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it. They do not confine themselves to veneers, 

 but will figure on stairwork, trim and other 

 solid work. S. J. Lewis was the able repre- 

 sentative in charge of the company's display. 



The Foster-Munger Company of Chicago had 

 an elaborate exhibit, filling a suite of several 

 rooms, one room being set aside for the con- 

 venience of visitors and containing check-room, 

 writing-desk and other helpful features. This 

 company showed an excellent line of redwood 

 doors, trim, columns and stairwork, the only 

 hardwoods in evidence being oak and birch. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company had rep- 

 resentatives present, but showed no exhibit. • 



The Wildberg Lumber Company sent two rep- 

 resentatives who presented visitors to its head- 

 quarters with leather-covered memorandum books 

 bearing the firm name. This company does a 

 hardwood business in Cincinnati. 



Further Acknowledgments 



The Haedwood Recokd is in receipt of the fol- 

 lowing New Year's reminders, and wishes to 

 thank the doners for them and to convey its 

 best wishes for a prosperous New Year : 



From I'atricio I'argas, wood agent at Bar- 

 celona, Spain, came a handsome engraved card 

 bearing wishes for a Happy and Prosperous 

 New Year. 



The Cherry River Boom ,& Lumber Company, 

 manufacturer of West Virginia spruce, hemlock 

 and hardwoods, with headquarters at Scranton, 

 Pa., sent a handsome little pocket blank book 

 bound in black leather. The preliminary pages 

 are taken up with rates of postage, points 

 of constitutional law, various useful hints for 

 cleaning purposes, list of largest cities in the 

 United States, some valuable tables, rules for 

 computing interest, etc., and the remainder of 

 the book is ruled to accommodate memoranda. 



Robert C. Lippincott of Philadelphia, in send- 

 ing their old reliable calendar, call attention 

 to their increased facilities for supplying the 

 trade with yellow pine flooring and yellow 

 pine dimension timbers ; also West Virginia 

 spruce. 



From Oscar Gartner of New Orleans, La., 

 representative of Carl Gartner of Hamburg. 

 Germany, came an artistic little calendar bear- 

 ing a reproduction of a painting, "Nearing 

 Port," by B. Kreutzer. This concern is a buyer 

 and exporter of all kinds of lumber and iM„--. 



S. N. Bradley, manufacturer of lumber, rn:! 

 road ties, timber, shingles, staves, tan-bark and 

 hickory billets, at Morehead. Ky., sent a large 

 wall hanging s-liowing a reproduction of a 

 painting by A. Woud Hardy, entitled "The Morn- 

 ing Ride." 



An ""tistic wall hanging, the calendar pad 

 printed in large, bold figures, came from the 

 Southern line Company of Georgia, whose head- 

 quarters ar at Savannah, Ga. 



Tickle-Bf! & Co., shippers of African mahog- 

 any and ri.iassian walnut, with headquarters 

 at Liverpool ICugland, sent an artistic calendar 

 showing a Picture of "the church where Shakes- 

 peare sleep-.." H is well printed in soft colors 

 and mountHcl on a stiBE cream pasteboard mat. 



C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, the famous ex- 

 ploiters of mahogany, with factories at Louis- 

 ville, Ky., Chicago, 111., at various points in 

 Mexico, at Belize, British Honduras, and Axim, 

 Gold Coast, West Africa, has sent out a useful 

 calendar bearing a picture of its great ma- 

 hogany plant. 



The Nichols & Cox Lumber Company of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., manufacturers of American 

 hardwoods and Nichols' "Everlasting" maple 

 flooring, sent an artistic wall hanging, a repro- 

 duction of a painting, entitled "Bess," by W. H. 

 McEntee. 



Another attractive calendar came from the 

 Palmer-Hunter Lumber Company, handlers of 

 hardwoods, at Boston, Mass. This calendar is of 

 large size and the calendar pad is printed in 

 good, large figures, easily read at a distance. 



The Stevens & Jarvis Lumber Company, Eau 

 Claire, Wis., showed a practical turn of mind 

 in the selection of their calendar, which is of 

 large size and printed in good, bold figures in 

 black and red. The calendar also has a number 

 of especially convenient features, such as the 

 moon phases, a small calendar for the same 

 month of next year on each sheet, and the 

 days of the year are numbered from 1 to 365. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, Buf- 

 falo, N. Y., manufacturers and dealers in hard- 

 wood lumber and veneer, sent the most unique 

 calendar yet seen this season. It is one of 

 the perpetual kind and has separate cards show- 

 ing the month, the day and the year. These 

 cards are printed on both sides so that when 

 the different cards are turned back the reverse 

 side shows an advertisement of the company's 

 line of goods. The cards are mounted on a 

 board of quarter-sawed oak, and the whole makes 

 an attractive and useful addition to any office. 



The Bellgrade Lumber Company, manufac- 

 turers of southern hardwoods, with mills at Bell- 

 grade, Miss., and oflices at Memphis, Tenn., 

 sent a large and handsome calendar bearing a 

 reproduction of a painting, entitled "A Glimpse 

 of the sound from ilontauk," by Thomas 

 Moran. 



Late Liverpool Market 



The trade here is quite a secondary consider- 

 ation, as the general election is now in full 

 swing. It is difficult to say what the result of 

 this will be ; in all probability the majority 

 attained by either side will be .so small as to 

 be unimportant. If the tariff reform or con- 

 servative party obtain a majority they will 

 undoubtedly place a tariff on all manufactured 

 goods. It is difficult to say how far sawn lum- 

 ber can be acquired as manufactured, but there 

 is no doubt that five per cent will be placed on 

 sawn lumber, ten per cent on planed boards and 

 fifteen per cent on the fully manufactured 

 wheels, furniture, etc. Of course it is more than 

 possible that the Liberal or Fall Trade party 

 may obtain a majority, but American hardwood 

 dealers can be assured" that tariff reform will 

 come sooner or later. 



