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HARDWOOD RECORD 



retains the ownership of the land and of all 

 trees under ten Inches in diameter. 



Meridian, Miss., thinks it should have local 

 furniture factories and other woodworking estab- 

 lishments in which to utilize its native harC- 

 woods, rather than shipping its lumber products 

 to the north to be converted into finished prod- 

 ucts and then returned to it for sale. 



T P. Bowers of Petersburg, W. Va., has 

 bought of the U, S. Leather Company the chest- 

 nut oak timber peeled on the Landes tract of 

 land and will have it sawed into lumber. 



A recent sale of walnut logs at $90 a thou- 

 sand feet is reported as having taken place at 

 Flipping Ark. 



David Goshaw of Eau Claire, Wis., who re- 

 cently purchased tlie McKay sawmill at Cobban, 

 on the Holcomb line, bought 75,000 feet of hard- 

 wood from the Cirkle Manufacturing Company. 

 The timber is located near Cobban and will be 

 hauled to the mill and manufactured into table 

 leg stock. 



L. B. Lesh of the Lesh & Matthews Lumber 

 Company is in Memphis on a business trip. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD 



Chicago. 



Frank F. Woods, general manager of the 

 S. A. Woods Machine Company of Boston, was in 

 Chicago for a few days recently in consultation 

 with R. B. Dunsmore, western manager of the 

 great woodworking machinery house. The com- 

 pany has just transferred its Chicago lieadquar- 

 ters from the Merchants' Loan & Trust building 

 to 811 Railway Exchange, where Mr. Dunsmore 

 has very handsome and convenient offices. 



Henry Ballou. manager of Cobbs & Mitchell, 

 Inc., Cadillac, Mich., was iu the city on Tues- 

 day last en route to Memphis and Kansas Cit.v 

 on a business trip. 



On March 25 petitions in insolvency were 

 filed against the W. & H. Lumber Company of 

 this city, and William 11. Heurer w'as appointed 

 receiver. Internal dissensions among the stock- 

 holders have caused this misfortune, although 

 it is alleged that the debts of the company 

 amount to about $4.3,000 with assets that will 

 not exceed $30,000. 



Theodore Fathauer. president of the Theodore 

 Fathauer Company and of the Chicago Hardwood 

 Exchange, has been on a Michigan buying trip 

 during the past few days. 



W. O. King of W. O. King & Co. was up along 

 the Michigan shore last week, arranging tor the 

 forwarding of his large purchases of maple and 

 other Michigan hardwoods, for which he con- 

 tracted in the early part of the season. It is 

 understood that fully 75 percent of his purchases 

 have been sold and will go forward direct to his 



trade. 



Representatives of nearly all the maple floor- 

 ing producing houses in the country were in the 

 city on March 30 in attendance upon a meeting 

 of the Maple Flooring Association. Reports 

 generally were very favorable on prevailing con- 

 ditions, " and it was thought that the present 

 demand warrants a maintenance of the list 

 price. The headquarters of this association is 

 now located at 159 La Salle street, Chicago, 

 and W. R. Keane is its secretary. 



Among recent visitors in Chicago who were 

 callers at the Hardwood Record office were J. 

 W McClure of Thompson & McClure, Memphis. 

 Tenn. . E. C. Groesbeck, secretary of the Stearns 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Frank W. Vet- 

 ter, manager of the Empire Lumber Company. 

 Buffalo, N. Y. : George Shriver of Shriver Bros.. 

 Massillon. O., and J. H. Garrison of Padu- 

 cah, Ky. 



The Southern Oak Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new Chicago hardwood concern capi- 

 talized at $50,000. The incorporators are Elmer 

 H. Adams, A. F. Fiper and N. Rosenbom. The 

 office of this company is at 707 Chamber of 

 Commerce building. 



It has been practically decided by Secretary 

 A. R. Viuuedge of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association and by the Chicago Hardwood 

 Exchange that the Illinois delegation to the 

 Buffalo convention, to be held May 18 and 10. 

 will go over the Michigan Central Railroad, 

 leaving Chicago on the 5 p. m. flyer on May 17. 

 It Is expected that the Wisconsin and Minne- 

 sota delegates will join the Chicago crowd here, 

 and that the West Michigan visitors will have 

 their sleeper from Grand Rapids attached to the 

 i-:uriC train ot ,lacksiii. 



Special Correspondents.) 

 Boston. 



The Lumber Trade Club. in.-., of Boston will 

 hold its next regular meeting at the Exchange 

 Club on Thursday, April 13. E. D. Walker of 

 ,lohn M. Woods & Co., who is first vice iiresident 

 of the club, will deliver an address on the cost 

 of doing a hardwood business, with special ref- 

 erence to the expense of handiicj; and reacilng. 

 Other well-known hardwood dealers meuibera 

 of the club are Holt & Bugbee. (lark & Smith, 

 Palmer, Parker & Co., Parker & Page and Law- 

 rence & Wiggin. ,lohn B. Bugbee of Holt & 

 liugbee. with E. U. Walker -jf .lohn M. Woods 

 & Co., represent the hardwood interests as 

 members of the executive conanittco. 



A. T. Stearns of the A. T. Stearns Lumber 

 Company, who has been spending the past two 

 months in Florida, returned .0 P.ost.in on 

 Thursday last after a most enjoyable trip. 



The hardwood dealers are .'vidently getting 

 better prices outside of New England, as » 

 number have been or are now in Xe-,v York and 

 other outside markets. Among the Boston deal- 

 ers who are now in the New York market are 

 I". W. Lawrence ot Lawrence & Wiggin and M. 

 Walter Hart. 



