HARDWOOD RECORD 



ItiueliiT William A. Hennelt nin olear up ovory- 

 ililni:. 



<;. Krkman <>{ lUi- M. 1\. raiiln Limibor Com- 

 paiiy bus rriiirii.<l from a Imsiness Irlp throuEli 

 the Smith. ImrliiK liU sujimin he managed to 

 fitrral si'Vfral lariie orders. 



fhester I". Korn arrived from ludlaiia. hruslwd 

 llie Iiiillaua dust off and boarded a train for tlie 

 West. He will also visit tile South and nili call 

 ou the mill of the KarrlnKorn Lumber Company 

 at .Memphis. 



Evansville. 



That Kvansville It ads the world in the man 

 afaiiure of furniture is the claim made by the 

 furniture factories here. They claim that Kv 

 ansvllle has forjied ahead of St. I.ouis and (irand 

 Itaplds recently and their representatives were 

 hoomlnK Kvansville as the -gueen of the I'ur 

 nitnre World" at the furniture exposition which 

 was held recently in the Kurniture Manufac 

 Hirers' Kxchan^e huildin^. Chicago. 



Henry .Maley of Kdinhurg. Ind.. was here re 

 cenlly to attend the stockholders' meeting of 

 the Maley I-and and Mortgage Company, held 

 a few days ago. 



Ceorge W. Stooeman of the Stoneman-Zcar- 

 ing Lumber Company. Dcvalls Bluff. .\rk.. was a 

 recent visitor to this market. 



II is understo<Kl here that the C. V. White 

 I.uiuher Company of Boonville. lud.. will move 

 Its handmill. now located at that place, to Kv- 

 ansville. where they will locate on the Illinois 

 Central near the new plant of the Henry Maley 

 I.umlH-r Company. This will add another to 

 life already large number of Evansville mills. 



V. A. Kyan of Chicago was in the city on 

 business a few days ago. 



William Threlkeld of the Indiana Quartered 

 Ciak Company. New York, spent a few days here 

 after having attended the meeting of the Indi 

 ana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association at In 

 dianapolis. 



Log buyers for the local mills that were called 

 In about two months ago are out again looking 

 for good logs. There has been very little buying 

 done the past two monthes except in two or 

 three instances, where they have been able to 

 pick up a few good bunches of logs at a dis 

 lount. .Most of the mills have good stocks of 

 logs on their yards and along the railroad tracks 

 and rivers reaily for loading. 



A suit that promises to be very interesting is 

 that of Aaron Votaw of .Mount Carmel, 111., 

 against A. .1. I'cK.rman of Mill Shoals. 111., for 



!!4(i. 1. Votaw claims that he sold his himher 



Imsiness at Mount Carmel to Poorman and that 

 hefiue the trade was consummated, lire broke out 

 and destroyed his jilant. Then, he says. I'oor- 

 inan refused lo take the business whi<h he had 

 conlracied for. The case has many complica 

 tlons. 



Chattanooga. 



The Chattanoo;;a Wliri-lhiirrow \ Truck Com 

 pany. successor of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow 

 * Maniifa<lurlng Company, lias purchased a tract 

 of four acres of land just outside the corporation 

 limits i>M the Kelt railway, upon which will Ix' 

 erected an expensivi' plant for the manufacture 

 of wheelbarrows, triiiks eliv The jilant at ICast 

 Lake will lie used for the manufacture of cross 

 arms after lieing erpilpped with machinery of 

 the latest design. The crossarm plant will be In 

 charge of H. .1. Noblett and his son. A. H. Nob- 

 lelt. of Chicago, will have charge of this new 

 plant. They removed here recently frriin the 

 Windy City. A. H. Noblett was recently married 

 III Chicago and he brought his bride with him. 



.\ll the furniture factories of this city have n-- 

 Slimed operatli>ns ex<'epting that of the Loomis & 

 Hart Manufacturing I'ompan.v and Ibis concern 

 will resume operations l-'ebruary 1. 



c. H. Hitchcock of the Berlin Machine Works 

 of lieloit. Wis., whose lieadiiuarters are in .Mont- 

 gomery, is In the city. 



J'rert Arn of the .1. .\I. Card Lumber Company, 

 a director in the National Lumber I-:xporlers' 



fl III:; 



Association, has gone to aiieiHl fto 

 the association In .\ew Orleans. 



