HARDWOOD RECORD 



turn to the old method of logging. Oxen cost 



$100 a pnir, while horses cost ¥000. The cattle 



consume less grain than horses and are not so 

 ■■<~t\y to keep. 



Minneapolis and St. Paul. 



The nineteen lumber dealers indicted here by 

 ihe Vnllcd Slates court on complaint of the 

 catalogue houses, on the charge of using the 

 malls with Intent to defraud by circulating the 

 •little black book." appeared in court October 

 10 and entered pleas of not guilty, with the 

 understanding thai any time before November 

 1 the pleas miglil be withdrawn and some other 

 action taken. It Is now decided by the their 

 attorneys that the pleas will be withdrawn 

 when the time comes and that they will enter 

 demurrers to liic imlictment. The defense will 

 claim that the indictment does not state a 

 criminal offciise, and the court will have to de- 

 cide as a matter of law whether merely dis- 

 tributing instructions for meeting mail order 

 competition constitutes on offense. Argument on 

 these demurrers will be heard at an early date. 

 There were two Indictments, one against the 

 nineteen lumbermen as individuals, charging 

 conspiracy to defraud by use of the mails. A 

 separate Indictment was returned against T. S. 

 .McLaughlin of Minneapolis, charging misuse of 

 tlie mails, but two days after the arraignment 

 it was dismissed on motion of the district at- 

 torney. Both wholesale and retail merchants 

 of every kind are intensely Interested in the 

 cflse and premise to make it hotter for the cata- 

 logue lionses than ever. Those named as de- 

 fendants in the indictment are as follows: 



lialp Hurnside. Oskaloosa. Iowa. 

 Willard U. liollis, ilinueapolis. 

 George C. Ingram. Sauk (enter, Minn. 

 Stanley Moore, Waterloo, Iowa. 

 C. E. (ireef, Eldora, Iowa. 

 X. S. Darling, Oklahoma City, Okla. 

 Theodore S. McLaughlin. Minneapolis. 

 Leonard Welles, Minneapolis. 

 George I*. Thompson, Minneapolis. 

 Elijah Hudson, Minneapolis. 

 I. Nesbit-Tate, Minneapolis. 

 James C. AlelviUe, Minneapolis. 

 U. U. ('lark. Minneapolis. 

 Li. I'*. l'"rencb, llawarden, Iowa. 

 William .1. Lruie. Minneapolis. 

 J. W. Lucas. Winona. Minn. 

 O. M. liotsford, Winona, .Minn. 

 A. It. Itogers and George U. liogers, Minneap- 

 olis. 



E. II. Broughton, now secretary of the Mon- 

 tana rine and Larch Association, of Kalispell, 

 Mont., Is to have charge of the Minneapolis 

 sales office of the Forbes-Everts Lumber Com- 

 pany when it is opened next spring. Mr. 

 Hroughton is a Minneapolis man and until the 

 resent year he was engaged here In various 

 .ipacitles. last serving as assistant secretary 

 of the Northern I'lne Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. The Forbes-Everts Lumber Company, 

 whose Incorporation was noted in the last is- 

 sue of the U.\KDWooD Kecord, is planning to 

 build one mill right away close to its timber 

 holdings near Van Buren, Mo., and will fol- 

 low with others. When well under way It Is 

 :<pected to cut up to about 10.000.000 feet of 

 uk lumber a year, and from 100,000 to 150,000 

 :ik ties. G. W. Everts, general manager of the 

 "mpany, Is going south in a few days to look 

 after preparations for putting in the new mill. 

 C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, reports a satisfactory demand for 

 stock from the retail yard trade, not heavy, but 

 according to the general situation all that could 

 be expected. The factories are taking stock 

 In small quantities as they need It, but there 

 Is no great amount of northern stock In sight. 

 With the exception of birch uppers, the north- 

 ern hardwoods left on hand can be sold by 

 merely quoting a price. They are anticipating 

 an average winter of production In Wisconsin. 



