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I'dltois wbleli investigated the company's a(- 



liiiis icpiiited that It was absolutely solvent. 

 The coQipany did an extensive export business. 



The rjulf I 'oast Lumber Company, with Its 

 domicile In New Orleans, has Just filed articles 

 of incorporation. The new concern Is capitalized 

 at $50,000 and Is authorized to do a general 

 business in ail kinds of lumber and timt>er. 

 Thomas P. Gary Is president : F. W. Fatheree. 

 the vice president, and E. M. Schornherst, the 

 secretary-treasurer. 



A good deal of Interest is being manifested In 

 the approaching meeting of the Gulf Coast Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, which is scheduled 

 to talie place here Jan. 3. A good many matters 

 of importance are to be considered and it is 

 expected the meeting will be one of unusual 

 interest. At a recent meeting the exporters 

 voted on an amendment to the constitution 

 which gives the manufacturers in the association 

 one officer on the E.xecutlve Board for each 

 port. The motion to amend was unanimously 

 adopted. 



Many of the sawmills throughout Louisiana 

 have inaugurated u system of cut wages during 

 the financial stringency iiere and in some in- 

 stances the plants have been forced to close 

 down aitogetlier. This applies not only to the 

 hardwood mills but to the pine and cypress mills 

 as well. The lumbermen have found It abso- 

 lutely necessary to curtail expenses and where 

 they did not close down altogether have cut 

 wages In order to make both ends meet. For- 

 tunately in a majority of instances the em- 

 ployees have been made to understand the sit- 

 uation and the cut has brought about no serious 

 results. 



Because of the suspension of currency pay- 

 ments on checks, bills of lading and drafts, etc., 

 the New Orleans lumber exporters, and in fact 

 the lumber exjiorters throughout this territory, 

 are experiencing some dilficuity in selling their 

 paper to the New Orleans banks and financial 

 institutions in Louisiana and Mississippi and 

 are finding it hard to realize upon these bills 

 and drafts as heretofore. For that reason the 

 resumption of full currency payments by the 

 banks is awaited witli keen interest. New Or- 

 leans cannot resume until New York does, how- 

 ever, and consequently things will remain tied 

 up here just as long as New York keeps the bar- 

 riers up. 



Minneapolis. 



The product of the Minneapolis sawmills, six 

 In number, for the season ending November 15 

 was 214,192,0.32 feet of lumber, 37,883,200 lath 

 and 2,500,000 shingles. Last year the Minne- 

 apolis output was 297,112,811 feet of lumber, 

 53,717,8.50 lath and 1.401,000 shingles. 



Minneapolis lumber receipts during the month 

 of November were 12.410,000 feet, compared 

 with 14,890.000 feet last year in November. 

 The shipments were 18.328,000 feet, compared 

 with 25,328,000 feet last year. 



The Coffin Box and Lumber Company of this 

 city has crews at work both In Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota getting out hardwood logs and bolts 

 to lie sliipped during tlie winter to their new 

 plant at Minnesota Transfer, midway between 

 Minneapolis and St. I'aul. The buildings there 

 are almost finished. The basket factory and 

 sawmill at Irvington. Wis., near Menominie. 

 has been closed down for good, and the ma- 

 chinery will be removed next week into the 

 new buildings at the Transfer. The new basket 

 factory will start up next spring on the same 

 scale as the old plant at Irvington, and some 

 hardwood lumber will be cut. There is room 

 In the buildings for considerable expansion. 



Charlotte. 



L. J. Merriman of Wilmington, N. C, has 

 Just consigned his first shipment of ties to Pan- 

 ama. It consisted of 5,925 switch and 7.737 

 crossties, amounting in value to about $13,400. 

 Id a few days five other vessels will follow, 



carrying ties contracted for by the government. 

 The first shipload of ties went to Crislobal. 

 Colon. 



Mann & Parker, hardwood lumber dealers, 

 with main ollices and yards at lialtimipri'. Xld.. 

 have just completed their large lumber mill at 

 Kobblns Neck, S. C. The mill Ims n capacity ■ 

 of 40.000 feet dally. The firm has about 30.- 

 000,000 feet of liardwood on properly in this 

 vicinity. 



The plant of the Lindsay Chair Company of 

 High Point. N. C, has been sold for the second 

 time. Some time ago the plant was bid for by 

 the Ford & .lohnson Company of Chicago for 

 .'S15.0UO. This was later raised 10 per cent by 

 J. E. Kirkman, S. L. Davis and M. B. Smith 

 of High Point, and tlie property lias passed 

 into their iiands. 



The .T. II. SIzer Lumber Company, which op- 

 erated a number of sawmills in the vicinity of 

 Sumter, S. C, and a large plant at Alien. 

 S. C, has sold out to the Trexler Lumber Com- 

 pany of Allentown, Pa. The mill at Allen. 

 S. C, is one of the largest In the state, large 

 sums having been investetl in plant and timber 

 holdings. The timber controlled by the com- 

 pany is largely hardwood of excellent quality. 



The Plymouth Lumber Company of Plymouth, 

 N. C, after being closed down for several weeks, 

 has resumed operations. 



The Cabinet Veneer Company, in which It. .7. 

 Cobb and others are Interested, has decided to 

 locate at Greenville. N. C. The company has 

 extensive timber holdings on the Tar river, near 

 Greenville, and the plant will be easily reached 

 both by rail and water from its timber supiily. 

 Fine furniture veneers from oak an<i gum will 

 be cut. and later a large sawmill will be run in 

 connection with the plant. 



W. B. Boyd of Warrcnton, N. C, has just 

 bought the Warrenton Furniture Factory, whidi 

 was sold at auction, the purchase price being 

 about .$0,500, including real estate, machinery 

 and other assets. 



