THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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since I began this article, and my faith 

 and belief are coming back to me, strong 

 and vigorous, as I linew tliey would. 



And we come happily to the conclusion 

 that the atomic theory and other theories 

 we've been worrying about don't matter so 

 long as God reigns. 



And the man, burdened by little knowl- 

 edge, who goes tramping cheerfully about 

 in the belief that God will take care of 

 him. has not so much the better of us 

 after all. 



For all our little paths of learning lead 

 us to the same belief. 



From Nea^r acnd Facr. 



FROM AN AUIHOKITATIVE SOURCE. 



J. I'.. JSliults, manager of the big hard- 

 wood saw mil! plant of the Chicot Lum- 

 ber Company at Blissville, Ark., and a 

 stockholder in the company, was at the 

 headquarters of the company in the Fort 

 Dearborn building In this city for a few 

 days this week. Talking of the hardwood 

 situatiou, Mr. Shnlts presented the argu- 

 ment that there would be but little depreci- 

 ation in prices, because they had reached 

 the present stage not only on- account of 

 a good demand, but as much by reason 

 of increase in cost of production. He 

 stated tliat stumpage values had been 

 doubled within the past five years and that 

 feed, labor and everything tliat entered 

 into the cost of the manufactured product 

 had advanced within the last year or so 

 in a proportionate extent. He says so far 

 as the Chicot Lumber Company is con- 

 cerned they have a fine and large stock 

 of dry plain and quartered oak and are 

 making more of it at the rate of 70,000 

 feet a day, with the idea, above expressed, 

 that it will be worth more money before- it 

 is worth less. Mr. Shults is one of the few 

 large manufacturers that does not talk for 

 effect, is naturally conservative in his 

 opinions and conceded to be a good judge 

 of conditions all around. 



INCORPORATED. 



Mitchell Brothers have been succeeded 

 in the lumber business in Cadillac by the 

 Mitchell Brothers Company, with a capi- 

 talization of one million dollars and in- 

 corporated under the state laws. William 

 W. Jlitchell, Frank J. Cobbs and M. M. 

 Spalding of Cadillac, Dr. W. E. Sawyer 

 of Hillsdale and Edward Fitzgerald of 

 Grand Rapdis are the stockholders in the 

 million-dollar incorporation, and William 

 W. Mitchell is the president and treasurer, 

 Frank J. Cobb is the vice-president and 

 Edward Fitzgerald is the secretary. No 

 change in. policy or in the personnel of the 

 office or mill forces will follow the reor- 

 ganization, which came as the result of 

 the death of Austin W. Mitchell, the senior 

 member of the firm of Mitchell Brothers. 

 During the past two years Mr. Fitzgerald, 

 who is the secretary of the Mitchell 

 Brothers Company, has been in charge of 

 the Mitchell Brothers' lumbering opera- 

 tions as the general manager. 



CHICAGO COMMENT. 

 S. W. Benbow, southern representative 

 of the Columbia Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, with offlces in the Wilcox building, 

 at Nashville, spent Fourth of July week 

 at headquarters here. Sell says they have 

 accumulated a few boards at different 

 points down there and reports a tight situ- 

 ation in plain and quartered oak and a 

 liKisening up in poplars. 



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A. B. Garrott, Frankfort, Ind., passed 

 through the city one day this week on his 

 way home, after a brief resting spell along 

 the Mississippi. He was toting a young- 

 ster around with him, the inference being 

 that he was just practicing. 



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Frank Vetter was also a brief visitor in 

 Chicago this week, on his way from the 

 mill in Arkansas to Buffalo. Mr. Vetter 

 was suffering with a malarial system and 

 was making tracks for homo. 



