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HARDWOOD RECORD 



T. H. Carrier of the Adventure Lumber Com- 

 pany of Butler, Tenn., was in Bristol on Im- 

 portant business last week. Mr. Carrier stated 

 that his company Is cutting considerable stock at 

 present and has a large stock In the yards. He 

 was accompanied by George C. Luppert and J. 

 W. Tarnian of the I.uppert Lumber Company of 

 Batter. 



E. L. Edwards, a prominent wholesaler of 

 Daytou, O., is in this section looking after lum- 

 ber interests. Mr. Edwards is handling the out- 

 put of several good-sized mills In this section. 

 He reports a good volume of satisfactory busi 

 ness. 



W. R. Stone, vice president of the Stone-Huling 

 Lumber Company, has returned to Bristol after a 

 trip to North Carolina. Mr. Stone reports the 

 yellow pine trade of his company as in specially 

 good condition. 



Indianapolis. 



A carload of walnut logs for export to Ham- 

 burg, Germany, was recently loaded at Princeton, 

 Ind., by James Stamp of Barnesville, O. The 

 logs were cut in Gibson county and are consid 

 ered fine specimens of Indiana timber. They 

 were shipped to a firm engaged in the manufac- 

 ture of pianos and organs. 



On Sept. 17 the box factory of the Peters 

 Box & Lumber Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., 

 was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $21,000, 

 with but $4,000 insurance. Charles Pape, the 

 well-known furniture dealer of port Wayne, 

 owned the factory. 



According to statistics just prepared by Joseph 

 H. Stubbs, state statistician, there are now In 

 Indiana X.207 factories of all kinds, large and 

 small. This is considered a splendid showing. 



It Is said that the Plant Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of La Porte, Ind., Is contemplating the 

 removal of its factory to Cincinnati. The Plant 

 Company is engaged in the manufacture of wood 

 moldings, principally from oak and gum lumber, 

 and employe several hundred men. 



John H. Talge, president of the Talge Mahog- 

 any Company of this city, is the Democratic 

 nominee for the city council in the eighth ward. 

 The election occurs in November, and friends of 

 Mr. Talge claim that he will win, although the 

 ward is nominally Republican. Mr. Talge is a 

 clean-cut business man, well liked by those who 

 know him. 



Cincinnati. 



Frederick Ferguson of this city and G. A. Ken- 

 nedy of Cleveland, O., will erect a planing mill 

 and six dryhouses here for the manufacture of 

 cigar box lumber. 



Representatives of the Plant Manufacturing 

 Company of La Porte, Ind., said to be the larg- 

 est wood molding company in the United States, 

 are seeking a site in this city to build an im- 

 mense branch factory. 



President T. J. Moffett of the Business Men's 

 Club, a member of Maley, Thompson & Moffett 

 Company, has organized a business booming ex- 

 cursion bureau, consisting of fifteen members of 

 various trades. Their duty will be to arrange 

 short excursions to neighboring towns to boom 

 Cincinnati. The lumber industry Is represented 

 on the committee by W. A. Bennett of Bennett & 

 Wltte. 



D, B. Bannister, the Muncie, Ind., vehicle man- 

 ufacturer, was in this city the early part of the 

 month on a purchasing trip. "I have just been 

 through the North and had to pay $45 to $60 for 

 hickory that cost a few years ago $25 to $33," 

 he declared. 



Through the removal of the ban on American 

 machinery by the Russian government, the J. A. 

 Fay & Egan Company expects $150,000 additional 

 trade a year. The company's London agent is 

 soon to go io St. Petersburg and reopen ac- 

 counts. 



W. H. Matthias, who for years represented the 

 M. B. Farrln Lumber Company in Ohio, Indiana 



and Illinois, has become associated with the W. 

 M. Ritter Lumber Company of Columbus, O., 

 and will represent it in the same territory. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company is 

 shipping liberal quantities of hardwood to New 

 York, where yards have been secured on East 

 Thirtieth street to supply foreign trade. The 

 company recently established an office in the 

 metropolis with W. H. Stubbs as manager and 

 Edward Burgess as assistant. 



Local manufacturers report that the car short- 

 age is waning, but a new difficulty has bobbed 

 up. Trouble is being experienced in securing 

 laborers to work in the yards. 



The Nicola, Stone & Myers Company has re- 

 moved its office and yards from Summer street 

 to Eighth street and McLean avenue. Increased 

 facilities are thus afforded its growing business. 



Samuel W Rlchey of Richey, Halstead & Quick- 

 has returned from an extended buying trip 

 through Kentucky and West Virginia. His pur- 

 chases were confined largely to poplar and he is 

 decidedly optimistic regarding the immediate 

 future of that wood. 



Clinton Crane of < '. Crane & Co. is home from 

 a trip through the eastern states. Mr. Crane be- 

 lieves more firmly than ever that poplar prices 

 will undergo sharp advances before winter. He 

 states that stocks are at a low ebb. 



The John It. Cochran Company of 1213-15 

 Gest street has taken advantage of the Incorpo- 

 ration laws and was granted a charter this 

 month. The capital stock was placed at $10,000 

 and the incorporators were : John R. Cochran, 

 John T. Costello, J. E. Blackburn, Harold O. 

 Kapp and Edward G. Murrell. 



Cincinnati hickory handle factories are Inter- 

 ested in the movement to join twenty seven fac- 

 tories in Onto, Kentucky, Tennessee and adjoin- 

 ing states. It is understood that the organiza- 

 tion will be effected before the end of the month. 



