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if there be any, why the prayer of the said re- 

 port and petition should not be granted. 



L'pon complaint of Messrs. Frank Gough, L. 

 E. Whaley and J. A. Wooten of Lumberton, X. C, 

 ■nho allege an indebtedness of about $10,000 on 

 a timber contract. Judge C. C. Lyon, at Burgaw, 

 N, C, has just appointed receivers for the Mo- 

 nira Lumber Company, with offices in Wilming- 

 ton, N. C, and mill plant at White Hall, Bladen 

 county. North Carolina. Assets of the company 

 are estimated at from $10,000 to $12,000, with 

 liabilities estimated at $13,000. The general de- 

 pression in the lumber business is attributed as 

 cause of the failure. 



The American Fixture Company, the largest 

 makers of pool and billiard tables in the world 

 and one of the largest concerns in the country 

 manufacturing high-grade bank and store fix- 

 tures, etc., has just opened headquarters in 

 Charlotte. 



A. E. Lentz has purchased a big share of 

 stock of T. E. Witherspoon & Co., furniture deal- 

 ers of Salisbury, N. C, and with his son will be 

 associated with the company. 



Judge Newman is to hear the noted case of 

 Harris-Wooabury Lumber Company vs. Coffin & 

 White in Asheville, N. C, court at an early date. 

 This is a phase of the long standing Whittier 

 timber boundary litigation. The Whittier boun- 

 dary contains more than 70,000 acres of fine 

 timoer lands lying in western North Carolina. 



George Stone, employed at i'hillips' sawmill, 

 near Benham, N. C, in Wilkes county, suffered 

 a serious accident a few days ago by accidentally 

 falling on the saw while it was in motion. 

 There Is little hope for his recovery. 



Jerome Bolick of Conover, N. C, inventor of 

 the spring steel baggy which is just now finding 

 its way rapidly upon the market, spent some 

 time in this city last week. Mr. Bollek was en 

 route to Kock 11111, S. C, where he proposes to 

 place his Invention with the Kock Hill Buggy 

 Company in accordance with his plan to deal 

 exclusively lor the present with the wholesale 

 trade. 



The Horn Land & Lumber Company, of Mocks- 

 ville, N. C, has been chartered with $l:i5,000 

 capital by G. E. Horn and others. 



The schooner William Thomas Moore of 

 Bethel, L>el., sailed from Little Kiver, S. C, a 

 fen days ago with a cargo of 300,000 feet of 

 pine lumber consigned to New \ork parties by 

 the Hammer Lumoer Company of Wilmington, 

 N. C. This is the second turee-masted schooner 

 that has been loaded by the Hammer people at 

 Little Kiver this summer. 



J. Elwood Cox of High Point, N. C, has been 

 nominated as candidate for governor of North 

 Carolina by the republican state convention, 

 and is now waging a hot fight in his own behalf. 

 Mr. Cox is perhaps the most prominent and ex- 

 tensive manufacturer of bobbins, shuttle blocks 

 and furniture in the state or South. He is 

 largely interested in six of the largest furniture 

 factories, the three known as the Globe-Home 

 being among the group, and is said to be closely 

 identified with the interests of others. Mr. Cox 

 is said to practically control the trade in bob- 

 bins and shuttles in this section. He is one of 

 the most important figures in the manufacturing 

 life of his home town. High Point, which is the 

 Grand Kapids of the South in the furniture 

 business. 



A charter has just been granted the Wendell 

 Hardware and Furniture Company of Wendell, 

 N. C, capitalized at $25,000, by J. K. Hood and 

 others. 



C. E. Molten, prominently connected with 

 furniture manufacturing business at Greensboro, 

 N. C, has just returned from a trip to New 

 York, Boston and other northern points. He 

 reports that indications are now that the furni- 

 ture business has about weathered the financial 

 storm and that trade is opening up with much 

 encouragement. 



Jack Kobertson, night watchman for the Car- 

 rington Lumber Company of Durham, N. C, 



was found dead on the yards of the company 

 with two bullet holes in his body on the morn- 

 ing of September 19. It is thought he was shot 

 by a negro who had threatened his life, Wesley 

 Bates, and after the coroner's inquest Bates was 

 arrested charged with the murder. 



Luther George, a young man employed at the 

 sawmill at Walnut Cove, near Winston-Salem, 

 N. C. suffered a serious accident a few days ago 

 by catching his hand in the saw. All the fingers 

 on his left hand had to be amputated. 



The recent storm which extended over North 

 and South Carolina and parts of Georgia and 

 Virginia did heavy damage to many lumbermen. 

 The storm was the worst ever experienced in this 

 sectijn. and a number of lumber mills were 

 damaged by the unprecedented rise of the streams 

 nearby. An example of the magnitude of the 

 storm may be seen from the fact that the Cape 

 Fear river, on which is located a number of 

 lumber mills, reached a flood stage of 79 feet, 

 and other streams in this state made new flood 

 records. At this time, however, most of the 

 damage to plants has been remedied, and opera- 

 tions are being taken up again as before. It Is 

 not possible to estimate the damage to lumber- 

 men, but a conservative estimate of the entire 

 damage in this section to crops, manufactories, 

 etc., has been placed at $25,000,000. 



