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HARDWOOD RECORD 



J. E. Gentry, a sawmill man of Baxter, Tenn., 

 believes he has hit upon a great thing for saw- 

 mills in a patented clasp he has made for cross- 

 cut saws. The clasp holds the saw with a catch 

 firmly against the handle and can be put on or 

 taken off in a moment. 



John B. Ransom & Co. have filed an amend- 

 ment to their charter, increasing their capital 

 stock from half a million to $600,000. The in- 

 crease in the capital is stated to be for the 

 purpose of augmenting the business of the com- 

 pany, which is already one of the largest in the 

 country. The directors are : Arthur B. Ran- 

 som, Richard T. Wilson, Marvin M. Ransom. 

 John B. Ransom, Jr., and McEwen Ransom. 



John M. Smith, manager of the W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company at Dickson, Tenn., is back 

 from a business trip tiirough the Northwest. He 

 reports trade in that section good. 



Baker, Jacobs & Co. report business good with 

 them and no complaints to make. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company is 

 well satisfied with present conditions. Last 

 month was a big improvement over May of 

 1909. 



Clyde Bellamy, for many years treasurer of 

 the Union Lumber Company, has resigned his 

 position to go in business for himself. The 

 Davidson. Hicks & Greene Company, by reason 

 of its large holdings in the Union Lumber Com- 

 pany, will take over that concern, but it will 

 continue operation at the former location. It 

 will be in charge of C. G. Sutherland, a trained 

 lumberman, and who has been vice-president of 

 the Union Lumber Company for some years. 



LOUISVILLE 



Though the members of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club have been kept pretty busy during 

 the past few weeks preparing for the convention 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 they have had plenty to do in connection with 

 their individual businesses. Trade conditions 

 have been satisfactory, and a lot of lumber has 

 been moving. 



The high price of timber and logs has been 

 causing a good deal of discussion. It has devel- 

 oped that the log sales held at river points fol- 

 lowing the tides which brought down the season's 

 cut from the mountains brought out the highest 

 prices for oak and poplar logs paid in years. The 

 reason is the growing scarcity and the increased 

 demand for logs. In view of the high prices 

 which the raw material is commanding, lumber- 

 men believe that lumber should advance also. 

 It is not regarded as likely that this will be 

 done, however, until next fall. 



A. E'. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany announced that he expects to be in his 

 new yard at Ninth and Magnolia streets by the 

 end of this month. Preparations are moving rap- 

 idly m this direction, and it is likely that the 

 change will be completed in short order. Mr. 

 Norman reports business good. 



Decoration day, May 30, closed most of the 

 offices and yards of Louisville hardwood men. 

 The holiday was for half the day and came at 

 a time when the lumbermen would have pre- 

 ferred to work and get out lumber. Good weather 

 seems to have been permanently established. 

 however, so that it is expected that there will 

 be no more interference by long periods of rain. 



J. C. Wickliffe, secretary of the C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company, is expected to return to Louis- 

 ville early in July after having been in Europe 

 for several months looking after the business of 

 the company. He spent the last few weeks in 

 Russia. Mr. Wickliffe is an expert linguist and 

 has had little difficulty in dealing with foreign 

 lumbermen. 



Edward L. Shippen of the Louisville Point 

 Lumber Company has returned from Catlettsburg, 

 where he went to attend a sale of logs brought 

 down the Big Sandy river. He reported prices 



much higher than they have been for a long 

 time heretofore. 



E. B. Norman & Co. have received a good 

 many logs lately from up the Ohio river. Busi- 

 ness with the company is good, though the 

 demand for boxes is rather quiet just now. 

 Barry Norman was asked what he thought of 

 the "lumber trust" proceedings which it has 

 been reported will be begun by the department 

 of justice. "All I have to say," said Mr. Nor- 

 man, smiling, "is that if they ever succeed in 

 forming such a trust I want to be in on it." 



The Mengel Box Company has moved into its 

 new offices at Twelfth and Ormsby streets. This 

 location is better than the old one at Eleventh 

 and Kentucky streets, because it is just opposite 

 the box factory. The building is one of the 

 handsomest in the city and is well lighted, the 

 roof being of the saw-tooth variety. C. E. Davis, 

 who is in charge of the hardwood department of 

 the company, is in Mcngelwood, one of the Ten- 

 nessee timber points in which the company is 

 interested. 



Claude Sears is getting to be an automobile 

 expert. Ever since the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company invested in a Cadillac Thirty he has 

 been spending most of his time at the office of 

 the Kentucky Automobile Company, having the 

 true inwardness of the contraption explained 

 to him. Both mills of the company are running 

 and they are turning out quartered oak of the 

 fine variety usually handled by the company. 



T. M. and J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company have returned from In- 

 dianapolis, where they attended the automobile 

 races on the Speedway. The Browns are origi- 

 nally Indianapolis boys, and they are very proud 

 of the great development of the motor industry 

 there. They declared that the sport is great and 

 even beats the boss racin' they have been taking 

 in out at Churchill Downs. 



