HARDWOOD RECORD 



U. S. Bailey, president of the company, pur- 

 chased the boundary Irom R. S. Rowland several 

 years ago. Creditors filing the prtition are the 

 Citizens' Trust & Savings Bank. Henry Disston 

 & Sons and W. H. Westall & Co. o£ Asheville. 

 The petition alleges that the lumber company 

 committed an act of banljruptcy several weelts 

 ago by giving to the Battery Paris Bank of Ashe- 

 ville a deed of trust on part of its property to 

 secure $18,000. The total amount alleged to be 

 due the creditors flling the petition is only 

 $1,200. The lumber company has been cited to 

 appear and show cause, if any there be, why the 

 prayer of petitioners should not be granted. 



Judge Charles E. Day of Lexington, Ky., has 

 just sold to the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Com- 

 pany of Orange, Tex., for Ashevliie, N. C, par- 

 ties, a tract of virgin poplar and oak timber In 

 western North Carolina, containing 55,000 acres, 

 the consideration being $825,000. This Is the 

 largest timber deal consummated In the South in 

 a long time. A logging camp has been estab- 

 lished in the forest, which is the finest in the 

 Allegheny mountains, end immense lumber mills 

 will be built on the tract. 



From various furniture manufacturing centers 

 of the state information comes that orders are 

 coming in rapidly and business is resuming nor- 

 mal activity again. The furniture men were 

 hard bit by the panic, but happily the worst U 

 over and they are again busily engaged with 

 prospects of continuing sn. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Quite a number of lumbermen were visitors 

 In MinneapolU last week, attending the various 

 ceremonies and functions connected with the 

 meeting of the Imperial council of the Nobles 

 of the Mystic Shrine. The Minneapolis lumber 

 fraternity Is well represented, and nil have been 

 busy with entertainment of the visitors, for 

 though the main sessions are held in St. Paul, 

 the local Shriners did their share of the enter- 

 taining. D. 1''. Clark, president of the North- 

 western Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, was 

 active in the work, and C. F. Osborne, another 

 prominent member of Znhrah Temple, Minneapo- 

 lis, was a wheel-horse in the strenuous days of 

 the council. F. T. Peltch, assistant manager of 

 the Advance Lumber Company, Cleveland, O., 

 was one of the visitors here, coming as a repre- 

 sentative of Al Koran Temple of Cleveland. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company is spending most of the summer with 

 his family at their cottage near Annandale, 

 Minn. He came in the other day for the Shrine 

 festivities and the automobile races. A. S. Bliss 

 of the same company reports that their salesmen 

 have been getting a good line of hardwood orders, 

 but that local trade continues to be from hand 

 to mouth and mall business Is still slow. 



The Missouri Lumber & Land Exchange Com- 

 pany of Kansas City has opened a sales office 

 in Minneapolis, at 244 Security Bank Building, 

 with E. M. Jones In charge as northern sales 

 manager of the company. They are going after 

 retail yard trade and have mills at Grandln and 

 Winona, Mo., also In Louisiana, where they are 

 engaged in manufacturing yellow pine. 



Building activity at Minneapolis continues 

 very good, and the same Is true of St. Paul, also 

 of most of the smaller cities of the Northwest. 

 The lower cost of material Is appealing to men 

 of small means who want to get homes, and this 

 is the bulk of the building, as not so many busi- 

 ness blocks and skyscrapers are being erected. 

 White pine men arc predicting an advance In 

 their prices before fall that will bring them up 

 above the January lists, and the trade here Is 

 generally counting on an upward movement. 



through Ohio with some very desirable orders, 

 especially for bill oalc. Mr. Page advises that 

 conditions are much changed since several 

 weeks ago, and feels satisfied that business is 

 bound to return to normal conditions. His 

 company has again started its mill at Farm- 

 ers, working all the departments full time and 

 loading out several cars this week of bill and 

 export oak. Its log supply will last probably 

 until December. 



C. N. Crane of C. Crane & Co. of Cincinnati 

 passed here this week with a couple of fleets 

 of fine poplar logs, en route to the firm's mills 

 at Cincinnati. 



S. M. Bradley, the tie and lumber dealer of 

 Morehead, was a business visitor In this city 

 this week. Mr. Bradley is one of the largest 

 tie dealers on the Lexington division of the 

 C. & O. In connection with the tie business 

 he handles a large amount of lumber. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co.. who have had their 

 ■ double band mill shut down for a few weeks, 

 will not be able to run until they receive an- 

 other supply of logs. They have a la.rge run 

 of logs through the breaks of the Sandy, and 

 with the first rise they will receive a good 

 run of logs, which will probably run them sev- 

 eral months. They have on sticks a nice lot 

 of poplar lumber and advise that they are re- 

 ceiving some orders tor high-grade stock. 

 John W. Kitchen of this company is on a 

 business trip through Ohio and Michigan this 

 week looking after the interests of his firm. 



Leon Isaacson of Brooklyn, N. Y.. president 

 of the yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove, Ohio, is a business caller in the city 

 this week. Mr. Isaacson advises that they are 

 running all departments of their mills and 

 yards full time. They are receiving an in- 

 creased amount of orders during this month, 

 and feel very much encouraged over the pres- 

 ent outlook. This nrm has enough poplar logs 

 to run until probably the first of the" year. 

