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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



came interested in lumbering in Arliansas. 

 He is a large stoclvliolder in tlie Cliicot 

 Lumber Company. 



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F. R. Crane & Co. state that trade con- 

 ditions are fairly good and that demand is 

 as brisk as could be expected at this time 



of the year. 



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E. G. Leszynsky, secretary of the Chicot 

 Lumber Company, has just returned from 

 a trip to the company's plant at Blissville, 

 Ark. He reports business as excellent, 

 and operations at the mill very successful, 

 with plenty of stock in pile getting dry for 

 fall trade. 



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B. F. Croft, an old-time Chicago lumber- 

 man, now at Albion, Ind., was a visitor 

 on the Chicago market last week. 



ST. LOTJIS NOTES. 

 AV. A. Bonsaek, of the Bonsack Lumber 

 Company, says the receipts and shipments 

 of his company have been rather heavy of 

 late and that there are a sufficient numljer 

 of orders on hand to keep him out of 

 mischief during the greater part of July. 

 He is taking a very roseate view of the 

 present situation and the prospects, and, 

 together with the other St. Louis whole- 

 salers, is preparing for a heavy fall busi- 

 ness. 



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August J. Lang is in Jefferson City to- 

 day, attending, as a central committeeman, 

 the republican state convention. He said 

 the other day, however, that business is in 

 first-class condition, and that his sales 

 of gum and eottonwood are fully as heav.v 

 as during Ma.y, which was the heaviest 

 month he had ever experienced. 



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W. W. Milne, of the Milne Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports a heavy country liusiuess in 

 oak posts, bridge plank and such material, 

 and says the values being obtained are 

 entirely satisfactory. 



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Steele & Hibbard have taken a flve-year 

 lease on a large piece of property on Dock 

 street, and are placing foundations to 

 use it as a yard for cypress and poplar. 

 As this property covers an area of almost 

 two city blocks, it will have a capacity of 

 about 5,000,000 feet, without crowding, 

 and will greatly increase the piling room 

 of this firm. 



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The ninth annual picnic of the lumber- 

 men of St. Louis, held under the auspices 

 of the Lumbermen's Exchange, was 

 "pulled off" on June 12, with a large at- 

 tendance and fewer casualties than for 

 several yeai-s. The day was perfect and, 

 as the crowd was kept in a thoroughly 

 good humor all day, it was an immense 

 success. The annual ball game between 

 the" "Hardwoods" and the "Pines" resulted 

 in a score of 10 to 3 in favor of the hard- 

 wood boys, and as the game went the 

 other way last year, there was no living 

 with them after the game. The commit- 



tees in charge of the various departments 



of the picnic did thoroughly good work in 



making a success of the undertaking, and 



it is classed among the most successful 



events of the sort ever attempted in St. 



Louis. 



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The Waldsteiu Lumber Company an- 

 nounce removal of their office to 2501 

 South Seventh street, corner Victor. 



NASHVILLE NE^WS. 



The local situation in lumljor was given 

 the Record's representative by Dr. J. O. 

 Kirkpatriek. of J. O. Kirkpatrick & Sons: 

 "The general building trade of this city 

 has been very much curtailed on account 

 of strikes in the building trades' unions. 

 The strike was precipitated on the first of 

 April. But there has never been a time 

 when there wasn't sufficient workmen in 

 all branches of the building trade that did 

 not affiliate with any union so that no 

 mills, shops or contractors had tO' suspend 

 business, and there is now and has been 

 for some time, a full complement of men in 

 all branches of the trade to do any and all 

 work that may be offered. And if the 

 public can get sufflcientl.v over their scare, 

 we ma.y gain in the balance of the year a 

 great portion of what was lost through the 

 strike. The strike was over, with practi- 

 cally no concessions made the union. 



"In the general lumber business, the 

 only question of sales is to have the stock 

 to fill the orders. The demand for poplar 

 lumber and all grades of oak is far in 

 excess of the supply, and all offerings of 

 dry merchantable stoclc are taken at full 

 prices without delay." 



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The Haskew Lumber Company are mak- 

 ing extensive improvements at their plant 

 at South Pittsburg, Tenn. New band 

 saws and new machinei'y are being added, 

 and the force will be increased. 



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Mr. Rich, of the Edgefield and Nash- 

 ville Manufacturing Company, one of the 

 large woodworking concerns of the city, 

 reports a heavy southwestern business for 

 interior finish and houseljuilding work. 

 They also have the local arcade contract, 

 that will be a largo job. 



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John B. Ransom & Co. are running 

 their mills at Nashville and in West Nash- 

 ville on overtime, trying to catch up with 

 orders. They report prices firm with a 

 ttndenc.v to advance. 



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T. K. Colle.v, a lumberman from Centre- 

 ville, Tenn., was a visitor liere this week. 



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Mr. Wm. Bryan, of G. Elias & Bros., of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., was in Nashville looking 



up stock. 



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S. B. Ransom, N. W. Gennett and An- 

 drew Gennett have acquired $60,000 worth 

 of standing timber, mostly yellow poplar, 

 and the balance ash and pine, in northern 

 Georgia, and not far from the South Caro- 



lina line. They will erect mills thereon 

 and prepare to do an export business. The 

 inu-chase is not far from the Charleston 

 market nor from the milling operations of 

 the Benedict-Love Company, composed also 

 of Nashville people working on South 

 Carolina timber. The designation of this 

 new firm has not been decided upon as yet. 

 The gentlemen composing it are all prac- 

 tical lumbermen and for three years past 

 have operated the Nashville Lumber Com- 

 pany in this cit}'. 



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John W. Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., 

 has returned from a trip to South Carolina. 



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Chas. Benedict, secretary of the Bene- 

 dict-Love Company, of Ft. Hill, S. C, is 

 in Nashville for a few days. 



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C. L. McConnell, of the Prewett-Spurr 

 Manufacturing Company, reports a good 

 demand in lumber and firm prices. 



MEMPHIS NOTES. 



W. N. Wright, of W. N. Wright & Co.. 

 who have been general wholesalers in 

 hardwoods, with offices in the Porter Bldg. 

 has gone into a cypress deal with J. W. 

 Thompson, in Mississippi, where they will 

 erect a mill soon. 



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The Hoj't & Woodin Cypress Company 

 has bought a large cypress tract in Quit- 

 man Caunty, Mississippi, and will build a 

 band saw mill there. 



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■\'ictor Fossell, representing a Belgium 

 lumber firm, has been in Memphis looking 

 up stock for the export market. 



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Mr. I. H. Arthur, who has been in the 

 office of the Arthur Lumber Company here 

 for some months past, has returned to St. 

 Paul for the next three months. 



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Frank Keble, representing the Com- 

 pound Door Company of St. Joseph, Mich., 

 has been looking up the lumber situation 

 in the Mempliis market. 



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A large cypress mill at England, Ark., 

 owned by the Keo Shingle Company and 

 W. J. Locke, burned to the ground last 

 week. Loss $10,000. 



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Mr. Tom F. Doyle, of the Muskegon 

 Lumber Company of Michigan, has been 

 over in Arlcansas the past fortnight, look- 

 ing over the interests of his company. 



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The Studebaker and Tiffin Wagon Man- 

 ufacturing Companies have been making 

 timber purchases the last few days in 

 Mississippi and Arkansas. 



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The Lena Lumber Company of Silica, 

 Ark., has been incorporated. Capital stock 

 .¥15,000. Incorporators, B. Faisst, presi- 

 dent; J. Finkheim, C. D. Lewis, John 

 Fahomer, C. and G. Faisst, incorporators. 



