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pany in its new location is prospering very well 

 and is receiving a large amount of business. 



W. A. Cool of W. A. Cool & Son, Cleveland, 

 O., recently ' spent a few days in the city and 

 vicinity. 



The W. G. Ward Lumber Company, Ironton, 

 O., is doing a very good business and advises 

 a great increase the past thirty days in both 

 the retail and wholesale departments. This com- 

 pany operates, in addition to its wholesale busi- 

 ness, a planing mill and retail yard and has on 

 hand a large number of building contracts. 



The Wright-Saulsberry Lumber Company has 

 sawed out its present supply of timber and will 

 not be likely to operate any more this season. 

 It has run its mill steadily since the first of 

 the year, which is a very good record for an 

 Ohio river mill, especially during the past two 

 or three years, on account of the very low stage 

 of water. The company is operating its timber 

 tracts very heavily and expects to get out more 

 lumber next year than in 1909. It has on hand 

 a large amount of stock which will be ready for 

 the market soon. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company, Clearfield, 

 Ky.. reports business very satisfactory in both 

 oak timbers and lumber. The company is oper- 

 ating its mill day and night and will probably 

 continue for several months. 



B. E. Darling of Blakeslee, Perriu & Darling, 

 Buffalo, N. Y., was here recently, talking lumber 

 with our several manufacturers. Mr. Darling 

 is very optimistic regarding the future of the 

 lumber dealer. He advises everything very sat- 

 isfactory with the new company which was re- 

 cently organized, made up of experienced lum- 

 bermen. Mr. Darling was formerly in the sales 

 department of Taylor & Crate, Buffalo. 



H. E. Kester of the Southern Hardwood Com- 

 pany will spend some time on a business trip 

 through Alabama and Mississippi in the interests 

 of the company. 



ST. LOUIS 



According to the St. Louis hardwood oper- 

 ators, there is a great deal of trouble in secur- 

 ing cars in which to ship lumber from their 

 mills. This is causing many hardwood mills to 

 curtail their cut. Stocks are reported as being 

 badly broken. 



The lumber inspected and measured by the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis during Sep- 

 tember was as follows, as reported by Secretary 

 A. H. Bush : 



Feet. 



Plain oak 243,867 



Quartered oak ■ 2.39,405 



Poplar 267,739 



Cottonwood 29,362 



Ash 39,832 



Gum 61,794 



Chestnut 10.662 



Cypress 73,050 



Elm 11,691 



Cedar 5.134 



Maple .: 24,510 



Yellow pine 21.367 



Hickory 5,565 



Sycamore . . . , 60 



Walnut 870 



Linn 730 



Total 1,035,638 



The committee appointed at a recent meeting 

 of the Lumbermen's Club of St. Lf)uis to tind 

 out where the compiler of a lumber price list 

 published in Washington, D. C, obtained his in- 

 formation, is about ready to report and it is 

 very likely that it will do so at the next meet- 

 ing of the club. The members of the committee 

 are : Thomas C. Whitmarsh, general manager of 

 the W. T. Ferguson Lumber Company, chair- 

 man : Henry Boeckeler of the Boeckeler Lumber 

 Company and R. F. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve 

 Lumber Company. The cause for the investiga- 

 tion was the fact that the Forestry Bureau has 

 been giving the compiler of the price list in- 

 formation obtained by the bureau from the lum- 

 bermen themselves given to the bureau in con- 

 fidence. 



Julius Seidel of the Julius Seidel Lumber Com- 

 pany was one of seven to subscribe to a halt 

 million dollar fund to be raised by St. Louis 

 business men to induce manufacturers to locate 

 in St. Louis. The subscription was given at a 

 ■■Get Together" banquet given the last day of 

 centennial week. 



It is understood that the Garetson-Greason 

 Lumber Company of this city will, on November 

 1, establish a Chicago office and that the office 

 will be in charge of W. W. Dings, one of the 

 company. This will necessitate Mr. Dings' mov- 

 ing to Chicago to live and it is greatly regretted 

 by bis many St. Louis friends. 



The new band mill of the Alf Bennett Lum- 

 ber Company, located at Powe, Mo., is now run- 

 ning in nice shape and getting out a line lot 

 of oak. It is putting all the boxed hearts in 

 car material. This company has just closed a 

 nice big contract for 500,000 feet of gum. The 

 hardwood department of the company is growing 

 very rapidly and the business in this line is 

 getting larger. Mr. Page has been down at the 

 Powe mill off and on for the past three weeks, 

 ever since the mill began operations. He wanted 

 to see that everything was working right. 



BIRMINGHAM 



The Alabama hardwood market shows a condi- 

 tion on the whole satisfactory to manufacturers. 

 Prices are not quite as firm as a few weeks ago, 

 and demand is by no means as brisk, but best 

 posted lumbermen regard this situation as per- 

 fectly normal, following the recent advance, and 

 declare that there is no reason for pessimism. 

 They look forward to a decided improvement 

 after the first of the year. Poplar seems most in 

 demand, although many inquiries are being re- 

 ceived for oak. Other lines are more or less 

 inactive in this section. The railroads furnish 

 the hulk of business, although there is a healthy 

 inquiry in manufacturing lines. 



