HARDWOOD RECORD 



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liai-dwood lumber last year, and it is all shipped 

 but 500,000 feet. 



Tlie Ottawa Hardwood C'lirapauy of East 

 Tawas is putting in 4.000.000 feet of logs tills 

 winter. 



About six inches of suow fell in the valley 

 the last two days, but it Is all gone. There 

 lias been some suow north in the logging woods 

 and operations are progressing favorably, al- 

 1 hough coldt-r weather is needed. 



n. Bertram is having 500,000 feet of hardwood 

 lumber manufaetured in Belknap. Presque Isle 

 <'iunty. Matliew Heslip of Belknap is man- 

 ufacturing ;)00,000 feet of ash. maple, basswood. 

 birch and elm. 



Grand Bapids. 



The t'liase-llackley Piano Company of 

 Muskegon held its annual meeting recently and 

 fei-lected officers as follows : President. A. V. 

 Mann; vice president, C S. Chase: secretary. 

 W. H. Mann : treasurer, Thomas Hume. The 

 factory was operated at full capacity during 

 the year, employing from 175 to 190 men. 

 The number of pianos manufactured was equal 

 to the output of 1904, which was the largest 

 year in the company's history. 



The Sargent Manufacturing Company of 

 Musisegoii has elected directors for the ensuing 

 year. 



The IIa<kley-PheIps-Bonnell Company held 

 its annual meeting in its offices iu the Michigan 

 Trust building and reelected officers and di- 

 rectors as follows : President, W. A. Phelps : 

 vice president, Henry Idema ; secretary, O. A. 

 Felger ; treasurer, John H. Bcnneli ; chair- 

 man executive committee, Chas. A. Phelps ; 

 board of directors, Henry Idema. Dudley K. 

 Waters, W. A. Phelps, Chas. A. Phelps, John 

 H. Bonnell, o. A. Felger and W. N. Sayles. 



The St. John's Table ("cmpany will start its 

 new factory at Cadillac in rebriiary. The ma- 

 chinery was started Jan. 20, and President 

 Fred A. Diggins cut the first board. The com- 

 pany did not show its line iu Grand Hapids 

 this season, but has already sufficient orders 

 ahead to insure steady cperatiou of the plant 

 for several months. 



The J. 1". Quigley Lumber & Land Company 

 has filed a trust deed covering its entire prop 

 erty for the heneflt of its 43 creditors, and 

 naming the Michigan Trust Company as trus 

 tee. The liabilities are given at .?(j4.341. the 

 largest creditors being the Grand Rapids Na- 

 tional bank, $20,500 ; Frank Squires of Neway- 

 go. $15,000 ; Kelley Lumber & Shingle Com- 

 pany, Ti-averse City, $7,123.40 ; Thompson 

 Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, ,'54,270.70. 

 Attoiney G. A. Wolf, who represents the com- 

 pany, says that the assets will be ample to meet 

 all claims and that the business, being a grow- 

 ing one, will be carried forward in some man- 

 ner. There are no preferred creditors and any 

 loss that may result will fall on the stock- 

 holders. 



Up to the last week of the January furniture 

 sales in the Grand Rapids market about 650 

 buyers, representing the fiower of the retail 

 stores of the United States, had visited here 

 and liberal orders were placed. The only lines 

 to suffer at all were the medium aud cheap 

 ends of case goods, many buyers of this class 

 of goods deciding to wait aud place their 

 orders with the salesmen. This waiting policy 

 was due largely to the advance in prices. The 

 Grand Rapids manufacturers have been doing 

 a good business. 



The Athens Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Battle Creek, capital $50,000, has filed articles 

 of incorporation in Calhoun county. The com- 

 pany will carry on a general lumber business, 

 the stock being divided equally among Isaac 

 Snyder and Fred T. P.isbee of Athens and Chas. 

 F. Baker of Hastings. 



Indianapolis. 



