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inspector and asked that the distance be cut 

 down to foity feet, but this was refused. The 

 wholesalers say they will have an amendment 

 submitted to the city council changing the or- 

 dinance in that respect. It is believed that it 

 will pass. 



Cleveland is to have a great new store. The 

 John Hartness Brown building on Euclid avenue, 

 which has been under loof tor four years, but 

 which has never been finished, is to be com- 

 pleted at once for the new lessee, the John 

 Chaffin Company of New York, backed by a 

 syndicate which controls some of the biggest 

 stores in America. The announcement is made 

 that the immense building is to be elaborately 

 fitted up with u-ahogany furniture and is to 

 be floored with quartered oak flooring through- 

 out. The furnishings and appointments will be 

 of the very finest. 



George S. Gynn and C. A. Krauss of the 

 Krauss-Gynn Lumber Company opent several 

 days recently visiting the lumber districts in 

 northern Ontario. 



Cleveland has a new box company, located in 

 the flats adjoining the plant of the Gill Lumber 

 Company. A concrete block mill is being 

 erected and already considerable stock is being 

 turned out. The concern is to be known as 

 the Banner Box Company and as soon as In- 

 corporated its backers will be announced. 



Frank H. Christian of Alpena, Mich., was a 

 •visitor at the offices of the Cleveland trade dur- 

 ing the past week. 



Announcement is made that the Cleveland 

 Lumber Company has been merged with the 

 Saginaw Bay Company, the latter assuming full 

 control hereafter. The concern has been re- 

 organized with L. D. Coman remaining as secre- 

 tary and manager, and Albert Barth as vice- 

 president. O. W. Prescott, W. H. I'rescott and 

 C. H. Prescolt, Jr., are new directors of the 

 company. The Cleveland Lumber Company was 

 aBEected by the recent failure of a Cleveland 

 bank, so a meeting of creditors took place with 

 the result that the Saginaw Bay Company took 

 charge of the plant and yards. The Cleveland 

 company has had one of the best located yards 

 in the East End for several years and has done 

 a good trade. 



Will Martin of the Martln-Barriss Company 

 reports that conditions are materially improv- 

 ing. While the orders are for comparatively 

 small quantities cf stock they are coming with 

 much greater regularity. 



Business with the Advance Lumber Com- 

 pany is improving, according to F. T. Peitch of 

 that company. This is particularly true of the 

 hardwood market, which has shown more 

 strength during the past month than for any 

 pariod since tne panic struck the company. 



COLUMBUS 



A change was auuuuu^ed luis week in the per- 

 sonnel of the F. McDonnell Lumber Company. F. 

 McDonnell, who for years has been a stockholder 

 in the company and general manager, has sold 

 his holdings in the company to E. N. Uuggins, 

 who now has complete control. E. N. Huggins, 

 !■'. McDonnell and K. A. Bcnua were the organiz- 

 ers of the company and the principal stock- 

 holders at the start, but both the latter have sold 

 their stock to Mr. Uuggins, who will guide the 

 future affairs of the company from this on. 

 Mr. McDonnell will open offices at 210 So-jth 

 High street and do a strictly commission lumber 

 business in the future. The F. McDonnell Lum- 

 ber Company has a large tract of valuable tim- 

 ber lands in Tennessee and will continue to do 

 business in the future as it has done in the past. 



The McLaugblln-lloffman Lumber Company an- 

 nounced this week that it would soon open of- 

 fices at Meridian, Miss. Charles 11. Wagner of 

 the company left several days ago for that place 

 with a view of opening an oUice for the pur- 

 chasing of yellow pine. B. F. Becker, who for 

 some time has been representing the company in 



this district, will have charge of the offices. 

 This company reports business as moving along 

 steadily and says that prices are higher, espe- 

 cially on the better grades of lumber. It has 

 done a good business this week and has several 

 large contracts pending. 



The General Lumber Company has its men on 

 the road but so far they have only been taking 

 orders in a small way. The company is doing a 

 fair business but it is not as large as it usually 

 is .It this time of the year. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company continues 

 to receive good orders and the volume of sales 

 is in advance of expectations for this time of 

 the year. This company has advanced prices on 

 several grades of lumber and is receiving a goodly 

 number of orders at the higher level. 



The Sowers-Leach Lumber Company states that 

 orders are coming in with more regularity and 

 are not so diflicult to cl.jse as they were several 

 weeks ago. This company says that business is 

 gradually improving, prices firmer and expects 

 steady gains from this on. 



The C. T. Nelson Lumber Company reports 

 business as picking up all along the line. The 

 company is doing a good wholesale business, but 

 it says that retail dealers are complaining of a 

 quiet trade. 



The Powell Lumber Company notes continued 

 improvement and the outlook is better but in cer- 

 tain grades of lumber there is but little doing. 

 It expects better business during the fall months. 



Kenneth McLeod, president of the American 

 Hardwood Company, is at Jackson, Mich., this 

 week on business relative to his company, which 

 will probably begin to manufacture some time In 

 September. This company has a large tract of 

 hardwood timber lands in Arkansas. 



