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HARDWOOD RECORD 



lips says that dry stock is pretty well out of 

 the way but they have no difficulty in getting 

 all the maple they want for their trade. 



The Gates sawmill at Bay City started Mon- 

 day and will cut something over 3,000,000 feet 

 of hardwood. S. <;. M. Gates lias been operating 

 a sawmill on the same site since 1862. 



Estimates of the quantities of hardwood that 

 will he manufactured this year by the firms 

 named in eastern Michigan are as follows: 



Pei I 



F W. Gilchrist. Alpena 6,000, 



Churchill Lumber Company o.OOo.oOii 



I'rescott & Sons. Tawag City 3,000,000 



Ottawa Hardwood Lumber Company. 



Tawas City 7. 



Wylie & I'.uell Lumber Company. Bay 



City 8,000,000 



Bliss & Van Auken. Saginaw 5,000,000 



Gale Lumber Company. Wesl Branch.. 4,000,000 



Kneeland-Higelow Company. Bay City. 0. , 



S. F. Kerry & Co., Millersburg ('..000,000 



St;. M. Gates, Bay City 2,500,000 



Campbell-Brown Lumber Company. I!ay 



City 3,000,000 



.1 J. Flood. Bay City 7.000.000 



Stephens Lumber Company. Waters .. 10.000,000 



Sailing. Hanson & Co. Grayling 10,000,000 



W. Ii. Young & Co.. Bay CitJ 19,000. I 



E. C. Hargrave, Bay City 2,500,000 



Estate of I.. Cornwell, Saginaw 3,000,000 



There are a number of other firms in this ter- 

 ritory that will manufacture hardwood lumber 



in quantities running from 1,000, I to ...000,- 



ooo feel 



Ladoga, which was compelled to close its doors 

 a couple of weeks ago, has gone into the hands 

 of a receiver. The property of the company 

 will probably be disposed of in order to apply 

 the proceeds toward the liquidation of the bank's 

 heavy tndebtedhess, extending into the thousands. 



Indianapolis. 

 The Lumbermen's club of Indianapolis met at 

 the Commercial Club here Wednesday nighi al 

 an informal banquet. About twciity-fivi were 



present, twelve of whom were out .flown lum- 

 bermen, line of the changes mod ■ .n the club 

 al i he meeting was the admission to lui aibership 

 of a number of lumber dealers in fie 'owns 

 within a radius of about fifty miles of Indian 

 spoils On account of the many Interurban elec 

 trie lims which now .enter in Indianapolis, run 

 ning trains to and from the City hourly, dealers 

 i the neighboring towns are within easj a. 

 cess of the Hoosier capital. For this reason 

 the club decided to open its membership to lum 

 bermen in the cities of central Indiana and nol 



, line it to dealers living in Indianapolis only. 



as had been the case in the past. In this man 



per it is hoped that the club will I an 



organization doing Urn greatest good to the 

 greatest number. Although the club is purely a 

 social organization, it nevertheless Is beneficial 

 to the Interests of ihe lumber dealers in more 

 ways than one. 



On account ,f the scarcity of timber in their 

 respe, tlve localities, two mills of the Hoosler 

 have recently removed to other states. 

 Murphy & Son of Zlonsville have moved their 

 mill plant to southern Tennessee, where they 

 own 700 acres of standing timber. Like 

 Reynolds & Clifford, bent wood manufacturers 

 Of Rushvtlle, Iud.. removed their plant to Lex 

 ington, Ky. 



The American Wood Solidifying Company < I 

 Marion, Ind.. will soon remove to their new 

 siie in Alexandria, Ind . occupying the buildings 

 rly used by the Kelly ax plant. 



The Greensburg Planing Mill Company has 



been Ini irpori I at Greensburg, Ind., with a 



capltl I. Oi $5,000. The incorporators were 



\l G Reynolds, A. R. C. Smith and V s. Strict 

 land. 



