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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sidored safe the logs will be floated down to the 

 mill. 



H. C. Buskirk of the General Lumber Company 

 recently returned from a week's trip through 

 Kentucky and West Virginia. H. W. Putnam, 

 president, reports a steady demand from manu- 

 facturing establishments for hardwoods. He says 

 prices are firm. J. C. Burns, superintendent of 

 the mills and timber tracts, together with sev- 

 eral of his assistants, have returned to Ashland, 

 K.y.. after consulting with the officers of the 

 company in Columbus. 



H. W. Collins, manager of the central sales 

 division of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 reports a steady market for all varieties of 

 hardwoods. He says orders are coming in satis- 

 factorily and that the month of February to 

 date has been good. Prices remain stiff. F. B. 

 Pryor. manager of the western sales division. 

 and A. L. Gilliam, manager of the eastern sales 

 division, located at Chicago and Philadelphia, 

 respectively, met with H. W. Collins of the 

 Columbus office February 12 in the usual monthly 

 meeting. Both managers reported a nice run of 

 orders with bright prospects for the future. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 McLaughlin-Hoffman Lumber Compan.v, reports a 

 satisfactory business, especially from factories. 

 He notes some improvement in the demand from 

 dealers. 



Lumbermen in central Ohio, especially those 

 interested in Southern tracts, have received an 

 announcement of the rivers and harbors appro- 

 priation in the House of Representatives, which 

 allows $3,500,000 for the improvement of the 

 Ohio river during the coming year. Many lum- 

 bermen are interested in the project to secure a 

 n-foot stage in the Ohio river from Cairo. III., 

 t(. Pittsburg all the year around. 



The Portage Lumber Company of Akron, O.. 

 was incorporated recently with a capital stock 

 of ,$20,000 by a number of Akron men. IC. H. 

 Hays is one of the backers of the new company. 

 The firm of H. J. Reinhard & Co., wholesalers 

 of Columbus, has removed to Winton Place, near 

 Cincinnati, where it conducts a wholesale yard. 

 Hardwoods is one of the chief stocks it handles. 

 W. L. Whitacre of the lumber company bear- 

 ing his name is on a business trip through Ohio. 

 The New Ohio Furniture Company of Columlius 

 was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000 

 by George H. Booth, Edgar ,T. Oberting. ,T. F. 

 Sullivan. John ,T. Sullivan and Herbert Rarey. 



C. B. Weakley, superintendent of the operating 

 department of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently attended a meeting of creditors of 

 the Holland Veneer Company at Holland, Mich. 

 The DuBois & McCoy Lumber Company of 

 Bellaire, O., was incorporated with a capital 

 stock of ,$20,000 by W. E. Harvey and others. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company has broken 

 ground for the erection of a 100,000-foot capacity 

 mill at Proctor. N. C. It is expected that as 

 soon as the mill is completed the name of the 

 postofflce at that place will be changed. The mill 

 will be of the double-band variety and will be 

 equipped with a planing mill and all other ap- 

 paratus. 



The Imperial Lumber Company of Columbus 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $50,000 to develop certain timber lands in the 

 South. The incorporators are .John A. Ford. G. 

 S. Furheson, Robert Brown, M. C. Welsh and 

 N. Snyder. Sherwood D. Morgan of the firm of 

 Kile & Morgan is one of the backers of the con- 

 ci'rn. The plans of the new company will he 

 announced later. 



The Jacoby-Delauey Lumber Company ot Ham- 

 ilton, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 of $10,000 by H, C. Jacoby and others. 



At the annual meeting of the Portsmouth 

 Veneer & Panel Company the following officers 

 were elected : A. T. Holcomb, president : George 

 Malhews, vice-president; .Tohn Lange, secretary, 

 and W. S. Walker, general manager and treas- 

 urer. These officers, with U. A. Swisshelm, con- 

 stitute the board of directors. 



The shippers of Ohio and the railroads doing 

 business in the state will get together in their 

 effort to have the Railway Commission approve 

 the new set of car service rules, which will 

 become effective April 1 over intra-state ship- 

 icents. The rules have been approved by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission and are satis- 

 factory to shippers and receivers generally. The 

 lules provide for an average plan of demurrage. 

 It is desii-ed by all shippers, including lumber 

 .iobbers, to have the same rules apply over inter- 

 state and over intra-state shipments. 



Col, James Kilbourne, head of the Kilbourne 

 & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, reports a 

 large number of orders and excellent prospects 

 for the future. The company is one of the largest 

 manufai turers in the country of many wooden 

 articles and consumes a large amount of hard- 

 woods. At the annual meeting James Kilbourne 

 was elected president and general manager ; Felix 

 A. Jacobs, first vice-president ; James R. Kil- 

 bourne, second vice-president ; Fred W. Hubbard, 

 secretary ; Frank C. Eaton, treasurer, and Joseph 

 D. Potter, auditor. 



CINCINNATI 



The "Woodpeckers' Table" was inaugurated at 

 tlie Business Men's Club at the noonday lunch 

 on Saturday, February 10. A large number of 

 the local lumbermen are members of the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club, and a special table has been 

 arranged in the large dining liall on the seventh 

 floor, over which is suspended the sign "Wood- 

 peckers' Table." .\t this table every noon hour 

 will be gathered such of the lumbermen as call 

 (or their lunch and all affairs of interest to 

 them can be talked over while enjoying the 

 noon meal. At the inaugural dinner were Clif 

 S. Walker, Clinton Crane, W, A. Bennett, Lewis 

 Doster, Thomas J. Moffett, John Heberger, Max 

 Kosse, E. M. Sprague, George Littleford, Stuart 

 Menzies, C. M. Clark, B. F. Dulweber, W, S. 

