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HARDWOOD RECORD 



One of the oldest lumber concerns in Columbua 

 passed into new bands when the Hildreth & 

 Martin Lumber Company which operated a mill 

 and yard on West State street was taken over 

 by Bowman F. Reinmund, Jr. The company is 

 a corporation with an authorized capital of 

 $100,000 of which $96,000 was issued. Mr. 

 Reinmund purchased all the stock, but the corpo- 

 rate name will be retained. 



The New lioehr Company of Bucyrus, O., has 

 been incorporated with a capital of .$75,000 to 

 deal in lumber and building supplies. The incor- 

 porators are Benj. Meek. Alfred S. Lenthold, 

 Samuel Lenthold, E. O. Meek and Lloyd L. Meek. 



The Reserve Lumber Company of Cleveland, O., 

 has been incorporated with a capital of $15,000 

 to buy and sell lumber. The incorporators are 

 Walter S. Lister. E. E. Thomas. C. X. B^scus, 

 C. F. Schrod and A. C. Waid. 



J. W. Mayhew of the W. M. Rltter Lumber 

 Company said : "Trade has been running along 

 steadily and the prospects for the future are 

 good. Prices are strong in every grade and 

 there is no tendency to cut quotations. The only 

 drag in the market at present is wide poplar, and 

 automobile factories are not buying much of 

 that. The factory trade has been strong and 

 the yard trade has been quiet. Dry stocks are 

 low." 



The C. T. Nelson Company of Columbus has 

 filed papers with the secretary of state to incor- 

 porate with a capital stock of $150,000. The 

 concern, which manufactures columns, has been 

 operated as a partnership. C. T. Nelson has 

 been at the head of the concern. 



C. C. Tount, formerly of Columbus, O., has 

 been elected vice-president of the Empire Lumber 

 Company of Vancouver Island. British Columbia. 

 A large tract of timber land at that place will 

 be developed. 



CINCINNATI 



The Bayou Land & Lumber Company, and the 

 Tensas River Lumber Company now occupy adja- 

 cent offices at 301-303 Neave building, Cincinnati. 

 with Cliff S. Walker In charge. 



.Joseph Bolser, secretary of the Blackburn & 

 Bolser Company, wholesaler of lumber in the 

 Mercantile Library building, is secretary of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati. He is also 

 general manager of the entertainment committee 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associ.ition of 

 the United States. He is now making arrange- 

 ments for the April meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club, which will take place at the Business Men's 

 Club with the usual 6 :.30 o'clock dinner on 

 Monday, Apr. 1. The members will hear the 

 reporl-s of the nominating committees for the 

 year of 1912. headed by Cliff S. Walker, regular, 

 and B. F. Dulweber, Independent, who will report 

 tickets for the two bodies. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



A. A. Wilkinson of the Grcer-Wilklnson Lum- 

 ber Company, this city, and associates, have 

 effected a unification of the two telephone sys- 

 tems at Lebanon. 



E. F. Harris has resigned as assistant sales 

 manager of the Parry Manufacturing Company, 

 to accept a similar position with the Henderson 

 Motor Sales Company. 



The Dclphos Bending Company has been In- 

 corporated at Bluffton with an authorized cap- 

 ital stock of $25,000 and will manufacture bent- 

 wood. Those Interested In the company are 

 H. S. McLeod, Mary J. .Justus and H. .1. North. 



A new company at J^juansport Is the M. I'". 

 Bllsh LumMer & Coal Company, which has been 

 organized by M. I". Bllgh, F. A. Walton and 

 M. J. Bllgh to conduct a general lumber and 

 coal liiislncss. The company has been Incor- 

 porated with an authorized capitalization of 

 $50,000. 



The Bank Furniture Company, the Decco 

 Veneer Company and the National Flooring Com- 

 pany have taken space for permanent exhibits 

 with tlie Indianapolis Exhibit Company, which 

 acts as a down-town sales and exhibit room for 

 manufacturers. 



W. W. Garrott, L. J. Garrott and A. McTvin- 

 sey have organized the Garrott-Kinsey Company 

 at I'rankfort, which has been incorporated with 

 an authorized capitalization of $8,000. The com- 

 pany will deal in logs and timber. 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company is secretary of the Shirley Radiator 

 Company, which is arranging to move its plant 

 from Shirley to Beech Grove. The company has 

 been given a sixteen acre tract and the pro- 

 ceeds from the sale of 107 building lots for the 

 location and erection of its new plant. 



The Indiana State Railroad Commission has 

 concluded its hearing on the question of a new 

 schedule of log freight rates and has taken same 

 under advisement. The railroads are olfering 

 to accept a rate ranging from 4 cents a hundred 

 for a 5-mile haul or less, to 10 cents a hundred 

 for a 300-mile haul. Shippers are demanding 

 rates ranging from 2% cents to 9 cents, which 

 rates were in effect until they expired by limita- 

 tion some months ago. 



MEMPHIS 



A decree has been ordered by Chancellor lleis- 

 kell dissolving the receivership in the ca.se of 

 the E. Sondheimer Company, at Memphis, and 

 the directors of this firm have come into the 

 management of its afCairs again. This decree 

 was ordered in response to a petition tiled 

 with the court here, setting forth that the 

 E. Sondheimer Company had at no time b^en 

 insolvent and that the application for a receiver- 

 ship last September had been made only iu 

 order that the assets of the firm might b<.' 

 conserved for the benefit of both the stockhoklcrs 

 and the creditors. The petition also stated that 

 the receivership bad been removed in Illinois 

 Olid that a movement had already been begun, 

 Icoking to the discharge of the receiver iu Louis- 

 iana. It was also made clear in the petition 

 that the stockholders of the firm nad made ar- 

 rangements with the principal creditors for an 

 extension of the obligations. The plants of the 

 firm were operated throughout the period of re- 

 cciversliip. and Rudolph Sondheimer is autliority 

 for the statement that business will be con- 

 ducted under the management of himself and 

 Max Sondheimer just as it was before the re- 

 ceivership was inaugurated. 



