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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



nnd l>(i<|iu>iiii(' wny. Tho biilUlliii; Ik Ililr- 

 tetMi storlos IiIkIi iiiiil will be r«>iiil.v fur tlii" 



lloon> AUKiist 1. 



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Flint. KrvliiK & Stoiirr I.utiilior roiii- 

 pnny bookwl uiio-thlnl iiioro IiiisIih-hm up to 

 July 1 timii In the llrst six uionlliK of liist 

 year. From present inilh-ntlons llie coni- 

 pnny'8 local btiNiiiess this year will run 

 tJ.OiXl cars or an averaco of 5ti»> cars a 

 month. They report the mills In lietter 

 condition to furnish large onlcrs than they 

 have been for two months, but still unable 

 to keep up to the demand. 



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The McMillan Lumber Company, which 

 recently purchased a larye tract of timber 

 in Maryland. Is puttins a mill which will 

 be iu operation by August 1. The mill will 

 hnve a dally capacity of 20,000 feet nnd 

 will cut hetalock exclusively. The com- 

 pany Is buildinf; a town called McMillan, 

 ■where fifteen houses, a hotel and a black- 

 smith shop are already erected to take 

 care of their men. The main offices for 

 tlie new tract will be at Bayard, W. Va., 

 where F. O. McMillan is In charge. By 

 September 1 the company will have three 

 mills in operation cutting hemlock, spruce 

 and white oak and four miles of tramway 

 are already built. 



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The last tliree months there has been 

 quite a quantity of Oregon fir shipped to 

 Pittsburg. Only the best grades are bundled 

 here, as it comes into sharp competition 

 with the southern pines and the high 

 freight rates make it hard to sell unless" 

 the very best. The larger part of that 

 wtUch comes to Pittsburg by rail, how- 

 ever, goes on through to the eastern mar- 

 ket. Some No. 1 pine from the Xorth- 

 ■west has also been handled here this sum- 

 mer, although tlie greater bulk of the local 

 pine comes from Michigan and the South. 



MEMPHIS MATTER. 

 The L. IT. Gage Lumber Company has 

 moved its office from the Southern Ex- 

 press building to handsome quarters in the 

 new Scimitar building. F. E. Stoncbraker. 



rcpn>Kentiitlve here. Ih himmhIIiik a few days 

 lit the mills In .VrknuRas, In wlili-h he Iv 



also InlercKtcd. 



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Hubert Cooper, prcKldent of the Cochran 

 Lumber Company, has returned from t 

 trip to Michigan. Mr. Cooiier does not 

 think there will be much of a price change 

 in Cottonwood and Is sure that the article 

 will not be overiilentlful on the market, 

 though he notes an easier tone In the Cot- 

 tonwood situation that Is natural to this 



season. 



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The .1. W. Thompson Lumber CompiiiM 

 will have their new mill in Mississippi In 

 operation sometime in August. 



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The Cochran Lumber Company has re- 

 cently acquired some new timber holdings 

 in Arkansas. 



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Braughton & Co. are running a mill In 

 North Memphis and another at Shaw, Miss. 

 Messrs. Ben Braughton and Robert lycwls, 

 of the firm, are now in Mississippi lookin'.: 

 after their mill in that state. Some en- 

 largements are now being made at the 



Memphis place. 



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W. 11. Russe, of Russc & Burgess, re- 

 turned this week from his trip abroad. 

 His friends were glad to welcome him back 

 after an absence of several months on the 

 European continent and in the British 

 Isles. He found recent export conditione 

 rather favorable. 



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The Hellman Lumber Company, thai 

 came here some time ago from Warren, O., 

 is manufacturing considerable hickory 

 buggy stock at their plant in North Mem- 

 phis. W. L. Dodge is the temporary man- 

 ager of the plant, but after October 1 D. L. 

 Helman will likely be in charge personally 



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Jas. E. Stark & Co. liavo been pushing 

 the cypress end of their business lately, 

 having acquired some timber and mill prop- 

 erties in cypress in Arkansas. They note 

 in this wood, as in all the hardwoods, a 

 good summer demand, with prices sus- 

 tained and a scarcity in certain grades. 



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CHICAGO, ILL. 



DOWIN DRAFT 

 MOIST AIR... 



eH|MMhilly of oak, which they have found 

 aiiicmc lhemK4-lve8 and nelghborN. 



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Silvester F. .Neel nf KaUKiiK Clly w:i - 

 here a few days ago looking for oak tliii 

 ber. whlrh was not iilwayN to be found In 

 the neccKsary gradcH and slate of drynes.x. 



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Jan. K. Stark, of Jas. K. Slark & Co . 

 ban rclurned from a recent liuhine«s trip 

 h) ChlcMgo and ItulTalo. 



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M. K. (;race, of the Payne Lumber Com 

 pany of Oshkosh, Wis.,' was here this wocU 



looking for stock. 



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R. R. Kiigleluirdt, of the Seig Iron Com 

 pany, Itjiveiiport. la., was here a few days 

 ago liMiklng for lumber, to be used In con- 

 neclioti with their heavy hardware manu- 

 factures. 



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The W. 11. Gulrl Lumber Company will 

 greatly increase and enlarge the plant It 

 started here a short time ago for the maiin 

 facture of lumlier and wagon stock. At 

 Dover, Del., tliere has been incorporate' 

 within the last few days the Guirl-Stover 

 Lumber Company, with a capital of .$7.^).- 

 000. The incorporators were: W. H. (Juirl 

 and C. W. Stover of Memphis and Wm. H 

 Stnrhuck of Chicago. The local incorpo- 

 rators were the Delaware Trust Company, 

 whose officials declined to give out just 

 now information regarding the intentions 

 of tlio new institution. 



GOTHAJI QLEANTNGS. 



Some 35,000 of the building trade labor- 

 ers have gone to work, and it is believed 

 the trouble in New York City is about 

 over. The builders hope it Is, and the lum- 

 ber dealers are just as anxious that a halt 

 shall be called on the tie-ups, lockouts, 

 strikes, etc. There have been so many 

 disappointments over the settling of the 

 troubles, though, that it may yet be too 

 early to rejoice. 



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For the purpose of manufacturing Adi- 

 rondack hardwoods exclusively there has 

 recently been incorporated at Albany the 

 Algon(iuin Lumber Comp'iny, with ?100 - 

 000 capital. The directors of the company 

 are G. M. Grant, J. L. Johnson and C. 11. 

 Grant, who are connected with the house 

 of George M. Grant & Co., 29 Broadway, 

 and the American Lumber Company of 

 this city. The place of the new com- 

 pany's operations is St. Lawrence Count v, 

 this state. 



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Ralph H. McKelvey, manager of the 

 Lumber Underwriters, the insurance or 

 ganization owned by prominent wholesale 

 lumbermen, was married on the 15th inst 

 in tliis city to Miss Helen Adelaide Fair- 

 child. 



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One of the biggest planing mill fires of 

 the year occurred on the 17th inst., when 

 the big molding and planing establishment 

 and Lox factory of Vanderbeek & Sons, 



