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raised its quarantines. Texas, however, still 

 enforces restrictions against persons coming 

 from infected cities. 



R. H. Wolfe, vice president of the A. J. 

 Cranor Company, Ltd., has returned from a 

 trip to Asheville, N. C. 



McNeal & Co., Ltd., are about ready to 

 begin operating their new stave and head- 

 ing mill at Ravenwood, La. On account of 

 quarantines, labor could not be brought from 

 ihe North, and, as a result, there was about 

 two months' delay in getting the mill started. 



Joseph Rathborne. president of the Louisi- 

 ana Cypress Lumber Company, Ltd., has re- 

 turned to the city after a three months' va- 

 cation in Europe and the East. 



S. M. Bloss of the Lyon Cypress Company, 

 Garyville, La., has returned to the mill after 

 spending the summer in Buffalo. 



R. H. Downman is expected to return to 

 his New Orleans headquarters within the 

 next week. 



John A. Bruce. Owl-Bayou Cypress Com- 

 pany. Strader. La., is making frequent visits 

 to New Orleans to look after the arrange- 

 ments for the entertainment of the cypress 

 manufacturers on Nov. 22. He is chairman 

 of the entertainment committee. 



C. M. Jennings and Harry Hart, American 

 Woodworking Machinery Company, have re- 

 turned to their offices in the Hennen build- 

 ing, after long vacations in the North. 



E. A. Donnelly, one of the best-known ma- 

 chinery men in the South, has opened an office 

 at 706 Hennen building. 



Kansas City. 



Cypress people here say that there is likely 

 to be a readjustment of values on Louisiana 

 cypress toward the end of the month. The 

 Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion will hold a meeting at New Orleans Nov. 

 22 and 23. when the committees on grades and 

 classification will report. The matter of 

 prices will be thoroughly discussed and it is 

 probable that the price on upper grades will 

 be advanced. Cypress people claim that an 

 advance in cypress uppers is warranted as 

 the price on all competing, woods has been 

 advanced a number of times during the past 

 year, while cypress has remained stationary. 



George B. Maegly has just returned from 

 a ten days' trip south, and spent three days 

 in Memphis among the hardwood trade. He 

 says that Memphis people seem to have an 

 ample volume of business. 



A. L. Houghton left here on Nov. 7 for 

 New Mexico on business. He will return 

 about the 15th of the month. 



A. H. Connelly of the Connelly Hardwood 

 Lumber Company reports a very satisfactory 

 demand at firm prices, which demand is 

 hard to take care of, owing to the slow move- 

 ment of stock from the mills. 



J. H. Tschudy expresses himself as satis- 

 fied with the tall trade which has been stead- 

 ily active, both locally and from the countrj'. 

 He looks for a good volume of business for 

 the next thirty days. 



J. N. Penrod of the American Walnut Com- 

 pany sailed from New York Nov. 2 for Eu- 

 rope, where h? expects to remain during the 

 balance of the year. 



Minneapolis. 



The building activity in the twin cities this 

 fall has been heavy. The volume of building 

 permits indicates that a great deal of work will 

 be done this winter. October permits issued in 

 Minneapolis broke the record, being valued at 

 $909,665, compared with $538,135 for October 

 of last year. The total for 1905 to date Is 

 4,439 permits, estimated at $8,061,180. During 

 the same period last year 3,9S6 permits were 

 issued, valued at .$5,983,740. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany returned last week from an eastern trip. 

 He spent some time in Chicago on his return. 



A. H. Barnard of Barnard & Strickland went 

 to the Interstate Commerce Law Convention at 

 Chicago as the delegate of the Northwestern 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. He was 

 eltcted at a called meeting of the association, at 

 which the general expression was in sympathy 

 with the policy taken by President Roosevelt. 

 While not instructed, Mr. Barnard went into the 

 so-called "Bacon convention" and voted for the 

 resolutions adopted there. All the other Min- 

 neapolis delegates from business organizations 

 went into the other convention. 



E. Payson Smith, the local wholesaler, has re- 

 turned from a business trip to Omaha. He 

 found everything lively in that city, and says 

 that Omaha seems to be entering on a period of 

 business activity. There is a good hardwood 

 demand there, principally from the country yards, 

 as the farmers all seem prosperous and are buy- 

 ing the best. The demand elsewhere he finds 

 good. 



C. P. Coon of the Beldenville Lumber Com- 

 pany, Bruce, Wis., was in the city a few days 

 ago interviewing manufacturers and dealers, and 

 reports strong prices in his section. 



J. J. Kennedy of the Rib Lake Lumber Com- 

 pany, Rib Lake, Wis., made a business trip to 

 Minneapolis the other day to look into the hard- 

 wood and hemlock situation. He says his com- 

 pany's hemlock trade is more active at present 

 than the hardwood end. 



The Williams Box & Lumber Company of St. 

 Paul is building a three-story brick factory 

 building, 120x120 feet, as a new home for its 

 plant, but will continue to utilize the old build- 

 ings as well. 



W. C. Bailey, the veteran hardwood lumber- 

 man of Minneapolis, who has been confined to 

 his home for some time by illness, is getting out 

 a little every day and is able to pay some atten- 

 tion to business. He expects soon to be fully 

 recovered. 



