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debts and are insolvent. The Mount Winans com- 

 pany is said to be owned by Mr. Hartwell. 



Articles of incorporation were filed at Dover. 

 Del., on N'ov. 12, for the Maryland Timber Com- 

 pany, which purposes to acquire timberlamls and 

 to develop coal deposits and other minerals. The 

 capital stock is fixed at .$100,000. and the incor- 

 porators are H. Ralph Ewart, Clarence .J. Jacobs 

 and Harry W. Davis, all of Wilmington, Del. 



Another new corporation is that of The H. B. 

 Herring Company, which has just taken place, 

 with H. B. Herring as pvesident, and a capital 

 stock of $5,000. The new corporation has an 

 office at 603 Phoenix building, German street, 

 near Charles. Mr. Herring was for a time con- 

 nected with the R. K. Hartwell Company. His 

 company will handle hardwoods, as well as yellow 

 pine and cypress. 



George W. Eisenhauer of the Eisenhauer-Mac- 

 Lea Company, who was brought home from Colo- 

 rado quite ill, has improved considerably, and it 

 is thought that he will be able to get out in a 

 short time. 



One of the visiting lumbermen here last week 

 was John H. Burrell of John H. Burrell & Co., 

 Liverpool. England. He was on his way down 

 South from Canada, having landed at Montreal. 



Another caller was C. F. Treadway of Sanford 

 & Treadway, New Haven, Conn., who stopped in 

 Baltimore on his way back from the South. Mr. 

 Treadway stated that he bad found mills every- 

 where short of stocks and oversold on practically 

 all items in hardwoods, with the range of prices 

 tending upward. 



COLUMBUS 



Innis Creighton, general sales manager for 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company (limited) of 

 London, left for Liverpool, England, Nov. 16 

 after a visit to the Columbus office. He reports 

 ■conditions in that country good in every respect. 



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

 Gobey & Co., reports a good trade in all varieties 

 ■of hardwoods. He says prices are ruling firm 

 and the car shortage is slightly improved, and 

 that it is about all that can be expected at this 

 time of the year. 



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

 pany says that the volume of trade is fair in all 

 grades of hardwoods. He says the stocks are 

 broken but prices are holding up well. The 

 trade between the factories and the yards are 

 about on an equal. He says he looks for :i con- 

 tinuation of thi* good business. 



M. A. Hayward reports an active demand for 

 .all grades of hardwoods with prices ruling firm. 

 He says the oak trade especially is progressive. 



W. L. Whitacre of the Whitacre Lumber Com- 

 pany says that trade in hardwoods is not in- 

 •clined to advance, owing to the cold weather set- 

 ting in. Dealers are a little optimistic about 

 stocking up during the winter and since the high 

 prices are being well maintained. 



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

 Company is in the East on a business trip. 



A. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Company says 

 ■trade is good in all grades of hardwoods and 

 that prices are holding up unusually well for the 

 time of the year. He says the car shortage is 

 not being felt so much. 



CINCINNATI 



U. A. Carrier, dealing mostly in cypress and 

 yellow pine, says that he has been doing a splendid 

 business, finding more difficulty in getting prompt 

 shipments than selling stock. During the last 

 ■couple of weeks shipments have been coming in 

 faster and better service from the mills from 

 now on is looked for. 



Duhlmcier Brothers are doing a big business 

 and are handling more red and sap gum this 

 year than ever before. Will Dublmeier is a firm 

 •believer in the future of red gum for interior 

 ^nish and is pushing the wood hard for that pur- 



pose. He claims that a number of architects 

 whom he has requested to try out the wood have 

 done so with more than satisfactory results in 

 every case. 



Ed Bradley of the E. C. Bradley Lumber Com- 

 pany states that his firm is doing a bigger volume 

 of business than ever before. After going over 

 his territory and finding business booming in all 

 branches of the industry, he does not hesitate to 

 say that while this has been a big year for the 

 lumber business, the coming season will far out- 

 reach it. All factories that he came in contact 

 with are booked ahead well into next season. 



Weaver Haas of the W. E. Heyser Lumber 

 Company has just returned from a trip to New 

 Orleans, where he closed a contract for the out- 

 put of a big band mill in that vicinity for the 

 next sis months. 



Charles McCall, manager of the Wm. H. Perry 

 Lumber Company, states that his company is 

 getting its share of the excellent business that is 

 to be had by any one in a position to furnish 

 quick shipments. The company has had excel- 

 lent shipping facilities all season. It is doing 

 a big business in red gum. 



Harr.v R. Browne, often referred to as the yel- 

 low pine man of the hardwood club, says that it 

 has been several years since business has been 

 on such a firm footing as at the present time. 

 While stocks have been hard to get all summer, 

 be has been able to supply the trade in most 

 cases, and while he has had to let a great deal 

 of business pass by on account of the scarcity 

 of yellow pine, he looks for a very healthy season 

 to follow the present one. 



