HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Clearview Manufacturing Company of Wooster, O, has-bee- 

 porated with a capital stock of $10,000~to manufacture window screens 

 and like articles. The incorporators are A. C. Beymer, W. A. Hcnney, 

 J. S. R. Overholt, John D. Overholt and M. O. Overholt. 



H. B. Nelson has taken over the business of the C. T. Nelson Lumber 

 Company, which operated a plant on Dublin avenue. The concern had 

 been operated by B. W. Gerhard as receiver for some time. The now 

 name of the concern is the Nelson Lumber nnd Manufacturing Company. 



=•< CINCINNATI >■ 



Both band mills of the Kentucky Lumber Company at Burnside and 

 Williamsburg, Ky., are running full time. President DeLaney just re- 

 turned from the mill and states that the output will be increased as 

 much as possible. Plenty of fine timber is being received from the La 

 Follett timber recently purchased and, while there is very little accumu- 

 lation at either mill, the company will be in as good a position to supply 

 the heavy demand of the early spring as any other dealer in this section. 

 The outlook is very promising. 



Fred Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson states that their three mills at 

 Quicksand and Irvine, Ey.. are being pushed to the limit and that the 

 supply of logs on hand is fine. Mr. Mowbray states that his firm booked 

 ahead a very heavy business and prices obtained are very satisfactory. 

 He looks for a continuation of the present demand practically all of this 

 year. 



Ben. Dulweber of the John Dulweber Company is away on a business 

 trip. Chas. Dulweber stated to-day that he has never seen business so 

 heavy at this time of the year nor prospects so bright. He stated that 

 until recently it was a difficult matter to keep up with the demand, but 

 since the car shortage has eased up a fine lot of new stock is being 

 received. 



The Johns-Mowhray-Xelson Company, one of the newest combinations 

 of hustling young lumbermen, is doing a splendid business and is enjoying 

 the success that it deserves. The company is handling the output of 

 several band mills. Mr. .Johns reports business as exceptional at this 

 time of the year, with prospects the brightest for a continuation. 



Edward Barber of the Howard & Barber Lumber Company states that 

 (he export trade is as good as he has seen it for some time and that the 

 domestic business also has been excellent all last year, especially during 

 the latter part. He can see no reason for any interruption either here 

 or abroad and expects to find general conditions improve. 



Work on the new Hotel Gibson will soon start upon the site of the 

 old building recently destroyed by fire. Workmen have almost completed 

 clearing away the debris and the Wells Brothers Construction Company of 

 Chicago, which has the contract for the new building, has a large quan- 

 tity of material on the ground ready to start Just as soon as possible. 



^-< TOLEDO > 



President Booth of the Booth Column Company, states that his concern 

 is busier at present than ever before at this season of the year in the 

 history of the plant. The factory is operating with its full quota of 

 men nine hours a day and has orders on hand which will keep them busy 

 for the next two months. The demand is extremely heavy for this season 

 of the year and the stock of columns on hand is much less than is usually 

 carried. The concern has plenty of lumber on hand, but complains some- 

 what of high prices, oak and yellow pine being the materials mostly used 

 by the plant. 



The Big Four Hardwood Company has taken on a new line of industry 

 in the last six months, and is now manufacturing piano cases. The cases 

 made are simply plain stock cases for the piano case factories, where they 

 are veneered and polished. Manager Roberts of the Big Four company 

 says that the new venture has proven more than successful and a big 

 business is being worked up. 



John J. Reinhart, treasurer and general manager of the Toledo Bend- 

 ing Company, has returned home after spending several months in Michi- 

 gan for his health. He is much improved, but not yet able to resume 

 bis duties at the office. During his absence his place has been filled by 

 his brother. W. H. Reinhart. Mr. Reinhart reports business good and 

 orders plentiful. Hickory and ash stocks are badly needed and hard to 

 get owing to the scarcity brought about by the soft weather which has 

 prevailed throughout the winter. 



The Gottshall Manufacturing Company, which was partially burned out 

 several months ago, is planning to begin the rebuilding of its plant In 

 [•"ebruary. 



The Boys' Manufacturing Company is the name of a new manufac- 

 luring plant to be opened up at Dayton. O. in the Y. M. C. A. building. 

 It will manufacture box furniture of all kinds. J. Wallace Jerram and 

 J. I. Lambert are among the directors and Piatt B. Lawton and C. B. 

 Kern of the Y. M. C. A. are assisting the boys with their plans. 



The G. J. Brethauer Planing Mill Company of Dayton, O., will furnish 

 material for the big addition to the N. C. R. Hall of Industrial Educa- 

 tion to he erected at Dayton. « 



.\ new Toledo corporation has been organized in this city under the 

 firm name of the American Floor Surfacing Company. C. G. Cunningham. 

 L. T. Williams and R. T. Garrison are the«ncorporators. 



The Dayton Wholesale and Retail Lumber Dealers' Association gave a 

 dinner at the Beckel Hotel at Dayton recently. Arrangements were made 

 for sending a delegation to the state convention at Cleveland next week. 



the Dayiiiii m,, mig the ynoposed mw mechanics' lien law was dis- 

 cussed and agreement made to recommend the enactment of the lien law 

 drafted by Attorney Conley of Toledo, which is patterned after the Michi- 

 gan law. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Llndow, wife of William Lindow of the firm of Lindow, 

 Llebius & Gerchow, furniture manufacturers of Toledo, died Saturday 

 morning at her I'almwood avenue home after an Illness of six weeks. She 

 was lifty-eight years old, and leaves a husband and three sons, Edward 

 and Fred W. of Toledo, and William E. of Buffalo, N. Y. 



