HARDWOOD RECORD 



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county, O., lias been incorporoitod with a cap- 

 ital stock of $15,000 to manufacture and sell all 

 kinds of lumber. Franke Crone. George B. 

 Mart.T, E. N. Conrad. E. Peters and Robert G. 

 McCreary arc the incorporators. 



M. A. Hayward of M. A. Hayward & Son. re- 

 ports a good trade recently. He booked a nice 

 lot of orders between Christmas and New Years 

 without solicitation and believes the outlook is 

 promismg. Mr. Hayward is of the opinion that 

 prices in all lines of hardwoods will advance 

 in the near future because of the small amount 

 of dry stocks on hand. 



H. R. Allen of the H. R. Allen Lutnber Com- 

 pany was called out of the city on business 'early 

 in .January. 



H. W. Putnam, president of the General Lum- 

 ber Company, reports a rather quiet market at 

 this time, although the prospects for the future 

 look bright. 



R. W. Horton. sales mana.§er for the central 

 division for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 reports a good line of business during the past 

 fortnight and the volume of trade was much 

 better than was expected. In fact lousiness 

 during the last week in December was the best 

 in the history of the company. Prices are still 

 strong and the future prospects are good. 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager of .Tohn R. 

 Gobey & Co., says trade has been good in most 

 lines the past few weeks and prospects for the 

 future are excellent. He is of the opinion that 

 prices will become stronger soon after the first 

 of the year. 



CINCINNATI 



The Johns-Mowbray-Xelsou Company has 

 started the new' year with high hopes, which it 

 declares will be realized, as ever.v member of the 

 firm is know'n to have bustling qualities devel- 

 oped to a high degree, .\rrangemcnts are com- 

 pleted for the handling of all classes of hard- 

 woods, with mill connections that will enable 

 the company to fill all classes of contracts. 



There is every indication that the coming con- 

 vention of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso-' 

 ciation of the United States, at the Sinton hotel, 

 on Jan. 30 and 31, will prove of more interest 

 than any of its predecessors. The attendance 

 will bo fully equal to former years, while the 

 program being arranged by Secretary Doster will 

 prove of more interest than any heretofore 

 offered. 



W. A. Bennett, in an interview on business 

 conditions, stated that the year in the hardwood 

 trade has not been as prosperous as in former 

 years, not so much on account of loss in volume 

 as in profits. The lumlier trade has suffered no 

 greater than other lines. Mr. Bennett closed 

 his talk with one of his characteristic remarks, 

 which, as usual, is right to the point : '■Disturl>- 

 ance to business may cease, or people may finally 

 make up their minds to do business and let the 

 disturbers disturb only themselves."' 



Clinton Crane, who only speaks for the busi- 

 ness of C. Crane & Co.. says ; "There was not 

 enough water In the Guyandotte valley streams 

 in the mountains of West Virginia to bring out 

 a good run of logs. We had only one or two 

 little rises, which brought out but little stock, 

 and we have not been able to work our mills 

 here to full capacity since last June, keeping 

 only one double band mill running ; but we 

 have the trade here if we had the logs. We 

 have all kinds of unfilled orders in our office. 

 Of course, this may not have occurred with oth- 

 ers, but we are surely a good barometer for dry 

 lumber." 



Chamber of Commerce figures show that the 

 lumber trade of 1911 was 1 per cent over that 

 of 1910. In 1910 the volume of business reached 

 .$47,250,000, while in 1911 it was ,$47,725,000. 

 On the car service report a decrease is shown, 

 the receip'ts being 07,000 cars, with S7.07S as 

 the volume for 1910. The shipments in 1911 

 were 62.000 cars, with 76.000 in 1910. These 



figures show that there was approximately 10.- 

 000,000 board feet in favor of 1910 over 1911. 



Max Kosse of Kosse, Shoe & Schle.ver, has filed 

 his application to become a citizen of the United 

 States. His birthplace was Germany. 



The Thompson Lumber Company has success- 

 fully observed its first birthday anniversary, and 

 is starting in upon its second year with every 

 prospect of continued success. Being composed 

 of .voung and energetic business men, with a 

 thorough knowledge of the hardwood business, 

 there is only one outcome, and that is success. 



MEMPHIS 



TOLEDO 



A deal has deen closed transferring the prop- 

 erty of the Xaval Stores Company to a new 

 Toledo concern for a consideration of $300,000. 

 The company is engaged in extracting turpentine 

 and other by-products from pine stumps. 



Manager G. G. Roberts of the Big Four Hard- 

 wood Company reports that business is fair and 

 prices are all right. Mr. Roberts is now busy with 

 the affairs of the Keasey Pulley Company of 

 which concern he was appointed receiver re- 

 centl.v. Indications are that the creditors will 

 be paid off and the business put on a firm basis 

 in a short time. 



The Gottshall-Goodyear Company reports nu- 

 merous inquiries from railwa.v companies for oak 

 to be used in repairing cars. Business with this 

 concern is seasonable, but there is nothing 

 rushing. 



The Booth Column Company has closed down 

 for annual inventory. The concern has en,ioyed 

 an unusually successful year. Prospects for 

 spring business are good. The company has in- 

 creased its capacity and as a result will have a 

 larger stock than ever before when spring trade 

 opens. 



