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The DeVoss & Adelman Lumber Company Is 

 now represented in Columljus. O.. by O. H. Tay- 

 lor of that city, who will work Ihe Ohio trade. 

 D. U. Younger, Jr., is working tho Pittsburgh 

 trade for the company at present. Mr. A. Adel- 

 man of this company recently made a very suc- 

 ces.sful buying trip among the southern mills. 



The Acorn Lumber Company, one of the most 

 thrifty hardwood concerns in the city, says that 

 politics is having no effect at all on business. 

 President H. F. Domhoff recently said they were 

 quoting high and everybody is buying heavy. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has 

 bought a very nice tract of Washington county 

 white oak and will put in a mill at once to cut 

 off the lumber. It will be shipped over the Penn- 

 sylvania railroad and the Baltimore & Ohio. 



The Kendall Lumber Companv shipped an aver- 

 age of twenty-nine cars of lumber a day in No- 

 vember. It has more orders on its books now 

 than at any time for five years and its mills are 

 rushed. 



BOSTON 



The Boughton Door Company, Boston, has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,- 

 000. The incorporators are Fred W. Boughton, 

 Forrest E. Howes and E. Florence Guild. 



The J. H. Lockey Piano Case Company, Leo- 

 minster, Mass., J. M. Lockey, treasurer, has filed 

 its annual statement, showing total assets as 

 $128,904, and liabilities $128,904. 



The Hartford Lumber Company, Hartford, 

 Conn., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. Leon O. Irish is president and 

 Edgar C. Irish, treasurer, both of Hartford. 



Arthur H. Whitcomb, for many years in the 

 lumber business in Vermont, but of late years 

 in business in Boston, died recently at his home 

 in this city. 



H. D. Moulton, a lumber dealer, Monson, Mass., 

 dropped dead recently while riding through Web- 

 ster, Mass., in an electric car. The cause of 

 his death was heart failure. 



The E. C. Wright Block Company, Brockton, 

 Mass., manufacturer of wood and metal last 

 blocks, has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000. The incorporators are Ellery 

 C. Wright, C. A. Batchelder and F. R. Wright. 



The Hills Chair-Couch Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Boston, has leased a factory in Gardner, 

 Mass., and will occupy the same. The company 

 has taken the factory in that city formerly occu- 

 pied by the Collier-Eeyworth Company. 



The Mansfield Lumber Company, Mansfield, 

 Mass., have built a three-story addition to its 

 building. 



The Taunton Lumber Company is planning to 

 build additions to its storehouse and office at its 

 branch in Brockton, Mass. 



The Lansing Lumber Company, Providence, 

 R. I., is about to erect a two-story building of 

 mill construction on its property in that city. 

 The new building will be 145x150. 



BALTIMORE 



All of the steamship lines have now sent out 

 contracts for the exporters to sign covering ship- 

 ments to be made during -1913. All of the con- 

 tracts call for materially higher rates, and there 

 is more or less holding back on this account, 

 the shippers taking the view that they may be 

 able to do better by contracting as they go along. 

 On oak planks of two inches and over, for in- 

 stance, the advance from Norfolk to Liverpool 

 has been four cents, to London three and one- 

 half cents. On planks under two inches the raise 

 is five cents to London and seven and one-half 

 cents to Liverpool. The increase on poplar lum- 

 ber has been about eight imd one-half cents to 

 London and Liverpool, with the rates to Ham- 

 bvirg eleven cents np and those to Cardiff in- 

 creased to twenty-eight cents. The rates for 

 the current year on poplar logs are twenty-three 



cents from Norfolk to Liverpool and twenty-one 

 cents to London. The new rates will be thirty- 

 five cents. Of course, this difference does not 

 represent the advance between the general rates 

 for 1912 and those for 1913, several advances 

 having been made in the course ot the year, but 

 it does constitute the rise on contract shipments 

 for 1012 as against 1913, and will make such a 

 difference in the cost of putting down stocks on 

 the other side that there can be no talk of the 

 exporters absorbing the increase. 



One of the visiting lumbermen here in the last 

 week was Mr. Howie, of Wright & Graham. Glas- 

 gow and London, who came here from New York 

 on the way to South and Southwest to visit 

 mills and exporters, and get a close view ot 

 trade conditions in the United States. 



A. Temple Dohell, who was in Baltimore about 

 a month or six weeks ago in company with 

 Robert Lyle Dobell, both representing the firm 

 of Alfred Dobell & Co., Liverpool, stopped in 

 Baltimore on the return trip to New York, after 

 visiting the South, to take the steamer Maure- 

 tanla for home. Robert Dobell remained in 

 Mobile, where he will give special attention to 

 the pitch pine business. 



Still another visitor here in the last two 

 weeks was John Bain of Munro, Bryce & Co., 

 London. Like other callers from the United 

 Kingdom, Mr. Bain stopped here in the course 

 of an extended trip to the hardwood producing 

 sections. 



CINCINNATI 



O. p. .Stratemeyer and H. G. Hoover have re- 

 cently organized the' Stratemeyer Lumber Com- 

 pany in this city. Mr. Stratemeyer was for- 

 merly vice-president of the Thompson Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, while Mr. Hoover was assist- 

 ant secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturer's 

 Association of the United States. Previous to 

 this connection Mr. Hoover was with the Grif- 

 fon H. Deeves Lumber Company of Chicago. 

