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ber Company. In addition to this a factory 

 120x100 feet will be built in the spring and a 

 warehouse 60x100 feet, both two stories. 



Aside from the scarcity of labor, logging oper- 

 ations were never more favorable in northern 

 Wisconsin than at present. 



The Wisconsin Box Company and the Wausau 

 Land Company, both Wausau concerns, have 

 consolidated under the firm name of the first 

 mentioned. The capital stock has been increased 

 to $210,000. With the transfer of the latter 

 company's stock is included 10,000 acres of 

 timber lands. The box company, in addition to 

 manufacturing all kinds of boxes, deals largely 

 in hardwood lumber, dressed and undressed. 



Fifteen miles of railroad will be built in the 

 vicinity of Athens for the purpose of giving an 

 outlet to millions of feet of timber which will 

 be cut, hauled to and sawed in the Upham mill 

 in Marshfield. 



The E. E. Winch stave and heading plant in 

 Clark county has been purchased by Messrs. 

 McBride and Montague of Cairo. 111. 



Ashland. 



The Southern Timber Land & Mineral Com- 

 pany of Nashville has bought from the Conti- 

 nental Realty Company 52,000 acres of coal and 

 timber lands in Breathitt, Knox and Perry coun- 

 ties, Kentucky, for sums ranging from $800,000 

 to $1,000,000. The land involved in the deal 

 lies principally on the proposed extension of 

 the Louisville & Nashville railroad and is the 

 richest land in coal and timber in eastern Ken- 

 tucky's mountains. The Commercial Realty 

 Company will invest the money made on this 

 sale in other eastern Kentucky coal and timber 

 lands. The purchasing cbrnpany will clear the 

 land of its timber and establish large sawmills 

 on the tracts as they are cleared. 



A company has been formed at West Liberty. 

 Morgan county, to begin at once the develop- 

 ment of timber and coal tracts, with a capital 

 of $300,000. Delaware people are at the head 

 of the company, which owns about 5,000 acres 

 of land in Morgan county, containing several 

 million feet of oak, poplar, hemlock and ash 

 timber. The company will build a large sawmill 

 to handle the timber. 



Henry Osborn, a timberman of Catlettsburg, 

 Ky., 'died lately from pneumonia, contracted in 

 taking up logs during the late rise. Mr. Osborn 

 was 38 years old. He leaves a wife and two 

 children. 



The January high water caused the loss of 

 much property to West Virginia timbermen. 

 The Elk Lick lumber railway sustained a loss 

 of $2,000 in damage done to their trestles. The 

 Otter Creek mill lost about $1,000 in "damaged 

 trestles and lumber washed away. The mills 

 along Dry Fork were also heavy losers. 



A fine son has arrived at the home of Mr. 

 and Mrs. T. N. Fannin. 



Charleston, W. Va. 



The recent heavy tide brought out consider- 

 able timber, but nearly all of it belongs to the 

 mills in Ashland and vicinity. Even with the 

 present supply stocks of poplar are exceedingly 

 short and nearly all mills have all the orders 

 they can handle for some time to come. Wide 

 panel and No. 1 poplar are bringing top prices, 

 with very little on hand. 



Low-grade poplar suitable for crating and 

 boxes is out of the market, being shipped out 

 just as fast as sufficient quantity to make a car- 

 load accumulates. 



Good oak and chestnut are in active demand. 



Among recent visitors to this section were 

 John H. Jenks and J. L. Sands of the Robert H. 

 .Tenks Lumber Company and W. A. Cool and 

 E. L. French of W. A. Cool & Son, Cleveland. 

 Ohio. 



W. M. Ritter of Columbus, accompanied by 

 Harry Derne, superintendent of the Panther op- 

 erations of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 passed through Charleston recently, after a trip 

 to the Raleigh plant. 



Toledo. 



Ben Johnson has taken the management of 

 the T. H. Clark Lumber Company at Mount Ver- 

 min. O., for the J. M. Hastings Lumber Company 

 of Pittsburg. Mr. Johnson was formerly in 

 charge of the Toledo business for the Chicago 

 Coal & Lumber Company of St. Louis. 



Ulysses Brout of Leatherwood, O., owner of 

 sawmill interests, was killed by a tree falling 

 nil him January 20 while sawing timber near 

 Stryker, O. 



F. I. Reynolds and W. E. Reynolds of Win- 

 throp, Me., were recently in this section inspect- 

 ing handle factories with a view to erecting a 

 factory in Maine to cut from a big tract in that 

 state. They reported that ash can be purchased 

 for one third what it can here. 



Watson Hubbard, aged 88 years, who a half 

 century ago went to the frontier to develop 

 Michigan timber lands, died on January 31 at 

 his residence in Sandusky, O. 



The plant of the old Miami Planing Mill Com- 

 pany, which has been occupied for some time 

 by the Ephart Lumber Company, has been leased 

 by J. P. McAfee, who will organize a new com- 

 pany to operate the plant. 



The Spencerville Hoop Company recently pur- 

 chased a tract of elm timber north of Delpbos, 

 O., paying $3,000. 



The Lumbermen's Bureau of Credit Company 

 held its annual meeting and banquet on the 201 h 

 of last month. Fourteen local concerns were 

 represented at the meeting, the banquet table at 

 the Valentine Cafe seating twenty-eight. There 

 was no change in the official board of the com- 

 pany. 



