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Ala., has purchased the Cathcart property In 

 Decatur. Ala., and it is reported that it will 

 move its entire lumber plant to this place in the 

 near future. The company has also purchased 

 several steamboats which it will use on the river 

 in handling logs and lumber. 



Wilson & Powell, Johnson City. Tenn.. have 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $40,000 

 and will do a lumber and stave business. The 

 company has already purchased $13,000 worth 

 of timber and is seeking 20,000 cords of stave 

 timber. 



LOUISVILLE 



The most important legislation, from a general 

 standpoint, passed at the recent session of the 

 Kentucky law-makers was that creating a state 

 board of forestry of sis members, and providing 

 for the appointment of a practical forester. The 

 board is to work along the lines of encouraging 

 reforestation and the prevention of forest fires. 

 It will have $15,000 a year for its support, and 

 if it is found during the next two years that 

 the work has been effective, it is likely that its 

 scope will be increased. 



The Basil E. Kenney Lumber Company will 

 be incorporated at Frankfort, Ky., with $25,000 

 capital stock, in the near future. It will operate 

 the sawmill which Mr. Kenney recently purchased 

 from Congleton Drothers. Members of the W. P. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Company of Louisville 

 have purchased an interest in it. 



The new sawmill of the Norman Lumber & Box 

 Company at Holly Ridge, La., is about ready to 

 start operations. Barry Norman, vice-president 

 of the company, has been spending much time in 

 Louisiana getting things ready for work, and 

 reports that prospects are good. 



Log buying has commenced in this territory, 

 river logs being brought together at a few points 

 and sold to the highest bidders. Owing to the 

 hard winter comparatively little timber w.is cut, 

 and the supply of logs is less than it has been. 

 This has tended to increase quotations, although 

 at the same time fewer mills have been operating. 

 Thus the demand has been slow. 



Lumbermen interested in the institution of a 

 s.vstem by the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 whereby railroad weights will be checked and 

 inspected have been making some investigations 

 of the tare weights of cars. A local lumber con- 

 cern reported that its traffic manager had dis- 

 covered some wide variations in weights, errors 

 running from 500 to 3,000 pounds. The usual 

 cause of mistakes of this kind was failure to 

 correct the weight after repairs had been made 

 on a car. 



The Gulf Red Cedar Company, which has been 

 operating in southern Kentucky and middle Ten- 

 nessee for several years, reports that it will be 

 compelled to withdraw from that section owing 

 to the fact that cedar has been practically 

 exhausted. 



The movement of traffic from central territory 

 into the Southeast will be greatly facilitated 

 when the bridges now projected' for the Ohio 

 river are completed. The Kentucky & Indiana 

 Terminal Railroad Company is building a $2,000.- 

 000 bridge over the Ohio river here, and the 

 Pennsylvania will build another to take the 

 place of its present old structure. The Louisville 

 & Nashville, and the Burlington will join in 

 erecting a bridge at Metropolis. III., to connect 

 several northern and southern lines, and a ter- 

 minal company is being organized at Owensboro, 

 Ky., for the purpose of building a bridge. 



The Booker-Cecil Company is getting its yard 

 at Fulton and Clay streets into good shape, and 

 will shortly have a switch constructed. 



Sawmills in Louisville which have been shut 

 down because of cold weather are starting up 

 again. The prospects are that they will run 

 steadily for several months, at least. Among 

 those whose mills are now running are the 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company and the 

 Edward L. Davis Lumber Company. 



ST. LOUIS 



The Gideon-Anderson Lumber & Mercantile 

 Company of Gideon, Mo., has purchased of the 

 Allison Land & Lumber Company a single band 

 mill located at Cardwell, Mo., and is moving the 

 plant to Gideon. The company already operates 

 two sawmills, a planer, a stave plant and a 

 handle factory. 



The traffic committee of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange is trying to secure a reduction on the 

 lumber freight rate to Kansas City from St. Louis. 

 The committee wants the 11 Vj cent rate now in 

 force reduced to S cents. The latter was the rate 

 prior to Jan. 15 last year. A maximum switching 

 rate of $5 a car to any point within the city is 

 also wanted. 



Mrs. Thomas W. Fry, wife of Thomas W. Fry 

 of the Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, died at her residence in St. Louis on 

 Mar. 12. She had been ill for several months, 

 but her death was unexpected. Heart failure 

 was the immediate cause of her death. Her hus- 

 band and three small children survive her. 



MILWAUKEE 



The Boston Table Manufacturing Company of 

 Wauwatosa, has been declared bankrupt. 



The mild weather is causing logging camps in 

 various sections of the northern lumber country 

 to break up. The weather in November and 

 December was unfavorable, but conditions were 

 ideal during January, February and March and 

 the season is regarded as successful. 



