HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Seitz, T. H. Mestermaker and O. L. Mcster- 

 maker. 



At Bridgeport, O.. S. E. Hague has sold a 

 half interest in iiis planing mill and lumboi* 

 business to 0. M. Smith of Bridgeport. The 

 new firm will bo known as Hague & Smith on 

 and after April 1. Mr. Smith has had much 

 experience in the iuralter business, liaving been 

 connected with the Scott Lumber Company of 

 Bridgeport for many years. 



TOLEDO 



Automobile concerns are proving splendid cus- 

 tomers for hardwood lumber of various kinds. 

 Large quantities of poplar, ash and hickory have 

 been in demand for this business and prices have 

 naturally been ruling strong. Other manufac- 

 turers are also buying normal quantities for pres- 

 ent use. There has been no change in prices and 

 while the wholesale yards report good assort- 

 ments and well filled stocks, there is no surplus 

 to be had. Both plain and quartered oak are 

 moving readily and maple has been in fair de- 

 mand. 



The building end of tlie hardwood business has 

 been somewliat retarded by labor difficulties, but 

 the effect has not yet reached the wholesale 

 yards. Good birch is still scarce and moving at 

 top-notch prices. Red gum is also in heavy de- 

 mand, especially for export purposes, with but 

 limited supply. Wagon works and bending con- 

 cerns report a normal condition. The better 

 grades of poplar are hard to get in sufficient 

 quantities to meet the demands of consumers. 

 Boxing materials are plentiful at reasonable 

 prices. Furniture factories are still running 

 light and the effect is being noticed in their lim- 

 ited buying. The hardwood situation, as viewed 

 by local dealers, is quite promising, there being 

 plenty of good business in sight to supply trade 

 for some time to come. 



"Business is moving very nicely with us," said 

 W, T. Hubbard, wholesale hardwood lumber 

 dealer. "Hardwood business generally over the 

 country is rather quiet, but we have been very 

 busy and still have a number of unfilled con- 

 tracts. There is a strong demand coming from 

 Eutomobile concerns at present for poplar, ash 

 and other hardwoods. Stocks are well filled and 

 we find no trouble in buying all the hardwoods 

 we want." 



The David Lumber Company reports a fair 

 volume of hardwood trade, but a quiet condition 

 generally. The demand is fair and little diffi- 

 culty is met with in filling all orders that 

 come in. 



CINCINNATI 



The business situation at this point is not 

 satisfactory. The closing of March was rather 

 slow, but some encouragement is felt by the 

 hardwood men over the showing made in the 

 first few days of April. Mails have been more 

 prolific of orders, and again the feeling is ex- 

 pressed that from now on business will be nor- 

 mal. Weather conditions have been very unset- 

 tled for the past two weeks and outdoor work 

 has been seriously interfered with. 



President W. B. Townsend of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers" Association, accompanied by his 

 v^ife, was a guest at the Sinton last week. He 

 spent a short time at the association headquar- 

 ters, going over things with Secretary Lewis 

 Doster and arranging the affairs of the new ad- 

 ministration. 



Fred Conn of the Bayou Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany came up from the mill at Itta Bena, Miss., 

 to look over some important matters which re- 

 quired his presence at the local office. He re- 

 mained two days and returned at once to the 

 South. The mill plant of the company is run- 

 ning fi'll and the supply of logs is sufficient to 

 last all summer. 



William L. Hall of the Forestry Department 

 recently stopped off at Cincinnati on his way 

 to Washington, D. C. He has been promoted 

 to the supervision of the Appalachian Forestry 

 Ueservation. and will have charge of the acquire- 

 ment of forestry lands and the cutover lands, 

 which it is the intention of the government to 

 replant. 



After the Chamber of Commerce fire Cliff S, 

 Walker, whose olfice was in the building adjoin- 

 ing, declared the Mitchell Building a fire trap 

 and at once sought new quarters and located in 

 the Neave Building. That his fears were not 

 gioundless was proved last week when a fire 

 was discovered in one of the offices on the third 

 floor of this building. Cliff says he is happy be- 

 cause he moved. 



Another big lumber enterprise, with Cincin- 

 nati capital at its back, was consummated on 

 April 1, when W. C. Proctor, Peter G. Thomson 

 and J. G. Schmidlapp closed the deal for the 

 purchase of yjO.OOO acres of hardwood timber 

 land located near Asheville. N. C. They are asso- 

 ciated with the William Whitmer & Sons Inter- 

 ests at Philadelphia, Pa. : ,T. B. Leach & Co., 

 Now York ; Clark L. Poole & Co. and Trimble. 

 DoWitt & Co., Chicago, 111. The transactions 

 were carried on through the medium of the 

 Champion Lumber Company of New Jersey. 



Mowbray & Robinson of Cincinnati have com- 

 pleted their new mill at Quicksand, Ky., at a 

 cost of IfGO.OOO. The company has erected thirty 

 cotrages and has twenty-two more in course of 

 building. Jlr. Mowbray says that the mill is 

 turning out 80.000 feet of oak daily. The com- 

 pany is now negotiating a timber deal which 

 will insure logs for thirty years to come. The 

 logs are delivered by rail right at the mill. Mr. 

 Mowbray will entertain a party of Cincinnati 

 business men at the plant the coming week and 

 will take them over the entire timber land of 

 the company. 



