THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



and opened an office at 1520 Marquette building. 

 The company intends to handle all kinds of hard- 

 wood lumber. 



J. C. Blackford, president of the National 

 Lumber Company, spent a few days in Nashville 

 this week. 



The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange is 

 now in its ninth year. W. O. King is president 

 and L. B. Lesh secretary. The annual meeting 

 takes place in March. The regular monthly 

 luncheon occurs on Saturday. January 14, at 

 1 o'clock, at the Grand Pacific hotel. 



W. A. Davis, who recently moved here from 

 Paducah, Ky., reports a very successful season. 



A. J. McCauslin, formerly of the A. J. Mc- 

 Causlin Lumber Company, has made a connection 

 with Kelly & Co., formerly dealers in white pine, 

 to go south and look after their hardwood lum- 

 ber interests. 



S. V. Vinnedge. of S. J. Vinnedge & Co., has 

 been ill with an attack of grip, but is out 

 again. 



W. M. Hbpkins, the genial representative of 

 the Theo. Fatheaur Company, has recovered from 

 his recent illness and is again attending to busi- 

 ness. 



John S. Benedict reports a very good business 

 for last year, but didn't give up any other news 

 ■of importance. Mr. Benedict has a genius for 

 extracting information, but rarely turns it loose. 



F. D. Smith, who as everybody knows is a 

 partner of F. K. Crane & Co., says that the year 

 has not shown up so badly. He believes he has 

 made a living, but he doesn't know as yet. If 

 Smith is alive two or three days hence you 

 will know that he has made a living, and that 

 is pretty good — for him to acknowledge. 



The Record oflice was pleased to receive a call 

 a few days ago from Ira B. Bennett, of Albu- 

 <juerque, N. M., who until recently was manager 

 of the American Lumber Company, whose man- 

 ufacturing plant is located in the Xew Mexican 

 metropolis. Mr. Bennett was formerly engaged 

 in the white pine, hemlock and hardwood trade 

 at Detroit, Mich., and contemplates soon re- 

 entering the lumber business in the eastern part 

 of the country. 



The E. Payson Smith Lumber Company, of 

 Minneapolis, Minn., wholesale dealers in south- 

 ern lumber, have arranged to open a Chicago 

 office in the Fisher building, on February 1. 

 This company's specialty is hardwoods, and it 

 will form a very desirable addition to the Chi- 

 cago hardwood contingent. 



J. W. Clegg, formerly with Heath, Witbeck & 

 Co.. is now with Fink-Heidler Company, of this 

 city. Fink-Heidler Company has rented 150 feet 

 more yard space and is better prepared to take 

 care of its trade than ever before. It will carry 

 a complete stock of all kinds of hardwoods. 



W. O. King, of W. O. King & Co., Loomis 

 Street bridge, reports business very good for 

 the season of the year. 



A call on Heath, Witbeck & Co. disclosed that 

 Clarence Wolfe was confined to the house with 

 the all prevailing epidemic of grip. Ed. Heath, 

 however, was as well as usual, better, in fact, 

 due no doubt to his latest hobby, automobiling. 

 He intends to go to Florida soon, starting in Feb- 

 Tuary. 



George Stoneman has recently returned from 

 a trip south, covering several weeks. He found 

 lumber very scarce and come home a rampant 

 bull on the market. 



George B. Zearing was in the city this week 

 from Devalls Bluff. Ark. Mr. Zearing reports a 

 good outlook for the hardwood business from a 

 manufacturer's standpoint. 



A. A. Phillips, of the Johnson & Knox Lumber 

 •Company, recently returned from a trip through 

 the south. Like every one else, he returned sat- 

 isfied that prices must go higher. 



J. S. Goldie, of Cadillac, Mich., was a visitor 

 in town last week, 



J. W. Thompson, of Memphis, Tenn., was in 

 the city last week. He reports business very 

 good. 



A. K. Bentley, of Portland, Ore., a large hand- 

 ler of Washington flr, was In the city last week 

 on his way to New York on business. 



W. S. Johnson, of the Johnson & Knox Lum- 

 ber Company, tells of selling a man a lot of 

 white pine shorts to be made into stove wood at 

 Evanston, 111. When the shipment arrived a 

 box man saw it, and offered him $11 a thousand 

 for it. "You can never tell," said Mr. Knox, 

 "what the market is going to do. I have seen 

 white pine shorts a drug at $6 a thousand, and 

 six months later every one begging for them at 

 $11 a thousand." Mr. Knox is a firm believer in 

 higher prices for hardwoods. 



C. S. Bacon, of C. S. Bacon & Co.. Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich., was a recent visitor in Chicago. 

 Mr. Bacon still retains his principal office at 

 Grand Rapids, where he wholesales hardwoods 

 and hemlock, but divides his time between that 

 city and his hardwood saw mill at Wahalak. 

 Miss., where he is engaged in the manufacture 

 of hardwoods, largely oak. His mill is situated 

 on the M. & O. railway, a short distance north 

 of Meridian. 



Maisey & Dion, a new firm of hardwood lum- 

 bermen, is out with the following circular to the 

 trade : 



We take pleasure in announcing to hardwood 

 lumber manufacturers, dealers and consumers 

 that we have established in Chicago a yard and 

 oflice for the wholesaling and retailing of do- 

 mestic hardwoods and mahogany. 



Our yard is located on Loomis street, south 

 of Twenty-second, and adjoining that of W. O. 

 King & Co. 



We have there assembled a stock of hardwood 

 of all kinds adapted to the wants of the Chicago 

 market. Our experience in catering to the trade 

 during the past twenty and ten years, respec- 

 tively, gives assurance that jointly we can effi- 

 ciently handle any business you may place with 

 us. 



