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compared with 2,427 permits in tlie correspond- 

 ing period in 1911 and a yaluatiou exactly the 

 same. 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager of John R. 

 Gobey & Co.. reports a good demand for all hard- 

 woods, with prices ruling firm in every particu- 

 lar. He sayr; the car situation is about the same 

 and he expects very little relief at this time. 



F. B. Pryor of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany says orders in all lines of hardwoods are 

 holding up steadily, with a good run from all 

 sections. Stoclis are very much brolien and the 

 jobI>er can pick out what he wants to sell. Fac- 

 tories are buying better than yards at this time. 

 Car stoclis are in good demand and railroads 

 also are buying better. 



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

 Company left early in November for a business 

 trip to rittsburgh and Buffalo. 



A. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany says trade in hardwoods is good and prices 

 are well maintained. 



W. L. Whit.icre of the Whitacre Lumber Com- 

 pany says orders are a little slow now because 

 of the approach of winter and the high prices 

 which prevail. He says dealers are not inclined 

 to carry heavy stocks through the winter. 



M. A. Hayward & Son say trade is good in all 

 lines of hardwoods, especially oak flooring. There 

 is a good demand for all grades and prices are 

 Arm to the extreme. 



The Sowors-Leach Lumber Company says hard- 

 wood demand is holding up well with every in- 

 dication of a continuation of the high prices. 



his new son-in-law, Mr. R. A. Betts. Jr.. to the 

 trade. Mr. Betts is to go over the territory 

 regularly as soon as he becomes acquainted, 

 thus relieving Mr. Bennett of much road work. 



CINCINNATI 



S. W. Richey of Richey. Ilalsted & Quick 

 says "Business with us never was better — in 

 fact we have had no complaint to make any time 

 this year except in the early spring when it 

 was dilEcult to get prompt shipments from the 

 mills. We look for a continuation of present 

 conditions." John Byrns of the Conasauga Lum- 

 ber Company is optimistic regarding future 

 business conditions. The mills of his concern 

 never were busier and they have more orders 

 at present than can be promptly filled. The 

 car shortage is somewhat to blame for condi- 

 tions at present but Mr. Byrns is of the opinion 

 that the demand for all kinds of hardwoods and 

 white pine, which is the company's specialty, 

 will increase. 



Walter E. Johns of the Johns-Mowbray-Nelson 

 Company, which Is handling the output of a 

 couple of large gum mills, making this class of 

 wood its specialty, states that it has been do- 

 ing very well and business is growing steadily 

 better. 



The big poplar mills of the Swann-Day Lum- 

 ber Company are running extra time and have 

 been for the past several months. C. M. Clark, 

 the local representative of the company, when 

 asked his opinion of the prospects said, "We are 

 not pushing for business, but merely taking care 

 of trade as It comes and expect next year's 

 business to go ahead of 1912. which Is more than 

 satisfactory so far." 



Ben Dulweber of the John Dulweber Company, 

 which conducts one of the largest hardwood 

 yards in the city, is well pleased with prevailing 

 conditions. TTlie company has been doing a 

 little better each month this year and at the 

 present time is doing a capacity business. Its 

 band mill In Kentucky is running extra time. 



Mowbray & Robinson are doing the biggest 

 business In their history. At both of their big 

 hardwood yards In the city stocks are none too 

 heavy and the three big band mills at Quick- 

 sand and Irvine, Ky., are being pushed as much 

 as possible. 



Fred Mowbray Is spending a good part of his 

 time at the mills and Ed Robinson looks after 

 the yard end of the business here. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte Is still 

 on the road making a northern trip. Mr. Ben- 

 nett's main object on this trip is introducing 



TOLEDO 



Work will be begun within a few days on the 

 construction of a large addition to the plant of 

 the Haughton Elevator & Machine Company, 

 Huron and Lafayette streets, Toledo. The build- 

 ing will adjoin the rear of the present plant and 

 will have a frontage on Erie street of .SO feet 

 and a depth of 114 feet. The structure will 

 be one-story, brick, and will be used by the com- 

 pany as a woodworking department. This con- 

 cern is one of the largest and most prominent 

 of the independent elevator manufacturers in 

 the country and has expanded so rapidly that 

 the addition is imperative. 



A fine tract of walnut timber, said In fact 

 to be the finest In the country, was sold near 

 Xew Burlington, O., recently, the Francke Lum- 

 ber Company of Cincinnati, being the purchaser. 

 The price paid was .$27,000. Firms from all 

 over the United States and Kurope have tried 

 for years to buy these trees without avail. 

 Men are now on the ground removing the trees, 

 many of which are being taken out by the roots. 

 The lumber will be shipped to Germany. 



R. P. Burkhardt, Sr.. president of the Stomps- 

 Burkhardt Company, chair manufacturer of Day- 

 ton, O.. died recently at his home in that city, 

 aged sixty-seven years. He began his business 

 career at the age of thirteen years as an errand 

 boy for the Cabinet Makers' Union at $1.25 a 

 week. When in 1S90 G. Stomps & Co. were 

 reorganized he was made vice-president and 

 general manager, and a year later, following the 

 death of Mr. Stomps, became president of the 

 concern. Four children survive their father, 

 two boys and two girls. The boys, Richard P. 

