HARDWOOD RECORD 



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20. Mr. Penrod was called borne by a cablegram 

 announcing that his father. John Penrod, was in 

 ill health and was failing fast. He arrived here 

 just three hours before his father died. John 

 Penrod was S2 years old and died of old age. 

 He was very anxious to see his son before he 

 passed away, and his last wish was gratified, 

 the physicians stating that only bis will power 

 kept him alive so long. 



J. N. Penrod spent three months in Europe, 

 and while there visited many of the leading lum- 

 ber merchants of Great Britain, Germany, 

 France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and 

 Denmark. He says that in England he found 

 the lumber trade in a bad way and that there 

 was no push to business, merchants only buying 

 what was absolutely needed. He is much dis- 

 couraged over conditions. Formerly his com- 

 pany had an extensive trade with South Africa, 

 but since the Boer war the people of that coun- 

 try have been so poor that the demand is very 

 light. The German trade is active, improving 

 each year. He found conditions normal in Hol- 

 land, Belgium and Denmark, and said that while 

 trade has been temporarily checked by the re- 

 cent political troubles in Norway and Sweden, 

 trade in those countries is fairly good. 



J. H. Phipps of Fayetteville, Ark., was in 

 Kansas City a few days ago and like other hard- 

 wood manufacturers was complaining of the long 

 stretch of bad weather in that territory. He 

 reports a brisk demand and light stocks at all 

 mills. 



A rattling Hoo-Hoo concatenation was held at 

 Salina, Kan., on Saturday. August 5, under the 

 joint direction of J. R. McLaurin and L. E. 

 Fifer, vicegerents respectively for western and 

 eastern Kansas. There were eight candidates 

 put through their paces before an enthusiastic 

 audience. At the close of the concatenation a 

 banquet was held at the National Hotel, which 

 was highly enjoyed. 



Louisville. 



J. T. Morgan of J. T. Morgan & Co., wholesale 

 dealers in hardwood lumber at Ninth and Zane 

 streets, is on a trip among the hardwood users 

 of Michigan this week. This firm makes a 

 specialty of poplar, but handles a full line of 

 southern hardwoods. 



E. L. Davis of E. L. Davis & Co., Ninth and 

 Oak streets, says that business so far this year 

 has been above normal, but not quite as lively 

 as he would like to see it. His company makes 

 a specialty of oak and has a very good supply 

 of dry quartered stock on hand. They also 

 have some dry 8-4 poplar that ought to catch 

 the eye of those eastern planing mill men that 

 are reported as wanting thick stock. 



Occasionally, when three or four Louisville 

 lumbermen are gathered together and the talk 

 turns to shop, some of the sharp penciled ones 

 get to figuring on the amount of lumber used in 

 Louisville. A recent compiling of figures re- 

 sulted in an estimate that there is approxi- 

 mately 84,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber used 

 In Louisville annually. One of the big items 

 In this is red gum, of which there is probably 

 between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 feet used. 



Reports from the Kentucky river district in- 

 dicate that work on the government locks has 

 been holding up logs there till some of the mills 

 are running short. A letter from the Ford Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company states that it 

 will be cut out in a couple of weeks. 



Arthur Musselman, secretary of the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Lumber Company, says that his 

 company finds a good market for mahogany and 

 is kept hustling to meet the demand. Consider- 

 able trouble has been occasioned by yellow fever 

 In the company's logging territory in Honduras, 

 which has materially lessened the log supply. 

 C. R. Mengel, president of the company, is East 

 at present on a business trip. 



The Southern Stave & Lumber Company finds 



difficulty in making prompt poplar sliij.i 

 to the Last, si ■.rder calls for thick 



stock which has to order, i b 



true of chestnut and in a greater degree of oak, 

 the trade wauls quarter-sawed along with 

 tbe plain. 



R. M. Cunning , a many-sided lumberman 

 uisville, ami W. IJ. II. .skins, a local 

 mill man, are interested In the On- Land & 

 Lumber Company, with extensive operations in 

 Arkansas. Mr. am .irned from 



a business trip to the company's property in 

 Arkansas, and experts to make another there 

 soon. He and Mr. Hosklus recently bo 

 2,000,000 feet of logs up the river for the Hos 

 kins sawmill here, which settles the timber sup- 

 ply problem for that mill for the balam 

 this year. 



Minneapolis. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company says his company is feeling the benefit 

 of the conclusion of the Chicago strike, which 

 has started their customers to receiving ship- 

 ments, and loosened up the situation generally. 

