HARDWOOD RECORD 



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in Perry county, Kentucky, which will be de- 

 veloped immediately. 



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

 rin Company, in discussing hardwood con- 

 ditions, said: "Our business the past month 

 has been the largest of any month for twenty 

 years. The outlook is extremely promising 

 for a fine trade the balance of the year and 

 as far away as next May. Business for the 

 year with us will be the largest in our exist- 

 ence." 



The W. D. Rue Commercial Planing Mill 

 Company of this city was incorporated Sep- 

 tember 12, with a capitalization of $10,000. 

 The incorporators were: W. B*. Rue. B. A. 

 Kennedy, Fred Ferguson, Otto Bettinger and 

 Edward D. Woodward. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company. Ltd., of 

 Pennsylvania, secured a temporary restrain- 

 ing order from Judge Cochran, in the United 

 States Court at Covington. Ky.. on September 

 12, against Harrison Kid and Thomas Jen- 

 nings, of Rowan county, Kentucky, to pre- 

 vent them from cutting and destroying tim- 

 ber in Rowan and Morgan counties. The 

 Clearfield company declared that it owns 31,- 

 564 acres of timber and mineral land in those 

 counties and alleged that Kid & Jennings are 

 cutting timber near Morehead in defiance of 

 the company's orders. The restraining order 

 is to be in force until October 18. when the 

 case will be tried by Judge Cochran in Cov- 

 ington. 



Telegraphic information was received here 

 on September 20. stating that several thou- 

 sand trees in Itowan county. Kentucky, had 

 been destroyed by fire. These fires begin 

 about this time every year, from unknown 

 causes, and continue until extinguished by 

 winter rains. Thousands of dollars' worth of 

 timber has already been destroyed and, ac- 

 cording to latest advice, the fire line extended 

 nearly a mile. 



E. A. Conkling of the E. A. Conkling Plan- 

 ing Mill Company, which he established in 

 1870, died in this city the middle of the month 

 from heart trouble. 



Memphis. 



Exporters of lumber here and elsewhere in 

 the South are quite stirred up over the pub- 

 lication recently in the Timber News of Lon- 

 don of an arraignment of American lumber 

 shippers by the Liverpool correspondent of 

 that paper. He reads them a lecture of un- 

 usual severity regarding the folly of making 

 excessive consignments of lumber, and asks 

 when will the American lumberman use com- 

 mon sense in making shipments to that mar- 

 ket. The incident arose out of the arrival 

 at Liverpool of the Irak, with a large 

 of logs, lumber and planks. The correspond- 

 ent in question asserts that the greater part 

 of this cargo was consigned stock, and evi- 

 dently labored under the impression that it 

 was sent abroad in this manner by regular 

 exporters. 



The first point emphasized by exporters who 

 have discussed the matter is the fact that 

 only a moderate proportion of this lumber 

 was sent abroad on consignment, as shown 

 by an investigation of the manifests oi 

 Irak, copies of which are available here. 



The second is that the regular exporters of 

 lumber in the United States had absolutely 

 no part in the shipment of this con- 

 stock. They had a considerable amount of 

 lumber on board this ship, but it all 

 over on film contracts, as is shown by th 

 investigation of the source of the shipments 

 It is further proven that all the consigned 

 stock was sent abroad by small manufai 

 ers who have never had any experience in 

 the export market and who were induced to 

 make these consignments by the misrep> • 

 tatlons of an agent sent to the United SI 



I firm, whose 



is known 



king lumbi r on oonalgi n 

 ise of the profit accruing to II 

 less ol to be sustained by i 



himself. 



Exp h i were approached by 



agent positively refused to m 

 mints, because they were familiar with 

 depression which has prevailed in tl 

 market for a number of months. Further- 

 more, they have Insisted that they would nol 

 sell their lumber in the foreign market 

 thev | ir ](y 



with those obtaining on this side of tl 



Thus, if the claims of the Ij orre- 



spondent were true. I tions of Hrmi 



on this side of the water an.i the posl 

 tion of the exporters would be 1 [t is 



foi this reason that exporters have taken up 

 the matter and sought a cm of an 



impression calculated to do the legitimate 

 Export interests considerable harm by giving 

 the foreign trade a lever with which to de- 

 press prices. 



