THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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No special improvement in asb lumber 

 bas been noticed during tbe past two 

 weelis, and altbougb sellhig well, there 

 is still room for improvement. 



Tbe demand for oak lumber is still ex- 

 ceedingly active and is now in a steady 

 and satisfactory state. Prices are Arm 

 and bid fair to remain at the present notch 

 for some time. Common plain white and 

 red oak are in constant demand and dry 

 stocks are sought after. Firsts and sec- 

 onds oak, both white and red, are getting 

 to be very scarce and command good prices. 

 Quartered white oak is also having a 

 good call. About the only inquiry for 

 quartered red oak is for inch stock. Cull 

 oak is doing only fair. 



W. R. Bee, formerly with Nicola Bros. 

 Company, died last week and was buried 

 Sunday, April 27. 



W. Barrett of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 spent a few days with local lumbermen 

 and reports trade in good condition up In 

 his section of the country. 



J. N. Penrod of Kansas City was also 

 a welcome visitor to the local market. 



L. Bell, formerly with Murphy & Diebold 

 Lumber Company, of Memphis, Tenu., 

 spent a few days in Cincinnati recently. 



D. R. Speer, of the Speer Box & Lumber 

 Company of Pittsburg, Pa., was also in 

 the city lately. He was looking for box 

 common cottonwood. 



EVANSVILLE LUMBERMEN ORGAN- 

 IZE. 



It is conceded that Evansville, Ind., is a 

 hard market to organize in the lumber line, 

 but an auspicious start has been made. 



Evansville as a hardwood lumber market 

 is a very old market. The business o£ 

 making and selling liardwood lumber has 

 been carried on there for fifty years or 

 more, and there is still probably iwoduced 

 there more hardwood lumber than at any 

 other point in the United States. Most of 

 the firms there are very old, very rich and 

 very conservative. They made fortunes be- 

 fore lumber associations were thought of; 

 and having their business thoroughly es- 

 tablished and being very independent, see 

 but little need of wasting time over 6r- 

 ganization. 



There has been younger and newer blood 

 coming into the market of late years, how- 

 ever, and after much effort the younger 

 element has succeeded in laying the foun- 

 dation of a good organization. 



At a called meeting, held April 21, for 

 the purpose of starting the work, the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were present: 



J. C. Ballew, Evansville Hardwood 

 Manufacturing Company; Chas. AVolQu, 

 Frank May, May, Thompson & Thayer; 

 John A. Tliompson, May, Thompson & 

 Thayer; Frank Haney and D. B. McLaren, 

 John A. Reitz & Sons; J. C. Ballew, Jr., 

 Evansville Hardwood Slanufacturing Com- 

 pany; A. J. Peri-y; Daniel Wertz, Maley & 

 Wertz; Wm. Threlkeld, H. Maley Lumber 

 Company; C. L. Storrs, Moeller & Storrs; 

 Alex. Hamilton, Holliday-Closs Land &• 

 Lumber Company; Q. Y. Hamilton, Evans- 



ville Lumber Company; C. E. Davis, Ful- 

 lerton-Powell Lumber Comjiany; Frank 

 Casa; Jas. W. Hale, National iu.'^pector; 

 Frank A'ckley, Hardwood Record. 



Upon motion, Mr. AVm. Threlkeld was 

 elected chairman of the meeting and it was 

 moved and carried that the necessary steps 

 be taken to organize an association, to be 

 known as the Ev;insville Liuubermen's 

 Association. 



A committee, consisting of Messrs. Q. Y. 

 Hamilton, D. B. McLaren and Chas. 

 Wolfln, was appointed to draft a consti-, 

 tution and by-laws, to be submitted to the 

 next meeting. 



