HARDWOOD RECORD 



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-im-rs for tbo \V. M. Ritter lAimber Company was 

 iM'Itl iu tlir Columbus offices February 11. (!. V. 

 I'allersou represontod the PbiUidelphia office and 

 1'. B. rryor the Chicago office, both reporting ex- 

 . .'lient conditions in their territory. 



The .\ppalachia Lumlier Company has moved 

 its offices from Ironton, O.. to the seventh floor 

 of the Columbus Savings & Trust building, Co- 

 lumbus. D. H. Moul is general manager and 

 .lohu R. Gobey president. The Appalachia com- 

 pany takes over the business of the Ohio River 

 Lumber Company of Ironton. Its operations are 

 in West Virginia. 



The Lake Lumber Company, which was re- 

 <ently incorporated with a capital of $20,000. has 

 laken over the business of Milton Kelsey at 

 Hebron, O. The concern will supply the Buckeye 

 lake region. E. Doddington of Columbus is 

 president and Edwin Ilnlycross is general man- 

 ager. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Xine modern dwellings, to lie sold on the pay- 

 ment plan, are being erected by the .lose-Balz 

 l-uml)er Company in A'ermout and Thirty-second 

 streets. 



Hardwoods will be handled exclusively by the 



White Oak Lumber Company which has been 



rganized at I'erdinand by A. F. Gehlhausen, 



August Barth and S. W. Pitts. The company is 



incorporated with a capitalization of $4,500. 



The Wood Mosaic Flooring & Lumber Company 

 has chang.'d its name to the Wood-Mosaic Com- 

 pany, according to notice that has just !>oen 

 tiled with (he Indiana secretary of state. 



Irvin Uoiibins. president o( Irvin Robbins & 

 Sons, died at bis home here February 9, after 

 a three week.s' illness. He had been a manufac- 

 uirer o£ carriages for thirty-five years and dur- 

 ing the last few years had also manufactured 

 automobile bodies. He was seventy-one years 

 <-ld and is survived by a widow and Ihree sons. 



A movement to establish an industrial suburb 

 of 50,000 population, to be known as Mars Hill 

 and located west of the city, has been launched 

 by the Greater Indianapolis Industrial Associa- 

 tion. The organization is civic in nature and 

 composed of representatives of the various com- 

 mercial bodies. On February 20 the association 

 placed 8,000 building lots on sale. A number of 

 factories are under contract to locate in the sub- 

 urb when the lots have been sold, among them 

 being a piano factory to employ 500, a vehicb? 

 factory to employ :!,000 and a furniture factory 

 to employ DOG. On the evening of Feliruary 21 

 a mass meeting was held in Tomlinson Hall to 

 interest the public in the project. Among tho.se 

 present were W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight 

 Lumber Company, .Tohu II. Talge of the Talge 

 Mahogany Company, H. B. Burnet of the Burnet- 

 Lewis Lumber Company, A. A. Wilkinson of the 

 Greer-Wilkinson Lumber Company. H. C. Atkins 

 and Nelson A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co, 

 Free factory sites as well as bonuses arc being 

 offered. 



EVANSVILLE 



The Evansvilb- Lumbermen's Club held its 

 regular monthly meeting and dinner at the St. 

 George Hotel Tuesda.v, February 14, about 

 thirty-five plates being set. -\ number of out-of- 

 town visitors were present. l*resident Young 

 presided. .\fter the regular business was dis- 

 posed of, I'resident Young announced the stand- 

 ing committees for the year as follows : 



Entertaiicmeut : W. W. Halloran, Federal 

 Stave i!*; Lumber Ccun[)any. clKilrman; Claude 

 Maley. Maley & Wertz: Elmer Luhring. Wcilllin- 

 Luhring Lumber Company. 



Membership : F. W. Uietz, Clemens, Kietz & 

 Sons, chairman ; D. B. MacLaren, D. B. Mac- 

 Larcn & Co. : Daniel Wertz. Maley & Wertz. 



