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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1921 



as compared with 204 permits and a valuation of $1,449,580 in the corre- 

 sponding period last year. Permits were issued for the construction o£ 52 

 dwellings during the month. A number o£ dwellings in the suburbs which 

 do not come within the jurisdiction ot the building department were 

 started. 



F. B. Pryor, sales manager ot the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company ot 

 Columbus, reports a better tone to the hardwood trade in Ohio, as well 

 as other states. The company started its miii March 1 on about a 40 per 

 cent basis. Mr. Pryor reports an increasing scarcity in the higher grades 

 ot oal! and poplar. Prices stiii show a rather wide spread, although not 

 so many low quotations are heard. The market appears to be on the 

 upward grade. 



E. M. Stark of the American Column & Lumber Company has returned 

 from a business trip to Chicago and Cleveland, where he went to look 

 over the situation. He reports a better tone and more optimism has 

 developed in all quarters. The company's mills at Stark. W. Va., are in 

 operation on part capacity and the output is being increased. 



CINCINNATI 



The Harry F. Hendy & Company, with offices in the Provident Bank 

 Huilding and one of the oldest establishments in this city dealing in 

 southern hardwoods, has taken over the exclusive sales agency for the 

 •Tack Tarwater Company, Eockwood, Tenn. The Cincinnati concern will 

 handle all sales for the Tarwater Company. 



F. J. Norcross and T. Sunderland president and secretary respec- 

 tively ot the Appalachian Logging Congress completed arrangements for 

 the annual convention of the association at the Sinton Hotel next month, 

 while in this city on Feb. 27, in a conference with Thomas Quinlan. 

 Manager ot the Convention Department ot the Chamber of Commerce. 



The Board ot Directors of the National Carriage Makers' Association 

 by a unanimous vote gave the 1921 convention to Cincinnati. The con- 

 vention will be held at the Sinton Hotel in September. George Huston 

 of the local club was named chairman ot the entertainment committee. 



Mrs. Cordelia Flinn, 78 years old, mother of Walter H. Flinn, of the 

 Thoman Flinn Lumber Company, died at the home of her daughter at 306 

 Sixth avenue, Dayton, Ky., on February 25. 



The Fay & Egan Company, manufacturers of wood working machinery 

 has paid the last back dividend ot 1% Per cent and the regular quarterly 

 dividend 1% per cent on the cumulative preferred stock ot the company 

 and the regular quarterly l^A per cent on common stock. Accompanying 

 the dividend checks was a statement showing gross earning ot $2,361.- 

 918,08 and net after all deductions $245,6.33.55 for the fiscal year. 



WHEELING 



A gradual reduction ot both freight and passenger railroad rates is 

 demanded by present day business conditions, according to a letter written 

 by Thomas F. Welsh, a leading lumber manufacturer of Grafton. W. Va.. 

 to U. S. Senator David Elkius of West Virginia. Interior railroad rates 

 as well as Shipping Board rates must be reduced, Mr. Welsh declared, "if 

 the country's normal business is to be put on a normal basis and condi- 

 tions ot trade established so as to hold our foreign export business and 

 cultivate new markets abroad for our surplus goods. .. .What ever has 

 transpired during the war in the way ot profiteering, it is evident that 

 this has largely disappeared. Manufacturers today are ready and willing 

 to undertake to manufacture their goods at such a reduction as to give 

 their purchasers delivered prices in the face of the transportation system, 

 both inland and ocean, as stands at the present day." 



Biuefield, W. Va., newspapers announce the revival of discussion of* 

 large railroad projects to serve large tracts of virgin coal and timber 

 lands in eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia. -According to 

 reports some assurance of immediate maturity of plans and construction 

 is given. A new railroad 150 miles long to cost $25,000,000 will be con 

 structed from Pineville, Ky., to Williamson, where it will connect with 

 the Norfolk and Western railroad. A twenty-five mile branch line will 

 be constructed from Lynch, Ky., to the Virginia border. This will travel 

 along the Cumberland river and traverse an important undeveloped coai 

 and timber field. It is proposed to tunnel Big Black Mountain from 

 Stonega, Va., tapping the Cumberland river field. This extension would 

 be about five miles long and is considered by the Interstate Railroad. 

 One coal corporation is said to recently have paid $17,000 cash for a 

 lease, stipulating that the railroad will be constructed immediately. 



Creation of the office of commissioner of forestry is provided for in a 

 bill which has been introduced in the West Virginia legislature by Senator 

 Harvey W. Harmer of Clarksburg, W. Va., and Delegate G. W. Biser ot 

 Berkeley Springs. It has been referred to the committee on immigration 

 and agriculture in the senate and to tlie committee on forestry and con- 

 servation in the house. 



The commissioner ot forestry, under the terms ot the bill, would be 

 ex-officio state game and fish warden, and he would be appointed and 

 Bcrve during the pleasure of tiie governor. His salary would be $3,000 a 

 year. He would be authorized to employ an office deputy at an annual 

 salary of $1,500 ; one field deputy tor $1,500 and one stenographer at 

 $900 a year. 



