October 25. 1015. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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tories, especially those making vehicles, implements and furniture. Prices 

 are firm at the levels which have prevailed for some time. Prospects for 

 tile future are growins brighter. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a better run of 

 orders, with prices showing more strength. Shipments have been interfered 

 with because of the growing car shortage. 



John R. Gobey & Co. are having a nice trade in hardwoods, which are 

 showing more strength as business conditions improve. 



=•< CINCINNATI >.- 



William C. Lambert was recently appointiMl receiver tor Wm. F. Galle & 

 Co.. hardwood lumber concern, which went upon the financial rocks fol- 

 lowing a suit filed by the widow of a former backer of the concern. Im- 

 mediately after that litigation was started, creditors of the hardwooil 

 company began to press with the result that an application for receiver 

 was instituted by the petitioning creditors. Mr. Lambert's bond was fixed 

 at $5,000. The bankruptcy is an involuntary one. 



A direct benefit has been derived by Cincinnati lumbermen and car build- 

 ers as a result of the huge orders recently signed by the Pullman Car 

 Company to begin immediate work on 10,000 cars for the Uussian gov- 

 ernment. ,\ hurry call was received In this city for skilled labor in car 

 construction and quile a tew local builders left at once for Pullman, 111. 

 Also, considerable yellow pine was moved in this market as a result of the 

 order. 



In attempting to prevent a collision between his automobile and a 

 street car several days ago, Henry .T. Pfeister, a hardwood lumber dealer of 

 Winton I'lace, suffered a fractured arm. Mr. Pfeister is well known in 

 the Cincinnati luml)er world. 



The W. H. Fell Liiinbcr Company of Lexington, Ky.. recently announced 

 in the local market that It had completed one of the largest timber deals 

 in the state of Kentucky by purchasing 41.000 oak trees along Shelby creek, 

 in Pike and Letcher counties, at a figure approximately .$75,000. 



The C, N. O. & T. P. Itailroad has Joined hands with the lumbermen and 

 State Forestry Commission of the Blue Grass state in an attempt to pre- 

 vent the start and spread of forest fires which in the fall months have 

 become so prevalent in that state. It is expected that thousands of dollars' 

 worth of trees will thus be saved. 



A recent West Virginia incorporation of interest to Cincinnati lumber 

 and mining men is the Pontiac Mining Company of .Toplin, Mo., capitalized 

 at $150,000, for minerals and timber, with the following gentlemen as in 

 corporators : Charles Shewey, Luc Talman Shcwey, James C. Bunting, 

 J. Otis Rader and K. L. Henderson, all of Charleston, W. Va.. and known 

 to the Cincinnati lumber district. 



Nearly a hundred per cent gain in building operations was the result 

 of the big building boom which inaugurated itself in Cincinnati during 

 September, according to the monthl.v report of building operations recentl.v 

 issued. Ninety per cent is Cincinnati's gain over last September and an 

 increase of 43 per cent over January, 1915, is another gratifying feature 

 of the report. The report in general shows a healthy increase throughout 

 the country and is indeed gratifying to the lumbennen. 



At Akron, O., the Blackstone Building Compan.v recently organized 

 with capital at ?25,000 with M., Patience J., P. F., and A. ^F. O'Ncil and 

 Grace I. Tritt as incorporators. 



The West's Loose Floor Company recently was incorporated at Hop- 

 kinsville, Ky., for $10,000, with Hugh and James West and John P. Prowse 

 as incorporators. 



At Pineville, Ky., with a capitalization of $10,000, the Harpis Creek Lum- 

 ber Company recently was formed, T. J. .\sher, George W. Hengst and W. J. 

 Stone, all well known in Cincinnati, as incorporators. 



A Louisville incorporation of interest to the Cincinnati trade is the Park- 

 land Veneer Mills, at .$10,000, George L. and Elizabeth Kannapell and Mark 

 Beauchamp comprising the company. 



Cincinnati lumbermen are looking forward to a little more activity in 

 ship timbers now that operations in shipbuilding line are commencing 

 to pick up along the great lakes. The recent announcement that Harry 

 Coulby, president and general manager of the Pittsburgh Steamship Com- 

 pany, has closed contracts for two big freighters of 12,000-ton capacity, 

 at a cost of about $875,000. was received here with general satisfaction. The 

 keel of one of the big steamers will be laid in the Lorain yards of the 

 American Shipbuilding Company and the other will be built at the Ecorse 

 yard of the Groat Lakes Engineering Works. The ships must be completed 

 and ready for active service on the great lakes by the opening of navigation 

 in the spring of 1916. 



At Steubenvllle, O., The S. R. Elliott Furniture Company incorporated 

 for $15,000, with S. R. Elliott. Janet D. Elliott, S. R. Stark, J. C. Ault 

 and A. S. Buckingham comprising the firm. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the proposed automobile speed- 

 way which is being projected for Cincinnati, those present agreed to take 

 enough additional stock to make the pro,iect an assured fact and it is 

 expected that from now on operations will be rushed through the winter 

 so that the wooden track will be ready for a big June meeting. While the 

 project was yet in its infanc}', a wooden track was decided upon, it being 

 ascertained after an exhaustive study of other courses that the lumber 

 track was in many and vital respects superior to the brick paving or any 

 other. The total amount of stock now subscribed totals $350,000, and these 

 stockholders have pledged themselves to take up an additional $100,000 if 

 it is found to be actually needed before a racing meeting can be given. 



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