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been in town for two or three weeks. The 

 dealers here say they are too busy scram- 

 bling for stock to take care of the business 

 that is coming to them unsolicited to do any 

 visiting or to go out to look for orders. 



J. H. Tschudy is finding that the presi- 

 dency of the Kansas City Merchants' and 

 Manufacturers' Association carries with it 

 much work as well as honor, and is dividing 

 his time between his business and the inter- 

 ests of the association. However, his boys 

 are holding down the business in good shape. 

 Mr. Tschudy says that the hardwood business 

 would be all right this season if they could 

 get stock as fast as they want it, as there 

 is nothing the matter with either prices or 

 the demand. 



C. H. Connelly of the Connelly Hardwood 

 Lumber Company has returned from a 

 month's trip to balmy California and says 

 that he had a most pleasant trip. Mr. Con- 

 nelly reports a very active local demand, but 

 notices the usual falling off in the outside 

 business which, however, is brisk for the 

 time of year. 



John W. Merrill of Merrill & Co. has been 

 rusticating for a week or so at his old home 

 in Paola, Kan., but is back and into the 

 harness again. He reports a good demand 

 and says that the call for good lumber for 

 local residences has never been better. 



C. W. Lowry, manager for the Beekman 

 Lumber Company, which makes a specialty 

 cf furniture and wagon stock, says that the 

 demand for this material has been active 

 since the beginning of the year and that it 

 has crowded the mills to take care of it. 

 The Beekman company has organized the 

 Freeman Lumber Company, with mills at 

 Gleason and Morrillton, Ark., and has dis- 

 posed of its interests at Paragould, Ark., to 

 the Dickinson Lumber Company. 



A. L. Houghton says that the demand for 

 furniture, wagon and implement Etock is 

 very active and looks for a continued strong 

 demand for this class of material. 



A letter received from John N. Penrod on 

 May 22 stated that he and Frank P. Abbott 

 of the American Walnut Company arrived at 

 Dover on May S. They went from there to 

 London for a few days, leaving London on 

 the 15th for Liverpool, from which place the 

 letter was written. They will go from Liver- 

 pool to Hamburg, Germany, and expect to 

 arrive there about June 15. Mr. Penrod writes 

 they had a good journey across the water 

 and have had a pleasant time visiting prom- 

 inent lumbermen of Great Britain. 



The Gulf Land & Lumber Company of this 

 city, which operates mills at Staples and 

 Orange, La., is placing a band mill in place 

 of a circular in one of its hardwood mills and 

 is also building a dry kiln. In the future this 

 company will make a specialty of hardwoods. 

 It already has a large holding of hardwood 

 stumpage of which oak and gum are in pre- 

 ponderance, with a fair amount of ash, 

 hickory and beech. The company is also 

 putting in a hardwood flooring equipment for 

 the production of oak and beech flooring. 



Minneapolis. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark and A. II. 

 Barnard of Barnard & Strickland, both of this 

 city, attended the annual of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association convention at Buf- 

 falo. Both Mr, Clark and Mr. Barnard have 

 been prominent in the association work for some 

 time, although Mr. Barnard had not taken active 

 part in local association work for several years 

 until last fall, when he was drafted for chair- 

 man of the grading bureau. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark says they 

 are still enjoying an excellent trade with the 

 retail yards, which are calling principally for 

 oak wagon stock iu connection with mixed ear 



orders. The weather has been unfavorable for 

 shipping, but lias not interfered much with the 

 retail demand for their stock. Car trade is quiet 

 with them, but oak and birch are getting scarce, 

 and they have had to lay in a supply of southern 

 oak to till some of their orders. Sixteen foot 

 oak dimension is especially scarce, and is in con- 

 tinued demand. 



F. II. Lewis, the local wholesaler, reports 

 trade rather quiet of late, but on account of the 

 shortage of all kinds of dry stocks not much 

 business can be taken care of. Even basswood 

 iu dry stock has been about cleaned out of the 

 market. The dry weather in April took the sap 

 out of new lumber pretty well, but the -May 

 rains have soaked it. and it will take a month 

 of dry weather tu properly ait> dry the new cut. 



I. P. Lennon of I. I'. Lennon & Co. says 

 trade is rather quiet, as the principal consum- 

 ers are not using hardwood heavily at present, 

 and are holding off until they can secure new 

 stock. 



George Agnew, who has just returned from a 

 trip iu territory south of here for E. Payson 

 Smith, reports that, owing to the wet weather, 

 consumers in Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois are 

 not buying heavily at present. They stocked up 

 heavily the first of the year and are not requir- 

 ing so much raw material at present. Mr. 

 Smith reports an increased demand for southern 

 hardwoods, owing to the great scarcity of north- 

 ern oak. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company is very well satisfied with present 

 conditions. While the demand is not heavy, it 

 is better in the twin cities than a fortnight ago. 

 The sash and door factories are very busy and 

 are getting considerable special work, so they 

 are consuming more oak and birch stock. The 

 furniture factories are having a rather quiet 

 time, and are not in the market to any extent. 

 In proportion to the small stocks on hand, busi- 

 ness is of very fair volume. 



I'. W. Strickland of Barnard & Strickland 

 says the local demand ia comparatively quiet. 

 and will be until there are larger offerings of 

 stock. The consumers are not in urgent need 

 of much stock and know the conditions, so are 

 buying only in small lots for immediate needs. 



