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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Cleveland. 

 6. W. Hartzell. Dayton. Ohio, with mills at 

 Piqua, Ohio, furnished 40.000 feet of quartered 

 white oak for the interior woodwork of the 

 United Brethren building at Dayton. This 

 building is fourteen stories and is equal to any 

 of the modern office buildings erected in the 

 larger cities. 



Rolf Gearhardt of the C. S. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, Clay. W. Va., was in the city re- 

 cently. His company commenced operations 

 April 1 on a new 8.000-acre tract and is now 

 cutting oak principally. 



E. L. Davis of E. L. Davis & Co.. Louisville. 

 Ky.. was a recent visitor. Mr. Davis reports 

 trade good, the demand for the better grades 

 of chestnut being in the lead. 



Robert Fair, vice-president of the Edwards- 

 Fair Lumber Company. Lansing, Ark., and A. 

 J. Williams, representing the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, Columbus, were in town Inst 

 week. Mr. Williams says that the demand 

 for plain oak is exceptionally good. 



\v. A. Cool has engaged two salesmen, one 

 to cover western New York and the other to 

 look after trade in the southwestern part i 1 

 Ohio. He reports a satisfactory volume of 



business. 



Louisville. 

 Edward L. Davis, president of the firm of 

 E. L. Davis & Co., left Louisville May 16 to 

 attend the annual convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association at Buffalo. 



Charles natterly. representing Wiborg, Hanna 

 & Co. of Cincinnati, is in the city buying rough 

 poplar for his Arm. 



Mr. P.enbow, representing the Columbia Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company of Chicago, was in the 

 ■ it v last week. 



E. I".. Norman of the Ohio River Saw Mill 

 Company has gone up on the Kentucky river to 

 look alter the interests of the company in that 

 section. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Clnb "ill be held May 2G. Several mat- 

 ters of importance to lumbermen will be con- 

 sidered. 



The Ohio River Saw Mill Company is run- 

 ning night and day in order to accommodate a 

 rush of business. This company has a large sup- 

 ply of logs which will probably keep it busy with 

 a double force for six months. 



The hardwood flooring trade is active and 

 interior finish men report business brisk, es- 

 pecially throughout southern Indiana and Ken- 

 tucky. 



Ashlanu. 

 W. A. Smith, president of the Kenovs Pop ai 

 Manufacturing Company. Kenova. W. Va., has 

 returned from Bristol. Va.. where he made his 

 [quarters while visiting the various hard- 

 wood lumber mills along the line of the Virginia 

 & Southwestern Railway, purchasing stock for 

 his planing mill plant. 



II PJorthrup, the Louisa. Ky.. lum 

 last weeS in Ashland as the 

 of his son in law, Charles Russell. 



Whistler & Scearcy, of [ronton, Ohio, are re- 

 modeling their saw mill plant and putting in 

 improved machinery, Including a new band mill. 

 The Improvements will increase the cut to about 

 feet per day. 

 .1. W. Kitchen of Vansant, Kitchen & Co., has 

 aed from a ten days' trip through the east. 

 H,. a i 80 ;, -ention of the National 



Lumber Ms era' Association, at Ch 



as a delegate from the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



C. Crane, of Cincinnati, was looking after the 

 men in this locality last week. 



J. A. Matheson of Detroit. Mich., was a late 

 visitor among the trade. 



Ilarrv Wilson, representing James I. M. Wil- 

 son & Co., Pittsburg, purchased stock of the mill 

 timber Interests of C. Crane & Co., at Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va., a few days ago. 



W. L. Watson, manager of the J. W. Mahan 

 Lumber Company. Mahan. W. Va.. recently put 

 in a day here with his family. 



I. F. Balsley, vice president of the Mead & 

 Company, Pittsburg, was in Ashland re- 

 cently while on a business trip. 



R. H. Vansant transacted business in Co- 

 lumbus. Ohio, last week. 



L. E. Hunter, foreman of the Keys Planing 

 Mill Company plant, at Graham. Va., has been 

 at the plant of the Keys-Fannin Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Wausau. 



The Moore & Galloway Lumber Company's 

 mill, at Fond du Lac. Wis., was totally de- 

 stroyed by fire on May 18. Joseph Deitte. head 

 sawyer, perished in the flames. The company 

 estimates its loss at $15,000, with insurance of 

 $11,000. The mill was equipped with new ma 

 chinery, which was started on a trial run the 

 morning of the fire. A sufficient stock of logs 

 n hand to supply the mill until the winter 

 season. The officers of the company state thai 

 the mill will be rebuilt. 



A large dry kiln of the Menasha Woodenware 

 Company's plant, at Ladysmitb, was also de- 

 stroyed by fire on May is. the kiln and con- 

 rely consumed. The loss is esti- 

 mated at ?l."i. '. partially covered by Insurance. 



The kiln will be rebuilt. 



The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company 

 has agents at work throughout central and 

 northern Wisconsin, making lists of hardwood 

 lands. Within the past few years the company 

 has had many inquiries from manufacturing con- 

 eerus lie hardwoods of Wisconsin. On 



account "f the frequency of labor troubles in 

 Chicago and other large cities, many of these 

 firms have determined to move to country towns, 

 where they will be nearer the raw mat 

 The company's agents will compile books, giving 

 acreage and other statistics regarding hardwood 

 lands and resources in general. 



