HARDWOOD RECORD 



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bui-g, Pa. ; T. E. Hardman. A. G. Ilardman, W. 

 II. Mason and B. M. Iloovei- of Hlklns, W. Va., 

 aro the incorporators. 



A certiflcate has been issued the Campbell 

 Lumber Company of Marlinton, W. Va., de- 

 creasins its capital stock from $350,000 to 

 $?50,000. 



T. W. Raine of Evcnwood, W. Va., was a vis- 

 itor hero early this week. He reports every- 

 thing busy at his works in Randolph and Fay- 

 ette counties. 



The Croft Lumbnr Company has changed its 

 principal office from Cumberland, Md.. to Alex- 

 ander, W. Va., whore its works aro located. 



George Weimor of George Weimer & Sons of 

 St. Albans w;is here conferring with local lum- 

 bermen this week. 



A charter has been issued to the West Vir- 

 ginia Lumber Manufacturing Company of Guy- 

 andotte, W. Va., to deal In timber and manu- 

 facture lumber. TIio company has an author- 

 ized capital stock of $25,000 and the incorpora- 

 tors arc ,T. G. Wilson. O. H. Wells, W. F. Kah- 

 ler, V. H. Crites of Guyandotte ; J. T. Graham 

 of Huntington. 



ST. LOUIS 



The next meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 at which time tljo annual election will take 

 place, will be held at the Planter's hotel on 

 Tuesday evening, December 13. F. A. Digglns 

 of Cadillac. Mich., president of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, will be the prin- 

 cipal speaker. In addition to the election of 

 officers, reports of the officers for the past year 

 and o£ the various committees will be presentea 

 to the club. 



The two committees appointed at the Novem- 

 ber meeting to nominate officers have decided 

 on the following names, from which new of- 

 ficers will be selected ; 



President, J. E. Gatcwood. 



First Vice-President, J. W. Putnam. 



Second Vice-President, Thos. W. Frj'. 



Treasurer, E. C. Robinson. 



Secretary, J. B. Kessler. 



Building operations for November, according 

 to the report of the building commissioner, were 

 $1,306,623. Of this amount, $68,653 was for 

 alterations. More than 500 permits were Issued. 

 Of these 88 were for brick dwellings, each cost- 

 ing less than $20,000. The total expenditures 

 for this class of structures will be $274,800. 

 Fifty-four flats and apartment houses were per- 

 mitted, the aggregate cost of which will be 

 $260,000. Included in the permit.s was one for 

 a new hospital which will cost $300,000. 



The following is the amount of lumber in- 

 spected and measured by the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis during the month of Novem- 

 ber, as reported by the secretary of the ex- 

 change, A. H. Bush : 



Feet. 



Yellow pine 8,821 



Plain oak 321,500 



Quartered oak 135,010 



Maple 27,756 



Ash 12,280 



Gum 51,181 



Sycamore 11,809 



Beech .S,02S 



Ilickorv 15,321 



Cypress 38,112 



PoDlar 15,830 



Spruce 4,264 



Total 050,830 



The lumber yard ot the Little Lumber Com- 

 pany, 100 .Soulard -street, was completely 

 destroyed by fire December 4. The machinery, 

 lumber and building of the Staudto & Rueckoldl 

 Manufacturing Company. manufacturers of 

 salooD, store and office fixtures, was also dam- 

 aged and the lumbor yard of the Chas. F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company wa-s 

 endangered. The total loss is estimated by the 

 owners at about $45,000. The loss of Staudto 

 & Rueckoldt Manufacturing Company was about 

 $25,000. 



The Millmen's Association of St. Louis, rep- 

 resenting the local planing mill interests, has 



moved into the Wright building from the old 

 Third National Bank building. The president of 

 the organization is Robert B. McConncll, super- 

 intendent of the Huttig Sash & Door Company. 



The hardwood and supply building of the 

 Fidelity Lumbor Company in Maplewood, a 

 suburb of St. Louis, was dc.stro.vcd by Are 

 November 29. The loss to tho company on the 

 buildings and stock is about $8,000. 



After a trip of about two weeks visiting the 

 cypress mills of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany, L. E. Cornelius, manager of the cypress 

 department of the company, Is back at his desk. 



The Chas. F. LnobrmsLU IVardwood Lumber 

 Company reports iiuito a satisfactory call for 

 nearly all items on tlie hardwood list. The re- 

 quest for plain and quartered oak has been par- 

 ticularly good. The demand for red gum, of 

 which the company makes a specialty, has also 

 been satisfactory. 



,1. J'. Mcllugh, recently with the .7. C. Tumor 

 Cypress Lumber Company, and later with the 

 Louisiana Red Cypress Company of New Or- 

 leans, has Ijoen appointed assistant manager of 

 the cypress department of the Chicago Lumber 

 & Coal Company. 



The office of the J. S. Vaughn Lumber Com- 

 pany has been moved from Main and St. Louis 

 avenue to the new yard of the company, oppo- 

 site the Lothman Cypress Company. The loca- 

 tion is a splendid one for shipping facilities. 



LITTLE ROCK 



The Droz Lumber Company, near Huron, In 

 Izard county, sustained a serious fire in the dry- 

 ing rooms recently. The fire originated in the 

 engine room. A considerable supply of finished 

 product was destroyed. 



Fire also destroyed the saw mill of Hess & 

 Richards at Cotter last week. Fortunately, new 

 machinery just purchased for the plant had not 

 been iustalled and was consequently not dam- 

 aged by the fire. 



