HARDWOOD RECORD 



tered oak and the better grades of plain white 

 oalc and walnut. The mills of the company are 

 all running aad the outlook for trade is yery 

 good. 



W. B. Havs of the Wiborg & Hanna Company 

 says the month of September was the best on 

 record of the year with them. The demand for 

 gum, cypress and poplar has been much better 

 and prices realized were very firm. Mills of the 

 company are running top speed. H. P. Wiborg 

 is on the road and is securing much trade. W. 

 B. Hays also has just returned from a business 

 trip to Chicago. 



E. O. Kobinson of Mobray & Robinson has re- 

 turned from a business trip to the South. 



H. D. Michle cf the H. D. Michle Lumber 

 Company reports tiadf as much improved, with 

 prices tirni ■ > 'i -■ ni'-yer, also of this 

 <ompany, '. • stern business trip. 



W. Colin I I listed & Quick says 



that tnule » ^ fair. 



J. A. Bolsir ..f till- lUiukbum & Bolser Com- 

 pany says trade with them Is very good and 

 prices firm. 



W. E. Delancy o£ the Kentucky Lumber Com 

 pany says that trade with them Is fair, but that 

 he does not expect to see any real change until 

 about February, when he believes conditions will 

 be more settled. He left this week for a busi- 

 ness trip to tlie mill at Williamsburg, Ky. 



Ferd. Brenner of the Ferd. Brenner Lumber 

 Company has just returned from a business trip 

 to Norfolk, Va. lie said that a slight improve- 

 ment was noted In the local trade. 



L. fJ. Banning and a party of friends have 

 returned from an auto jaunt to Cleveland. The 

 trip was made without a breakdown. 



Charles .\. Ault, one of the founders of the 

 Thompson, Ault & Co. and later of the Ault 

 Woodenware Company, died at his residence In 

 Wyoming after a lingering Illness. He was well 

 known in business circles. 



Thomas J. Morrison, a trustee of the Southern 

 railroad, died suddenly while attending the meet- 

 ing of the Spring Grove cemetery lot holders, 

 October 5. 



William A. Bennett of Bennett & Wltte has 

 returned from a business trip to New York. 



TOLEDO 



The so-called Toledo lumber trust cases have 

 broken out in the present political campaign and 

 promise to become overshadowing Issues before 

 election day. Prosecutor L. W. Wachenhelmer 

 Is a candidate for reelection, and Judge Morris, 

 who became notorious through his bitter ar- 

 raignment of the lumber dealers at the lime of 

 sentence, also desires to succeed himself on the 

 common pleas bench. Bitter opposition has 

 cropped out and a battle royal Is in progress as 

 a result of the trust busting record of these 

 officials. What the linal outcome will be Is hard 

 to conjecture, but that former records will 

 swing many votes against the aspirants for 

 the people's favor Is thought certain. 



A deal has been closed whereby the ChatBeld 

 Bending Company of Chatfleld, O.. will remove 

 its plant to Bucyrus, O. The company employs 

 a large number of men and manufacture wheel 

 stock. Work is already under way on the new 

 buildings and the removal will be made as soon 

 as possible. 



The fouryear-old daughter of J. W. Parker, 

 a timber buyer of Delaware. O., was recently 

 burned to death as a result of her clothing 

 catching Are from a gas grate. In attempting 

 to extinguish the flames, the mother of the child 

 was also badly burned. 



A Are of unknown origin recently caused dam- 

 age amounting to $1,000 at the planing mill and 

 carpenter shop of Charles Culbertson, Dayton, 

 O. The two-story frame structure was a com- 

 plete loss. It was covered by Insurance. 



The Fostoria Stave & Barrel Company of 

 Fostorla, O., has been consolidated with the 

 rills Lumber Company of Durham, N. C. Charles 



A. Gribble. president of the concern, has re- 

 signed his position as cashier of the Commercial 

 Bank & Savings Company, to remove with his 

 family to North Carolina, where he will become 

 president of the consolidated companies. As a 

 token of esteem Mr. Gribble was presented with 

 a solid gold watch by the Presbyterian congrega- 

 tion, he having been connected with the choir for 

 the past twent.v-four years. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



lli'nry C. Murphy, bookkeeper lor the K. 11. 

 Eldridge Lumber Company, has returned from 

 u. vacation trip to Michigan. 



W. W. Vawter, representing the Northwest- 

 ern Lumber Company and the Port Blakely 

 Mill Company of .Minneapolis, called on the 

 local trade a. few days ago. 



The Indianapolis Lumbermen's Club will not 

 have a meeting until after the election next 

 month, due to the fact that mauiy of the mem- 

 bers are interested in politics. 



Building permits during the llrst eight 

 months of this year In Indianapolis amounted 

 to t4.S89.192.50, as compared with »5,230,98T.3U 

 for the same period last year. 



The Mainland Manufacturing Company, a 

 local hardwood concern, has Just sold a strip 

 of ground at Twenty-flfth street and the 

 Monon railroad tracks, to the Brannum-Keene 

 Lumber Company, who will establish a new- 

 yard and planing mill. 



John Shurman. driver for the Isgrlgg Lum- 

 ber Company, was Instantly killed a few days 

 ago when a load of lumber upon which he 

 was riding was struck by a Big Four pas- 

 senger train at Keystone avenue. 



rhe planing mill and part of the lumber 

 yard of A. N. Holloway at Cloverdale were de- 

 stroyed by lire October 3, with a loss of 

 J5,000. upon which there was only $1,000 In- 



At the special session of the Indiana legisla- 

 ture, which adjourned September 27, the con- 

 tract of Pulse & Porter, lumber dealers of 

 Greensburg. for building the new "Southeast- 

 ern Hospital for the Insane," was legalized. 



