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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Minneapolis. 



C. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, says their 

 outlook for trade Is better than it has been for 

 the past two or three months. With the excep- 

 tion of basswood, stocks are short and broken. 

 The country trade is beginning to move for di- 

 mension white oak, basswood siding and ceiling. 

 and maple flooring. Oak is very scarce, and 

 birch is found only in fair amounts at mill 

 points. 



P. R. Hamilton, of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company, says they are looking for a good 

 year's trade, and that they are prepared for It 

 with a good line of stock. On account of the 

 slow market and weak prices last season they 

 did not push stocks, and in , consequence they 

 have a good assortment on hand. 



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

 pany, is down in Wisconsin this week, looking 

 after the operations of the Ruby Lumber Com- 

 pany's mill at Ruby, which started up for the 

 winter a couple of weeks ago. 



A. H. Barnard and P. W. Strickland, of Bar- 

 nard & Strickland, the local wholesalers, are out 

 on the trip together looking up hardwood sup- 

 plies to fill out broken stocks, preparing for a 

 good spring demand. They are baring quite a 

 little inquiry for factory stocks. 



F. H. Lewis says that his reports from the 

 Wisconsin woods indicate that there will be a 

 light production of hardwood this winter. 

 Weather was splendid for cutting and skidding 

 until a few days ago. but the snow is now so 

 deep on the ground that the small operators have 

 quit work. They will haul in what they have 

 and then suspend. These little fellows make up 

 in the total a large part of the output, and Mr. 

 Lewis is looking for a scarcity of northern 

 hardwood stocks next summer. He says there 

 is a fine outlook for trade, and that with the 

 exception of basswood, prices are strong. Bass- 

 wood is improving. As for birch, Mr. Lewis 

 sold a large order this week at a dollar advance 

 over recent quotations. 



L P. Lennan, of I. P. Lennan & Co., says that 

 while trade Is quiet as usual at this season, there 

 Is no doubt about the prospects for trade a little 

 later, and prices are firm on stocks. The supply 

 of nearly all lines is light. 



The Dumert-Meader Company, of Minneapolis, 

 wholesalers, who has carried all lines but hard- 

 wood In their distributing yards here, have added 

 a line of hardwood. It comes from a tract of 

 4,000 acres on the Soo line in Wisconsin, which 

 It has recently acquired. 



is proposed to erect saw-mills and planing mills. 

 The company's headquarters will be at Atlanta. 



The Armstrong Lumber Company of Knox- 

 ville is developing quite a trade In oak, poplar 

 and red gum. 



Sanford & Treadway are operating two yards 

 in eastern Tennessee where they are grouping 

 hardwood products. One of the yards is located 

 at Elizabethton and another at Mountain City. 

 The members of this concern are from Menomi- 

 nee, Mich., which is still their chief head- 

 quarters. 



Chattanooga. 



Chattanooga, Knoxville and other eastern Ten- 

 nessee lumber centers will send good sized del- 

 egations to the coming meeting of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, which is to be 

 held at Nashville on Jan. 25 and 26. 



Saw-mill men generally located In eastern 

 Teunes.see are awaiting the arrival of a tide 

 to bring down their logs. While the log crop 

 had been growing less in recent years, a good 

 yield from the upper stream seems to be prom- 

 ised for 1905. 



The lumber market continues to gain In 

 strength and the holiday quiet is supplanted by 

 an Inundation of visitors looking for lumber. 

 The dry stocks on hand in Chattanooga are 

 very limited, and this Is especially true of oak 

 lumber. Poplar is more plentiful than any 

 other wood, but holders are not pushing It, 

 anticipating much better values very soon. 



The Chattanooga Lumber Company will soon 

 have a new brick warehouse and office added to 

 ttB plant. 



Snodgrass & Fields have added a band saw- 

 mill to their plant on the Tennessee river. This 

 addition will Increase their capacity materially. 



The North Georgia Lumber Company is a new 

 corporation that has a capital stock of $150,000. 

 Horace A. Fields of Knoxville, A. J. Orrae of 

 Atlanta, and others are the Incorporators. It 



PIERCE LUMBER CO. 



Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in 



HARDWOOD LUHBER 



|3»-Wi> will saw Red and White Oak 

 txclu>i\ *-ly for the next yeitr- 



OFFICE and MILLS. OLYPHANT, ARK. 



Evansville. 

