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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Comb City, Miss. ; R. A. Long of the Long-Bell 

 Ijiimboi- Coiupuuy, Kansas City. Scvcial of these 

 genllenicn wore In Memphis lu cniinectlou with 

 the recent meeting of the Yellow I'lne Manufac- 

 tiivcrs' Association. 



New Orleans. 



Cnrlailment of output Is the question that Is 

 occupying the attention of the lumbermen here 

 at the present time. Hardwood mills are not 

 so seriously Involved as are the yellow pine 

 and cypress manufactories. A good many of 

 the hardwood mills have been cutting pretty 

 freely lately and several are said to have good 

 stocks on hand. Some arc succeeding in getting 

 rid of these, but the car shortage and the com- 

 paratively light export demand is making it 

 (lifflcult. The export demand, however. Is Im- 

 proving. Considerably more than half a million 

 pieces of staves and other oak lumber were ex- 

 ported from New Orleans during the first two 

 days of this week and some other lumber was 

 also shipped. The heaviest demand now is on 

 staves, and the handlers of this timber are kept 

 pretty busy. 



The creditors of the Camp & Hinton Lumber 

 Company of Now Orleans and Lumbcrton, Miss., 

 have been satisfied that the company is solvent 

 and have become parties to a scheme whereby 

 the big concern will be enabled to borrow from 

 St, Louis and Chicago friends of J. H. Hinton 

 $100,000 to tide over the present difficulty. C. 

 W. Itobinson of the C. W. Robinson Lumber Com- 

 pany, who was chairman of the committee ap- 

 pointed by the creditors to investigate the Camp 

 & Hinton Company's affairs, stated that the com- 

 pany was solvent, with assets that would exceed 

 its liabilities by a wide margin. This report has 

 satisfied the creditors. 



A new lumber company has just been organ- 

 ized at Lake Charles, in the Calcasieu district. 

 It Is the Lyons Lumber Company, which has 

 Ijeen incorporated with a capital of $50,000. The 

 oBlcers are : D. C. Powell, president ; J, L. Lyons, 

 Jr., vice president ; M. P. Erwing, secretary-treas- 

 urer, 



A deal involving the transfer of 5,200 acres 

 of desirable hardwood timber land has Just been 

 closed at Franklin, La., the St. Landry Realty 

 Company securing the property from a Chicago 

 holder for .$42,000. This gives the St. Landry 

 company 13,000 acres in one tract, which is esti- 

 mated to contain in all 173,000,000 feet of 

 fine hardwood timber. 



Minneapolis. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company has gone for a short business trip to 

 Milwaukee, Chicago and Indianapolis. Mr. Smith 

 says that while there is a general slackening in 

 demand prices remain firm and the situation 

 promises to develop favorably later on. 



G, W. Everts of the Forbes-Everts Lumber 

 Company, the $200,000 company recently organ- 

 ized to develop a tract of oak in the vicinity of 

 Van Buren, Mo., has returned from a trip to 

 that city. Plans have been made for the erec- 

 tion of a mill to begin cutting white oak this 

 winter, Mr. Everts says they will not be car- 

 ried out just at present, but as soon as the 

 business situation clears up they will go ahead 

 with the proposition, and it is expected to have 

 the product of the mill on the market by next 

 spring. 



Reports received here by Secretary J. E. 

 Rhodes of the Northwestern Hemlock Manufac- 

 turers' Association indicate that the cut of hem- 

 lock in AVisconsin this winter will be 35 to 40 

 per cent under that of last season, as nearly 

 every firm reports heavy curtailment planned. 

 This will inevitably reduce the output of hard- 

 wood to quite an extent, especially in birch. 



The special committee of the Northwestern 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, appointed 

 to work on the question of railroad weighing 

 claims, is still at work and expects to have a 

 conference early nest month with F. E. Becker 

 of the Western Railway Weighing Association 



concerning the grievances of the hardwood ship- 

 pers. 



Building activity In the twin cities is holding 

 up remarkably well In spite of the business situ- 

 ation. St. Paul made a wonderful gain In build- 

 ing permits in October. A total of $1,013,322 

 was authorized, compared with $571,204 in Octo- 

 ber last year. Minneapolis also showed a gain, 

 the figure being $027,115, compared with $820,- 

 720 In the same month last year. In both cities 

 the total for ten months of the present year is 

 well ahead of last year, which was one of the 

 largest known. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark has gone 

 down to Erie, III., to look after business in con- 

 nection with their retail yards In that vicinity. 



Charlotte, N. O. 



It Is reported here that the Ecclcston Lumber 

 Company of Wilmington, N. C, which made an 

 assignment In New York on October 22, has 

 been thrown into involuntary bankruptcy by the 

 United States court of New York, and W, T. 

 Dowd of that city has been named as receiver. 

 The company's assets are said to be about 

 $5,000 and its liabilities about $50,000. The 

 local enterprise was a branch of the New York 

 concern and consisted in a general lumber 

 business and cross tie handling. 



Fire on November 13 destroyed the sawmill, 

 dry house and a quantity of lumber belonging 

 to the Fayetteville Woodenware Company of 

 Fa.vetteville, N. C, manufacturers of buckets, 

 tubs, etc. Loss is said to be about $7,000, 

 covered by insurance. The plant will have to 

 be closed down for a short time while the neces- 

 sary repairs are made. 



The Rockingham Lumber Company of Rock- 

 ingham, N. C, has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $10,000, by W, L. Steele and 

 others. 



