HARDWOOD RECORD 



this firm, is vci-y well pleased with last year's 

 busiuess. but looks toi- better trade in 1911 than 

 ever before. 



Both of the band mills of the .T. W. Kitehen 

 Lumber Company are running, and prospects for 

 1911 are bright. .1. W. Kitchen, president and 

 general manager of this firm, has left for an ex- 

 tended trip through the East. 



F. O. Clapp. the well-known lumber buyer 

 from Boston, is a visitor in Ashland. 



J. C. Burns of the Grecnrock Ijumber Com- 

 pany, is in Ashland on business for his firm. 



B. B. Burns, head of the Tug River Lumber 

 Company ; J. D. Forsythe, a prominent whole- 

 saler of Waynesboro, Pa. ; S. J. Dawkins and 

 C. L. Helwig. prominent lumbermen of fronton, 

 O.. and W. L. Swickart of the Swickart Planing 

 Mill Company. IrdUlon. <>.. wt-re recent visitors 

 in Ashland. 



ST. LOUIS 



The annual election of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis took place in the rooms 

 of the exchange in (he Wright building on Jan- 

 uary D. 



There were two nominees for the offices of 

 president and vice-president, and there was also 

 a list of twelve names to select the seven board 

 of directors from. 



The result of the election was as follows ; 



President — Roland I'. Ki'elis. 



Vice-President — A. ^^'. .Tohanning. 



Board of Directors — Tlios. E. I'owe, W. W. 

 Milne, Franz Waldstein. A. .1. Lang. \V. W. 

 Dings. George K. Ilibbard and .T. R. Massengale. 



Board of Arbitration — Lloyd G. Harris. .Julius 

 Seidel. Thos. W. Fry, C. E. Thomas and Guy E. 

 Jurden. 



L. E. Cornelius, Louis R. Eppler and L. M. 

 Borgess were the tellers. 



The first meeting of the new officers and 

 board of directors was held on January 13 aud 

 considerable business was transacted. A. J. 

 Lang was re-elected treasurer and A. H. Bush 

 was again re-elected to be secretary. 



At a meeting of vehicle manufacturers held 

 here a couple of weeks ago at the Southern 

 Hotel, a temporary organization was perfected, 

 the purpose of w-hich is to take some action 

 to preserve the hickory supply of the country, 

 which is said to be much depleted, due to wanton 

 waste. The meeting was attended by several out- 

 of-town men. B. T. Von Buren of Evansville 

 Ind., was made chairman of the meeting. Many 

 St. Louis firms were represented. Resolutiona 

 will be drawn and presented to Congress asking 

 that immediate action be taken to preserve tht 

 remaining hickory timber of the country. It 

 was said at the meeting that hickory timber will 

 be almost unobtainable in fifteen years at the 

 present rate of consumption. The prices of car- 

 riages, wagons and other vehicles whose parts 

 are manufactured largely from hickory, are worth 

 from ten to twenty-five per cent more this year 

 than. last. 



The Philip Gruner & Brothers Lumber Com- 

 pany held an election last week and elected 

 direetor-s. William P. Gruner was elected secre- 

 tary instead of Louis Gruner, and R. E. Gruner 

 and Arch Schroeder and the president, R. E. 

 Gruner, were elected directors. 



The Charles D. Borrowman Lumber Company 

 was incorporated recently to do a general lum- 

 ber business. The capital stock, fully paid, is 

 $10,000. The incorporators are Chas. D. Bor- 

 rowman, August Bierman and M. M. Putman. 



Jos. A. Hafner. manager of the lumber de- 

 partment of the Hafner Manufacturing Company, 

 returned from a Texas trip recently. 



\EW ORLEANS 



served for the lumbermen between twelve and 

 two o'clock each day, and it is expected that 

 this practice of taking lunch together will grow 

 in popularity, and will enable the lumbermen of 

 the city to become better acquainted with each 

 other. President George E. Watson made a 

 short talk, explaining that the lumbermen were 

 expected to drop iu at the noon hour whenever 

 it suited tiieir convenience, and expressing the 

 hope that the attendance at the luncheons would 

 steadily increase. 



Lucas E. Moore, head of the Lucas E. Moore 

 Stave Company, died at his home in New Orleans. 

 Thursday, December 5, after an illness of about 

 seven weeks. 



J. D. Lacey has gone to Chicago for a short 

 business trip. He expects to be in New Orleans 

 for the rest of the winter. 



C. P. Smith, mechanical expert of the Berlin 

 Machine Works of Beloit, Wis., left last w'eek 

 for a trip through Texas. 



S. H. Taft of Cincinnati, who is interested 

 In a number of hardwood mills in Louisiana, 

 spent several days in New Orleans. 



Victor Thrane of James D. Lacey & Co. of 

 New Orleans and Chicigo. who spent the holi- 

 days in New Orleans, left last week for Chicago. 



Anton Soeller. lumber exporter, specializing 

 in pine and hardwoods, w'ho has an office in the 

 Metropolitan Bank building, New Orleans, has 

 returned from a buying trip in the interior. 



MILWAUKEE 



Operations for the season have been com- 

 menced at the Atlanta (Wis.) mill of the Arpin 

 Hardwood Lumber Company. Both day and night 

 shifts are being used, the plant being run twenty- 

 one hours each day. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Beaver Dam Lumber Company, held at Cum- 

 berland, Wis., the following officers were elected ; 

 President, E. G. Griggs ; vice-president, I-I. G. 

