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lumber plant in Nelson county, Virginia, where 

 it has acquired a large area of hardwood timber 

 land. 



The J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Company reports 

 business somewhat better and a brighter outlook 

 lor trade during the remainder of the year. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission is ex- 

 pected to shortly render a decision in the case 

 of the allied hardwood interests of Bristol against 

 the Norfolk & Western, Southern & Virginia & 

 Southwestern railways, inyolving the milling-in- 

 transit charge in Bristol. Local lumbermen 

 maintain that the rate charged here is excessive, 

 and are seeking to get an order reducing it. 



The Black Mountain Land Company has com- 

 pleted and put into operation its new mill at 

 Bluff City, Tcnn., eleven miles south of Bristol. 

 The plant is now running full time and is stocked 

 with logs. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company is about 

 ready to resume operation of its large band mill 

 in this city, having purchased timber and built a 

 new railroad farther back into the Holston moun- 

 tains, twenty miles east of Bristol. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club was magnifi- 

 cently entertained at its meeting Sept. 3 at Nitta 

 Yuma, the country home of 1'. G. Booker of the 

 Booker-Cecil Company. Nitta Yuma, In addi- 

 tion to being an unusually beautiful place, has a 

 reputation for the production of delicacies ap- 

 pealing to every palate, and this was more than 

 sustained by the dinner prepared for the lumber- 

 men. Mr. Booker made an ideal host, a feature 

 of the evening being the introduction of his son, 

 Harry Bingham Booker, seven months of age. 



Local hardwood men have received notice of 

 the decision of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission to suspend advances in rates on lumber 

 from the South and Ohio river crossings to 

 Canada until Dec. 30. The matter had been 

 under consideration by the local members of the 

 trade, no action having been taken regarding it. 

 It is believed if the advances are not more than 

 one or two cents a hundred and do not interfere 

 with the present adjustment of rates, it would 

 be unobjectionable, for the most part. . 



The Norman Lumt>er Company will install a 

 soda-dipping plant at its mill at Holly Ridge, 

 La. It will be used in handling its gum luml>er. 



C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is continuing 

 to run its mahogany mill day and night, and 

 reports the demand heavy and prices advancing. 

 Interior finish manufacturers are the leading 

 buyers, with furniture makers also calling for 

 supplies. 



W. P. Brown, the retired head of the W. P. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Company, was in Louis- 

 ville last week, looking hale and hearty. Mr. 

 Brown is still keeping in touch with business, 

 although no longer actively engaged in it. 



Smith Milton of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a ten-day tour of 

 Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, which he took in, 

 company with his wife. 



Paducah lumbermen have begun aggressive 

 work in the direction of having their rates 

 changed, as they assert that they are out of 

 line with other Ohio river cities. A traffic man- 

 ager will be employed to handle the case. 



ST. LOUIS 



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The report of the local building commissioner 

 for August shows an increase of $40,432 in 

 the estimated cost of buildings for which per- 

 mits were issued in August of last year. With 

 alterations, the total for August, 1912, is 

 Sl,671,951 as compared with $1,631,519 for 

 August of last year. 



According to the August report of the Mer- 

 chants Exchange of St. Louis, the total num- 

 ber of cars received in St. Louis by rail during 

 August this year was 18,114 cars as compared 



with 14,857 cars received during last August, 

 an increase of 3.257 cars. There were 13,305 

 cars shipped by rail during the same period, as 

 compared with 10,576 cars last year, an in- 

 crease of 2,723 cars. There were no receipts 

 or shipments by river. 



The first meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 St. Louis, after the summer vacation, will take 

 place at Sunset Inn, St. Louis county, on the 

 afternoon and evening of Tuesday, Sept. 10. 

 There will probably be no business transacted. 

 The ladies will take part in the meeting and 

 it promises to be a most enjoyable affair. The 

 members and the ladies will go out to the inn 

 early in the afternoon. Dinner will be served, 

 and during the evening there will be music and 

 other entertaining features. 



E. W. Blumfr, sales manager of the Loth- 

 man Cypress Company, is back from a business 

 trip through the East. While absent he visited 

 Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Baltimore, New YorK. 

 etc., and reports the cypress situation satis- 

 factory in the cities he visited. He returned 

 liome with a nice bunch of orders to substan- 

 tiate what he said. He states that orders ate 

 coming in nicely for cypress, and the question 

 of price is not mentioned in tlie orders. Those 

 liuying arc more interested in the quick ship- 

 ment of their orders than in what they have to 

 pay for them. 



Business at the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company is quite satisfactory, 

 according to E. H. Luehrmann. Orders, he says, 

 pre coming in in good numbers. Prices are sec- 

 ondary consideration, but quick shipments are 

 requested. The outlook for a good fall trade 

 is most satisfactory. 



S. L. Culler, who recently had charge of the 

 Hunker-Culler Company's office at St. Louis, has 

 gone to Bunker, where the headquarters of the 

 selling department will hereafter be located. 



