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HARDWOOD RECORD 



a. 360 cars in receipts by rail as compared with 

 last year. Tliere were 430.000 feet of lumber 

 received by river during July this year, as com- 

 pared with 358,000 feet received by river last 

 year. This shows an increase this year of 

 72.000 feet received by river. During July, 

 190S, there were 8,114 cars shipped by rail as 

 against 0,596 ears shipped by rail last July. 

 This shows a falling off this year of 1,482 

 cars. There were 98.000 feet of lumber ship- 

 ped by river during July this year, as against 

 304,000 feet last July, a falling off of 266,000 

 feet. 



.\ new lumber company, the St. Louis Lumber 

 Company, incorporated under the laws of Maine. 

 with a capital stock of ¥1,000,000, was formed 

 a few days ago. The incorporators arc the 

 stockholders and officers of the following lumber 

 companies : Wilson-Reheis-Rolfes Lumber Com- 

 pany, Eau Claiic St. Louis Lumber Company, 

 Vandeventer I.r,i), ■ i ■ ii,].:nn. Louis Essig Lum- 

 ber Company, i, . ih. - 1 Lumber Company, 

 De Hodiamoni I ' . , :iny, Wellston Lum- 

 ber Company, Siii.ti.n .1 'invin. 



Tlie officers i^lettcd at a meeting of the 

 Board of Directors, held July 25, are : Chair- 

 man of the board. N. C. Chapnian ; president. 

 J. .\. Reheis ; vice-president and chairman of 

 tlie executive committee. Stephen J. Cavin . 

 vice-president and treasurer. Harry R. Swartz ; 

 vice-president and general yard manager, J. \V. 

 Putnam ; secretary, Henry G. Rolfes ; assistant 

 secretary. Guy E. Jurden ; assistant treasurer. 

 W. H. Dulany. Jr. 



Executive committee consists of Stephen J. 

 Gavin. John A. Reheis. Harry R. Swartz. J. W. 

 Putnam, and Guy E. Jurden. The merging of 

 the yards of the companies mentioned above 

 will facilitate the handling of lumber l>y reduc- 

 ing expenses, eliminating the long hauls, etc. 

 The new company will be a large buyer and will 

 carry out a large stock of lumber. Some of 

 the yards, it is said, when there are more than 

 one in a given territory, will be dropped. A cen- 

 tral downtown office, probably in the Chemical 

 •building, will be opened shortly. 



The Atlas Lumber and Supply Company is a 

 newly Incorporated company, formed to do a 

 genei;al lumber and supply business, Joseph D. 

 McAllister holds twenty-four shares of stock, 

 W. C. Bland ten shares, and A. B. Cherry one 

 share. The capital stock of the new company 

 .is $S.500. fully paid. 



R, J. O'Reilly, president of the O'Reilly Lum- 

 ■ber Company, left last Sunday night for a 

 month's vacation. He will spend It at Glou- 

 cester. Mass. Before leaving Mr, O'Reilly said 

 that, while orders were coming in pretty well, 

 they were small, but it showed that conditions 

 were a little better and Uiat the small dealers 

 were Inclined to buy. Inquiries were coming in 

 •fjulte freely. 



At the office of the Steele & HIbbard Lumber 

 Company it was said that business was rather 

 quiet, although they were doing their share 

 of it. L. Giedinghagen. the auditor of the 

 company, returned August 1 from a couple oi 

 weeks spent on the Gasconade tlver, lishlng. 



G. H. Barnes, president of the George H. 

 Barnes Hardwood Lumber Company, has gone 

 to Minnesota, where he will spend two or three 

 weeks on pleasure. 



The following circular was sent out to the 

 trade on August 1 : 



"This will announce that the undersigned have 

 organized the Krcbs-Scheve Lumber Company, 

 succeeding the R. F. Krebs Lumber Company. 

 The? will continue to do a general hardwood 

 lumber business. Vour patronage heretofore has 

 been very much appreciated, and the new Drm 

 will endeavor to merit its continuance. 

