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HARDWOOD RECORD 



as urgent just now as it was last month. He 

 looks for a lair demand through the summer. 



The Dierks Lumber & Coal Company report 

 quite an active call for oak bridge stock during 

 the past month. 



E. J. Stanton, a prominent wholesaler of 

 Los Angeles, Cal., was in Kansas City on May 

 4. on his way home from a trip to Memphis 

 and other hardwood centers. Mr. Stanton is 

 an extensive dealer in hardwood flooring and 

 reports a strong demand in Los Angeles this 

 on, "wing to the activity in building at that 

 point. 



Cincinnati. 



The annual election of officers of the Cincin- 

 nati Lumbermen's Club occurred at the monthly 

 meeting and dinner held May 1 at the Stag 

 cafe. I. M. Asher was chosen president ; F. W. 

 Sray, first vice president; C. H. Pease, sec- 

 ond vice president : Benjamin Bramlage, treas- 

 urer, and E. J. Thotnan, secretary. 



In addition to the selection of new officials it 

 was decided to boom J. Watt Graham of this 

 city for the secretaryship of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumbermen's Association at the annual 

 convention to be held in Buffalo, May 18 and 19. 

 For this purpose a rallying committee consisting 

 of I. M. Asher, W. A. Bennett and J. E Tuthlll 

 was appointed. About twenty members from this 

 city expect to go to Buffalo. It was also ar- 

 ranged for the club to join the Cincinnati Asso- 

 ciation Organization, a body of business interests, 

 and a committee composed of l W. Mowbray, 

 W. A. Bennett and C. F. Korn was appointed to 

 represent the club. 



O. P. Hurd & Co. have removed their offices 

 from this city to Cairo, 111., where their yards 

 are located. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Wittc returned the 

 part of the month from Memphis, where 

 be went to look after the business of their office 

 in that city. 



M. It. Farrin of M. B- l'arrin & Co. is home 

 from a trip to Lexington, Ky., where he attended 

 a meeting of Kentucky mill men. An appeal 

 will be made to the government to change cer- 

 tain locks and dams in Kentucky streams, a reso- 

 lution to that effect having been adopted. 



James H. Bryan, president of the Bryan Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, with headquarters at 

 Bristol, Tenn., was a visitor the latter part of 

 April. His company will establish a Cincinnati 

 office and yards as soon as a suitable location 

 can be secured. 



Reports have reached this city that the Clear- 

 field Lumber Company of Clearfield, Pa., has 

 begun a survey for a new line of railway from 

 Morehead, Rowan county, Ky., to Paragon in 

 Morgan county. The route will traverse up the 

 north fork of the Licking river and will be 

 twelve miles In length. The company owns sev- 

 eral thousand acres of fine timber and coal lands 

 and the ioad will give an outlet to the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio. 



The Hyde Fark Lumber & Coal Compan 

 Hyde Park, a suburb of Cincinnati, has changed 

 the name to the Hyde Park Lumber Company. 

 The company's hardwood lumber business has 

 developed to such an extent that it was decided 

 to quit dealing in coal altogether. 



Floyd Day of the Swan-Day Company, Clay 



,_ ,., | aiier on the trade the fore 



pari of May. He is optimistic regarding the 



e of poplar. 



i hr movement of lumber by railroad for April 



• implied by the Chamber of Commerce statls- 



,. follows: Receipts. G.221 cars; 



shipments, 3,099, For the corresponding month 



last ; ears were received and 4,281 



sent out. 



Km a number of local firms 



attended the public auction at Columbia. Ky., 



f timber lands In Adair 



,.,,,,,, o .lames Page, deceased. Bid- 



• iticago, Louisville, Memphis, 

 Albany and other cities. The McLean Com- 

 ,'l»any was purchaser at $37,500. 



Chattanooga. 



Chattanooga Hoo-Hoos held a very enthusias- 

 tic meeting at Turner Hall in this city Monday 

 evening. May 1, and initiated fifteen lumbermen 

 from this city and surrounding towns. W. H. 

 Yates, of Johnson City, Tenn., Vicegerent Snark 

 for eastern Tennessee, came over from Knos- 

 ville and conducted the affair. 



The Fowler-Personett Lumber Company, re- 

 cently incorporated in Birmingham, began oper- 

 ations at the new plant in North Birmingham 

 this week. 



The Arnold Lumber Company, of which C. C. 

 Arnold is president, manufacturers of poplar 

 siding, will install a new band resaw in a short 

 time. The concern will also abandon its retail 

 business and make a specialty of poplar siding. 

 This will be the only plant exclusively manu- 

 facturing poplar siding in the South, with the 

 exception of the plant at Atlanta. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company will in- 

 stall an edger and a trimmer at its yards in 

 Norfolk, Va. The company has about 2,000,000 

 feet of plain oak in its yards in Norfolk and 

 operates a dimension mill at this point. 



The Acme Box Company, which was recently 

 Incorporated in this city with $25,000 capital 

 stock, has purchased the Box Department of the 

 Acme Kitchen Furniture Company. Garnett 

 Andrews is president ; C. B. Watt, vice presi- 

 Sterling Miller, secretary, and O. B. An- 

 drews, treasurer and general manager. The 

 plant will be moved from the present location to 

 a site on Carter street. The company will man- 

 ufacture boxes and crates and make a specialty 

 of dove-tailed cottonwood boxes. 



