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rates. The circulation of a pamplilet has led to 

 the conclusion that a general raise of at least 

 ten per cent is contemplated. Hardwood dealers 

 here feel that the rates from southern territory 

 are already exorbitant and any attempt to raise 

 them will meet with decided opposition. A com- 

 mittee representing shipping interests was last 

 week appointed at a meeting held in Cincinnati, 

 to ask a hearing before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. 



Announcement is made that the Lake Shore 

 Electric has completed the removal of its ear 

 repair shops from I^'remont to Sandusky. Ohio. 

 It is said the company will eventually manu- 

 tacture its own cars at these shops, instead of 

 having them built by car companies. 



Miss Daisy Culp, daughter of a millionaire 

 furniture manufacturer of Van Wert, Ohio, and 

 Ross L. lirown, a mechanic, were recently mar- 

 ried in I'asadena, Cal. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Spencer Table Company of Marion has 

 Increased its capital stock from $50,000 to 

 $100,000. 



C. H. Comstock, vice-president and general 

 manager of the Interior Hardwood Company, 

 lias returned from an extensive business trip in 

 the Southwest. 



N. Frank of the Southern Lumber Manufactur- 

 ing Company of Nashville, Tenn., has been call- 

 ing on hardwood interests in Indiana during the 

 last ten days. 



The factory of George P. McDougall & Son, 

 which was burned recently, will not be rebuilt 

 in this city. The company, which manufactures 

 kitchen cabinets, will locate at Frankfort, where 

 citizens have subscribed a bonus of $100,000. 



A. M. Jackson, a well-known local hardwood 

 dealer, Is making an extensive business trip 

 through Kentucky. 



During October building operations amounted 

 to $415,000, as compared with $498,876. How- 

 ever, for the ten months of this year permits 

 issued reached $0,350,(395, as compared with 

 $5,895,928. HU> during all of 1908. It is believed 

 the 1909 business in this line will reach 

 $7,000,000. 



Mr. and Mrs. Claude Maley of Evansville are 

 spending a few days at a sanitarium at Martins- 

 ville. Mr. Maley is a member of Maley & Wertz, 

 hardwood manufacturers. 



Adams & Uaymond, veneer manufacturers, are 

 running their plant full time. "Business is 

 good. We are having all we can do and prices 

 are satisfactory," said I*. B. Raymond. 



The Southern Lumber Comijany and the Cen- 

 tral States Lumber Company, allietl concerns, are 

 erecting sixteen dwellings, to cost $2,000 each, 

 for investment purposes. 



Figures obtained from the ten local eutomo- 

 bile factories are to the effect that 20,000 auto- 

 mobiles will he manufactured in this city during 

 the coming season. All of these companies are 

 heavy users of hardwoods. 



A representative of the Mahogany Interior 

 Trim Company states that the plant is still 

 running a day and night shift and that the 

 company has a number of nice contracts in 

 sight that will be closed soon. 



H. G. Heilzcim of the Tremont Lumber Com- 

 pany, Tremont, La., has completed a business 

 trip through southern Indiana, where he visited 

 a n\imber of lumbermen. 



EVANSVILLE 



Bedna Young of Young & Cutsinger returned 

 this week from .lackson, Tenn., having spent 

 several days at the company's mill at that point. 

 He reports everything moving along nicely at 

 the new mill which was recently started. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz returned last 

 week from Memphis, Tenn., where his firm 



maintains a branch ullice with Sam Burgess in 

 charge. 



E. E. Bryan with the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati left this week for Cln- 

 ciunati after having spent several days in this 

 market. 



A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed 

 recently in the federal court at Indianapolis by 

 Edward U. Richmond, who has been engaged in 

 the lumber business at Seymour, Ind. He stated 

 that his liabilities were $13,148.92 and his as- 

 sets were $8,339.29. 



C. W. Talge of the Evansville Veneer Works 

 returned this week from Jackson, Tenn., where 

 he had Ijeen making plans for the erection of 

 his new mill at that point. 



Handle manufacturers report trade getting 

 better, with good prospects for winter and spring 

 business. Otto Schuttler of the Globe Handle 

 Company says his plant is being operated on 

 full tiniL" and that business is improving. Presi- 

 dent Frank Lohofl: of the Evansville Tool Works, 

 which company operates a large handle factory, 

 states trade has been good for the past several 

 weeks. 



Otto Hill, who has been in the city for some 

 time, was this week joined by his chief, S. 1*. 

 Coppock of S. P. Coppock & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany of Fort Wayne. Ind. Mr. Coppock says 

 Ills firm is enjoying a good volume of business- 



V. L. Donnell of Kennedy & Donnell, Morris, 

 Ind., has severed his connection with that firm 

 to represent Young & Cutsinger on the road with 

 a full line of hardwoods, with headquarters at 

 Indianapolis. Mr. Donnell, though a young man, 

 has had a number of years' experience in the 

 manufacture and sale of hardwood lumber from 

 (he stump to consumer. He also enjoys a wide 

 acquaintance with the hardwood trade in the 

 central and eastern states. 



