HARDWOOD RECORD 



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hauer represents the hardwood trade on the legis- 

 lation and transportation committee. Theodore 

 Mottu was elected secretary of the exchange, he 

 having acted in that capacity for more than a 

 year, since the illness o£ William M. Willson, 

 his predecessor, began. 



Richard W. Price o£ Price & Heald is in Flor- 

 ida. He will be away for a month or six weeks 

 for the benefit of his health, which has become 

 somewhat affected by too close application to 

 business. Just before the holidays Mr. Price 

 was seized with an attack of vertigo. It soon 

 passed over, however, and nothing was thought 

 of it, but some days later a second attack oc- 

 curred and Mr. Price concluded that he had 

 better take a rest. Some time before that he 

 had contracted a severe cold w^hich kept him 

 confined to the house for a week or more, and 

 it is thought that the vertigo was the reaction 

 consequent upon gettiug back in harness too 

 soon. Mr. Price is avoiding all business cares 

 while away. 



J. Stephenson Jellie of the Liverpool firm of 

 Bryce, Juno & White, caJled here on Wednesday 

 of last week on his way to New York to sail for 

 home by the steamer Lucania. Mr. Jellie had 

 been making an extended trip through the lum- 

 ber regions, studying the situation and making 

 business arrangements. 



Among other visitors engaged in the hard- 

 wood business who were in Baltimore recently 

 were D. K. Burns and M. X. Offutt of the Tug 

 River Lumber Company of Bristol, Va., and 

 E. B. Boyce of Abingdon. Va. 

 $ E. M. Price of New York was a visitor re- 



cently. He came to look after some business. 



Iionisville. 



W. H. Hoskins, the well-known sawmill man 

 of this city, has bought for JIO.OOO from R. G. 

 Ward & Co. of Cincinnati 1,418 acres of timber 

 •land in Rockcastle county. The land is cov- 

 ered with white oak and other timber and is 

 three miles from the Knoxville branch of the 

 Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Mr. 

 Hoskins will erect a large sawmill and build a 

 branch railroad to connect with the main line. 



Clarence R. Mengel, of the firm of Mengel 

 & Bros. Lumber Company, was injured in a 

 railroad wreck near Lafayette Ind., Jan. 25. 

 He was considerably shaken up and bruised 

 about the body. He was able to return to 

 Louisville the same night. Mr. Mengel had 

 just returned from British Honduras, where 

 the company otsTis extensive hardwood timber 

 tracts. 



F. T. Sexton, a prominent lumber man of 

 Owingsville. Ky.. was accidentally killed by a 

 train near that city Jan. 25. His mangled 

 body was found on the tracks. It is not known 

 how the accident happened. 



The building permits for the month of Jan- 

 uary in the city of Louisville aggregated near- 

 ly $500,000, including an eleven-story office 

 building to be erected by the Louisville & 

 Nashville Railroad Company. 



The central business section of Mount Ster- 

 ling. Ky., was gutted bv fire on the night of 

 Jan. 25. entailing a loss of upward of $100,- 

 1100. Most of the buildings destroyed were 

 frame. 



The planing mill of George Terrell. 614 Brook 

 street, was destroyed by fire on the night of 

 Jan. 30, entailing a loss of $12,000. 



A bill has been introduced in the Indiana 

 legislature to abolish the Indiana State For- 

 estry Commission and appoint in place of it a 

 custodian. The. commission entailed an expense 

 of $3,800 a year, which was considered use- 

 less. The appropriation for the' forest reserve, 

 which is at Henryville. for the year 1005 is 

 fixed at $10,500. 



Clark & Co. of Terre Haute, Ind.. have 

 bought from Captain J« M. Burgess of Todd 

 county, Kentucky. 450 acres of the Kirkman 

 timber lands at Kirkniansville. Ky., for $0,000. 

 Clark & Co. will erect a sawmill on their pur- 



chase and cut the timber, which is mostly- 

 white oak. 



