THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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Joliii X. Scatchei-d, Buffalo; J. H. Baird. 

 Southern Lumberman, Nashville, Tenn.; 

 E. B. Nettletpn, Philadelphia; Whitney 

 Newton, of the Newton Lumber Company. 

 Pueblo, Colo.; Guy H. Mallam, Kansas 

 City, Mo.; W. H. H. Smith, Toledo, O.; 

 and F. R. Whiting, of the Whiting Lum- 

 ber Company, Elizaibethton, Term. 



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Robert W. Higbie, hardwood wholesaler, 

 has gone to his mill down in McDowell 

 County, West Virginia, to spend part of 

 the summer. His family has accompanied 

 him. 



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The M. B. Karrin Lumber Company, Cin- 

 cinnati, is contemplating opening a New 

 York office in conjunction with the Farrin- 

 Korn Lumber Company. Ohapin L. Barr 

 is looking over the ground. 



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George M. Grant & Co., v.'holesale hard- 

 woods and North Carolina pine, of 29 

 Broadway, have recently secured control 

 of the cut of a new mill in South Caro- 

 lina, and have also completed contracts 

 with a new band mill in Northern Mary- 

 land. The former's output is largely North 

 Carolina pine, while the latter's is the bet- 

 ter grades of poplar, chestnut and oak. 

 Herbert Mead, formerly yard manager for 

 the American LumbA' Company of this 

 city, will represent the firm in this metro- 

 politan district. 



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Henry Cape, wholesale dealer in hard- 

 woods, 1 Madison avenue, is reported quite 

 ill with tyiilioid fever. 



IN MEMPHIS CIRCLES. 



No startling revelations are common to 

 the inner hardwood circles at Memphis 

 this week. The members of the trade are 

 all too busy to chase away from home and 

 they get the orders without mixing a sin- 

 gle way to go after them. The gentle 

 men that have been stealing off to Eu- 

 rope at tills season of the year decla'-e 

 they are too busy to go. The local peo- 

 ple are neither going to the summer re- 

 sorts. They send their families but stay 

 at home themselves and saw wood. In 

 this they are a few notches behind the 

 times on the Nashvillians, who not only 

 sell lumber but in not a few instances 

 ovnx summer resorts in the Cumberland 

 Mountains and take in the shekels that 

 way, while others still in the Rock City 

 while away the time on their own game 

 preserves at Nova Scotia and Lake Chau- 

 tauqua. 



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The Anderson-Tiilly Company is prepar- 

 ing to have a brick office erected for their 

 plant. The spirit of progress started by 

 Mr. .T. W. Thompson this year and eon- 

 firmed by E. E. Taenzer & Co. is prov- 

 ing a spur to all the lumbermen with 

 esthetic tastes. Among other personali- 

 ties showing similar material results from 

 following the lumber business here is W. 

 S. Darnell, who will soon move into a new 



home now being worked upon in the arch- 

 itect's office. 



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Mr. Elliott Lang, secretary of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Export Association, has 

 been confined to his home by illness for 



some days. 



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Mr. Schaefer, of Schaefer & Watts, has 

 returned from a stay of some weeks in 

 Mississippi. His firm is one of the more 

 recent entries into the lumber business of 

 Jlemphis, though the constituent mem- 

 bers are old heads at the business. They 

 have gotten together a nice stock of oak 

 and poplar and are now busy pushing it 



(lut through the office department. 



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The Memphis Lumbermen's Club will 

 have a banquet in the early fall, when all 

 the good work of the organization and the 

 example set by the club for smaller towns 



will be recounted at the board. 



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E. T. Bennett states to your representa- 

 tive that Wolf River mills are all rimning, 

 and that his own firm has been getting 

 out a large amount of oak. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



The F. H. Smith Lumber Company re- 

 ports a much heavier business thus far 

 during July than during the same month 

 of last year and is firmly convinced that 

 a new midsummer record will be estab- 

 lished. This concern, the same as the oth- 

 ers in St. Louis, has been devoting consid- 

 erable energy in its buying department, as 

 the recent purchase of 10.000,000 feet of 

 cypress in one lump demonstrates. 



