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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. M. Dwlght of the W. M. Dwight Lumber 

 Company was circulating among the lumber- 

 men here this week. 



B. F. Etalweber of John Dulweber & Co. of 

 Cincinnati, is in the city. 



O. P. Hard Jr. of the O. P. Hurd Jr. & Co. 

 of Cincinnati is also here. 



Cincinnati. 



River conditions have caused considerable an- 

 noyance and damage to the local hardwood 

 trade during the past two weeks. The Ohio 

 has been frozen from shore to shore while nu- 

 merous small streams in Kentucky and West 

 Virginia which are full of logs, are in a like 

 condition. Disastrous results are feared when 

 a general break-up comes, which is expected at 

 any time. C. Crane & Co. have 3,000 logs In 

 the Guyandotte river, near Huntington, W. Va., 

 and the M. B. Farrin Company 100,000 logs in 

 the Kentucky river. 



In the Green river below Evansvllle, Ind., 

 a number of barges of Cottonwood and gum 

 belonging to the Farrin-Korn Company are 

 locked in the ice, but it is believed that these 

 will be saved, as extra precautions have been 

 taken to prevent their destruction. Nearly every 

 local firm stands to lose something according 

 to present outlook. Advices from points on the 

 Kentucky river say the conditions are the most 

 critical since 1879, when the booms all along 

 the river were broken by the ice. Dynamiting 

 to break the ice at some places has been re- 

 sorted to but with little effect. 



T. J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & Mof- 

 fett Company will return from a four weeks' 

 trip to Cuba the early part of March. While 

 there he looked after extensive mahogany hold- 

 ings belonging to the company. A member of 

 the concern states that the mahogany trade Is 

 in excellent Shape. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte is home 

 from a business visit to Memphis. 



A. V. Jackson of the Ault & Jackson Com- 

 pany Is making a buying tour through Tennes- 

 see and Kentucky. 



Wm. H. Stewart of Stewart & Stewart Is at 

 his desk again after a combined business and 

 pleasure trip to Toronto and other Canadian 

 points. 



On Feb. 18 a sneak thief entered the offices 

 of Leland G. Banning in the Allen building. 

 Fifth and Main streets, and abstracted $85 

 from the cash drawer. He disappeared with- 

 out leaving a clew. 



George C. Beck, doing business as the George 

 C. Beck Box & Lumber Company at 1487 Den- 

 man street, made an assignment on Feb. 18 to 

 Ernest V. Moore. The cause was pressure of 

 creditors. The assets are $2,500 and the lia- 

 bilities $5,000. 



B. C. Groesbeck, secretary and manager of 

 the Stearns Lumber Company, of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., has been elected to membership in the 

 Business Men's Club. A majority of the mem- 

 bers In the trade here belong to the organiza- 

 tion. T. J. Moltett. of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Co., is president of the organization. 



Matt Oldham of Mount Sterling, Ky., has 

 purchased of the Eastern Kentucky Land Co., 

 1,000 acres of rich timber land In Wolfe county, 

 near Torrent, on the Lexington & Eastern rail- 

 road. The price paid was $12.50 per acre. 



A deal has been closed whereby the Wilson 

 Lumber Co. ot Rochester, N. Y., has secured a 

 three-acre tract of land In Ivorydale, near here, 

 for a term ot 10 years. W. H. Stubbs. assist- 

 ant manager of the company, who was here ar- 

 ranging the deal, said that the construction of 

 buildings and the placing of switdhes so as to 

 operate a hardwood distributing yard will be 

 begun as soon as the weather permits. The 

 Wilson Company owns valuable tracts in Ten- 

 nessee and West Virginia and will soon begin 

 the shipment here ot several million feet of 

 lumber. 



C. F. Duhimeier, of Duhlmeier Bros., and 

 wife and daughter have gone to St. Augustine, 

 Fla., for a two months' stay. 



The Butler Avenue Lumber Company of Co- 

 lumbus has been incorporated with $30,000 cap- 

 ital stock by Walter E. Hyde. George H. Booth, 

 W. H. Imes. H. H. Johnson and H. T. Keating. 

 The company will buy, sell, saw, manufacture, 

 store and deal in la-^s, timber, lumber and wood 

 products of every description. 



Indianapolis. 



The Custer Lumber Company of Anderson, 

 Ind., has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $12,000. Robert Custer is president ot the 

 company. 



There are two lumbermen who are members 

 of the house of representatives of the Indiana 

 state legislature now in session. Ananias Baker, 

 a retail lumber dealer of Rochester, Ind., repre- 

 sents the counties of Cass and Fulton, while C. 

