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HARDWOOD RECORD 



our city last week. Mr. Cool advises l>usiness 

 quite satisfactory for tliis season of the year 

 and prices good. The company is planning for 

 a heavy trade this fall and winter and is much 

 encouraged over the present prospects. 



C. A. Miller, of the J. W. .Tohnson Lumber 

 Company, is on an eastern trip this week in 

 the interests of the company. The company ad- 

 vises business very quiet but it is looking for- 

 ward to a steady improvement from now on. It 

 looks for a heavy trade in the fall and winter. 



R. W. Roy, millman of Leet, W. Va., was ih 

 our city this week and advises business very 

 satisfactory Init no great amount of dry stocK on 

 hand. Jlr. Itoy has completed his present tract 

 of timber and is tiguring on one or two othei" 

 boundaries, and will move his mill in a short 

 time to his winter operations. 



Charles T. Stearns, of Pontiac. Mich., was a 

 recent business visitor in the city. He advises 

 business satisfactory in his line of work and 

 is very much encouraged over the future out- 

 look. He will spend all of this week in West 

 Virginia and will visit a number of other lum- 

 ber centers of this state before returning to 

 his office at Pontiac. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumlx'r Company, is on a business trip this 

 week tlirough northern Ohio, Indiana and Illi- 

 nois. Ill- reports business good and prospects 

 for the balance of the year encouraging. W. C. 

 Wilson, in charge of the mill office at Farmers, 

 Ky.. spent a few days last week at the com- 

 pany's general office in this city. The company 

 is operating its flooring mills at this place 

 steadily and is receiving orders for flooring at 

 better prices. 



D. B. Hewit, of the D. E. Hewit Lumber Com- 

 pany, has returned from a buying trip through 

 central Kentucky and reports dr.v stock scarce. 

 -Mr. Hewit reports business a little quiet but Is 

 .satisfied that the lumber trade will Improve 

 from now on. 



K. C. Bell, of the Bell Lumber Company, has 

 I'eturned from a two weeks' vacation and out- 

 ing in Norfolk, Va., and other points on the At- 

 lantic coast. Mr. Bell reports business a little 

 quiet, although prices remain firm, and the re- 

 ceipt of some very desirable orders. 



F. R. Chambers, of the F. R. Chambers Lum- 

 ber Company, reports business satisfactory for 

 this season of the year and the receipt of orders 

 at pood prices. 



The Hutchinson Lumber Company reports 

 business a little quiet although very satisfactory 

 at this time of the year. C. A. Dotson, travel- 

 ing representative of the company, is on a 

 business trip through Ohio and western Penn- 

 sylvania, and is receiving some very desirable 

 orders for oak and poplar lumber and reports 

 prospects good for the coming fall and winter 

 trade. 



ST. LOUIS 



Building permits during August increased 

 $400,000 over the totals for .luly, the aggregate 

 being $2,310,169. In .Inly the estimated cost of 

 all buildings authorized by permits was 

 $1,976,350. 



Compared with August, 1009, the showing was 

 not so good, a spurt in big buildings for that 

 month last year running up the total to $2,952,- 

 959. The number of permits was 121 greater, 

 showing a larger number of smaller buildings 

 last month. 



The following is a report of the movement 

 of lumber at this market during the month of 

 August, 1910, as compared with the corre- 

 sponding month last year : Receipts by rail 

 during August, 1910, were 18,967 cars ; during 

 August, 1909, there were 14,351 cars, an In- 

 <rease of 4,616 cars in August, 1910. Receipts 

 l)y river during August. 1910, were 241.000 

 feet ; during August, 1909, 272,000 feet, a de- 

 crease of 31,000 feet this year. Shipments by 



rail during August, 1910, were 11,417 cars: 

 shipments by rail during August. 1909, were 

 9,948 cars, an increase of 1,469 cars. Shipments 

 by river during August, 1910, were 40,000 feet ; 

 during Augusl. 1909. 55,000 feet, a decrease 

 of 9.000 feet this year. 



The following is the report for the month 

 of .\ugust of the number of feet of lumber 

 measured and inspected by the Luml>ermen's 

 Kxchange of St. Louis, as furnished by Secre- 

 tary A. H. Bush : 



Feet. 



Plain while oak 251,656 



Quartered oak 118,186 



Hum 73,974 



I 'vpre.ss 48,952 



.\sli 69.9(]2 



Kim 28,279 



Svcaniore 811 



Po|)lar : 10,070 



Cottonwood 16,688 



Chestnut 14,334 



Yellow pine 9,211 



Total 642,063 



The E. C. Donnellan Lumber Company of 

 Chicago, one of the largest concerns ol" its kind 

 in the United States, last week closed a deal 

 for ground in East St. Louis upon which to build 

 general offices and central yards. The properly 

 bought by the company is between the Southern 

 and Terminal belts and the cost was $20,000. 



The Belleville Land & Lumber Company has 

 recently filed articles of incorporation with a 

 •apital stock of $14,000, fully paid. The incor- 

 porators are Walter Liese, Fcli.x Rhein, Herman 

 Lulz. John Bergman, George W. Reichert, J. J. 

 Reichert, Ida Steber, and Dr. O. F. Steber. The 

 company will manufacture and deal in lumber, 

 wood, ties, etc. 



