HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



advertised and brought $1,136. Several of the 

 local creditors declare that they will sift every- 

 thing to the bottom to get all possible out of 

 the concern. 



Charles F. Bassett, a lumber merchant of this 

 city, last week declared in a petition that he 

 owes debts w'hich he is unable to pay in full, and 

 that he is willing to surrender all his property 

 for the benefit of his creditors. II-- mail- an 

 assignment in February in the \ ai ci i^i^t 

 AH of the money realized on lii- |i i'im ha 

 been disposed of. He owes uusianr.il m^Ui n 

 $4,303.57 ; no assets. 



Evansville. 



A. B. Harmon, purehasing aseut for the Yaw- 

 man & Erbe Manufacturing Company, Roches- 

 ter, X. Y., was in the city a few days aso. Mr. 

 Harmon said business had been rather quiet with 

 them, but prospects are a little brighter now. 



The mill of the Helfrich Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company has been closed for several days 

 as a result of the snapping of a large chain that 

 was used to draw logs up out of the river. The 

 chain slipped into the river and has not been 

 recovered. 



Mr. Cornell of the Nichols & Cox Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., was in the city 

 a few days ago visiting local mills. 



Henry Maley of Edinburg, Ind., passed through 

 the city rectatly on his way to Yazoo, Miss., to 

 look after his mill interests there. 



The firm of J. M. Blood & Bro.. Grayville, 

 111., will soon be ready to install its new band 

 mill, which is to be of the latest type, with all 

 modern improvements. However, under present 

 market conditions the firm is in no hurry to get 

 the mill in operation, as it prefers the stand- 

 ing timber to lumber, having plenty of lumber 

 on hand to take care of trade. Paul Blood, 

 son of J. M. Blood, will leave soon to attend 

 the Biltmore Forest School at Biltmore, N. C. 



Nathan Thayer and O. W. McCowen nf Thomp- 

 son, Thayer & McCowen were in Memphis this 

 week looking after their timber interests. 



Frank Kramer, who has for years been the 

 world's champion bicycle rider, will retire from 

 the race track and will go into the lumber busi- 

 ness here adjoining the New York Dimension 

 Supply Company's mills, of which, Louis Kramer, 

 his father, is proprietor. He has been on the 

 race track for ten years, being twenty-eight 

 years old, and has raced before all of the crowned 

 heads of Europe. 



St. Louis. 



The National Prosperity Association of St. 

 Louis was organized here last week by a group 

 of business men for the purpose of inaugurating 

 a national movement for the restoration of con- 

 fidence and a general revival of industrial and 

 commercial activity. The purposes of the asso- 

 ciation are : 



To keep the dinner pail full. 



To keep the pay car going. 



To keep the factory busy. 



To keep the workmen employed. 



To keep the present wages up. 



Assurances have been received that mercantile 

 associations all over the country will join en- 

 thusiastically in the campaign. The lumber in- 

 terests not only in St. Louis but in other cities 

 are foremost in approving the platform and pros- . 

 pectus of the association. The Implement. Vehi- 

 cle & Hardware Association of St. Louis, the St. 

 Louis Furniture Board of Trade, the Yellow Pine 

 Manufacturers' Association, the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange and the Lumbermen's Club at their 

 next meetings will indorse the movement, and the 

 Hardwood Lumber Exchange of Chicago and the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis have wired that 

 they will assist in every way possible. 



The April report of the building commissioner 

 at St. Louis shows building operations amounted 

 to $2,033,000, against $2,560,447 for April last 

 year. 



The receipts of lumber by rail for April this 

 year were 9,802 cars, as compared with 15,351 

 cars during April last year. The receipts of lum- 

 ber by river during April this year have been 

 152.000 feet : in April last year there were 189,- 

 000 feet. During April, 1908, there were 7,597 

 cars shipped by rail, as against 10,223 cars dur- 

 ing April last year. There were 115,000 feet 

 >liil'Ii''l l.v river during April this year, as 

 a-ainsi li;),iii!U feet shipped by river during 



Til" li'llov.iug table shows the number of feet 

 of lumber inspected and measured by the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of St. Louis for April, 1908, 

 and the corresponding month last year : 



1908. 1907. 



Plain oak 254,311 520.972 



Gum 144,955 59,937 



Cottonwood 35,244 16,034 



Elm 12,066 2,190 



Cypress ...".'.'.■.'.■.'..■■.;;;■. ;;; 283,623 195449 



Poplar 6,216 30,703 



Chestnut 8,623 



Hickory . 10,013 25,264 



Ash 5,360 48,385 



Maple 4,569 



Walnut 12,573 16,690 



Sycamore 863 



Quartered oak 28,929 164,642 



Total 807,372 1,080,868 



This shows a falling off of 273,296 feet. 



W. A. Bonsack. president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of St. LonN. la- i,.|i. n,t.,l V,\ E. Barnes, 

 Henry G. Roll,- 1 r. i '. Whitmarsh a 



special commitii. . mend the annual 



meeting of the Naia nal 1 1 n .l.v.i.jd Lumber Asso- 

 ciation to be belli at Milwaukee. Wis., June 11 

 to 14 and invite that organization to hold its 

 convention in St. Louis in 1909. 



Col. E. H. Warner is seltinsr readv for a big 

 business this spring. II- ~a\, ihai just now 

 there is not as much dohi- a- iia n .u-ht to be, 

 but he has faith in th.- luini. .1, i„aii.l, so is 

 laying in a good line oi all ii.-ui.-. ..i hardwood. 



W. E. Keown of the luiernational Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, who has been down in the 

 .\rkansas hardwood districts, says that the small 

 hardwood millmen have little or no stocks of 

 lumber on hand and have closed down. 



