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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



con. witli the assiduit.y of buyer and seller. 

 Per.sonal items are always plentiful among 

 Memphis lumbermen, for tbey are always 

 moving. 



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J. P. Meredith, at the head of .J. V. 

 Meredith & Co., lumbermen in cedar and 

 chestnut, with offices in the Equital)Ie 

 building-, is on a trip to his yards in Ala- 

 bama and at Nashville. The firm reports 



a good business. 



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W. H. Martz, manager of the Iloyt- 



Woodin JIanufacturing Company, has re- 

 turned from St. Louis. The Hoyt-Woodin 

 Cypress Company has started its new 

 mill at Buford Lake, Miss., on a tract of 

 cypress. 



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Jlr. K. Blanton, of the Blanton-Thurman 

 Lumber Company reports the lumber busi- 

 ness strong in demand and healthy in 



price. 



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Ryan Gowdy, of Wiborg-IIanna Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, was here recently. 



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F. E. Bartelme, vice-president of the 

 Keith Lumber Company, was here a few 

 days ago. 



I. H. Arthur, president of the Arthur 

 Lumber Company, will return from Min- 

 neapolis about October 1, and be at the 

 Memphis office witli L. P. .Vrthur. The 

 firm is beginning further mill operations 

 . in Mississippi. They report the lumber 

 business good. 



ter for the rapid and cheap handling of 

 lumber. 



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A. J. Lang reports a continuation of the 

 brisk busine.ss he has experienced during 

 the past several months, and says the only 

 work connected with the business is at the 

 buying end, the lumber selling itself after 



it is secured. 



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Alcee Stewart, of Alcee Stewart iV: Co., 

 states that the outlook for fall triUle has 

 never lieen better. He looks for !i very 

 heavy trade and a material advance in 



prices. 



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Ray .Massengale, of the Russell-Massen- 

 gale Commission Company, reports that 

 the business of his company has been 

 greater than the normal of late and that 

 he looks for a continuation of the i)resent 

 excellent business. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



\A'. .\. Bonsack, of the Bonsack Lumber 

 Company, reports that there has been little 

 change iu the hardwood situation during 

 the past few weeks, other than in the 

 direction of improvement. Sales have in- 

 cluded about all the stock he had in a 

 shipping condition, and he states that he 

 has been successful in holding his stock 

 in e-\celler[t shape thus far this summer. 

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(iCO. E. W. Luehrmann, of the Chas. F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 sailed for Europe the first of this week 

 and will be gone for two months. The 

 trip is mainly for the good it will do his 

 export business, lint there will also be a 

 forced rest en route. He has been leading 

 it strenuous life during the past year, hav- 

 ing materially added to both the produc- 

 tion and the sales of his company. 



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Gilford Pinchot, chief of the Forestry 

 Department of the Ilnited States, has been 

 made honorai'.v chief of the same deiJart- 

 ment of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 

 tion, and will aid Dr. Tarleton H. Beau, 

 who is acting chief. 



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The AValdstein Lumber Company is now 

 fully established at its new location. Sev- 

 enth and A'ictor streets, and is much 

 pleased with the change. Instead of being- 

 cramped, as in the old location, there is 

 plenty of room and the facilities are bet- 



EVANSVILIiE NOTES. 



Henry Maley Lumber Company has 

 leas'ed the big sawmill plant of Schultze, 

 Waltman & Co., who will remodel it, and 

 after taking out the circular mills will 

 put in a large baud mill. The contract 

 lietween the parties has been closed. 

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Jlaley & Wertz have bought the band 

 mill operated by Frank Coss and moved it 

 to (ininimer, Ind., Avhere they will oper- 

 ate same, making princiijally quartered 



oak. 



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Mr. Daniels, chief ini-'pector for the Man- 

 ufactiu-ers' Associatiou, was here a few 

 days last -week. He secured the applica- 

 tions of most of the mill men for member- 

 ship iu the new association and also gave 

 many of the Inspectoi-s a lesson in the new 



rules. 



