HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The new double band sawmill of the Vilas 

 County Lvimber ('onipauy, located in Wisconsin, 

 will start operations about the first of April, with 

 daily capacity of 140.000 feet. The company is 

 now putting loss at three camps ; about 20,000,- 

 000 feet will be ready for the first year's cut. 

 A planing mill will be built in the spring. The 

 company employs 22.5 men at present. Its main 

 offices are located in Grand Itapids. 



Official announcement is made by tlie Manistee 

 & Grand Hapids railroad that it has completed 

 Its connection with the Ann Arbor road at Ma- 

 rion. 



George W. King and Joseph Young have put in 

 a small sawmill near the shore of Lake Michigan 

 in Laketon township. Muskegon county, for cut- 

 ting the small timber which grows along the lake 

 shore. The hardwood will be sold to Grand 

 Rapids firms for furniture making. 



The Northern Lumber Company of Marquette, 

 of which Rush Culver is president and W. F. 

 McKnight of Grand Rapids is secretary and treas- 

 urer, will install a modern shingle and tie mill 

 in the spring at Birch, Marquette county. Sis 

 months ago Birch was a wilderness and today it 

 has forty buildings and a population of over 300 

 people. 



Mis. Frances King of Alma has organized a 

 branch of the Michigan Forestr.v Association in 

 Gratiot county. 



The January furniture sales are now on in 

 the Grand Rapids market, with two hundred 

 buyers here. Every section of the country is 

 represented, and the buyers all report prosperous 

 business conditions in their territory, so that 

 they will buy large stocks of goods. Prices in 

 many lines are higher, but notwithstanding the 

 4\dvance, which has been made to cover the in- 

 creased cost of lumber and other materials and 

 labor, the buying will be liberal. Oak is the 

 king wood in the market, and the Mission styles 

 are more popular than ever. William Birch, who 

 has three factories in London, England, is show- 

 ing a line of fine upholstered goods. This is the 

 first exhibit ever made here by an English manu- 

 facturer. 



Cleveland. 



The Advance Lumber Company is now located 

 in handsome new quarters on the thirteenth floor 

 <if the Rockefeller building. This company has 

 just secured two additional large tra-'ts of hard- 

 wood timber In West Virginia, consisting largely 

 ■of poplar and oak. on which it will erect saw- 

 mill plants. This purchase will materially in- 

 crease the large output of the company. 



The Wordeu Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which some time ago purchased the Cleve- 

 land stock of hardwoods of the Advance Lumber 

 Company, has just completed the erection of a 

 fine plant for the manufacture of hardwood in- 

 terior finish. This company takes over the local 

 and retail trade of the Advance Lumber Com- 

 pany, as the latter corporation hereafter will 

 confine itself strictly to the wholesale business. 



Frank F. Fi-sh. secretary of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, was in town recently 

 doing a little missionary work. Mr. Fish re- 

 ports the association in a flourishing condition. 



G. C. Roberts, head of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company, 

 has returned from the South, where he has 

 been for the past three weeks. 



C. H. Callahan, a Louisville lumberman, is 

 in the city this week. 



W. A. Cool has been succeeded by W. A. Cool 

 & Son. • W. A. Cool and E. L. French returned 

 the last of the week from a trip to their mill 

 ■connections in West Virginia. 



The annual meeting of the Ohio Retail Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association will ho held at the Hol- 

 lenden Hotel. Jan. 16 and 17. A large attend- 

 ance is expected and a good time is assured. 



Bristol. 



By a fire in the yards and plant of the W. M. 

 Enter Company at Panther. W. \a.. on Jan. 5, 



a loss of something over .'SUKi.uiiO was sus- 

 tained. The fire was one of the largest that has 

 visited this region in some years. The blaze 

 started in a dry kiln and before the employes' 

 efforts could be felt it had completely enveloped 

 everything in the yard, which was quickly re- 

 duced to ashes. Those present worked heroically 

 10 save the property. The fire was driven by 

 a heavy wind. Among the lumber burned was 

 4.000.000 feet of fancy dressed oak and pop- 

 lar stock. The principal offices of the com- 

 pany are at Columbus. O. Mr. Rltter is now at 

 White Oak. Ga., but will be in Panther next 

 week. 



C. G. Watkins is preparing to establish a 

 large sawmill and dry kiln at Danville. Va., for 

 the manufacture of North Carolina yellow pine. 

 The mill will be modern and will have a large 

 daily capacity. 



The New Uiver Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Goldsboro. N. C, with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $200,000. Its stockholders 

 and officers are among the leading business men 

 of Goldsboro. 



The Pikeville Hardwood Company, which was 

 organized some weeks ago at I'ikeville, Ky.. will 

 begin the operation of six sawmills near that 

 place in a few days. 



James A. Wilkenson last week purchased tim- 

 ber aggregating 2,400 acres, the stqck in yards, 

 2,000,000 feet, and assumed all contracts and 

 obligations, of the Deep Water Lumber Com- 

 pany of Bluefleld. W. Va. Mr. Wilkenson has 

 opened a branch office at Bluefield, under the 

 management of P. V. Widner, and will continue 

 manufacturing the stocli as the Deep Water 

 Company has done. 



William A. Rexford and C. H. Rexford, for- 

 merly of Rexford & Collins of this city, are en- 

 gaging extensively in business near Asheville. 

 N. C, and have just purchased a large amount 

 of fine timber land in Swain county. 



