HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Indications wliich liave been noted during the 

 past few weelis lead Louisville hardwood men 

 to believe that a car shortage is not improbable 

 during the fall. Lumbermen hav& not been in 

 a position to be affected by scarcity of rolling 

 stools as much as some other lines of late, be- 

 cause, while there has been a fair movement 

 of lumber out of this market, it has not been 

 of a rush nature, and minor delays were not 

 considered serious. Business is becoming de- 

 cidedly more active, however, and the result of 

 this is that the lumbermen are having more 

 troubla getting cars. 



Business is somewhat better with the Louis- 

 ville Point Lumber Company. Edward Shippen 

 was out of town last week. 



Graham Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company is back from his vacation trip 

 to eastern resorts. He and his brother Mart 

 will go to Chicago next month to attend the 

 haseball games between the Cubs and Athletics. 

 John Smith, the company's southern buyer, was 

 in town last week, and reported things active 

 at the mills. The Dickson, Tenn., mill, which 

 will be under his supervision, will begin opera- 

 lions shortly. A. E. Klippert, Canadian repre- 

 sentative, was also in town for a few days last 

 week. 



D. C. Harris, traffic manager for C. C. Mengel 

 4. Brother Company, has returned from his trip 

 I.I British Honduras. It was his first visit to 

 I lie Mengel mahogany plant at Belize, and he 

 enjoyed the trip greatly. M. di Benedetto, 

 superintendent of operations there, is in Louis- 

 ville now. as is C. L. Dodd, who is otEce man 

 at the Honduras camp. Col. Clarence R. Mengel, 

 head of the company, is home from his vaca- 

 tion. The big mill in South Louisville is run- 

 ning steadil.v, and it i? now certain that im- 

 ports of mahogany into this country will be 

 larger for 1910 than for last year. 



The mill of the North Vernon Lumber Com- 

 pany will soon commence operations at Dyers- 

 I urg, Tenn. Charles Platter is now there see- 

 lug to its erection. The company has purchased 

 two big 150-horsepower boilers from the Henry 

 Vogt Machine Company, one for use at Dyers- 

 burg and the other for the local mill. 



The Stearns Lumber Company, the Stearns 

 Coal Compiiny and the Rock Creek Coal Com- 

 pany have consolidated under the name of the 

 Stearns Coal & Lumber Company with a capital 

 stock of $2,000,000. The company operates in 

 Whitley and Pulaski counties, and has large 

 holdings of timber and coal lands. New mines 

 and lumber operations are to be worked and 

 .300 men will be added. 



Five corps of surveyors are now in the field 

 for the Lexington & Eastern railroad, which 

 intends to build into the mountains from Jack- 

 son to the Virginia border, and it is expected 

 that as soon as their work is finished construc- 

 tion of the extension will begin. 



Twelve thousand acres of timber and coal 

 lands have been bought by the Kentucky River' 

 Consolidated Coal Company from the Rockhouse 

 Realty Company. The land is located in Fletcher 

 county. 



The White Oak Lumber Company has been 

 organized in Whitesburg with a capital stock of 

 .$10,000 by Samuel Collins, D. I. Day and others. 



Liquidation of the assets of the Louisville 

 Lumber Company, under the direction of R. M. 

 Cunningham, who was appointed by the creditors 

 several months ago, at the time the company 

 got into difiiculties, is going ahead, and the af- 

 fairs of the concern will probably be wound up 

 shortly. 



The North Fork Timber Company has been 

 incorporated with $150,000 capital at Ashland 

 by John F. Hager, J. M. Stewart and B. E. 

 Whitman. 



Charles H. Stotz, general manager of the A. 

 X. Haas Lumber Company, was married in Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., September 9, to Miss Katy Quinn, 

 a well-known young woman of the furniture 

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ST. LOUIS 



Quite a mimbor of the traveling salesmen from 

 the St. Louis hardwood firms have go.ne out on 

 the road on their fall trips. A number of them 

 are sending in a fairly good volume of orders. 

 They received orders before they left to make 

 sales but not to make concessions. The result 

 has been that the orders sent in by them have 

 been at fair prices. The dealers here have been 

 quietly getting in all the hardwood lumber they 

 could and are well supplied for any demands 

 that may be made on them. 



W. A. Clay, who has recently been appointed 

 the sales representative in this territory for the 

 Bluff City Lumber Company, Pine Bluff. Ark., 

 will make St. Louis lieadquarters and covcf" his 

 territory, which includes quite a number of large 

 cities, from this point. 



L. M. Borgess, the secretary of the Steele & 

 Hibbard Lumber Company, recently left for the 

 North and has already sent in quite a number 

 of good orders. 



J. L. Schcve of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany says there is a good demand for most of 

 the items on the hardwood list, especially oak. 

 Cypress Is also in fair demand. Mr. Krebs 

 of the company has been out on the road on a 

 selling trip and has sent in some good sized 

 orders. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company says that oak car material is in good 

 demand. Owing to the mill facilities of this 

 company it is able to ship promptly all orders 

 coming in. 



Most of the leading hardwood items are in 

 good demand, is the report made by the Charles 

 !■'. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, this 

 being particularly true of plain sawed oak and 

 red gum. 



The first monthly meeting and ban([uqet of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis since tlie sum- 

 mer vacation was held at the Planters' Hotel 

 on Tuesday evening, September 20. The speak- 

 er of the evening was James E. (iatewood. as- 

 sociate editor of the St. Louis Lumberman, who 

 spoke on the tap-line question. Charles F. 

