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HARDWOOD RECORD 



manufacturers, the recent action of the national 

 association of case goods people in making a 

 straight advance of ten per cent in prices was 

 endorsed. The advance is understood to take 

 effect at once, hut the manufacturers, practically 

 without exception, are sold up to January 1, 

 the opening of the spring season, and the new 

 schedule will go into effect on the new goods. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rap- 

 ids held its monthly meeting November 27 at 

 the Pantlind. The next meeting will be held 

 January 29, when officers will be elected. 



L. L. Skillman has returned from a trip 

 North. He reports dry stock scarce and few 

 of the mill men ready to contract their output 

 until after the first of the year. Prospects indi- 

 cate the usual cut this winter, though the crop 

 of logs delivered at mills will depend to a large 

 extent on the weather. 



Fire in the factory of the Novelty Wood 

 Works, Sixth street, caused a loss estimated at 

 $2,000. 



The sawmill of the Ranney Refrigerator Com- 

 pany at Greenville was burned recently ; loss. 

 .fS.000 to $10,000; partially insured. It is not 

 likely to be rebuilt, owing to the scarcity of 

 logs in that section. 



The Dennis Bros. Lath & Lumber Company 

 is building a new mill near Dighton, which will 

 have about 30,000 feet capacity daily, and will 

 be in operation January 1. The company has 

 several other mills in operation on its holdings 

 there. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



James Strong, former head of the James Strong 

 Lumber Company of this city, with a number 

 of prominent Pennsylvania lumbermen, has or- 

 ganized the Fenwiek Lumber Company with a 

 capital stock of .$500,000. The new company 

 has acquired a tract of 20,000 acres of rich 

 timber land in Greenbriar and Nicholas counties. 

 West Virginia, and announces that it will build 

 a mill at Fenwiek with a capacity of 23,000,000 

 feet annually. The company also owns timber 

 lands in Pennsylvania and New York and has 

 taken over almost the entire holdings of the 

 Tennant-Richards Lumber Company. The incor- 

 porators of the new company are James Strong 

 of Philadelphia ; Sherman L. Richards and S. 

 L. Tennant of the Tennant-Richards Lumber 

 Company, and S. L. Tennant of Kingston, Pa., 

 and George It. McLean and J. C. Wiegand. 



J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company, 

 Pee Dee Lumber Company, Richland Lumber 

 Company, etc., has just returned from a trip 

 to South Carolina. He reports that his com- 

 panies' mills at Pee Dee and on the Wateree 

 river are in operation and turning out oak, 

 poplar, ash and gum in large quantities. Mr. 

 Bryan estimates that they have seven or eight 

 years' cut. 



J. A. Wilkinson has returned from a business 

 trip in Virginia. H. M: Hoskins, sales manager 

 for J. A. Wilkinson, has just returned from 

 Knoxville, Tenn., where he has been on busi- 

 ness. 



Frank Price of Price & Heald of Baltimore, 

 Md , is spending some time with the company's 

 local manager, Fred W. Hughes, going over busi- 

 ness in this section. 



The Kingsport Lumber Company of this city 

 reports that its mill at Caretta, McDowell 

 county, West Virginia, is running regularly and 

 is turning out about 1,000,000 feet of lumber 

 per month. The company has almost 10,000,- 

 000 feet of lumber on sticks on the Caretta 

 yards. 



W. M. Dickey of Brookville, Pa., was looking 

 after business interests in this section last 

 week. 



Almost $75,000 has been raised to date toward 

 the mineral, lumber and timber exhibit at the 

 Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition at James- 

 town, Va., next year, and it is believed that it 

 will be swelled to $100'000, as an exhibit to 

 cost this stupendous sum is planned. The 

 matter of arranging for the exhibit, construction 

 of the buildings, etc., is in the hands of his 



excellency, Governor Swanson of Virginia, and 

 a committee representing the mineral, lumber 

 and timber interests of the state. 



The Lick Ford Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized under the laws of West Virginia, with 

 headquarters at Huntington. The company has 

 a capital stock of $75,000 and will manufacture 

 and deal in West Virginia hardwoods. 



The James Cortlan Lumber Company of Phila- 

 delphia has just acquired a 7,000-acre tract of 

 timber land on the French Broad river in Green 

 and Hawkins counties, Tennessee, and announces 

 that mills will be erected and the property 

 developed at once. A flume four miles in length 

 will be constructed. 



Messrs. D. C. Hughes of Canton. Ohio, and 

 W. R. Coon of Punxsutawney, Ta., have about 

 perfected the organization of the Buckeye Lum- 

 ber Company, with headquarters at Hampton, 

 Carter county, Tenn.. and with a capital stock 

 of $40,000. The company owns a large tract 

 of timber land in Carter and Hawkins counties, 

 Tennessee. 



The L'naka Lumber Company of Johnson 

 City, Tenn., is making preparations to operate 

 extensively in the lower part of Sullivan and 

 Hawkins counties, and it is announced will 

 build a number of portable mills for the devel- 

 opment of the untouched timber resources of 

 that region. 



Charles H. Fuller of the Masse & Felton 

 Lumber Company of Macon, Ga., was a recent 

 visitor in Bristol. 



E. R. Sprinkle, a lumber manufacturer of 

 Dante, Va., was in Bristol last week. 



An important timber land deal has just been 

 made in Wythe county, Virginia, and W. S. 

 Burger, a well-known lumberman of Cumberland, 

 Maryland, becomes the owner of a 15,000-acre 

 tract of timber land lying in Walker's Mountain 

 and Foglesong Valley. The consideration was 

 $70,000. It is announced that Mr. Burger and 

 his associates will prepare to develop same at 

 a very early date. The vendors were E. E. 

