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HARDWOOD l.ECORD 



Improvements under way or contemplated, 

 amounting to over $3,000,000. will be made in 

 Indianapolis tliis season. They include several 

 large office and bank buildings, all ot which 

 will be finished in hardwood. This unexpected 

 demand is calculated to still further increase the 

 hardwood shortage of the city. 



Hardwood and furniture industries practically 

 compose the manufacturing business of Shelby 

 ville, a county seat of some 5,000 inhabitants 

 ,,i- more about forty miles southeast of Indian- 

 apolis." There are now twelve large furniture 

 factories running to their full capacity, in addi- 

 tion to which there is a large hardwood lumber 

 coinp any and two or three other woodworking 



cerns. Altogether they employ 1,300 men, or 



more than a fourth of the city's population. 



Several Terre Haute capitalists have organ- 

 ized the [ssaquena Land & Lumber Company, 



,, i ated willi $100,000 capital stock. The 



company will deal in Mississippi lands and will 

 ;,ls lgage in tlie lumber business on an exten- 

 sive s.ale in the South. Those interested in the 

 new company are D. E. Regan, W. C. Hall. John 

 K Connelly, G. W. Sims, II. ,7. Baker, G. I.. 

 Koad and David Ingle. 



The name of the L. C. Thompson Manufac- 

 turing Company ot Indianapolis has been 

 changed to the Furnas Office & Hank Furniture 

 Company, of which .1. II. Furnas is president. 

 The company operated under its old name about 

 fifteen years. 



Wickard & Bondurant have purchased Hie old 

 plant of the singer Sewing Machine Company ai 

 South Bend lor $200,000. It will lie converted 

 into apartment plants. 



The factory of the Meyers I.awn Swing Com 

 pany at Goshen was destroyed by fire several 

 days ago with a loss amounting to about $6,000, 

 on Which there was about $1,500 insurance. II 

 is pi,, liable that the factory will be rebuill 

 immediately. 



William Freeman, secretary of the State For- 

 estry Hoard, has begun the planting of 57,1 



young trees on the state's reservation near Hen- 

 ryville. A camp with twelve men has been 

 established and the trees will be transplanted 

 from nurseries, located on the reservation. In- 

 cluded in the transplanting will be yellow pop- 

 lar, ash, elm. black locust, chestnut. Kentucky 

 coffee and maple trees. A large quantity of 



s is that have been held in storage will also 



be planted. Trees have already been planted on 

 ::iiii acres and ii is expected to ultimately fur- 

 nish trees for replenishing the forests of the 



stale. 



The plant of the Vincenues Novelty Company 

 ;n Vincennes was destroyed by fire about ten 

 days ago The loss reached about $75,000, which 

 included patterns valued at .$30,000 that were 

 in the 'plant, together with many important rec- 

 ords. 



Within a short time the Emsing-Platt Lumber 

 Company will begin business at Lafayette with 

 a full line of hardwoods and other lumber. It 

 was organized several days ago and incorporated 

 by John Kmsing._ D. D. Jacobs, J. W. Skinner. 

 W. A. Earle ami K. M. Piatt, all of Lafayette 

 The capital stock of the company is $60,000. 



In order to extend its business, the Shelby 

 Woodworking Company, organized at Shelbyville 

 some time ago, has just been incorporated. It 

 has a capitalization of $5,000 and the directors 

 are J. J. Riser, A. J. Clark, Henry Beynon and 

 J. F. Inman. 



A new veneer house to be known as the 

 Hoosier Veneer Company will be located at La- 

 doga. The company has been organized with 

 SI :,.n(i0 capital and a factory will be built and 

 equipped with modern appliances. The first 

 board of directors is composed of Benjamin F. 

 Carman, R. F. Hicks, Nathan Hulett, George W. 

 ntterman and S. F. Kyle. - 



I lie right of way of the Milwaukee road, which 

 will double its present capacity. 



George C. Swallow, a well known lumberman. 

 lias been sued for $25,000 damages for having, 

 ii is alleged, ridden over a sixteen-year-old mes- 

 senger boy with his automobile. Mr. Swallow, 

 though having interests in different sections of 

 the country, resides in Milwaukee. 



Owing to the heavy demand for lumber ship- 

 inenis the Milwaukee road is finding difficulty 

 in keeping such consignments moving in the 

 northern part of the state, as men are lacking 

 to make up crews for the many extra trains 

 which are said to be called for by shippers. 



The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company ai 

 Wausau has completed improvements in its plain 

 costing approximately $20,00.0. The circular 

 saws have been replaced by a baud saw. a new 

 edger has been placed and a new carriage in- 

 stalled. The buildings have also undergone re- 

 modeling. 



.Northern lumber mills are complaining of a 

 dearth of men and requests for laborers have 

 been placed with almost every employment office 

 in Milwaukee. All mills are said to be running 

 shorthanded. notwithstanding that wages are 

 higher than in former years. The recent warm 

 weather has reduced the depth of snow in the 

 most northern counties and it is expected that 

 hundreds of men will be placed in these locali- 

 ties ai once. 



Asheville. 



The local hardwood market remains firm, with 

 supply of good stock still low. There is an in- 

 creasing demand for the best grades of poplar, 

 and lumbermen say that the best prices for this 

 wood now prevail. There is also an increasing 

 demand for oak. The past month has been ideal 

 for the loggers and much standing timber has 

 been .ut. bill it is yel in Hie forest. 



