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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The SliorlHoUowfU I.iimlicr Company lias 

 movpd its offices to 2 Harrison building on 

 I-'oiirttl street. H. Hollowell is now tile sole 

 "wner of the stock of tlie company. M. Sliort 

 having retired from the company and opened an 

 "Rice in the Johnson building on Fifth street. 



\V. W. Stone is now the bead of the T. B. 

 Stone Lumber Company, whose office and yards 

 are at the foot of Hopkins street. 



Joe Webry. for several years with Cieorgi- 

 Littleford. is now with J. D. Rash of the 

 Shawnee Lumber Company, with yards at Cum- 

 minsville. 



The Tensas Uiver Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased another locomotive and a number of cars 

 for its plant in Louisiana. An additional tract 

 of land has been taken over. The company has 

 extended the capital of the operating company 

 from ?100,000 to $300,000. and will issue bonds 

 to the extent of ?! 00,000. Vice-President Walker 

 says that everything at the plant is reported in 

 fine sliapp. and the work of construction on the 

 railroad line is being pushed rapidly. 



S. A. Conn and Fred Conn are at Natchez. 

 Miss., where the latter is looking after the 

 interests of the liayou Land & Lumber Company. 



Fred Radina of L. W. Radina & Co.. who was 

 injured in the auto races at Joliet. 111., last 

 spring, has fully recovered and is now able to be 

 about and attend to business. 



TOLEDO 



INDIANAPOLIS 



With an authorized capitalization of .$1,000,- 

 000. the General Industrial & Manufacturing 

 Company has been formed here to manufacture a 

 line of light motor trucks and to conduct ex- 

 periments for inventors. The Industrial build- 

 ing, with 360,000 square feet of space, has been 

 leased. The officers are : President, T. B. Lay- 

 cock, secretary of the T. B. Laycock Manufactur- 

 ing Company, furniture manufacturer; vicr 

 president, W. J. Mooney, wholesale druggist ; 

 secretary, J. F. Lindley, Jr., sales manager of the 

 Laycock company : treasurer, Charles E. Coffin, 

 president of the Central Trust Company. 



The Indiana Forestry Association has elected 

 the following officers for 3912: Presidenl. 

 Charles Warren Fairbanks, Indianapolis : vice- 

 l<rcsident. Mason P.. Thomas. Wabash College. 

 Crawfordsville ; secretary, George B. Lockwood, 

 editor, Marion ; treasurer, W. A. Guthrie, agent 

 for railroad ties, Indianapolis. 



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

 wood Company has returned from an eastern 

 business trip. He stated that the hardwood 

 trade seems to be picking up all over the Kast 

 and that conditions are much better than they 

 were. 



Manager .\. 11. David of the David Lumber 

 Company reports a much better market tone. He 

 said that his concern has been doing a fair ex- 

 port business, the bulk of the demand being for 

 oak and hickory. 



The Excelsior Lumber Company of Lima. O.. 

 has filed a petition In voluntary bankruptcy in 

 the federal courts at Toledo. A similar peti- 

 tion was also filed by John H, Long, a member 

 of the firm. 



The Rib River Lumber Company, recently or- 

 ganized at Toledo, has chosen Joseph Crossweiler 

 as president and A. H. David general manager. 

 The company has secured a tract of 300 acres 

 of oak and pine timber land near Richmond. Va. 

 Two large mills will be erected on the grounds at 

 once for the purpose of removing the timber. 

 Manager David will spend one week of each 

 month at the mills of the company. 



The 'iroy I.iunlicr I'omiiany. 'iroy, Inil., has 

 Bled notice of dissolution with the Indiana Sec- 

 retary of State. 



The name of the Englewood Hoop Comi)any of 

 Kokomo has been changed to the Ilallulah Hoop 

 & Lumber Company. 



Jo.seph R. Young and Thomas H. Nelson, com- 

 posing the Young-Nel.son Ltimber Company of 

 this city, have filed suit for a receiver in the 

 Delaware Circuit Court against the Delaware 

 Lumber Company of Mnncle. It is alleged the 

 company has assets of ?4,000 and liabilities of 

 SI 0,000. 



