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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Men tor the woods, or for any kind ol work. 

 are still hard to find. At Traverse City the 



other day thirty men were n led to load the 



barge Sidney O. Nefl with lumber and only eight 

 conld I"- secured, causing a costly delay. 



John F. fori, mayor of Grand Haven, lias 

 resigned his position as manager of the Story & 

 Clark l'iano Company of that city to resume a 

 managerial position with the Brinkerhoff l'iano 

 Company of Jackson, Mich. It is the plan now 

 to operate the Western l'iano Supply Company 

 it Grand Haven in connection with the new con- 

 cern at Jackson, turning out the case work at 

 the former plant. 



Henry w. Carey, president of the Michigan 

 Maple Companj of Eastlake, was in the city 

 October is 



Ed Turnbull of the Grand Ledge Chair Com- 

 pany returned home October 19 from a trip to 

 Europe. 



James Lamb of Hie Fullerton-Powell Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind.. was 

 in the market last week 



Grand Rapids furniture concerns have been 

 taking orders during the past week for refur- 

 nishing the Hotel Van Cortlandt. an 150-room 

 house located close to Hie si Francis in San 

 Francisco. 



George T. Kendal of llugliart & Kendal has 

 completed a modern suburban home just north 

 of Grand Rapids. The pretty spot lias been 

 named Wildwood and comprises 120 acres of 

 rich farming land, with residence in the .01(1 

 English style of architecture. 



The forestry exhibit at the city museum is 

 now under roof, though larger quarters are 

 needed for the interesting display. The col- 

 lection is composed largely of the Michigan 

 state exhibit- at the St. Louis exposition and 

 contains some good pine specimens, but is sadly 

 deficient in Michigan hickory, elm. ash. oak and 

 maple, one interesting feature of the Japanese 

 woods shown is the papering of the ends of the 

 specimens to prevent checking, and the paper 

 seems to have served the purpose well. 



The Hackley I'helps-Honnell Company of this 

 city, on the night of October 17. lost by tire 

 its planing mill at their Hackley, Wis., plant. 

 This was a comparatively small mill and fully 

 insured. The company will immediately pro- 

 ceed to the erection of a large and modern 

 planing mill. 



Asheville, N. C. 



Officials of the Pittsburg Southern Veneer 

 & Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, who 

 have been in this section for several days, 

 have decided to locate a $150,000 veneer plant 

 on the French Broad river, two miles below 

 Asheville. The company row has a plant at 

 Narrows, Va., but owing to the scarcity of 

 . the proper timber and a sufficient supply it 

 has been found necessary to move. The Pitts- 

 burg concern made the proposition that if 

 Asheville citizens would take $25,000 worth of 

 stock the plant would be located in this city. 

 The board of trade would not agree to this, 

 but did offer a suitable site of 10 acres on 

 the French Broad river. If the Southern Rail- 

 way Company will place the necessary spur 



track of 1,1 feet within 30 days the veneer 



concern will begin operations. The plant will 

 employ 200 skilled workmen and will cut ve- 

 neer from chestnut, walnut, poplar, etc. 



A wedding of interest to lumbermen oc- 

 curred here Wednesday evening. Oct. 17. when 

 Miss Nora Ware of this city became the bride 

 of J. M. Burns, vice president of the Una- 

 gusta Manufacturing Company and manager 

 of the Monger Lumber Company. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Burns will make their home in this city. 

 Mr. Burns is one of the best known lumber- 

 men in this section of North Carolina, and is 

 president.*! the Asheville Lumber Exchange. 



Asheville lumbermen are having a little less 

 difficulty now in securing cars and having 

 their product promptly moved than has been 

 the ease during recent months. The freight 



congestion on the local yards of the Southern 

 is not nearly so pronounced at this time as 

 previously and the situation is gradually be- 

 coming normal. 



J. W. Adams of Chattanooga. Tenn., has in- 

 stituted suit in the L T nited States Circuit 

 Court here to clear the title to a tract of tim- 

 ber hinds in Macon and Clay counties, this 

 state. The plaintiff names several persons in 

 the western section of the state as defendants 

 and alleges that they are interfering with him 

 in the conduct of his business. The plaintiff 

 prays that the defendants be permanently en- 

 joined and restrained from trespassing upon 

 tie lands or interfering in any manner with 

 the plaintiff in the premises. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



Harry I'.. Farrer, vice president and general 

 manager of the Farrar Lumber Company of 

 Iialton, Ga., was in the city this week and spent 

 several days in this section. 



Fred C. Disbro of the Woodward Lumber 

 Company of Atlanta, Ga.. was a visitor to the 

 Bristol market this week. He reports business 

 excellent witlt his company. 



A. A. Kopp of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company of Coal Grove, <►.. was a recent visitor 

 in Bristol. 



II. W. Neily, representing George H. Mell of 

 Kane, Pa., and Sam C. Rambo were over from 

 Johnson county. Tennessee, this week. They 

 report that heavy rain has handicapped the 

 country mills in that section and shipments for 

 this reason have not been very heavy during the 



past fortnight. 



I'. I!. Folsom, representing Rode & Horn. New 

 York export ers and dealers in domestic hard- 

 woods, was in Bristol on business this week. 

 This company has a large contract with the 

 Kingsport Lumber Company of Bristol and is 

 handling the outpui of the company's mills in 

 McDowell county. West Virginia. 



