HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A workmen's compensation law will probably bo adopted at the next 

 session of the Kentucky legislature, which meets in January, and th(^ 

 Kentucky Manufacturers' and Shippers' Associalion. of which many of 

 the hardwood men are mrmbers. is preparing to handle the situation by 

 shapin.LT the bill to be passed and preventing unreasonable provisions from 

 being included, rather than by opposing it altogether. It is believed that 

 this plan will get far better results than one of blind opposition. 



D. E. Kline, head of the Louisville Veneer Mills, recently addressed a 

 number of letters to leading consumers, asking their opinion as to the 

 outlook for business. Practically all of the replies were optimistic and 

 indicated a belief that fall trade this year will be satisfactory. 



Whh the Trade 



Mowbray & Robinson Company Buys More Timber 



The Mowbray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati, O.. who has been 

 bnying eastern Kentucl;y timber actiyely of late, has closed a deal for 

 45.000 acres of tiniberland in Clay and Leslie counties, the price being 

 reported as $200,000. The company purchased the timber from O. A. 

 Sears of Lexington. Ky., and Mike Courtney of Winchester. Ky. The 

 probabilities are that the company will manufacture it at its proposed mill 

 in Perry county, where it recently acquired a considerable amount of 

 timber. 



Wood-Mosaic Company Has Second Fire 



Will McLean, president of the Wood-Mosaic Company of New Albany, 

 Ind., one of the largest producers of flooring and veneers in the country, 

 was called back to New Albany from Kochester, X. Y.. Aug. 1 by a wire 

 announcing that the plant was in flames. This is the second misfortune of 

 the kind the company has had this year, the sawmill at Highland Park. 

 Ky., being destroyed with .$65,000 loss only a few months ago. It Is now 

 being rebuilt. The New Albany lire was much more disastrous, involving 

 a loss of .?200.000. and destroying the flooring factory, veneer mill, lum- 

 ber-yard and dry kilns. Logs on the yard, intended for veneer manufac- 

 ture, and the warehouse, containing several hundred thousand feet of 

 flooring, were saved, fortunately, and the company will consequently be 

 able to take car'; of Its customers pending a resumption of operations. 

 The plant will be rebuilt, it is determined, but the exact location is yet to 

 be decided upon. As the sawmill is located at HighUand Park, a Louis- 

 ville suburb, this city probably will be the site of the flooring plant and 

 veneer mill as well. The company had $210,000 of Insurance on its plant 

 and stock. 



Richardson Lumber Company Purchases Timber 



It is reported from Alpena. Mich., that the Richardson Lumber Com- 

 pany of that city has purchased all the land and timber holdings of the 

 Loud-Hoeft Lumber Company of Rogers City, Mich. By this purchase the 

 Richardson company acquires 8.000 acres of timberland In Presque Isle 

 County and in addition a complete sawmill equipment in Rogers City ^ 

 and an interest in the steamer C. H. Starke. The consideration is reported 

 to be in the neighborhood of .$200,000. It is estimated that the timber on 

 the S.OOO acres will run from 40,000.000 to 50,000,00 feet of hemlock and 

 hardwood.^. It is further understood that the Loads will hereafter confine 

 their lumber operations to Mackinac county, where they have large timber 

 holdings and a sawmill. 



Veneer Company Lets Contract 



It is reported that the Underwood Veneer Company of Wausau. Wis., 

 has let a contract for the cutting of 30,000.000 feet of timber situated 

 bftween Nashville and Crandon. Wis., to the Rogers Lumber Company. 



New Factory for Lyon & Healy 

 L.von & Healy, the well-known piano firm of Chicago, recently started 

 work on its new factory on FuUerton avenue near Fort.v-first avenue. It 

 is planned to spend .$250,000 on this structure, -which will cover a ground 

 area 140 x 500 feet. When completed the factory will be one of the finest 

 of its type ever built. It will have a ground area of approximately seven 

 acres adjoining the main line of the C. M. & St. P. railroad, which at this 

 point is elevated about 16 feet above the ground level. Thus a direct en- 

 trance into the building is provided. 



Andrews Lumber Company Incorporated 



The Andrews Lumber Company is the name of a new incorporation of 

 Escanaba, Mich., men who will operate at Mamasse, Ont, The timi>er 

 holdings of the concern will probably last for the next nine or ten .years. 

 The promotors and principal owners are J. R. Andrews and J. A. McGuire. 

 Mr. McGuire went to Mamasse several weeks ago and is getting the work 

 under way. The company has purchased 7,000 acres of leased timber on 

 which it has built camps. It Is expected that a sufficient .supply of logs 

 will be at the mill by the time it is ready for operation in the winter. 

 Shipments will be by water. 



Sawmill Destroyed by Fire 



The Hines Lumber Company mill at Iron River. Wis., was completely 

 deslro.ved by fire resulting from lightning on the night of July 27. The 

 contingent loss was estimated at .$50,000. Thc> yards and planing mill 



were saved after strenuous work. As much of the timber that was being 

 cut by the Iron River mill is also available to the Park Falls mill of this 

 company, it is not thought that the Iron River mill will be rebuilt. P. I. 

