HARDWOOD RECORD 



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St. liOQis. 

 Ifi'celpts of lumlier by rail for October this 

 roar were ll'.riS;! cars, as compared witb 11,.'{U'J 

 rars durins the luontb of October last year. 

 Iteceipis by river were 40j,O0i) feet, and ri44.oill) 

 feet ilurinj; October last year. Shipments by 



all during; October this year were 9.59ti cars. 

 iii;ainsl s.dlM cars last year. There were 2,S1,U00 

 feet shipped by river, against 101,000 feet during 

 the inonili of October last year. 



Incorporallon papers for the Arcadia Timber 

 I'ompany were filed a few days ago. The com- 

 pany has a capital of SSOii.oild. and the incor- 

 porators are (!. A. I'.uder. O. K. Under. I.co S. 

 Rassicr. .M. \V. I'encrbaclier and lienjaniiu A. 

 Suppan. Tile beadtiiiarters will be in SI. I.oiils. 

 The cimpany will handle the product from 12,000 

 acres of timberland in Dunklin county, now the 

 prope.-ty of (J. A. Kuder. which will be trans- 

 :i>rrcd to the company as soon as the iucorpora- 

 i ion has been completed. Mr. Buder, who is 

 president and general manager of the company. 

 Id speaking of the new organization says that 

 the land is abundantly supplied with cypress, 

 hickory, gum, ash and i>ak. and as the St. Louis 

 supply of such woods is now drawn from Ar- 

 kansas, the proximity of this property lie be- 

 lieves will insure a ready market for tiie manii- 

 ■;ictured product. 



The falling off in building operations iu St. 

 !."uis. a result of the tinancial depression and 

 he difficulty of securing money for building 

 projects, is reflected by the October building 

 permits, which show a decrease of over .50 per 

 .'•nt from October, 1000. The October .showing 

 ~ the poorest comparative one made by any 

 Mionth so far this year. The permits for the 

 inuuth aggregate J1.2S4.000, as against $2,8.5.3,- 

 OOil for Octol)er, 1906. a difference of .$1,.5G7,000. 



The Bayer Kros. Sash & Door Company filed 

 1 tides of incorporation a few days ago, with 

 a capital, stock of $2,500, one-half paid. The 

 objeit of the incorporation is to manufacture 

 and deal in mill work, office fi.Ktures. etc. The 

 Incorporators are Oeorge V. Whittingfon of Hot 

 Springs. .Vrk. ; I.eo .T. Bayer, Frank A. Bayer and 

 August V. Bayer. 



An office has been opened in Memphis. Tenn., 

 V the Steel & Ilibbard Lumber Company, with 

 K. Williams, a well-known lumberman, in 

 largi'. L. II. Borgess, secretary of the Steele 

 » Ilibbard Lumber Company, who has been out 

 rj the road on a selling trip, booked some nice 

 iders while away. He returned several days 



The office of the St. Louis .Sash & Door Works 

 has been moved to the new plant at the corner 

 I Broadway and Iiestrahan streets, and the 

 •lant Is in full operation. The bulk of the 

 .-.tock has been left at the old warehouse and will 

 be sold from there. Part of the stock, however, 

 has been removed to the new plant. 



A good trade lias been done by the Charles 

 F. Luelirniann Hardwood Lumber Company the 

 last few weeks. K. V. Luehruiann. the vice- 

 president of till' company, reports. -Ml kinds of 

 stocks have been In demand, altliough oak and 

 gnm has had the best call. They have a well- 

 '•>cked .yard which contains a good supply of 

 I the woods they deal in. While they have 

 iiad a little delay in shipments on account of 

 the car shortage. It has in no way Interfered 

 (vlth rerelpts. This is one of the few com- 

 panies that have been successful in getting their 

 cars through. Mr. Luehruiann reports that their 

 plant at Marlanna, Ark., has closed down for 

 repairs and will not go into coninilsslon until 

 the first of the year. Their new sheds, to re- 

 place those burned a few weeks ago, will be 

 rushed to cc.mpletlon. 



