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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



ohiim was made that Buffalo stands at 

 the head of all the citie." in the amount 

 of insurance cvirried on its hardwoixl 

 yards. The sum is !);0(J<),(1<;h;). Memphis 

 comes second. Over $125,tX)0 -svas paid in 

 premiums during the past twenty years, 

 and all that was paid back l>y the com- 

 panies was $724. Another unsatisfactory 



case of "keep the change." 



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This is vacation time. E. F. Perry, see- 

 retiiry of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers" Association, left witli his family 

 on Saturday for Head Tide, JMe., to hunt 

 and fish; Frink A, Lewis of the Lewiji & 

 Landon Lumber Company, has cbosen tbe 

 waters of Ontario to seek the fickle finny 

 tribe; E. A. Landon joins him at the 

 Thousand Islands; W. D. Mershon, New 

 York representative of the Jlershon. 

 Schuette, Parker «fc Co., has just returned 

 from a trip to Saginaw, Mich.; Xorris H. 

 Xorden is at Asbury Park, and S. B. 

 Keller, maple and oak flooring, No. 18 

 Broadway, is up in Putnam County, New 



York. 



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The well-known hardwood exporter, 

 John W. tlusii"ey, is back from a trip 

 South, looking up the sources of supply. 



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C. G. Powell, of the Fullerton-Powell 

 Lumber Company of South Bend, Ind., 

 hardwoods, was among the visitoi-s to the 

 metroipo'lis during the latter part of July. 

 Mr. Powell attended to business matters 

 and at tbe same time si)ent his vacation 

 in the East. 



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Other visitors here lately included J. H. 

 Gress, TlfCton, Ga.; A. H. Itaugherty, of 

 W. E. Kelley & Co., Chicago; J. C. Cremcr. 

 auditor, of the Chicago Lumber & Coal 

 Company, St. Louis; W. B. Millard, of the 

 Millard Lumber Company. House's Point, 

 N. Y.; C. L. Adler, Chicago, who is also 

 president of the Adler Lumljer Company, 

 Lyons, Ky.; C. T. Cook, of the Maple, 

 Birch & Beech Flooring Company, Gaines, 

 Pa., and C. Molina of Molina Bros., Ha- 

 vana, Cuba. 



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Mr. Molina arrived in the metropolis 

 from the new republic on August 4, and 

 it is said that he will devote at least a 

 couple of weeks to becoming acquainted 

 witli the cedar and mahogany men of the 

 East, if not of the Middle West, as well. 

 The Molina B■ro.'^ have big tracts of tim- 

 ber on the north coast of Cuba. 



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Recent salings for the other side of 

 wealthy lumber kings include the de- 

 parture of W. D. Johnston, of the Ameri- 

 can Lumljer & JIanufacturing Company 

 of Pittsburg, on July 2<); that of P, L. 

 Peck, president of the Lackawanna Lum- 

 ber Company, Scranton, Pa., on July 2.3; 

 that of Robert Himter, of Hunter, Benn 

 & Co. of Mobile, Ala., on July 30, and 

 that of Thomas H. Shepard, of the Shep- 

 ard & Morse Ltimber Company on Au- 

 gust C. With the possible e.vception of 



M'r. Hunter, whose pitch pine export busi- 

 ness malves his pres'ence alu'oad occa- 

 sionally iniperative, all <if the gentlemen 

 seek recreation and pleasure. 



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Hem-y Cape, hardwood wholesaler, No. 

 1 JIadison avenue, is reported well on 

 the road to recovei-y from his recent severe 

 attack of typhoid fever. 



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W. H, Mace, New York representative 

 of the American Lumber Manufacturing 

 Company, Pittsburg, is back from a vaca- 

 tion stay in Canada. 



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Although scheduled to begin operations 

 late in July, it is believed that a week 

 or too of August will have parsed before 

 the new Greenpoint mill of W. E. Upte- 

 grove iV- Bro. is in full swing. 



NEWS IN EVANSVILLE. 



The mills are all busy. The Henry 

 Jl'aley lAimbei- Company have a good sup- 

 ply of logs. May, Thomp.son &; Thayer 

 are running steadily 12 hours a day. 

