HARDWOOD RECORD 



the best of this season, with an outlook lor a 

 good fall business. 



Leon Isaacson, vice-president of the Yellow 

 roplar Lumber Company, at Coal Grove, O., 

 after spending several days in this vicinity, has 

 returned to his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. 

 Isaacson reports business looking a little better 

 and advises they are operating their entire 

 plant steadily and will have sufficient logs to 

 continue so for a few months. Their plant will 

 likely be operated but a very small part of the 

 time next season, as none of their log operations 

 are in process and have not been for some time. 

 .Mr. Crawford of the same company is on a 

 l>u.siness trip to Pittsburg and several other east- 

 ern cities. 



T. N. Fannin of this city, connected with the 

 Iveys-Fannin Lumber Company, Herndon, W. 

 V^a., leaves this week with his family for 

 I'hoenix, Ariz. Mr. -Fannin has purchased a 

 large farm in Arizona, and expects to be there 

 for some time. He also has extensive mining 

 interests in gold and copper mines of that 

 vicinity. Mr. Fan n in has for years been asso- 

 ciated with his company, and is one of the 

 most prominent pioneer lumbermen of this sec- 

 lion. 



The Farmers Lumber Company of Farmers, 

 Ky., has completed repairs and general overhaul- 

 ing of their mill and are now sawing. They 

 advise they have enough logs to operate for 

 several months, and with about six or eight feet 

 of water in Licking river, they will receive 

 another large supply of very fine oak and pop- 

 lar. 



W. n. Vansant of the W. R. Vansant Lum- 

 ber Company of Rush, Ky., was a business vis- 

 itor in the city this week. Mr. Vansant was 

 formerly located in this city and had his bead- 

 (juarters here until about a year ago, when he 

 moved to Rush, where he erected a band mill 

 and is now operating a large tract of oak and 

 poplar timber. lie reports business looking a 

 little better and feels confident that It will be 

 only a short time until conditions will again 

 be normal. 



Y. W. Kitchen of the Vansant-Kltchen Lum- 

 ber Company has disposed of his stock in the 

 company to his father, Chas. Kitchen, and has 

 embarked in the lumber business under the firm 

 name of the J. W. Kitchen Lumber Company. 

 Air. Kitchen bas opened up an office here in the 

 city and advises that he has already received 

 some very desirable orders and is buying lumber 

 and shipping it direct to his trade. He is on a 

 business trip this week through Ohio, looking 

 after the interests of his firm. Mr. Kitchen is 

 also connected with the Kitchen Lumber Com- 

 pany, who own a very large tract of timbers, 

 oak, poplar and chestnut, in Tennessee. He 

 expects probably within the next year to take 

 charge of their operations, as they are now 

 contemplating putting two large band mills In 

 this tract of timber. The tract consists of a 

 very line lot of virgin forest, which will enable 

 the company to operate for several years. 



The Ashland Lumber Company of this city 

 «ontlnues to have its band mill closed down on 

 account of very low water in the Ohio. They 

 advise that they are having a very good run 

 of business In their planing mill, and are fur- 

 nishing building material for several large con- 

 tracts for buildings to be erected in this city 

 and surrounding vicinity. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company of this city is on a business 

 trip to Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo, calling 

 on the purchasers of lumber and oak timbers. 

 Ills office Is In receipt of advice from him, stat- 

 ing that he has some very desirable orders, and 

 with assurance of one or two very large orders 

 for oak. He also advises that the buyers are 

 lii'comlnic more concerned as to their future re- 

 (julrements and he feels very much encouraged 

 over the change In the markets from thirty days 

 ago. 



.S. B, Reese Lumber Company of Farmers. 



Ky., has just closed a deal wherein they dispose 

 of their entire operation at Farmers, consist- 

 ing of one large band mill, planing mill, several 

 acres of land, yards and equipment, several 

 houses, store buildings, log booms, etc., to the 

 Licking River Lumber Company of this city. 

 The lacking River Lumber Company began 

 operating the plant this week, also buying from 

 the Reese Lumber Company several million feet 

 of logs which they had in the river, log booms 

 and ponds. Owing to the fire that the Licking 

 River Lumber Company experienced September 

 17, they were obliged to take prompt action so 

 as to supply all their customers as promised. 

 The company will equip the mill, yards and 

 some of the log booms with electric lights. In 

 fact, they are now putting In an equipment 

 which will enable them to work full time and 

 if necessary, to work two shifts of men. S. B. 

 Reese, who had general management of the 

 plant at Farmers, has not definitely decided as 

 to his future plans, but will very likely retire 

 from the lumber business, returning to his 

 former home In Pennsylvania. 



ST. LOUIS 



The report of the St. Louis Building Commis- 

 sioner for September shows a decrease of nearly 

 $500,000 In the aggregate cost of buildings for 

 which permits were Issued. The aggregate of 

 the permits Issued was $1,483,016, against 

 $1,966,956 for September, 1907. New brick 

 buildings authorized by the permits Increased in 

 number and aggregated $1,291,490, a decrease 

 from $],71!0.62'J for the corresponding month 

 last year. Brick additions Increased one in num- 

 ber, but decreased about $63,000 In the aggre- 

 gate cost, the permits numbering 13S and the 

 cost aggregating $S2,19S. New frame buildings 

 aggregated $97,075 and old frames $12,253, 

 against $88,810 for new and $16,515 for addi- 

 tions last September. The total number of per- 

 mits. Including old and new brick and old and 

 new frame, was 810, a decrease of six. 



