HARDWOOD RECORD 



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are T. J. Poitevant. H; E. Denton and C. E. 

 Xance. 



The charter of the H. D. Engelman Lumber 

 & Export Company of New Orleans "was filed 

 a few days ago. The oomi)any is capitalized 

 at $25,000 and its officers are H. D. Engelman. 

 president; H. H. Maloney, vice-president: H. 

 M. Engelman. secretary and treasurer. 



The Pioneer Cooperage Company of St. 

 Louis, Mo., is building a new town in this 

 state and will erect there one of the largest 

 cooperage factories in the South. It owns 

 in the vicinity of Pioneer, the new town, large 

 tracts of hardwood timber lands, and already 

 has a big mill in operation. This mill is now 

 cutting timber to be used in erecting the 

 houses, sheds, etc.. the former being intended 

 for the 500 or more men who will be given 

 employment. W. Palmer Clarkson and J. D. 

 Brown, president and vice-president of the 

 company respectively, recently visited Pioneer 

 and inspected the work going on. 



Louisville. 



The middle of June was a busy time tor 

 Louisville lumbermen with the Home Coming 

 Week, and a gathering of Kentucky manufac- 

 turers of hardwood lumber. The Home Com- 

 ing prevented the attendance at the district 

 gathering of manufacturers from being as 

 large as it would have been had not people 

 throughout the state been busy with Home 

 Comers. 



Among those who attended the meeting 

 were K. H. McCracken and W. E. De Laney 

 of the Kentucky Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati. Mr. McCracken says the poplar busi- 

 ness with them is in good shape and there is 

 nothing to woiTy about, except to get logs 

 to make enough lumber to supply the demand. 



Anton Brucken. Evansville. Ind.. was at 

 the meeting accompanied by his son. A. W. 

 Brucken. In addition to hardwood lumber 

 he makes some vehicle Woodstock, including 

 rims and spokes. Trade jn this line has been 

 fairly good, the main trouble being to get 

 timber. He has a tract of small hickory he 

 expects to W'Ork up into buggy spokes this 

 fall. 



The United States Timber Company. Cin- 

 cinnati, was represented by George R. Berry 

 and A. A. Andridge. secretary and president 

 of the ■ company respectively. This company 

 has been doing mostly domestic trade, but of 

 late has been developing the export trade, 

 which Is now taking on a rather encouraging 

 tone that gives promise of good business in 

 the future. 



J. C. Rash of the Broadhead-Garrett Com- 

 pany. Clay City. Ky.. says his company has 

 been giving most of its attention this year to 

 sawing Kentucky white pine and not getting 

 out much oak except in ties and beer staves. 



C. M. Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber 

 Company. Clay City, Ky., says business is 

 brisk from the manufacturers' standpoint up 

 his way. the scarcity and high price of timber 

 the only troublesome features. 



Fred Bruening. representing Henry Bruen- 

 ing, Bremen, Germany, was a recent Louis- 

 ville visitor. In the h.ardwood line Mr. Bruen- 

 ing's main interest while here seemed to be 

 hickory stock. He buys large quantities of 

 hickory handles front the I. F. Force Handle 

 Company. New Albany. Ind.. and is also buy- 

 ing some pitch pine in the South. 



Sam W. Callow'ay, who m.akes a specialty 

 of railway material, says the tie business is. 

 excellent, but he needs more than he can get 

 and sometimes has to turn down a good order 

 for lack of material with which to fill it. 



Albert R. Kampf reports that the car com- 

 panies are manifesting a willingness to con- 

 tract for oak car material for future delivery 

 at current prices. 



land this week: From Chicago. Ed. Miller, 

 represeniirg Harvey S. Hayden: J. C. Cowen 

 of Schultz Bros. & Cowen. and Lewis Doster. 

 secretary of the Hardwood Miinufactui*ers' As- 

 sociation. From Louisville, J. L. Ballard of 

 the Ohio River Saw Mill Company. 



Jas. A. Walkinshaw of Huntington. W, Va,, 

 has established a large lumber camp near 

 Pikeville, Ky. 



The June rise has not yet arrived in the 

 smaller streams, and lumbermen are worried. 

 They usually get out a lot of logs on the 

 June rise and this season has been a disap- 

 pointment so far. 



The Tnited States Timber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati has purchased 2.000.000 feet of extra 

 fine timber on the C. & O. Railroad, in the 

 Big Sandy Valley, 



The Clearfield Lumber Company of Clear- 

 Held. Va.. purchased the Morehead & West 

 Liberty Railroad recently, and has begun 

 work on an extension which will go through 

 about fifteen miles of its timber and coal 

 lands. This is the road which was com- 

 menced over a year ago by Philadelphia par- 

 ties. Three miles were graded out of More- 

 head and the track laid. At this point the 

 work ceased, and nothing more was lieard of 

 it. until within the past two weeks. The 

 Clearfield company has opened an offlce at 

 Morehead. The road is to be standard gauge, 

 and is to be used to haul the company's 

 logs and lumber to the plant ,it Morehead. It 

 will be called the Morehead & North Fork 

 Railroad. 



The Norwood Lumber Company of Kimball. 

 McDowell County, W. Va., with chief works 

 in Browns Creek district. McDowell County. 

