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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A plant Is now being erected on the Port 

 Washlnfc'ton road, just out of Milwaukee, and 

 refrigerator and freight cars will be manufac- 

 tured. From four to five cars will be turned out 

 daily, and the company intend enlarging their 

 plant as business permits. 



The Denny & rflleger Company is a new lum- 

 ber firm recently started at Racine, Wis. The 

 company already has a lumber yard at North 

 Katrine, and has completed plans for the erec- 

 tion of a sash and door factory to cost in the 

 neighborhood of .$10,000. Business at the new 

 yard is excellent considering the season of the 

 year. 



Bristol, Va.-Teim. 



E. L. Warren, formerly of this city, who has 

 been connected with the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company, Baltimore, in an important capacity 

 for several years, has severed his relations with 

 this concern and returned to Bristol to enter the 

 wholesale lumber business for himself. Mr. War- 

 ren has leased a suite of rooms in the Fuqua 

 building and began business this weelj. He was 

 for a number of years manager of the R. E. 

 Wood company's otBces in Bristol and Johnson 

 City and has had a long and varied experience 

 in the hardwood business. 



George E. Davis of this city, president of Geo. 

 E. Davis & Co., was married last week to Miss 

 Amelia May Calloway, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 

 E. M. Galloway, and one of the most popular 

 young women in rhiladelphia's society. The 

 couple will be at home in Bristol after January 

 15. Mr. Davis is well known in lumber circles. 



"The financial scare is over," said J. H. Bryan 

 of the Bryan Lumber Company recently. "Our 

 mills are running and we do not anticipate- the 

 necessity of closing down. All that is necessary 

 for a complete and almost instantaneous resump- 

 tion of business is for the banks to 'open up.' 

 They hold the key to the situation." 



J. A. Wilkinson last week closed down his 

 band mill on the Southern railway in this city 

 and announces that he will this week receive 

 and install two new boilers of 150 horsepower 

 capacity each and will thereby double his power. 

 He expects to have the mill running again within 

 three weeks. He has on the yards here about 

 1,000,000 feet of logs and a large amount of 

 lumber on sticks. Mr. Wilkinson is one of the 

 most optomistic of the local lumbermen. 



"Things are getting better rapidly and there is 

 every indication that business will soon be mov- 

 ing as usual," says H. P. Wyman, of the Bristol 

 Door & Lumber Company and Came-Wyman 

 Luml)er Company. "People have faith in the 

 banks and the stability of trade and there was 

 not and is now no real reason for this business 

 depression, which I believe is over." 



There are still many mills in operation in 

 Johnson county, Tennessee, according to O. H. 

 ■yiai, a prominent manufacturer of that section, 

 who was in the city last week. Mr. Vial says 

 that the country manufacturers in that section 

 are in good shape Hnancially and are determined 

 to hold their stock for better prices than those 

 now obtaining. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufacturing 

 Company, Abingdon, Va., and the Janney-Whit- 

 ing Lumber Company, Philadelphia, was here 

 last week and reports that his companies' mills, 

 including the Abingdon and Judson, N. C, band 

 mills, are still running and they do not antici- 

 pate business conditions that will render their 

 suspension necessary. The companies have 

 closed a contract with a New "Vork lumber con- 

 cern to handle their output during the present 

 year. 



Cincinnati. 

 Cincinnati is recognized everywhere as the 

 one largest lumber market in the world. Her 

 lumljermen have the advantage of location in 

 this center of the oak, ash, hickory, walnut, 

 cherry and elm belts. They also control large 

 lumber fields in the cypress and cottonwood 

 belts of the South, and in the pine regions 



north and south, and have mills scattered ail 

 over the country. Several are operating in 

 Mexico, Cuba and Central America, where 

 mahogany and other veneer lumber is cut. Of 

 the 8(i.2;!G cars of lumber reported entering the 

 Cincinnati market, (i3,53G arc reported among 

 the outbound trafflc, the difference of 23,000 

 cars representing the volume of local consump- 

 tion, about 170.000.000 hoard feet. Closely 

 allied with the lumber trade is the manufacture 

 of sashes, doors, blinds, flooring, dressed lumber, 

 veneers, boxes, building timbers, sidings anil 

 staves, all of which are prominently part of the 

 city's manufacturing interests. Planing mills 

 and factories for these various lines of product 

 are numerous, there being nearly 100 enumer- 

 ated in the trade reports. In the review of last 

 year, based on reports from dealers and manu- 

 facturers, the lumber business of Cincinnati was 

 estimated at .$.10,000,000. Reports this year give 

 increases ranging up to twenty-five per cent. 

 Taking a mean as low as five per cent to give 

 full allowance for the accession of business in 

 the past two months and the increase is still 

 $2,500,000, making the year's total business 

 ?52,500,000. 



One extensive manufacturer and dealer gave 

 the following report : "We find our business to 

 have been about twenty per cent more this year 

 than in 1906, but probably this is accounted for 

 in our extra efforts 'put forth to obtain business, 

 it being our desire each year to show an in- 

 crease over the previous year. However, I think 

 it safe for you to say there has been for the 

 trade generally some increase over 1006." 



M. B. Farrin of the Farrin & Korn Lumber 

 Company says : "So far as the prospects for 

 1908 are concerned, we hardly look for an in- 

 crease in the volume of business. On the con- 

 trary, we will be surprised if there is not some 

 recession. Regarding the prices, we do not look 

 for much change in that direction, as hardwood 

 lumber, including poplar, is becoming more 

 scarce each year. Owing to the timber being cut 

 in less accessible places the loggers are having to 

 go back into territory not heretofore cut through, 

 the expense has increased and also the prices." 