The figtires as compiled by the building com- 

 missioner indicate an unhealthy condition In the 

 building line, but such Is not the case. It is 

 simply that there was not so many expensive 

 structures under course of construction last 

 month as there were the same month last year. 



The receipts of lumber reported as having 

 been received by rail during September this 

 year were 11,190 cars, as against 11,637 cars 

 during September, 1907, a loss this year of 447 

 cars. The receipts of lumber by river during 

 September this year were 214,000 feet, as against 

 449,000 feet last year, a loss of 235,000 feet. 

 The shipments of lumber by rail during Septem- 

 ber this year were 8,212 cars, compared with 

 9,373 cars September last year. This shows a 

 loss this year of 1,161 cars. The shipments of 

 lumber by river during September this year 

 were 300,000 feet. September last year the ship- 

 ments by river were 280,000 feet. This shows 

 the gain in shipments by river this year to have 

 been 20,000 feel. 



-Vccordlng to A. H. Bush, secretary of the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, the lumber 

 Inspected and measured during September this 

 year was as follows : 



Feet. 



Poplar 37,528 



Quartered oak 54,624 



oak 116.700 



Cherry 972 



Walnut 1.166 



Gum 73,736 



Ash 21,813 



Chestnut 22,441 



Cypress 215,138 



Cottonwood 22.356 



Kim 10.002 



Yellow pine 24,874 



Total 601,359 



The Lumbermen's Exchange at a recent special 

 meellng sent the following telegram to !•". S. I'n- 

 derhlll. vice-president of the National Hardwood 



stands squarely for the present national rules 

 and asks your support lor their continuance. — 

 Loyd G. Harris, president." The meeting at 

 which this telegram was formulated was held the 

 day previous to the Philadelphia conference In 

 Philadelphia. 



Mrs. Mercy E. Barnes, wife of G. II. Barnes 

 of the G. H. Barnes Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, died here recently. She was sixty-eight 

 ysars of age. The burial took place at Elmlra. 

 N. Y. 



George E. Watson, secretary of the Southern 

 Cypress Manufacturers' Association. New Or- 

 leans, spent a week here recently. He had been 

 North to get his family and take them home. 



Charles E. Thomas, president of the Thomas 

 & Proetz Lumber Company, has returned from 

 a couple of wieks' visit to his mills at Belzona, 

 Miss. He says the weather has been bad for 

 mill operations. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Greason 

 Lumber Company, reports an Improvement in 

 business with prices satisfactory. 



George E. Uibbard, vice-president of the 

 Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company, says trade 

 is better than it has been, but still it is far 

 from satisfactory. High-grade lumber is very 

 scarce and he says that those who have a stock 

 of It on hand are able to get pretty nearly the 

 price they ask for It. They are not seeking 

 business to any great extent, as Mr. Hibbard 

 thinks by holding on to the present stock of 

 lumber they will realize a handsome profit 

 later. 



The G. H. Barnes Hardwood Lumber Company 

 reports a most satisfactory business. Septem- 

 ber was a particularly good month for them as 

 tc business. 



Business has been quite good, Theodore Plum- 

 met, president of the Plummer Lumber Com- 

 pany, says. He has been particularly well 

 pleased with the trade that has come from the 

 North. Thomas E. Powe, the vice-president of 

 the company, who has been up in tliat section, 

 is responsible for most of the business. Mr. 

 Powe writes that it is easier to sell lumber In 

 that territory this season than ever before. 



W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany reports conditions much better than they 

 were and that his company is well pleased with 

 the present ;ind future outlook. 



MILWAUKEE 



Rains that were widespread over Wisconsin 

 territory quenched the extensive forest fires and 

 cirectually dispelled all danger in the fire dis- 

 tricts. It is e.stimated that the rain was worth 

 $3,000,000 to the people of Marathon county 

 alone. While total losses have not been reached 

 as yet, estimates place the damage at thousands 

 of dollars, much larger than usually <aueed by 

 forest fires of late years. Cities and towns that 

 were sorely thteatened lor a fortnight are now 

 out of danger and work of rebuilding the many 

 destroyed villages Is now progressing. Lumber 

 companies were heavy losers, among them the 

 Alexander Stewart Lumber Company of Wausau, 

 which lost 1,000,000 feet of lumber at Gi-and 

 Father Falls ; the Barker & Stewart Lumber 

 Company of the same city, which lost $8,000 

 worth of logs at Hewitt : the North Forks Lum- 

 ber Company at North Forks, which suffered the 

 destruction of Its entire plant, entailing a loss 

 of $100,000, and others. Losses to the N. Lud- 

 lugton Company, Senator Stephenson and the 

 Sawyer-Goodman Company of Marinette In stand- 

 ing timber will also be large. Conservative esti- 

 mates place the loss to lumber companies oper- 

 ating In Marathon county at about $750,000. 



Considerable difllculty was experienced by the 

 rallionds running through the danger bells dur- 

 ing the forest fires. Pilots were generally sent 

 out ahead of the regular trains to Inspect the 

 tracks and report upon the progress of fires. 

 Much credit is given to the railroads by State 

 Fore'iler 10 M Cilinib for the admirable assis- 



