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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ber and value of buildings erected during the first 

 ten months of this year, as compared with 1908, 

 is noted by City Building Inspector Lougee. The 

 total for the first ten months of this year 

 amounted to .$11,411,139, which Is $3,500,000 

 more than a similar period last year. 



CINCINNATI 



The Business Men's Club of Cincinnati yielded 

 to the request of the lumber fraternity that they 

 be recognized in the official board of directors of 

 the Business Mens Club and have nominated 

 Chester F. Korn, president of the Farrin-Korn 

 Lumber .Company as one of the four directors 

 to be elected. The Cincinnati lumbermen, many 

 of whom are members of the Business Men's 

 Club, are determined to elect Mr. Korn, although 

 with his usual modesty he prefers to remain a 

 private in the ranks. 



It has been definitely ascertained that the 

 New Independent Tie & Shingle Company of this 

 city is a new name under which Ben Ryan is 

 starting business again. Mr. Ryan has made 

 several disastrous failures as far as his creditors 

 are concerned in the past few years, so that 

 mills should be very careful to get their money 

 before filling any orders for this concern. 



At a recent meeting of the Queen City Furni- 

 ture Club it was announced that the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 would hold their convention in Cincinnati at 

 the Sinton hotel on January 18-20, 1910, and 

 that an invitation bad been extended to 10,000 

 consumers of lumber to attend. As the furni- 

 ture manufacturers are the largest consumers of 

 hardwoods, it was decided to attend the con- 

 vention as a body. President Onken named 

 W. J. Sextro, Henry Francke and E. C. Feuss 

 as the committee to arrange the regular ticket 

 to be voted on at the annual election to be held 

 the first Wednesday in December. 



The Swan-Day Lumber Company of Clay City, 

 Ky., is making arrangements to open up an 

 office in Cincinnati. 



Representatives were present at Cincinnati 

 on October 19 at the meeting called by the as- 

 sociated organizations of Cincinnati. A.t this 

 meeting the fallacy of the McCain statement on 

 railroad matters was clearly proven and the 

 convention adopted resolutions protesting against 

 the railroads advancing freight rates and dis- 

 turbing the general business of the country by 

 any action along this line. It was clearly shown 

 that the railroad companies have dropped this 

 matter for the present and that there is now no 

 likelihood of rate conditions being altered. This 

 has been quite a lilg thing for the business in- 

 terests of the country and E. E. 'Williamson, 

 commissioner .if the Receivers' and Shippers' 

 Association of Cincinnati, is largely responsible 

 lor the fact thai the railroads have fiually given 

 up this idea. 



Hugh McLean of Buffalo, N. Y.. spent a few 

 hours in the city recently. 



A number of Cincinnati capitalists have or- 

 ganized a halt million dollar company to develop 

 a tract of 12,000 acres of timber land in Colom- 

 bia. South America. The concessions were se- 

 cured through the consul-general of Colombia, 

 who was also heavily interested in the projects. 

 The timber is mostly hardwood, and sawmills 

 to cut it will l)e installed at once. The company 

 will be known as the Colombia Trading & Min- 

 ing Company and w-ill have a main oflice in 

 New York City. Alfred H. Juettner is at its 

 head. 



E. E. Goodlander of the Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company and C, It. Ransom of the 

 Tenn., were recent very welcome visitors in Cin- 

 cinnati. 



It was reported in business circles of the Mill- 

 creek valley that the Ritter B^olding Door Com- 

 pany of Covington had closed a deal with the 

 Ross estate for a factory site at St. Bernard. 

 Steps have been taken toward the erection of a 



plant just south of the Harkness & Corning 

 Company's new bome. The new improvement 

 is to be ready for occupancy in several weeks. 



The J. Dornette & Brother Company, desk 

 manufacturers, has made a new departure, and 

 is adding a line of sectional bookcases to that 

 of its desk trade. 



The secretary of the Rivers and Harbors Con- 

 gl'ess. Captain J. F. Ellison, has issued invita- 

 tions to the members of the Ohio Valley Im- 

 provement Association to attend the convention 

 to be field in Washington on December 8-10, 

 1900. 



The Galloway-Pease Company, with its main 

 offices in the Second National bank at Cincin- 

 nati, announces that it has purchased the output 

 of white and red oak manufactured by the 

 Quercus Lumber Company of I'oplar Bluff, Mo. 

 It is understood that the stockholders of the 

 Cialloway-I'ease Company have purchased a sub- 

 stantial interest in the capital of the Quercus 

 Lumber Company, which will enable the Gallo- 

 way-Pease Company to secure large and sufficient 

 quantities of red and white oak for years to 

 come. Quietly this company is working its way 

 to the front since its inception, seven years ago, 

 in Detroit. Mich. 



The St. James Lumber Company of Detroit, 

 Mich,, has opened an office in the Union Trust 

 liuilding, with Omar Farrell and Arthur S. Den- 

 nis in charge. The new departure is called the 

 "hardwood department," and will carry at all 

 times a complete line of southern hardwoods. 



The Yale Lumber Company has opened offices 

 at 1008 First National bank. The company 

 quietly secured quarters and moved in on October 

 1. It operates mills at Clay City, Ky., and 

 has hardwood interests at various other points, 

 so that it is in good position to give its cus- 

 tomers satisfactory service. 



W. E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany left for a short stay at the Williamsburg. 

 Ky.. plant of the company. 



Chester F. Korn and Colonel Stanberry, both 

 prominent lumbermen, are candidates for mem- 

 ber of the board of directors of the Business 

 Men's Club. 



