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was incorporated sometime ago. The latter road 

 was backed largely by lumber interests and the 

 same is true of the new company. The road will 

 run from Crossett to Monticello. There are 

 prominent hardwood firms at both Crossett and 

 Camden and there is a splendid timber section 

 which will be developed by means of the new 

 line. 



The Scott County Land & Lumber Company 

 has filed articles of incorporation at Waldron, 

 Ark. The company has a capital stock of $20,000 

 and will engage in the handling of timber lands 

 and in the manufacture of lumber. W. F. 

 Inghram, J. S. Hill and others are the incorpo- 

 rators. 



The Ransom Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 started up its big sawmill in Arkansas. This 

 company recently bought the mill operated by 

 the Hempstead County Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany and has made extensive improvements on 

 same during the past six months. It has also 

 built a line of railway five miles in length for 

 the development of its extensive timber land 

 holdings. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Hard- 

 wood Company. Chicago, spent the weekend with 

 his family here. 



BRISTOL 



The Tyro Development Company, recently 

 organized at Lynchburg, Va., with a capital 

 stock of $300,000 by K. G. Leftwich and asso- 

 ciates of that city, is preparing to install a 

 large mill in Nelson county, Virginia, on the 

 Tyro river, where it has purchased an area 

 of about 10,000 feet of high-grade hardwood 

 timber. 



The Paxton Lumber Company of this city 

 reports business moving along well. The com- 

 pany has a larger output of stock since it put 

 Into operation its new mill at Charleston, 

 W. Va., which is cutting a large amount of 

 high-grade hardwood timber. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company is about 

 ready to start its band mill in Bristol, which 

 has been idle about eighteen months, having 

 secured several years cut of timber. The com- 

 pany is now finishing up the work of building 

 a logging road in the Holston mountains to 'get 

 out the timber. When this timber is exhausted 

 it will begin the cutting of its new tract in 

 Carter county, Tennessee, purchased from the 

 Bradley interests of Bay City, Mich. 



The Tennessee Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Pottsville, Pa., has closed down its 

 band mill at Sutherland, Tenn., having finished 

 the cutting of its timber in Johnson county. 

 The company has a large amount of stock on 

 hand in this section, and may purchase other 

 timber and continue its operations in this ter- 

 ritory. 



LOUISVILLE 



Leroy Olcott, who has been in the Memphis 

 office of the Robe Lake Lumber Company, has 

 been added to the Louisville staff of the W. 

 P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company. 



The Kentucky-Indiana Hardwood Company is 

 now running its yard at Twenty-third and 

 Standard avenue. The yard occupies an entire 

 block, and is in charge of Herbert Bauman. The 

 company has had good success thus far this 

 season. 



The mills of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Com- 

 pany have been running day and night for 

 several weeks, owing to the heavy demand for 

 mahogany lumber, which seems to be consider- 

 ably greater than the available supply. The 

 demand for veneers is not so good, officers of 

 the company report. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has sus- 

 pended until Feb. 27, 1913, the Louisville & 

 Nashville tariff instituting new regulations for 

 the milling in transit of logs at Louisville, 



Nashville and Memphis. The tariff was orig- 

 inally suspended until Aug. 27 on complaint of 

 Nashville lumbermen. 



Harry E. Kline, superintendent of the Louis- 

 ville Veneer Mills, and Miss Alice S. Napper 

 of this city, were married in Louisville Aug. 

 17. and are now on a wedding trip which will 

 be concluded about Sept. 1. 



ST. LOUIS 



Owing to the falling off of the revenue from 

 inspections, due to the rainy weather, during 

 the summer, and labor troubles, which curtailed 

 the receipts of hardwood lumber at this point, 

 an assessment has been levied on the members 

 of the Lumbermen's Exchange to supply funds 

 for immediate inspection expenses. As soon as 

 business assumes its normal proportions, the 

 receipts from inspection will take care of the 

 running expenses. 



J. S. Garetson of the Garetson-Gearson Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from a trip to the 

 mills of the company in the South. He will 

 leave in a few days to join his family on the 

 Pacific coast. 



Charles E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Company, who is away on his vacation, 

 which he is spending on the Atlantic coast, 

 will return home about Sept. 1. 



MILWAUKEE 



One of the largest deals that has been made 

 in Wisconsin lumber circles for several years 

 was consummated when Senator A. W. San- 

 born, receiver for the John R. Davis Lumber 

 Company of Phillips, received formal notifica- 

 tion that a deal had been closed for taking 

 up the option on the timber and plant of the 

 Phillips concern by the Kneeland & McCIurg 

 Lumber Company of Milwaukee. A trust com- 

 pany from Detroit is to sell bonds to finance 

 the affairs, which, if successful, will mean a 

 new sawmill at Phillips for the manufacture 

 of lumber. The John E. Davis Lumber Com- 

 I)any is the million dollar lumber company that 

 went into the hands of receivers last fall with 

 liabilities to the amount of $750,000. Under 

 the present deal the secured creditors will be 

 paid one hundred cents on the dollar, and the 

 unsecured fifty cents on the dollar. 