W. II. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany says they are preparing for a good win- 

 ter's logging at the mill of the Ruby Lum- 

 ber Company, Uuby. Wis., and with fair weath- 

 er conditions expect to exceed last year's cut 

 somewhat. They are pretty well sold ahead. 



1.. K. Drake of Brooks Brothers, St. I'aul, 

 says the building this summer has kept their 

 concern very busy, and they are also looking for 

 a good fall business. 



A. E. Peterson of I'clerson-Moore Lumber 

 Company of St. I'aul reports business moving 

 along nicely in its regular channels. Although 

 the.e has been a temporary lull the past month 

 it has picked up again and holds good prospect 

 lor another brisk season. 



!•:. W. Atherton of the Lamb Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. rnul. says their retail lumber business 

 in all lines has been I'xccptionaiiy good and a 

 lonsiderabie amount of building now going on 

 promises an active fail business. 



F. A. Nolan has Just returned from a trip to 

 Montana, where he has been for several days 

 past looking up hardwood connections. He re- 

 ports a successful trip, also business very good 

 la hardwood lines. 



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oecTion with Its business. 



The St. Marys (Ohio) Wheel and Spoke Com- 

 pany Is Increasing its equipment by (lie addition 

 of a two-story warehouse of large proportions. 



The Gluax & Kleck Ladder Works at Arch- 

 bold, Ohio, is Installing new machines In order 

 to care for Its increasing business with greater 

 ease. 



The American Seating Company of Chicago 

 will establish a larne branch factory at Nor- 

 walk. Oliio. A number of buildings will be erect- 

 ed and equipped in the near future. It. It. How- 

 ard will be general manager and In personal 

 supervision of the affairs of the concern. 



Cadillac. 



The slight depression In the lumber trade 

 comes at a favorable time to manufacturers of 

 lumber for the reason that help Is scarce in the 

 camps and the mills on account of many of the 

 men leaving for the higher wages of farm work. 

 The departure of so many men has greatly har- 

 assed several firms who do not like to stop 

 operations regardless of the condition of the 

 market. The Cummer-Dlgglns Company has 

 solved the help question by ordering a steam 

 skidding outfit for its Camp 27, It will be at 

 work In three weeks. If on proper trial the out- 

 lit proves satisfactory three more will be or- 

 dered and put into commission as soon as pos- 

 sible.. This will be the first steam skidder In 

 use in this part of the state. 



W. W. Cummer of Cadillac and Jacksonville, 

 Fla., who has been spending several weeks in 

 the North, has returned home. He was here In 

 the interest of his various concerns. 



Maurice Thomas, general sales manager for 

 Cobb & Mitchell and Mitchell Kros., has re- 

 turned from a trip In Wisconsin and the upper 

 peninsula reviewing the maple flooring outlook. 



Eugene F. Sawyer of this city, president of the 

 American Panel Club, went to Lansing this week 

 to take his seat in the Michigan Constitutional 

 Convention, to which he was elected without 

 opposition. Besides being a good veneer man 

 Mr. Sawyer is an able lawyer. 



J. C. Knox, recently of Grand Rapids, the new- 

 secretary of the Micliigan Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, has taken an olfice In the 

 large office Imilding of , the Cummer-Dlggins 

 Company in this city. 



Arthur M. Manning has recently accepted a 

 position in the office of the Cummer-Diggins 

 Company. For two years he has been on the 

 road with headquarters in Chicago. He will re- 

 move his family to this city in a few weeks. 



Williams Bros.' last block factory has re- 

 sumed operations after a brief shut-down for 

 repairs. 



Toledo. 



The Ohio Shippers' .\sso( iatlon on October 

 1') filed with the State Railway Commission a 

 petition asking for the establlsliment of a sev- 

 enth class of freight to include lumber, logs, 

 cordwood, tanned bark, tankage and eleven other 

 forest products, as well as many other commod- 

 ities. This action If successful will result in 

 wide benefits. The date for the hearing has 

 not yet been fixed, but it Is probable that it will 

 occur within a few weeks, and the shippers feel 

 confident that the iietllion will be granted. The 

 new class rale will apply only on shi|iments 

 within the slate of Ohio. The propn.sed rate 

 will be for the first ten miles or under, 2o cents 

 per ton : for each additional five miles or frac- 

 tion of distanic. ."> ctmts per ton shall be added 

 to the rate. 



