HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Lee Booth Furniture Company has been 

 formed here with $2,000 capital. Lee Booth. 

 Alice E. Bateman. J. S. Watson aud others are 

 incorporators. 



T. F. Bonner has severed his connection with 

 the Standard Furniture Company, with which he 

 has long been connected, to head the company 

 ho and associates recently formed. 



BRISTOL 



An important dt?al was made last week when 

 Ellis H. Wilkinson of the J. A. WilkiDSon Lum- 

 ber Company individuallly purchased the plant 

 and business of the Beaver Dam Manufacturing 

 Company, at Damascus. Va. The price paid was 

 $40,000. Mr. Wilkinson is now in charge of the 

 property and is organizing a new company to 

 take over everything. He will move to Damascus 

 and will personally look after the plant, which 

 •employs about fifty men and is devoted to the 

 manufacture of table tops and hardwood nov- 

 elties. 



A number of Bristol lumbermen attended the 

 Hoo-Hoo annual meeting at Asheville last week. 

 Returning delegates report that it was a big 

 success and largely attended. The holding of 

 the annual meeting in this section of the South 

 will give an impetus to the fraternity that It 

 has long needed. 



0. H. Vial has returned from Waynesville, N. 

 C, where he is putting in a logging road pre- 

 paratory to the installation of a large band mill 

 in connection with the development of a big 

 area of timber recently acquired by himself and 

 associates. 



Eastern hardwood buyers on the local market 

 report that the prospects for trade this fall are 

 much brighter, although things are a trifle dull 

 just now. due to the midsummer season. Ship- 

 ments here have been fair, and some nice orders 

 have been received recently by local yards. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company is about 

 ready to start its band mill in Bristol for the 

 manufacture of the timber on a new tract which 

 It recently secured from Andrew SmalUng in 

 the Holston mountains near this city. 



J. C. Campbell of Marlon. Va.. who is con- 

 nected with the United States Spruce Company, 

 ■which has a band mill at Marion and another in 

 •Grayson county. Virginia, was here this week. 

 Mr. Campbell has become interested in another 

 large timber proposition in western North 

 ■Carolina. 



The Paxton Lumlier Company of this city is 

 •operating a new mill near Charleston, W. Va. 

 T"red K. Paxton is now at Charleston and is 

 giving his time largely to the new operation. 



LOVISVILLB 



Members of the Louisville Hardwood Club en- 

 joyed an open-air dinner served at the plant of 

 the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company a few 

 -weeks ago. The repast was the first of the kind 

 provided this summer. Mrs. Edward L. Davis 

 ■ and Mrs. C. M. Sears, wives of the officers of 

 the company, aided in making it a success. 



Recent speakers on business subjects at the 

 meetings of the Louisville Hardwood Club have 

 "been C. M. Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lum- 

 hcr Company, P. G. Booker of the Booker-Cecil 

 •Company, and Harry E. Kline of the Louisville 

 Teneer Mills. Smith Milton of the Ix)uisville 

 Point Lumber Company is to be heard shortly. 



Those who attended the Interstate Commerce 

 •Commission hearing in Louisville July 25, at 

 which evidence as to the regulations to be used 

 in applying milling-in-transit regulations was 

 discussed, were impressed with the fact- that the 

 examiner was in favor of the institution of a 

 system of inspection and policing for the purpose 

 of preventing the substitution of tonnage in an 

 unlawful manner. The issue was w-hether or not 

 this would involve a physical separation of lum- 

 ber manufactured from transit and non-transit 

 ^ogs. The lumbermen asserted that this would 



be the case, while the carriers, backed up, ap- 

 parently, by the examiner, held that merely a 

 clerical operation will be sufficient. Unless 

 strong evidence to the contrary is presented, it 

 may be assumed that the commission will order 

 the railroads to provide a sufficiently stringent 

 inspection system to prevent transit privileges 

 being applied to any tonnage except that which 

 originated in transit territory. 



Lumbermen who are carrying fire insurance in 

 reciprocal or inter-insurance organizations have 

 been informed that the insurance department of 

 the state has been advised that this is legal, as 

 far as corporations are concerned. Representa- 

 tives of old-line companies sought to show that 

 for corporations to engage in inter-insurance 

 projects is to exceed the authority granted them 

 .in their charters. 



Gamble Brothers, operating a lumber plant in 

 Highland Park, south of Louisville, have in- 

 creased their capacity by the installation of addi- 

 tional machinery. 



MILWAUKEE 



The Red Cliff Lumber Company has sold its 

 sawmill north of Bayfield to Mutchenbacker 

 Brothers, of Swan River, Manitoba. 



The planing mill of the Sindahl & Matheson 

 Compan.v, Xeenah, which was destroyed by fire 

 some time ago, causing a loss of ?10.000, is 

 being replaced by one of the most modern plants 

 in the state. 



The plant of the Western Parlor Frame Com- 

 pany at Plymouth, has been sold by Peter W. 

 Wolf to George C. Mass and August Albrecht for 

 Sl.-i.OOO. 



