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With the Trade 



F. T. Dooley Lumber Company Incorporated 

 Tho r. T. liooloy Lumbor Company liiis been Incorporatod at Memphis 

 durint; the past few days willi a capital stock of ?20,000. K. T. Dooley 

 Is president. \V. L. Crensliaw vice-president and T. E. Jones secretary and 

 treasurer. Mr. Dooley entered tlie lumber business on his own account 

 following the dissolution of the Dooley-Stern Lumber Company, in which 

 he was a partner. With the incorporation he has purchased the yards of 

 his former partners and is now usinn tho.se. The yards have a capacity of 

 from l.OOO.ono to 3,000.000 feet of lumber. An office building has been 

 erected on the yards and the Arm has removed to this from the Randolph 

 buildins. W. L. Crenshaw is president of the Memphis Hardwood Floor- 

 Ins Company and is one of the officers of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber 

 Company. He is also identified with otlRT lumber and wood-worliing 

 •enterprises in this section. Mr. .Tones was formerly employed by the 

 C. B. Dudley Lumber Company. Mr. Dooley has been Identified with the 

 lumber business here for a number of years and brings to his new enter- 

 prise quite a wide e.xperionce. 



Eiel Lumber Company Incorporated at Memphis 

 The Riel Lumber Company has been incorporated at Memphis with a 

 capital stock of $30,000. W. L. Crenshaw and F. E. Gary of the Cren- 

 shaw-Gary Lumber Comp-iny are among the incorporators. Geo. F. Reil, 

 for a number of years associated with the Paepcke Leicht Lumber Com- 

 pany, from whom the new firm takes its name, is also one of the prin- 

 cipal stockholders in the new enterprise. 



Business Changes Announced 



The Croft Lumber Company of Clarksburg. W. Va.. has announced the 

 election of J. Gibson Mcllvain of Philadelphia, president to succeed 

 J. H. Henderson, who resigned to organize with his brother the Hender- 

 son Brothers Lumber Company of Clarksburg. W. Va. The Croft company 

 has removed its sales office from Clarksburg to Alexander, W. Va., and 

 has appointed J. W. Sullivan general manager at the Alexander mill. 

 The Henderson Brothers Lumber Company will occupy offices in the 

 Empire building. Clarksburg. 



Furniture Factory at New Bremen 



At a recent meeting of the directors of. the Auglaize Furniture Com- 

 pany it was decided to erect a furniture factory at New Bremen, O. 

 The building will consist of one story and will be erected near the site 

 of the Klaukc factory. Work will be commenced at once, and will con- 

 tinue through the winter whenever the state of the weather permits. 



Receiver for Hardwood Company 



Paul Johnson has been appointed receiver for the .\tlanta Hardwood 

 Company of Atlanta, Ga. A petition bad been filed in the Superior Court 

 surrendering the charter. The company was incorporated some time ago. 

 and was thought to be In good condition. A slow market and other 

 difficulties are said to have caused the company to surrender its charter. 



Large Sale of Hardwood 



A sale of the hardwood timber on a 23.000 acre tract was recently 

 consummated near Bristol, Va.. for !f2."0.000 by Charles F. Hagan. trustee 

 of the estate of his father, Patrick Hagan. The sale included the timber 

 only, and the land with its underlying coal was reserved. 



Patrick Hagan was once the largest land owner in Virginia. He 

 bought hundreds of thousands of acres of southwest Virginia lauds at 

 ten cents per acre. Some years ago he sold to the Virginia Iron, Coal 

 & Coke Company a boundary of 114,000 acres for $114,000. This prop- 

 erty is now estimated to be worth several millions of dollars. Mr. 

 Hagan thought at the time that he was getting a big price. 



Lumberman's Son Brings Glory to Cornell 



W. IL Fritz. Jr.. son of W. H. Frllz of W. H. Fritz & Co.. a young 

 athlete and member of the Cornell football team, has in a day become 

 famous, having played end and half back for Cornell in the Pennsylvania 

 vs. Cornell game on Thanksgiving day. when the Quakers were defeated. 

 It was through his admirable work in Ihese positions that his team won. 



Earl Palmer Entertains 

 Earl Palmer of Ferguson & Palmer, formerly of Paducah. Ky., but now 

 operating In Mississippi, recently organized a party of unusual interest. 

 which was composed of quite n number of men prominent in hardwood 

 lumber circles. Those attending came by special Invitation from Mr. 

 Palmer to visit the company's operations in the neighborhood of New 

 Houlka, Miss., about 110 miles soutiieast of Memphis. The guests were 

 met at Memphis with special car which took them to New Houlka, where 

 they were well entertained. While the trip was ostensibly a sight- 

 seeing tour, most of the guests carried their hunting equipment with 

 them and are reported to have had some successful shooting. The party 

 spent the entire time with headquarters in the special car, utilizing it as 

 their sleeping and eating quarters. 



