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river and in addition to tliis the company con- 

 trols some 1,000 feet of railroad doclsage for 

 transfer purposes. Hereafter tlie company will 

 group a large quantity of both northern and 

 southern hardwoods at this Cleveland yard for 

 reassortment and distrihution to its trade. Be- 

 sides this it will ship considerable lumber direct 

 from the allied house of the Kentucky Sawmill 

 Company of .Tacksuo, Ky., as well as from its 

 Wisconsin yard. 



George (1. Roberts, the new manager of the 

 hardwood department of the R. H. .Jenks Lum- 

 ber Company of this city, is making a record 

 for his house, having bought and marketed an 

 average of over 300 cars per month since last 

 October, when he took over this branch of the 

 business. 



E. L. French, formerly in charge of the hard- 

 wood department of the I!. H. Jenks Lumber 

 Company and now in a similar capacity with 

 W. A. Cool & Son, reports an excellent trade 

 and a satisfactory increase in volume of busi- 

 ness. 



The Martin-Barriss Company is engaged in im- 

 provements in connection with its sawmill and 

 lumber warehouses. The company reports an 

 increased volume of business in mahogany and 

 a very satisfactory trade in American hard- 

 woods. 



The new Worden Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company has its new interior finish mill com- 

 pleted and has already established a very satis- 

 factory business locally as well as in a gen- 

 eral trade throughout the country on fine hard- 

 wood doors and interior finish. 



Indianapolis. 



.T. M. Pritchard of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company has just returned from a ten days' 

 trip through the South, where he went to look 

 after the company's interests. 



The Burnet-Lewis Lumber Company has just 

 completed the work incident to putting its new 

 lumber yards in North Indianapolis in readiness 

 for occupancy. This branch of the company's 

 business will be conducted under the name of 

 the North Indianapolis Lumber Company. 



The Kimbark buggy body factory at Elkhart. 

 Ind., which has been idle since the assignment 

 of S. D. Kimbark of Chicago several months ago, 

 has been sold to E. S. Kiger of Chicago, who 

 will resume operations by the first of March. 

 Associated with Mr. Kiger in the purchase is 

 Mr. Compton of West Virginia, who will come 

 to Elkhart to manage the company. 



The Mishawaka Folding Go-Cart Company of 

 Mishawaka has filed articles of incorporation 

 with the secretary of state. The company is 

 capitalized at $15,000 with Joseph Lorenzi, 

 Ernest Timmerhoff, Charles A. Ostrum, Oscar 

 Miller and Sara Church as directors. 



The ClineTribolet Lumber Company of Bluff- 

 ton was incorporated here recently with a capi- 

 tal stock of $15,000 : directors, Albert B. Cline, 

 George J. Tribolet, Mary J. Cline and Abbie 

 L. Tribolet. 



The Pineda Lumber Company of Terre Haute, 

 organized with a capital stock of $20,000, will 

 deal in lumber and other products of the Repub- 

 lic of Nicaragua. Directors are : William T. 

 Hearn, Anna S. Hearn and Alvin M. Iluggins, 

 all of Terre Haute. 



Milwaukee. 



William Landeck of the Pake & Landeck 

 Company was taken ill suddenly last week at 

 Crandon, Wis., with inflammatory rheumatism 

 and pneumonia. He was brought to Milwaukee 

 Monday night in the private car of Supt. 

 Quigley, his son George accompanying him on 

 the homeward journey. Mr. Landeck, who is 

 74 years of age. is one of the oldest settlers 

 of Milwaukee, where he has lived for sixty 

 years. He is said to be slowly mending. 



Relatives of Edward J. Morgan, an Oshkosh 

 lumber salesman, have given him up for dead, 

 all means to find any trace of him having 

 failed. He was last seen at the Williams 



house. Manitowoc. When he left he intended 

 to take a train home, but failed to do so. 

 Tickets which he held have not been presented, 

 and his bank .account remains untouched. He 

 is a brother of T. R. Morgan of the Morgan 

 Lumber Company, Oshkosh, who was shot and 

 killed by a discharged workman some years 

 ago. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club held its 

 monthly meeting and dinner, Monday evening, 

 Jan. 6, at the Stag Cafe. At the business ses- 

 sion a resolution was passed against the pro- 

 posed change, by Congressional enactment, to 

 the metric system of measurement. A. D. Mc- 

 Leod, of the C, H. & D. Railroad, spoke on the 

 railroad rate regulation question from the stand- 

 point of his business. He told many interest- 

 ing things and was heartily applauded. Chas. 

 F. Shield was admitted to membership. The 

 meeting was well attended. 



According to the compilations of the Build- 

 ing Inspectors' Department, there were 237 per- 

 mits taken out during January for improvements 

 estimated at $250,835. For the same month last 

 year 22G permits for $140,480 improvements 

 were granted. 



The movement of lumber for January, accord- 

 ing to the statistics of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, was as follows ; Receipts, 4,824 cars ; 

 shipments, 3,839 cars. This was an increase 

 compared to the corresponding period in 1905, 

 when receipts aggregated 4,614 cars and ship- 

 ments 3.788 cars. 



The United States Timber Company of this 

 city has leased a large tract of land at Irvine, 

 Ky., from Thomas Williams. The company will 

 immediately erect saw, planing and veneering 

 mills on the ground. 



The Hyde Park Lumber Company, located at 

 Il.vde Park, a suburb, is erecting new sheds and 

 making other improvements which will cost 

 $10,000. 



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

 Lumber Company, was elected a member of tlie 

 Executive Committee of the Cincinnati Em- 

 ployers' Association at the annual election this 

 month. Mr. Farrin, accompanied by friends, 

 expects to leave for a long visit to the West 

 Indies in several weeks. 



