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turned March 19 from an extended trip among 

 the mills of the company in several southern 

 states. H. W. Collins of the same company left 

 March 20 for a week's trip through Pittsburg, 

 Erie and other Pennsylvania points. The regu- 

 lar meeting of the sales managers of the com- 

 pany was held at the Columbus office March 

 IL', with F. B. Pryor of Chicago and R. L. 

 Gilliam of Philadelphia present. 



After some litigation a reorganization of the 

 Capital City Casket Company of Columbus was 

 effected under the new name of the Ohio Casket 

 Company. It was incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000 by J. A. Cheney, B. F. Whipps, 

 C. M. Voorhees, W. S. Hatcher and C. M. An- 

 derson. The plant of the company at 154 West 

 Naghten street was taken over. J. A. Cheney 

 Is president ; W. S. Hatcher, vice-president, and 

 C. M. Ander.son, secretary-treasurer. 



O. F. WoIIenweber, president of the Wollen- 

 weber Lumber Company of Marion, Ohio, for- 

 merly in the lumber trade in Columbus, was a 

 visitor here recently. In speaking of Marion, he 

 said the city was never more prosperous than 

 at the present time. 



The Findlay Carriage Company of Findlay, 

 Ohio, has increased its capital stock from $50,- 

 000 to $150,000 to permit of the installation 

 ot an automobile department. 



John R. Gobey, head of the John R. Gobey 

 Lumber Company, reports au improvement in 

 conditions in the lumber trade. Buyers who 

 made contracts during the cold weather are 

 now demanding immediate delivery. Mr. Gobey 

 reports a bad car shortage in some sections in 

 the South. He anticipates better conditions in 

 the hardwood trade within a short time and is 

 arranging to make a business trip to New Or- 

 leans and other southern points early in April. 

 W. L. Whitacre reports a tendency on the 

 part of the hardwood trade to pick up. He 

 says orders are coming in better and that in- 

 quiries are more numerous. Prices are strong. 

 C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 McLaughlin-Hoffman liUraber Company, reports 

 conditions gradually improving in every part 

 of the country covered by that concern. Orders 

 are brisk and the improvement is most notice- 

 able in the yard trade. There is a tendency 

 to strengthen quotations in certain varieties, he 

 says. VV. M. Boyer of the company recently re- 

 turned from a business trip in southern Ohio. 



J. E. Cummins, general manager of the Co- 

 lumbus Saw Mill Company, which has a hard- 

 wood mill on Dublin avenue, reports a steady 

 improvement in the demand for hardwoods, es- 

 pecially oaks and walnut. The concern does 

 quite an export business in walnut to Ham- 

 burg, Germany, where reports show a great 

 improvement. 



J. J. Sexton, head of the Osborne & Sexton 

 Company, reports a better outlook for the spring 

 and summer. He returned recently from a trip 

 to Cincinnati, Detroit and other Michigan cities. 

 IL D. Brasher of the H. D. Brasher Lumber 

 Company reports a better run of orders since 

 the cold weather has passed and he believes 

 the improvement will continue as the season 

 advances. 



A. C. Davis ot the A. C. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a fair amount of business when 

 the weather conditions are taken into consid- 

 eration. He says the demand for oak is im- 

 proving and the supply seems to be short. Pop- 

 lar is also in good demand. George B. Jobson, 

 secretary of the company, recently returned 

 from an extended trip through Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee and other cities in the Northwest. 



The General Lumber Company will soon be- 

 gin operations at its mill at Ashland, Ky. II. 

 W. Putnam, president of the concern, reports a 

 nice run of orders witli bright prospects for the 

 future. The orders coming in from manufac- 

 turing establishments are now growing larger. 

 H. C. Buskirk, sales manager of the company, 

 recently returned from the timber tract on the 

 Big Sandy river in Kentucky. He reports con- 



siderable progress in floating logs down to the 

 mill. 



The Highland Lumber Company of Ironton, 

 Ohio, was incorporated recently with an author- 

 ized capital of $30,000 by J. J. Lyon and others. 



H. S. Hager has purchased from Jefferson 

 Lowry and K. Foster a tract ot 420 acres of 

 timber land near Coshocton, Ohio, which will 

 be developed at once. A mill will be erected. 

 A large part of the timber is white oak. 



The W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company of 

 Ironton. Ohio, has closed a deal for a tract 

 ot 8.200 acres of timber land in Pike county, 

 which will be sawed at the mill at Ironton. 



H. C. Bard of the Middle States Lumber 

 Company reports a slight improvement in or- 

 ders. He believes that prices will increase 

 soon. 



M. A. Hayward & Son report a better de- 

 mand for oak flooring as the building season 

 approaches. 



Owing to a delay in calling a meeting of the 

 committee on constitution, the proposed associa- 

 tion of Columbus wholesalers has not yet been 

 perfected. The committee, of which John R. 

 Gobey is cliairman, will be called together soon 

 and the constitution and by-laws drafted. There 

 is no opposition to the proposed organization 

 and it Is expected that it will be launched in 

 p few weeks. 



CINCINNATI 



Secretary Lewis Doster left last Monday for 

 a trip to New York and the East, where he will 

 remain for a week or ten days. The past week 

 at headquarters of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association was quiet so far as visitors were 

 concerned, not one out-of-town lumberman regis- 

 tering. The new grading rules will be ready to 

 put in the mails about the end of the week. The 

 pamphlet is a neat pocket compendium of con- 

 venient size. 



