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lowing standing committees : Executive, Jos. 

 Scheid, chaiiman : Henry HoCFeld and B. H. 

 Kipp. Finance, Paul Scliirmei-. chairman ; E. 

 II. Kuhlman and Wm. Dulilmeier. Transporta- 

 tion. L. Froelioh, oliairman ; Ed. Feuss and 

 Wm. Keclier. Messrs. Kipp and Duhlmeier are 

 engaged in tlie liardwood business. The T. B. 

 ■ Stone Lumber Company has resigned from the 

 exchange. 



C. Crane & Co. have secured additional ground 

 adjoining their present plant, which will be used 

 for additional yards. 



This early indications are that this city will 

 send a large delegation to the convention of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association ab 

 Memphis, May 3-4. The Lumbermen's Club is 

 communicating with different railroads regarding 

 transportation to the convention city. 



The planing mill of Wm. Schubert, on Home 

 street, near Fourth, was destroyed by tire on 

 Feb. 16. The loss was $10,000, which was cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



L. Murvell of Huntington, W. Va.. has se- 

 cured a tract of timber land near Pikeville, 

 Ky., which he expects will cut 1.000,000 ties. 

 Development will begin immediately. 



The Maley, Thompson & Motfett Company 

 will build a Iwo-story veneer dry house shed 

 on Evans street, near Eighth. It will cost 

 $1,000. 



C. F. Korn of the Ferrin-Korn Lumber Com- 

 pany is home from a southern trip. He visited 

 the company's new offices at Memphis while 

 away. 



Anton Walter, Jr., of Dayton, Ky.. general 

 dealer in hardwood lumber, tiled a voluntary 

 petition in bankruptcy on Feb. 20. The sched- 

 ule shows debts to the amount of $4,326.15. 



M. B. Farrin, president of the M. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Company, left for Central America on 

 Feb. 20. Before returning he will visit the 

 West Indies and other countries. Mr. Farrin 

 was accompanied by Mrs. Farrin. They will be 

 gone about six months. 



Oeorge Barber of Illingworth, Ingham & Co. 

 was in Chattanooga the middle part of the 

 month on business. 



Max Kosse, president of the K. & P. Lumber 

 Company, is in the east visiting various mar- 

 kets. He will come home the early part of 

 March. 



Wm. C. and Chas. Duhlmeier of Duhlmeier 

 Bros, are in Kentucky on a buying expedition. 

 They will visit other hardwood producing states 

 before returning. 



II. P. Wiborg, prasident of the Wiborg-Hanna 

 Company, is seriously ill from a complication 

 of troubles, which afEected his eyes and nose, 

 as well as ears and throat. He was operated 

 upon and his condition is now such that little 

 fears of his recovery are entertained by his 

 family and friends. 



The Kendallville Chair Company. Kendall- 

 ville, Ind., will erect a factory building and 

 power plant at Peru, Ind., which will cost $20.- 

 00(1. The plans were made by a Cincinnati arch- 

 itect. 



J. E. Mills of the Maley, Thompson & Motfett 

 Company has returned from a trip through 

 Tennessee. 



The Ohio Valley Cooperage Company of this 

 eity has been incorporated by D. F. Hack- 

 ett. George F'. Helfrich, II. W. Backus, 

 E. J. Howard and W. H. Cobb, Jr. This com- 

 pany was formed to take the place of the part- 

 nership which did business under the same 

 name and which was placed in the hands of a 

 receiver the early part of the month, owing to 

 the death of Frank H. Garber. 



The Snider-Flautt Company, of Somerset, O., 

 capital $50,000. was incorporated last week by 

 Wm. Snider, H. D. Flautt, Jas. M. Flautt and 

 Wm. A. Welker. 



The People's Lumber Company, of Salem, has 

 increased its capital stock from $25,000 to 

 $30,000. 



G. A. Roy, a prominent timber land operator 

 of Nicholasville, Ky., was here on business dur- 

 ing the past fortnight. 



President L. L. Sadler of the Chamber of 

 Commerce has appointed the following commit- 

 tee on lumber for the ensuing year : W. A. 

 Bennett, chairman ; Clinton Crane, H. P. Wi- 

 borg, T. J, Moffett and T. B. Stone. The 

 duties of this committee are merely nominal. 



The National Barrel Company, whose plant 

 at Front and Augusta streets, collapsed re- 

 cently, has secured buildings at 1022-1032 East 

 Front street, covering one and one-half acres. 



Charles C. Eberbach, formerly with the Ault 

 & Jackson Company, of West Sixth street, for 

 whom detectives have been looking for the last 

 five months, was arrested in this city on Feb. 

 21. He is wanted at AUgood, Tenn., to answer 

 to a charge of stealing $2,000 worth of lumber 

 belonging to the Ault vt Jackson Company. 

 Eberbach is regarded as one of the best hard- 

 wood inspectors in this part of the country and 

 at the opening of the last fall season he was 

 sent from Cincinnati by the Ault & Jackson 

 Company to take charge of its Tennessee in- 

 terests. Eberbach'st peculations amounted to 

 considerably more than $2,000, but the balance 

 was recovered. He will probably return to 

 Tennessee without requisition papers. He has 

 left a wife and three children living at Pome- 

 toy, O. 



Chattanooga. 



Tlie Case Lumber Company has recently in- 

 stalled a new sawmill at Boligee, Ala., on a 

 recently acquired tract of l.i.MH) acres of timber 

 land containing about eight million feet of tim- 

 ber. Five million feet will be cut on the ground, 

 while the remainder, three million feet, will be 

 shipped to the Fowlcr-Personett Lumber Com- 

 pany's mill at Birmingham, Ala. 