The Richland Lumber Company of this city, 

 which was recently organized by J. II. Bryan of 

 tie Bryan Lumber Company and J. A. Canuou 

 of the Citizens' hunk of Bristol, is about readj 

 lo begin cutting on their tiniber land on the 

 Wateree river, near Sumter. S. C. The com- 

 pany will lei its logging to contract. 



Tlie Bryan -Lumber Company of this city has 

 materially augmented its capital stock and is 

 rapidly extending its business. This company 

 has built up a business of no mean proportions 

 and is now one of the heaviest exporters in this 

 region. 



The new mills of J. A. Wilkinson in South 

 Bristol are nearing completion and it is hoped 

 will soon be put into operation. The machinery 

 has all been installed. 



Valentine Luppert of the Lupperi Lumber 

 Company of Butler. Tenn.. was a recent visitor 

 to Bristol. 



E. L. Edwards, the well-known wholesale lum- 

 merman of Dayton, O., after spending two weeks 

 looking after business interests in this section, 

 returned to his home this week. Mr. Edwards 

 was much pleased with the conditions which 

 obtain in this section and the prospects for 

 winter and spring business. 



William Winfrey of Medina. O., has purchased 

 a 3,000-aere tract of timber laud in Wise county, 

 Virginia, and it is said will at once arrange to 

 begin manufacturing same for the domestic 

 market. 



Arrangements have been made for an elaborate 

 timber exhibit at the Jamestown Tercentennial 

 Exposition at Jamestown, Va., next year. The 

 lumbermen and timber dealers of Virginia have 

 united with the mineral operators in the organi- 

 zation of the Jamestown Mineral & Timber Ex- 

 hibit Association. A conference presided over 

 by Governor Swanson of Virginia was recently 

 held in Bristol and plans formulated for the 

 most elaborate mineral and timber exhibit in 

 the history of the Old Dominion. Governor 

 Swanson was elected chairman of a committee 

 to arrange for the exhibit and pledged ?100,000 



for use in the work : S'_'r». noil was subscribed at 

 the meeting. 



J. Mortimer. Jr., general superintendent of the 

 Virginia. West Virginia, Tennessee and North 

 Carolina operations of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, O., was a visitor in Bris- 

 tol this week. This company is now building a 

 railroad from Elizabethton, Tenn., in Carter 

 county, to Hampton, a distance of eight miles, 

 and from Hampton up Tiger's creek to its timber 

 properties. A large band mill is being put in 

 at Hampton and the work is being pushed as 

 rapidly as possible in order to have same ready 

 for operation by January 1, 1907. 



E. L. Warren and G. L. Wood of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore, were in 

 the city on business this week. ' 



It is generally understood in Bristol, since the 

 announcement that the offices of the George L. 

 Carter syndicate, including the South & Western 

 railway, would be moved to Johnson City, that 

 the principal offices of the Kingsport Lumber 

 Company will also be moved to that town. The 

 removal of the Carter syndicate, as well as the 

 Kingsport Lumber Company, will be a distinct 

 loss to Bristol. 



George II. mud. iff, formerly with Sterling 

 West Company of Baltimore, is now the south- 

 ern representative of George C. Welch & Co. of 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, the well known 

 English importers of hardwoods. Mr. Orndoff 

 will make this section his headquarters. He has 

 a number of important contracts for oak and 

 poplar in West Virginia as well as the Bristol 

 district. 



George II. Mell, a prominent wholesale lum- 

 berman of Kane, Pa., was a recent visitor on 

 the Bristol market. Mr. Mell operates, exten- 

 sively in this section and has a big planing mill 

 .11 Swananoa, N. C. 



William S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing Company was down from Abingdon last 

 week. Mr. Whiting reports excellent conditions 

 with his company and the big band mill at 

 Abingdon running regularly. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club al its meet- 

 ing last week completed arrangements for the 

 entertainment of delegates to the convention of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association on 

 October 25-26. Four hundred delegates are ex- 

 pected and a big smoker and buffet lunch at the 

 new Ilavlin hotel is planned. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, after a 

 month's discussion, has drawn up a set of rules 

 and regulations for the government of the 

 dressed lumber business. Poplar, -Cottonwood, 

 gum, oak and maple flooring are covered in the 

 new' rules which will be presented at the con- 

 vention of the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation for adoption. 



Chester F. Korn, of the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company, spent the middle part of the month in 

 Tennessee buying hardwoods, principally ash. 



Leland G. Banning is in New York ou busi- 

 ness. 



M. B. l'arrin attended the convention of the 

 Ohio River Improvement Association at Ports- 

 mouth October 17-18 as delegate of the Lumber- 

 men's Club. Lumbermen in this city are vitally 

 interested in the association, which is laboring 

 for a 9-foot stage of the Ohio river the year 

 round by locks and dams. Steps in that direc- 

 lion were taken at the convention. Lumber in- 

 terests from other sections of the state were also 



represented. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, paid the 

 Memphis office of his concern a brief visit during 

 the past fortnight. 



Joseph Wehry, of the Littleford Lumber Com- 

 pany, one of the most popular men in the hard- 

 wood trade, was married to Miss Fannie M. 

 l.insky "f this city last week. The ceremony 

 was performed in Newport. Ky. 



J. A. Northup of the Northup Company. Louisa. 

 Ky. was hen on a timber deal of importance on 



