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"Bu!iinpss is not nearly as bad as it might 

 be," said E. h. Warren, a Bristol wholesale 

 hardwood iumberman, this week. "It is gener- 

 ally believed that the coming fall and winter 

 will see much better business." 



Bird JI. Uobinson of New York was a recent 

 visitor in Bristol. Mr. Robinson is interested 

 in the Little Kiver Lumber Company, which has 

 a large number of mills along the new Tennes- 

 see railroad through White, Scott and other Ten- 

 nessee counties, and which is developing a large 

 tract of timber land in that section. 



The consummation of the plan to take over 

 the Virginia & Southwestern Railway and sub- 

 sidiary lines, the Black Mountain and the Hol- 

 ston River railroads, was accomplished last 

 week, when new officers were elected, being the 

 same as those of the Southern. The road is a 

 very important lumber carrying line. J. H. 

 McCue is made general manager, while W. W. 

 Finley succeeds Henry K. McHarg as president 

 and Fairfax Harrison is the successor of John 

 B. Newton as vice-president and general man- 

 ager. J. H. McCue will be in active charge of 

 the properties. The stock in the road was pur- 

 chased more than a year ago by the Southern. 



The Tug River Lumber Company will put its 

 band mill in Wise county, Virginia, in opera- 

 tion about August 1, when a new five-mile line 

 of railroad It is constructing at that operation 

 will be completed. 



J. ilortimer, Jr.. superintendent of all of 

 the operations of the W. M. Uitter Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, and R. D. Loftis, the 

 latter in charge of the company operations In 

 this section and at Hampton. Carter county, 

 Tennessee, were in Bristol this week on busi- 

 ness. The mills of the Hitter company are all 

 running and no let-up is expected. Shipments 

 have been fairly heavy and conditions are re- 

 garded as very good. 



CINCINNATI 



V.awmiX KuliiTi.-. head of K. ItolB-rls & Co., 

 lu.tibcr dealers, Ui.d at his residence, 1:^4.-. High- 

 land avenue. East Walnut Hills, last week after 

 a lingering illness. .Mr. Roberts was a pioneer 

 lumber merchant of the Queen City, having been 

 connected wilh the business for over half a cen- 

 tury. -Vlthougli 77 years old be was active In 

 business almost up tu the time of his -death. 

 Mr. Roberts is survived by live sons, who will 

 assume charge of the business. 



The figures just Issued by the Cincinnati 

 Chamber of ComiMrce covering receipts and ship- 

 ments of iumliCr for the month of June show 

 that the receipts by far exceeded those of the 

 month previous, as did the shipments. Receipts 

 of lumber here during the month of June aggre- 

 gated O.iO'J cars, as compared with last month 

 of 5,104, and fur the same month of the year 

 previous, !4,(;S."). Shipments last month were 

 4,065 cars, as compared with 3,594 for May and 

 for the same time of the year previous of 6,14U 

 cars. 



The regular weekly meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club scheduled for June 27 was 

 postponed owing to the annual outing of the 

 club, and the next meeting will be held at the 

 Business Men's Club July 11. Several minor 

 points are to l)e attended to, among them the 

 application of several firms for membership. 

 Several outstanding committees will also report. 



"The past few weeks have been very good for 

 us," said Thomas J. Moffett of the Maley, Thomp- 

 son & Molfett Company recently. "Our mall- 

 order business has shown a healthy Increase, 

 and the domestic trade has also stiffened up 

 some. The market at the present time, I think. 

 Is better than It has been at any period this 

 year, and that Is saying a great deal considering 

 the time of the year. Usually this season Is 

 •I'llet, but this year we are able to get some of 

 the trade that we usually received several 

 months previous. All our mills are busy, and I 

 think they will be run for several months to 



come. The nomination of William H. Taft has 

 helped the situation considerably." 



J. E. Tuthlll of the E. L. Edwards concern is 

 very optimistic over the situation here and 

 speaks freely on what trade will be within the 

 next six months. He is of the opinion that the 

 best six months of the year are yet to come, and 

 thus far his observations have panned out. The 

 latter part of June usually brings on a halt to 

 the demand for all grades of lumber, but this 

 year was an exception, and instead the demand 

 increased, which alone gives evidence of further 

 improvement. 



Fred W.- Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson is 

 receiving congratulations from his many friends 

 upon the arrival of an heir to the Mowbray 

 estate. The newcomer Is a girl and adds much 

 joy to the happy family. 



William S. Sterrett of the Sterrett Lumber 

 Company has been elected secretary of the Cin- 

 cinnati Mutual Fire Insurance Company of this 

 city. Sterrett is a pretty busy man these days, 

 as he is also secretary of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 besides of course having his regular lumber busi- 

 ness to attend to. 



The Sunshine League, which was launched the 

 early part of June to try to get the business 

 men of the Queen City to reemploy as many 

 men as possible on July 1, has met with much 

 success, as fully 3,000 men were re-employed on 

 that day. Many furniture factories were among 

 the number, while the J. A. Fay & Egan Com- 

 pany helped along to the extent of several hun- 

 dred men. Senator Foraker spoke on the floor 

 of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce July 1 

 and complimented the work of the Sunshine 

 League, and also dwelt upon politics. 



Burglars forced open a window In the Western 

 Lumber Company's office on West Eighth street 

 last month and took some of the office fixtures, 

 but little cash. They scattered the contents of 

 the desks over the floor and caused a great deal 

 of work for the clerks. 



