THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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facturer of Nashville, Term., is here this 

 week, accompanied by his wife, and is 

 stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. 

 Kansoni is enthusiastic over the situation 

 at the mills and looks forward to an ex- 

 cellent season. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



Fifteen pole and shaft manufacturers 

 from different parts of the United States 

 recently held a secret meeting at the Grand 

 Hotel in this city. The object of the meet- 

 ing was to consider the advisability of 

 raising the price of their product to the 

 wagon and carriage trade. They claim 

 the high prices of hickory and other woods 

 used in the manufacture of shafts and 

 poles necessitates immediate action. The 

 men in attendance were representatives of 

 an organization similar to that now exist- 

 ing in all lines of wood products. The 

 meeting was held behind closed doors and 

 no results or conclusions were made pub- 

 lic. 



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T. A. Fredericks of New York, E. W. 

 Henofer of Tacoma, Va., and 3. H. Sheip 

 of Philadelphia. Pa., all interested in the 

 Columbia Lumber Company of Grafton, 

 Va., al.so met in this city in secret session. 

 The Columbia Lumber Company is inter- 

 ested exclusively in poplar, and the man- 

 ufacturers present are mainly makers of 



cigar box lumber. 



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H. N. Saxton, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., 

 was also in Cincinnati a few days ago. 



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F. W. Barth, Jr., representing F. W. 

 Barth & Co. of Hamburg. Bremen, Dussel- 

 dorf and Emden, Germany, also visited 

 Cincinnati recently. He has just con- 

 cluded a two months' sojourn in this coun- 

 try, and is now on his way back. He 

 claims that he never saw prices so high 

 before and that he wasn't able to place 

 many orders on this account. He sails for 



Germany on the 23rd inst. 



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The suburban yard of the Enterprise 

 I^umber Company of this city was visited 

 by a serious conflagration the other night. 

 Over a million feet of dressed lumber was 

 consigned to ashes. Many thousands of 

 shingles also were consumed. The cause 

 of the fire is unknown, but is supposed to 

 have originated from sparks from a passing 

 engine. The losses are given as more than 

 $25,000, only partly covered by insurance. 

 Several freight cars were also burned. 



EVANSVII-IiE NOTES. 



The river mills of H. Herrmann, the 

 Helfrich Company, John A. Reitz & Son 

 and Clem Reitz' Sons, are having a good 

 deal of trouble to keep their mills run- 

 ning on account of low water making it 

 difficult to run logs from the Green River 



harbors. 



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The railroad mills of H. Maley Lumber 

 Company, May, Thompson & Thayer and 

 Maley & Wertz are running overtime, and 

 the latter is running day and night. 



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Among the visitors on this market dur- 

 ing the past two weeks were: Mr. Will- 

 lams, of the Wood Mosaic Company of 

 New Albany, Ind.; Mr. Bayless of Jasper, 

 Ind., who is buying heavily in oak for 

 export; Mr. Crabill, of the Studebaker 

 Manufacturing Company, South Bend, 

 Ind.; T. J. Christian, representing the Ful- 

 lerton-Powell Lumber Company. South 

 Bend, Ind., and C. P. Stimson, represent- 

 ing Wm. E. Uptegrove & Bro. of New 

 York City. 



IN MEMPHIS CIRCLES. 



The improvements in office arrangement 

 of the different yards surely cannot be 

 entirely due to the improvement in lumber 

 prices and good prospects for a firm win- 

 ter list on the part of the local manufac- 

 turers, but nevertheless they are all cast- 

 ing their progressive eye about surround- 

 ings these days. 



• * • 



Anderson & Tully will soon have com- 

 pleted a new office structure that has been 

 designed by an architect, to have several 

 gable roofs and to be a neat one-story 

 frame, opposite their old office and right 

 in the track of every passenger who gets 

 ofC the famous "North Second Street Car." 



• • • 



Russe & Burgess are about to begin on 

 a new office that will also be of frame, 

 with mahogany finish, general office, pri- 

 vate office, stenographer's and file depart- 

 ments. 



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The A. J. McCausland Lumber Com- 

 pany will take the office now occupied by 

 Russe «& Burgess in the north end, when 

 the lease of the latter expires. It is prac- 

 tically a new building. 



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The Long-Knight Lumber Company will 

 occupy the office of the ilengel Company, 

 recently vacated. Mr. Pritchard of In- 

 dianapolis will be manager of the same. 



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E. E. Goodlander, of Goodlander & Rob- 

 ertson, is in Mexico for a few weeks.- 



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M'essrs. William Kiefaber and W. C. Ely 

 of Dayton, O., are in the city. They are 

 stockholders in the J. W. Dickson Lum- 

 ber Company. The gentlemen express en- 

 tire satisfaction at the business end of 

 the situation. Mr. Ely has been coming 

 into the southern lumber territory for about 

 twenty-three years now and has many 

 friends in these parts. 



