HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Louisville a new furnitui-e factory and a veneer 

 mill that will furnish the line, that is complete 

 in every respect. The board of directors are : 

 Charles W. Inman, Wm. A. Picrson, H. R. White- 

 side, O. G. Hardin and .lames U. Duffln. Chas. 

 W. Inman is the president, II. R. Whiteside, 

 vice-president, and Wm. A. Pierson, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



latter company had in its flooring plant at 

 Cattlettsburg, Ky. It is the intention of the 

 Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company to re- 

 move all this machinery to its present location 

 in Konova and operate in connection with its 

 bevel siding, moulding, etc., and manufacture 

 hardwood flooring. 



ASHLA.\D 



The Wright-Saulsberry Lumber Company 

 started its band mill last week. Enough tim- 

 ber was received on the tides to run the mill 

 steadily for several Tnonths. Giles Wright, 

 president of the company, attended the meet- 

 ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion in Cincinnati last week. 



In the January 25th issue of the Record it 

 was reported that the name of the Wright-Sauls- 

 berry Lumber Company had been changed to 

 the Giles Wright Lumber Company. This was 

 an error, as no change was made. 



W. H. Dawkins and W. E. Berger, of the 

 W. H. Hawkins Lumber Company, attended the 

 meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 I'iation February 1, 2 and M. They report busi- 

 ness very satisfactory and advise that the band 

 mill is operating on full time. Some very fine 

 poplar timber was received on the tides of last 

 week. 



Charles A. Miller, of this city, who is now 

 sales manager for the J. W. Johnson Company, 

 Huntington, W. Va., has organized a new lum- 

 ber company, of which he and G. W. Crosier, 

 of Huntington, W. Va., are the chief promoters. 

 They have purchased a tract of 2,000 acres of 

 timber on the Greenbrier river, about twenty 

 miles above Ronceverte, W. Va. Mr. Miller at 

 present is on the grounds laying out the loca- 

 tion for a commissary building, hotel, and a 

 number of dwelling houses for employees. The 

 company will construct a suspension bridge 

 across the Greenbrier river and will haul its 

 logs to the mill which it is building on the 

 C. & O. Railroad. In order to do this, it will 

 also build about six miles of railroad to its 

 timber. Mr. Miller will retain his position with 

 the J. W. Johnson Company and Mr. Crosier 

 has resigned bis position with the same com- 

 pany and will be general manager for the 

 Miller-Crosier Lumber Company, which will be 

 located at Anthony, W. Va. Both gentlemen 

 are experienced lumbermen in every respect and 

 their undertaking is an assured success. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, attended the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' meeting at Cincinnati and reports 

 one of the best meetings the association has 

 ever held. The company advises business is 

 very satisfactory, and reports the receipt of 

 large and desirable orders for car stock at good 

 prices, and more orders for oai£ flooring than it 

 is able to handle. The company has just com- 

 pleted its new Emerson dry kiln, at its floor- 

 ing plant at Huntington, W. Va., which will 

 increase its capacity. The band sawmill at 

 Farmers, Ky., is being operated full time and 

 the company is shipping large amounts of lum- 

 ber, car stock and construction oak. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company started 

 Its band mill at Coal Grove the first of this 

 month with a large supply of timber on hand 

 and expects to operate steadily for several 

 months. On the tides of last week it received 

 a large supply of poplar timber which was let 

 through the new splash dam in breaks of the 

 Big Sandy a short time ago. W. A. Crawford 

 was in attendance at the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association's meeting at Cincinnati last 

 week. 



The Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company, 

 of Kenova, W. A'a., has closed a deal with the 

 Lineham Lumber Company, whereby it comes 

 into possession of the machinery which the 



ST. LOUIS 



Building operations for January, according 

 to the report of the building commissioner. In- 

 creased more than ,f300,000 over the correspond- 

 ing month in 1909, the total operations for 

 the month being $1,401,000, as against $1,124,- 

 219 for January of 1909. 



The following is a report of the movement 

 of lumber at this market during January : Re- 

 ceipts by rail during January, 1910, were 12,- 

 982 cars ; during January, 1909, there were 

 10,423 cars, an increase of 2,559 cars in 1910. 

 Shipments by rail during January, 1910, were 

 S.9T9 cars : shipments by rail during January, 

 1909, were 7,309 cars, an increase of 1,670 cars 

 during this year. Owing to the river being 

 closed by ice during the entire month, there 

 were no shipments or receipts by river. Last 

 year the water was low and there were no re- 

 ceipts or shipments. 



The lumber inspected and measured by the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis during 

 January was as follows, as reported by Secre- 

 tary Bush : 



Plain oak 163,456 feet 



(Quartered oak 57,063 feet 



Poplar 105,563 feet 



Walnut 18,486 feet 



Ash 42,042 feet 



Cypress 61,405 feet 



Elm 39 feet 



Ilackborry 90 feet 



Total 448,144 feet 



A. J. Lang was elected treasurer of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of St. Louis at a meeting 

 of the board of directors held a few days ago. 

