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the last snnmlM of nny Importance In Clark 

 county, onii" famous for forests. 



Frank Bliwulln of c'randou has taken another 

 contract to furnish 2.100 pieces of iuaple plllns 

 to be used in the foundation of Chicago's new 

 ll'O.OOO.OOO depot. 



The Viking Lumber Company of Wittenberg 

 has moved Its offices .Tnd the building vacated 

 has been taken by Mylrea & (loodin;;, who pur- 

 chased and have taken poiisession of the Viking 

 Company's mill property. 



The Hoyon-Itnyne Lumber Company, with 

 headquarters in Madison, on January 1 i)\ir- 

 chased the E. I!. Nichols & Co. lumber yard In 

 Whitewater. G. A. Sprengel of Madison will 

 have charge of the Whitewater business. Mr. 

 Nichols, who retires, has been in the business 

 twenty-three years. 



The Colby Southern Land and Timber Com- 

 pany recently liled articles of incorporation with 

 the register of deeds in Wau.sau. The company 

 Is capitalized at ?.">o.ooo. The incorporators arc 

 R. B. Salter. John I'. Lamont. J. W. Salter. W. 

 W. Albers, K. C. Kretlow and others, all living 

 In Wausau or vicinity. The company owns a 

 large tract of oak and gum land in the state 

 of Louisiana and will add to Its holdings. 



The Marslilield Manufacturing Company has 

 just issued a neat catalogue of sixty pages. 



The Chicago Lumber Company's mill at Manls- 

 tlque, Mich., was destroyed by tire recently, loss 

 $100,000. The Bre started from an overheated 

 friction feed. Henry Uamell, fifty-two years 

 old, night foreman, and Andrew Norton, sixty- 

 live years of age. laborer, were burned to death. 

 The mill was built in 1S76. A special meeting 

 of the directors will l>e held in Tonawanda, N. 

 Y., to consider plans for the future. 



U. F. Hanover of Merrill has taken charge of 

 the Standard Lumber Company's yards in 

 Winona, Minn. 



Human Bros." mill near Marathon City will 

 start sawing a stock of hardwood soon. The 

 firm owns a large quantity of timber but will 

 reserve it for future use. Logs will be purchased 

 this winter of farmers. 



The Flambeau Lumber Company at Lac du 

 Flambeau has resumed operations in all its 

 camps and the sawmill of the company will be 

 put in operation in a few days. The company 

 will put on a double crew at the camps to make 

 up for the time lost since work was suspended 

 six weeks ago on account of panicky times. 



Shipbuilders in Wisconsin port cities are re- 

 suming operations and are again in the market 

 for all kinds of hardwood ship timber. At 

 Superior the force of 450 men will be Increased 

 to 1,000. 



The Brooks & Boss Lumber Company's mill at 

 Scbofleld will soon resume operations, after an 

 Idleness of several months, and will run night 

 and day. 



The Badger Box and Lumber Company of 

 Grand Uaplds expects to saw ^..jUO.ooo feet of 

 hard and soft woods before spring. 



Many loggers who suspended operations a few 

 weeks ago on account of the money scare will 

 resame operations, though the men will be 

 obliged to accept reduced wages. 



Ashland, Ky. 



The Nigh Lumber Company's sawmill at 

 Ironton has closed down for general repairs 

 after a continuous run tor fourteen months. 



Fred McConn, who was teller at the Second 

 National bank of Ironton, has been appointed 

 secretary and treasurer of the Whlsler & 

 Scearcy Lumber Company. 



Robert Carter, a member of the Carter Bros. 

 Lumber Company of Carter City, Ky., was ac- 

 cidentally shot and killed by a friend with 

 whom he was hunting during Christmas week. 

 Mr. Carter was a splendid man and will be 

 sadly missed from both the social and busi- 

 ness circles of the section where he lived. 