 "Yours very truly, 



"R. F, Kbbbs, 



"J. L. SCHEVE. 



' Krcbs-Scheve Lumber Company. 



•St. Louis. Mo.. August 1. 1908." 



Both R. F. Krebs and J. L. Schcve are well 



known in hardwood lumber circles. Mr. Krebs 



bn-i been at the head of the E. F. Krebs Lumljer 



■ nny and at various times has been with the 



old Eau Claire Lumber Company, Steele & Hil> 

 bard and the Ozark Lumber & Cooperage Com- 

 pany, from which company he went into business 

 for himself. Mr. Scheve has l>een with the 

 Bonsack Lumber Company, and later with the 

 W. D. Reeves Lumber Company of Helena, ArK 

 The new Arm starts Into business under the 

 most auspicious conditions, with good financial 

 backing and a wide acquaintance. 



A son arrived at the home of C. E. Thomas 

 of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company a 

 few days ago. 



William Dings. Sr . formerly with the R. F. 

 Krebs Lumber Company, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of assistant sales agent at St. Louis for 

 the Lee Wilson Lumber Company of Memphis, 

 Tenn. 



A. J. Lang of the Lang Lumber Company is 

 at his cottage at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, for the 

 summer. 



An Inventory of the estate of Carl Lotbmann, 

 director In the Mechanics' Planing Mill Com- 

 pany, filed recently for probate, shows the 

 estate to be valued at $34,571.21. 



If existing conditions are any sign, E. S. Lit- 

 tle of the Little Lumber Company says there 

 will be a nice increase In his business during the 

 month of August. 



E. H. Luchrmann, vice-president of the Charles 

 F. Luchrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, says 

 there Is a general quietness In the hardwood 

 lumber business, although their business Is very 

 much better than he thought It would be a 

 couple of weeks ago. Their July business was 

 quite satisfactory and their August sales are 

 starting In fairly good. 



Theodore Plummer, president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company, says a slight Improvement 

 is noticeable In the hardwood business. Business 

 is better than It was, but not what it ought 

 to be. They arc not looking after business, 

 but, of course, do not refuse it when it comes 

 in without solicitation, and there Is a good deal 

 of that kind of business now coming In. 



R. D. Sumner, formerly with the Massengale 

 Lumber Company, but more recently with the 

 Ozark Cooperage' & Lumber Company as sales 

 manager, has gone back to the Massengale Lum- 

 lier Company. 



CHARLOTTE 



John II. Crank of Fredericks, Va.. is now 

 Imsy making estimates oh certain valuable tim- 

 ber lands In North Carolina and Virginia, said 

 lo contain 70,000,000 feet of timber. The lands 

 are being negotiated for by New York concerns, 

 and details of the company's plans for devel- 

 oping the timber will be given out later. 



Washington, N. C.,~ls the home of a new con- 

 cern that will engage In the manufacture of 

 staves principally. The name of the new com- 

 pany Is the Atlantic Manufacturing & Stave 

 Company and the principal stockholders are 

 B. G. Moss of Washington and C. T. Hobart 

 and John A. Watkins of Lima, O. The com- 

 pany has Just purchased a site for Its plant and 

 it Is hoped to be ready for operation this 

 winter. The capital stock Is ?50,000. 



The Belhaven Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Belhaven, N. C, has been chartered 

 with a capital stock of ?100,000 by J. A. Wil- 

 kinson, A. C. Opperman and others. The com- 

 pany will deal In timber lands, manufacture 

 lumber, operate sawmills, etc. 



The sawml'.I of the Charles Creek Lumber 

 Company of Charles Creek. N. C, near Eliza- 

 beth City, was destroyed by fire recently. The 

 company carried only $4,600 insurance, but this 

 does not cover half the loss. 



R. C. Toon of Chadbourne, N. C, has Just 

 been elected secretary and treasurer of the 

 Clear Run Lumber Company, whose plant Is lo- 

 cated at Tomahawk, N. C, to succeed H. W. 

