HARDWOOD RECORD 



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L, L. Skillman of the Longfellow & Skillman 

 Lumber Company has returned from Levering 

 and reports that the company's mill will com- 

 plete its cut there in about two weeks. The 

 company is securing some very nice orders for 

 fall business. 



J. r\ Quigley is building a residence on Oak- 

 dale avenue, to cost about $10,000. 



The annual drive brought down Muskegon 

 river by the Log Owners' Booming Company is 

 now being sorted at the head of Muskegon Lake. 

 It consists of hardwood, pine and cedar put in 

 all the way up to Houghton Lake, and is of 

 about the same proportions as last year, contain- 

 ing between 15,000, and Ki.ooii.oiio feet. In 



Muskegon's best lumbering days the average 



number of feet in the drives was between ' 



000.1100 and 600,000,1 feet. 



The new maple flooring plant of Ward Bros, 

 at Iiig Rapids will soon be running. A. Alien 

 dorf of Reed City has been engaged as foreman. 



him and he will take another resl 



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Baltimore. 



A matter which has received comparatively 

 little attention, but which nevertheless was of 

 considerable importance to the export trade, was 

 the discrimination exercised by the Belgian gov- 

 ernment against American oak for the use of 

 the state railroads. The quantity of such lum- 

 ber used was very large, some firms alone hav- 

 ing held contracts to furnish several million feet 

 in the course of a year. Consequently, when the 

 Belgian government, for reasons not clearly un- 

 derstood here, decided to draw its supplies from 

 other directions and shut out American export- 

 ers, it made a big difference in the volume of 

 stocks shipped. This prohibition was imposed 

 some two years ago and for a time the matter 

 drifted along without action, until some of the 

 exporters took it up and brought it to the atten- 

 tion of the state department at Washington. 

 The efforts of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association were enlisted, with the result that 

 the state department communicated with the 

 American minister to Belgium, who in turn 

 made representations to the Belgian government, 

 with such excellent results that some weeks 

 ago the embargo was removed. Notice to 

 this effect was sent out by Elliot Lang, secre- 

 tary and traffic manager of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, with headquarters at 

 Memphis, who was very active in the movement. 

 The usefulness of the association has thus been 

 signally demonstrated, and should be helpful in 

 extending its influence. Credit should also be 

 given to Price & Heald, of this city, who were 

 largely instrumental in interesting the proper 

 authorities. 



Richard r. Baer & Co., the popular hardwood 

 firm of this city, with offices in the Manufactur- 

 ers' Record building, has recently < losed negoti- 

 ations for the cuts of several mills and made 

 other deals which will increase its stocks by 

 some millions of feet. The timber secured is 

 located in Virginia and Tennessee, and is said 

 to be of excellent quality. 



Kisenhauser, MacLea & Co. are now transfer- 

 ring their stocks to their new yard on Eastern 

 and Canton avenues, which they purchased some 

 time ago from the Chicago owners. The prem- 

 ises were previously occupied by Kimball. Tvl. r 

 & Co.. manufacturers of barrels. The old build- 

 ings on the property have been demolished and 

 work on the large storage shed for lumber will 

 commence in a short time. Eisenhauer, MacLea 

 & Co. is one of the first firms to make w:i 

 the contemplated dock improvement : its old yard 

 will be taken up by pier No. 6, which the lum- 

 bermen hope to get for their exclusive use. 



Rudolphe Mottu of Mottu & Buckingham. 

 Builders' Exchange building, sailed July 29 

 New York, after a successful European business 

 trip of several months' duration. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald has 1 

 ill again. He returned from a southern trip last 

 spring very much improved and strengthened, 

 but the strain of business proved too much for 



Evansville. 



Owing to the Beason of Invoicing and gum 

 vacations, the Evansville correspondent lias not 

 been heard from foi several issm-s past, but now 



thi islness is again running smoothly, 1: 



villi- has no cause to complain in trying to keep 

 All the sawmills and factories are run 

 ning full lime. Logs cnlng in more regu 



larly as the weather for the past few 

 I n more favorable for logging 



The new plant of the Evansville Vem 



i\ completed. C. W. Talge is manager and 

 H. C. Calhoun president, and tin' concern is 



'capitalized at ISO, 000. This is a much n led 



industry for the Evansville furniture factories, 

 and a good market tor tin- sawmills here. This 

 plain i- of the latest improved type and will 

 turn out some of the best veneer and rotary cut 

 st. irk found in the country. 



Mr. Schmidt of the Hillebrand Schinidi Lum 

 ber Company, St. Louis, was in this market a 

 few days ago. buying walnut lugs ami lumber. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, Evansville, 

 has been out of the city for several weeks, owing 

 to the recent death of his father. MathlaS Wertz 

 of Flat Rock, Ind. ~~ 



Mr. Wedding of Chicago was in Evansville the 

 past week, taking up quartered oak flitches for 

 C. I.. Wllley. 



lash Davis of the Muloda Veneer Works. 

 Edinburg, Ind., was recently in this market, and 

 placed some nice orders for flitch stock. 



Jerry Whalen of I. T. Williams & s.uis. New 

 York, was a buyer in this market last week. 



John Wills of Cincinnati was in this market 

 this week, taking up flitches for his Arm, Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett. 



Chattanooga. 