F. W. Blair of the Kaiiihiirst Lumber Company 

 of Itainhiirst. Ca.. was a recent visitor in the 

 city. 



M. M. Krb. formerly of the Casel'owler I.iiin 

 her Company but now with the Central Manii 

 facturing Company of Connersvllle, Ind.. was a 

 recent visitor here. 



All the Imnher concerns of this section have 

 made inventories and they find that they did an 

 enormous business last year, barring of course 

 the last two or three months. Tin* .1. M. Card 

 Lumber Company found that they had about two- 

 iliirds the stock of poplar they had the year be- 

 fore and about half the stock of iiuartered oak. 



finly four of the local mills were operated 

 through the panic — the Williams & Voris Lum- 

 ber Company, the McLean Lumber Company, the 

 Loomis & Hart Manufacturing I'ompniiy and the 

 I'uion Lumber Company. The latter c<incern ran 

 ten hours a day and made no cut in forces or 

 wages. i'racticaily all the mills have resuiue<l 

 operations. Some have shut down because of a 

 surplus of logs and others in order to make 

 repairs and take stock. 



Speaking of the situation. Kred .\rii of the J. 

 M. Card Lumber Company, said ; "I think the 

 situation is very much improved. Imiuiries are 

 <'funing in witli greater activity an<i I believe 

 prices will have an upward tendency in the near 

 future. We made a good sale of I.'iO.oiiti feet of 

 oak recently. I am satisfied the financial flurry 

 is practically over." 



Cajit. A. .1. fJahagan of the Loomis & Hart 

 .Manufai'turing Company says: "While business 

 has been very dull it is now improving some- 

 what, although it is not what it was before the 

 tiurry came. I think there will he a scarcity in 

 dry slocks soon. We have a sufTicient amount of 

 logs to run until April. The recent logging tide 

 brought down the river a good lot. I think the 

 river mills have received since the first of the 

 year about 2.000.000 feet of logs." 



St. Louis. 



.\l the annual election of the liuplciiient and 

 Vehiile Board of Trade, held .lanuary l.'i at the 

 .lefferson Hotel, the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: I'resldent II. M. 

 Blake, vice president and general manager of 

 the I'arlin & Orendorit Company; lirst vice 

 president. I'. K. Khrenz. general superintendent 

 of the .lohn Deere I'low Company: .second vice 

 president. .1. S. Cathey. president of the Itcgal 

 Buggy Company: third vice president. L. A. 

 Ceserich. a.ssistant secretary of the Moon Broth- 

 ers Carriage Company: fourth viie president, 

 Carl lllrdler. of the .Sligo Iron Store Company; 

 tifili vice president. K. J. Towers, vice presi- 

 dent of the McCabe-rowers Wagon Company; 

 W. C. Ilowland, secretary, and (Jeorge .M. Iloff- 

 man. treasurer, local manager of the Itepubllc 

 Rubber Company. These two last officers were 

 both reelected for Hie fourth time. Mr. Blake is 

 well i|uallli<'d for Hie presidency of the assmdn- 

 tliui. He has line executive iiliillly and has a 

 wide experience ill general railroad and trade 

 abuses. The lm|)leiiicnt and Vehicle Board of 

 Tra<Ie Is composed of the leading liiipleinent and 

 vi'hicle manufacturers and the aciessory trades 

 and the total capital represented by Its mem- 

 ljerslil|i Is (lerhaps larger than that of any other 

 local commercial organization, with possibly the 

 exception of the Business Mens' League of St. 

 Louis. 



The Kced ,i« Steeger Sash and Hoor Com- 

 pany have purchased property in the southern 

 part of the city which will lie used fiU' manii 

 facturing purposes. The hiilldlng now on It will 

 be enlarged and altered for their factory and 

 they expect lo have It ready to occupy within 

 two or three weeks. 



The annual meeting of the slockliolilers of 

 the Mechanics' I'lanlng Mill was held a few- 

 days ago and the thirteen directors and offi- 

 cers were re-elected. 