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Hader & Verhegen is the name of a 

 new hardwood concern which has opened 

 an office at the foot of North Market 

 street. Andrew Hader was formerly of 

 the Teckemeyer & Hader Lumber Com- 

 pany and Thomas Verhegen leaves the St. 

 Louis Manufacturing Company to make 

 this new connection. 



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W. A. Bonsack reports a continuation 

 of the brisk business the Bonsack Lumber 

 Company has experienced thus far this 

 summer and is still of the opinion that 

 the fall trade will be wonderfully heavy. 

 This company has had an increased force 

 of buyers in the southern country during 

 the past month and has succeeded in ma- 

 terially bettering the stock in its St. Louis 



yards. 



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Augu.st J. Lang has succeeded in making 

 a number of fair sales of gum during the 

 past few weeks, despite the fact that gum 

 is a trifle off in this market, and he says 

 his cottonwool business has been excel- 

 lent. Mr. Lang also deals rather exten- 

 sively in plain oak and has been having a 



heavy trade. 



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E. H. Hill, of the Hallett Lumber Com- 

 pany, is again down in Drew County, 

 Ark., pushing his mill at that point, as it 



is somewhat loaded up with orders for 

 oak. The healthy increase in business of 

 this compai'iy, together with the demands 

 of the mill for Mr. Hill's personal atten- 

 tion during a portion of the time, has ne- 

 cessitated an increase of the office force. 

 J. R. Perkins, formerly of the Hogg-Per- 

 kins Lumber Company, is now connected 

 with the company, practically in the ca- 

 pacity of manager of the sales depart- 

 ment. 



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The Southern Mill & Land Company, to 

 do a wholesale business in hardwoods, was 

 incorporated recently with a full-paid capi- 

 tal of 5550,000 and has opened au office 

 in the Security building. The stockhold- 

 ers are F. R. Pierce, A. B. Pierce and E. 

 A. Thomas, all of whom are well known 

 in lumber circles. Since the incorporation 

 this company has purchased the plant and 

 5,500 acres of land belonging to the Ben- 

 der Lumber Company, of May's Switch 

 (Caton P. O.). Mo., a two-story band mill 

 of the Sinker & Davis type, which was 

 constructed last year, and the circular mill 

 of J. W. Cronan of Conran, Mo., which is 

 about 10 miles from the other mill. These 

 mills have a combined capacity of about 

 60,000 feet a day and are thoroughly mod- 

 em in every respect. Included in the pur- 

 chase was five miles of railroad which will 

 be used for logging purposes. Mr. Cronau 

 has been retained as manager of the two 

 mills and is a man of known ability in 



this line. 



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The executive committee of the Loui- 

 siana Purchase Exposition yesterday ap- 

 proved the recommendation to grant build- 

 ing space for the erection on the World's 

 E'air grounds of the House of Hoo-Hoo. 

 The application was made by the organi- 

 zation known as the House of Hoo-Hoo, 

 represented by President Nelson Wesley 

 McLeod and W. B. Barns, secretary. The 

 application was in due form, and was rec- 

 ommended by the director of exhibits, air. 

 Skiff, who transmitted to the president the 

 following letter from Dr. Tarleton H. 

 Bean, chief of the department of forestry: 



"I have the honor to transmit herewith 

 an application for building space for the 

 House of Hoo-Hoo, signed by Messrs. N- 

 W. McLeod, president, and W. E. Banis, 

 secretary. This application ' is a part of 

 the plan of an organization made up of 

 lumbermen, railroad traffic officials, lumber 

 newspaper men and sawmill supply men 

 to secure a site for a clubhouse on the 

 grounds of the exposition. This club- 

 house will be the means of attracting and 

 keeping on the exposition grounds a great 

 many visitors. It will not contain ex- 

 hibits. It will be a very creditable struc- 

 ture. I, therefore, recommend it ti> your 

 favorable consideration and trust that the 

 request of the House of Hoo-Hoo will bo 

 granted." 



This action removes the last straw from 

 any possible hitch in the construction of 



