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town a few days recently calling on the users 

 of hardwood flooring here. If there is any one 

 tiling Mr. Hutchinson knows better than any 

 tiling else it is hardwood flooring. His rum 

 pany's specialty is oak flooring, in which thej 

 have made quite a record, but beech is just n..u 

 getting proper recognition as a flooring material. 

 and Mr. Hutchinson is one of the men who has 

 discovered its many valuable properties in this 

 work, lie is doing much 10 bring this excellent 

 hardwood bet. u-e the trade in a proper manner. 



I'.. M. Shepherd of Shepherd. Croan & Co.. 

 Shepherdsville. Ky.. who are heavily interested 

 in the vehicle Woodstock plant of the Von 

 Behren-Russell Company at South Louisville, 

 as well as owners of a number of small mills 

 scattered about the country, says that the trade 

 iii oak this year has been exceptionally brisk 

 and that his company has found a ready sale 

 for all that could be manufactured. Shepherd. 

 Croan & Co.'s shipments approximate 10,000,000 

 feel a year. Speaking of the demand for wagon 

 and agricultural implement stock, Mr. Shepherd 

 says that the volume of business is good but 

 the margin of profit is a lit le closer than it 

 ought to be. The Von Behren-Russell Company- 

 carries a stock of over a million feet of raw 

 material for vehicle woodwork, including every- 

 thing from buggy spokes to shafts, and is doing 

 an excellent business. 



The traffic in lumber that has passed through 

 the canal here, as shown in the annual state- 

 ment of Captain Harry Burgess, in charge of 

 the local United States engineers, for the year 

 ending June 30, was 26,471.75 tons, and is the 

 third item in magnitude on the list, being ex- 



led only by coal and iron. In addition to 



this there were also staves in the river traffic 

 to the amount of 10.877.25 tons and 36.50 tons 

 of shingles. The staves and the main portion of 

 the lumber was hardwood. 



The box factories here draw heavily on gum 

 for their raw material. It is used almost ex- 

 clusively in the tobacco box trade and also in 

 the manufacture of pork boxes. 



The Bell & Coggeshall Company of this city 

 recently unofficially took over the Voss-Cochran 

 Mantel Company and moved the box factory into 

 the mantel company's building. J. E. Bell and 

 1 ;. \Y. Embry, who hold the majority of stock 

 in the Bell & Coggeshall Company, purchased 

 a majority of stock in the Voss-Cochran Mantel 

 Company and changed the name to the Voss 

 Mantel Company, with Mr. Voss remaining in 

 charge and retaining an interest in the factory. 



Ashland, Ky. 



M. B. Mahurin. lumber purchasing agent for 

 the Columbus Buggy Company. Columbus, Ohio. 

 looked over stocks at the various mills in this 

 locality one day last week. 



YV. E. Berger of the W. HI Dawkins Lumber 

 Company, accompanied by his wife and daugh- 

 ter, has been spending some time in a pleasure 

 trip along the Atlantic coast, going as far as 

 Scituate, Mass. 



Eugene I'. Chappel, lumber buyer of the Sin- 

 ger Sewing Machine Company, put in a few days 

 recently with the manufacturers of ibis sei 

 Hon. 



II. M. Hubbell, of Urbana, Ohio, was among 

 the lumbermen recently visiting in Ashland. 



I'. E. Appel. manager of the Ohio Cooperage 

 Company, located at Cleveland, Ohio, pur- 

 chased stock for his plant from the mill men 

 of Ashland last week. 



It. "H. Vansant of Vansant, Kitchen & Co. 

 transacted business in Detroit, Mich., this week. 



W. II. Hawkins of the W. H. Dawkins 

 Lumber Company will, with his family, spend 

 the month of August at Atlantic City. 



government, and shipment ol the same will be 



made within two months. II atracl was 



entered into i>.\ Haruki Yamawaki of Tokio, 

 director of the Japanese imperial Com] 

 The mill is to be erected in Manchuria, where 

 the Japs ire developing great tracts of limber 

 lands. 



B. F. McMillan .V Bro., McMillan, Wis . ha 

 a crew of men at work with gasoline engine and 

 hoist removing sunken lugs from the bed of the 

 Little 1.111 I'leine river. Some of the lugs have 

 been in the water for years. 



The G. D. Jones Land Company of Wausau 

 through Its agent, .1. P. Kennedy, has sold to 

 Fred Dorman and George Benehum, both of 



Freeport. III.. 1,200 acres of hardw 1 lands 



west of the village of Aniwa, Wis. The pur 

 chasers have secured options on several mills 

 in that vicinity and they will either purchase 

 of these or else erect a large portable mill on 

 the timber tract. All of the cull nianje will be 

 worked into broom handles. 



M. J. Roach, late of Marshfield, who has bad 

 the management of several large yards in dif- 

 ferent points in the country, is about to engage 

 in business for himself. He has closed a deal 

 for the chas. YV. Hay yard at Greenleaf, a 

 growing town near Green Bay. and will soon 

 move there and begin operations. He is a 

 thoroughly experienced lumberman and is cer- 

 tain to meet with success. 



Harry Coombs, a logger who has operated for 

 some time at Mellen, is having patented a 

 log loader, which, in its present form, can load 

 100,000 feet of logs per day, with an ordinary- 

 loading crew. It is a movable loader, calcu- 

 lated for work in the woods. Mr. Coombs claims 

 great things for his machine and old woodsmen 

 who have seen it work admit that it is cer- 

 tainly a great labor and time saving device. 



