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HARDWOOD RECORD 



TOLEDO 



According to the figures in tbe office ol the 

 building inspector building operations in Toledo 

 for the first half of the year exceeded by nearly 

 100 per cent the building activities of the first 

 six months of 1911. The report shows that 993 

 permits have been issued since Jan. 1. carrying 

 an expenditure of $3,194,923 as compared with 

 expenditures amounting to |1. 624, 170 for the 

 preceding year. During June 205 permits were 

 issued with a construction cost of $37.5,838. as 

 against 176 permits aggregating $369,190 a year 

 ago. The residences and investment structures 

 being erected in Toledo this year are of the 

 highest order and great quantities of hardwood 

 sre being used in their construction. 



Furniture factories are running full time and 

 sending in heavy orders. Prices in hardwoods 

 all along the line remain very firm and about 

 all available dry stocks are being snapped up if 

 the figure is anything like right. Vehicle con- 

 cerns are also sending In a strong call for lum- 

 ber and some difficulty has been experienced in 

 securing sufficient lumber to take care of their 

 needs. 



Many Toledo lumbermen arc preparing to at- 

 tend the national convention of the Concatenated 

 Order of Hoo-Hoo at Asheville, N. C. July 

 18-19-20. Frank Spangler, one of the heaviest 

 handlers of hardwoods in Toledo, is president of 

 the Ohio organizntion. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The E. Q. Smith Chair Company, Evansville. 

 has Increased its capitalization from $23,000 lo 

 $100,000. 



Notice has been filed with the Indiana secre- 

 tary of state that the Old Hickory Chair Com- 

 pany, Martinsville, has increased its capital 

 $75,000. 



The Talge Mahogany Company has been hav- 

 ing a fine business during the last few weeks and 

 Is working its plant in this city to full capacity. 

 The company recently received some large ship- 

 ments of mahogany from Africa. 



MEMPHIS 



The weather has been very favorable in this 

 territory for the production of hardwood lumber 

 and satisfactory progress therein has recently 

 been made. The supply of timber is more satis- 

 factory than it has been at any time since last 

 winter. There are a few instances where mills 

 are finding it impossible to run on account of 

 inadequate timber supply but as a general propo- 

 sition it may be stated that all the mills in this 

 city and section are running, and in some cases 

 are working on double time. 



There has possibly been some slowing down 

 in demand during the past fortnight, due in 

 some measure to the taking of inventories by 

 consuming and distributing interests alike, who 

 have desired to show as little stock on hand as 

 possible. It has also been due in some measure 

 to the uncertainty regarding the action to be 

 taken by tbe Democratic party in nominating 

 its candidate tor the presidency. Both of these 

 .conditions, however, have been removed during 

 the past few days and members of the trade 

 here express the belief that there will be a good 

 demand for hardwood lumber throughout the 

 remainder of the season. The idea is also en- 

 tertained that prices will be well maintained as 

 a result of the fact that there is no surplus 

 stock of hardwood lumber anywhere In the 

 country. 



A prominent lumberman recently stated that 

 the railroads were showing greater Interest and 

 activity in hardwoods than since the panic of 

 1907. Headers of Hakdwood Record are 



familiar with the retrenchment policy of tbe 

 railroads since that time and the disposition to 

 make their rolling stock and other equipment go 

 just as far as possible without making further 

 purchases. However, it is said that they have 

 reached about the end of their row in this mat- 

 ter and that they are confronted with the neces- 

 sity of greatly increasing their* equipment. The 

 West promises an unusually large wheat crop, 

 the condition of the corn crop is good and the 

 South gives promise of at least an average cot- 

 ton crop. It is therefore quite apparent that 

 the railroads in both the South and West, as 

 well as the Northwest, will have an abundant 

 amount of freight to handle in the way of farm 

 products. Because of this fact and because of 

 the general prosperity of the country, they are 

 beginning to make improvements in their road 

 beds, increase their equipment, and otherwise 

 increase their facilities for handling traffic. 



At a recent meeting here, attended by prom- 

 inent officials of the Illinois Central Railroad 

 and the owners, managers and attorneys of the 

 tap lines in the South, making connection there- 

 with, the order of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission regarding the pro rata that tap lines 

 shall receive on through shipments of lumber 

 and lumber products was fully discussed. After 

 the convention adjourned it was stated that the 

 officials of the Illinois Central and those of the 

 tap lines understood each other thoroughly and 

 that there would be no difficulty as a result of 

 the promulgation of this new ruling. 



The Arkansas Logging Company is making 

 rapid progress on the building of the road which 

 is to connect with the Memphis, Helena & Louis- 

 iana line of the Missouri Pacific system. This 

 firm has been organized for the purpose of de- 

 veloping the timber on the tract of about 30.000 

 acres recently purchased by A. Maas and eastern 

 capitalLsts in Phillips and De Sha counties. It 

 has a nominal capital stock of $10,000 and T, 

 W, Sofge is general manager. It is, however, 

 in effect, a subsidiary of the Delta Land Com- 

 pany, which is the owner of the timber lands in 

 question and which is capitalized at $500,000. 

