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HARDWOOD RECORD 



L. Gale, formci-ly a salesman at the Boston office 

 o£ the Shepard & Morse Lumber Company. 



The plant of the Cairns Wood-Working Com- 

 pany, East Hartford, Conn., has been destroyed 

 by fire. 



The L. M. Young Lumber Company, Boston, 

 has removed its office from the Wentworth build- 

 ing to the Marshall building, corner of Central 

 and Broad streets. 



grades and varieties. Low grades are especial- 

 ly strong, and advances have been made in 

 several varieties. 



BALTIMORE 



This city was represented at a hearing in 

 Washington on Apr. 11, on the chestnut blight, 

 lumbermen interested being called on to give 

 their views as to the means to be adopted for 

 combatting the tree affection which threatens 

 to cause great damage to chestnut timber all 

 along the Appalachian chain. The blight has 

 begun to attack trees in Virginia, and there is 

 every indication that it will spread to the Caro- 

 linas, all of the states north of the Potomac 

 being already touched. 



A concatenation of the Hoo-Hoo of western 

 Maryland and West Virginia was held at Cum- 

 berland, Md., on Apr. 12, the gathering being 

 largely attended and various additions made to 

 the membership. 



S. Eobb Eccles, a widely known Baltimore 

 lumberman, has been appointed vice-gerent snark 

 of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo for Balti- 

 more and Washington, for the current year. 



The new factory of the Maryland Basket & 

 Veneer Company, which concern was recently 

 reorganized, is in active operation in all of its 

 departments. The new factory is in a five-story 

 brick building on East Falls avenue, and has a 

 frontage of thirty-eight feet, with a depth of 

 some ninety feet. David N. Sills is the secre- 

 tary and general manager of the plant. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald, who has 

 been in Los Angeles, Cal., has returned much im- 

 proved in health, and has again resumed his 

 duties. 



Fire on Apr. 7 destroyed the sawmill of M. 

 M. & D. D. Brown, and the dry-kilns of the 

 Elkins Pail & Lumlx-r Company at Elkins, W. 

 Va. The total loss is estimated at $60,000. 



To relieve the freight congestion on the Balti- 

 more & Ohio railroad, between Harper's Ferry 

 and Brunswick. Md., improvements calling for 

 an outlay of about $2,500,000 will be made. The 

 tracks will be raised as much as twelve feet in 

 some places, and three additional tracks will be 

 laid. 



COLUMBUS 



The Potters Lumber Company of East Liver- 

 pool, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 of $23,000 to deal in lumber and building 

 materials. The incorporators are L. E. Connor, 

 C. O. Beatty, Frank Crook. Minnie Conner and 

 Cora Beatty. 



H. M. Uowe of Powell & Rowe, says since the 

 weather has settled there is quite an improve- 

 ment in the demand for hardwoods. He says 

 the trade during the past two weeks was ex- 

 ceptionally good and that prices are ruling 

 firm. He expects a continuation of the good 

 trade during the remainder of the season. 



The South Side Lumber Company has moved 

 its offices and yard to the adjoining lot at 1929 

 South High street. The move was made neces- 

 sary by the fact that the erection of the South 

 High street viaduct made egress to the yard 

 impossible. 



M. A. Hayward of M. A. Hayward & Son 

 says orders are coming in for all kinds of 

 hardwoods. High-grade stocks have been pick- 

 ing up rapidly, and prices are advancing, in the 

 better grades of oak. Lower grades are aiso 

 In good demand. Hardwood flooring is firm and 

 stocks are light. 



R. C. Willis of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company said that orders are coming along 

 nicely, and are fairly well distributed over all 



TOLEDO 



The Winchester Handle Company will remove 

 its factory from Attica, O., to Bellevue. The 

 contract has been let for the new factory build- 

 ing at the latter place. The structure will be 

 two stories high and will be completed and ready 

 for occupancy by July 1. 



'■The Southern situation is bad," said Frank 

 Spangler of the Frank Spangler Company, "and 

 we have personally suffered a loss of a thousand 

 or two dollars from the floods. It is getting 

 difficult to secure dry stocks and prices on dry 

 plain oak have increased during the past thirty 

 days. The gum country was badly flooded, and 

 we are experiencing difficulty in securing red 

 gum shipments. The lower grades of gum have 

 also increased in price. I look for a good busi- 

 ness a little later and anticipate that there will 

 be little difficulty in disposing of hardwoods." 



The Gotshall Manufacturing Company reports 

 a good live demand for hardwoods, especially 

 oak, the bulk of the business coming from furni- 

 ture factories which are running well. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The McLaren Lumber Company of Shelby- 

 ville has changed its name to the Shelby Lumber 

 Company. 



Announcement has been made that the re- 

 cently organized and incorporated Cline & Wilt 

 Lumber Company has taken over the business 

 of Cline & Wilt at Portland. 



Furniture and woodenware will be manu- 

 factured by the newly organized Gem Manu- 

 facturing Company of this city which has been 

 incorporated with an authorized capitalization 

 of $10,000. The directors are W. O. Hall, J. 

 H. Johnson and F. B. Moreland. 



A part of the property of the Foster Lum- 

 ber Company at Senate avenue and St. Clair 

 street has been sold to the J. I. Case Thresh- 

 ing Machine Company, which will erect a six 

 story building for its local sales branch. 



