HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Dorau & Co., with offices at 209 Bell block, at 

 Sixth and Vine streets. 



H, W. Fagin, formerly with the Dwight-IIinck- 

 ley Lumber Company, has severed his connection 

 with that concern and has formed an alliance 

 known as Kirkpatrick & Fagin. The new firm 

 has offlccK in the Provident building, at Seventh 

 and Vine. 



Col. Stanberry of the Chicago Coal and Lum- 

 ber Company, is now in his new suite of otfices 

 in (he Provident building. He was one of the 

 early tenants of the building, moving in Decem- 

 ber 1, and occupied temporary quarters until 

 the present suite was prepared. 



The ywann-Day Lumber Company is having a 

 special suite of ofiices prepared in the second 

 National Bank building, at Ninth and Main 

 streets, C. 11, Clark is the Cincinnati manager. 

 He is spending a few days at the plant of the 

 company in Clay City, Ky., but will be at the 

 offices early next week. 



John S. Hurd of Chicago passed through the 

 city lasL week on bis M'ay to bis former home 

 in Watkins Glen. N. Y. He called on numerous 

 acquaintances while here. 



Kred Fi.sher, manager of the Central Box & 

 Shook Company, has severed his connection with 

 that concern and will leave for Richmond, Va., 

 where he will assume the position of manager of 

 the plant of David M. Lea on February 1. 



M. Chamberlin of the John XL Woods Com- 

 pany, Boston, Mass,, was a visitor at the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' headquarters the past 

 week, 



E, J. Tboman, office manager of Bennett & 

 Wittc, returned recently from a trip to the Green- 

 field Lumber Company,, in which Bennett & Witte 

 are interested. 



The Queen City Furniture Club will be repre- 

 sented in the conference of the Grading Com- 

 mission of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation of the L'nited States, which meets in the 

 Siuton Hotel on Monday, January SI, by George 

 W. Schuetto and W. J, Sextro, furniture manu- 

 facturers. 



The severe winter weather of the past month 

 has had a heavy effect on the lumber interests 

 on the Ohio river. C. Crane & Co. have log rafts 

 tied to the shores of the Ohio river for miles, 

 and when the river froze solid the rafts became 

 hard property to take care of. Last week the 

 break-up came and with it a heavy rise in the 

 river. The rafts were torn from their moorings 

 and about 23,000 logs started on a wild run. 

 The towboats of C. Crane & Co. in the harbor 

 were started out and succeeded in landing a large 

 number before they got many miles down the 

 stream. The river is now rising rapidly and 

 threatening much damage to property along the 

 river front, especially that mile or more occu- 

 pied by the big mill plant of C. Crane & Co. 



An old log jiouss has been discovered in the 

 suburbs of Cincinnati which is over one hun- 

 dred years old, and is made entirely of walnut 

 logs and lumber inside and out, and the wood is 

 said to be in perfect condition. It would cost 

 something to put up a house like that at the 

 present price of walnut. It is said that the site 

 was formerly a walnut grove. 



George E. Breen of the West Virginia Timber 

 Company, Charleston, W. Va., was in the city 

 last week looking after the disposal of the com- 

 pany's stock of hardwoods. 



Harry Robinson, formerly well known in Cin- 

 cinnati but now of the Stone-Robinson Lumber 

 Company of Detroit, Mich,, while on his way 

 South, stopped over for a short while, looking 

 up old friends. 



D. R, Schoolfleld of South Pittsburg, Tenn., 

 was a sojourner in this city the past week, tak- 

 ing in the Cincinnati hardwood market. 



Tlie Ohio Veneer Company on Colerain avenue 

 has just received the last of a shipment of high- 

 grade mahogany logs, besides a large stock of 

 rare woods, to be manufactured into veneers, 

 Fred Bosken says that the company is now 



cutting a great variety of fine wood veeners, 

 and while it cuts a great deal of mahogany lum- 

 ber, its veneer business is growing greater con- 

 stantly. 



President C. S. Walker of the Bayou Land & 

 Lumber Company is very busy since his return 

 from New York, whither he went to interest 

 capital in his new land and lumber deal in Con- 

 cordia parish, La. Mr. Walker is very enthusias- 

 tic over the new company's prospects, as he 

 says the land is covered with an excellent growth 

 of hardwoods, principally oak, and it is his in- 

 tention to have the work of cutting on the tract 

 commenced at the earliest possible date. The 

 plant will be equipped with all the latest im- 

 proved mill machinery, with every modern ap- 

 pliance to handle the timber and lumlier to the 

 best possible advantage. 



TOLEDO 



A local contract which will furnish a market 

 for considerable hardwood during the coming 

 season is the new Toledo postoffice, which is 

 now well under way. Under the contract the 

 structure is to be completed by December 1, and 

 it is said the building will be ready to turn over 

 by that time. 



At the home of his son in Toledo, recently, 

 occurred the death of Michael Rosenberger. In 

 1S52, with a company of twenty men, he went 

 to California by the overland route, and he was 

 the last man of the company to pass away. Four 

 yefrrs later he returned to Ohio and w'as well 

 known to hardwood men of this section, hav- 

 ing engaged in lumber business extensively in 

 Ohio and northern Michigan. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. M, Chesborough of Toledo are 

 en.ioying an outing at their lumber camp in 

 northern Michigan. 



