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resumed operations in its band mill, having 

 on hand a good supply of logs. In addition 

 to its own logs it is sawing for other firms of 

 this vicinity. 



J. H. P. Smith, president of the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a busi- 

 ness trip to Detroit and other northern cities. 

 This company is receiving a nice lot of or- 

 ders, mostly for common and better oalc. J. 

 H. Koester, buyer and inspector, is at pres- 

 ent out of the city loading and inspecting sev- 

 eral cars of lumber to be shipped direct to 

 customers. 



E. "W. Strack, a well-known lumberman of 

 this city, has just returned from a ten days' 

 trip through the North. He visited Toledo, 

 Detroit. Grand Rapids, and several other cit- 

 ies, calling on the lumber trade. Mr. Strack 

 advises that he found conditions quiet com- 

 pared to a year ago. He secured some orders 

 and found stocks generally in consuming ter- 

 ritory far below normal. 



F. G. Eberhart, Jr.. of Mishawaka, Ind., 

 president of the Licking River Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, with his daughter, spent 

 several days here last week. He visited the 

 company's large plant at Farmers, Ky., and 

 several of its timber tracts in eastern Ken- 

 tucky. One of the principal features of this 

 survey was the possibility of putting in about 

 ten miles of railroad in Johnson county, con- 

 necting one of the tracts of timber owned by 

 the company with the C. & O. at Paintsville, 

 Ky. It has not yet been definitely decided 

 whether or not it will erect a new band mill 

 at Paintsville, or if the timber would be 

 shipped to this place. R. G. Page, secretary 

 and treasurer of the company, reports the re- 

 ceipt of a nice lot of orders the past few 

 weeks, for poplar and oak timbers, as well 

 as export oak, and states that the concern 

 has sufficient orders ahead to run the mill 

 for several months. 



President Putnam of the General Lumber 

 Company of Columbus. O.. was a business 

 visitor in this city, going from here up the 

 Big Sandy with the expectation of going over 

 some of the timber properties owned by his 

 company near Paintsville. This company 

 owns and operates a large band mill in this 

 city, and expects to operate again in a short 

 time. It has a large supply of logs on hand 

 and expects to do considerable sawing for 

 other companies. 



McGIone Brothers of Morehead. Ky., were 

 business callers in the city this week. They 

 make a specialty of hickory dimension, mostly 

 rim strips and high-grade stock. In connec- 

 tion with their mill they own a tract of about 

 17,000 acres from which there has been no 

 hickory cut. Owing to the conditions of the 

 market and prices, they are not operating 

 very heavily at this time. 



M. S. Satterfield, a lumberman of Alderson, 

 TV. Va.. was a business visitor in this city, 

 calling on the various lumber dealers. Mr. 

 Satterfield is also interested in the Marshes 

 Lumber Company. Marshes. W. Va. He ad- 

 vises that this company is equipped to get 

 out most anything in the lumber line, rough 

 or dressed. He also states that they find 

 business better than it was sixty days ago. 

 and better prospects for the lumber busi- 

 ness. 



Fred Stone of Detroit, was a business vis- 

 itor here and at Farmers, Ky., several days 

 this week. Mr. Stone' purchased Si large 

 amount of lumber from this section, which he 

 ships mostly to the North. 



The Clearfield Cumber Company of More- 

 head, Ky.. continues to operate its mill every 

 day. shipping out considerable stock, and 

 while prices are not as satisfactory as they 

 might be, still the company is encouraged to 

 look forward for something better in the near 

 future. This company owns and operates an 

 up-to-date band mill, recently built. Just at 

 this time it is very busy getting out the bark 



which is gathered from its timber. It ad- 

 vises the possibility of getting out about 

 1,200 cords of tan bark this season, all of 

 which is shipped to the Ashland Leather 

 Company of this city. In addition to the 

 band mill, the Clearfield Lumber Company 

 owns and operates a railroad known as 

 Morehead & North Fork R. R. It already has 

 thirteen miles of railroad completed, which it 

 is operating, and is building thirteen miles 

 extension, which will be completed this year. 

 The company owns timber along the entire 

 length of this road. 



S. B. Reese of the S. B. Reese Lumber 

 Company of Farmers, Ky., has returned from 

 a several weeks' vacation at his old home in 

 Washington. Pa., and has again placed the 

 mill in operation, and expects to operate for 

 several months. They have a fine supply of 

 logs, both oak and poplar. 



The R. G. Page Lumber Company is re- 

 ceiving in its yards here several cars of lum- 

 ber which it is shipping from its mill near 

 Harold, Ky. This stock is shipped here for 

 assorting and drying. The lumber is mostly 

 poplar, walnut and basswood. The company 

 reports receipt of orders for oak and hickory 

 dimension, also a very desirable order for 

 6xS ties. William Eckman of the company, 

 has just returned from a business trip 

 through the North and West. He advises 

 some improvement in the lumber business, 

 and found that the planing mills and retail 

 yards in the smaller cities were doing well, 

 running more steadily than the furniture and 

 implement factories of larger cities. 



C. G. McLaughlin, manager of the Mc- 

 Laughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company, of Co- 

 lumbus, O., was a recent visitor in this city, 

 wanting to purchase several cars of lumber. 

