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HARDWOOD RECORD 



timber in tbis. its (irst run, and same will be 

 manufactured into lumber at the Coal Grove, O., 

 mills. The company reports business very sat- 

 isfactory and everything in excellent condition 

 for a big year of business in 1910. 



Giles Wright, president of the WrightSauls- 

 berry Lumber Company, has returned from a 

 business trip through Canada, Michigan, Ohio 

 and Illinois, and advises business very satisfac- 

 tory and everything on the upward movement 

 in the lumber business. Mr. Wright says that 

 on his trip he could see every indication of 

 prosperity, a great many of the manufacturers 

 enlarging their plants, doubling their capacities 

 and all of them putting in their usual number 

 of laborers employed two years ago. The com- 

 pany has a large stock of lumber at present, but 

 is not operating its band mill, as the present 

 supply of logs is sawed out. It is, however, 

 operating Its timber tracts very heavily and 

 with favorable tide will be supplied again with 

 large amounts of oak and poplar timber. 



R. H. Vansant of Vansant, Kitchen & Co. has 

 returned from an extended business trip in the 

 interests of the company and advises prospects 

 very satisfactory. The company has opened its 

 band mill again, sawing mostly all oak. It is 

 shipping large amounts of poplar lumber to 

 its various customers and is planning for a 

 large business for 1910. 



F. K. Conn, vice-president of the Bayou Land 

 ^: Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., was a busi- 

 ness caller in our city this week, lie advises 

 business very satisfactory and states his firm 

 iL' buying large amounts of lumber and shipping 

 direct to customers. The company makes a 

 sjjecialty of red gum lumber, which it manufac- 

 tures at its own mills in the South, operating 

 tivc different mills. Mr. Conn divides his time, 

 spending part of it in the Cincinnati office and 

 a part at the mill operations in the South. 

 The company exporls a large amount of its 

 ;.;uni lumber and Mr. Conn advises that prices 

 have materially increased in all lines of stock 

 now handled. 



II. F. Scearcy of the Whisler & Scearcy Com- 

 )iany, Ironton. O., has returned from a business 

 trip to the company's mill in West Virginia and 

 advises everything running along very satls- 

 lactorily and that the company is loading out 

 a large amount of stock at present. Large 

 f.rders are being secured for oak lumber with in- 

 creased prices over thirty days ago. 



W. J. Fell of Salt Lick, Ky., was a business 

 caller in our city, .spending several days at his 

 stave plant here, and advises business very sat- 

 isfactory in both lumber and staves. Mr. Fell 

 spends a portion of bis time here since opening 

 up his factory at this place. 



George Francis, representative of G. r. Ma- 

 L^ann & Co., a Canadian lumber lii-m. was a 

 welcome caller in Ashland, returning from a 

 business trip over the Lexington division of the 

 ''. & O. Mr. Francis advises trade very satis- 

 fiictory and a receipt of a large number of 

 iirders for car stock. 



The -\sbland Lumber Company reports busi- 

 ress very satisfactory in its planing mill and 

 retail yards and at the pre'sent time has its 

 band mill closed on account of log supply. It 

 expects a good supply of timber on the first tide. 



ST. LOUIS 



Building operations for November, according 

 to the report of the building commissioner, show 

 a gain over the corresponding month last year 

 of nearly $100,000. Fifty-two more permits were 

 issued last month than in November, 1908. The 

 total operations for the month valued $1,458,610 

 against $1,306,511 for the corresponding month 

 last year. 



The following is a report of the movement in 

 lumber at this market during November: Re- 

 ceipts by rail during November, 1909, were 

 14. ,"20 cars: during November, 1908, they were 



11.109 cars, an increase of 3,211 cars in 1909. 

 Receipts by river during November. 1909. were 

 i:'.;!,000 feet: in November, 1908, they totaled 

 199,000 feet, a decrease of 06,000 feet this 

 year. Shipments iiy rail during November, 1909. 

 were lU.l."):i cars. Shipments by rail during 

 November. 1908. were 7,707 cars, an increase of 

 2.446 ears this year. Shipments by river during 

 November, 1909, were 21,000 feet, in comparison 

 with 124,000 feet in November, 190.>*. a de- 

 crease of 103,000 feet. 



The lumber inspected and measured by the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis during No- 

 vember w:is as follows, as reported by Secretary 

 Hush : 



1909, 



I'laiu oak 124,443 feet. 



ijuartered oak 93,334 " 



.\sh ; 63,894 •■ 



Walnut 2,578 " 



Butternut 283 " 



I'oplar 98,772 " 



Hickory 6,815 " 



Pecan 2,914 " 



.Maple 5,603 " 



Basswood 154 



Cottonwood 4,063 " 



Gum 69.780 " 



Cypress 217.014 " 



Birch 15,7.80 " 



Yellow iJine 



Total 705,427 " 



This is a gain tills year 'of 33,132 feet. 



The following slate will probably be put 

 through at the election of the Lumbermen's Club 

 to be held on December 14. The two nominating 

 committees have met and approved the slate : 

 President, R. .7. O'Reilly of the O'Reilly Lumber 

 Company, a hardwood lumberman : vice-president. 

 C. D. Johnson of the Frost-.Iohnson Lumber 

 Company, a yellow pine wholesaler : second vice- 

 president, Henry A. Boeckeler of the Boeckeler 

 Lumber Company, a retail lumberman : treasurer, 

 E. C. Robinson, a line yard lumberman, and 

 secretary, .lohn B. Kessler, the present secretary. 