The circular explains itself. Both members 



of the firm are well kilown in the Chicago trade 

 and are practical lumbermen. 



C. A. Ward, of the Chamber of Commerce 

 building, formerly president of the American 

 Lumber Company, has severed his connection 

 with that institution, and henceforth will devote 

 himself entirely to his extensive hardwood in- 

 terests. 



Earl Palmer, of Ferguson & Palmer, of Pa- 

 ducah, Ky., popularly known as the "best presi- 

 dent the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 ever had," was in town last week. He reports 

 conditions in the south as very favorable. 



F. P. Southgate has been appointed national 

 inspector for New Orleans, which means that his 

 merit has met with the recognition is deserves. 

 Mr. Southgate is one of the most competent men, 

 in many respects, in the hardwood trade. A 

 long and thorough experience in the south, 

 among the mills of that section, was 

 followed by his appointment as a licensed 

 inspector of the Chicago Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Exchange. While on the Chicago mar- 

 ket he enjoyed the confidence of shippers and' 

 his work did much to improve conditions. Then 

 followed two years in which he was foreman and 

 inspector at the yards of the Pullman Company, 

 probably the largest buyers of hardwood lumber 

 in the world. Here he came in contact with all 

 classes of lumber, from mahogany to cull bass- 

 wood, which was aj valuable training in Itself. 

 The last two years have been spent as inspector 

 for the Jefferson Sawmill Company, Limited, of 

 New Orleans. The New Orleans market and the 

 National association are to be congratulated on 

 securing the best possible man for the place. 



Park Richmond, of Richmond, Slimmer & Co., 

 and a National Inspector on this market, reports 

 business as very good. As national inspector Mr. 

 Richmond is giving excellent satisfaction, and is 

 undoubtedly the best Inspector Chicago ever had. 

 He doesn't vary the inspection to suit anybody, 

 which is one of the advantages of having a 

 high class business man who will consent to do 

 this work. 



P. A. Ryan, of Ryan & Partland, has returned 

 from a trip south. J. T. Partland is looking 

 after the Arm's business in Indiana this week. 



The Hahdwood Record was favored by a visit 



Monday from Charles Darling of the Union 

 Trust Company building of this city. Mr. Dar- 

 ling reported that 1004 was only a fair business 

 year, but the new year starts off well, January 

 being the best month so far, that he has had 

 since he has been in business. 



Frank M. Creelman, of the Railway Exchange 

 building, was south all last month looking after 

 business. He is at home now and ready for 

 orders. 



Upham & Agler report a very satisfactory 

 .vear. O. O. Agler, the active man of the firm, 

 is gone from home so much there is no keeping 

 track of him. 



G. VonPlaten, o^ Boyne City, Mich., was in 

 Chicago the other day and while here made 

 the Hardwood Record office a call. Mr. Von- 

 Platen was fleeing from the wrath of the bliz- 

 zard. He intends to; make a trip to Jerusalem 

 this winter. 



Chas. JXiller, of Miller Brothers, this city, has 

 gone south on a business trip. Miller Brothers 

 are very optimistic over the outlook. They say 

 that the Chicago buyers have not awakened to 

 the true situation, but that there will have to 

 be an^ awakening. Milton Miller says that they 

 marked up all their stock at stock-taking time 

 five per cent, and Feb. 1 they expect to have to 

 mark it up ten per cent 



Clarence Boyle, of the Clarence Boyle Lum- 

 ber Company, has entirely recovereu from an 

 attack of the grip, and is joining in the scram- 

 ble for orders. 



H. L. Ackley, representative of the W. & B. 

 Hardwood Company, of this city, spent his first 

 Christmas as a married man this year, and 

 reports that he liked it. 



W. A. Davis, who removed here from Padu- 

 cah, Ky., a short time ago, reports a good busi- 

 ness and that he is well satisfied. Plain oak, of 

 which he makes a specialty, he reports as some- 

 what easier to get than formerly. 



This is the third year that the Lesh & Mat- 

 thews Lumber Company have had their branch 

 yard in Memphis and they report very satisfac- 

 tory results. They are also engaged in build- 

 ing operations at Memphis, erecting modern flat 

 buildings and renting or selling them. The 

 head of the concern, L. B. Lesh, is a modest 

 little man but he is getting to be quite a man 

 of affairs. 



Max Sondheimer takes a conservative view of 

 the present lumber situation — for publication. 

 But It may be believed right down in his heart. 

 Mr. Sondheimer is as much of a bull as any one. 



F. S. Hendrickson, manufacturer and dealer 

 in Cottonwood, reports that cottonwood has 

 gone up, but that it has scarcely come up to 

 expectations. He was looking for a Cottonwood 

 Association a few days ago to join ; but could 

 find none. 



A. R. Vinnedge, of the A. R. Vinnedge Lum- 

 ber Company and secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, reports business 

 as satisfactory, and the affairs of the National 

 Association in good shape. Mr. Vinnedge is a 

 careful, painstaking oflJcer and much of the 

 success of the National Association has been 

 due to his untiring efforts. 



Messrs. Hugh and Angus McLean, of the Mc- 

 Lean Lumber Company, are both at their Indi- 

 ana mills, as is their usual custom at this time 

 of the year. They claim to have the largest and 

 finest stock of quartered oak on hand that they 

 have ever had at one time. 



Mr. Mason, salesman for the Empire Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a month's sojourn 

 at the Mississippi and Arkansas mills of the 

 company, and is bubbling over with praises of 

 the stock that is all ready to come forward just 

 as soon as he lands the orders. 



The sympathy of the many friends of Orson 

 E. Yeager is expressed on account of the serious 

 illness of his son, a bright boy about six years 

 old. 



Lumbermen of Buffalo are busy doing what 

 their brother lumbermen all over the country are 

 doing, figuring up last year's business, compar- 



