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lar-sighted business men. A large stock of lum- 

 ber is kept on hand at all times, and the saw- 

 mill is rarely silent, as is necessary to take 

 care of the rapidly increasing business of the 

 company. 



Another progressive concern is Young & Cut- 

 singer, composed of Bedna Young and F. M. 

 Cutsinger. The firm was organized about two 

 years ago. Y'oung & Cutsinger make a specialty 

 of quartered oak. They operate a modern saw- 

 mill and a planing mill with a capacity of 

 20,000 feet of lumber daily. 



St. Iiouis. 



The Boynton Land & Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of ifSOO,- 

 000. The incorporators are J. G. Ganahl, A. J. 

 Lang. E. E. Boynton of Sycamore, III., William 

 L. Culbertson of Carroll, Iowa, and C. D. Boyn- 

 ton of Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



George W. Booker, formerly proprietor of the 

 Booker Lumber Company, East St. Louis, Ill- 

 lias opened wholesale offices in the Chemical 

 building, this city. He has mill connections at 

 Brighton, Ark., and Monroe, La., the latter being 

 a yellow pine plant, and the former cutting 

 principally gum and oak lumber. 



Application for articles of incorporation were 

 filed a few days ago by the Columbia Lumber 

 Company, with a capital of $100,000, paid up. 

 The incorporators are Andrew .T. Niemeyer, Wil- 

 son T. Cartwright and William X. Dunaway. 

 Mr. Niemeyer is president of the Monarch Lum- 

 ber Company of this city. The company will 

 own and operate timber lands and saw mills. 



Fire in the yards of the Charles F. Luehrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber Company a few days ago 

 damaged property to the extent of $23,000. The 

 blaze started in one of the sheds in which was 

 stored the most valuable stock carried by the 

 company, including mahogany, birch and maple, 

 and a quantity of veneer material. The com- 

 pany is well insured, and the damaged buildings 

 will doubtless be replaced shortly. 



Memphis. 



The following letter, issued by the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis through its secretary, 

 George C. Ehemann, has been addressed to mem- 

 bers of the National Hardwood Lumber Associ- 

 ation : 



■■As a mistaken impression has been given out 

 that the hotels of Memphis will not be able to 

 accommodate all of the delegates to the annual 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association to be held- here May 3 and 4, the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis will take pleas- 

 ure in securing reservations of rooms for all 

 delegates who will send in their requests for 

 same to the hotel committee, composed of 

 Messrs. John W. McClure of Thompson & Mc- 

 Clure and E. E. Taenzer of E. E. Taenzer & Co., 

 Inc. Kindly send your requests for reservations 

 to either member of the hotel committee at 

 once." 



This action was taken at the last meeting of 

 the Lumbermen's Club, at which the club unani- 

 mously endorsed the candidacy of W. II. Russe 

 of Russe & Burgess for the presidency of the 

 National association. 



F. E. Stonebraker, president and manager of 

 the Crittenden railway, has purchased an inter- 

 est in the Lansing Wheelbarrow Company, a 

 large Michigan corporation, and on April 15 

 will become southern manager for this company. 

 The Lansing Wheelbarrow Company has a large 

 12-inch band saw mill at Parkin, Ark., and a 

 big plant there manufacturing wheelbarrows and 

 other products. It also owns about 12,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber lands in Cross and Critten- 

 den counties, Arkansas, a short distance west 

 of Memphis. Mr. Stonebraker's headquarters 

 will be either in the Memphis or Tennessee Trust 

 building, this city. 



The E. Sondheimer Company of Memphis an- 

 nounces the purchase of twenty acres of laud 

 in North Memphis, adjacent to the Illinois Cen- 



tral and the Union railway (Belt Line), on 

 which will be established a planing mill and 

 lumber yards, equipped with drying kilns. These 

 yards will handle the output of the mills of 

 the company in Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten- 

 nessee. The yards at Cairo w-ill be continued as 

 lieretofore, but will handle only the river re- 

 ceipts of the company and the output of the 

 mills in Kentucky and Missouri. The local 

 yards will carry a stock of 10,000,000 to 15,000.- 

 000 feet of lumber. The company will make a 

 new departure In the shape of the building of 

 homes for its employees adjacent to the property 

 already purchased. 



C. L. Willey of Chicago, one of the largest 

 veneer manufacturers in the United States, has 

 purchased fifteen acres of land adjoining that 

 "wned by the E. Sondheimer Company, and will 

 erect thereon a large band mill with capacity of 

 30,000 feet of lumber daily for the manufacture 

 of hardwoods brought here from the southern 

 states and from South and Central America. 



The new yards of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany are now open and lumber is being loaded 

 thereon at a lively rate. The company has be- 

 tween six and seven acres and spur tracks run 

 on both sides of it. having been constructed 

 from the main line of the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley railroad. W. A. Ransom, Jr., and C. R. 

 Ransom, both of Nashville until recently, are 

 now here looking after their interests. The 

 company will erect a shed for the storing of 

 wagon stock and high-class hardwood lumber. 



The Cotton Stales Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased from Thomas Hume of Muskegon, Mich., 

 10,6.33 acres of timber lands in Lauderdale 

 county. Mississippi, for .$166,333. The Cotton 

 States Lumber Company is expanding rapidly, as 

 it acquired only a short time ago the large mill- 

 ing plant and properties of the Meehan-Rounds 

 Lumber Company, near Meehan Junction. Miss. 



The Arthur Hardwood Flooring Company has 

 begim the operation of its plant for the exclusive 

 manufacture of hardwood flooring. 