The hardwood market is moderately firm and 

 prices on many stocks have advanced. Wide 

 canary whitevood is in much demand and ship- 

 pers do not seem inclined to offer stock. Birch 

 and maple seem stronger than previously and 

 oak has undoubtedly had a substantial lift. Ash 

 and hickory have arrived in large shipments 

 and gone into consumption at high prices. Buy- 

 ers are still crying out anxiously for shipments, 

 and it is said that the shipper who would boldly 

 send his wood to this port could obtain a small 

 fortune. The mahogany position is much the 

 same as when last reported. The position is 

 hard to weigh up ; the stock comes forward in 

 plenty, but all goes into consumption. Whether 

 the demand will continue is perhaps the ques- 

 tion which provides the clue to the situation. 

 The cotton trade in Lancashire, which is the 

 leading spirit of the Liverpool trade, has been 

 much hit by the high price of cotton, with the 

 result that most of the mills are working short 

 time. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Nelson -Mills Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company has filed articles of incorporation, with 

 a capital stock of $75,000. The company's head- 

 quarters will be located at St. Clair, Mich. 

 Myron W. Mills, Dr. W. B. James and John 

 Allen are interested in the new concern. It will 

 buy, sell and manufacture all kinds of lumber, 

 wood products and supplies. 



W. H. Baker of Grand View, Ark., is contem- 

 plating establishing a hardwood timber plant in 

 Harrison, Ark. Several business men of Harri- 

 son have agreed to take stock in the enterprise 

 and indications are that a .fiO.OOO plant will be 



put in soon. The new company proposes to 

 finish wagon timber, plow handles, veneering, 

 etc., and the plant will be of such- capacity as 

 to handle the output of several small mills 

 throughout the country. 



The Texas & Louisiana Lumber Company of 

 Houston, Tex., is planning to add to its present 

 plant new lumber sheds, wharves and more 

 machine room. This concern is a wholesaler 

 and retailer of yellow pine, hardwood and 

 cypress lumber, and its business is increasing 

 daily. 



The Empire Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated at Goldsboro, N. C, with a capital 

 stock of $200,000. The company will handle 

 lumber of all kinds. 



The Keyser Table Manufacturing Company, 

 capitalized at $10,000, has been organized at 

 Keyser, W. Va., with the following officers : 

 J. T. Sincell, president ;' W. C. Long, vice-presi- 

 dent and manager ; W. C. Bowden. secretary and 

 H. L. Arnold, treasurer. 



The Christiansen Lumber Company has been 

 organized in Chicago to manufacture and deal 

 in lumber and other forest products. The capital 

 stock is $20,000 and the incorporators are C. M. 

 Christiansen, Jesse Lowenhaupt and A. Lamb. 



E. G. Henkel, L. E. Sauter and R. P. Hollett 

 have organized the Veneer JIanufacturing Com- 

 pany at Chicago, with a capital stock of $10,000. 



Minzgher Brothers, operating large camps on 

 Gratiot river in Keweenaw county, Michigan, 

 will just about strip the last oak and pine tim- 

 ber in the forests of the copper country during 

 the present winter. This firm is cutting for the 

 Wisconsin Veneer Company and hauls its prod- 

 uct to Lac la Bell, from where it is rafted 

 to Ashland, Wis., by tugs. During the present 

 winter it will cut 1,500,000 feet of pine, employ- 

 ing about 110 men in its camps. 



The McGehee Hardwood Company at McGehee, 

 Ark., has been dissolved by the withdrawal of 

 J. li. and J. T. Jones. The business will be 

 conducted by L. H. Alexander and S. H. Wright, 

 retaining the firm name. 



The plant of the Alichigan Elm Hoop Com- 

 pany at Marinette, Wis., will be enlarged to 

 manufacture fruit baskets and butter dishes in 

 the early future, as well as staves, etc. 



A large real estate deal was consummated 

 recently, when the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company purchased the old plant of Bergen. 

 Meehan & Co., comprising six acres, in South 

 Louisville. The transaction was negotiated by 

 tne real estate department of the Columbia 

 Trust Company and the consideration was said 

 to be in the neighborhood of $30,000. 



The holding secured by the Brown company is 

 situated between Brook and Floyd streets, south 

 of Shipp avenue. It is connected with both the 

 Louisville & Nashville and Southern railroads. 

 The new owners plan to raze a number of small 

 buildings on the site and convert the big tract 

 into a large lumber yard. 



The Standard Handle & Lumber Company, 

 Townsend, Mass., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $20,000 by N. W. Davis, Fitch- 

 burg, Mass. ; F. J. Piper, Townsend, Mass., 

 and others. 



Hageman Brothers, 1635 West Michigan street, 

 Indianapolis, Ind., announce that they have 

 completed arrangements with the National Ve- 

 neer & Lumber Company of Indianapolis, to have 

 charge of the sales of their entire output of 

 quartered oak veneer. This arrangement will 

 also permit Hageman Brothers to continue the 

 selling of all kinds of veneer and enables them 

 to supply the Increasing demand for superior 

 quality, well manufactured stock. 



The Sands-Heydon Lumber Company of Grand 

 Rapids has been incorporated at Lansing with a 

 lapitalization of $100,000, of which $50,000 has 

 been subscribed. It is largely a timber proposi- 

 tion, the articles though giving the right to 

 manufacture, buy and sell lumber and forest 

 products. The company has holdings in the up- 

 per peninsula and other places. Charles A. 



