HARDWOOD RECORD 



'I'lip Home Lumber Company of this citv has 

 ■ell i.'Misanized uiuler the name of the Home 

 iiinl.ei- iUKl Sii|.i.ly r,, mi. any with $25,000 capi- 



I. 'i'lie In, aid .ii .Ihectors is now composed 

 liiiu.. Wuliint:. Sr.. Huso Wulfing. Jr.. and 

 . c. I'range. 



The Indiana Railroad Commission has refused 

 ) order a revision of classilted freight rates and 



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I lie grounds that the profits of the railroads 

 liiive been reduced by industrial conditions and 

 legislation that has increased operating expenses. 



Frederick M. Bachman. president of the F. 

 yi. Bachman Company, has been elected a 

 director of the German-American Trust Com- 

 pany, in which Henry C. Atkins, president of 

 K. C. Atkin-i & Co.. is also an officer. 



Tlionias I'arley. for years one of the liest 

 known saw inanufacturers in the city, died at 

 his home recently, leaving an estate valued at 

 .ibout .$100,000. 



.1. D." Williams, for several years located in the 

 state Life Building, will move within a few* 

 .lays to a suite of offices on the Tenth floor of 

 I he new L O. O. F. Building. 



Local hardwood lumbermen will probably he 

 well represented at the convention of the Na- 

 I iunal Hardwood Lumber Association at Jlil- 

 waukee June 11 and 12. 



William H. Bultman of the Wolfln-Luhring 

 Lumber Company. Evansville. is making a two 

 weeks' trip through central Illinois looking aftir 

 the interests of his company. 



Building operations in the city during May 

 ii mounted to $702,977. as compared with .$347,- 

 S17.23 in May. 1907. The amount of the per- 

 mits issued last month was larger than the 

 amount for any month of last year, and this is 

 taken as an indication of returning prosperity. 



C. D. M. Houghton of the (ireer-IIoughton 

 Lumber Company. K. of 1". Building, recently 

 made a very successful business trip to Fort 

 Wayne and vicinity. 



Charles V. McAdams. who had been a member 

 ..f the Indiana Railroad Commission since its 

 .ir.^anization. resigned a few days ago. W. II. 

 Thompson of JIuncie has been appointed to suc- 

 ceed him by fJovernor J. Frank Uanly. 



The Interior Hardwood Company is having a 

 nice business at present and is anticipating a 

 good run through the summer season. The com- 

 liany suffered little from the financial stringency 

 and has been busy almost all spring. 



MILWAUKEE 



I'Jans are under way by Milwaukee hardwood 

 men for the National Hardwood Lumber conven- 

 I inn which will be held in Milwaukee June 11 

 :aid 12. A large attendance is expected and 

 preparations are being completed for the enter- 

 lainment of a record-hreaking number of dele- 

 ::ates from every part of the country. 



Former State Senator W. H. Hatten, a mil- 

 lionaire lumberman of New London, Wis., was a 

 recent Milwaukee visitor. Mr. Hatten ventured 

 lo predict that within the next twenty-flve years 

 the .state of Wisconsin will hoasf a population 

 of more than O.OOo.nnn \i, ii.ni.n was of the 

 opinion that the lumi" riii- ami agricultural In- 



in pu], Illation and was strong in his view that 

 \Vi~..iiisin is one of the leading states of the 



L.xMayor A. H. Stange of Merrill, Wis., a well 

 known Wisconsin lumberman, was in Milwaukee 

 on business the past week. Mr. Stange says 

 that business with the northern Wisconsin lum- 

 ber mills is gradually improving and that stocks 

 are heing lowered somewhat. 