Lieberman finds that even the common 

 grades of poplar are moving up, and the 

 oak and chestnut situation is in keeping: 

 with the latter, he states. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 



W. B. Earthman & Co. report business 

 rushing at their Nashville, Murfreesboro 

 and Dickson, Tenn., places on yellow pine 

 lumber in the building trade lines, also on 

 the different Tennessee hardwoods. They 

 think business will continue good all the 

 winter. 



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Two petitions in bankruptcy have been 

 filed by Tennessee lumber firms within the 

 past fortnight. The Jackson Lumber Com- 

 pany of Jackson, Tenn., with assets of 

 about. $30,000 and liabilities of about $20,- 

 000, which operated two plants on the 

 Forked Deer River, including saw and 

 planing mill, filed a petition of bankitiptcy 

 at Jackson. H. C. Buck, Jr.. Company, a 

 lumber brokerage firm at Memphis, filed 

 a .similar petition Saturday before last. 

 Assets, $1,700.74; liabilities, "$14,606.74. 



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Announcement is made of the approach- 

 ing marriage of Sam Cowan of Nashville, 

 a member of the staff of the Southern 

 Lumberman, and Miss Floy Paschal of 

 Florence, Ala. 



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J. L. Strickland, representing the W. H. 

 Neel Lumber Company of Greenville, Miss., 

 was here a few days ago. 



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Love, Boyd & Co. report a strong mar- 

 ket on poplar that they think will remain 

 on for the whole winter, with no consider- 

 able replenishing of the log mill. 



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Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien rejjort a 

 good business in lumber and that their 

 box factory is making good time. Mr. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Notice has been given of the change in 

 name of the Koerner-Buder-Borrowman 

 Lumber Company to the Koerner-Buder 

 Lumber Company. This is the name the 

 company was organized under and it may 

 be that it has reverted back to the old name 

 because of the time, energy and ink it took, 

 to write the full name. 



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W. A. Bonsack, of the Bonsaek Lumber 

 Company, reports an excellent business- 

 situation and says there has been quite a 

 marked improvement in both prices and 

 demand since the first of the mouth. Hi& 

 trade is very heavy and, as his stock is in 

 fairly good shape, he expects a heavy trade- 

 during all the rest of the year. 



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C. B. Thomas, of the Thomas & Proetz- 

 Lumber Company, has returned from an 

 extended vacation and rest from business- 

 cares at the eastern resorts. 



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Local hardwood people are much inter- 

 ested in the report that J. G. Brill & Co.^ 

 the car builders of Pliiladelphia, have pur- 

 chased the local plant of the American Car 

 Company and will place it in operation as 

 soon as it can be enlarged to meet the 

 requirements of the new owners. 



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Alcee Stewart, of Alcee Stewart & Co.,, 

 will remove his office tothe yard of the 

 Consolidated Lumber & Storage Co., Sec- 

 ond and Tyler sti'eets, as soon as the office 

 now building can be completed. This yard 

 which is a storage yard controlled by some 

 of the local dealers, does a storage business 

 on a charge per thousand and has been 

 very successful, being used by those who 

 had no yards in which to pile their stock. 



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August J. Lang will also remove his 

 office from the Security building to the 

 same yard, occupying the other half of 

 the twin offices uow under construction. 

 Mr. Lang states that he has had an excel- 

 lent business during the past few weeks 

 and that it is still improving. He has 

 made especially successful sales of cotton- 

 wood, oak and gum. 



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J. A. Braun, of the hardwood concern 

 of C. E. Strifler, reports that he has just 

 returned from a ti-ip to northern points of 

 consumption and that he found a demand 

 for stock which cannot be satisfied by the 

 lumber now available in either St. Louis or 

 the more southern markets. He predicts 

 rapid and sti-enuous advances in prices in 

 the near future and thinks nothing can 

 stop the upward trend of things. 



•BUFFALO BITS. 



M'essrs. I. N. Stewart, O. E. Yeager and 

 C. H. Stanton have returned from the 

 Hoo-Hoo convention at Milwaukee. These 

 three delegates have worked hard to secure 

 next year's convention for Buffalo, and I 

 am pleased to report that their efforts are 

 crowned with success. Vicegerent Snark 

 Yeager has made a big record in capturing 

 new members for the association. This is 

 no surprise to those who know the gentle- 

 man, for Mr. Yeager has a way of making 

 a success of anything he takes hold of. 



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Mr. E. V. Dunlerie of Buffalo, who had 

 a mill at Canaseraga, N. Y., suffered the 

 loss of same by fire on the night of the 

 5th. The insurance will probably cover 

 the actual fire loss, although what the loss 