A surveying crew is engaged in laying out a 

 line for a railroad which is to be built through 

 Langlade and Shawano counties. This road will 

 pass through a large, undeveloped hard 

 country and will tap a tract of hardwood timber 

 owned by tie Menasha Woodenware Company. 

 It will also pass through the reservation of the 

 Menominee Indians, who are allowed to sell 

 their timber by allotment. 



Title t.i 20,000 acres of hardwood lands has 

 been secured by the Holway Land Company of 

 Wausau. The lands, which are situated in 

 southern Marathon county, were formerly owned 

 i Di Liumbet Company of 



Moslnee. The latter company handled pine onl>\ 

 and has now gone out of business. The lands 

 were bought by the II Iway e,,mpany for specu- 

 but one of the officers of the 

 company says that a mill may later be erected 

 and the timber cut. The price paid was $150, 

 000. 



II. t;. I'lietli .and Chas. E. Guenther of Wau- 

 sau have sold to Shekey, Stiehm & Huehuer of 



Tine River a 3,500-aete tract, containing 25,- 

 000,000 feet of hardwood timber, situated near 

 Knowlton. Marathon county. Most of the tim- 

 ber is about six miles east of the village of 

 Knowlton, on the Chicago, Milwauke & St. Paul 

 Railway. The purchasers have been operating a 

 mill at Pine river, but last winter's cut finished 

 their business there and they will dismantle 

 the mill and move it to the new operation. The 

 railroad company will build a spur to haul out 

 the lumber, and the mill will probably be In 

 operation by September 1. Besides the timber 

 in this purchase there is enough other timber 

 in the vicinity to insure at least five years' 

 sawing. 



Gus Baesman has sold to the Wausau Lumber 

 Company 1.100 acres of hardwood lands, sit- 

 uated near Rib Falls, Marathon county. The 

 transfer price was $30,000. The lands are cov- 

 ered with a growth of several varieties of hard- 

 wood. Logging will be started next winter and 

 hauled to the company's mill at Edgar. 



Hardwood lumbering operations will continue 

 at Kaukauna for the next five years. The sec- 

 tion was generally understood to be cut out. 

 The Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Company 

 recently awarded t. John Tracy of Appleton 

 the contract for removing a heavy growth of oak. 

 maple, basswood and pine from a lar^e tract of 

 land bordering on the Fox river and just out- 

 side the city limits of Kaukauna. 



United States marshals have been working in 

 and around Sturgeon Bay. securing evidence 

 against parties who have been removing timber 

 from the government reservation at the head of 

 the bay. About a dozen people are said to be 

 implicated, and arrests are expected. The res- 

 ervation Is covered with a heavy growth of hard- 

 woods. 



The Underwood Veneer Company of Wausau 

 which recently purchased an old mill In Mobile, 

 Ala., has remodeled the plant and it is now In 

 active operation under the direction of northern 

 men. The company is shipping to its plant sev- 

 eral trainloads of logs each week to cut Into 

 v. neers. 



Wisconsin. 

 G. H. Bulghrin of Brittingham & Young. Mad!- 

 son. has recently returned from a business trip 

 through central and northern Wisconsin. He 

 speaks enthusiastically of the hardwood out- 

 look for the coming season. 



The Big Bay Lumber Company is a new con- 

 cern located at Big Bay, twenty-five miles north 

 i Marquette. Its heaviest stockholders are 

 Cleveland, O., patties. 



the Ingram Lumber Company, allied with the 

 Fenwood Lumber Company of Wausau. has com- 

 menced operations at Ingram. Wis. The latter 

 named concern has only about two years' work 

 remaining at Fenwood. 



The R. Connor Company is now operating 

 four mills. Their main office is at Marshlield. 

 and their other operations at St rat ford. Leona 

 and at a point about fifteen miles from the latter 

 place. They cut basswood, elm, birch, maple 

 and hemlock, about 50.000.000 feet annually, and 

 manufacture basswood ceiling and maple lion 

 ing. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD EECOED Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Chicago. 

 There is nothing very encouraging to re 

 porl about < iiicago market conditions. As 

 will be noted in the news section of the 

 HAbdwood Recobd, there has been a recrudes- 

 cence of strike conditions prevailing, which 

 lias militated against both the receipts and 

 delivery of lumber. Teamsters have refused 

 to deliver lumber to strike bound houses, and 

 there has actually been a strike in several 

 Chicago lumber yards on the part of team- 



Many houses are wiring their ship- 

 to forward no more lumber to them 

 until advised, and several jobbers are so dis- 

 gruntled at the prevailing and oft-repeated 

 strike situation in Chicago that they have 

 determined to establish branch distributing 

 yards at Ohio river or other points, thinking 

 that they can better handle their trade by 

 shipments from somewhat remote distribut- 

 ing points than they can from Chicago. 

 Notwithstanding these adverse conditions 



