HARDWOOD RECORD 



3i 



Louisville. 



The flood has crept up and poked its nose into 

 the sawmills on the Point and told the operators 

 thereon in silent but Impressive language to take 

 a little vacation. Fortunately most of the mills 

 have practically cut out their winter log supply 

 and had expected to shut down on account of 

 cold weather along about this time, so things 

 are not so had as they might !"•. There am 

 some logs in boom, and millmen are having their 

 hands full to take care lest they get scattered, 

 although they fee] thai they can handle them. 

 Tli" river is siill rising, ami if it continues there 

 will be trouble among the lumber yards on the 

 Point. Already the Tyler Box Company is hav- 

 ing to move about .",.",0,000 feci whieh they had 

 yarded <"t tie' river side of their factory. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company say 

 that they only had a tew logs left on hand when 

 the Hood eame and have these under pretty good 

 control. 



Kirwan Brothers, who are farthest up the 

 river on the highest ground, were the last to 

 close down. 



C. C. Mengcl & Brother Company are getting 

 in mahogany' at a fair rate and keep running 

 the mill pretty steadily. They are cutting on a 

 cargo at this writing and have another coming; 

 everything is working smoothly with a splendid 

 di mand for mahogany. 



Tie Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company 

 reports good sales and Mr. Garland, who has 

 charge of the up town office, says (hat consider- 

 ing t lie time they have been in business they 

 have built up a splendid trade. In fact, the 

 yolume of the business has reached the point 

 now where they feel the necessity of enlarging 

 and they are preparing to put in a resaw and 

 some additional machines. 



Albert R. Kampf says that ear stock prices 

 and all other hardwood prices are going higher 

 titan anybody predicted earlier in the season. 

 He is well pleased with the market hut is up 

 against the same trouble in the woods that 

 everybody else is having to contend with — too 

 much water and mud. 



B. M. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber 

 I !i rnpany says that they have quite a lot of 

 lumber tied up back in the woods, a stream 

 intervening between it and the railroad which 

 is at present impassable, and they don't know- 

 just when they can haul in more stock. 



H. J. Gates of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo. N. Y.. is in Louisville for a 

 short stay and is making an effort to ship out 

 the balance of the lumber they have in their 

 yard here, but is considerably handicapped in 

 the work by lack of cars. 



ing to the last report, a bed was erected at the 

 mill, where be was being cared for. 



\v. W. Magoon, recently of C. Crane & Co., 

 Cincinnati, has been made general superintendent 

 of the Camden interstate Street Railway Com- 

 pany, a position whieh he held once before. 



Ashland. 



Flood conditions prevail all over this section. 

 The Ohio, Big Sandy and Guyandotte rivers all 

 being very high, and thousands of logs will he 

 lost. The iUnited States Gas Company's main 

 broke at Hanging Rock, Ohio, about seventy live 

 feet from the Ohio shore, and the escaping gas 

 threw a volume of water thirty feet into the 

 air, sending saw logs, etc., in every direction. 



The river mills are all under water, and the 

 damage to some will he great. Perhaps the Yel- 

 low Poplar Lumber Company will suffer the 

 greatest loss, as their whole plant and yards 

 are flooded and a number of their tenement 

 houses are covered clear out of sight. 



The Leicht Sawmill Company's plant is in 

 bad shape, and .Mr. Leicht estimates the loss to 

 machinery alone will be $2,000. The loss to the 

 W. IL Dawkins Lumber Company and Vansant, 

 Kitchen & Co. will be slight, as their lumber 

 is all secured. 



King Dawson, a prominent lumberman of 

 Ft. Gay, W. Ya., was at work in his mill at' 

 Drag, W. Va., when one of the cylinder beads of 

 the engine blew out, knocking out one of his 

 eyes, badly mutilating his face and bruising 

 his arms. lie was so badly injured that he 

 could not be removed to his home, and, accord- 



Toledo. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 



1 n filed against A. Bruner & Sons of Tiffin, 



Ohio, manufacturers of hoop avi and crates. 

 It is alleged that the concern has an indebted- 

 ness of $75,000 and that the assets will not 



total more than S to, 000. The concern has 1 n 



operating a factory at Tiffin, one at Napoleon. 

 Ohio, one at Gibsonburg, Ohio, and one at New- 

 port. .Mich. Besides the plants, the petition 

 makes mention of considerable manufactured 

 stock on hand, logs and other material, thirteen 

 teams of horses. w 7 agons, harness, etc. 



The Davidson Lumber Company is the lat- 

 est accession to the local lumber fraternity. 

 It has opened an office at 527 Nasby building. 

 For the present the firm will handle poles and 

 posls, having contracted for the output from 

 a tract in northern Michigan. Later the con- 

 cern expects to handle a general line of lum- 

 ber 



Frank Hafer was last week elected a direc- 

 tor in the Milburn Wagon Company, succeed- 

 ing A. L. Mills, resigned. The company held 

 its annual meetine, last w T eek, re-electing the 

 old list of officers and directors, with the ex- 

 ception as stated above. 



Frederick A. Turnbull, formerly a member 

 of the Turnbull Wagon Company, at Defiance, 

 Ohio, died at La Porte, Ind., where he estab- 

 lished a large wheel works after leaving De- 

 lia in.. 



William T. Hubbard, the largest hardwood 

 dealer in Toledo, last week sold a part inter- 

 est in an important piece of down-town realty 

 for ,f:o,000. 



David Trotter, of the firm of David Trot- 

 ter & Co.. returned from the South last Sat- 

 urday after spending a month among lumber 

 mills In that part of the country. 



J. G. Kuehnle & Co., manufacturers of in- 

 terior finish, will make improvements at their 

 plant which will increase the capacity fully 



third. New sheds will be built and about 



a dozen new machines will be installed. The 

 company uses large quantities of plain red 

 and quarter-sawed white oak and birch. 



