HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Frank L. Hunt. A. B. Olapi) anil F. L. Smitb, 

 all of Brattleboro. The company plans to begin 

 tlie manufacture of toys, woodenwarc. carriages, 

 • tc. 



BALTimORE 



Stephen S. Mauu and Frank .V. Parker of 

 .Alann & Parker, which went into the hands 

 "t a receiver some months ago, have been dis- 

 I harged from bankruptcy in the United States 

 ' nurt here. The assets of the old firm, however, 

 ire still in the hands of the trustee, but will 

 lie distributed as soon as possible. 



It was announced here with much detail that 

 Henry Gassaway Davis, who is one of the pio- 

 neers in the development of the resources of 

 West Virginia and has acquired a great fortune 

 from timber, coal, railroads and enterprises, was 

 :ilxiut to retire from active life, relinquishing the 

 iiresideucy of the Coal & Coke Uailroad of West 

 \'irginia. Biit on the occasion of his visit in 

 Baltimore this week, Mr. Davis, who is now 

 eighty-nine years old. denied the report, stating 

 ihat he had no intention to get out of harness, 

 lie ran with Judge Parker on the ticket tor Vice- 

 President in 1904, has served in the United 

 States Senate and still takes a keen interest in 

 public affairs. 



C. C. English of the Asheville Planing Mill 

 Company, Asheville, N. C, was in Baltimore last 

 week. He came here in search of stocks, having 

 visited other sections. He was especially after 

 chestnut, which he had found unusually scarce. 

 There appeared to be a sufficient supply of pop- 

 lar, but offerings of chestnut were very limited, 

 he ascertained prices had stiffened appreciably. 



George W. Eisenhauer of the Eisenhauer- 

 Maclea Company, who has Ijcen ill for some 

 time, continues to improve slowly and is able 

 to make short trips in the open air. He has 

 not yet been at his place of business. 



James Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co. . has 

 returned from a trip to northern points, his 

 travels having extended as far north as Mon- 

 treal. He states that a good demand for hard- 

 woods prevailed everywhere and that prices were 

 I'ither firm or higher. Richard P. Baer of the 

 same firm is back from a visit to Mobile, Ala. 



The National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 recently adopted resolutions of regret on the 

 death of E. E. Goodlander. 



COLUMBUS 



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

 Gobey & Co., says the demand for all grades 

 of hardwoods at this time is very good. Prices 

 are well maintained and the volume of business 

 is entirely satisfactory. He says oak is the 

 strongest feature of the market. Both hemlock 

 and chestnut in the sound wormy grade are 

 strong. The yard trade is a little slow, but 

 factories are taking advantage of every oppor- 

 tunity to lay in supplies. 



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

 pany says trade conditions at this time of the 

 year are very satisfactory. He says stocks in 

 bands of dealers are light. Factory trade seems 

 to want to stock up, but the yard trade is a 

 little slow, expecting a drop in prices in the 

 near future. Prices are being well maintained 

 and the volume of business in all of the lower 

 grades is entirely satisfactory. 



M. A. Hayward reports a good business for 

 the time of the year. Oak is in good demand. 

 MS is also poplar and chestnut, especially the 

 sound wormy. Prices are firm. The car situa- 

 tion is somewhat easier than last week, but 

 there is still room for marked improvement. 



W. L. Whitacre of the Whitacre Lumber Com- 

 pany says trade in hardwoods has been excep- 

 tionally good considering the time of year. 

 Prices are being well maintained and stocks in 

 the hands of dealers are light. The car situa- 

 tion is a little better than during the past week. 

 The outlook for the future Is very bright. 



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

 pany says the hardwood trade is very satisfac- 

 tory for the time of the year. Prices tiiin and 

 show a tendency to remain so. 



CINCINNA Tl 



Wreckers have been busy all week tearing 

 down the remaining walls of the famous old 

 Gibson House which was destroyed by fire last 

 week. Wells Brothers of Chicago are assembling 

 material as fast as possible to start to work 

 erecting the new Hotel Gibson, which, when 

 completed, will be of fireproof construction 

 throughout, twelve stories in height and cover- 

 ing one-halt acre of ground space. It will have 

 a convention hall on the second floor second to 

 none in the country. 



Another big improvement and a very much 

 needed one is the new Union Depot and Terminal 

 Company, which is now an assured fact. It 

 will house all of the railroads entering the 

 city, excepting the Pennsylvania, which will 

 build its own depot in another section of the 

 city later on. Work ou the new depot started 

 last week. 



The new firm of the Johns-Mowbray- Nelson 

 Company is doing all that was expected of this 

 hustling young but experienced firm. Mr. Johns, 

 just home from a trip, states that business is 

 in a flourishing condition and that the com- 

 pany placed some very heavy business during 

 this month. 



C. M. Clark, local manager of the Swann-Day 

 Lumber Company, states that his company is 

 very well satisfied with conditions and that the 

 poplar market seems to be much improved in 

 the upper grades, while the low grades have 

 been going at a premium during the last several 

 months. 



Ben Dulweber. the active head of the John 

 Dulweber Company, was seen at his office in the 

 west end, adjoining the company's big hardwood 

 yards. He stated that business has been be- 

 yond expectations and that the company is 

 doubling its efforts at its own mill in the South 

 to increase the output. It is also buying de- 

 sirable hardwoods when offered at reasonable 

 prices. He says that the outlook for next season 

 is very bright. 