Barry Norman. Jr., made a hit in the dancing 

 exhibition given by Miss Meme Wastelle at 

 Macauley's Theater recently. Young Norman 

 appeared in a scene entitled "School Days" and 

 did well enough to merit all the applause show- 

 ered upon him. 



It is understood in local lumber circles that 

 the reduction in rates on numbered commodities 

 on the Queen & Crescent ordered by the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, effective July 15, 

 will not affect the local situation. It is said 

 that the reductions apply principally to south- 

 bound traffic and will therefore have little to do 

 with the movement of lumber. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills is 

 planning to attend the National Veneer conven- 

 tion at St. Louis next week. He expects to bring 

 up a discussioh of the classification of veneers, 

 with the idea of having the uniform classification 

 commission, which is now at work, adopt a rul- 

 ing with reference to veneers and panels that 

 will do away with the present contradictory 

 nomenclatLire employed by the various traffic as- 

 sociations. Mr. Kline reported business very 

 good. 



George Kretschmer of the Southern Veneer 

 Ccmpany is getting things in shape for the erec- 

 tion of a big warehouse adjoining the present 

 plant in Parkland. It will be on a lot 60x210 

 feet. Mr. Kretschmer recently made a big pur- 

 chase of fine oak logs. 



Mr. McCowan of Thompson, Thayer & Mc- 

 Cowan of Evansville recently enjoyed the hos- 

 pitality of the Hardwood Club. Another guest 

 was Mr. Brown of the United States Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati. 



Reports printed in the newspapers from moun- 

 tain sections say that the timber run this year 

 was far beyond the usual amount, and that the 

 prices brought by logs will be suSicient to pay 

 the mortgages and put the small timbermen in 

 good financial condition. 



A big deal in timberlands is reported from 

 Letcher county. The Hamilton Realty Company 

 disposed of a large part of its holdings to the 



Berwind-Whlte syndicate. The lands are in 

 Letcher and Pike counties, and are along branches 

 of the Big Sandy river. 



Thomas B. Tucker formerly a well-known 

 lumberman, died in Shelbyville recently. He was 

 seventy-three years old and was at one time 

 associated in business with R. A. Long of Kan- 

 sas City. 



The Virginia Coal, Iron & Coke Company has 

 started several hundred hands to work on a 

 large timber section in the Big Black mountain 

 above Stonega, Va., and along the Kentucky- 

 Virginia border. A big band mill Is being set 

 up and work pushed. It is likely that it will 

 take several years to cut all of the timber in 

 the company's holdings. 



The John Fish Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Somerset with a capital stock of 

 .$5,000. The incorporators are : Beeler Smith, 

 Walter Smith. William Connelson and John Fish. 



Lumbermen have learned with regret that the 

 .$250,000 appropriation recommended to Congress 

 for tne improvement of Green river has been 

 cut out of the rivers and harbors bill by the 

 conferees, and that the work will therefore be 

 postponed. It was announced, however, that 

 the improvements on the Ohio river, for which 

 money was recommended, will go through. 



Following the action of Charles D. Gates of 

 the Turner, Day & Woolworth Company, handle 

 manufacturers, the Board of Trade succeeded in 

 having the postal authorities take steps for the 

 improvement of the mail service between Louis- 

 ville and Pittsburg. Mr. Gates said that it put 

 this city at a considerable disadvantage. 



Another railroad is being surveyed in the 

 eastern part of the state, the Ferguson Construc- 

 tion Company of Cincinnati having had several 

 parties out. The road, it is reported, will run 

 on Middle Fork in Leslie county. If the line Is 

 built it will go into an important timber section. 



R. M. Carrier, president of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, whose home is in 

 Louisville, has purchased a Stanley gasoline car 

 for the use of his folks here. 



The Indian Creek & Pond River railroad is to 

 be extended from Glamorgan, a lumber town in 

 Wise county, Virginia, twelve miles to a point 

 near Pound Gap, on the border between Kentucky 

 and Virginia. 



Members of the Hardwood Club are helping 

 the Louisville Transportation Club in its mem- 

 bership campaign. The club is proving to be of 

 value to shippers and is trying to build up a 

 strong membership list. 



The Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company 

 has increased its capital stock from $1,250,000 

 to $1,500,000. 



The L. & N.'s gross earnings for May, 1910, 

 showed an increase of $774,610 over the same 

 month of 1909. 



ASHLAND 



The W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company reports 

 an increase in the sale of low-grade stock. Or- 

 ders are coming in more freely and with the 

 amount of timber recently gotten out, prospects 

 are bright. 



The J. W. Kitchen Lumber Company reports 

 trade good. Earle King of this concern is on a 

 business trip through northern Ohio and Michi- 

 gan. Mr. Kitchen says the company has been 

 handicapped at its Wrigley, Ky., mill by the 

 delay of equipment, but these improvements are 

 now being completed and the stock is being 

 shipped right along. 



T. N. Fannin has just returned from a trip 

 to his extensive lumber interests at Herndon, 

 W. Va. 



H. E. Summer of H. H. Salmon & Co., Ne« 

 York City, was a business visitor in Ashland 

 last week. 



The Wright-Kitchen Lumljer Company received 

 a good lot of timber on the recent high water 



