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famous "Woodpeckers' Table" at the Busi- 

 ne<3s Men's Club. 



At its March meeting the Queen City Fur- 

 niture Club extended a vote of tlianks to the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States for its invitation to consumers 

 to attend the meetings of its grading- confer- 

 ence. A new board of officers, with W. J. 

 Sextro. a prominent manufacturer, as presi- 

 dent, was installed. 



The new Provident Bank building is rapidl.v 

 becoming a large lumber colony. The new 

 offlces of Fagin & Kirkpatrick, on the eighth 

 floor, are now completely furnished and pre- 

 sent a welcome appearance. Mr. Fagin was 

 formerly with Dwight Hinckley, while Mr. 

 Kirkpatrick is the well-known millman of 

 the Ripley Mill & Lumber Company of Rip- 

 lev. Ohio. 



TOLEDO 



Building iu Toloilo during the past week 

 has developed some activity and a season of 

 unusual prosperity is anticipated. Contracts for 

 new work have already been signed, amounting 

 to mor.? than $3,000,000 and there is a large 

 '.nlume which has not yet reached the contract 

 lage. The new work is not confined to any one 

 line, but will consist of industrial, residence 

 and commercial property. Present indications 

 point to a season of unusual activity, and local 

 lumbermen feel that they have made no mistake 

 in building their hardwood stocks to their pres- 

 ent large proportions. 



W. S. Booth, manager of the Booth Column 

 Company, who has been in the East on a busi- 

 ness trip for the past three weeks, will return 

 .shortly. Reports from the local plant say that, 

 while business has been dull during the winter 

 season, the spring trade is now coming in, and 

 prospects are for an unusual activity from this 

 time forward. 



Henry C. Wason, proprietor of the lumber 

 firm of H. C. Wason & Co. of Toledo, died sud- 

 denly this week from heart failure. He had been 

 a resident of the city for thirty-five years and 

 was sixt5--six years old at the time of death. 

 He was well and favorably known to the lumber 

 trade throughout this section and was a promi- 

 nent member of the Masonic order. 



Ths Hardware & Woodonware Manufacturing 

 (Company's plant at Kenton, Ohio, has again re- 

 sumed operations after being closed down for a 

 year on account of litigation. The full working 

 force of 150 men will soon be engaged. 



A. 11. David of the David Lumber Company 

 is on a business trip to Waterville, Ohio. The 

 concern reports a brisk demand from factories 

 for all kinds of hardwoods, with belated ship- 

 ments from the Michigan district. 



The name of the Traffic Bureau of Toledo 

 ^as been changed to the Receivers' & Shippers' 

 Bureau of Toledo. It will become a department 

 of the Toledo Business Men's Club and will 

 maintain offices on the sixteenth floor of the 

 .Nicholas building, where A. C. Fischer, secretary 

 and commissioner, and O. B. Wood, rate clerk, 

 win be in chari:e. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



E. K. Parry of the Parry Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has returned from a trip to Florida and 

 .Jamaica. 



The aggregate amount of building permits 

 issued during February was .^MrM.TG.j, as com- 

 pared wilh $.312,710 for the corresponding month 

 of 1909. 



A. K. Hollowell. L. P. Hollonell and G. E. 

 Iladley have organized the Veneer Joining Com- 

 pany in Indianapolis with .?.^.000 capital. They 

 will join and sell veneers and hardwoods. 



Innes. Pearce & Co., furniture manufacturers 

 at Rushville, nre installing a 200 horse-power 



Corliss engine, which it is believed will give 

 the concern abundance of power. 



William P.. Barry, founder of the Barry Saw 

 Company, died at his home in this city a few 

 days ago. He was sixty-nine years old. 



About 21.000 acres of timber land in Florida, 

 which it is believed will yield 23,000 feet of 

 lumber to the acre, has been purchased by Lee 

 C. Thayer, W. C. Dudding and Charles S. Town- 

 send of Greenfield. 



The New Market Lumber Company has been 

 organized and incorporated at New Market with 

 i>ii authorized capitalization of .$25,000. Those 

 interested in the concern are William E. Childers. 

 \Villiam W. Busenbark and Leiand C. Childers. 



Property formerly owned and occupied by the 

 Mainland Manufacturing Company, manufac- 

 turers of hardwoods, has just been sold to the 

 Enterprise Foundry & Fence Company, which 

 is erecting a new factory. The property is 

 .Tt Yandcs and Twenty-fourth streets. 



R. P. Benson, S. M. Benson and Delia M. 

 Butler have organized the American Lumber 

 Company at Madison. The company has been 

 incorporated and is capitalized at $10,000. 



'T. G. Pierson of Spencer has been elected a 

 director of the newly organized Spencer Com- 

 mercial Club, which hopes to attract a number 

 of new manufacturing plants to that city. 



John B. Emerson, for twenty years superinten- 

 dent of the Balke & Krauss Company, hardwood 

 lumber dealers and manufacturers, was mur- 

 dered near his home recently, presumably by a 

 hold-up man. He was fll'ty-eight years old and 

 was formerly engaged in the lumber business 

 with his father, the late R. B. Emerson. A 

 reward of $1,000 has been offered for the ap- 

 prehension and conviction of the murderer. 



EVANSVILLB 



H. I. Cutsinger of the Putnam Veneer & 

 Lumber Company of Roachdale, Ind.. was in 

 town this week. 



