HARDWOOD RECORD 



promise that cars which have been in the 

 shops, will soon be ready for use, and that with 

 better weather at hand they wilt be able to 

 handle the situation in better shape. 



The announcement from Washington that the 

 Government is to aid in the fight on the bug 

 which attacks the hickory tree has brought 

 forth a report In a local newspaper that most 

 of the damage to the hickory forests of Ken- 

 tucky during recent years has been due to the 

 practice of felling trees during the fall to get 

 the nuts. Whether there is a great deal of 

 truth in this is doubtful ; yet it is agreed that 

 at least a few trees have lieen sacrificed to the 

 desires of nut gatherers. 



D. C. Harris, traffic manager of the C. t'. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the I^ouisville Transportation Club, an 

 organization composed of leading shippers. Mr. 

 Harris has long been active In its work. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons I^nmber Company is 

 considering plans for the addition of another 

 yard in Louisville. The quarters at Sixth and A 

 streets are getting too small for the large stocks 

 which the company are carrying. 



It is reported that the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company of Coal Grove. O.. will build a rail- 

 road In eastern Kentucky. The road will run 

 from a point beyond the Breaks of the Big 

 Sandy, twenty-five miles up Kussell-Prater creek. 

 The company will erect several large sawmills 

 there to manufacture the timber which will be 

 Q.ade available. 



The Booker-Cecil Company of Louisville, is 

 having a switch run Into its yard at Clay and 

 Knlton streets. Business with the new com- 

 pany is reported to be good. 



ST. LOUIS 



The regular business meeting anfl dinner of 

 I he Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis was held 

 at the Planters hotel on I'eb. 13. The most 

 important business Iran.sacted was (he appoint- 

 ment of W. E. Barns to represent the club at 

 Ihc meeting of the National Wholi'sale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association at Louisville. Ky.. on Mar. 

 i: and T. 



The South Land & Lumber t:ompany was 

 ncently incorporated in St. Louis to take over 

 d timber and land development project in Stod- 

 dard county. It has a capital stock of .$100,000. 

 fully paid. The company has acquired n.OOO 

 acres of hardwood timber land adjacent to the 

 new town of Kinder. The timber will be cut 

 and the land converted Into farms. 



A tract of land In the western part of St. 

 Louis has been acquired by the I{ay E. Plckrcl 

 Lumber Company of Chandlervllle, 111. The 

 company will build a large planing mill for cut- 

 ting and finishing walnut lumber and will iiiiike 

 walnut gun stocks. 



MILWAUKEE 



The Slougblon Wagon Company ol' Stonulj 

 Ion has completed the work of Installing elec- 

 trical motive power In Its plant. Twenty-two 

 motors are now in operation. K. .1. Ven is 

 president and W. C. Hegelmeyer Is secretary of 

 IIm company. 



.Senator A. W. Sanlwrn. receiver for the .lohn 

 11. Davis Lumber Company of Phillips, after a 

 conference with the federal court at Madlsoo. 

 has announced that the lumber company will 

 not build a new mill nt Phillips ns had bern 

 planned, but will continue to operate a mill 

 tear Phillips for some time. .Senator Sanbo/n 

 l)ellcves that a reorganliiallon of the compaii.v 

 Is necessary. 



The Marinette Carriage Works plant at Marl 

 nette was destroyed by tire recently with a loss 

 of $20,000, partly covered by Insurance. The 

 plant will be rebuilt In the spring. 



J. G. I.oekhnrt of Wausau has moved to She 

 boygan where he will engage In the wholesale 



lumber business. Ofiices will he in the Ciuh 

 building. 



The Berlin Maeliino Works of Beloit. opi^rat- 

 ing one of the largest wood-working machinery 

 manufacturing plants in the United States, will 

 soon open lis new office building. The structure 

 has been completed and is now being furnished. 

 The company will soon start oir the work of 

 erecting Its new factory addition, which will In 

 devoted to the manufacture of sawmill equij) 

 ment. P. B, Yates, president, is on a trip (o 

 Mexico and New Orleans. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furnishing Com- 

 pany of Fond du Lac has been reorganized 

 under the name of the Fond du Lac Church Fur- 

 niture Company. The business will be enlarged 

 and new sales agencies witl be opened in all the 

 leading cities of the iDnited States. The com- 

 pany's plant is now operating at full capacity. 

 The capital stock of the company has been 

 placed at .Sir.O.OOtl. 



Taken all together, the Joblu'rs and whole- 

 salers are not over rushed with business, which 

 is partly due to adverse weather conditions. 



Alex McNeal, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Webster & Whipple Lumber 

 Company, reports a good deal of stock contracted 

 and considerable business booked. 



The Gillitt-O'Leary Company, which handles 

 largely high-grade birch, reports a fair number 

 of orders ahead for most all thicknesses of stock, 

 ;U prevailing market prices. 