.\mong the lumber companies that have been 

 ini-orporated at the office of the secretary of 



state during the past fortnight are the follow- 

 ing : The Eaglesfleld-Stewart Company of In- 

 dianapolis ; capital stock, $15,000 ; directors. 

 Charles S. Eaglesheld, Alonzo E. Robbins and 

 Thomas W. Stewart. Martin Brothers' Lumber 

 Company of .Scottsburg ; capital stock, $5,000. 

 Hubbard Lumber Company of Martinsville ; cap- 

 ital stock, $50,000. 



The John C. Smith Hoe & Tool Company of 

 ICvansville, Ind.. has been incorporated here, with 

 a capital stock of $2,500, divided into shares 

 of $1 each. Officers : John C. Smith, president ; 

 John F. Young, treasurer, and Joseph B. Hon- 

 ningford, secretary, all of Evansville. 



According to the statistics of the city's build- 

 ing inspector, there were issued in Indianapolis 

 during 1905, 4,041 permits for buildings, and the 

 total amount for the buildings amounted to 

 .^7,225,325. This is a gain of $3,153,190 over 

 the figures for 1904. 



Fire which originated in the wareroom of 

 King Brothers' lumber yard at Oolitic on the 

 morning of Jan. 15 entailed a property loss of 

 $12,000. The yard was totally destroyed. It is 

 thought the fire was of incendiary origin. 



The Setteimeyer Wood Stirrup Company has 

 been incoi'porated to do business at Madison, 

 Ind., with a capital stock of $10,000. 



The seventh annual meeting of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, held Thurs- 

 day, Jan. IS, at the Grand Hotel, this city, was 

 a most successful gathering, aud much good Is 

 bound to come from it to the hardwood men of 

 the city and state. The meeting was well at- 

 tended, and tlie talks by the various hardwood 

 men present were of interest to the trade. Not 

 the least enjoyable portion of the meeting was 

 the banquet held in the evening at the Grand. 



Bristol. 



Josepli P. Dunwoody of J. I'. Dunwoody & 

 Co., Philadelphia, was a visitor to the local 

 market this week. Mr. Dunwoody is deeply 

 interested in lumber manufacture in this sec- 

 tion, and has several large contracts for oak. 

 white pine and hemlock. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton, 0., a wholesale 

 lumberman of that city, and' a heavy buyer 

 and extensive manufacturer, came to Bristol 

 last week on business. 



Mrs. C. K. Mount, wife of the president of 

 the Iron Mountain Lumber Company, died at 

 her home at Mountain City on Jan. 19. Mrs. 

 Mount was a daughter of Capt. Roby Brown, 

 one of the best known citizens of eastern 

 Tennessee. Mr. Mount has the entire sympa- 

 thy of a wide circle of friends and business 

 associates. 



J. W. Tarman and Miss Minnie Shull were 

 married at Butler, Tenn.. last week. Mr. Tar- 

 man is a prominent lumberman of Carter and 

 Johnson counties and is an officer of the Lup- 

 pert Lumber Company, Inc.. of Butler. Miss 

 Shull is a member of one of the best families 

 in Carter county. 



John T. Dixon, of the John T. Dixon Lum- 

 lier Company, was in Bristol on business last 

 week. 



H. C. Travis, who has been sales manager 

 and superintendent of the Bristol Door & Lum- 

 ber Company's large plant in northeast Bristol 

 for several years, has severed his connection 

 with that concern and become identified with 

 the Stone-Huling Lumber Company in a like 

 capacity. 



The Stone-Huling Lumber Company of this 

 city has purchased a $10,000 site and will con- 

 struct a $25,000 brick and stone building there- 

 on at once. The building will be used for of- 

 fices, store aud salesroom. 



George W. Peter, local manager of the Paul 

 W. Fleck Lumber Company, states that he has 

 never known business better in this section. 



J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company 

 has returned from a trip in the Interest of 

 that company and the Pee Dee River Lumber 

 Company. 