Jacob Jlossberger of the Mossberger Lumber 

 Company, reports a little betterment in trade. 

 Country buying is the best because the farmers 

 having realized on their crops are spending a 

 certain portion of the money in improvements. 



The Bloess Lumber Company has changed its 

 name to the Weymann Lumber Company. Otto 

 F. Pfeffer has withdrawn from the company. 



A recent visitor in St. Louis was Franklin 

 Greenwood, general sales manager of the Great 

 Southern Lumber Company. He came to look 

 over the situation. 



A steadily improving business is reported by 

 George E. Hibbard, vice president of the Steele 

 & Hibbard Lumber Company. The volume of 

 business done is much better than it has been 

 and prices are more satisfactory. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, is out on the road looking 

 for business and getting it, for he is sending 

 in some right good sized orders. 



E. W. Luehrmann, vice president of the 

 Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, was not satisfied with the April business, 

 although it was better than that of March. 

 He expects a fine business this month, as con- 

 ditions are much brighter. 



The secretary of the Lumbermen's Exchange. 

 A. 11. r.usli. laa aiveil last week a sample of 

 iia> |Hi|,lai' fi-iini (li.. s.iiiila-i-n Cypress Manu- 

 la-iiHia-;- A--' "iat ii.ii. liui^li.il by Berry Bros., 

 slj,.«in- ihe <lilT.-i.-tit kinds uf wood that bay 

 p.iphir can lie used for. 



J. S. Emigh, president and treasurer of the 

 Emigh Land & Lumber Company of McGehee, 

 Ark., was a visitor at the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change last week. 



S. C. Major, president of the S. C. Major 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, paid St. Louis a 

 visit recently. He says that the situation at 

 Memphis shows but slight improvement. 



T. W. Powe, vice president of the Blummer 

 Lumber Company, says that out in the country, 

 where he has recently made a selling trip, he 

 finds conditions a little better, but prices are 

 not at all to his liking. 



The stockholders of the J. A. Holmes Lumber 

 Company held their annual meeting May 4 at 

 the oflices of the company and elected the 



following oflicei^ an. I an, ,., for t^g ensuing 



year: Robert I 1m, ,,. i " i : H. Hefferkamp, 



vice president; i li : ll-lmes. treasurer; 



Robert H. Tliomi^-.a, ,,,,.iaiy. The officers, 

 with J. A. Holmes, constitute the board of 

 directors. 



Theodore Plummer. president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a two 

 weeks' trip to Mercedes, Tex., where he has been 

 visiting his son. He visited several other points 

 in Texas while away. At the office of the com- 

 pany l.insiii.s. i., i,.|„,itPd to be fairly good and 

 showing -.ma- i]a|.r.,\, inent. 



W. A. i'.rai-a.k, la.'sident of the Bonsack 

 Lumber ('.mipany, says ho does not see any 

 material change in the situation. Buying is 

 being done, but not as lively as it should be. 

 Prices are uncertain and vary. 



Memphis. 



F. E. Stonebraker, who for two years has 

 served as manager of the southern business of 

 the Lansing Wheelbarrow Company at Parkin, 

 Ark., recently sold his interest and the Memphis 

 branch of that company will be discontinued. 

 Mr. Stonebraker will continue the office for 

 his railroad and miIhi' |,rrs,,n.il business. Just 

 what his plans ai. i- laa i.i,,,wn. but it may be 

 authoritatively -t; i ihit la will not long re- 

 main out of the lunihr, IniHu. ss. For the pres- 

 ent he will give his attention to the Crittenden 

 railroad, of which he is president, and to his 

 farm in Arkansas. He proposes to take a rest 

 from the lumber business for a time, as he has 

 not been for fifteen years free from the cares 

 of a sawmill. Mr. Stonebraker is one of the 

 best known lumbermen of Memphis. He has 

 been engaged in the lumber business in Memphis 

 since 1803. For some years he was employed 

 by the L. H. Gage Lumber Company, Providence, 

 R. I., and Memphis, and in 1899 acquired an in- 

 terest in the Crittenden Lumber Company, with 

 mills at Earle, Ark. He left the latter two 

 years ago. when he became interested in the 

 Lansing Wheelbarrow Company. 



It is definitely stated that the big mill of 

 the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company at Charleston, 

 Miss., is about completed and everything is in 

 readiness for operation. This is not only one 

 of the la'-gest plants of its kind in the entire 

 South but it is one of the best and most mod- 

 ernly equipped. General Superintendent W. B. 

 liurke, who has had charge of the construction 

 of the plant, is receiving the congratulations 

 of his friends on the splendid piece of work he 

 has turned out. 



John Dwyer, who on May 1 ia-.iL;nad bis posi- 

 tion as assistant general ii-i-iii la-ar of the 

 Illinois Ceulral and Yazno ,v \ii,-i..i|.i,i Valley 

 railroads, to become trallic aiuuu^er lor the 

 Lamb-Fish Lumber Companj-, was the guest of 

 honor at a banquet given by the railroad men of 

 this cit\ Satuidav evening In addition to 

 tendeim-: Mi Dw%ei this special token of their 

 appreciation the lailioad men piesented him 



with 

 bag c 



lA ehng 

 th »ap- 



opulai 



officials 

 city and 



thi! 



ui 1 n li 1 .1 I 1 1 .s.d that 



he has bit the iiilioad serMee, he is the re- 

 cipient of many congratulations because of his 

 em.barkation in the lumber business. 



Yandell Haun and E. A. Dix were recently 

 appointed receivers for the Bodley Wagon Com- 

 pany of New South Memphis by Judge McCall 

 of the federal court for the Western district 

 of Tennessee. The order of Judge McCall also 

 enjoins all suits against the defendant com- 