 The hardwood market in this section is show- 

 ing some improvement, but the hardwooil lum- 

 ber firms in this city, who have large and dry 

 stocks to offer are holding them for this year's 

 business, when better prices and a larger vol- 

 ume of trade is expected. There have been a 

 number of buyers in the market during the past 

 month, and all seem greatly encouraged over 

 commercial prospects. 



Daniel Wertz, of Maiey & Wertz, and Bedna 

 Young, of Young & Cutsinger, have just re- 

 turned from the Delta, in Mississippi, where 

 they went in the interests of their houses to 

 estimate several thousand acres of hardwood 

 timber lands. If satisfactory rates can be ob- 

 tained from shipping points in that section to 

 Evansville, negotiations will be closed for ship- 

 ping large quantities of logs from' that locality 

 to this city. 



The river mills have been doing but little dur- 

 ing the past few months, owing to the low water 

 conditions. There has been very little rain 

 during the fall and winter in this locality, but 

 with the recent tides, the boats will soon be In 

 operation again, and large quantities of logs 

 are in readiness to be brought down from the 

 Green. Rough and Cumberland rivers. 



Mr. Hobart, of Hobart & Co., Boston, Mass.. 

 spent New Year's In Evansville. and is In the 

 market for all kinds of hardwoods. He reports 

 the eastern business picking up. and while here 

 placed several orders. 



W. H. Cornell, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who 

 has made his headquarters In this city for the 

 past eight years, and represented the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Lumber Company in this terri- 

 tory, has tendered his resignation, to engage 

 in business here for himself. He will be backed 

 b> a number of prominent men of this place. 

 Mr. Cornell has been with the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonnell Company for the past eleven years, and 

 is rated as one of the best lumber buyers in 



the country. 



St. Louis. 

 The annual meeting and election of officers of 

 the Lumbermen's Exchange was held on Tues- 

 day. January 3. The regular ticket carried, as 

 follows, with little opposition : 



President. C. F. Liebke, of the C. F. Llebke 

 Hardwood Mill & Lumber Company. 



Vice-president, Franz Waldstein. Waldstein 

 Lumber Company. 



Directors, George E. Hibbard. of Steele & Hlb- 

 bard, 



Wm. Druhe, Wm. Druhc Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, 



W. A. Bonsack, Bonsack Lumber Company, 

 W. W. Dings, Garetson-Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany, 



M. J. Heller, M. J. Heller Lumber Company. 

 Jack P. Richardson, 



C. E. Thomas, Thomas & Proetz Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Arbitrators, J. L. Benas, Waldstein Lumber 

 Company, 



G. A. Koerner, Koerner-Buder Lumber Com- 

 pany, 



J. R. Massengale, Massengale Lumber Com- 

 pany, 



Fj C. Moore, Moore & Young, 

 C. E. Strlfler, C. E. Strlfler Lumber Company. 

 A. J. Lang, who does a wholesale business of 

 almost a strictly local character, reports that 



THE 



CrlMei Lniiiliiir Co. 



MANUFACTURERS 



Oak, Ash, 

 Cypress 

 and Gum 



MILLS: 

 BARLE. ARK. 



OFFICE : 

 436-337 Scimitar Building. 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

 LUMBER COMPANY. 



M.MN I'KFIl Ks: 



LJQColn Trust BIdg. 

 SainI Louis. 



lUIANtuKS: 



Cairo. III., Carulhersville, 

 Mo., and Memphis, Tena. 



Cash Buyers ol Cypress. Collonwood, 

 Gum and Oak and solicit inquiries Irom 

 the Consuming trade lor the lollowint. 



CYPRESS: 



750.000 feel 1 inch Ists and 2nds. 

 200,000 " 1'^ inch Isis and 2nds. 



I % and 2 inch Ists and ^ds. 



1 and \% inch select, 

 i;; inch select. 



2 Inch select. 

 1. I'i. 1*2 and 2 inch shop. 



2.5.000 

 S.tO,000 

 175.000 



90,000 

 1,610,000 



COTTON fVOOJ): 



2,000,000 feet I-lnch, log run or on grade. 



GUM: 



2 .500,000 feet 1-lnch No. 2 and shlppinf! cull. 

 .500.000 " 1 and 15i inch furniture common. 

 390I0OO " 1, I'/i and i;. inch sap clear. 



OAK: 



650.000 feet 1, IJi and 2 inch Red and White 

 plain and quarter sawed Ists and 2nds, No. I 

 and No. 2 common. 



H.C. HOSSAFOUS 



Manufacturer and dealer in 



Quartered Oak. Dimension Stock Ash, 



Plain and Quartered Oak, Walnut, Cherry. 



DAYTON, OHIO 



