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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sand acres, lying In Brunswick and Cumberland 

 counties, on whicli are to be found some of the 

 finest liardwoods and other timbers in the Soutli. 

 'J'he lands were procured by a process of the 

 Federal court and many of these people are re- 

 sisting removal from property they have occupied 

 for years, believing it to be theirs. 



NORFOLK 



Mayuaril A. Cheny. president of the South 

 Georgia Lumber Compauy, Savannah. Ga., a new 

 company Just organized, was in the city recently. 

 He states that the outlook for hardwood, . es- 

 pecially cypress, is very good. 



Harvej' M. Dickson of tlie Dickson Lumber 

 Company has given a good bit of his time to the 

 Deep Waterways Convention for several days. 

 but will now return to the hardwood business 

 with renewed interest. His office reports busi- 

 ness satisfactory. 



Mr. Weaver of the Edgerton Lumber Company. 

 Victoria, Va., was a recent visitor in Norfolk. 



R. L. Lamberth has sold the veneer factory 

 he had at Thomasville, X. C. to R. T. Lamberth 

 4ind associates from Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

 They will at once begin to remodel the entire 

 plant, and it is planned to have one of the 

 largest veneer plants in North Carolina. 



The Deep Waterways Convention, which met 

 here on the 18th, 19th and 20th, brought many 

 oardwood dealers to our city. 



Antonie Covers of Antwerp was in the city 

 buying hardwood, and he states the hardwood 

 market is picking up a great deal. 



Robert McLean, president of the Norva Land 

 & Lumber Compauy, with large mill at Wallace- 

 ton. Va., was in the city recently attending the 

 Atlantic Deep Waterways Convention. He .states 

 tli.at the lumber outlook is ver.v good and says 

 his company is practically filled up with orders 

 for some time ahead for the foreign market. 



Jott Mitchel of the John L. Roper Lutaber 

 Company was in the city for several days in the 

 Interest of business. 



CLEVELAND 



The Martin-Barriss Company, dealers in hard- 

 woods, recently delivered one load of lumber in 

 Cleveland, the total value of which exceeded 

 $1,300. It was a load of fine mahogany panels 

 to be usd in the construction of interurban cars 

 by the Kuhlman Car Company. The panels were 

 of crotch mahogany, of various sizes. 



Elmer E. Teare of Potter. Teare & Co. was 

 tlected president of the Cleveland Builders' Ex- 

 fbange during the past month. Mr. Teare is the 

 first lumberman ever to be awarded the honor. 

 He is a member of one of the most important 

 lumber firms in the city and has served for sev- 

 eral terms upon the executive board of the organ- 

 ization. Mr. Teare was given an informal re- 

 ception at the Lumbermen's Club on the day suc- 

 ceeding his selection. .7. .J. Wemple, manager of 

 the Ohio Sash & Door Company, was recently 

 t^lected president of the wholesale merchants" 

 board of the Chamber of Commerce. 



IL C. Christy, president of tlio Advance Lum- 

 ber Compan.v, has joined with Otto iluehlbauser 

 of the Muehlhauscr Piano Company iu the leas- 

 ing for ninety-nine years of the Pythian temple 

 property on Huron road, a sliort distance east 

 of East Ninth street. The building will l)e entirely 

 remodeled and a large theater built on vacant 

 property in the rear, an entrance to it to be made 

 through the present building. The expenditures 

 will exceed $l,"iO,00o. 



Mr. Christy reports the mills of the Advance 

 Company in the South to be running to capacity, 

 turning out hardwoods of every description for 

 the trade. Business is very brisk at present, 

 with good prospects for the winter. 



U. P.. Weller has been appointed by the ,7onks 



Lumber Company to represent it in northern 

 Ohio, outside of Cleveland. Mr. Weller has been 

 with the Detroit Lumber Company for some 

 time. His father was a lumberman before him 

 wlio used to ship cargoes from the ui)per lakes 

 di-strict clear through to Quebec for export to 

 the old country. 



A partnership has been formed by W. .1. 

 Brinker and Martin Sating, to operate a whole- 

 sale lumber business. Offices have been opened 

 in the Williamson building. Both men formerly 

 liave been connected witii various Cleveland tfi-ms. 



F. E. Smith, representing the Palmer Semans 

 Lumber Company of Uniontown. Pa., in calling 

 upon the local trade during the past week an- 

 nounced that th; company will hereafter act as 

 selling agents for the hardwood output of the 

 three mills of the Tri-State Lumber Company 

 and the United Lumber Company of L'uiontown. 

 Pa. The company will also do a general broker- 

 age business. 



On November 1 Clarence N. Howells left the 

 employ of the Jenks Lumber (Company of Cleve- 

 hiiid to represent the Southern Lumber Company 

 in this section of Ohio. 



E. P. Ransom has been appointed by the 

 Domestic Lumber Company of Columbus to rep- 

 lesent it in Ibis territory. Mr. Ransom has 

 operated through this part of Ohio for a long 

 time and is well known to the trade. 



The offices of the Edwin B. Smith Company, 

 dealers in ties and structural timber, luive been 

 moved to 1005 Rockefeller building. Business 

 vv'ith the firm is reported as being unusually 

 active, as the railroads have begun ordering on 

 a large scale. 



On November 5 the mill of Brott & Pike at 

 Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, narrowly 

 missed being wrecked by a Nickel Plate train 

 which was derailed at a switch. A large flour 

 mill was razed and a number of piles of lumber 

 scattered over a wide area. The lumber com- 

 pan.v is endeavoring to collect damages from 

 the railroad. 



