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tions after having suspended for several weeks. 



J. H. Hinton, a well-known Mississippi and 

 Louisiana lumber exporter, has organized a uew 

 exporting company, to be known as the Lumber- 

 ton ManutacturiDg Company. It is domiciled at ' 

 Lumberton. Miss. J. H. Hinton, J. W. Hinton 

 and others are the incorporators. 



Lumber exporters of the Atchafalaya river 

 district in this State are much concerned in the 

 efforts being made to interest the United States 

 government in the creation of a twenty-foot chan- 

 nel from Morgan City to the Gulf. Private in- 

 terests have already dredged a fourteen-foot 

 channel, and considerable lumber is being shipped 

 through there now. With the twenty-foot chan- 

 nel millions of feet will be shipped out of Louisi- 

 ana that way, and the lumbermen are earnestly 

 supporting the move in favor of the deeper chan- 

 nel. The work will cost less than $500,000, it 

 is stated, and the new waterway will be of in- 

 calculable benefit to commerce. 



Ex-Governor Blanchard's work in behalf of a 

 forestry commission in the State of Louisiana is 

 beginning to attract wide attention in this State, 

 and keen interest is being manifested in the de- 

 velopments. Mr. Blanchard proposes to have the 

 legislature create a forestry commission to coop- 

 erate with the federal government in the matter 

 of conserving the timber lands of Louisiana, and 

 his work in behalf of this commission is of great 

 concern to the timber holders of the State. The 

 present legislature will dispose of the proposition 

 one way or the other. 



Another matter before the present session of 

 the general assembly that is attracting consider- 

 able attention is the much-talked-of Hackley, 

 Hume and Joyce case in Tangipahoa parish, 

 which has been exploited recently. This is the 

 case in which a big syndicate paid approximately 

 $287,000 for a big tract of land in Tangipahoa 

 parish. This land was originally entered, forty- 

 one years ago, as tidal flood land, and the con- 

 sideration paid the State was 25 cents per acre. 

 Recently the attorney-general of the State, acting 

 on the instructions of the governor, tiled suit to 

 recover the land, alleging that it was fraudu- 

 lently entered and that it was not tidal flood 

 land. A compromise was oCfered by the company, 

 and it agreed to pay the State for the tract more 

 than the State could get if it confiscated the land 

 and resold. Ex-Governor Blanchard agreed to 

 this compromise and it is awaiting ratification by 

 the general assembly. If it is accepted the State 

 will get about ?3 per acre for the property, 

 whereas if it is confiscated and sold it will get 

 only $1.50. The action of the legislature is con- 

 sequently awaited with mu<h concern. 



William Eckman of the R. G. Gage Lumber 

 Company is on a business trip up the Big Sandy 

 looking after the lumber and timber interests of 

 the company. This company reports receipt of 

 some very desirable orders for oak ties and sound 

 and square edged bill oak within the last few 

 days. They are also receiving several cars of 

 lumber in their yards here from their mill opera- 

 tions up the Sandy. 



Edward Barber of Illingworth, Ingham & Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, is loading three cars of export 

 oak from the Licking River Lumber Company at 

 their mill at Farmers, Ky., and also two cars at 

 Ashland this week. 



T. S. McClure, one of the most prominent tim- 

 bermen of Louisa, Ky., filed bankruptcy papers 

 June 9 with the clerk of the United States court 

 at Catlettsburg, with assets of $33,501.78 and 

 liabilities of $35,922.84. From the latter amount 

 there should be deducted $7,163.83, which is not 

 his direct liability, leaving the actual amount 

 $28,759.01. Mr. McCIure, it is understood, was 

 forced to this step by the action of millmen of 

 this city, with whom he had a contract to take 

 his timber as he could deliver it. They refused 

 to renew notes which he would have paid with 

 timber already ratted and In the river, and as 



he was unable to turn the logs into money there 

 was nothing left for him to do but to liquidate 

 the business through the courts. Mr. McClure 

 is also a member of the T. S. McClure Timber 

 Company, a $15,000 corporation, which owns a 

 fine lot of timber in Martin county adjacent to 

 the tracts operated by Mr. McClure during the 

 past few years. 



Mr. Scearcy of Whisler & Scearcy, Ironton, O., 

 was a business caller in the city this week. 

 Mr. Scearcy advises that they are continuing to 

 operate their mill full time at Ironton and are 

 receiving more orders than sixty days ago. Mr. 

 Scearcy is of the opinion that business will con- 

 tinue to improve. 



Increased activity is noticed on the N. & W. 

 They have commenced work on their belt line at 

 Cincinnati and are resuming work on their bridge 

 near Ironton and the new undergrade crossing 

 at Groveport Pike, Columbus. It is encouraging 

 to know that the railroads are resuming work 

 along their lines. It is also noted in looking 

 over the report of the American Railway Asso- 

 ciation that there is a great decrease in the 

 number of idle cars over that of thirty days 

 ago. There was a decrease of over twenty-three 

 thousand idle freight cars during the latter half 

 of May as against the number shown in the first 

 part of the month. These indications certainly 

 point to the restoration of business and should 

 be encouraging to the public in general. 



One of the largest contracts for railroad ties 

 ever handled in this section will be awarded 

 within a few days by Col. T. J. Ewing of Cat- 

 lettsburg, Ky., who has been commissioned by 

 eastern parties to purchase 3,000.000 railroad 

 ties for the European market. Col. Ewing has 

 a bid from one individual to furnish the entire 

 number, and bids from a number of others to 

 furnish part of them. He is of the opinion that 

 the contract will be awarded to the one who is 

 bidding on the whole job, and if it is it will be 

 the largest contract ever undertaken by a single 

 firm or individual at one time in this section. 



K. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a trip 

 through the North, and advises receipt of some 

 orders and states that business in general is 

 somewhat improved. He also states that the 

 large manufacturers are buying very sparingly 

 at this time and are placing orders only for stock 

 that they need immediately. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove, O., continues to operate its large band 

 mill and planing mills full time and probably 

 has enough logs to run for several months. The 

 company is increasing its yard capacity and put- 

 ting on sticks a large per cent of the cut. 



The Ashland Lumber Company of this city 

 has its mill closed down at present for repairs 

 and cleaning the boilers. This company is saw- 

 ing a large amount of timber for the Hermann 

 Lumber Company and the R. G. Page Lumber 

 Company of this city, in addition to its own 

 stock. It has enough logs on hand to run for 

 some time. 



The W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company is oper- 

 ating its large mill at Ironton, O., and putting 

 on sticks a very fine lot of poplar lumber. The 

 company reports receipt of some very desirable 

 orders during the month of May and an increase 

 over the month of April. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



under the decision Minneapolis will not get 

 anything better than a 75-cent rate. 



Several Twin City lumbermen attended the 

 Xational Hardwood Lumber Association meet- 

 ing at Milwaukee, and returned much pleased 

 with the doings, especially with the election of 

 President O. O. Agler. In the delegation from 

 here were D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, presi- 

 dent of the Northwestern Hardwood Lumber- 

 men's Association ; W. H. Sill of the Minneapo- 

 lis Lumber Company and the Ruby Lumber Com- 

 pany ; H. M. Halsted of Halsted & Booraem ; 

 F. M. Bartelme and A. H. Barnard of Minne- 

 apolis, and F. A. Nolan of St. Paul. 



Offices have been opened at 900 Lumber Ex- 

 change in this city by a new wholesale firm, the 

 Levine Lumber & Timber Company, which con- 

 sists of Henry Levine, for some years buyer and 

 outside representative of the S. H. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company of this city, and his brother, Gus 

 Levine. This concern announces that it will 

 specialize on hardwood, and will also handle 

 west coast lumber and northern pine, besides 

 dealing in timber lands. 



W. N. Hallam, who has been manager of the 

 Sioux City branch of the City Sash & Door Com- 

 pany of Mineapolis, has sold his interest in the 

 company to A. N. Wheeler, the well-known 

 salesman who has represented that company for 

 two years past. Mr. Wheeler will go to Sioux 

 City to manage the plant there, which carries 

 a $60,000 stock of doors and mill work, in a 

 fine two-story and basement warehouse building 

 110 by 224 feet. Mr. Wheeler is well asquaint- 

 ed with the retail trade tributary to his new 

 location. 



The Interstate Commerce Cpmmission deci- 

 sion in the case of hardwood rates to the west 

 coast does not particularly interest local whole- 

 salers. They think it will increase trade slight- 

 ly, but that the old rate was never low enough 

 to bring about the proper volume of hardwood 

 shipment to far western points. They do not 

 understand why a 75-cent rate is reasonable 

 for westbound business in hardwood, which will 

 load many more pounds to the car, while 55 

 cents is declared the highest reasonable rate 

 for the same distance eastbound. Apparently. 



CADILLAC 



R. E. McLean, manager of the I. Stephenson 

 Company, of Wells, Mich., and Mr. Stephenson, 

 were recent visitors here, looking over the 

 Cummer-Dlggins Company's steam loader and 

 chemical plant. Mr. McLean reports a number 

 of forest fires along the line of the G. R. & I. 

 and other roads over which he came. 



Reports show forest fires raging along the 

 northern division of the Detroit & Mackinac 

 railway. The Richardson Lumber Company lost 

 1.200,000 feet of logs at Posen. The water tank, 

 pump house and band car house of the Detroit & 

 Mackinac railway at Tower were also burned. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Cobbs, Mr. and Mrs. W. 

 W. Mitchell, Miss Marie Mitchell and Miss Yost 

 are making an automobile trip through northern 

 New York and New England. 



Chas. T. Mitchell left this week for a two 

 weeks' trip to New York City and the east. 



The family of Secretary J. C. Knox of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Jlanufacturers' Association 

 arrived here this week and are now settled at 

 206 E. Harris street. 



Hardwood manufacturers here report a num- 

 ber of good orders and say that indications for 

 trade are a good deal brighter than for some 

 time back. 



Charles Murphy of Seymour, Ind., is visiting 

 his brother, Joseph Murphy of Murphy &. Dig- 

 gins. 



Quite a number of Cadillac lumbermen and 

 their families are planning camping out on Lake 

 Mitchell this summer. 



CHARLOTTE 



D. O. Cecil, secretary of the High Point Hub 

 & Handle Company of High Point. N. C. whose 

 plant was destroyed by fire recently, states that 

 as soon as the insurance is adjusted he hopes the 

 plant will be rebuilt. If this is done the factory 

 will be built on a much larger scale than before. 



The Oettinger Buggy Company of Greensboro. 

 N. C is planning to put in a lot of additional 

 machinery to meet the demand of increased trade. 

 The extra machinery will be for the manufacture 

 of bodies of vehicles principally. 



The secretary of state has chartered the new 