Charles F. Querl. 72 years old. for more than 

 fifty years connected with the lumber industry 

 in St. Louis, recently died of heart disease at 

 the home of his brother in Hollywood, Cal., 

 where he was on a short visit. The body was 

 brought to St. Louis tor interment. 



Mr. Querl began his career in the employ of 

 Alexander Riddle and later with Bryan Brothers. 

 He succeeded them in business and in 1868 be- 

 came associated with A. H. Schnelle. A few 

 years later he took over the entire business 

 i:nder the name of the Charles F. Querl Lum- 

 ber Company. 



MILWAUKEE 



Two representatives of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Earl H. Frothingham 

 and W. B. Barnes of the Forest Service, have 

 been in this state gathering data on Wisconsin 

 hardwood, birch, etc., to be used for wood bulle- 

 tins to be issued soon. While in this state, they 

 visited Secretary R. S. Kellogg of the Northern 

 Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion at Wausau. 



T. Stephen Starr, for twenty years connected 

 with the N. Ludington Company of Marinette, 

 Wis., recently died at the Menominee River 

 hospital from cancer of the stomach. 



During a recent windstorm, which passed over 

 the section of the state in the vicinity of Birch- 

 wood, the Ahnapee Veneer and Seating Company 

 suffered a loss of $1,000 on its plant. 



Aside from the many wood products produced 

 in Sheboygan is a new line added to the prod- 

 ucts of the Sheboygan Box and Specialty Co., 

 in shape of wooden shoes. This company now 

 occupies the vacated Miller piano factory build- 

 ing on North Eighth street near the Eighth 

 street bridge. 



One of the largest rafts of logs ever brought 

 into the ba.v at Washburn is one received by the 

 Stearns Lumber Company from the Bad Kiver 

 region. It contains about 4,500,000 feet of 

 logs. 



The Kimberly-Clark Company of Menasha has 

 closed negotiations with the United Logging 

 Company of Escunaba by which the former con- 

 cern gets possession of the holdings in the 

 Watersmeet district. The United Logging Com- 

 pany also sold to the newly organized Beaver 

 Timber Company, composed of the Menasha 

 Woodenware Company and the Eseanaba Manu- 

 facturing Company, the property on the Beaver 

 branch. 



The Phoenix Manufacturing Company, of Kau 

 Claire, has received an order for an entire log- 

 ging outfit from the Travaruaktiebolaget Kemi 

 of Uleaborg, Finland, Russia. The outfit in- 

 cludes a big steam hauling engine, logging sleds, 

 snowplows, road-making machines, automatic 

 trip pockets, etc., making about four carloads 

 and involving several thousand dollars. The 

 Eau Claire Company has also received an order 

 for a 100-horsepower steam log hauler from the 

 T. D. Kellogg Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of .\ntigo. 



Following the purchase of the John R. Davis 

 Lumber Company, Phillips, Wis., by the Knee- 

 land-McClurg Lumber Company of Milwaukee, 

 the last named concern has increased its capital 

 stock from $50,000 to $1,400,000. The purchase 

 of the Phillips concern involved the mills and 

 other property including 56,000 acres of timber- 

 land. The new firm will manufacture about 

 50,000,000 feet of lumber a year. 



The twenty-eighth annual camping and fishing 

 trip of the well-known lumberman and senator, 

 Isaac Stephenson, was made during the last four 

 days of August. Thirty-two were in the party. 

 The trip was made by boat, train, automobile and 

 on foot, and extended to Wells, where an elab- 

 orate dinner was given at the I. Stephenson 

 Company's big boarding house. The big lumber 

 mills, chemical plant, charcoal and iron furnace 

 and other plants of the Stephenson company 

 were visited under the Senator's guidance. 



According to State Forester Edward M. Grif- 

 fith, the state board of forestry has just added 

 30,000 acres in Vilas and Oneida counties to 

 the state forest reserve. The state now has 

 500,000 acres which at a conservative estimate 

 is valued at $5,000,000. There are hundreds of 

 small lakes in this region, sites on which the 

 state leases as summer homes or huuting shacks, 

 and many hundred miles of roads and trails 

 have been constructed. In order to prevent for- 

 est fires, forest guards are constantly on duty. 

 It is planned to establish a large game preserve 

 to be stocked with elk, deer, moose, beaver, etc. 

 After several years these animals will be allowed 

 to scatter throughout the entire region under pro- 

 tection, but in order to allow them to propagate 

 they will be kept on a 5,000 acre tract enclosed 

 by a strong wire fence. This reserve is to 

 become for Wisconsin what the Adirondacks are 

 to New Y'ork. 



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The Hardwood Market 



CHIC AGO 



The local hardwood trade is unusually good 

 in volume, and transactions are being carried 



on at a very satisfactory range of values. A 

 good many purchases are being made by rail- 

 road and other' corporations. Stock of many 

 varieties is very short, and jobbers are having 

 diflJculty in carrying on nearly as much 



