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HARDWOOD RECORD 



with n capital stock of $75,000 the Indian- 

 apolis Cabinet Makers' Union has been lucor- 

 poratcO. The dUwloi-s am William C. Reger, 

 Henry Tapking, Charles A. Albrecht, Gustav G. 

 Stark, Harry C. Banor and Henry M. Gentry. 



Cutslnger Sons & Co. arc bullOInK n band saw- 

 mill at Uoachdalc that will cost $l.",00ii when 

 completed and equipped. It will be ready for 

 operation within a lew weeks. 



The Art Cabinet and Grill Works has been 

 organized at North Manchester to manufacture 

 wood novelties. Several well-known business 

 men. among them Samuel Brandes, Jonas Gross- 

 nlcklc and Gorman B. Grossulckle, are interested 

 In the company. 



H. M. Maddox, president, and C. A. Meyer, 

 secretary, announce that the capital stock of the 

 Quality Cabinet Company of this city has bfen 

 Increased from ?50,000 to $100,000. 



It is announced that the Mossman Lumber 

 Company will move Its headquarters from Jasper 

 to LvansvlUc, but that a branch oflice will be 

 maintained at the former place. The company, 

 which Is one of the largest of its kind in south- 

 ern Indiana, employs several hundred men. 



William Itiicy Tccgaarden. a veteran Hoosier 

 lumber man. died at his home in this city on 

 November 10 at the age of 63. He had been In 

 good health until the day of his death, having 

 returned only a few days previously from a trip 

 to Oklahoma, where he had extensive interests. 



A hearing on a petition for a change in freight 

 rate classification on thin-cut lumber is in prog- 

 ress before the Indiana Railroad Commission. 

 The petition was filed by Adams & Raymond of 

 this city. The company complains that several 

 months ago the class of lumber in question was 

 changed from the sixth to the fifth-class rate. 

 This lumber is used for making boxes and crates 

 and is not as valuable as veneers, it is argued. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove, O.. has in operation in the Clinch moun- 

 tains, two miles south of Doran, Va., a band 

 mill with a daily capacity of 50,000 feet, and 

 now has something like 3,000,000 feet of stock 

 on its yards at that place ready for shipment. 

 The company has completed a remarkable piece 

 of railroad across Sandy Ridge mountain, four- 

 teen miles iu length. The incline is so great 

 that it was necessary to construct a number 

 of back switches. 



H. F. Miller of Christiania, Norway, is buy- 

 ing lumber in Bristol. Mr. Miller has engaged 

 considerable stock, chiefly chestnut, for early 

 shipment. He will spend several weeks in 

 America before sailing for home. 



W. A. Hassinger of the Hassinger Lumber Com- 

 pany, Azen, Va., was in the city this week. 

 Mr. Hassinger's company now has in operation 

 a band mill cutting 00,000 feet of stock a day 

 in the White mountains, on the Virginia-Carolina 

 Southern, and owns one of the finest tracts of 

 virgin timber in southwest Virginia. 



George M. Spiegie of George M. Spiegle & Co., 

 liardwood dealers, Philadelphia, called on local 

 lumbermen this week. He discussed conditions 

 iu hardwood circles, taking a roseate view of the 

 outlook. Mr. Spiegle is interested in the Mc- 

 Cabe Lumber Company, owning extensive prop- 

 erties near Newport, Tenn., and in western North 

 Carolina. 



George E. Davis of George E. Davis & Co. has 

 gone on a trip in Virginia. 



J. A. Wilkinson is baik Croii an importnut 

 trip in the East. 



A movement for the preseryatinn of the limber 

 exhibits at Jamestown and their removal to the 

 old capitol building at Richmond has been 

 launched in Bristol. Bruce C. Banks, secretary 

 of the Virginia Timber and Mineral Exhibit As- 

 sociation, an organization of timber owners and 

 mineral operators formed in Bristol, was here 

 this week in conference with local exhibitors in 

 connection with the movement. The plan is to 

 ask the next legislature, which convenes in Janu- 

 ary, to appropriate $25,000 to remove the ex- 



hibits to Richmond and place them In the old 

 eapltol building. 



W. G. McCain, head of the lumber firm of 

 W. G. McCain & Co.. operating a band mill at 

 Neva, Johnson county, Tenn., and other places 

 In this section, was married to Miss Margaret 

 Snowden nl the home of the latter's brother 

 in rhiladelpliia November 18. 



Mr. McCain' came from Pennsylvania to Ten- 

 nessee with ills sons to engage in the lumber 

 business a number of years ago. He Is a fre- 

 quent visitor In Bristol, where he has many 

 warm friends and is known as the "grand old 

 man." He is mayor of Neva, a small town 

 which he founded. His bride is a member of 

 one of the oldest and best known families in 

 Pennsylvania and is a daughter of Mr. McCain's 

 life-long friend, Dr. K. II. Snowden. Mr. and 

 Mrs. McCain will return to Neva tills week and 

 will leave Immediately for Florida, where they 

 will spend the winter. Returning in the spring, 

 they will make their home in Bristol. 



Cincinnati. 



II. S. Adams, secretary of the L'nion Associa- 

 tion of Lumber Dealers, has issued notice that 

 the next annual convention will be held at the 

 Southern Hotel, Columbus. January 21 and 22. 

 This is the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the 

 organization and is expected to eclipse all pre- 

 vious records in attendance. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company have received 

 a small run of logs at their mill at Wiiliams- 

 hurg and will start the mill again. The logs on 

 hand will be consumed in about a month when 

 the mill will be again closed. The company's 

 other mills are completely sawed out. but the 

 lumber on hand is ample for present needs and 

 the company is not making any special effort to 

 secure logs. However, they are iu the market 

 for them as they are looking out for the next 

 year's work, and their men in the woods are 

 cutting a great deal of timber, which will be 

 shipped to the mills later. 



