HARDWOOD RECORD 



now prevails and with a united effort of all 

 lines of business, prosperity must beam 

 upon us. The Implement, Vehicle & Hardware 

 Association of St. Louis, also at their regular 

 monthly meeting, passed resolutions, stating 

 that they believed there is no reason why the 

 present business stagnation should continue, 

 and that the healthy financial condition of 

 the country Justifies the resumption of busi- 

 ness in all lines, and heartily indorsed tlie 

 plan and offered cooperation in everj' way 

 possible. Owing to the fact that a great many 

 of the members of the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 of St. Louis will be out of the city in attend- 

 ance at the National Hardwood Association 

 convention in Milwaukee. June 11 to 14, their 

 regular monthly meeting on June 12 has been 

 set back one week and will be held on 

 June 5. 



A recent visitor in St. Louis was Ed Paine 

 of the Paine Sash & Door Company, Oshkosh, 

 Wis. Birch veneered doors are a specialty of 

 the company. Mr. Paine has been on a busi- 

 ness trip through the East and was on his 

 way home when he stopped off here. He says 

 business in the East is just about the same as 

 here. 



The representative of King Edward of Eng- 

 land evidently knew where the best market 

 for furniture is located. He has found it right 

 in St. Louis. That was substantiated a few 

 days ago when the Furniture Exposition sold 

 to J. C. Plumplin of Liverpool, England, the 

 representative of the King, $35,000 worth of 

 furniture. The furniture will be manufactured 

 in Louisville, Ky., and Evansville, Ind., and 

 will be shipped down the river to New Orleans 

 and thence to England. The order includes 

 both expensive and cheap furniture. This is 

 the first time a "real live" King ever bought 

 furniture in St. Louis. 



The Sendelbach Wheel Company, an East 

 St. Louis wheel factory, was totally destroyed 

 by fire May 16. The contents of the factory 

 were valued at $75,000 and were insured for 

 $59,000. The plant will be rebuilt immediately. 



V. Mistretta, president and traffic manager 

 of the Southern Steamship & Improvement 

 Company of Galveston, and S. S. Fife, com- 

 mercial agent of the Missouri Pacific, were in 

 St. Louis recently trying to interest St. Louis- 

 ans in Tobasco mahogany. They say it can 

 be laid down In St. Ixiuis very cheaply. 



The vice-president of the Charles F. Luehr- 

 raann Hardwood Lumber Company, E. H. 

 Luehrmann, reports business in fairly good 

 good shape. The company is getting orders 

 right along and is not complaining. Its plants 

 at Black .River were shut down for a while, 

 owing to the Black river overflowing its banks. 

 The plant at Mariana did not shut down, for 

 it is so constructed that high water does not 

 Interfere with its operations. 



Conditions are reported as satisfactory with 

 the Mosberger Lumber Company, although 

 inices are not as good as might be. 



E. W. Blumer, general sales manager of 

 the Lothman Cypress Company, is out on a 

 month's trip. Before he left he said that 

 business seemed better with them. Prices 

 on cypress are strengthening and business 

 looks good for the future. 



Miss Mable Black and Theodore M. Plum- 

 mer of Mercedes. Texas, were married Tues- 

 day evening. May 19, at the home of the 

 bride's sister. The wedding was originally 

 set for fall, but as Mr. Plummer, who is the 

 son of Theodore Plummer. president of the 

 Plummer Lumber Company of this city, was 

 obliged to come to St. Louis from Texas, 

 where he is now li\'ing, persuaded his bride 

 to be married this spring. Mr. Plummer and 

 his bride departed immediately after the cere- 

 mony for a tour of California and Colorado, 

 and on their return will reside in Mercedes, 

 where Mr. Plummer has a ranch. 



Fire Wednesday morning. May 20, destroyed 



NASHVILLE 



Nashville is to have a new industry in the 

 hardwood line in the shape of a table factory 

 to he erected in the near future by the Standard 

 Furniture Company. The concern will employ 

 100 men and will manufacture all grades of 

 tables. This will be the only factory of the 

 kind in Nashville — the only one, in fact, in this 

 section of the country, the nearest ones being 

 at Chattanooga and Evansville, neither point 

 being within 150 miles. The factory will be 

 three stories high and of brick. The latest and 

 most Improved machinery will be installed and 

 the building and its fixtures will cost about 

 ?25,000. T. F. Bonner of the Standard Furni- 

 ture Company will be at the head of this new 

 concern. 



A new lumber concern that will open in 

 Nashville May 24 Is the Crescent Lumber Com- 

 pany. At its head are two of the best known 

 and most successful young lumbermen of the 

 city— J. Milton Wells and E. R. Winkler. Mr. 

 Wells has for a number of years been with 

 Love, Boyd & Co. and also with the W. J. Cude 

 Land & LTimber Company. Although still 

 quite a young man, he Is said to be equipped 

 with experience that would do credit to a 

 lumberman of much maturer years. Mr. Wink- 

 ler Is president of The Lumber Employes' Cor- 

 poration. 



A special from Lynnvllle, Tenn., announces 

 that the Patterson & Major saw and planing 

 mill at that place has closed down. The con- 

 trolling Interest iu' this mill was owned by 

 \V. B. Earthman, the Murfreesboro lumberman 

 who recently made an assignment, and this mill 

 was Included In the list. The business of the 

 mill is bclDg wound up by G. V. Patterson. 

 Its closing Is generally regretted, as the mill 

 had been quite an Important ludustry in Lynn- 

 vllle's list. 



