HARDWOOD RECORD 



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visiting tlie comijany's three mills. During 

 his trip he will complete a deal that involves 

 several thousand feet of lumber. During liis 

 absence R. MeCracken assumes charge of 

 affairs in this cit>'. 



The large stock of veneers stored by the 

 iVlaley, Thompson & Moffett Company, which 

 were i)artl>- destroyed b>- the recent fire, were 

 put on the "bargain" counter and sold at 

 low prices. The veneers were burnt on the 

 ends, but not sufficiently to keep furniture 

 manufacturers from using them. 



L. H. Gage of the Gage-Possell Lumber 

 Company has returned from a successful busi- 

 ness trip through the South. Mr. Gage stated 

 that the car shortage still hampers trading in 

 the South, but aside from that business is 

 brisk. 



W. Quick and L. D. Halstead, of Richey. 

 Halstead & Quick, have returned from 

 business trips. 



At the annual election of the Cincinnati Lum- 

 bermen's Club, held May G, Thomas J. Moffett 

 of the Maley. Thomp.son & Moffett Company was 

 again elected president ; George Littlcford, first 

 vice president; J. W. Darling, second vice presi- 

 dent ; B. Bramlage, treasurer, and E. J. Thomas, 

 secretary. President Moffett stated that the 

 ilnli has had one of the most successful years of 

 its career, also each individual himlier dealer re- 

 ports that business has been very brisk. He also 

 said that he looks for a record breaker this year. 

 The C. & O. road was selected as the route to 

 the annual convention in Atlantic City, May 23 

 and 24. The plans of the I'ark Commission were 

 unanimously and enthusiasticall.v indorsed, and 

 the club will use its best efforts to further the 

 scheme. 



The Parlor Table Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of the United States, makers of parlor 

 furniture, met at the Sinton hotel and dis- 

 cussed a new tariff sheet. Indications are 

 that an advance will be made in flnislied goods 

 because of the higher prices of wood and 

 other materials. 



Work of cutting down the walnut timber on 

 the old Todhunter farm, recently purchased 

 by D. F. Frazee of Lexington, Ky., will be 

 superintended by L. L. Vandegrift of this 

 city. The lumber is the finest in Fayette 

 county, it is said, and will be sent to Cin- 

 cinnati to be sawed and sold for furniture use. 

 The receipts of lumber during the month of 

 April exceeded those of the past few months, 

 amounting to 7,561 cars as compared with 

 6.S75 the same month last year, The ship- 

 ments for the month also show an increase, 

 amounting to 5, -157, against 5,39S last year. 

 Besides showing an increase in business these 

 figures show that railroad accommodations 

 have been materially better than for some 

 time. 



The two large sawmills of the Cincinnati 

 Hardwood Lumber Company at Huntsville. 

 Tenn., will be in operation within the next 

 ten days. A complete new line of machiner.v 

 has been purchased and the company expects 

 to do business on an increased scale. The 

 first cut will be shipped directly to Cincinnati. 

 William A. Bennett, president of the Cin- 

 cinnati Chamber of Commerce, hopes to have 

 General Kuroki. the Japanese warrior, speak 

 before the members of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce. Business men are anxious to induce 

 him to visit the Queen City. 



St. Iiouis. 



The O'Reilly Lumber Company has recently 

 been incorporated with a capilal stock of .$r)0,- 

 000. It is the successor of tlie Mosberger- 

 O'Reilly Lumber Company, and will maintain 

 heartrjuarters and yards at llie same location, 

 Jlain and Chambers streel«. It assumes all 

 liabilities of the latter concern and will collect 

 all iiutshindinij indebtedness. A general whole- 

 sale liMi-dwood business will be carried on. and 

 a gijod stock of lumber will be maintained at 



southern points as well as in St. Louis. The 

 personnel of the force will be practically the 

 same, with Richard ,1. O'Reilly at its head, 



George B. Osgood, representing the I'aepcke- 

 I.eicbt Lumber Company of Chicas;o, was a 

 recent visitor to this market. 



l-'rank F. Fish and F. P. Southgate. secretary 

 and chief inspector of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, made a business trip to 

 St. Louis a fortniKbt ago. 



