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ber. The price of mahogany has continued to 

 advance, but consumers apparently are willing 

 to pay the present top-notch prices. 



There is a decided scarcity of labor in Louis- 

 ville, and lumbermen are complaining of not 

 being able to get enough men to ship as rapidly 

 as they would like. Big construction jobs of 

 various kinds in Louisville are responsible for 

 the scarcity. Cars are beginning to be less 

 plentiful, and it looks as though the oft-pre- 

 <\icted shortage of railway equipment will soon 

 be realized. 



ST. LOUIS 



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Thp Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis held its 

 first fall meeting, after an interval of a number 

 of months, on Sept. 10, at Sunset Inn, a short 

 distance from the city. Dinner was served at 7 

 o'clock on the terrace on the second floor of 

 the Inn. About one hundred member^ and their 

 ladies participated. During the dinner music 

 was furnished by an orchestra. 



After the dinner I'resident Rolfes called on 

 ■ff. E. Barns. .Tames E. Gatewood and P. F. 

 Cook for short talks. Following this the 

 members of the club passed a resolution to 

 make an effort to bring the next meeting of the 

 Ivational Federation of Ketail Merchants to St. 

 Louis. 



After the meeting was over, the members re- 

 joined the ladies. At about ten o'clock the re- 

 turn home was made. AH those present ex- 

 liressed themselves as having enjoyed one of 

 the best meetings the club had ever held. 



T. A. Pyle, who has been with the Northern 

 Lumber Manufacturing Compan.v. Bachelor. La., 

 for the past couple of years, has been appointed 

 inspector of the Lumbermen's Exchange, of St. 

 Louis and entered on his duties on Sept. 3. Mr. 

 Pyle has been busy since his coming, owing to 

 the increasing amount of inspection that is he- 

 ing done, since the busy season started. 



Little ten months old Josephine Paston Powe, 

 daughter of Thomas E. Powe, president of the 

 Thos. E. Powe Lumber Company, and also presi- 

 dent of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, 

 broke ground for a beautiful home in the West 

 End, which will be given to her when it is com- 

 pleted, by her grandfather. The ceremony of 

 ground breaking trok place at seven o'clock on 

 the morning of Sept. 3. 



R. F. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany left on Sept. 9 for a three weeks' selling 

 trip through the North and Northwest. 



F. H. Smith of the F. H. Smith Company and 

 Jos. A. Hafner. manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Ilafner Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, with their wives, returned home from 

 Minnesota recently. They have been away fov 

 the past month hunting and fishing in that 

 state. 



Charles D. Boynton, president of the Boynton 

 Land & Lumber Company. Boynton, Ark., died 

 in St. Louis from complications growing out of 

 an attack cf pneumonia, two years ^go. His 

 serious sickness had been of three weeks' dura- 

 tion. 



MILWAUKEE 



The Galesville Lumber Company has been 

 formed at Galesville with a capital of ifS.j.OOO 

 by L. E. TJtter, R, E. James and Jessie Reid. 



The Rhinelander Woodenware Company has 

 been incorporated with $10,000 capital to manu- 

 facture broom handles and other woodenware 

 articles. 



The Rice Lake Lumber Company has finished 

 its season's cut and has closed down for the 

 winter. It has not yet been decided whether 

 the company will do any logging this winter 

 or run its hardwood mill. The closing down of 

 the mill is not looked at favorably by Rice Lake 

 residents, as their main supply of fuel is mill- 

 wood from this mill. 



■ The Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Eau 

 Claire, will manufacture turret lathes at its 

 plant, which are the invention of a Madlsou 

 mechanical enginer. The lathe has been highly 

 recommended by various mechanical engineers 

 throughout the country. 



George J. Forster. secretary of the Forster 

 Lumber Company of Milwaukee, died at his 

 home recently as a result of a protracted illness 

 that began two years ago. Mr. Forster was 

 born in Milwaukee in 1861. For a good many 

 years he was connected with various lumber 

 companies and had an active interest in the 

 Forster Lumber Company until some months 

 ago, when he was taken quite seriously ill. 



The sale of the assets of the defunct Antigo 

 Lumber Company was confirmed by Judge 

 Geiger of the federal court. The lumber com- 

 pany went into bankruptcy last November on 

 an involuntary petition filed against it by the 

 Antigo Hoop & Stave Co., and other creditors. 

 The sale was made to Clarence J. Selle for $73.- 

 000. The company scheduled liabilities at $144,- 

 826 and assets at $198,742.40. 



The State Railway Commission has issued an 

 order requiring the Chicago & Northwestern 

 Railway to refund an overcharge on shipments 

 of fence posts and poles to the Torrey Cedar 

 Company of Clintonville. The rates from Gallo- 

 way to Clintonville have been ordered reduced 

 by the commission from five and one-half to 

 four cents per hundred pounds. 



DETROIT 



Secretary John Lodge of the Dwight Lumber 

 Company reports that the hardwood flooring 

 industry in Detroit is in better condition at the 

 present time than it has been for months past. 

