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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Comiiaii.v. is now Interested in the incorporation 

 of till' I'ollamcr Lumber Company o£ Cleveland 

 Willi a ea]>ital stock of $50,000. 



A compan.v has been formed in Cohunluis by 

 David C. .Meehan and a number of inominent 

 woodworking manufacturers, to nianufactnre and 

 sell a prcij.iralion said to effectually tiri-pi-oot all 

 wood. 



I.. 1!. SchneidiT of the .Tohn IS. Gobey Lumber 

 Company reports considerable activity in the 

 hardwood tradi-. The demand is good and the 

 oullcok very bright. Mr. Schneider looks feu- an 

 advance in many varieties of hardwoods soon. 



At the annual meeting of the Columbus Furni- 

 ture Dealers' Association, Robert Bell was elected 

 presideni ; C. L. Carlile, vice-president; W. E. 

 Heskelt. treasurer, and C. jr. Voorhees. secre- 

 _ lary. Tlie executive board consists of W. F. 

 CarrcK. 1'.^ W. Stewart and II. L. Harper. 



The Williamsburg Furniture Company, Will- 

 iamsburg. I)., has increased its capital stock from 



.f;!r),ooo to .$50,000. 



The sawmill and veneer plant belonging to 

 .T. V. Hankinson. Franklin, O., was totally de- 

 stroyed by lire recently, emailing a loss of 

 .flii.OOO. 



The Auglaize Box Board Company has in<-reased 

 its capital stock from .$100,000 to $200,000. 



II. AV. Collins, sales manager of the central 

 district for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 reports a good demand for all grades, llr. Col- 

 lins looks for a general advance all along the list 

 in the course of a mouth or six weeks. He be- 

 lieves that February will be one of the best 

 months of thc^ year and says the snowy weather 

 has been one of the chief drawbacks to a more 

 active demand, .Mr, Collins will leave soon for 

 a week's trip througli the eastern part of Penn- 

 sylvania. He ri'turned several days ago from a 

 visit to a number of automobile Inidy manufac- 

 turers. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumlier Company of Colum- 

 bus has closed a deal whereby it acquires a 

 28,000-acre tract of timber land located on a 

 number of the forks of the Guyandotte river in 

 West Virginia. The tract was acijuired from the 

 Western Pocahontas Corporation, one of the 

 large coal interests in that .section. The timber 

 will be cut at the Maben and Fitzpatrick mills 

 located nearby. It contains poplar, oak and hem- 

 lock and other varieties in smaller tpiantities. 



The Caufield Lumber Company of Canfleld. 

 Ohio, was incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $15,000 by H. L. Weikert and otliers, 



A, C. Miller of Delaware has added a pinning 

 mill to his sawmill and will dress all hardwoods. 

 C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 McLaughlin-IIoffmau I>umber Company, says the 

 factory trade is good and the yard trade sliows 

 signs of improvement. He is of the opinion tliat 

 lliere will be an increase in liardwoods if mills 

 do not produce too much. 



II. C. Bard of the .Middle States Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a brigiit outlook, although the de- 

 mand is a little slow at this time. D. O. Mc- 

 Farland of the Middle States company is on a 

 busini-ss trip through northern Ohio and south- 

 ern Micliigan. G. O. McFarland, another member 

 of the eompan.v, is located at Shri'voport, La., 

 buying stocks for the company. 



The Columbus Saw .Alill Company, at its an- 

 nual meeting, elected the following board of di- 

 rectors ; William Gushing. J, E. Cummins, W. D. 

 Norton, C. T. Roberts and M. K. Naile. William 

 Gushing was re-elected president; W. D. Norton, 

 vice-president: .1. E. Cummins, treasurer and 

 general manager ; M. K. Naile, secretary, and 

 C. F. Roberts, superintendent of mill. The com- 

 pany operates a band mill of 25.000 feet ca- 

 pacity. Tlie year 1!10!l was a very good one and 

 General Mana.ger Cummins reports a good de- 

 mand for all kinds of hardwood. The demand 

 for walnut from Hamburg, Germany, is now 

 much better and .several shipments will be made 

 soon. 



