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HARDWOOD RECORD 



just been elected president of the Milwaukee 

 Athletic Club after one of the most interesting 

 campaigns in the history of the organization. 

 Mr. Snell won on a comfortable majority and led 

 the ticket which favored the building of a new 

 club house in the near future. Mr. Snell has 

 recently returned from an extended business 

 trip in the West and is very optimistic over 

 the trade outlook. 



Miss Grace Corwin, one of the few 'lady 

 lumbermen" in the country, secretary and man- 

 ager of the Noble-Corwin Lumber Company, with 

 oQices in the Pabst building, has just returned 

 from a trip through the East. 



J. Jung of Milwaukee, for twenty-seven years 

 connected with the A. A. Meinecke & Sons Com- 

 pany of this city, is soon to establish a wooden- 

 ware factory at La Crosse, Wis. 



Heavy rains quenched forest fires in northern 

 Wisconsin after damage to the extent of $20,- 

 000 was done and thousands of acres of refor- 

 ested lands were burnt over. The loss was 

 heaviest in the vicinity of Mosinee, where the 

 fires raged tor two days and nights. The Joseph 

 Dessert Lumber Company lost a million and a 

 half feet of timber valued at S12 per thousand. 

 The Weeks Lumber Company had a narrow es- 

 cape in saving 3,000,000 feet of logs, as the fire 

 at times scorched the piles. Fires at Hatley 

 and Rib also did considerable damage, which 

 would have been greater but for the timely 

 rain. 



The Miller Sash & Door Company of Mari- 

 nette, Wis., has recently secured large contracts 

 in the copper country, which will keep the plant 

 busy for some time to come. 



The Wisconsin Chair Company has discon- 

 tinued its plant at Boyd and moved the entire 

 (quipment to the new location at Evansville, 

 Ind. 



If the plans of Charles Zeiser of Menominee, 

 Mich., materialize that city will be the location 

 of a sawmill which will be operated entirely by 

 electricity. The plant will be one of the first 

 of its kind in that section, and the mill will be 

 equipped to cut from thirty to forty thousand 

 feet of lumber each day. 



The Milwaukee Board of Public Works has 

 awarded to the John Schroeder Lumljer Com- 

 pany the city lumber contract for the year. The 

 contract calls for a large supply of oak timber, 

 and this will be furnished at $32.30 per thou- 

 sand ; it must be perfectly sound and free from 

 defects. A quantity of pine at $21 per thou- 

 sand and hemlock at $1G per thousand will also 

 be supplied by the Schroeder Lumber Company. 



The Lincoln Farm & Timber Company, to be 

 located at Merrill, Wis., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $2j,000 by T. H. Ryan, 

 R. B. Kiiuk.- and A. T. Curtis. 



■rii' K ,ni I iiiiiiinr.. I'Miiniany lias been or- 



S:n!, I ■ " . I, \\l-, -Ailli a capital Of $25,- 

 ui.ii.i ..,, \\i iMiiir;i'l M.. William Konrad, 



Bristol. 



J. H. Burrell, a prominent lumber and tim- 

 ber dealer of Liverpool, England, and an ex- 

 tensive Importer of American hardwoods, was 

 a visitor in Bristol Ibis w.j.k. Mr. Bmrell is 



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States V, r i l-rs. 



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The Sugar Grove Lumber Company has been 

 organized and incorporated at Marion, Va., 

 thirty miles east of Bristol, by C. C. Lincoln, 

 and others, with a capital stock of $25,000, and 

 will do a general manufacturing and wholesale 

 business. 



The Western r i ■ 1 ; ■ Company, re- 

 cently reported i>i- niMnoa, N. C, 

 expects at once t'i :i "t a mill at 

 Swannanoa, with :i t 40,000 feet, 

 in close proximity tn ii- -.imliLi jiroduction. 



J. Minor Bcntley has purchased a tract of 



timber in \N i-' ii'.i \ iiginia, and will soon 



begin tk. u, -mall mills near Pound, 



for the d.■^■ i ■■ mue. 



M. L. l%,i~i I lii 1 :alloway-Pease Lumber 

 Company of Johnson City, Tenn., is spending 

 some time in the east on important business. 



W. B. Coon of Johnson City is negotiating 

 the sale of a $15,000 tract of timber in Sullivan 

 county, near Blair's Gap, owned by the Holstou 

 River Lumber Company, of which he is an 

 officer. 



Lumber shipments on the Virginia and South- 

 western railway, one of the principal hardwood 

 carriers of this section, have increased very 

 materially since March 1, acco»ding to state- 

 ments and reports obtainable at the general 

 offices of the company in this city. Much lum- 

 ber is now being hauled to the railroad by the 

 country mill men and further increase is ex- 

 pected on this account, as well as the general 

 improvement in the lumber market. 



The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railroad 

 will in rniiipI.M.d to Marion, N. C, and in oper- 

 aii'oi li[\\>Mi this point and Johnson City, 

 T' nil , \'\ Ai;l;ii-l 1. This will open. up a large 

 lirniM 1 iiirli.iiy in western North Carolina and 

 many new mills will be installed for the devel- 

 cpment of the property, which has not hereto- 

 fore been accessible by transportation facilities. 



Nearly all of the mills in this section are run- 

 ning, and a number of those which have been 

 closed have lately resumed operation. 



ilpon application of the Vestal Lumber and 

 Manufacturing Company of Knoxville, Tenn., 

 and the Frick Company, Inc., of Waynesboro, 

 Pa., Frank Graham has just been appointed re- 

 ceiver for the Gartner-Hancock Lumber Company 

 of Johnson City. It is alleged that the firm is 

 insolvent. Walter Gartner of the concern, which 

 is a partnership, was recently Injured In a rail- 

 road accident and an injunction was procured 

 against the accident insurance companies, re- 

 straining them from paying over to him about 

 $10,000 due on his policies. 