Jerome Thomas, aged sixty-six years, was 

 recently brought to Toledo for burial, having 

 died at his home in Sumter, S. C. He spent his 

 early life in the lumber business here, and was 

 prominent in the affairs of the city. He has 

 been engaged in the lumber trade in the South 

 f<u* the past thirty years. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company has returned from a ten days' visit 

 to New York. 



Jack E. Brantley of the Great Southern Lum- 

 ber Company is home from a visit to mills at 

 Bogalusa. La. 



The Manhattan Lumber Company has just 

 begun business at Gary. It has a $25,000 plan- 

 ing mill. 



The Security Trust Company has been ap- 

 pointed receiver for the New Hygienic Refrig- 

 erator Company, which recently began opera- 

 tions in this city. It is charged that the com- 

 pany is in'solvent. 



Notice has been filed with the secretary of 

 state that the Deco-Veneer Company of this city 

 has increased its capitalization from .$20,000 

 to $60,000. 



With an authorized capitalization of $70,000, 

 the Ziegler-Huff Lumber c& Coal Company has 

 been organized and incorporated at South Bend 

 by Granville W. Ziegler. Oren G. Huff. Dixon 

 W. Place, Charles E. Huff and Charles F. 

 Stickler. 



At Its annual meeting, held in this city Dec. 

 28, the Indiana Manufacturers' and Shippers' 

 Association decided to organize a mutual em- 

 ployers liability insurance company and a com- 

 mittee was appointed to devise plans for the 

 new company. The election of officers resulted 

 in C. M. Kimbrougb, Muncie, president ; H. 

 McCray of Kendallville, H. M. Clemens of Can- 

 nelton, Frank Bastian of Vincennes and J. M. 

 Heron of Connersville, vice-presidents ; J. V. 

 Zartman. Indianapolis, secretary and W. H. 

 Tobin, Muncie, treasurer. . 



The W'catber in the Memphis territorj' has 

 Iieen more favorable during the past three or four 

 days, but the month of December was highly 

 unfavorable on account of the unusual amount of 

 precipitation. The rainfall for that period was 

 the largest recorded for a number of years at 

 similar date and the result has been a decided 

 restriction in the production of hardwood lumber. 

 The ground has been so wet as to make it ex- 

 tremely difficult for hauling to be done and the 

 amount of timber brought out has been below 

 the average. Members of the trade hero say that 

 much will depend upon conditions with respect to 

 the weather during the next few weeks, declar- 

 ing that these will determine whether or not 

 there is a plentiful or scant supply of hardwood 

 lumber to meet the spring demand. 



The only feature which has developed recently 

 has been the disposition of some consuming and 

 distributing Interests to place orders calling for 

 later shipment. For a long while it has been 

 practically impossible to sell any lumber except 

 for immediate shipment and it is evident that 

 there is an awakening interest on the part of 

 bu.vers. It has been advertised somewhat exten- 

 sively recently that there is no large surplus 

 of dry hardwood lumber in the South and this 

 may have had some effect. General business 

 conditions are somewhat more favorable and, 

 owing to this expansion, manufacturers of prod- 

 ucts made from lumber are finding their business 

 increasing and their needs large. Owing to this 

 development there is a disposition among mem- 

 bers of the trade here not only to expect a 

 rather increasing business but also a slightly 

 higher range of prices. In connection with the 

 latter it is noted that there is a tendency toward 

 increasing firmness at the moment. 



A. Maas, who has been prominently identified 

 with the cotton business of Memphis for a num- 

 ber of years has, with eastern capitalists, pur- 

 chased 30,000 acres of timberland in Philips and 

 DeSha counties, Arkansas. Mr. Maas says that 

 it is the intention of himself and associates to 

 cut the timber from this property and sell it in 

 the open market. He further states that about 

 1,000.000 feet have already been cut. This land 

 is on the Memphis, Louisiana & Helena line of 

 the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and 

 lies largely in the section tributary to Laconia 

 Circle. It will be necessary to build about eight 

 miles of tram road in order to get out some of 

 this timber and Mr. Maas states that this will 

 be done. 



Alex Berger of Jonesboro, Ark., has sold to 

 the Weis & Peterson Box Company of Cairo, HI., 

 the Cottonwood timber on 1,000 acres of land in 

 Poinsett county, near Lepanto, Ark. The eom- 

 sideratiou was $20,000. The purchasing com- 

 pany proposes to install a box factory at that 

 point for the development of the timber. It also 

 intends to build a railroad to Marked Tree, Ark., 

 to facilitate the handling of its products. 



R. E. Walter has recently secured several 

 thousand acres of hardwood timber land near 

 Smedes, Miss., and is erecting a mill at that 

 point with a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. 



P. E. Gilbert has accepted the positon of sales 

 manager for the Wisconsin Lumber Company of 

 Chicago. Mr. Gilbert has been prominently iden- 

 tified with the lumber interests of this city and 

 section for the past few years and carries to his 

 now position the best wishes of his friends in the 

 South. 



The Patton-Tully Company will have a new 

 derrick boat with all steel hull in operation here 

 some time in February. Contract has been 

 awarded for the construction of this vessel 

 which will be used for the raising of logs from 

 the river on to barges or banks of streams in 

 this territory. It is anticipated that this addi- 

 tional equipment will very materially facilitate 

 the handling of its timber by the Anderson- 