The leading hardwood lumbermen have been 

 Invited by the yellow plners to attend their 

 annual meeting November 12 at the Washiog- 

 lon Hotel. It has been suggested that the yel- 

 «■ pine and hardwood lumbermen unite and 

 ■I'm a lumbermen's club, and at this meeting 

 this matter will be discussed. Kvery one who 

 has lieen spoken to on the subject seems to think 



the idea a good one, as It will aid In bringing 

 the two Interests closer together. 

 ■ K. W. Bluiner. sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, left a few days ago for the 

 mills of ihi> company in the South and will be 

 absent for a week or ten days. 



Theodore rinninier, president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Com|iauy, says the hardwood situation 

 has shown little or no change during the last 

 two weeks. While they arc not busy, they have 

 about all that they can comfortably attend to 

 and they keep hustling for more. 



The firm of Burheu & KInley of Wellsville, 

 Mo., will be succeeded by the International 

 Screen Door Company, wliicli is identified with 

 the International Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of St. Louis, of which II. Keown is at the head. 

 Screen doors will he manufactured by the new 

 management, as they were by the old. The plant 

 will be enlarged by the new corporation and new 

 buildings erected, making it the largest screen 

 door factory In the state. 



H. F. Hafner of the IJafner .Manufacturing 

 Company predicts an advance in milhvork before 

 long. He says that from a selling point the 

 sash and door liusiness is good, but there is a 

 scarcity of stocli at tlie factories which will 

 make the advance in prices. 



In spite of the reported dullness in the hard- 

 wood line. J. R. .Massengale of the Massengale 

 Lumber Company says they are busy. He Is 

 well satistied with what business they are doing 

 and will make no complaint if conditions con- 

 tinue as they are with his comiiany. 



George E. Cottrill, secretary of the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, reports a consid- 

 erable gain during October in comparison with 

 October of last year. He says that in spite of 

 the drawbacks business has been quite good, 

 and from the orders already booked lor delivery 

 this month they will be on the right side as 

 to business when the month closes. 



Scott Short, formerly with the -Moore Com- 

 pany, is now in business on his own account 

 and is making a specialty of railroad ties. ' He 

 has formed some good connections and should 

 build up a nice trade. Mr. Short is well liked 

 and knows the business thoroughly. 



W. II. Chivvis reports that he has made some 

 good sales of walnut recently and that be has 

 some good-sized orders booked for later deliv- 

 ery. 



The following is the mmiber of feet of lumber 

 handled by the Lumbermen's ICxchange of St. 

 Louis during the month of October : 



Oak 37G.0S(I Qtr. white oak. 40,077 



Maple 9.112(1 I ypress Ill,4ti2 



Ash 191.(i:!9 Hlikory 10,257 



1:1m 11.115.5 Uum 20,522 



I'oplar 78.537 Spruce 18,365 



Sassafras 530 Cottonwood ... 14,442 



gtr. red oak 3,120 



Total 898,042 



Chattanooga. 



Freil .\rn of the ,1. .M. (aril Lumber Company 

 says the export trade is good and his firm is 

 getting some handsome orders from Denmark, 

 Norway, Sweden and Oreat Britain. He also 

 finds that the mills of Pennsylvania are buying 

 liberally and he .sees no alarming symptoms con- 

 cerning the tinancial strain. 



Capt. A. .1. Cahuuan of the Loomis & Hart 

 Manufacturing Company says that while busi- 

 ness Is good locally, he has seen the cflTects of 

 the financial flurry in other cities. 



P. F. Fitzgibbon of the .McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany says the mills of New York state are be- 

 ginning to feel the effects of the financial panic, 

 although the local situation is all that could 

 be expected. 



Till' river mills have nearly all shut down 

 either for lack of logs or to make repairs. The 

 Loomis & Hart mill has closed down for repairs 

 aod will not be able to resume operations be- 

 fore November 20. This concern has only a 

 month's supply of logs. 