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I li'- 1 . .1 Kiii>-:;>i 4 III r iau«- iiinl U ii^oii Man 

 ufMi-ltirliiK 4'niii|iiiii.v tlU'd iir(lrl**s n( int-or|Mii-n 

 lion rt'ot'tnly. with a rapltul sKkW of $lo.oiHi. 

 fully piiUI. The Inoorpoi-iilors Hre T. J. KUiegel. 

 <;('oiKi* i*. Klih'uel. KllxHtifth Kliict;*'! and I.(Milsi> 

 l\\\if iic\. 



A rfcnnt visitor to Sr. Louis wiis It. M. I'fil- 

 lock. presi(|i-nt of the 1». M. i'ollock l.umher 

 i'ompany. u well-known concern enpaifpd In the 

 hiii'dwnod Imsiness nt Atlanta, (in. 



W. \V. IilnKs of the <iaretson(ireason Lumber 

 t'timpany Is out on a selling Irlp for the com- 

 I>any. lie h-ft last week and ex|>eets to be ab- 

 sent for a couple of weeks. 



K. W. Itlunier. general sales manager of the 

 Lothman Cypress Company, left a few days aso 

 ou a selling trip. 



As was stated in a recent Issue r»f tlic IIaki* 

 wuoi> Kk<'<ii{|). the Lumber Kxchan«e of St. 

 Louis, the Hetnll Lumber Healers' Association of 

 St, Louis and the new Lumbernii-n's Club have 

 adjoining othces in the Wright huihlin^. Itooms 

 !tl7-!H'l have t»een rented and it is expected will 

 be ready for <tceupany in a few weeks. 



Krom the way business has begun at the 

 yards of the Charles K. Luehruiann Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, a good business during the 

 pre.seut year is looked lor. There is now a 

 fairly good demand for all classes of hardwood 

 lumber reported by I bat company. 



A decided improvement in ihe hardwood busi- 

 ness is reported by the luternatioual Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, of which W. K. Keown Is 

 president. Mr. Keown reports more inijuiries 

 and more sales than have been received or made 

 in some time. 



Theodore I'lummer. president of the I'lummer 

 Lumber Company, says business, although quiet. 

 is as g04Kl as could be expected. lie thinks it Is 

 only a matter of a short time before spring 

 buying will begin and he is getting ready to take 

 care of It when orders begin to arrive. 



W. A. Bonsack. president of the Itonsack 

 Lumber Company, feels greatly encouraged at 

 ilie outlook for spring business, although little 

 has come in up to date. He is not doing any 

 less Imsiness than the other hardwood people, 

 for all of them are having a quiet time. 



The stockholders of the John J. ilanahl Lum 

 ber Company held their annual meeting last 

 week and elected the following ollicers and dl 

 rectors for the ensuing year: John C. tianabl. 

 president ; Frederick A. (lerber. vice president, 

 and Xlcludas L. Hrun, secretary. The forego- 

 UvA oHicers constitute the board of directors. 



tJeorge K. Cottrlll. secretary ni the Atner- 

 ican Hardwood Lumber Company, says business 

 Is beginning to show improvement. Inquiries 

 are (piite numerous and some good orders have 

 been booked. 



H. A. Singer, manager of Hie New York of- 

 fice of tlie American IIardwt>od Company, has 

 been In the city for several days, ;;elllng infor- 

 mation as lo stocks, etc. He says conditions In 

 tlie Kasi are brightening up and that he antici- 

 pates a good brisk trade when spring business 

 opens up. 



Ceorge K. Hlbbard. vice president of the 

 Steele & Hlbbard Lumber Company, who has 

 been through the South on a pleasure trip, has 

 returned. He spent part of the time at New 

 Orleans, taking life easy and enjoying himself. 

 He reports a ipilet business thus far this year. 



Nashville. 

 Nashville lumbermen are protesting vigorously 

 against an advance made by the local railroads 

 lo points In the Kast and to Cana<l[an points. 

 and are protestln;: quite as strong agiiinst the 

 increase In the minimum of carload lots from 

 ;in.oiHl to :;4.iilM) pounds. In fact, so stirred 

 up are they over the affair that a meeting will 

 likely he called In the near future to determine 

 whether or not the matter will be taken I>efr>re 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission. The order 

 about which there is so much kicking Is In sub- 

 stance as follows : "liXreclIve i .'i.c,,.i >y 2 1 he 



