HARDWOOD RECORD 



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11 is pui-posi'd lo liquidate the affairs of the 

 Meridian Coffin Factory. 



Dispatches from Macon, Ga., state that the hig 

 plant of the Central City I'lanlng Mill & Lumlier 

 *'umpany, the largest in that section, with all 

 its machinery and a large amount of lumber, was 

 (It'stroyed hy tire recently, entailing a loss oi 

 .•^100,000. 



George Long, a Vicksburg real estate dealer, 

 recently sold for Campbell, Ureunan & Allen 

 2,100 acres of timber on the Big Black and 

 Yazoo rivers to Ed M. Maxwell and E. L. Powell 

 of Milwaukee. There is considerable hardwood 

 on the tract. 



Pritchctt & McDonald, a new hardwood firm, 

 liave opened offices in the Macheca building and 

 will handle hardwood lumber on commission. 

 The firm is composed of F. M. Pritchett, for 

 merly with McDonald Bros, of Helena, Ark., and 

 Charles McDonald, an experienced hardwood 

 man. 



The C. H. Wright Stave Company, Inc., which 

 olierates a big plant at Hollow Rock, Tenn., is 

 removing to New Albany, Miss., where it will 

 continue operations. New machinery will ]>■■ 

 purchased and the capacity of the plant will br 

 .me carload of staves per day. 



The Robert Nixon Lumber Company has been 

 organized in New Orleans with a capital of 

 .f;i.MK),000 to buy, sell and develop timber lands 

 iind to manufacture lumber of all kinds. 



Another new company here is the Welch- 

 Scbmide Company. Ltd., which has been organ- 

 ized with a capital of $25,000. It will deal in 

 timber lands and also manufacture staves and 

 lumber. Rudolph U. Schmide, Delos A. Welch 

 and Joseph R. Schmide are the principal stock- 

 holders. 



Other new corporations organized in this vi- 

 I inity recently are : 



Sunflower Delta Land Improvement Company, 

 ilomiciled at New Orleans, capital stock .foOO.OOO, 

 lo do a general timber and land business; incor- 

 porators, Albert DeMore, Edward E. Carriere 

 and Frank A. Daniels. 



Roberts Lumber Company, capitalized at $50,- 

 iiuO and domiciled at Allis, a new town on the 

 Santa Fe, near Leesville. The officers and di- 

 rectors are B. H. Lyons, president ; J. S. Rob- 

 .•rts. vice president ; C. T. Allis, seci-etary and 

 treasurer; G. R. Ferguson and Frank Miller. 



.lackson Lumber Company, domiciled at Bayou 

 Si'ie, Sabine parish. La. Capital .'jilO.OOO. to do 

 a general lumber manufa<'turing business. Offi- 

 cers, J. P. Towery, president ; W. M. .lackson, 

 vice president ; R. T. Crow, secretary. 



Lena Lumber Company, domiciled at Lena. 

 Uapides parish. La. ; to do a general lumber 

 business ; capital, $lt!.()00. Officers, John Bro- 

 gan, president; Thomas Cleveland, vice presi- 

 dent ; Dayld W. Love, secretary, and William 

 Iv Brogan. treasurer. 



Louisville. 



Railroad matters are pretty troublesome in 

 this section of the country. Besides the usual 

 annual battle for cars this year there is an 

 adiled difficulty that comes from the new rail- 

 way rate bill. 



.\niong the Point mills. Kirwan Bros, sawed 

 out their logs a few days ago and are now wait- 

 ing until they get more from up the Big Sandy 

 Itiver. which they hop'_- to do in a short time. 

 The Ohio Valley Sawmill Company and the 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company have good 

 ^<iipplics of logs yet, the latter Arm especially, 

 which has all it can possibly handle this winter. 

 .\11 the mills report a good demand for hard 

 wood lumber and have no trouble in finding a 

 market for everything cut. 



The Kentucky Hardwood Flo.u-ing Company 

 lias secured a contract to furnish oak flooring for 

 the Stewart Building, one of the big dowu-town 

 liuildings now in cour.se of erection. This fur- 

 nishes the new company a nice bit of work to 

 start its plant with, and it is now installing 

 machinery and dry kiln equipment so as to get 

 started as .soon as possible. 



.\lhert I£. Kampf has put a new mill (litwn in 

 the woods near Auburn, Ky., lo take the place ol' 

 the one he recently lost at that place by Are. 



II. M. McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer 

 -Mills says the veneer business is coming along 

 very nicely, "both for rotary cut stock and quar 

 ler .sawed. 



George N. Welch of the Welch Stave & Head 

 ing Company, Monterey, Tenn., who was a vis- 

 itor in town a few days ago, says his company 

 is not doing much with its sawmill right now. 

 giving most of its attention to getting out staves. 

 .Some lumber is being shipped out now on con- 

 tracts which were on hand, but the company is 

 not at present operating the mill. 



Z. Clark Thwing of the Grand Rapids i.Mich.) 

 Veneer (Company was in town recently. As well 

 as being big factors in the line face veneer busi- 

 ness, these people are promoting a now system 

 of kiln drying liardwoods. Tlie new Kentucky 

 Hardwood Flooring Company is putting in one 

 of tile <*ompany's kilns liere. Mr. Thwing ad- 

 \:inces some startling ideas on kiln drying lum- 

 liiM-. and says he is ready to stand back of them 

 Willi a guarantee that if (he kiln is not as 

 represented it will not have to be paid for. lie 

 is very enthusiastic over the new kiln, but that 

 does not keep him from doing a big business in 

 tine face veneers. He says the veneer trade is 

 in very good ^iliape and the outlook bright. 



Ashland. 



