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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



virgin UiulHT wliUh will In' cut off riiidilly. 

 The price pnlU Is reportitl to bo $I,tHX),tlOO. 

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 .1. K. Mellviilii & I'oiupiiiiy liiive lio(ii;lit 

 r..iNiO acres of timber laiul on the Short 

 l.iiie Knllroaa exIeiKlliif; from New .Mar- 

 tinsville to Ciark»buru. W. Va., and will 

 beuin to cut it nt once. Two portable 

 mills will be sot up to clear the tract. The 

 timber is virgin (irowtli of oak and poplar. 

 The former will lie cut into bill stuff for 

 the rittsburg marlvet. The same llrm is 

 cutting 2,5(;iO.OlX) feet of oak at InUustrv, 

 I'a. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



On Tuesday nl:;ht. .Tunc '.i. the Cincin- 

 nati Lumbermaus Club holds Its monthly 

 meeting and banijuet nt the ciubbouse of 

 the Zoological Gardens. As this Is tho 

 last meeting prior to the summer adjourn- 

 ment the club will be favored by the pres- 

 ence of the fairer se.x. This departure 

 proved quite a feature last year and a very 

 enjoyable evening is in store for all who 

 attend. 



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Among the recent visitors to Cincinnati 

 was F. W. Vctter of Buffalo, X. Y. He 

 was accompanied by his wife. Uis many 

 friends in this city regret that his stay 



was so short. 



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F. AV. Lawrence, of Lawrence & Wiggin 

 of Boston, Mass., also put in a few hours 

 with local dealers. 



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Another agreeable visitor from Boston 

 ■was Gardner I. Jones, of the H. M. Bick- 

 ford Company. His stay was also a short 

 one. 



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C. Crane & Co. of this city recently pur- 

 chased another large tract of timberiand 

 on the Guyan River. It is understood that 

 the consideration amounts to nearly a quar- 

 ter of a million dollars. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 



Hamilton Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., is 



in New York City conferring with patrons 



of his firm. 



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A. F. Greene, of the Davidson-Benedict 



Company, will summer with his family at 



Lake Chautauqua, X. Y. 



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John H. Baskette, secretary of the 

 Prewett-Spurr Manufacturing Company, 

 has returned from Xew Orleans, where he 

 found trade "also good" for their red cedar 

 ■ware and lumber product. 



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The Lumbermen's Club of Xashville and 

 the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Uoo had 

 a joint banquet Friday evening, at which 

 covers were laid for seveury-flve. S. Lleb- 

 erman, of Lieberman, xrueman & O'Brien, 

 was toastraaster. Eleven kittens were 

 shown the light. The speakers and their 

 toasts were as follows: "Lumber Organi- 

 zations," F. M. Hamilton; "What Business 

 a Stave Man Has to Be a Hoo-Hoo," A. L. 



Hayes; "Hoop Poles," W. W. Dyer; "Mill- 

 ing In South Carolina, ' John W. Love; 

 "Kallroadlng." O. M. Lang; "Grain Trade," 

 W. It. Cornelius; ".Mainifacturers" Asso- 

 ciation of America," J. H. Baskette; "Ins 

 and Ouls of City Council," Chas. Cohen; 

 "Box Industry of .Nashville," W. H. 

 Gleaves; "Why I Have Never Joined the 

 Hoo-Hoo." W. U. Davidson; "Lumber in 

 the -Machine Business," H. M. Hart. 



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Ferd Brenner, of the Brenner Lumber 

 Company, Chattanooga, spent a few days 

 here this week. He reports trade good in 

 Chattanooga lumber circles. 



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W. V. Davidson has returned from a 

 visit to the Monterey mills of the David- 

 son-Benedict Company. 



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Jiibii W. Love will leave July 1, or there- 

 abouts, for Nova Scotia, at which place he 

 and other -wealthy lumbermen hold proprie- 

 tary interests in a new summer and fisliing 

 resort. 



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Tho Looniis & Hart Manufacturing Cojji- 

 pany of Chattanooga have let the contract 

 for new and larger buildings for their 



plant. 



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C. T. Benedict, M. F. Greene and others 

 arc interested in a new ?;i0.000 incorpo- 

 rated company just chartered by the sec- 

 retary of state. 



