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HARDWOOD RECORD 



are: James W Strong, president; L. D. 

 Beale, vice president; J. C. Dosier, secretary 

 and treasurer. The company now has a plant 

 in operation, and the new charter means in- 

 creased capacity and general reorganization. 

 The Southwestern Lumber & Box Com- 

 pany, the name of the reorganized Suther- 

 land-Innes Company, now has offices in the 

 Hibernia Bank building. C. H. Rice, the new 

 manager and treasurer, recently spent a week 

 in the north on business. 



Minneapolis. 



Steps are being taken rapidly to develop 

 the hardwood timber resources of northern 

 Minnesota. There are some fine forests of 

 birch and basswood in a section of the state 

 which has been heretofore almost inaccessi- 

 ble, but which is now being opened up by 

 railroads. The extension of the "Soo" rail- 

 road north from Glenwood to the Canadian 

 boundary has tapped fine timber tracts which 

 are being worked for lumber and cooperage 

 stock, and in older sections where pine was 

 cut off years ago hardwood companies have 

 begun development. The timber of best qual- 

 ity is in the "park region" about the lakes 

 of Otter Tail county and the country north. 

 The White Earth Indian reservation contains 

 a fine growth of basswood, birch, elm. maple 

 and ash, and all this timber is offered Eoi 

 at the coming sale of timber from allotted 

 Indian lands. It will be sold with the 

 all in one bid. The sale was first set for 

 Sept. S, but wa 'i' ' '' ' -'. and then 



to Nov. 15, on account of numerous pr>> 

 against the short time allowed to pn 

 bids. The government estimate for the entire 

 tract includes, besides 190.000.000 feet of pine, 

 ...000 feet < id, _h. 000,000 of elm, 



.D.iii of birch, 10,000, : maple and 



5.000,000 of ash. 



A big who! sal lumber business will i» 

 built up at Minnesota Transfer by the S 

 lon-Gipson Lumber Company of this city, 



which has bought 1 1 > u I 



of the Citizens' Lumber Company and the 

 Central Warehouse Company. The intention Is 

 to accumulate a cdmpleti stock of all i 

 tics of lumber, Including hardwoods, and 

 make a specialty of filling mixed car orders 

 for stock of any assortment and description. 

 A stock ol or more will 1» 



continually. The move is significant, 

 being made by an old white pine company. 

 and i i to be the forerunner of simi- 



lar enterprises by local concerns. 



Some valuable hardwood stock was burned 

 Sun. lav. Aug. -7. by fire which destroyed the 



house of Aaron Carlson, a Minnei 

 sash and door manufacturer. The building 

 was worth little, but the stock consumed 



.brought the total loss up to $24 "here 



was considerable hardwood, including mahog- 

 any and walnut for veneering. 



m J. Bell, the hardwood and white cedar 

 man of Bellwood. Wis., was in the eitj for 

 a day recently, en route home from a bu 

 ness trip to the Pacific coast. 



The Stantou-De Long Lumber Company, a 

 new wholesale concern with headquarter? 



.I S; Paul, has accumulated a general 

 and will fill mixed car orders. Mi 

 Stanton is a veteran hardwood lumberman 

 and will carry a full line of hardwoods to 

 supply tti. her in car lots or in small 



Milan titles. 



E, I'nyson Smith. I he well known wholesale 

 dealer in southern hardwoods and yellow pine, 



I.. Arkansas to negotiate deals 

 the output of some of the hardwood mills in 

 that state. Arkansas oak is coming largely 

 into use by the northern factory trade as the 

 supply of northern oak declines. Mr. Smith re- 

 turned a few days ago from a pleasant outing 

 - t!.. great lakes, on which lie W8 

 Smith, 



D. F. Clark, of Osborne & Clark, the Minne- 

 apolis wholesalers, left this week for an ex- 

 tended business trip into Wisconsin and down 

 to Chicago. C. F. Osborne of the same company 

 says they are finding demand strong. Oak is 

 active, and the trade in white oak wagon stock, 

 which used to be confined to a short season in 

 the spring, has kept up all summer and is 

 still on. Flooring is active and deliveries hard 

 to make, so that for city supply dealers are 

 rather hard put to get stock. Basswood is 

 looking better and promises to recover from the 

 slump it has experienced in the last year and a 

 half. 



P. W. Strickland of Barnard & Strickland, 

 local wholesalers, reports that trade with them 

 is brisk as usual at this season. The problem 

 is to get a supply of stock that will fill de 

 mands. 



Louisville. 



E. L. Davis & Co., who have a hardwood 

 yard here and hardwood mills down in the 

 country, have the reputation of getting higher 

 prices for wagon material and small dimension 

 stock in oak than any manufacturer in this 

 locality. They make a practice to store stock 

 in their yard and let it dry until consumers are 

 in immediate need of material and are willing 

 to pay their price for prompt delivery. -This is 

 not exactly news but it is an observation that 

 contains a moral, and if manufacturers of 

 small dimension stock would profit by it, there 

 would be more profit in the business. 