 During the past week several fleets of their 

 poplar have passed here. 



It is almost a decided fact that there will 

 be built in the Big Sandy river, near Plke- 

 vllle. a large concrete dam, and also one in 

 the river abov^ the breaks. Leon Isaacson of 

 the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, with the 

 chief engineer. Mr. McDyer. will look over the 

 grounds this week, and will draft plans and 

 specifications to be sent to contractors for 

 bids on the work. The Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company receive from above the breaks a 

 large supply of their poplar timber. 



Wm. Eckman of the R. G. Page Lumber 

 Company was on a business trip up the Sandy 

 last week, loading several cars of lumber to 

 be shipped to the yards here. 



J. H. P. Smith, president of the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a busi- 

 ness trip through Michigan. Indiana and Illi- 

 nois. Mr. Smith has returned with a nice lot 

 of orders for oak, poplar and chestnut lum- 

 ber, and also advises quite an improvement 

 In market conditions, and Is very much In- 

 clined to believe that it is only a. question of 

 time now until business will return to a more 

 normal condition. 



Mr. Hogg of the Hogg Lumber Company of 

 Glen Jean. W. Va.. was a business visitor In 

 the city this week, calling on several of the 

 lumbermen, looking after the Interests of his 

 company. Mr. Hogg advises that the lumber 

 business is very quiet in his locality, with not 

 a great supply of dry stock ready for the mar- 

 ket. He also advises that this Is not only 

 the condition of his firm, but of their neigh- 

 bors. The supply of dry stock is very limited. 



Emanuel Brammer, a well-known Ironton 

 lumberman, who owns and operates a saw- 

 mill at Hart, W. Va.. on the Guyan branch of 

 the C. & O.. met with what will probably 

 prove a fatal accident List week at the saw 

 mill, a log rolling over him, striking him in 



such a manner as to bend him almost double 

 and severely injuring his back. 



Robert Young of the Hschel Lumber Com- 

 pany. Salt Lick, Ky., was a business visitor 

 in the city this week looking after the inter- 

 ests of his company. 



B. F. Vansant. one of the leading lumber- 

 men of Morehead, Ky., was a business visitor 

 in the city this week. 



The Standard Planing Mill Company has 

 lately closed contracts for several fine resi- 

 dences to be built in this city, and also will 

 furnish the material for one of the finest resi- 

 dences to be built In Catlettsburg. This firm 

 reports business very good. 



The W. H. Dawklns Lumber Company ad- 

 vises that It Is receiving inquiries now for 

 large blocks of poplar lumber, which would 

 indicate that buyers are getting In line again 

 to lay in a new supply. This company has In 

 Its yards a fine lot of poplar lumber, and has 

 enough logs to continue operating Its large 

 band mill at Ironlon for some months to come. 



NORFOLK 



W. V. Itost, of the IVrd Urcuuer Lumber Com- 

 pany, which recently removed its headquarters 

 from Norfolk to Cincinnati, was in the city last 

 week upon a visit to his sisters, who reside here. 

 Mr. Best sailed last week on the Hamburg- 

 American line for Bremen, where he will look up 

 trade and study foreign market conditions. Mr. 

 Best will go direct to Cincinnati on bis return 

 several weeks hence. 



The plant of the Farmers' Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, large manufacturers of barrels, boxes, etc.. 

 hare announced their Intention of rebuilding 

 their plant upon a larger scale in the Immediate 

 future. This firm was recently visited by a dis- 

 astrous tire, which destroyed an enormous quan- 

 tity of gum lumber. 



Varying reports as to the condition of the 

 export market arc heard from the different local 

 concerns. Some are able to report Improvement, 

 though slight, while others see no change In 

 conditions. Kcld & Co., stave exporters, In the 

 Citizens' Bank Building, say that during the 

 latter part of June business was somewhat bet- 

 ter than for some time past. F. W. Blake, of 

 the exporting firm of F. W. Blake & Co., reports 

 business dull, though not unusually so. He says 

 that there Is some trade moving, but that prices 

 are not satisfactory. 



Exports for the month of June were quite 

 heavy. A detailed list follows : 



4,384,000 feet sawed timber $282,550 



Logs, etc 33,533 



2T--',000 staves 8,000 



Heading 1,760 



Bark 1,996 



Building In Toledo Is still dull, but the gen- 

 eral character of the structures under way Is of 

 a superior quality and will consume considerable 

 hardwood. 



After lying In the wet ground for nearly 

 eighty years workmen removed a large quantity 

 of hardwood timbers at Massillon, Ohio, last 

 week. Many of them were twenty-flve and 

 thirty feet long and two feet square, ond all 

 were In a remarkable stole of preservation. 



The Dayton Lumber Company of Dayton. 

 Ohio, will rebuild the plant which was recently 

 destroyed by live In that city. The new struc- 

 ture will be of brick and concrete, four stories 

 bigh and will cover five city lots. 



With a terrific charge of nilroKlyrerln thieves 

 blew the door of the big safe through the win- 

 dow, wrecked the interior of the building and 

 destroyed the furniture of the Charles Cook 