EVANSVILLB 



INDIANAPOLIS 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Kniglit Lumber 

 Company is home from a business trip to Mem- 

 phis. Tenn. 



Harry W. Raymond has resigned as superin- 

 tendent of Adams & Raymond, veneer manufac- 

 turers, and has engaged in the veneer brokerage 

 business. 



T. J. Cliristian, sales manager in this terri- 

 tory for Maley & Wertz, has moved his office 

 from the Board of Trade building to 511 Lemeke 

 building. 



After a business trip through the South. C. D. 

 ^L Houghton of the Houghton Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned home. 



A $10,000 planing mill, 90x12,5 feet is being 

 erected by the Brannum-Keene Lumber Company 

 at its yard at East Washington street and the 

 Belt Railroad tracks. 



Owing to the heavy demand for rosewood 

 and mahogany lor veneer, the Talge Mahogan.v 

 Company is now working night shifts. The 

 company states that business conditions in its 

 line have never been better. 



D I. Barker of the Barker Lumber Company, 

 Murtreesboro, Tenn., was a recent Indianapoli'^ 

 visitor. 



The Star Motor Car Company will probably 

 move from this city to Logansport, where busi- 

 ness men are raising a bonus of ?75,000. 



Building permits in March aggregated .fl,7:'>l,- 

 ,514 and for the quarter ending March :^1, $2,- 

 ;i,^0,.5.54. as comp,ared with ,$1,02G,.3nn in March, 

 1910, and .$l,G,3.5.6-jn for the first quarter of last 

 year. All previous records were broken. 



The Monger Lumber Company of Klkhart, 

 Ind., has increased its capitalization from $!('>,- 

 000 to ,$2.5,000. 



Fred L. Genimer of the Gemmer Veneer & 

 Lum!)er Manufacturing Compan.v has retire4l 

 from the State Board of Tax Commissioners 

 after a term of four years. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Evansville 

 Lumbermen's Club will be held at the St. George 

 hotel Tuesday, April 11. A number of important 

 matters will come up for discussion and a big 

 attendance is expected. 



Willis Coppock, Orleans, Ind., of the S. P. Cop- 

 pock & Sons Lumber Company, Fort Wayne, Ind., 

 was in town recently visiting the mills. 



Fire destroyed the lumber yard of D. R. Hos- 

 tetter & Son of Bedford, Ind., recently with a 

 loss of $1,5,000, partially covered by instirance. 



Mr. Hobart and son, of Hobart & Co., Boston, 

 was in the city visiting the mills last week. They 

 are on an extended tour of the hardwood pro- 

 ducing section of the country. 



Frank L. Donnell, Indianapolis, Ind.. of Young 

 & Cutsinger, was in town visiting the home office 

 of his concern this week. 



W. E. Cummings of Riemeier Bros. & Cum- 

 mings left this city in his touring car on March 

 27 for Buffalo, N. Y. Word was received this 

 week from South Bend that he was still on the 

 road but had run into a snow storm or two on 

 the way. 



Earl Karmire of the Swain-Karmire Lumber 

 Company of Fulton, Ky.. passed through the city 

 en route home last week, and while here visited 

 the mills. 



C. E. Maley of the Henry Maley Lumber Com- 

 pany visited his mill at Y'azoo City, Miss., re- 

 cently, the style of the firm at that point being 

 the Maley Hardwood Lumber Company. Mr. 

 .Joseph Bertrand is in charge of operations at 

 that point. 



Mr. Jones of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 Memphis, was a visitor in the city this week. 



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MEMPHIS 



James E. Stark, S. B. Anderson. J. M. Pritch- 

 ard and others, who went to Chicago to appear 

 before the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 March ,30, in connection with the advance of 

 ten cents per hundred pounds on lumber rates 

 from Mississippi river points to Pacific Coast 

 terminals, have returned to Memphis. Mr. 

 Stark is authority for the statement that the 

 committee from the Lumbermen's Club intro- 

 duced new- testimony before the Commission and 

 that the latter gave the railroads until April 

 13 in which to file their brief. The Lumber- 

 men's Club is given ten days after April 15 

 to reply to this brief and the Commission is 

 expected to hand down a decision around May 1. 



The Memphis CofBn Company has added a 

 new department to its business. This will 

 manufacture curtain poles and mouldings. The 

 installation of the machinery has been com- 

 pleted and the company has just begun turning 

 out the new product. It is proposed by the 

 management to operate this department on a 

 large scale and its establishment is therefore 

 regarded as a practically new enterprise. Em- 

 ployment -will be given to a large number of 

 men. There are only three or four factories 

 making curtain poles in the L'nited States and 

 the field is regarded by the Memphis Coffin 

 Company as an exceptionally inviting one. 



The Frisco System has secured from the city 

 of Memphis the necessary authority to proceed 

 with the installation of its new terminal facil- 

 ities at Memphis. Tliese will be located in the 

 eastern portion of the city and will be on an 

 elaborate scale. There will he very extensive 

 yards, together with round houses, machine 

 shops and other similar equipment. It is pro- 

 posed to expend at least $250,000 this year and 

 high oflicials of the road have vouchsafed the 

 information that at least $1,000,000 will be 

 expended before the facilities have assumed the 

 desired capacity. 



The Carter Lumber Company, Meridian, Miss., 

 has opened an office in Chicago to which the 

 output of the firm will be sold. Mr. Benton, 