Louisville. 



D. J. Edwards of the Florence Wagon Works. 

 Florence, Ala., was in Louisville recently look- 

 ing into the local lumber market. The Florence 

 \^'agon Works is accumulating some sui*plus 

 stock of hardwood and is looking for good con- 

 nections in the trade to make disposition of it. 

 The stock consists of poplar boards and bevel 

 siding and of plain oak plank and piece stuff, 

 the oak running mostly from 10 to 12 feet long 

 and 2 to 4 inches in thickness of mixed white 

 and red. 



The Stotz Lumber Company reports the hard- 

 wood trade in general good, with an especially 

 active call for plain oak. Charles Stotz has 

 lately returned from a trip among hardwood 

 mills in Tennessee and Kentucky where he made 

 some very good hardwood connections, so that 

 the company will be able to handle a larger 

 volume of hardwood trade. 



The Mengel Box Company accumulates some 

 hardwood for the market at its mills in the 

 country, which operate primarily to supply stock 

 to the box factory here, and finds a ready mar- 

 ket for it at fair prices. 



K. M. Cunningham, one of Louisville's most 

 prominent lumbermen, is receiving condolences 

 on the death of his wife, who passed away 

 Oct. 30, following a surgical operation. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Louisville at its 

 last meeting decided not to take any active part 

 for the present in the question of railway rate 

 legislation. Members of the club feel that they 

 have earned a rest from labor of this sort by its 

 past efforts in the way of improving car ser- 

 vice rules. However, a number of the members 

 are still in the ring individually on railroad 

 rate matters before the state railroad commis- 

 sion. 



secured at 1001-1007 East First street. Con- 

 stantly increasing business has made this move 

 imperative. 



Nearly all local commission houses report 

 an extraordinary demand for railroad ties. The 

 Los Angeles & Redondo Railway Compauy has 

 been in the market for some time past for a 

 score or more carloads of ties, but has expe- 

 rienced considerable difficulty in securing enough 

 to cover its requirements. It now is more than 

 certain that the other lines diverging from Los 

 Angeles will soon also be in the market for ties, 

 as indicated by the fact that quotations were 

 asked for during the past ten days for delivery 

 within sixty days. 



Arch. A. B. Benton is preparing plans for the 

 new Maybury fire-proof office building to be erect- 

 ed on Broadway. Inspection of specifications dis- 

 closes that all the interior woodwork will be 

 metal covered. This is a new departure in this 

 section, and the advent of the novelty is looked 

 for eagerly by parties interested in interior mill- 

 work. 



All interior woodwork and fixture mills report 

 a large and, what is surprising in view of re- 

 cent destructive competition, profitable business. 

 The immediate future will see more work for 

 local mills than they handle, owing to the ex- 

 traordinary amount of building permits for sub- 

 stantial structures. A small proportion of mill- 

 work still comes into Los Angeles from the East, 

 but it is hoped that with the prospective new 

 mill and additions to facilities of old mills work 

 of this character will be taken care of locally. 



Los Angeles. 

 The Western Door & Sash Company will trans- 

 fer Its business to the new location recently 



Wausau. 



The C. M. & St. P. has a crew of men at 

 work extending a line through southern 

 Lincoln county through a fine hardwood sec- 

 tion. The logs from adjacent lands will be 

 hauled to the mills of Heineman, Gleason 

 and Doering. 



F. B. Budgett of Budgett Bros., sash and 

 door dealers of London. England, has been 

 visiting Wisconsin river valley towns the 

 past week. This gentleman does the buying 

 for his firm and has made consideratjle pur- 

 chases of oak and birch. 



The mill of Altenberg & Stoddard at Dancy. 

 Wis., has closed down for the season, after saw- 

 ing out about 5,000,000 feet of white oak, elm, 

 maple and some birch, 



William Welt'er of Marshfield. who has 

 managed the Henry Linster mill near that 

 city for several years, has purchased the 

 plant. He bought a fine hardwood tract ^nd 

 will stock the mill this winter with about 

 1.000.000 feet of logs, besides buying all he 

 can secure of farmers. He is getting camps 

 in readiness for the work. 



The Vetter Manufacturing Company, Stev- 

 ens Point, recently made a large purchase of 

 lumber of Fred Benzin, Dorchester, taking 

 nearly all of the season's cut of Mr. , Benzin's 

 mill. The lumber is of different varieties, of 

 hardwood. 



Doud Sons & Co. are rebuilding their mill at 

 March, adding improved machinery, and will 

 make it an up-to-date plant. The company has 

 enough hardwood timber in sight to insure op- 

 erations for several years. 



Charges of collusion and fraud have been 

 made by the Safeguard Account Company. 

 Chicago, in objection to the confirmation of 

 the sale of the assets of the Two Rivers 

 Manufacturing Company. Among other 

 charges filed by the Chicago company in its 

 objections are that there was a conspiracy 

 of certain creditors to sell the property at a 

 certain price and that there was an agree- 

 ment to keep certain persons from bidding. 

 The sale of both real and personal property 

 was objected to by the Safeguard company. 

 It was claimed that the property is worth 

 $600,000 and that the bid of $10,000 is not 

 the highest bid obtainable. The matter will 

 be acted upon Nov. 10. 