Mark H. Tilton of Lincoln, Neb., has recently 

 been calling on Wisconsin furniture manufac- 

 turers whose goods he handles. He lately sold 

 his interest in the Wisconsin Furniture & Cof- 

 fin Company at Lincoln to his partner, E. E. 

 Bennett, but retained the furniture part of the 

 business. Hie reports a slackness of trade at 

 present. 



A committee appointed to canvass the city 

 of Two Rivers to secure subscriptions for the 

 bonds which the Two Rivers Wooden Ware 

 Company proposed issuing, has completed iis 

 work. The bonds were to be issued to enable 

 the above company to carry on the work of 

 the Two Rivers Manufacturing Company, now 

 in the hands of a receiver. It was proposed 

 to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000, but 



only $13, was subscribed for. of which $10 



0110 was taken by laboring men III, due, tors 

 or the new companj are nos op a tree, bu( 

 may be able to raise sufficient funds to oper 



least a portion of the plant. Ie 

 John s. Maxwell has entered an order in the 

 Milwaukee district court, authorizing the trus- 

 tee Of the old company to sell al public 

 tion the property ai Two Rivers. Tie- 

 and other property was last tall appraised al 



$600, bul is said 10 1 ating Itself up. and 



the sal,- was Insisted upon by creditors, as nec- 

 essary for the preservation of the 

 the company. 



Reports from all over Wisconsin Bhow that 

 considerable trouble is experienced with a pars 

 site which destroys maple trees, known as the 

 cottony scale. In the cities of Milwaukee and 

 Waukesha miles of shade trees have been de 

 stroyed by this insect and are being cut down 

 tor cord wood Active measures are now being 

 taken everywhere to kill or. at least, check the 

 insect, with fair results. 



The Curtis >Y- Sfale Company of Wausau, among 



oilier improvements, lias recently installed a 

 freight elevator, one of the largest in the state 



ll is operated by an electric motor. 



A windst,, [in, which recently swept through 

 the -tate, uprooted hundreds of acres of hard- 

 wood timber, unroofed country mills, blew 

 down smokestacks, etc. Some mill men suf- 

 fered severe losses. The result will be thai 

 logging operations will begin early in 1 he dis- 

 tricts affected, to save the down timber. 



The D. J. Murray Manufacturing Company 

 of Wausau is constructing a log carriage ti feel 

 long, or nearly twice the length of an ordinary 

 carriage. It will he shipped south to a cypress 

 mill. The above company, which manufactures 

 all kinds of sawmill macninery. will, in eon 

 nection with the business, hereafter manufac- 

 ture cement building blocks, with which to build 

 mill boiler houses. 



It. T. Morgan, a retired hardwood manufac- 

 turer of Oshkosh, died at his home in that city 

 .Inly Hi. He was a native of Wales and was 

 born Oct. 0. 1820. He entered the mill busi- 

 ness at the age id' twenty and three times was 

 discouraged by having his plants destroyed by 

 fire. He was a man of great persistency and by 

 hard work, in spite of misfortunes, built up an 

 extensive hardwood mill business, (if late years 

 he has been out of the business, having turned 

 over his manufacturing business to bis son. Al- 

 bert T. Morgan. lie held several public offices 

 in Oshkosh and at the time of death was re- 

 ported to be worth $100,000. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Wausau. 

 The Giddinge & Lewis Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Fond 'In Lac is manufacturing ten car- 

 loads "i sawmill machinery for the Japanese 



Chicago. 

 Witli the teamsters' strike barely over there is 

 a manifest impetus in the hardwood trade of 

 the city. For two months past very few manu- 

 facturing concerns, which are mostly unionized. 

 have deemed it policy to attempt to receive lum- 

 ber at their plants, save when union drivers 

 could be secured to deliver it. fearing that then 

 employes would resent tile delivery and go "tit 



on strike. The result is that stocks have 1 n 



very much depleted in all w Iworkiug plants. 



which now will be replenished. The excellent 

 midsummer business which the furniture manu- 

 facturers, who constitute such a large element 



Of w (working in Chicago, have recently had 



will be a spur to the trade in furniture v. 

 The construction of buildings, which is going 

 forward at a rapid rate in Chicago, man 

 them being ol ■< type demanding hardwood Si 

 doors and interior finish, will also furnish a 

 heavy demand foi the remainder of the season 

 in these lines of production. While business 



may lie a little slow in reasserting itself, there 

 certainly will be an excellent hardwood trade in 

 Chicago and vicinity all through the remainder 

 Of the year. Lumbermen are congratulating 

 themselves and each other on the outcome of 

 the stand they have taken in assisting lo defeat 

 the general teamsters' strike, and now feel as 

 though they had their business practically back 

 in their own hands. 



Boston. 



The temperature of the past two weeks has 

 111 and near tie 90'S, with the n 

 that dealt made the bast possible 



ion in the dire, lion of business. During 

 a ,.i 1 .1.1 1 5 yard men an n were 



.1 I., loaf from the middle of lie 

 ■ ...hi. 

 Piano manufacturers report less quiet con- 

 ditions. Furniture manufacturers are .lull. 

 wit), Hun of those furniture manu- 



