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red oak tract in Wisconsin. The logs are being 

 delivered to the Webster Manufacturing Com- 

 pany in Superior. They have three camps. It 



is estimated that the tract contains 7. 



feet of timber of a superb quality. It Is situ 

 ated in Bayfield county. 



The Menasha Woodenware Company's stave 

 and heading factory located in Edgar is be'ng 

 stocked and will lie operated this winter, after 

 a long period of idleness. The company's map'e 

 logs will be shipped elsewhere. 



Jobn Senbert of Marathon City, one of the 

 principal stockholders in the Senbert & Hasken 

 Land Company of Cologne, Minn., recently de- 

 parted for Monroe, La., for the purpose of lo k- 

 ing over 7,000 acres of land which his firm 

 intends purchasing. The company already owns 

 30,000 acres in that state, covered with millions 

 of feet of oak, gum and cypress. 



The Wisconsin Timber & Land Company's ve 

 neer mill in Mattoon was destroyed by fire le- 

 cently ; also the lumber yards. The sawmill 

 was saved. The factory was stocked with 

 birdseye maple, oak, birch, etc., and the loss \v:is 

 about $100,000 on lumber and $25,000 on In. 

 lory. 



The Wisconsin Veneer Company of Rhine- 

 lander is laying railroad tracks to its timber 

 lands. 



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

 Company of Stratford, Laona and other towns. 

 who was elected lieutenant-governor of Wiscon 

 sin. at the recent election, will speud the month 

 of December in California. 



Lumbering operations are hampered to some 

 extent by the appearance of smallpox in camps 

 and the quarantining of the men. 



Louisville. 



The Wood Mosaic Flooring Company on the 

 New Albany side of the river has added a ne v 

 boiler to its power plant, so that it will not 

 have to discontinue operations during the win- 

 ter. It has a fine lot of logs at the mill and is 

 very busy in the sawmill, in the wood mosaic 

 Mooring plant and in the veneer mill. Early in 

 the fall it' had quite a stock of quarter-sawed 

 veneer on hand, but at this writing is com- 

 paratively well sold up on quartered oak ; In 

 fact, stock is pretty well cleaned up all through 

 the veneer line. It has a little black walnut 

 veneer cut about one-eighth inch which it is 

 seeking a market for, but in oak the main point 

 now is to get stock ahead. 



The Norman Lumber Company is having a 

 good run of business, the main complaint being 

 lack of cars and the slow movement of stock 

 on the railroads after it is once loaded. 



Up on the Point the river mills are busy 

 and present indications are that they will have 

 to run all winter and not shut down for the 

 mid-winter season. Kirwan Bros, have a fresh 

 lot of logs. The same tides that brought these 

 logs in played more or less havoc with other 

 logs along the river. There have been large 

 numbers of stray logs going by this point ever 

 since the rise, and it is estimated that at Ibis 

 writing there are fully 100,000 logs which have 

 passed here. Many of the stray logs from the 

 up state streams, however, have been caught 

 above here at various points along the river, 

 and there is a deal on now between the mil s 

 here and the owners of the logs to have them 

 brought in here and sawed up. If this deal 

 materializes it means that the river mills will 

 have to run night and day all winter, or as 

 much of the time as possible to clean up their 

 own logs and take care of those belonging to 

 others. The Louisville Foint Lumber Company 

 says it- has logs enough in the mills to keep 

 running probably until the middle of January, 

 and are figuring with Vansant, Kitchen & Co., 

 C. Crane & Co. and others who have logs scat- 

 tered along the river above here to saw some 

 for them. They find no trouble in disposing 

 of their lumber, and, in fact, have contracts 

 covering their entire output. 



J. L. Berry of the McLean-Davis Lumber 

 Company says his company is well fixed for 

 logs :it the Highland Park mill, but not so well 

 provided at the Fourth street mill. Still it 

 keeps enough to run steadily notwithstanding 

 the handicap of bad roads and bad weather. 



Ashland. 



The local mills are all running, with enough 

 logs to keep them busy for several months. 

 There is an unusual demand for poplar, and the 

 prices keep up, big orders coming in to all of the 

 local dealers, who find it hard to fill same, 

 owing to stocks being broken on account of 

 the long enforced idleness of the mills from 

 lack of timber. 



The lumber being cut now will not be ready 

 for shipment before sixty to ninety days. Many 

 of the logs that came out on the rise are badly 

 damaged, having lain at head waters for from 

 one to four years, and are sap rotted, being 

 almost a total loss. 



The office of the Giles Wright Lumber Com- 

 pany has been removed from this city to the 

 new mill at North Catlettsburg that has been 

 recently purchased, enlarged and greatly im- 

 proved. 



Fifty men, divided into live crews, employed 

 by the various sawmills of Southeastern Ken 

 tucky, which lost 250,000 logs in the recent 

 sudden rise in the Big Sandy and other rivers, 

 have begun the work of assembling and identify 

 ing their logs. The crews are working between 

 Catlettsburg and Louisville, and approximately 

 $250,000 will be distributed in saving the tim- 

 ber and paying the salvage and other charges. 

