HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Mr. Codling of Codling-McEwen Lumber Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia, was among the hardwood 

 men in the local market this week. Other vis- 

 itors were : Mr. Fassett of Bush & Fassett and 

 L. H. Snodgrass of Johnson City, Tenn. ; D. D. 

 Hartlove of Baltimore and C. H. Smith of Phila- 

 elphla. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club postponed its 

 meeting scheduled for January 31 in order to 

 allow its members to attend the convention of 

 the Uardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States at Cincinnati. There was a good 

 sized delegation of local lumbermen on hand 

 at the Queen City gatheriug. the Louisville 

 contingent including Barry Norman of E. B. 

 Norman & Co., Edward L. Davis and Claude M. 

 Sears of the Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company, 

 A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Company, 

 D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, and 

 Edward Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Oompanj'. 



The meeting of the Hardwood Club imme- 

 diately preceding the Sardwood Manufacturers' 

 convention was marked by the presence of Lewis 

 Doster, secretary of the association. Mr. Doster 

 has many friends among the hardwood trade of 

 Louisville and he was given a warm welcome at 

 the dinner at the Seelbach preceding the regu- 

 lar session. During the latter part of the 

 meeting Mr. Doster was called on to speak, and 

 discussed with interest conditions prevailing in 

 the trade and the plans of his association in 

 regard to them. He went into considerable 

 detail in outlining the position of the associa- 

 tion regarding inspection, and asserted that 

 the -agreement reached in the New York market 

 between the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion and the trade there will he productive of 

 great and general good. Mr, Doster was asked 

 a good many questions about the inspection 

 rules of his association, and explained the work- 

 ings of the system effectively. 



Edw'ard L. Davis of the lumber company of 

 that name said that business is opening up 

 pretty well. The sawmill of the company in 

 this city is running steadily. 



Clarence K. Mengel, president of C. C. Mcngel 

 & Brother Company, has returned from a trip to 

 British Honduras and Mexico, where he in- 

 spected the logging operations of his company. 

 He is not disturbed by the uprising in Mexico, 

 the concessions of the Mengel company being 

 some distance from the scene of the outbreaks. 

 The company is considering the purchase of a 

 boat to Ije used in its logging business. 



The engagement of J. C. Wickliffe, secretary 

 of the C. C. Mengel & Brother Company, to 

 Miss Julia Knlskern of Chicago has been an- 

 nounced. The wedding will take place early in 

 March. 



R. F. Smith of the Ohio River Saw Mill 

 Company said that shipments have been pretty 

 good for this time of the year and that the 

 outlook with his firm is promising; 



T. M. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company is optimistic over the outlook. Busi- 

 ness is coming in with more snap, and the con- 

 suming trades appear to be more active. The 

 sawmills of the company are manufacturing 

 steadily, indicating confidence in the situation, 

 Stuart K. Cecil of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany represented the firm at a recent meeting 

 of the Hardwood Club, at which not a member 

 of the organization was without representation. 

 Mr. Cecil is one of those mentioned for a po- 

 sition on the baseball nine which the club will 

 probably organize in the spring. 



The veneer trade is in good shape, according 

 to reports from D. E. Kline of the Louisville 

 Veneer Mills. Mr. Kline, who is a manufac- 

 turer of gum veneers, is interested in the adver- 

 tising campaign being conducted by the manu- 

 facturers of gum lumber, and thinks it has 

 considerable possibilities. 



Van Norman, son of A. E. Norman, the local 

 hardwood man, has been elected general coun- 

 sel of the Consolidated Casualty Company, a 

 big insurance corporation with headquarters in 

 Louisville. 



Among recent visitors to the local market 

 were Sam E. Barr of New York and W. E. 

 Chamberlin of John M. Woods & Co. of Boston. 

 They stated that conditions in the eastern mar- 

 kets were favorable. 



The W. H. Gillette Manufacturing Company, 

 manufacturer of wagon and carriage stock, has 

 filed articles of incorporation with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. The concern has been oper- 

 ating for some time and is an important local 

 consumer. 



On account of a new building law adopted 

 at the 1910 session of the state legislature, and 

 intended to regulate the construction of tene- 

 ment houses, the building inspector has been un- 

 able to grant permits for the construction of 

 several large apartment houses, the plans of 

 which violate certain provisions of the measure. 

 This is one of the principal reasons for the 

 Iioor showing in building made by the city dur- 

 ing January, 139 permits with a prosi)ectlve 

 outlay of .$138,817 being issued, as against 

 $•271,950, represented by 88 permits, during 

 January, 1910. Those interested in the build- 

 ing trade are much disappointed, and are tak- 

 ing steps to have the law either amended or 

 repealed. 



W. E. Bibb, a well-known lumberman of 

 North Pleasureville, Ky., died at his home re- 

 cently after an illness of pneumonia. 



The Kentucky River Hardwood Company is 

 reported to be negotiating for additional tim- 

 berland in Letcher county with the idea of 

 erecting sawmills there in the near future. 

 The company recently completed and put in 

 operation a mill near Jackson, Ky. 



C. R. Alexander has put a sawmill in opera- 

 tion at Wingo, K.v., and lias made arrangements 

 to handle a large volume of rough stock. 