G. II. Barnes has been succeeded by the G. H. 

 Barnes Hardwood Lumber Company, with a 

 capital stock of $45,000, G. II. Barnes, M. D. 

 Barnes and M. H. Stiles are the incorporat<irs. 

 This new arrangement contemplates no change 

 in business procedure as formerly conducted, but 

 is calculated to facilitate handling the steady 

 and increasing growth of the wliolesale hard- 

 wood business which Mr. Barnes lias been carry- 

 ing on. The company's yard at Main and War- 

 ren streets was formerly occupied by the Knenij; 

 Lumber Company, and is well situated for the 

 quick handling of stock, Well-as.sorted stocks 

 of lumber will be kept on hand. 



Two n-ell-known machinery men, N. A. Glad- 

 ding of Indianapolis and S. V. Kgan of Cincin- 

 nati, were visitors to their companies' St. Louis 

 branch houses recently. 



Jacob Mosberger of the dissolved Mosberger- 

 O'Reiily Lumber Company has entered the hard- 

 wood business on his own account, with yards 

 at 653 Morin avenue, under the name of the 

 Jlosherger Limiber (Company. This extensive 

 property is owned by Mr. Mosberger and is well 

 supplied with transportation facilities. TTpon it 

 are situated a stable for sixteen horses, a bouse 

 for the teamster in charge, ample sheds, and a 

 handsome office building. A large and varied 

 stock of hardwoods will be kept on hand, and a 

 competent force of salesmen and buyers main- 

 tained. Mr. Mosberjier has been identified with 

 the lumber business for twent.v-six years, and is 

 thoroughly familiar with all Its details. He is 

 a strong factor in the hardwood trade of this 

 market. 



G. H. Barnes has luu-cbased a liandsome large 

 brick residence at n\imber D43'J Berlin avenue, 

 which he will occupy in the near future. 



A, R. Stevens of Stevens & Lyons, Uecatur, 

 III., was a recent St. Louis visitor. Ills house 

 is well known in the local wholesale hardwood 

 trade as a handler uf white and red oak, birch 

 and cypress. 



The Massengale Limiber Company has been 

 getting in a great deal of stock by river of late 

 and reports its mill in Mississippi r\nuiiug 

 steadily. 



The Ilafner Manufacturing Company has 

 greatly increased its cypress holdings, and 

 reports car service from the South much better 

 of late. 



The J. P. Harnett Lumber Company has 

 moved its headi|uarters to Pine Bluff, Ark., 

 where it will wholesale a fine line of hardwoods 

 manufactured at a large up-to-date sawmill re- 

 cently established at Langford. The company is 

 composed of progressive business men ami lias 

 built up a large trade in its line. 



Nashville, 



The lumber firm of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 purchased at auction this week at Baxter, Tenn., 

 the lumber left by the late Chalmers Vestal, of 

 the Caney Fork Lumber Company. There were 

 imly two bidders, the other being the American 

 Lumber Company. The property disposed of at 

 llie sale consisted of some 600,000 feet of oak 

 and beech and if went "dirt cheap." Chalmers 

 "Vestal, it will be remembered, was recently found 

 dead at his home at Baxter and his bookkeeper 

 was later arrested charged wilh the murder. 



C. B. Benedict will shortly sever bis connec- 

 liun with the Davidson-Benedict Company in 

 order to go to east Tennessee to take charge of 

 a big tract of timber in Pike county owned by 

 llie newl.v organized S.vico Lumber Company. 

