HARDWOOD RECORD 



Is now being conaucted by Phil 1. Adam, who 

 win continue to operate It. C. D. Stelnbrugge 

 has returned to his home in Germany, where he 

 will engage in importing lumber from the 

 United States. 



Approximately $00,000 loss resulted from the 

 big fire which recently destroyed the plant of 

 the New Orleans Chair Company at Algiers, 

 just across the river from New Orleans. The 

 company's stoclc was well covered by insurance. 

 It is not making arrangements to re-establish its 

 business. 



Advices from Jackson, Miss., state that the 

 case of the State of Mississippi vs. the Grenada 

 Lumber Company et al., the celebrated Louisi- 

 ana-Mississippi retail lumber dealers' case, has 

 been formally submitted to the Supreme Court 

 of that state. A lengthy brief submitted by 

 Attorney L. E. Brown of Yazoo City and Mayes 

 & Longstreet of Jackson sets forth the case o( 

 the lumbermen, who deny emphatically that their 

 organization is a trust. Chancellor Lyell has 

 already decided that the association is a trust 

 and appeal from this decision has been made 

 to the Supreme Court. A decision is expected 

 within the next week. 



E. Stringer Boggess, a widely known hard- 

 wood lumberman of Clarksburg, W. Va., was a 

 recent visitor at New Orleans. 



Merchants and professional men of Grand 

 Cane, La., have organized the Grand Cane Lum- 

 ber Manufacturing Company and are Just about 

 to begin operations at a big plant that has been 

 established at Grand Cane. The company is 

 devoting itself to the manufacture of interior 

 woodwork. 



Norfolk. 



Harvey M. Dickson, the well-known and popu- 

 lar hardwood lumberman of this city, at the head 

 of the H. M. Dickson Lumber Company, has been 

 appointed president of the Industrial Commission 

 of Norfulk, recently organized among the most 

 progressive Inisincss men of the city. Mr. Dick- 

 son is active in matters of this kind In both 

 the direct and Indirect interests of the trade. 

 He is chairman of the Transportation Com m ittee 

 of the National Exporters' Association, and re- 

 cently rendered efficient service In relieving a con- 

 gestion of stock shipped to this port for ex- 

 port. 



David L. Wing of the Department of Justice, 

 Bureau of Commerce and I,;ili<i. If i- ii innnd to 

 Washington, leaving two a>-i >i;i n i!i city 

 to examine the books of tLi- \ : ■ i i iiine 



concerns and to secure theriiiiin :n.i n: |. rices 

 obtained on certain stock. This iiif.>rm;ition it 

 Is proposed to tabulate in pamphlet form and 

 to be Issued within two months from date. Al- 

 though they cover only North Carolina pine In 

 their investigations, the result of their work 

 should prove of Interest to the trade at large, 

 and it seems probable that It will completely 

 relieve the public mind of the suspicion that ex- 

 tortionate or unreasonable profits are being ob- 

 tained. The local hardwood firms are much in. 

 terested in the matter. 



A recent visitor to the city was Grover D. 

 Smith, wholesaler, from Montclalr, N. J. Mr. 

 Smith deals in white pine, spruce, cypress and 

 maple flooring. 



P. S. Adklns of F. D. Adklns & Co., Salisbury, 

 Md., was In the city April 17. 



The Allegheny, a British steamship, sailed 

 from this port April 10 with an unusually valu- 

 able cargo, the major portion of which consisted 

 of hardwoods. She Is bound for Liverpool. 



Mr. Courtney, vice-president and general man- 

 ager of the Alexander Bros. Railway & Manufac- 

 turing Company, New Brunswick, Canada, is now 

 making his regular yearly trip to the city. The 

 lumber Interests of the Ale.\ander Bros, company 



Last week the Richmond Cedar Works shipped 

 to the American Lumber Company of Baltimore 

 part of a cargo, amounting to about 100,000 feet, 

 of gum. It Is not known at what price this par- 



ticular lot was sold, but the indications are that 

 the trade in gum. both rough and flooring, is 

 holding up well. The Butters Lumber Company 

 of Boardman, N. C, makes a specialty of gum 

 flooring and reports trade as fair. Gum is com- 

 ing to be quite a favorite in this section and 

 dealers find a good market for It. 



Freight rates for vessel shipments to and 

 from this port as well as North Carolina points 

 have suffered a decline, and the hardwood men 

 are taking advantage of low rates to sell stock. 

 Some shipments have been made from lower 

 sound points to Baltimore and Norfolk at as low 

 a rate as ?2 per thousand, although $2.25 would 

 probably be a fairer average. 



Quite a large quantity of oak and other hard- 

 woods went to swell the cargo of the Brlt'sh 

 steamship Allegheny, which sailed on the 8th 

 instant with an unusually valuable load, which 

 fact can be accepted as Indicating that the ex- 

 port trade is holding its own steadily, even 

 though there be fluctuations in the volume of 

 business received. 



An interesting Concatenation of Hoo-Hoo was 

 held a few days ago at Sumter, S. C, with a 

 large number of members present and eleven 

 "kittens" to be carried through the mysteries of 

 the order. An all around good time was had at 

 the meeting, which lasted two days, a big ban- 

 quet being one of the features. 



The burned plant of Bewberry Bros. & Cowell 

 at Dunn, N. C, has been replaced by a fine new 

 chair factory, which is now In full operation. 



Charlotte. 



.\raong the new concerns organized during the 

 past tv.o weeks was the Chair Manufacturing 

 Company of North Wilkesboro, N. C, which has 

 a capital stock of $100,000. J. D. Smith and 

 others are the incorporators. 



