HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hillsdale, Mich.. last week, going through in 

 their automobile. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club held its 

 closing social gathering (or the season at the 

 Business Men's Club, Sunday evening, June 

 11. The members were accompanied by their 

 ladies and business was tabooed. Brief talks 

 were made by T. J. Moffett, A. D. McLeod. 

 W. A. Bennett. J. P. Crutchfleld and B. A. 

 Kipp. The next meeting will be held late 

 in October. 



The Wheelmakers' Club, composed of car- 

 riage wheel manufacturers, held a secret 

 meeting in this city on June 12. There weie 

 representatives from Ohio. Michigan, Indians 

 and Kentucky. Secretary O. B. Bannister later 

 said that it was decided to establish national 

 uniform prices in conjunction with the East- 

 ern Carriage Wheel Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Extensive improvements, expected to cost 

 in the neighborhood of $50,000. are to be made 

 in the plant of the Farrin-Korn Company, at 

 Winton Place, before autumn. Among other 

 improvements it is intended to increase the 

 steam-generating plant by 2,000 horsepowei 



The much discussed combination of a num- 

 ber of big chair manufacturing companies in 

 various parts of the country developed last 

 week at Columbus with the filing of the in- 

 corporation papets t"i the Ford- Johnson Com- 

 pany, to have a capital of $3,000,000. The new- 

 company will consist of about fifteen plants 

 and raw material sources, principal among 

 which are the Cincinnati Chair Comp 

 Frankfort Chair Company. Frankfort, Ky. ; 

 Kentucky River Lumber Company, I 

 tucky Varnish Company. Connecticut Chai] 

 Company, Hartford, Conn.; Western Chair 

 Company, Chicago; J. S. Ford & Johnson 

 Company. Michigan City, Ind., and the West- 

 ern Cane Seating Company, Michigan City. 

 General headquarters will probably be es- 

 tablished in Chicago with the leading branch 

 and distributing stations in this city. Of- 

 ficers have been chosen as follows: J. S. 

 Ford, president; Henry W. Johnson, first vice 

 president; A. D. Martin, second vice presi- 

 dent; W. T. Johnson, treasurer, and A. C. 

 Sibley, secretary. 



Henry J. Pflster. representing the M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Company, has left for a trip 

 to Europe to make a thorough inspection of 

 wood alcohol plants. He will visit England, 

 Scotland. France and Germany, and will not 

 return for several months. 



M. B. Farrin, president of the M. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Company, and his family, have gone 

 to their summer home at Grande Point, 

 Mih.. to spend the heated term. 



Chester F. Korn, of the Farrin-Korn Lum- 

 ber Company, who takes an active interest in 

 the affairs of the National Credit Men's As 

 sociation attended the annual convention at 

 Memphis, June 13, as one of the delegates of 

 the local body. 



"Within the months that I have been in the 

 United States I have found it almost impos- 

 sible to buy quartered oak lumber in stock," 

 said W. J. Rayn. representative of a London 

 firm, who called on the Cincinnati trade the 

 mid. lie of the month. "In Arkansas I suc- 

 ! In purchasing what I wanted in the 

 tree and will have it sawed up in that section 

 and sent abroad. There are yet quantities of 

 oak in that state, but I firmly believe that it 

 is a problem where that class of hardwood is 

 to come from In a few years." 



Representatives of the Receivers & Ship- 

 Association of Cincinnati, composed of 

 more than 200 firms, many of them engaged 

 In the hardwood lumber business, went to 

 Washington on June 10 and requested Attor- 

 begin suits against a 



number of railroad companies for alleged vio- 

 lation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The 

 petition presented contained more than 25,000 

 words. M. B. Farrin was one of the repre- 

 sentatives who visited the capital. 



The Valley Lumber Company of Youngs- 

 town has teen incorporated with $10,000 cap- 

 ital by D. G. Morris, Parker Beck, H. J. 

 I. -.worthy, John W. Jones and Joseph S. 

 Foust. 



Indianapolis. 



Alexander Ehrig of Clarksdale. Miss., south- 

 ern representative for the Long-Knight Lum- 

 ber Company of this city, was in Indianapolis 

 Thursday as the guest of his company. Mr. 

 Ehrig had a splendid time here, for. with his 

 bride, he was on his honeymoon. His mar- 

 riage occurred just a few days ago, and he 

 was the happiest lumberman in the Hoosier 

 capital Thursday. 



J. K. Everson has purchased the interest of 

 M. M. Hardin in the Montgomery Lumber Com- 

 pany of Crawfordsville, Ind. Mr. Everson is 

 a sawmill man of much experience and will 

 assist actively In the management of the com- 

 pany. For the past year the mill has not been 

 running at its full capacity, but in the future 

 the management expects to keep going at full 

 blast. 



Articles of incorporation have been Eled by 

 the Mnrdock Lumber Company of Washington 

 Ind., with a capital stock of $36,000, and with 

 Robert Murdock, Hugh Murdock and James A. 

 G. Murdock as directors. 



William ThelkcUl. secretary of the Indiana 

 Quartered Oak Company of Evansville. Ind., 

 has filed a notice at the secretary of state's 

 office showing the issuance of $10,000 addl- 

 tional preferred slock, to bear ten per cent in- 

 teresl This tuings the total capital of the 

 company up to $25,000. 



