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HARDWOOD RECORD 



dispose of more mantels if they were able to 

 turn them out witii tlieir present facilities. In 

 fact, the mantel trade might he said to be 

 booming. 



Ed. Uhubesky. 513 Columbia building, says he 

 is getting a nice lot of Inquiries for hardwood, 

 especially plain sawed oak and poplar. 



George N. Welch of the Monterey (Tenn.) 

 Stave & Lumber Company says that they are 

 manufacturing chestnut, poplar and oak and 

 have no fault whatever to find with the demand 

 at present. 



J. L. Berry says that the Kentucky Railway 

 Commission has ruled that the log rate basis 

 shall be seventy per cent of the lumber rate, 

 and be a straight rate given to all alike without 

 rebates In the form of what is generally known 

 as milling in transit terms. The effect of this 

 ruling is to reduce the log rate slightly. 



Albert R. Kampf has been taking on some ad- 

 ditional timber tracts and is preparing to en- 

 large his sawmill operations. He finds the 

 demand good for almost everything except quar- 

 tered oak, which does not seem to have acquired 

 the life it should be showing at the present 

 time. 



Manager Peters of the I. F. Force Handle Com- 

 pany. New Albany, Ind., says the export trade 

 in hickory handles is good and that they have 

 a good volume of orders from Europe. Africa 

 and Australia, in addition to fair domestic trade. 



Ashland. 



■W^illlam S. Frazier, who has been an em- 

 ploye of the Hermann Manufacturing Com- 

 pany for the past fifteen years, was married 

 at Ironton. O., January 29. to Miss Mattie 

 Carter, of Fallsburg, Ky. 



J. L. White of Salt Lick, one of Bath 

 county's lumbermen, stopped in this city on 

 his way home from a business trip up the Big 

 Sandy. 



Joseph V. Thomas, who owns the Riverside 

 sawmills in Savannah. Ga., is in Catlettsburg, 

 the guest of his father-in-law, Jas. A. Kil- 

 gore. 



Noah McKenzie, lumber inspector for the 

 Hermann Manufacturing Company, is seriously 

 ill at his home in this city. 



L. Merrill, the vN'ell known timber dealer of 

 Huntington, W. Va., has recently purchased 

 an immense boundary of timber land not far 

 from Pikeville, Ky., and during the past two 

 weeks has installed sawmills on the tract, to 

 prepare the timber for market. A large part 

 of the timber will be cut into railroad cross- 

 ties. On this tract, and another which Mr. 

 Merrill recently purchased in Clay county^^ 

 Ky.. he will have timber enough to make more 

 than half a million crossties, for which he 

 already has contracted at a fancy price. 



The International Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently organized by local capitalists, 

 has leased the plant of the Dimension Lumber 

 Company, near Catlettsburg, which is being 

 overhauled, new machinery placed and prep- 

 arations made for the active operation of the 

 mill. The company will manufacture oalt 

 flooring exclusively, and are assured of the 

 Bale of their entire output for more than a 

 year to come. Mr. Smith, formerly of the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Kenova, 

 Is president of the concern ; L. Merrill, vice- 

 president, and F. R. Van Antwerp, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



The W. U. Dawklns Lumber Company of Ash- 

 land got 60 rafts In a recent tide In the Big 

 Sandy, and the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 

 of Coal Grove 40. The mills of both companies 

 are running full time and will continue to do so 

 far Into the spring. 



The Keycs-Fannln Lumber Company is to 

 build a double band sawmill at Hemdon. W. 

 Va., and work will be commenced as soon as 

 the new railroad Is completed, so machinery 

 can be hauled In. 



J. E. Walker and wife have Just returned 

 from a week's visit to Graham, Va. 



John Robb of the J. E. Holmes Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis; J. K. Williams of the 

 Williams-Haas Lumber Company, .St. I-ouisv 

 and E. R. Miller of Hayden & Lombard, Chi- 

 cago, were all here recently. 



W. B. Berger of the W. H. Dawkins Lumber 

 Company is in New York on a three weelts' 

 business trip. 



Several of the local mills are running in 

 logs brought out in a recent rise in the Big 

 Sandy and Guyandotte rivers, and the dealers 

 are in hopes there will not be another run 

 before April, as they fear ice in the rivers. 

 Demand for lumber is good, with very little 

 in the market, dry stuCE scarce in all thick- 

 nesses. Dealers are getting strictly list prices. 



Wausau, Wis. 



The plant of the Nnrthwestern Manufacturing 

 Company of Ft. Atkinson was recently damaged 

 by Are. The company manufactures wagons, 

 cutters, etc. 



The Underwood Veneer Company of Wausau 

 is shipping by rail to its plant about 350,000 

 feet of h.irdvvood logs cut on lands in the vicin- 

 ity of Aniwa. 



Joerns liros. of St. Paul, Minn., who recently 

 purchased a table and desk factory at Stevens 

 Point that had long been idle, expect to have 

 the plant in operation soon. 



The .T. 1. Case Company of Racine, to avoid 

 duty, will erect a half million dollar branch 

 plant in Winnipeg, Canada. 



The Wisconsin Chair Company's plant at New 

 London is running full blast. All deiiartments 

 which suspended work some time ago have re- 

 sumed. 



