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of 100s, and there Is a possibility of scarcltj, 

 wlilt'li will lirlng Willi It higher values. We, 

 howeviT. ilo not think that It Is n Rood specula- 

 tive proimsition. and would not advise anyone to 

 buj hanlwood lumt>er to hold for higher values. 

 Yours very truly. 



lil'SSK & BljRGESS, 



Burgess. 



l'nii..vnKi.i'iii.v. Pa., Dec. 10. — Kditor II.tiiD- 

 iV'MtP RK*;oia> : In answer to your favor of the 

 IL'lh Inst., in reference to the condition of the 

 haniwiiod trade. I have endeavored to keep my- 

 self (Misted as much as possible and I find that 

 the linancial scare has had a tendency to make 

 the manufacturers and iiuyers very conservative, 

 on acemint of which there is uo surplus stock 

 on hand. Although we are approaching a presi- 

 tlenlial year, the general condition of this coun- 

 try Iieing s*) prosperous and no great national 

 Issue coufronling us. I sincerely believe that 

 the coming year will be good as far as prices 

 and consumption Is concerned. 



Yours very truly. 



E.MII. (jlKNTHER. 



I'.MiKKUsni i!i;, "\V. Va.. Dec. 10. — Editor Hard- 

 woop ItKi'oRn: Replying to your favor of the 

 ^'2^l\ Inst., beg to say your views on the hard- 

 wcMid lumber situation are strictly in accord 

 with our ideas. We have not found it necessary 

 to cut prices to get business. A\"hat few orders 

 T*'e have bonked recentl.v have l>een for immediate 

 nee<ls anri at prices prevailing six months ago. 

 and we are gratilied to note the disposition of 

 all the large mills to bold prices firm. 



In view of the fact that the lianks are "loosen- 

 ing up" and putting real money into circulation. 

 we look for an early resumption of business. 

 and on account of the general curtailment of 

 output prevalent in West Virginia and the South 

 In general, we feel sure that good prices will 

 Im* maintained, if not a inai-ked advance. 

 Yours very truly. 



IS. M. S.MITH & Co., 

 J. C. West. Sales Manager. 



Waisai'. Wis., Dec. 1!>. — Kditor IIabdwood 

 ItKCORP : Iteplying to your favor of the 12th 

 insl.. we cannot see why hardwood luml>er will 

 not lie worth May 1. ]90S. as mnih as it was in 

 l!io7. We are having more intiuiries and orders 

 In the past week than we have had since No- 

 vember 1. and from our viewpoint conditions 

 are improving slowly. Yours truly, 



I.NOIIAM Lt'MBKR CoMI'A.NV. 



.MKMriil.s. TiiNN., Dec. 10. — Kditor IIakdwood 

 lici'oiip: Yours oi the li'th. asking for our 

 views on the hardwood situation, is received and 

 we are glad to let j'ou have them. 



While it is a fact tliat orders are practically 

 a nonentity with »is. imiuiries the past ten days 

 have been plentiful, and it is our candid opinion 

 that shfirtly after the new year business will 

 begin to assume normal pri>portions. 



In the nature of things, the volume of business' 

 next year will not be as large as it was this, 

 as 1008 brings on the presidential election, a 

 factor exerting more or less Influence on trade 

 and one to be reckoned with. 



For the reason that hardwood production has 

 been greatly restrleied llie past two months 

 and (with very few e.xeeptbinsi price cutting has 

 noi been resorted to. we believe that wlien liuyers 

 again enter the market they will find a limited 

 stock and prices practically the same as those 

 obtaining in lOOT. 



Krom the information we have gleaned from 

 various sources we are led to believe that the 

 aiwk now In the hands of tlie manufacturer is 

 badly depleted. This fact, couiiled with the one 

 ■ that the country appealed 10 be at the height 

 of prospei'iiy when the finrry came on, can. In 

 our opinion, result in nothing less than a good 

 ordinary seascm {(*i- the bardwo<Ml man. and 

 we look to the future withixit the least appre- 

 hension of dull times ahead. 



