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HARDWOOD RECORD 



howevei-, we are receiring inquiries and secur- 

 ing orders for very large quantities of luniber. 

 This is the best proof of what is. being done 

 here and of what the temper of the trade is 

 iust now. There is a scarcity of dry stock in 

 every direction and there is Jittle oi no trouble 

 about making sales." 



Mr George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, 

 together with other members of tbe trade here, 

 reports some improvement in export ™uditions, 

 though they say there is not any disposition on 

 the part of foreign buyers to pay higher p.ices. 

 They further state that they do not expect this 

 phase of the situation to change until all ihe 

 stock on the other side is pretty well cleaned 

 up, because of the slowness of the foreigners 

 about meeting any advance in the market. Re- 

 garding domestic conditions Mi-. Burgess talies 

 nuite a cheerful view, declaring that the de- 

 mand is good, that stocks in the hands of con- 

 sumers are generally small and that the amount 

 of timber in the hands of manufacturers and 

 wholesalers is not large enough to be burden- 



some. _ 



J w Thompson of the 3. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber 'company is also cheerful over present con- 

 ditions. He reports a good demand and a prev- 

 alence of healthy conditions in the entire 

 hardwood list with one or two exceptions. One 

 of the latter is low grade poplar, for which 

 there does not appear to be any big demand at 

 current prices. 



New Orleans. 

 The export business for March was the great- 

 est in the history of this port. There were 

 179 ships cleared during the month and 182 

 arrivals. While the bulk of the exports were 

 cotton and grain, lumber also made a big 

 showing. Among the lumber shipments were 

 two carloads of cypress, a wood that is seldom 

 exported. Yellow pine heads the list in vol- 

 ume, with oak, red gum, cottonwood, bay poplar 

 or tupelo gum and poplar following in the 

 order named, with an occasional car of walnut 

 and mahogany. In the shipment of logs, poplar 

 seems to be the heaviest, next ash. and then 

 white oak. There is also quite a quantity of 

 persimmon logs exported, which Is used in the 

 manufacture of shuttles tor looms. 



Mr. J. D. Allen. Jr., secretary of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, spent a day in 

 town recently looking after some shipments. 

 He is living at Selma, Ala., and has charge of 

 the business of his firm in that section. He 

 Is of the opinion life would be pleasanter if 

 acre were no reclamations on through bills of 



lading. „ „ ^. _ 



Mr. C. E. Cowen of Schultz Bros. & Benedict, 

 Chicago, was a recent visitor in this city. 

 While here he arranged for the shipment of 

 quite a block of poplar and cottonwood. 



A new lumber firm is the Springfield Lumber 

 Company, Ltd., with oflices at 1021 Hennen 

 building The mill is at Springfield. La., and 

 has a capacity of 30,000 feet. They will saw 

 yellow pine, cypress, poplar and ash. E. T. 

 Cullum is president, Charles S. Elms vice presi- 

 dent and W. J. Settoon secretary and treasurer. 



Kansas City. 



A. H. Connelly returned home on the 2d, 

 after a thirty days' trip, during which time 

 he visited a number of the hardwood mills in 

 Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. 

 He also spent some time among the hardwood 

 people of Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati and 

 Chicago. He states that the crop of oak logs 

 is very scarce this season, and that at only 

 one or two mills he visited have they enough 

 logs on hand to run them through the year. 

 He found a steady demand for stock at all 

 points, and states that the hardwood men are 

 confident that firm prices will prevail through 

 the year, and that plain oak will be particu- 

 larly firm for some time to come. While away 

 Mr. Connelly succeeded in making some excel- 



lent contracts, and is well pleased with the re- 

 sults of his trip. 



J. H. Tschudy returned from his trip to Ari- 

 zona on the 3d. While away he caught a cold 

 and is now confined to his home with an at- 

 tack of grip, which is liable to keep him away 

 from business for a few days. Mr. Tschudy says 

 that his company is enjoying a good trade and 

 that the demand thus far this season is rather 

 better than normal. 



F. C. Merrill of Merrill & Co. has just re- 

 turned home from a six weeks' trip to California, 

 where he has been for his health. He had not 

 been well for some time prior to his California 

 trip, and returns home much improved and in 

 pretty good shape to attend to business. 