 Stcrrett, Dwight Hinckley, E. J. Thoman. W. E. 

 Delaney, W. J. Eckman, Frank L. Scott, H. J. 

 Pflester and G. S. Stewart. Besides these there 

 are a number of lumbermen members who ^ere 

 absent from the city, but who will always be 

 found at the "Woodpeckers' Table" at the noon 

 hour. This opening lunch was a most enjoyable 

 occasion ; several informal talks were given by 

 those present and also numerous toasts. Lewis 

 Doster was elected chief game warden, with 

 B. F. Dulweber and Clinton Crane as assistants. 

 Col. S. Stanberry was chosen sergeant-at-arms. 



Washington's birthday was observed by nearly 

 all the downtown offices closing at noon. The 

 headquarters of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association also closed. The mills and the lum- 

 liermen in the outskirts put in a full day at 

 hard work, owing to the wretched condition of 

 outside operations caused by the weather. 



The heavy weather of the present winter is 

 said to have been without precedent in the his- 

 tory of the valley. More snow has fallen and 

 traffic has been interfered with to a greater 

 extent than ever before recorded. 



Cincinnati is to have a new passenger depot 

 in the not very distant future. Council and 

 the business organizations have taken up the 

 union depot project, owing to the fact that the 

 numerous railroads centering here could not get 

 together. Council will pass an ordinance de- 

 claring a new depot necessary and will condemn 

 (he property necessary for the depot and the 

 right of way, and a company of capitalists stand 

 ready to put up the building and rent the depot 

 tc> the various steam and electric roads entering 

 the city. 



the plant of the Indiana Veneer & Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city. 



A factory for the manufacture of screens and 

 mission furniture is being established at Marion 

 by James F. Townsend, who will operate under 

 the name of the Marion Furniture & Screen Door 

 t^'ompany. 



The Webb-Gordon Furniture Company has 

 been incorporated with an authorized capitaliza- 

 tion of $10,000 at Greenfield by J. F. Webb, G. 

 W. Gordon and W. C. Welborn. It will take over 

 the factory of the Comstoek-McKee Furniture 

 Company. 



A farm of 428 acres near Palmyra has been 

 purchased by the Wood-Mosaic Company of New 

 Ailjany for the timber it contains. After the 

 timber is removed the farm will be sold. The 

 price paid was $25,000. 



Beech Grove, a new railroad town adjoining 

 Indianapolis on the southeast, is to receive Uv 

 benefit of the expenditure of $1,000,000 by the 

 Big Four Railroad Company at that place. 

 Twelve new buildings w'ill bo erected, including 

 a coach shop, dry kiln and a two-story planing 

 mill. 



The Talge Mahogany Company has just re- 

 ceived 100 car loads of mahogany logs from the 

 west coast of Africa via rail from New Orleans. 

 This is the largest sliipment of the kind ever 

 received in Indianapolis, and it is estimated that 

 the logs will yield about 1,000,000 feet of ma- 

 hogany lumber and veneer. W. H. Day and W. 

 E. Van Talge were in Africa for several months 

 bu,ving the logs direct from tlie natives employed 

 by the king of the Ashantee tribe. The logs 

 were carried overland by natives to ravines, 

 where during the rainy season they were washed 

 to a stream and carried to the seaport, from 

 which they were shipped to this city. By buy- 

 ing from the natives the middle man's profit 

 that would have had to be paid by buying at 

 Liverpool was saved. 



EVANSVILLB 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The C. S. Jones Lumber Comp.any has suc- 

 ceeded the Greensburg Lumber Company, an old 

 established concern at Greensburg. 



A number of improvements are being made at 



Walter G. Bass of the National Veneer & Lum- 

 ber Company of Indianapolis was in the city 

 recently on his way South. 



C. \V. Talge of the Evansville Veneer Company 

 is in Jackson superintending the erection of his 

 new plant. He expects to have it ready for 

 operation soon. 



F. M. Cutsinger of Young & Cutsinger returned 

 this week from a trip to Jackson, Tenn., and 

 otiier southern points. 



Mr. Hobart of Ilobart & Co., Boston, was in 

 the city last week. , 



The Mossman Lumber Company of this city is 

 planning to erect a large band mill in Memphis, 

 Tenn. F. G. Smith, the head of the company, 

 will shortly go to Memphis to look after the con- 

 struction. 



Claude Maley of Jlaley & Wertz has been 

 temporarily confined to his home owing to a 

 slight illness. 



The Tell City Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Tell Cit-y, Ind., has increased the capacit.v 

 of its plant by the addition of another story to 

 its main building, the new space to be used as 

 a finishing room. 



A new brick plant, 150 by 60 feet, two-stories 

 high, is soon to be erected by the P. H. Red- 

 dinger Carving Works of this city. The equip- 

 ment will be of the most improved type. The 

 new plant, it is said, will be one of the largest 

 wood-carving plants in the country. The com- 

 pan.v manufactures furniture ornaments of all 

 kinds. 



The Hercules Buggy Company of this city has 

 filed articles of reincorporaf ion at ludianaiiolis 

 and will increase its capital stock from ,$;100,000 

 t.. $1,000,000. This will give Evansville one of 

 ilu' largest buggy manufacturing concerns in the 

 world. On account of the growth of the busi- 

 ness, extensive improvements and advances in 

 value, the prior capitalization did not represent 

 the volume of business. 