A good demand for high-grade white oak is 

 reported by the Garetson-Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany, while other hardwoods are also in fair 

 demand> .1. S. Garetson of the company, was 

 called East a few days ago on account of illness 

 of one of his family who are spending the sum- 

 mer at the seashore. 



After a month spent at Trout Lake, where lie 

 fished the greater part of the time, C. M. Jen- 

 nings of the Berthold & Jennings Lumber Com- 

 pany, has returned home. 



.\ seasonable business is reported by the 

 Chas. F. Luehrmaun Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany-. The items most in demand are oak, wide 

 poplar and red gum, the latter being a specialty 

 of the company. 



Julius Seidel. president of the Julius Seidel 

 Lumber Company, who has been spending several 

 weeks doing the Great Lakes and incidentally 

 making short trips to nearby points in the 

 interest of the company, has returned home. 

 It is needless to state he had a fine time and 

 also sold some lumber. 



LITTLE ROCK 



I'"or I he past month the situation w^th regard 

 In the tap line or lumber roads, as regards the 

 threat on the part of the trunk-lines to cancel 

 tlie traffic agreements heretofore existing with 

 such tap-lines, on the through rate, has been the 

 chief topic of interest to lumbermen generally. 



The movement of lumber in this section is 

 unusually active at present. All grades of build- 

 ing material are included, both hardwood and 

 pine. Railroad traffic men. particularly on the 

 Rock Island and Cotton Belt, report a large 

 volume of business, headed for all points on the 

 map. The hardwood situation is very satisfac- 

 tory, the majority of mills, so far as reported, 

 being in operation on fall time. 



.1. H. Findlay of Naples. Tex., has purchased 

 a tract of virgin hardwood timber near Homan, 

 Ark., from William Arthur. The timber will be 

 cut by mills at Hope. It is estimated that the 

 mills will have a two years' cut. 



The new stave factory at Prairie Grove is 

 rapidly getting into shape. The main building 

 is completed and later two other buildings, one 



for the power plant and the other for storage 

 purposes, will be built. 



The Greenville Stave Company, which owns 

 a tract of 25,000 acres of timber south of this 

 city, near Benton, will erect a $10,000 stave 

 plant at Benton. The citizens of Benton have 

 donated $5,000 to secure the plant. The mill 

 will have an annual pay-roll of $100,000. 



Ilarrisburg, located in Poinsett counly, is to 

 hay; a new mill, working combination hardwood 

 and pine, chiefly the former, if present plans go 

 Ihrough. The mill will be located on a 30.000- 

 acre tract of timber owned by William Ains- 

 worlh of Ilarrisburg, and is to be modern in 

 every regard. 



The Helena Chair Company has reopened its 

 plant at Helena, after a temporary shut-down. 

 G. E. Powell, Jr., of New York, is the principal 

 .stockholder and C. H. Stevenson is general man- 

 ager. The factory employs 125 men and is a 

 valuable asset to the manufacturing interests of 

 Helena. 



The Pritchard Lumber Company, of this city, 

 will build an additional mill at Benton, and has 

 already leased a large tract of land near the 

 Union station at that point as a site for the 

 plant. 



MILWAUKEE 



The heavy rains of the last two weeks have 

 been a great benefit to the companies whose log 

 drives have been delayed along the Menominee 

 river for some time. One big drive has been 

 at Little Quinnesc Falls on the Menominee river 

 and another below the White and Friant dam on 

 the Sturgeon river since early last spring. The 

 two contain about 40,000,000 feet of timber. 

 Many of the mills which have been having 

 difficulty in obtaining a sufficient supply of 

 logs will now be able to secure all that are 

 wanted. 



An order has been issued by the Wisconsin 

 State Railroad Commission requiring the Chi- 

 cago &. Northwestern Railroad to give joint 

 rates on lumber, forest and farm products be- 

 tween Racine, Milwaukee, Manitowoc, Shebo.vgan, 

 Cireeu Bay and Matoon. The order was issued 

 after the consideration of a petition filed by 

 the Paxton & Lightbody Lumber Company of 

 Matoon. Wis. The joint rate will afford a 

 reduction of about ten per cent from the present 

 rates ofEered. 



The Sterns Lumber Company is preparing for 

 tlie coming logging season near Ashland, Wis., 

 on the Odanah Indian reservation. It is not 

 expected that the coming season's cut will equal 

 that of last year as no contracts have yet been 

 awarded to the smaller jobbers. 



The Menasha (Wis.) Woodware Company is 

 planning to combine its Menasha plant with 

 the one operated at Ladysmith, ,Wis., according 

 to a report recently sent out from Menasha. 

 It is claimed that in combining the two plants 

 the company can obtain lower freight rates on 

 raw material and that the operating expenses 

 will be lessened. 



An effort is being made by the Business Men's 

 Association of Antlgo, Wis., to have the Antigo 

 Lumber Company erect a large sawmill In that 

 city. Several other cities are also bidding for 

 the new mill. 



The A. H. Strange Company of Merrill, has 

 recently acquired a large tract of timber land 

 in the Copper river district, west of Merrill. 

 The land is estimated to contain about 

 12,000,000 feet of saw log timber. 



After the completion of the present season's 

 cut, the W. J. Starr Lumber Company will close 

 its large sawmill at Weston, Wis., thus terminat- 

 ing the lumbering operations of that city. 



Building operations on the new factory build- 

 ing of the Collier Incubator Company of Racine. 

 Wis., have been completed and the addition will 

 be placed in operation within a few days. 