The Alabama Coffin & Casket Company, which 

 was recently incorporated with $50,000 capital 

 with G. H. Garmany, J. C. Miller and H. C. 

 Smith of Chattanooga as incorporators, has 

 lanced the erection of a brick plant in 

 North Birmingham. The i. nil. ling will be twi 

 stories In heigh) and 50x130 feet in dimension. 

 11 C. Smith Is general manager of the com- 

 pany. 



The Tennessee Fiber Company has applied for 

 a charter with $100,000 capital stock, with H. 

 C. Adler, George B. David. Robert Davidson, 

 Frank Spurlock and W. A. Sadd as incorporators. 

 The company proposes to manufacture fiber 

 from wood and other materials. 



The Lookout Flanins Mills have been given 

 a big order for furnishing material for the con- 

 struction of houses for the camp of the Southern 

 Railway tunnel, which is now being extended 

 through Lookout mountain and which will be 

 completed in about two years at a cost of 

 $2, ,000. 



J. S. Fowler of the Fowler-Personett Lumber 

 Company of Birmingham has returned home after 

 seeing the Birmingham plant put in operation. 



J. D. Case of Rushville, Ind.. president of the 

 Case Lumber Company, will arrive in the city 

 Sunday. 



J. M. Card, president of the J. M. Card Lum- 

 ber Company, is in Alabama. 



EvansvUle. 



All the stocks and bonds held against the 

 Evansville Cabinet Manufacturing Company of 

 this city have been purchased by Maley & 

 Wertz. The purchasers have not yet decided 

 what they will do with the property. 



S. D. Albright of Nashville, Tenn. is In the 

 city looking after a barge of lumber for John 

 M. Smith of Dixon, Tenn. 



H. Scanlon. representing F. M. Creelman of 

 Chicago, has been here the past week overseeing 

 the taking up of a large amount of poplar lum- 

 ber. 



Nathan Thayer of the firm of May, Thompson 

 & Thayer has just returned from a four weeks' 

 trip through Indian Territory, where he has 

 been looking at some walnut timber. 



Daniel Wertz of the firm of Maley & Wertz 

 has been spending the past week at the com- 

 pany's Crammer, Ind., mill, looking after its in- 

 terests at that place. 



i I. river mills are all in operation and. owing 

 t.i the frequent heavy rains, the river is in good 

 condition for logging. 



HardWood Market. 



(By EABDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Beporters.) 



Chicago. 

 |i as said about the condition of the Chi- 

 cago hardwood market at this date the bi 



aggravating and uncalled-for teamsters' 

 strike which has prevailed in this city since 

 April it. and which now is apparently on the 

 ferge of settlement, did not materially affect the 



x „od lumber trade of Chicago until about 

 two weeks ago. While the teamsters engaged 

 In hauling lumber have not personally been 

 among the strikers, the strike condition that has 



died in a great many other lines of trade 

 • so seriously upset general business condi- 

 tions in this city that trade has been light and 

 in many cases almost nothing for several days. 

 In hundreds of cases drivers with loads of 

 lumber for delivery to various manufacturing in- 

 stitutions have been turned back either by the 

 strikers themselves or by the refusal of the 

 buyer to accept stock at this time. Wholesalers 

 who have had lumber bought from various parts 

 of the country have been obliged to notify ship- 

 pers to hold up on shipments until normal con- 

 ditions reasserted themselves. 



While it is recognized that this interruption 

 Is only a temporary one and of brief duration, 

 still it Is very annoying to the trade and entails 

 a vast amount of unnecessary loss to both the 

 wholesale and manufacturing trade of the city. 

 With the settlement of the strike it goes without 

 saying that trade will go forward with renewed 

 energy and that there is still the prospect that 

 the year will prove one of the best in the his- 

 tory of the trade for many years. 



New York. 



I - past I light has witnessed a still fur- 

 ther Increase in the demands for all kinds of 

 hardwood lumber, and business Is not only in- 

 creasing so far as volume is concerned, but like- 

 u Ise is of a satisfactory nature as regards 

 prices. The keynote of the situation seems to 

 be not one of sale, but of securing stock to 

 fill current demands. This seems to be the sa- 

 lient feature which bids fair to pervade the 

 market well Into the summer. Good hardwood 

 lumber of almost any kind Is easy of sale. The 

 activity in the building situation presages an 

 increasing demand for all kinds of stock which 

 enter Into that branch of the consuming trade, 

 and the whole situation was never more prom- 

 ising, and but seldom more productive, than at 

 present. 



Plain oak is still the leader in demand in the 

 face of short supplies of dry stock. Prices are 

 showing a steady upward tendency. Quartered 

 cak has shown insiderable Improvement, but 

 there seems to be ample stock for current wants, 

 ess is firm at the list price, but dry stock 

 is moving out fast and it Is believed that in a 

 short time prices will move up. The demand 

 for ash is excellent for all grades, and the offer- 

 ings only moderate. Birch is in particularly 

 good call ; prices arc steady and offerings only 

 fair. Chestnut is moving freely In the manu- 

 facturing trade along with birch and maple, and 

 prices throughout the entire list are very firm. 



