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HARDWOOD RECORD 



take a similar position with another concern. 

 F. B. Pryor is still in charge of the Chicago 

 •office. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the Mc- 

 Laughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company, reports a 

 slight improvement in trade conditions. He is 

 •of the opinion that prices are wealier, although 

 they are holding up well in certain lines. J. H. 

 Wyatt, a traveling salesman representing the 

 company was called to Buffalo on business re- 

 cently. 



Word comes from Ironton, Ohio, that another 

 Tjig timber run on the Big Sandy river has taken 

 •place. A large number of rafts were brought 

 ■down to the government dam. 



The report of the Columbus building inspector 

 for the month of May showed that permits to 

 the number of 212 were issued for structures 

 ■estimated to cost $676.1G7. For May, 1909, the 

 number of permits was 182 and the valuation 

 of the projected buildings $301,100. 



S. M. Marks, representing the Xicola, Stone & 

 Myers Company of Cleveland. O., and W. E. 

 King of the J. W. Kitchen Lumber Company of 

 Ashland, Ky., were visitors in Columbus last 

 ■week. 



W. L. Whitacre of the W. L. Whitacre Lum- 

 ber Company returned recently from a ten-days' 

 trip to the South and reports an unsteady con- 

 ■dition in the lumber trade. 



The larger manufacturing establishments of 

 Columbus report an increase in the volume of 

 business which is being booked. The Kilbourue 

 A Jacobs Manufacturing Company has been book- 

 ing some large orders and the same is true of 

 the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. 



The Hardwood Timber Company of Columbus, 

 recently incorporated to develop a timber tract 

 In West Virginia, has been organized by electing 

 the following directors ; J. H. Briggs of St, 

 Albans. W. Va. ; E. R. Wornick and W. O. Wor- 

 nick of Greenup, Ky., and C. W. Seamon and J. 

 W. Taylor of Columbus. J. W. Taylor was 

 elected president : E. R. Wornick, vice-president ; 

 J. H. Briggs, general manager, and C. W. Sea- 

 Tnon, secretary-treasurer. 



At the annual meeting of the Ohio Shippers" 

 Association, held in Columbus recently, the ac- 

 tion of President Taft in opposing the increase 

 In freight rates on the Western railroads was 

 commended. The support of the association was 

 pledged to the United States attorney general 

 and state railway commission to prevent the 

 proposed advance in rates. 



CINCINNATI 



Ben Kipp, receiver for the Standard Millwork 

 ■Company, is showing results at that big plant in 

 Norwood. Mr. Kipp has cut out every unneces- 

 sary item of expense in the mill operating de- 

 partment, has shaved the salaries of many of 

 the officers, reduced the office force, and has 

 moved the office from its outside quarters into 

 the mill where, while it may not be so comforta- 

 ble, will be more convenient. 



Business the past month has been pretty fair 

 in volume, says President H. J. Pfiester of the 

 M. B. Farrln Lumber Company. Business at the 

 plant is all that could be desired at present, 

 though more could be taken care of if offered. 



Ralph McCracken, of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company, spent a few days at the company's 

 Burnside, Ky., plant last iveek, but returned in 

 time to attend the annual outing. 



C. "Mack" Clark, the Cincinnati manager of 

 the Swann-Day Lumber Company of Clay City, 

 Ky., has recovered from his recent attack of ton- 

 silitis and is back in the office again. 



Dwight Hinckley says that business has not 

 been up to what could reasonably be expected at 

 this time of the year, though in the spring every- 

 thing proved very satisfactory. Dwight, as man- 

 ■ager of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's baseball 

 team, has been in active correspondence with 

 Manager McClure, of the Memphis Lumbermen's 



team, to secure a series of games with the gal- 

 lant Memphians when they begin their conquer- 

 ing tour through the North. 



George Eheman of the Memphis office of Ben- 

 nett & Witte was in the city for a few days last 

 week. E. J. Thoman, the manager of the Cin- 

 cinnati office, says that local business has been 

 very good, and that it keeps the office force on 

 the hustle to keep up, while he himself has barely 

 time to look up. 



T. J. Moffett of Maley, Thompson & Moffett 

 says that the business of their sawmill plants was 

 good, with good business in the lumber yards, but 

 that the veneer plant was not doing much at 

 present. The veneer mill cuts a great deal of 

 sliced quartered oak, and the warehouses contaiir 

 good stocks. They also cut mahogany veneers 

 and operate a mahogany lumber mill near Ha- 

 vana, Cuba. 



Col. S. B. Stanberry of the Chicago Coal & 

 Lumber Company is one of the active commis- 

 sioners of the Ohio Valley Exposition, and is in 

 charge of the publicity. Mr. Stanberry is an 

 enthusiast on the exposition and devotes much of 

 bis time to the work. The buildings on the canal 

 banks are being rapidly pushed forward to com- 

 pletion. The buildings are of wood, covered with 

 corrugated sheet iron, and cover many acres on 

 the banks of the canal. The United States gov- 

 ernment will make exhibits from the War, th'! 

 Navy, the Postoffice, the Smithsonian Institution, 

 besides a large collection of Roosevelt trophies 

 from his African hunt. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company of Buffalo, N. Y., passed through the 

 city and stopped over for a few days last week. 



