HARDWOOD RECORD 



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new crdar industry has been added to the enter- 

 prises of that section in the shape of StriclJland 

 Brothers & JIalone. who will handle all kinds of 

 ctdar telephone and telegraph poles and cedar 

 fence posts. 



J. O. Kirkpatricli & Sons, who operate a big 

 woodworking plant, are authority for the state- 

 ment that cypress is proving an excellent sub- 

 stitute for poplar in the mill and sash business. 

 The automobile manufacturers have been making 

 great inroads on the supply of wide poplar, so 

 that it is hard to secure. 



O. M. Bruner of the O. M. Bruner Lumber 

 Company of Philadelphia was in the city re- 

 cently. 



- CHATTANOOOA 



The Williams & Vooris Lumber Company will 

 close down its mill in a few days for general 

 repairs. The company has run steadily for about 

 six months. Business is reported dull. 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company is running 

 its mill full time and is expecting to run a 

 night shift soon. It reports business fairly good. 



The Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Company 

 will soon finish this spring's cut. It did not 

 get its usual amount of logs this year owing 

 to the low stage of water in the river. 



A charter for the Evans-Atchison Lumber 

 Company has been granted, capital stock .$15,000. 

 This concern will succeed R. E. Evans & Co.. 

 dealers in hardwood and pine. Its office is lo- 

 cated in Chattanooga. 



News has been received here of the loss of a 

 large stock of lumber at Wilder, Tenn., the prop- 

 erty of J. H. Watts. The loss was caused by 

 forest fires spreading, and is estimated at 

 SliT.oi'O. 



The II. L. Judd Company will finish its sea- 

 son's cut about .Tuly l.">. Business is rushed and 

 the company is building a large addition to 

 its plant. Considerable new machinery will be 

 installed. 



The Odorless Refrigerator Company is plan- 

 ning a large addition to its plant, to be used 

 as a finishing plant. The present finishing rooms 

 will be added to the stockroom. Business is 

 better than ever. 



The Tennessee Mill & Land Company is the 

 style of a new firm recentl.v chartered by Chat- 

 tanooga parties, to operate in Arkansas, Ten- 

 nessee and Mississippi, with ueadquarters at 

 Memphis. The officers are : C. M. Wellingham. 

 president : W. B. \Vellingham. secretary : P. S. 

 Burrow, treasurer and general manager. The 

 capital stock is SIOO.OOO. all paid in. Mr. Bur- 

 row was formerly with the J. M. Card Lumber 

 Company. The new concern will erect a modern 

 band mill in the near future. At present it is 

 operating circular mills, cutting the low grades 

 of logs in the woods. 



nUNTlNOTON 



conditions with his company, and while it is not 

 receiving a. great many orders at the present 

 time, it is loading out and shipping orders' 

 received during the past sixty days. 



The Ackerman Lumber & Manufacturini; Com- 

 pany of this city is moving into its new quar- 

 ters in the Central Bank building on Washing- 

 Ion avenue. This company was formerly at 

 Portsmouth, Ohio. Its yards and planing mills 

 are located on .lackson avenue and Fifteenth 

 street. 



F, R. Chambers of the F. R. Chambers Lum- 

 ber Company reports business good for this sea- 

 sou of the year and advises that the company 

 is very busily engaged filling its orders. 



W. K. Minter, manager uf the Keuova Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, was a business visi- 

 tor in our city. Mr. Minter advises his busi- 

 ness moving along very satisfactory. The com- 

 pany's new factory will be completed in a very 

 short time and its machinery all ready for 

 operation. 



M. G. Truman, secretary of the Marsh & 

 Ringhara Company of Chicago, was a recent busi- 

 ness visitor in the city. 



The Licking River Lumber Company received 

 advice from its mill office at Farmers, Ky., that 

 it had a very high tide in Licking river and 

 the timber and tie run was heavy. The mill 

 booms were broken, allowing about 3.000 logs 

 to pass on down the river below Farmers. The 

 loss will be considerable to the company on 

 account of the breaking of the booms. 



D. E. Hewit of the D. E. Ilewit Lumber Com- 

 pany makes a satisfactory report of the present 



LOUISVILLE 



\u inti'resting development of the railroad 

 rate matter which the Hardwood Club has before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, was the 

 proposal of railroad men representing the roads 

 in southeastern territory that the club accept 

 amended rules drawn up by the railroads. This 

 action followed the ruling of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission on the general subject of 

 transit and reshipping arrangements, and though 

 the ruling was handed down specifically in con- 

 nection with grain, it was generally understood 

 that lumber would be affected by it. The Hard- 

 wood Club had asked for the reconsignment privi- 

 lege granted to other points, and the railroads, 

 seeing that the matter had been put up to them 

 by the commission, decided to take the bull by 

 the horns and therefore submitted rules which 

 they said would, if approved by the Hardwood 

 Club, be adopted by the various lines. C. C. 

 McChord, of counsel for the club, said that with 

 a few exceptions the rules were agreeable, but 

 added that the club is now in court and will 

 allow the Commission to dispose of the matter. 



Two or three other railroad questions have 

 been discussed informally among the trade in 

 Louisville. One is the matter of the rate on 

 railroad ties. It is said by more than one lum- 

 berman that the Louisville & Nashville prac- 

 tically places an embargo on ties not destined 

 for its use, and that when an effort is made to 

 ship them off its line quotes a prohibitive rate. 