The sawmill owned by Oscar Fowler, mar si 

 (itner. Ind.. was recently destroyed by fire, en- 

 tailing a b.ss Of $4, i. The lire is supposed 



to have been of Incendiary origin. 



The Roachdale Novelty and Veneer Compan; 



i oachdale, Ind., has close, I down temporarily 

 on account of s Black In orders. 



I'h" Booster Vei t Companj ol Ladoga, ind.. 



whose owners were Interested in the Bauk of 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



Gilmer Pryor. a timber land agent of Bristol. 

 is offering a tract of land near Bristol con- 

 taining 5,000 acres of white oak. for sale. He 

 is negotiating with eastern parties, and if the 

 deal is closed it will in all probability mean 

 that another large mill wull be erected in this 

 section. 



Receiver George T. Hammer of the Rexford 

 & Collins Lumber Company, which recently tiled 

 a petition in the bankruptcy court at Knoxville. 

 Tenn., sold several thousand dollars* worth of 

 logging and sawmill equipment at public out- 

 cry Saturday, April 15. The property brought a 

 fair price. This property has been in the 

 han. Is of the Tames Strong Lumber Company, 

 by virtue of a contract of lease from the re- 

 ceiver, for ahout two years, when it was ordered 

 converted into cash by the court, along with 

 other assets of the Insolvent company, for the 

 liquidation of its liabilities. It is expected that 

 lite Rexford & Collins Lumber Company will 

 in- fiulj adjudged bankrupt and relieved of their 

 liabilities upon the complete surrender of their 

 to the court, all of which will doubtless 

 be completed within the next few weeks. The 



liabilities of the company ate about $53, 



while their assets will hardly aggregate $30, 



William A. Rexford of the firm is now in 



Ihe lumber and timber commission business, 

 while J. R. Collins is at his old home al Gale 

 ion. I'a. 



The affairs of the Brook Lumber Company, in- 

 solvent, are now- being wound up in the Chan- 

 I'oiirt at Elizabethton. The company's 

 ;i»..i. will pay about j.", cents on the dollar 

 of tlie liabilities, while the directors and offl- 



tiave bee • doubtless will be held liable 



pet onally for the i E the indebtedness in- 

 curred by tii.-ir acquiescence over and above 

 the capital stock paid in of the companj 

 Charles E. Baker, II. G. Acock ol Trenton, N. 

 J., ii. I Coleman and J. N. Schoolbred of i:iiz 

 abetbtoti. Tenn., are the principals In the litl 

 gaiion. A general creditors' bill was filed 

 against the company, and all the claims eon- 

 solldated by order of the court. They will 

 ..oh share ratably, except those who have di- 

 i.vi recourse on the officers and directors for 

 their claims, by virtue of the Tennessee statute. 



The Ii. E. Wood Lumber Company of Balti- 

 more, lid., have about completed the transfer 

 of tie large band mill which they recently pur- 

 chased from Young & Lane at Knoxville. Tenn., 

 to the scene of their newly acquired properties 

 in Carter county, near Elizabethton. Tenn.. 

 and will soon be ready to begin operation. A 

 sob- track M '"in the main line of the Virginia & 

 Southwestern Railway, five miles in length, is 

 about completed, and soon everything will be 

 in readiness for operation. The branch offii e 



has I n moved from Johnson City, Tenn.. to 



Bristol, and has been much enlarged. E. L. 

 Warren is in charge. 



The stone Iluling Lumber Company Is abou; 

 ready to open up a branch office and yard at 

 Norton, Va., which will he in charge of S G 

 Owen, .ir. .lames A. Stone, president of the 

 company, stated to the representative of this 

 paper last week that his company had decided 

 to open up three additional yards within the 

 next yeai 



Frank II. Whiting, of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing Company of Elizabethton, Tenn.. and 

 the .lanney Whiting Lumber Company of I'hil- 

 adeipbia. I'a., was in Bristol last week in com 

 pany with his counsel. Col. John W. Tipton of 

 Elizabethton. The Whiting Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, composed of F. R. Whiting and William 

 S. Whiting, is now engaged In litigation with 



parties in Carter county, hence Mr. Whiting's 

 visit to this section. He stated that business 

 with both concerns is excellent. 



