HARDWOOD RECORD 



53 



has returned from a trip to Joppa, 111., where 

 the company's yards are located. He stayed in 

 the Queen City for a short time and then de- 

 parted for St. Louis on a business trip. 



H. P. Garrett of the Brodhead-Garrett Com- 

 pany of Clay City, Ky., was here during the 

 past week looljing into the hardwood situation. 



Harry Shrimpton of the Shrimpton Lumber 

 Company has returned from a short sojourn 

 through the South, where he went to lools after 

 business. 



The S. B. Adams Lumber Company. _ which 

 for two months or so conducted business at 43 

 Jtitchell building, closed up office very suddenly 

 and its members departed to parts unltnown. 

 The sudden disappearance of the company has 

 stirred up some comment among local lumber- 

 men and they are at a loss to know the reason 

 of the sudden closing. 



Ferd Bosken of the Cincinnati Hardwood 

 Lumber Company says that they are doing only 

 a fair business. The company has recently en- 

 tered into the manufacture of Circassian walnut 

 veneers and so far has met with considerable 



W. B. Hays of the Wiborg & Hanna Company 

 says trade is only fair, but that his company 

 has done a fairly good export business during 

 the past weeks. 



W. Miller of Knoxville, Tenn., was a recent 

 visitor to the Queen City. J. E. Kimball of the 

 same city was here and both are reported to 

 have disposed of some of their concern's hold- 

 ings. 



At a meeting of the club held June 6 the 

 annual outing of the club was decided upon and 

 will be held at Chester Park June 23. It was de- 

 cided to suspend the next weekly meeting, owing 

 to the convention at Milwaukee, as a majority 

 of the members will not be in town. Fred Mow- 

 bray of Mowbray & Robinson issued a motion 

 to refrain from using the Louisville & Nashville 

 road as much as possible, and to throw all the 

 trade possible over to the Cincinnati Southern 

 in an effort to make them recognize the absorp- 

 tion of the switching rates. This met with the 

 hearty approval of the members present. The 

 names of the Dwight-Hinckley Lumber Company, 

 the Francke Lumber Company of St. Bernard 

 and the James C. McEntee Lumber Company 

 were referred to the membership committee for 

 action at the next weekly meeting, which will 

 lie held June 20. possibly at the Havlin hotel. 



Tlie receipts of lumber by rail for the niontli 

 of May this year were 9,684 cars, as compared 

 with 16.827 cars during May last year, a falling 

 off of 7,143 cars. The receipts of lumber by 

 river during May of this year were 333,000 feet, 

 as compared with 230,000 feet during last May, 

 an increase of 105,000 feet. During May, 1908, 

 there were 7,053 cars shipped by rail, as against 

 10,607 cars during May last year, a falling off of 

 3,354 cars. There were 48,000 feet of lumber 

 ' shipped by river during May this year, as against 

 ' 342,000 feet last May. a loss of 294,000 feet. 

 I The following shows the inspection and meas- 



urement of hartftvood done by the Lumbermen's 

 I Exchange of St. Louis for the month of May, 

 ' 1908, as compared with the same month last 



year : 

 : 1908. 1907. 



Quartered oak 02,078 44,870 



Plain white oak 2,639 ( 



Plain red oak 99,216 { 319,833 



Cypress 326.039 182.582 



Cottonwood 67.7S4 



Poplar 4s r,4l 4ii '.i9:! 



-Alaple ■ : :: 



Gum' :j :l I I.J I :;:; 



Ash I - -7 . 



Chestnut _. ii- i imt 



Yellow pine l-.'inT ....!,i;.j 



Sycamore lii,4iil 



Kim 1.472 383 



Totals 733.417 739.341 



Tliis shows a fallins oflf of 24,124 feet of lum- 



ber inspected and measured this year as com- 

 pared with last. 



