HARDWOOD RECORD 



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and two and a half million of hemlock and did 

 not receive the goods. 



An upper peninsula land deal, involving about 

 5=1,300,000, is being closed at London, Eng., be- 

 tween Lord Btassey and President Wm. G. 

 Mather of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, 

 whereby the latter buys the remaining holdings 

 of the Michigan Land (.^c Iron Company, includ- 

 ing 200,000 acres of land and mineral rights to 

 as much more. The holdings of the Cleveland- 

 Cliffs company aggregate over a million acres, 

 stretching in almost a continuous block across 

 I 111' peninsula from Gogebic to Chippena. and 

 the appreciation of its stumpage value during 

 rho past ten years has amounted to millions of 

 dollars. It has been the company's policy for 

 .vears to sell its timber to concerns only that 

 liave mills located on the Cleveland-Cliffs lines 

 of railroad, and the sale of lands has been re- 

 stricted to actual settlers. Timber speculators 

 have Ijeen warded off. 



Circassian walnut is being used again this sea- 

 sou by a few of the larger Grand Rapids furni- 

 ture concerns. This Asia Minor wood is costing 

 Ijctween $200 and .$300 per thousand. 



L. L. Skillman, formerly secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Longfellow & Skillman Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, has entered the wholesale lum- 

 ber business on his own account, having or- 

 ganized the Skillman Lumber Company, with 

 office at 523 Widdicomb building. Mr. Skillman 

 will maintain a storage yard at Grand Rapids, 

 and do a wholesale and commission business. 

 Michigan and southern woods will be handled. 

 The oflnce work will be looked after by Miss 

 Marie Burns. Mr. Skillman has had sixteen 

 years' experience in the lumber business, and 

 has been secretary of the Grand Rapids Lumber- 

 men's Association ever since its organization. 



Indianapolis. 



The Colborn-Bales Lumber Company of Good- 

 land, Ind., has 'oeen incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $15,000. The company's directors are 

 Isaac Colbom, Estella Colborn and George O. 

 Hales. 



The Central Bung Manufacturing Company of 

 Indianapolis has been incorporated for the pur- 

 pose of making wood novelties. The directors 

 are A. G. Schonnecker of Indianapolis, Edwin 

 Carver of Muncie. A. A. Smith of Montpelier and 

 .\. \. Small of Anderson. 



Tl'.e Morocco Manufacturing Company of 

 Morocco, Ind., has been incorporated to manu- 

 facture novelties with a capital stock of $10,000. 

 The directors are James T. Robertson, 'WilUam 

 G. Smart and David B. Cassell. 



Twenty thousand dollars will be spent 

 within the next four months by the Hoosier 

 Manufacturing Company of Newcastle, Ind., 

 which operates a big plant manufacturing 

 kitchen cabinets, and which has been forced to 

 provide increased facilities to accommodate its 

 rapidly growing business. The company has 

 leased the tour-story factory building of L. A. 

 Jennings, which is already equipped with ma- 

 chinery, and will operate it just as soon as a few 

 alterations can be made. 



Joseph H. Stubbs, chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics of Indiana, has compiled some up-to- 

 date facts about the state which should prove of 

 interest to lumbermen. Indiana has S5 cities 

 and 345 Incorporated towns. Of these cities 52 

 have a population of 5,000 or more. In 1903 the 

 state had 6,966 miles of steam roads. Last year 

 Indiana had 7,912 factories, in which $311,526,- 

 1126 was invested, which paid out $72,178,259 to 

 factory bands in wages, and whose total manu- 

 factured products reached a value of $394,165,- 



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Bristol. 



The McCabe Lumber Company, a recently in- 

 corporated concern, is making preparations to 

 begin an extensive lumber manufacturing and 

 shipping business at Newport, Tenn., on the 

 Asheville division of the Southern Railway. 



The plant of the Little River Lumber Company 

 at Townsend, Tenn., recently destroyed by fire. 



will be rebuilt and work has already commenced 

 with the end in view of replacing the destroyed 

 property. 



'The Woodson Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of .flo.OOO to 

 do business at Wise, Va. 



The Marion Lumlier & Industrial Company, 

 with capital stock of $25,000, has been incorpo- 

 rated at Marion. Va. 



P. C. Thompson, Sr., for many years a promi- 

 nent lumberman of this section, and said to be 

 one of the best judges of lumber in the state of 

 Virginia, died at his home in Bristol on March 

 17, at the age of 76 years. He was a prominent 

 citizen, a straightforward and honest business 

 man and his death will be felt keenly by his 

 many friends. 



n. O. Spangler of Bluefleld, W. Va., has pur- 

 chased from E. M. Pennington one of the richest 

 timber boundaries in Lee county. It is known 

 as the Pocket tract, and is estimated to cut 

 10,000,000 feet of merchantable lumber. Mr. 

 Spangler will put a large mill on the tract and 

 man ifacture the stock as rapidly as possible. 



B. B. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from an extensive business 

 trip. 



Fred W. Hughes, local manager for Price & 

 Heald, Baltimore exporters, has returned from 

 an important trip in Virginia. He reports good 

 business and heavy shipments of logs. 



J. P. McCain of W. C. McCain & Sons of Neva, 

 Johnson county, Tenn., was in Bristol on busi- 

 ness last week. 



J. Walter Wright of the newly incorporated 

 J. Walter Wright Lumber Company of Mountain 

 City, Tenn., was here on business last week. 



W. B. Van Berlekom of Amsterdam, Holland, 

 after spending several weeks among the trade in 

 the South,, departed for home a few days ago. 

 Mr. Van Berlekom is identified with some of the 

 biggest lumber importing interests in Amsterdam 

 and is well pleased with conditions both here 

 and in his own city. 



