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been received during the past week. The 

 company is well satisfied with conditions for 

 this time of the year. 



\V. L. Whitacre left recently for Lake Side. 

 where he will spend a week in rest and re- 

 cuT^eration. 



The Sowers-Leach Lumber Company reports 

 improved conditions in its business and says 

 that It is much better than it was forty days 

 ago. The company's road men are receiving 

 more new orders now than they have since 

 last October and prices for all grades of lum- 

 ber are <=til-fer. 



■ INDIANAPOLIS 



The Barrett-Mitchell Lumber Company has 

 been organized at South Bend by F. B. Mitchell, 

 Ezra V. Khodes, Mabel J. Lerner and others. 

 They have $15,000 capital. 



Ovid Butler, deputy supervisor of forests in 

 the government service, with headquarters at 

 Boise City, Idaho, is spending his vacation in 

 this city. He is supervisor of about 1,000,000 

 acres of timber lands. 



Charles W. Osgood, engaged in the lumber 

 business here for thirty years, died at his home 

 in this city a few days ago. He was a life-long 

 friend of Henry Maley. 



The lumber committee of the Indianapolis 

 Board of Trade has been appointed as follows : 

 Perley B. Raymond of Adams & Raymond, chair- 

 man ; O. M. Pruitt of the Indiana Veneer & Lum- 

 ber Company, Chapin C. Foster of the B'oster 

 Lumber Company, Edward H. Eldridge of the 

 E. H. Eldridge Lumber Company and S. D. 

 Eraser. 



A committee composed of E. H. Eldridge of 

 the E. H. Eldridge Company, M. A. Baker of the 

 Capital Lumber Company and Eldon Dynes of 

 the Dynes Lumber Company has completed a 

 price list for the use of local retailers during 

 the ensuing year. Hardwoods show a decrease 

 of about twelve per cent from last year's list, 

 while mill work remains practically the same. 



The Indianapolis Lumbermen's Club will prob- 

 ably have a midsummer session and banquet at 

 an early date at a place yet to be selected. 

 Usually meetings are not held during June, July 

 and August, but the present condition of the 

 lumber market is believed to require a thorough 

 discussion of the situation. 



The Campbell Furniture Company and the 

 Blanchard-Hamilton Novelty Works at Shelby- 

 ville are running their plants with full forces. 

 Large orders received from furniture expositions 

 held at Chicago and Grand Rapids are responsi- 

 ble for the increased activity. 



It is reported from Blytheville, Ark., that 

 while walking in his sleep J. H. Dickey, a lum- 

 berman, found $2,000 in a pocket book in a hol- 

 low tree. Dickey was formerly in .the lumber 

 business at Greensboro, Ind. 



Building operations during the second quarter 

 of this year showed a decided decrease as com- 

 pared with the similar period of last year. Dur- 

 ing April, May and June this year permits 

 amounted to $1,787, 7S1 ; for the same period of 

 1907 they reached $2,374,157. 



Secretary J. V. Zartman cf the Indiana Manu- 

 facturers' and Shippers' Association is communi- 

 cating with similar associations in forty-two 

 states with a view to calling a conference to be 

 held in this city at an early date. At that time 

 some action will be taken on the question of the 

 proposed increase in freight rates. 



Frederick M. Bachmann, president of the F. M. 

 Bachmann Company, wholesale lumber dealers 

 and veneer manufacturers, has been elected a 

 director of the American National Bank. Mr. 

 Bachmann is now in Europe and has not been 

 notifled of his election. 



Ben Briant, sou of William Briant, a Hunting- 

 ton lumber dealer, died suddenly at Denver, Colo., 

 a few days ago. He was on a pleasure trip 

 through the West and was in excellent health 

 when he left Indiana a Sev,' weeks ago. 



MILWAUKEE 



Four recent decisions handed down by the 

 Wisconsin railroad commission were concerned 

 with the lumber industry of the state. One im- 

 portant refund case was that of the Chippewa 

 Lumber & Boom Company of Chippewa Falls 

 against the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company. 

 In this case the railroad company is ordered to 

 refund to the lumber company $2,459.92 for 

 excessive charges on the transportation of pine 

 and hemlock logs. Instead of hauling the logs 

 at $1 a thousand feet, the railroad company had 

 charged 3 cents per hundred weight. The Wis- 

 consin Central was also ordered to refund 

 $387.91 to the Menasha Wooden Ware Company 

 of Menasha, Wis., for excessive charges for haul- 

 ing logs from McCann's spur to Ladysmith. The 

 company charged 2^4 cents per hundred weight 

 when it should have charged a commodity rate 

 oi 1% cents. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan, 

 Wis., controlling the largest chair factory in the 

 world, has resumed operations in both of its 

 plants. The Phoenix Chair Factory is operat- 

 ing on a ten-hour schedule and also the plant of 

 the American Manufacturing Company. Opera- 

 tions will be continued by the Sheboygan Chair 

 Company as soon as its semi-annual inventory is 

 completed. A schedule similar to that in force 

 prior to the financial depression will soon be 

 adopted by all the chair plants of Sheboygan. 



The Wright Bros, mills and yards, located just 

 outside of the city limits of Marinette, Wis., 

 recently burned with a loss of $40,000. Owing 

 to the impossibility of the firemen getting a 

 line of hose to the Are, the extent of the damage 

 was great. 



