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.The Murray-McCann mill, Superior, suf- 

 iered a loss of $25,000 by Are on Oct. 31. The 

 <lamage was covered by insurance. 



The new spur into the Luger Lumber Copi- 

 pany's plant near Phillips will -soon be com- 

 pleted and in use. This is a branch o£ the 

 Luger Lumber Company of Minneapolis. It 

 owns a tine tract of timber, and while it 

 lias not yet marketed its stock, it is ex- 

 pected to make a bid shortly for the hard- 

 wood trade. 



The George P. Miller Lumber Company. 

 Fhillips, has established all its camps for 

 winter logging and has prepared to make an 

 extensive cut during the season. 



Edward J. I'oung of the Brittingham & 

 Young Company. Madison, was in the city 

 tecently. 



Bristol. 



Col. Isaac H. Bailey of Mitchell. N. C. has 

 sold the timber on 30.000 acres of land to a 

 lecently organized lumber concern at that 

 place, for $75,000. The purchasers have in 

 view the early erection of mills and a large 

 furniture factorj'. which may be located near 

 Bristol. The tract is said to be one of the 

 finest pieces of timber land in North Caro- 

 lina and contains chiefly oak and poplar. 

 Bristol people are supposed to be interested 

 in the deal, but only meager information can 

 be secured. 



The Dallas Lumber Company of Dallas, 

 Gaston county. N. C. has been granted a 

 charter. The capital stock of the corporation 

 is $35,000. which will be increased to $50,000 

 within a few months. 



Other new corporations in North Carolina 

 are the American Box & Veneer Company of 

 Raleigh, with a capital stock of $100,000, and 

 the Marion Lumber Company of Marion, with 

 an authorized capital stock of $50,000. 



The Builders' Lumber Company's plant in 

 Cumberland county has been sold to W. H. 

 Anderson of Washington. N. C. the consid- 

 eration being $12,500. Mr. Anderson will 

 operate the plant. 



The Dixie Lumber Company of Marietta. 

 O.. has leased a yard at Grafton, W. 'Va., and 

 will make that city a distributing point. 



William S. Crumley, for several years con- 

 nected with the James Strong Lumber Com- 

 pany of Bristol, has gone to Chattanooga. 

 Tenn.. where he will be identified with the 

 Case Lumber Company. 



The Goodstock Dimension Company of 

 Crab Orchard, Tenn., will be reorganized 

 and the capital stock of the concern ma- 

 terially augmented. With this view the com- 

 pany has made an assignment, with liabilities 

 of $14,000 and assets of $97,000. The reor- 

 ganization will be perfected in a few weeks. 



The Pee Dee River Dumber Company, re- 

 cently organized in Bristol, is soon to be re- 

 organized and the capital increased. T. P. 

 'J'rjgg. president of the company, states that 

 it will purchase a band mill and begin opera- 

 lions in South Carolina shortly. 



W. L. Lambert of the James Strong Lumber 

 Company, general attorney at Bakersville, 

 K. C, was in Bristol last week on important 

 business of the company. The James Strong 

 Lumber Company and the Virginia Iron. Coal 

 & Coke Company are engaged in litigation 

 at Bakersville, the trouble arising out of the 

 purchase of a large tract of land in Mitchell 

 county, wiiich the former company made 

 from the latter. 



Lumbermen in this section are extremely 

 interested in the proposed freight rate legis- 

 lation, and express themselves as heartily in 

 favor of President Roosevelt's attitude in the 

 matter. 



Cincinnati. 

 The movement of lumber for October, 1905, 

 as compiled by statisticians of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce was as follows: Receipts. 



5 S24 cars: shipments, 4.805 ears. For the 

 corresponding month last year the figures 

 were: Receipts, 5.161 cars; shipments. 3,939 

 cars. 



According to the report of the building in- 

 spector 406' permits for improvements, esti- 

 mated to cost $1,460,850, were issued last 

 month. This was a decided increase over Oc- 

 tober, 1904. when 350 permits were taken out 

 for improvements to cost $804,300. 



Fire early in November caused damage to 

 the extent of several hundred dollars in the 

 >ards of the K. & P. Lumber Company in 

 St. Bernard, a Cincinnati suburb. The loss 

 was covered hy insurance and the company 

 was not inconvenienced. 



The Queen City Box Company of this 

 city has been granted a permit to build a 

 one-story factory on Flint street. The com- 

 pany's old plant was burned some time ago 

 and the new factory will take its place. 



An inventory has been prepared by the 

 C. W. Sowles Lumber Company, which filed 

 a petition in bankruptcy the latter part of 

 September. The assets amount to $524.16. 

 while the liabilities are placed at $5,000. 



James Kennedy & Co., formerly located at 

 Ft. Wa.vne, Ind., have removed their offices 

 to the Mercantile Library building, this city. 

 The head offices of the concern are in Glas- 

 gow, Scotland, and it has branches in London 

 and Liverpool, England, and at Bristol, Tenn. 

 The company does a considerable exporting busi- 

 ness and decided to locate in Cincinnati because 

 of the better advantages afforded. 



Thomas P. Egan. president of the J. A. 

 Fay & Egan Company, is preimring to spend 

 the winter months in Cuba, combining busi- 

 ness and pleasure. He has visited the island 

 before. 



W. J. Eckman. secretary of the M. B. Far- 

 vin Lumber Coinpany. is in New York, look- 

 ing after the company's growing interests 

 "ihere. He is accompanied by H. C. Pfeister, 

 Philadelphia representative of the firm. 



