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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Phoenix Lumber Company of Little Rock 

 and Sayre, Ark., which was incorporated this 

 week, proposes to develop a large tract of virgin 

 timber lands which it owns in Nevada county, 

 Arkansas. The Ferguson Lumber Company is 

 said to be backing the enterprise, which is capi- 

 talized at $100,000, of which $40,000 has been 

 paid in. A mill with capacity of 60,000 feet 

 is being installed and will be in operation within 

 thirty days. 



Mr. McClure of Thompson & McClure has re- 

 turned from an extensive western trip with his 

 brother, who is ill. He left the latter at Oracle, 

 Ariz. Mr. McClure says he finds an increasing 

 inquiry for hardwood lumber and reports some 

 improvements in business. He is confident re- 

 garding the outlook for the fall and winter 

 trade, though a little disappointed that inquiries 

 are not developing into business with greater 

 rapidity. 



C. R. Palmer of the L. H. Gage Lumber Com- 

 pany of Providence, R. I., reached here today. 

 He says there is a fairly good volume of busi- 

 ness in hardwood lumber in the East and that 

 the general expectation is for a good fall and 

 winter trade. He asserts that stocks in the 

 hands of consumers are believed to be quite 

 small and shows himself familiar with southern 

 conditions when he says that the amount avail- 

 able in the South is not large. 



W. A. Haas of I'rovldence, R. I., reached 

 Memphis today. He has been employed by the 

 Crittenden Lumber Company and will !»■ Bta 

 tioned at the plant of the company at Earlc, 

 Ark. 



Chattanooga. 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company has Installed 

 a double surface planer at its plant at Rossville, 

 Ga., for use in dressing lumber. Heretofore this 

 concern handled only rough lumber. The new 

 dimension sawmill recently installed at the com- 

 pany's plant at Tuscaloosa', Fla., is now running 

 full capacity, this plant making a specialty 01 

 dimension lumber. A tract of timber land in 

 De Kalb county. Alabama, recently purchased by 

 the Card company is estimated to cut about 

 1,500,000 feet, which will be manufactured at 

 the local mill. 



The Berry Stave & Lumber Company recently 

 made a large shipment of beer keg material to 

 San Francisco and it is now manufacturing stock 

 for another large shipment. 



The H. L. Judd Manufacturing Company has 

 recently Increased Its capacity, manufacturing 

 about 4,000,000 feet of lumber for use in making 

 curtain poles. 



The McLean Lumber Company recently in- 

 stalled a twelve-Inch mill. O. M. Krebs will 

 have charge of the big plant, while Roscoe Mc- 

 Knlght will have charge of the timber end of the 

 enterprise. The plant will cost In tbe neighbor- 

 hood of $100,000. 



J. M. Card of the .7. M. Card Lumber Company 

 left on a business trip to Cincinnati this week. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company has gone to Norfolk, Va., to look after 

 his branch plant there. 



New Orleans. 

 The rate question is causing general comment 

 and in some quarters complaint. Ocean rates 

 on lumber have been advanced on an average 

 of 50 per cent within the past thirty days, and 

 there has also been an advance In gulf rates. 

 A canvass of ship agents and freight brokers 

 shows that this advance is due to several lead- 

 ing causes, one of the chief of which Is the 

 prospective heavy traffic through New Orleans 

 this fall and winter. Another element in the 

 situation is the routing through New Orleans 

 of classes of goods not heretofore shipped through 

 this city, together with an Increase In the 

 volume of ocean, gulf and coastwise traffic. 

 Within the same time that lumber rates have 

 been advanced 50 per cent, grain rates have 

 advai *r cent, which Is unprecedented. 



Freight brokers also state that the recent ac- 

 tion of debenture and stockholders in insisting 

 on laying up ships rather than allow managing 

 agents to run them at a loss, is also directly 

 responsible for the advance in rates. Some 

 hardwood exporters also complain of unsatis 

 factory car service on the west bank lines, 

 stating that between the poor service given in 

 this direction and the advance in ocean rates, 

 it is difficult to do any business, notwithstand- 

 ing a satisfactory demand from the other side. 



Adam & Steinbrugge, well known New Or- 

 leans hardwood and pine exporters, have opened 

 an office in Norfolk. This is a step which the 

 firm contemplated for some time. When the 

 yellow fever appeared and quarantine restric- 

 tions became the order of the day both P. J. 

 Adam and C. B. Steinbrugge went to Norfolk to 

 superintend the inauguration of their branch 

 there. H. B. Turner, hardwood buyer for tbe 

 firm, was called in to take charge of the New 

 Orleans office during their absence. After leav- 

 ing Norfolk, Messrs. Adam and Steinbrugge 

 will go to Savannah, Fernandina and Jackson- 

 ville to make business connections at those 

 points. 



Harrj McNeal of BIcNeal & Co.. Ltd., is in 

 the North to arrange for a supply of labor for 

 the new stave and heading mill which his com- 

 pany will open about October 1 at Raven- 



w I, La. .1. B. Bateman. Jr.. secretary of this 



ny and of the A. J. Cranor Company, has 

 just returned from a two weeks' trip t.. Ash'' 

 ville. N C. A- J- Cranor, president of both 

 companies mentioned, expects to make a trip 

 abroad as soon as the yellow fever is over. 



D. T. Rees, president of the Rees-Scott Com- 

 pany, lias just returned from a two months' 

 in Canada. Within the next week 01 t"" 

 W. A. Scott, vice president and general manager 

 of this company, will visit his old home In 

 Canada. 



