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HARDWOOD RECORD 



title. The east side of the river is the only 

 territory in Johnson county affected by the 

 Walcott title, as the original Walcott survey 

 only includes the lands lying between the Levisa 

 and Tug river forks of the Big Sandy river. 



Toledo. 



W. H. Hoagland of the Hankey Lumber Com- 

 pany of Bowling Green, Ohio, has just returned 

 from Michigan where he bought a large tract 

 of timber land. He claims that it is one of the 

 finest tracts of timber in the state and that it 

 will take four years to clear it. The deal marks 

 a turning point in the business of the Hankey 

 company which has heretofore done nothing but 

 a retail business. All the timber with the 

 exception of what will be required in the yards 

 at Bowling Green will be sold on the wholesale 

 market. 



The past winter saw cue of the greatest 

 hardwood timber harvests ever experienced in 

 the northern part of Ohio. The little town of 

 Bryan was the center of the industry and during 

 the winter received about 1.500 loads of logs. 



The mills there will have more than 1. 



feet of lumber to work up this spring. 



William Winzler, an employee of the Bryan, 

 Ohio, stave factory, has recently fallen heir to 

 $30,000. He will leave his present employment 

 but expects to start in the lumber business on 

 his own responsibility soon. 



The American Wood Block Company of 

 Delphos, Ohio, which recently bought the nlii" 

 Wheel Company property and is now manufac 

 turing hub blocks on a large scale, is arranging 

 to add a new feature to its business. New 

 machinery has been installed and the company 

 will make a finished hub. The plant has been 

 greatly enlarged and will require a big addi- 

 tional force of men to operate it. 



Probably the largest tree in Ohio was cut 

 the other day near Fremont. The tree was an 

 elm and straight as an arrow. It measured GO 

 feet to the first limb and when sawed made 

 5,568 feet of lumber. It was bought by the 

 Michigan Heading & Hoop Company of Oak 

 Harbor. 



A. Bruner & Sons, lumber dealers of Tiffin. 

 Ohio, have filed a schedule in the federal court 

 here listing their liabilities at $89,986 and their 

 assets at $49,400. The heaviest creditors of the 

 company were the banks in the towns where 

 the company had its yards. 



Louisville. 



W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company say 

 of the hardwood situation here at present that 

 the outgoing shipments from the yard are con- 

 siderably exceeding their receipts, and as a 

 result -they are depleting their piles rapidly, 

 although they bid fair to hold out until receipt 

 of new stocks. Between the bad country roads 

 and the car shortage, which is again manifest- 

 ing itself with uncomfortable severity, the re- 

 < eipts of hardwoods from country points have 

 been disappointing of late, while on the other 

 baud the dejnand has been very urgent, even at 

 advanced prices. Tbey believe the outlook in 

 general is good. 



Edward L. Davis says that they are cleaning 

 si n.k out of their yard rapidly these days, 

 reducing the stock on hand to a much lower 

 figure than usual, because of the urgency of the 

 demand and the slow receipts from country 

 points. They are feeling good over the outlook 

 because there is a volume of demand that it 

 will take all spring to fill, and they are accumu- 

 lating stock in the woods that can be brought 

 out as soon as weather permits. 



The Norman Lumber Company reports prac- 

 tically the same good conditions existing, with 

 probably more emphasis on the interference with 

 movement of stock caused by the shortage of 

 cars and slow movement of freight after it has 

 started. 



Albert R. Kampf is extending his lines of 

 operations a little as spring opens, looking 



around not only for fresh tracts of hardwood 

 timber to enlarge his manufacturing operations, 

 but also for outputs of other hardwood mills. 

 He has a good string of orders coming his way 

 and desires to enlarge his mill connections a 

 little t.. take care of them. 



The Kentucky Veneer Works, which has been 

 operated bete for a number of years by II. M. 

 McCracken, lias now been incorporated with a 

 capital stuck of $100,000. The incorporators 

 are II. M. McCracken, P. I. Brown of Fort 

 Wayne. Ind. : M. E. Freeman. W. Geiger and F. 

 C. McCracken. This concern operates (our saws 

 making quartered oak veneer and a rotarj 

 machine making cut veneer, in addition to which 

 they also carry a large stock of mahogany with 

 which to supply the wants of their trade in that 

 line. They are enjoying a splendid volume of 

 business and talking of enlarging the equipment. 



Morehead, Ky. 



W. A. Kessler of the Crescent Lumber Com 

 pany, Pittsburg, Pa., was a recent visited- here 

 in the interest of business. 



J. B. Kitchen of the Standard Planing Mill 

 & Building Company, Ashland, visited local mills 

 last week and contracted for lumber for the 

 spring trade. 



H. N. Macnichol of the White Oak Cooperage 

 Company, New York city, visited this city dur- 

 ing the past week and made several contracts. 



U. A. Swisshelm of the Portsmouth Veneer & 

 Panel Company, Portsmouth, Ohio, placed sev- 

 eral orders here last week. 