An inheritance tax question that is affecting 

 • very state of the Union is now In the Milwaukee 

 I ourts. The case in question arises out of the 

 efforts of Wisconsin to levy $2,025 inheritance 

 lax against a $1.50,000 legacy which is being 

 held In trust for Adrian Cameron, the 10-year-old 

 sen of Frank Cameron, president of the Tibblts- 



Lumber Company of Milwaukee. The 

 $150,000 consists mostly of bonds and corpora- 

 tion stock and was bequeathed to the young man 

 by an aunt who died in California. Attorneys 

 claim that the state of California is the only 

 state ha\iiig till- right t" tax the property, oth- 

 efwi-.' it WMiiM Ih. a ras.- ,if dnitlile taxation. 



Ki'timil[ W .la, ■..!,>■ w,-ll liii,,\vn cooperage 

 plain ill Milwaiik,',' 1,,,-tiily suffered a dis- 

 astrous fire that ih-si r,,\ . ,1 th,> warehouse and 

 dry kilns, an atteiii],i t,, Kititi the furniture 

 plant of the B. .\. Kii,|, i ,,m|,aiiy and the six 

 flres at the \aavt ,,t il,,- .Milwaukee Chair Com- 

 pany are h.lii \,,| 1,, Ii,, all of incendiary origin. 

 State Fire .M.it-h.i! i;ti,l is cooperating with the 

 .Milwaukee ant l,,,i ii ii,~ in this case as in the oth- 

 ers ami ,1,\-, |,,|,tiu-iirs are soon expected. 



I'll, K," h \ l.,„'l.er Company, Milwaukee man- 



I'la, till, 1^ ,,1 » len and willow ware, has been 



c.theiall.i ile,lai,-,l bankrupt by Judge Quarles in 

 the Milwaukee bankruptcy court. Liabilities are 

 given as $200,000 and assets are scheduled at 

 $130,000. 



Only thirty-seven cases of bankruptcy have 

 been recorded for the present year in the Mil- 

 waukee court. Liabilities of these amounted to 

 $270,000, of which $200,000 is represented by 

 the Koch & Loeber Company. 



A civic organization has been formed at West 

 AUis, Wis., with lay L. Cusick, well-known lum- 

 ber dealer at that place, as the moving factor. 

 Mr. Cusick has been elected as secretary of the 

 organization, which is modeled after the civic 

 societies of Milwaukee. 



Forest fires ha^ _ ,iii ,i, \a-lal,d several tim- 

 ber districts in n,,ri i i, w ,, 111 and only the 



arrival of timely in i i 1 more serious 



losses. Bayfield e„,i,i, ,111 r,,l i|,e worst dam- 

 age and thousands oi acres of valuable standing 

 timber were burned over. 



The Mason -Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Rhinelander recently suffered the destruction of 

 its sawmill, entailing a loss of $40,000, fully 

 covered by insurance. It is said that the plant 

 will be rebuilt. ■ ' 



Fire recently destroyed the plant of the Ap- 

 pleton Toy & Furniture Company at Appleton, 

 causing a loss of $25,000. An insurance of 

 $16,000 was carried. 



The Namakogan dam at Cable, Wis., was re- 

 cently blown out by dynamite at the hands of 

 disgruntled farmers in the vicinity who have 

 been suffering by the inundation of their lands. 

 The going out of the dam will mean a great 

 loss of logs and facilities to the North Wisconsin 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Hayward, 

 Wis., the dam having furnished the company 

 water for log driving for many years. 



The erection of a new warehouse 00x150 feet 

 has been started hy the Wolf River Chair Com- 

 pany at New London, Wis. 



A large and up-to-date band sawmill has l)een 

 completed at Cornucopia by the Thompson & 

 Fleith Lumber Company. 



As soon as the present supply of logs has 

 been exhausted the sawmill of the Bird & Wells 

 Lumber Company at Wausaukee will be closed. 

 Lack of demand is given as the reason. 



The log drive record for Wisconsin has been 

 hroken by the Hatten Lumber Company of New 

 Ijondon. The drive of 2,500,000 feet was taken 

 down the Embarrass river from Norwegian dam 

 to New London, a distance of 200 miles, in 

 forty-two days. 



