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erty of the Kanawah Lumber Company was sold 

 to Freeman for $62,000, and by him assigned to 

 the Elizabeth Land & Lumber Company of 

 North Carolina. An order was made by the 

 court directing that they show cause why they 

 do not comply with the terms on which the 

 property was sold. 



NORFOLK 



Lumbermen at pn.'Sont are giving much of 

 their time to the annual convention of the 

 Atlantic Waterways Association, which will be 

 held in Norfolk on November 17-22. President 

 Taft will visit the city at that time and un- 

 doubtedly will address the meeting. 



E. M. Terry, secretary of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, was in the city 

 recently making a thorough report as to the 

 hardwood situation. 



J. C. Walker, of the Dixie Lumber Company, 

 Columbus, O., passed through the city on No- 

 vember 4 on his way to Kocky Mount, N. C, 

 and several hardwood markets in this vicinity 

 buying hardwood lumber for the Kussell Wheel 

 & Foundry Company of Detroit. 



The National Wood Product Company of 

 Michigan has started a large plant at Lamberts 

 Point, a suburb of Norfolk, for the purpose of 

 making hardwood butter dishes, plates, etc. 



The Trexler Lumber Company of Allentown, 

 Pa., with mills in Virginia, North Carolina and 

 Tennessee, has opened oifices in the National 

 Bank of Commerce building, Norfolk. 



The most prominent railroads are placing 

 large orders for all kinds of standard cars in 

 order to relieve the embarrassing situation 

 which lumber people are finding by not being 

 able to secure cars for shipment of lumber in 

 time to fill orders. 



H. R. Lennard, formerly with the Norfolk 

 Hardwood Company, who recently went out of 

 business, has opened an otEce in Norfolk and is 

 doing a general hardwood business. 



The Boice Lumber Company, formerly of Ten- 

 nessee, has opened ofBces in our city with large 

 piers at Lamberts Point. It has a capital stock 

 of from $50,000 to $100,000 and deals especially 

 and largely in export of manufactured hardwoods 

 to Germany and England. It also embraces a 

 large mill of the Boice Pleasant Lumber Com- 

 pany in North Carolina and two or three other 

 plants. 



The John L. Roper Lumber Company of Nor- 

 folk controls the Norfolk & Southern railroad 

 and has just purchased the Kinston & Carolina 

 Railroad & Lumber Company and has large lum- 

 ber manufacturing interests at Kinston and 

 I'iue Hill, N. C. 



COLUMBUS 



The report of the city building inspector for 

 the month of October shows that the month was 

 one of the best of the season. During the month 

 174 permits were issued, having an estimated 

 valuation of $380,885. For the corresponding 

 month in 1908, 140 permits, valued at $305,555, 

 were issued. October has been surpassed by 

 only March and June of this year. In June the 

 permits numbered 184, with an estimated valua- 

 tion of $401,470. 



W. L. Whitacre reports strength in all grades 

 of hardwoods. He says that future prospects and 

 the general market conditions are very bright. 



D. W. Kerr, who had been with the Columbus 

 branch of the Crosby & Beckley Company for a 

 number of years, has associated himself with 

 W. L. Whitacre in an Important capacity. 



H. W. Putnam, president of the General Lum- 

 ber Company, reports a letter demand for hard- 

 woods from manufacturing establishments. He 

 says that where orders were for one or two cars 



a year ago, they are now for five, ten or fifteen 

 carloads. Purchasers are now desiring more 

 prompt shipment. 



F. A. Wilson, recently attached to the General 

 Luml>er Company, left recently for Pittsburg 

 and surrounding country to open new territory 

 for the company. 



C. H. Holden, representing the Pardee & Cur- 

 tin Lumber Company of Clarksburg, Ky., was a 

 visitor upon Columbus hardwood wholesalers re- 

 cently. He reports a much better demand for 

 the product of the company. 



Reports carefully compiled from Ohio, West 

 Virginia and western Pennsylvania show that 

 contracts awarded for the week ending October 

 27 to be $1,142,000, as compared with $1,163,000 

 in the corresponding week in 1908 and $890,000 

 in 1907. Since January 1 contracts awarded 

 amount to $81,271,000, as compared with $59,- 

 716,000 in 1008 and $64,021,000 in 1907. 



Announcements have been sent out that the 

 Chillicothe Lumber Company of Chillicothe, O., 

 has been changed to the H. S. Adams Lumber 

 Company. The announcement says there will be 

 no other changes except in the name. Mr. Adams 

 is secretary of the Union Association of Lumber 

 Dealers, which will meet in Columbus, January 

 18 and 19. 



John R. Gobey, head of J. R. Gobey & Co., 

 left November 1 for Chattanooga and New Or- 

 leans on a business trip. He will check up the 

 two-cent overcharge which has lieen declared 

 illegal and the railroads will have to refund a 

 large amount of money. Mr. Gobey is a large 

 shipper from the southern states. He reports a 

 scarcity in the supply of all varieties of hard- 

 woods and says that prices are becoming stitCer. 

 The only drawback now is the car shortage, 

 which is affecting the trade from Michigan to 

 Louisiana. 



15. L. Gilliam, secretary of sales for the W. M. 

 Ritter Lumber Company, left recently for a busi- 

 ness trip to the mills at Mortimer, N. C, and by 

 way of eastern cities back to Columbus. W. M. 