After considerable discussion and the 

 transaction of some business of minor im- 

 portance, the meeting ad.1ourned, to meet 

 again at the Acme Hotel, Saturday, May 3, 

 at 7:30 p. m., for the purpose of completing 

 the organization. 



variable and always effective. The wheels 

 are 50 inches in diameter, accommodating 

 blades to 6 inches thick; the lower one 

 being solid, increases momentum, lessens 

 the circulation of dust and prevents the 

 upper wheel from overrunning it. The 

 upper wheel has independent vertical and 

 horizontal adjustments to track the saw 

 on its proper path along the wheels. 



Among other advantages are double-act- 

 ing set works, antomatie receding device 

 to head blocks, Knight's patent dogs, auto- 

 matic offset to carriage and rapid return 

 feed. Two sizes are made larger than this 

 one. 



The makers, J. A. Fay & Egan Company, 

 of No. 41-1 to No. 434 West Front street, 

 Cincinnati, O., will willingly send further 

 details, prices and cuts on application, and 

 also their 450-page catalogue to those in- 

 terested. 



NEW BAND SAW MILLS. 



The supremacy of the baud over the cir- 

 cular saw mills is in every waj' recognized 

 by all sawyers and lumbermen. It has 

 come to replace the old by doing the work 

 better and in a more economical way. The 

 baud mill here represented has the benefit 



LUMBER MILLS SOLD. 



The lumber, lath and shingle mills of 

 the Hiedreck-Taylor Lumber Company, at 

 Westboro, Taylor County Wisconsin, have 

 been sold to a syndicate of Pennsylvania 

 capitalists, headed by J. H. Howard of Em- 

 Ifnrium, Pa., for $-2o0.000. Included in the 

 sale was 60,000.000 feet of stumpage, but 

 in addition to this the company has se- 

 cured options on over 140,000,000 feet, 

 which, it is said, is worth, at a low esti- 

 mate, over .?250,000. 



The deal, which was' made through the 

 industrial department of the Wisconsin 



NO. '■> BAND SAW MILL. 



of years of experimenting and improving, 

 and, together with new devices patented 

 September IS and October 30. 1900. has the 

 qualities to meet the most particular re- 

 quirements of saw and planing mills. 



Cuts fully describing the machine should 

 be sent for in order to gain an idea of its 

 many advantages. Attention is invited to 

 some of the most important features. 



The amount of Icerf removed is about 

 1-16 of an inch, a saving that would be- 

 fore long pay for the machine itself. It 

 will take logs to 32 inches high and 17 

 inches wide on one side, or, with snit- 

 able head blocks, will cut through logs 

 40 inches in diameter. Short logs can be 

 cut quickly and accurately and with no 

 danger to operator. 



The straining device for maintaining a 

 uniform tension on the saw blade is one of 

 the most improved devices .yet invented. 

 The patent feed is simple in construction 

 and powerful and steady in operation, and, 

 straight-faced frictions being used, it is 



Centi'al Railroad, is one of the largest as 

 well as one of the most important made 

 in several years. The mills were con- 

 structed by the Hiedreck-Taylor Company 

 in the fall of 1900 and were equipped with, 

 machinery costing the company over $150,- 

 000. The owners of the iiroperty came to 

 Wisconsin from Western Pennsylvania, 

 and when they erected the mill also pur- 

 chased several thousand acres of stand- 

 ing timber which encompassed it. Four 

 months ago Mr., Hiedreck, president of the 

 company, died suddenly; his pailners, in 

 order to straighten the affairs of the com- 

 pany, offered the property for sale. The 

 new owners are all residents of Pennsyl- 

 vania and the majority of them are whole- 

 sale lumbermen. As yet no name has been 

 given to the new company, and it is ex- 

 pected that no change will be made in the 

 name until some time this summer. The 

 timber on the land owned by the new 

 company and on that on which it has se- 

 cured options is mostly hemlock and birch, 

 although there is also a great amount of 

 basswood and elm. The Wisconsin Cen- 

 tral road will shortly construct several 

 spurs running out from Westboro and tap- 

 ping the timberlands in several places. 