 The timber on this land is being cut as rapidly 

 as possible and sold to owners and operators of 

 mills in the Mississippi valley. The company 

 has not made arrangements to operate any mill 

 so far. The land is very fertile and it is ex- 

 pected that it will be put into cultivation of 

 cotton as soon as the timber has been removed. 

 Rooks Brothers have purchased 1,400 acres of 

 land in Crockett county, Tennessee, from C. II. 

 Ferrell. at Humboldt, for a consideration of 

 $28,000. Between seven and eight hundred 

 acres of land involved in this transaction is 

 covered with timber, principally white oak, red 

 oak, gum and cypress. The new owners have 

 made no announcement as to their plans, 



J, H. Bynum and L. R. Alexander announce 

 that they will begin the erection of a large 

 stave mill at Dermott, Ark., in the near future. 

 A considerable number of men will be employed. 

 Extensive improvements are being made at 

 the heading plant of the Pekin Stave Company, 

 at Paragould, Ark. In addition, the machinery 

 is being thoroughly overhauled and repaired. 

 This plant gives employment to about seventy- 

 five men and will resume operations about the 

 middle of July. 



It is now the consensus of opinion among 

 railroad men that the extension of the New Or- 

 leans. Mobile & Chicago railroad from Middleton 

 northward to a connection with the Nashville, 

 Chattanooga & St. Louis will pass through Milan, 

 Tenn. Lumbermen and owners of timber lands 

 in that section are very much interested in this 

 view, as the new railroad will afford facilities 

 for the development of extensive timber holdings 

 therein. Staves, bolts, logs and other rough 

 material are being hauled twenty to thirty miles 

 because of the present inadequate" railroad ser- 

 vice. 



Another railroad change of importance is the 

 decision of the Memphis, Columbus & Gulf rail- 



road to extend its line eastward as far as 

 Demopolis. Ala. This carries the line to the 

 head of all the year round navigation on the 

 Warrior and Tombigbee rivers. This road as 

 now planned is to run from Okalona, Miss., to 

 Demopolis, Ala., and will serve a section very 

 rich in timber and other resources in east Mis- 

 sissippi and west Alabama. 



The committee appointed by the Business 

 Men's Clul) to raise $30,000. to be used for 

 (he purpose of continuing the publicity cam- 

 paign, which has kept Memphis conspicuously 

 before the world for the past two years, is mak- 

 ing good progress. About $25,000 of the $30,000 

 required has already been raised. A portion of 

 this fund will be devoted to the tri-state fair 

 but the remainder will be used for the purpose 

 of advertising tlie resources and advantages of 

 this city. The campaign of publicity has cov- 

 ered the past two years and has attracted a 

 number of wood-working enterprises to this city. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc, 

 F. B. Robertson, president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis, and E. E. Taenzer of E. E. 

 Taenzer & Co., have returned from New Orleans, 

 W'hither they went on business. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Hard- 

 wood Company, Chicago, spent July 4 with his 

 family here. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc., sailed 

 from New York on July 2 on board the Maure- 

 tania. Mr. Busse is making his annual trip to 

 Europe and while abroad will make his head- 

 quarters at the offices of the firm, maintained in 

 London in charge of G. .\. Farber. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Kentucky & Indiana Hardwood Company 

 Is establishing its yard at Twenty-third street 

 and Standard avenue. The company was In- 

 corporated some time ago by Owensboro inter- 

 ests. Herbert Bauman will be In charge of the 

 business. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company is mak- 

 ing some repairs in its mill, including the addi- 

 tion of a new steam feed. The mill has been 

 lunnlng day and night of late, producing in 

 the neighborhood of 73,000 feet of poplar a day. 



C. C. Mengel & Brother Company will get In 

 a lot of logs shortly, as a big car is being docked 

 at Pensacola. "Fhe mill In South Louisville is 

 being operated overtime, as the demand for 

 mahogany lumber is continuing excellent. 



The high price of feed is one of the reasons 

 why small mills are not running, according to 

 George H. Schotte, vice-president of tbe Thomp- 

 son Hardwood Lumber Company, who was In 

 Louisville recently. 



Among those who have addressed the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club or will make t-ilks In the 

 near future are Everett Haynes, of the Mengel 

 Box Company; Stuart Cecil and P. G. Booker of 

 the Booker-Cecil Company; C. M. Sears of the 

 Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, and Harry 

 E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills. 



The Edward L. Davis Luml)er Company en- 

 tertained the Louisville Hardwood Club at din- 

 ner Tuesday evening, July 9, the meeting being 

 lield at the plant of the company at Fourth 

 and K streets. The meeting was unusually en- 

 joyable. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 represented the Hardwood Club at a recent 

 meeting of the Kentucky Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, which was organized for the purpose 

 of improving tax, labor and other conditions In 

 this state. 



The timber resources of eastern Kentucky had 

 a prominent place on the program at a con- 

 vention of bankers held at Olympian Springs. 

 Ky., recently. J. C. C. Mayo of Paiutsville, who 

 Is a large holder of timber In that section, was 

 one of the speakers. 



The state of Kentucky Is planning to con- 

 struct an "arboretum" on the grounds of the 



