HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Dixie Lumber Company of Columbus, O., 

 has moved its offices to Marietta, O. 



Tlie Buttles Avenue I.umbei- Company of Co- 

 lumbus, O., has increased its capital stocit from 

 .f.SO.OOO to $50,000. 



At Ciiillicothe, O., the H. S. Adams Company 

 sustained a lieavy loss by flre recently. 



Howard M. Rowe, junior member of the firm 

 of rowcll & Rowe of Columbus. O., was united 

 in marriage to Miss Ethel Curtis recently. The 

 couple will be at home on West .Second avenue 

 after April 1st. 



Hon J. Throop of the firm of Martin & Throop 

 returned tiom a long trip in Cuba early in the 

 month. 



The number of building permits in February, 

 according to the monthly report of Building 

 Inspector John G. White, exceeded those of the 

 corresponding month last year by 152 per cent, 

 there being 55 and 101 issued in the two months 

 respectively. The valuation of the buildings 

 erected in February, 1911, amounted to $334,901, 

 while those of February, 1910, amounted to 

 .$151,350, an increase ot 1.21 per cent. 



Edward J. Horrnsteiu, formerly connected with 

 the Becker Mill Company of Marietta, O., has 

 established business in mill work in Columbus. 

 Offices have been opened on the seventh floor of 

 the Columbus Savings & Trust building. 



W. M. Eitter, president of the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, was called to Hughesville, Ta., 

 last week by the death of his father, Frank Rit- 

 ter, aged ninety-three. The elder Mr. Ritter was 

 a retired farmer. His death was due to old age. 



J. W. Maybew of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company was called to the mills iu the South on 

 an inspection trip the latter part of the montli. 



John R. Gobey, president of the John R. Gobey 

 Company, returned March 18 from a two weeks" 

 trip in the South. 



The H. D. Brasher Lumber Company of Co- 

 lumbus, O., has enlarged its offices on the sev- 

 enth floor of the Columbus Savings & Trust 

 Company building by taking in an additional 

 room, at the same time employing Stuart B. 

 Norris as auditor and office manager. 



CINCINNATI 



Work has begun iu earnest on the new plant 

 of the Snook-Veith Lumber Company at St. 

 Bernard. Ground was broken the past week 

 and the work of grading and foundation building 

 is being pushed forward. The spot chosen is an 

 Ideal one for a mill and lumber plant, as it is 

 at the junction of three of the great trunk lines. 

 The offices and lumber sheds will be on Carthage 

 pike, one ot the leading thoroughfares, and can 

 be reached from the center of the city by the 

 street cars in thirty minutes. The plans em- 

 brace a high-grade band mill, with auxiliary 

 machinery for the manufacture ot merchantable 

 lumber, to which it is proposed to add a planing 

 mill. 



At the March meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club the president appointed the Regular Nomi- 

 nating Committee to arrange a ticket for the 

 annual election in May, while an Independent 

 Committee was named from the floor. The com- 

 mittees have sent the results of their w'ork to 

 President Walker, as follows : W. A. Bennett, 

 chairman of the Regulars, presented S. A. Richey 

 for president ; Jas. Buckley, first vice-president : 

 Ferd Brenner, second vice-president ; Jos. Bolser, 

 secretary ; Charles F. Shiels, treasurer. C. F. 

 Korn, chairman of the Independents, presented 

 S. A. Richey, president : W. E. DeLaney, first 

 vice-president ; Alex. Schmidt, second vice-presi- 

 dent : Joseph Bolser, secretary ; W. S. Sterrett, 

 treasurer. G. C. Ault had been named on both 

 tickets for second vice-president, but for busi- 

 ness reasons was compelled to decline. The 

 nominee for president on both tickets, Sam A. 

 Richey, is one of the most popular and highl.v 

 esteemed members of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Cincinnati, and has been frequently urged for 

 the presidency, always declining. At the urgent 



request of both committees he was finally in- 

 duced to serve the club as president. That he 

 will make a most admirable successor to the 

 first "square deal" president. Cliff S. Walker, is 

 freely admitted by all, and iu his selection the 

 club has honored itself. 



Tbos. J. Moffett, head of the Maley, Thomp- 

 son & Moffett Company, has been selected as a 

 member of the Board of Trustees of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. Mr. 

 Moffett has been for years one of the stanchesl 

 members of the Lumbermen's Club, and has on 

 three difCerent occasions been chosen as its 

 president. He is a most active and persistent 

 worker for organization, but for a year or more 

 past has been suffering from ill health, which 

 has somewhat interfered with his activities. He 

 is again working to the front In health, in 

 which lie is being warmly congratulated by his 

 lumber and business friends, who are legion. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, has returned from 

 the East, where he attended the convention of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation. 



C. M. Clark of the Sw-ann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany, after a brief visit to the plant of the 

 company at Clay City, Ky., is at the city office 

 in the Second National Bank building. 



The Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company has 

 completed its new offices and sheds at the yards 

 in the West End. The dry stock shed is 200 

 feet long and 39 feet wide, and is sheeted with 

 corrugated galvanized iron and has steel col- 

 umns. The root is of asphalt felt. A switch 

 from the Southern Railroad runs through the 

 yard and clo.se up under the eaves of the shed, 

 giving perfect facilities for handling dry .stock. 

