HARDWOOD RECORD 



One of the oldest retail lumber yards in the 

 city, that of the John J. Ganahl Lumber Com- 

 liany, will retire from business. The president 

 ot the company. U. V. Reis, intends to give his 

 attention to a mill on the Pacific coast in which 

 he has considerable money invested. Formerly 

 ilie John J. Ganahl Lumber Company carried a 

 sloct of $150,000 to S!200,000 worth of lumber, 

 but it has now been reduced to about $40,000 

 with the view of L-oiug out of business. 



Fred L. Hofman, who was formerly connected 

 with the Fretl Heim Lumber Company, from 

 which company he retired some weeks ago, has 

 acquired an interest in the Cherokee Lumber 

 Company, and will manage it. 



A new wholesale lumber company, the Com- 

 merce Lumber Company, has recently entered 

 ihe St. Louis field. It was started and is man- 

 aged by A. R- Belt, secretary of the Milimen's 

 Association. In addition to handling hardwood 

 it will handle yellow pine, cypress and sash and 

 door lines. 



George H. Barnes of the George 11. Barnes 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, who has been at 

 Turtle lake. Wis., with his family, is expected 

 back in a few days. Mr. Barnes has a cottage 

 at Turtle lake and bLs family has been occupy- 

 ing it during the summer. He went up during 

 August. 



\V. W. Dings, secretary ot the Garctson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, who has been down 

 through the southern hardwood territory, has 

 TL-tumed. He say.s, after a thorough canvass 

 iif the situation, that he believes the outlook 

 is good tor an Increase In business this fall. 

 ■ Mr. Krebs of the new Krebs-Schew Lumber 

 Company is down among the hardwood mills in 

 the South. The firm has enlarged its office space 

 recently, having found that more room was 

 needed. 



A. W. Sumner, formerly with the JIassengale 

 Lumber Company, but more recently with the 

 Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company as travel- 

 ing representative, has gone back to his old 

 company and will look after Its interests on the 

 road. 



Theodore Plummer. president of the Tlum- 

 nier Lumber Company, says they have been hav- 

 ing a nice demand for ash and poplar recently. 

 .V few days ago he closed an order for lOCOOti 

 feet ot ash and ,''>0.000 feet of poplar. On ac- 

 count ot the good demand lor ash, he placed an 

 order for 500,000 feet recently. This will have 

 to be delivered by the fust of the year. 



A good business Is reported during August 

 by the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood I^umber 

 Company. The company's specialty, red gum. 

 is in good demand and E. H. Luehrmann, the 

 vice president of the company, says the call Is 

 going to be better in the near future. 



The inventory of the stocks in the various 

 yards recently acquired by the new St. Louis 

 . Lumber Company Is being taken. The company 

 will have offices in the Chemical building. 



Robert J. O'Ueilly. president of the ORellly 

 Lumber Company, has returned home from his 

 -summer outing at Gloucester, Mass. 



Charles E. Thomas ot the Thomas & Proctz 

 Lumber Company says business Is better and Is 

 liecoming more so all the time. He is now more 

 interested in the new baby that came to his 

 home rori'ntly than in the hardwood business. 



!\EW ORLF.AyS 



.1. O. Elmer, until recently an assistant secre- 

 tary of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, assumed charge of his duties as secretary 

 ot the Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, September 1. 



Fritz Jahncke and his sons, all members of 

 the Jahncke Navigation Company, which docs 

 considerable business In lumber between New 

 Orleans and over-the-lake points, have launched 

 a new company tc operate a big shipyard In St. 

 Tammany par'sli Lumber barges and other 



conveyances for handling all kinds of lumber 

 will be built at the place. 



The cliarter of the Great Central Company ot 

 Lake Charles, La., has been recorded with the 

 clerk of the district court in Calcasieu parish 

 and it is said that the concern, which has bought 

 extensive tracts of land in British Columbia, 

 will immediately begin developing Its properties. 

 It is capitalized at $100,000, with the following 

 officers : D. K. Swift, president : C. A. McCoy, 

 vice-president; William Allen, secretary, and L. 

 II. Moss, treasurer. The company has purchased 

 in the vicinity ot Vancouver tracts estimated 

 to contain 1,000,000,000 feet ot lumber, mostly 

 lir and cedar, and will shortly begin mai-keting 

 the timber. Tlie properties are on the upper 

 end ot the Great Central lake and the properties 

 will be ratted through the lake to tidewater. 



A contract for a big supply ot lumber to be 

 exported to Jamaica was recently signed here by 

 Capt. Louis Paul llarty, owner of one ot the 

 largest wharves in the West Indies. C. F. Hay 

 & Co. engineered the local end ot the deal, the 

 contract calling for 2,500,000 feet. Capt. Ilarty 

 is In the market for 30,000,000 feet more. Much 

 of this lumber was loaded on the steamship 

 Ramsey, which took also 12,000 sixty-toot piles. 



Dispatches from Alexandria, La., Indicate that 

 the Dalton-Clark Barrel & Stave Company, which 

 now has its plant at Winnlleld, will locate its 

 factory in Alexandria. The I'rogrcsslve League 

 has ottered attractive Inducements to the com- 

 pany and It will probably go to Alexandria. 



The big plant of the J. E. North Lumber 

 Company at Bond, Miss., which has been In the 

 hands of a receiver for some months, Is reported 

 to be preparing for a resumption ot operations. 

 T. D. Taylor, formerly connected with the New- 

 man Lumber Company at Hattlesburg, will, It 

 is stated, manage the plant. 



Lumbermen of the gulf ports are jubilant over 

 Ihe prospect of heavy tall shipments to Cuba. 

 Several large contracts have already been closed 

 and others are being negotiated at the present 

 lime. Gulfport and Pascagoula will probably 

 handle a largo share ot this business. 