St. Louis. 



Capt. Lloyd G. Harris of the Lloyd G. Harris 

 Manufacturing Company is preparing to take an 

 extended vacation trip to Europe. The busi- 

 ness of the company has been satisfactory so 

 far this year, there being an unusual call for 

 wagon woodwork and such material, to which 

 trade the company caters. 



As the Bonsack Lumber Company has ahuns 

 made a more or less specialty of plain oak, the 

 present streak of dullness in St. Louis is hav- 

 ing little effect upon its trade and a healthy 

 demand is reported. 



The mills of the Charles F. Luehrmann Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company in Arkansas are being 

 operated on full time under a heavy run of 

 orders, and it is reported in the St. Louis 

 office that business is fully up to the demand 

 for this season of the year. 



As the warm weather approaches there is 

 beginning to be the usual clamor for the lum- 

 bermen's annual picnic and the present indica- 

 tions are that the event will be held about the 

 middle of June. For many years the lumber- 

 men of St. Louis have had an outing for them- 

 selves and their families. There are the usual 

 athletic events, including a baseball game be- 

 tween the •Hardwoods" and the "Pines," and 

 it can be said that the hardwood boys usually 

 come out best. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati delegates to the annual con- 

 vention of the National Hardwood Lumber 



Association reached home Sunday morning. The 

 party consisted of M. I!. Farrin. W. A. Bennett, 

 C. F. Korn, T. J. Moffett, J. Watt Graham, 

 B. A. Kipp, Ben Bramlage, F. W. Mowbray, I. M. 



Asher. J. E. Tuthill, T. B. si I.. 1 r. Gage 



and J. II. Leiding. A number of members from 

 southern cities came with the local body and 

 some ■!' theiii remained here Cor a few days. 

 The defeat of .1. Walt Graham for the secre- 

 taryship east a gloom over all. who boomed the 

 popular Cincinnatian to the linish. Otherwise 

 thej nere in high feather over the bus 

 accomplished by the convention. 



F. W. Mowbray and E. O. Robinson of the 

 wholesale hardwood firm of Mowbray & Robinson 

 have been made members of the Cincinnati 

 Business Men's Club. The trade is largely rep 

 resented in that organization. T. J. Moffett 

 of Maley. Thompson & Moffett is president. 



C. II. Townley, in business at Gest street and 

 McLeah avenue, is in the south on a business 

 trip. He stopped off for several days at Mem- 

 phis. 



George C, Ehemann, secretary of the Mem- 

 phis Lumbermen's Club, spent several days here 

 last week. He was formerly in business here 

 and enjoys a wide acquaintance. 



Two fires, believed to be of incendiary origin, 

 broke out almost simultaneously May 21 in the 

 yards of C. Crane & Co. Both blazes were 

 promptly extinguished and the loss will not 

 amouut to more than $200. The police are mak- 

 ing an investigation. 



Henry J. Pfeister, manager of the National 

 Chemical Company, a concern allied with the 

 M. B.. Farrin Lumber Company, will leave next 

 mouth for an extensive trip to Europe in com- 

 pany with a Canadian chemical expert. They 

 will make a thorough investigation of wood 

 chemical plants in England, Scotland and other 

 countries. 



Thomas P. Egan, head of the J. A. Fay & 

 Egan Company, has returned from Atlanta, Ga.. 

 where he attended the annual convention of the 

 National Manufacturers' Association. 



Members of the congressional rivers and har- 

 bors committee were in this city Saturday. 

 May 13. They were shown around by repre- 

 sentatives of different business organizations. 

 The Lumbermen's Club was represented by 'I'. 

 J. Moffett and M. B. Farrin. The committee 

 has completed a tour of the Ohio from Pittsburg 

 to Cairo for the purpose of ascertaining if the 

 project of canalizing the stream at an expense 

 of $00,000,000 is worthy of the outlay. If the 

 improvemeut is made, guaranteeing a nine-foot 

 stage the year around, Cincinnati lumbermen 

 would be greatly benefited. 



.1. W. Taylor, of Columbus, O., was here on 

 a buying expedition last week. He said that 

 his city is enjoying a building boom, the great- 

 est in its history. Speaking of Cincinnati he 

 said : "From its geographical location Cin- 

 cinnati should be the central distributing point, 

 the gateway for the lumber trade of this coun 

 try. occupying the middle ground, tie' producing 

 and consuming ends. Instead it is in third 

 place. For some reason or other the southern 

 railroads give St. Louis the preference in freight 

 rates. Cincinnati would lie the headquarters 

 of most of the great lumber companies of the 

 country if they could get equitable freight 

 rates." 



Recent heavy rains have swollen Kentucky 

 and West Virginia streams and many logs have 

 been floated down in the last ten days. C. Crane 



& Conip.un brought 1 ogs from the Big 



Sandy. "The rain was worth $75,000 to 

 said Clinton Crane. "Whenever you heal 

 a big rain up in the West Virginia mount! 



iust put it down that Crane is mak- 

 ing a hi; thing em of it," he added 



The Mercer Cooperage & Lumber Company of 

 iveiyhas been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of s by O. C. Robinson, C. C. Tap- 

 horn, li. L. lie Ilaveu. W. E. Touville and R. L. 

 Mattingly. 