The Fowler-Personett Lumber Company is in- 

 stalling a seven-foot band sawmill at its plant 

 at Birmingham, Ala., and making other improve- 

 ments which will enable the factory to cut 30.000 

 feet per day. 



W. P. Bowman of James Kennedy & Co., ltd.. 

 Cincinnati, O., was among the buyers here re- 

 cently. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company of this city has returned from a 

 month's trip to his mill at Norfolk, ^'a. He 

 reports business good at both plants. 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company recently 

 purchased 500.000 feet of hardwood near Laurel, 

 Miss., as well as about 200.000 feet in middle 

 Tennessee. 



St. Iiouis. 



The Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company, 

 which recently moved its main offices to St. 

 Louis, is conveniently located in the Frisco 

 building. Geo. W. Stoneman has just returned 

 from the company's mill in the south, where he 

 says there is quite a lot of dry stock on sticks. 

 The mill is running at full capacity. 



Chas. E. 'fhomas and Edward E. Weise of 

 the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company, this 

 city, have purchased a mill site at Belzona, 

 Miss., on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R. 

 and the Yazoo River. Included in the purchase 

 • are an electric light plant and outfit, a steam- 

 boat, and barges. Raymond Brattain, southern 

 representative of the Thomas & Proetz company, 

 will be manager of the new plant. The com- 

 pany will be incorporated for $25,000, and will 

 be called the Belzona Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



A. R. Stevens, formerly with John F. Scobee 

 & Co., contemplates engaging in the lumber 

 business on his own account. 



Among the recent incorporations in East St. 

 Louis is the Healy Box Company, capitalized 

 at $50,000. H. A. Russell, Philip Healy and 

 Earnest Taylor are the incorporators. 



The Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company reports the logging situation at its 

 mills in the same condition as a month ago, 

 with about 25 per cent less logs just now than 

 at the same time last year. This is due, of 

 course, to the bad condition of roads, which 



makes logging slow and laborious work. The 

 company looks forward to higher prices on 

 St. Ifrancis Basin red gum. 



The Little Lumber Company has purchased in 

 eastern Texas about S75 acres of fine pine lands. 

 In addition to this it has now the Buckner- 

 Pott Saw Mill with a stock of about 205,000 

 feet of dry sawed lumber. The property is 

 located at Newville in Shelby county. 



W. H. Richardson, Jr., of the firm of J. P. 

 & W. H. Richardson, has just returned from a 

 trip in the south, where he closed a deal for 

 1,000,000 feet of cottonwood. He, like many 

 others, reports a scarcity of dry stock at the 

 southern mills. 



The business of the lumbermen in this section 

 is much better just now than they had any rea- 

 son to expect when the year opened. Demand 

 for most hardwoods is showing activity and 

 prices are strong, with the tendency upward on 

 almost all kinds of lumber. 



J. C. Vaughn of this city has gone to Mem- 

 phis to take charge of the sales department of 

 the E. Sondheimer Company. 



A. M. Beckers has retired from his position as 

 manager of the A. M. Beckers Lumber Company, 

 and is succeeded by Chas. Beckers, who has 

 been identified with the company for many 

 years. 



A St. Louis office has been opened by the 

 American Wood Working JIachinery Company, 

 under- the management of Harry Vaughan. who 

 has for the last three years been connected with 

 the Chicago office of the company. Mr. Vaughan 

 is a practical woodworking machinery man of 

 pleasing address, and has begun his labor in this 

 field with characteristic earnestness. 



Geo. L. Smith, surveyor-general of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, was a wel- 

 come visitor to the city recently, and made quite 

 a round among the trade while here. 



Ashland. 



W. R. Vansant of the VV. R. Vansant Lum- 

 ber Company, is in the east on a business trip. 



Chapman Fry of Central City, W. Va., has 

 purchased 5,000 acres of timber land in Clay 

 County and has a large force of men getting 

 out the timber, which will be converted into 

 ties. 



John H. Fraley, W. M. Candill, John B. Kelly 

 of Morehead and Hall Bros, of Carter County, 

 Kentucky, have incorporated a new lumber com- 

 pany, with $25,000 capital. They have purchased 

 100 acres of land in Pike and Floyd counties 

 and will erect a stave and lumber mill. 



A car load of poplar lumber belonging to 

 Vansant, Kitchen & Co., ready to ship east, 

 was destroyed by Are one night recently on a 

 C. & O. siding. 



E. M. Hampton is in from a trip through 

 Tennessee and Kentucky. 



Harry J. Gott of H. H. Salmon & Co.. New 

 Y'ork, visited Ashland lumbermen recently. 



O. F. L. Beckette is spending several weeks 

 at DeFuniak Springs. Fla. 



P. P. Pinney of the Union City Lumber Com- 

 pany was here last week en route to Rothwell, 

 Ky., to look after the company's holdings. 



A. M. Marcus of Milton, W. Va.. is running 

 a big timber job in Pike County, Kentucky. He 

 has fifty men employed and Jas. A. Walkenshaw 

 of Huntington, W. Va., is in the office. 



The Ashland Lumber Company is busy giving 

 the mill a complete overhauling in preparation 

 for the spring work. A quantity of new ma- 

 chinery has been installed, including a band 

 resaw, band ripsaw and edger. This company 

 reports a good year, with bright prospects ahead. 



Hon. C. Breck Hill of Winchester, Ky., has 

 removed his family to Huntington, W. Va., in 

 order to be near his coal and timber lands, in 

 which he is associated with J. C. C. Mayo. Mr. 

 Hill is speculating extensively in the wild lauds 

 of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. 



W. E. Berger has returned from a very suc- 

 cessful trip through the east, for the W. H. Daw- 

 kins Lumber Company. 



