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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the following offleers: Chairman, C. S. Udell; 

 secretary, John Ihlder; treasurer, H. E. Sar- 

 gent. Executive committee, Charles W. Gar- 

 fleld, S. M. Lemon, Senator Huntley Russell, 

 Prof. A. H. Holmes, C. S. Burch, Miss Joseph- 

 ine Ranney and Airs. Sherwood Hall. 



The Grand River & I-ake Michigan Trans- 

 portation Company held its annual meeting 

 recently and elected R. W. Irwin of the Royal 

 Furniture Company president. The board of 

 directors includes G. W. Perkins of the Grand 

 Rapids School Furniture Company. R. E. Shan- 

 ahan of the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company. 

 A. L. Dennis of Dennis Bros.. C. H. I..eonard 

 of the Leonard Refrigerator Company, H. S. 

 Jordan of the Michigan Chair Company and 

 C. R. Sligh of the Sligh Furniture Company. 

 The furniture and lumber interests of the city 

 are well represented in the company, indicat- 

 ing that quite a large percentage of the freight 

 shipments made by river boats during the 

 coming season will be furniture. 



G. W. A. Smith died recently at his home 

 in Grand Haven at the age of 73 years. Mr. 

 Smith was formerly engaged in lumbering at 

 Montague .and had a wide acquaintance among 

 the lumbermen of the state. He leaves a wife 

 and daughter. 



The Grand Rapids Broom Company, capital 

 $25,000, has been formed to take over the busi- 

 ness established by H. Leonard & Sons. Ern- 

 est L. Buchanan is secretary, treasurer and 

 manager. 



J. S. Weidman of Weidman, Mich., is in- 

 terested with Clay H. Hollister, cashier of the 

 Old National Bank of this city, and other 

 Grand Rapids capitalists in the formation of 

 a stock company, to be known as the Weid- 

 man Timber Company, with $325,000 capital. 

 A tract of hardwood lying partially in Michi- 

 gan, but mostly in Wisconsin, has been pur- 

 chased. It is an investment proposition, and 

 the timber will not be cut off at pre.sent. 



The Compound Door Company of St. Jo- 

 seph, Mich., has increased its capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $80,000. 



The Ann Arbor Organ Company will erect 

 a six-story factory at Ann Arbor. 

 ' W. H. White and G. von Platen of Boyne 

 City, accompanied by their wives, left last 

 week for California, where they will spend the 

 rest of the winter. 



Charles W. Garfield, president of the state 

 forestrj' commission, spoke on "The Gospel 

 ot Forestry" at the state roundup of farmers' 

 institutes held at I^nsing on Feb. 22. On the 

 same day Arthur Hill of Saginaw addressed 

 the business men's banquet held at Ludington 

 on a similar topic. 



Newaygo is anticipating shipping advantages 

 by river when the bed of the Muskegon has 

 been cleared of Its logs. 



Bristol. 



James A. Wilkinson left last week for New 

 Tork, where he sailed Saturday on the Lucania 

 for a six weeks' trip to the leading lumber 

 centers of Europe. Mr. Wilkinson has been 

 shipping stock to Liverpool, London, Glasgow 

 and other lumber markets of Europe for 

 twenty years. He will make a number of 

 large contracts while abroad and visit his for- 

 eign representatives personally. 



It is reported that the big double band .saw- 

 mill of the James Strong Lumber Company, lo- 

 cated In South Bristol, erected and equipped 

 by the company In 1902 at a cost of over $100,- 

 000, has been sold, or is about to be sold, to 

 eastern capitalists and heavy owners of tim- 

 ber holdings In this section. It Is said that 

 the mill will soon be operated again by the 

 reported vendees. It Is one of the most com- 

 plete and large.tt mills in this section and Is 

 most advantageously situated. 



