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HARDWOOD RECORD 



offices in the Boatmen's Bank building. The mills are located at Junet. 

 Arls., and Minter City. 



The Saline River Lumber Company, a wholesale hardwood lumber 

 institution, has started business at Minden, La. 



The Foley & Williams Manufacturing Company of Chicago and Kankakee, 

 111., has been placed in the hands of L. Small, trustee in bankruptcy. 



The Mt. Vernon Woodworking Company has been incorporated at Mt. 

 Vernon, N. T., with an authorized capital stock of $50,000. 



At Pekin, 111., the Pekin Cooperage Company has purchased si,\ 

 or eight smaller concerns and has raised its capital stock from $500,000 

 to $1,750,000. 



It is reported from Wheeling, W. Va., that a newly organized firm 

 known as the Wheeling Planing Mill Company has taken over the 

 holdings of the W. W. Wood Planing Mill Company. 



The American Thread Company, a large corporation in the East, is 

 reported to be in correspondence with the Copper Country Commercial 

 Club of the upper peninsula of Michigan regarding the possibility of 

 locating a spool mill at that place. The requirement is a supply of 

 white birch. It is said that a tract of 90,000 acres has been located 

 at a convenient place. 



=■< CHICAGO >• 



The Lurya Lumber Company of Chicago has increased Its capital 

 stock from $10,000 to 5100,000. 



The Probst Lumber Company is a newly organized institution taking 

 over the business of the Prendergast Company of Cincinnati, which 

 has opened an office at 747' Railway Exchange, Chicago. 



The O'Neil Implement Company, La Salle, 111., has moved to Marseilles. 



The Globe Wrecking Company has been Incorporated at Chicago 

 with $6,000 capital. 



P. B. Raymond of the Knoxville Veneer Company, Knoxville, Tenn., 

 passed through Chicago the early part of this week on his return to 

 Knoxville after a successful business trip. Mr. Raymond says he has been 

 getting some good orders. 



C. L. Harrison, president of the Hlmmelberger-Harrlson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cape Girardeau, Mo., was in the city tor several days last week on 

 business having to do with his company. 



C. 11. Ransom of the Gavoso Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., was 

 In Chicago on business during the greater part of last week. 



.1. B. Deutsch of the Lake Independence Lumber Company. Big Bay, 

 Mich., was in Chicago on business the last few days of last week. 



F. D. Beals, president of the Hardwood Products Company, Necnah, 

 Wis., passed through Chicago on Friday of last week on his return from a 

 trip to the company's operations in Mississippi. 



=■< NEW YORK >= 



Wister, Underbill & Nixon, wholesalers of Philadelphia and New York, 

 have added to their selling force Harry I. Soble, for many years active in 

 the local wholesale market He will work in the Metropolitan district. 



Lumbermen golfers of this city have organized the "Knot" Golf Club 

 and it is planned to hold monthly tournaments Ix-glnnlng about the middle 

 of May. Membership in the local club will be limited to those in this 

 territory who are now members of or eligible for membership In the Lumber 

 Trade Golf Association. The organization will be more informal than 

 otherwise and will be conducted by the captain and a tournament and 

 handicap commmittee of three. Henry Cape has been chosen captain and 

 will appoint the committee in due time. Nine clubs in the district have 

 already extended their privileges to the new organization and over a score 

 of lumbermen golfers are already enrolled. There promise to be some 

 regular times this summer for the local trade boasts of manjy enthusiasts 

 of the game which "keeps one out in the open," as the humorists say. 



=-< DETROIT >-. 



The Ottawa Lumber Company has comploicd the erection of three new 

 lumber sheds at Harbor Springs, giving it an additional Door space of 

 4,870 feet. 



Fire destroyed a part of the Ranney Refrigerator Company's plant at 

 Greenville and a considerable quantity of lumber. The plant will be 

 rebuilt at Greenville. 



Addison E. Barber, a prominent furniture manufacturer at Grand 

 Rapids, died last week at Las Vegas, Cal., while on a business trip. He 

 was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia. He was president of the Barber 

 Brothers Chair Company of Hastings, Mich., and was Interested in the 

 Hastings 'rable Company. His widow and one son, Arthur B. Barber, are 

 his immediate survivors. 



Fire recently did about $4,000 damage in the lumber yards of W. D. 

 Young & Co, hardwood flooring manufacturers at Bay City. 



The Pierce-Williams Basket Company has resumed operating its plant 

 at South Haven. Among several other Improvements which have been 

 mode was the installation of an automatic sprinkler system. 



The name of the Kelly Chair Company at Hancock has been changed 

 to the Hancock Chair Factory and control has been purchased from the 

 founder, A. Kelly, Grand Rapids, by Hancock interests. The plant has 

 not been operating but will resume at once. 



