HARDWOOD RECORD 



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\\ . M. Klttcr. picsidoiit of th« Uittoi- coippany. 

 left Columbus July 19 for New York, from 

 which point he will sail July 23 for Liver- 

 pool. He will Inspect the brnnches of the com- 

 pany located at Loudon and I^lverpool. 



J. W. Mayhew, general sales agent for the 

 Ritter company, was called to rhiladelphia on 

 business. 



IL W. Putnam, president of the General Lum- 

 ber Company, reports a fair demand for hard- 

 woods. He says factories are purchasing stead- 

 ily, although the market is somewhat slow. 

 Trices are holding their own under the cir- 

 cumstances. 



L. A. Brasher of the H. D. Brasher Lumber 

 Company reports a quiet market at this time. 

 He says prices remain about the same and the 

 outlook for the future is very bright. 



The Virginia Lumber Company of Columbus 

 recently incorporated with a capital of .fJS.OOO. 

 and has opened oflices on the fourth floor of 

 the new Haydcn building. 



W. L. Whitacre of the W. L. Whitacre Lumber 

 Company, reports an unchanged market from 

 the previous month. Prices are holding fairly 

 steady with staple sizes and varieties firm. 



L. B. Schneider of John R. Gobey & Co. 

 says trade is rather dull at this time. Prices 

 are about the same with a tendency to weaken 

 in certain sections. The demand for the higher 

 grades is better than for the lower grades. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 McLaughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company, reports 

 a better market for the past few days. He 

 says the demand from factories is still a lit- 

 tle slow, but some improvement is reported in 

 the yard trade. Mr. McLaughlin reports con- 

 siderable uncertainty in prices. Some rather 

 low quotations are being made. 



Statistics collected from Ohio, West Virginia 

 and western Pennsylvania for the week ending 

 July 13, show contracts awarded to be .$1,669.- 

 000, as against $1,825,000 in the correspond- 

 ing week in 1909, and .$1,291,000 in 190S. Since 

 January 1 contracts awarded amount to $61,- 

 393.000. 



Notices have been sent out for a stockhold- 

 ers' meeting of the F. F. King Lumber Com- 

 pany of Peebles, Ohio, which will be held at 

 the offices of the company August 8. 



A. D. Rogers, formerly of Columbus, now 

 representative of the Haukensville Stave & 

 Lumber Company of Haukensville, Ga., called 

 upon Columbus jobbers receiitly. 



CINCINNATI 



The past fortnight in the Queen City hard- 

 wood market has borne all the earmarks of 

 the good old summer time. A'isits to the va- 

 rious offices resulted in finding everybody that 

 could possibly do so, absent on a vacation, while 

 those that remained were busy planning how 

 to get away. The can't-get-aways were gen- 

 erally kicking on the intense heat, while they 

 endeavored to work out the requirements of the 

 mails. Business generally is up to the usual 

 summer time standard — just enough to keep 

 moving. 



The manufacturers of furniture are all very 

 dull, and a number are taking advantage of the 

 dull season to overhaul their machinery and 

 get everything shipshape for the coming fall 

 trade, which promises to be' good. The furni- 

 ture industry has not been so slow in years 

 as during the past few weeks, several of the 

 factories laying off tlieir workmen. The manu- 

 facturers agree, however, that the prospects 

 for the fall trade are very bright. These 

 views are predicated on the large attendance 

 at the furniture markets in Grand Rapids and 

 Chicago, where the retailers are said to be 

 placing large orders for the fall and winter 

 selling seasons. 



W. A. Bennett of the well, known Cincinnati 

 and Memphis firm of Bennett & Witic ret\i™ert 



to the Cincinnati office last week after a pro- 

 longed stay in the East. Mr. Bennett visited 

 all the principal eastern points, making his 

 headquarters in New York City. He said that 

 he found things in the East fairly good, and 

 that his business success was entirely satisfac- 

 tory. On his return the accumulation of mail 

 was such that for several days he was hidden 

 behind the pile, just to look it over, as he 

 said, his office manager, B. J. Thoman, had 

 taken care of all the business. Mr. Bennett 

 is very optimistic as to the future, and expresses 

 the opinion that the coming fall will be a 

 hummer in trade. He said, further, that the 

 business at present was as good as he had 

 ever experienced at this season of the year. Mr. 

 Bennett looks much improved in health since 

 his departure early in the spring, and says he 

 feels good and is chock full of his old-time 

 energy. 



Last week, during one of the heavy rains 

 in Kentucky, the Kentucky river was flooded 

 and white oak lumber at Jackson, Ky., the 

 property of Mowbray & Robinson, valued at 

 .$25,000, was washed away and passed over 

 dam No. 11, in the Kentucky river. Part of 

 the lumber was tied up, but it is estimated 

 that the loss will be fully $15,000. 



Tlie railroads are active in the building line 

 in this vicinity. For several months the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio railroad has been making exten- 

 sive improvements east of the city, on the 

 Kentucky side of the river, to enable it to more 

 conveniently handle the immense tonnage of lum- 

 ber and coal now being carried by that com- 

 pany. This has caused the Baltimore & Ohio 

 Railroad Company to get busy, and it is con- 

 templating building a road paralleling the river 

 from Portsmouth to Cincinnati, at which point 

 it already has a terminus. This will give the 

 Baltimore & Ohio a more direct connection with 

 its roads, which tap the coal and timber lands 

 of West Virginia, and enable it to compete for 

 part of th? heavy tonnage to Cincinnati, which 

 is the great distributing point for the coal and 

 lumber products of West Virginia and eastern 

 Kentucky. The railroad future of Cincinnati 

 never was as bright as at the present time. 