CINCINNATI 



William iJuliliiieier is touring Ohio and luili- 

 ana in the interests of the firm, and will retiu-n 

 at the end of the week. 



W. E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber Co. lias 

 iclurned from a trip through the South. He says 

 that business with the compan.v is fair, though at 

 present he is very busy going over the mail ac- 

 cuuiuiated during his absence. He says there 

 has been a good log tide in the Kentucliy river, 

 and Ihe mill al Burnside will start cutting early 

 next week. The mill at Williamsburg is well 

 supplied with logs, and will commence opeiations 

 befoi-e the end of the week. .Mr. IieLaney is an 

 optimist at all times, and is of the opinion I bat 

 the present wave of business prosperity will con- 

 tinue', but that it will be some time before the 

 conservatLsm caused l>y the recent slump will 

 wear away sufflciently to give the old-time confi- 

 dence to business conditions. 



The Freiberg Lumber Company is pushing (he 

 veneer end of its business and contemplaliug the 

 addition of large storage sheds. The company is 

 specializing in mahogany lumber, and has one of 

 the largest supplies in the city. Mr. Freiberg re- 

 turned home Friday from a trip through -the 

 state. 



Fred Cimn of llii- Ilayou Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany is in Mississippi looking after the interests 

 of the company. Sam Conn is in Louisiana at 

 the company's timber tract and mill interest* in 

 tile Bayou country. The business at the Cincin- 

 nali ofHce is very good. 



.7. Dennis of the St. James Cedar Company left 

 for Mobile. Ala., Tuesday on a buying mission, 

 the deal embracing a large stock ot^ air-dried 

 quarter-sawed oak. 



There is much activily in the Southern railroad 

 yards in the handling of southern pine, espe- 

 cially heavy building timbers, most of which has 

 been reconsigned to the East. Locally there is not 

 much activity, owing to a holding back in the 

 conditions of the building trades. Contractors 

 complain that up to this time there has been less 

 new building prospects in sight than at any time 

 in years, and that building conditions are very 

 unsettled. The high prices of living and the de- 

 mands of labor are threatening to have a serious 

 effect on the building trades in the sprin.g. 



The StiUe Brothers have purchased the ground 

 at McLean avenue and Wade street occupied by 

 the .yards of Samuel II. Taft, thus becoming own- 

 ers of the entire block boundeil by Dalton avenue 

 McLean avenue. Wade and Poplar streets. The 

 Stilles operate the big furniture plant known as 

 the Stille & Duhlmeier Co. Samuel II. Taft will 

 vacate the ground, which lias Ijeen leased to 

 Duhlmeier Bros., lumber dealers, who will a. Id 

 the ground to their own yard, which occupies lui- 

 next lot east of the old Taft yard. The lumbet 

 in the Taft yards is being removed as rapidly as 

 possible, consisting chiefly of building material. 

 The Duhlmeier Brothers specialize in hardwoods, 

 and do an extensive business with furniture man- 

 ufacturers. 



It. G. Page of the Licking River Lumber Coni- 

 Iiany. Huntington. W. Va.. was a visitor at the 

 Hardwood .Manufacturers' headrpiarters the past 

 w#k. N. B. Nielus of the Little River Lunilnv 

 Company, Philadel|ilua, I'a.. dropped in Monday 

 to pay his respects to Secretary Doster while oil 

 a business mission to the city. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Jlan- 

 ufacturers' Association of the United States, left 

 .Monday for Chicago, 



.1. Watt Graham, president of the Graham 

 Lumber Company, says that business is good, and 

 that for the past month it has been all that 

 could have been expected. His road representa- 

 tive, Fred Dulius. who has Just returned from a 

 trip through Kentucky and Ohio, reported that 

 business all along the line was very good, and 

 that he would go back over the same territory in 

 a week or ten days. 