Fred Rltter of this city has purchased the 

 old plant of the Bessler Veneer Company at 

 Batesvllle and will start a furniture factory. 



On the evening of Jan. 27 the annual meeting 

 of the Atkins Pioneers was hold at the Spencer 

 house In this city. The members of this associa- 

 tion are those who have been employed by E. C. 

 Atkins & Co. for at least twenty years. The 

 oldest employe Is .John H. Wilde, who has been 

 with the company forty-seven years. Henry C. 

 Atkins, presidenl of the company, was among 

 the KO^B's. 



BVANSVILLB 



The hardwood firm of Leib & Artman of Rock- 

 l)ort, Ind., which also oiierated the Rockport Box 

 .Manufncturing Company, has been dissolved. 

 .Mr. Artman is building a band mill at Metropolis. 

 111., and has formed a connection with the 

 .N'ichols & Cox Lumber Compaijy of Grand Rapids. 

 The new concern at Metropolis will be called the 

 Artman, Nichols & Cos Lumber Comjiany, and 

 will manufacture southern hardwoods. The band 

 inill will be supidied by the steamboat aiul fleet 

 of barges the company owns. 



Articles of incorporation were filed recently 

 for the II. & II. Manufacturing Company. (J. A. 

 Ilartmetz, M. Hartmetz. O. A. Jensen, John M. 

 h'nnke and Wm. Gramelspacher are the incor- 

 l)orators. The company will engage in the manu- 

 facture and sale of furniture and woodwork. 

 The company has a capitalization of ,$l,j,000, 000 

 shares of If2,"i each, one-half of whicli is pre- 

 ferred, and balance common stock. 



M. E. Cumniings of Riemeier Brothers & Cum- 

 uiings has moved to Syracuse, N. Y., where he 

 luts opened a sales office. Mr. Cummlngs was 

 recently elected secretary of the Evansville Lum- 

 l)ermen's Club, and his departure is regretted by 

 members of the trade. The local office of the 

 company is now under the direct management 

 of B. R. Bertrand. 



Bedna Young of Young & Cutsinger, Daniel 

 Wertz and Claude Maley of Maley & Wertz re 

 turned the latter i)art of last week from the Cin- 

 cinnati meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers" 

 .\ssociation of the United States. 



Jos. Waltman, Jr., local wholesaler, has been 

 succeeded by the J. W. Waltman Lumber Com- 

 liany. The new concern will market a full line 

 of hardwoods. 



George Lawrence, southern representative for 

 Voung & Cutsinger, was in the city this week. 



George Riemeier of the Riemeier Lumber Com 

 [)any, Cincinnati, was in the city tliis week. 



O. W. McCowan and John A. Thompson of 

 Thompson, Thayer & McCow-en, were In the city 

 Inst week on business. 



MEMPHIS 



The local market has rbangid but little dujiug 

 Ihe past two weeks. There are a few comploinis 

 that business is not active, but as a general rule 

 shipments are being made on a liberal scale, con- 

 sidering the depleted supply of dry slock. Buy- 

 ifs are showing more Interest, with a resultant 

 Increase in both the number of huiulrles and 

 actual bookings. Prices are about the same as 

 i-eccntly, though the tendency is toward increas- 

 ing firmness as a result of the fact thai there is 

 rather more infjuiry and a furlln-r tendency 

 toward reduction In shipping dry lumber. 



The Gayoso Lumber Company Is opening yaid.s 

 at Cairo, ill. The company will continue lo 

 maintain Its ofllceH and yards at Memphis and 

 all lumber yardi'd at Cairo will be handli'il 



liiniu^li Ihe -Memphis oHices. c. i; Uansont 

 will have general supervision of the new yards 

 lit Cairo but will not spend much time there, 

 the services of a competent yard foreman having 

 been engaged. The company is now concentrat- 

 iiig lumber at Cairo from Alabama. Oklahoma, 

 .Missouri and other states where the rate to 

 Cairo is more favorable than that to Memphis. 