The Sumrall Furniture Company has been In- 

 corporated at Laurel, Miss., by J. L. Sumrall, 

 .1. E. Coates and others. It expects to operate 

 extensively In Mississippi. 



Hardwood manufacturers have been much in- 

 terested in some ot the handsome hardwood 

 Iiroducts displayed at the Home Manufacturers' 

 Exhibition ot the New Orleans Progressive 

 Union which Is now being conducted In this 

 city. The exhibition began September 1 and 

 will close September 30. Several beautiful fur- 

 niture exhibits are Included among the booths, 

 the New Orleans Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany occupying more space than any other ex- 

 hibitor. Many beautiful manufactures ot hard- 

 wood are on display. There are 120 exhibitors 

 at the fair. 



MILWAUKEE 



Wisconsiu Uimlnrnieii an- well pleased that 

 .Senator Isaac Stephenson. Wisconsin's greatest 

 lumberman, was nominated In the recent primary 

 election to succeed himself as United States 

 senator. Lumbermen say that the victory was a 

 genuine one in that It came from the people di- 

 rect. The "grand old man" of Wisconsin se- 

 euicd the nomination by a handsome plurality 

 and secured the heaviest vote in all of the lumber 

 counties of the state. 



R. F. Hodges, Milwaukee wholesale hardwood 

 lumber dealer,' spent part ot the past week in a 

 business trip about the state. 



G. M. Maxson, secretary ot the Cooper & Max- 

 son Lumber Company, is making a business trip 

 through northern Wisconsin visiting various mill- 

 ing centers. 



The new grain and feed elevator recently erect- 

 ed by the Wilbur Lumber Company at West Al- 

 lls, a suburb ot Milwaukee, Is now completed and 



is doing active service. This new phase of the 

 company's business Is expected to be an impor- 

 tant one. T. A. Bruett, buyer for the company, 

 with headquarters at Milwaukee, made a recent 

 trip to Wausau. Wis. 



J. J. Johnson, president of the Johnson Lum- 

 ber Company, with his wife, recently returned 

 from an extensive automobile trip through va- 

 rious points in eastern and northern Wisconsiu 

 to Escanaba, Mich. Mr. Johnson owns a hand- 

 some Packard touring car ot 60 horsepower and 

 a Pope-Hartford runabout. Thomas and William 

 Johnson, sons ot J. J. Johnson and both members 

 of the Johnson Lumber Company, recently re- 

 turned from an automobile tour ot Illinois. In- 

 diana and Michigan points. 



W. E. Allen, president ot the newly organized 

 W. E. Allen Lumber Company, recently re- 

 turned from a combined pleasure and business 

 trip to Oshkosh, Wis. 



(i. A. Green ot the Greenwood Lumber Com- 

 pany was a recent Milwaukee visitor. 



Suit has been brought against Frank N. Snell. 

 a well-known Milwaukee wholesale lumberman, by 

 a. Washington Arm for the recovery ot a clal»i 

 amounting to a little over $1,000. 



Forest Bres have been raging in the northern 

 Wisconsin lumber country for the past week 

 and extensive damage to both standing and cut 

 timber was the result. The worst conflagrations 

 were experienced at points near Washburn. Park 

 Falls. I'blllips and South Superior. Damaging 

 tires have also been burning In the districts 

 In northeastern Wisconsin along the shores of 

 Lake Michigan. 



The Bird & Wells Lumber Company's mill at 

 Wausaukee, Wis., Is again in operation after an 

 Idleness ot about a month. The mill has been 

 ihoroughly overhauled and needed Improvements 

 were Installed during the close down. At pres- 

 ent the plant Is operated only on the day shift, 

 although plans are under way for both night 

 and day operations. 



The Brooks & Ross Lumber Company's saw- 

 mill at Scoflcld, Wis., has completed the seasons 

 cut and Is closed down until early In the win- 

 ter. The mill has been In continuous operation 

 both night and day ever since last tall and an 

 especially largo cut of lumber was turned out. 



Wausau and Merrill lumber companies arc 

 raising "deadheads" from different points on the 

 Wisconsin river. Tlie work Is under Ihe charge 

 ot J. H. Renshaw, and the crews engaged In the 

 "submarine logging" average about 500 logs per 

 day In the work. 



The Prcscott Sawmill Company ot Menominee, 

 Mich.. Is now working on a new sav^mlll to be 

 erected at the new town ot Goodman, Wis., 

 founded by the Goodman Lumber Company, 

 Marinette. 



The sawmills of The John Week Lumber 

 Company and the Clifford Lumber Company at 

 Stevens Point, Wis., are being pushed at their 

 full capacity. It Is estimated that the season's 

 cut will aggregate some 20,000,000 feet. 



Fay L. Cusick, well-known wholesale lumber- 

 man at West AIlls, suburb of -Milwaukee, Is ex- 

 periencing an excellent run ot business. Mr. 

 Cusick supplies all of the great manufacturing 

 l)lanls located at West Allls, Including the 

 Allls-Chalmers Company and others, with most 

 ot the lumber required, and the revival in the 

 manufacturing field has meant a greater de- 

 mand for lumber. Mr. Cusick came to West 

 -Mils in 1902. when the city was In its Infancy, 

 and has seen It grow from a little hamlet of 

 .->00 to a hustling city of nearly 10,000 and with 

 the reputation ot being the richest fourth class 

 city of Its size In the United States. 



The Kaukauna Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Kaukauna, Wis., are planning on a 

 busy sawing season this coming winter. The 

 electric driven plant Is being overhauled and 

 everything Is being put In readiness. 



The Foster-Latlmcr Lumber Company at 

 Mellen, Wis., Is erecting a new dryklln on large 

 proportions. 



