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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ity of the plant. A new mill with electrically 

 driven machinery is to be installed at once. 



The Lake Erie Lumber Company finds its busi- 

 ness expanding so that it has been necessary to 

 acquire a lot 100 by 300 teet in size on Mar- 

 quette avenue adjoining its general yards. This 

 will be used for switching and yardage purposes. 



C. H. Foote is back from Chase City, Va., 

 where he assisted in arrangements for the dis- 

 mantling of the mill of the Saw Mill Company. 

 The machinery is being sold and the affairs of 

 the concern closed up. 



Officials of the Republic Lumber Company, 

 which was incorporated a short time ago for 

 .?10,000, have been opened at 718 Citizens' build- 

 ing. Owen T. Jenks is president of the com- 

 pany : George E. Anderson, vice-president ; 

 Thomas E. Gafney, secretary, and Thomas J. 

 Rochford, treasurer. The directorate consists of 

 these gentlemen and A. F. Gaughon. Rochford 

 & Gafney have dissolved their partnership to 

 become members of the new company. 



The Advance Lumber Company, in the Rocke- 

 feller building, has been enjoying an unusually 

 good business during the past two or three 

 months, according to ofllcers of the concern. 

 The hardwood business has been particularly 

 brisk. 



W. A. Cool & Son say that the call for wide 

 poplar boards continues for use in the automo- 

 bile trade. Prices are quite firm, as the demand 

 is very brisk. The only fear now entertained is 

 that the wide clear stock will become so scarce 

 that the automobile body makers will be driven 

 to use some other material from which to con- 

 struct their product. 



L. A. Wilson, manager of the Cleveland Build- 

 ing Trades Credit Association, to which most 

 of the lumber companies belong, reports that 

 about 400 investigations were made each month 

 during the past year, and that the association 

 has nearly doubled its size. During the year 

 about $600,000 worth of attested accounts were 

 filed in the courts, two-thirds being in behalf of 

 the association members. 



A new lumber concern in Cleveland is the 

 Great Lakes Ijumber Company, which was re- 

 cently incorporated for $10,000. It will engage 

 in a general retail and wholesale business. W. 

 H. Richardson is president of the organization, 

 R. S. Thomas is treasurer and S. H. Thomas, 

 secretary. Oflices have been opened in the Will- 

 iamson building. 



A number of Cleveland lumbermen are in at- 

 tendance this week at the annual meeting of the 

 Union Association of Lumber Dealers at Colum- 

 bus. 



Visitors to Cleveland during the past few days 

 have been H. P. Wilson of Duluth, E. P. Flow- 

 ers of Montgomery, Ala., B. P. Wheadon of Bay 

 City. Mich., and Charles Nagley of New Phila- 

 delphia. O. 



COLUMBUS 



The coming of about 500 retail lumbermen, 

 including traveling salesmen, to Columbus dur- 

 ing the week of January 17-20, to attend the 

 annual meeting of the Union Association of 

 Lumber Dealers, had the etfect of making the 

 hardwood lumber trade quiet. There was not 

 as much time devoted to selling lumber as in 

 making acquaintances, entertaining the visit- 

 ing members and in good fellowship generally. 

 The hardwood jobbers and manufacturers rep- 

 resented in central Ohio united to entertain the 

 delegates, which was done to the satisfaction 

 of all who attended the meeting. 



The C. T. Nelson Company has erected a 

 flooring mill at its plant on Dublin avenue, 

 where it will manufacture hardwood flooring in 

 the future. The company has started its plan- 

 ing mill after a lay-off of several weeks to per- 

 mit the machinery to be overhauled. C. T. 

 Nelson, head of the concern, reports a nice run 

 of orders, with good prospects for the spring 



trade. J, H. Heyl of the company is in the 

 South purchasing stocks. 



.lohu R. Gobey reports a lively demand for all 

 kinds of hardwoods, with bright prospects for 

 the spring. He says it looks like the fall of 

 1906 or the spring of 1907, which were the 

 most prosperous times in tlie lumber trade. Mr. 

 Gobey will leave after the meeting of the Union 

 Association of Lumber Dealers for Mississippi 

 and Louisiana to buy stocks for the Columbus 

 concern. 



W. L. Whitacre reports a quiet market, with 

 good indications for improvement as the season 

 advances. 



H. G. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company says the market is good since the in- 

 ventory period has past and that prices in every 

 direction are strong. He says manufacturing 

 establishments are in the market for supplies, 

 although many purchased before the first of the 

 year for delivery during January. H. W. Col- 

 lins, sales manager of the Columbus division of 

 the Ritter company, was called to Pittsburg on 

 business early in the week. W. M. Ritter is en- 

 joying a several weeks' hunting trip in Georgia. 



W. M. Boyer of the McLaughlin-Hoffman Lum- 

 ber Company reports excellent conditions in the 

 hardwood trade. He says prices show a ten- 

 dency to advance and that orders and inquiries 

 are coming in nicely. C. G. McLaughlin, general 

 manager of the company, will soon return from 

 a ten-days' buying trip through several southern 

 states. 



H. D. Brasher reports a quiet market in most 

 lines. He says manufacturers are putting in 

 good time and that they will soon be in the 

 market tor a larger supply of raw materials. 



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

 Lumber Company, has returned from a trip to 

 Chicago and the Northwest. He reports unfa- 

 vorable weather conditions in that section, which 

 has had a bad effect on the lumber trade. 



H. W. Putnam, presi(Jent of the General Lum- 

 ber Company, says the hardwood market Is 

 steady. Prices have not weakened under the 

 influence of the inventory period. He says the 

 car situation has improved considerably and 

 that jobbers are now catching up in their orders. 

