HARDWOOD RECORD 



stock. The mill outs about 1.000,000 feet of 

 mixed hardwood. 



No changes are noted in hardwood prices. 

 Dealers say that while something is doing, trade 

 just now is ratter dull, but all feel that as 

 soon as the njidsummer is over business will 

 rouse itself with a vhu. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Udell Works, manufacturers of woooen- 

 ware specialties, have resumed operations after 

 a shut down of several weeks with a full force 

 of lioO men. 



C. R. Balke ot the Balke-Krauss Company, 

 hardwood dealers, has been elected secretary 

 of the Indianapolis Builders' Exchange for the 

 ensuing year. 



The Central States Lumber Company, Pythian 

 Building, has been reorganized with $10,000 

 capital. O. A. Jose, O. E. Barker, L. W. Hums- 

 ton and J. T. Shimer are the new directors. 



J. K. Hicks, engineer, and Otto Nelson, yard 

 foreman, of the West New York Street plant ot 

 the Capital Lumber Company, have Invented a 

 smoke consumer that is being thoroughly tested 

 at the plant. 



William Waterman, Danville, 111., has pur- 

 chased the West Lebanon and Wllliiimsport 

 yards of the recently organized Warren County 

 Lumber Company and will take possession at 



On July 1, J. C. Ballew, a well known lum- 

 ber inspector of Evansvllle, was married In that 

 city to Miss Eula C. Uoskins, a well known 

 young society woman ot that city. They will 

 reside in Evansvllle. 



B. Walter & Co., Wabash, have Incorporated 

 for the purpose ot manufacturing furniture In 

 that city. They have $25,000 capital stock, with 

 r. B. Walter, E. E. Walter and C. Kish as 

 directors. 



IIoo-Uoo of the city have completed plans for 

 a twelve-room cottage to be erected at the Sum- 

 mer Mission for Sick Children, north of the city, 

 to cost about $2,500. Fifteen children can be 

 cared for in it during the summer months, 

 while during the winter four widowed mothers 

 and their children will be provided with homes. 



The Indiana Board of Forestry has declined 

 to allow the Standard UU Company to drill 

 for oil on the slate forestry reservation near 

 IlenryviUe. unc-oighth of the oil obtained was 

 promised the board. 



Charles Peabody, inspector for the Capital 

 Lumber Company, shot himself at bis home In 

 this city a few days ago. He was despondent 

 because of ill health and his Inability to sup- 

 port his wife and seven children as he thought 

 he should. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bachmann sailed July 7 

 from New York City for Germany, where they 

 will remain during the summer. Mr. Bach- 

 mann Is president of the F. M. Bachmann Com- 

 pany, lumber dealers and veneer manufacturers. 



Jordan D. Williams, for several years located 

 in the Stale Life Building, moved a few days 

 ago Into a suite ot offices In the new I. O. O. F. 

 building at Pennsylvania and Washington 



The American Box Ball Company Is building 

 11 dry house at its plant at Draper and Van 

 Buren streets. It will cost about $1,000 and 

 will be ready for use within a few days. 



C. O. Kobcrts ot the Adams-Carr Company, 

 this city, spent several days In Chicago recently 

 on business. 



C. D. M. Houghton and E, II. Greer ot the 

 Greer-Houghton Lumber Company have re- 

 turned after an extended trip through the South. 

 They were gone thirty days, visiting Alabama, 

 Florida and Mississippi points. 



The two yards of the Walnut Lumber Com- 

 pany and the National Veneer and Lumber Com- 

 pany will not be consolidated until most of the 

 stock nt the former yard has been disposed of. 

 This will not likely be until early in the fall. 



President Louis Buddenbaum of the Indian- 

 apolis Lumberman's Club is trying to arrange 

 a Slimmer meeting and banquet of that organi- 

 zation tor the purpose of talking over present 

 trade conditions, including prices. I'sually the 

 club docs not meet during June, July and Au- 

 gust. 



Henry Maley, one of the best known bard- 

 wood lumbermen In the country, died at his 

 home In Edinburg on the night of July 6 after 

 a short Illness from kidney trouble. Mr._ Maley 

 was president of the Henry Maley Lumbe'r Com- 

 pany, operating large band mills In Edinburg. 

 Jasper find Evansvllle and at Yazoo City, Miss. 

 He was also interested In the firm ot Young 

 & Cutslngcr at Evansvllle. Mr. Maley was 

 sixty-seven years old and Is survived by three 

 sons and three daughters. 



MJLWAUKEE 



United States Senator Isaac Stephenson ot 

 Marinette, one of the best known lumbermen in 

 the West, has announced his candidacy for re- 

 election, and his associates and friends In the 

 lumber world are enthusiastically endorsing bim. 

 Mr. Stephenson Is TU years old, but the early 

 days he spent in the woods ot northern Wiscon- 

 sin and Michigan have, apparently, given him a 

 lease on life beyond the ordinary, and bis friends 

 say that the "Tall Pine of the North Woods" 

 will sec "four score and ten." The senatorial 

 flght In Wisconsin will be more than usually In- 

 teresting because another prominent lumberman 

 of Wisconsin, William H. Hatton, who also owns 

 timber and mills In Alabama and Mississippi, Is 

 a leading candidate for these honors. Mr. Hat- 

 ten was state senator until two years ago, and 

 he gained tame for his progressive legislation. 

 With Senator La Follette he was a tramer ot the 

 railroad and public utilities commission law. 

 Another candidate Is Samuel A. Cook of Neenah, 

 a former congressman and one of the best-known 

 paper mill owners In the West. Both ot the 

 lumbermen have wide support and until the pri- 

 mary election the flght will be anybody's. 



