HARDWOOD RECORD 



otliei- hardwood centers before returninor to the 

 inolropolis. Mr. Wlialon says tlie hardwood 

 market is getting stronger each day. witli rap- 

 idly diminishing supplies. 



r,. U. Gage of Gage & Possell is liaik from a 

 successful business trip to Mempliis, Nashville 

 and other southern hardwood centers. lie was 

 away ten days. 



The Farrin-Korn Lumber Company has re- 

 cently increased its capacity by the addition of 

 several new machines. Beside finding lumber 

 hard to get, a member of the firm staled that 

 some trouble is being experienced in getting 

 capable hands. All Arms here seem to be hav- 

 ing the latter difDculty, also. 



Tlie Wright Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, capital .$23,000, has been incorporated by 

 L. S. Wright. F. A. Kilner, E. B. Mitchell, I). 

 F. Irwin and II. ('. Malcolm. They will locate 

 at riymouth. 



The Portage Lumber Company of Ravenna 

 has increased its capital stocli from .$10,000 to 

 $30,000. 



T. J. MolTett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 .Moffett Company was in Columbus, O., for a 

 brief visit the early part of the month. 



.\ccording to the report of the building in- 

 spector 231 permits were issued during Febru- 

 ary for improvements estimated at .$539.10.^. 

 Compared to the same month a year ago a 

 healthy increase is indicated by tlie figures. 



The Prendergast Lumber Company of Marion 

 has purchased what is claimed to be the finest 

 tract of walnut, oak, hicitory and elm timber 

 land in Ohio, situated in Mingo county. The 

 tract consists of fifty acres and cost .$10,000. 



The movement of lumber during February. 

 1J)0G, according to the compilations of the 

 Chamber of Commerce statisticians, was as fol- 

 lows : Keceipts, 3.346 cars ; shipments, 4,511 

 cars. In February. 1905, '3,889 cars were re- 

 ceived and 3.282 cars shipped. The figures tell 

 their ow"n story of the situation at present 

 against last year. 



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

 Company, has returned from a month's visit to 

 New York. Boston and other eastern markets. 



The .1. C. Stacey Company will build a t\v,o- 

 story planing mill on Mill street, near Third. 

 Work will be started the latter part of this 

 month. 



Owing to the growing scarcity of oak lum- 

 ber the Louisville & Nashville railroad has se- 

 cured the old Queen City race track, near 

 Newport. Ky.. and transplanted many young 

 oak trees. The trees will have attained suf- 

 ficient growth in six years to be cut into ties 

 and new trees will be constantly planted. 



Warder C. Victor, for years in the local 

 offices of Bennett & Witte. has been transferred 

 to the company's Memphis office which is in 

 charge of George C. Ehemanu, also a former 

 Cincinnatian. 



The West Cincinnati Business Association, 

 partly composed of hardwood firms in that part 

 of the city, is preparing a campaign for better 

 railroad and other facilities. 



II. P. Wiborg, president of the Wiborg-Uanna 

 Company, is slowl.v recovering from the effects 

 of an operation performed on his head. For 

 some time his recover.v w"as considered doubtful. 



St. Iiouis. 



James E. I^ong. for several years past a 

 member of the St. Louis lumber colony, has 

 been made resident director and general man- 

 ,T,ger of the Guerrero Iron & Timber Company. 

 a rich corporation, in the State of Guerrero, 

 Mexico. Mr. Long will reside in the City 

 of Mexico, and has already left with his 

 family for that place. 



Ralph W. "Reamer, -who has taken charge 

 of the hardwood department of the O'Neil 

 Lumber Company^ is working like a heaver 

 these days. He is making things hum getting 

 cver.vthing in good shape for a fine season's 

 business. His many friends are congratulat- 

 ing him upon the spirit with which he has 

 entered upon liis new duties. 



E. K. Sutton has taken charge of the new 

 lumber yard of Steplien J. G.avin at Wellston. , 

 Mr. Sutton was formerly identified with the 

 Brooks Lumber Company of East St. Louis. 



The capital stock of the Chicago Lumber &. 

 Coal Company has been increased from ?2..')00.- 

 000 to $4,000,000. 



Harry P. Hunter has engaged in the whole- 

 sale business in the Missouri Trust building. 

 He was connected with the Missouri P.aciHc 

 timber department for fifteen years, and will 

 n-.ake a specialty of railroad material. 



The Little Lumber Company is closing out 

 the stock of lumber at its Southard street yard, 

 and when it is all gone will open up offices 

 in one of the big buildings, up town. P. B.. 

 Little has gone to Hot Springs for a stay 

 of several weeks. 



J. A. Braun. who for a long time jjast lias 

 been secretary of the C. E. Strifler Lumber 

 Company, has resigned that position to be- 

 come identified with tlie well-known Chicago 

 firm of W. O. King & Co. 



The Dunklin County Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000. The president of tlie com- 

 pany is John Gaffney of Kennett. Mo.; vice 

 president. John A. PiOheis of the Eau Claire- 

 St. Louis Lumber Compan.v; secretary .and 

 treasurer, Hans Yv^achsmutli of St. Louis, Mo. 

 The company will increase the capacity of its 

 mill at Kennett. Mo., and will add a lath and 

 shingle mill. The timber land contains cy- 

 l>ress, gum and oak. and the output of the 

 mills will be liandled by the Hans Wachsmuth 

 Lumber Company of St. Louis. 



E. H. 'W.arner reports trade fairly brisk for 

 the season. His yards at Kosciusko and Ma- 

 rion streets are well stocked witli choice 

 hardwoods. 



The Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company is paying considerable attention 

 to red gum tliese days, and Thomas W. Fry. 

 secretary of the company, is a generally recog- 

 nized authority on its uses and the best meth- 

 ods of preparing it for market. 