C. C. Peters of the Kenova Poplar Manufac- 

 turing Company, Kenova, W. Va., was in town 

 last week and placed quite a large order for 

 poplar with S. M. Bradley. Mr. Peters says his 

 company has been unable to get stock enough to 

 keep its mills going. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company of this place 

 received twenty-five cars of steel last week for 

 its railroad. The company is working quite a 

 large, force of men and sparing no expense to 

 get its mills in- operation. 



The mill men at Farmers are jubilant over the 

 tides they have had the past week. All the 

 booms are full of logs. 



The Farmers Lumber Company, Farmers, 

 is operating its mill full time and looks forward 

 to an active business this year. 



The S. B. Reese Lumber Company, Farmers, 

 has I. ecu fortunate of late in receiving cars 

 for shipments. The car shortage in this terri- 

 tory lias been very embarrassing for the past 

 four months, but is easing up some now. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HAEDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 

 The demand for practically everj Item of 

 hardwoods from both northern and southern 

 section^ is good. Comparatively few jobbers are 

 able to supply the requirements of their trade. 

 By extraordinary efforts some of the local con- 

 tingent have been able to secure very fair bold 

 ings of oak and northern woods, but the market 

 is very nearly bare of good poplar and cotton- 

 wood. Everything points to a demand even in 

 excess of last year's and there will be continued 

 hustling on the part of buyers to provide stock 

 for the seasons business. 



Boston. 



The Boston hardwood market on the whole 

 cannot be termed active. Considerable complaint 

 of slow movement of freight and also the ina- 

 bility of the railroads to furnish cars at mill 

 points with any degree of promptness is still 

 heard, but these features are a little improved 

 in some instances. Manufacturing consumers are 

 fairly busy, although some have very good stocks 

 on hand. Retail yards also have seasonable 

 stocks. The demand from points outside of New 

 England is still reported as better than that in 

 the immediate vicinity and better prices are 

 obtainable. 



The demand for plain oak is moderate and 

 prices are firm. Quartered oak is steady at 

 satisfactory figures, but the demand is not brisk. 

 A good call for common quartered oak is re- 

 ported. Brown ash is firm and in demand and 

 offerings of white ash at the prevailing high 

 prices are not large. Whitewood is very firmly 

 held by dealers, but consumers are staying out 

 of the market. One of the large buyers says 

 that he looks for an easier turn of prices dur- 

 ing the late spring, providing the logs come out 

 of the woods freely. Dealers hold out no hopes 

 of a decline. Cypress is firm in price, but the 

 demand is rather quiet. 



New York. 

 The local hardwood market continues strong. 

 The demand for good lumber is nothing short of 

 marvelous for this season of the year, with 

 every indication that with the opening of spring 

 prices will soar still higher, with stocks at mill 

 points at a minimum. The local demand for 

 stock is general in all branches of the trade. 

 The yards through quite heavy purchases last 

 fall have been wintering a fair amount of hard- 



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woods, but the active demand which has pre- 

 vailed in local manufacturing and consuming 

 circles has kept stock moving out rapidly with 

 the result that buying is general in all branches. 

 Dealers foresee an active spring and are taking 

 a good volume of stock for spring supplies, while 

 the manufacturers of pianos, furniture, etc., have 

 at least awakened to the situation as regards 

 supplies at mill points and are eagerly absorbing 

 all offerings of good lumber. TJie salient feature, 

 however, is in the shortage of the better grades 

 of all the principal hardwoods. It has abso- 

 lutely ceased to be a question of prices, but 

 merely one of delivery. Ash is practically out 

 of the market, and birch and maple are in good 

 call, while the better grades of plain oak and 

 poplar are in very free demand all along the line. 

 So far as the business outlook is concerned for 

 hardwoods, it could not be better, and the only 

 regrettable feature is insufficient stock. 



Philadelphia. 



Trade during the past fortnight has beer, 

 good. A steady activity has prevailed all along 

 the line, and prospects are for another pros- 

 perous year. Wood working concerns are all 

 humming. Permits are issued almost daily for 

 improvement and erection of large structures, as 

 also for the general building work which will 

 begin as soon as the weather is propitious. 

 Good reports are .coming in from the southern 

 mill districts ; the weather is more favorable, 

 and mills that have been idle for some time are 

 again rushing things. The conveying service is 

 still precarious, with no hope of improvement. 

 ifardmen are stocking up, in anticipation of a 

 good spring trading. Although some of the 

 hardwoods have been more plentiful during the 

 fortnight, prices have held firm. With some of 

 the woods there is an increasing scarcity, with 

 values soaring. 



Poplar, ash and chestnut are the present lead- 

 ers. They are hard to get, however, and prices 

 are steep. Basswood is in good call, with values 

 well maintained. Cherry has shown a tendency 

 to lag. Oak, all grades, maple and birch are 

 more easily obtained at this time, and are in 

 active demand, with well sustained prices. 



Baltimore. 



All hardwoods are in excellent demand, with 

 practically no stocks unsold and the mills far 

 behind in their orders. Bad roads and unsettled 



