HARDWOOD RECORD 



at New Orleans and other southern points dur- 

 ing the last month and is expected home in a 

 tew days. 



K. ,T. O'Reilly, vice president of the Mosberger- 

 O'Reilly Lumber Company, has returned from 

 quite an extended pleasure trip along the eastern 

 coast of Massachusetts. Mr. O'Reilly also vis- 

 ited at several points in New Jersey. 



The Druhe Hardwood Lumber Company re- 

 ports a rush of trade for .Tuly. with a fallback to 

 normal coudiliivns of trade tor August. The 

 company's mill at DeKalb, Tex., has been run- 

 ning to its limit this .season. They handle ash 

 very largely, but also luindle cypress lumber to 

 some extent, and rei>ort that they are supplied 

 with nearly a million I'cei o£ the Louisiana 

 product. 



The Lothman Cypress Company reports that 

 it is quite satisfied with trade conditions in the 

 cypress line. Not <iuly has there been a heavy 

 •Icmaud for stock from tank builders, planing 

 mills and sash and door factories, but there has 

 also been a heavy demand from the yard trade. 



C. E. Strifler, until recently engaged in the 

 hardwood lumber business in this city, but now 

 of Alhambra, near Los Angeles. Cal., where he 

 is engaged in the veal estate business, was in 

 St. Louis the latter part of last month on busi- 

 ness connected with the winding up of his 

 affairs here. The company which bore Mr. 

 Strifler's name has been succeeded by the Krug 

 Lumber Company, with Louis C. Krug, formerly 

 vice president of the Strifler concern, as presi- 

 dent. The new company continues business at 

 the address of the old company, North Market 

 and Main streets. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson- 

 Oreason Lumber Company, reports unusually 

 good trade conditions in the hardwood lumber 

 line this .season. There is a "rift within the 

 lute. " however, or, more properly speaking, two 

 of them. The first is that the car supply is very 

 inadequate, and the second is tliat his company's 

 mills are located in the "wet belt." the rains 

 greatly interfering with the company's manufac- 

 turing operations. Complaint comes in from 

 several districts in the South, particularly from 

 points in Arkansas. 



Theodore I'lummer. president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company, reports that business has in- 

 creased twenty per cent over that done by the 

 concern last season. The company has found 

 trade conditions unusually good during this sea- 

 son right here in SI. Louis, there being a heavy 

 demand for their specialties, cypress and pop- 

 lar. Mr. Plummer is sanguine concerning the 

 prospects of the trade for the fall, though he. 

 too. looks for a shortage on cars. 



A. Hader. whose operations in the hardwood 

 lumber business are confined to the local trade, 

 particularly the box factories, has returned from 

 a trip to I'aradise, Mo., where he owns a small 

 saw milling plant, and reports having made con- 

 tracts with two outside mills for 4.000,000 feet 

 of hardwood stock. Mr. liader recently filled 

 an order from one of the box factories for 

 LOOO.OOO feet. 



Nashville. 



E. V. Dodge of the P. G. Dodge Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago was here during the past week 

 looking after the opening of a small distributing 

 yard in North Nashville. 



Harold Greene, son of M. F. Greene of the 

 Davidson-Benedict Company, and who is in 

 charge of its Vine Hill yard, will be married on 

 .September 26 to Miss Marguerite Winsted, a 

 young lady who has a host of friends and is one 

 of the city's most talented musicians. 



.John P.askettc, general manager of the Prew- 

 itt-Spurr Manufacturing Company, was one of 

 the prominent business men of the city to at- 

 tend the exercises held at the Nashville Board 

 of Trade on September 1, when Nashville's an- 

 nexation bill went into effect. On that occasion 

 a solid mahogany key, two feet long, with silver 

 plates on either side bearing appropriate in- 

 scription, was presented by President Hume of 

 the Board of Trade to Mayor ilorris. The key 

 was made by the E. & N. Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Nashville's leading interior finish and 

 woodworking plant, and was the gift of llillai-y 

 Howse, a member of the big furniture firm of 

 Howse Bros, on Broadway. 