 The company has recently bought a large tract. 



embracing several thousand acres, in this sec- 

 tion and will shortly erect two band saw mills 

 and a planing mill, A logging road ten miles 

 in length will be built to connect with the 

 Knoxville division of the Louisville & Nashville 

 railroad. Both C. P.. Benedict and C. H. Bene- 

 dict have disposed of their stock in the David- 

 son-Benedict Company. Several other stockhold- 

 ers have become interested in the Sylco com- 

 pany and .John W. Love and John B. Ransom 

 have also taken some of the stock. 



II. S. Hutchinson, tlie popular manager of tlie 

 Xasliville Hardwood Flooring Company, has re- 

 'iirned from a three months' trip through the 

 iVcst and Northwest. He first visited points 

 In Colorado, then dropped down to Texas and 

 from there on out to the coast, taking in Los 

 .\ngeles and 'Frisco. He returned through the 

 northern route by Minneapolis and Chicago. 

 Mr. Hutchinson's trip was plienomenally siic- 

 ci'ssful. lie got orders most everywhere he went 

 and listed many new customers. He states that 

 Tennessee hardwoods arc thoroughly established 

 in the West and quile popular there. He de- 

 scribes the lumber situation at 'Frisco as most 

 excellent, saying that the lumber and planing 

 mill people there survived the recent gr.-at dis- 

 aster in great shape. 



A special from Humboldt, Tenn., announces 

 the destruction of the large heading mill there 

 of the Humboldt Hoop & Heading Company. C. 

 H. Feri-eil was the principal stockholder. There 

 was no insurance. 



A special from Decatur, Ala., announces that 

 Arantz Bros, have Just completed a large band 

 band saw mill at Red Iliil, in Lawrence county. 

 Several thousand feet of hardwood lumber :n\: 

 bein.g sawed daily. 



Among the visitors to the city this wei'k were: 

 K. E. Taenzer, first vice president of the Darnell- 

 Taenzer Lumber Company, and R. J. Wiggs, 

 secretar.v and treasurer of R. J. Darnell, Inc., 

 both of Memphis. 



Several big deals are recorded recently as 

 having been transacted at Waynesboro, Tenn.. 

 and in that vicinity. T. S. Hassell of Clifton, 

 Tenn.. who recently purchased from the Decatur 

 Land Company of New Decatur, Ala., some 17, 0011 

 acres of timber lands in Wa.vne county, has sold 

 to R. A. Haggard of Waynesboro a one half 

 interest in these lands. Messrs. Hassell and 

 Haggard have sold 200,000 cross ties to the 

 Holcomb-IIayes Company of Cincinnati for $00,- 

 000 delivered on tlie Tennessee river. The tract 

 from whicli these cross ties are being cut is 

 said 111 lie rich in poplar, hickory, chestnut and 

 pine. 



Thomas Wells, a well known agent at Tulla- 

 homa, Tenn., has closed a deal whereby the 

 Greenfield-Talbot-Finney-Battle Company of Nash- 

 ville and Tullahoma purcliases a tract of 2,0(H1 

 acres of timber lands in Grundy county near 

 Altamont. The price is said to be a most sub- 

 stantial one. Mr. Wells is said to have some 

 11.000 additional acres he will shortly place on 

 the market. 



.1. H. Baskette, former general manager of the 

 I'rewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company of Nasli- 

 ville and Murfreesboro, which concern is the 

 only red cedar factory in the world, has tendered 

 his resignation as a member of the city council 

 of Nashville. He removes from here to Helena, 

 Ark., soon, where he will establish a big wooden- 

 ware factory. 



What is said to be the largest cross tie camp 

 in the world is being established at Guntersville 

 on the Tennessee river in Alabama, just across 

 the Tennessee line. The ties are being collected 

 at this point for the Big Four railroad, which 

 has a contract with Chattanooga parties for 

 ,'1,000,000 lies. The ties will be floated down 

 the Tennessee river lo llie Ohio lo the point of 

 deliver.v. 



I'he Chattanooga Slave & Cooperage Company 

 lias been granted a charter by Secretary of State 

 Jolin \V. Morton. The capital stock is ,$10,000 

 and tbc incorporators are V. J. Blow, H. F, 