ST. LOUIS 



Fred Helm, seventy-five years old, president 

 and founder of the Fred Helm Lumber Company, 

 (lied unexpectedly last week, following a stroke 

 of paralysis. Mr. Helm came to St. Louis when 

 a young man and had spent the greater part of 

 his life here, being engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness for thirty years. 



Missouri's contribution to the gavel which 

 will be used at the convention of the Southern 

 Commercial Congress, at Atlanta, Ga., March 8 

 to 10, is a piece of white oak. Sixteen pieces 

 of wood w'ill be used in the gavel, each a repre- 

 sentative of the greatest forest wealth of one 

 of the southern states. 



Fire recently totally destroyed the Ilolokamp- 

 Flint Lumber Company plant at Webster Groves, 

 a St. Louis suburb. The loss is estimated at 

 about S150.000. 



Charles E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Company is in the South on an inspec- 

 tion trip among the hardwood mills. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, says his firm is having 

 a fairly good trade for this time of the year. 

 He is well pleased with the outlook. 



According to Franz Waldstein of the Wald- 

 stein Lumber Company inquiries for oak are 

 quite active. Other woods, too. are receiving 

 considerable attention. 



Goo. E. W. Luehrmann of the Chas. F. Luehr- 

 mann Hardwood Lumber Company says busi- 

 ness since the first of the year has been most 

 encouraging. Many inquiries are coming in. 

 Red gum is receiving considerable attention. 

 The company makes a specialty of this item. 



F. H. Kell.v, manager of the dr.v-kiln depart- 

 ment of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand 

 Rapids, Jlith., was a recent St. Louis visitor. 

 He was accompanied by R. C. Crandall, con- 

 nected with the same company. 



Thos. W. Fry, secretary of the Chas. F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, and 

 J. V. Porter, the superintendent of the same 

 company, have just returned from a visit to a 

 number of the big hardwood manufacturing 

 plants in northern Mississippi and Arkansas. 

 Among the plants visited by them were those 

 of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of Charles- 

 ton. Miss., the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company of Sardis, Miss., and the Three States 

 Lumber Company of Burdetto, Ark. They also 

 dropped in at Memphis and paid a visit to sev- 

 eral hardwood people in that city. 



Fire at the plant of the Henry Quellmalz 

 Lumber &. Manufacturing Company on Saturday. 

 February 4. caused .$10,000 damages. The fire 

 started in the finishing room. It is said that 

 the cause was spontaneous combustion. 



The annual election of oflicers of the Lumber 

 Dealers' Association was held on Thursday even- 

 ing. February 2, at the ofiice of the association 

 in the Wright building and resulted as follows : 

 President, E. R. Darlington of the E. R. Dar- 

 lington Lumber Company; vice-president, Henry 

 W. Ballman of the Laclede Lumber Company ; 

 treasurer, Louis Essig of the St. Louis Lumber 

 Company ; secretary, John B. Kessler. re-elected. 

 The annual banquet of the association will be 

 held at the Missouri Athletic Club on Thursday 

 evening, February 9. 



A. H. Bush, secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 I'xchange of St. Louis, who has been in ill 

 health for some time, has been granted an in- 

 definite leave of absence and has gone to his 

 sister's home in Memphis, Tenn., where he will 

 remain until he is well enough to resume his 

 duties. During his absence. Miss Hattie Kessler, 

 the assistant secretary to John B. Kessler, sec- 

 retary of the Lumber Dealers' Association and 

 also secretary of the Lumbermen's Club, is look- 

 ing after the business of the office. 



The following is the amount of lumber in- 

 spected and measured by the I-umbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis, as furnished by Secretary 



Bush : 



Feet. 



Plain oak • ■ • ■ ^J^'noo 



Quartered oak •• ^16-0^^ 



irum Oft 047 



Cottonwood :^§;5|^ 



^g^f::;;;;::;;-;:::::::::::::::: 1^:111 



Total 470,585 



1\EW OR LB ASS 



H. J. Smith, general manager of the Madero 

 Company of Madero, Mexico, was a recent vis- 

 itor to Texas and Louisiana sawmill points, 

 where he inspected logging and milling opera- 

 tions under different conditions in order to get 

 an idea of what might be adaptable to the 

 needs of his company. He says logging is not 

 as expensive as many would imagine and that 

 while Madero is in the center of the revolu- 

 tionary troubles, the insurgents have caused 

 American concerns no trouble. 



The Otis Manufacturing Company of New 

 Orleans has completed the erection of a saw- 

 mill which cost $10,000, and which has a ca- 

 pacity of 85,000 feet of mahogany lumber dally. 



The Hickory-Jones Company has opened a 

 new sawmill near Zwolle, La. Nothing but 

 hickory timber will be cut. This makes nearly 

 a dozen sawmills cutting hickory in Louisiana 

 that are owned and operated by Mr. Jones. 



MILWAUKEE 



Several lumber concerns have been incor- 

 porated in Wisconsin during the past two 

 weeks. Including : The Superior Box Company, 

 Superior, with a capital stock of $50,000, the 

 incorporators being A. U. Shoemaker, M. B. 

 Hubbard and C. W. Ha.ves ; The Jansen-Brogan 

 Land & Log Company of Manawa. with a capital 