Nashville lumbermen are not much worried 

 over the annexation of new territory by the 

 city. Many big plants which had heretofore not 



paid city taxes will now have to come to time. 

 It has been held in Tennessee, however, that 

 lumber itself, being a product of the soil, cannot 

 be taxed before it is manufactured into some- 

 thing. This Is why the dealers are not appre- 

 hensive about greatly increased tax receipts. 

 The city now embraces seventeen square miles, 

 has a population of about 160,000 and practic- 

 ally every big lumber concern in the county is 

 now in the city limits. 



The Bradford Wholesale Furniture Company 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 .flOO.oiHi. The concern has a big salesroom on 

 Broadway, and two factories, one at Baxter, 

 Tenn.. and the other at Hie crossing of the 

 ' North Carolina & St. Louis railway tracks and 

 Twenty-second street. 



John B. Ransom and family have gone for a 

 trip to Denver and the West and returning will 

 go East for about a month. 



K. W. Haralson & Son's saw mill at Browns- 

 ville, Tenn., says a special to Nashville, was 

 destroyed by fire recently. The origin of the 

 fire is unknown. Loss $3,500, no insurance. 



Samuel A. Epperson, formerly a prominent 

 manufacturer, died recently at his home in 

 Theta. Tenn. He was known as the organizer 

 of the Nashville Spoke & Handle Factory and won 

 an enviable business reputation. He leaves five 

 children. 



The John B. Ransom Lumber Company is 

 sawing some hackberry timber now. and using it 

 in place of linn or basswood. Hackberry is plen- 

 tiful in the South, and formerly was used only 

 for stove wood. It is tough, but uot particularly 

 hard. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 

 recently sold to the Warioto Cotton Mills 40,000 

 feet of beech tlooring and 20.0110 to the hippo- 

 drome skating rink. Many of the mills are now 

 using beech in place of maple and the experi- 

 ment is proving most satisfactory. It takes a 

 pretty polish and of course is cheaper. 



John W. Love of Love, Boyd & Co. has quite 

 a party of Nashville visitors at Marklaud, Nova 

 Scotia, where is located his summer home. 



Minneapolis. 



The annual sale of state timber for Minne- 

 sota will be held at the state capitol on Oc- 

 tober 11 at 10 o'clock a. m. It will be con- 

 ducted by State Auditor Iverson, who will be 

 able to furnish lists of all tracts to be offered 

 lor sale after September IT. The selections are 

 now being made. 



E. Payson .Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber t'omp;iny has returned from his southern 

 trij) much improved in health. The force of 

 the I'aysou Smith Lumber Company is being ex- 

 lianded by the addition of new buyers, who wil' 

 jnovide a larger stock for the company's cus- 

 tomers. C. L. Schaab has entered the employ 

 (pf the company as a southern buyer and will 

 travel througli .southern hardwood districts pick- 

 ing up stocks. H. L. Le Duke of East Prairie. 

 Mo., has also .ioined the staff as a buyer and 

 will cover some river territory. W. J. Welsh, 

 an experienced hardwood man. will represent the 

 company in Wisconsin, buying north'Tn hard- 

 wood. (;eorge S. Agnew will also represent the 

 company in this city and on the road. 



The Industrial Lumber Company, which lo 

 cated here in the summer, has closed its offices. 

 The company had stocks of two yellow pine 

 mills in Louisiana to offer the trade, and also 

 h.'id hardwood connections. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark says they 

 are enjoying a fair trade right along from the 

 retail yards, but factory business is rather 

 quiet. There is demand for everything that is 

 scarce, but birch is ratlier quiet yet. He looks 

 for a first-class fall business. 



. I. P. Lennon of I. P. Lennon & Co., whole- 

 salers of hardwood and hemlock, says trade 

 in the manufacturing centers is rather slow 

 .just now. but there is a good prospect for fall 

 business and a scarcity in most lines of hard- 

 wood. 



