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mous, breaking all records, that the pace could 

 not be expected to be maintained. The reports 

 show a condition of healthful activity and indi- 

 cate that prosperity in the building line is to 

 continue. The high price of material and labor 



doubtless has the effect of curtailing present 



operations, particularly in cities where there is 

 no pressing demand for more buildings. 



Nov., Nov., Per Per 



1906, 1905, cent cent 



City — eost. cost. gain. loss. 



Atlanta $ 371,775 $ 32S.563 13 



Bridgeport .... 190,375 173.321 9 



Buffalo 54S.50O 668.865 . . IS 



Chicago 4,615.300 5,099,600 .. 9 



i leveland 808,027 6S2.740 18 



Chattanooga ... 62,175 152,582 .. 59 



Cincinnati 408,825 615,035 .. 33 



i uvenport 15,700 25,200 .. 37 



I .alias 142.732 124,622 14 



Denver 45S.155 1,051,835 .. 56 



I!es Moines 23,695 57.701 .. 59 



Detroit 722,200 853,400 .. 15 



Iluluth 132,586 115.960 14 



Grand Rapids .. 17S.694 160.439 11 



llarrisburg 75,550 39,420 92 



Hartford 219, SS5 192,925 14 



Kansas City ... 496.S10 773,990 .. 35 



Knoxville 104.386 S2.750 26 



Louisville 159.72.:. 533,670 .. 70 



Los Angeles ... 1,089,543 1,259.265 .. 13 



Manchester .'..: 101.090 48.350 110 



Milwaukee 925,242 858.425 8 



Minneapolis .... 549,130 438,360 25 



Memphis 30S.610 301,284 2 



Mobile 23.090 57,534 . . 59 



Nashville 131.07S 214,574 . . 3S 



New Haven :... 116,270 US, 480 1 



Newark 1,010,442 832,006 21 



New Orleans . . . 222.2S0 210,969 5 



Manhattan ... 4,031,425 7,814,252 .. 48 



Alteration ... 533,350 903.SO5 



Brooklyn 5.5S0.209 6,206.097 .. 10 



Bronx 1,937,500 2,625,735 .. 26 



Alteration ... 10,325 37,920 



New York 12,092,809 17.5S7.809 .. 31 



Omaha 357,175 406,250 . . 12 



Paterson 100.S49 76.871 31 



Pittsburg 1.062.772 1,182,265 .. 10 



Philadelphia . . . 2,013,615 2,699,765 .'. 25 



Pueblo 192,930 122,890 56 



Rochester 393.290 308,455 27 



St. Joseph 72.190 61.700 IS 



St. Louis 2,351,071 2,385,537 .. 1 



St. Paul 586,780 570.249 3 



San Antonio . . . 117,655 124.855 . . 5 



Scranton 191,770 154.SU) 24 



Seattle 600,628 - 364.892 65 



Spokane 252,515 336.480 .. 25 



South Bend 31,450 54,725 42 



Syracuse 336,850 273.560 23 



Topeka 35,860 6S.620 . . 48 



Toledo 163,050 17S,375 . . 8 



Tacoma 171.285 230.385 .. 25 



Wilkesbarre ... 72,093 99,025 .. 27 



Winnipeg 39S.600 265.400 50 



Total $35,807,107 $43,624,783 . . 17 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The trustee in bankruptcy of the Lansing 

 Veneered Door Company of Lansing, Mich., 

 acting on the report of appraisers, has asked 

 ieave to sell the property of the concern. The 

 total assets amount to over $15,000, and there 

 is a mortgage against the property for $22,000, 

 1 esides claims for labor and other liabilities. 



The Consolidated Timber Company and the 

 G. F. Sanborn Company, two of the largest 

 owners of timber lands in the Lake Superior 

 regions, have merged their interests and will 

 hereafter exist as one company. The Con- 

 solidated Company held 50,000 acres in Hough- 

 ton, Ontonagon and Iron counties, Michigan, 

 and the Sanborn Company owned 200.000 acres, 

 mostly hardwood lands, in northern Wisconsin 

 ".nd upper Michigan. The capitalization of the 

 combined interests will be $1,500,000. 



The . boiler house and connecting tramways 



of the Biggs Cypress Company, Ltd., of Pat- 

 terson, La., were destroyed by fire on Nov. 25. 

 The loss is covered by insurance. 



Neil. Patterson & Co. of Illinois have pur- 

 chased the Mitchell sawmills north of Clarks- 

 ville. Tex., and will take charge of the prop- 

 erty at once. They have also acquired a large 

 tract of hardwood timberland in that vicin- 

 ity. Extensive improvements to the mill prop- 

 erties are contemplated. 



The Consolidated Handle Company of Manor. 

 Pa., has been incorporated to manufacture 

 all kinds of hickory handles. The capital is 

 $1,000,000 and the incorporators are William 

 J. Eeamer, Michael Beamer. Edward E. Rob- 

 bins. Michael R. Grace, A. A. Chipman and 

 H. W. Davis. 



Articles of incorporation for the Fordyce 

 Manufacturing Company of Fordyce, Ark., 

 have been filed with the secretary of state, 

 showing a capital stock of $20,000, of which 

 $10,000 has been subscribed. The company 

 proposes to manufacture hardwood products. 



The Columbus Show Case Company of Co- 

 lumbus, Ga., is erecting and equipping a new 

 plant at that place at a cost of more than 

 $100,000. The new operation will be equipped 

 with the latest in machinery, dry kilns, and 

 electrical installation. 



R. J. Velvin of Lewisville. Ark., is organiz- 

 ing a company which will establish a wagon 

 and spoke factory. 



The Wagon Stock Lumber Company of Tul- 

 lahoma, Tenn., has been incorporated with 

 $5,000 capital stock to manufacture axles, 



tongues, bolsters, sawed felloes, etc. W. R. 