 I>. Meeker of Monticello, Ind.. represents White 

 and Pulaski counties. Both men are republicans. 



The Foster Lumber Company at Senate ave 

 nue and St. Clair street, in Indianapolis, suf- 

 fered a $30,000 fire loss on the night of Feb. IS. 

 The fire was caused supposedly from sponta- 

 neous combustion and started on the third floor 

 of the plant. The fire was a dangerous one and 

 for a time threatened to consume the entire 

 plant. It was only after an hour's hard work 

 that the firemen were able to extinguish the 

 blaze. The loss was covered by Insurance. At 

 the time of the fire there was stored in the 

 plant about $75,000 worth of wood fixtures, con- 

 sisting of wainscoting. partitions, mantels, 

 doors and other articles of office furniture and 

 interior finishings, which were to have been de- 

 livered to the new government building here dur- 

 ing the p.Tst week. Although most of the finished 

 government work was stored In the front part 

 of the building, a great deal of the half finished 

 lumber was in the rear of the second and third 

 floors where the fire was hottest. The loss on 

 the government property was about $10,000. It 

 will probably cause a short delay In the com- 

 pletion of the building, for, according to the 

 statements made by Harry South, the com- 

 pany's foreman, new lumber will have to 

 be obtoined. kiln dried and put through a long 

 process before the ruined fixtures can be re 

 placed by new ones. 



Along _ with the government property, there 

 was also stored the entire pattern of the new 

 Marsh hotel of Muncie, Ind., which was de- 

 stroyed. A great amount of finished lumber, 

 polished, varnished and ready for delivery and 

 belonging to the lumber company was also 

 badly damaged. The entire loss, however, was 

 covered by insurance. 



The officers ot the Foster Lumber Company 

 are : C. C. Foster, president ; Alonzo P. Hen- 

 drlckson, vice-president, and Oliver P. Ensley, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



L. P. Ilollowell, New York representative of 

 the Indiana Lumber and Veneer Company, was 

 In Indianapolis for a few days last week. 



The Indiana Hardwood Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, at the recent meeting, interested itself 

 In two bills which have been pending l)eforc the 

 state legislature. One is the railroad commis- 

 sion bill, known as Newhouse bill, and the other 

 the Guirl bill providing for the admission of 

 mutual fire Insurance companies into the state. 

 Both bills will quite likely pass. One has al- 

 ready passed the senate and been advanced to 

 third reading in the house. The other passed 

 the house and Is now ready for third reading in 

 the senate. The Insurance measure will reduce 

 the Insurance rates by bringing in competition 

 and legalizing many companies which hitherto 

 have not entered the state with regularly ap- 

 pointed agents. Instead, their business has been 

 done by correspondence. The railroad commis- 

 sion bill, if passed, will likewise reduce ship- 

 ping rates. Consequently lumber dealers are in- 

 terested In the passage of both measures. 



WHERE WILL YOU STOP DURING 

 THE CONVENTION? 





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HOTEL WALTON 



PHILADELPHIA 



Supplies the needs and pleasures of the moht 

 fastidious. Situated on South Broad Street In the 

 heait of the most attractive purt of Phihidelphia 

 less than 300 leet Irora the Bellevue-Stratford! 

 where the meetingrs of the Natii>nal Wholi-sale 

 Lumber Dealers" Association will be held on Thurs- 

 day and Friday, March id and 3d. 1906. 



Your patronage solicited. Rates ior this orcasion as 

 follows: 



Single Rooms, wilhoul bath, $1.50 and up 

 wilh •' 2.50 



Double " wilhoul " 2.00 

 wilh " 4.00 



Reservations made at once will insure the he* in the 

 house, and will be promptly acknowled^jed. 



GEO. W. SWETT. Manager. 



PIERCE LUMBER CO, 



Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers In 



HARDWOOD LUHBER 



ly W.' will snw Hcd and White Oak 

 .■xcliiHl\cly for tiie next year. 



OFFICE and MILLS. OLYPHANT. ARK. 



WE MANUFACTURE 25,000,000 

 FEET BAND SAWED 



COTTONWOOD, 



POPLAR AND 



CYPRESS 



PER ANNUM 



Are always in position to supply the 

 trade. 



^ational Hardwood Association 

 Grades Quaranteed and certificates 

 furnished when requested. 



JEFFERSON SAW MILL CO. 

 Ltd. 



Front and Robert Streets 

 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



