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HARDWOOD RECORD 



reservation, arid when a lire is discovered tlie 

 news will be ImmeciiatL-Iy comnitmicated to every 

 other station and all rangers within reach put 

 on guard. 



Much complaint of car shortage is coming in 

 from lumhermen, owing to a coml)inatiou of cir- 

 cumstances. A large draft has been made on 

 the rolling stoclc of the roads to care for the 

 cotton movement this fall, and the strike of 

 machinists and allied workers in the shops 

 througliont the Missouri-Pacific Railway System 

 has furtlier accentuated the "tightness" in the 

 far supply. The Stout Lumber Company, one 

 of the biggest concerns in southern Arkansas, 

 is reported to be running on a half-time sched- 

 iile. through failure to secure sufficient cars to 

 move its outintt. Other companies are simi- 

 larl.v affected. 



I'"ire caused a heavy loss at I be plant of the 

 Bluff City Lumber Company, near Clio. Jeffer- 

 son county, on November 19. .T. F. Rutherford, 

 president of the plant, estimates his loss at 

 .$20,000, principally in high-grade lumber, of 

 which SOO,noo feet was destroyed. 



About 200,000 new white oak ties will be re- 

 <iuired for the work of double-tracking now be- 

 ing done by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain Rail- 

 way Company, between this cit.v and St. Louis, 

 valued at .flOO.OOO. The ties are not being 

 <reosoted, which somewhat reduces the cost. 

 However, the company is doing much track im- 

 provement on other divisions, particularly In 

 the lowland sections of eastern Arkansas, where 

 Ibe excessive moisture renders the life of a tie 

 very short, and ties for those improvements are 

 being treated with creosote. The work is being 

 done at tlie local plant of the Ayer-Lord Tie 

 Company. Ties for twenty-flve miles of the 

 new double track have been distributed already. 

 The steel in the double track improvement will 

 cost a million and a (]iiarfer. and is ni>w ln'ing 

 delivered. 



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NEW ORLEANS 



C. W. Stevens of the Gilchrist-Forduey Com- 

 pany, Laurel, Miss., visited the trade in New- 

 Orleans recently. 



Geo. S. Balmer, log and timber exporter of 

 New Orleans, has recovered from a long illness 

 and is again at his office in the Andultou bu'td- 

 ing, 



W. E, Iloshall, of lloshall & McDonald 

 Brothers, New Orleans, will leave for Chicago 

 next week on a business trip, during which lie 

 will attend the directors' meeting of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Dealers' Association, which takes 

 place in Chicago, December 8. 



It was announced that the new pine and 

 hardwood mill which the Logan Lumber Com- 

 pany has constructed at Mansfield, La., will be- 

 gin operations about the middle of November. 

 The mill has a daily capacity of .80.000 feet, 

 and its limber holdings in that vicinity, consist- 

 ing mainly of yellow pine, and a large amount 

 of mixed hardwoods, are estimated to be suf- 

 ficient to run it for eight or nine years. J. F. 

 Williams, formerly of the company's Kl Paso, 

 Texas branch, will be president and general man- 

 ager of the new mill. 



The Concordia Lumber Company expects to 

 start its new hardwood mill near Vidalia, La., 

 about the first of the year. The mill has a 

 daily capacity of about 40,000 feet. The of- 

 ficers are E. H. StatTord, president : E. M. Staf- 

 ford, treasurer, and'K. .1. I'intler. vice-president. 



R. M. Steele, Winsboro. La., will erect a saw- 

 mill and develop sev* ral liundred ac'res of hard- 

 wood timber in Olla, La. lie expects to begin 

 building the latiei' part of November. 



ings were commenced some time ago, has filed 

 its schedule with the referee in bankruptcy at 

 Milwaidtee. The liabilities are given at $16,- 

 300.81, and the assets at $14,590.34. 



Wisconsin held its lead over Michigan and 

 Minnesota in the production of lumber last 

 year, according to a bulletin just made public 

 by the census bureau. The relative importance 

 of these three states in lumber production is 

 declining steadily, however, owing to the dimin- 

 ishing supply of white pine stumpage. 



Rapid progress is being made in the construc- 

 tion of the new sawmill of the Antigo Lumber 

 Company at Antigo, Wis, The new boiler house 

 for the planing mill has already been completed 

 and is now being used. 



Operations have been commenced by the 

 \Vatfcr-Clarke Lumber Company of Superior, 

 \Vis,, upon the erection of a new .f3,000 addi- 

 tion to its box factory. It will be of frame 

 construction and will be ready for ojieration 

 within ninety days. 



After a season's cut of 40,000.000 feet, the 

 Wausau, Wis., mill of the Barker & Stewart 

 Lumber Company has been closed. The mill has 

 nm continually during the summer and opera- 

 tions will be resumed some time in January. 



The sawmill of the M. H. Sprague Lumber 

 Company at Washburn, Wis., has- stopped sawing 

 for the season after a cut of 11,000,000 feet. 

 The mill will undergo repairs during tlie winter 

 and will have a ste.ady run again next year. 



George W. Price, proprietor of a woodenwan- 

 factory at Crandon, Wis., is removing his jilanl 

 to JIarinette, Wis. 



At the annual meeting of the English Manu- 

 facturing Company of Antigo, Wis., held re- 

 cently, the following officers were elected: Presi- 

 dent and treasurer. John English ; vice-president, 

 Lee Sturges ; secretary, N. C. Holmes. 



The Two Rivers Woodenware Company, Two 

 Rivers, Wis., recently purchased at a bankrupt 

 sale by F. C. Conant of Milwaukee, is planning 

 the erection of a large warehouse to adjoin its 

 pail factory. Some of the property on the south 

 side of the river held by the company will be 

 sold. 



