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HARDWOOD RECORD 



J. A. White of Buffalo, who was in Boyne 

 City to attend the annual meeting of the W. II. 

 Whir.' company, was detained there several 'lays 



by illness. __ 



Indianapolis. 



Tie' plant owned by tie' Kendallville Furni- 

 ture Company at Peru, Ind., was destroyed by 

 tire on Dei. '.i. The plant ami material were 



valued tit $45, and tie- company carried 



$29,500 insurance. The Kendallville Furniture 

 Company recently moved to nakdale. a suburb 

 ,,f Peru, Erom Kendallville, Ind. The suburh 

 is without adequate Are protection ami on this 

 account the tin- could not be extinguished. 



on I tee. LIT. fire that originated in tie- engine 



,. n totally destroyed the planing mill leased 



by the Winter, Mercer & Bvannum Lumber Com- 

 pany at Anderson, Ind. The loss to the Winter, 

 Mercer & Branuum Lumber Company was about 

 $15,000, fully insured, while .1. B. Bosworth, 

 who owned the building and machinery, lost 

 about $20,000, partially insured. 



According to figures just compiled from the 

 records of the building inspector's office in In- 

 dianapolis, the year of 1906 fell nearly $2, 



<ioo below the year 1905 in the total cost "t 

 buildings for which permits were issued. The 

 total eost of permits for 1905 was $7,225,325, 

 while ... it"',; ,t was only s:..:;l:l::i 7. a decrease 

 ol $1,901,008. The falling off was due to the 

 exceptionally large number oi costly office build- 

 ings for which permits were issued in 1905, hut 

 which were not completed t ill it. 1906. 



The I'. T. Harrison Lumber Company has 



I n incorporated with $150,000 capital stock 



at Terre Haute. Ind.. by' Charles 1'. Pierson, 

 John T. Pierson and William T. Dry. 



The Planet Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, "f Laporte, has 1 n organized with $100, 



capital stock to take over the business and 



factory of the Planet Manufacturing Company, 

 which failed last spring- Henry S. Candee, of 

 Cairo, 111., is president of the company, and 

 W. i'. Taylor and Carl It. Latham are also 

 largely interested. The company will manufac- 

 ture mouldings and do a general lumber and 

 woodworking business. 



A new concern at Indianapolis is the Wright 

 Lumber Company, capitalized at $15,000. The 

 directors an- William B. Cooley and Carl Van 

 Hake, of Indianapolis, and O. A. Wright, of 

 Maugham, La. 



The Enterprise Lumber Company was recent- 

 ly organized at Seymour with $10,000 capital 

 stock by M A. St John, T. .1. St'aiifield and 

 .1. II. Itoake. 



Asheville, N. C. 



A deal in hardwood timber lands in Swain 

 county, North Carolina, involves the Transfer of 

 22;000 acres belonging t" W. A. Rexford to the 

 recently organized Kitchen Lumber Company, a 

 corporation chartered under the laws of North 

 Carolina, with principal offices at Bryson city. 

 The Kitchen Lumber Company paid Mr. Rexford 

 a fraction over $9 per aire for the land, or 

 .it,, en $200,000. The principal stockholders of 

 .In Kitchen Lumber Company are members ol 

 the firm of Vansant. Kitchen & Co. of Ashland. 

 Ky. The tra.t purchased by the Kitchen Lum- 

 ber company contains much line timber and all 

 the hardwoods of this section are to be found on 

 it. The company will establish and operate saw- 

 mills on the boundary and will at once begin 

 marketing the product. This deal was reallj 

 made several months ago. but it was only closed 

 and the .pap.-.s registered this week 



A new chair company chartered in North Caro- 

 lina this week is the Alexander Chair Company 

 of Taylorsville, Alexander county.. It will manu- 

 facture all kinds of chairs from oak. walnut. 

 , I.. stunt, poplar and other woods. The capital 



stock of the company is $25, i with $17,500 



paid in. 



The standard Chair Company of Thomasville 



secured an amendment to its charter this week. 

 increasing the capital stock from $25,000 to 

 siur,. i. 



It is still impossible for lumbermen to secure 

 an adequate supply of •■empties" and business is 

 hampered greatly thereby. Lumbermen are 



agr I that the trade has suffered thousands 



and thousands of dollars' loss during the past 

 year on account of the car shortage and that 

 there is little prospect for an early betterment 

 of the situation. Relative to the prevalence of 

 a ear shortage that has extended over months 

 and months of time the Asheville Lumber Ex- 

 change al the meeting of the North Carolina 

 ; , neral assembly will seek to have some legis- 

 lation passed that will give them some relief. 

 It is hoped that the law can be so constructed 

 as to make possible the collection of penalty by 

 the lumber dealers tor every day that a railroad 

 fails or neglects to furnish ears. Although the 

 lumber dealers would still be unable to make 

 prompt shipments. I hey would at least be re- 

 imbursed to some extent for loss of business. 



The Town Creek Railroad & Lumber Company 

 and the Brunswick & Southern Railroad Com 

 pany of Wilmington are now allied corporations. 

 recently organized at Wilmington for the pur- 

 pose of conducting extensive milling operations. 