Ralph McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company spent a few days at Louisville last 

 week. He says trade is quiet in tlie vicinity 

 and will not pick up until the money stringency 

 is settled. 



Frank Sudbeck of the Acme Veneer Company 

 will leave the early part of next week for a 

 business trip through the East. 



Harry Hartke of the Acme Veneer Company 

 has been receiving the sympathy of his nu- 

 merous friends on the death of his father, George 

 Hartke, which occurred last week. Mr. Hartke 

 was one of the old settlers of Cincinnati and 

 his name is known everywhere in business 

 circles. 



The mill of the Maley, Thompson & MofTett 

 Lumber Company has been completed and they 

 have resumed business on the old basis. The 

 new factory is of concrete, and is one large 

 building, being separated only from the engine 

 room. The structure covers a space of one 

 hundred feet or more and has a capacity of 

 several thousand cubic feet. The mill is sawing 

 a great deal of walnut logs which they are 

 drawing up out of the mill creek with the aid 

 of a yoke of oxen. 



Leland G. Banning, prominent lumberman of 

 this city, will arrive in Cincinnati, November 

 26, from an extended auto trip through the 

 Australian mountains. He has been away from 

 the local offices for several months. He arrived 

 in New York on the new steamer Lusitania and 

 will spend some time in New York City. 



work Imposed upon It. The new power unit U 

 biing installed by the well known Atlas Engine 

 Works of Indianapolis. 



The new veneer mill of the Fred W. Black 

 Lumber Company In West Nashville has recently 

 been placed in operation and Is now cutting 

 mostly poplar stock for the furniture trade. 

 although a little later on it will probably cut 

 miihcigany and white oak veneers as well. This 

 new plant is thoroughly up-to-date, and Is 

 equipped throughout with the best machinery 

 obtainable. The cutting machines are of Coe 

 manufacture. The power equipment was fur- 

 nished by the Atlas Engine Works, and the dry 

 kilns by the .Standard Dry Kiln Company of 

 Indianapolis. The daily capacity of this new 

 plant will approximate 45,000 feet. H. \V. 

 Black, secretary and treasurer of the Fred W. 

 Black Lumber Company, is also the manairer of 

 this new veneer mill. 



Nash-rtlle. 



Harry A. Freiliorg of the Freiberg Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, spent a few days in Nash- 

 ville this week, in the interest of his firm. 



The plant of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring 

 Company, which has been closed down for the 

 past two or three weeks for the installation of 

 new power equipment, is expected to resume 

 operations on tbe'25th instant. The old equip- 

 ment was found inadequate to handle the heavy 



St. Louis. 



The Irish-American Society of St. Louis at Its 

 regular yearly election last week elected Richard 

 J. OKeiliy, president of the O'Reilly Lumber 

 Company, president. 



A one-story lumber shed, to cost $3,000, will 

 bo erected by tht Charles F. Luehrmann Bard- 

 wood Lumber Company. This shed is to replace 

 one burned several months ago. Quite a satis- 

 factory business in hardwoods is reported by E. 

 II. Luehrmann, vice president of the company. 

 Orders for the past few weeks are greatly In 

 excess of the same period last year. 



H. S. McGavic, the well-known hardwood lum- 

 ber dealer, who has had his oflice in the Fuller- 

 ton building, has moved over to the Wright build- 

 ing, the lumbermen's headquarters. . 



A fair trade, mucl\ better than he expectedf.< 

 taking into consideration the unsettled conditloal 

 of the lumber market, is reported by Theodorel 

 Plummer, president of the Plummer Lumber Com-I 

 pany. Until the first of the year he says con^ 

 sumcis will only buy for absolute needs. 



'The cypress trade is reported rather quiet byl 

 the Lothman Cypress Company, although it baftl 

 not fallen off quite as much as was expected, f 

 The past few weeks show an improvement 0Ter| 

 the tw'o preceding ones. Dealers are not buying./ 

 any more than they need to fill present require- 

 ments. The company has a big stock of well- 

 selected cypress on hand ; they can fill orders Jj 

 with promptness. 



Although business is quiet, Charles E. Thomas, 

 president of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Com- 

 pany, says they are receiving orders right along, ' 

 although they are not as large as they would 

 be if conditions were better. They have a 

 good assortment of all items on the hardwood ;| 

 list at their yard and can fill orders with prompt- 

 ness. 



John H. Verdin, who was formerly in the 

 hardwood trade, has again started in business 

 and has located in the Wright building. One of 

 the former employes of W. A. Bonsack, David 

 Flynn, has associated himself with Mr. Verdin, 

 and will assist in the buying and selling of 

 lumber. Contracts for next year are being made 

 with mills. 



Paul Davidson, the former secretary of tb(^ j 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, and now 

 connected with the Ozark Cooperage and Lumber 

 Company, has developed into a first-class sales- 

 man. During a trip to the North recently he 

 made quite a record, considering the dullness 

 in trade. Last week he paid a visit to 

 mills of the company in the South. G. 

 Allport. the general sales manager of the com" 

 l^any, is off on a trip up the river. Jlr. David- 

 sou says business is quite satisfactory, consider- 

 ing the state of the market. 



Otto Bioess. president of the Bloess Lumber 

 Company, and one of the oldest lumber dealers 

 in Missouri, died in this city recently after an 

 illness of several months' duration. A wife, two 

 daughters and one son, Leo Bloess, survive him. 

 His son manages the company at Sedalia, Mo. 



A. T. Gamble, vice president of the Southern 

 Hardwood Lumber Company at Memphis, Tenn., 