The Wausaukee office of the J. W. Wells 

 Lumber Company and the Wi.sconsin-Northwest- 

 ern railway has been moved to the company's 

 camp on the above named railroad. Louis R. 

 Fehl is in charge of the office, camp, railroad 

 books and the store. 



The Mortenson Lumber Company of Wausau 

 has resumed operations at its sawmill. The 

 mill w'as closed down during the recent fioods, 

 which carried many logs down the stream when 

 the booms broke. After the logs on hand have 

 been sawed, work will be started in bringing 

 back the logs swept away. 



Two concerns of Oshkosh have filed papers of 

 dissolution with the secretary of state, follow- 

 ing the decision of the stockholders to disband. 

 They are the Radford Millwork Company, of 

 which C. W. Radford was the president; and 

 the Jewell Company, of which Charles Nevitt 

 was president. 



The Ahnapee Veneer & Seating Company of 

 Algoma is preparing to erect a concrete addi- 

 tion to its plant. A warehouse addition will 

 also be constructed. 



The Johnson Creek Lumber Company, which 

 has a sawmill near Knowlton, has sold 1.500.- 

 000 feet of lumber to the John G. Lockhard 

 Lumber Company of Sheboygan, the considera- 

 tion being $25,000. One million feet of the 

 amount is hemlock. 



A meeting was held recently at Grand Rapids 

 by manufacturers of hubs of the state of Michi- 

 gan. The association is known as the Wis- 

 consin Hub Manufacturers' Association, and 

 the purpose of the meeting was to get the man- 

 ufacturers together and get acquainted. A 

 delegate was elected to attend the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association meeting to be 

 held in Louisville, Ky., in September. Fred 

 Schnable, Sr., was elected to this position. 



The annual meeting of the Northwestern 

 Manufacturing Company of Fort Atkinson was 

 held recently at which L. B. Royce was elected 

 president. A new dry-kiln and an addition to 

 the bending room will be erected soon. 



Tlie work of erecting the new sawmill for 

 the Heineman Lumber Company, near Merrill, 

 has been started. When completed it will have 

 a capacity between 100.000 and 123.000 feet in 

 ten hours and the saws will be able to cut up 

 to forty-foot lengths. 



Frederick Miller, who with his brother was 

 proprietor of the Miller Sash & Door Factory 

 at Marinette, died at the Menominee River hos- 

 pital following the amputation of his leg. 



Henry Bradley, formerly an extensive holder 

 in the Bradley Lumber Company at Tomahawk, 

 died recently at his summer home, Meredith, 

 N. H. He was a former Milwaukee man, but 

 took up his residence at Bangor, Me., about 

 fifteen years ago. Mr. Bradley was fifty years 

 of age. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



On Saturday. Aug. 31, the third annual picnic 

 of the local Lumbermen's Association will be 

 held at Lake Harbor. Mich. The frolic will 

 begin with the departure of the special inter- 

 urban cars at 8 :30 a. m., over the Muskegon 

 road, and will continue throughout the day and 

 evening. Steamers will be in waiting at Mona 

 lake to convey the party to Lake Harbor. Meals 

 will be served at the hotel and a fine program 

 of sports is being arranged. 



The New Hotel Pantlind Building Company 

 has been formed, with Clay H. Hollister as 

 president and with leading manufacturers, 

 bankers and business men as directors. A new 

 fireproof building, costing over $1,000,000, will 

 be built on the site of the old Pantlind, occupy- 

 ing probably the entire block bounded by Mon- 

 roe, Pearl, Campau and Lyon streets. The 

 hotel is needed especially during the furniture 

 seasons. 



The Hart Cedar & Lumber Company has com- 

 pleted a narrow gauge logging road about 

 twelve miles long from Camp Houk to Hart. 



Buckley & Douglas of Manistee have bought 

 the State Lumber Company's plant, which they 

 have been operating under lease for the past 

 two years. They have timber enough to last 

 their two mills about eight years longer. 



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The Hardwood Market 



CHICAOO 



The lumber business iu Chicago at present 

 seems to reflect the general trend of business 

 in the country at large, as the Chicago mar- 



ket covers such a varied and extensive field 

 that it is more or less a thermometer of general 

 lumber conditions. It cannot be said that there 

 has been any remarkable change one way or 

 the other during the last fortnight. There Is, 

 however, a more noticeable scarcity in some 



