HARDWOOD RECORD 



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I in was in Xow York rciontly looking after 

 sliii)iiUMits of imported loj^s, which the rom- 

 piiny is ri'ciMviniLr almost constantly. 



COLUMBUS 



TUo Appalai-liia Liinihrr Cniiiiiaii.v of Columbus 

 was IiK'orpnrafi'd willi ;iu aiillun-izcd capital oi' 

 ^:',-,MW) by .(oiiii K. Gdboy, .losepli S. Walker, 

 Daniel II. Maul. 1,. 1{. .Selineklei- and Charles .1. 

 Cummins, lu eouduet a wholesale business In 

 liai'dwoods and yellow pine. The company plans 

 to locate In an ollice in Columbus in the ncaf 

 future. .loliu It. Ilobc^y is one of the livliliug 

 Bpii'ils. 



At Gi-eenfleid, U., J. L. Ban- has leased his 

 sawmill to !■'. \V. Coyner, who will devote his 

 attention to manufactui-ing hardwoods exclu- 

 sively. Ml-. Ban- will turn his attention to his 

 lumber interests at laoline, Tenn. 



During the month of October valuations tor 

 buildings for wliicli permits wea-e issued liy the 

 Columbus buildiUK' department totaled .f4oO.'''U2, 

 as compared witli .f;{.sti..sSo for the correspond- 

 ing month in UKJil. This is an increase of 

 approximately .'F12r>,()()0, wliich is considered 

 quite a record. The number of permits issued 

 durluK Ocloifer. IIIIO, was 277, as compared with 

 171 for October, I'.lll!). 



\V. 1.. Whitacre of the lumber company bearing 

 his name, has returned from a two-wcci!s busi- 

 ness trip through the South. He reports satis- 

 factory business conditions in tliat territor.Vy 

 Mr. Whitacre says trade in Columbus is steady 

 with prices unchanged from the previous fort- 

 night. 



The Wood Novelty Company of Harrod. Allen 

 county, Ohio, was incorporated with an author- 

 ized capital of .f.i,O00 to Manufacture and sell 

 (voodi^i novelties and handle a general line of 

 lumber by Alvin E. Rankin, Levi B. Miller, 

 Charles W. Johnston. I'liilip A. Kahie and Clay 

 C. McTheron. 



.7. M. Andrews, representing the Saxon-Lime 

 Lumber Company of Bluejielrts. W. Va., was a 

 caller upon Columbus lumbermen recently. 



J. E. Cummins, president and treasurer of 

 the Columbus Saw Mill Company, has purchased 

 for the company a lot of two acres on Dublin 

 avenue, where the plant is now located. It had 

 formerly been leased. Extensive improvements 

 will be made and the plant increased in capacity. 

 The concern manufactures hardwoods exclusively. 



E. B. I'ryor. sales manager of the western 

 division of the W. M. Kitter Lumber Company, 

 and II. W. Collins, eastern sales manager of the 

 same company with headquarters in Philadel- 

 phia, were at the Columbus office November 12 

 in consultation with Central Sales Manager K. 

 W. Ilorton. Both men report an active demand, 

 which is well distributed. 



CINCINNATI 



■T. M. Clements, who for some time past has 

 been tlie secretary of the Iiwight Hinckley Lum- 

 ber Company, has with(irav.-n from that com- 

 pany, and is now the secretary of Fagin & Kirk- 

 pat rick, who have offices in the Provident build- 

 ing. 



The W. E. Heyser Lumber Company is the 

 latest addition to the hardwood market of the 

 Queen City. The company was incorporated un- 

 der the laws of Ohio. November 19, with a 

 capitalization of ?100,(IOO. Mr. Heyser is the 

 president of the Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 which is well known in this market. 



George Hand, of the Bayou Land & Liunber 

 Company, returned last week after an absence 

 Of four weeks, spent at the mill of the company 

 at Itta Bena, Miss. 



Letters received from Sam Conn, manager of 

 the Tensas Kiver Lumber Company, in Con- 

 cordia Parish, La., state that they 'arc rapidly 

 getting the land in shape for the erection of 

 their mill. The ground has been cleared and 



the foundations are being laid for the mill ma- 

 chinery. 



