HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Bedna Young and F. M. Cutsingei- of Young & 

 Cutsinger made a flying business trip to Indi- 

 anapolis last week. 



Maley & Wei'tz of this city liave decided to 

 build on the sire of their plant which was de- 

 stroyed by Are recently. Work has already be- 

 gun on the new plant which will be finished and 

 put, in operation as soon as possible, as they 

 have a large stock of logs on the railroads ready 

 to be shipped. A first class plant will be erected. 

 It will be about sixty days before they can re- 

 sume operations at this point. 



D. R. Webb, the well-known veneer man of 

 Edlnburg. Ind., was in town recently. 



The Big Four Railroad Company is building a 

 line from this city to Mt. Carmel, III. Work 

 has been progressing rapidly for the past two 

 weeks as it is planned to have the road In opera- 

 tion by November 1. 



W. O. Anderson and B. B. Beverley have sold 

 their interest in the Anderson Box Company at 

 Henderson. Ky., to Charles E'. Dallam, who is 

 now sole owner of the plant. There will be no 

 change in the name of the company. Mr. Ander- 

 son, who will remain manager, announces he will 

 start the factory running night and day at once. 

 W. H. Coppock of S. P. Coppock & Sons Lum- 

 ber Company, Fort Wayne, Ind., was in the city 

 this week. Mr. Coppock was well pleased with 

 prospects for trade, also with present business. 

 He is in charge of the company's yard at Orleans, 

 Ind. 



The Union Lumber Company of Rothwell, Ky., 

 has been purchased by W. Russell Tabor, S. S. 

 Pinney and R. G. Lyons of Mt. Sterling, Ky., in- 

 cluding timber holdings. The deal involved about 

 $20,000. 



Edward Meyers of Smith, Meyers & Schnier 

 Company, Cincinnati, the well-known machinery 

 house, was in town this week. Mr. Meyers says 

 his firm is enjoying an excellent business. 



The new plant of the Evansville Veneer Com- 

 pany, located at Jackson, Tenn., has been put in 

 operation, the rotary saws and the saw mill and 

 slicer will be started within a few days. C. W. 

 Talge is in Jackson superintending the work. 

 The company is anxious to get started as it has 

 an enormous stock of fine logs to be worked up, 

 Frank Storton, formerly auditor of the Evans- 

 ville Railway Company, has resigned his posi- 

 tion to go with the ilossman Lumber Company, 

 formerly of this city, which is erecting a large 

 band mill in Memphis. Frank Snepp, formerly 

 of Maley, Wertz & Snepp of Vincennes, Ind., and 

 later with the Kentucky Veneer Works, Louis- 

 ville, Ky., has also resigned his position to go 

 with the Mossman Lumber Company. 



A fire which did about ?18,000 worth of dam- 

 age threatened the total destruction of the plant 

 of the American Box Company and of the factory 

 of William Zeitz, hardwood finishers, March 28, 

 It started early in the morning on the root in the 

 rear of the American Box Company's plant and 

 spread to neighboring buildings. Its origin is 

 unknown. About $14,000 damage was done to 

 the box company's plant and $4,000 to the Zeitz 

 factory. The entire loss was covered by 

 Insurance. 



S. E. Putnam was one Cleveland lumberman 

 who was greatly interested in the Canadian 

 tariff. Mr. Putnam has Just returned from 

 Ontario where he viewed several properties in 

 which he is interested. His company has suffi- 

 cient stock in Canada to run it twelve years 

 under normal conditions. 



Four mills of the Advance Lumber Company, 

 which has its headquarters in this city, are 

 operating full time, turning out stock which has 

 been sold in advance of the making. The com- 

 pany reports an unusually heavy call tor high 

 grades of hardwoods. 



W. B. Martin of the Martin-Barriss Company 

 reports that the concern's big hardwood mill 

 here is extremely busy at this time. Some good 

 shipments of African mahogany are being re- 

 ceived, also some finely grained Circassian wal- 

 nut logs. This wood is coming in for especial 

 favor for store window trimmings. It Is also 

 to be used throughout the new federal buildings 

 in Important offices for trim and furniture. 



Henry Wiborg of the Wiborg & Hanna Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati, a prominent hardwood manu- 

 facturer, and Albert Schafer of the C. D. Bene- 

 dict Lumber Company of Peoria, 111., were callers 

 on the local trade during the past week. 



Trade with the lumber yards in the smaller 

 towns throughout the state is increasing rapidly, 

 according to F. T. Peitch. The roads are in 

 good shape after a warm dry March and rural 

 building is in full swing. There is a strong 

 call for hardwoods and cypress. 



CLEVELAND 



Cleveland lumbermen are feeling good na- 

 tured .lust now over the announcement from 

 Washington that the pending tariff war be- 

 tween Canada and the United States will not 

 materialize, an agreement having been reached 

 whereby certain concessions are made by the 

 Dominion, in return for which the United 

 States will not enforce the maximum tariff as 

 provided in the Payne-AIdrich bill. Many 

 Cleveland lumbermen would have been seriously 

 handicapped had such a thing come to pass, for 

 large areas of timber lands across the boundary 

 line are owned by Cleveland firms or their lum- 

 ber contracted for. Two-thirds of the lumber 

 boats operating out of Cleveland would proliably 

 have been put out of business had the high tariff 

 schedule been enforced against Canadian lumber. 

