phis. In fact, it secured slightly more than th"? 

 $50,000 for which it started the campaign. It is 

 the purpose of the Bureau of Publicity and De- 

 velopment to conduct a systematic campaign of 

 advertising in order that the advantages of 

 Memphis may be properly made known to the 

 world. Organization has not yet been fully 

 perfected nor have the plans been altogether 

 worked out, but these details will be settled 

 within the next few days and definite announce- 

 ment as to the character of the campaign will 

 be made. Lumber interests have contributed in 

 large measure to the fund and the Lumbermen's 

 Club has representation on the committee of 

 forty, as well as on the smaller executive com- 

 mittee. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, in- 

 corporated under the laws of Missouri with a 

 capital stock of $30,000, has filed certificate of 

 its articles of incorporation with the secretary 

 of state of Arkansas and will do business in that 

 state. Its headquarters for Arkansas are at 

 Hope, and Joseph R. Houser is agent. The 

 company has $17,72S of its capital employed in 

 Arkansas. 



J. J. Russell of Minneapolis, Minn., is still 

 working on the proposition of establishing a 

 large plant here for the manufacture of slack 

 barrel staves from gum. This matter was 

 brought to the attention of the Business Men's 

 Club some time ago, and within the past few 

 days the industrial department of that organiza- 

 tion, in charge of Jas. S. Warren, has agreed to 

 take up the matter and" do what it can to facili- 

 tate the establishment of the factory here. Mr. 

 Russell has asked that the department send a 

 representative to Minneapolis to investigate his 

 proposition. lie claims that gum timber can be 

 used to advantage in this line, and lumbermen 

 here are much interested in the proposition, as 

 heavy substitutions of strawboard and other 

 material for cottonwood and gum in the manu- 

 facture of box shooks has deprived the gum and 

 cottonwood markets of a great deal of support 

 which they have heretofore enjoyed. There is 

 an abundance of gum in this territory, and 

 Memphis is regarded as the logical location of 

 such an industry. 



The Nickey Brothers Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany has practically completed its plant in the 

 southwestern part of the city. It will be ready 

 for operation within the next few days and will 

 make a specialty of cutting high grade lumber. 

 The company has already booked a large number 

 of orders, and it will begin business with unusu- 

 ally flattering prospects. The mill is a band 

 one, and will have a large capacity. It is esti- 

 mated to have cost between $30,000 and $40,000, 

 including the site and other holdings. 



John W. McClure, who was recently elected 

 manager of the baseball team of the Lumber- 

 mefTs ciub' of Memphis, lias appointed John M. 

 Prltchard as captain for the ensuing season, 

 succeeding Ralt)li Bennett, who has been at the 

 head of the team for the past three years and 

 who has piloted it to a number of signal vic- 



tories. Manager McClure is working out the 

 details of several plans which, in his opinion, 

 will increase the interest of the individual play- 

 ers as well as that of the firms with which they 

 are connected. While none of the arrangements 

 have been completed yet, it may be stated that 

 it Is one of the plans of the management to 

 make a tour of some of the lumber centres this 

 summer if games can be secured. Practice work 

 will l>egln now in a few days and, until the per- 

 manent players have been selected, there will be 

 enough aspirants for places on the team to in- 

 sure practice games whenever desired. 



BRISTOL 



Another new mill was started near here last 

 week, when the operation of the Unaka Lumber 

 Company of which J. J. Hager of Bristol is 

 president was started, at Unaka Springs, Unicoi 

 county, Tennessee. It is located on the Caro- 

 lina, Ciinchfleld & Ohio railroad, not far from 

 Erwln. The company has purchased 6.000 acres 

 of timber and estimates that it will require ten 

 years to cut it. 



The band mill of the O. H. Vial Stocking Com- 

 pany, in Greene county, Tenn., recently com- 

 pleted, is now running full time and the com- 

 pany is turning out a large amount of stock. 



The Bristol Door & Lumber Company sus- 

 tained a small loss by fire last week. The plant 

 had a narrow escape from being destroyed. 



The Paxton Lumber Company this week re- 

 moved its offices to the new offlce building near 

 the mill, on Seventh street. V. K. Simpson of 

 the company is just back from Louisville and 

 reports the business outlook there as most en- 

 couraging. 



Several large lumber concerns in this section 

 have recently put in water works and taken 

 other steps to reduce the fire hazard to the 

 minimum. Some severe fire losses have been 

 sustained by the lumbermen in this section in 

 recent years. 



Another tract of Carter county (Tenn.) tim- 

 ber changed hands a few days ago, when a 

 Pittsburg syndicate purchased 10.000 acres, near 

 Hampton, close to the property of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company and the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company. It is planned to develop 

 this soon. 



J. W. Hennlger has gone to work Installing 

 his mill on the timber tract in Happy Valley, 

 Carter county, Tenn., recently purchased from 

 C. C. English, in this city. 



The big band mills and other operations of 

 the Whiting Manufacturing Company are going 

 steadily forward. The output of this company's 

 operations in this section is very large. It spe- 

 cializes in hardwood flooring and ships some gf 

 its finest stock that Is received from anywhere 

 in the United States to the North. 



