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HARDWOOD RECORD 



,,i ;i Uotel Among thi companies to thus serve 

 their men is noted the Bradley and the John 

 Oelhafen companies oi Tomahawk; Langley .x 

 Alderson and the R. C. Thielman Company of 

 .Morrill ; the Heinemann Lumber Company of 

 Heinemann and the Worden Lumber Company of 

 Ann-. i. li is s.i hard to secure men this winter 

 that the employers will meet most any demand 

 to keep them at work. 



The Glidden Veneer Company, which has been 

 enlarging its plain at Glidden and buying more 

 timber, expects to employ 300 hands soon and 

 this number may shortly I"' increased to 500. 

 The company also expects to build a sawmill this 

 winter. 



The Wansaii W. C. T. I'. is (his winter collect 

 ing papers, books and magazines, which are 

 packed ami shipped to the logging crews in 

 ramps. 



A. II. Stange, one of Merrill's leading manu- 

 facturers, lias announced his intention of build- 

 ing a sawmill and W lworking plant iu 



Grand Rapids, to cost $100,000. He has 

 chosen thai city because it has an outlet on four 

 railroads, while Merrill has but one. 10. \Y. 

 lOllis of Grand Rapids will be one of the in- 

 corporators "1" the new concern. Hardwood floor- 

 ing and fixtures will be the main products of 

 the factory. 



The Morgan Sash & Door Company of Oshkosh 

 has purchased a site at the corner of Blue Island 

 avenue and Wood street, Chicago, for the erec- 

 tion of a large warehouse ami a factory for odd 

 work in the sash and door line. The factory 

 will lie iii operation ah.nu April 1. The main 

 building will he 240x100 feet in size, four stories 

 and a basement, of brick . construction. 11. A, 

 Sellin will he the Chicago manager. The 

 Morgan company suffered a disastrous Are in its 

 Oshkosh plant in October. 



J. W Wells has retired as general manager 

 Of the I. Stephenson Company's interests at 

 Wlls, Mich., which includes a sawmill, har.l 



w 1 factory and shingle mill. The business i- 



owned by the Wells estate of Milwaukee and 

 by I. Stephens.. n of Marinette. Wis., and the 

 hitler will manage the business iu the future. 

 Mr. Wells expects to spend the winter in Cali- 

 fornia. 



The Crookston Lumber Company of Minne- 

 apolis lias offered a reward of $1,000 tor in- 

 formation regarding Leroy J. Kelly, the firm's 

 bookkeeper, who disappeared November 20 in 

 Milwaukee. His baggage was found in a Mil- 

 waukee hotel, but all trace of him has been Inst, 

 lie was twenty three years of age anil resided at 

 Crookston, Minn. 



At a recent session of the Wisconsin railroad 

 rate commission it was decided that a rate of 

 so p.-r cent of the present tariff on lumber be- 

 tween points in Wisconsin be hereafter charged 

 lor clippings. The same percentage -shall hold 

 good wher. there is a joint rate on two or more 

 roads. The matter was brought before the com- 

 mission by W. J. Campbell of Oshkosh. 



A. i'. McComb of Oshkosh recently dispose. 1 



of i" acres of lands in Iron county to the 



Hamilton-Smith Company, a trust company and 



others of Chicago. The sale price was $100, 



The lauds are located near Hurley, on the <\ ..V 

 N.-W. Ry.j and are covered with a growth of 

 red birch, maple ami scattering pin... Mr. Mc- 

 Comb has two other tracts of hardwood in the 

 same county, one of 3,200 acres, the other of 

 0,000. He also has a tract of 2.500 in Gogebic 

 county, Michigan. The reason be is disposing of 

 his north, rn Wisconsin holdings is that he has 

 become heavily interested in the South, lie has 

 bought 126,000 acres of oak and hickory lands in 

 White county, Arkansas, which it is estimated 

 will cut 200,000,000 feet of timber. He has 

 ...in.- cypress holdings iu Florida and a sawmill 

 at West Point, Ark. 