C. 1'. Busch, of the Ohio Valley Tie Com- 

 pany, of this eiiy, manufacturer of ties, car 

 oak and wagon mat. -rial, says that business in 

 car material is rather slow now. but in wagon 

 stock there is a livelj demand but it is dirri- 

 cut to obtain the pi i .1 for 



this class of material. He thinks the outlook 

 in the wagon wood stock business very bright. 



James S. Calloway ol the Calloway Lumber 



Company of Louisville was seen on a street 



r a f.w mornings ago, waiting for a car, 



ing a lumber rule, as if out for business. 



On being questioned as to his destination, he 

 said that he was on his way to load out some 

 poplar lumber at $70 per thousand. Of course 

 this sounded exciting, but the explanation was 

 found in the specifications for the stock, which 

 was to be % of an inch thick and 30 and 36 

 inches wide. Speaking of business in general, 

 Mr. Calloway says that everything in poplar 

 except No. 1 common is moving along very 

 nicely, and in plain-sawed oak the demand is 

 practically all that could be desired. 



L. S. Beardslee, superintendent of the S. B. 

 Hutchinson Veneer Company of Onaway, 

 -M i ■ 1 1 . . was in Louisville one day last week en- 

 route South to look over timber lands in 

 the poplar section of Tennessee, with a view 

 to securing a southern location for the com- 

 pany's plant. He made a trip into Arkansas 

 on the same mission recently, looking over 

 Cottonwood and gum tracts, but he favors 

 poplar and oak if he can find a sufficient body 

 of timber accessible to good shipping facilities. 



O. Leon, who covers the southern territory 

 for E. L. Roberts & Co. of Chicago, stopped in 

 Louisville a few days ago on his way from an 

 extended trip South. Speaking of hardwood 

 and the sash and door trade, he says that there 

 has been this year a heavier demand for spe- 

 cial hardwood veneer doors and other veneer 

 work than ever before. This condition obtains 

 especially in Birmingham where the trade has 

 quantities of veneered doors. The expla- 

 nation is found in the fact that architects, in 

 their desire to give individuality to their work, 

 are ordering special stock instead of specify- 

 ing standard work, and in all these specifica- 

 tions there is an unusual quantity of hardwood 

 is both in doors and in interior mill work. 



London. 



.1. 1'.. Hansom and family of Nashville, Tenn., 



and \V. M. Uitter of Columbus have been in 



nil looking after the.r various business 



rests, hut have left for the continent for 



health and pleasure. 



K .1 Darnell of Memphis, Tenn., left here 

 ly for America. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Chicago. 



Ther. • is a manifest improvement in the local 

 demand for hardwoods among manufacturing 

 Institutions, and were It not for the bnposslbll 

 ity of securing shipments In any plenitude from 

 the South the local trade would be first rate 

 tit this writing. A number ..t local Jobbers who 

 have directed their chief endeavors toward the 

 handling ..t southern stock have been obliged 

 '" ml.. .11 northern woods to keep their operat- 

 ing forces busy. Chicago jobbers own consider- 

 able quantities of oak, cypress, poplar and cot- 

 tonwood in tie- South, and most of them are 

 very anxious to get it shipped to fulfill the 

 pressing needE "i customers. It is thoroughly 

 believed that the embargo on trade in the South 

 will not prevail for any length of time and 

 a large Increase in shipments Is generally ex- 

 pected from this time forward. 



Incident to this condition of the hardwood 

 market, there Is also a great interruption in 

 yellow pine shipments from the South. The 

 trade in building woods has shifted quite largely 

 to the Pacific coast mills, with the result that 

 every transcontinental line is simply congested 

 with lumber freight, which makes receipts from 



that s re a! st as precarious as from the 



South, all of which is enhancing the "smile 

 that won't come off' on the faces of Michigan 

 and Wisconsin lumbermen who have hemlock 

 and Norway for sale. 



Boston. 

 Bo ton and vicinity is quiet. 



as follows for good average 

 standard of grades: Quartered white oak inch 

 ones and twos $78, and plain white oak at 

 $50 to $52, the demand for the latter being 

 ■natively good. Brown ash inch ones 

 and twos $50, dry stock being especially 

 Elm is in fair to good request, sup- 

 ply prices ruling around the $40 mark for 

 good inch stock. Whin wood is selling rather 

 slowly on the basis of $48.50 for inch ones 

 twos. Maple flooring is holding firmly 

 .t list and frequently going above list, basis 

 of $37.50 for 2*4 inch clear face. There is 

 talk of an advance of $2 per thousand over 

 the lisl prices in the near future. Demand 

 for cypress has been rather disappointing to 

 wholesalers but prices are firm and dry stock 

 very scarce. Judging by condition of stock 

 usually arriving during recent months cypress 

 sales are of sucli volume that shipments fol- 

 low the saws with the least possible time 

 allowed for drying. That old dry stock.— the 

 kind that mother used to make — is now too 

 often only a memory. Excepting maple floor- 

 ing the only other class of stock on which a 

 rise is anticipated is rough birch and in this 

 latter stock wholesalers and manufacturers 

 differ only in the amount of the probable ad- 

 vance, which is estimated to be five to ten 

 per cent. It is almost a foregone conclusion 

 that red birch prices will advance sharply in 

 the near future, and that white birch will 

 also rise somewhat. Supply of red is very 

 low. 

 The cherry demand is taking care of sup- 