 Bogie, former superintendent of the Iron River mill, has already been 

 transferred to Park Falls. 



Modern New Mill in West Virginia 

 The Ruth Bell Lumber Company is erecting a fine new mill at Marsden^ 

 W. Va., below Albright. In addition the company is building comfortable 

 quarters for housing its employes. It will build several miles of rail- 

 road up Roaring Creek, on which its timberlands are located. Cheat 

 river, at the point where the mill is located, will be bridged and the lum- 

 her will reach the M. & J. railroad over the siding of the Lewis Lumber 

 Company. 



Roddis Plant Saved by Sprinkler 



Fire recently occurred at the plant of the Roddis Veneer & Lumber 

 Company of Marshfield, Wis., but, due to the fact that the plant is com- 

 pletely equipped with automatic sprinklers, the resulting loss was only 

 $500. The damage occurred mostly in veneer, which was sprinkled, and 

 did not result directly from the fire. 



Lumber Company Makes Long Lease 



The Tegtmeyer Box & Lumber Company of Chicago has leased from 

 Charles W. Tegtmeyer the property at the southwest corner of Canal and 

 West Eighteenth street for a ninety-five years period from March 1, 1913. 

 at an annual rental for the first twenty years of $7,000, the next thirty 

 years $8.000,. the next thirty years $9,000 and the remaining fifteen years 

 $10,000. The lessee has agreed to construct by March 1, 1933, a building 

 to cost S40,000, to be purchased by the lessor at the expiration of the 

 term at fifty per cent of its appraised value. 



Wiborg & Hanna Plant Burned 



The night of July 26 the plant of the Wiborg & Hanna Company of 

 Cincinnati. 0., was destroyed by fire, resulting in a loss of $75,000. which 

 is fully covered b.v insurance. The fire was discovered about six o'clock 

 in the planing mill, a structure 200 feet long and 60 feet wide, equipped 

 with the most modern of machinery for the manufacture of flooring, 

 siding and all kinds of interior trim and finish. The mill burned like a 

 big paper box and soon was completely destroyed, with the valuable 

 machines and finished product a total loss. The adjacent piles of hard- 

 wood lumber were an easy prey to the flames and burned one after another 

 until about a million feet of hardwoods were destroyed. All adjacent 

 buildings, including the boiler and engine room, were also destroyed, as 

 well as many freight cars, either empty or loaded, that happened to be 

 on the switches in the path of the fire. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company is an old concern, being founded about 

 twenty years ago by John Hanna and Harry Wiborg. both well-known 

 lumbermen. The company expanded and moved to its present site, cover- 

 ing eighteen acres, eight acres of which are in constant use. Owing to 

 financial difDculties the firm was placed in the hands of Receivers William 

 Hay and Edward Richie about five years ago and under the active manage- 

 ment of William Hay was making much progress toward a settlement with 

 its creditors. 



The receivers will immediately rebuild the plant on the same site and 

 resume operations as quickl.v as possible. 



Financial Statement Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance 



The Lumbermen's Under^vriting Alliance, U. S. Epperson & Co.. attorney. 

 Kansas City, Mo., has issued under date of July 28 its seventeenth semi- 

 annual financial statement, in which a thoroughly satisfactory half year 

 is reported. 



I'.ased on earned premiums, the first six months of 1913 showed operat- 

 ing and legal expenses 20.5 per cent, fire losses 35.37 per cent, saved to 

 subscribers. 44.28 per cent, making the total expense of 100 per cent. 



Ready resources, including cash in banks, aggregate $542,210.88. gilt 

 edged bonds, $256,361.75, premium deposits in course of collection, $102,- 

 943.06, giving a total of ready resources aggregating $901,515.69. 



The surplus has been improving notwithstanding the payment to polic.v 

 holders within the period of $126,310.10 in savings dividends. The net 

 as.sets on Jan. 9. 1913. were $842,823.10 and on July 9. 1913. $875,088.55. 



The report states that there is an ever increasing disposition among the 

 subscribers to co-operate in removing and remed.ving dangerous conditions. 

 The correspondence from field men indicates that Alliance subscribers are 

 more intent than ever on fire prevention. 



Death of Abner P. Bigelow 



A. P. Bigelow, one of the best-known members of the lumber trade of 

 New York Cit.v, head of A. P. Bigelow & Co., retailers, died July 24 at 

 Haitsdale, N. Y., in his sixtieth year. Funeral services wore held at 

 Hartsdale on July 26, and no greater testimony to his popularity could 

 be given than the large number of business friends in attendance. 



A. P. Bigelow began in the lumber business at Rochester. N. Y. It was 

 at Rochester that he first entered the" trade on his own account. He 

 entered the ranks of the Metropolitan district trade as a partner in E. H. 

 Ogden & Co.. and continued until 1893. when he sold his interest. After 

 two years of Inactivity, in 1895 he launched in business with yard at 

 Fifty-third street and East river. In a very short time the house had 

 come to be one of the representative ones of the district and the business 

 grew steadily. Charles Grosskurth was admitted to partnership in 1905 

 and the style became A. P. Bigelow & Co. Two years later the yard was 

 moved to G05 West Fifty-fourth street, the present location. 