The Bath Hardwood Lumber Company of Wilmington, Del., filed suit 

 In chancery in the United States district court at Huntington, W. Va., 

 on Feb. 19 ogainst J. A. Viquesney of Belington and J. C. Myers and the 



J. C. Meyers Lumber Company ot White Sulphur. The suit involves sum 

 aggregating nearly $200,000 and the plaintitE asks that the profits from 

 the sale of 18,210 acres of timber land in Pocahontas and Greenbrier 

 counties be ascertained and that one-half ot the profits be awarded the 

 plaintiffs. 



.\ccording to a statement appeared in the Richmond, W. Va., press the 

 Fayette country lumber camps have been struck a hard blow by the 

 ilepressed lumber market. The Babcock Lumber Company has laid o£E all 

 employes except married men. The employes were paid in full and no 

 assurance was given of an early resumption ot work. 



The Elk Lumber Company has been incorporated at Sutton, W. Va., 

 with a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are R. M. Johnson, 

 F. H. Barmott, A. L. Morrison and J. W. Johnson. 



The Kanawaha Hardwood Company has been incorporated at Charles- 

 ton. W. Va., with a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are W. D. 

 Payne, W. F. Hooper. B. Minor. Jr., and C. P. Miller. 

 From W. J. M'Googan, Post Despatch, St. Louis. Mo. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Reginald Foster, 49 years old, was sentenced recently for five years In 

 I'Vderal prison at Atlanta by Judge Anderson in Federal Court here, 

 c'harged with stealing, passing and altering a Liberty Bond stolen from 

 a lumber company at Logansport, Ind. Foster was arrested after he had 

 been released on bond and was caught after having broken into a safe of 

 the Cicero Lumber Company at Cicero, Ind. 



Harry Shelter, manager of the Sheller Wood Rim Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Portland, Ind., has announced that his company has received 

 sufficient orders to warrant its reopening the plant at maximum pro- 

 duction. 



A bill introduced in the Indiana General Assembly to foster more forest 

 lands passed the House of Representatives recently. The bill was drawn 

 up by the State Conservation Department by Chas. A. Deam, state 

 forester. It provides that a tax of only $1 an acre be levied on virgin 

 forest lands and on lands planted in forest and devoted exclusively to 

 the cultivation ot forest trees. 



The Brannum-Keene Lumber Company of Indianapolis, Ind., has 

 increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $250,000. 



The monthly report of the building Inspector shows a considerable 

 decline in the number of building permits issued during February and the 

 valuation of the permits. The total of 512 permits was issued with a 

 valuation ot $017,834. This is only about one-half of the permits in 

 valuation of February, 1920. 



The Ben Davis Lumber Company, of Indianapolis, Ind., has increased 

 its capital stock from $13,500 to $25,000. 



The Indiana Lumber Company of Kokomo, Ind., has filed a preliminary 

 decree ot dissolution. 



Announcement has been made of the organization ot the Dix Lumber 

 Company, Terre Haute, Ind., with a capital stock of $300,000. The direc- 

 tors are P. B. Dix, H. L. Dix, A. E. Hazelrigg, Christ DuBois and R. J. 

 Self. 



Alfred P. Conklin, wholesale lumber dealer, 2029 North Meridian street, 

 was robl>ed Feb. 18 ot .$70 when he found a burglar ransacking his house, 

 when he returned home with his wife and daughter. Mr. Conklin was 

 met at the head of the stairs on the second floor and ordered by the 

 burglar to hand over his money and then ordered in an adjoining room 

 and was told to lock the door, which Mr. Conklin did. In the meantime, 

 Mrs. Conklin and her daughter had heard the commotion and had gone 

 to a neighbor's home to call for the police, but the burglar had dis- 

 appeared before the emergency squad arrived. Nothing was missing from 

 the house but a package of cigarettes. 



EVANSVILLE 



John R. Muenstermann, 73 years old, who for thirty-eight years was 

 connected with the Heltrich Lumber and Manufacturing Company here, 

 died at his home a tew days ago after a brief illness. He was born at 

 Kagle Harbor. Mich., and came here when a young man. He was well 

 known to the lumber trade in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and 

 western and northern Kentucky and is survived by his wife, three sons 

 and two daughters. 



The Hurst Airplane Company of this city has moved to Henderson. Ky., 

 a few miles south of Evansville, because ot certain inducements offered 

 the company by the Chamber of Commerce of that city. The headquarters 

 of the company also will be moved to Henderson from Terre Haute. Ind. 



Oscar A. Bryan, connected with the Allen Wilkinson Lumber Company 

 at Petersburg, Ind.. and Miss Laura Jane Sowell, ot Cerulian. Ky., were 

 united in marriage a few days ago at Petersburg and will reside at that 

 place. 



A few days ago a raft of logs valued at nearly $5,000 left New Harmony, 

 Ind., on the Wabash river for a lumber firm at Caruthersville, Mo. The 

 raft broke to pieces when a short distance below Mt. Vernon, Ind.. but 

 the logs were assembled again and a towboat was secured to take the 

 logs down the Ohio river and into the Mississippi. While going under the 

 bridge at Cairo, 111., the raft struck a pier and went to pieces and most 

 ot the logs were lost. 



Daniel Wertz, head of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company here has 

 been boosted by many of his friends for the democratic nomination for 



