HARDWOOD RECORD 



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has been almost without parallel in Michigan 

 and the hardwood lumber interests have suffered 

 in common with others. Many of the west side 

 factories in Grand Rapids have been obliged to 

 shut down on account of the high water. The 

 Fuller & Rice Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany places its loss at $5,000. 



X. J. G. Van Keulen of the Van Keulen & 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company has bought a. large 

 lot and is building a modern residence in North 

 College avenue. 



The Dennis Bros. Salt & Lumber Company 

 has opened its general store at Dighton, Osceola 

 county, with Nathan Loeb, formerly of Manistee, 

 in charge. The company's three mills in that 

 section are operating steadily, cutting mixed 

 timber. 



John H. Bonnell of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell 

 Company is president of the Globe Copper Min- 

 ing Company of Cheyenne. Wyo., from whose 

 properties very favorable reports are coming. 



Cleveland. 



E. C. Collins of Baltimore, Md„ has secured 

 a position in the hardwood department of the 

 Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company. 



L. L. Moore of the Jane Lew Lumber Com- 

 pany, Jane Lew, W. Va., and George S. Wilkin- 

 son of Van Keulen & Wilkinson, Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., were in town a few days ago talking over 

 the merits of their hardwoods. 



R. H. Jenks and J. HI Jenks of the Robert II. 

 Jenks Lumber Company are out of town for the 

 present. The former is in St. Louis, while the 

 latter is at the company's mills in the South. 



R. M. Vick of the American Case & Register 

 Company, Alliance, was one of the recent buyers 

 in this market. 



The Advance Lumber Company have been de- 

 layed in starting their new band mill at Vaughn, 

 W. Va. It was expected that the mill would be 

 in full operation April 1st. 



W. J. Fell, Salt Lick, Ky., manufacturer of 

 lumber and staves, made a brief visit here last 

 week. 



E. L. French, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Com- 

 pany, will leave Sunday for West Virginia. 



Indianapolis. 



George L. Smith, surveyor-general of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, formerly 

 of Memphis, Tenn., has opened up headquarters 

 here in the Law Building. 



The Vigo Lumber Company of Terre Haute, 

 Ind., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000 and with Joseph W. Fritz. Nor- 

 bert C. Kintz and Charles J. Kintz as directors. 



The Madison Veneer and Novelty Company, 

 of Madison, Ind., was recently incorporated. 

 The capital stock is $10,000 and the directors 

 are John M. Wagers, Vincent Cravens, Lincoln 

 V. Cravens, Milo J. Bowman and Zora A. 

 Bowman. 



Fires in planing mill plants seemed to be 

 plentiful during the past fortnight, three mills 

 in the state suffering damages. 



On the evening of May 27, the Greensburg 

 planing mill plant at Greensburg, Ind., was 

 destroyed by fire, causing a loss on building 

 and contents of $3,500, of which $200 was on 

 tools owned by employes. The mill, which 

 had been operated but ten days, belonged to 

 a stock company formed of Anderson, Ind., 

 citizens, headed by Jacob Helbig and Victor 

 Strickland. Besides a loss of $1,500 on the 

 building, the owner, George Saunders, lost 

 $300 worth of lumber stored in it. He carried 

 $1,200 insurance. 



Fire of unknown origin, which started in the 

 engine room of the planing mill operated by 

 Arthur L. Wright, caused a loss of about $4,500, 

 May 29. The loss on the contents, belonging to 

 Mr. Wright, was about $2,500 while the build- 

 ing, which he did not own. was damaged $2,000. 



Sparks from a smokestack, on the night of 



June 2, set lire to the large planing mill >>f B. 

 L. Moran at Martinsville, Ind., burning it ; 

 ground. The loi mated at $2,500 with 



insurance of $500. 



During the first five months of 1903 there has 

 been an increase of sixty-five percent in the total 

 amount of building permits issued, over the cor- 

 responding months of last year. This shows that 

 the splendid building boom which characterized 

 this year from the very first month has contin- 

 ued unabated ever since. May, 1901. which was 

 the record breaker last year, was almost equal 

 to May, 1905, last year's permits for the month 

 amounting to $733,106, while this year they 

 amounted to $788,902.50, a difference of over 

 $55,000. The May permits bring the total for 

 the first five months of 1905 up to $2,8S1,449. 

 During the corresponding period of last year 

 the permits were $1,700,752, the increase this 

 year being $1,110,6S7. The total permits for 

 all last year were $4,072,135 and for 1903, $3,- 

 032,292. Should the present rate of increase 

 in permits continue, the building in Indiana- 

 polis this year will amount to $6,500,000. 



Cincinnati. 

 M. B. Farrin, president of the M. B. Farrin 

 Company, has gone to New York on business. 



I. M. Asher, president of the Cincinnati Lum- 

 bermen's Club, went to Plainville. Ky., June 6, 

 to attend the funeral of his mother. He had 

 just returned from a trip to Chicago when he 

 was called away on the sad mission. 



The annual outing of the Business Men's Club 

 occurred on June 6th. More than 250 members 

 on a special train made a trip through Ken- 

 tucky, visiting among other places Valley View, 

 where a number of Cincinnati hardwood Arms 

 operate mills. T. J. Moffett of Maley, Thomp- 

 son & Moffett, president of the organization, and 

 about a dozen other hardwood men made the 

 trip. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club will give its 

 last dinner of the season at the Zoo Gardens 

 during July. Members' ladies will be invited and 

 it is planned to make the affair a memorable 

 event. President Asher has appointed B. A. 