After weeks of futile search for the body of 

 George C. Luppert. the wealthy young lumber- 

 man who was drowned In the swollen tide of 



the Watauga River near Butler, Tenn.. several 

 weeks ago in an effort to rescue several thou- 

 sand logs which were about to be swept away, 

 the quest has been given up. Mr. Luppert was 

 vice president of the Luppert Lumber Com- 

 pany, an enthusiastic Hoo-Hoo, and a loyal 

 member of the Bristol coterie of the B. P. O. 

 Elks. His father, Valentine Luppert. is presi- 

 dent of the Luppert Lumber Company. The 

 deceased was a.ssociated in business with sev- 

 eral Bristol lumber concerns. 



The planing mill of James Boggs at Lenoir, 

 Tenn., was destroyed by fire last week, en- 

 tailing an aggregate loss of $7,500, with $5,000 

 insurance. 



In the runaway of an engine and cars on 

 the logging road of the Tug River Lumber 

 Company, in Scott county, Virginia, near Hor- 

 ton's Summit, C. M. Ellis, assistant superin- 

 tendent of the company, leaped for his life 

 and was almost instantly killed. W. H. 

 Buckles, a laborer, made the same leap and 

 was killed, and John Edens. the engineer. 

 Jumped from ibe engine soon after it began 

 the frightful race and suffered a broken leg 

 and internal injuries. The engine and cars 

 stopped two miles from the base of the moun- 

 tain, having never left the track during the 

 wild run. Mr. Elias was well known in 

 lumber circles and was formerly associated 

 with the Laurel Fork Lumber Company and 

 J. M. McRea. 



About 12.000 acres of rich timber lands on 

 Antony and Laurel Creeks, in Greenbrier 

 county, \^ est Virginia, have been purchased 

 from J. H. Bush and others of Washington. 

 Pa., by the Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Charleston, W. Va. The purchasers have al- 

 ready made arrangements for the manufac- 

 ture of the stock, and mill sites have been 

 selected and cleared. 



The large sawmill, planing mill and appur- 

 tenances of Adinson Bros, were almost totally 

 destroyed by fire last week. The loss was 

 complete, as no insurance was carried. 



A movement will soon be launched in Bris- 

 tol lookinK to the oiganization of a Lumber- 

 men's Club. There has already been consid- 

 erable gossip over the proposed club and all 

 are unanimous in the opinion that it would be 

 a great success. Bristol has grown to be a 

 lumber center of no mean proportions and it 

 is believed such an organization would be in- 

 valuable to the social and business life of tlie 

 many lumbermen. The movement will doubt- 

 less be given an impetus when started. 



W. G. McCain of W. G. McCain Sc Sons of 

 Neva, Johnson county, Tenn.. was in Bristol 

 last week attending the Hoo-Hoo banquet and 

 concatenation. Mr. McCain, J. Walter Wright 

 and others are negotiating a plan to build a 

 railroad from Johnson county through to Wa- 

 tauga county. North Carolina, which will open 

 up vast timber areas. 



The Southern Timber & Land Company, 

 with a capital stock ot $50,000, has been incor- 

 I)orated at Petersburg, Va. J. W. Seward of 

 Petersburg is president and H. P. Stratton of 

 the same city, secretary and treasurer. 



The F. W. Crane Lumber Company has been 

 Incorporated at Morgantown, W. Va., wUh a 

 capital stock of $25,000. 



The Great Smoky Land & Mineral Company 

 of KnoxvUle, Tenn., has purchased 17.000 

 acres of timber lands In Blount county, Ten- 

 nessee, through H. L. Camp and Thomas N. 

 Prudent. 



The C. A. Jones Lumber Company has been 

 Incorporated at Smlthficld. W. Va.. by C. A. 

 Jones, A. H. Candell, W. R. Robblns. R. S. 

 Douglas and Philip Stephen of Clarksburg. 



The big mill of the Whiting Lumber Com- 

 pany has been started at Abingdon and Is now- 

 well stocked with an excellent grade of logs 

 and running regularly to Us fullest capacity. 

 The mill Is supplied with logs from the com- 

 pany's almost Inexhaustible timber holdlnga In 



Johnson county, which are intersected by the 

 Viriginia-Carolina Railway. 