 Foster ; secretary, F. L. Olcott ; treasurer and 

 manager. F. W. Miller. 



The Webster Manufacturing Company of Su- 

 perior, Wis., has resumed operations in its large 

 chair factory. When the plant was closed for 

 inventory and repairs it was planned to reopen 

 after a week, but the extensive repairs which 

 were necessary made this impossible. 



The lumber trade on the Great Lakes held 

 up well during the past season considering the 

 general condition of lumbering operations. Dur- 

 ing the season 43,935.000 feet of lumber were 

 brought into Milwaukee by vessels on the lakes. 



The Appleton Land & Timber Company, a 

 $12,000 corporaition, has been organized at 

 .•\ppleton. Wis., by IL A. Schmitz, M. E. Walter, 

 G. J. Walter and Frank Santo. 



A movement has been started at Merrill, Wis., 

 to organize a company which will operate a 

 veneer plant in connection with the Olhoff & 

 Ball saw mill. More than .$40,000 worth of 

 stock has already been subscribed, but it is 



planned to incorporate the concern with a capital 

 of either $75,000 or $100,000. 



Major E. R. Herren, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Winnebago Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Fond du Lac, since its organization 

 twenty-one years ago, has resigned and will 

 retire from active business. He will be succeeded 

 by C. IL McMillan, a son of C. V. MtMillan. who. 

 with his brother, B F. McMillan of McMillan, 

 Wis., now controls the concern. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Diamond Lumber Company of Green Bay. 

 Wis., the following officers were elected ; Presi- 

 dent. John Tolfree ; vice-president, M. P. Gale : 

 secretary, A. W. Seely ; treasurer and general 

 manager, J. T. Phillips. A. J. Kremer. formerly 

 with the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company of 

 Hermansville, Mich., has accepted a position 

 with the Diamond cotnpany as sales manager. 



Plans have been completed by the members 

 of the Republic Lumber Company of Marinette 

 for rebuilding its shingle mill, recently destroyed 

 by fire. The new mill will be practically the 

 same as the old one, and will be ready for 

 operation in the spring. 



DETROIT 



Reports read at the annual meeting of the 

 Dwight Lumber Company showed that concern 

 to be in healthy condition. The following 

 otficers were elected : President, Edwin Lodge ; 

 vice-president, William M. Dwight ; secretary, 

 John C. Lodge ; treasurer, George H. Saterlee ; 

 assistant secretaries, F. W. Blair and Horace 

 E. Carter ; superintendent, James J. Murdoch. 

 The Dwight mills are very busy turning out 

 the good crop of orders on hand. 



Members of teams composing the Lumber 

 Bowling league enjoyed a good dinner at Marty's 

 Log Cabin Inn one night last week. The league 

 has enjoyed a fine season. 



The Melchers Lumber Company, with offices 

 in the Penobscot building, reports a good trade 

 in hemlock and northern hardwoods. 



A good demand for hardwood fiooring, interior 

 finish and hemlock lumber is reported by the 

 Grosse Pointe Lumber Company. 



J. M. Clifford, the only exclusively hardwood 

 dealer in the city, reports that trade is picking 

 up and indications all point to a good year. 



William Brownlee of the firm of Brownlee, 

 Kelly & Co., was out of town on a business trip 

 last week. 



Judge Murfin of the local circuit court, has 

 handed down a decision sustaining the Michigan 

 Railway Commission in the adjustment of freight 

 rates of the Detroit & Mackinaw Railway. 

 Frank W. Fletcher of Alpena, complained that 

 the railroad discriminated in favor of lumber 

 dealers, and the commission lowered the rate 

 for Fletcher from $5 to $3.50 for the hauling 

 of pulp wood from his pulp mill to the main 

 line of the railroad. The court sustains the 

 reduction of rate. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABCWOOD BECOKD Ezclnsive Market Beportera.) 



CHIC AGO 



An innovation in the Lumbermen's Club of 

 New Orleans was begun on Frida.v, January 0, 

 when twenty of its members sat down to lunch- 

 eon in an upstairs room at Reno's restaurant. 

 The front room of the restaurant has been re- 



With some of the local trade contending that 

 their sales have not shown the volume or the 

 price that they anticipated, and others claiming 

 an excellent business since the first of the 

 year, it is pretty hard to arrive at any definite 

 conclusions relative to the situation in Chicago 

 at the present time. However, it is safe to 

 say that the market is better now than the 

 early part of the month, and gives indication 

 at least of more satisfactory days to come. 



The buying of lumber has come to be largely 

 a question of personality, that is, where some 

 buyers deem it wise to continue to hold out 



for bitter prices, others think (hat they will 

 buy and not lay themselves liable to loss due 

 to any possible boom in the local market. This 

 all means that some people have sold a con- 

 siderable amount, some have sold even unusually 

 large orders, while others are still kicking. 



There is seemingly a continued scarcity of 

 plain oak stock, and the red gum market has 

 shown a decided improvement. Outside of the 

 domain of hardwood, the northern pine men 

 report that they hiive already felt the effects 

 of the firm stand of the southern pine manufac- 

 turers relative to valties. With the continued 

 open weather locally, much building lumber has 

 been moving constantly. On the whole, it is 

 not sate to express any decided opinion as to 