Eight miles of the eighteen-mile railway 

 which the Waccaraaw Lumber Company of Wil- 

 mington. N. C, is building to Soutbport, N. C, 

 Is now completed. The company is construct- 

 ing a large mill at Bolton, N. •'.. where ulti- 

 mately it is thought the headquarters will be. 

 A telephone line is being built from the com- 

 pany's headquarters to the logging camps 

 throughout the timber holdings. The railway 

 will penetrate the famous Green Swamp lands, 

 from wiiich a large number of cypress shingles 

 is now being taken. It will be several weeks 

 before the big sawmill at Bolton Is ready for 

 operation. 



.T. 11. Wearn of Charlotte, head of the firm 

 of J. H. Wearn & Co., attended tlie meeting of 

 the Sash, Door and Blind Association In At- 

 lanta recently. It was decided at the meeting 

 to reduce hours, but that this should not be 

 binding, and as Mr. Wearn's plant Is doing a 

 healthy business he finds It not necessary to 

 curtail. 



According to official reports concerning the 

 lumber business of North Carolina, there arc 

 now 1,346 lumber mills in tlie state, the amount 

 of capital Invested being .$11,799,009; cost of 

 material used annually, $t;,390.7li7, and value 

 of their product, $19,133,850 annually. 



The addition to the plant of Kramer Bros. & 

 Co. at Elizabeth City, N. C. Is completed. The 

 building Is two stories high, 32x100 feet, and 

 will be used in storing sash, doors, etc. It Is 

 proposed to later make additions for manu 

 facturing liardwoo<i mantels, etc. 



The large plant of the Oaks Manufacluriug 

 Company of New Bern, N. C, which consists 

 of five buildings besides the office, is now com- 

 pleted. Farm Implements and the like will be 

 manufactured. 



The woodworking plant known as the Mon- 

 roe Manufacturing Company No. 2 of Monroe, 

 N. C, has been completed and is now In opera- 

 tion. ' J. H. Myers is In charge. 



The WlHcousln-Carollna Lumber Company has 

 decldeil lo locate their large plant «t Marlon. 

 S. C. The comfinny has bought a large boundary 

 of fine llmlHT land not far from Marion. C. E. 

 iilll iif Wisconsin, presiilent of the company, Is 

 now at Marlon supervising the work. 



Toledo. 



'I1ie car shortage which a few weeks ogo 

 threatened to assume the proportions of a fam- 

 ine has shifted and the railways that a short 

 time ago were wondering how they could handle 

 the transportation are now wondering how they 

 can get enough business to keep their cars busy. 



When the shortage became evident the rail- 

 way officials sent out special trackers to secure 

 the return of long overdue cars on the western 

 line, and many of these cars have recently been 

 returned, adding materially to the supply of 

 equipment. 



The various railways are receiving coDslgn- 

 ments of new equipment on belated 1007 orders, 

 all of which arc Just now being adde<l to the 

 service. Then, too, the lake season has Just 

 come to a close after a season of unusual activ- 

 ity. Toledo alone during the past few months 

 has handled more than 25,000,000 feet of lum- 

 ber and about 28.000,000 lath. In addition to 

 this the railways of northwestern Ohio have 

 picked up In that section about 5,000.000 feet 

 of liardwood timber for the export trade, which 

 has been liandled through this port. Altogether 

 the lake traffic has been such as to keep busy 

 many hundreds of cars, all of which are again 

 available for use in ordinary traffic, now that 

 the season has closed on water. 



These things, taken with the present financial 

 stringency, and tiic consequent reduction of 

 traffic, liave etTectuaily disposed of all question 

 of car shortages in this section. 



W. A. Drake, one of the most prominent 

 wholesale lumber dealers in nortliwestern Ohio, 

 died recently at his home in Dayton, after an 

 Illness extending nearly over a year, the result 

 of a nervous breakdown. He entered the lum- 

 ber business in 1874 and has been actively con- 

 nected with it ever siuce. He leaves a wife and 

 six children. 



The machinery for the Bany & Hadley Wash- 

 ing Macliiue Cotniiauy at Lielphos, l>.. has been 

 installed and tlie new concern is now in good 

 working order. 



Another new engine has been Installed In the 

 plant of the Wauseon Handle & Lumber Com- 

 pany. This new plant Is one of the most com- 

 plete of Its kind In the state and has orders for 

 much business on liand. 



Little Bock. 



Tlie financial trouble is somewhat better than 

 two weeks ago. At the beginning of the strin- 

 gency In the money market a large number of 

 the big concerns In the state got together and 

 decided on a plan of action that has resulted In 

 closing down very few mills. The smaller ones, 

 on the other hand, have suffered severely, and 

 tt number of plants are Idle. Some have closed 

 down with the understanding that they would 

 resume again In two weeks or 30 days, while 

 others have given notice that the closing is for 

 an iudcHulte length of time, or until the finan- 

 cial situation resumes Its normal status. 



There Is a general feeling of uncertainty in 

 business, and while the majority of the mills arc 

 running and It is believed will contlnae to do 

 so, there is a feeling that business reached Its 

 zenith a few months ago and the demand from 

 now on for perhaps a long season will lie more 

 conservative. Crews are being reduce<i and there 

 is talk of a general reduction in wages. This 

 is not so disconcerting, as It la believed that 

 living expenses will keep pace with any reduc- 

 tion In wages. 



In this city there Is continued activity In the 

 erection of the new lumber and hardwood plants. 

 The NIemcyer mill, with a capacity of 600 men, 

 is now practically complete and It Is stated will 