The shipyards of B. J. Howard & Co. in 

 Jeffersonville, Ind., have begun work with a 

 full complement of 300 men. The company has 

 a great deal of new work on hand, including 

 thirty-four freight barges on a government con- 

 tract. 



The C. C. Mengel Box and Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city has made arrangements in 

 its plant at Eleventh and Kentucky streets to 

 hold revival services during the proposed re- 

 ligious campaign which begins here this week. 

 The company has rigged up an auditorium in 

 one of its packing rooms with a seating ca- 

 pacity of 1.500 persons. Revival services will 

 be held nightly during the course of the re- 

 vival. 



The Adler Lumber Company has filed arti- 

 cles of incorporation with a capital stock of 

 S5i).0(Mi. divided Into shares of $100 each. The 

 incorporators are Cyrus L. Adler. R. S. Hill 

 and D. A. Meyer. The maximum indebtedness 

 is fixed at $25,000. The company, it is under- 

 stood, will work in conjunction with the Adler 

 Organ Company and the Adler Piano Company, 

 of which Mr. Adler is president. 



The court of appeals, last week, by Judge 

 O'Rear. delivered an extended opinion in the 

 case of George W. Bramblett against the Com- 

 monwealth Land and Lumber Company, on ap- 

 peal from the Jefferson circuit court. The ac- 

 tion involves about $50,000. The opinion holds 

 that shares of stock in the Lumber Company 

 pledged by Fetter, and others than Hargis, to 

 secure Fetter's notes, will, if the Lumber Com- 

 pany redeems the land, belong to the corpora- 

 tion, and not to the appellant. Bramblett. 



C. H. Callahan, secretary of the Lumber- 

 men's Club and one of the large lumber mer- 

 chants of the city, has taken the position of 

 secretary and trea.surer of the Lyons Manu- 

 facturing Company, a lumber concern at Lyons, 

 Ky. Mr. Callahan will conduct his own busl- 

 <>ness in connection with his duties with the 

 firm. He is stationed at Lyons every day ex- 

 cept Saturday and Sunday, which he spend« 

 in the city. 



The boiler in the sawmill of Anton Bruck- 

 en, six miles from Madisonvilie. Ky.. ex- 

 ploded last Friday, killing Janus Hendricks, 

 an engineer, and destroying the boiler room. 



Several hundred thousand logs have been de- 

 livered to mills along the Cumberland river in 

 Kentucky within the past few days in conse- 

 quence of the rise in that river. The mills are 

 rushed. Logs have been accumulating in some 

 sections of the valley for the past two years. 



Contracts for the proposed Louisville Armory 

 aggregating $325,000 have been let. Stone and 

 brick will be the chief materials used. 



.Articles of incorporation for the Rhodes-Bur- 

 ford Furniture Company have been filed in Lex- 

 ington, the capital stock being $25,000. 



Two men were killed and several others fa- 

 tally injured by the explosion of a boiler in the 

 sawmill of M. Godby. near Bernetta, Pulaski 

 County, last Friday. 



Hill & Miller of Boston. MasK,, representing 

 the owners, have sold the property of the Yale 

 Lumber Company in Bath county, embracing 

 the Licking River railway, thirty-nine miles in 

 length ; 1,200 acres of fine timber land and a 

 large sawmill. The buyer was the Licking River 

 Company of Rowan County. The company is 

 composed of Chicago capitalists. J. S. Bischel 

 of Chicago is quoted as saying the first move 

 of the company will be to txtend the railroad, 

 probably to Owingsville or Mt. Sterling. New 

 mills will also be erected and the property 

 worked up. 



Former Governor Stone and others of Penn- 

 sylvania, have contracted to build a line of rail- 

 load into the Brush Creek section from Bar- 

 bourville. Ky. The proposed road will tap valu- 

 able timber and coal fields in that section. 



During the last quarter of 1004 there were 



established in the southern states 249 wood 



working plants. 



