HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Orders are coming in pretty well, says Cliarles 

 Proetz of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Com- 

 pany. They are not large ones, but they are 

 satisfactory ones, for at this time few large 

 orders are received by any firm. 



Cypress conditions are somewhat better, E. W. 

 Blumer, sales manager of the I^othman Cypress 

 Company, reports. He believes business will 

 soon be in good shape. Prices, while not satis- 

 factory, will no doubt become better as the de- 

 mand increases. 



W. Arthur Waide, secretary of the General 

 Sash and Door Association of Chicago, was a 

 recent visitor. He has been on a little selling 



U. J. Schwartz has become identified with the 

 G. H. Barnes Lumber Company. He was formerly 

 with the F. H. Smith Lumber Company. 



Charles Grote has associated himself with the 

 John F. Scobee Lumber Company. He was for- 

 merly with M. J. Heller in the railroad timber 

 business. 



W. R. Chivvis, who makes a specialty of wal- 

 nut, but who sells all kinds of hardwoods, says 

 business is quiet. He sent some walnut to 

 Europe a short time ago and has ordered and 

 will ship some more in the near future. 



Trade conditions, both wholesale and retail, 

 are reported quiet by the Wilson-Reheis-Rolfe 

 Lumber Company. Inquiries are plentiful but 

 orders are few, although there is a likelihood 

 soon of business picking up. 



The sawmill of the Henry Quellmalz Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company at Brookings, Ark., and 

 also their St. Louis factory are being operated 

 fuU time. 



The Fish, Mo., sawmill and the Kilgore, Ark., 

 sawmill of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany are now being operated on full time. In- 

 quiries for car oak are coming in and the de- 

 mand seems to be good. 



The Milne Lumber Company state they have 

 fair demand for good stock, principally for bridge 

 plank. 



Leopold Methudy, whose specialty is export 

 trade, states that the situation at present on 

 the other side is large stocks of low grade stuff, 

 principally oak, both lumber and logs, shipped 

 on consignment. There is considerable more 

 stock at seaboard to go forward when accommo- 

 dation for the freight can be secured. Low 

 grade poplar is plentiful, but high grade is 

 scarce ; the demand, however, is quiet. 



W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany, says that conditions remain practically un- 

 changed. While every now and then local con- 

 cerns secure considerable business and so for the 

 time being regard matters in a cheerful light, 

 the improvement is not maintained and has not 

 become general. In regard to grading, Mr. Bon- 

 sack says he does not think it makes any ma- 

 terial difference whether it is high or low ; the 

 main thing in this is that it be stable and rec- 

 ognized. 



F. H. Smith of the F. H. Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany says he is disposed to regard lowering 

 grades as a mistake, since it renders the market 

 unsteady. As matters stand prices are now 

 being readjusted on the basis of the present 

 grading. 



The Verdin Lumber Company state that with 

 them the call Is mainly for cypress for the plan- 

 ing mill. Last month when Mr. Verdin was in 

 the South he found only six out of thirty mills 

 running, but looks for most of the southern mills 

 to start up within a month, as many of them 

 are now soliciting orders. 



The American Hardwood Lumber Company 

 believes that contractors have considerable busi- 

 ness on hand, but are holding it back expecting 

 to employ help at lower wages. Stocks are not 

 heavy at many southern mills, and the big yards 

 have held off from stocking up so that a sudden 

 revival in demand would probably bring about 

 a marked shortage in first hands. 



The Krebs Lumber Company report the chief 

 call for quartered oak and clear sap gum, which 



gaged. The creditors are all of Dayton. Thomas 

 J. Callahan of Dayton was appointed receiver 

 at $25,000 bond. 



A. P. Steel of the Carrier Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company of Sardls, Miss., was in town 

 during the last fortnight drumming up trade 

 among local concerns. 



Walter Quick of Richey, Halsted & Quick Is 

 on a business tour through the Hoosier state. 

 S. W. Richey of the concern reports business 

 pretty good, considering everything, and says 

 he looks for improvement in all grades of lumber 

 soon. 



J. H. Britton of the Britton Lumber Company 

 of Linkwood, Fla., was here a few days recently. 

 He is making a tour of the South to get a line 

 on the hardwood situation. 



S. P. Stanbery of the Chicago Lumber & Coal 

 Company, with offices in the Mercantile Library 

 building, sees a favorable change in the situation 

 during the last week or so. 



Further examinations in the bankruptcy case 

 of the United States Timber Company have been 

 made in Referee Greve's office. George R. Berry, 

 who managed the sale of the company's stock. 

 was on the witness stand and told In detail of 

 the measure taken for floating the stock and 

 getting the company going. Berry said that 

 23 per cent commission was paid for the sale 

 of the preferred stock, which was disposed of 

 at first for 40 cents on the dollar and later for 

 80 cents, until finally it reached par, where some 

 sales were made. All the preferred stock was 

 paid for with the exception of $1,000, according 

 to Berry, which v.as given to John Hawks for 

 acting as vice president. His services consisted, 

 according to Berry, in attending two board meet- 

 ings and advising with the managers once. The 

 company's common stock was given away as a 

 bonus to buyers and solicitors. An answer was 

 also filed in the district court by Trustee Robert 

 D. Y. Carroll to the intervening petition of the 

 Cumberland Lumber Company. The latter sold 

 a carload of lumber to the bankrupt on the lat- 

 ter's representation that it was in sound financial 

 condition, and it now seeks to recover the lumber 

 which is still on hand. It is charge* that the 

 financial statement was false and fraudulent. 

