HARDWOOD RECORD 



55 



HUNTINQTON 



ST. LOUIS 



Business in all lines in this city is very active 

 at the present time, with every indication of the 

 continuation of good business for the entire year. 

 All the manufacturers are very busy, running 

 their plants to the full capacity in every depart- 

 ment. Contractors are busily engaged in their 

 building, of which there is a large amount being 

 done this year. A number of large business 

 buildings, five and ten stories high, are being 

 rushed to completion as fast as possible and the 

 outlook for others to he erected this year is very 

 favorable. 



The Kentucky River Lumber Company, com- 

 posed of the stockholders of this city, .1. W. 

 Johnson. W. A. Williams. Wm. Buskirk and 

 S. N. Croft, has purchased a tract of virgin 

 timber in Kentucky consisting of about 27,000 

 acres. Messrs. .Johnson and Buskirk at the 

 present time are engaged in looking over the 

 property, constructing a railroad for the purpose 

 of getting out the timber. A greater portion of 

 this will be shipped to Ashland. Ky. All of the 

 poplar IS-inch and up has been sold to Vansant. 

 Kitchen & Co. of Ashland. Ky., who will h.ave 

 the timber shipped to their band mills at Ash- 

 land. The oak and other hardwood is estimated 

 at luO.OOO.OOO feet and will be sold if the proper 

 price can be secured. The company has re- 

 ceived a number of offers already but is unde- 

 cided as to whether or not it will develop the 

 property. This tract of timber is considered to 

 be one of ver.v fine quality. 



The Tug River Lumlier Company makes a very 

 favorable report on the present market conditions 

 and advises the receipt of orders at prices more 

 satisfactory than ic has received for almost three 

 .years. It has all its mills in operation and is 

 bi-sily engaged placing lumber on sticks for the 

 future trade. 



.T. W. Taylor of the Domestic Lumber Com- 

 pany of Columbus, Ohio, while in the city 

 recently, bought a number of ears of lumber. 

 Mr. Taylor makes a very favorable report on the 

 present lumber business in Ohio and Michigan 

 and is looking forward to one of the best years 

 the lumlter dealers have ever had. 



The Miller-Crosier Lumber Company, with its 

 new mills near Anthony, W. Va., has completed 

 the construction of a bridge across the Green- 

 brier river and is now running its mills steadily. 

 The company is rushing to completion the seven 

 miles of railroad to its timber, which it expects 

 to have completed in a short time. 



R. tt. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, is spending a part of this 

 week at the mills at Farmers, Ky. The mill at 

 that place is being operated steadily and has 

 enough logs for a three months' run. The local 

 hardwood flooring plant is running full capacity 

 in all departments and large amounts of stock 

 are being shipped. 



F. W. Crane of the F. W. Crane Lumber 

 Company of Pittsburg is mingling with our 

 lumbermen, buying and selling, while in the city. 

 He advises that his company finds it more dif- 

 ficult to locate dry stock than it is to sell, 

 especially is this true of No. 1 Common and 

 Better in all kinds of lumber. Mr. Crane 

 expects to extend his trip through eastern and 

 central Kentucky before returning to home office. 

 J. \V. McCausey of the J. W. McCausey Lum- 

 ber Company of Detroit, Mich., was a recent 

 business visitor in this city. He advises business 

 in Detroit as satisfactory. Everything is moving 

 briskly, but it is with some ditHculty that all 

 wants in Detroit are supplied, especially in the 

 higher grades of lumber. 



C. A. Miller of the .T. W. .Johnson Company 

 Las returned from an extended trip through the 

 East. Buffalo. Rochester and other markets. He 

 reports business good and the receipt of some 

 very good orders while on this trip. He says 

 the eastern buyers are more eager to place 

 orders than for some time. 



E. H. Luehrmann of the Chas. K. I,uehrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, says the hardwood 

 business has been showing an improvement right 

 along. All items on the hardwood list, particu- 

 larly those of the better grades, are having a 

 good sale. The company's trade in red gum is 

 excellent. 



Quite a good volume of trade is reported by 

 the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Company. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 C.vpress Company, reports an improvement in 

 trade and a better demand for Ibis class of 

 lumber. 



An excellent demand for all items on the 

 hardwood list is reported by Thos. E. Powe of 

 the Thomas E. Powe Lumber Company. 



George E. Cottrill. secretary of the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, says that during 

 the first half of April sales were very heavy and 

 considerably ahead of any month of April that 

 he can remember. lie anticipates a good live 

 trade from now on. 



E. W. Wiese, vice-president of the Thomas & 

 Proetz Lumber Company, says a good price is 

 being obtained for the upper grades of all hard- 

 wood items and he looks for the conditions to 

 continue. 



Among the recent visitors to St. Loui^ was 

 F. P. Southgate, chief inspector of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, with headquar- 

 ters in Chica.go. He Is making his annual 

 inspection ti'ip. 



Alf Bennett, president of the Alf Bennett 

 Lumber Company, says the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the compan.v, under the management of 

 E. L. Page, is having a nice run of business. 

 Many of the orders have been large. The prices 

 obtained arc quite satisfactor.v, in fact the high 

 quality of the lumber the company sends out 

 .iustifles a better price than would be asked 

 generally. Mr. Bennett said also that one of the 

 mills, whose output the Bennett company con- 

 trols, that of the Dayton Lumber Company mill 

 at Dayton, Texas, although cutting principally 

 yellow pine, has recently been getting out a good 

 deal of high-grade hardwood lumber, such as 

 wide oak and ash, on its gang saw. This it is 

 able to do by using an extra yoke with saws set 

 IVs inches. When it wishes to change back to 

 yellow pine from hardwood another yoke with 

 the saw set to one Inch is inserted. 



