HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Lumber 

 Company reports a slight quietude in market 

 conditions. He is at a loss to account for this 

 condition of affairs but says that every line of 

 trade is somewliat stagnant. He believes 

 there is some tendency towards weakening of 

 prices. 



The West Side Lumber Company has been 

 organized to take over tlie planing mill for- 

 merly operated by the Columbus Planing Mill 

 Company. In addition to handling lumber 

 and mill work of all kinds it will deal in 

 builders' supplies. Henry A. Linkenheil is 

 president; D. E. Richards, vice-president: T. A. 

 Jones, secretary. The capital stock is $20,000. 



M. J. Hosier & Co. of northern Ohio, has 

 taken possession of large timber interests 

 near Bainbridge. Ohio, and the work of de- 

 velopment will be started in the near future. 

 The company will establish a yard in Bain- 

 bridge for handling railroad ties, posts, logs 

 and lumber. 



The executive committee of the Ohio Ship- 

 pers' Association will meet in' executive ses- 

 sion in the Union National Bank building in a 

 short time to fix the time for the annual 

 meeting of the association which will be held 

 in Columbus, probably the latter part of May. 

 This association has more than 6,000 members 

 and is quite flourishing. 



The Canfield Manufacturing & Novelty 

 Company of Canfield, Ohio, was incorporated 

 last week with an authorized capital of $5,000 

 which will soon be increased, to manufacture 

 handles and wooden novelties. The concern 

 has been a partnership for 2S years. The in- 

 corporators are G. N. Broughton. M. A. Skin- 

 ner. E. P. Tanner. H. B. Tanner and Laura E. 

 Tanner. 



The A. C. Davis Lumber Company has es- 

 tablished a milling and transit yard at Denni- 

 son avenue and the Pennsylvania tracks. The 

 yard has been in operation about a month. 

 It is used to sort and reship odd sizes. An 

 inspector is maintained at the yai"d although 

 the business is transacted through the ofBees 

 of the company in the Columbus Savings & 

 Trust building. 



The Powell Lumber Company reports a nice 

 run of business in miscellaneous lines. There 

 is no exceptional run in any one line but the 

 general market conditions are satisfactory. F. 

 Everson Powell reports that the rcsawing mill 

 is now being operated every day with good 

 results. 



M; A. Ha>-ward & Son report a falling off in 

 hardwoods generally. It is believed that this 

 is not general however but rather the result 

 of lack of stock at the mill of the company 

 located at Ford, Ky. The company reports a 

 better demand for oak flooring. M. A. Hay- 

 ward visited the Detroit market recently. 



CINCINNATI 



The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad is busy lay- 

 ing out extensive yards on the Kentucky side 

 of the Ohio river east of Cincinnati, the pur- 

 pose of which is to facilitate the handling ot 

 the enormous lumber and coal tonnage of this 

 road. Extensive additions have been made of 

 branch lines through the coal and lumber regions 

 of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and 

 when the new yards are completed logging indus- 

 try of this region will undergo a complete change 

 in the manner of transportation to the markets 

 and mills of the Ohio Valley. Instead of being 

 "rafted" as at present the railroad is expected 

 to take care of the transportation problem. 



Another lumber, or rather timber, deal of vast 

 importance to the hardwood market of Cincin- 

 nati Is now being promoted, by which a tract 

 ot hardwood timber land and coal lands will be 

 opened by a branch of the Mobile & Ohio rail- 

 road, and Cincinnati is to be the new terminus. 

 The detaUs of the proposition have not yet been 



worked out, but Cincinnati capitalists are now 

 at work closing tie timber deal. 



According to the car service reports compiled 

 by Superintendent Charles Murray of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, the figures show that the mar- 

 ket has transacted a heavy volume of business 

 during the month of April. The receipts for the 

 month of April were 7,00." cars, as compared 

 witli 0,710 cars for the same time last year. The 

 .shipments for April were 7,130 cars, while those 

 of April, 1000, were but 5,28S cars, showing a 

 heavy increase over the business of last year. 



Frank Puttmau, well-known local lumberman, 

 and for some years yard manager of John Dul- 

 weber & Co.'s yards, is mourning the loss of his 

 son, Edward Puttman, a lumber inspector, twen- 

 ty-two years of age, who died on Wednesday, 

 May 4, from the results of an operation for 

 appendicitis. 



J. D. Parley of Dayton, Ky.. representing the 

 Kaul Lumber Company of Birmingham, Ala., is 

 hustling among the local trade this week. 



There is a better feeling to the venoer indus- 

 try during the past week, owing to the increased 

 activities of the consuming trade. The stocks of 

 quartered oak veneers are plentiful, with the 

 supply of mahogany equal to all demands of the 

 trade. Circassian walnut is not so plentiful, 

 owing to the difficulty experienced in getting 

 good logs. 



B. F. Dulweber of John Dulweber & Co. was 

 confined to his home with a recurrence of stom- 

 ach trouble, from which he has suffered so much 

 and underwent an operation for relief over a 

 year ago. His condition, however, is not thought 

 to be serious, and he will be out within a week. 

 Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, says he will not be able 

 to attend the convention of the National Slack 

 Cooperage Association in this city on May 17, 

 IS and 10, and where he was scheduled to make 

 an address. He will be in New Orleans at that 

 time on business connected with his own associa- 

 tion. He says, however, that he has arranged 

 with W. E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company to fill his place on the program. 