 Campbell, Jr., is president; J. L. Dann, treas- 

 urer, and J. E. Brantley, secretary and gen- 

 eral manager. The company has already begun 

 operations. 



The Dickson Spoke & Handle Manufacturing 

 Company of Dickson, Tenn., is reported con- 

 templating improvements in its plant which 

 will double its present output. 



The Budde-Lindsey Manufacturing Company 

 was recently incorporated at Jackson. Tenn., 

 to manufacture school, church and bank fix- 

 tures. J. L. Wisdom is president and W. T. 

 Harris secretary and treasurer. 



The Hill Trunk Company of Nashville, Tenn., 

 whose plant was recently destroyed by Are, 

 will build a new structure, the largest of the 

 kind in the South. The building will be a five- 

 story structure and equipped throughout with 

 the most improved machinery. About $25,000 

 will be expended. 



The Clark-Danforth Handle Company of 

 Cairo, 111., is erecting a large addition to its 

 handle factory. 



D. E. Short of Wauseon. O.. will establish a 

 spoke and handle factory at Lafayette, O. 



F. A. Wellman of South Boardman, Mich., 

 is rebuilding his handle factory which was de- 

 stroved by fire some time ago. It will be a 

 model structure and equipped 'throughout with 

 the most improved machinery. 



Briggs Cunningham and others have organ- 

 ized the Motor Car Manufacturing Company. 

 with $100,000 capital stock, and headquarters 

 at Cincinnati, O. 



HardWood NeWs. 



By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



Tin' Record received a call last week from 

 F. A. Kirby. George B. Jobson and J. II. Chap- 

 man. Mr. Chapman is president of the New 

 Dominion Lumber Company of Sutton, W. Va., 

 and has been spending some time at various 

 points in Michigan, notably Mt. Clemens, where 

 he has been in search of health. Mr. Kirby has 

 been connected with the Cherry River Boom & 

 Lumber Company . of Scranton, Pa., for several 

 years and on Jan. 1 will assume the position of 

 sales manager in place of C. E. Lloyd, Jr., re- 

 signed. Mr. Jobson was for some time in charge 

 of the hardwood department of the Producers' 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia, but for the 

 past few months has been Ohio representative of 

 the Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company at 

 Columbus. 



Edwin D. Johnson, 1040 Old Colony Building, 

 will leave in a short time for the northern mills 

 of the concern. Business during the past season 

 has been brisk, especially in birch, of which 

 wood the concern has been handling great 

 amounts. 



F. A. Curtis of the Vehicle Wood Stock Com- 

 pany has removed from the First National Bank 

 Building to 1508 Fisher Buildins. Mr. Curtis 

 spent a few days this week out of town. 



R. S. Kellogg of the Forest Service spent a few- 

 days in Chicago on his way to the national capi- 

 tal from the Pacific Coast, where he inspected 

 some of the government work being done in the 

 western states. 



The railroad work of the Nourse-Taylor Lum- 

 ber Company. 1117 Chamber of Commerce, has 

 been in fine shape during the past few months. 

 The demand experienced in that line has kept 

 pace with that experienced in other lines of 

 hardwoods. 



The new mills of the Riverton Lake Lumber 

 Company at Riverton Lake, La., with offices at 

 827 Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, have been 

 completed and planers, lathes and dry kilns in- 

 stalled. They have a capacity of 50,000 feet and 

 will be in operation by Dec. 15. A. D. W. Gill, 

 president ; Edward . Levy, vice president ; C. S. 

 Dunkle, secretary and general manager, left Chl- 



Special Correspondents. ) 



cago last week to inspect the new operation. 

 They were accompanied by Samuel McFeeley of 

 the J. C. Ames Lumber Company of Streetor, 111., 

 and M. B. Haskell, capitalist, of the same city. 

 The company will manufacture gum, red and 

 white oak, poplar, cypress and some hickory. It 

 has a timber supply sufficient to keep busy for 

 twenty-five years. 



Frederick W. Upham of Upham & Agler has 

 been selected for treasurer by the nominating 

 committee of the Illinois Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation. The annual election of the body took 

 place at the Auditorium, Chicago, Dec. 7. 



W. I>. Johnston of the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Fa., was a 

 Chicago visitor last week. Mr. Johnston was 

 en route home from a tour of mills in the 

 Northwest. 



Howell C. Humphrey of the G. W. Jones Lum- 

 ber Company of Appleton, Wis., accompanied by 

 its Chicago manager, A. H. Ruth, was a caller at 

 the Record office on Saturday. 



The Merchants' Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at St. Louis with a capital stock of 

 $25,000. F. A. Shellabarger is president ; R. H. 

 Shellabarger, Jr., vice president and treasurer, 

 and J. P. Richardson, Jr.. secretary. The com- 

 pany's office is at 307 Fullerton Building. 



C. I. Hoyt of C. I. Hoyt & Co., manufacturers 

 of high grade lumber at Pekin, Ind., was a caller 

 at the Record office last week. Mr. Hoyt's firm 

 is well known among the wagon wood stock trade 

 and makes a specialty of executing orders for 

 odd sizes, thicknesses and grades in this mate- 

 rial. 



E. C. Groesbeck, secretary of the Stearns Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, O., and Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 was a Chicago visitor last week. 



John C. Spry of the Chamber of Commerce 

 Building, spent last week out of the city. 



C. B. Curtis, secretary of the Morton Dry Kiln 

 Company, left last week on a trip to Cincinnati, 

 Virginia and the South. The past season has 

 been an extraordinarily busy one with the com- 

 pany. 



E. C. Mershon of the well-known band resaw 

 manufacturing firm of W. B. Mershon & Co. of 