 Mr. Lodge says that the Dwight company has a 

 strong demand from the eastern section of the 

 country, inquiries and orders be:ng received 

 from points as far distant as Portland, Me. The 

 liwight factory is running practically an eight- 

 Uay week, working Saturday afternoons and con- 

 siderable overtime. 



The Lumber Bowling League will open up for 

 the winter season with games between eight 

 teams, representing that many lumber compa- 

 nies, on Oct. 2. The E. W. Leech team, which 

 the past two or three seasons has occupied the 

 cellar position in the percentage column most of 

 the time, including the finish of tlie seasons, 

 expects to cut considerable figure in the race 

 this season. 



The Webster & McCausey Lumber Company has 

 taken over the business of the Card Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company, which had yards at 

 Third and Greenwood avenues. H. A. Webster, 

 for thirteen years manager of the H. P. Webster 

 Lumber Company, Eaton Kapids. Mich., is the 

 head of the new company. Associated with 

 him are his brother. Clyde I. Webster, and Joseph 

 W. and T. J. W. McCausey. 



"Conditions in the Detroit hardwood market 

 at the present time are very fair and a good 

 volume of business is being done." said J. M. 

 Clifford, who has the largest hardwood lumber 

 yard in Detroit. "Great trouble has been experi- 

 enced right along, however, in the delivery of 

 stocks, due to the freight congestion on the 

 railroads. This congestion still exists and is 

 bound to grow worse with the approach of colder 

 weather. Considering this great handicap which 

 has been keenly felt by all dealers conditions are 

 encouraging. There has been an especially good 

 demand for maple and ash and I believe that 

 frrices will advance. The price on four quartered 

 7>lain oak will advance $2 a thousand within 

 thirty days. The automobile manufacturers and 

 automobile body companies are buying freelj', 

 their demand being mostly for ash and maple." 



H. F. Below, of Marshfield. Wis., a member 

 of the firm of Vollmar & Below Company, vis- 

 ited the Detroit oifice of the company during 

 the past week. 



H. W. Harding, of the II. W. Harding Lumber 

 Company, says that freight conditions show con- 

 siderable improvement. The railroads have in 

 seme instances increased their terminal facilities 

 in Detroit and south from this city to Wyan- 

 dotte, a distance of about twelve miles. Mr. 

 Harding says that there has been a good de- 

 mand at his yards for Nos. 1 and 2 oak, poplar, 

 birch and hemlock. He says that the auto body 

 companies have been big buyers of hardwoods 

 during the past month. 



Wm, W. Kelly of the Brownlee-Kelly Company 

 reports that his yard has been busy and that 

 there has been a good demand for soft maple. 

 He,.says that his company has experienced con- 

 side"rahle':trouble with shipments of stock he- 

 cause of the freight congestion on the railroads. 

 'George I. McClure. large operator in hardwoods 

 with offices at 724 Chamber of Commerce, de- 

 clares that conditions in the Detroit hardwood 

 market are excellent. He says orders have been 

 coming in at such a lively rate that he now has 

 orders enough to keep him busy until Jan. 1. 

 Prices, he says, are holding steady on most all 

 £rades and are very satisfactory. 



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The Hardwood Market 



CHIC AGO 





Continued activity of purchases with a con- 

 stant strengthening of price values, combined 

 with considerable ditEculty in delivering stoqk, 

 characterizes the local market at present. Pr; 

 tically every class of the hardwood consitmi: 

 industry is showing an improved condition. The 

 majority of orders are for immediate deliver.v, 

 which would indicate a certain amount of uneasi- 

 ni ss on the part of the buyers as to their 

 deliveries, and would indicate also that they 

 have allowed stocks to get to such a low point 

 that they are actually afraid of a scarcity of 

 l.avdwood lumber in their own yards. 



Building trades and allied industries such as 

 interior finish plants, flooring factories, sash, 

 door and blind houses, are working to capacit.v. 

 with few exceptions. As a consequence there is 

 t. strong call for birch, beech and maple for 

 flooring, while a material strengthening has 

 been noted in the demand for quartered oak and 

 other hardwoods. 



Plain oak continues to be scarce, with good 

 prices. AH low grades of lumber are moving 

 r:ipidly and demanding good prices. On the 

 whole, it is not a question at present of mak- 

 ing sales, but rather of securing deliveries on 

 time. 



Board of trade reports of lumber receipts iu 

 Chicago during the week ending with Sept. 14 

 !«t»*w\d that 67.157,000 feet of lunlber came 

 into tl^city dating that time as compared with 

 51.539iPW) ifeet for that week last year. Ship- 

 ments on the other hand lor the same week are 

 21,093,000 feet, which is 3.827.000 feet in excess 

 of the corresponding week of 1911. 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market at New York reveals 

 a good volume of business in the wholesale 

 trade. Short stocks of good lumber and car 

 shortage are handicapping trade to a considera- 

 ble extent and orders are somewhat delayed 

 in execution on this account. Prices are hold- 