Executive Clerk Heaton of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, was an attendant at 

 the annual meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Cincinnati. The visitors at headquarters have 

 not been numerous recently, but during the past 

 week the following dropped in to pay their 

 respects to Secretary Doster while in this city : 

 H. H. Hite of the Decatur (Ala.) Poplar & Lum- 

 ber Company ; S. L. Forsythe of Flemingsburg, 

 Ey., and W. I. Barr of Greenfield, Ohio. Mr. 

 Barr was on his way to the South. 



Clif S. Walker left Thursday for Pittsburg. 

 Pa., to spend a few days with his son, Stuart 

 Walker, who is connected with Gouverneur E. 

 Smith & Co; 



W. A. Bennett, after putting his house in 

 order on bis return from the South, left Satur- 

 day last for New York and the East to look 

 after his business interests in that section. He 

 is expected to remain In the East for some weeks. 

 The Cincinnati office manager, B. J. Thoman, 

 says that business is very fair at both the Mem- 

 phis and the home offices. 



Fred Conn of the Bayou Land & Lumber 

 Company, came up from the mill plant in Missis- 

 sippi to close up a deal in which the company 

 was interested, and left for the South on May 

 first after a short visit to his mother's home. 

 He says his concern is improving its mill prop- 

 erty, having just installed a new engine and 

 other machinery, and expects to again resume 

 cutting the first of June. It has a plentiful 

 supply of hardwood logs, principally oak and red 

 gum, with some fine poplar, which, under favor- 

 able conditions, it expects to have In stick before 

 winter, and estimates that the season's cutting 

 will reach many million feet of good hardwoods. 

 Mr. Conn is very enthusiastic over the class of 

 logs that the timber holdings are producing, in 



almost every case the percentage of good cut- 

 tings being above the estimates figured on the 

 logs. 



Harry P. Brown, champion of the Lumber- 

 men's bowler's, laments the loss of his best 

 second on the team, E. Higgins, who has been 

 removed from Cincinnati to Detroit to represent 

 Mr. Brown's lumber interests in that vicinity. 



C. R. Hall of the C. R. Hall Lumber Company, 

 of Cincinnati, is now the sales manager of the 

 Anderson-Stegall Manufacturing Company ot Tul- 

 lahoma, Tenn., manufacturers of poplar prod- 

 ucts and planing mill work. Mr. Hall has 

 purchased an interest in the company. He says 

 that the demand for chestnut for interiors for 

 the eastern market is weak at present, but that 

 he would like to take up 500.000 feet of five and 

 six-quarter chestnut, common and better, if he 

 could find it. 



The toppling of a lumber pile in the yards of 

 Malcy, Thompson & Moffett, on May 2, resulted 

 in the death of Ralph Runyan, the chief in- 

 spector and buyer of the company. He was a 

 young, unmarried man, and the son .of Prof. 

 Runyan of the Hoffman School in this city. Mr. 

 Runyan was highly thought of by T. J. Moffett, 

 and was looked upon as one of .the brightest 

 young lumbermen in this city. He was the 

 short-stop on the baseball team of the Lumber- 

 men's Club, and a great favorite with the lum- 

 bermen. The Lumbermen's Club appointed a 

 special committee to draft suitable resolutions, 

 and to present a floral piece. His teammates 

 of the baseball club also arranged for a floral 

 piece. The remains were taken charge of by his 

 lather and will be shipped to their former home 

 in Milford. Ohio, where the interment will take 

 place. 



,Toun Dulweber & Co. have opened an office in 

 the Moffett block, in Detroit, Mich., and have 

 placed C. T. Darnell of the Cincinnati office in 

 charge. 



TOLEDO 



Local building operations fell below those ot 

 last .vear during the month of April by about 

 .'^131,000. There has been more residence build- 

 ing and a better demand for hardwoods, owing 

 to the heavy consumption for this purpose. The 

 I'umber of permits last month was 210 as 

 against 141 last year, showing that the decrease 

 came through the lack of commercial and indus- 

 trial structures, while homebuilding has been on 

 the increase. 



Peter Blank, one of the pioneers of the lum- 

 ber trade of northwestern Ohio, when hard- 

 woods were plentiful in this section, died at his 

 home in Toledo recently. For years he was en- 

 gaged in the lumber business at Woodville, Ohio, 

 removing later to Perrysburg and finally to To- 

 ledo. He leaves a wife and two sons. 



Manager Roberts of the Big Four Hardwood 

 Company reports a splendid hardwood trade, al- 

 though slightly decreased during the past few 

 days. He says that plain oak and good poplar 

 arc moving freely. 



Walter Eettes, who formerly conducted a 

 handle factory at Bryan, will install a similar 

 plant at Edon, Ohio. 



The Empire Lumber Company of Toledo, wll,! 

 open a retail yard in the near future. The con- 

 cern which has been in the city for several years 

 has heretofore limited its operations to the 

 wholesale lumber trade. 



The Toledo Chamber of Commerce has under- 

 taken the task of providing an industrial addi- 

 tion to secure sites at attractive figures for in- 

 dustrial plants. The plan also calls for a 

 large industrial building where infant industries 

 can secure quartets under one roof, and be oper- 

 ated by a single power plant. 



The Lyon Lumber Company has bought a new 

 site at Fayette, Ohio, which will be stocked with 

 all kinds of lumber and building materials. 



Of considerable importance to hardwood con- 