The John T. Dixon Lumber Company of 

 Elizabethton, Tenn., reports business excel- 

 lent, with flattering prospects for the spring 

 and summer. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company is start- 

 ing a large mill at Tomotla, on the Murphy 

 branch of the Southern Railway in Mitchell 

 county. North Carolina. The company oper- 

 ates a big band mill in Carter county. Tennes- 

 see, as well as other extensive operations in 

 western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. 



The J. Walter Wright Lumber Company of 

 Mountain City, Tenn., has incorporated with a 

 capital stock, fully paid up, of $25,000. J. Wal- 

 ter Wright, a prominent banker and lumber- 

 man, and A. M. Scutts. the latter formerly of 

 the John T. Dixon Ijumber Company of Eliza- 

 bethton. Tenn., are at the head of the new 

 enterprise. The company will do a general 

 wholesale and manufacturing business. 



A Hoo-Hoo concatenation was recently held 

 in Bristol. Some twenty kittens were initiated, 

 following which an elaborate banquet was 

 spread at Hotel Tip Top. Another concatena- 

 tion is planned for Bristol soon. 



It is stated that within a few weeks a num- 

 ber of new mills will have been placed in op- 

 eration in and near Bristol, the inception ot 

 which will have an effect to alleviate in a 

 degree the scarcity of stock which has been 

 sadly prsvalent for some time. 



Cinciauati. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company, one of the 

 largest manufacturers of hardwood lumber 

 operating in southeastern Kentucky, has re- 

 moved its general offices from lUiinsidc to 

 room ."lOT First National Rank Building, this 

 city. The company has two mills at Buruside 

 !ind one at Williamsburg and has a capacity of 

 15,'i.ono feet dally. In addition to establish- 

 ing the otfices here the company expects to se- 

 cure yards in the west end ot the city. Sev- 

 eral sites are being considered. Chas. Mln- 

 shall of Ft. Wayne, Ind., Is president of the 

 company. The local offices will be In charge ot 

 W. K. Delaney. U. T. McKeou, until recently 

 engaged in the wholesale hardwood business 

 for himself, tinil li. 1!. McCrncken are Ills as- 

 sistants. 



W. A. Bennett of liennett & Witle, in speak- 

 ing of the proposed change, by Congressional 

 enactment, to the metric system of measure- 

 ment, to which the Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 I'hib is opposed and the Memphis Lumbermen's 

 Club is In favor of, said In an interview : 

 "Twelve inches is a good enough foot for lum- 

 bermen. We have always been using that sys- 

 tem and I see no reason fcu- a change. The 

 metric s.vstem prevails In France, but when we 

 sell lumber to Freiiclimen it is by the Ameri- 

 can system of measurement. I'^ngland, Bel- 

 glum, Holland and Germany have dllTerent sys- 

 tems than ours, but when they buy from us It 

 is by the 12-lncbes-make-a-foot rule, and no 

 trouble Is experienced as far as me«.sureincnt Is 

 concerned. If Congress adopts the metric sys- 

 tem, lumbermen will, ot course, use It." 



The Ice In the Licking river broke on Feb. 

 14 and for several days property belonging to 

 Clnclnnntl hai-dwood llrnis near llie mouth of 

 the si ream was In Jeopardy, but fortunately 

 there was no serious damage, owing to the pre- 

 caution taken. 



Tlios. r. Egnn, president ot the J. A. Kay & 

 Kgan Company, has returned from Cuba, where 

 he spent several weeks with his family. Mr. 

 lOgun said Cuba was a prosperous land and 

 that the outlook for Its future Is bright on nil 

 sides. "The rnndltlons for Amerlinn trade arc 

 vrry good." ndili'd Mr. Kgan, "but I hey could he 

 Improved by an cvlensliin of the :;o per cent 

 rebate granted to Imports from this country." 



President Wm. Scxtio of the Cincinnati 

 I'urnlture Kxchnnge, to which nearly all local 

 hardwood llrnis belong, has appointed the fol- 