 Ritter was called to Washington, D. C, and 

 other eastern points on business. R. W. Horton, 

 assistant in the sales department, says that the 

 market is holding its own in every way. There 

 is a stiffening in prices in several grades of 

 hardwoods. While the higher grades have been 

 in good demand, a good movement of the lower 

 grades is also noted. The demand for the wide 

 sizes of poplar continues strong and premiums 

 are being demanded for that class of stock. 



A. C. Davis, president of the A. C. Lumber 

 Company, reports the market unchanged. Hard- 

 wood prices are holding stiff and there is a dis- 

 position to make advances in poplar and other 

 varieties. The better grades of red and white 

 oak are also in good demand. George B. John- 

 son, secretary, left recently for Baltimore, Wash- 

 ins^on, Newark, N. J., New York and Boston, to 

 seU a large amount of stocks accumulated during 

 a recent buying trip m the South. 



General manager C. G. McLaughlin of the Mc- 

 Laughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company reports a 

 better demand on the part of railroads and im- 

 plenient factories. He says there is also a good 

 demand for heavy construction timbers. An 

 improvement is noted in the yard trade and the 

 general condition of the market is good. 



F. Everson Powell of the Powell Lumber Com- 

 pany returned recently from a ten-weeks' trip 

 throughout the West. He reports a lack of 

 activity at the mills of the company. 



M. A. Hayward of M. A. Hayward & Sons left 

 recently for a business trip to Cleveland. 



Hardwood shippers in Columbus are taking an 

 active interest In the exposition to be held under 

 the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce in 

 June of next year. W. D. McKinney, commis- 

 sioner of the industrial bureau of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, has visited a number of cities and 

 gained ideas to he followed in the Columbus 

 show. The exposition is styled "Made in Co- 

 lumbus" and the idea is to exploit everything 

 manufactured in Columbus and vicinity. Lumber 



dealers who supply manufacturing establish- 

 ments with hardwood stocks are greatly inter- 

 ested. 



CLEVELAND 



One of the interesting events of the past week 

 was the sawing up of the largest mahogany log 

 in the world at the plant of the Martin Barriss 

 Company in this city. It was a problem for the 

 owners to determine just how to dispose of it. 

 It finally had two big ends sawed off. Then two 

 sections, six and eight feet long, were cut. 

 These were sawed again in half and sent to New 

 York for veneer purposes. The log was found to 

 be sound throughout and to contain some excel- 

 lent patterns of trotch mahogany. The veneers 

 which will be obtained will be at least thirty-six 

 inches wide and of excellent design. 



While going up a hill in a buggy near Cleveland 

 a few days ago A. C. Klumph. manager of the 

 Cuyahoga Lumber Company, had a narrow escape 

 as did also his wife and two children, who ac- 

 companied him. An automobile which was ahead 

 started to back down hill, frightening Mr. 

 Klumph's horse. It began to shy and threw the 

 occupants of the rig into the ditch. Mrs. 

 Klumph was dashed against a tree and had two 

 ribs broken, while Mr. Klumph and the children 

 were all badly bruised. Mrs. Klumph will re- 

 cover, but will be confined to her home for some 

 weeks. 



W. B. McAllister is executing the woodworking 

 contract on the new $4,000,000 Cuyahoga county 

 courthouse and his plant is very busy. There is 

 to be some elaborate wood carving done in the 

 building by the Louis Rohrheimer Company, 

 which has already started work on its contract. 

 The building will not be completed for a year. 



There still continues to come to Cleveland a 

 great stream of lumber from upper lake ports. 

 The carriers are all busy rushing stock to this 

 market in anticipation of an early closing of 

 navigation. Considerable hardwood is coming 

 .ilong with the other lumber, although Cleveland 

 secures a good proportion of its hardwood from 

 the South. It is expected that navigation will 

 close about December 5. 



E. M. Carleton of the Mills-Carleton Company 

 upon his return from his honeymoon a few days 

 ago was met by a delegation of fellow lumber- 

 men at the Lumber Club and presented with a 

 handsome mahogany table and two chairs. The 

 presentation was made by George Myers of the 

 Peters Mill & Lumber Company. 



The Builders' E.xchange, which includes in its 

 membership most of the lumbermen of the city, 

 will hold its annual meeting on November 10, 

 when reports for the year will be presented and 

 a board of directors elected. The exchange is 

 sixteen years old and in a highly satisfactory 

 condition, having a surplus of over $20,000, 

 which may be Invested in a new building soon. 



W. B. Martin of the Martin-Barriss Lumber 

 Company is back from a trip to Boston Jjy auto. 

 He looked into the hardwood situation in the 

 East and found it to be in a good condition. 

 Mr. Martin reports business at the local yards 

 of the company in good shape. 



Three cars of fine mahogany have been re- 

 ceived by the F. T. Peitch Company, a part of 

 the new stock of mahogany which is being car- 

 ried by that concern. There has been a per- 

 ceptible increase in the use of mahogany for 

 interior finish recently and the company decided 

 to meet the situation fairly by having an ex- 

 tensive stock on hand. 



The Advance Lumber Company reports a good 

 call for hardwoods, its southern mills being 

 worked to capacity. The furniture trade has 

 been supplied with some good orders recently 

 and other branches are also said to be requiring 

 good-sized orders of hardwoods. 



F. S. Graddon of the Pidgeon River Lumber 

 Company of Mount Sterling, N. C, was a recent 

 visitor in the city. 



An increase of forty-one percent in the num- 