The count of the merchantable timber stand- 

 ing on the Stafford property, on Harry's creek, 



a tributary of the Guyan river, has been made 

 and over 21.000 trees have been m.Trkod and 

 bninded. They will bring Mr. Stafford over 

 $17,000, or tl4.50 per acre. The timber Is well 

 located for marketable purposes and will 

 doubtless be promptly used by the purchasers, 

 C. W. Campbell and J. D. Lowry, of Hunting- 

 ton. W. Va. 



The fine new mill of the W. H. Dawklns 

 Luml)er Company in Ironton. O., Is now In 

 full operation and prospects are good for a 

 steatly run during the winter. 



S.Tm Copley, a prominent young lumberman 

 iif Inez. Ky.. and Miss Margaret Preston, of 

 Paintsville. were recently married at the 

 bride's home. 



The W. M. Hitter Lumber Company has 

 shut down its mill at Mabcn. W. Va.. throw- 

 ing a large numl^er of men out of employment. 

 The Giles Wright Lumber Company has 

 filed articles of incorpor.-ition with the secre- 

 tary of st.ite of Kentucky under the firm 

 name of the 'Wright-SaulPberry Lumber Com- 

 pany, with a capital stock of $75,000 paid up. 

 Tlie following officers, who are also directors, 

 own all of the stock: Giles Wright, president; 

 E. L. Saulsberry, vice-president and treas- 

 urer; J. E. Burke, secretary. The change 

 went into effect January 1. This company 

 owns and operates a large mill between Ash- 

 land and Catlettsburg and has been very suc- 

 cessful during the past year. 



W. H. Dawklns lias gone to French Lick 

 Springs. Ind., for a two weeks' sojourn. 



H. G. Irwin, of the Licking River Lumber 

 Company, Farmers. Ky., is in the north on a 

 month's business trip, which will include Ohio, 

 Michigan and Canada. 



Justus Collins and R. T. Hubbard have been 

 appointed receivers for the Interstate Lumber 

 Company, a corporation composed of Charles- 

 ton, W. Va., stockholders, including N. P. 

 Perkins, president; Justus Collins, vice-presi- 

 dent; F. S. Brown, secretary' and treasurer; 

 J. A. Lathum and Mrs. Lucy G. Collins. The 

 application was made in the case of Justus 

 Collins against the company. The liabilities 

 are $52,000 and assets $10,000. The company 

 is the owner of a contract covering timber 

 on a tract of land containing several hun- 

 dred acres in Fayette county. West Virginia; 

 also a number of contracts covering timber on 

 2.000 acres in Raleigh county, and it is 

 thought that by proper handling the assets of 

 the corporation will yield sufficient to satisfy 

 all of the general creditors. Mr. Collins is the 

 largest stockholder in the company and is also 

 a creditor to the amount of $24,000. 



The Kentucky court of appeals recently 

 passed on the famous Virginia land grant 

 cases, deciding them in favor of the people. 

 These cases involved 275.000 acres, rich In 

 coal and timber and situated in Pike. Floyd, 

 Knott and Letcher counties, Kentucky, and 

 were somewhat similar to the famous King 

 land case in West Virginia. A lot of land 

 speculators got hold of some old Virginia 

 patents to lands in these counties and strove 

 to dispossess the later owners, who had lived 

 on the property for years and paid taxes on 

 it. The matter has been fought for years and 

 its final settlement means much for the de- 

 velopment of that section. 



T. G. Stewart of Winchester, Ky.. repre- 

 senting a syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists, 

 has acquired 15.000 acres of timber, coal and 

 fireclay lands in Carter. Lawrence and Elliott 

 counties, Kentucky, and will arrange to mine 

 the coal and fireclay on royalties and develop 

 the timber and kegwood. the latter being 

 estimated at 50.000 cords. 



The lumber belonging to the Pendegrnst 

 Lumber Company at Eugene was burned one 

 night recently, 300.000 feet being destroyed. 