J. X. Pcnrod of the American Walnut Com- 

 pany is spending a few days at Memphis. The 

 headquarters of the American Walnut Company 

 have been removed from Chicago to Kansas City 

 and the company is nicely quartered in the 

 Dwight building. 



Minneapolis. 



F. H. Lewis, the well-known wholesale dealer 

 of this city, has sold out his interest in the 

 Lewis-Stevens Cooperage Company of Dent, 

 Minn., which has begun the manufacture of 

 basswood heading, and the company has been 

 reincorporated under the n«me of the Stevens 

 Cooperage Company, with other partners. Mr. 

 Lewis reports the hardwood trade about the 

 same in volume, with prices strong, and a good 

 demand for oak, birch and elm, all of which are 

 scarce. Basswood of good quality is not plen- 

 tiful, but the demand is rather slow. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a flying trip into Wis- 

 consin, where he spent some time on business 

 the last two weeks. F. R. Hamilton of the 

 same company says that they are having more 

 inquiries than at any previous time this year, 

 and they consider the outlook for business ex- 

 cellent. Stocks of good lumber are light, and 

 while they will be sufllcient to supply the de- 

 mand until winter sawed lumber is ready for 

 use, there is not going to be any surplus, and 

 at the present rate of consumption they will 

 be taken up clean. There is a good building 

 movement under way, which will take large 

 quantities of hardwood for finish and flooring. 



P. W. Strickland of Barnard & Strickland is 

 visiting Wisconsin points on business errands 

 this week. A. H. Barnard of the same firm 

 says there is a good outlook for steady business 

 in the hardwood line this reason. The sash 

 and door factories are busy as they never have 

 been before, with orders for supplying new 

 buildings, and a larger percent of their work 

 is calling for hardwood stock than formerly. 

 While they are not buying heavily now on ac- 

 count of stiff prices, they must have the stock 

 eventually. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark has re- 

 turned from Erie, III., where the company has 

 a retail lumber yard and where he has been 

 making one of his occasional inspection trips. 

 D. F. Clark of the same firm says they are 

 enjoying an excellent trade, the retail yards all 

 apparently wanting some hardwood stock 

 shipped with their pine, so the mixed car busi- 

 ness is good. They have dry stock enough on 

 hand to supply the trade, and do not expect 

 prices to change for the present. The firm 

 bought 1,500,000 feet of green white oak this 

 week, and last week bought another Wisconsin 

 stock of 1,000,000 feet mixed basswood and birch. 



Louisville. 

 A forest fire on the north bank of the Cum- 

 berland river in Livingston county, caused by 

 sparks from burning brush, has entailed the 

 loss of considerable hardwood ;imber. How- 

 ever, in view of the mrolst condition of the 

 ground, the spread of the flre to dangerous 

 proportions was prevented. The damage 's es- 

 timated at several thousand dollais. 



The Millers Creek Lumber Company, with a 

 capital of $8,000. has been incorporated in Mt. 

 Sterling. Ky., by J. W. Clay, M. C. Clay of 

 Mt. Sterling and Judge William Taylor and 

 Bruce Taylor of Frencbburg. Ky. The com- 

 pany owns 2,500 acres of fine coal and timber 

 lands, the timber consisting chiefly of oak, pop- 

 lar, lynn and beech. The lands were a part of 

 the Beattyville timber tract and were recently 

 purchased at $13.50 an acre. The company 

 will build a line to connect with the L. A. 

 & L. E. railroad 



The break in Lock Xo. 10 in the Kentucky 

 river at Winchester is widening daily, and 

 large tracts of timber lands formerly protected 

 by the dam are being washed away. 



A project has been set on foot by the citi- 

 zens of Mt. Olivet, Ky., for a railroad from 

 Brookville, which will open vast tracts of 

 coal and timber lands in eastern Kentu'^ky. 



Tentative arrangements were made at a meet- 

 ing here on April 4 of 90 percent of the hick- 

 ory handle manufacturers of the United States 

 to form a combine. A committee was appointed 

 to draft plans of organization. Charles D. 

 Gates, president of the Hickory Handle Manu- 



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ELSON H- WALCOTT. PRES'T 



Frank E. Stonebraker, vice-pres't 



Chas. C. Gardiner. sec*y and treas 



The Crittenden 

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MANUFACTURERS 

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