HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A. C. McComb. formerly of Tomah, has pur- 

 chased S,000 acres of land in Missouri. The 

 lands, it is estimated, will cut 50,000,000 feet 

 of yellow pine and 20.00,000 of red oak. The 

 stumpage value is $:: per thousand, and the 

 Frisco Railway Companj is building a branch 

 line toward the tract. 



Geo. Richards of Gresham lias purchased a 

 saw mill located in the hardwoo'd country 

 surrounding Boudriel. 



R. J. Morgan of Antigo lias entered the em- 

 ploy of the Brandt Lumber Company of Min- 

 neapolis as purchasing agent and will make 

 his headquarters in las limn-' town. 



A. Kuckuk of Shawano 'and rive utln-r pit-sons 



recently purchased T. I acres of oak lands in 



Arkansas. They will not log it for the present. 



The C. A. Goodyear Lumber Company of 

 Tomah recently doubled its capital stock. 



Edward Daskam of Antigo recently sold fiSO 

 acres of hardwood lands in Langlade county 

 i" Edward Kirburger, for which he received 

 $11,580. The lands are situated near a new 

 railway that is building. 



The Upham Manufacturing Company of 

 Marshfield has established camps and started 

 the winter's work of cutting and skidding logs. 

 The company manufactures furniture mostly. 



The Scott & Howe Lumber Company of 

 Hurley is increasing the capacity of its mill 

 by building an addition. 



The Stevens Lumber Company will cut about 

 10,000,000 feet of timber this winter near Par- 

 ish. A large portion of this is hardwood, and 

 the logs will be hauled by rail and sawed in 

 the company's mill in Rhinelander. 



The Robbins Lumber Company of Rhine- 

 lander is fitting a plant for the manufacture 

 of matched maple flooring. A dry kiln 100x40 

 is also being erected of cement blocks. 



A. E. Beebee of McMillan, secretary of the 

 Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion, has been elected to represent the First 

 Assembly district of Marathon county. Both 

 by native ability and training Mr. Beebee is 

 qualified to fulfill splendidly the duties of his 

 new office. The Hardwood Record congratu- 

 lates him. 



Geo. E. Foster of the Foster-Latimer Lum- 

 ber Company, Mellen, Wis., is absent on an 

 eastern business trip and is expected to return 

 about Nov. 20. 



Louisville. 



A new hardwood company has been formed 

 here, the McLean-Davis Lumber Company, 

 which has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $220,000. This new company repre- 

 sents a combination of the interests of Ed- 

 ward L. Davis Lumber Company, the Berry- 

 Davis Saw Mill Company, and one plant of 

 the Hugh McLean Lumber Company. The 

 officers of the companj are: W. A. McLean, 

 president; Edward L. Davis, vice president 

 and general manager; C. M. Sears, treasurer, 

 and J. A. Struck, secretary. The mills in- 

 volved in the new deal are the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, at Highland Park, all the 

 mills and property of the Davis Lumber -Com- 

 pany, and the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com- 

 pany. It does not affect the wood mosaic 

 branch of the Hugh McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany at New Albany. Ind., of which TV'. A. 

 McLean is manager, merely taking over the 

 mill on the Kentucky side and putting it 

 under the management of the new combina- 

 tion, with Mr. Davis as manager. The Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company retained the stock 

 of lumber on the yard and Mr. J. W. Gates 

 is now located here for a month or two 

 to look after the marketing and shipping of 

 it. The transfer of the property was com- 

 pleted the first of the month, and is now in 

 full charge of the new company, which will 

 maintain its office under the new name at the 

 old stand of the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com- 

 pany and the Edward L. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Tin- iaw Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany, mention of which has been made here- 

 iii'iiv begins operations this week with two 

 raw Woods flooring machines. The dry kiln 

 is not completed at this writing, but the ma- 

 Chines are making their initial run. and in 

 tin' course of another week or two the plant 

 will be going full blast as a material addition 

 to 1 in local hardwood manufacturing inter- 

 ests. 



Another new addition to the hardwood con- 

 suming trade here is the Continental Car & 

 Equipment Company, which has a new plant 

 at Highland Park. This company will make a 

 specialty of mining cars and other light cars, 

 and it is said it has already placed an order 

 liu' a half million feet of car oak, adding not 

 only to the local consuming trade, but to the 

 general demand for car material. 



J. T. Morgan & Co. say that these are busy 

 days with them at their hardwood yard. Cur- 

 rent sales, they say. are fairly good. 



Albert R. Kampf reports inquiries for hard- 

 wood not only good at home, but are showing 

 a considerably better tone from abroad. 



Edward L. Davis says the hardwood market 

 is in pretty good shap9 and there's nothing to 

 complain of on that score. They have. been 

 hampered some by adverse weather conditions 

 down at a mill they are erecting in the coun- 

 try, but on the whole are getting along very 

 nicely. 



Minneapolis. 



