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try with a capacity of 12. 000, 000 feet of floor- 

 ing a year. 



Wausau. 



The English Manufacturing Company of 

 Morrill has filed articles of incorporation with 

 the secretary of state. The incorporators are 

 C. L. Avery of Chicago, Jos. Emerich, John 

 English and Edward Staats of Merrill. The 

 company will build a factory on the site of 

 the C. B. Flynn mill and will manufacture all 

 kinds of woodenware, staves, headings and 

 hardwood lumber. The company will erect a 

 sawmill, dry kiln and warehouses in addition 

 to the factory and will begin work upon them 

 immediately. It is expected that 400 men will 

 be employed. 



The plant of the defunct Two Rivers Manu- 

 facturing Company at Two Rivers was or- 

 dered by the bankruptcy court to be sold 

 Sept. S. The appraisers were John Schmitt of 

 Two Rivers, and Thos. R. Mercain and Jas. C. 

 Wall of Milwaukee. 



The work of rebuilding the burned plant of 

 the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mel- 

 len is rapidly nearing completion. The com- 

 pany has a good stock of mixed hardwood logs 

 cut and will operate night and day through- 

 out the winter. 



C. F. Stewart of Vassar. Mich., will erect a 

 factory at Tomahawk for the manufacture of 

 dowels and hopes to have the plant in opera- 

 tion before January 1st. The dowels will be 

 manufactured from white and yellow birch 

 timber and shipped to furniture factories 

 throughout the United States. They are used 

 in making nearly all kinds of furniture. Mr. 

 Stewart is an experienced dowel maker and 

 fifteen years ago secured patents on machinery 

 for their manufacture. He has sold interests 

 in a factory at Vassar. Mich., also the patent 

 rights on the machinery, but recently has had 

 patented improved machinery. 



The Northern Lumber Company, a hard- 

 wood manufacturing concern of Marinette 

 > ' unty, has made formal application to the 

 T'nited States postal department to establish 

 a postoffice on the site of its new town on 

 the Lake Independence extension of the Mar- 

 inette & Southeastern Railway. The name by 

 which the town will be known on the map is 

 Birch, so called by reason of the large forests 

 of that species of trees in the vicinity. 



All hope of finding Duncan McGregor, the 

 Marinette lumberman who disappeared July 

 4th, has been dissipated. It is thought he has 

 been murdered and his body concealed. 



camps, wages ranging from $26 to $32 for 

 woodsmen. 



Grand Eapids. 



The Longfellow & Skillman Lumber Company 

 has met with a loss, roughly estimated at 

 $4,000, in the burning of its mill and stock at 

 Levering. The plant will not be rebuilt at that 

 point. 



The Hackley Cooperage Company, capital 

 $20,000, has been formed to manufacture head- 

 ing and staves, in connection with the mill 

 operations of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Com- 

 pany at Hackley. Wis. Silas Kilbourn of Grand 

 Haven Is president of the company, O. A. Felger 

 of Grand Rapids is vice president and Charles 

 A. Phelps is secretary and treasurer. 



The late Louis Sands of Manistee left an 

 estate valued at about three million dollars 

 which passes by will in equal shares to his 

 widow and six children. Operations are to be 

 continued until all the lumber is manufac- 

 tured, a cut estimated at ten to fifteen years, 

 and until that time the estate is to remain undi- 

 vided. Charles A. Sands, Louis M. Sands, E. 

 N, Sailing and George M. Burr are named as 

 trustees. In the event of the death, resigna- 

 tion or failure to act of any of the trustees 

 Frank J. Bigelow, former president of the First 

 National bank of Milwaukee, Is named to fill 

 the vacancy. 



Report comes from Newberry that there con- 

 tinues an active demand for men in the lumber 



Indianapolis. 



The Lakewood Lumber & Land Company 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000. The directors are C. S. Cun- 

 ningham O Hart, E. C. Shireman. Karl 

 I. Nutter and Henry Da Turk. 



The Hoosier -Mill .^ Lumber Company of 

 Syracuse. Ind., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $7,500. The directors are 

 William H. Carter, Noah C. Isenbarger and 

 Edgar R. Jackson. The company has a 

 plant at Goldman. Ark. 



Governor J. Frank Hanly of Indiana, 

 together with his secretary, Fred Gemmer, 

 and R. Henry Miller, a well known state 

 politician, recently purchased the timber on 

 a thirty-three acre tract of land about six 

 miles southeast of Indianapolis and the lum- 

 ber is being delivered to a near-by sawmill. 

 It is estimated that the tract will cut 200,- 

 000 feet of white oak, 100,000 feet of red oak 

 and several thousand feet of hickory, be- 

 sides an amount of miscellaneous lumber. 

 Mr. Miller is superintending the work of 

 cutting down the trees and hauling the logs 

 to the mill. 



The building permits for this year will un- 

 doubtedly reach the six million dollar mark 

 and may reach six and one-half millions. 

 The total valuation of the permits for Au- 

 gust amounts to $736,651, as against $321,- 

 150 issued in August, 1904. During the 

 month there was no unusually large permit, 

 though there were several of more than 

 moderate size. The largest was the St. Peter 

 and Paul's Cathedral permit, the building to 

 cost $11S,000. 



The sawmill and tile factory owned by 

 James A. Furr, of Hillsboro, Ind., burned 

 Sept. 2, causing a loss of $5,000. The mill 

 and factory was filled with tile and lumber 

 at the time, all of which was ruined. The 

 origin of the fire is unknown. 