Frank L. Donneil. sales manager for Young & 

 C'utsinger with oflrce in Indianapolis, spent a 

 couple of days at the local office of the firm 

 this week. Mr. Donneil is pleased with the out- 

 look for business. 



At a meeting of the stockholders of the Hick- 

 man-Elbert Wagon Works of Owensboro, Ky., re- 

 cently it was decided to sell the plant and dis- 

 band the company, as the factory for the past 

 two years has been a losing venture. The com- 

 pany was incorporated December 30. 1904, and 

 was capitalized at $300,000. James H. Parrish, 

 who is now serving a sentence in the peniten- 

 tiary for wrecking the Owensboro Savings Bank 

 & Trust Company, was one of the moving spirits 

 iu starting the plant. For a time the plant was 

 one of the busiest in this section. Two years 

 ago the plant was shut down and has been 

 running spasmodically since. The plant will be 

 sold by the sheriff on March 15, the receipts to 

 go towards paying the numerous debts of the 

 concern. 



Walter G. Bass of the National Veneer & 

 Lumber Company of Indianapolis was in Evans- 

 \\\\q this week. 



The Indiana Hardwood Lumber Company was 

 incorporated at Shelby, Ind., recently with a 

 capital stock of $40,000. The directors are 

 Joseph T., Arthur L. and Clay B. Johnson. The 

 concrrn will manufacture hardwood lumber. 



George P. Cheatle, representing, the Manufac- 

 turing Wood Workers' Underwriters of Chicago, 

 was in town on business last week. 



The new plant of the Xever Split Seat Com- 

 pany is nearly finished and will be in operation 

 about April 1. 



.\mong recent visitors to the trade here were 

 George M. Hoban with (Jeorge J. Kennedy, 1 

 Madison avenue. New York, and F. J. Roys, 

 sales manager for the FuUerton-Powell Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind. 



An addition 80 by 160 feet, two stories high, 

 is being erected at the plant of the Carriage 

 Woodstock Company, Owensboro, Ky. It will 

 be used for building automobiles. The company 

 expects to turn out 200 finished cars this season. 



The Wabash Manufacturing Company of Wa- 

 bash, Ind., is erecting factory buildings at Terre 

 Haute, .and expects to move its plant there in 

 .\pril. The company manufactures a line of 

 children's wagons, hand cars, steel sleds and 

 also porch furniture such as swings, settees, etc. 



MEMPHIS 



Business conditions are very wholesome 

 throughout the Central South. Bank clearings 

 in Memphis during February were more than 

 $3,000,000, or twenty-seven per cent ahead of 

 last year and broke all records for that month. 

 This showing is regarded as exceptionally favor- 

 able and it is all the more striking when it is 

 reflected that there was very little cotton sold 

 during the month. The lumbermen have contrib- 

 uted in a very large way to this excellent 

 result. The railroads themselves make no secret 

 of the fact that the lumber business is furnish- 

 ing a very large proportion of the total tonnage 

 they are now handling. 



The actual returns covering building opera- 

 tions for February have not yet been made pub- 

 lic, but it is stated on official authority that the 

 total is well ahead of last year. Reports from 

 Birmingham also show a considerable gain for 

 February, the total for the month being $274,- 

 867, compared with $109,848 last year. This 

 brings the increase at Birmingham since Janu- 

 ary 1 over last year to $440,107. Little Rock 

 also shows an increase and there is no doubt that 

 building operations throughout this territory are 

 on a large scale. Contrary to expectations, the 

 permit for the Union station was not taken 

 out during February. However, grading has al- 

 ready begun for this structure and the permit 

 will be secured at an early date. It will involve 

 between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. 



The big band mill of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 in North Memphis, has resumed operations after 

 an extended shut-down while repairs and im- 

 provements were made, which have increased 

 the capacity of the plant fully twenty-five 

 per cent. The management states that the 

 demand for hardwood lumber is very good, and 

 notes particularly that the export situation is 

 improving. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company, New 

 South Memphis, has kept its mill in steady 

 operation recently. This company has a large 

 supply of logs In its yards in New South Mem- 

 phis, and it states that the demand is good 

 enough to justify operations on a full scale. It 

 is making a specialty of cutting white oak 

 at the present time. 



The Jlississippi river will reach a stage of 

 thirty feet by the latter part of this week, but 

 it is now conceded by government officials that 

 there will be no rise above the danger level, 

 which is thirty-three feet. Reports from the 

 upper Misssissippi indicate that the water is 

 rising to some extent, but those from the Ohio 

 river say that the water is falling. There is 

 a splendid stage of water for logging purposes 

 but it is regarded as doubtful whether much 

 timber will come out on this rise for the reason 

 that the woods have been so wet that it has been 

 well nigh impossible to do any logging. 



G. U. Smith, manager and purchasing agent 

 for the Antwerp Wine Company, Antwerp, Bel- 

 gium, was in Memphis during the past few days, 

 negotiating foe the i)urchase of a large quantity 

 of white oak staves in the manufacture of wine 

 casks. The company has bought a good many 

 staves here in the past, securing the bulk of its 

 supply from this market. 



The Memphis Machine Works has filed appli- 

 cation for an amendment to its charter where- 

 by its capital stock is to be increased to $40,- 