The Cleveland Hardwood I'loor Company has 

 secured the contract for installing over 6.000 

 square feet of parquet tloor in the new ten-story 

 Pope building on Euclid avenue. Some fine 

 hardwood fixtures are to follow. 



COLUMBUS 



J. E. Cummins of the L'olumbus .Sawmill Com- 

 pany reports steadily improving market condi- 

 tions in most varieties of liardwoods. Mr. 

 Cummins does considerable export liusiness to 

 Hamburg, Germany, in walnut. 



C. T. Nelson, head of the C. T. Nelson Column 

 Company, says there is a better demand for the 

 product of his concern. He believes that build- 

 ing operations will be more active next season, 

 although the demand was good the latter half 

 of 1008. James H. Heyl of the company recently 

 left on an extended business trip in the Soutli. 



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

 ber Compauy, reports an increasing demand from 

 manufacturing establisliments and from railroads 

 for all grades of hardwoods. He says that rail- 

 roads are telegraphing for Iiurried shipments of 

 lumber and that prices are getting firmer. The 

 company is preparing its mill at Ashland, Ky., 

 for operation as soon as the winter freshets 

 carry the logs down the Big Sandy river. The 

 concern has lieen busy durin,g the summer, cut- 

 ting logs on its timber tract in the interior. A 

 new engine and boiler will be installed at the 

 mill. The engine will be of lijO horsepower. 



The shops of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Columbus are being operated on full 

 time and orders for lumber handling apparatus 

 are coming in rapidl.v. The plant has been in- 

 creased by several large additions recently. 



H. H. Fasiictt's planing mill at Findlay, which 

 was burned to the ground August 15, is being 

 rebuilt and will soon be ready for operation. 



The Columbus Grove Lumber Company of Co- 



lumbus Grove, O., has been succeeded by the 

 Light Lumber Company. The concern does a 

 retail business. 



The W. M. Hitter Lumber Company, which 

 occupies the entire tenth floor of the Harrison 

 building, Columbus, is having a difficult time to 

 Ivcep its lady employes for any length of time. 

 The reason is the attacks of Cupid have resulted 

 in at least six marriages in as many months. 

 The iast to resign her position to enter the state 

 of matrimony is Miss Alma E. Dean, who was 

 married recently to Philip Luginbill of Colum- 

 bus Grove. 



At Mansfield. O., the Robert Hixon Lumber 

 Company is selling out to M. D. Fancher, who 

 will operate the business at the same locality. 



By a certificate filed with the secretary of 

 fctate recently the Ottawa Cooperage & Lumber 

 Company of Ottawa, O., has increased its capital 

 slock from ¥100,000 to .$150,000. 



Statistics compiled from Ohio, West Virginia 

 and western Pennsylvania for the week ending 

 November 10 shows that contracts awarded 

 amounted to .f 1,016,000, as compared with ?l,56a.- 

 OOO for the corresponding week in 1908 and 

 •'«491,000 in 1907. Since January 1 contracts 

 awarded amount to $83,573,000. 



H. L. Gilliam, secretary of sales of the W. M. 

 Ritter Lumber Company, reports active business 

 during the mouth of November and he believes 

 the month will hold up to that of October, which 

 was one of the best in the history of the com- 

 pany. He says there is a steady demand for all 

 grades and there is no accumulation of stocks. 

 Tile company recently called all its traveling 

 representatives into the home office for the pur- 

 pose of conferring and receiving reports from the 

 various territories. It lias rei'entl.v added to its 

 staff E. J. Flautt, who will look after the terri- 

 tory in and around Baltimore. Md. 



The H. R. Allen Lumber Company will add a 

 traveling salesman to its force December 1, in 

 Ibe person of Ralph W. Peck, formerly with the 

 Great Southern Lumber Company. 



W. L. Wliitacre reiiorts a steady stream of 

 orders and numerous inquiries. He is of the 

 opinion that lumber conditions W'iil show more 

 improvement after the first of the year. 



George B. Jobson, secretary of the A. C. Davis 

 Lumber Compan.v, recently returned from a two 

 weeks' selling trip in the East. He reported a 

 weak market in many respects. A. C. Davis, 

 president, reports a run of good orders locally. 



John R. Gobey of John R. Gobey & Co. re- 

 cently returned from the South. He was in 

 New Orleans for several days checking up the 

 two-cent overcharge, which means quite an item 

 to him. He reports active conditions in the 

 lumber trade in the South, with surprisingly 

 small stocks when the prices are taken into con- 

 sideration. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 ^IcLaughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company, reports 

 a better demand from railroads. He says that 

 \.ide ^•ii.es of poplar will bring almost any price. 

 \\'. M. Bo.ver of the company is on an extended 

 selling trip through eastern Ohio. 



Hugh Ford, formerly manager of the factory 

 of the Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company of Akron, 

 O.. has taken charge of the timber department 

 of the same company at Memphis. 



The engagement of Daniel Flee, a well-known 

 lumber salesman of Columbus and Cincinnati, to 

 Mrs. Maude Mason of Columbus has been an- 

 nounced. The marriage will take place in De- 

 cember. 



A resolution asking the next session of the 

 Ohio general assembl.v to appropriate $50,000 to 

 in%'estigate the feasibility and cost of building a 

 ship canal between the Ohio river and the Great 

 Lakes was adopted by the Ohio State Board of 

 Commerce at its recent annual meeting in Co- 

 lumbus. O. The outcome of the matter will be 

 watched with great interest by lumbermen in 

 Ohio and southern states, for it would mean 

 quite a reduction in transportation charges of 

 hardwoods. 