The flood in the upper section of the Mau- 

 mee river during the past several days caused 

 the plant of the Turnbull Wagon Company, 

 .11 Defiance, to be closed down, the water fore- 

 ing its way into the tire rooms. The Aspacher 

 lumber mills in North Defiance were also put 

 under water, while the plant of the Toledo 

 Wheelbarrow Company, located at the same 

 place, suffered likewise. 



The Robert Hixon Lumber Company, whieh 

 operates more than a dozen country yards 



throughout this secti f the country and 



which has its central office in Toledo, last 

 week closed a deal for the purchase of the 

 yard of A. J. Mason & Son, at Butler, Ind. 



Wausau. 



The Murphy Lumber Company's mill at Green 

 Bay bas been sold. This much is given out for 

 publication by A. M. Murphy, manager, bin 1 be 

 purchasers arc not mentioned. When the mill 

 closed down recentlj Mr. Murphy stated that a 

 deal would be made with lumbermen owning 



enough hardw 1 timber to keep the plant in 



operation for ten years. 



Geo. Tinetti, who has charge of the Shirland 

 Lumber Company's yards in Shirland, 111., is 

 confined to his home in Mosinee with an attack 

 of malarial fever. 



C. A. Johnson, of Marshfield, representing 

 ilc G. W. Jones Lumber Company, of Appleton, 

 left this week for Kentucky to look over a 10,- 



acre tract of hardwood and coal lands. He 



will be- absent from home six weeks. 



loci. Sutter has sold bis interests in the Ath- 



ens Manufacturing Company. Athens, to the 

 company. lie win devote his lime in the in 

 ture to the management of a bub facti ry, which 

 he- and others will start in operation about 

 February 1. 



The Wisconsin & Northern railway, which is 

 in process of building between Shawano and 

 Crandou, will open the finest hardwood bell in 



the state. It is estimated that thei'e is .".. , 



ono, oon let of timber in that section practically 

 undisturbed by an ax. 



Tbe Stange-Ellis Lumber Company was re 

 cently Incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. The incorporators are 1:. \y. Ellis, 

 Guy (i. BabCOCk and K. .1. Wood. The presi- 

 dent is A. W. Stange of Merrill ; vice president 

 and manager, 10. W. Ellis of Grand Rapids; C. 

 .1. Kinzel of Merrill is secretary and treasurer. 

 The company will erect a factory in Grand 

 Iiapids in the spring, and expects to be manu- 

 facturing by July 1. 



A deal involving the purchase of a whole 

 town, including water works and sewer sys 

 tern, 15,000 acres of land on which is 150,000,- 

 000 feet of hardwood, was consummated n 

 cently by W. 11. Hatten and W. II. Pick of 

 New London. The property is located at Phil 

 lips. Miss., on tbe Illinois Central railway. 

 Besides the railroad the owmrs will have ship- 

 ping facilities on tin- Tallahatchie river to 

 Vicksburg and New Orleans. 'Tbe timber is 

 mostly oak. 



A new corporation, to be known as the Tal- 

 bot Lumber Company, has been formed by tin 

 Peirizo Bros, of Daggett, to manage the affairs 

 of the old Lily Lumber Company of Talbot 

 The property taken over by the new concern 

 consists of a sawmill, store building ami twenty 

 dwelling houses. 



The Lloyd .Manufacturing Company of Min- 

 neapolis, which lias a plant in Marinette, is 

 operating tie- same at present in making hard 

 wood novelties. 



One of the largest deals in timber made in 



the state in r nl years was consummated in 



Milwaukee January 19, when the Ashland Iron 

 & Steel Company purchased 50.000 acres of 

 hardwood timber in Northern Wisconsin from 

 the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen. 

 It was concluded by Geo. E. Foster for the Fos 

 ter-Latlmer Company and Wm. C. Sharp of 

 Elyria, Ohio, for the steel company. The hit 

 ter, which is headed by Jos. II. Berny of lie 

 licit. .Mich., now controls 200,000 acres of 

 timber land in northern Wisconsin. 



Tbe stockholders of the newly organized 

 Louisiana Land Company met recently in Marsh- 7 

 field and completed its organization by electing 

 a board of seven directors anil the following of- 

 ficers : President, G. W. Albn of Loyal; vice 

 president, J. F. Teaman; secretary, M. C. 

 Fleckensteinj treasurer, J. C. Marsh. The latter 

 three arc Marshfield men. The company is cap 

 italizcd at $100,000 and owns a large tract of 

 land in Louisiana, on which are several million 

 fi et of oak, whieh it is proposed to manufac- 

 ture Into barrel stock mostly. The tract will 

 In- surveyed into quarter sections. 



The Shawano Lumber Company, Shawano, at 

 its annual meeting, elected Leandcr Choate, 

 Oshkosh, president; John Black, Shawano, vice 

 president ; J.' J. St'eiger, Oshkosh, secretary ; 

 Jos. Black, Shawano, treasurer and manager. 

 Tbe company purchased C. w. Magee's stock.' 

 Ilc owned a quarter Interest and received $1S,- 



000 for the same. Several improvements in the 

 conn, any's plant are contemplated iii the near 

 t'ut nrc. 



W. D. Connor of Marshfield, head of the R. 

 Connor company and lieutenant governor of 



1 he state, has taken up bis residence in Madi- 

 ■ i.ii during the session of the legislature. 



Representative W. E. Brown has introduced 

 a bill in Congress providing for the cutting of 

 all limber on certain portions of the Menom- 

 inee Indian reservation, in Wisconsin. Od 

 July lit. 1905, a cyclone blew down from 15 to 

 _'n per cent of the standing timber on about 



