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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Manager G. C. Adams of the Duqiiesne Lumber 

 Company repoi-ts business as steadily . growing 

 bettei- and prices on the uptrend. The com- 

 pany's plant at Braemer, Tenn., is now cutting 

 about 50,000 feet a day. 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company has 

 added C. E. Bald, formerly with the West Vir- 

 ginia Lumber Company, to its sales force. Mr. 

 Bald will travel western Pennsylvania and east- 

 ern Ohio. 



The American Lumber & Mauufacturing Com- 

 pany notes a great scarcity of dry hardwood 

 stock at the mills. Manager H. E. Ast of this 

 department believes that prices will advance ma- 

 terially owing to the increased demand, and the 

 shortage of stocks. 



BOSTON 



The W. A. Cairns Wood-Working Company, East 

 Hartford, Conn., will rebuild its plant which was 

 destroyed by lire a few weeks ago. The main 

 building will be 00x70 feet of brick construction, 

 three stories high. The new plant will be mod- 

 ern and equipped with the most improved ma- 

 chinery. 



The Connery Brothers' Company, Redding, 

 Conn., has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $.50,000 for the purpose of engaging in the 

 lumber business. 



The auction sale of the fifteen plants of the 

 Hardware & Woodenware Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of New York resulted in the sale of 

 the property to A. H. Tisdale of Leomins- 

 ter, Mass., for $440,000. Mr. Tisdale repre- 

 sented the managers of the various companies. 

 The plants of the company are located In Leo- 

 minster, Winchendon and Granville, Mass. ; Paw- 

 tucket, R. I. ; Brattleboro, Vt. ; Keene, N. H. ; 

 St. Louis, Mo. ; Mount Joy and I<"reemansburg. 

 Pa. ; Cromwell and East Hampton, Conn., and 

 Kenton, O. 



The new plant of the Webber Lumber Com- 

 pany, Fltchburg, Mass., is now equipped and 

 ready for operation. The company has purchased 

 adjoining land and may erect dwellings for its 

 employes in the near future, such a plan having 

 teen favorably considered. 



BALTIMORE 



atlons at the Baltimore jail, has been put in 

 operation. The plant is located on East Falls 

 avenue, near Eastern avenue, and is equipped 

 with the most modern appliances. David N. 

 Sills is the new general manager, the company 

 having recently been reorganized. W. T. Kuhns 

 who was president of the old company, remains 

 as a director of the new organization. 



Under the congressional appropriation bill 

 -which makes $11,000,000 available for the crea- 

 tion of an Appalachian forest reserve, a large 

 tract of timber land on the watershed of the 

 Potomac river in Maryland and Virginia has 

 •been offered to the Forest Reserve Commission, 

 whereof United States Senator Smith of Mary- 

 land is a member. Senator Smith is a widely 

 Icnown lumberman, and by reason of his knowl- 

 edge of the value of standing timber, was pre- 

 vailed upon by Secretary of the Interior Fisher 

 to accompany him and others on a trip of in- 

 spection to the lands selected by the forest sur- 

 vey. In the party Iwsides the two men named 

 were Congressmen Hawley of Oregon, Congress- 

 man Lee of Georgia, and Chief Forester Graves. 

 The entire area intended to be added to tbe forest 

 reserve was gone over, and the particular lands 

 were pointed out by foresters who surveyed the 

 tracts. The journey was one of the most arduous 

 «ver undertaken by a congressional committee. 



A. Harvey McCay, Baltimore representative of 

 William Whitmer & Sons of Philadelphia, and 

 ■Charles H. Buchanan, a young hardwood man of 

 this city, have moved their offices from 9 East 

 Lexington street, to 918 Equitable building. 



Robb S. Eccles, a well-known lumberman, has 

 Iwen appointed vicegerent snark of Hoo-Hoo of 

 this jurisdiction, and is working to signalize his 

 administration by various additions to the ranks. 

 He is in conference with other members of the 

 fraternity with the hope of arranging a concat- 

 <?nation in the near future, and has been much 

 encouraged by the responses received. 



The new factory of the Maryland Basket & 

 Veneer Company, which for years conducted oper- 



COLUMBUS 



The L. W. Keyer Cigar Box Company of Day- 

 ton, O., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $35,000 to manufacture cigar boxes and con- 

 tainers. The incorporators are Louis W. Keyer, 

 Sr., Clara Keyer. George W. Ozias, Louis W. 

 Keyer, Jr., and Arthur A. Keyer. 



The Little River Lumber Company of Canton, 

 O., has been Incorporated with a capital of $25,- 

 000 to deal in timber lands, operate a sawmill 

 and manufacture lumber products. The incorpor- 

 ators are H. S. Moses, G. B. Willis, Sidney J. 

 Geiger, S. A. Conklin and C. H. Tlllett. 



The Wauseon Handle Company of Wauseon, O., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000 to manufacture handles and other articles 

 of wood. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager for the central 

 division for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company 

 said; "Trade has been good during the past few 

 weeks, and we have no complaint to make. Or- 

 ders are fairly well distributed among the various 

 grades of hardwoods, although the better demand 

 is still for the lower grades. Prices in all vari- 

 eties and grades rule strong, and every change is 

 towards higher levels. Low-grade siding has been 

 advanced recently. Dry stocks are scarce, and 

 the outlook for the future is promising. 



