HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Employes of Joe I>. Davis and O. 1'. Hughes, at 

 Midway, Tenn., went out ou a strike last week, 

 owing to a discrepancy in the wage scale. The 

 plant lias been temporarily closed down, but it 

 i> hoped the matter will soon he adjusted. 



Valentine Luppert. president of the Luppert 

 Lumber Company of Butler. Tenn., and E. E. 

 Bradley, president of the Whiting Lumber Com- 

 pany of Elizabethton, Tenn., were visitors among 

 local lumbermen last week. 



.1. II. Bryan, president of the Bryan Lumber 

 Company of this city, has returned from New 

 York, where he has been in conference with 

 lumbermen from Antwerp with reference to a 

 big deal he is anticipating. The Bryan Lumber 

 Company is doing a good export business, and 

 has been very successful along this line. 



The Alabama-Tennessee Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its annual meeting at Chatta- 

 nooga, Tenn., in August. James A. Stone, pres- 

 ident of the Stone-Huling Lumber Company of 

 this city, is an officer of the association. The 

 lumbermen in this section are much interested 

 in the comparatively new organization and the 

 attendance will doubtless be large. 



Joe P. Davis has returned from Midway, 

 Tenn., where he has been in the interest of his 

 lumber operations in Greene county. He reports 

 conditions encouraging and the strike situation 

 almost settled. 



II. G. Manson was here last week from New 

 York, making contracts for oak and poplar for 

 export. 



A. C. Franch, a prominent lumberman of Ant- 

 werp, Belgium, was in Bristol last week on busi- 

 ness with the Bryan Lumber Company of this 

 ■city. 



Paul W. Fleck of the Faul W. Fleck Lumber 

 ■Company left this week for points in Virginia 

 in the interest of his business. 



A. A. Fleenor of the Bryan Lumber Company 

 is spending several df.ys at Mountain City. Tenn., 

 in the interest of the company's business. 



William S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing Company of Elizabethton, Tenn.. was a 

 visitor among local lumbermen last week. 



Fred Hughes, resident manager of Price & 

 Heald of Baltimore, Md.. has returned from a 

 business trip to points in Virginia and West 

 Virginia. He reports business good. 



The lumber and planing mills of Catogni Bros., 

 at Roanoke, Va.. together with a small amount 

 of lumber, was destroyed by fire on May 3, and 

 a loss of something over $20,000 entailed. 



G. H. Angel of New York was in Bristol last 

 week buying export oak. Mr. Angel stated that 

 he was buying this stock in large quantities in 

 this section and was finding a good foreign 

 market for same. 



Dwight D. Ilartlove of the Tug River Lumber 

 Company has been ill for several days. 



Detroit. 



The steamer Portage has been purchased by 

 P. T. Gray, a Detroit attorney, from the Craig 

 Shipbuilding Company of Toledo, and will be 

 used in the general lumber trade. 



The schooner R. P. Mason, loaded with 00.000 

 feet of hardwood lumber from Gladstone. Mich., 

 went ashore five miles north of Cedar River 

 and has been towed to Marinette with a broken 

 back. 



The Dennis & Smith Lumber Company have 

 had their assessed valuation raised from $100,000 

 to $150,000 by the board of city assessors. 



A large area of open water, useful only for 

 floating logs, is to be filled in and made available 

 as a lumber yard by the Detroit Lumber Com- 

 pany, whose plant is situated at the foot of 

 Chene street. This will afford river frontage 

 accessible to lake craft of almost any draft, and 

 additional capacity for piling lumber to the 

 amount of 3,500.000 feet. The discontinuance 

 of the sawmill plant has resulted in a material 

 Increase in the planing mill capacity of the com- 

 pany. The Detroit Lumber Company, although 



dealing extensively in pine lumber, handle much 

 maple and birch woods. 



Addison P. Brewer, a Michigan lumberman of 

 the old regime, died in Saginaw, aged 70 years. 

 He was a brother of the late Congressman Mark 

 Brewer and father-in-law of E. II. Pearson, a 

 Chicago banker. 



Truman II. Newberry of Detroit, who becomes 

 assistant secretary of the navy, is the moving 

 force in the Packard Automobile Company, large 

 users ml hardwood for bodies. 



"A more substantial progress than that made 

 by Detroit would be hard to find," says Presi- 

 dent Bielman of the Board of Commrece. He 

 says thai sixty-eight new companies have' been 

 incorporated during the first four months of 

 1905, with authorized capital of $S,655,500. 

 Many lumber concerns are included in this list. 



The recent strike at Clayton Gibson's Wolver- 

 ine box factory has been declared off. 



Cleveland. 



W. W. Reilley of W. W. Reilley & Bro., Buf- 

 falo, X. Y.. was a Cleveland visitor last week. 



W. K. Hamner, representing X. B. McCarly, 

 Clarksburg, W. Va., and W. E. Hooper, repre- 

 senting the Johnson & Knox Lumber Company, 

 Chicago, called ou the local trade last week. 



F. T. Peitch, head of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Advance Lumber Company of this 

 city, made a business trip to Buffalo last week. 

 He reports New York state trade as being in a 

 very satisfactory condition. 



The office force of the Robert H. Jenks Lum- 

 ber Company has organized a baseball nine. Last 

 year it crossed bats with the Advance Lumber 

 Company's nine and was badly beaten. This 

 year it hopes to have better success. 



W. A. Cool left last week for a business thip 

 through western Ohio. 



