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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



ing the result with that of previous years, and 

 taking inventory of what stock they have on 

 hand, preparatory to making a fresh start for 

 the first month of 1905. One thing is quite 

 noticeable, and that is that no one seems to 

 be anxious to rush matters at all so tar as 

 forcing sales are concerned. In fact, the general 

 impression prevails that it will be just as well 

 to take things easy for a while, and the few 

 salesmen who are out on the road are doing lit- 

 tle else but skirmish work, sizing the situation 

 up, finding out who are light on certain stocks 



and getting such pointers as may prove useful 

 to them later on. 



Come to think of it, the first caller to the 

 new oflJces of the Hardwood Record was not 

 J. V. StimsoD, of Huntingburg, Ind. S. P. C. 

 Hostler came around before even the Habdwood 

 Record moved in. Mr. Hostler represents the 

 Advance Lumber Company, of Cleveland, and 

 the Empire Lumber Company, of Buffalo, in this 

 market, and is the same good salesman and all 

 around terror that he always was. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



New York City. 



On the evening of .January IS occurs the an- 

 nual banquet of the Kew York Lumber Trade 

 Association, an event which is of widespread 

 interest to the eastern trade, as well as to the 

 dealers in the Metropolitan district. Many out 

 of town guests will be present, as well as a large 

 number of the local trade. It will occur at the 

 Waldorf-Astoria. The after-dinner features will 

 be exceptionally good. Congressman C. E. Lit- 

 tlefield, of Maine ; Dr. F. H. Giddings, of Colum- 

 bia University, and Rear-Admiral W. L. Capps, 

 chief of the Bureau of Construction, United 

 States navy, will be among the speakers. 



An important event in hardwood circles is the 

 formation of the Indiana Quartered Oak Com- 

 pany, with headquarters at 5 East Forty-second 

 street, to handle the output of the mills con- 

 trolled by Henry Maley, Edinburg, Ind., Henry 

 Maley Lumber Company, Maley & Wertz and 

 Young & Cutsinger, all of Evansvilie, Ind., ag- 

 gregating 20,000,000 feet of Indiana hardwoods 

 per year. Henry Maley Is president of the new 

 ■■ompany ; William Threidkeld, secretary, and 

 Wlllard Winslow, who has been connected with 

 the local house of Geo. M. Grant & Co., Is 

 treasurer. Mr. Threidkeld removes from Evans- 

 vilie to this city to assume his duties with the 

 new company. The specialty of the Indiana 

 Quartered Oak Company will be the famous 

 quartered oak of that state, hut In addition It 

 will handle a general line of hardwoods. With 

 tlie large volume of stock It controls. Its advent 

 into the local trade is one of the biggest things 

 which has happened in local hardwood circles 

 tor several years. 



T. S. Miller, who for several years has repre- 

 sented the W. M. RItter Lumber Company, of 

 Columbus, Ohio, has severed his connection with 

 that company to assume the management of a 

 hardwood department for the Stevens-Eaton Com 

 pany, 1 Madison avenue. Mr. Miller has many 

 friends in the local district who will vils\f him 

 success In his new connection. 



Local Hoo-Hoo will hold forth on the evening 

 of January 6 at the Hotel Vendome with a big 

 concatenation and "on the roof" under the lead- 

 ership of Vicegerent F. E. Longweli, of Hobo- 

 ken. Many of the Philadelphia cats will come 

 over with Vicegerent Rumbarger to add their 

 little yowl. 



F. H. Doyle, of F. H. Doyle & Co., wholesale 

 hardwoods, IG Beaver street, has just returned 

 from a buying trip to West Virginia and other 

 southern points. Mr. Doyle Is very enthusiastic 

 as to the hardwood trade prospects for 1905. 



E. S. Foster, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of R. B. Currier, Springfield, Mass., passed 

 through the city last week en route home after 

 an extended southern tour. 



W. W. Knight, the distinguished hardwood 

 lumberman of Indianapolis, head of the Long- 

 Knight Lumber Company, was a prominent recent 

 visitor. In the course of conversation Mr. Knight 

 advanced the opinion that while the hardwood 

 trade might have been better in 1904, he was 

 particularly sanguine of an exceptionally good 

 year to come. 



F. J. Cronln, eastern representative of the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove, 

 Ohio, whom It is always a pleasure to meet, 



passed through the city last week en route to his 

 old home in Utica for a vacation. 



The Emporium Lumber Company, large oper- 

 ators in Pennsylvania hardwoods, with local 

 offices at 1 Madison avenue, under the manage- 

 ment of Mr. C. O. Shepard, has just added to 

 their extensive timber holdings through the ac- 

 quisition of a tract of 7,000 acres in St. Law- 

 rence county. In the Adlrondacks, which they will 

 immediately commence to develop. 



Among the hardwood visitors to the metropolis 

 during the fortnight were : H. B. Short, Lake 

 Waccamaw, N. C. ; R. E. Wood and J. K. Paint- 

 er, R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Baltimore, 

 Md. : Wm. H. White, Wm. H. White & Co., Boyne 

 City, Mich. : F. J. Cronln. Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company, Coal Grove, Ohio ; M. C. Burns, Palen 

 & Burns, Buffalo ; J. H. Lindsay, J. H. Lindsay 

 Lumber Company, Pittsburg : W. W. Knight, 

 Long-Knight Lumber Company, Indianapolis, 

 Ind. ; J. Q. Barker. Kanawha Hardwood Compa- 

 ny, Andrews, N. C. ; Julius Dietz, Buffalo Maple 

 Flooring Company, Buffalo ; E. S. Foster and 

 R. B. Currier, Springfield. Mass. ; W. H. Mabie, 

 Mabie Lumber Company, Mabie, W. Va. : R. L. 