 The secretary will not be elected until February 

 11, when the board of directors will hold another 

 meeting. It is pretty certain that A. B. Bush, 

 the present secretary, will be elected to succeed 

 himself, as he has been a good and faithful 

 secretary for the past several years. The ex- 

 change adopted the following resolution : 



Whereas, The directors of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of St. Louis learn with profound sor- 

 row of "the death of George W. Stoneman, who 

 for some years was a liighly esteemed member ol 

 this exchange : and 



Whereas, His integrity and straightforward- 

 ness in business and his manly and lovable char- 

 acter endeared him to all who knew him ; there- 

 fore be it 



Resolved, That in the death of George W. 

 Stoneman the lumber trade has lost a valued 

 member and the community a citizen whose high 

 standard in both business and civic life should 

 be an example to all ; and be it further 



Resolved. That the deepest sympathy be ex- 

 tended to his bereaved wife and family and that 

 a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the 

 minutes of this exchange. 



Thomas E. Powe. 

 Roland F. Krebs, 

 Fraxz Waldsteix. 



An involuntary bankruptcy petition against 

 the Grand Valley Lumber Company was filed 

 a few days ago in the United States circuit 

 court. The petitioners and their claims arc 

 Great Southwestern Lumber Company, $966 ; 

 Ozan Lumber Company, $399, and the Behrens 

 Lumber Company. The death of J. N. Steber, 

 president of the company, which occurred a 

 short time ago, was the cause of the filing of 

 the petition. 



Henry Hatterkamp, one of the best-known St. 

 Louis lumbermen in the local trade, died on 

 January 24, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. 

 He had been connected for forty-four years 

 with the John: A. Holmes Lumber Company and 

 for many years was the vice-president of the 

 company. He began his connection with the 

 company when he was but fifteen years old. 



Stephen R. Browne, cashier of the Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company, who was taken down 

 suddenly with appendicitis on December 29 and 

 immediately operated upon, is getting along 

 nicely. Mr. Browne has been connected with 

 the company for the past twelve years, and has 

 many friends who arc glad to hear of his 

 prospective recovery. 



E. L. Page, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Alf. Bennett Lumber Com- 

 pany, is in the South on business. Before leav- 

 ing he said that the Bennett company was doing 

 a fine business on all items on the list, espe- 

 cially oak. This item has been in big demand 

 and the facilities of the Bennett company 

 enables it to supply almost all demands made. 

 Good prices are being obtained. 



Among the visitors in St. Louis recently was 

 S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis. Mr. Major formerly resided 

 in St. Louis and was connected with the Steele 

 & Hibbard Lumber Company. 



After spending several weeks on the Pacific 

 coast, W. W. Dings, of the Garetson-Greason 

 Lumber Company, has returned. He had his 

 family with him on the coast and left them 

 pleasantly located at Santa Barbara, where they 

 will spend the balance of the winter. He 

 brought back several large orders for car 

 material. 



George E. Cottrill, secretary of the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, says Inquiries are 

 coming in nicely since the first of the year. Or- 

 ders are quite numerous also and the prospects 

 are good for a big trade in the near future. 



George Luehrmann of the Chas. F. Luehr- 

 mann Hardwood Lumber Company says orders 

 have been plentiful the past few days, and are 

 coming in more freely all the time. He looks 

 for a nice trade in the spring. 



William Lothman of the Lothman Cypress 

 Company says the sales of cypress are increas- 

 ing in number right along. Prices, too, are 

 going up. 



LITTLE ROCK 



At a meeting held here recently by repre- 

 sentative lumbermen of the state, it was de- 

 cided to build a Hoo-Hoo temple and otBce build- 

 ing devoted exclusively to lumber interests. A 

 company capitalized at $250,000 is to be incor- 

 porated and such men as A. C. Ramsey of Nash- 

 ville and C. T. Abeles of this city comprise the 

 finance committee. Stock to the amount of $11,- 

 000 was taken at the initial meeting. The build- 

 ing is to be a nine-story, fireproof structure. 

 Among other things, it is believed the erection 

 of such a structure here, devoted purely to the 

 interests of the lumber trade, will bring the 

 general offices of the hardwood men from Mem- 

 phis and other points to this city. 



An order issued by the state railroad com- 

 mission, requiring the St. Louis, Iron Moun- 

 tain & Southern Railway Company to install the 

 ''rough material" rate on its lines within ten 

 days, or suffer prosecution, is expected to bring 

 results beneficial to the lumbermen. All roads 

 have installed these rates except the Iron Moun- 

 tain, which still insists on the old plan of "re- 

 bating on re-shipment." 



A big deal has been closed by the Henry 

 Wrape Stave Company of Paragould, whereby 

 one of the finest bodies of white oak timber in 

 eastern Arkansas comes into its possession. 

 The tract contains 2,285 acres, situated fifteen 

 miles south of Stuttgart, in Arkansas county, 

 and was purchased from M. A. Gauldin and 

 Martin L. Pierce of Trimble. Tenn. The con- 

 sideration was $47,985, or $21 per acre. The 

 timber will be worked up for the company's big 

 plant at Paragould. 



The Heber Hardwood Company has been In- 

 corporated at Heber, in Cleburne county, with a 

 capital stock of $25,000. It will engage in the 



