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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Furniture samples an- beslmiiiis; lo anivi' in 

 the market for the .lamiar.v sales, whiili will 

 open January 1. An excellent season is antici- 

 pated. 



The executive committee of the Michigan Koi- 

 estry Association met in Giand Kapids Decem- 

 ber 12, and reiiorts were made by II. N. I.oud of 

 Au Sable, chairman of the committee on legis- 

 lation, and by Mrs. Frances Kins of Alma, who is 

 at the head of the committee on membership and 

 publicity, r.ranch committees have been orsan- 

 ized in live counties, in the interests of a lariier 

 membership. I'resldent John II. Bissell has been 

 an energetic worlier in Iretroit. his home city, 

 and he promises to enroll 2.(IU() names from 

 Wayne loiinty before May 1. while C. S. rdell, 

 chairman of the Kent county committee, prom- 

 ises a list of l.OOO members in a like period. 

 S. M. Lemon was elected a member of the ex 

 eoutive committee, in place of Walter C. Win- 

 chester, resigned. 



On the same day of this meeting Ihe Michigan 

 State Grange convened in (Jrand Rapids and 

 Master George IS. Horton. in his annual address, 

 said : 'While we can do much on our own 

 aceotints by setting apart our remnant forests, 

 exclude ail live stock, plant trees and give na- 

 ture a fair chance, from a public sense we must 

 do more. We must discuss and agitate to create 

 an active sentiment among the people of the 

 state : we must define and suggest state laws 

 which will encourage and aid forestry, and it 

 seems quite evident that we may well urge Con- 

 gress to investigate whether a partial or full 

 repeal of the tariCf as it Implies to imported lum- 

 ber and logs will contribute to the public good 

 by reducing cost of all wood material, and, 

 greatest of all, to effect a halt in the careless 

 destruction of the remnants of the forests of 

 our country." 



After this favorable word from Mr. Horton, 

 the members of the forestry commission were 

 surprised at the adoption of the following reso- 

 lution by a large body of delegates assembled in 

 aciret convention : 



"We believe that the plan of reforestation that 

 is being pursued by the slate forestry commission 

 will not only prove futile, but will result in the 

 expenditure of large sums of money to the great 

 loss of the state." 



II was the idea of the grange members that 

 more attention should be paid to farm woodlots 

 and less to the reforestation of large areas of 

 northern lands. The farmers had the idea that 

 an army of men would be required to patrol the 

 reseires to keep Ihe lire out. They took stand 

 against the proposed exemption of land from 

 taxation, as a means towards rcforestating cer- 

 tain sections of the stale. .Members were urged 

 to make personal effort to indu(re young men to 

 settle on farms in the so-called "pine barrens." 

 The resolutions bear the ear marks of certain 

 land speculators. 



Michigan foresters arc interested in the for- 

 estry convention to be held in Ottawa. Canada, 

 beginning January II). The preservation and 

 propagation of forests Is felt to be of vital Im- 

 portance to the Dominion. 



Indianapolis. 



W. W. Knight of the I.ong-Knl'.;ht 1, umber ' 

 I ompany. Indianapolis, is at his home in Thlla- 

 ''•Iphla to spend the ChrlMlmas holidays. 



Articles of incorporation biive been liled In 

 I lie secretary of otales ofhcc during the jiast 

 lortnlght for the following; Hicknell Lumber 

 • "ompany. Hicknell, Ind. : capital stock. $I.').(HMI; 

 directors. Nathan G. l>lxon. Thomas E. Harris 

 and Louis II. Hicks. Tiic Adams-Carr Company 

 I Indianapolis: capital slock. $.")<!. 1)00 : direi- 

 • •rs, James C. Collier. John !•". Adams and James 

 r. Carr. 



'Ihe annual meeting of the Indiana Hardwood 

 Lumbermen's .\ssf»clatlon will be held at the 

 (irand Hotel, in Indianapolis. • on I'ebruary IS. 