The Chattanooga Cooperage Company, which 



recently increased its capital stock from $20,000 

 I., sr.o.ono. and which is engaged in tin- maim 

 failure of barrel heading, staves, etc., has taken 

 up the manufacture of ceiling, flouring, etc A 

 planing mill outfit is now being installed at the 

 plant at Ridgedale. The company has con 



trailed tor 7. olio. feet of lumber 10 be 



shipped from this district, ant! contracts for 

 furnishing material in the North have been 

 made which will keep the mill busy for the next 

 six months. Twelve hundred feet of new side 

 tracks are being laid in the yards of flic com 

 pany, which consists of a ten-acre trai 

 ground, and 3,000 feet of tramways tor the 

 handling of the output of the Company tire a Is,. 

 being laid. The officers of the company tin- I 

 I'.. look, president: E. Ferger, vice-president 

 and general manager ; and Herman Ferger, sec 

 retary and treasurer. 



The Williams & Voris Lumber Company has 

 recently increased its stock of quartered oak tin. I 

 poplar to about 2,000, feet. 



W. II. Perkins, formerly buyer for tin- Ferd 

 Brenner Lumber Company, lias accepted thi 

 sit Ion of manager of the Fowler Personette I 

 ber Company of North Birmingham. Ala. This 



... 1 in recently purchased a trai 1 of 1 



nber lands near Boligee, Ala., on the Tom- 

 river. A logging camp lias been located 

 on ' be trai 1. ami 1 ss will be shipped ;it 

 to the plant. 



William Fowler of tic Case Lumber Company 

 has returned with his famll tnagama on 



Lake Temagama. Canada, where he 

 month enjoying thi herman's spurt. 



M. M. Erb of tl 

 enjoying ;i vacatl ■ ip through 

 it Connerst 



hi. I uili. "d n-liirnlii. 



■ •ilh. 

 F. Vn . I'.lair "i I Sawmill is on a trip 



through north 1 Si ■ 



I Brenner 

 Company is at his branch plant at Norfuli 



in- Haid- 



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- "ti a I ll|. ntlj 



Hon lumbermen all over the country 



ally to ih.- situation tor the tra . 



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St. Louis. 

 'in August 7 1 B Soothgate, well known to 

 the hardwood trade, was appointed depot] In 



Bpector ot the National Hardw I Lumbei 



lal mi Booth 



I has 



moved bis famllj to md taken up his 



ills appointment is undoubtedly 

 popular with the trade, as hi- past 

 Inspector has at all times met with the 

 cordial approval ..1 the trad.-. Mr. Soutngate 

 was I,.,,,, near Blogbamton, V } . forty Ave 

 years ago. He took op hi- residence in Ch 

 in si : i,, s.-, he became Inspector for the lumber 



latlon in that city; in -7 be mho- a trav 



salesman, in which position be remained 

 until 1889, when he went to Memphis He re 

 turned to Chicago In 1896 as chief Inspector of 

 the Chicago Hardwood Exchange In !!•"" be 

 up tins position mid for the next three 

 ■■ ' " was connected with the Cullman Company. 

 For the past two years he has been down sooth, 

 a pan of the time acting as a deputy Inspector, 

 and comes from there to bis pr in position In 



St. Louis. 



The ('has. F. Luebrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company report business as Improving with 



tl 1 and are Inclined to believe that from now 



on there will be an upward turn in the hard- 

 « 1 situation in this section of the country. 



Many of the lumbermen who have been away 

 mi their vacations an- now returning to tie- city, 

 and there is a noticeable brisking up in lumber 

 offices and a resumption of that bustle ami bustle 

 which betokens that the eager and unsatisfied 

 quest for new business has begun in resl earm-sc 



Among tlm returning hardwood men may be 



mentioned Tl lure Plammer of the I'lummer 



I. timber Company, who has just returned from 

 Colorado, and George L. Hlbbard of Steele ft 

 Hlbbard, win has i u making a record for him- 

 self as an angler at Delavan Lake. Wis. An- 

 other rambler who has come back— but from 

 away across the s..:i> is Jacob Mosberger of the 

 Mosberger-O'Relllj Lumber Company, who for 



tin- past tin im. nibs has been visiting point- in 



Switzerland and Germany. 



c. B. Strlfler bus gone on a trip to the 

 ami North, to take in tin' lakes and Canadian 

 resorts, ami will be gone for several weeks. 



John B. Temple, local manager for the .1 \ 

 Fay ft Egan Companj ne north foe 



• •I ill weeks' resl. lb- is M'i "Illpallii'il l'\ Mt< 



iple. 



Nashville. 



The box factory of Lieberman, Loveman & 

 O'Brien wa week, entailing 



a lo-s of aln mi $25,000, with $12,000 Insui 

 tctory will be rebuilt at an early >; 

 The l'rewitt spurr Manufacturing Company, 

 ling the only r.-tl cedar bucket factory in 

 the world in a story Involving a bit 



of human Interest, A few days since a n 



I man of Nashville walked Into (be 

 ml .if public wutks and m-urly 

 failure by tlm rec 



'belli. 



"I wani' d 'i gemtnens 



what's burled over dare In Prewltl 

 Spun- yards," I kin 



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When thi 

 their com] ' ' be Old man 



I from liiin the Informs 

 nrled In l v - itthy 



... bo went to war HI with him. 



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