Secretary George I".. Watson of the Southern 

 ess Manufacturers' Association has issued 

 a circular under bis own and President Fred 

 Wllbert's signature postponing the meeting of 

 the association which was to have taken place 

 on October 11. On account of quarantines It 

 has been impossible for the committees to get 

 together, and the date of the meeting has been 

 fixed for November 22. 



F. B. Williams, the Patterson, La., cypress 

 manufacturer. Is In Europe. 



S. M. Bloss. manager of the Lyon Cypress 

 Company, Garyvllle, La., is in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 on a vacation. 



Joseph Rathborne, president of the Louisiana 

 Cypress Lumber Company, is in Europe. 



R, II. Downman Is spending his vacation at 

 Adirondack resorts. 



Capt. John Libert, Libert. Stark & Brown, 

 and Lutcher & Moore Cypress Lumber Company, 

 is in Colorado. 



C. H. Hinckley and Julian Downman of the 

 Gulf States Lumber Company are in Chicago 

 looking after their business interests there. 



John A. Bruce, Owl Bayou Cypress Company, 

 Strader, La., Is in Cincinnati. 



Louisville. 

 The C. C. Mengel & Brother Company of 

 this city reports the mahogany trade very sat- 

 isfactory. Recently a few specimens of mahogany 

 flooring were seen In this concern's office and 

 upon inquiry it developed that the company had 

 been experimenting along this line. Secretary 

 Arthur Musselman said that he had sent ma- 

 hogany strips to the Nashville Hardwood Floor- 

 ing Company. Nashville, to be worked into floor- 

 ing, just to see the possibilities of the wood for 

 this purpose. He says his company could fur- 

 nish mahogany flooring in short lengths, from 

 two to four feet, at about $100 per thousand, 

 but that it could not be furnished in longer 

 lengths except at a price entirely out of reach of 

 the ordinary trade. Of course mahogany Is 

 used in parquetry, tint the samples spoken of 



above were about 13-16 of an Inch in thickness 

 and worked hollow back just like other hard- 

 wood flooring. 



W. D. Sturm of the Voss Mantel Company 

 and the Bell & Coggeshall Company says that 

 business is lively these days both in the mantel 

 works and in the box factory. The Voss Mantel 

 Company is enjoying an uuusually heavy trade 

 in clock mantels, having sent car lots to all sec- 

 tions of the country. Oak veneer continues to be 

 the favorite finish, but there are calls for various 

 other hardwoods, including gum, mahogany, ma- 

 ple and birch. In the box factory both the main 

 factory and shook factory are running full time 

 and have many orders ahead. 



Anderson Bros., proprietors of the Southern 

 Planing Mill Company, report a very busy sea- 

 son. Among the contracts now in hand is the 

 mill work for the L. & N. depot here, which is 

 being rebuilt. The window frames are of pine, 

 but practically all the interior is being finished 

 in oak. and as it is somewhat of a rush job 

 ilny are having their hands full with this and 

 other work. 



Mr. F'sher of Fisher Bros., Horse Cave, Ky., 

 who was in town a few days ago, says he is 

 thinking seriously of again taking up the nianu- 

 fai lure of wagon wood stock and other small di- 

 mension stock in oak this winter. He has here- 

 tofore made quite a feature of this line, but so 

 far this year has been giving his attention al- 

 in ist exclusively to the manufacture of plain 

 sawed oak. 



Mr. Overstreet of the Southern Stave & Lum- 

 ber Company says that the poplar market is ap- 

 parently regaining lost ground, that the demand 

 i^ not only better but prices show some signs 

 of improvement. 



John Deblleux of the cypress department of 

 the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, St. Louis, 

 Mo., was in Louisville recently calling on George 

 w. Schmidt, manager of the Louisville branch 

 .ii the company. He is making the rounds of 

 offices to wake up the boys a little on cypress 

 and keep them reminded of the fact that the 

 i imago Lumber & Coal Company handles other 

 things besides yellow pine. 



George W. Schmidt, local manager of the 

 Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, booked a nice 

 order for maple flooring a few days ago. He is 

 giving more attention to cypress and hardwoods 

 yellow pine has become so scarce that It Is 

 more a question of having stock than of getting 

 orders. 



Minneapolis. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 hardwood wholesalers, has returned from a trip 

 to Chicago, Milwaukee and other points, and 

 expresses the opinion that the trade Is more 

 active In the twin cities than elsewhere. Mr. 

 Clark says the amount of basswood in the coun- 

 try Is surprisingly small, and if trade was as 

 heavy as a few years ago stocks would soon be 

 cleaned up. As it Is, he expects to see basswood 

 advance soon, as It Is practically all In strong 

 hands, and the small holders are sold out. 



P. W. Strickland of Barnard & Strickland, 

 local wholesale dealers, reports the situation In 

 this territory satisfactory, although the volume 

 of business Is not as large as it would be with 

 more ample supplies of stock to offer. The fac- 

 tory trade is not buying heavily, but its orders 

 are coming at frequent Intervals, and the general 

 story is one of prosperity. 



The Buswell Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany was recently Incorporated here. The com- 

 pany has secured a tract of hardwood timber 

 land In Vilas county, Wisconsin, containing 7,000 

 acres. The company, capitalized for $50,000, Is 

 incorporated by all well known men, most of 

 them practical lumbermen. They are F. W. 

 Buswell of the F. W. Buswell Lumber Company. 

 H. E. Glpsoh of the Seanlon-Glpson Lumber 

 Company and John G. Lockhart of Minneapolis ; 

 John C. Bull. Shanagolden, Wis., and A. C. Bus- 

 well. Blue Earth City. Minn. 