The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company of 

 Wausau has completed its logging operations 

 and now has about 15,000,000 feet of logs to 

 move to Wausau from Glandon. 



The Wisconsin Seating Company has completed 

 its new veneer mill at New London, and has 

 consolidated it w'ith the branch veneer plant at 

 Port Washington. Equipment from the Port 

 Washington plant is being shipped to New 

 London. 



The new bobbin and spindle department of 

 Andrew Kaul, Jr., & Co. at Merrill has been 

 placed in operation. The company erected a 

 new hub mill at Alerrill some months ago. Birch 

 is being used almost entirely by the company. 



The Marinette Wood Novelty Company has 

 been incorported at Marinette w'ith a capital 

 stock of $5,000 by Curtis Merryman and E. C. 

 Eastman of Marinette, F. D. Hanna of Fort 

 Wayne. Ind., and L. B. Lesh of Chicago. The 

 plant of the Marinette Wood-Working Company 

 was purchased at a mortgage sale for $12,485 



and will be operated, with George W. Price as 

 manager. 



The J. M. Kuebler Company of Wausau has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $60,000 

 to take over the plant of the Werheim Wood- 

 Working Company, which has been idle for more 

 than a year. 



The Beaver Dam Pattern & Model Works has 

 been organized at Beaver Dam by George Ham- 

 mer and others. Quarters have been opened in 

 the Ordway building, and the manufacture of 

 wooden patterns and models will be taken up. 



The B. Heinemanu Lumber Company of 

 Antigo and Wausau has leased the sawmill of the 

 Alexander Stewart Lumber Company at Wausau. 

 The company is said to have timber enough to 

 keep the mill busy for fourteen years. It is 

 probable that several wood-working departments 

 will be added to the sawmill. 



The Hardwood Products Company of Neenah 

 will soon start the erection of a large warehouse. 

 The building will be used for the storage of raw 

 material. 



DETROIT 



The taking of proofs in the government suit 

 against Michigan lumber dealers charged with 

 violating the Sherman anti-trust law will be 

 started in Detroit about the first week in April. 

 Attorney Frank Watson, specially engaged by 

 the government to assist in the prosecution, 

 has agreed not to take up the case until that 

 time, as Attorney Charles D. Joslyn, represent- 

 ing the lumber dealers, wishes to make an ex- 

 tended southern trip. 



Hardwood dealers in this city have been se- 

 riously affected by the freight blockades exist- 

 ing on railroads entering Detroit, and have had 

 to fight for every consignment of lumber re- 

 ceived during the past six weeks. E. W. Leech, 

 large dealer in hardwoods, relates one incident 

 ■which illustrates the troubles dealers have had. 

 A carload of hardwood lumber consigned to Mr. 

 Leech arrived in the Wabash railroad yards in 

 Detroit on Feb. 7. Mr. Leech was particularly 

 anxious to have the car delivered at once, but It 

 was not until a month later that the railroad 

 finally delivered the car at the Leech yards. It 

 took a month to send the car a distance of a 

 little over two miles. J. M. Clifford, another 

 big dealer in hardwoods, told the Recokd cor- 

 respondent that he has hardwood stock en route, 

 from which he has not heard since January. 



Warmer weather, however, has relieved the 

 freight congestion considerable and lumber con- 

 signments are beginning to arrive with more 

 regularity. 



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NEW YORK 



Local hardwood sales conditions during the 

 last fortnight are not of remarkable importance 

 in volume, but there is such a mass of increased 

 inquiries as would indicate that there is a won- 

 derfully large amount of local business in im- 

 mediate prospect. Some dealers report having 

 had a very fair trade, and others say their 

 actual orders have been moderate, but they are 

 figuring on more business than they have had 

 presented to them for many months. Everyone 

 is optimistic over not only present conditions, 

 but the immediate outlook, and the only thing 

 that will militate against an unusually large 

 early spring trade in this market is the paucity 

 of stock in first hands. Tlie Chicago hardwood 

 situation certainly looks very promising at the 

 present writing. 



The hardwood market at New York shows that 

 stock is not overplentiful with but few excep- 

 tions, while conditions reported from mill points 

 show less than normal supply. The better 

 weather conditions which have prevailed in the 

 past fortnight have given a stimulus to trade, 

 and the outlook is bright for a very fair spring 

 business. The local manufacturing trade must 

 make substantial purchases to meet their require- 

 ments, and the same will in turn apply largely 

 to yard buyers. Prices are firm throughout the 

 market, especially on good-grade lumber. 



BUFFALO 



The local hardwood trade has been growing 

 more active with the advent of favorable weather. 



