uiil <lpnl In Iiimbor of all kinds. Tlic autlioi- 

 l/.ul oapUul Is $:;5.000, witb ?G,000 subscribed. 

 The Incorporators are : J. V. Cameron, W. .T. 

 Miller. C. C. Shnw and others. 



William A. Lawnton. owner of tlio Spartan- 

 burg Lumber & .^^nnufacturlnK Company of Spar- 

 tanburg. S. C, and J. Y. Boozer have purchased 

 the plant of the J. C. Klgby Lumber Company 

 of Spartanburg, one of the largest lumber manu- 

 facturing plants in the upper part of South 

 Carolina. The company will be capitalized at 



Willlamston, N. C. will probably be benefited 

 by a new Industry in the near future. O. B. and 

 O. H. Lay of the Lay & Baloom Mantifacturing 

 Company of Port Allegheny. Pa., have been In 

 Willlamston for several days looking over the 

 deld. atd because of Its nearness to raw material 

 It Is 1 kely they will locate a plant for the 

 manufacture of butter dishes at that place. The 

 material used, sweet and bell gum. is found in 

 abnndance in the swamps near Willlamston. 



The Sills Lumiier Company, of Concord. N. C. 

 has been chartered to deal in lumber, manufac- 

 ture building material, etc. : capital is .?.50.000. 

 J. M. Sills and others are the incorporators. 

 This company has a branch at Charlotte. 



A charter has been granted the Wadesboro 

 Furniture Company of Wadesboro, X. C., to 

 manufacture fuinilure, etc. The capital is .$.50.- 

 000 and incorporators are : W. T. Rose, W. H. 

 Liles and others. 



The ICccleston Lumber Company, a New Jer- 

 sey corporation, doing business at 44 Broadway, 

 Xcw York City, and at Wilmington, N. C, has 

 filed at Wilmington a deed of assignment to 

 Arthur Michall of New York. The liabilities of 

 the Wilmington branch are between $7,000 and 

 $9,000, with assets aliout $,3,000. ,T. B. Eccles- 

 ton of New York is president of the company and 

 J. C. Stagg of Wilmington. N. C secretary and 

 treasurer. The Wilmington branch consisted of 

 a lumber and cross-tie yard. 



The Cloud & West Lumber Company of Tryon. 

 N. r.. liad tile misfortune recently to lose by fire 

 a dry kiln containing 12.000 feet of lumber. 



W. II. Hughes, a sawmill owner five miles 

 south of Thomasviile. N. C. lost 40.000 feet of 

 lumber in a fire at his mill recently. 



The Cape Fear Lumber Company, whose mills 

 are at Wilmington, X. C, .has moved most of 

 Its employees to the camp at Maple Hill, Pender 

 county, X. C. The company has Iieen conducting 

 an extensive logging business in the vicinity of 

 Whitevllle. X. C.. for some lime past. 



W. R. Wearn of ,T. 11. Wearn & Co. of this 

 oily Is of the opinion that higher prices for 

 hardwoods will obtain before long. The fact that 

 lumber Is growing scarcer and tliat the labor 

 situation Is becoming more and more a universal 

 problem Is the basis of Mr. Wcarn's opinion. 

 The Wearn con<ern Is the largest dealer and 

 manufacturer in Ibis part of the state. Their 

 plant, which has been recently greatly enlarged, 

 covers several acres, fronting on West Trade 

 street, and their business is rapidly spreading 

 out. The .Messrs. Wearn travel over all sections 

 of the state and their assurance ibat there is no 

 danger of a slump In prices is of significance. 

 Mr. Wearn states that be finds little difliculty 

 In buying the various grades of lumlier needed 

 and that during recent weeks there has been no 

 matiTlal change In prices. 



Cadillac. 