 Trinkle, Mrs. Ellen B. Stuart. M. M. Caldwell 

 and A. A. Caldwell, and the heirs at-law of the 

 late Congressman General James A. Walker. The 

 property is easily accessible to transportation 

 facilities. 



W. M. Greer and F. G. Kelsey of the Kelsey- 

 Dennis Lumber Company of North Tonawanda. 

 N. Y . were buying lumber in this section a 

 few days since. 



EL E. Wentz, representing John R. Gobey & 

 Co. of Columbus, Ohio, was a visitor in this 

 section last week. 



John T. Nagle of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company of Saginaw. N. C, was in the city 

 last week. Mr. Nagle states that the Ritter 

 company is operating two big baDd mills, one 

 at Saginaw and the other at Pianola, and that 

 it has some fifteen years' supply of timber for 

 the Pianola mill. This company is operating 

 extensively in western North Carolina and East 

 Tennessee, as well as West Virginia, and is put- 

 ting in a big band mill at Hampton, Carter 

 county, Tenn. 



Cincinnati. 



The Earrin-Korn Lumber Company and the 

 M. P.. Farrin Lumber Company are negotiating 

 for a large tract of land near their plants for 

 the construction of a large flat building to be 

 rented to their employes. The decision was 

 reached after a conference and discussion of 

 last winter's experience, when labor was hard 

 to get because the plants are some distance out 

 and necessitated early rising and a long car ride. 

 The building will have all modern improvements, 

 will contain fifty-two flats, and rent for $10 to 

 $12 a month, including heat and water. 



The police of Cincinnati are on the lookout 

 for a traveling salesman who claimed to repre- 

 sent a hardwood lumber concern and passed 

 a bogus check on the Owl Drug Company for 

 $25. The names of the firm and man are with- 

 held by the police. 



At the monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's 



Club, held Monday evening at the Business 

 Men's Club, it was decided to begin an active 

 agitation for a reform in fire Insurance rates 

 on lumber. The insurance committee was in- 

 structed by the club to compile statistics cover- 

 ing lumber fires for years back. Under present 

 classification of insurance companies lumber is 

 classed regardless of the character of the wood. 

 The average rate on yards here is between 1% 

 and 2 cents. This the hardwood people claim 

 is a discrimination against them. They contend 

 that the destructive fires in lumber yards are in 

 the pine yards, and that for years they have 

 been compelled to carry the pine risk. The in- 

 surance committee consists of W. B. Hay, chair- 

 man : T. B. Stone, J. P. Hanna, F. W. Mowbray 

 and W. E. Talbert. Two thousand dollars was 

 contributed at this meeting to the fund of the 

 Receivers' and Shippers' Association to be used 

 by the latter in its fight for uniform switching 

 rates. Twelve members of the club were added 

 to the roster of the Receivers' and Shippers' 

 Association. 



J. Gordon Wright of Goodman & Wright fell 

 dead on the street Saturday, December 1, of 

 heart disease. Mr. Wright was fifty-four years 

 of age and a native of Cincinnati, where he has 

 spent the greater part of his life. Besides be- 

 ing a member of the firm of Goodman & Wright, 

 lie was vice-president of the- Southern Ohio 

 Loan Company, a director of the Strobrldge 

 Lithographing Company, and was also a stock- 

 holder in a half dozen big Cincinnati corpora- 

 tions. 



John Stengel, a large furniture manufacturer 

 of Dayton, Ohio, was in the city recently pur- 

 chasing hardwood lumber. 



W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip through 

 the South. He reported that the heavy rains 

 through the South had seriously delayed opera- 

 tions in that locality. 



The Wildberg Box Company of Arlington 

 Heights has purchased new machinery and hired 

 more labor to care for its rapidly Increasing 

 business. 



The Union Association of Lumber Dealers will 

 hold a convention in Cincinnati for four days 

 beginning Jan. 20, 21, 22 and 23. Secretary 

 II. S. Adams of Chillicothe, Ohio, engaged head- 

 quarters at the Grand Hotel on Thursday. The 

 convention means that over 200 lumbermen from 

 Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio 

 will be present. The car shortage will be thor- 

 oughly uiscussed at the assembly, and every 

 means will be exercised to help the disastrous 

 crippling of business. 



The Acme Veneer Company's new warehouse 

 and salesroom at Eighth and Harriet streets 

 have been completed and are a great improve- 

 ment to the plant. 



Nine of C. Crane & Co.'s mills are in opera- 

 ration as a result of the recent big tide. Mills 

 along the Kentucky river of Central Kentucky 

 and Tennessee which have been idle all summer 

 are again buzzing, and there is plenty of work 

 for all hands to run them almost through the 

 winter. 



The Freiburg Lumber Company has been mak- 

 ing improvements in its plant lately. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company has 

 logs .stacked up from fifty to one hundred feet 

 high in front of the mill, and an extra force 

 of men has been employed so as to cut the 

 stuff into salable lumber as soon as possible. 



The Steinman & Meyer Furniture Company, 

 which carries a very large stock of hardwood 

 lumber, has purchased a lot 100x150 feet east 

 of its plant for a storage yard. 



Thomas J. Moffet, president of the Maley. 

 Thompson & Moffett Company, has just re- 

 turned from a business and pleasure trip to 

 New York. 



M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company is in Washington to attend the meet- 

 ing of the rivers and harbors committee. 