TOLEDO 



The Gotshall Manufacturing Company reports 

 a good business in hardwoods of all kinds, es- 

 pecially in dry plain oak. Crating lumber is 

 also strong and prices have increased all along 

 the line. The concern is operating at full ca- 

 pacity and the management is optimistic as to 

 the outlook for spring business. 



Moog & Culbertson, lumber dealers of Bryan. 

 O., have erected a large storage shed at their 

 lumber yard, which will enable them to keep 

 all stock under roof in the future. 



E. L. Burgoon has purchased the Gould furni- 

 ture establishment at Wauseon, O. Mr. Burgoon 

 was formerly connected with the Red Wing Mill 

 Company. 



George Maul, a prominent lumberman of Port 

 Clinton, O.. died at his home in that city April 

 20 at tbe age of sixty-one years. He leaves a 

 wife and live children, three brothers and four 

 sisters. 



$2,250,000 and the nominal assets about 

 $1,353,664. 



R. A. Hooten, W. J. Stuebe and C. R. Rungan 

 have organized the Wabash Hardwood Company 

 at Terre Haute to conduct a manufacturing and 

 retail hardwood business. The company has been 

 incorporated with a capitalization of $10,000. 



On May 4 the veneer mill at Ladoga was de- 

 stroyed by fire. The loss was $40,000 and the 

 insurance $10,000. The mill was owned by R. C. 

 Scott of Crawfordsville and Harry Daugherty of 

 Ladoga. 



The Standard Wheel Company, Terre Haute, 

 has received an order for 150 clubs which are to 

 be made from second growth, straight grained 

 hickory, and which will be used for killing fur 

 bearing seals at the Pribilof rookeries during the 

 coming summer. The order was placed by B. W. 

 Evermann, chief of the division of Alaska fish- 

 eries. The clubs will be five and one-half feet 

 long and will taper from a well rounded top to 

 two inches thick at the thickest point. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Joseph Kendall, formerly hardwood timber 

 buyer for H. S. Adams, Fortvllle, committed sui- 

 cide on Apr. 27. He was forty-six years old, 

 and had Ijeen in ill health for some time. 



Chapin C. Foster of the R. S. Foster Lumber 

 Company was re-elected treasurer of the Manu- 

 facturers' Bureau of Indiana at the recent annual 

 meeting of the organization in this city. 



A. C. Gau, V. O. Woodruff and P. A. Gordon 

 have organized the Gordon Lumber Company at 

 South Bend with an authorized capitalization of 

 $2,000 and will conduct a general lumber busi- 

 ness. 



An industrial automobile city will be estab- 

 lished northwest of the city by Carl G. Fisher, 

 James A. Allison, A. C. Newby and F. H. Wheeler. 

 About 240 acres of land will be offered as factory 

 Bites for automobile concerns. 



Elmer W. Stout of this city was recently ap- 

 pointed receiver for the Ford & Johnson Com- 

 pany, chair manufacturer at the Indiana State 

 Prison, Michigan. The liabilities are about 



MEMPHIS 



Some days ago the announcement came from 

 Washington that Congress had appropriated 

 $1,500,000, to be used for the immediate repair 

 of all the breaks in the levee system in the 

 Mississippi valley states. Work was to have 

 been undertaken at once, and rushed to comple- 

 tion before it was possible for a second rise to 

 occur. However, the heavy rains in the upper 

 water sheds of the Mississippi and its tribu- 

 taries have caused the river to rise much sooner 

 than expected and it is now out of the question 

 to make the repairs, although the money has 

 already been made available. This is accepted as 

 meaning that much of the land which is now 

 under water in west Tennessee, east Missouri, 

 cast Arkansas, west Mississippi and the upper 

 part of Louisiana will remain so for some time. 

 This realization is so strong on the part of 

 owners of lumber manufacturing plants in the 

 overflow area that it is admitted that it will 

 now be some time before there can be a return 

 to anything like normal conditions. Most of 

 the mills in extreme eastern Arkansas are closed 

 down on account of high water, and the same is 

 true of a number in north Louisiana. In ad- 

 dition to the fact that the water has interfered 

 with these plants to a material extent, it has 

 also made it practically impossible for logging 

 operations to be resumed. The timber supply 

 prior to the advent of high water was small, 

 and the situation, from the standpoint of these 

 mills, is far from satisfactory. 



So far as the local situation is concerned, 

 operations have been resumed by a number of 

 plants which were forced to close down when 

 the flood stage was above 40 feet. In North 

 Memphis the Anderson-TuUy Company has 

 placed its veneer plants and sawmill in opera- 

 tion. It was able to run its two box factories 

 during the high water. Moore & McFerrin have 

 their box factory running again, but their 

 sawmill has not started up. The Chickasaw 

 Cooperage Company, whose yard and plant were 

 flooded to an unusual degree, has also begun 

 turning out tight cooperage stock on a liberal 

 scale. The Bennett Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany has resumed operations. The Tennessee 

 Hoop Company and the Memphis Stave Manu- 

 facturing Company, however, have not been able 

 to start up again. In South Memphis the fol- 

 lowing firms are among those that have resumed 

 operations : the J. V. Stimson Hardwood Com- 

 pany, Gillette Brothers, Larkin & Co. and the 

 Tschudy Lumber Company. 



In addition to the direct influence of the high 

 water, a number of mills have been indirectly 

 affected by the scarcity of timber and there are 

 mills here which would be in operation if they 

 were able to secure anything like an adequate 

 amount of logs. There are very few firms hav- 

 ing a large timber supply ahead, and the out- 