Publicity ; Chas. Wolllin, Wolflin-Luhring Lum- 

 ber Company, chairman : D. P.. .MacLaren, D. B. 



MacLaren & Co. ; Frank Ilancy, ,Tobn A. Rietz 

 & Sons. 



Statistics : O. W. M(;Cowen, Thompson, Thayer 

 & McCowen. chairman ; F. M. Cutsinger, Young 

 & Cutsingor ; Elmer Luhring, Wolflin-Luhring 

 Lumber C^omiiany. 



Law and Insurancr : Daniel Wertz. Maley & 

 Wertz. chairman : R. P.. Fuller, Beach & Fuller 

 Company: O. Grimweod, The O. Grimwood Com- 

 pany. 



River and Kail : ('. W. Talge, The Evansville 

 Veneer Works, chairman : C. P. White, C. P. 

 White Manufacturing Company ; Chas. Von 

 Behren. Von Behren Manufacturing Company. 



The chairman of the publicity committee sub- 

 mitted a number of cuts and folders advertising 

 Evansville as a lumber market, from which to 

 select a suitable mailing pamphlet. Several 

 guesTs present expressed themselves in favor of 

 a pamphlet setting forth the advantages of 

 Evansville as n hardwood lumber market from 

 the standpoint of the Iiuyer and showing the 

 railroad connections to surrounding mill points 

 as well as other large markets. It was also sug- 

 gested that the pamphlet contain a list of what 

 each firm member had to sell. 



These pamphlets are to be made light for 

 mailing purposes and gotten out monthly. After 

 a thorough discussion, the matter was referred 

 to the publicity committee. 



Norman S. Wright of Wright. Graham & C6., 

 tTlasgow, Scotland, was in the city last week 

 calling on the local mills. Mr. Wright says the 

 hardwood Imsiness in his country is improving. 

 He has been in the States about two montlis and 

 expects to sail for home about March 1. 



F. C. Bolman. with the Perrine-Armstrong 

 Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind.. was here calling on 

 the trade this week. 



Geo. O. Worland has gone to .Tackson. Tenn.. 

 to take up his new duties with the .Tackson Lum- 

 ber Company. The saw'mill of this company 

 started up on February 1-3. having been shut 

 down for nl)out ten days when the fly wheel gave 

 wav. 



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MEMPHIS 



Further heavy rains are to be recorded llirougb- 

 ciut the entire hardwood territor,v contiguous to 

 Memphis during the past fortnight, with the re- 

 sult that there has been a further interference 

 with work in the woods. The amouut of timber 

 broughrout last fall was rather below the aver- 

 age and midwinter logging has necessarily beeu 

 on a somewhat limited scale because of the very 

 heavy precipitation apjiearing throughout the 

 wooded lands of this territory. Some of the 

 Jlemphis firms are well supplied with logs and 

 the same is true of some of the more progressive 

 manufacturing companies at interior points. 

 However, the fact remains tliat tlie log crop is 

 short and that sumoljody will have to operate 

 only inlermiUently, if at all, on this account. 

 From almost every direction comes the com- 

 plaint of log sborlagi, and this is looked upon 

 l.y members of the trade liere as the most poten- 

 tially bullish factor in the hardwood situation, 

 being ;"egarded as even more ituportant than the 

 improving demand for lumber itself. It is fig- 

 ured now that there will be but moderate re- 

 ceipts of timber after llie logs now awaiting 

 river and rail transportation have been brought 

 to the yards of the firms owning them, and It 

 is further estimated that, even if favorable 

 weather should prevail, the amount of work pos- 

 sible in the woods for some timr will 1»' unim- 

 portant. 



Application lias been filed here for a charter 

 for the Sharkey Land i<: Timber Company, which 

 has a capital stock of $20,000 and which will 

 engage in the liaudling of timber and other lands 

 in the Memphis territory. W. S. Biles, who has 

 had considerable experience in (his line of busi- 

 ness, and E. B. McIIenry. formerly cashier of the 

 Memphis National bank, are among the principal 

 incorporators. 