A. H. Bush, secretary of the Lumbermen's Ex 

 change of St. Louis and an enthusiastic mem- 

 ber of the Travelers' Protective Association, was 

 recently elected one of the Missouri directors of 

 the association for a two-year term. 



Harry Swartz has left the Geo. H. Barnes 

 Lumber Company of this city to go to Bachelor. 

 La., to accept a position with the Northern 

 Lumber Company. 



Arthur E. E. Luedinghaus, son of Henry Lued- 

 inghaus. president of the Luedinghaus-Espen- 

 schied Wagon Company and secretary of the 

 company, died recently after an illness of several 

 months. Henry Luedinghaus is a pioneer wagon 

 maker of St. Louis. 



The Maney Manufacturing Company, of East 

 St. Louis, filed articles of incorporation recently 

 with a capital stock of .$75,000. The company 

 will manufacture farm implements. J. W. 

 Maney. Herbert C. Well and John Maney are the 

 incorporators. 



William Lothman of the Lothman Cypress 

 Company, who was down at the mills of the com- 

 pany in -the South looking over the situation, 

 reports conditions satisfactory, but not showing 

 any decided betterment. 



Arthur 0. Engelman. 73 years of age. who 

 was for many years one of the old Schulenburg- 

 Boeckeler Lumber Company, died recently. For 

 .quite a number of years he has not been engaged 



After doing business for many years as a part- 

 nership enterprise the H. B. Poorman Box Manu- 

 facturing Company has incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $20,000, fully paid. James T. 

 Gill, O. F. Gill and Thos. J. Burke are the in- 

 corporators. 



There was a marked increase in the number 

 of new structures started last month, and in the 

 cost. The total cost of construction in May 

 of this year was $1,880,767, against $1,983,758 

 last May. 



The Kleymeyer Lumber Company of this city 

 has incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000. 



The Beckers-Schnelle Lumber Company has in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $50,000. A. H. 

 Schnelle and (". L. A. Beckers in the retail lum- 

 ber business are two of the incorporators. 



Theodore Plummer, president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company, estimates that business is 

 only about sixty per cent of what it was at this 

 time last year. He says their company knows 

 that there is no money in lumber until prices 

 are fair, so if they can get their price they sell. 

 Init do not until they can. They are not hunt- 

 ing for hu in--~ ni-i-.>lv to make sales. 



L, M l: I'tary of the Steele & Hili- 



banl 1 I ' I in. who has been out on the 



road siMi'i. i i"r- the company, sa.vs he 



sold ni..i. iiiiiili.i .Inriim liis Inst trip than on 

 any tri|i ili.n li" h:i-. iikhI.' fni- ^Lvcral months. 



An ii,.pi-v..iiH.iit in l,li.--,.s i< u..U:\ l,y W. E. 

 Keown oi' tin Iiii.i ii.iii.nial ILinlwood Lumber 

 Company. :Mi-. Keown says business is also 

 improving. 



An Increase in business is reported by the 

 Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. E. W. Luehrmann. vice president of the 

 company, says business is getting to be quite 

 satisfactory with them. 



A mill li l"'ti.M iiiisiness in May is reported 

 by r. i: II II- I ilic Thomas & Proetz Lum- 

 ber r.iiii|,iiiv 11. .:iys that there are quite a 

 number ni iimi- ,.ii Iho hardwood list that are 

 very scarce aiiinng Ihe majority of yards, but 

 as his company is pretty well supplied with them 

 he anticipates a good demand in the near future 

 and also an .idvnii't^ in prices. 



If the St. l.niii- li:i'.l\\ o.-,cl lumbermen do not 

 get the lOd'.i r..ii\ , m i,,n nf the National Hard- 

 wood T-'irnlirr \ iiii.in it will not be their 

 fault. "' I I ilic committee appointed 



'oy til. ' I 'lb, and composed of such 



hustii I Whitmarsh, W. W. Dings, 



W. .\ i; I ' II iv Itolfes and W. E. Barns, 

 go to Milw;Hik.-. luipared to get the conven- 



tion or know the reason why, but a number of 

 the members of the exchange are going and 

 they will give their aid individually and collec- 

 tively. Plans were outlined at a recent meet- 

 ing and statistics prepared sufficient to convince 

 the most skeptical that St. Louis is the only 

 logical place to hold the convention. 