On petition of the Gladden Lumber Com- 

 pany, a receiver has been appointed for Wil- 

 liam W. Scoville, owner of the Scoville 

 Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of 

 boxes, Indianapolis. The Gladden Lumber 

 Company had a bill of $347 and a mortgage 

 on the plant to cover the first cost of $3,900. 

 It was recited in the complaint that, 

 although still a resident of Indianapolis, Mr. 

 Scoville had left his residence and deserted 

 his place of business, leaving no one in 

 charge. This happened a few weeks ago and 

 simultaneous with Scoville's disappearance 

 was that of his pretty sixteen-year-old 

 stenographer. The Union Trust Company 

 has been made receiver. 



The main building of Campbell. Smith & 

 Ritchie's planing mill and furniture factory 

 at Lebanon. Ind., was completely destroyed 

 by fire August 27. The loss is estimated at 

 $35,000, with $8,700 insurance. The plant 

 was one of Lebanon's best industries. As 

 the same firm owns another furniture fac- 

 tory in another part of the city it is prob- 

 able that the planing mill only will be re- 

 built, while the other furniture factory will 

 be enlarged. 



Cincinnati. 



The monthly report of the Building Inspec- 

 tion Bureau for August shows an Increase of 

 over $140,000 as compared with the same month 

 last year. There were 406 permits taken out 

 during August, 1905, for improvements esti- 

 mated to cost $749,790, against 479 permits for 

 improvements to cost $605,870 last year. 



The movement of lumber for August, 1905, 

 as prepared by the superintendent of the 

 Chamber of Commerce was as follows: Re- 

 ceipts, 6.467 cars; shipments, 5,058. The fig- 

 ures shew a liberal increase compared to the 



same month last year when receipts aggregat- 

 d 1.969 cars and shipments 4,055 cars. 

 W. J. Eekman of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, this city, has returned from a visit 

 to the Pacific coast. He was away over three 

 weeks. 



O. P. Hurd, Jr., of O. P. Hurd, Jr., & Co, 

 of Cairo, III., was here the latter part of 

 August renewing acquaintances. 



The Roy Lumber Company of Nicholasville, 

 Ky., intends to open a yard in this city. G. 

 A. Roy was here last week looking for a suit- 

 able location, but none has so far been se- 

 cured. 



' ' 1 Mill, Commercial Tribune build- 



ing, Walnut street, has been spending several 

 weeks in Michigan and returned on the 6th 

 with a bride. The marriage occurred in this 

 City on July 22 but was kept a secret. Mrs. 

 Hall was Miss Addie L. Janes. The couple has 

 the trade's best wishes. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 

 will open an office in New York city some 

 time this month. Edgar Burgess, of this city. 

 will be in charge, with W. H. Siubbs as his 

 assistant. 



T. J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company, has returned from a busi- 

 ness trip to neighboring markets. He reports 

 conditions in all places encouraging. 



The Hume Cooperage Company, of Rich- 

 mond, Ky., was adjudged bankrupt in the 

 Federal Court at Covington, Ky., on August 

 -S. It was one of the largest establishments 

 of its kind in the country. Waiter Bennett 

 and Richard \V. Miller, two of the plaintiffs, 

 were appointed receivers by the court. 



About 75 members of the National Cooper's 

 Association are in this city attending the sixth 

 semi-annual convention. President A. S. 

 Roy of Chicago, in his opening address, con- 

 gratulated his associates upon the general 

 prosperity of the trade and the bright pros- 

 pects ahead. The consensus of opinion among 

 members present was that prices will imme- 

 diately advance fully 20 per cent in all lines 

 of cooperage goods because of the existing 

 prices on iron and lumber. New officers will 

 be elected before the convention adjourns. 



C. Crane & Co. of this city have paid into 

 the state treasury the sum of $1,700 which 

 Attorney General Wade Ellis declared was 

 necessary under the special corporation tax 

 law-. The company has a capital of $500,000 

 and was incorporated in Indiana. The com- 

 pany claimed that only $83,000 of their capi- 

 tal stock was invested in Ohio and the rest 

 in West Virginia. It is not known by the of- 

 ficials of C. Crane & Co. what effect this will 

 have on the general tax return of the firm. 

 If they are compelled to pay taxes on the en- 

 tire amount it will be a matter of grave con- 

 cern. 



Chattanooga. 



The local river mills including the Loomis & 

 Hart Manufacturing Company, the McLean 

 Lumber Company, Snodgrass & Fields, the 

 Ferd Brenner Lumber Company. P. W. Blair 

 and others, new have a larger stock of logs 

 from the headquarters of the Tennessee river 

 than ever before at this time of the year. 



The Chattanooga Chair Company has pur- 

 chased the plant of the Orange Grove Lumber 

 and Manufacturing Company, which is located 

 near the National Cemetery, and of which 

 C. M. Steenbergh is president, for $3,500. The 

 output of the company will thus bo doubled. 

 Mr. Steenbergh will engage in other business. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company, a large 

 concern having plants in Kentucky and other 

 states of the Union, will erect a large factory 

 at East Lake, a Chattanooga suburb, at a cost 

 of about $15,000. Ten acres of land have 

 ly been purchased for the plant and yards 

 and operations begin October 1. Stave head- 

 ings, barrel material, etc.. will be manufac- 



