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lieen handicapped somewhat by the pncir suji- 

 ply of cars, and on t.ils account have rut down 

 their production, not wishing to pile up tim- 

 bers and move them again for loading. The 

 stock for orders is in sight, however, and is 

 being delivered. The indications are for a 

 lively demapd for southern stocks. A. S. Bliss 

 of the same company reports some good sales 

 of northern hardwood and of lath. He has 

 teen selling birch in Tennessee and ("leorgia. 

 in hardwood territory, to furniture and interioi 

 finish factories. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark is absent 

 on a trip of inspection to their retail yards at 

 Brie, 111., and vicinity. D. F. Clark of the 

 same company reports that while demand 

 from tlie northwestern trade is naturally 

 rather quiet just now, the volume of inquiries 

 and the general outlook promise a first-class 

 trade after the holiday season. 



Louisville, 

 In ilie iiimplaim liled in tlie name 



iit the A. 



K. ,\oi-man Lumber Company and others, against 

 tlie railroads doing business in the state, the 

 Uimhermen won on every charge. One item was 

 the high rata on ties; another, the matter of 

 freight im car equiptnent tor logs; another, the 

 discrimination regarding walnut, cherry, cedar 

 and other logs: another, the question of rebates. 

 The matter of lumber rates charged froiu differ 

 cut points in the state will be considered at a 

 hearing which is set for the middle of February. 



Perkins & Pettibone say that they do not find 

 expert conditions as bad as they appear from 

 primed reports, and have been, in fact, enjoying 

 a very satisfactory export trade right along on 

 gum, poplar and ash. This satisfactory business 

 is on orders and not on consignments. 



lid Smith of the Smith-Henry Cooperage Com- 

 pany, Louisville, and Smith Brothers, Livermore, 

 Ky., says that the Livermore plant manufactures 

 some chair stock in elm and receives very fair 

 prices for this dimension stuff, equal if not 

 above those realized by others for oak during 

 the fall. 



The Stotz Lumber Company reports the liard 

 wood luarket as improving, especially in poplar 

 and plain sawed oak. Chestnut is in excellent 

 demand, business apparently limited only by the 

 supply. The Stotz Lumber Company has leased 

 ground and is opening up a yard here for as- 

 sembling and distributing hardwood stock at 

 wholesale. This yard will be stocked from the 

 mills throughout the state. 



The Kentucky Stave Company reports an ex- 

 cellent volume of business both in whiskey and 

 oil cooperage. This company operates about 

 twenty-hve plants scattered through Kentucky 

 and Tennessee, and is busy at all of them. 



Hiram Blow & Co.. with probably the longest 

 siring of tight stave and heading plants of any 

 concern in the country, say that they have more 

 business at present than they can take care of. 

 • .T. c. Ulrich of the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 liany, Chicago, was a visitor in Louisville during 

 the past weeli. His company is buying car 

 material in oak and poplar. Mr. Ulrich contends 

 that plenty of stock can be bought at current 

 prices, and looks at the future philosophically. 

 Being a good buyer, he naturally does not argue 

 that jiri'sent conditions augur for higher prices. 



Ashland. 



T. N. Fannin, of the Keys-Fannin Lurnber 

 Company, is devoting his time to Herndon. 

 VV, Va., where the company is erecting a large 

 mill. Several miles of tram road are being 

 built, and preparations made for extensive 

 operations in the spring. Mr. Fannin is now 

 at his home in this city to spend the holidays. 



The W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company has 

 just closed a deal for several thousand acres 

 of timber land on the Guyandotte river. The 

 tract is a very valuable one. 



Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Vansant have returned 

 from a six weeks' stay at Hot Springs, Ark. 



The plant of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Com- 



pany, at Coal (irove, O;. is in nperalieii, alter 

 a long idleness, owing to scarcity of timber. 

 Both the sawmill and planing mill deiiartments 

 are busy, tilling some big orders. 



.1. 11. Kester of the \V. II. Hawkins Lumber 

 Compttny is at I'arkershut-g. ^^■. \"a.. for a \'tsit 

 of a few days. 



C. Bodenheim of Carsel, (Jerniauy. has siieiit 

 several days looking over our markets. He 

 deals extensivel>- in luinber and sold some 

 nice bills of lumber and -staves to the local 

 consumers, through his ag<'nt, Mr. Katz of 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



A tide in the Big Sandy has brought nut a 

 million feet of timber, enough to keep the 

 river mills busy for some time. 



,1. U. Thames of the Farrier Lutnliei- Cum- 

 p'au.v. Birmingham. Ala., was aiuoug lite 

 week's \'isitors. 



Morris A. Hay ward of the Kenova Poplar 

 Manufacturing Comi]an>' is in Columbus to 

 spend the holidays with his family. F. E. Way. 

 secretar.v of this company, will visit in Chi- 

 cago, accompanied by his wife. 



There is a gratifying scene of activity about 

 the office, mills and yards of the Kenova Pop- 

 lar Manufacturing Company. Morris A. Hay- 

 ward says the outlook for the coming year is 

 the most promising in his twenty years' ex- 

 perience. The volume of business is enormous 

 and the company has orders booked far into 

 1906. The mill will have to run all during 

 Christmas week to fill orders, contrary to the 

 expectations for a week of rest. This com- 

 pany will invoice January 1. 



Wausau. 



The Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Tw<i 

 Uivers, manufacturers of printers' wood type, 

 employs .'ido men and is never caught up on 

 orders. The company sells type, racks, cases 

 and cabinets to the 3.5.000' printing otHces of 

 North America and to every civilized country in 

 the world except Russia. Until recently it was 

 the only company in the world engaged in this 

 business, but one of its former employes has 

 started a factory at Ludington, Mich. Holly- 

 wood is used in the manufacture of wood 

 type, and other hardwoods for the various sup- 

 plies turned out by this concern. 



A large new sawmill is being built at Papoose 

 Lake, twelve mile.-i west of Star Lake station. 

 The enterprise is backed by Minneapolis capital. 

 The mill will cut hardwood almost exclusively. 

 A track is being laid to the mill liy the Chicago. 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul. 



The Coye Furniture Company. Stevens Point, 

 is having a large steel standpipe built for fire 

 protection. It will be tall enough to maintain 

 a high water pressure. 



The Knglish Manufacturing Company, which 

 recently converted the Illinois & Wisconsin 

 Lumber Company's planing mill at Merrill 

 into a woodenware factory, has commenced op- 

 erations and will begin shipping its first product 

 about January 1 . John English is president ; 

 Joseph Bmerich. secretary, and E. II. Staats, 

 treasurer. The plant is a model of up-to-date 

 construction. 



J. A. Underwood, president of the l^nderwood 

 Veneer Company, Wausau, is this week visiting 

 his plant at Mobile, Ala. 



The firtn of lliiiiiel ,.S; Meyer, citbinet makers, 

 .Marshfield, is so crowded with orders at present 

 that it is necessar.v to work night and day. The 

 company makes ofli<-e. store. Iiank and bar tix- 

 tures and furniture. 



Floriau Lemmer ef .Marathon City, has com- 

 pleted a mill five miles soutli of the village, hav- 

 ing a daily capacity of 4ii.i)(HI feet. It is new 

 throughout and will be starterl after .January 1. 

 Logs will be purchased of farmers, which, to- 

 gether witli a large haidwo<id tract in the vi- 

 cinity, insures a run of six or eight years. 



C. 11. Donaldson and .Xrthui- .larvis of the 

 Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company. Khinelander, 

 closed a deal in Milwaukee last week with the 

 lliles Lumber Company whereby the former 

 company has purchased the entire output of the 

 Hiles compauy's mill at Ililes. Wis., for one 

 year. The output will amount to about IS.OtiO,- 

 OOt) feet, mostly hardwood, involving an outlay 

 of :i!2,")(l,0()(l. 



In and around Palmyra are some fences of 

 wliite oak rails, built sixty years ago, when 

 Wisconsin was a territory. The rails are still 

 in a fairly good state of preservation. 



Braun Bros. & Co., Athens, are filling an order 

 for twenty-five carloads of grain car doors, op- 

 erating night and day and siiipping at the rate 

 of three cars per week. Each car contains 

 10,000 ; the contract calls for 2.50,000 doors. 

 Half a million feet of lumber are required (or 

 the order, birch being the lumber used. The 

 grain doors are for the Chicago. Burlington & 

 tiuincy Railway Company. 



The formal transfer of the Coye Table & Desk 

 Company's plant, Stevens Point, to Joerns 

 Brothers, St. Paul, Minn., was completed last 

 week. The plant, which has been idle for a 

 number of years, will be put in operation Janu- 

 ary 1. In addition to tables and desks the 

 company will manufacture folding beds. ' 



For the first time in eight months tires were 

 kindled under the boilers of the Bowen Manu- 

 facturing Company's plant at Fond du Lac last 

 week. A large section of the plant has been 

 leased to the Gurney Refrigerator Company, 

 which proposes to operate it during the coming 

 season. The (Jurney company leases the prop- 

 erty partly because it is behind something like 

 lO.UOO refrigerators in its orders and partly for 

 the reason that a new engine and machinery are 

 being installed in its own plant. 



The mild weather has greatly affected logging 

 operations throughout the North. Companies 

 which started shipping logs have given it up and 

 init their crews back skidding. The swamps, 

 too, are cot frozen and this also is a drawback to 

 operations. 



The railroads are getting their logging cars 

 read.v for winter shipment of logs. A total of 

 2,500 are used in and around Marinette alone, 

 which is a great lumber center. 



A suit which may affect many lumber com- 

 panies throughout the whole country has been 

 begun by the Lumber Anti-Stain Company, a 

 Virginia corporation, against two Marquette, 

 Mich,, lumbermen and also the Nestor Estate. 

 The suit is to prevent the companies from using 

 a process for preventing stain in lumber which 

 was invented by Robert U. Munson of Bay Mills. 

 Munsou alleges infringement and should be able 

 to prove his case. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD 



Chicago. 

 The luiiuth of December has proved a very 

 ;|ood one in the Chicago hardwood trade. The 

 business of the last three mouths has been so 

 much in excess of what naturally could have 

 been expected as to make up to a considerable 

 degree for the serious losses sustained by the 

 Chicago contingent incident to the teamsters' 

 strike of last summer. Many dealers report De- 



Ezclusive Market Beporters.) 



■ ember as the largest and most profitable .selling 

 month of their business history. 



The average dealer is entirely optimistic over 

 the future of Chicago business and has made 

 every effort to keep his stocks well up. tueeting 

 every large sale with increased purchases so far 

 as he was able to secure stock. The recent pur- 

 chases in oak. ijoplar, eottonwood, maple, birck 

 and hasswood in this market have been very 

 generous. 