The Menasba Wood Split Pulley Works, Me- 

 nasha, suffered a loss of $1,000 by fire recently, 

 but the company Is not Inconvenienced to any 

 appreciable extent. 



Charles Freyberg, president ot the C. B. Frey- 

 berg Lumber Company and the Citizens' State 

 bank, Sheboygan, died from heart disease at the 

 a%e ot 74. He was a pioneer lumberman and 

 manufacturer. He was president ot the Sheboy- 

 gan Novelty Company. 



The Wlsark Lumber Company ot Janesvllic, 

 composed ot Wisconsin and Arkansas capital, as 

 the n.imc indlcatis, has Increased Its capital 

 stock from $100,000 to $-.'oO,000. John M. 

 Whitehead of Jancsville is president. 



Pendleton, Gllkey & Co. ot Uconto suffered a 

 loss ot $75,000 by fire recently. The blaze was 

 coiflned to the cedar post yards. 



The Gllkey-Anson Company ot Wausau Is 

 rushing work at the sawmill to clear the river 

 of hardwood logs before they are lost by sinking. 



IChlnelander friends ot "Cash " Smith, formerly 

 a leading lumberman ot that city, later a saw- 

 mill owner at Munlsing, Mich., learn with grati- 

 fication ot his success In the Georgia forests. 

 He lost heavily in his ventures at Uhlnelander 

 and Munlsing, It Is said. 



•rhe recent storm In Wisconsin badly damaged 

 a number ot lumber establishments. The Collar- 

 Stange mill at Merrill suffered damage through 

 the collapse of a tall chimney. The damage Is 

 $1,000. 



G. F. Sanborn, A. H. Smith and A. G. Miller 

 ot Ashland have Incorporated the Sanborn Tim- 

 ber Company of Ashland. The capital stock Is 

 $100,000. 



Keller & Mariner, sawmill owners ot Prolrle 

 dii Chlen, were among the sufferers In the re- 

 cent Wisconsin .Mliincsotolowa storm. They suf- 

 fered $2,000 damage through the destruction of 

 logs and mill. 



A shaper guard for woodworking machinery 

 has been invented by H. P. Opgenorth of She- 

 boygan, an employe of the M. Winter Lumber 

 Company, interior finishers. The danger to op- 

 erators is reduced to a minimum. A number In- 

 stalled in the Winter plant have proven success- 

 ful. 



Much confusion has resulted in the vicinity of 

 Stephenson, Mich., from the recent order of the 

 Michigan supreme court regarding the ownership 

 of "deadhead" or sunken logs. The "harvest- 

 ing" of these logs has formed a veritable Indus- 

 try there. The court said that the timber stilt 

 belongs to the original owners, whose consent 

 must be gained before the logs can be raised. 

 However, as there have been dozens of different 

 drives on the rivers year by year, and eoch lost 

 some logs, the conditions are regarded as Im- 

 possible to fulfill. Millions of feet of good logs 

 are under water and may be lost forever. 



The Wright Lumber Company's ancient fac- 

 tory at Merrill, a landmark, has been razed. 

 The factory was closed several years ago and 

 the building, old and dilapidated, was of no use. 



O. C. Little ot .Menasha, inventor ot the slid- 

 ing furniture shoe being manufactured there by 

 the Onward Manufacturing Company, has made 

 arrangements to build a factory at Berlin, sixty 

 miles from London, Ont. It will be a branch ot 

 the Onward company. 



There has been some misapprehension of the 

 part the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Apple- 

 ton, Wis., played In the trial of Fred Ueiden, 

 Jr., on the charge ot bribery. Helden was found 

 guilty. The lumber company sold lumber to 

 Milwaukee county for the chair factory at tli- 

 house of correction, and Helden, then Inspcctnr. 

 held up the Jones bill, a Just and legal accouni 

 He forced the lumber company to pay him $l."iii 

 to put his O. K. on the bill. The impression had 

 gone abroad from reports of the trial that the 

 claim was fraudulenL 



BRISTOL 



The Vlrglui.1 ll.»rjH."ja Lumber Compiiuy, rt 

 cently organized at Tazewell, Va., Is preparing 

 for the extensive development of a large tract 

 of timber just acquired in Russell and Tazewell 

 counties. This will mean the installation of a 

 number ot mills. 



J. A. Wilkinson is overhauling a number ot 

 circular portable mills at his shops In Bristol, 

 and preparing to ship them to the woods. Mr. 

 Wilkinson has his band mill and woodworking 

 plant In Bristol in operation and is now erecting 

 a large building In which he will carry on a 

 retail lumber business on a big scale. He has 

 also Inst.illed a large commissary for the benefit 

 ot his employes. 



Building operations In this section are con- 

 tributing to what activity there Is In the lum- 

 ber business. It Is reported that the CUnchfield 

 Coal corporation, a large concern owned by 

 Thomas F. Ryan and George L. Carter, which Is 

 making preparations for the development ot 

 upwards of a halt million acres of coal lands In 

 southwest Virginia, will probably be In the 

 market tor a very large amount ot lumber for 

 building purposes. Over $2,500,000 will be 

 spent In preparing for developing the property. 



George E. Davis & Co. report very slight im- 

 provement In buslnesis. The company operates 

 four mills at Shawsvllle, Va., on the Norfolk & 

 Western Railway, and has made contracts cov- 

 ering a large part of Its output. 



A riot occurred In the lumber town ot Da- 

 ma.4cus, Va., last week, when a band of masked 

 men sought to drive away a force of Italian 

 laborers Imported by the Damascus Lumber 

 Company. The purpose of the mob was to pre- 

 vent the foreign laborers from competing with 

 them. They attacked the town In truly frontier 

 style, though they did not succeed In scaring 

 off the foreigners, and the Damascus Lumber 

 Company and the county authorities are taking 

 steps to Indict all who participated. 