R. E. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Baltimore. Md.. was a visitor last week. 



Paul W. Fleck, president of the raid W. Fleck 

 Lumber Company, left last week for a ten days' 

 trip to the East. 



Isham Cox and wife of Virginia have brought 

 suit in the Chancery Court at Johnson City, 

 Tenn., against Mrs. Nannie L. Sabin et al. for 

 s" I. nun damages and praying for a division of a 



24, acre tract of fine timber land located on 



and about Buffalo and Cherokee Mountains, near 

 Johnson City. About 24,000 acres of timber 

 lands are owned jointly by the parties to the 

 suit, and Mrs. Sabin is alleged to have damaged 

 the other parties by alleged wrongful cutting of 

 timber. 



P. C. Thompson is spending several days 

 looking after his lumber interests in Wise 

 county, Virginia. 



O. F. Hughes has returned from a visit to 

 his lumber operations at Midway, Greene county. 

 Tennessee. 



J. O. Gilmer, a wholesale lumberman of John- 

 son City, was in Bristol last week en route to 

 points in Virginia and West Virginia on a lum- 

 ber deal. 



C. Boiee of Abingdon. Va.. one of the promi- 

 nent lumbermen of this section, was in Bristol 

 last week looking after his lumber inl crests. 



R. II. Ford, a hardwood lumber buyer of New 

 York, was in Bristol last week making con- 

 tracts for export stock. Mr. Ford is buying 

 considerable oak near Bristol. 



Chattanooga, Tenn. 



A lumber concern recently sent a representa- 

 tive int.. the limber section included in the pro- 

 posed Appalachian reserve to buy timber, but 

 the owners will not offer their timber for sale 

 at any price. They believe that the proposed 

 Appalachian Park bill will eventually be passed 



and lie govern in will offer them a big price 



Cor their timber lands. Local lumbermen are of 

 Hie opinion that the Appalachian Park bill will 

 be passed before many more sessions of congress. 



Lumber representatives from all points are 

 visiting ibis section looking for supplies. There 

 bas been ;i great change In the old regime, in 

 that where local concerns had salesmen they 

 have now dispensed with many of these, as they 

 Can sell all their output on the grounds without 

 vein ling representatives into a foreign field. A 

 lumber concern In Cincinnati recently pur- 

 chased all the stock the Farrar Lumber Com 

 pany al Gadsden, Ala., had on hand. 



The Chattanooga Lumber Company is now- fin- 

 ishing an expensive warehouse and office build- 

 ing. The new building is 46x1::.", feet, two 

 stories in height and is built of brick. The 



company has in its yards a g 1 stock of oak 



nil,! poplar lumber. 



The low l.i I'.i solicit Lumber Company, re- 

 cently organized by stockholders of the Case 

 Lumber i oinpany and Birmingham lumbermen, 

 will be ready to begin operations at its plant in 

 north Birmingham in about two weeks. The 

 machinery is now being installed in the new 

 plant. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company lias estab- 

 lished an office in the Chamberlain building op- 

 pesii.- the Read House, occupying two of the 

 finest office rooms in the Chamberlain building. 

 The company's yards on the Southern railway 

 in Citico will he operated in the future as in 

 the past While making a specialty of oak. Mr. 

 Brenner will continue to deal in all grades of 

 hardwoods. He has a splendid export trade 

 which has increased to such an extent that it 

 was necessary to establish a branch office at 

 Norfolk. Va. 



William Fowler of the Case Lumber Com 

 pany, who Is an officer in the Fowler Personett 

 I. limber Company at Birmingham, returned home 

 to spend Siiii,I:i\ with relatives. 



