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HARDWOOD RECORD 



GEORGE E. W. LUEHRMANN, 

 Pres. and Tr. Charles F. Luehrmann Lumber Co. 



EDWARD II. LUEHRMANN, 

 Vice President Cbarles F. Lueirmann Lumber Co 



The lumber business of the city tor the year 1904 has been most pros- 

 perous. During the* past year many lumber manufacturers who in 

 former years operated in the northern states have transferred their 

 Interests to the South. 



It is impossible to arrive at any estimate of the tremendous business 

 transacted by the lumbermen of this city which did not touch St. Louis. 

 but was shipped direct from points of manufacture to that of consump- 

 tion. While this vastly increased the volume of business done by St. 

 Louis tirms, such business does not show nor is it considered in the 

 following tabulated record of receipts and shipments for St. Louis. The 

 receipts for the past four years over each railroad were as follows: 



THOMAS W. FRY, 

 Secretary Charles F. Luehrmann Lumber Co. 



12,000 feet to the car is taken. This gives the following as the total 

 receipts of the St. Louis marlset : 



By rail 



By river .... 

 Logs by river. 



Feet— 1904. 



1,488,540,000 



21,663.800 



3,747,360 



Feet— 1903. 

 1,510,104,000 

 33.083,600 

 4,426,000 



Feet — 1902. 

 1,578.912,000 

 551,957,800- 

 15,618,300 



1.547.673,600 1,646,488,100 



Name of Road. 1904. 



Chicago & Alton (Mo. Div.) 25 



Missouri P.-icific 4,985 



Frisco System 10,517 



Wabash ( West) 256 



Chicago, Roclv Island & Pacific 49 



Missouri, Kansas & Texas 1,0,')7 



St. Louis Southwestern 10.160 



St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 43,619 



St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (III. Div.). 15,036 



Illinois Central 12,322 



Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis 126 



Louisville & Nashville 1.047 



Mobile & Ohio 20,754 



Southern Railway '473 



Baltimore &c Oliio Southwestern 182 



Chicago & Alton 239 



Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 11 



Vandalia t49 



Wabash (East) '..'..'. 880 



Toledo, St. Louis & Western 145 



Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis ,S18 



Chicago, Burlington & Quinry 296 



St. Louis. Keokuk & Northwestern 1,147 



Chicago & Eastern Illinois 52 



Cars. 



1903. 



12 



5,403 



4,625 



264 



58 



678 



9.246 



59.935 



1,953 



13,197 



65 



1,944 



23,272 



687 



2 



326 

 26 



204 

 1,072 

 .WS 

 669 

 363 

 1,338 



Cars. 



1902. 



116 



3.552 



1,734 



212 



26 



311 



10,933 



65,199 



5 



16.706 



75 



2.300 



24,574 



778 



20 



620 



79 



l.'>2 



1.214 



359 



1,021 



403 



1,119 



Cars. 



1901. 



62 



2,638 



924 



574 



9 



187 



7.785 



58.414 



Total 1,513,951,160 



The shipments for the three years over each of the railroads were as 

 follows : 



Cars. 

 Name of Road. 1904. 



Chicago & Alton (Mo. Div.) .577 



Missouri Pacific S.597 



Frisco S.vstem 2,837 



Wabash (West) 4.001 



13.345 



32 



2.020 



18.924 



1,088 



105 



383 



159 



225 



1.204 



124 



1.154 



501 



2.050 



Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 711 



Missouri, Kansas & Texas 454 



St. Louis Southwestern 17 



St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern 254 



St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (111. Div.) 851 



Illinois Central 2.230 



Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis 70 



Louisville & Nashville 141 



Mobile & Ohio 75 



Southern Railway 1.124 



Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern 1.889 



Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis 5.259 



Chicago & Alton 7,076 



Vandalia 7.893 



Wabash (East) 11.902 



Toledo, St. Louis & Western 2..592 



Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis 5.284 



Chicago. Burlington & Quincy 4.903 



St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern 6,241 



Chicago & Eastern Illinois 623 



Cars, 

 1903. 



326 



12.392 



2,347 



4,054 



331 



987 



1 



267 



96 



2.384 



46 



130 



46 



606 



1.531 



3.716 



3.804 



6.163 



17.746 



2.583 



9,755 



3,852 



8.409 



Cars. 

 1902. 



372 



12,606 



786 



5,007 



683 



1,175 



25 



208 



21 



1,933 



24 



83 



68 



971 



1,387 



3.052 



4,654 



6,380" 



12,018 



4,072 



4,051 



4,397 



7,954 



Total 124.045 125.847 131,576 111,897 



In addition to this rail movement of lumber the report of the harbor 



master shows the following receipts by river : 



1904. 190.3. 



Lumber 21,663,800 33,083,600 



Shingles, pieces 658,000 3.271.400 



Lath, pieces 428,800 



Picliets, pieces 



Logs, superficial feet 3.747,360 4,426,000 



Total 76.101 81,572 71,727 



On a basis of 12,000 feet to the car this gives the following as the 

 total shipments : 



Feet— 1904. Feet— 1903. Feet— 1902. 



By rail 913.21 2,000 978,864.000 860,724,000 



By river 1,465,000 1,836,000 2,086,000 



1902. 



51,957,800 



6.455,000 



7.067,000 



216,000 



1,561,830 



1901. 

 62,602.966 

 11.198.250 

 12,385,550 



147,960 

 9.331,800 



To reduce this amount of lumber to feet is a problem which cannot be 

 solved with any degree of accuracy. For this reason the same basis of 



Totals 914.677,000 980,700,000 862,810,000 



A very Interesting deduction from the figures here given is to arrive at 

 the local consumption, which can be done by subtracting the shipments 

 from the receipts : 



Feet— 1904. 



Receipts 1.513,951,160 



Shipments 914,665,000 



Feet— 1903. 

 1.547.673.600 

 980,700,000 



566,973,600 



St. Louis Personals. 

 Capt. C. F. Liebke, president of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of St. Louis and presi- 

 dent of the C. F. Liebke Hardwood Mill & 

 Lumber Company, dates his earliest connet^- 

 tion -with the hardwood lumber trade of St. 

 Louis back to practically the starting point 

 of the trade. In the old days he was a 

 steamboat man and one part of the work 

 undertaken by him was the transportation 

 of barges of timber for the government. In 

 this way he became familiar with the meth- 

 od and the cost of transporting logs in 

 this manner and finally determined to put in 



.1 hardwood sawmill at St. Louis and supply 

 it with logs by barge from the lower rivers. 

 There were many who predicted disastrous 

 results, but Capt. Liebke has for fifteen 

 years or more successfully operated the only 

 hardwood sawmill in St. Louis, and his busi- 

 ness is to-day one of the strongest in the 

 city, proving that his ideas, however radical, 

 ■were correct. His operations are mostly in 

 oak, ash and walnut and he has made a 

 specialty of long timbers cut to- special di- 

 mensions. That he is popular and is held in 

 the highest esteem in St. Louis is proved by 

 the fact that he has been elected to the 



Local consumption 599,286,160 



highest office in the gift of the hardwood 

 lumbermen of that city, that of president 

 of the Lumbermen 's Exchange, and this or- 

 ganization cannot but thrive under his man- 

 agement, Capt. Liebke 's portrait appears 

 as the supplement to the Hardwood Eecokd 

 this issue. 



Steele & Hibbard rank in the topmost class 

 among the St. Louis wholesalers and the 

 territory to which they cater is as large as 

 the country itself. The concern started in 

 the business back in the eighties, George E. 

 Hibbard, the .junior partner, having had con- 

 siderable previous experience. Practically all 



