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HARDWOOD RECORD 



eresslve charai'tor of the gentlemen Interested 

 in this entcrpilsc. together with their thorough 

 linowledge of the reciulreincnts of the trade and 

 enviable alliances with many Important railroad 

 corporations, presage a big success for the new 

 concern. 



than by men with canthooks and plkepoles. and 

 it also does away with the danger encountered 

 in unloading logs from a car. 



St. Louis Lumber Statistics. 



The two tables herewith presenfed give some 

 very complete and elaljoratc Dgurcs, one show- 

 ing the lumber handled by the members of the 



IlF.i'tirTS. 



— Rail — Cart.— — River— Feet. — 



190C. 1007. 1900. 1907. 



JanuKry 11.407 ».72I 02.0U0 



t'ebruary 12.242 11.832 103. OOO 



Marcb 14,151 14,331 317.000 127,000 



April 13.31S 15,351 41.000 18U.0U0 



Mny 15.261 16,827 113,000 250,000 



June 12.016 13.511 235,000 372,000 



July 12,524 14,982 691,000 358,000 



August 13,539 13,883 796,000 044,090 



September 12,680 11.837 766.000 449,000 



October 11,309 12,580 544,000 405,000 



November 9,042 11,310 365,000 108.000 



Decembei; 0.256 9.536 380,000 99,000 



Totals 14«,74l . 155,001 4,248,000 3,456,000 



SlIirMENTS. 



-Rail — Cart. — -Riier — Feci. — 



1906. 1907. 1906. 1907. 



J.lounrr 6,605 6.396 



February «,757 6.948 17,000 



Maroh K.«:!:i 9.361 118,000 75,000 



April S.707 10.223 ISS.OOO 164.000 



Moy 9,774 10,607 299.000 342.000 



June 8,752 0,293 195. OOO 356,009 



July K,49» 9.596 184.000 364,000 



AugiiSt 9,054 9,~2'. 209.000 474,000 



September 8,697 9,373 162,000 280,000 



October 8,924 9,506 191.000 301.000 



November 6.952 7.881 107,000 292.000 



Diiember 6,051 6.801 98,000 19,000 



iv.mls 97.441 105.796 1,841.000 2,684.000 



RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS OF LUMBER 



AT ST. LOUIS IN 1906-7. 



Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis for the year 

 1907, as compiled by Secretary A. E. Bush ; and 



Cincinnati's Lumber Affairs. 



Tin- hiinluT 1>us1im;ss transattcd in Cincinnati 

 during the year has been remarkable. Reports 

 show that prior to October the business had 

 Increased In many instances fifty per cent, and 

 a conservative estimate of the increase of the 

 entire year can he placed at twenty-five per cent. 

 The actual number of cars received In Cincinnati 

 from various sources of supply cannot be deter- 

 mined at present, but it is thought to be about 

 80,000 — considerably larger than previous years. 



Concerning the local lumber business. .7. W. 

 Darling of the J. W. Darling Lumber Company, 

 who is president of the Lumbermen's Club, said 

 in a recent interview : 



"it is quite apparent that the business of the 

 lumbermen of Cincinnati for the year just clos- 

 ing compares favorably with that of lOOG, or 

 any previous year, notwithstanding the unset- 

 tled financial and business conditions existing 

 during the latter part of the year. 



"As to business prospects for nest year it is 

 too earl.v, under the present conditions, to pre- 

 dict, but inasmuch as the curtailment of produc- 

 tion has been much larger than the curtailment 

 of the consumption of lumber, this fact should 

 help business, and while there will be no doubt 

 a marked Improvement next year, when com- 

 pared with the average business of the past two 

 months, yet we can hardly expect it to equal 

 that of the average business of 1907. 



"During the past year there has been an 

 increase of perhaps ten per cent in the number 



manner in which they have performed their 

 duties. He then proceeded to tell the members 

 present what the association had done during 

 the year. He stated that It had Joined the 

 Rivers and Harbcrs Congress: had endorsed the 

 rivers and harbors bill ; had been represented 

 by a committee at Memphis In the Deep Water- 

 ways Convention November 4 ; had successfully 

 endorsed and urged the passage of a bill before 

 the general assembly empowering cities of 100,- 

 000 or more to build subways in such respective 

 cities : had protested against the advance la 

 fi eight rates on cypress, classing with yellow 

 pine : had urged the franchise for the McKlnley 

 electric railway system : had protested against 

 a franchise for the Terminal railway, and had 

 joined in the formation of the Lumbermen's Club 

 oi St. Louis. 



President Waidstein then called upon Lloyd G. 

 Harris to act as toastmaster during the even- 

 ing. Mr. Harris, on behalf of the board of di- 

 rectors, thanked President Waidstein for his 

 very complimentary remarks alxiut their Inter- 

 est in the Exchange, and said that although 

 they did not always accomplish what they 

 wanted to their intentions were right and they 

 made every effort to gain their end. He then 

 told some interesting war stories and gave some 

 reminiscences about President Lincoln, telling 

 how near he came to being with President Lin- 

 coln at Ford's Theater on the night he was as- 

 sassinated. He told of the burial of J. Wilkes 

 Booth, the assassin, and incidentally mentioned 

 the fact that his commission as an officer of the 

 United States Marine Corps was the last one of 

 the kind President Lincoln signed. Mr. Harris' 

 reminiscences were listened to with much inter- 

 est. 



LUMBER IN M FEET HANDLED IN 1907 BY MEMBERS ST. LOUIS LUMBERMEN'S EXCHANGE. 



January. 



