HARDWOOD RECORD 



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attention of the Louisville Hardwood Club, and 

 at tlie last meeting ot tbo oi-ganization a com- 

 mittee was appointed to look into the question 

 of the effect on Louisville, with instructions to 

 i-pport at the next meeting. The committee con- 

 sists of Messrs. Wickliffe of C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company. Ilaynes of the Mengel Box Company, 

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

 Lumber Company. It is believed that the club 

 will make a vigorous protest against the increase. 



A conference was held last Friday afternoon 

 with the attorneys who represent members of 

 the club in traffic matters, particularly the 

 petition before the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission asking that the railroads be compelled 

 to provide reconsignment privileges here, as well 

 as to lower the rates from many points. The 

 attorneys desire<l to secure additional evidence. 

 Those who attended the meeting wore A. E. 

 Norman, S. E. Booker, and T. M. Brown. It is 

 understood that the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission will arrange a hearing in Louisville 

 within the next few weeks, when evidence in the 

 case will be heard. 



Local lumbermen have been keenly interested 

 in recent meetings here devoted to the general 

 discussion of reshipping rules in southeastern 

 territory. While the primary subject under 

 discussion was the handling of grain and grain 

 products, the fact that the rules decided upon 

 for those commodities will probably be used as 

 the basis for the regulations to be applied to 

 lumber caused the Hardwood Club to have a 

 representative at the meetings, which were 

 attended by shippers, railroad men and an 

 attorney of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 One fact brought out was that it is imprac- 

 ticable to install flat rates, and that the reship- 

 ping and milling in transit rules will be 

 niaiutained. 



The new version of the long and short haul 

 clause is now in effect, whereby no railroad 

 can charge more for a shorter than for a 

 longer haul without the consent of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. Roads entering 

 Louisville are now investigating to see what 

 rates are affected by the new ruling. It is under- 

 stood that lumber will be touched in numerous 

 instances. 



Plans for the traffic bureau of the Commercial 

 Club are going ahead, and it looks as if the 

 organization will be completed within a few 

 weeks. The shippers of the city are being can- 

 vassed to determine whether they will support 

 the bureau, and it is practically certain that 

 the result will be suificiently encouraging to lead 

 to the immediate formation of the bureau. Hard- 

 wood interests especially favor the step. E. B. 

 Norman of the E. B. Norman & Co., and D. C. 

 Harris of C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, are 

 members of the Transportation Committee of the 

 Commercial Club. 



Local hardwood men are much interested in 

 the development of gum, which is rapidly win- 

 ning its way as a "general utility" wood. Veneer 

 men are using it to a greater extent, while the 

 cooperage trade, which for some time found it 

 useful only in making slack barrels, is now 

 converting it into tight packages. Furniture 

 men are starting a demand for it in their indus- 

 try, and the call for the better grades of gum 

 is decidedly larger than it was a comparatively 

 short while ago. 



One of the biggest steps toward making the 

 timber of eastern Kentucky available wilt be 

 taken shortly by the Lexington & Eastern Rail- 

 road, which has recently tiled amended articles 

 of incorporation. It has increased its debt limit 

 from $4,000,000 to $10,000,000, and announced 

 that it would extend its line from Jackson to 

 the Kentucky-Virginia border, going through 

 Breathitt, Perry, Letcher and Knox counties. 

 Surveys have been made and construction work 

 will begin in the near future. The Kentucky 

 River Hardwood Company is one of those heavily 

 interested in the timberlands which will Be 



opened up. and it is expected that the road 

 will l>e of great benefit to the lumber trade. 



.Many sawmills in this section have been run 

 at night recently in order to use up the supply 

 of logs on hand as quickly as possible. Worms 

 cut into them quickly during this weather, and 

 sawing is all that will save the lumber. How- 

 ever, not nuK'h damage has been reported. 



The mill of C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company 

 starts up this week after having been closed 

 for repairs. It ran day and night for some 

 lime. C. 1{. Jlengel, president of the company, 

 is taking a vacation at some of the lake resorts. 

 Ii. C. Harris, traffic manager of the company, 

 is paying his first visit to the company's logging 

 camp in Belize, British Honduras. Two cargoes 

 a month are to be received by the company from 

 now until the close of the year. 



The Mengel Box Company is building a brick 

 warehouse at Tenth and Ormsby streets, adjoin- 

 ing its big box factory. The cost ot" the struc- 

 ture Is $11,000. 



Edward Shippen of the Louisville Point Lum- 

 ber Company, and Edward L. Davis of the Kdw. 

 L. Davis Lumber Company, have returned from 

 a camping trip which they took in company 

 v.ith Hugh McLean, the Buffalo lumberman. 

 They report a great time and lots of fish. 



E. B. Norman has returned from a trip to 

 Mississippi. Business with E. B. Norman & 

 Co. is rather good, although the box end of it 

 is more active than the lumber department. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 panj-, motored to Sholbyville to attend the fair. 

 Stuart R. Cecil of that concern, is back from 

 his vacation, which he spent in the Bluegrass. 

 The members of the company are rushing things 

 toward getting into the new j'ards at Ninth and 

 Magnolia streets. 



