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tion. This step was made necessary, he ex- 

 plained, by the inability, because of a lack of 

 title, to get affidavits from the scenes of the com- 

 pany's operations. The withdrawal was granted 

 by Chancellor Curtis. Mr. Nicholson stated that 

 the plan to have a receiver appointed would be 

 pursued, notwithstanding the present setback. 

 when the necessary affidavits had been secured, 

 the chancellor having refused to extend the time 

 for the present. 



New interest was infused in the ranks of Hoo- 

 Hoo at Norfolk on May 27, when E. Stringer 

 Boggess, the Snark of the Universe, visited that 

 city and assisted in a concatenation, at which 

 new officers were elected and a number of new 

 members admitted. After the initiations a din- 

 ner was served at the Lynnhaven Hotel, where 

 the concatenation took place. 



The R. K. Hartwell Company has moved to 

 more commodious offices on the fourth floor of the 

 Keyser building. 



COLUMBUS 



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Papers have been filed with the secretary of 

 state decreasing the authorized capital of the 

 West Side Lumber Company from $25,000 to 

 -?5,000. At the same time papers were filed 

 decreasing the capital of the East Side Lumber 

 Company from S50,000 to $5,000. This action 

 was taken by the owners to prevent the pay- 

 ment of large corporation tax. 



The Burkhart Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Caldwell, 0., has removed its plant to Zanes- 

 vlllc, O. The concern is a large buyer and 

 shipper of hardwoods. 



The Acorn Lumber Company of Columbus re- 

 •cently gave a prize to the person suggesting a 

 suitable business slogan. A number were sub- 

 mitted and the concern selected the one "For 

 All Lumber Call the Acorn's Number". This is 

 now being used on all of the advertising matter 

 of the concern. 



The McCann-Shaw Manufacturing Company is 

 the name of a new concern located at 47 Vine 

 street, Columbus, for the manufacture of win- 

 dows. 



John R. Gobey of the John R. Gobey Lumber 

 Company reports a good trade in all hardwoods 

 with prices holding up exceedingly well. Dry 

 stocks are light and advances are expected soon. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager for Ibi' central 

 division for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 has returned from an inspection trip of the com- 

 pany's mills in the South. He reports a good 

 demand for all varieties and grades of hard- 

 woods with prices ruling firm in every particu- 

 lar. He says there is a good demand for sound 

 wormy chestnut and for the lower grades of 

 other hardwoods. Stocks are scarce and prices 

 are bound to go higher. 



CINCINNATI 



The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange, the old- 

 est business organization In Cincinnati, will hold 

 its annual outing on .Tune 29 at Phoenix Grove. 

 The steamer Kentucky has been chartered for the 

 day : a band has been engaged ; free lunch will 

 be served all day, and a Kentucky chicken dinner 

 will be enjoyed. The boat will leave an hour 

 earlier In the evening for the return trip. On 

 these occasions the dealers become the guests of 

 the manufacturers, who bear all expense. 



The New River Lumber Company, with W. 

 Hopkins at its head, has one of the finest equip- 

 ments in the country at its plant at Norma, Tenn. 

 The office in the Union Trust building is one of 

 the most up-to-date suite of offices in the land. 

 Mr. Hopkins is always on deck, while a Mr. 

 Garties will impart any information sought re- 

 garding the mill at Norma. 



Jos. Eolser, secretary of the Lumbermen's CInh 

 of Cincinnati, as well as chairman of the enter- 

 tainment committee, fills both offices so ad- 

 mirably that a member at a recent meeting of 



the club moved that Joe be elected permanent 

 chairman and secretary. He is a member of the 

 firm of Blackburn & Bolser, in the Mercantile 

 Library building. 



J. H. P. Smith of the Cincinnati Hardwood 

 Company says that the hardwood business re- 

 mains good and is of the opinion that wide poplar 

 will not become a drug on the market. 



The Hyde Park Lumber Company has absorbed 

 the Midland Lumber Company and has moved 

 its offices from the Traction building to the 

 Hyde Park offices. 



The firm of Ault & Jackson, consisting of C. 

 F. Ault and A. V. Jackson, has liquidated the 

 past month and the partners have separated. 



J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany says he is getting all the business he can 

 attend to. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and the Central Chair Company have been 

 consolidated under the former name and will 

 operate at the Indianapolis company's plant in 

 West New York street. 



Purrall Thomas, a farmer near Frankfort, re- 

 cently sold to the Garrott-McKinsey Lumber 

 Company of that city one hundred white oak 

 trees, the consideration being $3,000, a record 

 for the vicinity. 



Ladders and other woodenware will be manu- 

 factured by the newly organized Fayette Manu- 

 facturing Company of Connersville. The com- 

 pany is incorporated with an authorized capital- 

 ization of $10,000, the directors and principal 

 stockholders being W. O. Hall, J. H. Johnson 

 and L. H. Warren. 



The two largest mahogany logs ever received 

 in this city have been delivered to the Talgo 

 Mahogany Company, having been purchased in 

 Liverpool, England, recently by John H. Talgo 

 of the company, who is spending the summer in 

 Europe. The logs weigh approximately eleven 

 tons each and are about five feet in diameter and 

 approximately seventeen feet long. 