 Walklcy. Crosby & Beckley Company, New Haven, 

 Conn. ; R. P. Baer, R. P. Baer & Co., Baltimore. 



R. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, Baltimore, hardwood manufac- 

 turers, was In town last week and closed a deal 

 for 7,000 acres of timber In Tennessee, which he 

 will proceed to operate In addition to his other 

 extensive saw milling Interests. 



W. H. Bultman, for many years prominently 

 identified with the hardwood trade of Brooklyn, 

 through the operations of W. E. Uptegrove & 

 Bro., and who Is at present associated with the 

 Horse Shoe Forestry Company at Horse Shoe, 

 X. Y., was united In marriage In that city on 

 January 1 to Miss Caroline Koltz. 



Philadelphia. 



Not for many years has the outlook for hard- 

 woods appeared brighter than It does today. 

 Over the holidays business was slack, and not 

 for another week at least will trade shape up 

 to a great extent. There is no getting away 

 from the fact that business in 1904 was not 

 up to the expectations of the lumbermen and 

 that the demand was light. But that changed 

 conditions are bound to follow In 1905 Is al- 

 ready shown by the awakening anxiety of some 

 of (the buyers to contract for stocks for the 

 coming year. While there Is a tendency to 

 buy, the dealers are in no hurry to accept 

 orders for large blocks for future delivery, be- 

 cause it is realized that the demand Is going 

 to be heavy, stocks harder to secure and a con- 

 sequent advance In values. Oak is particularly 

 wanted now and not a little call Is being had 

 for chestnut. Poplar, too, Is in better demand 

 and fairer prices obtain. 



Only one change of note occurred at the en- 

 trance of the new year. This was the opening 

 of an office by Soble Bros., who engage In the 

 wholesale and commission hardwood lumber busi- 

 ness with offices In the Land Title building. 



The whole force of Inspectors and buyers of 

 the Rumbarger Lumber Company spent the hol- 

 idays In Philadelphia as the guests of the house. 



CYPRESS 



We make a specialty of rough or 

 dressed Cypress Lumber and Cypress 

 Shingles in straight or mixed cars. 

 Your inquiries solicited for single car 

 orders or good round lots. Can also fur- 

 nish Sound Cypress Dimension Stock. 



The Borcherding Lumber Co. 



Northern Office, 



CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



FOR SALE 



20 cars 4x4 dry Arkansas red gum. 



I o cars 6x4 dry Arkansas red gum. 



10 cars 8x4 dry Arkansas red gum. 



20 cars 4x4 dry quartered white 

 oak. 



20 cars 4x4 dry quartered red oak. 



20 cars 4x4 poplar, common and 

 better. 



I car 5x8 plain red oak, com- 

 mon and better. 

 5 cars 4x4 quartered white oak 

 strips. 



4 cars 6x4 plain red and white 

 oak. 



5 cars 5x4 plain white oak. 



All the line of the Hardwoods: 

 in Oak, both red and white, in 

 plain and quartered in any thick- 

 ness. Gum and Cypress. 



J. V. STIMSON.' 



Or 



Huntingburg, 

 Indiana 



Owensboro, 

 Kentucky. 



FOR SALE. 



Poplar lumber; West Virginia stmk. 



.SO M feet 1 In. log run or on grade. 



30 M feet 2 In. No. 1 common, 7 in. and up 

 wide. 



20 M feet 2 In. Ists and 2nds, 7 In. end up 

 wide. 



11 M feet 3 in. and 4 In. Ists and 2nds, 10 In, 

 and UD wide. 



11 M feet 3 In.. 4 in.. ,'> In. and S In. Ists and 

 2nds., 10 In. and up wide. 



25 M feet 3 111.. 4 in., r. In. and 6 In. No. 1 

 common, 10 In. and up wide. 



40 In. 3 to SslO In. and up export poplar, 

 green. 



11 M feet 1 in. Ists and 2nds. IS in. and ap. 



1 car 2 In. log run beech. 



2 cars 1 In. lop run bass. 



G cars 1 In., lu in., I'.a in. and 2 in. sawed, 

 wormy cheetnut. 

 6 cars 1 in. log run white oak. 

 1 car 2x12 sawed white pine. 



To the Kentnrk.v and Ohio river mills, the 

 following logs will be for sale at Valley View, 

 Ky., after next tide, principally common and 

 Letter: 

 It.M-T. OAK. 



No. I. IC and 14 ft.. 14 in. and up. 11,737 ft. 



.\o. .-!. 14 ft.. 14 In. and up. 11.602 ft. 



No. ,1. 10 ft.. 14 In. and up. 14.24,') ft. 



No. 0. 12 ft., 22 In. and up. 12.500 ft. 



Xo. 7. 14 ft.. 22 In. and up. 13,000 ft. 

 POPLAR. 



No. 1. IB and 14 ft.. 14 In. and up. 2,386 ft. 



No. 3, 14 ft., 14 In. and np. 2.163 ft. 



No. ,'-., Ifi ft.. M In. and up, 2,032 ft. 



No. 6. 12 ft., 22 In. and up. S.KIO ft. 



No. 7. 14 ft.. 22 In. and up, 3.20(> ft. 



Will be fflad to mall log tally sheet on each 

 raft at your rOMuest. 



MARIETT.'^ LUMBER CO.. Marietta, Ohio 