Cadillac Is recognized tin ghout America as 



the hardwood headquarters of Michigan because 

 of Its nearness to fine hardwood forests and 

 because so much of these is lield by Cadillac 

 men. Xow that the Michigan Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Assoi-lation has fixed upon Cadillac as 

 the home of their secrelary, this city will witb 

 even more reason be regar.Ied as the hardwood 

 center of Michigan, ,T. C. Knox, who came 

 here from the freight department of the Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana railroad, Orand Rapids, after 

 twenty years' service as chief clerk, is not a 



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lumberman, but, what pleases the association 

 better, he Is an expert as to freight matters, and 

 in a moment can give any information needed 

 by any member on that question, lie has estab- 

 lished an oflice In the general olllce of the Cum- 

 mer-Dlgglns Company and Is now getting out 

 his first report as to the amount of stock In 

 the possession of members. This will be given 

 out soon. 



W. W. Mitchell was called borne a few days 

 ago from a moose hunt In the Hudson Bay 

 country by the death of his father-in-law, George 

 Yost, who died on ilonday at the age of 82 

 years. 



Smith & Staples, a local lumber firm, have 

 taken an option on a big hardwood -,ract in 

 Kentucky. Mr. Staples Is now SoutL looking 

 up the matter. 



The Cadillac Board of Trade sent out hun- 

 dreds of copies of "Industrial Cadillac," pub- 

 lished last month by the Hardwood Rkookd, 

 The result is that Cadillac is getting favorable 

 mention from all quarters on the excellent ad- 

 vantages this city affords as set forth in this 

 excellent write-up. 



The Cadillac Handle Company reports a big de- 

 mand for handles of all kinds, wiih good prices 

 prevailing. 



Wausau, 



The Underwood \cneer Company, Wausau, has 

 installed an overhead automatic fire extinguish- 

 ing apparatus and made other improvements in 

 its plant, 



John English, who recently sold out his in- 

 terests in the John English Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Merrill, will locate in Antigo. He will 

 at once commence the erection of another wood- 

 working plant, which will be operated under the 

 same name as the old plant. In his new location 

 Mr. English will be nearer the hardwood supply. 



The A. H. Stange Lumber Company of Mer- 

 rill is building a dry kiln 71x212 feet in di- 

 mensions. It will really be ten kilns in one, 

 each being 20x20, with a capacity of 2.j0.000 feet 

 of lumber. It will be of solid brick construction. 



The Tigerton Lumber Company of Tigerton re- 

 cently sold two lots of hardwood lumber. One 

 lot . of oOO.OOO feet went to E. W. Schultz of 

 Watertown ; a like amount was purchased by 

 the Marshfield Bedding Company of Marshfleld. 



Fire which is believed to have been of incen- 

 diary origin recently destroyed the lumber yard 

 of the Oakwood Lumber Company at llalbot. 

 Mich., causing a loss estimated at $7.,j00. In- 

 suran<'e amounting lo $1,200 was carried. 



Twelve thousand acres of timber land in the 

 Lake Superior country has been sold by J. M. 

 I'ercies and others of Milwaukee to the Huron 

 Bay Lumber Company of tJrand Rapids, Mich., 

 the consideration being $220,000. The land Is 

 covered with valuable hardwood timber and Is 

 located at Huron Bay and Arvon, .Mich. It is 

 reported that tlie Grand Rapids firm will make 

 immediate ari-angements to cut tlie timber and 

 will erect a mill to turn it into lumber. 



IndictmcMits against forty members of the 

 Stockbridge tribe of Indians, cliarged with cut- 

 ting pine and hardwood reservation timber, were 

 recently nolled by ,lndge (Juarles In the United 

 States court, Milwaukee. This action Is due to 

 a ruling by the United States Supreme Court in 

 the case brought by the l'alnc> Lumber Company 

 of Oshkosh against certain Indians. In which it 

 was held that the cutting of standing timber 

 from reservation lands by Indians belonging to 

 tribes which own such lands is not a violation 

 of law. This is a ruling impcu-lant to Wiscon- 

 sin lumbermen, because of the fact that the 

 several 1-ndlan resr-rvatlons of this state are 

 heavily grown with valuable timber. It protects 

 the Indians in the rlglit to cut and market their 

 own timber. 



rhe Fisher & Hutchinson Company of .Menomi- 

 nee has been organized with a capital stock of 

 $10,000. The Incorjioralors are I). J. Fisher, 

 J. E. and Lottie L. Hutchinson. The firm will 



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manufacture car Jackets, baskets, cases, boxes, 

 etc. 