H. P. Wyman of the Came-Wyman Luml)er 

 Company will soon return from an extensive 

 western trip, including a stay on the Paciflc 

 slope. 



Of interest in hardwood circles is the an- 

 nouncement made this week of the approaching 

 marriage of Irving Whaley, bead of the Whaley- 

 Warren Lumber Company of this city, to Miss 

 Margaret Ashworth, also of Bristol. The mar- 

 riage will occur here the latter part of April and 

 will be of much Interest to the hardwood men. 

 Mr. Whaley is well known to the trade in the 

 North, East and South. He was for years with 

 the Tug River Lumber Company. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is planning and 

 working for the convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, which will be 

 held here in June. The executive committee in 

 charge of entertainment, which is composed 

 of Mark Brown, Claude Sears and Barry 



Norman, had a meeting last week and worked" 

 out some of the details of the entertainment. 

 As yet, however, it has not been stated just; 

 what form this will take, as the hardwood men 

 want to spring a few surprises when their vis- 

 itors reach town. 



Every indication points to a great crowd fo^ 

 the convention, and it looks as if the meeting 

 will be one of unusual interest, on account of 

 the various questions which are to be disposed* 

 of. That of odd lengths will undoubtedly be dis- 

 cussed, for Col. C. R. Mengei, of C. C. Mengel & 

 Bros. Company, secured the endorsement of that 

 principle at a recent meeting of the inspection 

 committee at Chicago, of which he is a member. 

 He advocated the authorization of the use of 

 odd lengths in wagon box boards, and the fol- 

 lowing rules for the inspection of that item will 

 be proposed to the convention when it meets in 

 Louisville: 



"Material : Poplar, cottonwood, gum, bay 

 poplar (tupelo) and basswood. 



"Widths : Wide, 13 to 17 inches ; narrow, 9 

 to 12 inches. 



"Lengths : 12, 14 and 16 feet, but not to ex- 

 ceed fifteen per cent may be 11, 13 and 15 feet. 



"Thickness : Must be free from defects ex- 

 cept that no objection will be made to bright 

 sap or sound discolored sap ; also one sound 

 knot, not to exceed 1 Vi Inches in diameter, or 

 its equivalent, showing on one face only. Eleven- 

 foot lengths to be free from splits : 12. 13 and 

 16-foot lengths will admit of a l:;-inch split in 

 one end or its equivalent in both ends ; 14 and 

 15-foot lengths will admit of splits not to ex- 

 ceed six inches in one end or its equivalent in, 

 both ends. 



"Note — Inspectors are cautioned that 'wooly 

 cottonv\ood and badly warped lumber must lie 

 excluded from this grade. 



"The rules governing the manufacture and 

 measurement of other lumber apply to this: 

 grade." 



Col. Mengei took the stand that the idea of 

 conservation, which is uppermost in the public 

 mind, must be dealt with in a practical way, 

 and that the use of odd lengths will do much 

 to conserve the timber resources of the country. 



In connection with the convention the mem- 

 bers of the club have found that their most 

 enthusiastic members are among the new comers. 

 The North Vernon Lumber Company, the Ohio 

 River Sawmill Compan.v, the Louisville Veneer 

 Mills, the Mengei Box Company and representa- 

 tives of all these concerns are regular attend-, 

 ants at the Tuesday night dinners of the club, 

 at the Seelbach. and are taking an active part 

 in the discussion of plans for the big meeting. 



Barry Norman, of E. B. Norman & Co., Is get- 

 ting back most of the logs which he lost during 

 the ice and hlgli water in the winter. The wa- 

 ter carried away about 1,100 of them, and of 

 these he recovered 700, which are now being 

 barged up the river to his mill on the point. In 

 addition he has secured a good many logs from 

 C. Crane & Co. of Cincinnati. These were car- 

 ried away, too, and Mr. Norman made an ar- 

 rangement to take them, thus saving the cost 

 of the barge haul from Louisville to Cincinnati. 

 "Dry stocks are mighty scarce," said Mr. 

 Norman in conversation with Haedwood Rec-- 

 oRD correspondent. "In fact, the supply is 

 lower than it has been for a long time. The 

 consequence is likely to be higher prices. I look 

 for advances especially on plain oak, which has 

 been quoted low too long. There is no reason, 

 in my mind, why the quotations on plain oak 

 should be below those on poplar, and the fact 

 that prices on the former are gradually advanc- 

 ing indicates that the difference between the 

 two will be made less as time goes on." 



Lack of water is keeping a good many Ken- 

 tucky mills idle. Following the extreme drouth 

 of the past few weeks, many of the mountain 

 streams are at low stage, and it is impossible ta 

 handle logs in them. As the mills in a great 

 many cases depend on the rivers for their logs, 

 they are unable to run. This is the case with 

 mills in which Louisville hardwood firms are 

 interested, among them being the Ford mill of 

 the Louisville Point Lumber^ Company. That 

 company Is now running Its Louisville mill, 

 cutting logs which were secured from Southern 

 Indiana and brought up the Ohio by barge. Edi 

 Shippen and H. J. Gates of that company are 

 out of town on business. 