Lou Lesh has entered the ranks of build- 

 ers. In company with Mr. A. J. Olson of 

 this city, they are erecting an apartment 

 building in Memphis, Tenn., which accord- 

 ing to the Memphis papers will be an ele- 

 gant structure. The modern apartment 

 idea seems to be a new one in Memphis 

 and Lesh says indications point in its 

 favor, and he is always very modest in his 

 statements. As soon as this one is com- 

 pleted it will be placed on the market, and 

 iu the meantime the firm of Olson & Lesh 

 are seeking other desirable property on 

 which to duplicate their work. 



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.1. D. Laskey, formerly with Crandall it 

 Richardson of this city, recently connectixl 

 himself with the firm of Kyan & McPar- 

 land. wholesalers at corner of Robey street 

 and Blue Island avenue, and will look after 

 the sales department of that firm. 



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Mr. Glaubir, of the firm of E. Sond- 



heimer Company, has sailed for a two 



months' sojourn in Europe. He will visit 



lioints in Bohemia and Germany, visiting 



iiis parents en route, who are living in 



I'.ohemia. . 



* * * 



Fred W. Upham has just returned from 

 a two weeks' outing in the far West. His 

 official duties on the board of review will 

 commence shortly, and he wont out to rest 

 preparatory to the ordeal. 

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There will be a new member on the 

 street shortly, and if he bears as close 

 a resemblance in action as he does in re- 

 pose to his predecessor, there will be busi- 

 ness doing, Edward A. Schoen, the young- 

 est son of John Schoen, president of the 

 Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 has just finished a college /;ourse at St 

 Marv's Institute and has come home to 



enter into the lumber business. His 

 brother, Joseph Schoen, who has been the 

 selling end of the business, will go into en- 

 forced retirement, for a short period at 

 least, on aee<iunt of his health, and young. 

 Schoen will take his place. 



PHILADELPHIA POST. 



The annual challenge game of baseball 

 between tlie Lundiermcn's Exchange and 

 the Master Builders' Exchange will be 

 played on July 22, at the I'ennsylvania 

 Railroad Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion grounds. Forty-fourth street and Elm 

 avenue. Preston B. Craig and William 

 McGauglian are managing the Itimbermen's 

 team. They were victorious last year and 

 are confident of repeating the trick. The 

 proceeds of the game will be divided be- 

 tween the Children's Country Week As- 

 sociation and the Children's Sanitarium. 

 Nearly ^ciou was realized at the game last 



year. 



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Samuel II. Sturtevant, a well-known 

 lumber dealer of Wilkesbarre and ex-vice- 

 president of the Pennsylvania Lumber- 

 man's Protective Association, died at his 

 summer home, a short distance from 

 A\'ilkesbarre, on July 5. He was 42 years 

 of age. He was formerly employed by the 

 lumber firm of Sturtevant & Goff, of which 

 his father was a member. When bis 

 father died about four years ago. the son 

 bought out the Goft'. interest in the business 

 and changed the name to the Sturtevant 



Lumber Company. 



* * * 



John F. DuBois, the "Lumber King," of 

 l>uBois, Pa., received the honorary degree 

 of master of arts at the recent commence- 

 ment of Bucknell University, at Lewis- 

 burg, Pa. Among the other recipients of 

 honorary degrees were Admiral Charles 

 Clark and Henry C. Frick, pnmiinent in. 



the coke industry. 



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William F. Abbott, the eastern repre- 

 sentative of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany, who was recently married to Miss 

 Maria Ileiges. at Saxe, Va., has returned 

 to this city from his honeymoon trip. 



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The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Com- 

 pany shipped 1,000,000 feet of spruce from 

 this city to Brazil, for building operations, 



last week. 



* * * 



Eli B. Hallowell. of the firm of Eli B. 

 Hallowell iV Co., was a member of the 

 Philadelphia councilnianic escort to the- 

 Liberty Bell in its recent trip to Boston. 



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A. L. Mach has started a new saw mill 

 at Landaville, Pa. 



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William R. Hughes, for many years a 

 prominent lumber operator in the region 

 about Ilazlewood, Pa., died recently. He 