The latest change in hardwood lumber circles 

 here has been the withdrawal of E. E. Taenzer 

 from the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Company and 

 the formation liy him of E. E. Taenzer & Co. 

 Tlie now company will engage in the wholesale 

 handling of hardwood lumber for both the do- 

 mestic and foreign -trade. Mr. Taenzer was a 

 member of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com- 

 pany from Apr. 1, 1907, until a few days ago. 

 The Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Company was in 

 effect a consolidation of E. E. Taenzer & Co., 

 Inc., and I. M. Darnell & Sons Company. Mr. 

 'laenzcr is well known 1o the hardwood trade 

 of the entire country and has had perhaps as 

 wide an experience In the hardwood business 

 as any lumberman in this section. He has a 

 host of friends in the hardwood lumber business 

 here who are hopeful that he will meet with 

 much success In his new venture. 



The weather outlook Is a little more favorable 

 at the moment. However, It Is still impossible 

 lo do any work In the woods, and It probably 

 will be some time before this can be resumed 

 on account of the enormous amount of water in 

 and on top of tlie soil. It is coueeded by some 

 members of tlie trade here that there Is going to 

 be no tlml)er available for quite a while, ex- 

 cept that which has already been prepared 

 for delivery to this and other centers. 



The Mississippi and its tributaries are high 

 enough to make it possible to bring out timber 

 wliieh could not otherwise be reached and it is 

 anticipated that there may be some relief on this 

 account. The Mississippi is already above the 

 danger stage here, which means high water In all 

 of its tributaries, and it is believed that this 

 will make it possible to float out timber which 

 could not have been secured by any other 

 means. 



.1. W. Dickson, president of the Valley Log 

 Loading Company, is authority for the statement 

 that there is about as much timber on the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley road ready for deliv- 

 ery to firms at Memphis and elsewhere as at this 

 time last year. In connection with the move- 

 ment of timber to Memphis on that line, he 

 has given out a statement, showing that the 

 amount loaded for the year ending Mar. 1 was 

 1C,C5G cars compared with 10,812 last year and 

 8.998 for the twelve months ending Mar. 1, 1910. 

 This statement shows that receipts during Feb- 

 ruary were only 971 cars compared with 1,180 

 in January, 1912, and 1,229 in December, 1911. 

 'the amount of timber represented by the fore- 

 going receipts for the year ending Mar. 1 was 

 between forty-five and fifty million feet. 



The Cremer Lumber Company is making ar- 

 rangements to establish a large mill at Crossett, 

 .\rk. The plant is to consist of a saw and 

 planing mill and a box factory. It is announced 

 Ih.-it it will be operated both night and day, 

 and that the annual output will be something 

 liUe thirty to forty million feet. The company 

 has extensive timber land holdings in the Oua- 

 chita and Saline river valle.ys from which it 

 will secure the necessary timber. 



The Fletcher Lumber & Stave Company has 

 practically completed its plant at Pine Bluff. 

 Ark., and has already begun cutting timber from 

 the lands recently acquired from the Sawyer 

 & Austin Lumber Company, near that point. 



W. M. McDonough of Ripley, Miss., has se- 

 cured the necessary machinery for' a stave plant 

 with a daily capacity of 10,000 feet at Leola, 

 .^rU. This will he placed in operation as soon 

 fs the machinery can be installed. 



NASHVILLE 



The cats and kittens of this city had expected 

 to hold a concatenation of the local Hoo-Hoo 

 Mar. IG, but many members of the tribe were 

 out of the city on business, consequently the 

 gathering had to be postponed. 



The creditors of the Standard Box Company of 

 Nashville, against which concern involuntary 

 proceedings in bankruptcy were filed recently, 

 held a meeting last week with Referee in Bank- 

 ruptcy Loe Brock, and Hugh Turner was ap- 

 pointed trustee. It was agreed to continue the 

 business under his direction. 



The following ofllcer.5 imd directors were 

 recently elected by the Nashville Lumbermen's 

 Club ; Hamilton Love, president ; C. M. Mor- 

 fnrd. vice-president ; Cecil Ewing, secretary : 

 T. R. LeSueur, treasurer ; William Farrls, T. A. 

 Washington, M. C. Ewing, Henderson Baker and 

 C. L. McConnell, directors. The club proposes 

 an active career during the coming year. Includ- 

 ing a number of addresses on timely lumber 

 topics by experts in their respective special lines. 



During the Southern Commercial Congress 

 wliich will be held in Nashville early in April, a 

 coiiforence <in forestry will be lield. It is expected 

 that Chief Forester H. S. Graves will be present. 

 The hospitalities of the occasion will be extended 

 to all visiting lumbermen, and invitations will be 

 Bcnt to the presidents of lumber organizations as 

 well as to others lu'omlnentiy connected with 

 the trade. 



The Plnneo & Daniels Wheel Company of 

 lluniskle, Ky.. will consolidate with the Caraway 

 M:inui'.ii lining Company, recently organized here 

 With $100,000 capital. 



The II. II. mil Lumber Company of Falkvllle. 