The shops of the Louisville & Nashville Rail- 

 road Company at New Decatur. Ala., have iiegun 

 work on an order for 000 new cars to be built 

 there as quickly as possible for use on the Louis- 

 ville & Nashville road. Tlie railroads throughout 

 the South, ,as shown by the resimiption of divi- 

 dends by the Southern railway and the monthly 

 reports of net and gross earnings by a number 

 of other railroads operating in this territory, are 

 making a much better showing than for a long 

 while, and, as tliey have purchased but moder- 

 atelv of eiiuipment during the past two or three 

 years, the lumber trade are looking to a good 

 liusiness from that source. 



The very high prices obtained for cotton 

 iliroughout the South this year have stimulated 

 interest in pitching as large a crop as possible 

 during the current .year, with the result that 

 there is a very largt.: demand from planting in- 

 terests for everything that enters into the mak- 

 ing of a cotton crop. Chief among these is the 

 item of agricultural implements. Dispatches re- 

 ceived from a number of points in Mississippi. 

 .\rkansas and Tennessee are to the effect that 

 there is a record-breaking demand for agricul- 

 tural implements of every kind and that there is 

 also an excellent call for wagons, btiggies, car- 

 riag's and other vehicles used largely on tlin 

 big plantations throughout the central South. 

 -Vt tlie same time the record of sales of automo- 

 biles issued by .some of the dealers with head- 

 quarters in Memphis tends to show that there is 

 liliewise quite an active demand for this most 

 convenient and most useful of ail conve.vances 

 among the big planters. Local lumlier interests 

 are taking due note of the developments along 

 this line and they are also closely watching the 

 enlarging demand for furniture and other prod- 

 ucts into the manufacture of whicli hardwood 

 lumber enters, believing that the consuming de- 

 mand for these w-ill greatly stimulate the demand 

 from manufacturing and distributing interests of 

 lumber itself. 



Announcement is made that the directors of 

 the Business Men's Club have decided to start 

 a campaign for raising another publicity fund 

 <.f $50,000 similar to that which has been ex- 

 pendiMl during the past year through the Bureau 

 of Publicity & Development. Subscriptions there- 

 fore will be solicited at once. The consensus of 

 opinion among business interests of Memphis is 

 that tlie work done during the past few months 

 has been highly beneficial to this city and that. 

 as the cami)aign for advertising resources of 

 Memphis has been gotten well under way. It 

 ought to be continued if the greatest good is to 

 lie accomplished. 



B. C. .Iarr''ll & Co., manufacturers of fruit 

 [laikag's at Humboldt, Tenn., have just com- 

 pleted the installation of a new lOO-horsepower 

 boiler at their plant at that point, with the 

 view to greatly increasing the capacity thereof, 

 'I'his firm has been established at Humboldt for 

 some years, the latter being in the center of the 

 fruit and vegetable growing section of west 

 Tennessee. 



The Waller Furniture Company. EI Dorado, 

 .\rk.. has recently filed articles of incorporation 

 under the laws of that state and will engage 

 in the handling of furniture at retail. W. K. 

 Waller is president: W. I. Bell, vice-president, 

 and H. L. Shannon is secretary and treasurer. 

 The company is already doing business. 



C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company 

 has returned to Memphis after an extended liusi- 

 ness trip to northern and western markets and 

 is very much encouraged over the outlook for 

 liusiness. 



The Mcljcan Hardwood I,umber Company has 

 Just closed a deal through E. R. McKnight. one 

 of its directors, with M. A. St. John. Seymour. 

 Ind.. owner, whereby the limber on 2..S0O acres 

 of land in Woodrnfl' county, near Cotton Plant, 

 Ark., consisting mainly of oak. ash and cypress, 

 has been secured. The land is located on the 

 Missouri & North Arkan.sas Railroad and the 

 logs to *e shipped over that line come by way 