 It is expected that some action will be taken 

 to remedy this situation. The usage of the ex- 

 press companies, which refuse to deliver goods 

 outside of a small section in the central part 

 of town, has also come in for discussion. Ma- 

 chinery parts and mill supplies ordered by lum- 

 bermen are frequently delayed in this way, and 

 the consignee is called on to deliver the goods 

 nimself. The Commercial Club Is Interested in 

 this matter, and has asked the companies to de- 

 liver goods all over the city, or at least to ex- 

 tend the territory in which deliveries will be 

 made. 



Inventories have been made by most of the 

 hardwood men in Louisville, and show that the 

 stocks carried on local yards are larger than 

 ever. This means that Louisville is in fact, and 

 not nominally, a leading hardwood market, and 

 that the lumber is here, waiting to be seen and 

 examined in case the buyer happens to be from 

 Missouri. The increasing amount of yard room 

 required by members of the trade is a suggestion 

 of the extent of the lumber stocks held in Louis- 

 ville. 



Business is very good with the W. P. Brown & 

 Sous Lumber Company, according to T. M. 

 Krown, who said that the call had been excellent 

 all through the month of roses. He looks for a 

 heavy demand from the furniture factories dur- 

 ing the next few months. The sewer commis- 

 sion is completing a sewer through the Shipp 

 street yard of the company, and the yard will be 

 put to use as soon as the the workmen are out 

 of the way. 



Crops are so good that business in general 

 ought to be all right by fall, lumber included, 

 is the way Barry JNorman. of the E. B. Norman 



& Co., figures the situation. Mr. Norman said' 

 that business has not been parucularly active 

 during the past month or so, but he looks for 

 a revival shortly. 



Edward L. Shippcn. who recently returned 

 from Madison, Ind., where he purchased a good' 

 many logs, which had come down the Kentucky 

 river, still believes that the sawmill man is 

 being ground bet%veen the lumber buyer and .the 

 timber man, and that prices on logs are too 

 high. Business is just fair, he said, 



jjusiness with the Ohio River Saw Mill Com- 

 pany Is good, and a lot of new lumber cut by 

 tue Ohio river mills controlled by the com- 

 pany has been coming in during v^e past few- 

 weens. H. F. McCowen, head of tue company, 

 was in Louisville not long ago and took in the 

 aviation meet held under the auspices of a local 

 newspaper, with R. F. Smith, local representa- 

 tive pf the company. 



The North Vernon Lumber Co. is moving its- 

 North Vernon. Ind.. mill to Dyersburg, Tenn., 

 where the timber is more plentiful. Business 

 was reported by F. M. Platter, a member of the 

 company, to be pretty good. 



The veneer men have all they can do. and 

 the Louisville Veneer Mills in particular report 

 conditions, as having improved. D. E. Kline, 

 of this institution, reports a good demand for 

 material from filing case manufacturers, al- 

 though the furniture men are not ordering heav- 

 ily as yet. Mr. Kline attended the recent con- 

 vention of the veneer men at St. Louis, and 

 looks for important development in connection 

 with the reclassification of veneers by the rail- 

 roads in the near future. 



Many representatives of Mengel interests are 

 taking their vacations in Louisville. H. H. Eck- 

 crt. who is bookkeeper at Belize. British Hon 

 duras. had an accident on his way home, the 

 gasoline launch in which he was riding to the. 

 coast exploding. He and those on the boat had 

 to swim to shore. L. L. Enos, who is assistant 

 branch manager of the Mengel Mahogany Log- 

 ging Company at Axim, Africa, is also back 

 after a stay in the dark continent of a year and 

 a half. A boat is being chartered to bring over 

 1.000,000 feet of mahogany from Axim. J. C. 

 Wickliflfe. secretary of the company, who was. 

 abroad for three months, returned home in time 

 to celebrate the Glorious Fourth in Louisville. 

 He had a great trip and did a good deal of 

 work in connection with the export business of 

 the company. Julius Spicker, sales manager, is 

 on a six weeks' trip through the East. He has 

 found the demand for mahogany very good. D. 

 C. Harris, traffic manager of the company, is a 

 member of a special committee of the Commer- 

 cial Club, which is looking into the Stevenson 

 bill relating to railroad bills of lading. This 

 is intended to make railroads responsible for the 

 bills of lading which they issue. A class of six 

 at C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company's office Is tak- 

 ing a course in elementary Spanish for the pur- 

 pose of facilitating business correspondence with 

 Central America and Mexico. 



Poplar logs are too high, in the opinion of 

 Edward L. Davis of the Ed. L. Davis Lumber 

 Compan.v. although he says that he has not been 

 paying much higher prices than heretofore, not 

 believing that the lumber would stand it, in 

 view of current quotations on hardwoods. The 

 company is making good shipments, though in- 

 quiries are not coming in as fast as they might. 

 Claude M. Sears, of this company, is making 

 a trip through the East. 



The new buildings of the Norman Lumber 

 Company are being completed at the new yard. 

 Ninth and Magnolia streets. They are all of 

 brick, and are considered a big Improvement over 

 the frame structures in use by most lumber 

 companies. 



Visitors at recent dinners of the Hardwood 

 Club have included Gardner Jones and K. W. 

 Hobart of Boston, and W. E. Chamberlain of 

 East Cambridge, Mass. The club, by the way, 