 .\ltbough navigation will not have its formal 

 opening until April 15, a number of boats have 

 • already made short trips between Lake Erie ports 

 and the passenger boats are operating between 

 Cleveland and Detroit. The lumber carriers ex- 

 pect to do a big business in all lines of lum- 

 ber this year, as building operations in this ter- 

 ritory promise to exceed all former records. 



COLUMBUS 



Building operations in Columbus during the 

 month of March were in excess of those of 

 March of the previous year, both in the number 

 of permits issued and in the estimated valuation 

 of the structures projected. During March, 

 1010, permits to the number of 291 were issued 

 for buildings estimated to cost $785,799. In 

 March, 1909, the number of permits were 237, 

 and the valuation of the projected buildings. 

 $630,708. 



Papers were filed with the secretary of state 

 decreasing the capital stock of the Dover Lum- 

 ber Company of Canal Dover, Ohio, from $200,- 

 000 to $10,000. The number of shares remains 

 the same, but the par value is decreased from 

 $100 to $5. O. S. Welty is president and P. S. 

 Cooper, secretary. 



The engagement is announced of Benjamin 

 Hayward. son of M. A. Hayward, 51 Jefferson 

 avenue, and a member of the jobbing firm of 

 M. A. Hayward & Sons., to Miss Ruth Carver, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Carver of 

 Tippecanoe City. 



The Sowers-Leach Lumber Company has dis- 

 continued the retail business and is now devot- 

 ing its entire attention to the wholesale trade 

 both in yellow pine and hardwoods. The olHct 

 will remain on Xeilson street, where the .vard 

 was formerly operated. John K. Sowers is at 

 the head of the concern. 



Giles Wright, president of the Wrlght-Sauls- 

 berry Lumber Company of Ashland, Ky., called 

 on a number of Colnmlms lumbermen recently. 

 A. C. Davis reports a steady trade in hard- 

 woods. He Ijelieves that the industrial upheavals 

 such as strikes are having a bad effect on the 

 retail trade. He says the low grades are still 

 slow. George B. .Tobson, secretary of the com- 



pany, took a long business trip through eastern 

 Ohio and western Pennsylvania recently. 



H. W. Putnam, president of the General Lum- 

 ber Company, reports prices the same and a 

 steady demand for hardwoods. The company 

 sells almost exclusively to manufacturing plants 

 which are in the market with steady orders. 

 The company will soon start to build a splash 

 dam in a tributary of the Big Sandy river In 

 Kentucky in order to float a large number of 

 logs down to the mill at Ashland. 



W. L. Whitacre believes that conditions will 

 improve soon and that the slight lull which is 

 now apparent will soon pass away. He says 

 prices continue firm. D. W. Kerr of the W. L. 

 Whitacre Lumber Company recently returned 

 from a business trip to Cincinnati. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 McLaughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company reports a 

 quiet week, with no recession in prices. He 

 sa.vs farmers are too busy with their crops to 

 purchase lumber. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company has started 

 to develop a large tract of timber land near 

 Richlands, Va., which was recently acquired 

 from the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. The 

 tract is situated about three miles from a rail- 

 road and contains a large amount of oak and 

 hemlock. The company has built a private 

 tramway. H. G. Horton of the sales depart- 

 ment of the company reports steady conditions 

 in the hardwood trade generally. He says prices 

 are stationary and that in a few cases there is 

 a tendency to advance quotations. The lower 

 grades are not in as good demand as the higher 

 grades. There is a slight advance in firsts and 

 seconds, both red and white oak, and also in 

 firsts and seconds, poplar. H. W. Collins, man- 

 ager of sales of the central sales division, was 

 called out of Columbus early in the month. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Buttles .\venue Lumber Company, J. H. 

 White, one of the directors, retired after selling 

 out his holdings. E. M. Slyh was elected on 

 the board to fill the vacancy. The officers are : 

 W. E. Hyde, president and general manager ; 

 W. H. Jones, vice-president, and O. M. Gardner, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



It will soon be a year since a receiver was 

 appointed for the Rood Lumber Company, a box 

 factory located on Buttles avenue. Receiver W. 

 F. Hyde reports an increase in the assets under 

 his management. He says no plan of reorganiza- 

 tion has been adopted, although a number have 

 been suggested. An inventory of the property 

 will be made April 16, which will be the close 

 of the year's receivership. 



W. P. Rolph, a representative of the Cherry 

 River Boom & Lumber Company of Scranton, 

 Pa., was a caller at the offices of a number of 

 Columbus jobbers recently. He reports an im- 

 provement in conditions in every section of the 

 country. 



The Nugent Furniture Company of Toledo has 

 been incorporated with ' an authorized capital 

 of $10,000 by Michael Nugent and others. 



At Piqua, Ohio, the Piqua Handle & Manufac- 

 turing Company has increased its capital stock 

 from $150,000 to $250,000 to provide for addi- 

 tional facilities. 



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

 Company, reports a much better feeling among 

 the planing mill men. lie says business is in- 

 creasing rapidly and that the prospects for the 

 future appear bright. 



The fronton Lumber Company of I ronton. 

 Ohio, has increased its capital stock from $50,000 

 to $100,000. 



The Portage Lumber Company of Akron, 

 Ohio, has been organized as the successor to the 

 Wilson Lumber Company of that city, which has 

 been in business since 1868. K. H. Hays Is 

 president of the new corporation ; Ross A. Wil- 

 son, vice-president, and S. N. Wilson, secretary- 

 treasurer. 



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

 pany returned recently from a ten days' trip to 