Quite n number of the Nashville lumbermen 

 will go on the booster trip of the Nashville 

 Board of Trade. Each spring or early summer 

 the local Board of Trade, representing all of 

 Nashville's commercial and industrial features, 

 makes a tour of some section of the country. 

 The trip Is made in a special and good speakers 

 are taken along. Short stops and short speeches 

 are made at all the points along the route and 

 advertising matter, boosting Nashville and her 

 Industries, etc.. Is distributed. It Is from this 

 method of lx)ostlng that the club got Its name of 

 "Boosters." The trip this season will be made 

 thioagh the state of Mississippi and a special 

 will leave on thjs morning of June 15 and return 

 In one week. 



Local politics still continue to Interfere mate- 

 rially with business In Nashville. In fact, there 

 is so much politics stirring that the average 

 m.in here would rather talk politics than busi- 

 ness. The county for some weeks has been In 

 the midst of the hottest kind of campaign over 

 who shall be sheriff of Davidson county. In 

 which Nashville Is located. Quite a number of 

 the local lumbermen have taken a hand In the 

 local sheriff's race, being for the reform candi- 

 date who is running for reelection. Arthur B. 

 Itansom of the firm of John B. Ransom & Co., 

 II. Kal Ilowse of the Montgomery Furniture 

 (Company nnd other local dealers have hacked 

 the reform candidate. 



CHARLOTTE 



a lumber center of importance. An eastern com- 

 pany recently made extensive purchases of tim- 

 ber lands in that vicinity, and contemplates the 

 <oustruction of a railway from Andrews to Its 

 timber lands nearby. The company, it is said, 

 will put in a large band mill and other fac- 

 tories, and will work up the output of its mill, 

 thus giving employment, when the factories and 

 mill are completed, to about 700 men. No one 

 thing is facilitating the lumber business in west- 

 ern and eastern Carolina than the building of 

 new railways Into timbered sections. 



The Carolina Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Asheville, N. C, has been organized with $15,000 

 capital stock to buy and sell timber lands, op- 

 erate sawmills and manufacture all kinds of 

 hardwoods. B. P. and M. S. Baer of Baltimore 

 and Louis M. Bourne of Asheville are the in- 

 corporators. 



The large sawmill plant of W. T. Sears & Co. 

 at Wananlsh, N. C, a large quantity of ma- 

 chinery, logs and a considerable amount of tim- 

 ber lands, were sold at public auction a few days 

 ago at Wilmington, 'N. C, by Receiver J. D. Bel- 

 lamy. Henry C. Riley of Philadelphia, i'a , 

 bought the property, paying $15,000 ther. i" 

 The sale Is subject to confirmation by couii. li 

 will be recalled that President W. T. Sears, wbu 

 was one of the most prominent lumbermen of 

 the state, died since the company went into the 

 hands of a receiver. 



Thomas S. Beall of Greensboro, N. C, has 

 been appointed receiver for the Southern Match 

 Company of Ronda, N. C, and he is now In 

 Kouda winding up the company's affairs. Tbis 

 Is a New York corporation with plain n i: 

 which manufactured matches on a i .: 



The offices of the company are at :;■. i i 



New York, and George Munro of Nirt loiL ,, 

 president of the company, and David C. Myers 

 of New York is treasurer. Mr. Myers says the 

 nominal assets of the company amount to $40,- 

 000 ; good assets, $20,000. lie states the liabili- 

 ties amount to .f50,000. Messrs. Myers and 

 Munro are the principal stockholders, also the 

 principal creditors, having advanced $45,000 to 

 the company. 



Furniture dealers of this state arc experiencing 

 decidedly improved conditions now, most of the 

 factories running full time. It will be recalled 

 the association decided to cut hours some time 

 ago to strengthen the market by curtailment of 

 l)roductlon. Now, however, most of the factories 

 are running as of old and report a good busi- 

 ness. 



The fine new mill of the Dennis-Simmons Lum- 

 ber Company at Middlesex, N. C, is now in full 

 operation. It has a dally capacity of 60,000 feet. 



The General Fire Extinguisher Company of 

 Charlotte, through its representative, J. W. Con- 

 way, who has just returned from a trip to .Minne- 

 apolis and Chicago, has recently closed a con- 

 tract with the Bahama Timber Company, Limited, 

 for the complete fire protection and piping sys- 

 tems of the immense lumber plants which t' ■■• 

 company Is building at Wilson Clt.v, Islaii ! 

 Abaco, one of the Bahama group. The exc. u 

 of the work will be taken care of by tli. 

 lanta, Ga., and Charlotte plants of the lir. 

 tlngulsher company. The Bahama Timber ■ 

 paoy will operate Its own line of steamers. \'' 

 will transport timber both to the United si 

 and foreign counlrii-s. 



ASHLAND 



The Kanawha Hardwood Company now lias 

 about twenty miles of Its railroad completed, 

 from Andrews, N. C. to Its timber holdings In 

 the Snowbird mountains. Lumber, logs and add 

 wood are thus transported to the company's 

 headquarters at Andrews. Andrews Is situated 

 In the mountains of western North Carolina, 

 not far from Asheville, and Is rapidly becoming 



W. H. Dawkins, president of the W. H. 

 Hawkins Lumber Company of this city, has 

 returned from West Baden Springs where he 

 has been for the past ten days. W. E. i 

 ger of this company has returned fron 

 business trip to Chicago and reports r. 

 of a nice lot of orders, mostly for i>. i 

 The company Is operating Its large ban.t < 

 at Ironton ten hours a day, and manui 

 turing a nice lot of poplar. 



The Ashland Lumber Company has au . ^ 