J. Uulx-n Boske, office manager of the Hinck- 

 ley Lumber Company, and Miss Loretta Benzln- 

 ger of Covington will be married August 5 In 

 Covington. The couple will spend several weeks 

 on the lakes on their honeymoon. Boske has 

 been with the Hinckley company for several 

 years and Is highly valuable. 



Clifford P. Egan, son of Thomas P. Egan of 

 the J. A. Fay & Egan Company, woodworking 

 machine manufacturers, has been admitted to 

 membership to the Cincinnati Advertisers' Club. 



Chester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company has returned from a business trip to 

 the South, where he visited the mill of the com- 

 pany. 



The McFarland Lumber Company of Mansfield, 

 O., with a capita) stock of $10,000, was incorpo- 

 rated last week by G. O. McFarland, R. C, M. E., 

 U. O. and A. L. McFarland. 



Harry Freiberg of the Freiberg Lumber Com- 

 pany was successfully operated on the latter part 

 of June for appendicitis. He is again back In 

 harness. 



George M. Morgan of the Nicola, Stone & Mey- 

 ers Company states that in his opinion a change 

 In the situation will not be manifest until the 

 first of September, and then an improvement will 

 be perceptible. Things at the present time are 

 about the same as for several weeks past. 



The creditors' meeting of the Wiborg & Hanna 

 Company will be held in the office of Referee 

 Oreve July >J, when a further discussion of the 

 proposed offer of 40 cents on the dollar will be 

 heard. This meeting Is expected to bring out 

 many arguments. 



BVANSVILLE 



The bandmill and filing-room of the H. Herr- 

 mann Manufacturing Company were destroyed 

 by fire of unknown origin here on the night of 

 June 23, entailing a loss of about .$13,000. The 

 loss was covered by insurance. The mill had 

 not been operated for some time. The large di- 

 mension mills of the company located near the 

 sawmill were saved by the good work of the fire 

 department. They are being operated full time. 



G. D. Glover of R. Glover & Sons, the well- 

 known lumber and stave manufacturers of Shaw- 

 neetown. 111., passed through this city this 

 week in his big touring car en route to Shaw- 

 neetown from Vincennes, where he had been with 

 his family. 



A cablegram was received from Quecnstown, 

 Ireland, from Nathan Thayer of Thompson, 

 Thayer & McCoweu, this being Mr. Thayer's first 

 stop in the tour of Europe which he is making. 



Plans for the new Furniture Exchange Build- 

 ing, which have been under way for some time, 

 are about finished now and the contract will 

 probably be let in a short time. The building 

 when completed will cost over $100,000. 



The large sawmill of ufaley. Young & Cut- 

 singer at Jasper, Ind., was destroyed by fire 

 there on the night of June 27, causing a loss 

 of $9,000, covered by insurance. The large 

 dimension mill and lumber yard located near 

 the mill were not damaged. The mill had re- 

 sumed operation only a week before the fire, 

 after a shut-down of several weeks, and had a 

 nice stock of logs on hand ready to be sawed. 

 The firm has not decided at this time as to its 

 course in rebuilding the mill. 



James Williams and wife of Fort Branch, Ind., 

 were found guilty of arson in the Gibson County 

 Circuit Court at Princeton, Ind, Williams will 

 be sent to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville 

 and his wife goes to the women's reformatory at 

 Indianapolis. The charge against the couple 

 was attempting to burn the Greer-WIlklnson 

 lumber plant at Fort Branch. 



C. W. Talge of the EvansvlIIe Veneer Company 

 returned recently from the Northwest, where he 

 had been on a business trip for several weeks. 

 Gilbert Heldt of the same company says busi- 

 ness Is picking up: In fact, the Improvement Is 

 very evident with them, especially the demand 

 for rotary-cut veneer. 



ST. LOUIS 



It was with deep re;.'i-et that the lumber trade 

 here learned of the death of Henry Maley at 

 his home in Edinburg, Ind., on July C. His 

 death was a surprise to his many friends here, 

 as he was in tills city a short time ago In the 

 best of health and spirits. 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis held its 

 last meeting, previous to the summer closing, at 

 Uclniar Garden on June 23. It was purely a 

 social gathering and the lady friends of the 

 members were the guests of the club. A dinner 

 was given at the restaurant connected with the 

 garden at 0:30, followed by a visit to the 

 theater where summer opera is given. About 

 one hundred members and guests were present. 

 Immediately after the dinner and before the 

 visit to the theater a social session was held. 

 J. A. Freeman, president of the club, called the 

 assemblage to order and after expressing the 

 wish that those present enjoy themselves, he 

 suggested that resolutions of respect on the 

 death of Mrs. George E. Hibbard, who died 

 June 22, would be most appropriate and as a 

 motion to that effect was made and passed, 

 Mr. Freeman named W. A. Bonsack, W. E. 

 Barnes and Julius Seldel to draw up the reso- 

 lutions, which were adopted and ordered spread 

 upon the minutes and a copy of them sent to 

 Mr. Hibbard. 



The month-end report of the St. Louis Build- 

 ing Commissioner shows the total amount of 

 building In June was $72,774 less than during 

 the game month In 1007. The total building 

 operations last month were $1,942,730, against 

 $2,015,510 for June of last year. 



The following is a comparative statement of 

 the receipts and shipments of last year and this, 

 as reported by the Merelianls' Exchange: 