A company manufacturing wood-working ma- 

 chinery under its own new patents, formed in 

 Sheboygan some time ago with a $10,000 capital 

 under the name of the Sheboygan Machine Com- 

 pany, Is now occupying the DeLand building on 

 Jefferson avenue. The building has been re- 

 modeled and new machinery, with individual 

 motors, has been installed. Fred Karste, Jr., 

 is president of the new concern, and Charles 

 Kummers is secretary. 



The Heineman Lumber Company has started 

 work on its new plant at Merrill. Side tracks 

 and an office building are under construction, 

 and the site of the new mill is being cleared. 

 The mill from Rhinelander is being shipped to 

 Merrill, as are the boiler house and boilers 

 from Heineman. Plenty of logs are now on 

 hand and as soon as the mill is completed saw- 

 ing will be started. 



Changes In the offices of the Phoenix Furni- 

 ture Company at Eau Claire have recently been 

 made. George H. Blystone. secretary and treas- 

 urer, has disposed of his stock to E. U. Loether, 

 who will assume the offices of secretary and 

 treasurer. The company is engaged in the man- 

 ufacture of bank and bar fixtures and certain 

 kinds of furniture. 



The Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company is 



disposing of its big mill, power plant and equip- 

 ment. The engine used to haul lumber from the 

 mill to the upper yards has been sold to St. 

 Paul parties, as were several pieces of planing 

 mill machinery. 



Rufus E. MacFarlans, for forty years a resi- 

 dent of Grand Rapids, and engaged extensively 

 in lumbering in that city, died recently at the 

 age of seventy-eight years. 



The death of Henry C. Scott, pioneer lumber- 

 man and mill owner, occurred recently at Omro. 

 He is survived by his second wife, two daughters 

 and one son. 



The Dickenson Lumber Company, Beaver Dam, 

 is making improvements at its plant. The con- 

 cern is now having a 2.000-ton coal elevator 

 erected in its yards. It is to be a structure 

 measuring 2SxV0' feet and 52 feet high. 



The Ellingson-Schmidt Lumber Company of 

 Milan has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of SI 2.000. The company will manufacture lum- 

 ber and deal in logs, lumber, laths, shingles and 

 sash and doors. Martin Ellingson, Emil Schade, 

 Chas. F. Schmidt and Arsan A. Fancher are the 

 incorporators. 



The Menasha Woodenware Company of Men- 

 asha, has sold 10.000 acres of cut-over lands 

 twelve miles from Rhinelander to L. Stark. 



The Wachsmuth Lumber Company at Bay- 

 field, is still running day and night shifts since 

 it started up for the season in May. The saw- 

 mill is cleaning up about 225,000 feet daily, and 

 the shingle and lath mills are running full 

 capacity. Improvements are being made at the 

 company's log pond so thai lumber can be sawed 

 at the mill all through the winter months. 

 The supply of timber will be sufficient to keep 

 the mill running for several years more. 



DETROIT 



The Wabash Railroad and the Michigan Cen- 

 tral Railroad have taken steps to guard against 

 a repetition next winter of the freight con- 

 gestion which has greatly injured Detroit indus- 

 tries the past few months. Lumber dealers espe- 

 cially have been hard hit through delayed ship- 

 ments. The Wabash is to construct a new 

 freight terminal at Brooklyn avenue while the 

 Michigan Central Railroad will build two and a 

 quarter miles of new spur track to tap the 

 Toledo division, and thereby permit the more 

 rapid handling of freight cars. 



The Dwight Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for its special brand of thin hardwood 

 flooring and the Dwight mill is very busy turn- 

 ing out orders. 



The Thomas Forman Company reports in- 

 creased orders and inquiries. Several large car- 

 goes of hardwood lumber have been received at 

 this company's docks in the past two weeks. 



Builders report that they have been handi- 

 capped by difficulty in securing labor and delay 

 in delivery of material. Nevertheless construc- 

 tion work is progressing favorably. 



CHIC AGO 



The local trade generally reports i 

 summer dullness in hardwood which, 

 not marked enough to give any alarm 

 situation presents various phases, and 

 difficult to arrive at a satisfactory 

 conditions here. 



Chicago building operations are act 

 demanding their quota of hardwoods 

 ing purposes. As a consequence the 

 is continuing to be an active element 

 ber business. 



I noticeable 

 however, is 

 The local 

 It is rather 

 analysis of 



ive and are 

 for finish- 

 yard trade 



of the lum- 



Wholesalers doing business in northern hard- 

 woods report extreme difficulty in securing suf- 

 ficient stock, while from the South shipments are 

 coming in with increasing regularity and prompt- 

 ness. In both instances there is no particular 

 difficulty in getting orders on the ordinary run 

 of stock. The usual condition of firm prices and 

 steady sale and good demand is evident in the 

 low grades, while in most of the upper grades a 

 normal consumption and fairly satisfactory level 

 of prices is being maintained. Though the trade 

 is cheerful as to prospects in the next few 

 months, it seems to have accepted the present 

 situation without any forebodings. 



