HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



railroad connection in Ohio and is now presi- 

 dent of the Lorain, Ashland & Southern Kailway 

 Company, which runs from Lorain to Wellington 

 and stops several miles south of Ashland. He 

 plans to connect the line with the Pennsylvania 

 and to penetrate certain points that are not 

 touched by any other railroad company. 



Knergetic efforts are being made by the Ohio 

 Public Service Commission to minimize the pres- 

 ent car shortage and to prevent congestions at 

 various transfer and terminal points throughout 

 the state. A number of traffic officials, repre- 

 senting several of the leading railroad systems 

 having offices here, were before the commission 

 recently and ijuestioned. From the reports 

 obtained it was' indicated that an actual car 

 famine may develop in the state. 



Judge Dillon has appointed H. S. Buskirk as 

 receiver of the General Lumber Company, with 

 offices in the Hartman building, upon the appli- 

 . ation of its president, Harry Putnam, who 

 . iaims he is the largest stockholder in the con- 

 , ern and says the company's assets are being 

 dissipated. He says two promissory notes tor 

 .'i!."'..00il each, which were due Oct. 1, are unpaid. 

 Mv. Buskirk, the receiver." gave bond for .$10,- 



IMUI. 



The announcement is made that the firm of 

 I'owell & Rowe, located at 81 North Nelson 

 road, has been dissolved. H. M. Rowe. .iunior 

 member of the firm, has gone to Dayton where 

 he has opened an office in the name of the H. 

 M. Rowe Company. The business in Columbus 

 will be continued in the same place by I". Ever- 

 son Powell under the name of the Powell Lum- 

 Ijer Company. Mr. Powell reports a good de- 

 mand for hardwoods with prices ruling firm. 

 He looks for a good business throughout the 

 winter. ^ 



In a suit filed by .\lex Brunner against W. K. 

 Noble of Tiflin. O.. application was made for 

 the appointment of a receiver for the Tiffin 

 Hoop Company. It is claimed that it is to the 

 interest of all parties to keep the concern in 

 repair and operation. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Hitter Lumber 

 Company, says the demand for hardwoods is 

 good with the lower grades moving especially 

 strong. Prices are ruling firm and the volume 

 of business is all that could be expected for the 

 time of the year. Both manufacturers and re- 

 tailers are buying widl, but the car shortage is 

 becoming serious. 



L. B. Schneider of .lohn R. Gobey & Co., says 

 hardwoods are in good demand, the only draw- 

 back to the active trade being the growing car 

 shortage. He says prices are ruling firm .ind 

 are inclined to advance. 



George Malloch, sales manager for Bliss & 

 Van Auken, Saginaw, Mich., was a recent vis- 

 itor in Columbus. 



W. L. Whitacre of the Whitacre Lumber Com- 

 pany says the demand for hardwoods is strong 

 and prices are ruling firm. 



was In Crown Hill cemetery. The widow and 

 two daughters. Mrs. Addison Brauu of Kansas 

 City, Mo., and Mrs. (.'harles .\. Burneit of Lafay- 

 ette, survive. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



North, p'razier & Co.. Portland, recently suf- 

 fered a .$2,000 loss by fire in their planing mill. 



H. M. Campbell, P. G, Cook and J. D. Wetz 

 have organized the Greenfield Wood Turning 

 Company, to manufacture handles, novelties, etc. 

 Tlie company has been incorporated with an au- 

 thorized capitalization of ,$10,000. 



A new plant is being erected by the Wabash 

 Veneer Company at Adams street and -Massa- 

 chusetts avenue. 



Thomas W. Stewart, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Eaglesfield-Stewart Company, manufac- 

 turer of hardwood flooring, and a heavy stock- 

 holder in the old Eaglesfleld Lumber Company, 

 died ,at his home in this city on Oct. 11. He 

 ■ had been ill two weeks from bronchial imeu- 

 monia. Mr. Stewart was seventy-seven years 

 old and was born in Oneida, N. Y., coming to 

 this city in 18,59. The funeral was held from 

 the family residence in the Blacherne and burial 



EVANSVILLB 



Weaver Haas of the W. B. Heyser Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., visited the mills in 

 the city recently. 



Claude JIaley of Maley & Wertz, Evansville, 

 and Charles Maley of the Maley Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Vazoo City, Miss., have re- 

 turned from Lexington, Ky., where they at- 

 tended the races. F. M. Cutsinger of Young & 

 Cutsinger returned early last week. 



The case of Young & Cutsinger vs. the Louis- 

 ville & Nashville Railroad Company is set for 

 a hearing before Commissioner McCord of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, on Nov. 4. The 

 complaint is for refund on milling in transit 

 shipments where the lumber was shipped from 

 milling point more than six months from date 

 logs were shipped to milling point, the tariff 

 restricting the time to six months. The tariff 

 was^ afterward reissued with a limit of one 

 year. 



H. J. Schaefer of Young & Cutsinger, Jack- 

 son, Tenn., was in the city last week. Mr. 

 Schaefer reports things moving nicely at his 

 plant and says he has a lot of fine white oak 

 logs that will make quartered oak of which 

 his firm makes a speci.tlty. 



The plant of the Jackson Lumber Company, 

 Jackson, Tenn., was destroyed by fire recently. 

 The veneer sheds and dry kiln were a total 

 loss. The fire did not reach the sawmill. The 

 Jackson Lumber Company is affiliated with the 

 Evansville Veneer Works. 



