February 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Brooklyn Liuuber Company, Cieveliunl. rcinirU an iucrua^ti^ t>-t-«?ftt>ttai^ 

 from $40,000 to $60,000. 



The Buckley-Ginter Box Company. Columbus, has boon incorporated with 

 a capital of $15,000, to manufacture boxes. The incorporators ai*e : C. S., 

 Clara V., and II. W. Buckley, and Mary M. and C. G. Ginter. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Uittor Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for all grades and varieties of hardwoods both from factories and 

 retailers. The worst drawback at this time is railroad congestion and 

 embargoes which are holding up deliveries. Prices are firm and some recent 

 advances have been announced. 



.T. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company says the hardwood trade 

 is good and demand is growing better as the spring approaches. He says 

 prices are firm in every particular. 



One of the most important traffic hearings in the Buckeye state was 

 held under the auspices of thp Ohio Utilities Commission last week when 

 the question of car supply and railroad congestion was gone into. General 

 superintendents of many of the railmads wore <'alled to tell their version 

 of the trouble. The hearing was held especially on the coal traffic but 

 extended to many other commodities. 



A large number of traveling representatives and mill superintendents 

 ■oi: the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company visited the headquarters of the 

 company in Columbus recently, for a conference with W. M. Ritter, head 

 of the company and his department managers. All of the men report an 

 excellent demand with congested shipping facilities and embargoes holding 

 up movement of lumber in nearly "H directions. 



Railroads in Ohio will come largely under state control if suggestions 

 made to members of the Ohio legislature are written in the utilities laws 

 of the state. The suggestions were the outcome of a hearing held last week by 

 the Ohio Utilities Commission on the coal car shortage, which was gradually 

 extended to embrace other commodities. It was suggested that reconsign- 

 ment privileges should be abridged entirely if the best traffic arrangement 

 could be secured. Lumbermen will oppose strenuously the abolition of 

 the reconsignment privilege as it now stands. 



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Purthpi- extcusion of cmbargnos by tlip New York Contral Hui's, loUowoil 

 by similar riiliugs by the Nickel Plate Railroad, has served to hamper the 

 hardwood industry in receiving materials and making shipments. The 

 embargo by the New York Central lines includes all points west of Buffalo, 

 and that on the Nickel Plate, upon which the trade here has depended 

 for some movement of material, even though it did not extend beyond the 

 lines of the road, includes all those lines as well. When the rulings went 

 into effect, promise that they would not last more than a week was made, 

 but aside from the fact that new orders have been issued every day, which 

 has served still further to prevent regular handling of goods, no change 

 as far as relief is concerned has been made to date. 



Hardwood men of Cleveland are watching with keen interest the progress 

 of the plan to straighten the Cuyahoga river. This stream, the principal 

 artery of traffic for the lumber trade on material coming in by the Great 

 Lakes route, has countless bends all the way from Lake Erie up past the 

 Newburg district. These bends have necesistated much careful manipula- 

 tion of the vessels coming up the river. Under the proposed plan of the 

 Senate interstate commerce committee, amendment to the rivers and 

 harbors bill would be made to include a $5,000 appropriation for the cost 

 of surveying the flats district through which the river passes, with a view 

 toward making the stream nearly straight. The government will limit its 

 appropriation for the work to .$400,000, co-operating to this extent with 

 the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county in carrying out the project. 



Many hardwood men of Cleveland have been taking the opportunity the 

 last two weeks to make out of town trips, plannig for the spring rush 

 from this territory. C. H. Foote, c* the C. H. Foote Lumber Company, 

 who has been attending the hardwood convention at Cincinnati, is taking 

 a brief rest in the South. Elmer E. Teare of Potter. Teare & Co.. also is 

 spending a few weeks in warmer climes. D. C. Phelps of the West Virginia 

 Timber Company is back from the Oak Manufacturers* Association gather- 

 ing at Memphis, Teun. F. T. Young of Dilbert. Stark & Brown has been 

 to Indianapolis on business. L. B. Huddleston. the well known red cedar 

 man, has been to Detroit. 



A reduction in the capital stock of the Bayou Land and Lumber Com- 

 pany, from $50,000 to $25,000, recently was announced by the directors of 

 the concern. 



A deal recently consumnuated here whereby orders were placed by the 

 Costa Rica Import Company. l.U\., for several hundred thousand dollars' 

 worth of "Made in Cincinnati" goods, according to Jesus Trejo, general 

 manager of the concern, who Is in Cincinnati at present, is the forerunner 

 of an extensive trade between the Queen < 'ity woodw'orking or consuming 

 plants and South America. Mr. Trejo and Hugo Fernandez, manager of the 

 company's New Orleans branch, were guests of Theodore Luth, president 

 of the Carriage Builders' National Association. The Costa Ricans pur- 

 chased carriages and carts of Mr. Luth valued at thousands of dollars, and 

 a nvunber of motor trucks from the O. Armleder Company. 



The Standard Car Company, Laporte, Ind., recently announced that work 

 had just been started on an order for 10,000 freight cars for the French 

 government. The plant is to be operated day and night in order to expedite 

 the tilling of the order. 