The firm of Carskaddon &, Co. of Marion, S. 

 C, has received a charter to conduct a lumber 

 business with a capital stock of $10,000, C. L. 

 Goodwin is president of the company. 



Fire recently destroyed a large quantity of 

 lumber at the plant of the Dennis-Simmons 

 Lumber Company at Elm City, N. C. The loss 

 is estimated at $10,000. 



Sam Bowie of High Point has invented a 

 paper column post, for which he has applied 

 for patent rights. The posts are made of 

 wrapped and compressed paper and veneered 

 with oak or other wood. They are lighter, just 

 as durable and will sell at about half the price 

 of wood. 



Joe C. Moore and T. J. Stone of Lenoir have 

 recently purchased the warehouse of the United 

 States Furniture Company, whose plant has been 

 moved to Asheville and will in the near future 

 install equipment for the manufacture of chairs. 



At a largely attended meeting of the North 

 Carolina Case Workers' Association, represent- 

 ing ninety-five per cent of the output of furni- 

 ture in the state, held at Greensboro, November 

 14, it was decided to reduce the output of the 

 factories by decreasing the time schedule from 

 ten to eight hours per day. There will be no 

 shutting down of plants, this plan of reducing 

 hours having been decided on as the most satis- 

 factory to all concerned. 



On Nov. 17 fire broke out in the factory of 

 the Climax Chair Company at Thomasville, and 

 in a short time the plant was in ruins. Loss is 

 estimated at $16,000, with $5,200 insurance. 

 The plant was owned by Thomas and Will Har- 

 ris, and the loss is felt heavily, as this is the 

 second time this company has been burned out 

 within six years. The plant will probably be 

 rebuilt as soon as matters are adjusted. 



The Wadesboro (N. C.) Furniture Company 

 has bought about 100 acres of land on the 

 Seaboard Air Line and is making preparations 

 for its development. Contracts for machinery, 

 building, etc., will be let soon. 



The Windley Cross Tie Company of Wilming- 

 ton, N. C, has been organized with a capital 



of $150,000. F. M. Simmons and others are the 

 Incorporators. 



A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C, states 

 that, because of a slump lu prices of lumber and 

 the general stagnation In business In the North, 

 several large lumber mills in eastern Caro- 

 lina are planning retrenchmeni. It Is ru- 

 mored that in order to cut down operating 

 expenses several mill owners will cut the 

 rate of wages to operatives after this 

 week. The Angola lumber mill at Wilmington, 

 one of the largest In that section, has closed 

 down all its [>lant except the planing mill and 

 cut oil most of Its employees. However, this 

 company is doing considerable business In ship- 

 ping goods In slock by water. 



Knoxville. 



Notwithstanding tlie fact lluit the .New V.irk 

 and eastern banks have all their currency locked 

 up and will let none tome to the southern 

 country it is surprisingly jjrosperous. While 

 lumber Is a little off, conditions are not re- 

 garded as serious. 



Edward Naphet, formerly of the Logan & 

 Naphet Lumber Company, and now in business 

 for himself, has returned from an extensive trip 

 in the movmtalns of North Carolina, where he 

 looked over some timber lands. Mr. Naphet 

 said that while the market was a little off 

 owing to the fiurry in Wall street he did not 

 think it would affect local conditions to any 

 extent. 



Robert Vestal, president of the Vestal Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, which is one of the 

 largest concerns in this city, does not look for 

 any fall in the lumber market. While oak is a 

 little off and one or two mills have shut down. 

 Mr. Vestal thinks the flurry will be over in a 

 few weeks. All the company's mills are work- 

 ing full time. 



Joe M. Logan of Muiphy-Logan Lumber 

 Company states that the local market is shy of 

 oak and poplar and that they are having calls 

 for all they can supply. Owing to the financial 

 flurry in the East there has been a slight 

 decline in prices, but he does not think that It 

 will last long and predicts that the hardwood 

 trade will resume its normal condition in a few 

 weeks. Mr. Logan was formerly with the Logan 

 & Naphet Lumber Company, which dissolved, 

 and Mr. Logan purchased an interest In the 

 Murphy Lumber Company of this city and Mr. 

 Naphet continued the business on his own 

 account. The title of the Muii)hy Lumber 

 Company was changed to the Murphy-Logan 

 Lumber Company, their mill in this city en- 

 larged and their business extended until the 

 concern now enjoys one of the largest trades 

 in the city. 



For the first time in the liistory of the city 

 California redwood has been used for water 

 pipes. The Knoxville Water Compan.v is now 

 placing a twenty-four inch main from the pump 

 station on the Tennessee river to the reservoir 

 half a mile from the pump station. This makes 

 three supply pipes from the station to the 

 reservoir, the other two being cast iron. Red- 

 ivood is said to be more durable than cast iron 

 and will last longer. Only a few joints of iron 

 pipe can be shipped on a car while 24,000 feet 

 of redwood can be shipped, the item of trans- 

 portation making the wood cheaper than cast 

 iron. 



Ashland, Ey. 



C. W. Campbell and 0. D. Lonery of Hunting- 

 ton have purchased all the marketable timber 

 on a 1.400-acre tract belonging to Alex. Staf- 

 ford, in the Guyan section of Mingo county. 

 The timber will be cut and marketed at once. 



A larga raft of timber belonging to the Nigh 

 Lumber Company of fronton, O., was cut loose 

 from its moorings near that city and floated 

 some distance down the river before caught by 

 a boat that was sent in pursuit. There were 

 500 logs in the raft, and the company offered 