 Officers of Hie new allied concerns were elected 

 at a recent me, ting in Wilmington, when an- 

 nounce ni was made that the company had 



purchased some months ago the B W. Gibson 

 properly and that since that time it had been 

 quietly adding to its holdings until it has 

 1. iiiiii. nun. iiiiii feet of pine and cypress and our 

 25,000, I feet of hardw Is, The mill facili- 

 ties of the company have been increased ma 



terially and it now lias a daily output of 75, 



feet of lumber. The railroad is controlled by the 

 lumber company. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



The ear famine is attracting the attention 

 of the lumbermen and shippers generally in 

 this section, and while many of them favor 

 a reciprocal demurrage, it is generally admitted 

 thai it would be in a manner asking the rail- 

 roads to work a physical impossibility, and 

 with many it is doubtful whether national legis- 

 lation on (lie subject will aid or retard improve 

 tnent of the conditions, since the railroads in 

 this section seem to pretty thoroughly substanti- 

 ate their claim that they are doing everything 



ill their power to relieve the eolllli t ions. 



lie lumbermen report trad.- conditions very 

 favorable, with an upward tendency of prices. 



Tile demand tor stoek is very heavy, but now 

 the shippers will not accept orders for quick 

 shipment, except upon the car shortage eon 

 t ingen. j 



The breaking of a flywheel on the engine 

 at the Hampton. Trim., mill of the W. M. Bitter 

 Lumber Company of Columbus, Ohio, caused a 

 shutdown of a month. The accident occurred 

 last week and several persons narrowly es- 

 caped a tragic end The big wheel broke while 

 running al a speed of 145 revolutions per min- 

 ute and badly wrecked the mill, twisting and 

 leafing down the line shafting and other ma- 

 chinery This mill had been in operation but 

 three weeks when the accident occurred. It 

 will probably I"' started again about Febru- 

 ary 1. 



I'lie W. M. Rittcr Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased tie mills and timber of the Baleigh 

 Lumber Company, south of Charleston. W. Va.. 

 and has assumed the control and operation of 

 same. Several foremen from the Carter County, 

 Tennessee, and the I'ineola. X. C, operations 

 of tie compa'nj have been transferred to the 

 new- West Virginia operation. 



Paul W. Fleck of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 Company of Philadelphia is looking after his 

 company's interests in this city. Mr. Fleck is 

 much gratified with tie conditions and outlook 

 for the lumbei business ill the Bristol dis- 

 trict. 



John T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lumber 

 Company of Elizabethton. Tenn.. and Dixon & 

 Dewey, New York, was a visitor in the city last 

 week. 



The Fenwick Lumber Company, recently or- 

 ganized by James Strong, former bead of the 

 James Strong Lumber Company of this city, 

 and associates, is preparing to begin the con- 

 struction of a band mill with an annual ca- 

 pacity of I'll. ,000 feet at Fenwick, W. Va.. 



on its timber property in Nicholas and Green- 

 briar counties. , 



The offices of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany and Boice, Burns & Offett have been moved 

 from the Susong building into more commodious 

 quarters on the second floor of the new First 

 National Bank building. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody, of Joseph I'. Dunwoody 

 & Co., Philadelphia, is a prominent visitor in 

 the city this week 



Fred W. Hughes, local representative of 

 Price & Herald, of Baltimore, is receiving the 

 congratulations of his friends over the arrival 

 of a young lumberman at his home on Windsor 

 avenue. 



J. W. Difenderfer. of the J. W. Difenderfer 

 Lumber Company, Philadelphia, is in this sec- 

 lion on business and to look over bis company's 

 mills at Damascus ami hurry up orders. 



T. II. Carrier and <>. II. Vial were among 

 the Johnson county lumbermen visiting in the 

 city this Week. 



Thomas E. Nixon, representing Wistar, Un- 

 derbill & I'm., of Philadelphia, is buying hard- 

 wood lumber in this section this week. 



Clarence I.. Meckley, a Philadelphia wholesale 

 lumberman, is in the city this week. 



R. L. Withnell, representing Duncan. Kwiug 

 & Co., Ltd.. of London. England, is buying 

 hardwood stock in this section this week for 

 export. 



c. F. Cullman has succeeded II. G. Bramm as 

 general manager of the Bristol operations of 

 Charles A. Schieren & Co.. of New York. Mr. 

 Bramm having entered the wholesale furniture 

 business iii Bristol. 



Cincinnati. 



The proposed creation of a perpetual furni- 

 ture exposition to embrace the products of Cin- 

 cinnati's fifty furniture manufactories as well 

 as those of allied interests, was discussed at a 

 recent meting of the Queen city Furniture 

 Club. The club expects to take up the subject 

 in the near future with a view to making the 

 exposition a reality. In addition to the furni- 

 ture exhibits it is intended to display the prod- 

 ucts of lumber manufactories, hardwood deal- 

 ers, varnish factories and kindred interests. 



At the monthly meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club, held at the Business Mens 

 Club, the proposed furniture exhibit for this 

 city whs discussed and indorsed. Arrangements 

 were made for the meeting of the union dealers 

 ai the i iiand Hotel on January Hi. '-"J and 23, 

 and for a concatenation of Hoo-Hoo on the 

 :2nd, when fifty candidates will be admitted. 

 The invitation extended by the Indiana Hard- 

 wood Lumbermen's Association to attend their 

 banquet and home-coming at Indianapolis, on 

 January 11, was accepted, and a large delega- 

 tion will be sent. The delegates who attended 

 the recent Reciprocal Demurrage Convention at 

 Chicago reported on the work done at that meet 

 iug which, they say. will be of much assistance. 

 Creditors" of the Gallipolis Furniture Com- 

 pany, of Gallipolis, Ohio, met in Cincinnati re- 

 cently, and appointed a committee to take 

 charge of the creditors. A Columbus public 

 accountant was engaged to go through the com- 

 pany's books. The assets of the firm are said 

 to he si 4ii. nun and the liabilities $1S0,000. 



W. A. Bennett, of Bennett & Witte, has been 

 nominated for the presidency of the Chamber 

 of Commerce on the regular ticket. The elec- 

 tion will take place January 9. 