Cincinnati, 



W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip to Wil- 

 liamsburg, Ky., where he went to look after the 

 mills of the company. 



Thomas P. Egan, president of the Cincinnati 

 ChamLior of Commerce and of the J. A. Fay & 

 Esiin Company, manufacturers of woodworking 

 ma<liiniry. returned last week from Cuba, where 

 he had been about a month with his wife. 



M. B. Farrin of the Farrin-Korn Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a successful business trip 

 to Chicago and vicinity. 



n. J. Lewiu of the A ^f T,owin Company, 

 dealers in hardwoods, i'th.ii-^ lu-incss as showing 

 a healthy Increase. Hiii.ii i~ in in. ipally percepti- 

 ble in building mm. mi ii ||. ;;,|.|,.,| that the In- 

 clement weather a\1, rtvalling over 

 this district has I i ..n the lum- 

 ber trade, but as ii.r improves 

 the lumber condiiii'ii i imuh better. 



Samuel G. Boyd of Charles i". Boyd & Co., 

 manufacturers of hardwoods and veneers, left 

 last week for a trip to the South to visit the 

 mill of the company. Business with this con- 

 cern has been fairly good and it looks for a 

 steady increase in trade from now on. 



Max Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company of 

 Johnson City, Tenn., was in town during the 

 past fortnight and made several large sales of 

 chestnut. 



J. E. Tnthill with E. L. Edwards has returned 

 from a successful business trip to the East. He 

 says that business with his company is fairly 

 good, and that if the weather shows more im- 

 provement that the lumber trade will also be 



William Hunter of the Furnace Run Saw Mill 

 Company of Pittsburg was in town during' the 

 past fortnight and unloaded several carloads of 

 poplar. Some of the grades sold were of the 

 choice variety and were disposed of at $55, while 



the lower grades were sold on a range of from 

 $2.') to $35. 



F. W. Mowbray of Mowbray &. Robinson has 

 returned from a successful business trip to Chi- 

 cago and vicinity. 



W. B. Hays of the Wiborg & Hanna Company 

 says that the company is doing a good business, 

 due to the good work of the men on the road. 

 W. P. Hanna is still at the mill of the com- 

 pany in the South, while H. P. Wiborg is tour- 

 ing the Hoosier state and is meeting with much 

 success. 



J. VV. Wehry, who for years was connected 

 with the George Littleford Lumber Company, 

 lias severed his connections with that concern 

 and accepted a position as salesman with the 

 I. M. Asher Lumber Company. He is well known 

 in the trade. 



John Domasta, formerly connected with the 

 T. P. Scott Lumber Company here, has accepted 

 a position with the Louisville Veneer Mills of 

 Louisville. 



A. M. Scutt and O. B. A'on Cannon of the 

 J. Walter Wright Lumber Company of Eliza- 

 bethtown, Tenn., were in town recently on busi- 

 ness for their concern. 



R. L. Gilbert of the J. W. Darling Lumber 

 Company has returned from a successful busi- 

 ness trip North. J. W. Darling has returned 

 from a trip to Joppo, III., where the concern's 

 yards are located. 



T. B. Stone, president of the T. B. Stone 

 Lumber Company, with offices in the Union Trust 

 building, has returned from a business trip 

 South, where he visited the mills of the com- 

 pany. He returned just In time to celebrate 

 his fifty-fifth birthday anniversary and also his 

 Ihirty-first marriage anniversary. 



J. H. Ilankinson and G. H. Hankinson, 

 brothers, of Carlisle and Franklin, Ohio, respec- 

 tively, were in town last week looking after 

 some business transactions with local concerns. 

 During their stay they called on the Richey, 

 Halstead & Quick Lumber Company. 



The Hager Timber Company of Bloomville. 

 Ohio, was incorporated last week with a capi- 

 tal stock of $30,000 by W. H. Kilcawley. D. F. 

 Hager, N. R. France, J. F. France and W. E. 

 Bliss. 



The Meader Furniture Company has acquired 

 quarters at the northwest corner of Front and 

 Smith streets. The property will be enlarged 

 in order to cope with the Increase in business. 



The Scran ton Road Lumber Company, Cleve- 

 land, with a capital stock of $25,000, was in- 

 corporated last week by George V. Brown, C. H. 

 I'oote, John II. Hogg, C. T. Kirkbride and L. E. 

 Yaggl. 



The amount of business transacted during 

 April was much better than that of March, 

 which Is proved by the following figures : The 

 receipts of lumber during April reached 3,584 

 cars, while last month only 4,738 cars were re- 

 ceived and for April last year 7,561 cars. 

 Pleasing news to the lumber dealers is the 

 increase in the shipments of lumber from here. 

 During the past month 3,.361 cars. were shipped: 

 the previous month only 3,195 cars, and for the 

 month of April of last year 5,457 cars. Local 

 lumbermen conceded that this years business 

 would not be as good as last year, but their 

 statement that each month would be better has 

 proved true thus far, and they look for further 

 improvement during May. 



Creditors of the E. M. Schantz Lumber Com- 

 pany are leaving nothing undone in order to 

 realize as much as possible on the property of 

 the company. At a hearing of the creditors 

 held last week in the office of Referee Whitakcr 

 was heard the examination of Mrs. Schantz. 

 mother of E. M. Schantz and Mrs. Latin, his 

 sister. Mrs. Schantz holds a mortgage of $15.- 

 000 on several hundred acres of timber land in 

 Tallahatchie county, Mississippi, owned by the 

 bankrupt concern and Mrs. Latin holds a mort- 

 gage on the same property. Both mortgages arc 

 being attacked. The machinery and dimension 

 lumber of the company was sold at auction as 