The Vaught Furniture Company, Parker, Ind., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $80,000 ,to succeed II. C. Vaught Sons & Co., 

 and will continue the manufacture of church 

 furniture under the same management. The 

 company's plant is fully equipped with modern 

 ma<-hinery for the production of lugU-class work 

 and has a capacity for the employment of 150 

 men. The firm now has on its books a large 

 number of contracts for church furniture and 

 the prospects are that the coming season will 

 be one of the best in its experience. 



The sawmill plant of the Wisconsin Chair 

 Company at Mound City, 111., and factory at 

 Port Washington, Wis., has been taken over by 

 the WMseonsin Lumber & Veneer Company, a 

 new corporation with a capital stock of $300,- 

 000 fully paid in. The incorporators are J. R. 

 Dennett of Port Washington and Fred A. Den- 

 nett of Sheboygan, Wis. The mammoth plant 

 which was built in this city about a year ago 

 will be operated under the same name as before. 



Among recent visitors to this market were 

 F, I. Nichols of the Nichols & Cox Lumber Com- 

 pany, Grand Rapids, Karl Faust with the W. A. 

 Davis Lumber Company of Chicago and W. L. 

 Paterson with the Central \'eneer Works of 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



Claude Maley of Maley & Wertz made the 

 trip down from Indianapolis in his new touring 

 car the first of last week, accompanied by his 

 family and Henry Wertz of Edinburg, Ind. On 

 the way down he encountered a scary horse 

 driven by a farmer, and a country constable, 

 with the usual results. The horse ran away, 

 tearing up the buggy, and while it was no fault 

 of Mr. .Maley's. as the car was running slowly, 

 they were detained by the constable and com- 

 pelled to put up a cash bond. Outside of this, 

 they had a delightful trip. 



Maley & Wertz have been l>uilding a new 

 office on the site of their old one at their mill 

 m this city, the latter having become too small 

 for their needs. 



The R. A. Hooton Lumber Company, manu- 

 facturers and wholesale dealers in hardwoods 

 and cypress, formerly of Terre Haute. Ind., has 



opened up an office in the K. of P. building in 

 ludlanapolis, and their Indiana, Michigan and 

 Wisconsin business will be handled from this 

 office. 



MEMPHIS 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber (.'ompany resumed 

 opi'ratlons at its big band mill at Charleston, 

 Miss., November S, but will not begin running 

 its mill at Chancy, Miss. It has decided to 

 discontinue operations at the latter point and 

 will consolidate its entire plant at Charleston. 

 This will Include its band mill, bender plant, 

 planing mill, dimension plant and box factory. 

 The company is now running its box factory at 

 Chancy on full time, but this will be removed to 

 Charleston as soon as the lumber on hand at 

 Chancy has been worked up. The company re- 

 ports a very decided increase in demand for 

 the output of this factory and says that it has 

 enough orders to take up all the low-grade stock 

 now on hand at Chancy. The company has 

 about 1,300 acres under cultivation at present. 

 It is clearing other lands now with the result 

 that it will have about 2,500 acres under culti- 

 vation next season. John Dwyer, formerly with 

 the Illinois Central railroad, but now traffic man- 

 ager for the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, is look- 

 ing after this part of the work. The recent re- 

 port that this company would throw open the 

 line between Charleston and Chancy to general 

 traffic is not correct. No traffic but its own will 

 be handled. It does not care to come under the 

 regulations of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission, and for this reason will confine its 

 operations to its own business. No definite 

 time has been set for the completion of this 

 road, but the company has already begun work 

 on it and it will push it to completion as soon 

 as possible. 



Anderson-TuUy Company has resumed opera- 

 tions at its second large box factory and has 

 increased the operating time of its other 

 factory to thirteen hours per day as a result 

 of a very decided improvement taking place in 

 box circles. It has had to close down its band 

 mill in Memphis because of the low stage of 

 the water in Wolf river, and it has also found 

 it necessary to discontinue operations at its 

 biggest band mill at Vicksburg because of low- 

 water. The smaller mill at that point Is In 

 operation and will continue so. The factory of 

 Ihe Morgan-West Company, at Madison, Ark., 

 is also running on full time. It is allied with 

 the Anderson-Tully Company. 



The Memphis delegation to the annual conven- 

 tion of the Deep Waterways Association has re- 

 turned, and to a man they are enthusiastic over 

 what was accomplished in the way of stimulating 

 the movement for "Fourteen Feet through the 

 Valley." The convention was largely attended 

 and action was taken which indicated that the 

 time had arrived for practical work to be done- 

 This was forcibly brought out in the address 

 of former Governor David R. Francis, and in 

 a resolution whicli he presented calling for the 

 appointment of a large lobby to go to Wash- 

 ington to attend the next session of congress 

 for the perfection of plans looking to the im- 

 provement of the Mississippi and other water- 

 ways. Memphis sent a very large delegation to 

 New Orleans, who took an unusual interest in 

 the convention. 



Bank clearings for October reached .$36,000,- 

 000, a gain of more than $10,000,000 over the 

 same month last year. The high price of cotton 

 and the large business doing in the staple have 

 helped to contribute to this e.\eellent showing, 

 but business men here say that the large move- 

 ment of lumber has also been a factor in the 

 hig increase over last year. A prominent official 

 of the Union railway is authority for the state- 

 ment that he has never seen the time when local 

 lumber companies were more active than at 

 present. Birmingham is also to the front with 