 Lawrence Mendenhall. secretary of the Asso- 

 ciated Organizations and one of the oldest hard- 

 wood floor dealers in the city, says : "In review- 

 ing the past year I think I voice the sentiments 

 of other dealers when I say it has been a fairly 

 successful year. Of course, hardwood and 

 parquetry floors are to be counted to a certain 

 extent among the luxuries of house construc- 

 tion. The time is fast coming, however, when 

 hygienic floors will become an absolute necessity 

 for all well constructed homes." 



A. C. Fry, receiver of the Ben Ryan Lumber 

 Company, bankrupt, filed a final report of his 

 trust. He states that the firm never kept any 

 books of account and lacked systematic arrange- 

 ment for handling business. Furthermore, that 

 he was compelled to hunt out the different in- 

 voices for lumber and locate the freight bills. 

 All of these had to be arranged and classified. 

 It was necessary for him to search through the 

 various freight yards in this city and over the 

 river in order to locate about forty carloads of 

 lumber. He reported that he made diligent 

 efforts to find purchasers for the lumber and got 

 into communication with over thirty-flve lumber 

 dealers, box manufacturers, planing mill men 

 and builders, but the majority were overstocked. 

 He, however, managed to dispose of four car- 

 loads of lumber, which brought alxjut $900. 



The inaugural banquet for the business season 

 of 1908 of the Queen City Furniture Club was 

 held at the Business Men's Club. The hall was 

 festooned with holly and yuletide decorations 

 under the direction of Frank Schoonmaker, 

 assistant manager of the B. M. C. The affair 

 was attended by every member of the club, and 

 was announced as being one of the most bril- 

 liant affairs in its history. 



The mill of the Freiberg Lumber Company has 

 been closed down for some time to come; that 



Is, until the river swells Its banks and floats 

 some more logs down its stream. Tlie mill is 

 situated directly on the banks of the Ohio river, 

 and as soon as a flix)d reaches here and logs are 

 drifted down tiu- mill will resume operations. 

 The scarcity of logs is the cause of its being 

 compelled to close down. 



Q. A. McCracken, father of Ralph McCracken 

 of the Kentucky Lumber Company, is here from 

 Mound City, 111., spending the holidays. He 

 and W. E. Delaney have been in close competi- 

 tion in a pool game, and as yet the champion 

 has not been determined, with tlie general sen- 

 timent in favor of the visitor. These two have 

 been trying to decide the cliampionship for many 

 years, and they seem to always break even. This 

 time, liowever, McCracken has a hunch on 

 Delaney and the odds are against the latter, but 

 still he tries. 



The annual meeting of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company will be held January 28 at Louisville, 

 Ky. The company has had a good year and the 

 report that will be submitted before the board 

 of directors will be very pleasing. The amount 

 of business done this year has exceeded that of 

 any other year. 



Many association meetings have Ijeen booked 

 for this month, and a great many of them are 

 in evidence within small radius of Cincinnati 

 and will be attended by a great many. This la 

 one of the most important parts of the lumber 

 business, say a number of dealers. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton, Ohio, was a visitor 

 In town recently, while en route on a trip fur- 

 ther south. 



The offices of the Littleford Lumber Company 

 have been moved from the Pickering building to 

 their new location on Richmond street. They 

 purchased the old yards of the Western Lumber 

 Company some time ago. 



The D. H. Baldnin Piano Company has pur- 

 chased timberlands near Pineapple, Tenn., where 

 they will cut and market their own wood for 

 use in the construction of pianos. They will be 

 able to season the wood to their wants, says the 

 manager of the company. 



Clifford P. Egan, superintendent of the J. A. 

 Fay & Egan Company, large woodworking ma- 

 chinery manufacturer, has returned from a 

 successful business trip through the South, where 

 he secured a very good amount of business for 

 his firm. Thomas P. Egan, president of the 

 company, has been nominated on the blue ticket 

 of the Chamber of Commerce for president. Two 

 tickets are again in the field and much interest 

 is manifested on the outcome, which will be 

 learned after January 15. 



William A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, retir- 

 ing president of the Chamber of Commerce, whose 

 term of office expires early this month, was 

 presented with a beautiful loving cup as a token 

 of esteem for good services rendered. The cup 

 was presented by the board of directors and all 

 of their names are inscribed on it. It is a most 

 beautiful piece of work, and Mr. Bennett appre- 

 ciates It fully. The cup was exhibited on the 

 floor of the Chamber of Commerce. 



The amount of business transacted during the 

 past month has been of limited volume of course, 

 and the receipts have been greater than the 

 shipments. However, the lumber dealers are 

 more confident now and anticipate a better 

 month in January. The receipts of lumber dur- 

 ing the month of December aggregated 5,279 

 cars, as compared with 5,663 for the same period 

 last year. The shipments were not quite as 

 large as the preceding year, being 3,908 cars 

 this year and 4,584 cars for the year previous. 

 The receipts of lumber for the year amounted to 

 86,236 cars, as compared with 74,986 cars last 

 year. The shipments this year have been much 

 better than last, which will corroborate the good 

 year's business. Shipments this year were 

 63,536 cars ; last year, 58,599 cars. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Cincin- 

 nati Lumbermen's Club was held in the rooms 

 of the Business Men's Club January 6. A letter 