At headquarters of the Cincinnati. Hamilton t.*c Dayton Railroad, in Cin- 

 cinnati, it was announced last week that the shops are to be retained at 

 Lima. Ohio. Fire recently swept through the place, destroying the car 

 shops. It was nnnored soon after the fire that the plant W'ould not be re- 

 built, but headquarters established elsewhere. On the contrary, new and 

 larger boiler and car shops will be built immediately. 



Suit recently was filed by the National Cit.v Bank of Indianapolis for the 

 appointment of a receiver for the Barnett Carriage Company, in which 

 there is considerable Cincinnati interest. Attorney M. O. Heinz was ap- 

 pointed and immediately attorneys representing E. H. Arnold, president 

 and treasurer of the T. T. Haydock Carriage Company here filed a motion 

 to set aside the appointment. The Barnett concern is incorporated under 

 the laws of West Virginia, but it is alleged its license tax for 1916 has not 

 been paid and charter rights therefore forfeited. Suit also has been filed in 

 West Virginia, but it is said the company has no assets in that state. The 

 liank contends the company is being run at a loss and if present operations 

 continue it will result in a total loss to the stockholders. 



The Retlaw Construction Company was incorporated here recentl.v for 

 $0,000 with the following directors : F. H. Walter, Edward F. Doctor, 

 Frank S. Rohan, Albert Koch and David Lorbach. 



Cincinnati lumbermen are much stirred over recent reports that north 

 Pacific coast sawmills propose to use an all water route for lumber into 

 central territory, Cairo being the big distributing point for the Middle 

 West and East on the Ohio River to Cincinnati and iroints further east. 

 The plan is to ship lumber from Seattle, Portland and other Pacific mill 

 centers b.v water via the Panama canal to New Orleans, trans-ship to barges 

 there and send it in biilk to Cairo for distribution. The cargoes will con- 

 sist principally of fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock. Luudiermen here say 

 this plan, if it materializes, will be the first big movement to utilize the 

 Mississippi and Ohio rivers as general carriers of lumber from New Orleans 

 to distributing points. Heretofore the lumber companies have used rail 

 lines .almost exclusively because what were known as package shipments 

 ■were made to separate points of distribution in cypress and yellow pine. 



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Th'' r.n.tih I'nlumn Company held its annual meeting recently. W. T. 

 Hul)bard was re-elected president, and R. A. Landers, treasurer. David 

 Trotter, vice-president and director of the concern, and Ed. Crumbaugh, 

 director, have both recentl.v died. Their places have not as yet been filled. 

 Business cnnditions are reported as showing considerable improvement. 



The stockholders of the Dew^ey Stave Company met recently to act on 

 the dissolution of the company, occasioned hy the high price and scarcity 

 of the timber used in the manufacture of staves. This is one of the oldest 

 concerns of its kind in this city, having been incorporated in 1882. S. Z. 

 Foster was president of the company. No definite action was taken but 

 will probably be at an early date. 



The Gotshall Manufacturing Company reports conditions somewhat better 

 than for some time past. There is a fair demand for hardwoods and the 

 transportation difficulties seem to be somewhat lessened. 



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Many lumlier mauufacrurers and incorporated retail companies in Indian.a 

 are working against a bill pending before the Indiana general assembly 

 providing for the collection by the state of an excise tax on certain classes 

 of corporations. The bill has been pending before the general assembly 

 for several weeks, and its supporters, including James P. Goodrich, gover- 

 nor, believe .that )t will be passed. A powerful lobby has been organized 

 to fight the hill, and just about as powerful a lobby, which includes many 

 state officials, are working for its passage. If the bill becomes a law a 

 small tax would be placed on all Incorporated lumber companies in Indiana, 

 the tax varying according to the amount of business handled. 



Harry L. ,Swisher, manager of the Mercer Lumber Company, liluffton, 

 Ind., announced last week that the company's mill had been closed perma- 

 uentlj'. The company will confine its efforts to the retail business, as it 

 was said custom sawing was not a paying proposition. 



J. B. Marshall, of Shoals, Ind., has purchased the sawmill at Dover 

 Hill, Ind.. which formerly was owned by Taylor Lindley. 



A sawmill owned by E. A. Edwards at Columbia City, Ind.. was destroyed 

 by fire last week, the loss being $5,000. No insurance was carried. 



Incorporation papers have been issued to the City Lumber Company, 

 South Bend, Ind., which has been capitalized at $30,000. Directors are 

 L. E. I*arrott, Elmer E. Strayer and Charles H. Jackson. 



A sawmill and woodworking plant to handle hardwood timber cut in 

 the vicinity is to be erected at Greentown, Ind., by local capital. The plant 

 will be in charge of J. W. DeLong. 



The Specialty Display Case Company, Kendallville, Ind., has been incor- 

 porated with a capitalization of $375,000 to manufacture furniture. The 

 directors are Ralph J. Keller, A. M. Jacobs and Simon J. Straus. 



The lumber yanl and planing mill of E. Gilmartin & Son, Fort Wayne, 

 Ind.. has been enlarged, the plant having been moved to a new location 

 at 117-137 Murry street. 



The Linton Wood Working Compau.v, Linton, Ind., has been organized 

 with a capitalization of $25,000. Directors of the company are William 

 Baar, Samuel Drennon, Chester E. Smelser and Gertrude Hast. 