Y'ours ver.v truly. 



OaVOSO LIMIIKR CoMfANV. 



Xashvii.i.e. Tenx.. Dee. ID.— Kditor Hard- 

 wood Record : Replying to your incpilry of the 

 12th. we lielleve the resumption of normal ship- 

 ments of hardwood lumber depends on the 

 banks. When they resume operations, other 

 than simply calling in loans, the lumber business 

 will be all right. The campaign next year won't 

 hurt lumlier prices, as this will be overbalanced 

 by the sliortage now existing and becoming more 

 marked each day in the supply of hardwoo<l lum- 

 ber, the production of which lias fallen off SO 

 per cent. Only a \i*ry limited deinand will make 



the shortage apparent to the factory and consum- 

 ing trade: they will get In the market and the 

 mills will have to start up to furnish the lumber : 

 [iriees will stiffen, and when prices advance then 

 everyone wants to buy. As stated above, the re- 

 sumption depends on the banks. So long as 

 present conditions last, business will gradually 

 get worse. However, we believe that by Febru- 

 ary money will ease up considerably, and there 

 will be a decided improvement. Yours truly, 

 George C. Browx & Co. 



St. Louts Lumbermen's Club. 



tin lle<elilliej 7 the l.llllibcrlllen's Cluli of St. 

 r.ouis was organized at a meeting held at the 

 Mercantile Cluli. A call for this meeting was 

 issued some time ago by a committee appointed at 

 a meeting of tlie Y'ellow PIncr's Club early in 

 November, which went out of existence with a 

 meeting held the fore part of December. At the 

 November meeting three gentlemen representing 

 the yellow pine interests. .1. A. Freeman, chairman. 

 C. M. .Tennings and 'i'lionias (". Wbllmarsh. and 

 three from the hardwood interests. !•'. Waldstcin. 

 George E. Ilibbard and W. A. Itonsack. were 

 uamed to formulate plans and draw up a con- 

 stitution and by-laws. This they did and the 

 meeting to receive the report was called as 

 above. The constitution and by-laws, which 

 made eligible to membership lumljermen holding 

 olTicial positions or who were members of firms 

 engaged in the yellow pin*', liardwood and retail 



W. \V. lil.MiS. TKKAsritER 



lumber business, was submitted to about seventy- 

 five gentlemen engaged in those lines of busi- 

 ness, who were present at the meeting, tjov. 

 .Toseph W. Folk had been Invited as the guest 

 of honor anil spoke on "The l.iimherman as a 

 (.'itizen. " 



The meeting was called to order by .1. A. 

 Freeman, chairman of the organization commit- 

 tee and toastmaster at the ban(|iiet. The com- 

 mittee and Governor Folk sat at a long table at 

 cne end of the ban>|Uet hall and the others were 

 .seated at small tables. ^ 



After the dinner Mr. Freeman lalled the meet- 

 ing to order and iiitrndiiced Governor Folk, lie 

 talki'd on "boodting" and said the lumbermen 

 were the liist to rally to Ills support when he 

 was ."^t. I.iiuis circui: attorney and was prose- 

 citing tlie boodlers. many of whom were sent to 

 the penitentiary. He said that "with lumbermen 

 to indict and lumlierraen to convict, the grafter 

 suffered." This remark was I'aused by the fait 

 that on the llrsi grand jury to Indict the bond 

 lers was K. ('. Uoblnson of the K. C. Ilobln.son 

 Lumber Company, and on the first Jury to try 

 the boodlers were Nel.s<in W. .Mcl.i'od of the 



i;rjy>ou-M, l.,-,„| I.umlier Coiiipaii\ ami C. .M. 

 .Tennings of HerthoUl & .lennings. These gentle- 

 men were present at the meeting. 



