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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



ward S. Oonkling, Edward S. Conkling. Jr.. C. 

 JI. Conkling, F. S. Smith and B. M. Smitb were 

 the incorporators. 



On Jan. 1!) the Yale Lumber Company sold to 

 the Licking River Lumber Company its entire 

 plant at Farmers, Ky., and all its timber lands, 

 about 12,000 acres, lying on the Licking river 

 and about 20,000,000 feet of poplar and oak 

 timber. 



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

 Company, was chosen a member of the execu- 

 tive committee of the Cincinnati Employers' 

 A.ssociation at the recent election. There are 

 a number of local hardwood men members of 

 the association, which has for its purpose the 

 protection of employers from unjust demands of 

 employes. 



The Receivers and Shippers' Association has 

 memorialized President Roosevelt to assist in 

 the efforts to have passed the bills now before 

 congress which have for their object the en- 

 larging the scope and powers of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission.. Local lumbermen are 

 taking a great personal interest in the matter 

 and several have written letters to Senator 

 Foraker of this district and to Congressmen 

 Goebel and Longworth. requesting that they sup- 

 port the measures referred to. 



Arguments ui>on a demurrer in the case of 

 O. H. L. Wernicke vs. John Diebert were heard 

 on Jan. 20 by United States Judge A. C. T. 

 Thompson. Mi-. Wernicke, who is president of 

 the Fred Stacey .Manufacturing Company, at 

 Grand Rapids, Mi<'h., indorsed a note for .'i:;i."),(»On 

 foi the Hardwood E.xport Company and the 

 F. H. Smith Lumber Company of New Orleans, 

 about a year ago. A New York banking com 

 pany took up the note, receiving as security 

 bonds on certain lands In Alabama. 'The Hard- 

 wood and Smith Companies failed subsequently. 

 Wernicke's note was sold for $1,800 and suit 

 was entered against him to recover the differ- 

 ence. He souglit to enjoin the collection and 

 it was upon this that arguments were made in 

 the courts here. 



A. F. Dennis of the Dennis & Smith Company. 

 of Detroit. Mich., was here recently placi- g 

 liberal orders for poplar to be used in automo- 

 bile construction. 



The Western Wheel Manufacturers' Club liilil 

 Its annual meeting here on Jan. 13. The elec- 

 tion of ofhcers resulted as follows: President. 

 Carl D. Fisher, Wapakoneta, O. : vice presi- 

 dent, J, C, Dort, Flint, Mich. : secretary, li. 

 Bannister. Muncic, Ind. The discussion of price 

 lists was i)ostiK)ned until the next meeting, to 

 he held in this city the second Wednesday in 

 February. 



O. B. Bannister of Muncie, Ind., secretary of 

 the Western Wheel Manufacturers' Cluh. in 

 speaking of conditions said to the Hardwood 

 Rbcuud correspondent: "It is not far in the 

 future when getting timber for our plants will 

 be a serious question. Already we have to go 

 down into Mississippi. Louisiana and even Flor 

 Ida for our stocks. Elm for liub blocks is actu- 

 ally being shipped from Canada to Dayton. O. 

 It is shipped across the lake to Jamestown, 

 N. Y., and from there by rail." 



For more than a week employes of the plan- 

 ing mill of the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Com- 

 pany on the lower river rnad have been work 

 Ing day and night In an effort to subdue a sul) 

 terranean fire in a huge pile of sawdust. The 

 fire is supposed to have originated from spun 

 taneous combustion. It is believed that the 

 fire is now under control. The sawdust was 

 considered waste, and therefore there is no loss 

 attached, but the Arc has caused considerable 

 apprehension to the members of the firm. 



"Business was simply rotten In the British 

 Isles for two years or more preceding last Sep- 

 tember," said J. P. Stepliensnn-Jellie, of Bris- 

 tol, England, representative of a big hardwood 

 company, while In this city placing orders the 

 middle part of the month. "Since that time 

 tliere has been a marked Improvement, and we 

 confidently look forward to a permanent better- 



ment in all branches with advancing prices. 

