HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Logan 4 Maphet 

 Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 



PINE AND 

 HARDWOOD 



Watch This Space for Stock. 



White Pine. 



30 cars 1 incVi log run. 



2 cars 1 % inch No. 1, 2 and 3 com- 

 mon. 



6 cars 1 inch No. 4 common. 



Yellow Pine. 



5 cars \% inch No. 1 and 2 clear. 



3 cars 1 '^ inch No. .3 clear. 



7 cars 1% inch No. 1 common 

 10 cars 1 inch log run. 



Poplar. 



2 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 18 

 inches up. 



1 car lyi inch 1st and 2nds, width 

 18 inches up. 



2 cars \% inch 1st and 2nds, width 

 18 inches up. 



10 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 8 

 to 17 inches. 



10 cars \}i inch 1st and 2nds, width 

 8 to 17 inches. 

 5 cars \% inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 1 car each 1 yi inch and 2 inch No. 1 

 common, including select. 



15 cars 1 inch No. 1 common, includ- 

 ing select. 



4 cars 1 inch clear bright sap. 

 20 cars 1 inch shipping culls. 

 10 cars 1 inch mill cull. 



1 car each IJ^ inch and 2 inch ship- 

 ping cull. 



Mills: Clinton (Band Mill), La Follette. 

 Pioneer and Turleys, Tenn. 



Office: 105-107 Empire Building 

 KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



ity ot service, to apply certain patent processes 

 which tlie corporation lias become possessed of. 

 An establisbment is to be erected during 

 the course of the year on the line of the Frisco- 

 Rock Island system and it is said that a force 

 of 300 or 400 men will be employed by the be- 

 ginning of 1906. 



A party of Northern capitalists, largely in- 

 terested in lumber and rEiiiroad investments, 

 recently passed through southern Mississippi and 

 arrived in New Orleans several days ago. They 

 were, Charles \. James of Baltimore. F. H. Good- 

 year and S. M. Clement of Buffalo, H. E. Ficli, 

 P. A. Kollins of New York, Charles M. Pack of 

 Chicago, and W. D. Reese of Cleveland. They 

 are all interested in the Goodyear Lumber 

 ( 'ompany. which recently purchased the branch 

 i-oad from the Northeastern Junction intd Cov- 

 ington, the purchase being made from Fi'ank B. 

 Ilayne. 



There has been a persistent report for some 

 days that a northern manufacturing concei-n. 

 presumably a manufactory of timber and lum- 

 tier into their products, is to establish a .$2,000.- 

 1100 plant on a tract of ground disposed of by 

 the Frisco-Rock Island system near their ter- 

 minals in St. Bernard parish below New Or- 

 leans. 



This week there was closed in Scott county a 

 timber land deal, whereby a Pennsylvania syn- 

 dicate obtained control of 12,000 acres of hard- 

 wood land, north of the Alabama & Vieksburg 

 railroad. It is said that this deal is only part 

 of a much larger enterprise having for its 

 purpose the establishment of a central lumber 

 depot, and a branch road connected with the 

 .\labama & Vieksburg line. 



The International Mahogany Company of New 

 York, Cincinnati and Mobile has just consum- 

 mated a deal for D6,000 acres of the finest ma- 

 hogany and cedar lands in Cuba. The amount 

 involved was not made public. 



The lumber shipments from Gulfport for last 

 year amounted to . 245.213,289 feet, against 

 105,849,252 feet for 1003 and 19,035,232 for 

 1902. In addition to this there were shipped 

 from Gulfport, for 1904, 02,726 barrels of 

 rosin and 255,480 gallons of turpentine. 



Lake Charles lumber interests are looking 

 much better than at this time last year. Prices 

 have risen from $2.30 to $3.30 per thousand 

 feet, and it is anticipated that the highest point 

 has not yet been reached. From the mills near 

 Lake Charles 15,900.000 feet were shipped dur 

 ing December, and ot this amount 3.600.000 feet 

 went to foreign countries. 



Henry A. Childress, an attorney of New 

 York, visited Alexandria, La., recently with the 

 object of placing stock in a furniture factory to 

 be built there and to be capitalized at about 

 .$100,000. He and other New Yorkers will 

 take stock in the enterprise. 



Fifty carpenters and laborers have com- 

 mor.ced work en the new $200,000 sawmill 

 plant that the J. J. Newman Lumber Company 

 is putting in at Sumrall, twenty miles from 

 Hattiesburg, on the Mississippi Central railroad. 

