HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



ST. LOUIS 



Curtis P. Jennings, manager of tlie Bertholfl 

 & Jennings Lumber Company, reports an encour- 

 aging outlooli for the spfing and summer hard- 

 wood trade. 



The Cremer Lumber Company of this city will 

 erect a large hardwood lumber plant at Crossett. 

 Ark., to consist of a saw and planing mill, and 

 probably a box factory. It is planned to have 

 the mill completed and in operation early in the 

 fall. 



No business was transacted at the meeting of 

 the Lumbermen's Club, which was held at tb" 

 Planters' hotel on Tuesday evening, Apr. fi. 

 Instead there was a special exhibit of Spearman 

 Lewis' Panama canal pictures. 



The executive board of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of St. Louis held a meeting on Mar. 20, at 

 which a number of matters of interest, con- 

 nected with the administration of the club's 

 affairs were discussed. 



NEW ORLEANS 



Charles E. Davis, for three years lumber de- 

 partment manager of the Mengel Box Company, 

 at Louisville, has been lately appointed sales- 

 manager of the Richland Parish Lumber Com- 

 pany, Rayville, La., and will also handle the 

 output of the company's mills at Hickman, Ky., 

 and Mengelwood, Tenn. 



J. B. Richmond has recently completed the 

 building of a circular sawmill two miles from 

 Pine Prairie. La. The mill has a daily capacity 

 of 20,000 feet. Mr. Richmond owns considerable 

 timber land in that vicinity, and expects to 

 market his product in the new oil town near his 

 plant. 



The hickory mill of the Branch Lumber Com- 

 pany at Church Point, La., has been placed in 

 operation, after being shut down for several 

 weeks to undergo repairs. 



The new hardwood mill of the Arkansas Lum- 

 ber Compan.y at Turkey Creek, La., is rapidly 

 nearing completion, and will be ready for opera- 

 tion in about thirty days. It will be under the 

 management of G. G. Walker of Eldorado, who 

 will also have charge of sales. The mill is of 

 a single band type and will have a daily capacity 

 of 70.000 feet. The company owns 19,000 

 acres of timberland in that vicinity. 



MIL WAUKBB 



H. M. Halsted, manager of the Milwaukee 

 branch of the Fnllerton-Powell Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Compan.v. has moved his otHces from 1313 

 Majestic building to 130G in the same building. 



James Reilly. a wealthy retired lumberman, 

 passed away at his residence in Milwaukee on 

 Mar. 30 at the age of seventy-nine years. Mr. 

 Reilly, before coming to Milwaukee in 1894. 

 owned a lumber manufacturing plant at Stevens 

 Point. Wis., in compan.v with A. E. Bosworth of 

 Fond du Lac. He is survived by a widow and 

 one daughter, Mrs. Hamilton Levings. 



The Schroeder Timber Products Company of 

 Milwaukee has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $24,000 by Henry H. Schroeder. Fred J. 

 Schroeder and W. J. Markey. The first two in- 

 corporators are members of the John Schroeder 

 Lumber Company of Milwaukee. 



The Green Bay Show Case Company of Green 

 Bay has disposed of its capital stock recently 

 issued.- The company has decided to remain in 

 Green Bay and enlarge its plant. 



Engineers for the John Arpin Lumber Com- 

 pany of Grand Rapids have completed their sur- 

 vey for a big dam which the company will erect 

 on the branches of the Chippewa river in the 

 town of Radisson. The structure will be thirty- 

 two feet high. Building operations will start at 

 once. 



'I'he Hardwood Products Company of Neenali 

 has been awarded the contract to provide all 

 the heavy veneered oak doors and interior wood- 

 work for the new state capitol building of Utah. 



The sawmill of the Brooks & Ross Lumber Com- 

 pany at Schofield is in operation after a close 

 do^\ii while repairs were being made. 



The Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Eau 

 Claire, manufacturer of sawmill equipment, has 

 shipped a large consignment of mill m.'ichinery 

 to Hong Kong. China. 



The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company mill 

 property at Ashland has been purchased b.v C. J. 

 Warner, representing large Pittsburgh coal inter- 

 ests. It is understood that .$2.'50.000 will be spent 

 for improvements, and that the property will be 

 used for dock purposes. 



The Holt Lumber Company of Oconto has 

 placed its sawmill in operation. New equipment 

 and new safety appliances have been installed in 

 the plant. 



The sawmill of Chizek. Shanda & Shuber at 

 Kellnersville was destroyed by fire recentl.v. en- 

 tailing a loss of $4,000. No insurance was car- 

 ried. The mill will be rebuilt. 



The International Hoist Company of Antigo 

 has purchased a four acre site, and will erect a 

 modern plant which will cost at least $23,000. 

 The company manufactures loggers and con- 

 tractors' hoists, elevators and gasoline engines. 