C. L. Barnes left, on the 4th for a trip to the 

 Pacific coast. The concern of Barnes & Mauk is 

 a big dealer in cedar shingles. 



G. B. Stine was home for a few days this 

 week from Belcher, Ark. On his return trip he 

 was accompanied by his wife and two children, 

 who will remain in the Southwest for some 

 time. 



Elisha Sarnes, of Elmore, O., has sold his 

 sawmill to E. II. Fall of Port Clinton, O. 



B. F. Wagoner has decided to remove his 

 sawmill at Milton Center, O., to Virginia, where 

 he has large timber interests. 



S. T. Winegardner has sold his lumber yard, 

 planing mill and sawmill at Harrod, O., to S. 

 B. Miller. 



G. W. Fox & Co. wil open a new planing mill 

 at Forest, O., also enlarging their yard facili- 

 ties. 



Calvin Spitler has been appointed receiver of 

 the property of A. Bruner & Sons at Tiffin. 

 Gibsonburg, Napoleon and Defiance, this state, 

 and Newport, Mich. 



The Price Lumber Company of Fremont, O.. 

 elected the following officers at its annual meet- 

 ins; a couple of weeks ago: President, George 

 Wehrung ; vice president, A. H. Jackson ; treas- 

 urer, J. M. Sherman : secretary, J. Youngman ; 

 manager, L. S. McGormley. 



HardWood Market. 



fields for supplies for spring business. In fact, 

 more effort is being made to supplement depleted 

 stocks than to sell. The prevailing opinion con- 

 cerning the demand for the coming season is 

 that it will be the strongest buying year, at the 

 highest prices, that the hardwood industry has 

 ever known. 



Boston. 



The hardwood market in this vicinity is not 

 active, yet in the aggregate the volume of 

 new business is fair. Prices are firm. Many 

 buyers who have been holding out of the mar- 

 ket for several weeks are now making inquiries 

 and few are refusing to buy when good dry 

 stock is offered, although in some instances 

 they feel that prices are too high to permit of 

 Imying in a large way in anticipation of their 

 wants. Furniture manufacturers are fairly 

 busy and are constantly in the market for sup- 

 plies. Manufacturers of house finish are also 

 busy. 



The principal feature of this market is ash. 

 Prices have materially advanced of late under 

 a good demand and short supplies. The lar- 

 gest handlers of white ash report that the de- 

 mand exceeds the supply. But little one inch 

 stock can be had at less than $55 and two-inch 

 stock and larger is even firmer. The call for 

 brown ash is also good with prices firm, due 

 to small offerings of desirable stock. Wbitewood 

 is another wood showing increased strength. 

 Several buyers are considering using substitutes 

 for this wood, owing to the high level of val- 

 ues. Stocks are small on spot, and offerings of 

 dry stock from mills are not large. There is a 

 very fair call for basswood. Western white 

 pine is exceedingly firm and prices are advanc- 

 ing. A fair call for mahogany is reported. 

 Cypress is firm with the demand fair. Plain 

 oak is moving in a moderate way. Quotations 

 for one-inch, ones and twos, range from $55 

 to $57. Offerings are not large and dealers 

 show no disposition to make concessions in 

 order In secure orders. Quartered oak remains 

 firm, on a higher level ; one-inch is quoted at 

 $80 i" $85, according to shipper. Elm is not 

 active. Maple is in moderate request. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



months that the Chicago call for hardwoods 

 in nearly all varieties has not been active. IIow- 

 ever, the lull is only temporary, and with good 

 weather a continued strong demand is certain. 

 Local dealers are hustling in all the producing 



Chicago. 



The heavy snows and stormy weather of the 



last few days have contributed materially to the 



lessening of the hardwood demand locally. As 



a matter of fact, it is the first time in many 



New York. 



Local hardwood conditions continue strong and 

 reports indicate a strong and active market, 

 including the usual spring trade. The salient 

 feature continues to be the shortage in supplies 

 of the better grades of hardwoods, with prices 

 accordingly bullish. During the past thirty 

 days prices on the better grades have moved up 

 from $1 to $3 per thousand, due to the scarcity 

 at mill points and the consequent opportunity 

 for good profits. Buyers returning home all 

 bring the same story of short stocks and high 

 prices, the only accumulation of stocks being 

 due to inability to move them, but mill points 

 are practically cleaned up of unsold stock. 

 Those local dealers and buyers of hardwoods 

 who have been farsighted enough to accumulate 

 their winter and spring wants are congratulat- 

 ing themselves, for there is a large demand still 

 unfilled. 



The conditions above noted are particularly 

 striking in connection with poplar, oak, ash, 

 chestnut and birch, in all of which the move- 

 ment is such as to keep stocks in shipping con- 

 dition absorbed pretty much to the limit. But 

 perhaps the best feature of the situation is the 

 fact that current conditions are not fictitious in 

 any sense, but are due to weather conditions 

 which have long been decidedly unfavorable to 

 securing timber. Poplar is particularly scarce. 

 Ash is practically out of the market, and the 

 balance of the list is ruling very firm, with good 

 call all along the line. Maple, which has been 

 sluggish for some time past, is showing increased 

 activity, and thick stock from three inches up 

 is going to be a mighty scarce article between 

 now and spring. The whole situation is in 

 very good shape for this season of the year. 



