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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sales agent for the Fullerton-Powell Lumber 

 Company. South Itend, Ind. 



Edward J. Hoys was a genial, industrious 

 man, who was well thought o£ in the lumber 

 trade. He had a large clientage of buyers in 

 the Eaat> and handled stock for several of the 

 best concerns in Michigan. Wisconsin and the 

 South. He also sold considerable stock for New 

 York manufacturers. C. W. Manning, the well- 

 known New York wholesaler for whom Mr. Boys 

 often sold lumber, says of hint : "1 never knew 

 him to misrepresent stock; he invariably took 

 care of the interest of the Shipper in every re 



At one time he w:)s a man of ... 

 erable wealth, but bis business affairs did not 

 prove entirely successful, and for the last feu 

 years he has been working to pay off obliga- 

 tions which moM i pie would have repud 



His untimely death at this ti was very sad, 



as he had only latelj finished paying his 

 gations and was in a position to personally 

 reap the benefit of bis labor. These are mat 

 ters with which the writer was familiar, hut 

 Of which !• I new." 



New Veneer Plant. 



Within He' next few weeks Mobile, Ala 

 cording t<> newspaper report, will be the scene 

 of operation of one of the largest veneer plants 

 of the entire South, which Is to be incorpot 

 either at Montgomery or Mobile within a 

 time. The enterprise i- backed by wealth] 

 Chlcagoans and capitalized at (i 



The company Intends Importing to Mobile ma 

 hogany and other tine woods from limber lands 

 they ou n reso, Mexl. 



will be manufactured in", veneers. I' was at 

 first i build a sawmill for this put 



pose, but it has been decided thai the mill of 

 the l.ii | Bide Milling I ompanj on 

 river will be used. This will afford ampli 

 paclty at the beginning of operations. At least 

 a cargo of timber a week will he reel 



when ;i ill he filled 



with coffee and rubber In season from 



the plantations owned by the company in 

 Mexico. 



Tin- entei been in course of 01 - 



Ization for some ths. hut details are said 



to now l.e adJUBted and everything is in read! 

 ness to begin operation. Several official 

 the company recently visited the .Mexican in 

 tcrests of the concern to prepare tor the he 

 ginning oi 



Death of Capt. Jas. M. Thomas. 



Capl. Jaa M Thomas, on.- >.t the most inllii 

 ential lumbermen "i Kentucky, died at Ford. 



in that state, on June !•"• i apt. Tl as had 



been in ill health tor several years. The lm- 

 media' ' his death was uremic poison- 



ing. II. tffered from a complicated 



kidney ailment, and over a year ago was oper 

 ated upon. His vigorous constitution has stayed 

 his demise for many months. Be was exten- 

 sively engaged in the hardwood lumber trade, 

 having mills at Ford, Livingston and Frank- 

 fort, lie leave- an estate valued at about 

 $800,000, embracing a large quantity oi moun- 

 tain timber land. 



Capt Thomas was horn near Flat Rock, Pu- 

 laski county, K>.. in 1833 He received his 

 educational training at the Mt. Sterling Acad 

 emy. In 1853 he mi [I Innli i Rog- 

 ers, only daughter of Willi Sogei 



bridge, aim ■ In that town, where he 



lived as a farmer until the opening of the civil 

 war. II- i bat time and 



entered thi ' I undet Gen- 



erals Humphrey Marshall and John s. Wil- 

 liams. He was d oat of the 

 after a sin ind went to Canada, where 

 he engaged in the lumber business until 1886, 

 when he returned i ■ ad entered 

 the lunifx urlng and 

 building trade, In which he accumulated his 

 handsome losed 



out his Paris interests, purchased and assumed 

 charge of the famous Estill springs, near Ir- 

 vine, and built large lumber planing mills at 

 Ford, l.ivingsion ami Frankfort. 



In religious and educational work I i 

 Thomas was very active, especially among the 

 mountaineers, his business relations giving 

 him an insight into conditions there and a con- 

 sequenl desire to improve them. He built sev- 

 eral schools and contributed freely to many 

 worthy causes Cp t-> a few years ago he was 

 active in polities, but latterly has declined po- 

 lltlcal preferment. lie served two terms as 

 slat.- senator from the twenty-eighth district. 

 His home was in Paris, Bourbon county, but 

 in recent years he has spent the greater part 

 of his time in Clark county, in order to give 

 on attention to his lumber business. He 

 had a very wide acquaintance extending over 

 ..lions ..I Kentucky, anil was a man held 

 in universal esteem. He had a splendid men- 

 tallty, ami several articles on sociological lines 

 written by him have attracted much attention. 

 Capt. Thomas Is survived by his wife and 

 lour children, Mi-- John Ereland, Mis. Thomas 

 Moore, William 11 and Robert I.. Thomas. The 

 as were Interred a' Paris on .tune IT. 



New Traffic Manager. 



ii. National wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, through it- railroad and transport:! 