The sale of 500,000 feet of poplar, to be 

 shipped at the rate of three cars a week, was 

 among the local transactions of last week. The 

 stock goes into a local box factory. 



The demand for the better grades of plain oak 

 is still greater than the supply, dry stock being 

 exceedingly scarce. Quartered oak is in less 

 demand and prices are not as firm. 



New Orleans. 



The extension of railroads through northern 

 Louisiana and into the delta lands of western 

 Mississippi is expected to bring about the open- 

 ing of a considerable section of hardwood land 

 that has hitherto been difficult of access and 

 hardly with any effect on hardwood trade. In 

 northern Louisiana the Gould system is extend- 

 ing its lines looking toward connection with the 

 Texas ,K: Pacific, and opening vast regions of 

 oak back of Lake Providence and further south 

 in Catahoula parish. In central Louisiana, in 

 St. Landry parish, oak land is being tapped by 

 the Opelousas, Gulf & Northwestern Railroad. 

 In Mississippi the railroad development is throw- 

 ing into touch with the timber world the land 

 in Sunflower county and in the lowlands of the 

 delta adjoining the hills. This development 

 together with the recent visit of hardwood men 

 from Michigan, has been watched with keen 

 interest by the holders of the hardwood lands. 



Increase,! sugar can,' acreage for the ensuing 

 year, estimated to be fully ten per cent, to- 

 gether witli the announcement that next season 

 a vast deal of Cuban sugar will be brought here 

 for refining, and the fact that the capacity of 

 the American Sugar Refining Plaut will be 

 doubled, has served to increase by twofold the 



business of |pers and by more than twofold 



the coopers whose specialty is the oak slave. 



The Louisiana Cooperage Companj reci 

 purchased the pian : ng mill an. I 1 yard of 

 S. It Moir.it. and will double iis capacity. A 

 number of other coopers here are adding to their 

 establishments. 



The Guenard Furniture Company, to man 

 ture and sell furniture made from Louisiana and 

 Mississippi hardwoods, is the latest addition to 



the handlers of hardw 1 in New Orleans. The 



company w*ll begin operations very shortly, and 

 will have its output on the market next autumn. 



The demand tor oak slaves has increased for 

 export purposes during the month, several ships 

 having taken considerable cargoes 10 the south 

 of Europe. German} has also taken several 

 lame cargoes. 



It has developed during the 1 ith that the 



big lumber syndicate that is supposed to be cor- 

 ralling all the pine land in southern Mississippi 



has not paid any attention to the hardw I 



lands of southwestern Mississippi or to any of 

 the hardwood lands of the Mississippi delta. 



The Southern Vehicle Manufacturing Company 

 will double its capacity and will make special 

 arrangements for its supplies of spokes, timber. 

 etc.. from northern Louisiana. 



St. Louis. 



J. L. Lane, who recently severed his connec- 

 tion with the East St. Louis Walnut Company, 

 has removed to Chicago and engaged in the 

 general wholesaling of lumber. In that market 

 he will represent William Buchanan in the yel- 

 low pine trade. He has also allied himself with 

 several hardwood and cypress mills. 



The Bonsack Lumber Company transacted a 

 heavy business during April and at the same 

 time was able in its buying department to pick 

 up considerable lumber at southern points of 

 supply and is therefore in a position to take 

 good care of both present and prospective busi- 

 ness. 



The Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company states that its business has never been 

 heavier during a similar period than it has been 

 thus far this spring, and as its own mills are 

 now running on full time it is able to ship its 

 own product, of which it has a reasonable supply 

 in shipping dry condition. 



Two Hoo-Hoo concatenations in which St. 

 Louis was interested were held last week at 

 Marianna. Ark., and Cape Girardeau, Mo. At 

 both of these the classes of initiates were large, 

 the Marianna affair having been attended by A. 

 C. Ramsey, Junior Hoo-Hoo of the order, and 

 T. A. Moore. Vicegerent Snark of the Eastern 

 District of Missouri, having had charge at Cape 

 Girardeau. 



Kansas City. 



A. L. Houghton returned a few days ago 

 from a trip to northeastern Arkansas, where he 

 is interested in the hardwood manufacturing 

 business. He says that while there it was 

 practically impossible to work to advantage in 

 the woods, as the water in many places was 

 waist deep, and while it was too high to work 

 with teams, it was not high enough to float the 

 logs to the mills. The mills in that vicinity 

 have seldom experienced so much trouble from 

 wet weather as this spring. 



J. H. Tschudy expresses the opinion that the 

 hardwood trade will lie satisfactorily active 

 through the summer, especially locally, owing 

 to the great activity in building circles here. 

 He reports quite a little call for mahogany, 

 which is rather low iu price. Mr. Tschudy has 

 paneled the counter in his new office with Afri- 

 can mahogany in its natural color, and the 

 effect is quite striking, as viewed from one 

 direction the wood closely resemble 

 skin, while viewed from the opposite direction 

 the appearance is entirely different, the grain 

 showing a much darker color. 



A. II. Connellj reports a good demand and 

 a strong inquiry, especially for plain oak. His 

 lias been satisfactory throughout th< 

 spring both locally and from tl 

 Mr. Connelly made some good contracts 1 

 In- was south a month or so ago. and - 

 that his stock 1 ming in nicely, giving him 

 a good assortment, so that as a rule he has 

 1, en handling hi< orders with promptn 



John Merrill of chat their 



trade has been brisk this season, although 110c 