 Ziebold. a well-known St. Louis attorney, gave 

 the legal phase of the subject. A. H. Bush, sec- 

 retary of the Lumbermen's Exchange, read a 

 letter from Congressman Champ Clark in reply 

 to one sent him on the subject of the logical 

 point for the Panama World's Exposition in 

 1915, advocating New Orleans. Resolutions in- 

 dorsing the exposition and New Orleans as the 

 place to hold it were passed by the Exchange 

 and approved by the Lumbermen's Club. A 

 copy was mailed to Norman Walker, chairman- 

 of the Convention Committee of New Orleans. 



HUNTINGTON 



The Kentucky Hardwood Company reports 

 work progressing satisfactorily near Jackson. 

 Ky. It has already completed eleven miles of 

 its railroad and built about twenty-five houses. 

 The work is being pushed along as fast as 

 possible and the firm expects to have the rail- 

 road completed in a short time and to begin 

 cutting timber, whicli has been sold for some 

 time, and will be shipped to Vansant. Kitchen 

 & Co.'s mills at .\shland, Ky., the latter hav- 

 ing purchased all of the poplar lumber on the 

 25,000 acres tract owned by the Kentucky 

 Hardwood Company. This company expects to 

 construct a mill of its own in which it will 

 manufacture oak and other hardwoods. 



Sliger Brothers have been closed down for 

 the past week on account of the low stage of 

 the river, but expect to lx>gin sawing again 

 in a few days. Business is improving in their 

 special lines of pine bill stock and they are 

 looking forward to a good business this fall 

 and winter. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a business 

 trip to Columbus, Toledo and Chicago. He re- 



ports business conditions much improved the 

 past thirty days and is looking forward to a 

 good demand this fall and winter. The plan- 

 ing mills are running daily, with more orders 

 on hand than before and prices are satisfac- 

 tory. The company is shipping large amounts 

 of stock from its yards at Farmers. Ky.. and 

 reports business satisfactory, with good prices 

 for all grades of lumber. 



D. E. Hewit of the D. E. Hewit Lumber 

 Company reports business improving and the 

 receipt of orders at goiKl prices. Mr. Hewit 

 advises that a large number of cars have been 

 shipped this month to various customers and 

 he looks forward to a hustling fall trade. . 



Frank Hopkins, lumberman of Prestonsburg, 

 Ky., was a business visitor in our city and 

 reports the lumber business a little quiet on 

 the Big Sandy. He advises that very few mills 

 are running and that there will be only a 

 small portion of the lumtrer coming out of that 

 section this fall and winter. Mr. Hopkins is 

 not operating his mill at the present time and 

 will not do any sawing this winter. 



C. A. Dotson, traveling representative of the 

 Hutchinson Lumber Company, returned from a 

 business trip through Ohio and western Penn- 

 sylvania and reports business improved. He 

 secured a number of very desirable orders for 

 lumber and car stock. His company is ship- 

 ping large amounts of lumber, car stock and 

 switch ties and reports prices Improving on all 

 classes of lumber. 



The Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company 

 has almost completed its new dry kiln and 

 expects in a short time to increase its capacity 

 and manufacture oak fiooring. The manager. 

 Mr, Way, reports business improving and is 

 looking forward to a good demand. 



The Miller-Crosier Lumber Company is ship- 

 ping large amounts of tie. hemlock bill stock 

 and chestnut from its mills on the Green- 

 brier river at Anthony, W. Va. It reports 

 prices satisfactory and the demand increasing. 



J. W. Kitchen of the Reese-Kitchen Lumber 

 Company, office at .\shland, Ky-. and mills lo- 

 cated at Wrigley. Ky., was a business visitor 

 in our city. Mr. Kitchen advises business im- 

 proving and prices getting better, especially in 

 high-grade stock. The company is operating 

 its mills steadily at Wrigley. Ky., and putting 

 on sticks large amounts of poplar aud oak 

 lumber. 



W. E. Minter of the Kenova Lumber & Sup- 

 ply Company of Kenova, W. Ya., reports busi- 

 ness good and the receipt of orders at good 

 prices. The company is running its new plan- 

 ing mill and the yards full capacity now and 

 is finishing a great number of house bills, for 

 local shipments and large amounts of stock in 

 mixed cars on finished and rough lots. 



MILWAUKEE 



The Cloquet Lumber Company of Cloquet, 

 Minn., recently opened a branch otfice at 1306 

 Majestic building, Milwaukee, with Roy .lames 

 in charge. 



W. E. Cooper, a well-known wholesale lum- 

 berman of Milwaukee, is seriously ill at his 

 home in Wauwautosa, with an attack of typhoid 

 fever. 



At a recent meeting of the Hardwood Prod- 

 ucts (.'ompany of Neenah, Wis., the following 

 officers were elected ; President, "W. C. Wing : 

 vice-president, D. L. Kimberly ; treasurer, K. D. 

 Beals : .secretary, C. B. Clark. The officers, to- 

 gether with S. F. Shattuck. J. F. Conant and 

 T. M. Gilbert, constitute the board of directors. 

 Plans are now being prepared for a main fac- 

 tory building, dry kilns, power house and 

 other buildings and construction work will be 

 commenced as soon as possible. It is expected 

 that the plant will be in operation early in 

 1911. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Rhinelander (Wis.) Refrigerator Company it 