John J. Mertz, manager of the Greenville 

 (Ohio) Lumber Company, was here looking after 

 stock for future business. 



Col. S. B. Stanberry of the Chicago Coal & 

 Lumber Company has removed his offices from 

 the Mercantile Library building to the new build- 

 ing of tbe Provident Savings Bank &. Trust 

 Company at Seventh and Vine streets. 



Thomas Orr of the Cincinnati Poplar Com- 

 pany is mourning tbe death of bis grandmother, 

 Mrs. Dr. Thomas J. Orr. at tbe rijje old age of 

 eighty-nine. Mrs. Orr was one of tbe pioneers 

 of this city and died from the results of a fall 

 at her home. 



Among the lumbermen who have visited in 

 Cincinnati during the past fortnight was D. O. 

 McFarlan, head of the McFarlan Lumber Com- 

 pany of Mansfield, Ohio, and was credited to the 

 buying visitors. 



T. J. White, the western representative of 

 Bennett & Witte, stopped over while on a sad 

 mission to bis former home in Ripley, Ohio, 

 where he went to attend tbe funeral of his sis- 

 ter. Mr. White makes his headquarters at Mo- 

 line, 111. 



H. J. I'lumsteel. representing the Whiting 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia, Pa., was here 

 talking to tbe lumber trade, with a view to the 

 accumulation of hardwood stock for future sales 

 to the builders and manufacturers of the great 

 Quaker vill.age. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton, Ohio, was in the 

 city, wbere tiie E. L. Edwards Lumber Company 

 is now operating a new and extensive hardwood 

 yard at the foot of Eighth street, on the line of 

 the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad. 



Walter McCabe of the McCabe Lumber Com- 

 pany of Newport, Tenn., dropped in tbe city to 

 look over conditions and Incidentally to dispose 

 of a portion of the product of his plant. 



B. F. Dulweber, who operates an extensive 

 hardwood business in the west end, where he 

 has two large yards along the line of the South- 

 ern railroad, returned last week from a visit to 

 the mill owned by the John Dulweber & Co. 

 firm at Irvine, Ky. Mr. Dulweber is one of the 

 progressive optimists of the hardwood trade and 

 always doing well. If there is any lumber to be 

 sold you can always rely upon Ben Dulweber to 

 be there with the goods. 



C. L. Robinson of the St. Louis branch of the 

 Cbicago Coal & I.,umber Company was in Cin- 

 cinnati during the past fortnight and was well 

 taken care of by Colonel Stansberry, the Cin- 

 cinnati representative of that concern. 



The St. James Cedar Company has added its 

 name to the roster of lumber companies with 

 offices in Cincinnati. It will be found on tbe 

 fourteenth floor of the Union Trust building, 

 with A. S. Dennis in charge. The company's 

 headquarters are at Detroit, Mich. 



Edgar Walker, formerly with the Francke 

 Lumber Company, is now taking care of the 

 books of the K. & P. Lumber Company at St. 

 Bernard, Ohio. 



Harry Wiborg of the Wiborg ,& Ilanna Com- 

 pany, who is now the hard-working hustler for 

 the road business for that company, was home 

 for three days, covering Sunday, and is out 

 again. Mr. Wiborg expressed himself as well 

 pleased with the outlook, and said that the 

 plant at North Fairmount was very busy, even 

 going into overtime to fill out orders. Under 

 the capable management of W. B. Hay, as re- 

 ceiver, the future looks rosy for the satisfac- 

 tory settlement of the affairs of the company, 

 which has been operated by the receivers for 

 two years past. 



Alex. Schmidt, manager of the plant of the 

 Francke Lumber Company of Berlin, Germany, 

 which is located at St. Bernard, Ohio, has closed 

 down the mill, owing to tbe very light demand 

 for the export trade. The plant has a fine 

 stock of walnut, oak, ash and cherry manufac- 

 tured and ready for shipment. 



D. H. Moul, secretary and treasurer of tbe 

 Ohio River Lumber Company at Ironton, Ohio, 

 was a welcome visitor to the local trade during 

 the past fortnight. 



Sam E. Barr, sales manager of the Lilley 

 Lumber Company of No. 1 Madison avenue. New 

 York City, was in the city last week on a buying 

 trip. After completing his business he left for 

 Louisville, Ky. He reports improvement in the 

 hardwood conditions in the East and an espe- 

 cially strong demand for good oak and chestnut. 



W. W. Wheldon, manager of the Dimension 

 Lumber Company of Foley, W. Va., was here 

 recently, disposing of dimension stock. 



C. R. Hall, who is evidently trying to become 

 tbe chestnut king of the country, says that he 

 bandies more chestnut than any lumber concern 

 in the country and will buy all the one's and 

 two's that come his way. 



Herbert B. Nields, chief salesman of the Little 

 River Lumber Company at Townsend, Tenn., 

 was here disposing of hardwoods to tbe local 

 trade. 



TOLEDO 



The season is proving one of the best ever 

 known here in the line of hardwood building 

 materials. Not only are building operations 

 heavy, but the general class of residences have 

 been of better quality, utilizing a large quantity 

 of hardwood finish and flooring. Tbe call for 

 hardwoods for this purpose is still holding up 

 total operations for October, amounting to 

 $231,193, as against $199,485 last year. The 

 value of new buildings erected during the first 

 ten months of the year aggregated $2,823,415, 

 compared with $1,703,548 in 1908. 



A strenuous protest has gone up in this sec- 

 tion against tbe proposed increase of freight 