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ilr. T. .T. Moffett. <ir M'aley. Thompsmi 

 & Motfett Company and Ed. Swain of Cin- 

 cinnati were here for a few days, as was 

 Jlr. Davis, the popular inspector for the 

 Edinburg Veneer Company, Edinburg, Ind. 



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The Kentucky Veneer "Works also had 

 a representative here. 



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Tlie Ilackly-Biinuell Lumber Company 

 of Granil Rapids, and the Fullertou- 

 Po\-\-ell Company of South Bend, have sev- 

 eral inspectors here loading out s'tock. 



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Sam Burgess of Columbus, Ind., is n 

 visitor on the market. 



g. Y. Hamilton, of the Evansville I.um- 

 l)er Company, says he is so busy he can't 

 get through it all and has sent to Chicago 

 for more inspectors. 



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 II. Ilerrraan Manufacturing Company re- 

 ports business brisk and prices satisfac- 

 tory. 



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Clem Reitz and .lolm .\. Reitz & Son 

 report more orders for car "oak than they 

 can fill. 



HAVE YOTJ PAID YOUK DUES TO 

 HOO-HOO? 



The "third notice" of dues for the Hoo- 

 Hoo year ending Sept. 9, 1902, has now 

 been mailed out. This is the last notice 

 that will be sent, and memliers who have 

 not paid up will be suspended after the 

 annual meeting. The dues for 19U2 have, 

 generally speaking, come in iu very satis- 

 factory volume, but there are some of the 

 brothers who have neglected the matter. 

 Tliere seems to be a certain number of 

 men who put this off till the last moment, 

 an(T who finally get' in a great hurry and 

 send the Scrivenoter a frantic telegram at 

 the annual meeting asking him to "holt 

 up and not suspend." Other^ put off pay- 

 ing their dues till a few days before tU- 

 annual meeting. This is all wn-ng. The 

 close of the Hoo-Hoo year is' a busy time 

 at tlie Scrivenoter's office, and an im- 

 mense amount of work has to be done in a 

 great rush. Scrivenoter Baird is sending 

 out an urgent appeal t3 all the members 

 who have not paid to do so at onci^. If you 

 are a. memlier of the order .-ind tins 

 comes under your eye. and if you 

 are not quite sure that you are paiil up. 

 give yourself the benefit of the doulit— by 

 remitting 99 cents to J. II. Baird. Xash- 

 ville. Tenn. His mott-J is "Xo trouble t> 

 receipt bills." and he will take pleas'iu-e in 

 sending you receipt for .iust what you pay. 

 If you are already paid up for 1902. you 

 stand to lose nothing— you will promptly 

 get a receipt for 19m. But do not wait 

 till you get to the annual meeting— in the 

 rush and hurry on that occasion, the Scriv- 

 enoter might put your dollar in his pocket 

 and afterward confuse it with the pay- 

 ment made by another man. P-ay noAV and 

 avoid the rushl 



LUMBER FIRE INSURANCE. 



The question of fire insurance of lum- 

 ber stocks is one which has engaged much 

 and serious attention among lumber manu- 

 facturers and dealers, not uumingled witli 

 ihe V'elief that higher rates of insuranc-j 

 were charged than tlie real hazard in 

 curred warranted. This was particularly 

 the case in hardwood circles. Only re- 

 cently by joint action of the hardwood men 

 in Chicago, likewise in Buffalo, preseuta- 

 tion of statistics occasioned the loweriuij 

 of rates, but not as yet sufficiently. 



Some ten or eleven years ago the Lum- 

 ber Underwriters at Mutual Lloyds was 

 organized In New York to do a general 

 fire insurance business. It soon passed 

 into the control of a group of prominent 

 lumber dealers. Kast and West, since 

 which time the business of the company 

 has been limited to the underwriting of 

 lumber and woodw<rking risks. 



Some interesting facts regarding the 

 ratio of losses to premiums paid on this 

 line of risks were secured, largely through 

 the nn^ndiers of the National Wholesale 

 Lnmlier Dealers" .\ssociation. l^iese were, 

 among others, that the losses on an aver- 