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The United States Stave & Lumber 

 Comi)any of Columbia, Tenn., has been 

 chartered -with a capital stock of $10,000 

 by T. S. Wheeler, E. D. Smith, John W. 

 Fry and others. 



NORTH^WEST NOTES. 



A new hardwood lumber firm has been 

 added to the Minneapolis hardwood colony. 

 The Wilcox Bros. Lumber Company is en- 

 larging its retail lumber yard in this city 

 and will enter the field as a 'wholesaler. 

 A hardwood line will be added. Jolin P. 

 Engstrom has been secured as manager. 

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E. Paysou Smith, Jr.. was cut of the 

 city a few days last week tending to busi- 

 ness details. St. Louis ■vvas his stopping 

 point. 



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R. H. Grinsted, of R. II. Grinsted & Co., 

 who has been in business at Menominee, 

 Mich., has longed for his old stamping 

 grounds for some time and recently he de- 

 cided to move the headquarters of the firm 

 to Minneapolis. He was formerly in busi- 

 ness at this point. Mr. Grinsted handles 

 considerable nardwoocl every year. 



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Both members of the well-known hard- 

 ■wood firm of Barnard & Strickland of Min- 

 neapolis have been away during the past 

 two weeks, leaving the ofiice boy to run 

 the business. P. M. Strickland left the lat- 

 ter part of the week of May 10 and re- 

 turned a week later from a trip to Omaha 

 and other points in the Southwest. At 



Omaha, .Mr. Strickland said that business 

 was «lead as far as the lumber business 

 was concerned, because no construction 

 work was beln({ done. ,\. H. Barnard left 

 the city for ii few days to attend the an- 

 nual meeting of hardwood dealers at In- 

 dianapolis. He returned this week an<l 

 the long i>xpanNive smile he wore on hi* 

 face indicated thai he enjoyed himself. 



PHILADELPHIA POST. 



One of the largest lumber deals ever 

 consunnnated has be^-n announced from 

 WilliamsiKirt. The Central Pennsylvania 

 Lumber Company was organized there last 

 week, with ?L'0,0«k»,(XX( capital. The new 

 company has purchased all the timberlands 

 of the I'enn, Elk ami Inion Tanning com- 

 Iianles, and the saw mills and railroads of 

 the Keystone Lumlier Company. The tim- 

 ber tracks i)urchased cover several hundred 

 thousand acres in tho central and north- 

 eastern parts of the state, and will furnish 

 sawing for the next fifteen years. The 

 purchase covers six mills located at Tia- 

 daghton, Leetonia, Loleta, Jamison City, 

 LaQuiu and Gray's Run. This number 

 will probably be increased by new plants 

 at other points within the next few months. 

 The estimated annual production is from 

 300,000,000 to 400,000,OtHj feet, principally 

 hemlock. The new company ■will be 

 largely interested in the operation of more 

 than 200 miles of railroad, which mileage 

 will, it is said, be largely increased by the 

 development of the territory and the con- 

 necting of existing lines. C. S. Horton of 

 Williamsport is the president of the new 

 company. 



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All through the lumber region of Penn- 

 sylvania, it is stated, smallpox has been 

 more or less prevalent since the return of 

 the regiments from Cuba and the Philip- 

 pines, and the State Board of Health has 

 had to exercise unusual precautions to 

 prevent the dreaded disease from spread- 

 ing throughout the state. The latest place 

 to receive the attention of the State Board 

 is Cross Fork, in the heart of the lumber 

 region in Potter County. Seventy cases of 

 smallpox have developed in the lumber 

 camps at and in the vicinity of Cross Fork 

 during the past few weeks, and the board, 

 through the local and postal authorities, 

 and the railroads, placed them ail under 

 quarantine. Efforts had been made in 

 vain for several months to prevent the 

 spread of the disease through the camps 

 by peaceful means, but the lumbermen, it 

 is said, practically defied the health offi- 

 cers and left the camp or entered it at 

 ■\vill. It therefore became necessary to 

 employ more stringent methods, ana 

 guards armed with shotguns ■were sta- 

 tioned about the camp to maintain an ab- 

 solute quarantine. A short time afterward 

 a lumboiman tried to escape, and was 

 promptly shot in the foot by one of the 

 armed guards, an incident that had a 

 marked effect on the future success of th& 