Car shortage continues to be the topic of 

 great interest. With the cotton crop well undei 

 way, there is little chance for an improvement 

 in the situation. On the other hand, the con- 

 gestion is more likely to grow worse as the 

 crop comes in heavier and as general business 

 conditions continue to improve. Complaints on 

 this score are to be heard from all over Alabama, 

 showing the situation, for a long time trouble- 

 some, is becoming serious. Production of hard- 

 wood, however, is off, but the output of yellow 

 pine is nearer normal than at any time for two 

 years. 



The Jefferson County Building Material Men's 

 Exchange, composed of building material men 

 of this district, has moved into its new quar- 

 ters in the Chamber of Commerce building, 

 where it occupies a handsome suite on the second 

 floor. The exchange is growing rapidly in num- 

 bers and influence. A smoker christened the new 

 quarters of the association and a concatenation 

 of Hoo-Hoo is next. 



J. J. Elliott of the firm of Oden-EUiott. the 

 largest hardwood dealers in Birmingham, has 

 bought a home on the Highlands and will move 

 his family here from Childersburg, Ala. The 

 company is now occupying a suite of four offices 

 on the ninth floor of the First National Bank 

 building, the quarters being much more commo- 

 dious than the rooms formerly occupied in the 

 same building. 



!\EW ORLEANS 



It is announced from Alexandria. La., that 

 A. Wyckoff & Son Company of Elmira, N. M., 

 will build a wood-pipe factory at that place. 



Considerable interest attaches to the announce- 

 ment that the Chickasaw Cooperage Company of 

 Gretna, opposite New Orleans, has let the con- 

 tract for extensive improvements to its factory. 

 It will erect a new plant on a site measuring 



150x198 feet. C. G. Evans is the manager of 

 the concern. 



A $50,000 company known as the Lena Im- 

 provement Company has been organized at Alex- 

 andria and will shortly establish a big mill at 

 Lena. It controls large holdings in Rapides and 

 Natchitoches parishes. 



The Monroe Lumber Company, one of the larg- 

 est lumber concerns in Louisiana, has organized 

 under the laws of Mississippi and will now 

 operate in that state. The concern in capital- 

 ized at .$100,000 and controls extensive holdings 

 in Louisiana. 



It is staled from Meridian, Miss., that the 

 Wymond Stave Company has closed negotiations 

 for the purchase of the Meridian Box Company's 

 plant at Meridian. The box factory had been idle 

 for some months, but will be operated by the 

 purchasers. The transaction involved $50,000. 



The Georgetown Manufacturing Company at 

 Georgetown. Miss., will erect a large plant to 

 manufacture spokes, shingles and boxes. The 

 capacity will be two cars daily. H. T. Ross is 

 ihe manager. 



The Fetterman Bowl & Column Company has 

 been incorporated at Itta Bena. Miss., with $25,- 

 000 capital to manufacture wooden boxes and 

 colonial columns. 



A new organization, the Queen City Wagon & 

 Manufacturing Company, has been launched at 

 Meridian, Miss., with an authorized capital of 

 $10,000. W. G. Jackson of Forest, Miss., and 

 E. F. Padget of Meridian are the incorporators. 



R. S. Iluddleston of the HuddlestonMarsh 

 Lumbrr Company of Chicago is here on a busi- 

 ness trip. 



Announcement of the plans of the Coast Manu- 

 facturing Company, recently organized here with 

 an authorized capital of $.50,000, shows that this 

 company expects to engage extensively in the 

 export business. The new concern will take over 

 a part of the plant of the Louisiana Export. 

 Box & Lumber Company, which includes a pri- 

 vate wharf erected some months ago. Shipments 

 for export handled by the new company will be 

 loaded at this wharf at Algiers, across the river 

 from New Orleans. F. Salmon, N. W. Murphy, 

 J. B. Carnal and others are the incorporators of 

 the company. 



Not a little interest attaches to the joint 

 conference of southern governors and conserva- 

 tion commissioners which will be held in New 

 r)rleans. November 1 and 2. at which time the 

 I.akes-to-tbe-Gulf Deep Waterway Association 

 vill be in session here. The conference has been 

 called by Governor Sanders at the suggestion of 

 Gifford Pinchot, chairman of the Joint Conserva- 

 tion Commissions. Mr. Pinchot and a large 

 number of conservation commissioners from the 

 various southern states will be present. Presi- 

 dent Taft and a number of other distinguished 

 speakers will address the conference. The State 

 Forestry Association of Louisiana will meet here 

 .Tt the same time. 



MILWAUKEE 



With a capital stock of $10,000 the W. E. 

 Allen Company has been incorporated at Mil- 

 waukee by W. E. Allen, C. E. Derkin and E. M. 

 McVicker to carry on a general wholesale and 

 commission lumber business. W. E. Allen recent- 

 ly withdrew from partnership with George EUer, 

 retained the former company's name and opened 

 new ofHces at 1202 Majestic building. Mr. EUer 

 has incorporated the George EUer Lumber Com- 

 pany and has opened offices at 1407 Majestic 

 building. 



T. H. Nichols and son, C. H. Nichols, of 

 Moquah have erected a portable sawmill at 

 Kakagon, Wis., where they will saw "deadheads." 

 Jlore than half a million feet of logs will be 

 sawed this fall. 



The Stevens Lumber Company of Rbinelander, 

 Wis., has sold to the Rhinelander Paper Company 

 its entire lot of hemlock timber, which will be 