Fred Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson was in 

 town this week and spent quite a little time at 

 the office and looking over the yard. He stated 

 that the three big mills of the company at 

 Quicksand and Irvine. Ky.. are ruuning to ca- 

 pacity and that they have a comparatively small 

 stock of lumber of any kind on hand, the con- 

 sumption being quite equal to the output. He 

 sees no reason why conditions should change 

 and looks for a big year in the hardwood field 

 next season. 



At the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company's big 

 plant on the outskirts of the city all is activity. 

 Stock on hand here is below the amount usually 

 carried by this big concern, and while stock has 

 been arriving freely during the last week or so, 

 the big hardwood flooring mill is using it up as 

 fast as received. The flooring industry is rap- 

 idly growing and the brand of century oak as 

 produced by the company is widely known. 

 Vice-President W. J. Eckman stated that con- 

 ditions are entirely satisfactory. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The planing mill of Samuel Lanum at Bloom- 

 ington was burned Dec. 14, the loss being $0,000, 

 covered by insurance. 



George C. Fuller, Lebanon, suffered a loss of 

 .$6,000 when his sawmill and woodworking plant 

 were burned recently. About $1,000 insurance 

 was carried. 



The Eaglesfield Company, which was succeeded 

 by the Eaglesfield-Stewart Company, manufac- 

 turer of hardwood flooring, has sold its old plant 

 in .\lvord street to Alonzo E. Uobbins for $17.- 



0(10. Mr. Robbins was a stockholder in the 

 Eaglesfield company. 



For a consideration of .$12,000, Nelson A. 

 Gladding, vice-president of E. C. Atkins & Co.. 

 h/is bought a site for a new home in Washing- 

 tcui Boulevard. 



The Indiana Better Roads Convention, held' 

 here Dec. 11, 12 and l.t. adopted a resolution in 

 favor of placing all highway construction and 

 maintenance under a stale hoard of highway 

 commissioners and to raise a fund for the work 

 by a special tax of one-half cent on each .$100' 

 of taxables in the state and by an annual license 

 on all motor vehicles including traction engines. 

 Such a fund would amount to about $1,000,000 

 a year. A bill incorporating the recommenda- 

 tions will be introduced in the legislature next 

 month. 



The death of Hugh Murdoch occurred at his 

 home in this city ou the night of Dec. 16, as the 

 result of an operation for the removal of a 

 goiter. He was a member of the Murdoch Veneer 

 and Lumber Company and also had veneer and 

 timber interests in the South. Mr. Murdoch 

 was born in Shelbyville, coming to this city in 

 lOOS. He was thirty-three years old. A widow 

 survives. Burial was at Shelbyville. 



MEMPHIS 



Among the recent prominent visitors to Mem- 

 phis have been Charles Barnabv, president of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber .Association and 

 Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States. 

 Both of these gentlemen gave out encouraging 

 accounts of the outlook for business and were in 

 a rather optimistic mind regarding the future. 

 Mr. Doster comes to Memphis everv few weeks, 

 but this is the first visit Mr. Barnaby has paid 

 to this center for quite a long while. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc., will be 

 named chairman of the special committee to be- 

 created by the Business Men's Club for the 

 purpose of keeping Memphis and Memphis prod- 

 ucts before European buyers. Mr. Russe has 

 for a number of years been quite prominently 

 identified with the export business and is quite 

 familiar with the foreign methods of business as 

 well as with the needs of European buyers. 

 This committee will be charged with the duty 

 of seeing that Memphis manufacturers and dis- 

 tributors are enabled to do a more extensive 

 business with foreign markets than at present. 



Visiting lumbermen will find the secretary of 

 the Lumbermen's Club on the sixth floor of the 

 Business Men's Club, or if he is not there he 

 can be located by communication with J. -M. 

 Tuther, general secretary of the Business Men's 

 Club. The recent adoption by the Lumbermen's 

 Club of the affiliation agreement of the Business 

 Men's Club has resulted in the foregoing ar- 

 rangement. The secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 Club will do all of his work at this office and in 

 order to facilitate matters for him the Business 

 Men's Club has agreed to furnish stenographic 

 service and to render any other assistance neces- 

 sary. The new arrangement is regarded as par- 

 ticularly advantageous to the Lumbermen's Club 

 inasmuch as it secures free clerical work and 

 also headquarters. It likewise has in this wa.v 

 the moral support and backing of the Business 

 Men's Club in all problems coming up for con- 

 sideration. 



The Muirhead Lumber Company has branched 

 into the manufacture of hardwood lumber, with 

 special reference to hickory and oak dimension 

 stock. The company has purcha.sed a large 

 tract of tlmberland near Weldon, Ark., and a 

 tramway has already been built to facilitate the 

 development thereof. This firm formerly had its 

 headquarters at Newport, but has moved these 

 to Weldon in order to make the development of 

 its holdings easier. The firm operates plants 

 at both Weldon and Gregory. In addition to 

 hardwood manufacture, the gentlemen identified 

 with this firm arc operating a stave plant under 