 Both young lumbermen are hustlers and should 

 make a success of their new venture. 



The band mills of Mowbray & Robinson, which 

 are located at Quicksand and Irvine, Ky., are 

 running overtime, much of the cut being special. 

 Fred Mowbray, who recently has spent consider- 

 able time at the mill, states that business never 

 was better with them. 



One of the busiest yards in town is that of 

 the John Dulweber Company. Ben Dulweber, 

 the active head of the business, is a real hus- 

 tler and has built up the present big business 

 of the concern in a comparatively short time. 

 Mr. Dulweber is of the opinion that business is 

 normal and will continue without any interrup- 

 tion. 



W. J. Eckham of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company is of the opinion that present trade 

 conditions reflect the good business conditions 

 that prevail all over the country. This com- 

 pany does a very large business and ships to 

 most all of the consuming centers. Its hard- 

 wood flooring department is a big feature of its 

 business and the brand of "Century Oak Floor- 

 ing" is widely known. 



Chas. F. Shiels & Co. are doing a fine yard 

 trade. Chas. F. Shiels recently returned from 

 a trip through the producing sections and says 

 that while all hardwoods are scarce, he succeeded 

 in getting out quite a lot of stock that they 

 had bought, and arranged for a good portion 

 of requirements for the next couple of months. 



J. C. Rash of the Shawnee Lumber Company, 

 whose mills are located at Shawnee, states that 

 the white pine business is very good and all 

 hardwoods are moving fast at satisfactory prices. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



engines, died at his home here recently. He was 

 fifty-three years old and was born in Weedsport, 

 N. Y. A widow and one son survive him. 



The Talge Mahogany Company has received 

 from the coast of West .\frica a consignment of 

 1887 mahogany logs, valued at $50,000. This 

 Is the largest single shipment of Its kind that 

 ever passed through the local custom house In 

 the thirty-one years of its cxistance. 



To Dec. 1 the aggregate of building permits 

 issued by the city was $8,023,302, as compared 

 with $7,590,059 for the corresponding period of 

 last year. The total amount of permits issued 

 last year was $8,349,477. 



The board of managers of the Indiana Hard- 

 wood Lumbermen's Association met here a few 

 days ago to make final plans for the annual 

 meeting of the organization to be held here Dec. 

 16. Committees on program and entertainment 

 were appointed. The meeting is to be a special 

 home coming for all hardwood lumbermen for- 

 merly in business in Indiana. 



William White Knight of Indianapolis and 

 Miss Mary Ethlyn Prentice were married at the 

 home of the bride in Leroy, N. Y'., on Dec. 2 In 

 the presence of a distinguished gathering of 

 friends and relatives. Immediately after the 

 ceremony they left for Panama. After a visit ot 

 several weeks, they will return to Indianapolis 

 for residence and will have apartments in the 

 Buckingham. Mr. Knight is president and treas- 

 urer of the Long-Knight Lumber Company. He 

 is prominent in hardwood circles of the Middle 

 West. 



MEMPHIS 



Henry R. Bliss, for twenty-five years secre- 

 tary-treasurer of the Sinker-Davis Company, 

 manufacturer of sawmill machinery, boilers and 



C. K. Sharp and G. K. Caldwell, Jackson, 

 Tenn., have recently acquired the properties of 

 the Star Lumber & Transportation Company at 

 West Point. Ark. Included in the transfer are 

 a sawmill, a dimension mill and a planer. The 

 new owners have already assumed charge and 

 are now operating these plants. They have like- 

 wise acquired control of several hundred acres 

 of hardwood timberland in the adjacent terri- 

 tory, from which they will secure their timber 

 requirements. 



Lumbermen here are watching with consider- 

 able interest the outcome of the recent importa- 

 tion of about 100,000 feet of African mahogany 

 by a prominent manufacturing firm here. If 

 the first importation turns out well it is certain 

 that the firm in question will bring numerous 

 other imports and it is also intimated that other 

 firms may engage in the same departure. In 

 fact the lumbermen have taken up with J. H. 

 Townsend, manager of the Lumbermen's Traffic 

 Bureau, the question of securing reduced rates 

 on shipments of African mahogany from Mobile 

 to Memphis. It is believed that the railroads 

 may be induced to offer lower rates in order to 

 build up an entirely new industry. The present 

 shipment of mahogany logs is being cut into 

 lumber and veneers. 



One of the most prominent producers of hard- 

 wood lumber in east Arkansas, who has recently 

 become identified with the Arkansas Lumber- 

 men's Club of Little Rock, is authority for the 

 statement that one of the first steps to be taken 

 by the members of that organization is that of 

 securing lower rates on the lower grades ot bard- 

 wood lumber. He says that under present rates 

 it is well nigh impossible to ship the lower 

 grades of lumber more than one hundred miles 

 and that, owing to the excessive freight rates, 

 manufacturers of lower grades are meeting with 

 increasing difficulty in disposing of their output 

 and that much accumulation of this class of 

 lumber is the result. 



A number of business men from this city and 

 section left Memphis Dec. 2 for Washington, 

 where they have gone to present to the proper 

 committees of the House and Senate the resolu- 

 tions which were adopted by the Interstate 

 Levee Association last September, asking for an 



