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determined effort to have the legislature enact 

 a law compelling the Southern Railway Com- 

 pany under peDalty to furnish a sufficient sup- 

 ply of empties and also to transport with 

 greater speed cars loaded with lumber. The 

 exchange has written thousands of letters to 

 hardwood meu all over the state urging co- 

 operation. The first section of the bill which 

 has been drafted provides that the Southern 

 shall pay a reciprocal demurrage of $5 per day 

 for failure to speedily remove cars to and from 

 the lumber yards. The fight between the rail- 

 road company and the lumber Interests is being 

 •watched with uo little interest. 



J. L. Vest has sold to northern capitalists 

 8.000 acres of valuable timber and mineral lands 

 in western North Carolina. Mr. Vest controls 

 about 460,000 acres of timber and coal lands in 

 North Carolina, middle Georgia and eastern Ten- 

 nessee. He is now in the North seeking pur- 

 chasers for his lands. 



The lumber firm of Foushee & Curren of 

 Rowan has purchased from one of the Williams 

 families of Yadkin county 4,000,000 feet of 

 lumber at the rate of $15 per thousand, $00,000 

 being involved in the deal. The timber is some 

 of the best in the forest counties of North 

 Carolina ; 1,000,000 feet have already been de- 

 livered and the other 3,000,000 are being felled. 

 Mr. Curren is one of the most experienced 

 hardwood men iu the state. 



E. L. Wilson and E. F. Wilson have secured 

 a large interest in the Dallas Lumber Manufac- 

 turing Company of Dallas, N. C, manufactur- 

 ers of sash, doors, blinds and other building 

 material. It is stated that the Messrs. Wilson 

 will shortly increase the capacity of the plant 

 -and make extensive improvements, supplanting 

 the steam with electric power. Large quanti- 

 ties of timber are now being cut in Catawba 

 county where the sawmills ol the company 

 have been placed in operation. 



Minneapolis. 



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

 wholesalers, returned Tuesday from a southern 

 trip. He went partly for pleasure, and visited 

 two brothers in Oklahoma. He spent some time 

 in the Arkansas and Tennessee hardwood terri- 

 tory and was greatly interested in noting the 

 difference in lumbering methods and in labor 

 conditions iu the North and South. lie ex- 

 pected to buy some hardwood stocks, but found 

 prices too high, and also found that to secure 

 shipment it was necessary to stay right on the 

 ground and pay personal attention. 



The Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 Association at its monthly meeting the other 

 day appointed a committee to appear before 

 the Minnesota legislature and use its influence 

 in behalf of the reciprocal demurrage bill. The 

 bill passed the bouse Wednesday and the hard 

 wood men were represented at the capitol by 

 W. ('. Bailey and A. II. Barnard of Minneapolis 

 and by A. E. Peterson of St. Paul. The task 

 of lifting the bill through the senate is be- 

 lieved to be more difficult and shippers will 

 have to do some work. The senate killed a 

 similar bill two years ago after the house had 

 passed it. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company writes from southern Missouri 

 that conditions there have improved somewhat. 

 The high water lias subsided so that nearly all 

 the mills are able to ship again, when they 

 can get cars. 



G. W. Everts of the G. W. Everts Lumber 

 Company has returned from a business trip to 

 points in southern Wisconsin, 



Samuel H. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company has the sympathy of his many 

 friends iu the loss of his wife, who died Febru- 

 ary 19. Mrs. Davis was a woman of excep- 

 tionally fine character and attainments, promi- 

 nent and highly regarded in church work and 

 in club circles, being a leading member of the 

 Art History club. 



F. J. Lang, representative of the Wisconsin 

 Land & Lumber Company of Hermansville, 

 Mich., closed up his temporary office here last 

 week, and after a short trip to Duluth and Ash- 

 land went to Milwaukee this week to air. nil 

 the convention of tin. 1 Wisconsin retailers. 



Osborne & (lark have enlarged their offices 

 iu the Lumber Exchange by adding another 



r and now have a suite extending from 



300 i" 302, giving Mr. Osborne and Mr. (lark 

 each a private room and providing needed ad- 

 ditional space. 



I 'he Schock Manufacturing Company of this 

 city has been declared insolvent and proceed- 

 ings for the appointment of a trustee are pend 

 ins before the referee in bankruptcy. The com- 

 pany lias been manufacturing sofa and lounge 

 frames and several bardwood firms are on the 

 list of creditors. 



E. o. Massey, the hardwood manufacturer of 

 Menomonle, Wis., was in Minneapolis this week 

 on business. 



Toledo. 



10. L. Guild, local manager of the Laurens- 

 Hull Lumber Company of Tiffin, has resigned 

 liis position and will go to Chicago, where he 

 will again •Titer the lumber brokerage and com- 

 mission business. F. L. Neiswender will succeed 

 Mr. Guild as manager of the Laurens-Hull Com- 

 pany. 



The Toledo Sash & Door Company has been 

 incorporated at Columbus with a capital of 

 $20,000. This is the company that recently 



I sin the property of the Ephardt Lumber 



Company on Superior street. The incorporators 

 of the new company are C. V. Wagner, S. L. 