CINCINNATI 



The Kentucky l.ivcr 1 uplar Company, a large 

 concern located at Lexington, Ky., will move 

 its present headquarters from the blue grass 

 region to the tjueen city the latter part of this, 

 mouth. President Roberts visited the Queen 

 city the middle part of the month and engaged 

 office room in the Union Trust building, where 

 the local offices will be located. The concern 

 has three large mills, located at Frankfort, Val- 

 ley View and Irvine, Ky. After the local head- 

 quarters are well established arrangements will 

 be made to establish a yard here. The Queen 

 city has become quite a lumber center during 

 the last ten years, and no less than fifteen new 

 concerns have moved their headquarters here. 



The Ault & Jackson Company have been doing 

 a fair volume of business during the past fort- 

 night. A. V. Jackson has left for a business trip 

 north. 



B. F. Dnlwcher of the John Dulweber Lumber 

 Company left last week on a business trip. 



The K. and P. Lumber Company, one of the 

 lar.gest exporters of this city, have made arrange- 

 ments to reopen their three southern mills on 

 August 24. About .300 men are already at work 

 constructing a railroad into the woods at Owsley 

 county, Kentucky, which is in the vicinity of 

 their three mills. The nfew railroad will be 

 stretched out into the large timber tract of the 

 company, and the work on this project is ex- 

 pected to be completed on or about August 24. 

 Max Kosse, who is in charge of the local head- 

 quarters, is In the South at the present time 

 looking after the construction of the road, and 

 making every preparation tor the re-opening of 

 the three large mills. The Louisville & Nashville 

 road connects with the branch being erected by 

 the company. T. B. Shoe, who is in charge of 

 local headquarters in the absence of Mr. Kosse, 

 stated that the export trade has been showing up 

 much better with all grades of hardwoods, while 

 the local trade is rather slow, but an improve- 

 ment is looked for within the next few weeks. 



Dwight Hinckley of the Hinckley Lumber 

 Company returned from a southern trip last 

 week, where he completed a deal for the entire 



output of a southern mill. The company has 

 been in existence but two years and during that 

 time has been doing a very good business. The 

 Cleveland office, recently opened, is also doing 

 well. 



Lee Wilson & Co. of Memphis, Tenn., have 

 filed an intervening petition in the insolvency 

 case against the Wiborg & Hanna Company. 

 The Memphis firm filed claim for $3,339.93. 



The T. B. Stone Lumber Company consum- 

 mated a deal the middle of the month by which 

 it bought all of the stock • and assets of the 

 Stone & Heyser Lumber Company. The Stone 

 & Heyser Company has an office located at Mem- 

 phis and this will be continued under the new 

 management. W. E. Heyser, who had charge of 

 the Memphis office, will make Cincinnati his 

 headquarters. 



S. W. Jiichey of Richey, Halstead & Quick 

 says that all grades of hardwoods are showing 

 up much better, especially plain white oak. The 

 demand for poplar is very urgent and that fact, 

 combined with the general scarcity of the wood, 

 makes prices very firm. A gradual improve- 

 ment is now looked for in all hardwoods. 



The Lewin Lumber Company with yards at 

 Langdon and Floral avenue, Evanston, is do- 

 ing a much better business now than for sev- 

 eral weeks, principally in the building lines. 

 A small Are In the yards recently did a trifle 

 damage to a small pile of lumber. 



George Littleford of the Littleford Lumber 

 Company, who has just returned from a southern 

 trip, stated that conditions in the South are 

 more favorable than last month, and give prom- 

 ise of regaining strength right along. The local 

 trade is fair, but the real trade will not show up 

 very well until late in the fall, presumably after 

 the presidential election. 



E. O. Robinson of Mowbray & Robinson no- 

 tices a slight increase in the volume of business 

 within the last two weeks, particularly in pop- 

 lar, quartered oak and plain white oak. Gen- 

 erally speaking, the situation here is slated for 

 a considerable change within a short time. 



J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a southern business so- 

 journ. During his stay in the South he can- 

 vassed both the states of Kentucky and North 

 Carolina. 



Fred W. Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson has 

 returned from an eastern and northern business 

 trio. During his visit in the East he called on 

 a number of the representatives of the com- 

 pany. 



J. Levy of the Little Lumber Company, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., was a caller among the local lum- 

 ber element during the past fortnight. 



J. H. Roberts of the Kentucky River Poplar 

 Company, Lexington, Ky.. one of the largest 

 concerns of its kind in the blue grass region, 

 was circulating among the local lumber trade 

 during the past week, in an efl:ort to get a line 

 on the situation and dispose of some of his con- 

 cern's holdings in poplar and other woods. 



E. M. Enright of Cartersvillc, Tenn., was 

 in the Queen city during the past fortnight, and 

 called on the lumber trade. 



Gregory H. Stewart of W. H. & G. S. Stewart 

 left last week for a business sojourn through 

 the South. 



The J. A. Fay & Egan Company, one of the 

 largest woodworking manufacturing concerns of 

 the country, at a meeting of the board of direc- 

 tors, held recently, declared a quarterly divi- 

 dend of 1% per cent on both the common and 

 preferred stock. It was also stated that the 

 concern was doing a fairly good business. 



S. D. Serena of the I. M. Asher Lumber Com- 

 pany said that trade with them has been picking 

 up and the situation in general is growing much 

 better. I. M. Asher, president of the concern, 

 left last week for a trip to the mills of the 

 company in the South, and will also tour the 

 state of North C.irolina while away. 



G. A. Doppes of the Shrimpton Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip through 

 the south and central states. 



