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HARDWOOD RECORD 



shall. Phoebe Gegenheimer. A. r. Oegenheimer, 

 M. I). Koethig and W. K. Marshall. 



The sawmill belonging to .Tobn Oil m-.w Gil- 

 bert. Delaware rounty. Ohio, was totally de- 

 stroyed by Are recently. 



CINCINNATI 



Xotwitbstandins; the i;i-n.r:il inclination to 

 complain of unsatisfactory l)usini'ss conditions 

 m tlu' hardwood market there are additions be- 

 ing made to the number of concerns engaging 

 in the hardwood lumber business at this point. 

 Within a few months there have been added to 

 the list the Thompson Lumber Company, organ- 

 ized with a capital of .$30.0(10. of which E. 

 W. Thompson is president ; the Short-Hollowell 

 Comjiany. which is a combination of two com- 

 panies, with offices in the .Mercantile Library 

 building, of which JI- K. Short is president ; the 

 W. E. Hey.ser Lumber Company, a new company, 

 with W. E. Heyscr. formerly a memljer of the 

 Ilardvv-ood Lumber Company, as president. The 

 Hardwood Lumber Company has reorganized, 

 and .1. H. V. Smith was made its president. 

 The Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company reor- 

 ganized, with Dwight Hinckley as president 

 and S. K. Giffen. formerly of the Louisiana Red 

 Cypress Company, as secretary and manager. 

 The company has built a large yard, with dry 

 slock sheds, railroad switches and olBce build- 

 ings in the West End. The T. B. Stone Lumber 

 Company has removed its offices to tbe yards 

 im Hopkins street and McLean avenue. The 

 Uoy I>umber Company has been purchased by thi' 

 Logan-Maphet Lumber Company of Knoxville. 

 Tenn.. and is located at Bank street and West- 

 ern avenue, with I. M. Asher in charge of sales 

 and J. D. Serena in the office. The old firm 

 of .John Duhvebcr & Co. has been incorporated 

 as the John Dulweber Company, with a capital 

 ol $225,000. with B. V. Dulweber as president. 

 The Sterrett I>nmber Company has been dis- 

 .sclved. W. S. Sterrett is now sales manager 

 for the Farrin-Korn Lumber Company of Winton 

 Place, and .1. D. Farley is the representative of 

 the Louisiana Red Cypress Distribution Com- 

 pany. The Conasauga Lumber Company of Cona- 

 sauga, Tenn., C. B. Benedict, president, has 

 opened an elegant suite of offices in the Fourth 

 National Bank building, where the headquarters 

 of the company are now located, with John 

 Byrns. secretary-treasurer, in charge. The offices 

 of Bennett & Witte have been enlarged by adding 

 additional rooms to accommodate tbi? increased 

 office force, and T. J. White, formerly the rep- 

 lesentative at Moline, 111., is now established in 

 I be headquarters at this city. 



While reviewing the changes made, it might 

 be well to enumerate also some of the addi- 

 tions. The Tensas River Lumber Company, or- 

 ganized in Cincinnati, and controlling 70.000 

 acres in Concordia Parish. La., with head(juar- 

 tcrs in Cincinnati, has been quietly at work 

 pushing its operations. George Batch is presi- 

 dent, with ClifC S. Walker vice-president and 

 general manager. The company has just com- 

 pleted the first mill on its plant, and is now 

 commencing to .saw lumber, with S. A. Conn 

 as the mill manager. Just as soon as the No. 

 1 mill is completed, the company will commence 

 the work of installing other mills on various 

 parts of its tract. 



That February was a slow month is proved 

 by the figures furnished by the car service 

 bureau. The receipts of lumber by rail for the 

 month of February were 5,747 cars, as com- 

 pared with 5,828 cars for the same month in 

 1910. The .shipments were 4,070 cars, while in 

 February, 1010, they were 5.102 cars. These 

 are the lowest figures for February in several 

 years. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, who has 

 been on the road in the interests of his house 

 since the tirst of February, returned Monday, to 

 spend a few days at the office to straighten out 

 urgent matters requiring his personal attention. 



and to be present at the meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club. He will leave in a few days 

 for the South to look after his interests in 

 that section. 



Tight cooperage is again getting back to 

 normal conditions, all of the large cooperage 

 concerns doing a good business. There is a 

 stead.v increase in tlie demand for bourbon 

 and whisky packages, with a good demand for 

 beer kegs and barrels, while the demand for 

 heavy "chip" tanks and large work is satis- 

 factory. In the departments for small tight 

 cooperage, wine half and quarter-barrels, with 

 white lead and paint kegs, Inisiness is showin..; 

 strong improvement. 



The sawmill plants in this vicinity are all 

 running to full capacity, with good supplies 

 of logs. On the Mill Creek valley side, the 

 mill of the Francke Lumber Company at St, 

 Bernard is well supplied with walnut logs, whieli 

 it cuts up for the German trade, and which is 

 distributed through the home office in Berlin. 

 Germany. The Talbert-Zoller mill at Winton 

 place is cutting oak and making oak veneer 

 flitches for its own veneer mill. The Ohio 

 Veneer Company and the Cincinnati Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, with mill on Colerain avenue, 

 are well supplied with veneer logs, both im- 

 ported and domestic, and are running tlieir mills 

 to full capacity, manufacturing lumber an<l 

 veneers. The Freiberg Lumber Company on Mc- 

 Lfan avenue is running full with a good supply 

 of Mexican mahogany logs, cutting lumber and 

 making flitches for its veneer saws. The Maley. 