It is stated on the authority of a prominent 

 lumber exporter here that American export lum- 

 ber interests will have, in their dealings with 

 Germany, benefit of the lowest tariff schedule 

 allowed under the "favored nation clause." This 

 arrangement, it is officially stated, will continue 

 until July 1. 1907, or until further notice. It 

 became effective some days ago. 



The Mississippi river is now reaching the 

 highest stage in two years, and promises a vol- 

 ume of water that will greatly facilitate lumber- 

 men in getting in timber which has been cut and 

 held on the banks of smaller streams to be 

 floated out in the event of high water. The rise 

 will prove extremel.v helpful to cottonwood in- 

 terests. The stage is large enough to cause an 

 overflow of all the land outside the levee, but it 

 is not believed that there will be any danger 

 of breaks. 



Louis'ville. 



The Berry-Davis Saw Mill Company has been 

 greatly hampered in receiving a sufficient supply 

 of logs to keep moving by the bad weather which 

 has prevailed this season, but now that spring 

 lias commenced and the weather is more favor- 

 able it is preparing to receive a liberal supply 

 of logs, having purchased additional timber hold- 

 ings and increased logging facilities. The com- 

 pany reports a splendid demand for hardwoods, 

 especially plain oak. While quartered is not 

 as active as plain, it is improving steadily and 

 is materially better from the selling standpoint 

 tl^an it was two months ago. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a good demand for everything in 

 hardwoods, and an abnormal demand for ash. 

 The call for this wood easily exceeds the avail- 

 able supply, and all grades of it find a ready 

 sale at good prices. 



The W. P. BroWn & Sons Lumber Company 

 has orders enough on hand to keep busy for 

 the next two months, but the excessive rain has 



delayed shipments considerably so that stocks on 

 the yards here are low. 



J. E. Buscher of the Louisville Spoke & Bend- 

 ing Works says the demand for vehicle wood- 

 stock is improving steadily, the only difficulty 

 being the inability to get raw material. 



D. S. Hutchinson of the Nashville Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, Nashville, Tenn., who was 

 v'siting in town last week, reports an excellent 

 demand for hardwood flooring, both oak and 

 beech. The company is In fact sold out of beech 

 stock and has many orders ahead. Mr. Hutchin- 

 son says his company \\ill put a new flooring 

 of satin walnut on the market soon that will 

 lie cheaper than oak and better than pine. 



Albert R. Kampf has been turning down 

 orders, for they were coming in faster than 

 it was possible to take care of them, since he, 

 too, was handicapped in operations at the mills 

 by the recent heavy rains. lie recently pur- 

 chased additional timber holdings and will soon 

 enter the field well prepared to handle all the 



business offered. 



Dayton, Ohio. 

 One of the largest concerns in Dayton is the 

 Miami Lumber & 'S'eneer Company. This com- 

 pany was organized October 12, 1903. Its presi- 

 dent and general manager is W. C. Ely. formerly 

 of Houck & Ely of Dayton. The other moving 

 spirit is E. A. Deem, vice president and treasurer. 

 Mr. Deem was formerly in the jobbing business 

 at Eaton, Ohio. 



The company owns an extensive tract of land 

 at Dayton and operates on the premises a large 

 modern band mill. An average of 1.300,000 

 feet of hardwood is carried in stock at all times, 

 consisting principally of plain and quartered red 

 and white oak. The company is at present erect 



ing a large venee r pla nt. 



Minneapolis. 

 W. H. Sill, of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany, says that in his judgment the output of 

 hardwood logs in the northern woods last win- 

 ter was about three-fourths of the previous sea- 

 son. The Ruby Lumber Company, in which 

 this concern is interested, got out about as 

 many logs as the year before by strenuous effort, 

 but has not enough to keep the mill running 

 as intended, and will do some summer logging. 

 The sawmill of the Coffin Box & Lumber Com- 

 pany at Menominee, Wis., started up with a 

 good supply of oak, elm, basswood and ash 

 logs on March 20, and will be busy all season. 

 At this plant baskets and berry boxes are 

 also manufactured on a large scale. 



The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company of St. 

 Paul, which was recently incorporated with 

 A. E. Peterson, president of the Northwestern 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, at its head, 

 will establish a distributing yard at St. Paul, 

 on the Northern Pacific and Omaha tracks. The 

 tract acquired comprises nine acres and a full 

 line of stock will be stored there to supply 

 car orders or mixed car business. 



W. O. Barndt, of the W. O. Barndt Lumber 

 Company, has returned from the company's 

 mill at Tripoli. Wis., where it is sawing hem- 

 lock and hardwood logs. 



C. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, has re- 

 turned from a visit of inspection to their retail 

 yards in and near Erie, 111., where he found 

 trade brisk. Mr. Osborne says that dry stocks 

 of lumber are low and lines broken. The last 

 stock of northern white oak available for this 

 market, which they hold, is now out of 16-foot 

 lengths. Mr. Osborne says that the Leavitt Lum- 

 ber Company, of Frederick, Wis., the largest sin- 

 gle white oak producer in the North, had a 

 good winter logging, and got out 2,187,000 feet 

 of white oak logs. Osborne ,.t Clark handle the 

 entire output of this mill. 



E. Payson Smith, of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company, is still in Alabama looking after 

 stocks he has purchased there, and Geo. S. 

 Agnew, of the same company, has joined him. 

 A. S. Bliss remains in charge of the offices here. 

 Local box men are turning from pine to bass- 