W. T. Culver, vice-president and general manager of the Stearns Salt 



& Lumber Company at Ludington, was elected vice-president of the 

 Michigan Manufacturers' Association at the twelfth annual convention 

 held at Detroit recently. 



The Williams Brothers Company of Cadillac has shipped the last logs 

 from its camp at Arcadia and lumbering in that section has ceased. The 

 company has also completed its cut at Saunders, which completes the 

 company's operations along the .\nn Arbor railroad. 



The Sagola Lumber Company at Sagola now has 1,500,000 feet of logs 

 ahead of its mill, which is operating steadily, and if weather conditions 

 remain favorable the company will bring in 1.000,000 feet more. 



The Standard Hoop Company, Ltd., manufacturer of hoops and hard- 

 wood lumber at Bay City, has resumed operating its hoop mill. The 

 sawmill has been in operation for some time. It has a fair supply of 

 logs on hand. 



=-< ST. LOUIS > 



Quiet prevails in the hardwood market although the signs are good 

 for a betterment very soon. The Items best in demand are choice plain 

 sawed and quartered red and white oak, and the furniture and Implement 

 concerns are the best buyers. Inquiries are coming in quite freely for 

 poplar, ash and gum and there is a little activity in these items. Cotton- 

 wood of the better grade is showing more life. It is believed nearly all 

 items on the hardwood list will soon be in good demand. Stocks in the 

 local yards are in fairly good condition. Cypress is being called for fairly 

 well from some parts of the nearby territory but the demand is not up to 

 what has been expected. The general opinion among the leading cypress 

 distributors is that as soon as weather conditions improve an active 

 volume of business will be done. 



There was an increase of 54 in the number of permits for February, 

 but a falling off of $207,021 in the valuation, as compared with that 

 month last year. Last month 5G1 permits were issued for buildings and 

 alterations, the estimated cost of which is $908,083. 



Receipts and shipments of lumber in St. Louis during February, as 

 reported by the Merchants' Exchange, were 15,020 cars of lumber re- 

 ceived, as against 14, ."78 cars during February last year, a gain of 642 

 cars this February. Shipments were 8,911 cars, against 9,803 cars 

 February, 1914. a loss of 902 cars February, 1915. 



The Southern Hardwood Company, with headquarters In Jacksonville, 

 Tex., has opened up an office In room 1414 Wright building. It Is in 

 charge of B. B. Hall, sales manager of the company. He will be assisted 

 by J. W. Shclton. The company will not only sell the output of its own 

 mill, but will do a general hardwood business. 



::■< BUFFALO y 



Building operations In HulTalo have been on an unsatisfactory scale so 

 far this year, the first two months showing a decline of 26 per cent from 

 the corresponding period of last year. Two months of 1915 show a total 

 cost of $689,000, as compared with $931,000 last year. March may show 

 an Improvement, but so far there is not much evidence of it. 



Frank T. Sullivan, who was the Buffalo manager of the hardwood 

 Interests of Hamilton H. Salmon & Co., Is retaining the yard on the 

 Buffalo river In his own name, since that company became embarrassed. 

 The plan is to handle hardwood lumber on a commission basis and he has 

 already arranged to handle a lake cargo to be brought In some time next 

 month. He has some stock in yard at present, mosjt of it birch and 

 maple, and will continue to make these two hardwoods his specialties. 



W. K. Jackson of Jackson & Tindle has lately been looking after the 

 firm's interests in Michigan and in upper Canada. 



C. C. Slaght, a Buffalo lumberman who spends most of the .year on a 

 tract near his sawmill at Genesee, Pa., is shipping liberally of hardwoods 

 from that mill and also from the mill of the C. C. Slaght Lumber Company 

 at Coudersport. Tliese mills have not run this winter, but will start up 

 In the early spring. 



G. Ellas sustained a broken arm some days ago, while cranking his 

 automobile, but the accident was not serious enough to keep him long 

 from business. A. J. Elias was recently in Washington, a guest of Secre- 

 tary of State Bryan. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company found February business about 

 double that of January. Up to February 15 more lumber had been sold 

 and shipped than during the whole of the preceding month. 



Blakeslee, I'errin & Darling state that hardwood trade shows a notice- 

 able improvement. Thick oak has been moving about as well as anything, 

 though cypress Is showing a larger sale. 



O. E. Yeager is spending two weeks at Mt. Clemens, Mich. The Y'eager 

 Lumber Company finds trade holding about steady and pretty nearly up to 

 normal. January was a much better month than expected. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company still says "statu quo" when asked 

 nl)out its New England business. There is something doing there, but the 

 company will not be eager to return to its old activity until the flooring 

 trade improves. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports the hardwood trade im- 

 proved as compared with January, though not very active as yet. The 

 mills of the company at Memphis and Birmingham are turning out a fair 

 amount of stock. 



The National Lumber Company notes an Increase in flooring trade in this 

 section, though sales are not brisk. A better building demand Is looked for 

 within the next few weeks. 