Cliir S. Walker has thri',. commissions as 

 delegate to tile Itivrrs and Harbors Congress — 

 "U'- lioiii the Ohio Valley Improvement Asso- 



''•'I' inii one frotn tin- governor of Ohio. 



and an<]tlier from the governor of Kentucky. 



S. I'larle (JilTen is now secretary of thi- 

 Iiwight Hinckley Lumber Company. The com- 

 pany will remove to yards at (Jest and Dallcm 

 avenue about .lanuary 1, 1!(11. 



Tiu' T. B. Stone Lumber Comjiany will move 

 from the Union Trust building to its yards at 

 Daiton and Hopkins streets Wednesday, Novem 

 tier 2:i, so as to be able to celebrate Thanksgiv- 

 ing day in its new home. 



Pre]jarations are being made for tlie celebra- 

 tion of the opening of dam No. 35, at Kern 

 Bank, Cincinnati, at an early date. The work 

 en the dam is about compielr-d, after six years 

 of labor, at a cost of approximately .fti.OOO.- 

 110(1. Owing to the uncertainty of the water 

 stages in the river, the reports show that the 

 .•ictual number of working days during the en- 

 tire six years was 36D. This Is one of the 

 (13 dams which must be built between Pitts- 

 burg and Cairo to make a nine-foot stage of 

 water the year round. Twenty-three of the dams 

 are completed and it is expected the entire work 

 will be finisiied within ten years. 



Evidence that the "square deal" promoted by 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati is being 

 accepted with favor by outsiders is being rapidly 

 accumulated, several ca.scs having already been 

 sati-sfactorily adjusted. President Walker re- 

 cently received an appeal from a comparatively 

 unknown concern to submit to the Arlatration 

 Commission a shipment of lumber sent to a 

 Cincinnati concern, over which there has been a 

 disagreement. The ease was immediately re- 

 ferred to the Arbitration Commission, and the 

 decision will be presented in a few days. 



W. A. Bennett spent last week in Kentucky. 

 During his absence the affairs of Bennett & 

 Witte were looked after by E. .L Thomas, office 

 manager. Governor Harmon has appointed Mr. 

 Bennett as a delegate from the state of Ohio 

 to the Rivers and Harbors Congress at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, on December 7, S and 1). For many 

 years Mr. Bennett has been a regular attendant 

 at the congress as a delegate from the Chamber 

 of Commerce. He has signified his acceptance 

 and will attend. 



S. A. Boyd, the chairman of the delegation 

 of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati, is 

 hustling for a big representation of the lumber 

 interests. The Chamber of Commerce is follow- 

 ing its usual custom of chartering special trains 

 to carry tlie delegates from Cincinnati to the 

 congress. 



The l<'reil)erg Lumber Company is preparing 

 for another cargo of Mexican maliogany logs, 

 which its buyer. .lames Rauh, Is now securing 

 in Mexico. The operations of tlu- Freiberg 

 company are far removed from the trouble zone 

 in Mexico and no diflicuity is anticipated. Mr. 

 Rauh will probably remain in Mexico for sev- 

 eral weeks before returning to the Cincinnati 

 office. 



The yards of the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood 

 Lumber Company at this point are well stocked 

 with hardwoods. H. Card, tlie successor of E. 

 Bradley as manager, has been quite success- 

 ful with alTairs at this end of the line. C. ,L 

 Powell of the same company has been looking 

 after the business here during tlie absence of 

 Mr. Card, who is on a scouting trip through the 

 Soutli. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



W. W. Knight of tlie Long Knight Lumber 

 Company is home from a business trip to Mem- 

 phis. 



Alfred Lauter of the II. Lauter Company has 

 returned from a week spent in Chicago. 



The Hill-Tripp Company has succeeded the 



iMlkie Mauiifaeturlng Coinpauy, manufacturers 

 of refrigerators and hardwood specialties at An- 

 ilerson. The change was made through a le- 

 leiver's sale, the purchase price being .$.">ii,ihh). 