Mrs. -Tames Iluling. who for many years re- 

 sided near Bellefountaine, O., was recently buried 

 in a cedar casket made from a tree which had 

 .shaded her old home. Sixty years ago, when she 

 was a child, she watched her grandfather 

 plant the tree and jokingly remarked : "When I 

 die this slip will have grown to be a large cedar 

 tree and the timber will serve as my coffin." 

 About a year ago she had the tree cut down 

 and the lumber made into a casket, which was 

 stored in her home, 



Hvirdwood dealers all over Ohio are much in- 

 terested in the appeal of the State Railroad Com- 

 mission from the courts of Franklin county in 

 favor of twenty-four railroads doing business in 

 Ohio, which was filed in the supreme court re- 

 cently. The lower courts held that the commis- 

 sion has no legal authority to enforce its orders 

 or regulations regarding car service, demurrage 

 and charges upon roads doing an interstate busi- 

 ness. As most of their commodities are of an 

 interstate character, they are peculiarly in- 

 terested in the decision, which is awaited from 

 the supreme court. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Sanders & Egbert Company at Goshen 

 has increased its capital stock to $00,000. 



William A. Guthrie, one of the wealthiest 

 liardwood men in Indiana, is being mentioned for 

 chairman of the Republican state committee, the 

 election to be held February 3. 



Frank C. C'line of this city and Fred E. Mus- 

 tard of Anderson have purchased the yards and 

 mill at Anderson, w'hich were owned by the 

 late George E, Springer, 



The business of the National Veneer Products 

 Company at Mishawaka has been incorporated 

 with an authorized capitalization of $10,000. 

 Directors are Charles Endlich, M. W. Mix and 

 F. P. Hewlett. 



Within a short time the name of the Colum- 

 bia Creosoting Company at Shirley will be 

 changed to the American Creosoting Company, 



In 1900 the company creosoted G03,0(K) ties and 

 treated 2,000,000 feet of lumber, 



Francis P. Bailey, vice-president of the L. W, 

 Ott Manufacturing Company, died recently at 

 his home in this city from complications result- 

 ing from ptomaine poisoningk lie was fifty-four 

 years old. 



The Talge Mahogany Company has recently 

 increased its capital stock from $200,000 to 

 $300,000. At this time the company is enjoy- 

 ing a big business and is looking forward to 

 an exceptionally good year. 



On January 31 the properly of the Wilkie 

 Manufacturing Company of Anderson will be 

 sold at receiver's sale by order of H. C. Sheri- 

 dan, referee in bankruptcy. The real estate will 

 be sold for the benefit of bond holders. A 

 debt of $100,000 loaned to the company by 

 stockholders has been stricken out of the entire 

 indebtedness. The company is a manufacturer 

 of hardwoods and refrigerators. 



Articles of incorporation have recently been 

 filed by the Dresden & Stanfield Lumber Com- 

 pany which has been in business at South 

 Bend for a number of years. The directors are 

 Henry C. Dresden, Howard S, Stanfield and 

 Flora S. Stanfield, and the authorized capitaliza- 

 tion is ,120,000. 



The Madison Handle Company of Madison 

 and the Columbus Handle Company of Columbus, 

 under practically the same ownership, have pur- 

 cliased 200,000 feet of standing timber on the 

 grounds of Hanover College at Hanover. Much 

 of the timber is asli, 



George L. Maas of the Maas-Neimeyer Lumber 

 Company has recently purchased twenty-one 

 acres of ground south of Garfield Park for the 

 sum of $13,750. 



The Gemmer Lumber Company, by authority 

 of the circuit court, has changed its name 

 to the Gemmer Veneer & Lumber Company. 



MEMPHIS 



I'roduction of hardwood lumber throughout 

 the Memphis territory is on a small scale com- 

 pared with normal for this time of year, owing 

 to the recent bad weather conditions. A heavy 

 snowstorm tied up most of the mills during the 

 preceding week and there has been a great deal 

 of rainfall recently, with the result that but 

 little lumber has been turned out. The woods 

 are now very wet, making it almost impossible 

 to do any work. An enormous amount of float- 

 ing ice in the Mississippi makes it impossible 

 for the mills here, which receive their tmher by 

 water, to make any progress whatever. There 

 is a strong desire on the part of manufacturers 

 to operate, and all mills that can be run are 

 working, but a large number find it impossible 

 to accomplish anything. 



The Nickey Brothers Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany is erecting a plant here for the manufac- 

 ture of hardwood lumber. It is located in North 

 Memphis, on a large tract of land so situated as 

 to give ready access to six lines of railway, thus 

 making shipping and receiving conditions practi- 

 cally ideal. This firm is composed of the same 

 gentlemen who operated at Galloway, Tenn., un- 

 der the name of the Nickej'-Dickson Lumber 

 Company, The change of location to Memphis 

 has been made because of the superior trans- 

 portation facilities here, and also because the 

 supply of timber on the company's land at Gallo- 

 way has been exhausted, S. M. Nickey is presi- 

 dent and W. E. Nickey is secretary. A, B. 

 Nickey of the A. B. Nickey & Sons Company, is 

 vice-president. The Nickey interests in Memphis 

 will he materially augmented by the erection of 

 the new mill, which is to be completed by the 

 time the president of the company returns from 

 his present European tour. 



George M. Brasfield, president of the Brasfield- 

 Thompson Lumber Company, which has a large 

 mill at Biscoe, Ark., states that it will be placed 

 in operation again w'ithin the next few days. 



