HARDWOOD RECORD 



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cently opened up a large source of supply in 

 Japan, where hardwoods and lumber used for 

 ordinary purposes are grown. 



Quite a good run of business is reported by 

 the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. Choice red gum is in especially good de- 

 mand. The calls for red and white oak are also 

 increasing. 



Thos. E. Powe of the Thos. E. Powe Lumber 

 Company is now located in his new lumber yard 

 and finds everything quite satisfactory. The 

 shipping facilities are much better than from the 

 old yard. He reports quite a good trade on 

 nearly every item on the hardwood list. 



A decreaise of $243,232 from the record of 

 September, 1911, in building operations in St. 

 Louis was shown by September, 1912. The 

 total work authorized in September, 1911, was 

 .1:1,490.990. That in September, 1912, was $1.- 

 248,763. The number of permits issued was 

 forty-two smaller than for the corresponding 

 month in 1911. 



Receipts of lumber during Septemlwr were 

 10,347 ears by rail and 206,000 feet by rivoi-. 

 Iteceipts for September last year were 13,43."' 

 ciCrs by rail and 193,000 feet by river, or 2,912 

 ,ars more by rail and 13,000 feet more by river 

 in 1912 than in 1911. Shipments by rail dur- 

 ing September this year were 11,168 cars and 

 .-p6,000 feet by river. Shipments during Septem- 

 l)(>r last year were 11,224 cars and 21.5.000 feet, 

 showing an increase of 940 cars, but a fallins 

 off of 59,000 feet. 



William F. Gocssling. fifty-three years old, 

 president and founder of the William F. Goes- 

 sling Eox Manufacturing Company, died last 

 week. He was a native of St. Louis and had 

 been in business twenty-five years. He is sur- 

 vived by his widow and three children. 



ferson has received word that its chair ware- 

 house at Sioux City, la., was destroyed by fire 

 and the building and contents are a total loss. 

 It will be rebuilt immediately. 



MILWAUKEE 



The will of the late George .1. Foster, secretary 

 of the Foster Lumber Company, Milwaukee, has 

 been filed for probate. Mr. Foster left an estate 

 consisting of personal property worth $20,000 

 and real estate valued at $60,000. He made pro- 

 visions in his will for many of his relatives, be- 

 sides his wife. Several charity gilts of $1,000 

 were made to local Institutions. 



The work of recovering the logs swept down- 

 stream during the July floods has been started by 

 the various northern lumber companies. The 

 Jacob Mortenson Lumber Company of Wausau 

 will return the majority of its logs to its own 

 mill, but many will be floated to Stevens Point 

 as they cannot be recovered. The John Weeks 

 Lumber Company of the latter city has purciias. .1 

 most of the logs which have Iwen swept down 

 below Uothscbild. The Barker & Stewart Lum- 

 ber Company and the Alexander Stewart Lumber 

 Company have also sold most of their stray logs. 

 The Peshtigo Lumber Company has purchased 

 a tract of timber containing from eight to ten 

 million feet from Nadeau P.rothers, Nadeau, Mieh. 

 Joseph Jacques has the logging contract, which 

 will cover three or four years' work. The tim- 

 ber will be sawed and shipped to Peshtigo by 



The Kneeland-MeClurg Lumber Co. of Phil- 

 lips has started building operations on its new 

 sawmill. It will measure 74 by 2.52 feet and be 

 erected on a concrete foundation laid over a year 

 a-o The capacity will be 100.000 feet in ten 

 hours All the machinery has been ordered. 



The Tomahawk Lumber Company is having an 

 individual power plant installed for its planing 

 mill, which has heretofore been run with power 

 from the sawmill. . . 



Steps are already under way for organizing a 

 corporation to take over the property of the de- 

 funct Antigo Lumber Company, which has re- 

 cently been acquired by Edward P. Faust and 

 others It is expected that the mill will be run 

 this winter, using logs purchased from other 

 companies. , t * 



The Wisconsin Manufacturing Company of Jef- 



DETROIT 



Frederick Messenger Sibley, president of the 

 F. M. Sibley Lumber Comp.iny, died in Harper 

 hospital, this city, last week after a ten weeks' 

 illness from a complication of diseases. He was 

 sixt.v-three years of age. He is survived by the 

 widow and one son, Frederic M. Sibley, treasurer 

 of the Sibley Lumber Company, and one daughter, 

 Mrs. M.adge Sibley Hoobler of New York City. 

 Mr. Sibley was interested in many business inter- 

 ests in Detroit and Michigan and was a member 

 of a number of societies, including the Masons, 

 which order took charge of the funeral. 



Earl Leech, son of E. W. Leech, the well-known 

 hardwood dealer, was seriously injured in an 

 accident in which one of his companions was 

 instantly killed and the other probably fatally 

 injured. The injured men were rushed to a hos- 

 pital, where it was found that Leech will recover. 

 The lumber bowling league season opened last 

 week with games between eight teams repre- 

 senting local lumber yards. The E. W. Leech 

 team, which has always had the undermost posi- 

 tion In the percentage table, surprised everyone 

 by beating the Keel-Butcher Lumber Company's 

 team three straight games and taking undisputed 

 possession of first position. The Leech boys de- 

 clare that they are going to hang on to the lead. 