(if interest to lumbermen in Asheville and 

 western North Carolina is the recent option 

 taken by S. F. Chapman and J. S. Bailey on the 

 Belding lands in Graham, Clay and Cherokee 

 counties, embracing some 55,000 acres. If the 

 option is taken up and the purchase consum- 

 mated a New Jersey concern will cut the timber 

 and market the product, while Chapman ami 

 Bailey will retain the water rights that go with 

 the boundary. The ownership of this boundary 

 is necessary to clear the cause id' action thai 

 Bailey and f'hapman have against the Southern 

 Railway Company for the proposed destruction 

 of an alleged water power in western North Caro- 

 lina, which is valued at more than one million 

 dollars. The Southern seeks to build its Mary 

 ville line through the property of Mr. Bailey. 

 which will, it is contended, greatly interfere with 

 the water power. The Belding boundary was 

 necessary for the establishment of the Bailey 

 and Chapman claim. The Belding boundary is 

 a virgin, forest containing poplar, oak. walnut. 

 ash and hemlock. The owners have held out for 

 years for $12.50 per acre, but it is not believed 

 that they will secure this sum under the present 

 option. The deal, however, may amount to half 

 a million dollars. Lumbermen say that the boun- 

 dary will cut 10,000 feet of lumber per acre, ex- 

 elusive Of the hemlock. 



Milwaukee. 



The Steinmann Lumber Company has bought 

 a large tract adjoining its present yards along 



Brisl^l, Va.-Tenn. 



John T. Nagle ot, the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company of Columi uy. Ohio, and others have 

 organized the LinvihL' River Lumber Company. 

 The company will havo> headquarters at Pineola. 

 N. C, where it controls a ciig tract of. timber 

 land formerly owned by th ; Linville Land & 

 Improvement Company. The new company will 

 operate the big band rill of the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company at Pineola and is making prep- 

 arations to begin active work right away. A 

 railroad track several miles long is being built 

 into the timber land to get the logs out. 



The Paxton-Lewis Lumher Company has just 

 been organized in Bristol by Fred K. Paxton, 

 formerly of the 0rdwa5 Manufacturing Com- 



pany ; T. W. Lewis, Jr., of Charlottesville. Va.. 

 and c. II. Brand of Staunton. Va. The company 

 will have headquarters in Bristol and do a 

 general manufacturing and wholesaling hard- 

 wood business. Mr. Paxton, who with Mr. Lewis 

 will be at the active head of the company, lias 

 had several years* experience and has lately been 

 connected with the Bristol Coffin & Casket Com- 

 pany in an important capacity. The company 

 owns a large block of timber land near Meadow 

 View, twenty-five miles from Bristol, and will 

 manufacture lumber from this timber on circular 

 mills. 



.1. II. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company 

 has gone to Cranberry, N. ('., and Pee Dee, S. 

 ('.. to inspect the mills of his company and 

 hurry forward orders. 



The Tug River Lumber Company of this city 

 lias just purchased an additional tract of :'.iini> 

 acres of hardwood timber land in Scott county. 

 Virginia, near Horton's Summit, and will install 

 a big band mill at a very early date. The com- 

 pany at present operates circular mills in Scott 

 countj "" •' large scale. The new band mill will 

 have a daily capacity of about 50,000 feet. The 

 company bad a band mill in Scott county de- 

 stroyed by fire about a year ago. 



The Black Mountain Lumber Company of Cum 

 berland, Md.. has just purchased a large boun- 

 dary of timber from the Schafer , heirs, in the 

 llolston mountains, four miles from Bluff City 

 and ten miles from Bristol, through John N. 

 Johnston. The property is estimated to contain 

 about 20,000,000 feet of merchantable hardwood 

 timber and the purchase price is said to have 



I n $20, It is said that the deal will mean 



the early organization of a new lumber concern 

 with headquarters in Bristol, as the purchasers 

 will develop the property without delay. 



The Louisville & Nashville railway is believed 

 to be backing a railroad project which will mean 

 much to the lumbermen of eastern Tennessee 

 and western North Carolina. This is the pro 

 posed extension of tlie Tennessee & North Caro 

 Una railway, a small road now extending from 

 Newport. Tenn.. to Mount Sterling. N. ('.. in 

 the beart of a lumber region, to Canton, N. c. 

 and ultimately to Asheville. and to Knoxville 

 on tin- southern end. Surveyors are at work 

 near Canton, N. C, locating the line and it is 

 believed that the scheme will go through, as the 

 Louisville & Nashville lias been anxious for years 

 to get into Asheville. 



J. M. McRae of Mount Sterling. N. ('.. bead 

 of the Laurel Fork Lumber Company, was in 

 t be city last week and reports that the lumber, 

 men in that section have lately suffered from 

 Hoods. 



Fire for twenty miles east of Damascus has 

 done much damage to timber. James Faulkner, 

 Jr., of the Faulkner Lumber Company, who was 

 over from Damascus last week, told of the great 

 fire. The cold rain of last week did not ex- 

 tinguish the flames and so far the efforts to 

 check them have proven futile. The Laurel Lum- 

 ber Company, A. M. Turner Lumber Company. 

 .1. YV. Difendifer Lumber Company. Tennessee 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company and others 

 are heavy owners of timber lands in that re- 

 gion. 



The llassinger Lumber Company is preparing 

 to begin extensive operations at Azen. in the 

 White mountains, twenty miles from Abingdon. 

 The construction of the Virginia Carolina South- 

 ern, the road that is to extend from the Vir- 

 ginia Carolina railway terminus, at Taylor's 

 Valley, to Azen, has been completed and the 

 big mills will soon be put in operation. The 

 road is a standard gauge. The company owns 

 a 30,000-acre tract of some of the finest hard- 

 wood timber land In the south In the White 

 mountains near White top. 



M. N. Offutt of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany and H. M. Hoskins of the II. M. Iloskins 

 Lumber Company of this city are actively en- 

 gaged in arranging for the lumbermen's exhibit 

 at the Jamestown Ter-Centeunial Exposition at 