 The General Lumber Company will start opera- 

 tions at its mill at .\shland. Ky., as soon as 

 the water in the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers 

 will allow the movement of a large number of 

 logs which have been cut on the timber tract 

 near Whitehouse, Ky. The mill at the timber 

 tract is being operated on full time. 



H. C. Buskirk, sales manager of the General 

 Lumber Company, will visit the mills next week. 



The John C. Shaoffer Handle Works at Del- 

 phos, O., were damaged to the extent of $3,000 

 by a fire recently. The loss is fully covered 

 by insurance. 



The W. F. Kramer Company of Dayton has 

 increased its capital stock from $10,000 to 

 $50,000. 



The Osborn & Sexton Company of Columbus 

 has secured the contract to install machinery in 

 the new plant of the Jewett Car Works at 

 Newark, N. J. The new plant consists of a 

 planing mill. The contract calls for $26,000. 



Reports compiled from Ohio, West Virginia 

 and western Pennsylvania for the week ending 

 January 12 show that contracts awarded 

 amounted to $583,000, as compared with 

 $1,172,000 tor the corresponding week in 1909. 



B. R. Johnson, formerly connected with the 

 E. J. Robinson Company of Detroit, has taken a 

 position as traveling salesm-an for the H. R. 

 Allen Lumber Company of Columbus. He will 

 cover northern Ohio territory. 



G. O. McFarland, one of the partners in the 

 Middle States Lumber Company, is in Louisiana, 

 buying stocks. B. O. McFarland, another part- 

 ner, is on the road. Both came here from 

 Mansfield, O., where they conducted the McFar- 

 land Lumber Company. 



J. E. Cummins, general manager of the Co- 



lumbus Saw Mill Company, reports a very bright 

 outlook in the hardwood trade. He believes 

 that the year 1910 will be the most active in 

 the history of the lumber business in Ohio. Mr. 

 Cummins reports a good demand from every 

 section, especially from Hamburg, Germany, to 

 which point he ships a large amount of walnut. 



At the annual stockholders' meeting of the 

 Henry Holtzman & Sons Company, manufactur- 

 ers of piano furniture, Frank P. Holtzman was 

 elected president and general manager ; W. C. 

 Holtzman, vice-president, and Louis A. Holtz- 

 man, secretary-treasurer. The company re- 

 cently completed several dry kilns and will erect 

 a large addition to its plant in the spring. Mr. 

 Holtzman reports a very bright outlook for the 

 future. 



At Washington Court House, O., the J. W. 

 Willis Lumber Company, which sustained the 

 loss of a planing mill .by flre, will replace it at 

 once. 



A large number of retailers, wholesalers and 

 manufacturers of hardwoods gathered in Co- 

 lumbus to attend the annual meeting of the 

 Union Association of Lumber Dealers, January 

 18 to 20. One of the features of the entertain- 

 ment of the 600 delegates was the theatrical 

 performance given by the Columbus wholesalers 

 at the Southern theater on Tuesday evening. 

 The men contributing to the entertainment and 

 acting as hosts during the convention were : H. 

 R. Allen, H. C. Creith, A. C. Davis, H. H. 

 Geisey, John R. Gobey, H. W. Putnam, M. A. 

 Hayward, J. II. Ilyle, E. H. Hammond, Messrs. 

 McLaughlin and Hoffman, Rowell and Rowe, W. 

 M. Ritter. H. W. Collins, F. P. Rogers, Thorp 

 and Martin, W. L. Whitacre. J. W. Taylor and 

 others. 



CINCINNATI 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association is the busy man. Ju.st 

 dropped into the office Jlonday and Chief Execu- 

 tive Clerk Heaton says Mr. Doster left last night 

 for Ashland, Ky., and will probably visit the 

 meeting of the Union Lumber Association at Co- 

 lumbus, O. Mr. Doster returned Wednesday 

 evening, arranged affairs at the office and left 

 Tuesday evening for . Chicago. This is going 

 some, besides managing the office force and ar- 

 ranging correspondence and looking after the ar- 

 rangements for the biggest convention ever held 

 in the lumber trade's history. 



The estate of Miss Annie Lloyd, the murdered 

 secretary of the Wiborg & Hanna Lumber Com- 

 pany, w-as brought into the probate court and 

 an administrator appointed. She had left no 

 will and the estate will be distributed to brother 

 and sisters. No clue nor any solution to her 

 murder has yet been found. 



Max Kosse, president of the K. & P. Lumber 

 Company, has just been elected a member of 

 the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Bank 

 & Trust Company of Cincinnati, O. 



.\n old case in bankruptcy was settled in the 

 United States court recently when Referee Will- 

 iam H. Whittaker presented a record of the pro- 

 ceedings in the matter of the Borcherding Lum- 

 ber Company of Cincinnati. The action was 

 first instituted in 1006, but owing to litigation in 

 the South in the interest of the creditors, but 

 which terminated unsuccessfully, delay was 

 caused in closing up the case. The creditors 

 received two dividends, aggregating eight per 

 cent. 



The 11. I.. Mickle Lumber Company, for many 

 years at the Mitchell building, on West Fourth 

 street, will move about February 1 to a fine 

 suite of offices in the new building of the Provi- 

 dent Savings Bank & Trust Company, at Seventh 

 and Vine streets. 



J. R. Davidson, formerly with the Cincinnati 

 Northern Railroad freight department, is another 

 railroad man to break into the lumber business. 

 Mr. Davidson is now a member of the firm of 