And the temper of the trade has not been 

 improved any by (he receipt of a letter here, 



dated Liver] I, Sept. ">. stating that another 



foreign firm has sent out an agent to I te- 

 states to repeat the practice of the one under 

 discussion. The letter reads: 



"I h iv. jusl learned that Mr. S. Jr.. of 



C . sails Saturday for the States B 



going over for the express intention Of se- 

 curing a lot of stock to be shipped on 

 signment. You will remember thai a short 



time ago D sent a man out with the 



purpose He was very successful, with the 

 result that both Liverpool and London w • 



Hooded with unsold stocks, much to 11 



ment of a!l legitimate shippers and 



Now the same thing will occur through 



S 's visit, lie will secure a lol of stock 



by holding out an inducement to advance 70 

 p •■ cenl of the value of the stock shipped. 

 And the result will be that we will ha s 

 flood of goods again arriving and being of- 

 fered i ' I sorts of prices. 



"It is these methods entirely that keep the 

 prices in this country at a lower level than in 

 yours and I think the time would be exceed- 

 ingly w.ll spent if you would draft a letter 

 advising all lumber manufacturers to discour- 

 age to the utmost the visit of these brokerage 

 representatives. They are certainly more in- 

 jurious to the ira.le than :ni\ factor 

 which " i havi ontend." 



This let! r wii! be given as wide publicity 

 as possible in the hope that it will t'a'l 

 the hands of many manufacturers who 

 not familiar with foreign con busi- 



ness and, therefore, Impress them with the 

 follj .a engaging in such a prai 



The National Lumbel Exporters' \ 

 tion. which embraces a large proportion of 



riant eXpOrl intefSts- ill tile 



United States, has decided to east its intlu- 



iii favor of reciprocity. This action 

 taken at meeting irs of 



the i and has just been made pub- 



lic by Secretarj Elliot! Lang, whose h 

 ,,„.,, ,, . and wh.. returned 



only 'his 



r the 

 purpose of advancing the interests of lumber 

 In ev< ry waj possible and has. 

 therefore trained to take thli 



w lth i he tariff question 



In March, 1906, there will 



(julcs iii effeel in Germany. Austro-Hun- 

 garj will follow suit, ami France Is hi 

 in 1 



' I 

 that 



m.i with iii finding 

 islness with countries put line 

 these new schedules into effect. Lumber in- 



ip of till 



I iu 



whli I 



stand American lumbei 



■.Mth th. I| 

 t..r-- for th. business of those countries I 

 with an appreciable 



il im< : i. an export. ,,f the pi 



liar attitude of th. .,,lsts | n 



country, it is felt that. Instead of bell - 

 quitable basis with their i . 



•• able t., sell to tl 

 countries putting these new tariffs into 

 any article that can he had from tl 

 whom they are tryii 



he has it: n, make k. 



etion f the association and to furth- 

 the cause of tariff revision as much as 

 sible, and he Is now directing his 

 that end. 



M. R. Grace of the - Handle Company 



of this city, who is promoting the merger of the 

 hickory handle man , ompanli - 



the United States, states thai the smaller com- 

 panies which were holding 

 a little while back have given in and that 

 ing but routine work remain* in the wa 

 effecting the combination. There ure twentj 

 seven of these plants in Old... Illinois, Indiana. 

 Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee an. I Texas and 



their combined capitalisation is aboul *i. 



- Mr. Grace leaves this week for Ne* 



York. Stockholders in the individual 

 can sell out for cash, a New York syndicate 

 having agreed to furnish the money for this 

 purpose. If they [.refer, however, they can turn 

 in their stock and receive In return a certain 

 amount of stock in the merger. 



At the meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 held at the lintel Gayoso hist Saturday, the 

 question of securing rooms for the nri;anlaztion 

 was taken up. Club privileges are to k„ with 

 membership. A committee wis appointed t.> 



and report back to the next i ting Me< 



have been held at th.- Gayoso, foil. 



usually i.\ luncl n. 



v r anton ami John Seed, i mploj i 

 Anders.. n Tally Company, were both 



fen .lavs iiing .,f an 



elevator at the factory .a' th mnanj Sou 



bad both legs broken, while Hi 

 sustained injuries to his back. 



Edgar A. Carleton, a prominent mill mail 

 Vance, Miss., died here a fen .lavs ago from 

 gunshot wounds (nil Sam Wad.. 



oyee, wh.. had been discharged for drunk 



eliness. Mr I a rl.l ..tl was brought 



a Hospital, ami efferis were made t>> locate 

 a hall in his thigh, 1 -onlng 



set in ami death quickly snsned Be had been 



3, the last -pent at \ 



where he owned n large mill. 



The Brougbton Mantel Manufacturlnf 

 pany la having application drawn for 

 for the manufacture Italisa- 



th. n p.. ougbton ,v Co., th.- pr< 



i In the manufa 



kind in the South. 

 I he lumber mil 

 Building .v Suj ; Ark . 



was 



which wa .ans.is 



the M- in. 



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