In his address (Jovernor Polk said : "Y'ou've 

 had an outbreak of crookedness in the municipal 

 assembly, and It was bad enough. Rut it was 

 nothing to what we had in the old days when 

 1 was circuit attorney. In those days there was 

 a lioodling combine and the.v sold their votes 

 to anyone who would buy. They even tried to 

 sell the waterworks and the cioirt bouse and 

 the city market. It is not so bad now. There 

 will always be crooks in legislative bodies and 

 there will always be a few men to take chances, 

 liiit there has IJeen a wonderful change in public 

 sentiment against graft in public ofticc. The 

 ideals are higher today. A new standard of 

 plain, common, simple honesty has been estab- 

 lished." 



(Tovernor Folk left after giving his address, 

 and the meeting got down to the organization of 

 the club. 



Several well-known lumbermen spoke during 

 the evening, among them being Henr.v G. Koifes 

 of the Wilson-Iieheis-Rolfes Lumber (L'ompany : 

 N. W. McLeod of the Orayson-McLeod Lumber 

 I'oiiipniiy: W. W. Dings of the Garetson (Sreasim 

 I.iinilier Company; (apt. C. I'. I.iebke of the 

 !■. F. I.iebke Hardwood -Mill & Lumber Com- 

 Iiany. and Thomas C. Whitmnrsh of the W. T. 

 Ferguson Lumlier Company. 



The constitution and by-laws, as submitted by 

 the committee, were adopted, as the committee 

 saiti they had tried to embody the best (loiuts 

 of the Cincinnati and Memphis clubs, which they 

 had studied, 



Tlie election of officers resulted as follows : 



President, ,T. A. Freeman of the Freeman- 

 Smith Lumber Company; first vice president, W, 

 A. Ilonsack, Uonsack Lumber Company ; second 

 vice president. J. .\. Itebcis, Wilson-Rehels-Rolfes 

 Lumlier Company ; secretar.v, .1. It. Kcssler. sec- 

 retary Lumber Dealers' .\ssoelathin ; treasurer, 

 W. W. Dings, Garetsonti reason Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



.\mong the hardw*iod lumbermen iiresent were: 



George K. Ililibard, Steel & IDbbard Lumber 

 I 'ompany. 



W. .\. Bonsack, Bonsack Lumber Company, 



K. It. Chandler. 



.lack P. Richardson. ,1, P, & W. II. Richardson. 



G. W. Allport. Ozark Cooperage and Lumber 

 Company. 



.1. L. Benas. Waldsteln LunilH^r Company. 



Kicliard .T. U'Uellly. o'lielUy Lumber Company. 



II. W. Teckemeyer, Teckemeyir & Welilnger 

 Lumber Compan.v, 



I". .1. Welilnger, Teckemeyer & Wehliiger Luin- 

 I'l'i- Company. 



A. W. .lolianning, ,1ohannlng Lumber Company. 



Lloyd It. Harris. Lloyd G. Harris .Manufactur- 

 ing Company. 



.\liee Stewart. Alcie Stewart & Co. 



W. W. Milne. .Milne Lumber Company. 



A. H. Bush, secretary Lumbermeirs l-:xcbange 

 of St. Louis. 



Thomas W. l-'ry. Charles I-'. Luehrmauu Hard- 

 wood Lumber C'ompany. 



C. II. Smith. .Ir, C. H. Smith Tie & Lumber 

 Companv. 



C. F. I.iebke. C. F. Lielike Hardwood .Mill & 

 I.unibi'r Company. 



Theodore I'luninier. Plunimer Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



,1. S. Garelson. tJaretson-Greason Lumln-r Com- 

 pany. 



,1. G. Knebel, J. G. Knebel Lumber Company, 



W. 1(. Clilvvls. 



George F. Cottrill, .American Hardwood Lum- 

 iM'r t^ompan.v. 



W. W. Dings, (Jaretson tlrcason Lumber Com- 



pany 



[■:. S. Little, Little Lumlier i'oni|mny, 

 ,1. Taussig. 



