August 25, lOlo. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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regarded as a victory for the business interests, inasmucli as tlie logical 

 outcome of tlie state-wide proposition would liave meant tlie destruction 

 of millions of dollars' worth of property, including that devoted to tlii' 

 manufacture of cooperage material. 



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The F. G. Hanley Cypress Company was incorporated recently with a 

 capital stock of $2,500. fully iiaid. .TuUet L. Hanley, widow of Frank G. 

 Hanley. holds twenty-three of the twenty-live shares. 



More than half of the lumber yard of the John J. Moran Lumber Com- 

 pany in south St. Louis was swept away and carried down the river 

 during I'ue severe flood of last Friday. .\n overflow from the Uiver Des 

 Peres entered the yard for the first time in twenty years. It is esti- 

 mated the value of the lumber swept away at about .$7,000. Mr. Moran 

 expects to find some of it later. The sheds containing the finer grades of 

 lumber withstood the storm. 



.\ conference of the committee of organization of the proposed federa- 

 tion of lumber interests, appointed by E. C. Robinson, consisting of two 

 members each from (be retail, hardwood, manufacturers and wholesalers 

 interests, was held recently to discuss the proposed changes in the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange bylaws and charter, so the federation can be organized 

 through that organization. An explanation was made as to bow the 

 arbitration committee could be made equal to a circuit court for the 

 hearing of lumber cases. Another meeting was held later and additional 

 matters taken up. 11 is expected that a meeting to organize will be held 

 early in September. 



One of the (en delegates representing Ihe Business Men's League of St. 

 Louis at the meeting of the Kansas City Commercial Club to prepare a 

 protest against a cessation of river Improvement work on the Missouri 

 river, as recommended by the I'nited .States Engineers, was Charles E. 

 Thomas, president of (he Ltimbermen's iC.vchange and also president of 

 the Thomas & Troetz Luini)er Company. 



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'I'ho Lake Shore Luml>er Company of Washburn. Wis., has filed articles 

 of incorporation and will engage in the wholesale lumber business. The 

 capital stock is phiced at .'?250,000 and the incorporators are M. II. 

 Sprague, Hubert O. Wolfe and 1*. C. Kolinski. 



Carl ,T. Jackson of Superior. Wis., has l)een granted a patent on a new 

 screen attachment for windows, wliicb «-iIl lie of interest to sasli and door 

 manufacturers. Mr. Jackson is considering the plan of organizing a com- 

 pany to manufacture his invention. , 



An oflicial of the Chicago. Alilwaukec & St. Paul railroad, who was in 

 Milwaukee recently, confirms the report that his road had placed con- 

 tracts for more than 5,000,000 feet of hemlock and mixed hardwoods to 

 be used in the manufacture of grain doors for the thousands of cars 

 necessary to handle the bumper grain crop in the Northwest. Similar 

 orders will be placed within the near future, he said. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission recently suspended from August 

 15 to December 11 the operation of certain scliedules that seek to cancel 

 joint rates applicable to the transportation of lumber and other forest 

 products from stations in Wisconsin on the Chicago & North Western 

 railroad to stations in Iowa. Minnesota and other stations on the Chi- 

 cago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, thereby establishing the application 

 of combination of local rates on this traflic. 



It is reported that a lumber firm of Wausau. Wis., recently received 

 an inquiry for 1,000.000 railroad ties for the Russian government, but 

 as the specifications were for ties, six b.v eight inches and ten feet long, a 

 length of the tic used in this country only for certain parts of switch 

 track work. ver.v few are on the market and the Wausau concern was 

 forced to turn down the order. The ties would have been manufactured 

 on a special order. 



Mrs. Abbey Donaldson, mother of C. H. Donaldson of the Mason- 

 Donaldson Lumber Company of Rhinelander, Wis., died recently of heart 

 failure at the age of .seventy-three years. 



.Vfter thirty-two .years of activity in the lumber business. M. II. Hand, 

 well-known lumberman of Plymouth, Wis., has retired. The M. H. Hand 

 Lumber Company has been sold to H. JI. Thompson of Milwaukee and 

 Clarence K. Arp and W. B. Lyon of Elkhorn. Wis., who are now conducting 

 (he business under the name of the Plymouth Lumber & Fuel Company. 



Creosote wood blocks liave been used more extensively this season in 

 jiaving work carried on in Milwaukee. The Dean Construction Company 

 was awarded the contract recently for paving a section of Center street, 

 liart with wood blocks and part with sandstone, at the contract price of 

 .i;26.81-t.S9. 



With the passage of ."S.OOO.OOO board feet of lumber in a gigantic raft 

 that passed down the Mississippi river through La Crosse recently it is 

 believed went the last reminder that the upper river is to see of the old 

 lumber days. The raft was the second and last section of a great island 

 of timber which has been building at Stillwater, Minn., for three years. 

 The Ottumwa Belle, a famous old rafter, in charge of Charles Brown. 

 aged sixty-four years, for years a well-known figure on the upper river, 

 towed the raft. It was on its way to Fort Madison. la. 



The Wisconsin Railroad Commission has issued an order reducing the 

 transit rates for carload lots of lumber from Neopit to Wausau. Wis., from 

 7% cents to 5 cents per 100 pounds. The commission held that .ioint 



rates from similar distances on other lines were less than the rate from 

 Neopit to Wausau on transit shipments and also intimated that the loss 

 sustained under the new rate should be taken from the earnings of the 

 Chicago & North Western railroad, as that company profits solely from 

 the reshipmeut of the finished product out of Wausau. The Wisconsin & 

 Northern railroad is the original carrier on this route. 



The Hardwood Market 



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A slight improved dem.Tud and speculation as to whether or not it 

 will continue occupies the attention of the Chicago trade at present. This 

 improved demand comes from various sources including factory trade, 

 furniture, Interior finish, etc., railroads, yards, in fact from most of the 



Made in St. Louis 



Photograph of American Walnut Rotary Cut 

 Panel produced in our Veneer Plant. We also 

 manufacture built-up stock of every descrip- 

 tion used in furniture and fixtures in any 

 thickness, consisting of nicely figured Quart- 

 ered Gum and Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak, 

 Yellow Pine, Red Gum, Birch, Ash, Elm, Syca- 

 more, Soft Maple, Plain Gum and Cottonwood. 



For particiilors. please zvrite 



St. Louis Basket &. Box Company 



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