Inquiries are being made in Milwaukee by a 

 firm of eastern attorneys in regard to an old 

 deed which may involve more than 7,000,000 

 acres of land iu Wisconsin and Minnesota. The 

 instrument upon which the inquiries are being 

 made is dated 1838, but the record shows that 

 the original deed was executed in 1707, long be- 

 fore Wisconsin was named. By its terms the 

 land comprising more than ten of the leading 

 lumber counties of Wisconsin was conveyed by 

 two Indian chiefs to one Jonathan Carver. 



Charles F. Tegge. president of the Tegge Lum- 

 ber Company of Milwaukee, extensive dealers in 

 hardwoods, is a member of the board of directors 

 of the new Lutheran high school. The corner- 

 stone for the new structure was laid recently. 



E. W. Whitson, a well-known lumberman of 

 Tomahawk, has announced his candidacy for 

 state senator from the Thirteenth district of Wis- 

 consin. Mr. Whitson has already served two 

 terms as assemblyman from Lincoln county and 

 has been mayor of his home city. He enjoys a 

 wide acquaintance in northern Wisconsin. 



M. D. Reeder of the H. W. White Company of 

 Boyne City, Mich., was a recent caller in Mil- 

 waukee. 



R. F. Hodges, Milwaukee wholesale dealer in 

 southern hardwoods, has returned to the city 

 after a business trip to Oshkosh and other Wis- 

 cousin points. 



A. A. Shead. Milwaukee representative of the 

 Noble-Corwin Lumber Company, has been at She- 

 boygan and other Wisconsin cities on a business 

 trip. 



Harry Hurd, manager of the sales department 

 of the Gilkey & Anson Lumber Company of Mer- 

 rill, was married recently to Miss Mae McDonald 

 of Wausau, Wis. 



John F. Conant of Milwaukee, Daniel L. Kim- 

 berly and William O. Wmg of Neenab, Wis., are 

 among the incorporators of a $100,000 wooaen- 

 ware concern at 'Vicksburg, Miss. 



The Merryman Manufacturing Company o£ 

 Marinette has sold to Francis Beidler & Co. of 

 Chicago 3,000,000 feet of lumber which will be 

 cut by the Merryman company during the re- 

 mainder of the present season. The entire cut 

 of the Merryman mill for this season is estimated 

 to be 25,000,000 feet. 



Freimuth & Sou, tub and tank manufacturers 

 of New London, have purchased the sawmill 

 owned by the Page & Lyon Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and will enlarge their business and output. 



T. G. Hanks has opened a Minneapolis office 

 for the Rice Lake Lumber Company of Rice Lake, 

 Wis. 



Charles B. Freyberg, president of both the C. 

 B. Freyberg Lumber Company and the Sheboygan 

 Novelty Company and vice-president of the Citi- 

 zens' State Bank at Sheboygan, Wis., recently 

 passed away. Death was due to heart failure 

 and the veteran lumberman was stricken while 

 mounting the f-reps of his li<ime. 



BRISTOL 



The Tug River Lumber Company will start 

 its band mill at Big Cherry, 'Wise county, 

 Va.. next week, having just about completed 

 a five-mile line of railroad leading from the 

 mills to the main hne of the Virginia & South- 

 western railroad. The company took advantage 

 of the dullness in the lumber market to make 

 this permanent improvement and hereafter 

 will ship its lumber out on a more direct 

 route than by way of East Stone Gap. 



■Walter J. Hunter, secretary and general 

 manager of the Unaka Lumber Company of 

 Johnson City. Tenn., and Miss Hattie King, 

 were married there last week. Mr. Hunter 

 was preparing to go to Ackton, S. C, to takt 

 charge of his company's operations in that 

 state and will take his bride with him. He 

 is well known to the lumber trade of this 



In an incendiary fire near Cranberry. N. C, 

 last week, the Nelson Lumber Company loss 

 a circular mill. The aggregate loss will ap- 

 proximate $3,000. with insurance. The fire Is 

 being thoroughly investigated. 



General Manager Harland of the Jackson 

 Lumber Company of Lockhart, Ala., one of the 

 largest manufacturing concerns in the south, 

 was a visitor in Bristol last week on important 



G. H. Miles of Greensboro, N. C, represent- 

 ing the J. A. Fay & Egan Company of Cin- 

 cinnati, was selling sawmill machinery in this 

 section a few days ago. 



"Business has been much better during 

 July than June, though every month of the 

 present year has shown a pronounced im- 

 provement over the preceding one." said J. H. 

 Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company re- 

 cently. "We shipped as much lumber during 

 the first half of July as we did during the 

 entire month of June. Inquiries are coming In 

 fast and things are taking on a much better 

 aspect." 



There will be considerable improvement in 

 Bristol and near here this year, in the way of 

 building. The city will let a contract for a 

 new $85,000 city hall, while the county will 

 expend $100,000 In improvements. 



A firm of local contractors has been awarded 

 the contract for the construction of a $30,000 

 building at the national soldiers' home at 

 Johnson City, while the contract will be let 

 at once for an $85,000 postofflce at that pikce 

 and the contract will probably be placed in 

 Bristol. There is a large amount of building 

 among the coal operators, and the Clinchfield 

 Coal Corporation, owned by George B. Carter 

 and Thomas F. Ryan, and holding a half mil- 

 lion acres of mineral lands in southwest Vir- 

 ginia, Is preparing to spend $2,000,000 in 

 building. 



J. A. 'Wilkinson has completed the installa- 

 tion of a large retail lumber business and 

 yards in connection with his band mill and 

 woodworking plant on the Southern railway in 

 this city. 



J. C. Thomas, formerly of Johnson City, and 

 for' the past year connected with the Hlgsby 

 Lumber Company of New York, who sustained 

 serious injuries in falling from 



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