HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



He sa3s that ordei'S are coming in satisfactorily 

 and the ijrosyects tor the year are exceedingly 

 £ood. There has been no material change in 

 prices recentlj'. 



W. M. Hitter left with Mrs. Kitter recently 

 for a business and pleasure trip in the East. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager ot the 

 McLaughlin-Iloffmau Lumber Company, returned 

 from a business trip to Chicago and Cleveland. 

 He reports a good demand for timbers and rail- 

 road stocks with a tendency to advance quota- 

 tions in some directions. 



H. C. Buskirk of the General Lumber Company 

 visited his parents at McArthur, O., over the 

 holidays. 



CINCINNATI 



The new year opened with good business, in 

 tact the year 1909 closed good and continued 

 right across the line into 1910. Business condi- 

 tions are satisfactory and there is a tone of 

 cheerful animation present everywhere. 



Harry Freiberg, president of the Freiberg 

 Lumber Company, has just returned from a six- 

 weeks' sojourn in Mexico, visiting Laguna and 

 the mahogany markets of Mexico. Mr. Freiberg 

 spent the whole of his time in the selection of 

 a cargo of mahogany logs for shipment to his 

 mills in Cincinnati. He says that this will be 

 the greatest shipment of mahogany ever brought 

 to Cincinnati, containing over 300,000 log feet. 

 Among the logs arc many of the heaviest ever 

 shipped from Mexico, there being quite a number 

 Ihat are Ave feet and over square, and many 

 over thirty feet long. He was also fortunate In 

 securing a large number of crotches and fine 

 veneer logs. The first cars of the shipment are 

 now arriving and being unloaded at the log 

 yard. The Freiberg mill is especially equipped 

 for cutting mahogany lumber, and recently ma- 

 chinery has been added for sawing veneers. 

 There are also a number of Spanish cedar logs 

 coming, so that the mill will iie in continuous 

 operation for many months. Mr. Freiberg is 

 buying extensively fine white oak logs for quar- 

 tering into veneer flitches. 



A. A. Mason and S. B. Yaylor of Buffalo, 

 N. 1'., were in the city the early days of the 

 week. They were the guests of Fred W. Mow- 

 bray at the Lumbermen's Club meeting. 



During the past fortnight the following vis- 

 itors dropped into the headquarters of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association : Peter Kunz, 

 the well-known lumberman of Dayton, O. ; J. A. 

 Salmon of the Henley Lumber Company, Ports- 

 mouth, O. ; T. M. Fannin ot Keys, Fannin & 

 Co., Ashland, Ky. ; George Breecc of the West 

 Virginia Lumber Company, Charleston, W. Va. ; 

 S. B. Taylor of Taylor & Mason, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Secretary Louis Doster returned from his trip 

 South, straightened out affairs at headquarters 

 in a few days and left for Philadelphia and 

 the East, returning to Cincinnati and was back 

 on his job with the opening of the New Year. 

 The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has 

 done one good thing for Cincinnati in demon- 

 strating what a large volume of business can be 

 transacted by a real live man. The striking 

 feature at headquarters is that everybody is- 

 busy, and busy all the time. 



Ed Swaine of Xvarmire, Ky., of the Swain- 

 Karmire Lumber Company was in the city for a 

 few days, calling upon the various lumber con- 

 cerns. 



W. A. Bennett and Thomas J. Moffett have 

 been appointed by President Clif S. Walker as 

 an arrangements committee to have charge of 

 the convention of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association, which meets in Cincinnati 

 March 2-3, at the Sinton hotel. 



.1. D. Farley of the Lyon Cypress Company 

 returned from his sojourn at the plant of the 

 company in Louisiana, in time to join in the 

 festivities attending the wedding of his daughter 

 at his home in Bellevue, Ky. 



George M. Grump, Ohatchie. Ala., came to 

 Cincinnati with Charles Ehmau, to spend the 

 holidays at Mr. Ehman's home. They have re- 

 turned to the wilds of Alabama. 



Tom White of Moline, 111., formerly of Cincin- 

 nati, stopped over for a day or two while on his 

 way to spend the holidays at his old home in 

 Uipley, Ohio. 



John Montana of Union City, lud., spent some 

 time in Cincinnati during the holiday week. 



'jeorge C. Eheman of Memphis, Tenn., the part- 

 ner of W. A. Bennett, came to Cincinnati with 

 his family to siiend the holidays. 



.1. W. I'icrce ot Salt Springs, Ky., was in the 

 city on the selliug end during the week between 

 Christmas and New Year. 



Charles Henn of the Connersville (lud.) Lum- 

 I)er ('ompany dropped into tne city last week 

 and found things to his satisfaction. 



S. T. Cobbctt of London, England, was a guest 

 of William Eckman at the meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club. Mr. Cobbett is here on a business 

 mission, and will visit various cities in the lum- 

 ber section. 



The annual banquet and dance of the Queen 

 City Furniture Club at the Sinton hotel, on 

 December 27, was a pronounced success. The 

 lumbermen in attendance were B. F. Duhveber, 

 E. L. Edwards (Dayton, O.j, J. E. Tuthill, 

 William F. Duhlmeier, C. G. Johnston, L. W. 

 Kadina, E. C. Feuss and Charles Feuss. This 

 was the first time in which the ladies were in- 

 vited to partake of the annual banquet, and the 

 results were most enjoyable! 



At the annual meeting of the Queen City 

 Furuiture Club reports of ofBcers were heard, a 

 good balance in the treasury was reported, and 

 oBicers for 1910 were installed as follows ; Presi- 

 dent, W. J. Sextro ; vice-president, Joseph A. 