The Oak Lumber Company of Oshkosh was re- 

 cently organized with a capital stock of $30,000. 

 The Incorporators are W. K. RIdeout, Fred Beg- 

 llngcr and Benjamin Krippene. 



The Daley-Beswick Company. Menominee, baa 

 completed Its plant and will soon begin manu- 

 facturing tank staves, ornamental columns and 

 other woodwork. 



The Xebagamon Lumber Company has turned 

 over to the state 4,760 acres of land to be \ised 

 for park purposes and to be added to the forest 

 reserve. State Forester Grlfiith will have the 

 laud underbrushed to eliminate danger from fire, 



Norfolk, 

 The volume of orders is not as heavy here 

 as could be desired, although the opening of fall 

 trade gave promise of good business. This is 

 attributed by wholesalers to general conditions 

 over the country, which have occasioned the 

 feeling of uneasiness among builders, evidenced 

 by the fact that building operations have de- 

 creased quite materially compared with a simi- 

 lar period last year. Ferd Brenner of the Ferd 

 Brenner Lumber Company, who is now In 

 Europe, reports dullness in the money centers 

 tliere. with a resultant cfl'ect on the market. 

 Hardwood men, however, state that no conces- 

 sions are being made in values In the effort to 

 move lumber, as this course does not appeal to 

 them as being one which would be desirable. 

 Car supply at the same time is exceedingly 

 poor, and the wise buyer is he who places his 

 order some time before his requirements. The 

 statements of leading men here lead to the 

 opinion that most buyers, however, are not do- 

 ing this, but on the contrary are sending in or- 

 ders for rush shipment, expecting to get It. 

 While this policy of buying only from hand to 

 mouth may be governed by the necessities at 

 the consuming end of the line, the ability to 

 make quick shipment entities the shipper to a 

 price consideratlou, as the majority are not able 

 to ship quickly. It Is thought that there have 

 been prices decreased on some items at the mill 

 end. which will probably mean discontinuance 

 in business of the smaller mill men. who are 

 not directly on the line of a railroa<l but have 

 to haul their stock to a shipping point. It Is 

 also thought that as the demand for hardwood 

 crystallizes the same conditions wlilch prevailed 

 last year, of wanting everything at the last 

 part of the season, will materialize. 



George Orndorff, representing George Welch 

 & Co. of Xew Castle, England, large hardwood 

 people, was In this city recently buying timber. 

 Mr. Orndorlf's location in the United States will 

 be Baltimore. Md. He will be in this .section 

 for some time, however, aiul while here will buy 

 hardwoods to the exclusiou of any other woods. 



M. A\-. Taylor of Bristol. Va.Tenn., buyer 

 for the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company in east- 

 ern Tennessee, was In Xorfolk last month vis- 

 iting his home oflice in the Xational Bank of 

 Commerce building here and taking in the James- 

 town Exposition. 



The steamships Allegheny ami llestia left 

 this port about two weeks ago with large cai'goes 

 of hardwoods. They were bound for London aud 

 Glasgow respectively. 



Exports for the month of October, gleaned 

 from custom house records, show a slight de- 

 crease. 



Xorman C. Wright, representing C, Lcary & 

 Co., large hardwood brokers of London, England, 

 was here on the 4tb, having come via New 

 York, It Is .Mr. Wright's intention to tour the 

 United States, arranging for an extension of 

 bis linn's connection In this country. 



Ferd Brenner of tli.> Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company sails from Europe for his home In 

 Norfolk next week. Ills company Is a large one. 

 and It operates mills In many states from .\ortli 

 Carolina to Louisiana. Mr. Best Is isiiln;,. 

 the Salisbury, X. ('., mill at present. 