MEMPHIS 



Local manufacturers of hardwood lumber 

 are having considerable difficulty in securing 

 enough cars with which to bring timber to 

 Alemphis. This is handicapping them to some 

 extent in the operation of their plants because 

 the stock of logs on hand is not large. It is 

 also a source of anxiety to them because the 

 timber must be sawn into lumber to prevent 

 worm damage or deterioration from other 

 causes. It is stated that the amount of timber 

 on the right of way of the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Yalley road is unusually large ; it is likewise 

 true that there is a very large amount of 

 timber along the right of way of other roads 

 South and West. A prominent manufacturer, 

 who does not by any means operate the most 

 extensive hardwood plant in this city, said 

 recently that he had more than 2,000.000 feet 

 of timber awaiting transportation to Memphis. 

 Others say that they have a great deal of 

 timber awaiting transportation and the diffi- 

 culty in securing cars is the most serious 

 handicap under which they labor. 



At a conference held here last week between 

 about thirty leading representatives of the 

 hardwood manufacturing industry and the traf- 

 fic officials of the Illinois Central Railroad 

 Company, lumbermen made a very strenuous 

 protest against the lack of cars and appealed 

 for relief. The representatives of the railroad 

 promised to do everything they could to relieve 

 the situation. While practically every firm here 

 is having more or less difficulty in securing 

 enough cars with which to make shipments of 

 lumber, conditions at Memphis are more favor- 

 able than at a number of the smaller points 

 in the Memphis territory. 



Although there have been no further special 

 developments in the export movement of hard- 

 wood lumber, there is a serious handicap in the 

 fact that the Illinois Central Railroad Company 

 is requiring that freight room be engaged at 

 New Orleans before bills of lading will be issued 

 on export shipments. A prominent exporter 



said recently that when this firm had lumber 

 to ship to Europe it was making application to 

 the commercial agent of the Illinois Central, 

 and that through bills of lading were issued 

 only in case the freight room was engaged. 

 He stated, however, that this required more 

 than a wiek, which necessarily entailed a great 

 deal of delay. In cases where exporters are 

 unable to secure freight room at a given date 

 from New Orleans, the Illinois Central as well 

 as some of the other roads are refusing to 

 issue through bills in order that they may pre- 

 \'ent a recurrence of such congestion as was 

 witnessed in New Orleans last winter. 



Indications are that the Lumbermen's Traffic 

 Bureau will have much work to do this winter. 

 The railroads are making preparations to ad- 

 vance hardwood rates to a point where they 

 will be equal to the rates on yellow pine and 

 then to advance the rates on both one cent 

 additional. An advance is also announced as 

 pending on shipments of hardwood lumber from 

 Memphis to New Orleans. This was put into 

 effect some years ago and was paid by lumber 

 shippers for about two years, when it was 

 ordered canceller! by the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, which ruled at the time that the 

 advance was unjust and the new rates unrea- 

 sonable. It remains to Ije seen what the decis- 

 ion of that body will be at present. There is 

 also an advance to Canadian points on the 

 cards, and the Traffic Bureau will have to 

 handle this also. J. H. Townsend is in charge 

 of the Lumbermen's T'raffic Bureau. The Wash- 

 ington end of the hearing, however, will be in 

 the hands of John H. Walker. The lumbermen 

 do not believe that further advances in hard- 

 wood rates at this time are .lustified, and what- 

 ever may be the outcome, it is certain that a 

 strenuous effort will be made to have the com- 

 mission set aside the advances which have been 

 proposed as well as the equalization of hard- 

 wood and yellow pine rates. 



The exhibit of red gum by the Memphis 

 Manufacturers' Association has been completed 

 and makes a most creditable showing. In addi- 

 tion to red gum, which is shown in almost 

 every style, there are a number of products 

 made therefrom, including high class furniture. 

 It is expected that the exhibit, which is in- 

 tended to illustrate the beauty and utility of 

 red gum, will prove of decided value from an 

 educational standpoint. 



The material enlarging of their yards in 

 North Memphis will enable James E. Stark & 

 Co. to take care of several times as much 

 lumber as under the old regime. The yards are 

 being graded and the necessary roadways are 

 being constructed. This firm is engaged entirely 

 in the wholesale handling of hardwood lumber. 

 Definite announcement is made that the shops 

 of the Missouri & North .\rkansas Railroad 

 Company will be located at Harrison, .\rk., and 

 that at least .$200,000 will be spent in equip- 

 ping. 



The W. T. Peter Lumber Company, Madison 

 count.y, Tennessee, has been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of ,$30,000. W. T. Peter, W. F. 

 Lamb and others are the incorporators. 



M. C. Bunn has succeeded T. E. Griffin as 

 general manager of the Southern Lumber &. 

 Manufacturing Company at Jackson, Miss. The 

 company, under the new regime-, expects to in- 

 crease its output materially. The plant has not 

 been operated steadily for some time. 



W. L. Crenshaw, who sold out his Interest in 

 the Bellgrade Lumber Company some months 

 ago, is spending a considerable portion of his 

 lime at his sawmill near George, Miss., in order 

 that the plant may be placed in readiness for 

 operation. Mr. Crenshaw has been prominently 

 identified with the hardwood lumber business at 

 Memphis for a number of years, first as a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Crenshaw & Cathey, and 

 later as president of the Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company. He is also one of the officers of 

 the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company. 