Osborne & Clark report a fair volume of trade 

 lor this time of year, the heaviest demand being 

 ]'or wagon stock. 



CADILLAC 



MINNEAPOLIS 



There has boon a nutieealjli> falling off in the 

 demand for hardwood lumber in the Twin Cities 

 during the past two weeks, though low-grade 

 stock, both In hardwood and pine, is being taken 

 in at reduced figures. The prospects are bright 

 for good building trade during the coming spring 

 and summer. 



Plain oak is in fairly good demand, while 

 quartered stock both in red and white, is slow. 

 Hard maple is selling at about the same prices 

 as during last year, while birch is strong in 

 price with only a fair local demand. (Jr.-un door 

 boards, both in hemlock and hardwood are in 

 light demand and practically all of the railroad 

 contracts for car material in oak have been 

 closed for the year. 



A large broom factory is being erected at 

 Big Rapids. Mich,, by John Otis of Mancelona. 

 The new factory building is to he of white 

 brick. llOx.38 feet, and has two stories and a 

 basement. The machinery is of the latest im- 

 proved kind, and is driven by electricity. The 

 plant will have a capacity of seventy-five dozen 

 brooms a' day. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Gaylord 

 Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of 

 sleighs and wheels for himbering purposes, of 

 Gaylord. the following officers were elected : 

 Seth M. French, president : John Y'uill, vice- 

 president : William Shepard, secretary ; D. K. 

 Mitchell, treasurer and general manager. 



Ira B. Bennett, vice-president of the Hume- 

 Bennett I,umber Compan.r of Sanger. Cal., has 

 sold his share in this company to Thomas Hume, 

 a luinlierman of Muskegon. Mich., for nearly 

 ^1.000.000. 



, I'l-ank K. Caswi-I! of Portland, Jlich., has sold 

 his lumber business to Charles A. Estep, who 

 exitects to consolidate it with his own business. 



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CHICAGO 



Weather conditions are having a ijredominat- 

 ing influence \ipon the Chicago trade at present. 

 Just as it was Iteginning to look like spring 

 again, and building operations were opening up. 

 a terrific snowstorm came along, with the re- 

 sult that activity in the building trades will 

 very likely be postponed a couple of weeks 

 longer. But even beyond this, there seems to be 

 more or less uncertainty In the building situa- 

 tion, owing to continued unsettled conditions in 

 labor circles. The proportion of building per- 

 mits so far this year comjiares unfavor.-ibly with 

 Ittll, which can probably be ticcounted for liy 

 a hesitancy on the part of prospective bulldi'rs 

 to go jihead with an.v work until they have the 

 assurance that erection will proceed iminter- 

 ruptedly. ' 



.Nevertheless Inliu-lor llnlsh plants, llooring fac- 

 tories and similar lines have all the orders on 

 their books they can take care of, though for 

 the most part they are holding ftIT until tln-y can 

 be sure of making deliveries. 



The majority of the wholesale element locally 

 reports a continuance of Improvement In general 

 conditions which has been noticeable since the 

 first of thr' year, and It Is everywhere apfiarent 

 that the active movement of low grade stuff will 

 r'ontln>ie. The entire local trade voices the 

 sentiment that then' will be a decided stiffen- 

 ing of [trices within the next few montliH, (twlng 

 to the absolute scarcity of dry storks at all mill 

 pidnts. In northern wonds the most notlciable 

 change 1h In No. 1 and No. 2 common basswood. 

 One large hnndh'r of this stock says that In 

 many Instances consumers are unable to get sulll- 



eient No. 2 common, and are taking Nn. 1 in- 

 stead. 



Itailroad orders and Inquiries continue to come 

 in in excellent shape and one large handler of 

 this line is quoted as saying: "We have Inqui- 

 ries for a tremendous amount of stuff on hand 

 at present." 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market at New York shows a 

 very fair run of business, with inipiiries and 

 orders pli'utiful. All indications point to an 

 active spi'ing market not merely from the stand- 

 point of a very fair consuming demand, but 

 likewise from the fact that stocks in the hands 

 of bttyers and local mantifacturers are not very 

 [>li'ntlful. Prices arc ruling linn, especially on 

 good-grade lumber, stocks of which are reported 

 to be less than normal at manufacturing points. 



BUFFALO 



lliei-e has been a more satisfactory voluine 

 I'f trade in hardwoods this month, the weather 

 having changed to mildness, which permitted 

 the shipping of orders that bad been dr'layed 

 during tile cold weather. Oak and chestnut are 

 in fair di'uiand, with prices liolding llrm. Maple 

 jind birch are strong, and arc expected to bring 

 the usual high prices during the spring. Ash 

 and elm are In better deinanil 



PHILADELPHIA 



Till' unprecedented seven' weather In the South 

 flurlng the last fiu-lnlght has Interfered so 