M. N. Offett of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany and Boice, Burns & Offett has returned 

 from Parkersburg, W. Va., where he was called 

 to the bedside of his aged father, who was dan- 

 gerously ill. 



Paul W. Fleck of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 Company of this city was in Bristol for several 

 days last week. Mr. Fleck is now looking after 

 the company's business in the East, and is 

 residing with his family at his former home in 

 Philadelphia. He reports satisfactory trade con- 

 ditions in that part of the country. 



George W. Peter, a local lumberman, has re- 

 turned from Butler and other points in East 

 Tennessee, where he went in the interest of busi- 

 ness. 



Attorney W. L. Taylor of the IS. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore. Md., was here 

 looking after important legal interests of the 

 company last week. The R. E. Wood Lumber 

 ('ompany is now operating extensively in eastern 

 Tennessee and western North Carolina, having 

 recently started big operations in Mitchell coun- 

 ty. N. C. 



Cincinnati. 



The Freiberg Lumber Company, of which 

 Harry A. Freiberg is president, on February 1 

 succeeded to the business of the R. B. Becker 

 Company. Mr. Freiberg was the owner of the 

 old company, and the transaction constitutes 

 simply a change in name. This house is one of 

 the largest handlers of Tabasco mahogany in 

 the country, which it imports via Mobile and 

 by rail to Cincinnati. The house is also a large 

 factor in Ohio and Indiana quartered white oak 

 and black walnut. It has a model sawmill with 

 a capacity of 13,000,000 feet daily. W. E. 

 Shrimpton, who has been connected with lumber 

 interests in Cincinnati for the past twelve years, 

 is secretary and treasurer of the concern. The 

 plant of the company occupies an entire square 

 between Poplar street, McLean avenue and Dal- 

 tou street. 



Harry Gott of Hamilton II. Salmon vV: Co., 

 New York, and F. Demartini of Stromberg, Kraus 

 & Co., St. Louis, were here during the past fort- 

 night purchasing hardwoods. They both declared 

 that available supplies were hard to get. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company is rapidly 

 stocking its recently acquired yards at Sixth 

 and Baymiller streets. Advices to the com- 

 pany's offices here are to the effect that from 

 6.000 to 8,000 poplar logs were floated down 

 the Cumberland river to the company's mills 

 at Burnside, Ky., the middle of the month. 



Mrs. Isabelle Baldwin has sold to S. F. Brad- 

 ley, 7,000 acres of timber lands in Rowan county, 

 Kentucky, at $6.23 per acre. Development has 

 already been started and an eastern firm will 

 handle the lumber cut. 



E. W. Bobbins, president of the Maley Thomii 

 sou & Moffett Company has "-eturned from a 

 tw-o weeks' business and pleasure stay in New 

 York. Mrs. Robbins accompanied him. 



C. S. Bacon of the Bacon Lumber Company 

 of Grand Rapids was a visitor last week. 



Hall, Jones & Co. have purchased from tin- 

 Eastern Kentucky Land Association a tract or 

 1,000 acres of timber and mineral lands near 

 Sergeant, Ky. The price was not announced 

 Isadore Helsbach and Leo Hander have been 

 appointed receivers for the D. Hauser Cooper- 

 age Company, Patterson street. The appoint- 

 ment was made because of a suit by Herman 

 Deobald against David C. Hauser and Edward 

 Johns, partners in the business. 



Heavy tides in the Licking and other Ken- 

 tucky streams have resulted from recent heavy 

 rains and snow, and local hardwood concerns 

 with interests in the mountains have sent rep- 

 resentatives to take charge of logging opera- 

 tions. Reports from West Liberty and Bar- 

 boursville, Ky.. are that logs and loose timber 

 are running thick. Timber people are jubilant 

 and not without cause, as it has been a long time 

 since tides were high. 



J. T. Cochran, who has an office in the Mer- 

 cantile Library building, has opened a yard on 

 West Seventh street, near i'reeman avenue, 

 where he will carry a nice assortment of hard- 

 woods. The yard formerly belonged to the Cin- 

 cinnati Hardwood Company. 



The Lockland Lumber Company has opened a 

 branch office in Norwood, a Cincinnati suburb. 

 A general hardwood business will be conducted. 

 E. A. Conkling of the E. A. Conkling Com- 

 pany, has returned from a three weeks' stay in 

 Florida. 



A number of local hardwood firms will send 

 representatives to the annual meeting of the 

 Ohio Shippers' Association at Columbus, March 

 27. 'This is the largest body of organized ship- 

 pers in existence, and is officially recognized 

 and treated with by the railroads. 



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

 Lumber Company, has returned from a six weeks' 

 cruise among the islands of the West Indies, 

 lie was accompanied by Mrs. Farrin. Mr. Far- 

 rin said that trade conditions in Cuba and Ja- 

 maica are improving, but the other islands are 

 retrograding. 



Charles E. Littell, for years in business on 

 Hunt street, filed a iietition in bankruptcy on 

 March 19. His liabilities amount to $27,196, 

 while the assets aggregate only several hundred 

 dollars. 



The S. W. Trost Lumber Company, which was 

 recently incorporated with a capitalization of 

 .■OO.OOO, is having additional machinery installed 

 at 16-18 West Canal street, where it will do 

 business. The company was formed to take over 

 the business formerly conducted by S. W. Trost. 

 Wm. Jackson of the Ault & Jackson Company 

 is home from a buying trip to Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. 



Chester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company has returned from a ten days' trip to 

 New Y'ork, Washington and Boston. 



W. J. Eckman of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company is home from a two weeks' eastern 

 trip. He visited the New York and Baltimore 