A new company has been organized with 

 headquarters in this city, tor the manufac- 

 ture of veneer staves from birch and other 

 hardwoods, by the J. J. Russell patent. Stave 

 mills will be established in northern Wiscon- 

 sin and a barrel factory here. Some well- 

 known lumbermen are financing the proposi- 

 tion. The company is called the Uniform 

 Stave & Package Company, and is capitalized 

 for $41111.000. J. B. Burkholder. George E. 

 Adams, E. H. Mathes, J. J. Russell and M. J. 

 Bell are the incorporators. 



An enormous amount of hardwood has been 

 worked up in Minneapolis this fall, most of it 

 for interior finish in the buildings being hur- 

 ra <l to completion. The local consumption of 

 lumber lias been so great that a much greater 

 proportion is coming from outside, and the re- 

 ceipts of lumber as reported by railroad com- 

 panies entering here were over 20,000,000 feet 

 for the month of October alone. Last year 

 they were less than 14,000,000 feet for the 

 same month. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from a successful 

 business trip to Chicago and Mississippi river 

 territory. IK' has been confined at home for 

 a few days with a severe cold since his re- 

 turn. A. S. Bliss of the same company re- 

 ports that their fall sales have been heavy, 

 and if they sold no more lumber between now 



and tin- first of th'' year, they would still i" 

 making a record in the matter of shipments. 

 They find a brisk demand in this territory, 

 but an even better sale in eastern centers. 



A. W. Sumner of St. Louis, Mo., represent- 

 ing the Massengale Lumber Company of that 

 place, was in this city a. few days ago calling 

 mi line yard headquarters and factory buyers. 



The Mercer-De l.aittre Lumber Company, re- 

 cently organized with headquarters at 309 

 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, has com- 

 menced to build a hardwood and hemlock mill 

 ii Bass Lake. Mich., on the Northwestern 

 road near Choat, in the upper peninsula. It 

 will be in good shape for shipping stock, and 

 has an ample stumpage to run a number of 

 years, both in hardwood and hemlock. 



A. F. Hein of tin' John Hein Lumber Com- 

 pany, hardwood manufacturers at Tony, Wis., 

 was in town a few days ago looking into tin- 

 market situation. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Ruby Lumber Company has been 

 at Ruby, Wis., looking into conditions there, 

 and especially with regard to the coming win- 

 ter's logging. They have the product of tin' 

 mill there sold for some time ahead. 



The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company of 

 St. Paul, which has a big hardwood distribut- 

 ing yard in that city, reports that the Fred 

 Nelson mill at St. Croix Falls, Wis., which 

 saws for the company exclusively, will run all 

 winter, having an ample supply of extra good 

 hardwood logs to be worked up. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesale firm, says their outside trade has 

 been good all fall, but is tapering off a little 

 now. Values are strong on yard stock and 

 on all factory lumber but birch. 



Toledo. 



I'll.' I'.i win Cooperage Company of Bryan, O.. 

 was incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000 recently by Aaron T. Vail, E. A. 

 Brecker, Joseph W. Vail, Clement V. Hoke 

 ami W. 11. Osborn. 



Rowland Starr of Barbour & Starr is spend- 

 ing a few weeks at Bellamy, Ala., where the 

 concern has large timber interests. 



Shealy & Stephan of LIpper Sandusky, O., 

 have completed their new planing mill and 

 yard and are busy turning out stock to care 

 for their extensive trade. 



George B. Stine of the Belcher-Stine Lum- 

 ber Company spent Sunday at his Toledo 

 home. Mr. Stine is looking after the firm's 

 interest at Belcher, Ark., and made a flying 

 trip home, returning via St. Paul. F. S. 

 Belcher, president of the company, and his 

 family have taken up residence at Portland, 

 Ore. The concern has large interests at Falls 

 City, that state. 



W. T. Hubbard, among Toledo's must prom- 

 inent hardwood dealers, spent tin- fore part 

 nf tin' week at Charleston, W. Va. 



HardWood Market, 



(By HAEDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Chicago. 



I!i. local tradi is strong. The demand for 

 nearly every variety of southern and northern 



woods is as g 1 ■' evei in tin- history of 



tin trade. While the average Chicago jobber 



fairly well stocked either in his home yard 

 or at grouping points north or south, still a 

 good many dealers arc chasing about the 

 sawmill district endeavoring to pick up odd 

 hits ni lumber with which to care for their 

 trade, Then Is everj prospect of the season's 

 business closing very strong. 



Boston. 



During the past two weeks tin local mar- 

 ket for hardwoods has shown a slight im- 



provement. During the past few weeks tin 



car shortage has ma been quite as pre unced 



as previously. Furniture manufacturers have 

 a good volume of luisiin ss on hand and are 

 working to their lull capacity getting out 

 goods for the holiday trade. Desk manufac- 

 turers are busy, ami two of the leading manu- 

 facturers have orders booked for several 

 months to come. Manufacturers of interior 

 finish are working on full time The yards 

 in this vicinity an- carrying fan- sized stocks. 

 'I'ln- demand for quartered oak cannot be 

 termed active. There is more inquiry for one 

 inch, ones and twos, at full market quota- 

 tions, but common moves slowly, with prices 

 unsettled. Plain oak in in verj good 'ill. with 

 desirable stocks in moderate offering only. 