I. J V I i: vi I i. MANAGER, N. W. I.. 



D. A. 



li.m committee, an tnces the appotntmeo 



Bugene -I Eddy a-- traffic manager, vice C. W. 

 Throckmorton, resigned. 



Mr. Eddy has been a resident of St. Louis 

 all his life, and was educated in the public 

 schools of that city and in St. Louis I'niverslty. 



IT- -tailed blS business life as otllee hoy ill the 



Mobile & Ohio railroad offices In Si Louis 



ii. ■ eventually became chief clerk to G g,- w. 



Schwartz, lumber agent of the Vandallfl Penn 

 sylvanin lines. In tin- capacity Mr. Eddy had 

 .ii matters pertaining to tin- handling 

 of lumber in that office, such as reconslgning, 

 tracing, forward and claims. After 



ward he became rate clerk in the claim depart 



men! of the Missouri. Kansa- & 'Texas railroad, 



and in this connection had supervision of all 



filed with that road. 



Mr Eddy's experience as a railroad man covers 



a period "i ovi i ears, and among many 



considered he was chosen as being In everj 



way qualified to till the position of traffic 



manager of the National Wholesale Lumber 



Dealers' Association. This department of the 



already demonstrated ii- us- 



fulness by the large number of intricate claims 

 adjust.-d. although this is not its most impor- 

 tant function. The transportation bureau has 

 spent considerable time on the >4 500-pound car 

 stake problem" and other questions, and efforts 

 are still being extended to compel the railroads 

 to properly equip flat and gondola cars for 

 lumber shipments, as well as persistently urg- 

 ing greater powers for the Inter-State Com- 

 merce Commission. The association is to be 

 congratulated on securing the services of Mr. 

 Fddy. and this gentleman ought to increase his 

 already fine record by his alliance with the 

 National Association. 



Lumber Statistics. 



In the annual report submited to the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association by 

 s tarj G - K. Smith, at its annual meet- 

 ing In Chicago on May and 10, reference was 

 made to the attempt that will be made to here- 

 after score statistics covering the annual cut 

 and shipments of all classes of lumber during 

 1905, and the quantity of stock held bj manu- 

 facturers on January 1, 1906. 



\i •■ held in Washington on June 



6 ami 7, it was definitely determined that the 



Bure i Forestrj will cooperate with the asso- 



clatlon in achieving this desirable end. In order 

 1.. make this ...operation thoroughly efficient, 

 a 1. ranch office of the association will be opened 

 in Washington during the fall of 1905, and 

 arrangements perfected for the sending out of 

 complete inquiry -i is immediately after Janu- 

 ary 1, 1906, t" all manufacturers of lumber and 

 | I,. I ml. .1 Slales This inquiry 



Hi... the guest i'.ns referred 



:.. Sei retary Smiilfs report, but also other 



mati.a- ,.i Interest to the forestry service. These 



inquirle will be handled jointly by the assocl- 



, |. offli e and the Depart mi nt ol I or- 



: IT, 



1 1„. a — Is ion Is to be congratulated on ob- 

 taining il operation of the forest service In 



, jui ii vital Interest to both pro- 

 nmers ol lumber of all ela 



and ii i- to be hoped that all manufacturers will 

 lend 'h.ir aid and support t.. this movement, 

 thai all l.i mug t" the lumber business 

 may he collected In an accurate and scientific 

 ner, that will result in placing the facts 

 before each individual member in a way that 

 will he of Inestimable value to him in determin- 

 ing values, and direct him in tie future course 

 The matter is of vast linpor- 

 I.. everj stumpage owner and every 

 nufacturer and consumer of lumber. 



Proceedings of American Forestry Congress. 



'There have been gathered together in attrac- 

 tive h""k form the proceedings of the Amerl- 

 ,.iii Forest Congress, which was held in Wasb- 

 Ington in Januarj last, under the auspices of 

 the American Forestrj Association. 'The work 

 comprises an official record of the si remark- 

 able gathering that has eve, met to consider 

 .,,, c, ,m, mi, snbjen. and contains papers by 

 President Roosevelt; lion, .lames Wilson, secre- 

 tary "I agriculture; M. Jusserand, ambassador 

 from France, and some sixty others who ale 

 prominent in the official and Industrial life of 

 the 1'nited suites. The hook constitutes a rec- 

 ord of He- convention, which was do! only the 

 most Important meeting ever devoted to forestry 

 in this country, but one which is regarded by 

 President Roosevelt as covering "one of the 

 vital of the internal problems of the 

 l i I Stales." 



•The objects of this meeting were to establish 

 a broader understanding of the forest in Its 

 relation to the great Industries depending upon 

 it ; to advance the conservative use ol forest 

 resources for both present and future needs 

 ,.r tbes, Industries; and to stimulate a unity 

 of etTort to perpetuate the forest as a perma- 



i resource Of the nation. The congress 



brought out not only the leaders in national 