High Point, N. C, is the home of a new con- 

 cern which will make chests, cabinets and other 

 products of cedar. The name of the concern Is 

 the Cedar Safe Company and R. C. Maxwell Is 

 Its prime promoter. 



The plant of the Klncald Veneering Works of 

 Salisbury, N. C, was destroyed by flre a few 

 days ago, entailing a loss of about $10,000. 



In a hearing before Special Master W. C. 

 Irwin at Salisbury, N. C, a compromise has been 

 reached in the case of the Barber Buggy Com- 

 pany, which practically means that the affairs 

 of this concern will be wound up by the referee. 

 It was agreed that the company Is a partner- 

 ship, that the members compose a partnership, 

 and the insolvency and acts of bankruptcy com- 

 plained of In the petition were agreed upon. All 

 assets are to be delivered over to the referee. 

 It will be recalled this company closed down 

 some months ago, and since there has been an 

 Interesting contest among parties Interested as 

 to the exact nature of the concern. It is not 

 likely it will be reorganized. 



Mount Airy furniture factories are going back 

 to the ten-hour day after running on the eight- 

 hour plan for a number of months. This Is 

 following advice of the North Carolina Case- 

 workers' Association. Business at Mount Airy, 

 High Point and other furniture centers of the 

 slate Is picking up noticeably. 



Receiver Lewellyn has been authorized to sell 

 the bankrupt plant of the Carolina Casket Com- 

 pany of Elkta, N. C. 



Directors of the Sanford Buggy Company of 

 Sanford, N. C, recently met and decided to In- 

 crease the company's capitalization. This Is a 

 thriving enterprise and is doing a good busl- 



Fire at C. M. Betts & Co.'s lumber plant near 

 (^hester. S. C, recently, resulted In a loss of 

 about $20,000, mostly covered by insurance. The 

 sawmill and planing mill near the burned kilns 

 were saved by heroic efforts ot the flre flghters. 



The record In the famous case of appeal of 

 Collin & McDonald against the New York "Rub- 

 ber King," C. "R. Flint, has been filed In the 

 United States court at Ashevllle, and the case 

 will u'l nil I" tl,e circuit court of appeals. Coffin 

 ,v MI 1,1' been granted a verdict of 



> - Thousands of acres of land In 



\- ' : lollna counties are Involved 



ii .11 & McDonald allege that Flint 



ec.iifr:u led with them for millions of feet of lum- 

 ber several years ago, and later refused to per- 

 form his part ot the contract, thereby causing 

 them heavy loss on expensive dams and outfit 

 they had provided to fill the large order. 



Minneapolis. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company has returned from an extended trip in 

 the hardwood districts of upper Michigan and 

 of northern Wisconsin, along Lake Superior. He 

 found the cut greatly reduced everywhere ; all 

 the large producers whom he saw had curtailed 

 their log cut and the product of their mills about 

 one-half as compared with last season. Owing 

 to this, Mr. Smith expects to see prices higher 

 in a few months. Business Is rather quiet, but 

 prices are holding up well. There are not many 

 buyers in southern hardwood territory, but the 

 wholesalers who are handling the stock are get- 

 ting more money for it on a good many items. 



The railroads, Mr. Smith says, are going 

 straight against the general trend of business 

 in buying their own supplies. Several of them 

 have been canceling orders for lumber placed 

 last January, although they really need the 

 stuff. Apparently they are trying to cut down 

 expenses so as to make a better showing for 

 the fiscal year, and are allowing their equip- 

 ment to run down. Mr. Smith is going south 

 in a few days. They have secured a new engine 

 and boiler for the mill at Hough, Mo., and In- 

 creased Its capacity, but the mill is down now 

 on account of high water, as all the mills In 

 that section are at present, and it Is not likely 

 that they will be running for three or four 

 weeks yet. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark Is at Hot 

 Springs. Ark., resting and taking the baths, so 

 as to build up from a serious attack of the grip. 

 He left nearly two weeks ago for the South and 

 has been down In Texas, also in Arkansas, look- 

 ing up the hardwood proposition In that terri- 

 tory. C. F. Osborne of the same firm Is back 

 from a visit to their retail yards at Barron and 

 Ladysmlth, Wis. 



George S. Agnew, who went Into the hard- 

 wood and yellow pine trade on his own account 

 recently after five years with the Payson Smith 

 Lumber Company as a salesman, reports that 

 he has been enjoying a very satisfactory trade 

 at the start, and In spite of the dull season he 

 has no complaint to make. 



The ilire.iors ef (he Forbes-Everts Lumber 

 11 II ', mill elected E. H. Brough- 



I iiitlon. Mr. Broughton 



i 1 iiioiis sales office, which 



In 1,1 I iiL_ limber Exchange, and Is 



market Int: Uieir while and red oak lumber and 

 ties from the plant at Van Buren, Mo., acquired 

 by this new concern last fall. The company has 

 bought another tract of timber adjoining that 

 purchased last fall with the mill, and now has 

 an ample supply of good oak timber for a num- 

 ber of years ahead. G. W. Everts of the com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip Into Wis- 

 consin. 



S. H. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany, Minneapolis, presented a $5,000 organ to 

 the Lowry Hill Congregational church ot this 

 city as a memorial to his wife, Agnes Cornelia 

 Davis, who died lasU fall. The organ was In 

 use for the Easter services, and a dedicatory 

 recital will be given later. 



Albert La Bergc, a hardwood and hemlock 

 dealer of Stctsonvllle, Wis., was a business vis- 

 itor In Minneapolis last week. 



A. S. Bliss, representing the R. Connor Com- 

 pany of Marshflcld, Wis., was a business vis- 

 itor in Minneapolis this week, looking up his 

 friends among the factory consumers of hard- 

 wood. 