John V. Rosewarne. inspector of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber AssociaJion, died here on 

 November 23 and the remains were taken to 

 Chicago for interment. Before coming to St. 

 Louis Mr. Rosewarne was with the Ilayden & 

 Westcott Lumber Company. Chicago, and was 

 inspector for the Pullman Car Works in Chicago. 

 He was an excellent inspector and was com- 

 mended for his honesty. A committee of local 

 hardwood men took up a collection for a beauti- 

 ful tloral piece. Gcoi-ge E. Hilihard. l<H'aI direc- 

 tor of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, also added an individual one. 



E. L. Page, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Alt Bennett Lumber Company, 

 ic|iorts a satisfactory business. Orders have 

 been much larger in volume than was looked for 

 at this season of the year. Prices have been 

 '.veil maintained. 



The Schaerff, Pfau & Ganahl Planing Mill 

 ( 'omiian.v has removed from its old location at 

 Ivosciusko and Lafayette avenue to their new 

 l'a<'tory, at 3323 South Broadway. 



'I'hc Drake Lumber Company, incorporated on 

 November 12 with a capital stock of $15,000, 

 has elected its officers, as follows : R. E. Drake, 

 president : F. S. Burbee, vice-president, and W. 

 K. Ranch, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Drake 

 was a hardwood lumber commission man and 

 aliout a year ago formed a partnership with Mr. 

 I'.urhee. and they handled hardwood cxclusivelj' 

 >in a commission basis. On the first of .Tanuary 

 a year ago Mr. Ranch joined them. They re- 

 cently decided to Incorporate and the Drake 

 Lumber Company is the result. 



A good business for this time of the year is 

 reported by the Garetson-Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany. W. W. Dings, the Chicago manager of the 

 company, is down at the mills of the company 

 ill the South and will be there for the next 

 couple of weeks. He is making a thorough in- 

 spection of stock conditions. 



A satisfactory condition is reported by G. B. 

 W. Luehrmann of the Charles F. Luehrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber Company. All classes of 



hardwood lumber are in better demand, particu- 

 larly gum, than they have been. 



A strong demand for walnut is reported by 

 W. R. Chlvvis. 



George Cottrill. secretary of the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, says there is a 

 gradual improvement being noticed in the hard- 

 wood lumber tradi- and sales are getting better 

 right along. 



According to George E. Hibbard, vice-president 

 of the Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company, hard- 

 wood lumber conditions are getting to be about 

 luamal. Prices are much better than tliey were 

 and the demand is increasing. 



After making a trip through the East in the 

 interest of tile I^othman <.'ypress Company, E. 

 \\. Blumer, sales manager of the company, has 

 returned. He says there is a rapid improve- 

 ment for cyin-ess ocing noticeable in the eastern 

 market. 



Among the recent visitors in this city was 

 George W. .\llport of the Allport Land & Lum- 

 ber Company of Pine Bluff. -Ark. 



Louis F. Gruner, secretary of the Philip 

 (iruner & Bro. Lumber Coniiiany, was quietly 

 married here last week at the Grace Episcopal 

 Church to Mrs. Lillian V. Powers, a widow of 

 Richmond. \'a. They have been engaged five 

 years. They met at Richmond when Mr. Gruner 

 was on a vacation. ^Irs. Powers is tlie daugh- 

 ter of a wholesale grocer at Richmond. She is 

 well known in St. Louis society circles. They 

 will be at home to their friends January 1 at 

 the West End hotel. 



At a meeting of the State Forestry Commission 

 held at the Executive Mansion at Jefferson City 

 on November 27, plans were laid- for the organi- 

 zation of a state forestry association patterned 

 after those of Oregon and Louisiana And de- 

 signed to promote forestry and to lay down 

 suggestions for the conservation of the present 

 timber supply, now fast becoming depleted. 

 Giftord Pinchot, chief of the forestry depart- 

 ment of the national government, will be invited 

 to address the convention, in which his sug- 

 gestiims for looking after the future timber 

 supply of Missouri will be had. Before the 

 convention meets, Mr. Pinchot will be invited 

 to make a tour of the Ozark country visited by 

 Governor Hadley as a guest of the State For- 

 estry Commission. Among the members of the 

 com"aission present were W. E. Barnes and 

 W. A. Garetson of St. Louis. The convention, 

 which will be called by Governor Hadley. will 

 be made up of delegates appointed by the sev- 

 eral county courts of the state. The association 

 proposed will go before the legislature next 

 winter and ask for the enactment of a law cre- 

 ating a permanent forestry commission and 

 providing for an appropriation to maintain it. 

 The members of the present commission serve 

 without pay. 



Governor H. S. Hadley has appointed James 

 S. Garetson of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company of St. Louis, Mo., a member of the 

 Missouri Forestry Commission, to take the place 

 of W. W. Dings, who resigned following his 

 removal to Chicago to take charge of the com- 

 pany's office there. Mr. Garetson is one of the 

 most thoroughly experienced lumbermen in St. 

 Louis and his appointment will bring con- 

 siderable prestige to the commission. Four- 

 teen years ago he became connected with the 

 (Jarotson-Grea.son Lumber Company, of whicli 

 he is president. During all these years he has 

 lieen a close student of lumber affairs, as well 

 as of the subject of forestry, so that it is gen- 

 erally felt that Governor Hadley showed very 

 good judgment in appointing him to this im- 

 portant body. 



LITTLE ROCK 



The H. D. Alfrcy Land & Manufactiiriug 

 Company is the latest large concern to be 

 chartered by the state. It is capitalized at 