William E. Lili'hlield. who owns and operates 

 a hardwood mill In Indiana, states th:it his vol- 

 i.me of business is decidedly greater than that 

 of last, year and that the demand appeared to 

 be "before hand." The business which dealers 

 are now receiving is to a considerable extent 

 identical in quantity and kind with what is 

 usually obtained from April 1 to May 15 of 

 each year. 



Lawrence & Wiggin. the Tabasco mahogany 

 specialists and dealers in general hardwoods, 

 have not yet moved into their new offices in 

 the Mason building, owing to a delay in finish- 

 ing the interior. When completed the offices 

 will be among the finest in the city. 



I'almer, Parker & Co., mahogany and veneer 

 manufacturers, whose mill and docks are lo- 

 cated In Charlestowii. were visited by river pirates 

 one night recently in the shape of the crew ot 

 a Philadelphia coal barge, who stole a quantity 

 of valuable rough lumber, hiding It In their 

 barge, which was due to sail the next morning. 

 The loss of the lumber was promptly discov- 

 ered, the barge was searched and the stolen 

 material found. The crew at last accounts was 

 in jail. 



Reports from Canada, especially from the 

 eastern part of that country, are to the effect 

 that the English market is a heavy purchaser 

 of lumber this year. W. C. B. Robbins of the 

 Suncook Valley Lumber Company, who has just 

 returned from the maritime provinces, stated 

 , that English buyers are purchasing even live 

 edge log run (mill culls out) beech, birch and 

 maple cut mostly 3 inches thick for $12 f. o. b. 

 vessel at Nova Scotia shipping points. 



The committee appointed to investigate the 

 affairs of Shepard. Farmer & Co. report that 

 the company's convertible assets are worth ap- 

 proximately 45 percent and recommend that 

 Mr. Shepard make a cash offer in composition 

 of 37% percent, pledging the assets to secure 

 the cash. Mr. Shepard has already offered 30 

 percent cash in settlement. 



Frederick M. Stearns of tho Cypress Lumber 

 Company returned recently from a two weeks" 

 stay at "that company's plant in Appalachicoia, 

 Fla. There is now an abundance of water in 

 the streams in that section and the supply of 

 logs is ample at the mill, insuring a full cut 

 tor the season. In addition to the usual amount 

 of cypress manufactured by the company there 

 is tills year an exceptionally fine run of ash 



and gum. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Asso- 

 ciation held its regular meeting at Young's 

 Hotel on April 7. Dinner was served at' six, 

 after which a short business meeting was held, 

 followed by an entertainment. 



New York. 



The International Mahogany Company of this 

 city organized sixteen years ago with an 

 alleged capital of $3,500,000 to exploit large 

 tracts of mahogany timber in Cuba and Mexico, 

 is in financial difficulties. A petition in bank- 

 ruptcy was filed against the company April 4 

 iv I nomas & Oppenhelmer. The company was 

 incorporated under the laws of West Virginia. 

 The directors were principally Pittsburg and 

 Cincinnati men. and Robert Laidlaw of Cincin- 

 nati was the first president, but recently he 

 was succeeded by George F. Montgomery, On 

 April 4, 1904, the company gave a total mort- 

 gage on its lands, plant and stock for $1,000,000 

 to the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New 

 York to secure an issue of bonds for that 

 amount, of which $225,000 cash is said to have 

 been received. The failure is not much of a 

 surprise in local trade circles, owing to per- 

 sistent rumors current for several months that 

 the company was short of working capital. As 

 a matter of fact the deal was too big a one tor 

 either the money or brains back of It. 



The action of the board of managers of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, ap- 

 pointing salaried Inspectors in the leading con- 

 suming markets, is received here with approba- 

 tion. It is believed that the system will make 

 both buying and selling conditions more satis- 

 factory to those who do business under these 



rules. , , .. 



George H. Storm & Co. have purchased the 

 business heretofore conducted by Fowler & Sil- 

 berhorn at Seventy-second street and East River, 

 Manhattan. The firm will move to Its new 

 location soon, and expects to improve the prop- 

 erty very materially by the building of a larger 

 shed, which will enable It to carry three times 

 as much stock as formerly. A modern office 

 building will also be constructed, as well as a 

 saw and planing mill. 



Ogden & Co., Manhattan, one of the oldest 

 hardwood and woodworking concerns of that 

 district, will retire from business about May 1. 

 Danat & Pell, a retail domestic and foreign 

 woods firm at the foot of Broom street, have 

 decided to close out their Brooklyn yard. 



.lohn Lanzer. who has conducted a hardwood 

 trim and molding plant In the Bronx, has made 

 a general assignment, following an involuntary 

 petition in bankruptcy. 'Hie assets are esti- 

 mated at $30,000. 



James Taylor & Sons, hardwood retailers, have 

 purchased a plat of ground running through from 

 Twenty-seventh to Twenty-eighth streets, near 

 Eleventh avenue, for a new yard site. 



Charles A. Christman. a New York hardwood 

 retailer, has purchased a plat of twelve city 

 lots on West Thirty-eighth street between Tenth 

 and Eleventh avenue, running through to Thirty- 

 ninth street, to which point he will remove his 

 business within a few weeks. 



Willson Brothers of Pittsburg have opened a 

 local office at No. 1 Madison avenue under the 

 management of J. li Hatch. 



W. W. White of Pittsburg has been added 

 to the selling corps of the Barr & Mills Com- 

 pany in the metropolitan district. 



F. A. Nicola of .Nicola Brothers Company, 



Pittsburg, was a visitor in this market last week. 



Frank F. Fee, the well-known quartered oak 