 Maley & Wertz are preparing to run day 

 and! night. They have four immense 

 barges of logs in slight. Moeller & Storrs 

 have more than they can unload in the 

 usual workday, so are working their men 

 a full 12 hoxu-s a day. 



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Henry Maley Lumber Company have re- 

 cently purchased a choice tract of 1,100 

 acres of hanlwood timber for .$.30,000. 



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M'aley & Wertz are on a ti'ade for a 

 2,000-acre' tract, containing much choice 



walnut and oak. 



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Moeller & Storrs are getting some of the 

 largest logs that ever entered tbe city, one 

 oak measuring 7 feet at the stump and one 

 poplar over 8 feet at stump. 



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Jlay, Thompson & Thayer have just 

 finished taking stock, a portion of which 

 they list in this issue of the Record. 



ever known it, despite the fact that this 

 is supposed to be the period of midsummer 



dullness. 



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W. W. Milne, of the Milne Lumber Com- 

 pany, has departed for the northern coun- 

 try for a short vacation from business 

 cares. He says he will merel.v lie around 

 and rest, but I caught him trying to bor- 

 row a fishing pole. 



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W. A. Bonsack, of the Bonsack Lum- 

 ber Company, states that business has im- 

 proved slightly during the past two or 

 three weeks, the main change being in the 

 increased bujing on the part of the furni- 

 ture people. He says trade is morally cer- 

 tain to be very brisk this fall and that it 

 is his opinion that the first of the fall 

 buying has already srtarted. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Theodore I'lummer, of the Plummer- 

 Benedict Lumber Company, reports that 

 his Inisiness has' grown so rapidly during 

 the past several months that he has been 

 forced to increase his capacity and has 

 taken a long lease on a large piece of 

 propertj' in the northern part of tlie city 

 to be used as a storage yard for cypress 

 and poplar. Mr. Plummer. makes some- 

 thing of a specialty of thes* two woods, 

 but also carries a line of the other hard- 

 woods. He has also decided to remove his 

 office to the new yard from the present 

 quarters in tbe Security liuilding. 

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A. J. Lang says his business during the 

 past few weeks has been "just all right" 

 and he lielieves it will remain .so. He has 

 placed some very fair contracts with the 

 mills, on which the deliveries are fairly 

 prompt, and he says the present volume of 

 his busine.ss is fully as heavy as he has 



A PROMISING INSTITUTION. 



A new saw mill has been put in opera- 

 tion in the west part of town on John 

 Steers* lots. Bradley and Oliver Hanger 

 are the proprietors and managers. Brad 

 is an old pioneer saw mill man, and as a 

 head sawyer is second to none. Oil is the 

 liookkeeper and lumber inspector and has 

 had sufficient practical experience to war- 

 rant tbe correct performance of his duties. 

 The plant is in perfect working order. 

 A fifty horsepower engine furnishes the 

 power. And an improved thin cut saw 

 eats its way rapidly through the logs. 

 "Tvveedie" Stevens, the old veteran saw- 

 miller, is in his element setting headblocks. 

 Al. Sappenfield is Sreman. engineer and 

 general machinist. John Carter shapes up 

 the boards on the edger and Ben Moore 

 is receiving lumber straight from the saw. 

 The boys have quite a fine lot of wal- 

 nut logs on the yard. .\lso some fine oaks 

 which will be quartered. They have a 

 large lot of timber contracted which has 

 not yet been cut. Jerry Mooro goes over 

 to the mill every day to keep things run- 

 ning smooth, and the presence of John 

 Rose about the mill assures success and 

 good luck to the mill. — Orleans (Ind.) Ex- 

 aminer. 



The Custer Manufacturing Company will 

 lemove their plant from Custer to East- 

 lake, Mich. They manufacture wooden 

 bowls and clothes pins. 



D. Hitchingham *: Co. of Whitaker, 

 Mich,, have bought the Frank Hallock saw 

 mill property at Peach Orchard, Ark,, and 

 will operate it in connection with the Tent- 

 rill mill at that place. 



The American Hardware Corporation of 

 New Britain, Conn., announce the election 

 of A. N. Abbe of New Britain as inirchas- 

 ing agent. 



Barbour & Starr of Toledo. Ohio, will 

 erect a large flooring mill. They will 

 manufacture maple flooring and handle 

 hardwoods. 



