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bad assigned his interest to the t'nion Trust Company of Chicago. His 

 claim was compromised for $12,000. The replevin suit resulted in a 

 verdict of $76,000 for the Union Trust Company. A verdict of $43,860 

 was granted in a second trial and this verdict was affirmed by the Mich- 

 igan Supreme court in 1907. Suit was then instituted against the Wis- 

 consin replevin bondsmen, each being ordered to pay one-third. On April 

 19, last, the Shoemaker heirs were ordered to pay the Union Trust Com- 

 pany the balance. This was done Thursday. June 12. Of the original 

 parties of the ease only two, il. M. Kiley, Milwaukee, and M. A. Hur- 

 ley, Wausau, are living. 



New Plant Montvale Lumber Company 



The Montvale Lumber Company, of Fontana, Swain county, N. C, an 

 allied house of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, of Baltimore. Md., which 

 is the sales headquarters of that concern, has recently rebuilt its band 

 mill and made sundry improvements in its operations at this point. The 

 Montvale Lumber Company is the owner of the splendid timbered Eagle 

 Creek Valley, which opens up to a branch of the Murphy division of the 

 Southern Railroad at Fontana. This timber largely consists of oak. pop- 

 lar and chestnut, and is one of the finest, if not the finest, stands of 

 timber in the entire eastern mountain region. 



The expert manufacturing genius of the Montvale Lumber Company 

 is G. Leidy Wood, and the company is indebted to him for the splendid 

 economical and high-class operations that are being carried out. Mr. 

 Wood personally superintended the rebuilding of the company's mill which 

 now ranks second to none in that entire country. 



The pictures accompanying this article are self-explanatory. This is 

 only one of the several lumber operations that is controlled by the Wood 



Interests. Altogether Che various timber holdings and sawmill operations 

 of this company are one of the most important in the country. The 

 products of the several plants are all handled through the office of the 

 E. E. Wood Lumber Company. Continental building. Baltimore, Md. 



Change in Baird-Coale Liunber Company 

 George W. Coale. partner with Dan W. Baird in the recently incor- 

 porated Baird-Coale Lumber Company, with offices in the Fisher building, 

 Chicago, withdrew from that concern on Saturday. Juni' 14. and has 

 returned to Houston, Tex. Mr. Coale was associated with Mr. Baird to 

 look after the yellow pine end of the wholesale and commission business 

 of the Baird-Coale Lumber Company, but hit withdrawal from the concern 

 will take that company out of the yellow pine field entirely. Mr. Baird 

 is continuing and will continue at the same offices, doing as heretofore a 

 wholesale and commission business in southern hardwoods. He has not 

 yet definitely decided as to future plans relative to the name and incor- 

 poration of the present company, but for the time being will continue to 

 operate as the Baird-Coale Lumber Company. He will probably resume 

 the old style—.!. W. Baird Lumber Company — some time in the future. 

 Developments in Bossert Case in New York 

 An interesting development, the result of the recent suit brotight by 

 the firm of Louis Bossert & Son. trim manufacturers of Brooklyn, against 

 the Carpenters' Union and others, came to light with the bringing of a 

 suit for damages against the union and certain trim manufacturers. 

 The suit is brought for damages to the Bossert firm sustained, it is 

 alleged, through the spies of opposition manufacturers of trim who fol- 

 lowed the Bossert trim to buildings where union carpenters were employed, 

 and then called strikes on the jobs. 



VIFWS AT THE OPKUVi-KlXS OF THE MONTVALE LUMBER COMPANY, FONTANA, SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. 

 -Rough and TumWe' LnL™''2-Loading Big Poplar and uak^Log^ :^3-^TrainIoad of Logs Crossing Trestle Over Eagle Creek; 4_The Log Pond 