Armed with invitations from Mayor Wells, 

 the Merchant's Exchange, Business Men's 

 League, Lumbermen's Exchange and the Lum- 

 bermen's Club, a committee composed of W. E. 

 Barns, editor of the St. Louis Lumberman ; 

 Henry J. Rolfes of Wilson-Reheis-Rolfes Lum- 

 ber Co. ; Thomas C. Whitmarsh, manager of the 

 W. T. Ferguson Lumber Co. : George E. Hib- 

 bard of the Steele & Hibbard Lumber Co. ; R. 

 J. O'Reilly of the R. J. O'Reilly Lumber Co. 

 will appear at the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association's convention at Milwaukee in the 

 effort to bring the 1909 convention to St. Louis. 



EVANSVILLE 



with Mrs. May. was in Evansville this week. 

 Mr. May is attending to some business connected 

 with their yard here. He came here from Dumas. 

 Ark., where one of the plants of the Arm is 

 located. 



Thirty thousand feet of lumber, comprising two 

 full carloads, were sold at the H. Hermann Lum- 

 ber Company's yard here on June 3. It is a con- 

 signment recently shipped here by a southern 

 lumber concern. Consignees being unable to ac- 

 cept the lumber on account of quality, and hav- 

 ing advanced freight charges, suit was brought 

 in the superior court and the lumber was soM 

 to satisfy the claim for freight charges. The 

 lumber was purchased by the Schultze-Waltmau 

 company of this city. 



William White of the C. P. White Lumber 

 Company, Booonville, Ind., was in the city a few 

 days ago. It was reported some time ago that 

 the plant of the firm, now located at Boonville. 

 would be removed to this city, but it seems that, 

 owing to the business depression, the final steps 

 were not taken. 



Maley & Wertz report business as improving 

 quite noticeably. They say inquiries are numer- 

 ous and that they have taken several nice orders 

 for future delivery. Their mill has been closed 

 down this week and they have been busy putting 

 in a lumber transfer. They now have the equip- 

 ment in the sorting shed built ready for opera- 

 tion. The lumber coming out will now be trans- 

 ferred to wagons to be taken into the yard, 

 where they formerly used trucks. The new sys- 

 tem will be a great saving, as it now takes about 

 three less men than formerly. 



The Maley & Wertz mills at Grammer, Edin- 

 burg and Vincennes are running steadily. 



The Lucas Land & Lumber Company of Waver- 

 ly. Tenn.. have opened a distributing yard here 

 under the management of J. S, Williams, for- 

 merly with Heath-Witbeck Company of Chicago. 



A letter was received by Claude Maley >>( 

 Maley & Wertz from Frank May of May I'.ros.. 

 Memphis. Tenn.. this week, in which .Mr. May 

 said business ^as very quiet in Memphis, but 

 that their mill at Dumas. Ark., was being oper- 

 ated full time. Mr. May said he expected to be 

 at the convention at Milwaukee. June 11 and 12. 

 Evansville will be well represented at this con- 

 vention. Maley & Wertz will be represented by 

 both Mr. Maley and Mr. Wertif. and Young & 

 Cufsinger will be represented by Bedna Young. 



— ^ 1 NASHVILLE 



What is known as the "logging season" for 

 Nashville lumbermen, many of whom are located 

 on the Cumberland river. Is reported as being 

 well nigh 'over, and these aforesaid gentlemen 

 are heaving sighs of relief. Last year when con- 

 ditions were excellent these lumbermen con- 

 tracted for all the timber they could up the 

 river. t!ie same to be cut and rafted down to 