 West Virginia, has been incorporated to buy, 

 .sell and deal in timber and manufacture the 

 same; capital stock $100,000. of which a con- 

 siderable amount has been subscribed and 

 paid. The incorporators are Louis Carr of 

 Giatto. W. Va. ; Joseph Keys and Jas. E. 

 Walker of Ashland. Ky., and Warren A, Wil- 

 son and I. J, Rhoades of Welch. W. Va. 



The Meadow River Lumber Company of 

 Evenwood. 'W. Va.. has been established with 

 operations in the Meadow Bluff district, 

 Greenbriar County, and elsewhere in the state, 

 to cut. handle, manufacture, finish, buy. sell 

 and deal in logs and all kinds of lumber and 

 timber and to buy, lease, sell and let mineral 

 rights and to build railroads, tramways, etc. 

 Capital stock $600,000, of which amount $395,- 

 500 has been subscribed, and $323,400 paid. 

 The incorporators are T. W. W. Raine. Even- 

 wood, W. Va.; John Raine. Granville, O. : B. 



E. Carrier, Kane, Pa.; H. W, Raine and L, R. 



F. Pi-eysz of Evenwood, 'W. Va. 



The McKean Lumber Company of Gill. Lin- 

 coln County, Ga.. has been gi'anted a charter 

 to engage in the manufacture of lumber; au- 

 thorized capital $20,000. of which $10,000 has 

 been subscribed and $6,000 paid in. The in- 

 corporators are: J. C. Steele. Henrietta B. 

 Steele, C, M, Leete of Farmers Valley. Pa.; 

 E. C. Tanner of Bradford, Pa., and E. R. 

 Berr.v of Ridgeway, Pa. 



R. H. Vansant of Vansant, Kitchen & Co. 

 spent the past week at Asheville, N. C, look- 

 ing after business. 



W. R. Vansant is in the South, looking over 

 the timber prospects. 



The first fruits of the government improve- 

 ment of the Big Sandy River are being reaped 

 by lumbermeti. who have been taking ad- 

 vantage of the slack water to bring out the 

 hundreds of rafts that were left in the Big 

 Sandy River by the last tide. The new locks 

 are working beautifully, and a recent trial 

 showed IS feet of water above the dam, giving 

 permanent boating stage as far as Georgia's 

 Creek, 40 miles. In one day there were 25 

 large rafts locked through, and quite a num- 

 ber during the week following, 



L. E. Hunter, manager of the Keyes Plan- 

 ing Mill. Graham. Va., owned by the Keyes- 

 Fannin Lumber Company of this city, was 

 quietly manied on Tuesday, June 12, to Miss 

 Stella Spencer, a prominent young society 

 woman of Ironton. O. The young couple 

 will reside at Graiiam. after an eastern trip 

 of two or three W'eeks. 



Minneapolis. 



Reports from the Wisconsin and Minnesota 

 mills show that the cut of northern oak is 

 going to be much lighter this year than last. 

 There is hardly any old stock left, and the 

 new cut, which will not be on the market for 

 a month or more, is not going to figure as 

 much in the trade as it has heretofore. Deal- 

 ers are making connections -with southern 

 mills to supply a very large share of their 

 trade with oak. 



The building movement in the twin cities 

 continues very active. Minneapolis building 

 is not quite as strong as last season, which 

 was phenomenal, and could hardly be equaled 

 again. St. Paul, however, is making a steady 

 increase. Minneapolis permits for May were 

 576 in number, with an estimated total cost 

 of $846,560. For the same month last year 

 there were 601 permits, total cost $1,134,780, 

 St, Paul permits were $971,250 in value, a gain 

 of 49 per cent over last year. The building is 

 largely of an expensive character, calling for 

 a great deal of hardwood flooring and finish. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company says that while it is the rule that 

 June is a poor month for hardwood sales, his 

 company is doing a nice business right along; 

 not heaty. but very good for the season. The 

 factories are all running with an excellent line 

 of orders, and are buying in small lots, but 

 will be actively in the market by another 

 month or six weeks. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith 

 Lumber Company is making a business trip 

 in Missouri, where he has connections with 

 several good hardwood mills. 



C, F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark reports 

 that they have already contracted for all the 

 rock elm at their dispo.sal, to be shipped from 

 time to time. The implement trade is asking 

 for rock elm, and there has been a rush to 

 get adequate supplies for this year's opera- 

 tions. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABD'WOOB BECOBD Exclusive Market Beporters.) 



Ashland, Ky. 



The following lumbermen have visited Ash- 



Chicago. 

 There is not very much action in the Chi- 

 cago market at the present time. Trade can 

 be said to be only fair. The period of the 

 semi-annual furniture sales, which will be in- 

 dicative of the fall lumber requirements of the 

 furniture manufacturing trade, does not com- 

 mence until next week, and furniture manu- 

 facturei-s will not buy any lumber until they 

 can approximately tell what their require- 

 ments are going to be for the next six months. 

 It is safe to assume that there will not be 



much buying in this line for a month. The 

 interior finish people are buying with con- 

 siderable freedom, and a large quantit.v of 

 coarse lumber is still being bought by the box 

 and crating manufacturers. The demand for 

 plain-sawed oak still continues strong, but 

 offerings of (luartered white and red. and 

 plain-sawed red are quite plentiful- Another 

 item of stock that is .'ipparently in veiy short 

 suppl.v and is commanding good figures, is 

 poplar in all gn-ades. Local jobbers anticipate 

 a fair consuming trade, but think there will 