The McCrillis Handle Company, which has been located at Nellie, 

 Coshocton county, will he removed to Norwalk, O., where a new cement, 

 fireproof building with basement has been erected for It. The company 

 still has about a months work at Nellie, after which the plant will be 

 dismantled and brought to Norwalk. According to the annual report 1912 

 was the best year the concern has known. Prospects for the coming 

 season are excellent. 



■< INDIANAPOLIS >- 



During the three months ending December 31, rosewood, mahogany and 

 walnut logs valued at $16,773 passed through the local customs house. 



With an authorized capitalization of $35,000 the Modern Cabinet Com- 

 pany has been organized here and incorporated and will establish a plant 

 for the manufacture of kitchen cabinets. Officers have been elected as 

 follows : President. Charles C. Becker ; vice-president, Louis G. Bauer ; 

 secretary, .\lfred A. Becker ; treasurer, George V. Bedell, and attorney, 

 Monte C. Fiscus. 



Mrs. Mary K. Russell, wife of Isaac Russell, president of the Capitol 

 Veneer Company, died at the family home. 1660 Ashland avenue, on .Ian. 

 16. after a short illness. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Besides 

 the husband, one son, Ralph Russell, survives. 



The Quartered Oak Veneer Manufacturers' Association held a meeting 

 at the Denison Hotel on the evening of Jan. 1.5. There was a good 

 attendance aud a discussion of business conditions followed an informal 

 dinner. Reports received were that while the production had not been 

 decreased since July 30, the supply of dressed quartered oak veneer in 

 warehouses had decreased l.S.'iO.OOO feet since that date. Prices were 

 reported firm with an upward ti'ndeney and the dfmand exceptionally good, 

 buyers being plentiful and buying freely. 



=•< MEMPHIS >■ 



The Mississippi river at Memphis promises to reach a stage of thirty- 

 eight feet. This will cause some inconvenience to a few of the plants 

 on Wolf river in North Memphis. It is not expected, however, that more 

 than one or two will have to close down. Furthermore, it is not antici- 

 pated that the interruption to operations will coutinue for any great 

 length of time. The stage of the river here on Jan. 20 was approximately 

 thirty-five feet. .\I1 land lying outside the levees is overflowed. Land 

 protected by the levees, however, is in very satisfactory shape and it is 

 not anticipated that there will be any of this overflowed. Practically all 

 of the breaks in the levee system have been sufficiently repaired to pre- 

 vent any damage from the present indicated stage. 



The heavy rains which have occurred in this section during the past 

 few days have an important bearing upon the timber supply for the late 

 spring. It is a matter of knowledge that a great deal of timber has been 

 prepared for shipping and is therefore available for early use. It is a 

 question as to the extent to which the low lands of this territory are 

 flooded. It has rained every day or two since the first of the new year 

 and the ground is already getting so wet, particularly In low places, that 

 it is almost impossible to do any work in the woods. Last year there 

 was serious curtailment in operations as a result of floods in the Missis- 

 sippi and the breaks In the levee system resulting (herefrom. It is not 

 expected that conditions this year will he as bad in respect to floods, but 

 the continued rains are calculated to interfere with work in the woods 

 and therefore to restrict the amount of timber that Is avallalile. IlHulin!; 

 with wagons is almost out of the qqestion already an<i it is necessai'y to 

 use other means of getting timber to river banks ami the rights of way 

 of the railroads. 



Application for a charter has been made by the 1. M. Darnell Son 

 Company. The capital stock is placed, at $100,000. In addition to 1. M. 

 Darnell and J. D. Allen, Jr., the incorporators are J. D. Culsinger, E. T. 

 Haziedine and J. L. McCIellan. This Is practically the personnel which 

 was used by I. M. Darnell & Son Company before the consolidation was 

 made between the latter and K. E. Taenzer & Co.. Inc. 



The Kimball Lumber Manufacturing Company. St. Louis, has purchased 

 L'.3-10 acres of timberland from B. T. Gregg and ethers near the mouth 

 uf the White river in .Arkansas. The ronsideraiion was about $22,000. 



Among the lumbermen who will accompany the Bushn'ss Men's CUib 

 party on its tour of the South an'l ll-< trlji lo Panama are the followlni: 

 Frank May. May Brothers : S. H. .\uderson. thi' .\nderson-Tully Company : 

 J. T. Willlngbam. the Memphis t'otliii Compiiny. and M. II. Hrown of the 

 JIark H. Brown Lumber Company. .Ml of these genllemeu will he accom- 

 panied by their wives. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Gary, together with .Mr. and Mrs. George Fosler of 

 Mellen, Wis., will leave Memphis Feb. M for a trip to I'anama and other 

 points of interest. This trip was planned some time before that of the 

 Business Men's Club, to which refc reuie bns nin-ady lii'cn made. 