 McAfee, M. O. Topliff, M. J. Brown and E. A. 

 Murphy. 



The handle factory at Fayette is receiving 

 large quantities of logs and is doing a big busi- 

 ness. 



i'.liiliion. IniL, has landed a large piano fac- 

 tory Hun will employ 250 men when it is in full 

 swing. 



A practical monopoly of the lumber industry 

 at Marion, o., was accomplished last week when 

 ;i si no. linn deal was closed whereby the newly 

 formed Wollenweber Lumber Company absorbed 

 the Prendergast Lumber Company and the 

 Marion Lumber & Coal Company. Toledo, Cleve- 

 land, Columbus and Marion capitalists are be- 

 hind the new company, of which Oswald Wollen- 

 weber is president. The Prendergast company 

 will devote its interests in the future to the 

 wholesale trade. This company owns large 

 ii tcts of timber in the southern parts of Ohio 

 ami in various sections of \\ est Virginia. The 

 Wollenweber v company will occupy offices with 

 the Prendergast company and will look after the 

 retail trade. The stock of the new company has 



all been subscribed and the stockholders are the 

 same as those interested in the Prendergast 

 company 



Louisville. 



Frosty weather following the flood delayed 

 the local mills along the river from cleaning up 

 and getting to work again and they are only 

 now getting in good shape once more. Over on 

 the New Albany side the flood did not bother 

 the Wood Mosaic Flooring Company much, al- 

 though they feared the water would enter the 

 warehouse floor ; however, they practically es- 

 caped interference. Recently one of their boil- 

 ers gave out, which weakened the power plant 

 so that temporarily they have run the mill part 

 on the ilny shut ami part on the night shift to 

 keep them all going. 



At the plant of t lie I. F. Force Handle Com- 

 pany, New Albany, Ind., the flood did consider- 

 able damage to stock, as it was high enough in 

 their yard to set the stock afloat and leave a 

 sediment on both rough and finished stock. The 

 same thing occurred at the plant of Roberts & 

 Conners, veneer manufacturers, just below them. 



The Mengel Rox Company lost its pail stave 

 plant at Hickman, Ky., by lire a few days ago. 

 Mr. Roberts says the loss will amount to about 

 $25,000, which is covered by insurance. They 

 are getting to work immediately to reconstruct 

 it. Meantime they are rigging up some of their 

 machines temporarily to keep them making stock. 

 They have quite a stock of staves at that place 

 which escaped the fire and also their veneer 

 plant there, which was about 500 feet away 

 from the stave plant, escaped unhurt. 



A. I'. Turner & Co., manufacturers and deal- 

 ers in hardwoods, who were formerly located in 

 South -Louisville, have now moved into new 

 offices down town in the Commercial building. 

 J. E. Buscher of this company is at present on 

 a trip to Chicago. 



H. J. Gates of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, who is here shipping out some of the 

 company's stock of quarter-sawed oak, has been 

 delayed considerably on account of car short- 

 age. He says of late he has been able to get 

 more cars and is moving the stock out more rap- 

 idly. The company has about 1,500,000 feet 

 yet to ship. 



The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company 

 is well pleased with business so far and has 

 found its stuck meeting with such favor that it 

 is already planning enlargement of its plant. 

 This was built originally with the purpose in 

 view of enlarging as trade increased. 



The Louisville Lumber Company is the name 

 of a new corporation which succeeded the 

 sioiz Lumber Company of this place. The new 

 company is simply a r ganization of the busi- 

 ness under a new name 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Chicago. 

 The local hardwood market shows si rone buy 

 tag in nearly all lines of wood. Furniture man- 

 ufacturers, flooring makers, interior finish pro- 



'I rs and others engaged in the consumption 



of hardw is are busy. They have advance or- 

 ders for months to come, and they are buying 

 with freedom where anything like a desirable 

 offer is presented to them. There is every pros 

 peel that the local demand for hardwoods in 

 1907 will at least equal and possibly exceed that 

 ot 1906. Oak is sought on every hand and 

 there is a manifest shortage of the good end of 

 poplar, which both wholesale, and consuming 

 buyers are seeking in all sections. 



Boston. 



The Boston hardwood market Is very firm, 



with a fair demand in progress. Buyers want 



stock badly as a rule and do not question the 



price to any extent, but if a consumer is ap- 



proached at a time when he is not in immediate 

 need of stock the price question comes In for 

 considerable consideration. Dealers who have 

 customers outside of New England all state that 

 they can sell them more easily at the high 

 prices than customers here. The majority of 

 buyers in this market, according to a leading 

 dealer, are not yet awake to the true condi- 

 tions existing in the primary markets. Desirable 

 hardwood lumber is scarce and western con- 

 sumers are reported as being more willing to 

 pay the prices than eastern buyers. Much in- 

 convenience is caused by the slow movement 

 of freight and the inability upon the part of 

 the shipper in gei cars when they are wanted. 

 Furniture manufacturers are busy. In fact, 

 about all consumers of hardwoods are doing a 

 fair business. 



The market for plain oak continues firm. 

 one inch, ones and twos, is quoted at $55 to 

 $57, whereas a few months ago prices were 