 The Newcomer Lumber Company's plant at 

 Mobile, Miss., consisting of a planing mill and 

 an ice factory, was sold recently under bank- 

 x'uptcy proceedings, to Sam P. Moreton, D. J. 

 Batchelor and B. Montgomery, all of Brook- 

 haven. Miss. The purchasers were creditors of 

 the Newcomer company which went into bank- 

 ruptcy last July. The plant is valued at about 

 $40,000. 



C. M. Jennings, southern manager of a large 

 woodworking machinery company of New 

 York City, who a few months ago established 

 local offices as headquarters for the southern 

 territory, is back in the city after making a 

 tour of all the states along the gulf and the 

 south Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Jennings says 

 that conditions were never better in the South 

 than at present. Local conditions are some- 

 what affected by the low price of cotton, but 



Vith good sugar conditions and a great im- 

 provement in the market for yellow pine, busi- 

 ness has been very well maintained. 



A dispatch from Terry, Miss., says that five 

 100-foot rafts of timber were started yesterday 

 morning down Pearl river for the Gulf of 

 Mexico, where they will be loaded for ship- 

 ment to Europe. This is the first timber for 

 export that has been shipped from this place, 

 and is in the charge of Draughin & Cahl of 

 Hattiesburg, Miss. 



R. W. Child of Mobile, Ala., a hardwood- 

 lumber buyer, has closed a deal for the sale of 

 60,000 feet of Tupelo gum lumber for A. J. 

 Graham of Chicago to the Murphy Lumber 

 Company of New Orleans. 



The Stoneman Lumber Company, domiciled 

 in Coahoma county. Mississippi, has been char- 

 tered with a capital stock of $10,000. E. C. 

 Stoneman, P. B. Stith and others, incorporators. 



Wright-BIodgett Company, the largest holder 

 of timber lands in southwest Louisiana, sold 

 recently to the W. R. Pickering L\imbcr 

 Company of Kansas City 40.000 acres of tim- 

 ber land in Vernon and Calcasieu parishes for 

 a sum approximating $1,100,000. The deal 

 was made between \Y. R. Pickering, represent- 

 ing the purchasers, and Michael P. Kelly, south- 

 ern manager for the VTright-Blodgett Company. 

 The land lies directly east of Pickering, where 

 the purchaser's sawmill is located, and its 

 tramroad is already extended to the borders 

 of the new purchase. 



Calumet. 



The Peshtigo Lumber Company is operatine 

 both its saw and shingle mills, running with full 

 crews, and will continue through the winter. 

 Hardwoods, basswood, birch and hemlock are 

 being sawed. 



A tract of several thousand acres of hardwood 

 lands in Breen and Felch townships. Dickinson 

 county, has been sold b.v Thomas Kissane, of 

 Detroit, who acted for the .\tkinson estate and 

 the Burtons of Canada. The consideration in- 

 volved was not given out. 



A tract of 20,000 acres of hardwood and cedar 

 lands in Dickinson and Delta counties has been 

 sold to the I. Stephenson Company of Wells by 

 the Two Rivers Manufacturing Company, of Two 

 Rivers. Wis. The land is distributed among the 

 previous holdings of the I. Stephenson Company 

 and the Ford River Lumber company, which is 

 owned by the same interests. The timber is 

 tracked by the Escanaba & Lake Superior rail- 

 way, which is owned and operated by the two 

 latter concerns, and can be logged very econom- 

 ically. The I. Stephenson and Ford River com- 

 panies now own upward of 260.000 acres of the 

 finest timber lands remaining in the northern 

 peninsula of Michigan. 



J. N. Valincourt of I'tica. N. Y.. who deals In 

 bird's-eye maple and is an expert in that depart- 

 ment of the lumber business, was in northern 

 Michigan recently looking up stock for export 

 shipment. He was filling an order for four 

 carloads from a concern in England. Mr. Valin- 

 court said be has shipped more than 100 car- 

 loads of bird's-eye maple logs from northern 

 Michigan in the past year. 



The East Jordon Flooring company and the 

 East Jordon Lumber company of East Jordon. 

 are manufacturing a high grade of maple floor- 

 ing. M. H. Robertson of these firms was In 

 New York recently looking over the situation 

 with a view to establishing an office there. 



Hughart & Kendal, the hardwood firm com- 

 posed of George Kendal and W. O. Hughart, both 

 of Grand Rapids, is having a sawmill erected at 

 Memphis, Tenn. The firm has had a wholesale 

 office at Memphis for some time, but will engage 

 in the manufacturing business with a plant of 

 30.000 feer daily capacity. 



Joseph Barry of Detroit, trustee, has sold 

 the elm and basswood timber on eight townships 