G. D. Jones has purchased the plant of the 

 Werheim Manufacturing Company at Wausau, 

 Wis. The transaction involved about ,i>2.").000. 

 and Mr. Jones states that the company will be 

 reot'ganized and the plant improved. 



Building operations on the dam of the Arpin 

 Lumber Company, across the Chippewa river 

 near Couderay, Wis., have been completed and 

 rapid progress is being made on the flume. 

 When all work has been finished the company 

 will have a forty-flve foot head of water. 



The Drunswick-Balke-Collender Company of 

 Chicago is considering a proposition to erect a 

 large woodenware factory at Marinette, Wis. 



The bankruptcy case of the Edwards-Ihrig 

 Company, manufacturer of caskets at Osbkosh. 

 Wis., has l)een referred by the United States 

 court to Referee in Bankruptcy Charles H. For- 

 ward of Oshkosh. A schedule showing lialMli- 

 ties of $78,580.08 and assets of $82,614.40 has 

 been filed by the company. 



McGarvey Cliue, director of the forest prod- 

 ucts laboratory, Madison. Wis., inspected the 

 government pulp experimental station at Wausau 

 recently and stated that it would undoubtedly 

 be in operation during the first part of Decem- 

 ber, Acc(u-ding to Mr. Cline, the equipment in 

 the station represents an expenditure of $30,000. 



C. A. Goodman, a well-known lumberman of 

 Marinette, Wis., was elected as one of the di- 

 rectors of the Northern Forest Protection Asso- 

 ciation, wliich was organized recently at Mar- 

 (luetle, Mii-h. 



be held in St. Paul, December 6 and 7. The 

 forestry boards and associations of Michigan, 

 Wisconsin and Minnesota will be well repre- 

 sented. Prominent lumbermen will attend, and 

 the railroads will also send representatives. The 

 forest fire problem will engage the chief atten- 

 ticm of the meeting. 



\\. A. Lovett of Rhinelander, Wis., manager 

 of the hardwood department of Brown Brothers 

 Lumber Company, was in Minneapolis a few 

 days ago taking a look at market conditions. 



F. E. .Sommers, with the American Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of St. Louis, was in the Twin 

 Cities recently. He was looking after the pur- 

 chase of some stock of northern oak and birch. 



F. .T. Lang, who represents tlie Wisconsin Land 

 & Lumlier Company, Hermansville, Jlicb.. in this 

 territory, has been calling on the trade here fqj: 

 several days. 



W. H. Kemper, Jr., manager of the hardwood 

 lumber department of the Webster-Whipple Lum- 

 l»er Company, this cit.v, is back from a business 

 trip to Chicago, where he found things moving 

 satisfactorily. 



George W. Everts of the Payson-Smith Lum- 

 ber Company has returned with a good book 

 full of orders from an extended selling trip in 

 lerritory south of here. 



Tlie Minneapolis sawmills have all closed down 

 for the season, having smaller stocks of lumber 

 on hand than a year ago. Stocks of low grade 

 lumber are not heavy, and No. 4 boards, favor- 

 ites of the box trade, are running low. 



SAGINAW VALLEY 



MILWAUKEE 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Tlu_> WolUnger Box A: Package C.uni)any of 

 Eland, Wis., against wliich liaiiUruplcy proceed- 



I'lans are well perfected for the meeting of 

 the Lake States Forest Conference, which will 



The saw and shingle mill of the Prescott- 

 Millor Lumber Company, near Rose City, Oge- 

 maw county, is being dismantled. The ma- 

 chinery, which was purchased b.v the Southern 

 Lumber Company, will be shipped to Georgia. 

 The mill went out of commission last May when 

 the timber holdings of the Prescotts in that 

 vicinity, estimated at 10,000,000 feet, were sold 

 to the Robinson Lumber Company. The latter 

 concern is operating a new mill at Goodar, and 

 owns 50.000,000 feet of timber ad.iacent to that 

 purchased of the Prescott-Miller company. The 

 Robinson Lumber Company is operating a log- 

 ging road which it has extended several miles 

 during the pre.sent year. S. L. Eastman of the 

 S. L. Eastman Flooring Company of Saginaw is 

 the principal stockholder in the Robinson Lum- 

 ber Company, and the flooring plant takes most 

 of the maple cut by the former plant. 



The .steamer Sidney Neff came in during the 

 week from Van's Harbor with 250,000 feet of 

 maple lumber for the big flooring plant of W. D. 

 Young & Co. The output of the Young plant is 

 distributed by rail, although last year a single 

 cargo of 325.000 feet went to Chicago by boat. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable 

 shipped 350,000 feet of maple by boat last week, 

 250,000 feet of which went to Tonawanda. It 

 also i-eports having shipped a lot of hassw'ood 

 liy rail and says it is getting plenty of orders 

 for this wood. 



The Lansing Wheelbarrow Company has closed 

 a deal for 160 acres of virgin hardwood timber 

 located in Westphalia township. Clinton county, 

 the consideration being $10,500. The tract is 

 cstimaled to contain 1.500.000 feet of good mer- 

 chanlabli' hardwood lumber and 6.000 cords of 

 wood. The timber will be cut into logs, shipped 

 to Lansing and sawed into lumber at the com- 

 pany's mill. 



The Bri,ggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., at Sagi- 

 naw-, is doing a good hardwood business this 

 year. James Cooper of this company was in 

 Bay City buying stock during the week. 



Thomas Denton, the veteran timber dealer of 

 Saginaw, will operate in Wexford county, wliere 

 be owns a large body of rock elm. He w-ill get 

 out about 50,000 cubic feet for the Quebec 

 market. 