In addition to the heavy improvements in the 

 steam railroads, the building of the new Cen- 

 tral LTnion Passenger station, which is also to 

 house an entrance to the city of all the inter- 

 urban lines, a new interurban line, paralleling 

 the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cincinnati is 

 now under way. A. E. Cox, a noted capitalist 

 of Huntington, W. Va., has already raised a 

 preliminary fund of $1,000,000 to finance the 

 project, and the capital will be increased to 

 .$20,000,000. 



In line with the heavy improvements being 

 made by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, C. 

 Crane & Co. will perfect arrangements with 

 the railroad by which all their logs will be 

 hauled direct from their timber lands on the 

 Guyandotte river in West Virginia to Brent. Ky., 

 which is opposite the extreme eastern end of 

 Cincinnati, and there dumped into the Ohio 

 river, which will be the log pond for the big 

 mills of C. Crane & Co. It is figured that the 

 logs can be handled more economically than 

 by the present method and they will be in 

 m-uch better condition for cutting. 



What might have been a disastrous fire was 

 nipped in the bud by the prompt action of the 

 night watchman at the plant of the B'arrin- 

 Korn Lumber Company in Winton place, on 

 Thursday night last. A light was discovered 

 beneath one of the big planing machines, and 

 the watchman immediately got busy with the 

 plant's fire apparatus, in the meantime having 

 sent out an alarm to the fire department. The 

 prompt work of the watchman prevented the 

 Are from spreading and the fire department 

 arriving, quickly stamped It out. As the en- 

 tire plant is operated by direct connected elec- 

 tric motors, it is presumed that the fire origi- 

 nated from crossed wires. The plant of the 



company was entirely destroyed by fire over a 

 year ago, and was rebuilt upon the most ap- 

 proved fireproof plans, and is considered as 

 nearly fireproof as it is possible to make a 

 planing mill. The loss by Thursday's fire was 

 trifling, and did not in the least interfere with 

 the working of the plant. 



Cincinnati Is interested In information re- 

 ceived Monday from Washington, D. C, to the 

 effect that the lumbermen of Louisville, Ky.. 

 had demanded that that city be made a re- 

 consignment point for hardwood lumber re- 

 ceived from southern points and shipped to 

 points in the North and West, and that sales 

 be adjusted accordingly. The demand was in 

 Ihe form of a request contained in a petition 

 to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The 

 petition itself is in the form of a complaint 

 of the lumber companies doing business in Louis- 

 ville, against the Louisville &, Nashville rail- 

 road and other interstate carriers. The petition- 

 ers state that the railroads have declined at 

 Louisville to reconsign lumber from southern 

 points destined to northern, eastern and west- 

 ern points. This refusal, they aver, has re- 

 sulted in extortionate, discriminatory and un- 

 reasonable rates on hardwood lumber shipped 

 from the South through Louisville. 



On July 18 S. L. and Clifton Snodgrass, 

 operating a planing mill on East Canal street, 

 Cincinnati, as S. L. Snodgrass & Son filed their 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United 

 States Court. The statement showed the in- 

 debtedness to be $12,476.56. The assets were 

 • stated to be as follows: Real estate, $1,000; 

 stock in trade and lumber, $700; machinery, 

 tools, etc., $4,783.28 ; debts due on the open 

 accounts, $1,976.95. 



Heavy rains in the Ohio valley last week, 

 culminating Sunday in a heavy downpour, which 

 reached two inches, caused all the small rivers 

 and tributary streams to run out, and brought 

 down quite a number of logs to the mills on 

 the Kentucky river. The number brought down, 

 however, was not very great, owing to the 

 fact that the cut of timber in the hard- 

 wood regions last winter was much restricted. 

 The effect in Cincinnati and vicinity was to put 

 a stop for several days to the big building 

 boom, but which was promptly taken up again, 

 as soon as the inclement w'eather passed. 



The Ohio Valley Exposition is attracting more 

 attention than anything else at the present time 

 in 'this part of the world. Owing to the fact 

 that the buildings, which are entirely of lum- 

 ber, and consumed a couple of million feet 

 of building lumber, it may not be uninterest- 

 ing to lumbermen to know something of how 

 the interior lumber finishes w-ill appear, accord- 

 ing to the plans of the architects and decora- 

 tors, which are arranged as follows : Machinery 

 Building — French gray cypress finish, burlap dec- 

 decorations and antique brackets. Municipal 

 Building — French gray cypress finish, burlap dec- 

 orations and old silver brackets. Electricity 

 Building — Fumed cypress finish, French gray 

 brackets. Liberal Arts Building — Ivory finish 

 on poplar, burlap decorations, antique ivory 

 brackets. Machinery Hall — Flemish green color 

 scheme on cypress, poplar decorations, antique 

 brackets. Cypress Is the principal wood »ised 

 on the interior work of the buildings. The 

 Yellow Pine people will build a complete house, 

 showing all the different methods in which yel- 

 low pine may be used, and in the various parts 

 all the different wood finishes which may be 

 applied to yellow pine will be shown. There 

 will also he a great display by the Forestry 

 Bureau of Washington. 



A noted feature of the hot weather has been 

 the revival of trade in slack cooperage at this 

 point. The demand for apple and fruit and 

 produce barrels is heavy, and the handicap pre- 

 sented is the great lack of skilled workmen. 

 There is a noted activity in the demand for 

 apple barrel staves at this point. 



Tight cooperage is good for bourbon, whisky 