Cliff S. Walker, president of the Cincinnati 



Lumbermen's Club, was very busy with the work 

 of the committees arranging the entertainment 

 of the delegates attending the convention of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' -Association. He was 

 compelled to leave his office early Monday and 

 seek rest, suffering from an attack of neuralgia. 



.lames J. Ileekin. the newly elected president 

 of the Chamber of Commerce, who was elected by 

 the lumbermen of the chamber, has been confined 

 to his home by illness, hut is slowly recovering, 

 being now able to visit the cliamber for an hour 

 or .so a day. 



Furniture manufacturers are running steadily, 

 'but are not overworked, as this is the slow sea 

 son. and the results of the buying at the mar 

 kets are not yet being felt, but there is a cheer 

 ful tone among the manufacturers, and lumber 

 salesmen are being cordially received. There is 

 some revival noted in the manufacture of desks, 

 which for the past two years has been the slow- 

 est branch of the fnrtjiture manufacturing in- 

 dustry. Orders for export are being received and 

 the domestic demand is steadily growing. 



R. Sondheimer of the E. Sondheimer Compan.v. 

 Memphis. Tenn., was a visilor in this city la.-t 

 week. looking over the field and calling on busi- 

 ness acquaintances. 



Secretary Sterrett of the Lumbermen's Club 

 has been a very busy member the past month ar- 

 ranging for all the entertainments given and as- 

 sisting the various committees. 



W. II. Ileaton. Ihe executive clerk of the Hard- 

 wood .Manufacturers' -Association, sa.vs the head- 

 (]uarters will remain a very liusy spot for some 

 time, arranging for the purjlicatlon of the rep,,ri 

 of the recent convention in this cit.v. The official 

 steuograplier's report has just been turned in and 

 covers 2()0 pages of t.vpewritten legal cap paper. 

 .7. L. Strickland of Starns & Strickland. .Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., was a guest of the Cincinnati Lum- 

 bermen's Club at its dinner February .S, but was 

 lompelled to leave early on account of another 

 engagement. He was accompanied by .7. G. (Jrltt- 

 man of .loshua (Jldham & Sons, Brooklyn. N. Y., 

 the well-known saw concern. 



W. B. Townsend lost a valuable diamouil dur- 

 ing his visit to Cincinnati in attendance on the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' convention. 



The banquet in connection with the convention 

 of the National \A'holesalc Lumber Dealers' .Asso- 

 ciation at the Sinton Hotel, on the evening of 

 March 2, will be a strictly foi-mal affair. 



.\. B. .Tackson of .\ult & .lackson was taKcn to 

 Ihe .Tewish Hospital on Saturday last and a deli- 

 cate operation performed. It was very successful 

 and Jlr. Jackson will make a good recovery, 

 thougli it will be some time before he will be 

 able to resume the duties at the office. 



Ralph .McCracken of the Iventucky Lumber 

 Company and Fred Duling of the Graham Lum- 

 ber Company left Tuesday night after the club 

 meeting to attend the convention of the Ken- 

 tucky Retail Ijumber Dealers' -A.ssociatlon at 

 Louisville. Mr. Duling will make a tour of the 

 South before his return. 



.\ strong effort will be made by the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club to properly advertise Cincin- 

 nati as the greatest hardwood market In the 

 world. .\l though other cities are claiming to hold 

 this coveted position, it can be clearly demon- 

 strated that Cincinnati handles more hardwoods 

 than any other point. 



The statistical deiiartment of the Cincinnati 

 Chamber of Commerce furnishes the following 

 ngures showing the lumber movement in Cincin- 

 nati for the month of .January: Receipts, 5,74.'! 

 cars, as compared with o,;i4S cars for the same 

 month last year. The shipments for January 

 were 5.4117 cars, while those of January, IOCS, 

 were ;;..sr,i cars. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



P.uihnng operalions in ilie city during Jauii- 

 ar.v amounted to $276,.385, as compared wilh 

 $178,520 during the correisponding monlh of 

 last year. 



The S. P. Coppock & Sons Lumber Company 