August turned out to have been a good month 

 with the Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company, and 

 September looks good too. The Louisville mill 

 is running steadily, while the Glasgow mill will 

 start up shortly. Lots of logs are on hand. 



Mart Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a trip to 

 Chicago. He believes that business this fall will 

 be extremely active. 



H. F. McCowen of the Ohio River Sawmill 

 Company, was in the city last week. He be- 

 lieves conditions are good, although, as is 

 natural, he has been finding the demand quiet 

 for the past month or two. The company is 

 getting a large stock out at its South Louisville 

 yard. 



D. E. Kline ot the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 reports business fair, but says that the demand 

 is less active than it had been. The furniture 

 factories are not buying very much, but the 

 piano trade is in good shape. 



H. M. McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer 

 Company, has returned from a vacation spent 

 in Colorado. The company had an incipient 

 blaze at its plant the other day, but it was 

 extinguished without damage. Business is 

 picking up. 



The Southern Veneer Manufacturing Company 

 hopes to have its new plant in operation by 

 November 15, and is rushing work on it. It 

 takes the place of that which was recently 

 burned. The equipment which is being purchased 

 for the plant will include an improved slicer, 

 two veneer saws, a drying machine and an eight- 

 foot band saw as well as general machinery. 

 The main building will be 100x50 feet and the 

 boiler room 40 x 40 feet. 



Woodworking plants in Louisville, especially 

 vehicle stock manufacturers, are extremely busy, 

 and are adding additional equipment in order to 

 keep up with the demand. The new plant of 

 the McDowell-Trammel Company, vehicle wheel 

 manufacturers, is now running to its capacity. 



The Kentucky Rim & Shaft Company has 

 bought 1,000 acres of oak timber in east Ten- 

 nessee, and will set up two mills for the manu- 

 facture of vehicle stock. 



The close of the fiscal year 1910 for the 

 municipality on August 31 saw the end of the 

 biggest iHiilding year, with one exception, in 

 the history of Louisville. The amount repre- 

 .sented by the permits taken out was close to 

 .f4,oou.0O0. During tlie year 2,44S Imilding 

 permits were issued, against 2,984 for the previ- 

 ous year, but the amount represented was 

 .f:i,n9(i,702, a gain of .fl, 110,000 over the previ- 

 ous year. Seventeen permits were taken out for 

 factories. 



Charles B. Williams is constructing a Itroom 

 factory at Twenty-sixth and Market streets. 



Owing to the increasing ditHculty of securing 

 Iiml)ers long and strong enough for sills of 

 freight car.-, the Louisville & Nashville, it Is 

 rejiorted. will erect a plant here for the manu- 

 facture of ste(.'I freigiit cjirs. 



The Turner, Day & Woohvorth Handle Com- 

 pany, handle manufacturer, has recently 

 equipped its plant with individual motors at 

 an expense of .$10,000. 



ASHLAND 



The closing of August sliowed an exceptionall.v 

 good month^s business for the majority of 

 dealers notwithstanding the vacation period, 

 which, according to reports, seems to liave been 

 one of the chief causes for the so-called dullness 

 that has existed. The low water has caused 

 some inconveniences to a number of mills, the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. W. H. Daw- 

 kins Lumber Company, Wright-Kitchen Lumber 

 ('ompany and the Ironton Lumber Company be- 

 ing about the only ones able to operate. How- 

 ever, the manufacturers are of one accord that 

 the fall trade will be good. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co. report everything in 

 good shape. Lumber is being shipped contin- 

 ually, collections are good and prospects encour- 

 aging. 



Messrs. Crane ot IMttsburg. Pa.. Hunter of 

 Graham, Va., and W. A. Cool of Cleveland, O.. 

 were callers upon the trade hei;e the past week. 



The Ironton Lumber Company is optittistic 

 over the future outlook. Its mill is running to 

 full capacity. The company has taken advantage 

 of the quiet season to replenish its stock, as it 

 has on hand a number of fine orders to be 

 shipped early in the fall. 



The Wright-Kitchen Lumlx>r Company has 

 just closed a successful month's business, show- 

 ing a material increase over this time last year. 

 It has a plentiful supply of orders, and is 

 shipping out some very fine oak timbers. A 

 good business is anticipated for the coming 

 year. 



The Whisler & Scearcy Compan.v reports an 

 exceptionally good business for .Inly and August. 

 Its mill at Ironton is about sawed out, but it 

 has enough timber at -ts E^armers, Ky., mill to 

 keep it running for several months. 



Henri Frederick Isaacson, son of Leon Isaac- 

 son, the well-known member of the Yellow 

 l*oplar Lumber Company, will be united in mar- 

 riage September 5 to Miss .Tune Wiel of New 

 York City. Mr. Isaacson is the New York repre- 

 sentative of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Com- 

 pany. The happy couple will reside in Brooklyn. 



HUNTlNOTOy 



B. B. Burns, of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports business satisfactory for this sea- 

 son of the year and Ls looking forward to a 

 lively lumber trade this fall and winter. He re- 

 ports the company's mills all busy putting on 

 sticks, large amounts of oak, chestnut and 

 poplar lumber, which it will have ready for 

 the winter and spring markets. 



W. A. Cool, of the W. A. Cool & Son Lumber 

 Company, Cleveland, was a business caller in 