Death of A. E. Hoffman 



At the lime of the recent death of A. K. lIolTman of the lIolTman Brothers 

 <"ompany. Fort Wayne, Ind., information was not available on which 

 II.vHDwooD Recoiid could base story of Mr. Hoffman's life. llArtuwoOD 

 1:ecord believes, however, that the trade will appreciate a short sketch 

 ef Mr. HolTman's career In the lumber business. 



He was born In IKW In the country near Newburg, N. Y. His parents. 

 Mary and Nathan E. Holfman, died when Mr. Hoffman was a boy, leaving 

 him, three brothers and three sisters, all under age, to shift for them- 

 selves. The young family moved to Frederick. Md., about IS.'iO, where 

 the boys earned a living in various ways. A. E. Hoffman shortly Iwfore 

 the war loft the rest of the family and went to Fairmount, then in 

 Virginia. When the war broke out ho enlisted in the Confederate array 

 and served with distinction all through the war. .\t the close of the 

 conflict the brothers and sisters were pretty well scattered, but A. E. 

 Hoffman came to Indiana and was impressed with the possibilities of 

 hardwood development. He succeeded in interesting two of his brothers. 

 J. K. and W. H.. and they started a mill in 1SG6 at Oswego. Ind. Two 

 years later they moved to Fort Wayne, Ind.. on account of the railroad 

 which had come in there. Since then he and his brothers and those 

 associated with him have always been identified with the lumber busi- 

 ness. While they almost always had mills at different points in the 

 country, the old mill at Fort Wayne has been in continuous operation 

 and is still running. This mill is somewhat interesting as being the 

 place where the three Hoffman brothers built their first experimental 

 band mill, this being the first band mill in the United States to saw a 

 carload of lumber. They manufactured 'band mins for fifteen or twenty 

 years under their patents, but confined most of their attention to oper- 

 ating their own plants. 



Mr. HoUman was married in 1S71 to Emma Freeman of Fort Wayne. 

 They bad one daughter, who died in 1910. During the whole course 

 of his life Mr. Hoffman and the company with which he was identified 

 stood as models of integrity and honesty and he leaves vacant an honored 

 place in the hardwood industry of the country. 



The business of the Hoffman Brothers Company will continue un- 

 affected by his death, as the firm had been incorporated a number of 

 years ago and the active management has been in the hands of younger 

 members of the family. 



Death of Sigmund Heineman 



On November 26. in the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, occurred the 

 death of Sigmund Heineman of Merrill. Wis., in his sixty-second year. 

 He was born in Germany. He became a citizen of Lincoln count.v. Wis., 

 in 1880. and engaged in the mercantile, banking, land and lumber busi- 

 ness. He was a Mason, Elk, Odd Fellow and a member of tho Jewish 

 church. 



Pertinent Information 



Lmnber Cut and Shipments 

 The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association has sent out a report 

 showing the cut and shipments of lumber, by specified numbers of mills, 

 for each month from November. 1012. to October, 1913, both inclusive. 

 The showing is as follows : 



No. of Mills M Feet- 



Reporting. 

 November, 1912 



December, 1912 .... 

 January, 1913 .... 

 February. 1913 .... 



March, 1913 ' i-* i 



April, 1913 80i 1 



Ma.v, 1913 721 1 



June, 1913 <0o 1. 



•luly. 1913 -583 1 



August. 1913 fi94 1 



September. 1913 758 1 



October, 1913 726 1 



Totals 13 



Comparisons, month with month, by takin; 

 month in 1912 and in 191 



692 

 70,5 



71.'> 



Shipped. 

 1,091,800 



919.400 

 1.019,200 



994.800 

 1,212.800 

 l,l(!.->,-.00 

 ',(1,000 



1.07 



500 



No. of 

 Mills. 



January 629 



Februarv 620 



ilarch 029 



April 629 



May 629 



June 636 



July ■'■>.'i6 



.\ueust 573 



September 598 



October 593 



Totals 



are shown below : 

 —Cut, M Feet— 



1912. 



683,100 



804,500 



856,200 



94.5,400 



1,100.200 



1.118.600 



1.084,400 



1,139.700 



1,072,300 



1,139,100 



1913. 



889.200 



849,800 



994,400 



1,064,900 



1.231.600 



1.117.100 



1.085.100 



1.107.400 



1.069,400 



1,051,400 



,626,200 



the same milli 



Shipments, 



1912. 



805.000 



888.500 



970.000 



1,028.400 



1.140.700 



1.073.700 



1.192,700 



1,180,500 



1,037.400 



1,072,300 



1.088.600 

 1.154,100 

 1,127,100 

 1,162.800 



13,242,600 

 lis for the 



M Feet. 



1913. 



987,600 



923,900 



1.059,100 



1.006,100 



1.131,700 



990,600 



978,000 



1,045,000 



980,400 



1.042,400 



9,944.500 10,400,300 10,299,900 10,144,800 



Feet. 

 Decrease in cut during October, 1913, under October, 1912.... 87,700,000 



Decrease in shipments during October, 1913, under October, 



mi" 30,900.000 



Excess cut over shipments during October. 1912 65,800,000 



Excess cut over shipments during October, 1913 9,000,000 