The Black River Falls Lumber & Mercantile 

 Association has let a contract to Horace Ball 

 and Sol I'aquette to cut about 250,000 feet of 



hardw 1 on Morrison creek. This will be the 



lasi lumber cm in Jackson county. 



When w 1 1. Connor of Marshfield, Wiscon- 

 sin's new lieutenant governor, is not mixing iu 

 politics lie is attending strictly- to his extensive 

 iiusiin ss Though reputed to be a millionaire. 

 he .Ions a ma. kinaw jacket and woodsman's rub- 

 bers and makes the rounds of his dozen or more 

 .amps, mingling with the •'lumberjacks" and 

 eating camp cooking. His company will this 

 winter cut 20,000,000 feet of mixed timber at 

 its nine camps mar l.a.ma and several millions 

 more near Stratford and other places. 



Co. M. Maxson, who lately retired as man- 

 ager of the Girard Lumber Company's interests 

 ,ii Dunbar, has formed a co-partnership with 

 Win. 10. and Finnic A'. Cooper of Milwaukee and 



they hav ganized the Cooper & Maxson Lum- 



i.ei Company, with headquarters in the latter 

 . in The capital stock is $25,000. 



Ashland. 



The various tributaries of the iilii... including 

 the Guyandotte and Big Sandy rivers, are on 



quite a rise in consequence of rt nt heavy 



rains. There is a small output of timber, which 



was left stranded by the r nt rise hi these 



two st renins. The local millmen hope to have 

 lumber ready for shipment by March 1 from 

 their present cutting, but as it is stocks are 

 so broken that orders are refused every day, 

 and thing- mingly at a standstill iu 



local markets. 



John F. Daniels of Catlettsburg has closed 

 a big timber deal, buying up all the timber of 

 William and Grant Thornburg on the Elkhorn 

 and that ..f Bentley & Belcher in the Big 

 Sandy. Mr. Daniel lias already disposed of 

 the timber iu the Big San.h . 



Articles of incorporation have been tiled at 

 Frankfort by Hie Radburn Heading & Lumber 

 Manufacturing Company of Rowan county. The 

 capita] stock is $6,000 and the incorporators are 

 W. B. Whitt, M. T. Dillon and J. P. Wbitt. 



John A. Bentley of Pikeville has sold to the 

 General Lumber Company a large tract of tim- 

 ber. Consideration is sin. 



Rush F. Williamson of Catlettsburg has ac- 

 cepted a position with the Ohio Valley Lumber 

 Company as manager of their vast interests oil 

 t he Kent in ky river. 



The Probst-Beggs Furniture Company of 

 Huntington. \y. Ya., has been incorporated to 

 i.wn real estate tor warehouses, lumber yards, 

 factories, etc., and to manufacture furniture. 

 Capital. $100,000. Incorporators: George X. 

 Biggs, Mrs. S. G. Biggs of Huntington. Lewis 

 Probst, George I Probst and Charles McKnight 

 of Pomeroy, (l. This furniture factory will be 

 quite a large one and work will begin on same 

 iu the early spring. 



Herbert Hayward has resigned his position 

 with the Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Com- 

 pany to accept a more lucrative oue with a 

 lumber company at Battle Creek, Mich. Before 

 leaving Kenova he gave a dinner party to a 

 number of friends at the Hotel Frederick in 

 Huntington, W. Va. 



Louisville. 



W. I*. Brown & Sons Lumber Company have 

 bad a splendid year iu hardwood. They have 

 handled considerably more lumber than ever 



l..re in Hie same time and are well pleased 

 with the bright outlook. 



Barry Norman of the Ohio River Sawmill 

 Company seems to he well satisfied with the 

 year's work. They make a practice of running 

 their mill here double shift, and iu addition to 

 what they manufacture themselves, handle a 

 lot of hardw l lumber of all kinds. 



