HARDWOOD RECORD 



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CINCINNATI 



TOLEDO 



With the return of seasonable weather, a gen- 

 eral improvement is noted In business eoudltions 

 in this section. In the hardwood market there 

 is a more comfcrtahle feeling, and a tone of . 

 optimism seems to prevail. The receipts of lum- 

 ber at this point during September tooted up 

 7,724 car loads, while for the same month in 

 moo the receipts were 7,113 ears ; tlie shipments 

 for September were 0,62S cars, as compared 

 with G,170 cars in September, 1909. 



Fred Conn of the Hayou Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, is seriously ill at Yazoo, Miss. 

 Mr. Conn Is the mill manager of I he company 

 at Itta Bena, Miss., and was prostrated with a 

 malignant attack of malaria about two weeks 

 since. He was reporlod as making a fair re- 

 covery, when on Oct. 19 a disjiatch was received 

 at the oQice that Krcd luid been opoatcd on that 

 day for stomach trouble, which had suddenly de- 

 veloped. The latest information was to the 

 effect that he had rallied from the operation 

 and was resting easily, with all indications 

 favorable for recovery. As soon as word was 

 received of his illness. George Hand, the man- 

 ager of the Cincinnati office, left immediatel,v 

 for Itta Bena to take charge of the mill until 

 such time as Fred Conn recovers. Sam Conn, 

 the well-known timber cruiser, is the fallier of 

 Fred, and was deeply engaged in the work of 

 organizing and equipping a new mill at Con- 

 cordia Parish, La., was badly affected by the 

 news of his son's illness, and went at once to 

 his bedside. The affairs of the company at Cin- 

 cinnati are being looked after by President C. 

 S. Walker in person, assisted by the office force. 



"Well, there is not much doing in the export 

 trade of Cincinnati." said Ferd Brenner of the 

 Ferd Brenner I-umber Company, and known as 

 the "Walnut Iving" in this section. "Just at 

 present the trade conditions are somewhats of a 

 puzzle, as there is not any reasonable suggestion 

 as to why business is not better." He was sup- 

 ported in his views by Secretary Witbeck of the 

 company. This company is one of the largest 

 exporting bouses in this market, and carries a 

 large stock of walnut and other hardwoods for 

 export at various points. It operates a mill at 

 Alexandria, La., which is managed by II. F. 

 Vest, vice-president. 



E. J. Thoman, the Cincinnati office manager 

 of Bennett & Witte. returned last week from a 

 trip through the South to the mill plants in 

 which the house is interested. Mr. Thoman 

 was impressed with the apparent activity in the 

 South at the points which he visited and he 

 was impressed with the idea that conditions 

 were rapidly returning to normal in that section. 



Secretary Lewis Doster, the energetic ruler at 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' headquarters, is like 

 the elusive flea, "when you put your hand on 

 him he ain't there." Always on the go and full 

 of energy and business as an egg is of meat. 

 Mr. Doster returned the other day from a trip 

 Last in the Interests of the association and 

 immediately got busy with the accumulation of 

 mail at the office. Executive Clerk Ileaton is 

 preparing matter for an issue of the Bulletin, 

 which will be mailed to the members in a few 

 days. 



The financial statement of the. Ohio Valley 

 Exposition, .which is now being wound up, does 

 not show up very favorably. There is a deficit 

 of $30,000 to be made up by the guarantors, 

 which will be about 6% per cent. The exposi- 

 tion company also took over a fund of $17.1100 

 earned at the Fall Festival of 1906. which will 

 swell the financial shortage to a total of $47,000. 



Among the visitors to the Queen City on busi- 

 ness during the past fortnight, the following 

 called at the headquarters of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association : A. C. Fritchey of 

 the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston. 

 Miss. : J. E. Keyes, president of the Kentucky 

 Lumber Company, Terre Haute, Ind. ; R. H. Van- 

 Bant of Ashland, Ky. ; C. H. Loveland of Love- 

 land, Ky. ; J. K. Williams, Fairville, Tenn. 



October hardwood business is holding up very 

 nicely, and no small element has been the call 

 from builders for finish and flooring, brouglit 

 about by the extensive fall building operations. 

 October is holding the pace sot by September, 

 which was entirely satisfactory. During the 

 first nine months of the year the building opera- 

 tions in Toledo proper have amounted to an 

 estimated value of $2,048,148, a trifle under 

 the figures of last year, the loss occurring dur- 

 ing June and July. The month of Septcmlier 

 showed a gain of about $67,000. and October 

 will also i>ring a substantial increase over last 

 year's figures. 



Iteports from the Phoenix Box ("'ompany sliow 

 a highly satisfactory condition at tlu.' present 

 lime. Business, which was inclined to be dull 

 during the earlier part of tlie summer, has be- 

 come quite active recently. Box materials are 

 plentiful and prices are not by any means ex- 

 orbitant. 



The W. H. H. Smith Lumber Company re- 

 cently went into the hands of a receiver upon 

 the application of W. Huntington Smith. B. H. 

 Whitney was appointed by the court to take 

 charge of the business. The concern conducted 

 a yard at Water and Walnut streets and is an 

 old firm. The plaintiff alleges that it is in 

 danger of insolvency. 



The Booth Column Cotapany is exceptionally 

 busy at present in the filling of orders, which 

 continue to come in from all parts of the coun- 

 try. Both exterior and interior columns are in 

 strong demand, and the local concern is fairly 

 swamped with orders. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



A $25,000 brick factory building is being 

 erected by the Furnas Office & Bank Fixture 

 Company to replace the one destroyed by fire re- 

 cently. 