 Cincinnati is trying hard to get rid of its 

 unsightly and useless canal, iu order that the 

 city may build a handsome boulevard along the 

 route now occupied by the dirty stream. One 

 of the propositions is to change the canal to a 

 barge canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio river, 

 and have the outlet on the west side ot the city 

 along Mill creek. This plan, if successful, would 

 be a great boon to the lumber interests of the 

 central West, as barges could be loaded any- 

 where in the Ohio or Mississippi valleys and 

 taken through the Ohio river, where the nine- 

 foot stage all the year around is assured, up 

 through the canal to the lakes, and through to 

 all water points now open to lake navigation. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company is on a visit to the mill plant of tlie 

 company at Alexandria, La., where he will re- 

 main for some time. 



L. G. Banning is in the city for a short stay, 

 resting up from his globe-trotting experiences of 

 the past two or three years, during which he 

 visited all sides of this great big globe. Busi- 

 ness is fair at the yards, with room for a great 

 deal of improvement. 



The Logan-Maphet Lumber Company, the suc- 

 cessors of the Roy Lumber Company, are busy 

 stocking the yards at the foot of Bank street 

 with a heavy stock of hardwoods. The Cincin- 

 nati yards are a branch of the Knoxville, Tenn.. 

 plant. I. M. Asher Is in charge of the local 

 offices. 



The affairs of the K. & P. Lumber Company, 

 which have been in the United States court for 

 adjustment, are shaping for a settlement. The 

 Iv. & P. company admitted insolvency and the 

 court appointed appraisers who will report the 

 coming week on the holdings of the company in 

 the Texas plant, and an adjustment of the Sul- 

 livan claims will be made. The final result will 

 be that the K. & P. Lumber Company will return 

 to its plant in St. Bernard on its former basis. 

 The office force will be greatly reduced to meet 

 the requirements of the business. 



F. Scbleyer, .sales manager of the K. & P. 

 Lumber Company, has severed his connection 

 with the office at St. Bernard, and is negotiating 

 for another position with one of the down town 

 lumber concerns. 



TOLEDO 



A peculiar condition pervades the hardwood 

 situation here, according to local hardwood con- 

 cerns. One large concern says, "We have far 

 more trouble in finding the stuff to sell, than 

 we do in selling it." While there is a fair sup- 

 ply of hardwoods of most all kinds, there is a 

 tendency on the part ot holders to boost prices 

 beyond the reach of prospective buyers. This 

 is accounted for by the fact that farmers for 

 some time have been getting such enormous 

 prices for their products that they have con- 

 cluded that standing timber on their farms 

 should bring correspondingly high prices, with 

 the result that it has been very difficult to buy 

 standing hardwood timber at prices which war- 

 rant the handling. Business generally is good, 

 but this fcattu-e has had a tendency to dampen 

 the market somewhat, and buying has been done 

 ou a lighter scale than it otherwise would have 

 been. 



The American Wood Block Company, suc- 

 cessors to the American Wheel Company of Del- 

 phos, O., has gone into the hands of a receiver. 

 Joseph Roth was named to take charge of thi- 

 business. It is alleged that notes amounting to 

 .'i;20.000 given to the R. G. Peters-Salt & Lum- 

 ber Company are not genuine. The Commercial 

 Bank of Delphos is one ot the principal creditors 

 with a claim ot $4,123.11. 



The plant of the Gallup-Ituffiug Handle Com- 

 pany at Norwalk, O., which was recently burned, 

 entailing a loss of $40,000, will be rebuilt. Local 

 business men subscribed for a block ot preferred 

 stock at a low rate as an inducement to get the 

 concern to stay in Norwalk. It m.anufactures all 

 kind of handles, wood door knobs, wooden rine:s. 

 etc. 



The Toledo Screen Company has secured a 

 deed for all the property of the MacLaren & 

 Sprague Company on St. Clair street, which 

 gives the concern an additional 85,000 square 

 feet ot manufacturing and storage space. The 

 company has been in existence since 1897 and 

 has outgrown its quarters. It sells its products 

 direct to the retailer. Charles I. Barnes of the 

 Barnes & Mauk Lumber Company is president of 

 the concern. 



An informal meeting was held at the Boody 

 House recently by about twenty members of the 

 American Manufacturers of Slack Cooperage 

 Stock. Business was limited to an informal dis- 

 cussion of matters pertinent to the trade. W. 

 C. Whitney, secretary, said : "The outlook for 

 manufacturers of cooperage products for the 

 present season is quite good and an improvement 

 over last year. While the demand for staves is 

 somewhat off at present, the increase in the 

 demand for headings more than offsets the 

 deficiency, and the hoop demand is normal." 



The Frank Spangler Company reports a good 

 trade, with an exceptionally nice export business 

 ( specially in red gum. "March is ordinarily a 

 little dull," said Frank Spangler, "owing to the 

 fact that the trade buys heavily during the first 

 two months of the year. Furniture concerns 

 report slack business, but building business is ■ 

 looking up in good shape. On the whole, trade 

 niav be said to be good." 



INDIANAPOLIS 



L. G. Buddeubaum has returned from a short 

 vacation at French Lick. 



A. D. Reeves, a timber buyer for local veneer 

 companies, died at his home in Knightstown on 

 March 14. He is survived by a widow and one 

 son. 



D. C. Van Buskirk, a prominent mahogany 

 dealer of Blueflelds, Nicaragua, was a visitor in 

 the city a few days ago. Mr. Van Buskirk for- 

 merly lived in Indiana, but had not been in the 



