August 2"!, lUl." 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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intorpst in llio contemplated oiionins up (if u largo subdivision adjoinin;; 

 Hydo I'ark, one of the finest residential suljurbs in tbis vicinity. A large 

 tract, comprising several buiidred acres, has been purcliascd by a com- 

 pany and grading and building operations will soon be begun. It is said 

 tbat tbc purchasing company intends to do most o£ the building itself 

 instead of selling the lots to individuals. This, of course, will greatly 

 enhance the building operations now in progress inasmuch as it will mean 

 the work will start simultaneously on a large number of buildings. The 

 project undoubtedly will be one of the largest from a building standpoint 

 attempted here for some time and the lumbermen will derive much benefit 

 when actual work is started, and it is said that no time will be lost in 

 getting operations under way. 



lieasonably fair business is reported by the Anchor Lumber Company, 

 but this lirni is authority for the statement that poplar and oak now ari' 

 becoming quite slow, this being quite the opposite from the situation in 

 the East. Ash is in better demand and chestnut seems to be improving 

 Slowly. 



The next meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, and the first under the new 

 administration, will be held the Urst Monday in !?eptember. This will 

 be the tirst convening of the club members for some weeks, inasmuch as 

 quite a while ago the idea of a weekly meeting at luncheon was given 

 up for the summer. These meetings every week may be resumed in tin' 

 fall and winter, but nothing definite has as yet been decided. 



The Stratemcyer Luml)er Company, ncnv occupying otlices in the Lin- 

 coln Inn Court on Main street, is branching out and has acquired a largi' 

 yard in the west end at Dalton and Oeliler streets. The concern will move 

 Its offices to the new location about Septeiuber 1. It is the intention of 

 the company to carry a large slock on hand in the yards, which are of 

 considerable proportions. 



=-< TOLEDO >= 



The Hooth Column Company npnrts a nice line of orders from east- 

 ern markets. The concern is working steadily at fair capacity. 



Supplementing the .$2,500,000 order placed in July by the Haltimore 

 & Ohio for t'quipment, additional orders amounting to a million dollars 

 were placed a few days ago. The orders included 1,000 cars for imme- 

 diate delivery. 



-V curiosity is being exhibited at I'"remont, O. Excavations were being 

 made for a telephone pole recently when the remains of an old log house, 

 remnant of the frontier days, was unearthed and found to be in good 

 condition. 



The Skinner Bending Company reports orders fair for this season 

 of the year and prices holding fairly well. 



— — -< INDIANAPOLIS >- 



The Fuller Lumber Company, l^eliauon. recently shipped several cars 

 of black walnut to the Long-Knight Lumber Company of this city. 



Law-reuce Daugherty, representing the British government, is buying 

 walnut for gunstocks in nortliern Indiana, shipping the timber to mills 

 at Logansport. East St. Louis and Nashville, Tenn. 



The William P. Johnson Lumber Company has the contract for the 

 mahogany, red birch and oak interior tinish for a $200,000 dwelling being 

 C'rected here for Stoughton .-\. Fletcher, a banker. 



O. A. Miller, E. G. Kemper and C. II. Shumakcr, all of Richmond, have 

 organized the Boston Lumber Company at Boston, Ind.. with .^lo.OOii 

 capital to conduct a general lumber business. 



-< EVANSVILLE > 



Mortice E. Taylor of Maley & Wcrtz, and secretary of the Evansville 

 Lumbermen's Club, left a few days ago in his automobile for a trip to 

 Chicago and Milwaukee. He expected to be gone about two weeks. 



At a recent meeting of the Tell City Planing Mills at Tell City. Ind., 

 the following officers were elected after the company had been duly in- 

 corporated ; President, John K. Kreisle ; vice-president. M. J. Kreisle ; 

 secretary and treasurer, Ivan F. Kreisle. Fred Kreisle. who for many 

 years was interested in the company, has retired to -engage in other 

 business. 



The veneer plants in Evansville and surrounding country have been 

 operated on good time during the past few weeks. Trade with the Evans- 

 ville Veneer Company is especially good. 



Charles VonBehren, secretary and treasurer of the VonBohren Manu- 

 facturing Company, maker of spokes and hubs, has returned from a sev- 

 eral weeks' trip to San Francisco and coast towns. 



Local manufacturers report that they continue to get all the logs they 

 need and they have been buying lately in more liberal quantities than 

 they did a few months ago. Some of the mills have quite a supply of 

 logs on hand. 



The Evansville Hotel Building Company has been organized here and 

 will file articles of incorporation with the secretary of state at Indian- 

 apolis in a few days. The company will build a new hotel at the corner 

 of First and Locust streets here that will cost in the neighborhood of 

 S-500.000. The new house will be named the Hotel McCurdy in honor of 

 William H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Buggy Company, and a 

 heavy stockholder in the hotel building company. Mr. McCurdy is a 

 director in the new company, as are B. F. VonBehren of the VonBehren 

 Manufacturing Company, and A. F. Karges of the Karges Furniture Com- 

 pany. Most of the stock for the new hotel has been subscribed and paid 



We are back on the job 

 with a fine new mill 



If you know lumber you know the Stacks' 

 reputation as experienced lumbermen. 



With many years of practical experience behind 

 us we planned our new mill carefully and de- 

 liberately. Now, having piled up a fine lot of 

 northern hardwoods, we want to demonstrate 

 what the right timber, experienced personnel 

 and a perfect plant can do. 



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