The plant of .loerring & Pelchman Furniture 

 Company was damaged by fire a few days ago 

 to the amount of Sfi.OOO, fully covered by in- 

 surance. 



The Jenning-Materson Lumber Company of 

 New York filed articles of incorporation Feb- 

 ruary 27. showing that it has been incorporated 

 under the laws of that state, with a capital of 

 $40,000, of which $25,000 is to be employed in 

 the state of Missouri, with headquarters in Al- 

 ley Shannon county. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, has .iust returned from 

 a trip in the South, and says that conditions 

 at the company's mills there are not as bright 

 as they should be. There has been a great 

 deal of rain, and logging facilities are in very 

 bad shape. 



J. P. Richardson, Jr., of J. P. & W. II. Rich- 

 ardson has .I'ust returned from a trip to Kan- 

 sas City. He states that the firm will not be 

 in position to deliver the big cottonwood order 

 recently taken until May or June, when the 

 rains in the South have ceased and roads are 

 lietter, so they can haul same to the railroad. 

 John F. Scobee of the .lobn F. Scobee Lum- 

 ber Company has .iust returned from an ex- 

 tensive southern trip. 



Jacob L. Benas. vice president of the Wald- 

 stein Lumber Company, has just returned from 

 a three weeks' trip in southeastern Missouri, 

 southern Arkansas and Tennessee. He says the 

 roads are in very bad shape. The stocks in 

 Memphis and vicinity are very badly broken 

 and those who have any lumber worth mention- 

 ing are holding it in anticipation of fancy 

 prices. The Waldstein Lumber Company has 

 received some very good shipments of cypress 

 and oak, and reports business conditions ex- 

 cellent. 



W. R. Chi^vis reports stocks very badly 

 broken on account of the condition of the vnada 



in Ihc Soudi, wliicli uuikcs delivery of logs to 

 the mills almost impossible. He is having an 

 excellent demand for dear and second walnut, 

 the demand for other woods continues active. 



The Koenig Lumber Company, which has 

 lieen gradually closing out its hardwood stock 

 for some months, is to give up its yard and 

 remove to soutliern California. .\s soon as the 

 slock is disposed cC F. .\. Koenig. Sr.. and 

 one of his sons will enter ihc coast trade. 



The following men have become members 

 of tlie Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis; 

 Itoland Krehs. manager of the Ozark Cooperage 

 Company; Geo. \Y. Stoneman of the Sloneman- 

 Zearing Lumber l^ompany. and Ralph Warner, 

 who is manager of the hardwood depart nient of 

 the O'Neil Lumber Company. 



W". V:. Keown. manager of llic Iiilcrnaiinnal 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, has just returned 

 from a trip through Alabama and .Mississippi. 



Chattanooga. 



In speaking of the scarciiy in the hardwood 

 market, M. M. Erb. vice president of the Case- 

 Lumber Company, said : "We hav- .sold all our 

 dry stock and are anxious to obtain more. Con- 

 ditions are altogether sati.sfactory. excepting the 

 scarcity in dry stocks. We are hoping, however, 

 that as soon as the spring opens the situation 

 will be relieved. We cannot look for a main- 

 tenance of the present prices of lumber, although 

 they are just, as logs are increasing in value 

 and the cost of production is nniih higher than 

 t'l.rmerly." 



James I'ayne of the Ca.se Lumber Company, 

 who is removing a mill for the company from 

 .Meridian. Miss., to Boligee, Ala., was in Meri- 

 ilian during the disastrous cyclone whicli swept 

 over that city Friday night. He was in a large 

 building which collapsed during the storm, but 

 lan to the rear w-ith several others, saving him- 

 self. He witnessed a horrible spectacle when 

 he saw a young bookkeeper take out his knife 

 and cut his throat in order that he might be 

 relieved from his awful suffering. He was 

 pinned between heavy timliers and w.is suffer- 

 ing excruciating pain and seemed i" h'l iliat 

 death only could relieve him. 



The Consumers' Lumber Company, wbicli was 

 lecently incorporated with $25,000 capital stock 

 for the purpose of furnishing lumber to the 

 Chattanooga Furniture, the Keyser .Manufactur- 

 ing and the Acme Kitchen Furniture ccmpanies, 

 has representatives in the field purchasing sup- 

 plies. A site for yards is now- under consid- 

 eration. The company will furnish about 10,- 

 000,000 feet of lumber a year to the furniture 

 concerns named above. 



A. A. McGregor of the Bridgeport Stave 

 Works, Bridgeport. Ala., has leased the spoke 

 factory of the Lion Spoke "Works at Park 

 Place and is installing a barrel and stave 

 plant there. 



The Lion Spoke M'urks, which has a large 

 spoke plant at Alton Park, is locating a spoke 

 plant at Kensington, Ga. The company re- 

 cently purchased a large tract of timberland 

 in the section. 



M. M. Erb of the Case Lumber Company 

 lecently returned from a trip to Nashville. 



J. M. Card of the J. M. Card Lumber Com- 

 pany left Monday night for New Orleans. 



W. O. Harter. sales manager for the J. M. 

 Card Lumber Company, spent several days in 

 Memphis recently. 



A representati\e of Scatcherd & Son of 

 Buffalo. N. Y.. purchased stock in Murfrees- 

 boro. Tenn.. recently. 



Bristol, 'Va.-Tenn. 



The Tug River Lumber Company, through 

 B. B. Burns, its vice president, recently con- 

 sammated a deal with .T. B. Adams of Tazwell, 

 Va., for one of the largest single tracts of tim- 

 berland in Wise county,- Virginia, estimated to 

 cut 20,000.000 feet of stock. The company 

 will at once begin the construction of two large 

 band saw mills near East Ston- iJap. :ind the 