Henry Bradley of Abingdon has been ap- 



pointed general manager of the Pee Dee River 

 Lumber Company's operations in South Caro- 

 lina aud left last week to accept the position. 

 The company has general offices in Bristol and 

 does an extensive manufacturing business in 

 South Carolina. 



The large manufacturing plant of the Ord- 

 way Manufacturing Company erected in South 

 Bristol ir 1902 at a cost of $100,000 will be 

 sold at public auction on Jan. 23 by Trustees 

 Charles J. St. John and Charles W. Warden. 

 The plant is one of the most modern of its 

 kind in the South, and the sale is a sequel to 

 financial straits of the company, leading to the 

 filing of a general creditor's bill iu the chan- 

 cery court of Bristol. 



The James Strong Lumber Company is negoti- 

 ating a deal for the sale of its large double 

 band mill and appurtenances in South Bristol. 

 T'he mill was constructed by the company at 

 a cost of over $100,000 and is one of the best 

 in Tennessee. Owing to a long series of liti- 

 gation now in progress between the company 

 and the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Company 

 the timber supply of the mill was cut off more 

 than a year ago by a restraining injunction, 

 since which time the mill has been idle and 

 the company has determined to sell it. The 

 mill has a capacity of 150,000 feet per day. 



Cincinnati. . 



Papers are being prepared for the incorpora- 

 tion of the Freiberg Lumber Company of Mc- 

 Lean avenue and Poplar street with a capital 

 stock of $75,000. The moving spirit of the 

 company is Harry Freiberg, who was a member 

 of the firm of R. E. Becker & Co. The com- 

 pany will manufacture hardwoods and do a 

 wholesale business. R. B. Becker has formed a 

 partnership with his son under the style of 

 R. E. Becker & Son, Offices have been estab- 

 lished in the Pickering building at Fifth and 

 Main streets. They will do a general hardwood 

 business, making a specialty of mahogany. 



The Bucyrus Lumber Company of Bucyrus 

 has been incorporated at $10,000 by A. W. 

 Young. John M. Sheldon, S. M. Hall, B. R. 

 Dunn and E. M. Baldridge. 



The plant and yards of the Newport & Day- 

 ton Lumber Company were destroyed by fire 

 on Jan. 17. The loss amounted to $4,000 and 

 was unprotected by insurance. Allan Willis is 

 president of the concern. 



O. S. Honaker of Lexington, Ky., and Wil- 

 liam Threlkeld of New York called on the trade 

 during the past fortnight. The former was 

 chaperoned by I. M. Asher and the latter by 

 T. J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & Moffett 

 Company. 



The salesmen and beads of the various de- 

 partments of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company 

 held their annual reunion and banquet recently 

 at the Business Men's Club. Hereafter it is 

 planned by M. B. Farrin to hold these meetings 

 semi-annually. 



The Minster Lumber Company is a new hard- 

 wood concern at Minster, O. It has a capitali- 

 zation of $10,000 and is composed of John D. 

 Pienning, A. W. Werkenhoff, John Brandervice 

 and others. 



C. E. Littell of the C. E. Littell Company 

 has returned from a business visit to Chicago. 



A large delegation of Cincinnati hardwood 

 men attended the twenty-second annual meeting 

 of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Indiana at Indianapolis on Jan. 9-10. Among 

 them were W. A. Bennett, H. E. Calland, W. J. 

 Eekman, H. L. Mickle, C. P. Korn, George F. 

 Jlossmann, Walter Quick, W. H. Ames. H'. f. 

 Wiborg and J. Watt Graham. 



The Ault Woodenware Company of this city 

 has increased its capital stock from $400,000 to 

 $500,000. 



According to reports received by local hard- 

 wood lumbermen, more than 100,000 ties were 

 sunk at Faducah, Ky., on Jan. 15 during a 

 gale. 



The Borcherding Lumber Company, with offices 



