HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Large receipts of lumber from the upper Cum- 

 berland territory and tributaries, consisting of 

 oak, ash. hicliory. poplar, chestnut and other 

 hardwoods, have been reported during the past 

 ten days. John B. Ransom & Co. received nearly 

 1,000.000 feet recently from Red Boiling Springs 

 and Leiberman. Loveman & O'Brien have been 

 receiving equally as large shipments. It is esti- 

 mated that the receipts may total fully 3,000.000 

 or 4,000,0000 feet and possibly more. Recent 

 Hoods, however, have materially interfered with 

 operations. Much loss was caused along the 

 rivers by the washing off of cross ties, logs and 

 loose lumber piled on the shores for shipment. 

 Tbe extent of these losses cannot yet be esti- 

 mated, but they were heavy. 



John B. Ransom & Co. of this city have 

 bought for some .?40.000 about 2.000 acres of 

 timber land near Taylor, Ark. The property 

 will be developed through the mill operated by 

 the company at Hope, Ark. The land contains 

 eight or ten million feet of oak and red gum. 

 chiefly, of splendid quality. 



The Althauser-Webster-Weaver Lumber Com- 

 pany of Nashville has purchased a large tract 

 in Wayne county. Kentucky, which is said to 

 be rich in fine timber. 



The Lasater Lumber Company, capitalized at 

 .$40,000. has been formed at Taris, Tenn. A 

 large plant, with spur tracks and other con- 

 veniences, will be erected at once. O. C. Barton 

 is president ; C. P. Hudson, vice-president : S. B. 

 Lasater, secretary-treasurer ; W. 1!. Lasater. 

 manager, and H. G. R.vals, assistant manager, 

 of the new company. 



LOUISVILLE 



The new mill of the Norman Lumber & Bos 

 Company of Louisville, located at Holly Ridge, 

 La., has been put in operation. From now on 

 Barry Norman, vice-president of the company, 

 will spend much of his time supervising opera- 

 tions there. 



Not only were the mills of the Mengel Box 

 Company at Hickman. Ky., put out of commis- 

 sion by high water, but the sawmill at Mengel- 

 wood. Tenn., was also submerged. 



There is considerable discussion going on at 

 present regarding new milling-in-transit regu- 

 lations proposed by the Louisville & Nashville 

 and effective Apr. 29. Under these rules, while 

 the identity of the shipment of logs need not 

 l>e maintained, it is necessary to use oak credits 

 to apply on oak shipments, etc. An involved 

 system of dividing the credits where a mixed 

 car of logs is received has been devised and 

 will be administered by the Southern Weigh- 

 ing and Inspection Bureau. Heretofore a much 

 more liberal system has been in effect, by which 

 any log receipts could be used in securing the 

 mill-in-transit refund on shipments of lumber 

 moving out over the Louisville & Nashville. It 

 is understood that the road took the new step 

 because of the stand of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission in favor of uniform regula- 

 tions on the subject. 



A. E. Norman, former president of the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club and one of its charter 

 members, read a paper before the club recently 

 on "The Advantages of Club Membership." 

 The paper was a strong argument in favor of 

 local association work, and brought out many 

 reasons in favor of extending such efforts. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company has 

 resumed operations after having been shut down 

 because of high water, which invaded the mill. 

 A large amount of logs have been received from 

 the Big Sandy timber districts. 



R. L. Thomas has announced plans for a 

 large sawmill at Winchester, Ky. George S. 

 Tomliuson. of that city, has also arranged to 

 erect a mill. 



T. M. and J. G. Brown of W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company recently attended the 

 wedding of their sister, Agnes, to A. Duggan in 



Indianapolis. The couple will make their resi- 

 dence there. 



The Kentucky-Indiana Hardwood Company 

 has filed articles of incorporation in Louisville. 

 Its capital stock is $16,000 and the incorpora- 

 tors are Gustave E. Bauman of Owensboro. and 

 Herbert Bauman of Louisville. 



ST. LOUIS 



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The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis dispensed 

 with business at its last meeting held on Apr. 

 9 and also with its dinner. Instead of assem- 

 bling as it usually does at 6 :30, the members 

 did not get together until 8 o'clock, when the 

 entertainment committee provided a lecture on 

 the Panama Canal, which was given by Spear- 

 man Lewis, the historian of the Business Men's 

 League of St. Louis. There were many ladies 

 present and parlor A at the Planters Hotel was 

 filled. 



Fire recently visited the yards of the Ameri- 

 can Hardwood Lumber Company entailing a 

 loss of $5,000. 



F. G. Hanley of the F. G. Hanley Cypress 

 Company has returaed from a trip through the 

 cypress districts and reports mill shipments as 

 good as can be expected under the circumstances ; 

 that available stocks of dry cypress are low and 

 that well informed buyers are purchasing what 

 lumber they need believing there will be an 

 advance in the near future. 