TOLEDO 



The Booth Column Company has never been as 

 busy as right now. Although working to its 

 capacity, the concern is now three months behind 

 in its orders and new ones flooding the office with 

 each mail. This concern was fortunate in hay- 

 ing purchased and had delivered at its plant 

 early in the spring a heavy stock of lumber. It 

 has been using up this stock and still has a 

 large amount on hand, thus saving the firm all 

 difficulties over the car shortage situation. Orders 

 have been especially heavy from the East and 

 South, and the tendency is toward larger columns 

 for exterior use. The Booth company has now 

 on hand an extensive order for twenty-four-inch 

 columns. Prices are a little stronger, the local 

 company securing a fifteen per cent advance on 

 special work. The company has recently been 

 shipping quite a lot of its product to Cuba. 



A meeting will be held in Toledo Nov. 20, 

 which will be attended by representatives of the 

 lumber and building interests of the state, at 

 which time a complete draft of a jnechanics' 

 lien law, designed to be satisfactory to all inter- 

 ests, will be prepared. Building association rep- 

 resentatives will be invited to attend the meet- 

 ing. Heretofore the building .issociations have 

 manifested an unfriendly attitude towards a 

 mechanics' lien law. 



The Dayton Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany recently purchased a new lumber yard lo- 

 cated at May and Clinton streets, Dayton, O. 

 This is one of three yards which the lumber 

 company has leased for ten years and it was de- 

 cided to purchase. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Charles II. Campbell Furniture Company 

 of Shelbyville has been taken over by E. JI. 

 Porter of that city and L. J. and Robert Hackney 

 of Cincinnati. 



The Hoosier Veneer Company and the Wabash 

 Veneer Company, both located at Massachusetts 

 avenue and Adams street, are completing exten- 

 sive improvements to their plants. 



With an authorized capitalization of .$10,000. 

 the American Pipe Organ Company has been or- 

 ganized and incorporated at Anderson to manu- 



facture pliie organs. Horace W. Summer, Frank 

 East. Frank Reynolds, Philip B. O'Xeil. Michael 

 W. Stall!) and Edward A. Wellens are interested 

 in the company. 



The property of Ford & Johnson, furniture 

 manufacturers, with a plant at the state prison, 

 Michigan City, has been ordered sold by the 

 Federal Court on December 16. The sale will 

 also include the company's real and other prop- 

 erty in Chicago. 



A. A. Barnes, president of the Udell Works, 

 and other local business men have organized 

 the lUnion Land and Timber Company, which 

 will deal in timberlands. The company has been 

 incorporated with an authorized capitalization of 

 $100,000. 



James W. Clark, trustee for the Foster Lum- 

 ber Company, has brought suit against the 

 former directors of the company, asking judg- 

 ment in the sum of $50,000. It is alleged the 

 directors used funds of the company for private 

 use. 



A meeting was held here Nov. 12 to discuss 

 organizing a national association of kitchen cab- 

 inet manufacturers. Another meeting will be 

 held here soon to perfect the organization. The 

 meeting was called by L. D. Waters of the 

 Hastings Cabinet Company, Hastings, Mich. A 

 number of Indiana and Michigan manufacturers 

 were present. 



MEMPHIS 



U. J. Darnell, R. J. Wiggs, Elliott Lang, R. II. 

 Darnell and H. H. Darnell are the incorporators 

 of the Batesville Gravel & Material Company, 

 which is domiciled at Batesville, Miss. The cap- 

 ital stock is $5,000. R. J. Darnell, Inc., is 

 building a railroad running out from the main 

 line of the Illinois Central from Batesville for 

 the purpose of developing Its timberland holdings 

 in that section. The road is known as the 

 Batesville Southwestern, and the new company 

 has been formed in connection with the con- 

 struction of this line. 



An unusual development in the Memphis lum- 

 ber market has been the receipt of a consign- 

 ment of African mahogany logs by the Memphis 

 Veneer & Lumber Company. There are about 

 100,000 feet of timber in the consignment, and 

 this will be cut into lumber and veneers. James 

 E. Stark, who is one of the officials of the 

 ^lempbis Veneer & Lumber Company, says that 

 this is the beginning of the manufacture of 

 African mahogany in Memphis, and that other 

 shipments will follow in rapid succession. 



James E. Stark & Co. have recently bought 

 considerable quantities of timber in Mississippi, 

 which is being brought to Memphis, where it is 

 being cut into lumber at several of the customs 

 mills. Among the firms which are doing the 

 sawing are McCollum Brothers, Moffat, Bowman 

 & Rush, and Gibson & Whitaker. Mr. Stark has 

 recently materially increased his yarding facili- 

 ties in North Memphis, and as fast as the logs 

 are converted into lumber in South Memphis 

 the latter is being sent over the belt line to 

 the yards of the firm in North Memphis. Mr. 

 Stark believes that there will be a large business 

 this winter, and he is making his plans accord- 

 ingly. 



The Missouri & North Arkansas will begin 

 work shortly on the new shops which will be 

 built at Harrison, Ark., at a cost of $125,000. 

 It is proposed to have these in operation by 

 May or June of next year. 



NASHVILLE 



The Bonner Furniture Company is putting its 

 new factory, at Charlotte avenue and Tennessee 

 Central Railroad, into operation. The company 

 has been delayed in starting operation on ac- 

 count of machinery shipments being slow ar- 

 riving. The company operates by electrical power, 

 having separate motors for each machine. A 