The Standard Manufacturing Company of Ap- 

 pleton has purchased the plant of the Wisconsin 

 Cabinet Company of Fond du Lac. The plant 

 will be remodeled, and will be operated under the 

 firm name of the Standard Combination Door 

 Company. A specialty will be made in the manu- 

 facture of a recently patented storm and screen 

 door. 



DETROIT 



The Purdy Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $25,000. The stockholders are Charles W. Purdy, 

 W. A. Parks, Charles Norman and George J. 

 Baumgartner. 



The Haitwick Lumber Company has increased 

 its capital stock from $00,000 to $125,000. The 

 company has purchased 720 feet of frontage on 

 the east side of Vanilla avenue extending through 

 the belt line railroad, and will establish an east 

 side branch on the site. An oflice will be erected 

 at Jefferson and Vanilla avenues. 



The Grace Harbor Lumber Company has pur- 

 <hased the lumber yard of the State Coal & 

 Lumber Compan.v. Greenwood and Holden ave- 

 nues. H. Wilfred Leitch will continue as man- 

 ager of the yard. The Grace Harbor Lumber 

 Company now has four yards and has purchased 

 land for a fifth in Highland Park. 



The E. W. Leech Company a few days ago filled 

 an order for thirty carloads of white ash, soft 

 elm and walnut. 



Improved weather conditions have bettered 

 railroad service but there are yet many complaints 

 heard among hardwood dealers relative to con- 

 signments being held up. The principal trouble 

 at present is to secure delivery of cars after they 

 have reached the city. 



Great improvement is shown in the flooring 

 trade industry, orders and inquiries being more 

 plentiful than two weeks ago. The Thomas 

 Forman Company and the Dwight Lumber Com- 

 pany report that business is now moving along 

 briskly, and that prospects are bright for a 

 very busy season. 



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Two factors have commanded thi' attention 

 of the local trade more than any others during 

 the last week or ten days. Of equal importance 

 as effecting elements are the local strike of some 

 four thousand carpenters and the appalling flood 

 situation in the South, which makes the matter 

 of deliveries a very questionable one. The strike 

 started April 1. at which time about four thou- 

 sand men walked out, effectively tieing up prac- 

 tically all of the finishing Jobs in the city. As 

 a consequence, while interior finish houses are in 

 a majorit.v of cases booked with orders to their 

 capacity, they are entirely unable to deliver their 

 stuff, and as a consequence are not running as 

 they should under ordinary circumstances, and 

 naturally are not buying any hardwood lumber. 



There has been considerable pressure brought 

 to bear from various sources among which the 

 Chicago Lumbermen's, Association was the most 

 prominent, with a view of conciliation between 

 the contractors and men. While nothing definite 

 in the line of settlement has been accomplished, 

 it seems likely that some agreement will be 

 reached by the end of this week. There is 

 little likelihood that the strike situation will 

 continue for any considerable length of time. 



The impossibility of guaranteeing deliver.v of 

 southern stock has worked a considerable hard- 

 ship on a great many local wholesalers. While 

 there is satisfaction in carrying a book full 

 of orders, deliveries must necessarily be made to 

 pay expenses, and deliveries of southern stock 

 from the regions effected by high water are 

 practically nil. Northern shipments, however, 

 are coming in in good quantity. 



There is every likelihood of a much firmer 

 trend of prices in the immediate future. The 

 Chicago representative of one large firm, whose 

 mills are located in the flooded area, has just 

 had instructions not to sell any southern stock 



without securing a three or four dollar increase 

 over old prices. Another favorable feature of the 

 present situation is the likelihood that trade will 

 be prolonged pretty much through the summei" 

 season, and the results should be. with the 

 generally low dry stock, that considerable in- 

 creases in price should not only be consummated, 

 but maintained. 



Except for such industries as are effected by 

 the local strike, there is a continued improvement 

 in Chicago business, and with the strike situation 

 cleared up, as it undoubtedly will be in the near 

 ITuture, there should be no difficulty in placing 

 orders of good volume and at satisfactory prices. 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market at New York shows a 

 fair trade at satisfactory prices. The demand 

 for stock is general, and while no boom is looke(} 

 for, advances seem to point to a very fair spring 

 market. Dry stocks in good lumber are not 

 plentiful, and prices are holding stiff. Low 

 grades are also moving more freely. 



BUFFALO 



There has been quite a little improvement 

 within the past two or three weeks in the local 

 hardwood trade. Yards are doing a normal busi- 

 ness again and there is every prospect that trade 

 will continue to show improvement during the 

 next few weeks. Dry stocks are very short, this 

 being the chief source of complaint at all yards. 

 Prices have advanced slightly in consequence of 

 this shortage. 



The firmness of the market is most marked in 

 plain oak. which sells readily. Quartered oak is 

 slow. Other hardwoods show a fair activity, 

 especially birch, maple and ash. The poplar 

 movement is mostly in the lower grades, which 

 are strong. 