Tlie hardwood department of the Alf Bennett 

 J^umber Compan.v was practically closed on 

 Thursday. April 21, owing to baseball. The 

 boys, headed by Manager Page, went out to see 

 the opening Chicago-St. I>ouis .'vmerican League 

 game. 



LITTLE ROCK 



It is auilioritaiively auucjuucrd that the St. 

 Louis, Iron Mountain & .Southern Railway Com- 

 pany will spend .IToO.OOO on double-track im- 

 provements on the Arkansas division of that 

 system, beginning at a point 14 miles north of 

 this city and extending to Bald Knob, a distance 

 of 47 miles. Another section, beginning at the 

 White River Bridge, .iust south of Newport, and 

 extending to Diaz, nearly five miles, is to be 

 double tracked, making a total of Ii2 miles of 

 double-track eontempl.ited. This will greatly 

 relieve the freight tralflc conditions on this 

 division. The improvements will cost, approxi- 

 matel.v, .$1.">.000 per mile. 



The Mansfield Hardwood Company of Lewis- 

 ville, in Lafayette county, has Just filed a 

 certificate showing an Increase of Its capital 

 stock from .'52.'i.OOO to .$100.00(1. The company 

 has extensive hardwood interests In southern 

 Arkansas. A. J. .Johnson is the energetic head 

 of the compan.v. 



The Lawton Basket & Box Company, a Wis- 



consin company; with headquarters at Lawton, 

 \\'is., has been chartered in this state, with 

 headquarters at Stonewall and Paragould, in 

 (ireene county, in one of the best hardwood 

 sections of the state. The company will special- 

 ize in the hardwood business, particularly 

 cooperage, in addition to its box and basket 

 jilaut. Gardner Powell is president. .J. H. 

 Sehuur, vice-president, and E. J. Smith, secre- 

 tary-treasurer. It has a capital stock of $50,- 

 000, with .i;i.S.000 subscribed. 



The Spaulding Manufacturing Company, of 

 Grinnell, Iowa, which manufactures buggies and 

 spring wagons, has gone to the federal supreme 

 court in a test of the law passed by the last 

 .Arkansas legislature placing a license of .fJOO on 

 ever.v agerit of a company dealing in vehicles, 

 clocks, etc., for each county in which such agent 

 operates. The Spaulding company sells vehicles 

 in this state through 'agents and in operating in 

 Independence county their agent refused to pay 

 the license fee on the ground that the law was 

 unconstitutional as an interference with inter- 

 state commerce and becau.se it was a discrimi- 

 nation against the sale of certain articles. The 

 matter went through the state courts, the state 

 supreme court upholding the law. This week 

 counsel for the manufacturing company ap- 

 peared before Chief Justice McCulloch and asked 

 for a writ of error to allow him to carry the 

 matter to the United States supreme court. After 

 two days of deliberation the writ was denied. 

 A. C. Lyons, counsel for the company, secured 

 II transcript in the case and has gone to Wash- 

 ington to lay the matter directly before the 

 I'nited States supreme court. The case has 

 attracted much attention, and many companies 

 are interested in the outcome. It is claimed by 

 these companies that the tax works practically 

 prohibit them from selling in the state at all, 

 as It is so excessive, even if they were to submit 

 to any tax at all. 



.\. V. Alexander, who has extensive lumber 

 interests in Pike. Clark and Montgomery coun- 

 ties, purchased an entire sawmill outfit from the 

 "homas Cox & Sons Machinery Company this 

 week, to be installed near Glenwood in Pike 

 county. Mr. Alexander is well pleased over the 

 lumber outlook in this section. 



MILWAUKEE 



Navigation is now on at full swing in this 

 port. With the arrival of the lumber carriers 

 Robert C. Wente and Susie Chipman and the 

 departure of the steamers Oliver and Andrew 

 Carnegie a few days ago, the season, which 

 promises to be a memorable one in the history 

 of the lakes, was opened. 



The Maxson Lumber Company, Jlilwaukee, has 

 purchased the Maxson Bros. Company of Strat- 

 ford, which was recently reported as having 

 dissolved. The Milwaukee concern has increased 

 its capital stock from $:5.000 to $50,000. 



The railroad commission has ordered the Chl- 

 cigo. St. Paul, MinneaiK>lis & Omaha Railway 

 Company to reduce its rate on lumber from 7.5 

 per hundred to a rate not to exceed 6.5 per hun- 

 dred on the line between Couderay and Superior. 

 The action was brought by the Webster Manu- 

 facturing Company. The rate charged between 

 Couderay and Superior, a distance of 122 miles, 

 was 7.5, while that l)etween Couderay and Min- 

 neapolis, a distance of 158 miles, was only 6.5. 



Joseph Emerich. lu-esident of the Merrill Wood- 

 cnware Company, while in Milwaukci> recently, 

 stated that his firm was doing a larger business 

 at the present time than ever l)efore in Its his- 

 tory, and will be run throughout the summer. 



AH of the sawmills at Eau Claire are now In 

 operation, and every indication points toward a 

 very successful season's run. 



The Kankakee Specialty Company of Green 

 Bay, manufacturer of washing machines and 

 other wooden products, Is negotiating with the 

 city of Kewaunee. Wis., for the removal of its 

 plant to thai place. 