 Thompson & Moftett Company on West Eightli 

 street is running its big concrete plant full, 

 with a good supply of oak logs, together with 

 poplar and other hardwoods. The veneer plant 

 ot the company is also busy. On the east side 

 of the city the great plant ot C. C. Crane & 

 Co. is running all of its mills full time, with a 

 good supply of logs in the river. 



F. C. Fischer, former manager of the Central 

 Box & Shook Company, one of the plants in the 

 Farrin-Korn combination at Winton place, was 

 in the city for a few days, representing the 

 Ferguson Lumber Company and the Santee 

 Cypress Company of South Carolina. 



Chapln L. Barr of the V. P. Whitney Lumb.r 

 Company, Philadelphia. Pa., spent some time in 

 the city the past week. 



II. B. iS'ields ot the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany, Townsend. Tenn., is here looking after 

 the selling end of his company. Everything in 

 that section is reported as satisfactory, with the 

 plants all running. 



Furniture manufacturers report conditions 

 fair with a good outlook for the immediate 

 spring trade, which their manufactured stocks 

 are in good condition to meet. The returns 

 fiom the men on the road, who have started 

 out on their spring trips, are very encouraging. 

 Ihe manufacturers of desks and office furni- 

 ture have enjoyed a good business all during 

 February on orders tor future delivery, and 

 while the orders for new business during Feb- 

 luary were not encouraging from the domestic 

 trade, the foreign export orders wi-re pleuliful. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



There has been little change in the hard- 

 wood situation. Trade is fairly hri.sk, witli 

 good prospects ahead. Shipments are moving 

 nicely, owing to some recent relief in the ear 

 shortage situation. 



F. M. Bachnian, a local hardwoud and 

 veneer inanufacturer, is erecting an apart- 

 ment house at a cost of $20,000. 



John Talge of the Talge Mahogany Company 

 and Louis Buddenbaum of the Buddeiibaum 

 Lumber Company have been appointed on a 

 special committee of business men to assist in 

 selling lots in Mars Hill, the new industrial 

 sul>urb. 



K. H. Greer and C. D. M. Houghton, wlio 

 have conducted the Greer-Houghton Lumber 



Company as a partnership, have dissolved 

 partnership and Mr. Greer will conduct the 

 business under the old name. Mr. Houghton 

 has organized and incorporated the Houghton 

 Ltunber Company with an authorized capi- 

 talization of $20,000. those associated with 

 him being Grace M. Houghton, A. C. Hough-- 

 ton and F. C. McGrayel. 



J. W. Hankins has taken a position a.s 

 office manager with tlie Greer-Houghton Lum- 

 ber Company. He was formerly with the Van 

 Cleave Lumber Coinpany. 



N. A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co. has 

 been appointed a member of the reception 

 committee of the Columbia Club for the ensu- 

 ing year. 



MEMPHIS 



The weather throughout this territory during 

 I be past fortnight has been more favorable than 

 a short time ago, hut there has been some 

 further rain. However, the woods are still ex- 

 liemoly wet, not only in Tennessee and Mis- 

 sissippi but also in Arkansas, with the result 

 that more attention is being paid to unsatis- 

 factory logging conditions. As previously stated 

 in this correspondence, the log supply in this 

 territory is decidedly deficient, and this fact 

 is receiving additional emphasis at the hands of 

 iioth manufacturers and distributers of lumber. 

 Consumers arc also taking note of the fapt that 

 there is not an adequate supply of timber. Man- 

 ufacturers here are anxious to run their plants 

 cm full time and are doing so, except where 

 ihey are without the necessary timber supply. 

 A better feeling prevails among the trade gen- 

 erally and there is a larger business doing at 

 more remunerative prices. 



It. E. Lee Wilson, president of the Lee Wilson 

 Lumber Company, and associates have purchased 

 Ihe Jonesboro, Lake City & Ea.stern Railroad, 

 which is sixty-six miles in length and extends 

 from Jonesboro to Osceola, Ark. The purchase 

 in-ice is said to have been .$220,000, together with 

 :,ssumption of outstanding indebtedness against 

 the road. Mr. Wilson has lived in Memphis for 

 a number ot years, and is strongly identified 

 with the business interests of this city. How- 

 ever, for some tithe he has owned extensive 

 timber lands and other holdings in eastern 

 Arkansas. His firm operates two large plants in 

 that state, having headquarters at Memphis. 

 .Mr. Wilson has been elected president of the 

 load under the new regime and W. H. Smith, 

 who has been in charge of the lumber interests 

 of the firm at Memphis, has been made general 

 manager. As a result of this change in his 

 ••xork, Mr. Smith will remove to Jonesboro. No 

 statement has been given out by Mr. Wilson or 

 his associates as to the real object in purchas- 

 ing this line. 



R. J. Darnell, Inc., has filed suit in the 

 circuit court against the Illinois Central and 

 Yazoo lie Mississippi Valley Railroads for .$10,- 

 000. The suit is in line with a number of other 

 suits filed in the circuit court recently by lum- 

 bermen against the same defendants for rebate 

 on logs milled in transit. The suits, it is un- 

 derstood, are friendly, the railroads, however, 

 wishing to have an order of court to pay the 

 rebates, to avoid any conflict which might arise 

 over construction of laws regulating interstate 

 commerce. 



Indications :ire that the baseball team main- 

 tained by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis 

 will have to got up and hustle if it keeps ahead 

 ot the team which is to be put into the field 

 Icy the Lamb-Fish Athletic Association at Charles- 

 ton. Miss. The stockholders of the latter met 

 at Charleston. February 28. and it was shown 

 tliat all of the stock had been subscribed and 

 that practically all of the seventy stockholders 

 were present. A board of eleven directors was 

 chosen, and they elected the following officers : 

 W. B. Burke, president ; H. L. Gray, vice-presl- 