 However, there is not a very big volume of busi- 

 ness at Minneapolis or in this vicinity just 

 now. 



Owing to the stiff prices of oak and the diffi- 

 culty of securing grades wanted in northern 

 stocks, birch has been climbing fast Into favor 

 for floors and interior finish. Dealers estimate 

 that in Minneapolis buildings there is now three 

 times as much birch consumed as oak. Birch 

 has so far given very good satisfaction in every 

 way, and while in the spring first-class stock 

 was rather scarce, it is no longer difficult to 

 find in any desired quantity. 



Building in Minneapolis has been more active 

 this year than for any time in the past decade, 

 as tbe figures show. July permits numbered 

 480, with a value of $870,365, the same month 

 last year registering only 384 permits, with a 

 value of $466,630. The seven months ending 

 July 31 there were 3,151 permits issued, with 

 a total value of $5,65S,235, compared with 2.C5H 

 permits in the same months of 1904, valued at 

 $4,012,545. 



A. H. Barnard of Barnard & Strickland, who 

 cater largely to the Twin City factory trade, 

 says the volume of their business this season has 

 been very gratifying. The sash and door people 

 have been loaded with orders for special in- 

 terior finish, and have consumed birch h. : 

 not being able to get as much northern oal 

 they wanted. Prospects are good for a contlnu 

 ance of the present conditions. A bumper crop 

 of wheat and other grains in the northwest will 

 insure against any slump in activity or values. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber I 

 pany returned a few days ago from an extended 

 Trip down into Indiana, Illinois and ' 

 \iMting St. Louis. He found a temporarily quiet 

 condition in the market, but excellent business 

 conditions and good prospects for trade this 

 fall. ' 



E. Payson Smith made a flying trip to Duluth 

 this week looking for business. He reports a 

 good demand for southern oak. which hi 

 been able to fill promptly this summer, and 

 says he is urging customers to get ordei 

 before the antielp 



quiet. E. B. Thomas of Cairo, ill., who 



represents Mr. s o southern \i 



Arkansas in buying stocks, is in Minn. 



ing a brief vacs bis health, which has 



been impaired by ninl; 



.1. .1. Kenned] 

 pany, Rib Lake, 

 Hirer of hemic ! 

 Minneapolis a bus ess visit a few 



Wausau. 



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will I. larger, tl 



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with plant 



and 



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 mill machinery, 



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to arrange for I 



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 ment Association Informed the offlo 

 i not consider a proposition mad. 

 quiring tl.. furnish a • 



building. 



will leave next 

 on a trip throit- pplng 



at various points of int. 

 destination Daws. Alaska. They 



will not be content to touch the borders 

 Alaska, as so many travelers do. but will I 

 up tbe Yukon river and penetrate tin- interior for 

 a view of the mines. They will visit tbe I 

 and Clark exposition at Portland on their re- 

 turn. Mr. McMillan is one ..f tin- best known 



hardwood in. Ml ., lDe 



village of McMillan. 



The E. v. Kautsky mill at Cherokee has closed 

 down, alter a successful run. The mill com- 

 menced its cut April 1, and has cut 1,200, i 



feet of hardwood. 



After a closedown of some time the I'pham 

 Manufacturing Company at Marshfleld 



ted operation with a full force of men. The 

 company has orders for a large amount of fur- 

 niture and there is every prospect of a su 

 ful year, a single order was received last week 

 for $25.iio(i won 



Manitowoc Bto an- 



nual meeting of the Tubbs Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Ludington, Mich., last week. Ti 

 officers were re-elected. A new $75,000 (a 

 building has lately been completed. 



A permanent ■ !-.•■ la to 



llsbed in Marinette county, 

 acres of land. Siai.- Forester Grlffltt 

 ator Bird have been 1.. .mental In plan- 



ning the reserve. 



H. Carter, purchasing agent ■■ I .lean 



Manufacturing Company of Washington, l> ' . 

 has spent some time recently In Milwaukee con- 

 ferring witli YV. II. Dodsvrorth, general agent of 

 the ('.. M. & St. P. Ry. Co., with n 

 establishing an automobile factory in that 



The proposed plant will 



rli'ty of automobiles, uut<. fire engines, ambu- 

 lances, police patrols, farm tractors and a full 

 line of delivery wagons and trucks on which 

 patents have bei dr. Carter. Mr. 



Carter says that this nil! 



tion of an en.. m. uncquuled In tbe 



I States. 



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 if Butternut, John W. 

 the Good Land Com] 



Hand of Phillip their hold- 



t'llicld and 

 Mill 



of II: 

 timber pro 



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