Notice has been filed with the Indiana secre- 

 tary of state of the voluntary dissolution of the 

 Eureka Lumber Company of Bloomingtou. 



A new company has been organized at Deca- 

 tur under the name of the Kirsch, Sellcmayer 

 & Sons Company to manufacture and sell lum- 

 ber. The company is capitalized at $ir),000. 



Wooden bandies will be manufactured at 

 Auburn by the newly organized Auburn Handle; 

 Company which is incorporated with an author- 

 ized capitalization of $12,000. Those inter- 

 ested in the company are C. Buck. R. W. A'aughn 

 and C. D. Buck. 



necissary to detour its trains. The Rock Island, 

 Frisco and Iron Mountain systems are cut off 

 from the West as a result of the washing away 

 of the embankments. It is impossible to say 

 when train service will be resumed on the part 

 of these roads. This will depend altogether on 

 how soon the water recedes and renders it pos- 

 sible to make the necessary repairs to the road- 

 beds. The only way to get into Arkansas from 

 Memphis Is by way of boat from Madison or 

 Helena or by way of St. Louis. 



Lee Wilson & Co. lost heavily in the break 

 of the levee at Golden Lake, Ark., which flooded 

 its yards and holdings at Wilson. The company 

 has its largest mill at that point. Mr. Wilson 

 is authority for the statement that considerable 

 quantities of lumber were lost and he also stated 

 that there is a great deal more which has been 

 under water and which has suffered some dam- 

 age. 



The Anderson-Tully Company has found it 

 necessary to close down its two mills, and its 

 box factory at Vicksburg. Miss. The water 

 some days ago reached a stage of fifty feet at 

 that point and the plants can not be operated 

 after it passes that level. 



Application for a charter for the Alamar Tim- 

 ber Company has been filed. The capital stock 

 is placed at $100,000. The incorporators are 

 R. R. Roths, J. A. Murray. J. E.- Clelaod, C. C. 

 Gillespie and A. H. Murray. 



The Shawmut Lumber Company. Shawmut. 

 Pike county. Ark., has purchased the mill and 

 timber lands of the Rockdale Lumber Company, 

 near Delight, Ark. J. W. Bishop is president 

 of the new company and A. C. Anderson is sec- 

 retary. The purchasing firm has assumed the 

 Judgments against the Rockdale Lumber Com- 

 pany issued as a result of long standing litiga- 

 tion. 



A meeting was held recently at which repre- 

 sentatives of the Lumberraon's Club of Mem- 

 phis, the Memphis Manufacturers' Association 

 and the Memphis Freight Bureau were present. 

 There was much discussion of the formation of 

 the traffic bureau which has been under consid- 

 eration for some lime, but it was impossible to 

 reach a definite basis on which all of the or- 

 ganizations were willing to join the proposed 

 bureau. However, it was announced after the 

 meeting that further conferences would be held 

 before the cooperative idea was abandoned. 



MEMPHIS 



There has never been a time iu the history of 

 Memphis when the amount of hardwood lumber 

 being produced was as small, compared with nor- 

 mal, as now. For the past fortnight almost noth- 

 ing has been done here, and the outlook is very 

 unsatisfactory from the standpoint of lumber 

 producers. This statement applies with more 

 force to the plants which are now flooded and 

 which are directly affected by the overflow. How- 

 ever, it also applies in some measure to the mills 

 which are not directly affected for the reason 

 that the outlook for an adequate timber supply 

 for them is very discouraging. 



The transportation problem is a somewhat 

 serious one. The Illinois Central has opened 

 service northward from Memphis to Chicago by 

 way of Cairo, but it is seriously interfered with 

 south of Memphis on both the main line and the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads. The South- 

 ern Railroad, entering Memphis from the East, 

 also has some of its track gone, and is finding it 



NASHVILLE 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has ad- 

 dressed a strong letter lo Secretary John II. 

 .Marble of the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 on behalf of the lumber shippers of Nashville 

 asking for a suspension of the Louisville & 

 Nashville Railroad order recently issued cover- 

 ing .transit privileges at Nashville on logs, bolts, 

 etc., drawn into Nashville over said railroad, 

 and manufactured and shipped to points on or 

 via the same road. The suspension of the 

 tariff referred to is asked on account of the 

 change adopted by the railroad in the ratio of 

 products outbouu'd to raw material Inbound. 

 This tariff provides that for each pound of 

 rough lumber shipped, outbound transit rates 

 will be applied on two pounds of logs, whereas, 

 under the former tariff, a transit rate was al- 

 lowed on three pounds of logs for one pound of 

 rough lumber outbound. The contention is made 

 that Ibis change causes a decided increase In 

 the net rate on logs into Nashville, as by actual 

 experience it takes more than three pounds of 

 logs to manufacture one pound of rough lumber, 

 and the effect of the proposed rule will result 

 in the loss to the lumber men of one-third ot 

 the inbound tonnage of logs, making a material 

 increase in the through rate finally protected. 



The mill property of W. E. Cathey & Co., at 

 Burns, Tenn.. has been sold in bankruptcy to 

 J. E. Gibbs of White Bluff tor $1,000. and will 

 be operated by him. A tight barrel stave mill 

 will be installed. 