Walter llaxion. manager of the (Jreer-Wllkin- 

 s..n Lumber Comiiany at Linden, was killed on 

 .N'oveniber H as the result of a fall from a 

 luotorcyde. He was twenty-eight years old and 

 is survived by a family. 



.1. H. Henderson and S. E. Fllckinger are in 

 Concordia I'arish. La., where they probably will 

 organize a company to cut the timber on .several 

 Ibousand acres of land. 



Tile trade extension trip of the Indianapolis 

 I'lade Association between Ibis city and Dugger, 

 schidulcd for Nov. 17, was abandoned because 

 many of the memliers could not go. No further 

 trade extension trips will be made this year. 



\n organization lias been formed by a number 

 of leading inmbi'rmen of the city under the name 

 of the Indianapolis Wliolesale Mercantile Coin- 

 l-any. Its purpose is to supply those In the 

 (Hganization with hardwood doors, which will 

 be kept in a centrally located warehouse. The 

 company has been Incorporated with an author- 

 ized capitalization of $20,000 and will begin 

 operations at once. Officers of the company are : 

 I'resident, George L. Maas, president of the 

 .Ma.is-Neimeyer Lumber Company ; vice-president. 

 William F. .Johnson, president of the William V. 

 ■lohnson Lumber Company ; secretary, O. D. Has- 

 kett. vice-president of the Burnet-Lcwis Lumber 

 Comiiany : treasurer, O. L. Huey, president of 

 the Capitol Lumber Company. ,L G. Brannum, 

 president of the Branniim-Keene Lumber Com- 

 pany, Is also a member and director of the new 

 concern. 



EVANSVILLB 



■\ party of hunters left this city on Novem- 

 ber Id for Mississippi. 'ITiey will hunt on the 

 land of the Maley Land & Lumber Company, a 

 concern having its headquarters In this city. 

 Tlie party was composed of local lumbermen 

 and their friends. Among tlie party were F. AI. 

 Cutsinger of Young & Cutslnger. Daniel Wertz 

 of Maley & Wertz of this city, and Leland G. 

 Hanning of Cincinnati. 'J'he party has gone to 

 Mississippi for several years, always bringing 

 back trophies of the liunt and having a great 

 time. 



Articles of incorporation for the American 

 Woodwork Manufacturing Company have been 

 drawn up ijy Attorni'y Louis O. Kasch of this 

 city. rhe new concern is to be capitalized at 

 .•J^O.OOO. The incorporators are Louis H. 

 Kramer. L. Kramer and Frank A. Larkln. The 

 new company will take over the plant of the 

 bankrupt New York Dimension Supply Company 

 at Devon and Florida streets In this city. The 

 otlicers are Louis H. Kramer, president, and 

 Frank A. Larkln. secretary. Mr. Larkln stated 

 that no stock would be offered to the public at 

 present. The same nnui are forming the Ameri- 

 can Hardwoixi Lumber Company, to buy and 

 sell lumber in this market. 



John A. Thompson, prominent banker of 

 i:dlnburg. Ind., and member of the Arm of 

 Thoiniison. Thayer & McCowon, whose local 

 plant was destroyed by fire recently, was in 

 the' city this week. .Mr. Thompson stated that 

 his lirm has decided to rebuild the plant re- 

 cently destroyed by fire. 



Ground has bi'en broken for the erection of 

 I lie mammoth plant of the Vulcan Steam Shovel 

 Company, whose plant was located here by the 

 combined business associations last fall. 



A new furniture factory which will employ 

 200 men will begin operations January 1 in 

 the building formerly occupied by the Southern 

 Stove Works. J. C. Stevens, secretary of the 

 Indiana Stove Works, will be manager of the 

 new concern. The other incorporators arc Jacob 

 Bi.scher, president of the Indiana Stove Works, 

 and F. A. Gumberls and Ignace Rosenthal of 

 the R. & G. Furniture Company. The capital 

 stock of the new concern Is listed at $50,000. 