 Jr.. and William M.. hold responsible oflBclal 

 positions with the firm of which their father 

 was the head. 



MEMPHIS 



The movement of timber to Memphis during 

 October was perhaps the largest on record for 

 the corresponding month. Certainly it was the 

 heaviest recorded for several years. The Valley 

 Log Loading Company has not made up its com- 

 plete returns, but Mr. Dickson is authority for 

 the statement that the amount of logs loaded 

 for Memphis mills during the month was more 

 than 1300 cars. He is also authority for the 

 additional statement that the quantity of timber 

 awaiting transportation is rather large, total- 

 ing several thousand cars for Memphis. The 

 foregoing figures are confined entirely to the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line of the Illinois 

 Central system and do not have any bearing 

 on the other roads entering this city. It may 

 be noted, however, that the quantity of timber 

 brought in by the other roads Is limited as com- 

 pared with that handled by the Yazoo & Mis- 

 sissippi Valley. 



There has been a slight Improvement in the 

 car situation and this is reflected in a little 

 more prompt movement of both lumber and 

 logs. The situation at Memphis proper has 

 been very serious so far as outbound shipments 

 were concerned, but there has been considerable 

 trouble at interior points and also In securing 

 cars for transportation of lumber and logs to 

 this city. Lumbermen believe that there will be 

 more or less car shortage and some delay in 

 the movement of lumber for .the next few weeks. 



A very striking feature of the local situation 

 is to be found in the tact that, despite the free 

 movement of logs to Memphis during the past 

 few weeks and despite the steadiness with which 

 the mills have operated, there has been no in- 

 crease in local stocks. As a matter of fact there 

 is an actual scarcity in some directions and 



stocks are quite badly broken in some lines. 

 Every effort has been made by lumbermim both 

 here and through the Memphis territory to re- 

 plenish their stocks against the expected heavy 

 winter demand, but o»ly moderate progress has 

 been made in this direction. Wholesale dealers 

 are making efforts also to Increase their stocks, 

 but they likewise are meeting with indifferent 

 success. 



Owing to the fact that there has been a 

 failure In the efforts to pile up lumber against 

 the expected demand, it is anticipated that the 

 market will be very firm during the next few- 

 months. The promised larger log supply made 

 some members of the trade believe that there 

 would be a lower market when the lumber man- 

 ufactured from these logs was placed on sale. 

 The indications along this line, however, have 

 not been borne out by actual developments and 

 there is not only a good demand for practically 

 all kinds of hardwood lumber but prices are well 

 maintained, with every promise of continued 

 firmness. 



Advices have t)een received by J. H. Townsend. 

 manager of the Lumbermen's Traffic Bureau, 

 from the Interstate Commerce Commission at 

 Washington Informing him that the St. Louis 

 Southwestern (Cotton Belt), the St. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain & Southern, and the Rock Island sys- 

 tems had filed tariffs with that body giving an 

 advance of two cents per hundred pounds on 

 hardwood shipments from points in Louisiana 

 and Arkansas to Memphis. The bureau, through 

 Mr. Townsend, has already requestinl the com- 

 mission to suspend the proposed advance until 

 such time as the lumbermen here and throughout 

 the affected territory may be given a hearing. 

 The principal contention to be made- by the 

 lumbermen here, through the bureau, is that 

 present rates are high enough and that the pro- 

 posed advance will carry them to a level which 

 Is both unreasonable and unjustifiable. 



S. B. Anderson of the Anderson-Tully Com- 

 pany, has sold his handsome home at Poplar 

 Avenue and Waldran Street to A. E. Jennings 

 of Greenwood, Miss. The consideration Is un- 

 derstood to have been approximately .$45,000. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Anderson will temporarily make 

 their home with their son, H. B. Anderson. 



Building operations in Memphis during Octo- 

 ber were slightly in excess of $750,000 or more 

 than double the corresponding month last year. 

 There has been marked activity during the first 

 ten months of the current year, with the re- 

 suit that the figures up to this date have been 

 .$6,199,285. an Increase of .$1,154,550 over the 

 same period last year. It is anticipated that 

 the figures for the year will easily surpass other 

 previous records. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess. Inc.. F. B. 

 Robertson of the Anderson-Tully Company, El- 

 liott Lang of R. J. Darnell, Inc.. O. M. Erebs 

 of. the McLean Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 W. A. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Company. 

 Mr. Lear of the Green River Lumber Company 

 and F. F. Fee of Dermott, Ark., spent some 

 time in New Orleans the latter part of the 

 past week. They went to that point to hold 

 a conference with the officials of the railroads 

 and steamship lines entering that port. The 

 steamship and railroad companies have made 

 a number of new regulations governing export 

 traflic, and the conference was held for the pur- 

 pose of ascertaining just exactly where the lum- 

 ber exporters stood. These gentlemen repre- 

 sented, as a committee, the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association. W. H. Russe was chair- 

 man. The conference was entirely Informal and 

 no information has been given out by the com- 

 mittee as to what was accomplished. 



The hearing before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission- here some days ago. Involving mill- 

 ing In transit rates, brought out very clearly 

 the contention of the plaintiffs that they pre- 

 ferred a lower flat rate into Memphis than the 

 present system of refunding part of the cost of 

 inbound shipments of logs when the lumber 