 Fifty thousand of the logs were beached be- 

 tween Cincinnati and Louisville. 



Charles Kitchen is in Cincinnati gathering 

 up the logs belonging to Vansant, Kitchen & 

 Co. that came out on the recent rise. 



Herbert J. Munro of Munro-Brice & Co., wood 

 brokers, Liverpool, England, was a recent visitor 

 to our markets. 



R. II. Vansant spent the week at Eedford, 

 Trimble county, prosecuting some timber thieves 

 in the courts at that place. 



John W. Kitchen has gone to Asheville, N. C, 

 to have the large tract of timber recently 

 bought by the Vansant-Kitchen Company sur- 

 veyed. 



.lames Dotson of Huntington, W. Va., was in- 

 stantly killed by being caught by a saw log he 

 was helping to move. The accident occurred 

 near Hamlin, Lincoln county, W. Va., where 

 he was engaged in logging. 



Toledo. 

 Building operations, according to Information 



gleaned from architects, building contractors 

 and building supply people, are slack, beins; 

 somewhat behind the same period of a year ago. 

 The ciiy building inspector issued sixty seven 

 permits with a total valuation of $163,050 dur- 

 ing the past month as compared with sixty 

 four permits with a total valuation of $178,375 

 1 in- November, 1905. 



Charles I. Barnes of Barnes & Mauk is ex- 

 pected home from a trip to the Pacific coast 

 about the 20th. 



David Trotter has returned from a few weeks' 

 slay in northern Michigan. 



E. J. Robinson of Robinson & Duttweiler wl 1 

 return this week from a visit among the lum- 

 ber trade in the South. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy lias 

 been filed against the Baer Furniture Manufac- 

 turing Company of this city, one of the creditors 

 being the rhoenix Box Company of Toledo, which 

 claims $584.18 due on account. 



Minneapolis. 



The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company of St. 

 Paul has bought the oak stock of the Columbia 

 Lumber Company at Nevers Dam, Wis., a good 

 run of oak but not on the railroad, so it will 

 have to be hauled in this winter over saow 

 roads. 



• P. H. Hammer of the Red Birch Lumber 

 Company, Catawba, Wis., was in Minneapolis a 

 few days ago looking into market conditions 

 relative to hardwood and hemlock, which are 

 their products. 



A. F. Hein of the John Hein Lumber Com- 

 pany, Tony, Wis., was a visitor a few days ago 

 to the Twin Cities. 



E. Blaisdell, the well-known Chicago whole- 

 saler in hardwoods, called on business acquaint- 

 ances in Minneapolis last week. 



G. H. Tennant, the hardwood flooring man, 

 sustained a $1,000 loss by fire in his factory 

 in Southeast Minneapolis a few nights ago. 

 Fire broke out in the grinding room of the 

 planing mill, and damaged building and ma- 

 chinery somewhat before it could be controlled. 

 None of the stock was burned and the rest 

 of the plant was uninjured, so it was able to 

 start up as usual next morning. 



T. T. Jones of the C. W. Jones Lumber 

 Company, Appleton, Wis., ran over to Minne- 

 apolis for the Northwestern Hardwood Lumber- 

 men's Convention and incidentally attended to 

 some business. 



Lumber receipts at Minneapolis show gains 

 every month over last year, indicating the 

 growth in consumption here, and also the 

 progress of the city as a distributing market 

 for woods other than pine. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HAEDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Chicago. 



Scarcity of stock still continues to be a 

 feature of the market and reports from mill 

 centers indicate that no speedy relief can be 

 expected. The supply of oak, especially thick 

 stock, continues to be below the demand with 

 prices correspondingly high and the probability 

 of another advance in a short time. The 

 trade in birch, which for some time did not 

 keep pace with that In other hardwoods, has 

 shown considerable activity during the last 

 fortnight, birch culls in particular being very 

 brisk. Poplar is much in demand, good dry 

 stocks being scarce and what there is of the 

 supply being sold rapidly. Gum is experienc- 

 ing a ready sale and in basswood and cotton - 

 wood there is some difficulty in satisfying 

 the demand. In these two last woods trade 

 is excellent, and has been so for some time, 

 owing to the steady demand from box makers, 



and indications point to a continuance of the 

 present prosperous conditions. The southern 

 producing field continues to be tied up by un- 

 fortunate weather conditions, labor shortage 

 and lack of cars, and the scarcity of southern 

 stocks has been correspondingly notable. 



A gratifying feature of the market Is the 

 fact that the interior finish people, the great 

 furniture manufacturing concerns and the 

 hardwood flooring factories, all of which con- 

 sume immense quantities of lumber, are in 

 short supply of stocks, thus insuring a good 

 trade for a long while to come. 



Boston. 



The market for hardwood lumber in Boston is 

 moderately active only, although a few special 

 sizes in different woods are in good demand. 

 Prices are generally well held. Manufacturers 

 of interior finish are very busy and are con- 

 stantly in the market for supplies. Furniture 

 manufacturers are also busy and have good or- 