NORFOLK 



The most pregnant happening of the past three 

 weeks has been the exceedingly heavy, extraor- 

 dinary and disastious rains which have visited 

 this immediate section and those sections of 

 North Carolina from which the local wholesalers 

 draw their principal stocks. From old and ex- 

 perienced lumbermen there come dismal esti- 

 mates of the extent to which the lumber trade 

 has suffered, some authorities having figured 

 out the loss to be close in the neighborhood of 

 $10,000,000. With the farmers the loss is, if 

 not equally disastrous, at least fully as dis- 

 tressing. The entire corn crop along the Roan- 

 oke river will be a total loss, and the cotton 

 producers have not succeeded yet in getting at 

 a lair estimate of their damages. With the 

 different logging operations it was only with the 

 utmost difficulty, in some sections, that work 

 was continued, and in other sections, because of 

 washouts and high water, work was utterly im- 

 practicable. With many of the loggers the ex- 

 pediency of running loaded cars of logs upon 

 trestles to prevent their being washed away by 

 rising streams was successfully tried. Some of 

 the mills, amongst which was the mill of the 

 Camp Manufacturing Company at Franklin, Ya., 

 were completely flooded, the waters rising to the 

 top of the first floor, putting out engine fires 

 and stopping all machinery. One of the largest 

 operators in South Carolina writes a friend in 

 this city : 'In consequence of the tremendous 

 floods we have had recently in this territory we 

 have been practically at a standstill with re- 

 gards to the shipment of all business on our 

 books, and have had many orders badly de- 

 layed." Another large producer states that his 

 output has been reduced fully 20 per cent. Still 

 others write in that their wood is so full of 

 water that it is still impossible to log. A rough 

 estimate of the extent of the curtailment of 

 lumber production by these almost unprecedented 

 floods, puts it at 25 per cent. 



Charles G. Blatchley. prominent wholesaler 

 of Philadelphia, was in Norfolk last week on 

 business. Mr. Blatchley, who handles different 

 kinds of hardwoods, had difficulty in recognizing 

 this city, the last time he visited here being 

 about IS'JO. He states that business is encour- 

 aging, and that this aspect is general. 



James R. Clark of the Canton Lumber Com- 

 lany. Baltimore, Md., was a visitor to this city 

 last week. 



The recent storm was also felt severely in 

 marine circles and there are several disasters re- 

 ported as resulting therefrom. One of these is 



the wreck of the three-masted schooner Margaret 

 U. Vane, loaded with lumber from Beaufort, N. 

 C. to New York City, which went ashore on 

 Hog Island beach, upon the upper Virginia coast. 

 Another disaster, of less consequence, is that 

 which visited the Alice P. Turner, from Charles- 

 ton to New York City, which ship had a good 

 portion of its deckload of lumber washed over- 

 George MtBlair Jr., ^with the Fosbnrgh 

 Lumber Company, this city, as buyer and sales- 

 man, has resigned from those duties to assume 

 those of manager for the Exchange Branch Lum- 

 bermen's Bureau, Bank of Commerce building. 

 The purpose of this bureau is to furnish con- 

 sumer and producer with weekly lists of stocks 

 in hardwoods and pine wanted and for sale, and 

 also price data secured from members' reports, 

 has been accorded a cordial reception by the 

 trade, over two hundred of the fraternity hav- 

 ing demonstrated their faith in the proposition. 



CLEVELAND 



Cleveland lumbermen are up in arms against 

 the rule of the city administration regarding the 

 piling of lumber in the flats, where most of the 

 concerns are located. The city's building code 

 prohibits the piling of lumber within 100 feet of 

 a house of any kind. The recent fire in the yard 

 of the Saginaw Bay Company, which imperiled 

 the Central viaduct to some extent, has caused 

 unusual activity at the city hall, and the rule is 

 being enforced a little more stringently than 

 called for. As a result the Cleveland City Lum- 

 ber Company was required to secure a temporary 

 order from the common pleas court restraining 

 the city from interfering with its lumber piles. 

 The city authorities complained that the lumber 

 was piled too close to dwellings. The lumber- 

 men hope to have the code amended so they 

 will not be subject to hardship, as is now many 

 times the case. 



W. A. Cool, the well-known Cleveland hard- 

 wood dealer, has returned from a visit to North 

 Carolina on important business. At the office of 

 Mr. Cool it was stated that trade is quite good 

 and that orders for hardwoods are rolling in 

 with regularity. The small cramped quarters oc- 

 cupied by the company in the Citizens' bank has 

 been deserted and a spacious suite of three large 

 rooms has been secured on the fifth floor of the 

 Superior Arcade, where the concern is now 

 located. 



Contracts have been closed for a couple or 

 more twelve-story buildings. With the plans 

 gradually maturing there promises to be a big 

 lot of building next spring, when the super- 

 structures of most of those recently announced 

 will be gotten under way. 



Andrew Dall & Son, contractors for the new 

 $4,000,000 court house, have notified the county 

 building commission that arrangements have 

 been completed for changing the specifications 

 for the window frames of the new monumental 

 structure from clear oak to oak for the inside 

 finish with cherry veneer for the outside. This 

 has l»'fM |.ioii..iiiir,.ii satisfactory. The change 

 was liia.l. I" in.N.nt warping. 



\Villi:ui) I >-!• 1 li ' i-f. formerly connected with 

 •the ckvihui.l I'.ox Company, has become manager 

 of the American Box Company, succeeding 

 Joseph Miller, who has resigned from that posi- 

 tion to Ijecome manager of the new Acme Box & 

 Lumber Company. The latter's plant is nearly 

 complete and will be in operation in a few 

 weeks. 



George E. Meier, manager of the Clev.i-Iand- 

 Oconee Lumber Company, will. ' - rvo 



and mill on the Oconee river n, » 



that the mill is very active. . n 

 oliO feet of hardwood every « ; r 



says the company has booked a let of uood 

 orders within the past two or three weeks and 

 that business is very brisk. The export trade 

 is also improving, particularly regarding red gum 

 and also dimension stock. 