 Secretary J*rltchard says the meeting will be 



one of the best and most beneticial that has ever 

 been held. The association now has a memU'r- 

 ship of seventy-live of the leading hardwood men 

 in the state, and from all parts of Iloosierdom 

 comes the word that there will lie a spkMulid at- 

 tendance. At Ihe business meeting, to be lield 

 in the afternoon, reports will be heard from the 

 delegates to the Interstate Commerce Law Con- 

 vention held In Chicago, October 25. and :i 

 paper on "Forestry in Indiana" will be read by 

 .Sam Kurkliolder of Crawfordsville, who is a 

 member of the State Board of Forestry. There 

 will probably be other special matters to be con- 

 sidered in addition to the regular routine of 

 business that will naturally demand the jttten 

 tlon of the delegates. In the evening at 7 -.'Mt 

 the annual banquet will be held at the Grand, 

 and it is tlu^ expectation of Secretary Pritchard 

 to have a number of distinguished guests in 

 nttendancc. 



In the list of taxpayers of Indianapolis on 

 ten thousand or more dollars' worth of real and 

 personal property in .Marion county, taken from 

 the treasurer's books now being prepared f()r the 

 year i;)ti."i by the cotinty auditor, the folIi>wing 

 lumber companies are included : .Vdvance Ve- 

 neer & Lumber Company, .f 17. GOO ; Balke-Krauss 

 Company. ^f.iO.OOO ; Hurnett-Lewis Lumber Com- 

 pany, .$18,100; Capital Lumber Company, .$02,- 

 000 , Foster Lumber Company. iflUi.OOO ; Indiana 

 Lumber & Veneer Company, $31,200; Isgrigg 

 Lumber Company. $10,001); A. C. I'liles Lumber 

 Company. $30,000 ; Maas. Nelmeyer Lumber 

 Company. $30..").")0 ; Talge Mahogany Company. 

 $25,480 ; Williamson Veneer Company. $45.1100 : 

 .\nson, Mixon Sash & lAior Company, $l.s.2o0; 

 Dalton Lumber Company, $10,500 : William 

 Eaglesfield Company, $18,080 ; Gould Sash & 

 Door Company. $15,000; Greer-Wilkinson Lumber 

 Company. $12,500; Indiana Lumbermen's .Mutual 

 Insurance Company. $14,570. 



The sawmill owned by Messrs. Taylor and 

 Moffett at Worthington. Ind.. was destroyed by 

 fire on December II). entailing a loss of $4,000: 

 only partially covered by insurance. The mill 

 will be rebuilt. 



John F. Hammill. Delana Bear. S. .1. Bear. 

 Marcus K. Sulzer and Louis Sulzer, all well- 

 known men of Madison. Ind.. have joined in the 

 organization of the B. H. & S. Lumber Company. 

 The company has leased 1,000 acres of timber 

 land near Beattysville, Ky., and the timber will 

 be cut and rafted down the Kentucky river to 

 iladison. where it will be sawed into lumlier at 

 Ihc nniniiull *; I'.aiT sawmill, 



Bristol. 



Fire in the yards of the W. .M. Killer Lumber 

 Company at .lolinson (Hty on 1 December 15 de- 

 stroyed a large amount of rough and dressed 

 lumber. 250.000 feet of special white pine slock, 

 several freight cars and a passenger coach of 

 Ihe Soulliern railway, entailing a loss of $11),- 

 000. (ieneral .Manager John Mllcbell was on th-' 

 scene a few minntes after llu- ilaiiies broke out. 

 and he. togethei with a number of others, la- 

 bored hei'ohally to save Ihe properly. The 

 origin of the hie Is unknown. 



J. Walter Wright, a ])niminent banker of 

 .Mcuntaiii City and a well-known lumber ilcaler 

 and mauiifaclurer ; W. G. .VlcCaln of W. G. Mc- 

 lain & Son, a prominent lumberiuau of Neva, 

 .lolinson county. Tenn.. and several others In- 

 lercsleil It: lumber and kindred Industries have 

 started a movtiiient to construct a rallroaii 

 from Ti'tide. Tenn.. to Sliouns Cross Roads, and 

 Into Watauga county. .Noilli Carolina. 'I'he 

 [.i-opo^'cd line uoiild open tij) almost boundless 

 |)osslbt[llles of timber land, as well as mineral 

 properties of value. Watauga county. .\<ulli 

 ( arolinn. and territory tributary thereto la a 

 pi-oHpei'ous agricultural conimiinlt.v and without 

 iiillroad and transportation facilities, and the 

 proposeJ project would doubtlCHs be a very 

 iimunerallve Investment from Ihls standpoint. 