A. P. 'Turner & Co. is one of the new ex- 

 clusively hardwood lumber concerns in Louis- 

 ville, with office in the South Louisville Bank 

 building. This concern is composed of .T. E. 



Buscher and A. I'. Turner, who were formerly 

 connected with the Louisville Spoke & Bend- 

 ing Company. They have several mills cut- 

 ting for them in the country and are now fig- 

 uring on quite a large tract of timber on 

 which they expect to put a good mill, to which 

 tiny may also add saws for making quarter 

 sawn veneer. They are a little slow at present 

 about accepting orders, as they don't wain to 

 get loaded up with work they cannot furnish, 

 but are gradually spreading out at the pro- 

 ducing end. Both are good practical lumber- 

 men, know what they are doing, what timber 

 will make, and how to cut it to the best ad- 

 vantage. 



A. 10. Norman says the hardwood business 

 with him is pretty much to the good. It has 

 been a good year all through and Hie outlook 

 ahead is splendid. 



The Jacob Kraus Carriage Works is to move 

 from Lexington to Louisville and will add one 

 nor. to Hie local hardwood consuming factors, 

 of which this year lias brought a fair number. 

 The new consumers, in the list of which there 

 is a novelty works, ear works and flooring 

 plant, have raised the hardwood consumptive 

 requirements of this city about 5.000,000 feet 

 annually. Thej are now estimated at 200,000,- 



llllll feel 



Minneapolis. 



Halsi d <x Booraem, who have been conduct 

 ing a who:.. sale hardwood business at Si. An- 

 thony Park, a suburb between the two cities, 

 have opened offices at 305 Lumber Exchange, 

 this .ity. iron: which they will sell a full line 



of hardw 1 stocks, both northern and southern. 



! i. \ are representatives in this section of the 

 Fullerton I'owell Hardwood Lumber Company, of 

 South Bend, 1 ml. 



F. M. Bartelme, the local hardwood whole- 

 saler, will move about Feb. 1 from bis present 

 offices in the Ambus building to a more commo- 

 dious suite on Hie eighth floor of the Security 

 Bank building, better suited to the needs of his 

 expanding business. -Mr. Bartelme says he is 

 finding an active demand for dry stock, rather 

 heavier in Chicago and other points than here. 

 He thinks the small mills are holding their next 

 year's cut rather loo high. 



10. 1'aysou Smith, of the Tayson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company, is iu northern Minnesota looking 

 at some pine stocks. This company has ex- 

 panded in the last two years, and where it 

 formerly carried nothing but southern hardwood, 

 chiefly oak and poplar, and southern pine, it 

 cow handles a full line of northern hardwood, 

 also pine and hemlock lumber and lath. A. S. . 

 Bliss, of the same company, says they are en- 

 joying an excellent run of business, and their 

 only complaint is the difficulty in making ship- 

 ments from southern mills. 



D. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, says their 

 yard trade is beginning to pick up, and dry 

 stock is scarce in nearly everything. The chief 

 interest now seems to be in securing options and 

 contracts for green lumber still in the log. 



Minneapolis lumber shipments for the year 

 just closed, according to the railroad reports. 

 came to a total of 324,048,000 feet. In 1905 

 the total was 349.360.000. As the production 

 here feli off about 72,000,000 feet, it would look 

 like a great scarcity of stock, but for the fact 

 that this was also partly balanced by increased 

 receipts, amounting to 201,760.000 feet, as 

 against 107.312,000 feet received in 1905. The 

 lumber cut of the Minneapolis mills for the year 

 was 297.112,811 feet, and 53.717.850 lath. The 

 1905 cut was 368,947,000 feet of lumber and 

 65,699,000 lath. 



Building activity for the year was the heav- 

 iest known, as shown by the building inspector's 

 total of permits. The estimated cost of build- 

 ings authorized was $9,432,300. not including 

 permits for plumbing, heating and electrical 

 apparatus. The record for 1905, another big 

 year, was $8,905,205. 