A loss of $.8,000 was caused recently by .1 

 boiler explosion in the lumber mill and plant of 

 the WItham & Bowen Lumber Company of 

 Union City. 



Directors of the recently organized W. F. 

 Johnson Lumber Company have elected W. F. 

 Johnson president. J. T. Johnson vice-presi- 

 dent. Gus F. Baldwin secretary and L. H. 

 Johnson treasurer. 



About 2.j0,000 feet of standing timber, mostly 

 hardwoods, has been bought by Jerome Black 

 of the Greenfield Lumber & Ice Company. Green- 

 field, from C. M. Hackleman of Middletown. 



Officers have been elected for the newly or- 

 ganized Indiana Forestry Association, which has 

 as Its purpose reforestation in Indiana, as fol- 

 lows : President, Charles W. Fairbanks ; tem- 

 porary secretary, George B. Lookwood, and 

 temporary treasurer, Hugh J. McGowan. 



An industrial parade seven miles long was 

 held on the evening of October 18 under the 

 auspices of the Indianapolis Trade Association 

 as a part of the entertainment arranged for 

 the merchant buyers' meet. There were 179 

 concerns, from all Hues of industry, represented 

 In the parade. JIany floats and displays were 

 of an exceptionally elaborate nature. Among- 

 the companies represented in line were the Bur- 

 net-Le\tis Lumber Company, Brannum-Keene 

 Lumber Company. Capitol Lumber Company. 

 Adams-Carr Company. Foster Luml>er Company. 

 Greer-Wilkinson Lumber Company. Interior 

 Hardwood Company. Long-Knight Lumber Com- 

 pany. Maas-Neimeyer Lumber Compan3% and the 

 Talge Mahogany Company. 



in school, will be in Cincinnali this week to at- 

 tend the session of the directors of the Hard- 

 wood Manuf.acturers' Association. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club will meet 

 this week. A feature of the meeting will be an 

 address to the club by Charles Martin, on the 

 new Traffic Bureau ri'cenlly instituted by the 

 Board of Trade. 



Nashville was visited hy a destructive fire on 

 October 21. when the big building occujiied by 

 the Milburn Wagon Works was gutted through- 

 out the fourth floor and much damage done on 

 the remaining floors l)y water. The Wagon 

 company carried a $40,000 stock, on which was. 

 $30,000 Insurance, with a loss of about $10,000. 

 The building, owned by J. O. Kirkpatrick & 

 Sons, valued at $3."i,U()0, was insured for $17.1500, 

 with a loss of $7,000. The John Deere Plow 

 Company suffered a loss of only $2,000. The 

 cause of the fire has not been ascertained. 



Hamilton Love of Love, Boyd & Co., has been 

 named as assignee in the trust deed recently 

 executed by Claience Bellamy, the well-known 

 lumberman and contractor. The liabilities are 

 about $5,200, with about $4,000 assets. The 

 creditors are mostly Nashville people. The firm 

 did a retail business at First and Itussell streets. 



J. W. Welch, a prominent lumber dealer of 

 Monterey, was in the city last week. 



Itobert H. Howell, Jr.. and Richard Douglas. 

 .Ir., two well-known young men of Nashville, 

 who have been engaged in the lumber business 

 in Jackson, have moved their headquarters to 

 Nashville and have taken offices in the Stahlman 

 building. 



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MEMPHIS 



NASHVILLE 



John W. Love, who Is spending much of his 

 time in New York, wliile his children are lln-re 



Weather conditions during the past few days 

 have been well nigh ideal for the production 

 of hardwood lumber, and this work has made 

 satisfactory progress except in cases where 

 there has been an inadequate supply of logs. 

 Some of the mills here depending on the rail- 

 roads for their timber supply have been handi- 

 capped by their inability to secure all the ears 

 needed to bring in their log.s. but this condition 

 has about passed, practically all the mills here 

 now being in full operation. The river mills are 

 working on a larger scale than for a long while 

 and the outlook for an adequate supply of tim- 

 ber is considered better. Recent rains made the 

 ground so wet that comparatively little work 

 in the woods could go on. Firms owning tim- 

 ber lands are doing all they can to get their 

 logs out before bad weather sets in and just 

 as soon as an opportunity presents itself there 

 will be renewal of work in that direction. 



There is a fairly active demand for hardwood 

 lumber at the moment, but some complaint is 

 heard that buyers are not operating on as large 

 a scale as was anticipated. However, though 

 some members complain that business is rather 

 flat, it is a notable fact that as a general propo- 

 sition Memphis business showed an increase of 

 from 20 to 25 per cent for September over the 

 corresponding month last year, while the volume 

 since October 1 has likewise been well ahead of 

 a year ago. It is conceded that there is not 

 as much doing as there was up to the financial 

 depression of 1907. 



So far as the general business situation is 

 concerned, it Is satisfactory. It is interesting 

 to note in this connection that building opera- 

 tions show a very large increase in Memphis, 

 Little Rock, Birmingham and other southern 

 centers while bank clearings also run very 

 heavily in excess of a year ago, the gain In 

 Birmingham for one week recently having been 

 $500,000. The railroads are having a largc^ 

 volume of traffic to handle as a rule and their 

 revenues are expected to materially Increase as 

 a result of handling the cotton crop, which is 

 beginning to move freely. 



Announcement (s made that the mill of the J. W. 