W. II. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany says that nearly all its hardwood output 

 is sold on contract, so it is not rushing busi- 

 ness much. He expects to see a good business 

 this fall with rising values. 



cinnati Lumliermen's Club has been completed by 

 President Moffett and he has made a very wise 

 selection. 



The trade is awaiting with interest the out- 

 come of a suit filed at Martha, W. Va., last 

 month by Cole Blankenship & Co. of Cox's Land- 

 ing. O.. against C. Crane & Co. The plaintiffs 

 alleged that the Crane company had the Guyan 

 Klver obstructed with logs in such a manner 

 that they could not send timber to their mill. 

 Only .$300 is involved, but on the court's finding 

 will hinge the right of log men to have logs In 

 the river. 



Additions to the plant of the M. B. l^arrln 

 Lumber Company will be completed shortly and 

 will give the company a greater capacity. Their 

 present business is In excellent shape, according 

 to Jlr. Farrin. 



Improvements and additions are being made by 

 the Wiborg & Hanna Company, which will ma- 

 terially facilitate the concern's mammoth busi- 

 ness. Several new storage yards have lately been 

 acquired. 



The police on .\ug. 25 captured a man in the 

 offices of the Bosken Lumber Company in Cum- 

 minsville, who had a kit of safeblower's tools in 

 his possession and therefore his capture before 

 he did any damage was fortunate. The Bosken 

 company is experiencing great success with its 

 new veneer mill. 



The Evans-Kendig Company has begun business 

 on Reading road, taking over the business con- 

 ducted by Benjamin Evans. George R. Rendig 

 and Benjamin Evans have charge of the new 

 company. 



The J. M. Asher Company, formed several 

 weeks ago by J. M. Asher and others, has opened 

 officers and yards at Bank street and Western 

 avenue. It has excellent railroad facilities and 

 its business is In a healthy state. 



A. L. Stone of the Nicola. Stone & Meyers 

 Company of Cleveland. O., visited the local oflice 

 for several days recently. 



The W. H. Perry Lumber Company has been 

 organized in this city by W. J. Perry, William J. 

 Reilly, Walter E. Johns, H. K. Blum and Frank 

 A. McGee. 



Thomas J. Moffett. president of the Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Company, is back from a 

 fortnight's trip to New York. Mr. Moffett vis- 

 ted th.:' company's New York office. 



The II. L. Mickle Company. A. M. Lewin & Co. 

 and Harry Brown, lumber dealers in this city. 

 . have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition in 

 the Federal Court at Covington against the New- 

 port & Dayton Lumber Company of Dayton, Ky., 

 whose plant was destroyed two months ago by 

 flre. Sale of property which the defendant adver- 

 tised has been prevented by injunction. The as- 

 sets amount to about .$2,000 and liabilities 

 .$8,000. 



The Bacon Lumber Company has removed its 

 offices from Cincinnati to Bastroup. La., where 

 their holdings are located. L. A. Bacon is presi- 

 dent of the company. 



Cincinnati. 



The list of standing committees for the Cin- 



Memphis. 



The vigorous movement inaugurated by the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis against the new 

 minimum weight basis of the Missouri Pacific 

 system and the earnest cooperation of organi- 

 zations have resulted in a pronounced victory. 

 Everything was being arranged for a conference 

 between the committees of the lumber organiza- 

 tions and the oflicials of the Missouri Pacific 

 system, when advices were received from St. 

 Louis that tlu^ .Missouri Pacific had decided to 

 restore the old basis of minimum weights, ef- 

 fective October 1. The Cotton Belt route has 

 taken similar action, also the Rock Island. 



The St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 

 railway. Missouri I'acific and Rock Island sys- 

 tems have followed the lead of the Frisco sys- 

 tem in the issuance of amendments to their 

 tariffs calling for a charge of $5 per car for 

 the changing of destination of cars of lumber 

 while in transit, etc. This circular was pub- 

 lished in full in the H.^rdwood Record im- 

 mediately after it went into effect June 20. 

 There is still some protest against this circular, 

 but the trade appears to understand It better 

 than at first and it is probable that no official 

 action will be taken thereon, at least for the 

 present. 