Curtis P. Jennings, who looks after the hard- 

 wood department of the Berthold & Jennings 

 Lumber Company, reports the demand for hard- 

 wood as being more active than it was, particu- 

 larly in the call for car material. 



sociation of New Orleans, and the organization 

 of an export branch were the principal features 

 of a very successful monthly meeting of the 

 New Orleans Lumbermen's Club in the dining 

 room of the Progressive Union Tuesday, April 

 9. To the fact that the organization, through 

 its name of "club," had come to be looked upon 

 as a sort of jovial gathering rather than a busi- 

 ness body was due the change in name. The 

 meeting was probably the most important in the 

 history of the club, and was presided over by 

 President Ludwig Haymann. there being in at- 

 tendance nearly thirty other members. Im- 

 tnediately after the general meeting, the ex- 

 porters got together for the purpose of organiz- 

 ing an export branch. W. P. Toung, who had 

 resigned the chairmanship of the transporta- 

 tion committee of the parent body, was made 

 chairman of the export branch committee, and 

 O. M. George was made chairman of the trans- 

 portation committee to succeed Mr. Toung. 



MILWAUKEE 



^E^V ORLEANS 



George B. Terry, formerly manager of a hard- 

 wood sawmill at Baskin, La., has been appointed 

 general manager of the new hardwood mill be- 

 ing erected by the Grayling Lumber Company at 

 Arkansas City, Ark., and is now in full charge 

 of the construction work yet to be finished. 

 When completed this will be one of the finest 

 hardwood plants In the South. It will have 

 two bands and a resaw, with a capacity of 75.000 

 feet per day. 



Change of its name to the Lumbermen's .\s- 



The Merrill Woodenware Company of Merrill 

 is installing a new blower system that will cost 

 about $2,000. 



The Fred Eggers 'Veneer Seating Company of 

 Two Rivers recently received two carloads of 

 mahogany logs that came from Gaboon, French 

 Congo, Africa. The importation was in the 

 nature of an experiment and if it proves suc- 

 cessful, the company may continue to import. 



The Combination Door Company, recently 

 organized at Fond du Lac as a branch of the 

 Standard Manufacturing Company of Appleton, 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $30,000 by L. C- Schmidt. Walter W. Schmidt 

 and L. J. Schmidt. The company will special- 

 ize in the manufacture of a combination screen 

 and storm door, but will manufacture oflice, 

 store and bank fixtures as well. The plant of 

 the Wisconsin Cabinet Company has been pur- 

 chased and is being remodeled. 



The Berlin Machine Works of Beloit, one of 

 the largest manufacturers of wood-working ma- 

 chinery in the world, recently made its largest 

 shipment of equipment for export. The ship- 

 ment, destined for Sydney, New South Wales, 

 Australia, was made up of five carloads of saw- 

 mill equipment, including the largest sawmill 

 ever manufactured by the company. 



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CHIC AGO 



uo wise damaged from this cause. Local trade 

 looks very promising and it undeniably would be 

 of much larger volume if stocks were available. 



Chicago hardwood buyers are evidently awak- 

 ening to the necessity of making prompt pur- 

 chases, as during the last fortnight many sub- 

 stantial orders have been placed, not only by 

 the small miscellaneous factory operators, but 

 by many of the railroads and corporations 

 placing their orders in this city. Several orders 

 ranging well up into the millions of feet have 

 been placed, and there is a scurrying among the 

 big jobbers to secure additional stocks to take 

 care of current and prospective demands by lake 

 and rail. There have been unusually heavy sales 

 of northern stocks, and every item from this 

 section of the country seems to be in good de- 

 mand except 4 '4 maple flooring stock, and even 

 this item shows a fair movement. 



Local jobbers are seriously handicapped by 

 their inability to secure shipments from the 

 southern flood country, but believe that reced- 

 ing waters will enable railroads to very soon 

 reopen their lines and crowd shipments forward. 

 It is recognized that while considerable quanti- 

 ties of lumber have been under water, there is 

 still a large amount of stock that has been in 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market at New York is very 

 firm, particularly on good lumber. Stocks are 

 scarce, inquiry active, and a fair volume of busi- 

 ness is moving. All indications point to a firm 

 and active market for the balance of the spring 

 and early summer. Plain oak is strong and 

 quartered oak shows some improvement. Poplar, 

 ash, maple and birch are in active demand and 

 firm. 



BUFFALO 



The local hardwood trade is only fair, and 

 has not strengthened much, if any, in the last 

 two weeks. The weather is probably responsible 

 for this state of affairs. However lumbermen 

 are looking forward hopefully to an increased 

 inquiry. Stocks are arriving more freely from 

 the flooded sections of the South than formerly. 