L. S. Perry of the H. L. .ludd Manufacturing 



Company, manufacturers of curtain pob - 

 and Keith Webb of the Loomis & Hart .Manu- 

 facturing Company attended a recent meeting of 

 representatives of east Tennessee lumber con- 

 cerns fi'ir the purpose of discussing the grading 

 of logs. They report a very successful meet- 

 ing. 



K. W. Blair, manager of the Kamhurst Lnm- 

 ber Company of Kamhurst. Ga., was a recent 

 visitor here. 



Local lumbermen are preparing for a big. con- 

 catenation to be held here In a few weeks. It 

 has been many moons since a concatenation has 

 been held here and lumbermen are getting 

 anxious for a Hoo-Uoo "blow-out." . 



Memphis. 



The financial situation is having a serious 

 effect on the lumber business of this city and 

 section. Practically every lumberman iu this 

 market, however, Is of the opinion that the 

 stringency will not be long continued. But, as 

 long as conditions continue as they are, there 

 will be a serious shortage of production of hard- 

 wood lumber. Two of the largest manufacturers 

 in this city, oiierating plants both In Memphis 

 and iu the surrounding territory, have closed 

 down every mill they had in operation, and other 

 manufacturers have been forced to take a similar 

 course, in part or In whole. 



Another feature which has tended to cut down 

 the output of hardwood lumber is the shortage 

 of cars for the hauling of logs. For some time 

 it has been Impossible for the large manufac- 

 turers to secure enough cars to bring in their 

 logs, with the result that they have lieen forced 

 to suspend operations from time to time. This 

 has been true of several of the large manufac- 

 turers in this center, and there have been similar 

 complaints from the interior. The fa<t that so 

 many mills are shtilting down should serve to 

 relieve the car shortage, as the mill requirements 

 will be much smaller In raw materials, as well 

 as in other respects. 



The curtailment of production is not regarded 

 by the lumbermen hei-e altogether as an evil. 

 There is no gainsaying the fact that the demand 

 for hardwood is quiet and that trade during the 

 past few weeks has been far short of the average 

 for this period. .\s a consequence there has 

 been some accumulation of stocks. Productiou 

 for the past eight or twelve weeks has been full, 

 and if this constant large production had gone 

 forward without interruption from any cause, 

 and there had been no increase in the demand, 

 a large surplus of hardwood lumber would have 

 been inevitable. With production as low as It 

 is now it is Improbable that there will be any 

 further increase in holdings, even though there 

 is no dccideil improveincnl iu demand. 



Max Sondheiiuer, president of the K. Sond- 

 lieimer Company, lias recently returned from an 

 extended Kuropean trip. Ills wife preceded him 

 some weeks and he joined her In Paris, from 

 which point they traveled extensively in the 

 British Isles. .Mr. Sondheimer enjoyed his trip 

 very much and came back feeling exceptionally 

 well. While abroad he had the distinction of a 

 personal audience with King Kdward and also 

 of holding tlie first Hoo-Hoo concatenation ever 

 (I'lebrali'd In Fnglaud. Itegardlng foreign con- 

 ditions. .Mr. Sondheimer says that there is little 

 demand for .\nierican hardwoods aud that the 

 situation is extremely quiet. He says that he 

 hooked some orders for old customers of his 

 firm, but that most of the trade were out of the 

 market. He a.scribes this condition of affairs 

 largely to the fact that manufa<turers and other 

 dealers on this side have consigned so much 

 liiiiibi'r to Kugland as to supply the needs of 

 till- trade ami make new business almost im- 

 possible. 



one of the features of the meeting of the 

 West Tennessee and Kentucky Itetall Lumber 

 Healer.s' .Vssociation, recently held at .Lickson. 

 Tenn.. was the passage of strong rc>'ilutlons 

 faviuing the deepening of the Mlsslssi).pl liiver 