 All of this is denied in the answer. 



"We have been doing a much better business 

 in both poplar and quartered oak during the 

 past fortnight," says Ralph McCracken of the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company. Mr. McCracken is 

 of the opinion that the hardwood trade will 

 stow a much better tone from now on. 



James Meyers, president and manager of the 

 Enterprise Lumber Company, with whom he is 

 indebted to a large extent, was in town recently 

 in an effort to straighten out matters with Re- 

 ceiver W. H. Stewart. Just what agreement 

 was reached the parties concerned refuse to di- 

 vulge. 



A report was filed last week by Receiver W. R. 

 Thrall of the E. M. Schantz Lumber Company, 

 bankrupt. The property which came into the 

 hands of Thrall consisted of lumber, merchandise 

 and machinery, but no money or cash was re- 

 ceived by him and he was unable to collect any 

 of the accounts. He turned all over to the trus- 

 tee, who was subsequently selected. Receiver 

 Thrall was allowed $75 for his service. The 

 sale of the concern has been set for April 27 

 by order of the court. 



Evansville. 



Richard Jenks of the Conrey & Birely Table 

 Company, Shelbyville, Ind., was in the city last 

 week. Mr. Jenks is a widely known and popu- 

 lar lumberman and is always welcomed by the 

 trade. 



Bedna Young of Young & Cutslnger spent a week 

 in central Indiana territory looking up old 

 friends and incidentally attending to some busi- 

 ness. Last week Mr. Y'oung was at the firm's 

 Jasper plant looking after affairs there. 



Word has just been received by J. C. Keller, 

 manager of the traffic department of the Evans- 

 ville Manufacturers' Association, that at an 



early date walnut, butternut and cherry lumber 

 and logs, which at present are 3 cents above the 

 common lumber rate, will be reduced to the 

 common lumber basis from Evansville to all 

 points on the Illinois Central railroad in Illi- 

 nois. The association has been agitating this 

 reduction for some time. 



N. R. Dennett and C. E. Holden of Port 

 Washington. Wis., two of the organizers of the 

 new dining-room chair factory that is to be 

 established in the old Neptune Launch Com- 

 pany's plant on the lower river front, arrived 

 in Evansville last week to make arrangements 

 for the installation of machinery, the first con- 

 signment of which is to arrive in about two 

 weeks. The firm hopes to get the plant in 

 operation by July 1. The new company will 

 be known as the Milwaukee FallsEvansville 

 Chair Company and will manufacture nothing 

 but high-grade dining-room chairs. 



May Bros., the well-known and popular hard- 

 wood firm of this city, announce their inten- 

 tion of moving to Memphis, Tenn., where they 

 will be in the center of the hardwood manufac- 

 turing district. They will leave here at once 

 and will open up an office in Memphis and be 

 ready for business In a very short time. Their 

 local office will be closed just as soon as their 

 yard interests are disposed of. The firm is com- 

 posed of Frank and Ralph May, who were for- 

 merly connected with May, Thompson & Thayer, 

 now Thompson, Thayer & McCowen, of this 

 city. They operate a large plant at Dumas, 

 Ark. 



The Maley Athletes defeated the Green River 

 Cubs in a hotly contested game here April 19 to 

 the tune of 6 to 5. The feature of the game was 

 the pitching of J. W. Bertrand for the Maleys. 

 The Maley Athletes represent the office and 

 working force of the Henry Maley Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



The Hercules Buggy Company is operating its 

 body manufacturing plant day and night, being 

 unable to take care of the demand for carriage 

 bodies on its regular schedule. 



St. Louis. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis sent 

 the following letter to Maj. William Warner, 

 ITnited States senator from Missouri, a few days 

 ago : "Dear Sir — At a special meeting of the 

 Board of Directors of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis, held April 14, a motion was 

 made and unanimously carried that this Board 

 of Directors, representing one of the most in- 

 fluential associations in Missouri, does hereby 

 enter its earnest protest against the passage of 

 the Hepburn amendment to the Sherman anti- 

 trust bill, feeling that It would be detrimental 

 to the business interests of the country. Lloyd 

 G. Harris, President ; A. J. Bush, Secretary." 



Harley Miller has gone back to the firm where 

 he first acquired a knowledge of the lumber busi- 

 ness, the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company. 

 Until his present connection he was secretary of 

 the John F. Scobee Lumber Company. 



W. E. Keown. president of the International 

 Hardwood Company, says conditions look better 

 just now for a good spring trade than they have 

 for a long time. Orders are coming in more 

 plentifully. Prices, however, are not satisfac- 

 tory. Mr. Keown has just made a southern trip. 



Fred Gerber, a well known insurance man and 

 politician and father of Fred Gerber, vice presi- 

 dent of the Fidel-Ganahl Lumber Company, died 

 a few days ago. 



Louis Eppler, formerly with the Mossberger 

 Lumber Company, has formed a connection with 

 the Lyon Cypress Company of Garyville, La., and 

 will represent them in this territory. 



The Tower Grove Planing Mill Company Is 

 now known as the Darr & Sons Planing Mill 

 Company. 



Theodore Plummer, president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company, is not feeling as much like 

 going fishing as he did a short time ago, for 

 business Is looking better and he has booked 

 more orders during the past few weeks than for 

 several weeks previous. 