The building occupied by the National Barrel 

 Company at Augusta and Smith streets partially 

 collapsed on Jan. 29, causing a loss of $18,000, 

 which was partially protected by insurance. 



Clinton Crane of C. Crane & Co. is secur- 

 ing names to a petition which will be forwarded 

 to Congress, asking for the improvement of the 

 Guyandotte River in West Virginia for eighty 

 miles up to the city of Logan. Mr. Crane says 

 that $800,000 will complete the entire proposed 

 improvements. If the government refuses to act 

 Mr. Crane and an unknown friend will clean the 

 river out as desired, providing permission is 

 secured. C. Crane & Co. own a large amount of 

 timber land in the mountains of Kentucky and 

 West Virginia, which they are anxious to float 

 and cut, but they are unable to do this because 

 of the condition of the Guyandotte river. 



The F. & R'. Weber Company of this city, capi- 

 tal $30,000, was incorporated on Feb. 1 by Fred- 

 crick Weber, Anthony Weber, Chas. A. Weber, 

 A. G. Weber and M. Weber. They will operate 

 a planing mill and conduct a general hardwood 

 business on Colerain avenue. 



The Ohio Milling & Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati has been formed by W. T. Lloyd, G. S. 

 Avery, A. K. McCammon, H. A. Lloyd and N. G. 

 Cover. The capitalization was placed at $1,000, 

 l»ut this will be increased when the company 

 starts in business. A location is being sought 

 for the erection of a plant. 



Leland G. Banning is home from a southern 

 trip. He spent some time at his plant at Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn. 



Thos. J. MotCett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 MoEEett Company, has been honored with the ap- 

 pointment by the mayor as one of the three 



trustees for the University of Cincinnati. Mr. 

 Motfett's name was selected from a large list 

 and he has been widely congratulated. 



The Nicola, Stone & Meyers Company of 

 Cleveland, tor which I. M. Asher is local repre- 

 sentative, is negotiating tor a site on McLean 

 avenue, between Wilstach and Liberty streets. 

 The property abuts the Southern Railroad and 

 will prove highly adaptable for yard purposes. 



S. Bosken of the Cincinnati Hardwood Com- 

 pany has returned from a trip lasting two weeks 

 through the hardwood districts of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. He made several important deals for 

 his firm. 



The Owl-Bayou Cypress Company has moved 

 its offices to larger quarters at Laurel street 

 and Central avenue. The old location was in 

 the same square. 



The Davis Edwards Lumber Company of Gal- 

 lia, capital $10,000, was granted a charter on 

 Feb. 6. The directors of the concern are John 

 S. Davis, W. R. Edwards, D. S. Davis, T. S. 

 Davis and E. L. Davis. 



Schedules of assets and liabilities have been 

 filed by the Borcherding Lumber Company of 

 this city, which was forced into bankruptcy re- 

 cently. The liabilities were given at $38,159.22. 

 The assets were given as follows : Cash on 

 hand, $640.74 : stock in trade, $900 : debts due 

 on open accounts, $3,906.43 : stock in the Pica- 

 yune (La.) Lumber Company valued at $15,800; 

 claims for $200 against the Missouri & Pacific 

 Railroad for a carload of lumber lost. 



The Benjamin Evans Company, at present lo- 

 cated on Broadway above 8th street, will build a 

 new plant on Reading Road. The building they 

 are now using has been sold, their lease having 

 expired. 



S. A. Conn and associates of Cincinnati have 

 sold through J. W. James of Memphis, Tenn., 

 8,000 acres of white oak timber lauds in Rich- 

 land and West Parish counties, Louisiana, to 

 Richey, Halstead & Quick of this city. It is esti- 

 mated that the tract will cut 50,000,000 feet of 

 lumber and the purchasers will commence devel- 

 oping the property in the near future. The pur- 

 chase price was given as $100,000. 



M. B. Farrin has been appointed on the Com- 

 mittee on Financial Corporation Laws of the 

 Oliio State Board of Commerce. The committee 

 will meet at Columbus in a few weeks for the 

 purpose of organization. Mr. Farrin is the 

 only lumberman on the committee. 



The Receivers' and Shippers' Association of 

 this city will seek the enactment of laws by 

 the state legislature which will give to the Rail- 

 road Commissioner greater power in passing 

 upon charges of discriminations in rates. The 

 'ocal organization, which has among its mem- 

 bers nearly all the hardwood firms in this city, 

 is determined to secure an adjustment of the 

 switching difficulties of which shippers so often 

 complain. 



Chattanooga. 



For the third time in its history the planing 

 mill of the Central Manufacturing Company, of 

 which D. W. and W. B. Hughes are the princi- 

 pal stockholders, has been destroyed by fire. 

 The residence of D. W. Hughes was also badly 

 damaged. The loss amounted to about $15,000, 

 with probably loss than half that amount of 

 insurance. The plant will be rebuilt. 



W. D. Ham has been awarded the contract 

 by the Oliver-Stewart Company for furnishing 

 200,000 feet of lumber for the construction of 

 the lock and dam at Hale's bar on the Tennessee 

 river. The completion of this great power plant 

 will require over 1,000,000 feet of lumber. 



Ferd Brenner, president of the Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Company, is in Norfolk, Va., at the 

 company's branch plant. 



F. W. Kirch, formerly of George Grant & Co. 

 of New York, has accepted a position with the 

 Case Lumber Company as eastern representative. 



Geo. Barber of Illingworth, Ingham & Co. of 

 Cincinnati was here this week. 



Fred Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company 