Complaints come from all sections of the slate 

 this winter that competent men cannot be hired 

 Ivv logging crews. Most of the men to be had 

 in some sections are foreigners who have had 

 little experience in the woods. The old hands 

 have gone to the Pacific coast. 



A deal was lately consummated whereby the 

 Nehrbass Casket Company of I'ond du Lac pur- 

 chased the stock and business of the Wisconsin 

 Casket Company of Manitowoc. 



The I'.rown MItcheson Company of Marinette 

 was recently incorporated with a capital stock 

 of .flOO.OOO. The stockholders are Francis A. 

 Brown, Henry Swart and Geo. A. Mitcheson. 

 Tlie main otlice will be in Marinette, while 

 branch ottices will be established in other cities. 

 The company will manufacture, buy and sell all 

 forest products. 



All the country hardwood mills are now be- 

 ing operated full blast and are getting good 

 stocks of logs. The average prices being paid 

 are as follows : 



Birch, 9 inches and up $10.00 



Basswood, 10 inches and up 12.00 



Soft elm, 12 inches and up 10.00 



Ash, 12 inches and up 10.00 



Maple, 12 inches and up 6.50 



Oak, 12 inches and up $15 to 20.00 



Basswood, under 10 inches 6.50 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HAKDWOOB B£COBD Esclusive Uarket Beporters.) 



Chicago. 

 The local hardwood market continues in 

 most excellent shape with a demand that is 

 fair to strong, and with satisfactory values. 

 Buyers of oak are more numerous than the 

 stock is plentiful. Northern hardwoods are 

 receiving considerable attention and birch and 

 basswood are both showing decided strength 

 in the market. The interior finish and door 

 makers, furniture manufacturers and flooring 

 men are all running their plants to full 

 capacity, and prospects are very favorable for 

 a continuance of the excellent demand for 

 some months to come. 



Boston. 



During the past fortnight the local hardwood 

 market has increased in strength, and the gen- 

 eral demand is better than it has been. Com- 

 plaints are still received due to the car short- 

 age. Wholesalers say that it is often bard to 

 get cars at small stations promptly, but no 

 difficulty is experienced along this line at large 

 shipping centers. 



The outlook for northern hardwood for the 

 coming spring and summer is not as promising 

 as many would like. The fall of snow has 

 been so light that it has been impossible to 

 get logs out of the woods. Higher prices are 

 freely predicted. 



Furniture manufacturers are beginning to 

 show more interest in the market and manu- 

 facturers of builders' finish are doing a fair 

 business. The demand for plain oak is of 

 good volume and prices are very firm. Offer- 

 ings arc small. Quartered oak has shown an 

 improvement. Several handlers report much 

 more Inquiry, and one slates that he has sold 

 more during the past two weeks than during 

 the previous six months. Whltewood Is In 

 good demand and prices are very firm, espe- 

 cially the better grades. Mills arc behind in 

 deliveries. Brown ash is very firmly held and 

 in good call. Offerings arc small. Chestnut Is 

 in active demand. M.Tplo llooring meets with 

 a good inquiry. Beech and elm are firm. 



Ne'w York. 



Lumbermen of the city arc 



mn<-li dated over 



the iciun\;il III' the luniljcr embargoes un the 

 B. & U. and Xew York Central, which have been 

 in force for some weeks. This, however, is 

 somewhat offset by the announcement by the 

 trunk lines operating through the Ohio gateway, 

 that they will only accept shipments in cars that 

 are home routed via their own lines. In other 

 words, there is no more swapping of cars, and 

 where an order requiring two or more cars is 

 shipped, each car goes over its respective line, 

 with the result that receivers are getting ship- 

 ments by piecemeal and via all sorts of routes, 

 entailing in some cases extra lighterage and a 

 general all-round mix-up. This market is short 

 of lumber In many lines, but the absorbing prob- 

 lem is how to get what is already bought. 

 Stocks are moving out of yards freely, due to 

 the open winter, and buyers are anxious to 

 make purchases with an eye to spring trade. 

 Hardwood stocks are only nominal liere in 

 tile retail yards, while the furniture, trim and 

 general manufacturers have been running dose 

 to the wind. Demand is good .and there Is 

 every indication of an active liuying period un- 

 til spring, in view of the promising outlook of 

 big business in consuming lines this year. 

 Plain oak is in good call, stocks low and prices 

 bullish. Quartered is slow with ample supply 

 for all wants. Ash is scarce but not active; 

 sales are bringing firm values. Birch and 

 chestnut are in strong demand, dry stocks 

 scarce and prices firm. Maple is fair in both 

 respects. Poplar Is active and with the pres- 

 ent conservative scale of prices is Increasing 

 steadily in use. The other hardwoods are like- 

 wise firm. 



Baltimore. 



Values on the various hardwoods continue to 

 show a tendency to advance and the demand Is 

 apparently unaffected by the rise. The range of 

 prices is very firm, and stocks are hardly large 

 enough to meet the requirements of customers. 

 Stocks are remarkably low and the compe- 

 tition among rival buyers at milling points 

 continues unabated. The manufacturers have 

 all the business they can handle, notwithstand- 

 ing tlie open winter, which favored mannfadur- 



