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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



WALNUT, 

 OAK, 

 ASH, 



POPLAR. 



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The lumber dealers organized a special 

 watchman service, and for some time the 

 yards were free from fire. Recently this 

 service was discontinued, and one or two 

 fires have been reported. 

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W. L. Blue, formerly with W. O. King & 

 Co. of Chicago, represents the same firm 

 in Pennsylvania territory. 

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R. H. Jenks, of the Robert H. Jenks 

 Lumber Company, is in the South, and 

 J. H. Jenks is in Canada. 



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\V. J. Cude, an extensive hardwood man- 

 ufacturer, was here October 19. He re- 

 ports trade to be in a satisfactory condi- 

 tion and the outlook good. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Cincinnati, Nov. 5, 1904. 

 The annual car shortage has made its 

 local appearance. Dealers are complain- 

 ing that they cannot get a sufficient num- 

 ber of box cars to ship out dry stock, and 

 are using flat cars instead. The supply 

 of the latter is far from plentiful and 

 strained conditions are not unexpected. 



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The Tri-State Vehicle & Implement 

 Association held its annual meeting in 

 this city the latter part of October, with 

 several hundred members in attendance. 

 It was unanimously decided to fight the 

 harvester trust to the bitter end. New 

 officers were elected as follows: George 

 AV. Young, Eminence. Ky.. president; 

 H. T. Trueblood, Washington, Ind., vice- 

 president, and Kent R. Wigger, Marion. 

 Ind., A. F. Miller, Crawford, Ind., and 

 J. L. Watkins Lexington. Ky.. directors. 



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

 Farrin Company, is home from St. Louis, 

 where he combined business with a visit 



to the World's Fair. 



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A. V. Jackson, of the firm of Stewart & 

 Jackson, located in the new Mercantile 

 Library building on Walnut street, is mak- 

 ing a business trip through South 



Carolina. 



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Local mahogany dealers have received 

 information from credited sources to the 

 effect that shipments from Central 

 America will be from 50 to 60 per cent 

 short this year. It is said that the shortage 

 is due to the rainiest season IcDown for 

 more than thirty years, which has com- 

 pletely checked lumbering operations and 

 prevented the hauling of mahogany from 

 the interior to the coast. 



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A recent caller on the local trade was 

 James Richardson of Wm. Mallinson & 

 Co. of London, England. He spoke 

 favorably of hardwood conditions abroad. 



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The movement of lumber by rail for the 

 month of October, 1904, as taken from 

 the record books at the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, was as follows: Receipts, 5,161 



cars; shipments, 3,939 cars. For the cor- 

 responding month last year the figures 

 were: Receipts, 6,374 cars; shipments, 

 4,882 cars. 



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Saw mill operations at fronton, Ports- 

 mouth, Marietta and other points on the 

 upper Ohio, look for sufficient tides dur- 

 ing November to bring out much of the 

 timber in the mountain streams of Ken- 

 tucky and West Virginia, and those that 

 have been in idleness throughout the 

 summer expect to resume sawing shortly. 



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A party of 150 business men of this 

 city went to Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday, 

 November 1. as the guests of President 

 Eugene Zimmerman of the C, H. & D. sys- 

 tem, to inspect the property of the Toledo 

 Railway & Terminal Company. The offi- 

 cials oi; the Toledo end of the line gave 

 the visitors a practical view of the work- 

 ings of the belt line, affording proof that a 

 similar method established in Cincinnati 

 would result in more rapid handling of 

 freight both ways and w'ould relieve the 

 congestion of cars, which has been for 

 years a menace to the growth of this city. 

 All the business organizations of Cincin- 

 nati sent delegates. The Cincinnati Lum- 

 bermen's Club, which, at its October meet- 

 ing, unanimously passed a resolution in- 

 dorsing the efforts of the Receivers' and 

 Shippers' Association for the securing of 

 a belt system and improved terminals and 

 promising earnest support, was repre- 

 sented by the following members: T. J. 



Moffett, C. F. Korn and M. B. Farrin. 



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Representatives of several railroads 

 have met the business men of this city in 

 several conferences since the return of 

 the Toledo inspection party, and it is 

 highly probable that plans will be per- 

 fected in the near future for the estab- 

 lishment of a belt line system and im- 

 proved terminals in this city. 



BUFFALO BITS. 



(Special correspondence.) 

 Buffalo, N. Y., November 7. 1904. 

 in my last letter I mentioned that Mr. 

 Angus McLean and Mr. W. A. McLean of 

 New Albany. Ind.. members of the Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company, proposed tak- 

 ing a party to their hunting and fishing 

 preservations near Ottawa, Ontario. The 

 second day after the arrival of the party 

 at their destination on the Getenieu River, 

 the pleasure of the party was abruptly 

 brought to an end in a terrible manner. 

 The two youngest members of the party, 

 Donald McLean, son of Angus McLean, 

 and Fred Rychen, were drowned by the 

 overturning of their canoe. Both young 

 men were well known in Buffalo and were 

 general favorites. Mr. McLean returned 

 home to the bereaved family, the balance 

 of the party remaining to search for the 

 bodies, which were recovered later. A 

 strange incident in connection with this 

 very sad affair is that it was three years 