Betroit. 



The fact that in the state of Michigan there 

 was manufactured last year 618,000,000 feet in 

 round numbers of hardwood lumber against 426.- 

 iitW.OOO feet of pine is evidence of the grow- 

 ing imnortance of the hardwood industry. In 

 a word, it has passed the pine industry in mae- 

 nituue and will hold front place for the rest 

 of the years that Michigan is classed as a pi-o- 

 ducer of lumber. 



The upper peninsula was the largest pro- 

 ducer of hardwood lumber of any single manu- 

 facturing district last year, although the lower 

 peninsula produced a little over 400.000.000 feet 

 compared with 102.T7T.000 feet in upper Mich- 

 igan. In the lower peninsula the hardwood is 

 now getting into comparatively few hands, large 

 bodies of it being held by individual firms, and 

 the price within ten years has been increased 

 from $2 to $10 an acre to $25 and $35. A 

 tract of good hardwood timber now is a valu- 

 able asset. The Lake Huron shore district ex- 

 lending from the Saginaw river to the Straits 

 of Mackinac produced 85.425.000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber last year and the mills on the line 

 of the Mackinac division of the Michigan Cen- 

 tral and its branches manufactured 53.070..''>n.'. 

 feet. The mills on the Saginaw river manu- 

 factured 42.4.)5.028 feet and the mills on the 

 Pere Marquette 43..532.000 feet. The mills on 

 the line of the Grand Rapids &' Indiana rail- 

 road and points in western Michigan produced 

 a little over 2t)0.OO0.O00. the product in lower 

 Michigan being pretty evenly divided between 

 tiie eastern and western sections of the state. 



In 1903 the total product of the state was 

 475.453.066 feet, and in 1902 it aggregated 

 438,000,000 feet. While the total lumber nro- 

 dnction of Michigan in 1904 was 276.000,000 feet 

 less than it was in 1003 the hardwood outnut 

 has steadily increased. It is likely to continue 

 to do so for some time, as hardwood is being 

 sought with more eagerness than a few yea' s 

 ago and there are laige tracts of hardwood tim- 

 ber yet to be develoned in the upper peninsula. 



The Cook-Curtis-Miller Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated with a capitalization of $12...- 

 000 and has secured a site for a hardwood pla"i 

 at Grand Marais. Toe company owns 7.00O 

 acres of fine hardwood timber near Grand Ma- 

 rais. The officers are : President. B. 11. Cook : 

 Vice President. SV. L. Curtis ; Treasurer. II. W, 

 Curtis, and Secretary. C. D. Miller. The stock 

 is held by these gentlemen and H. M. and C. 

 E. Muier of Vassar. 



The Lobdell & Bailey Company of Onaway. 

 owning an extensive plant and nearly SO.OiiO 

 acres of timber land in Presque Lsle Countv. 

 mostly hardwood, has floated a bond issue of 

 $300,000 through the Union Trust Company of 

 Detroit, the latter being trustee. The money 

 was needed by the company to develop its 

 business. 



Besides manufailuring a lot of wood alcohol 

 W. D. Youna & Co. of West Bay City manu- 

 factured 19.000.000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last year and they expect to cut about the same 

 quantitv this year. About 75 per cent of tbeir 

 maple flooring output goes abroad. 



C. T. Kerry of Scuultz & Kerry, manufac- 

 turers of maple Hooring at Saginaw, has bought 

 out the interest of his partner and is said to 

 be negotiating with the view of removing his 

 plant to Grayling and forming a business con- 

 nection with Sailing, Hanson & Co. 



At Bay City E. C. Hargrave manufactured 

 2. 850. 000 feet of hardwood lumber last year. 

 He has been making some extensive repairs 

 to his sawmill during the fall and the mill wilt 

 be fully stocked for the year's run. 



The new band mill built by Bliss & A'an 

 Auken at Saginaw is practically finished. It 

 is a single band mill with a capacity of 30.000 



