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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Association, called by Secretary Elliott Laog to 

 meet at St. Louis on January 25. Several of the 

 officers and directorate reside in Memphis. 



E. E. Taenzer & Co., Incorporoted, are pro- 

 gressing with their railroad in Arkansas. This 

 will put its mill in touch with several good 

 bodies of timber controlled by the company. 



Hughardt & Kenadall, of this city, have pur- 

 chased a mill of Terrell & Parkison, at Benoit, 

 Miss., and will move it to Arkansas, not far 

 distant from Memphis, on the opposite side of 

 the river. 



The Three States Lumber Company that long 

 made Cairo famous is getting settled in its Mem- 

 phis office this month. While it will have inter- 

 ests at Cairo, Memphis will be its headquarters 

 in the future. 



Charles B. Stetson, of the George T. Kendal 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a trip to 

 Indiana. It Is reported that Mr. Stetson has 

 acquired the other interests in this lumber 

 company and will shortly take charge as owner. 



George Ehemann, of Bennett & Witte, has re- 

 turned from a combined business and pleasure 

 trip to his old home in Cincinnati. 



C. W. Moore will put in a box factory at 

 Halls, Lauderdale county, Tennessee. 



A deal has been consummated at Carthage. 

 Tenn., by which the Chess-Wymond Company, of 

 Louisville, is to build a stave factory and finisher 

 at that town. The plant will be located near 

 the railroad track, and a switch will be run from 

 the Tennessee Central railroad to the factory. 

 This is only one of a number of industries of 

 a woodworking nature that are springing up on 

 the Tennessee Central railroad. 



The Darnell-Love Lumber Company has been 

 reincorporated at Memphis with a capital stock 

 of $100,000. The style of the new company will 

 he R. .T, Darnell, Incorporated. The concern 

 will have the same offices, with the following 

 new directors : E. B. Goodlander. E. B. Edging- 

 ton and E. E. Taenzer. The offices will be lo- 

 cated at 1089 Florida avenue. R. .T. Darnell Is 

 president ; A. M. rx)ve, vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager: and Robert J. Wiggs, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



The Florence Pump & Lumber Company has 

 acquired for $,'54,.';.-,ri.31 the interest of the Dem- 

 ster Mill & Manufacturing Company in that con- 

 cern. The plant covers fifteen acres of land 

 and has a number of buildings on the property. 



The firm of George T. Kendal and C. B. Stet- 

 son, heretofore engaged in the wholesale lumber 

 business at Memphis. Tenn,, under the firm name 

 of George T. Kendal Lumber Comp,nny. was 'dis- 

 solved .Tanuary 1. I00.i. by mutual consent, 

 George T. Kendal retiring. On and after this 



date the business will be continued under the 

 firm name of The C. B. Stetson Lumber Com- 

 pany, which company assumes all the obligations 

 and is entitled to collect all the assets of the old 

 firm. The address of the new company Is room 

 G44, Scimitar building. 



New Orleans. 



A large number of new hardwood lumber 

 and timber mills will be located within 100 

 miles of New Orleans during the coming year, 

 for the purpose of supplying export stock. D. 

 O. Dunn of Lake Charles recently closed a 

 timber deal whereby he sold 50,000,000 feet of 

 cypress in La Casine swamp, eighteen miles 

 east of Lake Charles. It was bought by F. 

 W. Dearborn, of Saratoga, Tex., who will erect 

 a saw and shingle mill. 



During the closing days of December a 

 large number of cj-press men were guests in 

 this city. Among them were J. C. Turner, 

 president of the J. C. Turner Cypress Lumber 

 Company, of New York; Fred B. Williaras. of 

 the F. B. Williams Cypress Company, Patter- 

 son, La., and N. N. LaBeau. of Jersey City, 

 eastern representative of the Southern Cy- 

 press Lumber Selling Company, Ltd. 



Chas. S. Hinkley, who was formerly the 

 Montgomery. Ala., representative of the Amer- 

 ican Lumber & Manufacturing Company, of 

 Pittsburg, is about to return to New Orleans 

 in the lumber business. 



On Dec. 30 a part of the plant of the Union 

 Lumber Company was destroyed by fire. 

 About 1,500.000 feet of lumber were burned. 

 The loss of $40,000 is covered by Insurance. 

 The Union Lumber Company is a corporation 

 composed of the H. Weston Lumber Company, 

 the Brekenridge Company and the Otis Lum- 

 ber Company. 



The stock of lumber In this port Is light 

 and the cut is said to bo much smaller than 

 usual. 



Statistics of the Pascagula Commercial Club 

 show that the total value of the export trade 

 of Pascagula for 1904 amounted to J3,828,- 

 792. The chief item of this export trade was 

 lumber, consisting of 181,608,886 feet, valued at 

 $2,831,792. 



Charles A. Ruddock, president of the Rud- 

 dock-Orleans Cypress Company of this city, 

 was a recent visitor. 



The Delta Land & Lumber Company Is the 

 name of a new Louisiana corporation which 

 will have a capital of $500,000. The company 

 proposes to do an extensive lumber and 

 plantation business. F. E. Hanks Is to be 

 president of the company. 



Hardwood Market 



Chicago. 



Business is good in Chicago — exception- 

 ally good for the season of the year. But 

 prices here have not as yet reaclieil the 

 point that the situation warrants. There is 

 comparatively little hardwood lumber in 

 sleek in this city and manufacturers are 

 only buying for immediate needs until stock 

 taking is over. 



The yards are carrying but light stocks 

 and an excursion into the south shows prices 

 at the shipping points as high, in many 

 eases, as can be secured in Chicago. In the 

 present condition of supply Chicago lumber- 

 men are justified in advancing prices. 



In quarter-sawed oak the demand is good 

 but in this particular branch of the industry 

 tliere is considerable stock in the country. 

 It is, however, strongly held and bears a 

 good price. 



Plain sawed oak is in the best demand, 

 especially in thick stock. 



Poplar is still low but it is strengthening. 



Some very good sales of this stock are re- 

 ported. Chicago, however, is not a large 

 poplar market. 



Cottonwood is advancing somewhat, al- 

 though it is hardly keeping up to expecta- 

 tions. 



Ked gum is in good demand and advancing. 

 There is a fairly good supply of this lum- 

 ber and it has a fine future. 



In northern hardwoods the condition is 

 very fair, with a prospect of better prices 

 in the future. Maple, the great staple, is 

 moving in good volume and some of the 

 Chicago shippers are getting in rail ship- 

 ments. 



The maple and oak flooring factories are 

 enjoying a very satisfactory trade. With 

 the present state of demand higher prices 

 shortly may be expected. 



WE MANUFACTURE 25,000,000 

 FEET BAND SAWED 



COTTONWOOD, 



POPLAR AND 



CYPRESS 



PER ANNUM 



Are always in position to supply the 

 trade. 



National Hardwood Association 

 Grades Quaranteed and certificates 

 furnished when requested. 



JEFFERSON SAW MILL GO. 

 Ltd. 



Front and Robert Streets 

 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



New Tork City. 

 New York, Jan. 4. — The past fortnight 

 has developed nothing of importance in 



Wholesale Oealerm In 



HART>WOOD 



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OFFICE AND YARDS: 



520 to 530 FRANKLIN STREET 

 DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 



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