The Xusbaum lumber yard at Mlddlebury. 

 1ml. was destroyed by fire M<>tu!:i.\ iii 



ing a loss of $12, i, with S7.000 insuran 



the Lumbermen's Mutual. 



Chattanooga. 



Angus Mi Lean of Buffalo, president of the 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company, which has 

 plants at Buffalo. New Albany and Bedford. 

 Ind., Louisville. Ky.. and Chattanooga, who 

 spent a week here recently, stated that little 

 buying is going on over the country, because 

 prices are so high. Purchasers are buying 

 only what they are compelled to have, he 

 said and they are not laying in stock in con- 

 siderable quantities. He gave it as his opin- 

 ion, however, that when buyers find that the 

 prices will not be reduced, owing to condi- 

 tions, they will begin to buy more liberally, 

 so that he looked for a revival in the market 

 irly fall. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company, with 

 headquarters in Buffalo, N. T., has decided to 

 install a large sawmill plant at Memphis, 

 which will cost about $100,000. This state- 

 ment was made public when Angus McLean, 

 president of the McLean Lumber Company. 

 was in the city recently. The proposed new 

 mill will have a capacity of about 25,000 feet 

 of hardwood a day. making a specialty of oak 

 and poplar. A large band sawmill will I"- 

 one of the principal features of the new plant. 

 Negotiations are now- pending for the purchase 

 of a site in Memphis, a representative of the 

 company having gone to Memphis recently. 

 The company will be incorporated with $100.- 

 "00 capita! stock. The local plant has re- 

 cently made improvements increasing the ca- 

 pacity materially. 



The Alabama Coffin & Casket Company. 



which was recently incorporated with $50.- 



000 capital stock by H. C. Smith, G. H. Gar- 



and J. C. Miller of this city and A. A. 



Russell of Birmingham, has about completed 



a $30,000 plant for the manufacture of cof- 

 fins in North Birmingham. 



The Case Lumber Company has increased 

 the stock of the local yards very materially 

 recently. The company makes a specialty of 

 plain and quartered oak. 



The trimming mill of the Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Company at Norfolk, Va., has been 

 installed, and the stock of the Norfolk yards 

 has been increased to 3,500,000 feet, while that 

 of the local yards is now about 1,500,000 feet. 



W. M. Fowler, treasurer of the Case Lum- 

 ber Company, will spend a month with hi* 

 family at Lake Temmagum. Canada, 300 

 miles north of Toronto, where he will forget 

 the cares of a busy lumberman and enjoy the 

 fisherman's sport. 



J. T. Holloway, of the Holloway Lumber 

 Company, of Philadelphia, Pa., bought con- 

 siderable stock in this city recently. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan, treasurer of the Loom- 

 is & Hart Manufacturing Company, and one 

 of the best-loved and most prominent lumber- 

 men of this city, has the profound sympathy 

 of the lumbermen all over this section in his 

 sad bereavement occasioned by the death of 

 his wife, which occurred Monday afternoon at 

 the family residence. Mrs. Gahagan had been 

 ill for several months, having never recovered 

 irom an operation some months ago. Mrs 

 • Jahagan was the daughter of W. L. Dugger. 

 one of the oldest and most respected citizens 

 of this city, who lived with John Ross, the 

 celebrated Creek chief, during the early days 

 of Ross's Landing, now Chattanooga. Mrs 

 Gahagan was a woman of admirable charac- 

 ter. She is survived by two sons, Jesse, who 

 is connected with the Loomis & Hart Manu- 

 facturing C imps iy, and G. W. Gahagan, who 

 is a justice of the peace representing this 



St. Louis. 



Business with the l'lummer Lumber Com- 

 pany has been good the past two weeks, not- 

 withstanding the general quietness in the trade. 

 There is a distinct improvement noticeable at 

 several points, and they are looking forward 

 to a continuance of this condition. Cypress 

 and poplar an- In Increasing favor, and they 

 are especially well prepared to take care of 

 a large demand, their stocks being ample and 

 well assorted as to variety. 



The Chas. 1'. I.uehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is having an excellent trade in nearly 

 all their lines, but is specially well pleased 

 with the Improved undertone of the hardwood 

 demand, which seems to betoken a much in- 

 creased degree i.f activity in the near future. 



Louis Werner of the Louis Werner Saw Mill 

 Company lias gone abroad for a three months' 

 stay. After a visit to Carlsbad Springs, he 

 will go to France to look after his stave busi- 

 ness in that country, which consists chiefly of 

 [or wine casks. 



Owing to i lie increasing demands upon the 

 facilities for handling their hardwood busi- 

 ness, Steele ,S: Hlbbard have made several im- 

 provements in their office headquarters of late, 

 iing them better adapted and more con- 

 venient generally for this enterprising firm's 

 enlarging sphere of activity. The firm have 

 Jusl sent out a pocket-book and card case 

 which will be heartily appreciated by all who 

 receive it. 



Memphis. 



The Cumberland River Estate, Ltd., an 

 English corporation owning the Red River 

 Springs Furnace property in Stewart county. 

 Tennessee, has sold to the Cumberland River 

 Land Company 40.000 acres of timber and 

 mineral lands in Stewart and Houston coun- 

 ties, including a railroad and several fur- 

 naces, for $153,500. Plans will be undertaken 

 for the development of the resources of this 

 property, including the timber. 