There is considei-able complaint heard here 

 because of the difficulty in securing cars. 

 The railroads are doing everything in their 

 power to relieve the situation but unless cars 

 are ordered four or five days in advance none 

 can be obtained when wanted. 



W. H. Dawkins of Ashland. Ky.. was a 

 visitor here the early part of the month. 



Leland G. Banning has gone to New York 

 on a business trip. He will visit other east- 

 irn markets before returning. 



Harry A. Freiberg has filed suit against 

 Robert E. Becker, asking for the dissolution of a 

 partnership existing between Becker and himself 

 under the title of Robert E. Becker & Co., doing 

 business in McLean avenue, this city, for the 

 appointment of a receiver and for an account- 

 ing. 



According to a telegram from Huntington. 

 W. Va.. the C. L. Ritter Lumber Company 

 has purchased 30.000 acres of timber and 

 coal lands in Wyoming and Raleigh counties. 

 West Virginia. Large planing mills will be 

 erected at Himtington to prepare the timber 

 for market. 



W. Lee, E. H. Dearhart and John W. Wrig- 

 ley of Clearfield, Pa., Wm. McCormick of 

 Philadelphia and W. B. Townsend of Town- 

 send. Tenn.. representing the Clearfield Lum- 

 ber Company, are making a tour of the com- 

 pany's holdings in Rowan and Morgan coun- 

 ties. Kentucky, inspecting routes for a new 

 railway it will build into that section. The 

 company owns thousands of acres of valuable 

 timber lands in these counties. 



The Tarbox & Collins Lumber Company, 

 Cedarville. C. has changed its name to the 

 Tarbox Lumber Company. 



The heading and dry kiln departments of 

 the Paducah Cooperage Company. Paducah. 

 Ky., were destroyed by fire early in Novem- 

 ber. A loss of $150,000 was entailed. 



The contract has been let for the con- 

 struction of the first 20 miles of the new 



Cumberland and Nashville railway, to extend 

 100 miles from Corbin, Ky., to Tennessee. 

 Work will commence at once and a mortgage 

 of $2,500,000 has been executed to the Union 

 Savings Bank & Trust Company of Cincin- 

 nati, in order to get funds to finance the 

 project. The road will penetrate one of the 

 richest coal and timber territories in Ken- 

 lucky. 



The second monthly meeting and dinner of 

 the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club was held 

 Nov. 6. Freight rates and proposed legisla- 

 tion affecting them were discussed pro and 

 con. The railroad side of the question was 

 defended at length by A. D. McLeod, as • 

 .distant general freight agent of the C. H. 

 & D. railroad. W. A. Bennett of Bennett & 

 Witte followed with an address in the na- 

 ture of a reply, in which he set forth the 

 merchants' side of the question. J. H. Leid- 

 ing delivered a talk on fire insurance, which 

 was highly interesting. President I. M. Asher 

 presided at the meeting. 



Chattanooga. 



The officers and directors of the credit bureau 

 of the Association of Molding Manufacturers of 

 the United Slates recently held a three days' 

 session in this city for the purpose of devising 

 better plans for the credit system of the bureau. 

 These gentlemen hold annual meetings at differ- 

 ent points throughout the United States, and 

 next ,vear they will meet at Atlantic City, N. J. 

 The meeting was presided over by President Otto 

 I!. Letter of Indianapolis, Ind. During the 

 afternoons the visitors visited the historical 

 and scenic points of interest here. 



The King-Baxter Lumber Company will erect 

 a large addition to its plant near the National 

 cemetery early next year. The addition will be 

 20x360 feet in dimension and will be used as a 

 warehouse. The company recently purchased a 

 tract of ground 86x300 feet on which this .addi- 

 tion will be built. 



The Burford Lumber Company, formerly of 

 this city, is doing a large business at its plant 

 at Kensington, Ohio. The company has a band 

 sawmill with a capacity of 30,000 feet, and 

 manufactures all grades of hardwoods. 



The Southern Stave Company has applied for 

 a charter with the following incorporators : H. 

 \V. Bagg and F. A. Bacher of the Lion Spoke 

 Works, H. H. Bare and W. P. Moore. The 

 lapital stock is .flO,000. The company will 

 manufacture stave products. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company has almost 

 completed its plant at East Lake and will be 

 ready to .begin operations soon. The company 

 was chartered a short time ago with $100,000 

 capital stock. It recently abandoned its plant 

 at Junction Cit,>", Ky., and has removed nearly 

 all the machinery of that plant to the new one 

 here. The company has had a branch office here 

 for ten yeai-s. 



The Chattanooga Sash & Door Company will 

 make extensive improvements in its plant here, 

 including a new^ office building and a large dry 

 kiln. The main mill will also be enlarged. 



Angus McLean, president of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y., is the guest of 

 Patrick Fitzgibbons, manager of the local plant. 



Harry K. Brown, a large lumber dealer of 

 (^'incinnati, was in the city recently on business. 



VV. J. Willingham, president of Willingham 

 & Co., is ill at his home hero. 



The river mills, including the Loomis & Hart 

 Maiiufacturing Company, Snodgrass & Fields, F. 

 W. Blair, and others have about exhausted their 

 river supplies and. they will begin repairs on 

 iheir plants immediately. Recently a small tide 

 l)i'ought down about a quarter of a million feet 

 of logs from the Hiwaseo river. 



St. Louis. 



The Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company has now in stock at its yards 

 a complete assortment of California red- 