 Sprengard ; treasurer, Louis Schneide ; secre- 

 tary. Wash Eees. Directors : Robert Onken, 

 Charles Feuss, George W. Schutte, Julius Berger 

 Herman Wessell. 



Joseph Bolser has been appointed chairman of 

 the General Entertainment Committee of the 

 Lumbermen's Club for the convention of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States. 



Italph .McCracken, chairman of the Advertising 

 Committee of the Lumbermen's Club, announced 

 that he had arranged a plan for advertising the 

 Cincinnati hardwood market, but owing to the 

 large volume of business incident to the enter- 

 tainment of the coming conventions deferred his 

 report until the February meeting. 



A Hre recently destroyed the yard and plant 

 of the Covington Lumber Company. The loss is 

 estimated at about !f2.").00O, much of which is 

 covered liy insurance 



The following table shows a comparison of the 

 figures for lumber transactions by rail in 190S 

 with those of 1909 and it is interesting to note 

 the steady increase in 1909, month after month ; 



1909 ■ 1908 



Ke- Ship- Re- Ship- 



ceipts, ments, ceipts, ments, 



cars. cars. cars. cars. 



Januarv 5,348 3,861 3,856 3,483 



February 5,404 4,525 3,969 2,866 



March 6,929 5,977 4,738 3,195 



April 6,719 5,288 5,584 3,561 



May 6,319 4,865 5,104 3,594 



June 6,571 5,109 6,209 4,065 



July 6,244 4,991 5,733 3,184 



August 6,454 4,909 5,956 4,1 10 



September 7,113 6,179 5,615 4,286 



October 7,011 5,731 6,356 4,464 



November 6,769 5,552 5,478 4,021 



December 5,653 5,062 6,506 5,118 



Totals 77,534 63,049 65,104 45,947 



The transactions by river are estimated at 

 8,000,000 feet. 



Miss Annie Lloyd, for over forty-seven years 

 in the employ of the Wiborg & Hanna Company, 

 was murdered on her way home from work on 

 December 3. She had worked her way to head 

 bookkeeper and recently was elected secretary 

 of the company. The police have found no clue 

 to the murder, but it is thought that Miss Lloyd 



was in possession ot some valuable business 

 secrets as the Wiborg & Hanna Company had 

 gone through a number of business entangle- 

 ments the past three years and she was book- 

 keeper through it all. 



TOLEDO 



The Willis sawmill, a large concern at Washing- 

 ton C. IL, O., was destroyed by fire recently. The 

 loss is $25,000, with |6,500 insurance. Owing 

 to there being snow on the ground, $40,000 

 worth of saw-ed lumber and .$0,000 worth of logs 

 at the factory were not damaged. The fire 

 caught from waste in the engine room and 

 spread rapidly. The mill will be rebuilt. One 

 hundred men were employed by the concern. 

 The Booth Column Company of Toledo reports 

 that business has been good all year and the de- 

 mand for columns continues so strong that the 

 company has been trying unsuccessfully for the 

 past couple of weeks to close down for repairs. 

 There is some complaint about the prices and 

 it is said that nearly all manufacturers of col- 

 umns throughout the country have been making 

 very little profit on their work. With the 

 meetings which are now being held by the 

 various dealers throughout the United States 

 there is a prospect of prices being some better 

 so that a fair profit may be looked for next 

 season. The Booth Company has an annual out- 

 put of about 75,000 columns. The company 

 has a large eastern trade and is now arranging 

 with a special agent to handle its columns in 

 the eastern states. The company will put in 

 some new machinery soon, including a self- 

 feed band rip saw and a turning machine. 

 I'oplar is used largely for exterior columns and 

 oak. chestnut and yellow pine for interior use. 

 The annual report of the city building in- 

 spector shows that there was an increase of 

 about a million dollars in the building business 

 of the city for 1909 over that of 1908. The 

 great majority of the permits were for modem 

 liomes of moderate size. 



The Big Four Hardwood Company of Toledo 

 reports business good. This company has just 

 completed an addition to its plant where the 

 manufacture of table topping, thin basswood and 

 parquet flooring will be undertaken. About fifty 

 men will be employed and tne institution will 

 be in running condition by January 15, if pres- 

 ent plans do not miscarry. 



i^remont capitalists and business men have in- 

 corporated the J. W. McLaughlin Lumber Com- 

 pany, with a capital stock of .$25,000. The 

 company owns a large tract ot land in Arkansas 

 and will erect a sawmill and stave factory 

 there. 



The Skinner Bending Company of Toledo, 

 reports that business during the past year was 

 good and is still holding up in fine shape. The 

 big demand just now is for carriage, wagon and 

 automobile felloes. Oak and hickory is used 

 almost exclusively for this work and the Skinner 

 company reports no difficulty in securing plenty 

 of stock. 



E. G. McFillen, who conducts a business in 

 hardwood floors and fretwork here, says that 

 business just at present is rather quiet In hia 

 line but that this comes as a sort of relief 

 after a very busy season. Business was far 

 better than a year ago and prices have held up 

 fairly well. In Toledo the demand has been 

 lor plain oak floors, rather than the inlaid va- 

 riety, although there has been a good business 

 in both grades of work. Fretwork is a trifle 

 slow and seems to have gone out of favor con- 

 siderably in the past year. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



William F. Johnson of the Capitol Lumber 



Company has returned from a trip to Rushville. 



Ransom Griffin, local manager ot the Central 