KNOXVILLB 



The Maphet & Shea Lumber Company has 

 installed its edger and trimmer on its new yard 

 at Lonsdale. It is behind on orders and is get- 

 ting its stock remanufactured. Ed Maphet. 

 president of the company, reports business more 

 active than he has seen it in a long time. He is 

 one of the most optimistic lumbermen of this 

 city, and looks forward to a prosperous year. 



J. Park Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company has .iust returned from the 

 mountains of upper east Tennessee, where he has 

 purchased a fine boundary of yellow pine and 

 white oak for his concern. He reports being 

 over-stocked with orders, and a large scarcity 

 of available dry lumber. 



J. C. Kimball of Kimball & Kopcke will go to 

 New York next week on a combined business and 

 pleasure trip. 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions throughout the Memphis 

 territory have been extremely favorable during 

 the past fortnight, and much more satisfactory 

 progress is being made with the production of 

 hardwood lumber. The Mississippi river is en- 

 tirely within its banks at Memphis and also In 

 most districts below this city. It has not entirely 

 returned, however, in the territory below Beulah. 

 JIlss., but is falling rapidly, and it is anticipated 

 that the overflow, as a direct hindrance to Mem- 

 phis operators, will soon be a thing of the past. 



Every mill here which found it necessary to 

 close down, as a direct result of the high water, 

 has resumed operations with a single exception. 

 There are some, however, which had to close 



down as a result of inability to secure all the 

 timber they needed, and such a flattering state- 

 ment regarding these can not be made. Lumber 

 manufacturers here said some time ago that the 

 logging problem was going to be the most serious 

 one with which they had to contend, and their 

 ideas on the subject have been fully borne out by 

 recent developments. There are several firms 

 here which have a large timber supply ahead 

 and which are in position to continue in steady 

 operation for several months. The majority, how- 

 ever, have only a comparatively small amount of 

 logs on hand and in a few cases not a log is in 

 sight. However, even the mills which are with- 

 out timber now are beginning to take a more 

 favorable view of the outlook. It has been pos- 

 sible during the past few weeks to cut considera- 

 ble timber on the ridges and uplands. There was 

 also considerable cypress and other timber in the 

 lowlands which was cut and floated out through 

 the bayous and other back water. Now the 

 water has receded from the greater portion of 

 the Inundated area and it will be possible in a 

 short time fo get into the bottoms, where the 

 choicest timber is to be found. 



The demand for lumber is good and shipments 

 are on a pretty liberal scale from Memphis. 

 Stocks are therefore being gradually reduced and 

 there is a disposition on the part of all manu- 

 facturers to do all in their power in order to be 

 able to pi-oduce a stock of lumber to take care 

 of the good demand which is promised for the 

 next few months. It is felt that present produc- 

 tion will have very little bearing upon stocks of 

 dry lumber available now, but manufacturers will 

 be in position to sell for forward shipment if 

 they can secure a large supply of timber and 

 can feel reasonably certain that they will have 

 the lumber to ship when these contracts mature. 

 The most direct testimony which has been 

 given on logging operations in this section comes 

 from J. W. Dickson, president of the Valley Log 

 Loading Company. This firm operates exclusively 

 on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley lines of the 

 Illinois Central System. It has been reasonably 

 active dining the past fortnight, as shown by the 

 fact that its loadings amount to about 600 cars 

 of logs for Memphis and other points from May 

 15 to June 1. Mr. Dickson further stated that 

 in his opinion the company will load practically 

 as many logs for Memphis and other points on 

 the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line during June 

 as for the corresponding month last year. Some 

 of the lumbermen do not take quite as cheerful a 

 view of the log outlook as Mr. Dickson does, but, 

 as already intimated, the feeling is more op- 

 timistic than it has been at any time since the 

 overflow occurred, 



R. J. Wiggs, secretary and treasurer of R. J. 

 Darnell, Inc., is authority for the statement that 

 both the band mills and the veneer plants of this 

 firm will be placed in operation within the next 

 ten days. R. J. Darnell. Inc., owns considerable 

 timher near Proctor, Ark., and it likewise has 

 more ilian 17.000 acres of timber holdings near 

 Batesville, Miss. For the past two months It 

 has been unable to conduct logging operations at 

 either point, with the result that the mills and 

 veneer plants of the firm have been closed down. 

 Mr. Wiggs says that deliveries of logs will begin 

 at once and that within the next ten days the 

 firm will have accumulated a sufficient supply 

 to justify it in resuming. 



May Brothers are also making preparations to 

 resume. They had a protecting levee on their 

 yards in New South Memphis, but this gave away, 

 with resultant overflow of much of their ma- 

 chinery as well as some of their lumber. The 

 levee was built to withstand a stage of forty- 

 one feet but was powerless to cope with a stage 

 of forty-five feet, which was actually experienced. 

 Charlie Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany has recently returned from the Cairo office. 

 He says that the overflow did considerable dam- 

 age to lumber interests at Cairo, but that his 

 firm escaped any serious harm. He further 

 stated that everything was getting in good shape 