 The Anderson-Tully Company has completecf 

 lacillties at Vicksburg for unloading logs inti> 

 ,1s mills from the canal there, and also for 

 loading out the lumber from its two sawmills as 

 v.ell as the products of its box factory at that 

 Ijoint. The new facilities, which are operated 

 somewhat on the chain elevator system, will 

 greatly reduce the cost of unloading logs and of 

 leading lumber and other products. 



W. II. Greble. W. B. Morgan, Ralph May. 

 r. S. Lambert and other i>rominent members of 

 the lumber fraternity here who attended the- 

 annual of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso 

 ciadon at Cincinnati, Jan. 30-31. have returned 

 nud report that the meeting was not only the 

 lust attended in the history of that organization 

 l)ut also one of the most successful. W. A. 

 Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber Company. 

 who also attended, went north from Cincinnati 

 and has not yet reached Memphis. Mr. Gilchrist 

 ci.utinues on tlie executive committee upon which 

 will devolve the duty of selecting the meeting 

 Ijlace for 1913. Memphis and NasbviUe are both 

 s( rongl.v in the race. 



S. B. ,\nderson of the .\nderson-Tully Com- 

 pany and (George D. Burgess and W. H. Russe 

 of Russe & Burgess. Inc.. attended the annual 

 ni the National Lumber Exporttu-s' .\ssociation 

 duriug the past week. Messrs. .\uderson and 

 Kusse have returned to Memphis liut Mr. Bur 

 gess, who was accompanied by Mrs. Burgess, lias 

 iioi yet reached home, having gone north front 

 lialtimorc. 



Charles E. Brower, secretary of the National 

 Classification Committee of Lumber and Wooden 

 Box Interests, has returned to Memphis front 

 (inlveston, Tex., where he attended the meetini; 

 of the Western Classification Cnmmiltee. He 

 aiHieared before this commitiee and argued in 

 favor of an equalization of rates as betweeit 

 packages made of wood and those made of fibre. 

 Ijeper and other material. The |)rineij>al argu 

 iivcnts which he advanced were : That the rail- 

 roads are heavy losers through loss of tonnage: 

 that the manufacturers of wooden boxes lose 

 Ihrough curtailed jiroduction ; and that the paper 

 and pulp boxes are given the preference as shlp- 

 l>:ng containers, resulting in nnu'h loss to the 

 railroads through damages from iucnuised break- 

 age, waste and other considerations. Mr. Brower 

 recommended Ihat tlie Western Classification 

 Cfpmmittee re(|uire that ail shipments of glass be 

 liacked in wood containers. He says that he 

 expects to see, as a result of the Galveston 

 meeting, that It shall be compulsory on the 

 carriers to require, upon receipt of shipmenis 

 ill pulp or paper, that these shall bear a stanqt 

 in somi' regiilai'ly designat(Ml idace staling that 

 llie material used in the making of tlie box Is In 

 eonformily wiili (he requirements set forth liy 

 Ihe Western Classification Committee. 



E. II. I':wing. former manager of the l■^vlllg 

 I. umber Company, Mnrianna, .\rk.. has sold bis 

 i'lterest in thjit firm and has removed to Ileber 

 Siirings, Ark. 



!•'. J. Scbniuck. who has been connected for a 

 uuuiber of years with (lie Chapman-Dewey Lum- 

 ber Company, stales that be will iiurchasc box 

 factory No. 2 at Jonesboro. which has been 

 ilosed down for some time and organize a new 

 company to operate Ibis with a capital stock 

 of $,")0,0(i0. The new company will manufacture 

 boxes and also materials for Interior finish, 

 employing aboni sevenly-five men. 



The Hanqilon Stave Cnnipiiuy at Fordyce, .\rk., 

 lias purchased ibe liirge holdings of oak limlx-r 

 111 llial section belonging to (be Sawyer & Austin 

 Lumber Comiinny. and will erect a hardwood mill 

 for the development thereof. This will give 

 i-miilnynienl (o abou( one hundred and fifty men. 