 Fry, who resigned to engage In the wholesale 

 lumber business at Ashevllle, N. C. The Clear 

 l!un Lumber rnmpany projioses to Install shortly 



a band mill and a circular mill, which, when 

 installed, will give the company a daily output 

 of 50,000 to 60,000 feet. 



One of the largest lumber plants of the entire 

 South is now being built at Bolton, N. C, by the 

 Waccamaw Land and Improvement Company. 

 This company is capitalized at a million dollar.s. 

 Already its shingle mill at Bolton is completed, 

 its planing mill is rapidly nearing completion, 

 and the main plant will soon be finished. This 

 company owns extensive timber holdings in 

 Brunswick and New Hanover counties, N. C. 

 It also owns what is known as the Green Swamp 

 Lands, embracing about sixteen square miles 

 in Columbus county, N. C. 



W. H. Bryant of Lumberton, N. C, has Just 

 sold his interest In the Carolina Lumber Com- 

 pany to Messrs. McAllister and McLeod of Lum 

 berton, who propose to enlarge the plant. 



In place of the plant that was burned some 

 time ago, the BrownWIIllamston Ijind and Lum- 

 ber Company of Cerro Gordo, N. C, has Just 

 completed a fine new plant. The output of their 

 new band and planing mills amounts to about 

 75,000 feet dally. 



The Whitevllle Lumber Company of Whlte- 

 vllle, N. C, Is replacing Its plant which was 

 burned some time ago, with a fine new one. The 

 new plant is being erected by the insurance com- 

 pany that had the old one Insured. 



The North Carolina Geological and Economic 

 Survey will assist land owners to make their 

 timber lands profitable. For this reason the 

 State Forester will personally examine lands 

 when requested to do so by the owners, pro- 

 vided there are at least 500 acres at one place to 

 be examined. The forester will give advice and 

 prepare plans showing the best methods of cut- 

 ling and protecting timber In order to make 

 the yields more profitable. 



The bankruptcy proceedings of three creditors 

 against the Craggo Lumber Company came up 

 for a hearing at Ashevllle, N. C, a few days 

 ago, before Judge J. E. Boyd of the United 

 States District Court, and upon objection to the 

 Insufficiency of the verifications to the petition 

 by defendant, the judge made an order sus- 

 taining the point. The petitioners were there- 

 upon allowed to amend upon payment of costs 

 and were given until July 27 to file, and the 

 defendant until fifteen days thereafter In whici. 

 to answer or plead. The petitioners claim that 

 the lumber company, which operates In western 

 Carolina, owes them about $1,500 and Is liable 

 to bankruptcy on account of financial condition : 

 the defendant Insists that It has abundant un- 

 incumbered property to meet any Judgment ob- 

 tained and will sue for heavy damages on ac- 

 count of the filing of the petition. 



LOUISVILLE 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany said : "We arc busy ; sold more lumber In 

 dollars and cents In July than we did twelve 

 months ago. We feel that plain oak Is good 

 property. We are selling It and wish we had 

 more of It." 



C. M. Sears, treasurer of the E. L. Davis 

 Lumber Company, said : "We are busy ; our 

 mills are running both at Louisville and Glas- 

 gow. Glad to say June and July were better 

 than any months this year. We go Into Au- 

 gust with more business on our books than we 

 have had in previous months. Have a fair stock 

 on hand and are taking care of our mixed car 

 orders with the same attention that we did 

 500,000 feet orders In the past months. The 

 consumer Is our best friend now. He has to 

 fill In his stocks and Is giving us his orders. 

 We can use more and give them prompt at- 

 tention, but we are not dissatisfied with the 

 situation, everything considered," 



Over at the big Mengel plant there was an 

 air of satisfaction which Indicated that ma- 

 hogany was a necessity and not a bixnry any 

 more. "For the pnst few months business has 