The Laurel River railway, between Laurel- 

 dale, Va., and Mountain City, Tenn., is being con- 

 structed by the T. W. Tha.ver Lumber Company 

 for the purpose of opening up large boundaries 

 of Johnson and Carter county timber land, is 

 about completed and will be put into operation 

 within a short time. The road will supply logs 

 for the T. W. Thayer Lumber Company's large 

 mill at Laureldale. Helena Lumber Company's 

 mill at Damascus, and " the Whiting Lumber 

 Company's large new double band mills at 

 .\bingdon, Va. The road is about twenty-five 

 miles in length. 



Bennett & Witte. well-known hardwood lum- 

 ber manufacturers of Cincinnati, have established 

 their Tennessee headquarters at Chattanooga, 

 with T. C. Buford as manager. J. A. Porter, 

 of the firm, was in Tennessee on business last 

 week. 



Harlow S. Dixon and bride have returned 

 from a bridal tour of three weeks, and Mr. 

 Dixon is again on duty as manager of the John 

 T. Dixon Lumber Company at Elizabethton, 

 Tenn. 



A. M. Scutts, for many years a prominent 

 lumberman of this section, has purchased a 

 large interest in the J. Walter Wright Lumber 

 Company at Mountain City, Tenn.. and in fu- 

 ture will have charge of the sales department. 

 He is an efficient man and very popular. 



The MacAllister-Ross Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new North Carolina corporation, with 

 an authorized capital stock of .$100,000. The 

 general offices and headquarters of the company 

 will be at Lilliugton. N. C. It is backed by 

 some of the most prominent business men in 

 that section, and will doubtless be a paying ven- 

 ture. 



The large furniture and lumber manufactur- 

 ing plant of the Ordway Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, located in South Bristol, and constructed 

 and equipped in 1902, will be sold at public 

 auction Jan. 23, Charles W. Warden and Judge 

 C. J. St. John, trustees. The plant was built 



at a cost of about $100, ■> and promoted by 

 Massachusetts capitalists, but recently went 

 into legal insolvency. The local banks and 

 wholesale people are the chief creditors. 



E. L. Warren, of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 t'ompany's operations in Carter county ; C. E. 

 Wood, of the company's home office at Balti- 

 more, and W. L. Taylor, private attorney of the 

 company, of Welch, W. Va.. met in Bristol last 

 week on important business. 



J. H. Bryan, of the Bryan Lumber Company, 

 reports that the export market is in a most 

 desirable attitude. The Bryan Lumber Com- 

 pany is among tlio heaviest exjjorters in this 

 region. 



George E. Davis, of the Geo. E. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company, has returned from Philadelphia, 

 where he spent the holidays with friends, and 

 incidentally looked after his company's business 

 interests in the east. 



J. W. Wright, of the J. Walter Wright Lum- 

 ber Company, of Mountain City, Tenn., was in 

 Bristol on important business last week. 



Shingles are scarce and high in this region. 

 Of late little attention has been given to the 

 manufacture of shingles and lath, with the 

 above result. Lath is particularly high. A 

 large amount of cypress shingles are being han- 

 dled by dealers in Bristol particularly. 



The Pennsboro Lumber Company, with a capi- 

 tal stock paid in of .$50,000, has been incor- 

 porated at Pennsboro, W. Va.. and will manu- 

 facture and deal in West Virginia lumber. 



CincinnatL 



M. B. Farrin, president of the M. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Company, will start in two weeks for a 

 trip to the West Indies and South America. He 

 will not return until April. 



T. J. Moffett and W. A. Bennett have been ap- 

 pointed to represent the lumber interests at the 

 annual meeting of the Cincinnati Receivers' & 

 Shippers' Association. Nearly every hardwood 

 firm in the city belongs to the association. 



The Norton Lumber Company of this city, 

 which was recently granted a charter, has in- 

 creased its_capital stock from $10,000 to $25,000. 

 J. H. Norton is president of the concern. 



The monthly meeting and dinner of the Cin- 

 cinnati Lumbermen's Club occurred on Jan. 2. 

 The speakers were Rev. C. F. Goss, A. D. Mc- 

 Leod, W. A. Bennett and Stuart M. Allen. 



The building inspector's report shows that for 

 building operations in Cincinnati during 1905 

 $3,254,315 more was expended than in 1904. 

 There is no halt in building as yet, wintry 

 weather not having made its apparance, a con- 

 dition for which hardwood lumbermen are duly 

 thankful. 



The forward strides Cincinnati made in the 

 lumber industry last year are indicated by figures 

 prepared by the Chamber of Commerce, which 

 show that G8,804 cars were received by Cincin- 

 nati firms, against 61,107 cars the previous year. 

 These figures do not include rceipts and ship- 

 ments by river, which were considerably larger 

 during 1905 than in 1904. 



The Belle Center Lumber Company of Belle 

 Center. O.. was incorporated the early part of 

 this month to carry on a general hardwood busi- 

 ness. The incorporators were Peter Kuntz, C. E. 

 Yoder, E. R. Albaugh, Milton Yoder and J. A. 

 Payne. The capitalization was placed at $3,000. 



The Miami Lumber & Veneer Company of Day- 

 ton has increased its capital from $50,000 to 

 $100,000. 



Another new corporation is the Collma Export 

 Timber Company of Defiance, O., capital $10,000. 

 lue directors are C. B. Howard, E. E. Bryan, H. 

 L. Rose, J. C. Price and P. H. Heywood. 



The W. S. Pulse Company, a new concern 

 has acquired additional property fo.- its plant, 

 which will be located in Bvanston, a suburb. The 

 company expects to be ready for business by 

 Feb. 1. 



The Hume Cooperage Company's plant at Rich- 