The Hucyrus Furniture Company of Bucyrus, 

 Ohio, Is preparing to extend Its Interests and is 

 fitting up an additional room to he used hi con- 



Ashland, Ky. 



W. II. Dawkins and W. E. Berger have re- 

 turned from a trip through Ohio in Mr. Daw- 

 kins' big automobile. Their visit embraced both 

 business and pleasure and they were accom- 

 panied by a party of congenial friends. 



'I be .Mead & Spear uiill at North Cattletts- 

 burg is sawed out and is undergoing extensive 

 rei;airs while awaiting a log run. 



The Penn Furniture Company of Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va., is rapidly extending its business 

 and is proving one of the most prosperous of 

 Huntington's Industries. Within the past week 

 it has shipped a large quantity of furniture to 

 a firm in Melbourne, Australia. Tlie shipment 

 consisted of tables and dining-room furniture. 



The extensive plant of the Ohio River Lumber 

 Company at Maysvllle. Ky., is doing an exten- 

 sive business and has a large and growing trade 

 for tlie machine-made w(x)dwork turned out. 



While working at a sawmill at Wilson's 

 Switch on Guyan river John L. Wilson of the 

 firm Wilson Bros, was struck in the stomach by 

 a slab thrown from the machine at which he 

 was at work and seriously injured. 



The tracks of the Coal River railroad have 

 been completed to Maiden, W. Va., the seat of 

 Hoone county, and the regular trains to Madison 

 will soon be running. The road will be extended 

 thirty miles beyond Madison. The territory 

 through which it passes is rich In timber and 

 coal and the completion of the road means much 

 to that end of the state. 



J. II. Eckman of Catlettsburg has gone to 

 .Morgan county to superintend the cutting of a 

 large boundary of timber. 



U. H. Vansanl has deserted his lumber Inter- 

 ests for the present and Is devoting his energies 

 toward securing the election of bis brother-in- 

 law, Jeff Hannah, who is Democratic candidate 

 for clr>.uit judge iu the Twenty-second Judicial 

 district. 



A tract of timber land consisting of -100 acres 

 on Lick river, in Oliio, was sold recently by 

 Frank Nagle. Norman Adams of Wbeelersburg 

 was the purchaser. The consideration was $10,- 

 000. The tract was one of the best in that 

 section of the state, consisting of oak. poplar, 

 pine and hickory. Mr. Adams expects to rig up 

 a couple of sawmills in the near future and begin 

 clearing the tract. 



Jeff Davis, the bustling manager of the Yel- 

 low Poplar Lumber Company's Interests on 

 Grassy creek, has purchased a desirable lot on 

 lower Main street in I'ikevillc and will immedi- 

 ately begin the erection of a fine residence. 



M. A. Ilayward of Columbus, formerly super- 

 intendent of Ihe Kenova Poplar Manufacturing 

 Company, was a local visitor last week. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany. Louisville; W. A. Cool of W. A. Cool & 

 Son. ( hvehiiid. and Lewis Doster, secretary of 

 the Ilindwood .Manufacturers' Association of the 

 I'nltcd .><late8, were recent visitors here. 



F. 11. McClung of Kskdale, W. Va.. is here 

 on a visit to his family. Mr. Mct/'lung is In- 

 terested In the Holly-Steplicns Sawmill Company 

 at that place and reports bis mill running full 

 time and turning out from 5,000 to 10,000 feet 

 pel' day, witli a ready market. 



W. L. Walsun has come down from hi-.' !i:in- 

 iier o|(erations at Mahan, W. Va., to ypeud a 

 few days with his family. 