 Among the out-of-town visitors to the Detroit 

 market the past week were Mr. Gotshall of the 

 (iotsball .Manufacturing Company, Toledo, O. : 

 C. E. Sprinkle, Anchor Lumber Company, Cin- 

 einnati, O. ; Joseph and Edward Stemmelen. 

 Louisville, Ky. ; Mr. Itobinson, Falls City Lum- 

 ber Company, Louisville, Ky., and Mr. Merrill of 

 the Long-Knight Lumber Company, Indianapolis. 

 Ind. Messrs. Stemmelen have recently started in 

 the business under the firm name of Stemmelen 

 Lumber Company. 



Arguments on the application of the Detroit 

 & Mackinac railroad for an interlocutory injunc- 

 tion to restrain the Michigan Railroad Commis- 

 sion from enforcing its order for uniform log 



rates were heard by Federal Judges Knappeu. 

 Denison and Tuttle, who will give their decision 

 later. The suit, brought by the railroad against 

 the Churchill Lumber Company and Frank Gil- 

 christ, a prominent lumberman of Alpena, is 

 regarded as very important as it will determine 

 the right of the commission to Inquire into 

 freight rates. The case is an outgrowth of the 

 condition which permits the Alpena lumbermen 

 to ship by water or rail, the former being 

 cheaper, placing, it is alleged, the inland lumber 

 dealers at a disadvantage. The railroad officials 

 say that to protect their business they fixed the 

 rates so that they could compete with the Alpena 

 shippers who used the boats. The commission 

 ordered the railroad to make its rates uniform, 

 but this it refused to do. The state supreme 

 court sustained the commission. The inland 

 shippers are backing the railroad, declaring that 

 they will be driven out of business unless they 

 are put in a position to compete with the Alpena 

 shippers. 



Attorney Frank II. Watson, appointed by tb.- 

 government to conduct the suit against the De- 

 troit and Michigan lumber dealers who are 

 charged with violation of the Sherman anti-trust 

 law. says that he does not believe that testi- 

 mony -will be taken in petroit much before the 

 first' of the year. He says that he expects that 

 the government will finish the taking of deposi- 

 tions and testimony in the northwestern case--- 

 before taking up the Michigan cases. He says, 

 however, that he has all the data and evidence" 

 ready and is prepared to go ahead with the trial 

 of the cases at any time. 



George I. McClure, largo dealer in hard- 

 woods who has offices in the Chamber of Com- 

 merce building, is to have a lumber yard of his 

 own. He has purchased a piece of land about 

 400 by 350 feet at Plumer and Clark avenues 

 .ind the yard is now being put into shape. It 

 will contain four tracks. Mr. McClure is also 

 having an office building erected. The yard will 

 soon be ready and Mr. McClure will be ready to 

 fill orders promptly from his own stock. 



The flooring mills of the Dwight Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Thomas Forman Company are still 

 very busy and considerable overtime is being 

 put in to keep up with orders. 



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The Hardwood Market 



CHIC AGO 



The feature of the local market is the 

 continual wrangling for oak, particularly 

 quartered white oak. Red gum, which was 

 reported as being rather long at southern 

 points, seems to have continued, however, on 

 a strong basis during the last week or ten 

 days. 



There seems to be no chance of any lines 

 of stock attaining such a position that the 

 price will slump. In fact, wholesalers an.l 

 particularly those operating in the Chicago 

 territory have called their salesmen in in a 

 great many cases, and in some cases have 

 sent them to the mill points to dig up stocks 

 if possible. 



Reports from Chicago men. at the present 

 time in southern and iiorthern mill territories 

 show that great difliculty is being met with 

 in picking up suflScient quantities of any kind 

 of dry stock of the better or the lower 

 grades. 



There is an unquestioned improvement in 

 all the wood-consuming lines, although the 

 building situation is a little quiet compared 

 to what it was during the summer months. 

 This, however, is not based upon any funda- 

 mental reason, but is a mere coincidence. 



The box people continue to take whatever 

 nt any kind of low grade hardwoods, suit- 

 al.le for box making, is offered 'them, and In fact 

 are looking to other sources tor an adequate 

 supply of raw material. 



There is no question but that the scarcity 

 of lumber naturally following high prices 

 will prevail throughout the -svinter, and prob- 

 ably well along in the spring. This is a situ- 

 ation which is apparent all over the country, 

 and there is no indication of relief from 

 scarce stocks, either in the North or the- 

 South. 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market at New York shows a 

 v.ry fair demand and available supplies of dry. 

 well manufactured lumber are readily disposed of 

 at firm prices. The volume of business is not 

 as large as usual, but with stocks not over- 

 plentiful at shipping points the aggregate de- 

 mand is sufficient to keep the market exceedingly 

 firm with an upward tendency. Oak is very firm 

 and in good demand with stock scarce. Maple, 

 birch beech, ash and chestnut are moving freely 

 with supplies not ovcrplentiful. Oak and maple 

 flooring are in fair call and considerable busi- 

 ness is being booked. Stocks are still below 

 normal in the hands of the yards, with the local- 