Wm. Threlkeld of the Indiana Quartered Oak 

 Company of New York put in a few days here 

 last week. 



Emil Gunther, treasurer of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, was in the city for 

 a few days last week, in connection with asso- 

 ciation business. 



TOLEDO 



Local hardwood dealers have but little occa- 

 sion to feel discouraged with the present out- 

 look, or with the business done so far this 

 season. While the building end of the trade has 

 ^}een a trifle under earlier estimates, the factory 

 demand has been a little above what was ex- 

 pected, so that business just about balances. The 

 large amount of residence building in Toledo, 

 with the unusually large demand for hardwood 

 finish and flooring, has made some nice trade 

 and promises to during the remainder of the 

 season. 



Of more than ordinary interest to hardwood 

 dealers is the announcement that Toledo is to 

 have an industrial building, where small manu- 

 facturing concerns can secure quarters and work 

 to the best economical advantage. A syndicate 

 is being organized to erect a building eight 

 stories high, 100 by 300 feet dimensions, and 

 containing 240,000 square feet of floor space. It 

 will accommodate from two to four manufac- 

 turing industries on each floor. Plans are al- 

 ready being prepared for the structure, which 

 will be centrally located. 



Breese Brothers of Cincinnati and William 

 Thompson of Kalamazoo, have purchased the 

 plant and business of the Ohio Wagon Company 

 at Wapakoneta, Ohio. The new owners will en- 

 large and improve the plant. 



What promises to work a decided hardship on 

 the Big Four Hardwood Company of Toledo is 

 the extending of Avondale avenue, the initiatory 

 steps for which were taken by the city council 

 last week. The company is already crowded for 

 room and the proposed extension means the run- 

 ning of a fifty-foot street directly through the 

 center of its plant. Ihe company has been pro- 

 testing against the action for some time, as it 

 will suffer damages to the extent of several thou- 

 sand dollars. Council has announced its inten- 



tion to appropriate the property and instructed 

 the solicitor at its last meeting to prepare the 

 necessary legislation. 



One of the largest industries in Celina wag 

 recently destroyed when fire consumed the plant 

 of the Ames Bending Company. The loss is es- 

 timated at about $35,000 and it is not likely that 

 the plant will be rebuilt. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



E. II. Greer of the Greer-Houghton Lumber 

 Company has returned from an extensive trip 

 through southern states. 



An order for 270 caskets to be used at the 

 Leavenworth government prison and at the sol- 

 diers' home, Danville, 111., has been received by 

 the Newcastle Casket Company, Newcastle, 



F. C. McGrayel has returned from a business 

 trip through Ohio, where he found conditions 

 most satisfactory. 



Ransom Griffin is completing 'the line-up of 

 the Indianapolis Hoo-Hoo baseball team and will 

 announce the composition of the team and games 

 to be played soon. 



Damage to the extent of $15,000 was caused 

 by a fire at the plant of the Webb-Gordon Fur- 

 niture Company, Greenfield, on June 17. There 

 was $8,000 insurance on the plant. 



George H. Holt, who is chairman of the com- 

 mittee on fire insurance supervision in Illinois 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, has been in the city attending the 

 trial of the suit to dissolve an alleged insurance 

 trust brought against 129 insurance companies 

 by the attorney general of Indiana. 



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MEMPHIS 



J. D. Strothers of Memphis has sold to the 

 Pemiscott Land & Investment Company, Fre- 

 mont, O., all his timber interests at Proctor, 

 Ark. The holdings consist of more than 3,500 

 acres of oak, gum, a.sh and poplar, and the com- 

 bined value of the timber land and the sawmill 

 on the property amounted to about $50,000. 



The game of baseball which was to have been 

 played at Charleston, Miss., June 18, between 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis and that of 

 the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, has been post- 

 poned. The Mempliis team has had a consid- 

 erable amount of practice, but it has a high 

 standard of excellence to maintain and Manager 

 McClure is anxious to keep the boys out of any 

 strenuous contests until such time as they have 

 rounded out in splendid form. It is stated that 

 two games have been arranged with Nashville, 

 one of which is to be played in Memphis July 

 1 or 2, and the other in Nashville July 23. A 

 game has also been arranged with Cincinnati, 

 though no time has been set for this, and ar- 

 rangements have been made for a game with 

 Indianapolis. The time for this is also indeter- 

 minate. 



The Batesville & Southwestern Railroad Com- 

 pany has been granted a right of way through 

 Batesville, Miss., and it transpires that this 

 road is to be constructed by R. J. Darnell, a 

 prominent lumberman of this city. It is further 

 stated that R. J. Darnell, Inc., proposes to erect 

 a large sawmill at Batesville to develop the tim- 

 ber on a large tract of land on the proposed 

 route. It is known that only a short time ag-> 

 R. J. Darnell, Inc., purchased a large tract of 

 timber land in that section, bringing its total 

 holdings to about 10,000 acres. Tliis road was 

 incorporated under the laws of Mississippi a 

 short time ago, but at that time it was stated 

 that several prominent business men of Jackson, 

 Miss., were the principal incorporators. 



The officials of the Business Men's Club, Mer- 

 chants' Exchange, Cotton E'xchange and other 

 organizations here have recently sent urgent tele- 

 grams to the Tennessee congressmen and sena- 

 tors, asking them to support the bill introduced 