A charter has been issued to the Dana Lumber 

 Company, a big enterprise just established by 

 well-known Charleston, W. Va., men ; its chief 

 works to be located in the Maiden district. The 

 capital is .$880,000, all of which has been sub- 

 scribed and .flio.OOO paid. The incorporators 

 are all iiromincnt business men. 



The Tygarts River Lumber Company of Mill 

 Creek, W. Va.. has acquired the rights to 60,000 

 acres of valuable timber land near Huttonsville. 

 closing a deal with Col. Elihu Uutton and Wirt 

 c. Ward, both of Huttonsville. The amount 

 ptiid for the timber rights was $100,000. 



The Kentucky Land, Timber & Coal Company 

 was recently organized with headquarters in 

 this city. T. N. Fannin is president, J. 1'.. Wil 

 lioit, vice president and attorney. ;ind .1. W. 

 perry, secretary and manager. 



.M. A. llayward, vice president and manager 

 of the Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company, 

 lias resigned and removed his family from Ke- 

 nova to Columbus. 



W. E. Berger of the W. H. Dawkius Lumber 

 Company is on a business trip to New York. 



F. O. Clapp of Scituate, Mass., was among 

 recent callers to this market. 



Minneapolis. 



10. Payson Smith of the I'ayson Smith Lumber 

 Company is absent on a business trip in north- 

 ern Minnesota, looking after some stocks. George 

 S. .\gnew of the same company lias relin-ned 



from a vacation spent at Lincoln and Denver, 

 where ho visited relatives. A. S .Bliss of the 

 same company reports that they are rapidly 

 acquiring new stocks lo supply their growing 

 trade, and that their new buyer in Wisconsin has 

 bought some good slocks of pine for them, which 

 will be something of a new departure. They 

 liave also acquired a stock of butternut, for 

 which they expect to find a ready sale. They 

 have had an excellent run of fall business iu 

 hardwood, and find that while birch is inclined 

 to be weak there is not much unsold stock in 

 the country. 



C. E. Le Crone of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company of Memphis, Tenn., lias been in 

 .Minneapolis on business this week. 



L. C. Nolan of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., has been visiting his 

 former home iu St. I'aul for a few days and 

 looking after some business matters. He re- 

 ports that they are having a prosperous season 

 with their new property. 



Damage of .$30,000 was done to the plant of 

 the North St. Paul Table Company on Oct. 4 

 by fire, which destroyed the building used as a 

 warehouse tor the finished product and for oil- 

 ing and finishing. The factory building Itself 

 was saved, and the loss on the other section of 

 I lie works is covered by insurance. The plant is 

 iiwiied by John, Joseph and Frank Luger, who 

 have operated it for tlie past twenty years. 



.Minneapolis building permits tor September 

 showed a temportu-y falling oft'. They came to 

 an estimated value of .$711,,">25. Last year iu 

 September they were valued at .$797,225. The 

 total for the nine months is still half a million 

 larger than last year. St. Paul is also running 

 stronger than last year, and the September total 

 was one of the best of the year, S^S87.921. 

 against .$482,^89 last year. 



A. F. Hein of the John Ilein Lumber Company. 

 Tony, Wis., one of tile leading iiardwood pro- 

 ducers of this section. w:is a business visitor in 

 .Minneapolis this week. 



H. Booream of the liriu of llalsted .S; Booreani. 

 hardwood wholesalers, with offices at St. An- 

 thony Park, St. Paul, has gone to New York to 

 lake charge of an eastern ofliee they have opened 

 at 100 Broadway. The firm has developed such 

 a large market for its stocks in eastern centers 

 that it was deemed advLsable for one of the 

 partners to be near this trade jind give it close 

 tittention. Mr. Ilalsled remains in charge of the 

 main office here. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, returned this week from a visit 

 lo the retail Imiilier yarsd of the comitany in 

 Illinois. 



A. E. Beebee of .McMillan. Wis., secretary of 

 the Wisconsin Hardwood Llimbermcn's Associa- 

 tion, has been honore<l with a nomination to the 

 Wisconsin assembly. This action is a guarantee 

 of electi(ui. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Exclusive Market BeportexB.) 



Chicago. 



Hatilwood affairs locally are in vc'i-y good 

 shape. While trade is fair there is no rushing 

 demand. Prices are vei'y well maintained, al- 

 though there is some concession in price appar- 

 ent owing to manipulated grades. This is nota- 

 bly true iu oak, which wood is still in short 

 supply. A good many jobbers have secured 

 stocks enough at manufacturing centers to pro 

 vide for a normal fall trade, while others are 

 still scurrying for lumber. Poplar is in good 

 call, very few dealers having any of this wood 

 to offer. Northern hardwoods are in reasonable 

 demand, with maple as perhaps the slowest seller 

 of the list. 



Boston. 



I Miring the past two weeks there has bi'cii a 

 stiglit improvement in the market for hardwoods. 



This belter feeling has not been confined to any 

 one wood but is shared by all. A moderate ex- 

 port business is in progress, one of the large 

 exporters stating that the demand is not quite 

 as active as it was last month. .Several lots of 

 oak have been taken for export. The furniture 

 manufacturers are all busy and in the markei 

 for good sized blocks of hardwoods. In many 

 instances they ask for prompt shipment, showing 

 iliat their stocks have been allowed to run down. 

 .Manufai'ttirers of interior finish arc all well 

 filled up with orders and in .some cases are 

 obliged to work their plants at nights in order 

 to get orders off wlien promised. 



t^uartered oak remjiins in rather quiet de- 

 mand with prices steady, while the demand for 

 plain oak is active. The inquiry for brown ash 

 is of moderate proportions only. Maple flooring 

 is ill fair cb'tnand. Whitewood is very firmly 