O. II. Ingram, the millionaire lumberman of 

 Fan Clair.', has been elected president of a new- 

 law , ni,,i , ,11., til i.'ague at that city. 



■Ih,' Ma pi, l.nnilier Company, an Iowa corpo- 

 ration Willi a capital stock of $40,000 and Wis- 

 consin interests of $34,286, has filed articles to 

 operate in Wisconsin. 



railway twenty miles south of Bristol, suffered 

 losses aggregating $10,000 by the high water and 

 floods that visited that section last week. There 

 was no insurance. Other concerns in that lo- 

 cality suffered heavily from the floods, which 

 w.-r.- ih,' w..rst in the history of that section. 



Wililaiii C Iptegrove of New York of the 

 111 III ,,t William !■:. Uptegrove & Bro., and intcr- 

 .'st.'.l in th, .\iii,ri.'an Cigar Box Lumber Com- 

 pauv. oi..raiinL- ,xtensivelv near here, was a 



B. B. Bniii- has r, tiiiiied from a trip in the 

 East in the iuterest of the Tug River Lumber 

 Company. 



W. H. Stiles has resigned his position as land 

 and timber agent for the Carolina, Clinchfleld & 

 Ohio railroad and will, it Is stated on good au- 

 thority, at once enter the wholesale lumber and 

 manufacturing business on his own account. 

 Mr. Stiles was for a number of years connected 

 with Sanford & Treadway of New Haven, Conn., 

 who operate extensively in this section, and has 

 a wide acquaintance among the hardwood trade. 

 He was also connected with the Kingsport Lum- 

 ber Company, owned largely by George L. Carter. 

 He will probably locate in Bristol. 



C. L. Matthews has returned from West Vir- 

 ginia and reports that T. W. Kainc, a wealthy 

 timber land owner of that section, is beginning 

 the construction of a standard gauge railroad 

 from Sewell Creek to a point on the Chesapeake 

 & Ohio railroad, known as Meadow View. The 

 road is heing built for the development of one 

 of th.; largest tracts of timber in that state, 

 and it is said that interests controlled by Mr. 

 Raine propose to install several band mills and 

 develop the property on a large scale. 



Nathan Bradley of the Bradley Lumber Com- 

 pany, Bay City, Mich., has completed the or- 

 ganization of a large woodworking concern at 

 Elizabethton, Tenn., twenty miles south of Bris- 

 tol. 



M. L. Galloway of the Galloway-Pease Com- 

 pany has returned from a trip to Michigan. The 

 suit of his company against the Unaka Lumber 

 Company, in which Chancellor Haynes recently 

 rendered a decree for about $12,000 in favor of 

 the complainants, has been settled. 



Samuel R. Sells of the Sells Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company and a prominent j'oung lum- 

 berman of this section, is a candidate for the 

 state senate as the republican nominee. 



H. v. Wyman of the Came-Wyman Lumlier 

 Company is on a trip to his company's timber 

 lands near Bluff City. 



Harlow Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lumber 

 Company, Elizabethton, was in Bristol on busi- 

 ness this week. The lumber business in that 

 section is quite brisk, he reports, and shipments 

 are heavy. 



CINCINNATI 



President B. F. Dulweber of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club has announced his standing 

 committees for the year, which includes the 

 names of many of the earnest workers of the 

 club. Jlr. Dulweber also announced at the last 

 meeting of the club, which was held at the 

 Mens Club May 29, that hereafter 

 nrday at 1 :15 p. m., at the Business 

 ill. the club will hold a weekly meet- 



Busin 



of the clnl. will atteii.l the .■..nventi..n o! the 

 National Ilardw 1 l.umlier Association at Mil- 

 waukee. .Tun,' 11 and Ii. The standing com- 

 mittees for the yvar are as follows ; 

 ADVisonv. 

 S. W. Richey, chairman ; II. H. Freiberg. W. 

 J. Eckman, C. F. Korn. M. B. Farrin, W. A. 

 {Contiinifil oil page 52.) 