 It is supposed to have been set on flre by 

 Roman candles fired by boys, as several 

 empty hulls were found near the flre. 



Persuant to general conditions, the Lick- 

 ing River Lumber Company of Farmers, Ky.. 



posted notice December 16 that they would 

 reduce all wages 10 per cent, taking im- 

 mediate effect. Consequently their entire 

 force of seventy-flve men, not including fore- 

 man, struck. A meeting was called by the 

 strikers at the court house. Farmers, to effect 

 a settlement with the company. The com- 

 pany's resident manager and vice-president, 

 N. Goodman, met the employes at this meet- 

 ing and after considerable argument an agree- 

 ment was arranged. The company was very 

 fair and made some rental and other conces- 

 sions and the employes were satisfied to ac- 

 cept the 10 per cent reduction. The company 

 owns and operates one of the largest and best 

 equipped hardwood mills in the mountains of 

 Kentucky and employs large numbers of men 

 in the mountains getting out timber, besides 

 the men at Farmers. 



Iiittle Sock. 



Judge Marshall L. Stephenson of Helena has 

 been appointed receiver for tiie Bluff City Lum- 

 ber Company of Pine BluflT, .\rk. The receiver 

 was asked for by Capt. J. B. York, one of the 

 joint owners of the plant and who, with Col. 

 J. F. Rutherford, the other principal stock- 

 holder, had been appointed co-receivers of the 

 plant by the chancery judge of Jefferson county 

 some two months ago. 



The fight for the control of the plant has been 

 between York and Rutherford and grew, to a 

 large extent, out of the fact that Y'ork's son, 

 Robert Y'ork, had been placed in charge of a 

 number of important plant connections. In the 

 original fight the chancellor. Judge Elliott of 

 Pine Bluff, smoothed matters over by making 

 the two men co-receivers. This did not seem 

 to work very well. It was only a short time 

 until the terrible Clio tragedy, in which two 

 men lost their lives and another disappeared so 

 completely that even his body has never been 

 recovered. This disturbance. It Is understood, 

 grew out of the fight for control of the com- 

 pany's interests at Clio, where they have a plant 

 employing some 300 men. 



The next development was a suit for J.'JO.OOO 

 damages filed against York by Frank Chester, 

 former auditor for the company at Pine Bluff, 

 the suit being to offset what the plaintiff claimed 

 as damages to his character for an alleged 

 statement from Y'ork to the effect that Chester 

 had given false testimony in a hearing in coa- 

 nection with the case. 



On January 4 York applied to Judge Trieber 

 of the I'ederal Court, Little Rock, for a receiver 

 for the company. The entire day was spent In 

 hearing the case. Judge Trieber even adjourning 

 court to allow the principals another chance to 

 arbitrate. Late at night, however, they reported 

 it impossible to agree, and the order for a 

 federal receiver was at once made, with instruc- 

 tions to the receivers In chancery to surrender 

 to Judge Stephenson, the new receiver, all 

 papers, properties, etc.. In their possession rela- 

 tive to the company. A clash is expected between 

 the federal and state courts over the order for 

 the new receiver, as Chancellor Elliott had given 

 instructions that no application should be made 

 to the federal court. 



The amount of liabilities of the company arc 

 placed at $250,000. The holdings, however, of 

 the company, In various parts of the state, are 

 variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to 

 $.-|. 111)11.000, York and Rutherford being among 

 tiie must weuilhy men in the state. 



The plant of the Mlnnequa Cooperage Com- 

 pany of this city sustained an explosion a few 

 days ago which blew one of its immense boilers 

 into the Arkansas river. The plant Is situated 

 near the river, and tUte force of the explosion 

 was so terrific as to carry the boiler through 

 the side of the building, across a railroad switch 

 and Into the river. Fortunately, no one was 

 Injured, although the plant sustained several 

 thousand dollars damage by the accident. 



Oscar Moore, prominently connected with the 