Someone blundered in sending out notices for 

 the convention of the Slack Cooperage Associa- 

 tion, and as a consequence several people arrived 

 on St. Patrick's day. March 17, looking for the 

 convention at the Sinton hotel. Inquiry devel- 

 oped that the date set was May 17-18, instead 

 of March 17-18. as stated in the notices. 



Fred H. Duling of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany, who has been touring Ohio, Indiana and 

 Kentucky for the past two weeks, writes from 

 Kentucky that his trip has been very successful 

 and that he will not return for a week or more. 

 J. Watt Graham, president of the company, says 

 that business conditions with the concern have 

 been satisfactory, while the outlook remains good. 



President Clif S. Walker of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati on Monday started to move 

 into his new and handsome residence on Gar- 

 rard street, Covington, Ky. The new home is a 

 model of modern architecture and embraces every 

 up-to-date convenience and appliance as to heat- 

 ing, lighting and electric appliances. A house- 

 warming by the members of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati will be a pleasant feature of 

 the near future. 



William E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company will leave early next week for a trip 

 to Mississippi to look over a timber proposition 

 for his company. While in the South it is prob- 

 able that his trip will be extended to Louisiana, 

 where large hardwood tracts are being opened 

 up. Ralph McCracken, secretary of the company, 

 left Monday for a short visit to the mills of the 

 company at Burnside and Williamsburg, Ky. 

 Both mills are in operation, but the supply of 

 logs is limited, and unless heavy rains in the 

 immediate future bring a log tide in the Ken- 

 tucky river, the mills will be compelled to close 

 down for want of logs in a few weeks. 



J. A. Hilliard of the Louisiana Red Cypress 

 Company of New Orleans is spending a few days 

 In this city looking after his business Interests 

 at this point. 



Automobiles have become an absolute necessity 

 In the lives of Cincinnati lumbermen, and nearly 

 everybody possesses a gasoline wagon. Dwight 

 Hinckley, who has been set down as noted lover 

 of the horse, has fallen from grace and is now 

 the possessor of a big machine of the Mitchell 

 brand. Lewis Doster will dispose of his big 

 machine and purchase a high-powered runabout 

 in which to get over the ground at a more rapid 

 rate. 



M. L. Short, the star of the Lumbermen's Ball 

 Club, who had the misfortune last summer to 

 break a leg while endeavoring to annex a base, 

 lias fully recovered and is now ready to try and 

 break the other one. He is known to the trade 

 by his connection with the Dwight Hinckley 

 Lumber Company as local sales manager. He 

 has purchased a Ilupmobile to facilitate business 

 operations. 



Ben Dulweber still drives bis big red wagon, 

 and wlien in the city can be seen tearing off the 

 miles as fast as the speed limit allows. 



Charley Hail. Charles Shiels and Harry Frei- 

 berg, all prominent lumber operators on the west 

 side, possess machines with which to facilitate 

 business and reach their homes rapidly after 

 business hours. To name all the possessors of 

 gas buggies would look like a roster of the lum- 

 ber trade. 



With clear skies there is much activity dis- 

 played in the outside work at the numerous lum- 

 ber yards and mills in the outskirts of the 

 city. On every side this activity is apparent. 

 The receipts of lumber by rail, which were 

 heavily delayed by the weather conditions, are 

 now unhampered, and, as a consequence, there 

 is more spirit displayed around the yards in 

 receiving and .shipping lumber. 



The Asher Lumber Company has just com- 

 pleted a cosy yard office at its plant on the 

 Southern railroad and Bank street, where ex- 

 tensive sidings and switches have been added 

 and large stocks of hardwoods are being re- 

 ceived and piled up in the yard. The company 

 will abandon its present office at Bank and 

 Western avenue, and on April 1 will open a 

 suite of offices in the Provident Bank building 

 at Seventh and Vine streets. I. M. Asher is 

 making a tour of the cities in the East and 

 will return in the course of a week or ten days 

 tc he on hand and assist in moving day. Busi- 

 ness is very fair and has been since the open- 

 ing ot the year, with a good outlook for the 

 future, says John D. Serena, the office man- 

 ager. 



S. Menzies, the Cincinnati representative of 

 James Kennedy & Co. (Ltd.) of Glasgow, Scot- 

 land, said that business conditions were very 

 unsatisfactory, though there was some encour- 

 itgement in the fact that there was always some- 

 thing doing. Business on the other side con- 

 tinued rather dull and prices were hindered 

 by the large stocks ot lumber still piled up over 

 there. 



R. C. Witbeck of the Ferd Brenner Lumbei 

 Company returned a week ago from the mill at 

 Alexandria, La., where he had been for seven 

 weeks, attending to business and getting close 

 to nature. He said he enjoyed his stay, bul 

 had not been back sufficiently long to say as tc 

 conditions at the home office, which, while he 

 considered from a superficial survey to be fair 

 there was much room for improvement. He 

 said that Vice-President Vest, who is also man 

 ager of the Alexandria plant, was doing well 

 and would remain at the plant for many month; 

 to come, as there was sufficient business there 

 to engross all of his time. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumbei 

 Company received information within the i)asi 

 fortnight which put at rest all uneasiness a; 

 to the whereabouts of Leland G. Banning, win 

 for several years has been a globe trotter. The 

 latest advices were that Mr. Banning was 

 touring in Egypt around Christmas, and then 

 for a long time no Information was received. 