Charles Q. Long, a lumberman of Mt. Pleas- 

 ant, Tenn., has purchased a tract of about 1,000 

 acres of oak timber land in Drew county and 

 will establish a mill in that locality. 



Work has commencod on the new veneer fac- 

 tory for Helena. The plant will employ fifty 

 men. Charles Nelson is to be manager of tho 

 plant. 



Walnut timber buyers are reported to be of- 

 fering fancy prices for all the available timber, 

 particularly along tho Arkansas river. Much 

 activity in this lino is reported from Ozark, At- 

 kins and other points in that section. 



A large mill is to bo established by the Varner 

 Land & Lumber Company near Altheimer. where 

 a fine tract of land has been purchased by the 

 company from Col. T. H. Collier. Tho land em- 

 braces 5,000 acres of virgin hardwood. 



A new wood-working plant, chartered by the 

 slate, is the Hub Manufacturing Company of 

 .lonesboro. The company will manufacture all 

 kinds of wagon material, and is capitalized at 

 $2.5,000, all of which is subscribed. 



One of the largest concerns chartered recently 

 is the Ozark Laud & Timber Company of Rogers. 

 r;hich proposes to establish a number of lumber 

 mills in the northwestern part of the state. The 

 company is capitalized at $150,000. 



The car situation grew so serious in some 

 sections of tho state this month that the State 

 Railroad Commission finally took a hand. Com- 

 plaints from the C. E. Ferguson Sawmill Com- 

 pany of Woodson came to the commission sev- 

 eral weeks ago to the effect that the company 

 was able to get but three cars in (Jctober, and 

 that trouble of a similar nature had been expe- 

 rienced in November, although requests for cars 

 had repeatedly been made. 



The railroad commission finally took the mat- 

 ter up on the ground of discrimination against 

 the Woodson concern, and served notice that 

 mandamus proceedings against the St. Louis, 

 Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company 



would be commenced In the circuit court to 

 compel the company to furnish cars. At the 

 last minute the lumber company notified the 

 commission that cars had been received, and the 

 action was postponed, with tho understanding 

 that if the cars are furnished in the future no 

 litigation will be undertaken. 



WAUSAU 



The Crandon Manufacturing Company of 

 Crandon Is this fail buying all the birch logs 

 for hub timber It can secure. A contract has 

 been made with the Stevens Lumber Company 

 of Rhlnclander for all the timber ot that class, 

 that the latter company will cut this season. 

 Several hundred carloads will be delivered by 

 the Stevens company. 



.Joseph R. Farr. who for several years has 

 been connected with the Indian Department at 

 Washington, states that it will probably be 

 necessary to build about six miles of railroad 

 in the Menominee reservation to handle the tim- 

 ber destroyed by fire last summer. The govern- 

 ment mill at Xeopit is so far away from this 

 timl>er that in order to handle it some arrange- 

 ment must bo made. 



The Peninsula Box & Lumber Company will 

 carry on extensive logging operations along the 

 Peshtigo river the coming winter. The loga 

 will be cut at mills in Peshtigo and Menominee. 



A tract of timber in the counties of Delta, 

 Marquette, Dickenson. Iron and Menominee, 

 Mich., comprising 20.000 acres, has been pur- 

 chased by the 1. Stephenson Company of Mari- 

 nette, Wis. This is one of the largest deals 

 ni.ade In that section in some time. A large 

 amount of timber will be cut off those lands and' 

 hauled to tho company's big mills at Wells. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Uepiuts from the Wisconsin woods indicate 

 liiat conditions are favorable for the opening 

 of the logging season. Tho ground is freezing 

 quite solid and so far not much snow has fallen. 

 There Is a good bottom for the roads and con- 

 ditions arc just right for cutting timber. 



The Nolan Brothers Hardwood Lumbor Cum- 

 Iiany will open its Minneapolis sales ofKce .lun- 

 uary 1 at 5S3-34 Lumber Exchange. Shipmouls. 

 of lumber from the mills in Tennessee are al- 

 ready on the way and it will have a good stock 

 of lumber at the new distributing yard in 

 Minnesota Transfer by the beginning of the 

 > oar. 



John BurmeLster of this city, treasurer of 

 the Nolan Brothers Hardwood Lumber Company 

 since tho reorganization, has been on a visit to. 

 his hardwood mill at Mayna, La. 



lialpli Krobs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis, was in the city recently 

 .soliciting orders from the factory trade for its. 

 sottlhorn stocks. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



K. C. Allen of tho Gibbs, Hall & Allen Com- 

 pany, with his wife and son, left December G for 

 Aberdeen, Miss., where they will spend the win- 

 ter. Mr. .-Mien is associated with his brother-in- 

 law, Mr. Tbornmark, in a mill and timber there 

 and will look after the manufacturing end ot 

 the business this season, cutting gum, yellow 

 pine, some oak, tupelo, etc. 



Charles Crulckshank of the Aberdeen Lumbei 

 Company, Pittsburg, specialists in cottonwood 

 and gum, visited the city recently. 



O. .1. Smith, sales manager for the R. G. Pe- 

 ters Salt & Lumber Company, Manistee, was in- 

 the city December 6. 



The three mills of the Dennis Bros. Salt & 

 Lumber Company, at LUghton. in Osceola coun- 

 ty, are now in full operation. Sleighing haa 

 come early and bids fair to remain all winter. 