 .Mr. McCain and others Interested In the pro- 

 |lo^'efl if»ad were in Itrlstol last week conferring 

 In regard to same. 



S. llubenstein. representing ibc lireat Eastern 

 Timber Company of London. ICiiglaud. was in 

 this section Inst week, making contiacts and 

 taking short-term options on stock. While here 

 he bought a hirge amount of oak and walnut 

 stock, Ihe vciKMirs receiving a desirable price 

 therefor. Mr. Rubeiistein is very much im- 

 pressed with the mode of manufacture and 

 handling of iMiiiber in vogue in this country. 



The Warii l.umbir Company of Lynchburg, 

 Va., which has ai'qulred valuable timber lauds 

 in Pike county and other parts of Kentucky, has 

 begun the construction of a narrow gauge rail- 

 road about fourteen miles in length in I'ike 

 (ounty. wliicli will open up a large boundary 

 of timber land. They are also putting in several 

 large mills in that section. 



The Whiting Lumber Company has completed 

 its large mill at Abingdon, Va., and is putting 

 it in operation. The mill is one of the larsest 

 band mills in this section and the operations 

 of the company will form one of the leading 

 industries in this region. A band mill ind 

 other machinery necessary to the manufacture of 

 rough and dressed stock has been installed, all 

 of the most modern style. The mill is well 

 stocked with logs, sr.fflclent, it is said, to last 

 several months without reinforcement. The 

 irompany will bo represented at Bristol and 

 .\bingdon by William S. Whiting, who is an 

 officer and general manager of the concern. • It 

 owns a large tract of valuable timber land in 

 Johnson and Carter counties, from which the 

 mill will be stocked. The company will employ 

 about fine luiniired and fifty laborers .it the 

 Abingdor mill. It will retain a branch office 

 at Klizabelhton. but has removed its head- 

 quarters from Flizabethtou to the scene of 

 operations at Abingdon. Frank R. Wliiting of 

 the Janney-Whiting Lumber Company, Philadel- 

 phia, president of the conipimy. will look after 

 its eastern business. 



At Elizabethton, Tenn., o,i December li). Miss 

 Sophia Hunter became the bride of Mr. Harlow 

 Shaw Dixon, son of John T. Dixon of the John 

 T. Dixon Lumber Company. The event was 

 one of the most brilliant social eveuts of the 

 season. Mr. Dixon has made a marvelous suc- 

 cess in the lumber business, and is at present 

 manager of the John T. Dixon Lumber Com- 

 pany. He came to Elizabethton several .years 

 ago from Ron Coverte, W. Va.. where he re- 

 sided with his parents. The young couple left 

 immediately for a trip of several weeks. They 

 will make Elizabethton their future liome. 



R. E. Wood, president if the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company. Baltimore, Md.. is in Bristol 

 this week with a party of Pennsylvania and 

 West Virginia capitalists, who are contemplat- 

 iug the inii-cliase of a largo tract of timber 

 land on the \'irj;iiiia & Soutliwesfern railway, 

 in close proximity to Brist<il. If the pioposed 

 imrchase is negotiated and a sale made it will 

 mean the establishment of another large lumber 

 Industry in Bristol. Mr. Wood's company oper- 

 ates a large luill in Carter county and luis an 

 extensive tra<'t of timber. 



Mnjor W. c. Buchanan of Wylheville. Vn.. 

 olllcial liiiulici' buyer for the South & Western 

 railway, slated in Bristol last week that it hail 

 become almost impossible for his company to 

 purchase stock along ihe line the road is being 

 (onstructed at ii.arkct prices, or even reasonable 

 tigures. .Major Buchanan det'lares that unless 

 the stock Is sold lo him at market prites the 

 company will beghi manufacturing its own luin 

 her and timber, or go upon another market. 

 The South & Western is using a vast amount 

 of lumber .111(1 timbers. 



The Laurel River railway, which Is being con- 

 structed lietwet 11 .Vblngdon. Va.. and Mountain 

 city, Tenn.. by the ThaytU' Lumber Company 

 will be ompleted by January 15 and In o[ivi'a- 

 tlon by February 1. This road, besides connect- 

 ing these two lni|)oriant ccnnmeicial towns, af- 

 fords nil out let for iilioiit 25,001) acres of rich 

 timber land, of wbl.b mIloh 15,imiii Is own.'il hy 