A loss of about J3,000 was caused In the 

 planing mill of the W. P. Jungclaus Company 

 on Massacliusetts avenue a few days ago. 

 Several buildings adjoining were burned. 



The Michigan City Sash & Door Company 

 and the A. R. Colborn Company of Michigan 

 City have been combined and the business 

 will be continued under the former name. 

 The company will reorganize with 1100,000 

 capital. 



Louis G. Buddenbaum of the Buddenbaum 

 Lumber Company has Joined the Columbia 

 team in the Indianapolis bowling league for 

 the coming season. He is regarded as one of 

 the best players In the city. 



It Is reported that Maley. Young & Cut- 

 singer will build a new hardwood mill at 

 Jasper at an early date to replace the one 

 destroyed by Are some months ago. At the 

 present time the company is shipping logs 

 from Jasper to Its Evansvllle mill. 



J. A. Thompson of Edlnburg, a member of 

 the firm of Thompson, Thayer & McCowan 

 of Evansvllle, Is spending a few days in the 

 latter city looking after his business Interests. 



The pattern department of the Studebaker 

 Brothers Manufacturing Company at South 

 Bend was badly damaged by fire on October 2. 

 The loss was about $6,000. 



The hardwood mill and handle factorj- of 

 James Horn at Hillsboro was burned on 

 October 5. The Are started In the engine room 

 and the plant was burned to the ground with 

 a loss of about $8,000. It will probably be 

 rebuilt. 



A list of corporations paying taxes on more 

 than $10,000 worth of property has Just been 

 compiled by County Treasurer E. F. Roblson. 



Included in the list are the following identified 

 with the hardwood industry: Advance Veneer 

 & Lumber Company, $17,540; F. M. Bachman 

 Company, $40,000; Balke & Krauss Company, 

 $66,200; EaglesAeld Stewart Company, $10,500; 

 Indiana Veneer & Lumber Company, $58,100; 

 Long-Knight Lumber Company, $18,000; Main- 

 land Manufacturing Company, $'20,000; Na- 

 tional Veneer & Lumber Company, $16,080; 

 Talge Mahogany Company, $37,800. 



The Indianapolis freight bureau Is prepar- 

 ing to make a flght against the railroads for 

 u reduction of freight rates. An investiga- 

 tion reveals that some of the largest manu- 

 facturing concerns are being driven from the 

 city because of the excessive rates, and the 

 Indianapolis board of trade has contributed 

 $2,000 to aid in the flght. Among the mem- 

 bers of the Indianapolis freight bureau are: 

 Standard Dry Klin Company, National Dry 

 Kiln Company, Indianapolis Handle & Manu- 

 facturing Company, Interior Hardwood Com- 

 pany, Indianapolis Chair & Furniture Com- 

 pany, Western Furniture Company, Emrich 

 Furniture Company, Adams & Raymond and 

 the Cabinet Makers' Inion 



EVANSVILLB 



T. J. Christian, sales manager for Maley & 

 Wertz. South Bend, Ind., is In the city for a 

 few days. Mr. Christian is very optimistic 

 and is well pleased with business of the past 

 two months. 



W. M. Weston of W. M. Weston Company. 

 Boston, Mass.. was a business visitor here last 

 week. Mr. Weston has many warm friends In 

 this market and there Is usually somethmg 

 doing when he visits the trade here. 



W. H. Cornell of the Nichols & Cox Lum- 

 ber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., was in 

 the city recently on business. While here Mr. 

 Cornell called on several of the lumbermen in 

 view of buying some lumber. 



C E. Davis, representing the Perkins Lum- 

 ber Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., was in 

 the city this week calling on the many manu- 

 facturers of this city and looking after busi- 

 ness Interests of his firm. 



Henry Stolz of the Stolz-Schmitt Furniture 

 Company, formerly the Stolz Furniture Com- 

 pany, passed away at his home at Kratzvllle. 

 a suburb, on October 5. Mr. Stolz retired 

 from active business about thirteen years ago 

 and has since lived the life of a farmer at 

 his home in Kratzvllle. 



Young & Cutsinger recenUy received a con- 

 signment of twenty-eight cars of logs In one 

 train. They have a big stock of fine logs on 

 their yard. 



MEMPHIS 



The prodiiction of hardwood lumber in the 

 Memphis territory is Increasing and Is now 

 larger by considerable odds than a month ago. 

 Some of the mills In Memphis proper have re- 

 sumed operations within this iK-rlod, while many 

 of those In the territory tributary to Memphis 

 have taken a similar course. Inquiries today 

 among prominent manufacturers and wholesalers 

 who have been over this territory recently elicit 

 the Information that probably not more than 

 Afty per cent of the productive capacity of the 

 Memphis hardwood lumber district Is engaged. 

 More mills are making preparations to resume 

 at an early date and probably by the end of 

 this month, n considerably better showing with 

 respect to production will be made. 



The L. H. Gage Luml>er Company has re- 

 sumed operations at Its band mill at Earle. Ark. 

 The company has been logging for some time 

 preparatory to resumption and It Is supplied 

 with a liberal quantity of timber. 



Russe & Burgess, who closed down their mill 

 here for a portion of the 