Yellow pine ilS'SaS 



I'laln oak , ^S?-I?2 



(Juartered oak fJ'SJS 



Ash : l^,7oo 



l^^lar ■.■.•..;• "0,991 



UK"'..:::::;:::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::::; 86:473 



Cottonwooii ^^'^^^ 



Walnut 4.298 



<-herry 1.063 



Ta. sycamoi-j £.XAi. 



Quartered sycaoiore 



I'ecau • • • • • • 



ilkkory ' 16,o2a 



Hard ncaple ••• 



Soft maple 267 



Chestnut 



Hnckberry • • • 



Uasswood „ \^^ 



Kim 2.914 



Sassafras 



Spruce 



Magnolia 



I'.hth 



Linn 



PiTJiiinioun 



33,764 

 60 



5,240 



3,074 



419 



■ 385 



12,252 



193 



.iiiyuat. September. October. Korember. Decemher. 



327,615 

 36,585 

 21,984 



568,583 

 1 80,756 

 23.769 

 22,449 



6.463 



330 



6.660 



18,491 



20.149 



3,276 



11.674 



68T.812 



53.036 



29.656 



12.686 



268,876 



93,029 



9,420 



376.080 

 44.097 



191.6:19 

 78.537 



111.462 

 26.522 

 14.442 



W7,060 

 257,270 

 53,858 

 33.934 

 11,302 

 114,590 

 78,933 



38,937 

 209,4-26 

 42.925 

 12,120 

 15,146 

 131,673 

 98,030 



■j-oials ■ 1.115,160 771,957 1,146,621 1,152,204 783,523 859,747 873,670 



71,807 1,198,909 898,042 878,S 



324,91$ 



4,302,62» 



730,920 



486,331 



544,447 



2.792,009 



1,282,811 



12,468 



84.138 



8.I6» 



13.714 



3.404 



13,845- 



101.169 



385 



63,042 



44,782 



5,262 



743 



180,463 



560 



18,365 



489 



29.271 



10,402 



208 



557,635 11,303,25T 



the other being the receipts and shipments of 

 lumber at the St. Louis market, as recorded by 

 the Merchants' Exchange, covering the years 

 1006 and 1907. It Is certainly a very creditable 

 showing for this market. 



Ne-w Idea in Log Loading. 



The J. W. Wells Lumber Company of Menomi- 

 nee, Mich., has just installed a new device for 

 unloading logs from cars and placing them on 

 the log slide, that will do away with the serv- 

 ices of a number of men. Tlie device, which 

 will cost several ^thousand dollars to install, has 

 been thoroughly tested, and is even more satis- 

 factory than W'as anticipated. The machinery 

 consists of two towers 50 feet high, built of 

 piling. They are 550 feet apart, and are con- 

 nected by heavy three-inch wire cable, upon 

 which a carriage propelled .by a cable attached 

 to a steam drum situated at the tower next to 

 the mill is run. Through this carriage is run 

 a wire cable, one end of which is attached to 

 the drum of the engine, the other end being 

 supplied with a pair of patent skidding tongs or 

 hooks as the case may require. This machine 

 operates with great rapidity and will pick up 

 legs anywhere within the mill pond and deposit 

 them upon the haul-up chain faster than they 

 can be hauled up into the mill. As alwve noted, 

 the cost for installing the machine is consider- 

 able, but the worli can be done much quicker 



of lumber firms in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club has increased considerably in 

 numbers and very largely in interest and 

 activity. 



"It is the most active organization of any of 

 those in other cities afHllatlng with the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, and it is through 

 its efforts that much has been accomplished for 

 the Cincinnati lumbermen. 



"For instance, the reduction of the carload 

 minimum from 34,000 pounds, which went into 

 effect September 1, to 30,000 pounds, which is 

 to go into effect February 1, was largely brought 

 about by the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, the 

 good effect of which will be felt by all lumber- 

 men north of the Ohio river.'' 



Annual Ltunbennen's Exchange of St. Louis. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis lield 

 its regular annual dinner at the Mercantile Club, 

 Friday evening, December 27, at 6:30, As is 

 the custom, nominations for president, vice 

 president and board of directors were made. 



At the conclusion of the dinner F. Waidstein, 

 president of the Exchange, called the meeting to 

 order. He then thanked the directors for the 

 time they have devoted to the Exchange and the 



At this point W. A. Bonsack asked if he could 

 offer a resolution to the effect that a committee 

 of three be appointed by the president to nomi- 

 nate two tickets to be voted on at the election 

 January 2. The resolution was carried and the 

 president appointed Mr. Bonsack, J. L. Benas 

 and F. C. Moore on the committee. 



While the nominating committee was out the 

 following gentlemen were called on for speeches : 

 Thomas W. Powe, W. W. Dings, W. H. Allport, 

 Henry Martlng and several others. 



When during Mr. Dings' remarks he said that 

 the exchange was considering a plan to locate 

 the headquarters of the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 In the Wright building. In connection with the 

 Retail Lumber Dealers" Association and the new 

 Lumbermen's Club, there was much enthusiasm 

 manifested. 



The nominating committee recommended the 

 names of the following gentlemen for the offices 

 mentioned : 



President, Lloyd G. Harris and A. J. Lang. 



Vice-president, W. W. Dings and H. Tecke- 

 meyer. 



Directors, W. A. Bonsack, F. Waidstein, Kelly 

 R. Chandler, W. R. Chivvis, J. P. Richardson, 

 L. M. Borgess, R. F. Krebs, E. H. Warner, 

 Thomas E. Powe and J. R. Massengale. 



The defeated candidates for president and 

 vice-president and the five gentlemen receiving 

 the highest number of votes for director were 