 Cincinnati is one of our best hardwood mar- 

 kets." 



The following incorporations under the state 

 laws have been made since Jan. 10 : 



The Westside Lumber Company. Dayton, by 

 Sampson, Clarence E., G. G., L. A. and Pauline 

 Bice ; capital, $25,000. 



The Central Ltimber Companjy, Cleveland, 

 capital $25,000, by Wm. H. Teare, F. E. Kim- 

 ball, C. A. Kramer, Jr., George S. Gynn and 

 George D. Jones. 



The Scioto Timber Cjmpany, Portsmouth, cap- 

 ital $10,000, by J. T. MIcklethwait, J. B. Alger, 

 Albert Sheetz, I). L. Webb, Jr., and A. B. Alger. 



The R. G. Eliner >.,ompany. Ironton, capital 

 $10,000, by R. G. Eliner, E. A. Eliner, F. D. 

 Fearon. M. G. Fearon and R. W. Fearon. 



The Miamisburg Lumber Company of Miamis- 

 hurg. capital $1.'5,000, by Willis L. Wertz, E. W. 

 Derr, Jerome Wertz, E. Wertz and E. Derr. 



The Barr & Mills Company of Zanesville has 

 Increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,- 

 000, They will open a New York ofiice. 



BoSalo. 



The only really important general event in 

 lumber here of late is the exodus of a great 

 part of the east-side hardwood dealers to the 

 New Y'ork automobile show, the list including 

 A. Miller. J. B. Wall,. R. F. Krelnheder, I. N. 

 Stewart and O. E. Yeager. Business did not 

 lag while they were gone. 



The incorporation of the Kelsey-Dennis Lum- 

 ber Company at North 'Tonawanda is announced, 

 with a capital stock of $200,000. This is put- 

 ting under a new name the business in hardwood 

 lumber at that place, which was established c|iiitc 

 a long lime ago by L. A. Kelsey and In which 

 Dennis Bros, of Grand Rapids are interested. 



E. K. Dennis is president of the new company ; 

 L. A. Kelsey, vice president and manager and 



F. C. King, secretary and treasurer. Business 

 will proceed as before. 



M. M. Wall has gone south to look after the 

 mill work of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, and will visit both Mississippi and Arkan- 

 sas before returning. The otlice reports good 

 sales of quartered oak. 



J. N. Scatcherd has bei-n laid up for .some 

 days with a sprain from a slip, but Is out again. 

 He Is looking south for more timber and has a 

 good tract in view In the Memphis district. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are receiving a liberal amount 

 of hardwood lumber now, with basswood and ash 

 prominent in the list. Business Is called quiet, 

 but promising a steady improvement. 



The Tennessee Lumber and Coal Company, of 

 which-George J. Kennedy Is the Buffalo member. 

 Is now mostly a coal land corporation, selling Its 

 coal on a royalty to operators. It turns out a 

 large amount of mine timbers, however. 



The Buffalo members of the Hugh McLean 

 and auxiliary lumber companies, having made 

 the entire round of the mills south and west 

 that they own, have returned home and are 

 I)ushing sales vigorously. 



A. W. Kreinheder goes to Tennessee early next 

 month, shipping out a lot of lumber that has 

 accumulated at the mills of the Standard Hard- 

 wood Lumber Comiiany, which includes a large 

 I>rop(U'tion <tf quartered oak. 



A. Miller returns from his New York trip with 

 the best assurance of good business ahead, though 

 it is not reported whether he is in for an auto 

 or not. His hardwood assortment Is good. 



Lots of poplar inquiries are reported from the 

 office of O. K. Y'eager and a general run of 

 demand that promises a year with good things 

 in It. (tther lumber moves fairly well. 



The mill business of Taylor & Crate in three 

 states south is now under the Inspection of 

 President Taylor of the company, that in Mis- 

 sissippi being on a very extensive scale and al- 

 leady producing a great amount of stock. 



F. W. Vetter of the Empire Lumber Company 

 is away to the Arkansas mills of the company. 



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