Julius Spicker of C. C. Mengel & Brother Com- 

 pany of Louisville, Ky , and J. M. Card of the 

 J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 were visitors the early part of October. 



Adam Beach's sawmill at Arlington, O., was 

 ved by fire on September 30. The loss is 

 estimated at $10,000, only partially protected 

 by Insurance. 



John A. Bruce of the Owl Bayou Cypress Com- 

 pany, which has several mills in Louisiana, vis 

 Ited i he company's home office in Cincinnati last 

 week. 



Win. 11. Stewart of Wm. H. & G. S. Stewart 

 has returned from a lengthy vacation spent at 

 Michigan resorts. Gregory S. Stewart is home 

 from a stay at Atlantic City. 



Chattanooga. 



The Keyset- Manufacturing Company, manufac- 

 turer of refrigerators. Is making Improvements 

 on its plant here amounting to $40,000. Several 

 large brick buildings are being erected, and the 

 input of the company will be about doubled. 

 The company will manufacture tables In addi- 

 tion to the regular line of refrigerators. 



The Chattanooga Cooperage Company has com- 

 pleted the installation of a band sawmill, and 

 will manufacture building material in addition 

 to barrel heading and staves. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company, which de- 

 . ided recently to erect a branch plant here at a 

 cost of $1011,(100, will begin the erection of the 

 plant In the near future on a tract of land which 

 has been leased near East Lake. 



The Case Lumber Company lias recently In- 

 creased its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000 

 lor the purpose of increasing its stock of oak 

 and poplar. 



The Central Manufacturing Company will make 

 extensive improvemeuts on its plant in this city, 

 Including new offices and the installation of new 

 machinery. 



I. M. Asher, the Cincinnati representative of 

 the Nicola, Stone & Myers Company, was in this 

 city recently buying stock. 



C. W. Manning, wholesale lumberman of New 



York city, purchased several carloads of stock in 

 this city a few days ago. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company has returned from Norfolk, Va., where 

 he inspected his branch plant. Mr. Brenner is 

 highly encouraged over the prospects for the 

 coming year. 



W. M. Fowler, treasurer of the Case Lumber 

 Company, has gone to Birmingham, Ala., to look 

 after the interests of the Fowler-Personett Lum- 

 ber Company, of which he is president. 



M. M. Erb, vice president of the Case Lumber 

 Company, will leave soon on an extended trip to 

 Chicago, Indian Territory and Canada for the 

 purpose of laying in stock. 



J. M. Card, president of the J. M. Card Luui 

 ber Company, has returned from a trip to Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Kansas City. 



The directors of the Southwestern Lumbermen's 

 Association held their regular fall meeting at 

 Kansas City as heretofore, have been set for Jan. 

 next annual convention, which will be held at 

 Kansas City as heretofore, has been set for Jan. 

 23, 24 and 25, 1906. It is the aim of the direr 

 tors of the association to make the business 

 meetings of interest with a view to bringing to 

 the convention every dealer in the territory if 

 possible, and it may be stated in advance that 

 the business matters discussed will be of enough 

 importance and value to the retail dealers gen 

 erally that it will pay every dealer in the south 

 n est to be present. 



Among the visitors in Kansas City this week 

 was T. H. Rogers of Oklahoma City, O. T., vice 

 president of the Southwestern Lumbermen's As 

 sociation. Mr. Rogers was the leader of the 

 Oklahoma delegation at the Portland annual of 

 the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo, and did 

 valiant ana successful work in securing the 1906 

 annual for Oklahoma City. Mr. Rogers says 

 that Oklahoma people will get up an entertain 

 mint program for the Hoo-Hoo next September 

 that will surprise the visitors, and will be some 

 thing different from any previous entertainment. 



Walter S. Darnell of the firm of I. M. Darnell 

 & Sons Company, Memphis, Tenn., is In Kansas 

 City Hi's week with Mrs. Darnell on the wnj 

 borne 1 on, :i three weeks' trip to Colorado. Mr. 

 Darnell substantiates reports of other prominent 

 hardwood people as to the scarcity of stocks and 

 the film tone of the markets. He looks for a 

 big demand for the balance of the year with well 

 maintained pi Ue£. 



J. N. Penrod of the American Walnut Company 

 will leave here Oct. 19 and' after visiting in Bos 

 ton for a few days will leave New Y'ork Nov. u 

 tor a sixly days' business trip to Great Britain 

 and the continent. This will be Mr. Penrod's 

 second European trip this year, his former trip 

 having been cut short ow'ng to the feeble health 

 • •I l.is father, who died on July 20. 



A. H. Connelly was reelected a director of the 

 Commercial Club of Kansas City at the annual 

 election held this month. 



J. II. Tschudy, whose successful term as presi 

 dent of the Kansas City Manufacturers' and 

 Merchants' Association expired this month, was 

 elected a member of the board of directors of 

 that organisation at the annual meeting held a 

 few days ago. 



St. Louis. 



The Lloyd G. Harris Manufacturing Company 

 has been having an excellent call for wagon wood 

 stock the past few months. The Harris com 

 pany's mill at Brookings, Ark., is turning out a 

 line quality of material, and the company has 

 all it can do to supply the demand promptly. 



The Chas. F. Luehrmann nardwood Lumber 

 Company Is calling attention to its St. Franci6 

 Basin red gum, of which it has a large and well 

 assorted stock. Stocks of cypress and other 

 woods are being replenished In preparation for a 

 big fall and winter trade. 



The American Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 havine a fine call for nearly everything it carries 