 Kipp chairman of the Committee on Arrange- 

 ments. 



C. F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber Com- 

 pany said in discussing the market : "We are 

 busy iilling a lot of orders on our books, but it 

 is a fact that new orders have not been coming 

 in as fast the past week or two as heretofore. 

 We do not interpret this, however, to mean that 

 the summer lull has already set in. This tem- 

 porary slowness, I believe, is caused by storms 

 throughout the country that have retarded out- 

 side work. Business will no doubt pick up again 

 and continue brisk for another month. The out- 

 look is good." 



Local firms have been receiving liberal strings 

 of logs from their Kentucky and West Virginia 

 mills by river. New poplar has made its ap- 

 pearance in this market. 



An increase of over one hundred per cent in 

 Cincinnati building operations for May. this 

 year, as compared with the same month in 

 1904 is shown by the report of the building in- 

 spector. The figures are : Permits, May, 

 499 : 1904, 473. Improvements, May, 1903, 

 1.550; 1904, $679,350. 

 The movement during May as prepared by 

 the superintendent of the Chamber of Commerce 

 was as follows: Receipts, 6,165 cars; shipments, 

 1,824. i or the same month last year the fig- 

 ures were : Receipts, 5,566 cars ; shipments, 

 4.234. 



Herbert E. Bradley of Columbus, O., repre- 

 senting the stockholders in the Covington, Flem- 

 ingsburg & Ashland Railroad, has sold the road 

 to the Cincinnati, Flemingsburg & Southwestern 



way Company, a new corporation, for 

 000. The road is a narrow gauge, seventeen 

 miles long, but will be extended into Bath coun- 

 ty, through Menifee, Pike, Morgan, Letcher, 



! Tennessee line, opening the 



richest ha and mineral lands In 



South. It will be made a standard gauge. 

 thirty whisky and spirit 

 barrel manufacturers of the National Coopers' 

 Association, all of the leading concerns in the 

 United States engaged in this business, met In 

 this city on Tni a lengthy 



discussion It was decided to advance the price 

 of spirit barrels 10 cents from date and 3 cents 

 in addition after January 1. The present basis 

 for spirit barrels Is $1.85. An effort was made 

 to raise prices on whisky barrels, but It was 

 frustrated by the refusal of a Louisville firm to 

 cooperate. The association adjourned to meet 

 In Louisville on June 23. The National asso- 

 ciation convenes in this city next September. 



Chattanooga. 

 A large number of southern chair manufac- 

 turers held an Important meeting at the Read 

 House in this city Monday, June 3, for the 

 purpose of forming an organization to affiliate 

 with the Southeastern and Western Chair Job- 

 bers' Associations. It was decided, however, 

 after a conference to hold another meeting soon, 

 when the organization will be perfected and 

 officers will be elected. The meeting was called 

 by F. M. Clutter, editor of the St. Louis Furni- 

 ture News. The southern chair manufacturers 

 are coming to a realization of the fact that an 

 organization is necessary, because raw material 

 is advancing and it will be necessary to have 

 a scale of fixed prices for mutual protection. 

 The following is a list of the representatives of 

 the various chair manufactories In attendance 

 at the meeting : R. E. Reltz, Standard Chair 

 Company, Evansvllle, Ind. ; President Duane, 

 Duane Chair Company, Dalton, Ga. ; W. S. Milne, 

 Milne Chair Company, Cleveland, Tenn. ; Thomas 

 Brumby, Brumby Chair Company, Marietta. 

 Thomas Brumby, Marietta Chair Company, Mari- 

 etta, Ga. ; Treasurer Cooper, Atlanta Chair Com- 

 pany, Atlanta, Ga. ; Col. Martin, Frankfort Chair 

 Company, Frankfort. Ky. ; U. H. Hoover, Fort 

 Smith Chair Company, Fort Smith, Ark. : W. s. 

 Small, Corinth, Miss.: Thompson Chair Com- 

 pany, Thomasville, N. C. ; Ong Chair Company, 

 Little Rock. Ark. ; W. O. Wilcox, Chattanooga 

 Chair Company. Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Wilbur 

 Jones, editor High Point Furniture Journal, 

 High Point. N. C. 



The river mills are well supplied with logs 

 since the recent tide which lasted about ten 

 days. During this time over 5,000,000 feet have 

 been received by the river mills. This, how- 

 ever, was the last tide of the season. Several 

 of the mills not located on the Tennessee river 

 have made arrangements to get as many logs as 

 possible by the river which are shipped from the 

 wharf by the belt railway to all parts of the 

 city. The quality of logs received on the last 

 tide was not as good as formerly. The 

 grades of timber are being cut rapidly and 

 scarcity of the best li 'its for this con- 



dition. 



St. Louis. 



omewbat elated over 

 the sale of 30,000 feel e figured me 



any for use in a new office building now i 

 construction at Dallas, Tex. The mill work Is 

 being done In St. Louis and the whole Interior 

 finish will be of mahogany. 



The C. E. Strltler Lumber Company, which 

 concern produces and handles large quantities 

 of Cottonwood, has been making large deliveries 

 of late on some old and reports the 



outlook for Cottonwood promising since the pres- 

 ent slight dull period Is at an end. 



Ck Lumber Company has a! 



made more or less of a specialty of plain oak 



and as this item is one of the strongest on the 



market today. It goes without saying that busl- 



with this concern Is excellent, and that a 



volume of orders is being booked. 



Miss Rebecca Plummer, daughter of Theodore 