 Mr. McLaughlin expected to visit Huntington 

 and Charleston, and several other lumber cen- 

 ters in West Virginia before returning to 

 Columbus. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company at 

 Coalgrove. O., is operating its large plant, 

 running both departments thirteen hours a 

 day. This company has leased part of the 

 Meyer's property to extend its lumber yard. 

 This adds to its already extensive yards con- 

 siderable more space for piling lumber. The 

 company has at this time a large supply, and 

 enough logs to operate for the next three or 

 four months. 



serious experience in the critical illness of 

 his little daughter, who has been very low 

 with pneumonia and not expected to live. His 

 friends are all greatly pleased to learn that 

 the little one is improving and is now consid- 

 ered out of danger. 



D. C. Phelps of the Advance Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cleveland, Ohio, was a business visitor 

 in the Twin Cities last week. 



The building record for Minneapolis does not 

 make a bad showing. April permits num- 

 bered 6S0. with a total cost of $989,030, com- 

 pared with 651 permits last year and an esti- 

 mated cost of $1,147,960. St. Paul's April 

 total was $539,292, compared with $623,119 last 



Andrew McGowan, the wholesale dealer of 

 Madison. Wis., was a visitor here a few days 

 ago on his way to Winnipeg. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, says that their trade in the coun- 

 try districts of the Northwest is very dull at 

 this time, and Twin City business is light also. 

 It runs mainly to oak. birch and basswood for 

 sash and door factories, and to fiooring ma- 

 terial, oak, birch and maple. The wagon stock 

 trade is quiet now. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



H. J. Strand, wno was formerly in the em- 

 ploy of Osborne & Clark of this city as travel- 

 ing representative, was in Minneapolis this 

 week. He is now in the employ of the Leavitt 

 Lumber Company of Chicago and has re- 

 turned from a buying trip in Mississippi and 

 Tennessee. He says there is a great deal of 

 high-water trouble in that territory- and that 

 only such mills are running as are under 

 contract to saw. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is going south next week to 

 look after some of their hardwood mills and 

 also into the conditions of the yellow pine 

 trade. He says that conditions in this mar- 

 ket are not quite as actn'e as las* month, 

 but they have no complaint to make. 



James R. Andrews has Joined the forces of 

 the Payson Smith Lumber Company and will 

 act as sales representative in the Twin Cities 

 and the upper Mississippi valley. He will 

 also represent the company to some extent as 

 buyer. Mr. Andrews has had considerable 

 experience in the hardwood trade, having for- 

 inerly been connected with the Quinisette 

 Lumber Company of Milwaukee in a similar 

 capacity. He fills the place made vacant by 

 George S. Agnew. who left the Payson Smith 

 Lumber Company some weeks ago to enter 

 the wholesale business for himself. 



George S. Agnew has been going through a 



TOLEDO 



Charles B. Schnaitler, for many years a 

 prominent furniture manufacturer of this city, 

 died last week, after an illness of nearly a 

 year. 



The S. N. Ford Lumber Company suffered 

 a heavy loss this week by fire which com- 

 pletely wiped out their plant at Mansfield, 

 O.. causing damage to the extent of $100,000, 

 partly covered by insurance. Much valuable 

 machinery and a large stock of lumber were 

 destroyed. 



An interesting suit has been commenced at 

 Mansfield, O., by Eli and M. E. Berry against 

 Marion and Warner Charles. Plaintiff has 

 asked for an injunction restraining defendants 

 from removing timber from a valuable tract 

 of hardwoods. The defendants claim that 

 prior to 1902 they entered into a contract 

 whereby they were to remove the timber at 

 such times as they saw fit, subject to the 

 provision that they were to haul along a cer- 

 tain field and at such times as the ground 

 was not so soft as to cut it up. They say 

 they cut and hauled away timber without 

 disturbance until February 16, 190S, when they 

 were notified to remove the remainder before 

 March 15. Weather conditions preventing, 

 they failed to comply with the notice, and 

 since then they have been prevented by in- 

 junction. Defendants claim that from 1902 

 to 1907 plaintiff cultivated their roadway so 

 they could not haul; that in 1905 the field was 

 so soft the timber could not be removed, and 

 that by reason of plaintiff's conduct they have 

 lost a market for the timber. The most in- 

 teresting feature is the fact that no time was 

 fixed for the removal of the timber, and the 

 court will be called upon to say what would 

 be reasonable under the circumstances. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Dicus Cooperage Company, of Defiance, 

 O. Among those interested are W. E. Mack, 

 James E. Tischler. W. W. Tackaberry, H. M. 

 Wilhelm and D. C. Dann of Lima, O., and 

 George H. Dicus of Defiance. The new con- 

 cern will take over the business of the Dicus 

 Cooperage Works, which has been successfully 

 conducted for more than twenty years, 

 in Canada, died here a few days ago. 



NORFOLK 



Although most wnolesalers and manufacturers 

 at present are outwardly optimistic, existing con- 

 ditions hardly warrant this feeling. In talking 

 with Harvey" M. Dickson of the H. M. Dickson 



