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at $75,000. The schedule Is said to show liabili- 

 ties of $70,000, with assets of $45,000. An 

 effort will be made, it is said, to enlist new 

 capital and resume operations, the Bristol plant 

 being one of the largest and best-equipped in 

 that' section. Mr. Wilkinson is widely known, 

 being one of the most prominent members of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association, and 

 having also helped to organize the Wagon Oak 

 Plank Exporters' Association. He has taken an 

 active interest in all movements to promote the 

 welfare of the export business. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here last week 

 was W. H. Boiling of Galax, Va., who has un- 

 der consideration a large development in Marlon 

 county. South Carolina. It is stated that Mr. 

 Boiling contemplates the erection ot a mill there 

 and the acquisition of about 20,000,000 feet of 

 poplar and other timber. 



Fire destroyed the big plant of the Stewart 

 Vehicle Company at Martinsburg, W. Va., Sept. 

 16, together with 700 vehicles in various stages 

 of completion. The loss is estimated at $1*5,- 

 000, with insurance of $107,000. The plant 

 was burned down about two years ago and re- 

 built, but remained incomplete in some of its 

 departments. 



The Pioneer Hardwood Flooring Company has 

 been organized here with a capital stock of 

 $25,000 and is about completing the equipment 

 of a mill at President and Fleet streets. Wal- 

 ter T. Startzman is president of the company, 

 John Ryan, vice-president and treasurer, and 

 Felippe A. Broadbent, secretary. These three 

 are also the incorporators of the company, which 

 expects to begin operations in the next few 

 days. Mr. Broadbent is at the head of the 

 laantel company which hears his name, and is 

 located in the same neighborhood. 



K. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, is home for a few days, hav- 

 ing returned from Rift, W. Va., where the com- 

 pany conducts a milling operation. He will go 

 to Fontana, N. C, at the end of the present 

 week, being accompanied by H. L. Bowman, 

 sales manager. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here during 

 the last week or ten days were F. X. Diebold 

 of the Forest Lumber Company, Pittsburgh ; I. 

 Whaley of the Whaley-Warren Lumber Company, 

 Bristol, Tenn. ; .T. Rappe Myers of Ellis & Myers, 

 Salem, Va., and Robert C. Lieb of the Laurel 

 River Logging Company, Stackhouse, N. C. All 

 of them reported that business is decidedly 

 active. 



About the only business considered at the 

 quarterly meeting of the Baltimore Lumber Ex- 

 change, held on Sept. 9 at the Merchants' Club, 

 was the report of a committee of which W. M. 

 Burgan was chairman, on the lumber rate from 

 Norfolk to Baltimore. The Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road Company now makes a rate of eight cents, 

 while the charge of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 

 road for the same service is twelve cents. Ef- 

 forts have been made at diUercnt times by Indi- 

 vidual Arms to secure an equalization of the 

 rate, but always without success, and the mat- 

 ter was placed in charge of the committee. This 

 latter reported that it had been unable to do 

 anything and there was no prospect of favorable 

 action, the Baltimore & Ohio pointing out that 

 the route over its line was circuitous and that 

 shipmeuls had ta pass over another road, which 

 made the service exceptionally expensive. A 

 fine luncheon followed the meeting, which was 

 largely attentled. 



000 as compared with 262 permits and a valua- 

 tion of $535,000 in August, 1911. 



Richard P. Baer & Co., Baltimore, Md., manu- 

 facturers of hardwood lumber, will soon open 

 a branch in Columbus in charge of C. E. Wil- 

 liamson. Mr. Williamson has been on the 

 ground for some time looking the situation over 

 for the company. He has established his ofBce 

 in the Dennison hotel, but will secure a down- 

 town OfBce in the near future. 



The Oak Wood Lumber Company of Marietta, 

 O., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $50,000 to deal In timberlands and operate a 

 sawmill. The incorporators are W. T. Schnauter, 

 C. H. Holden, W. J. Cram, J. C. West and Robert 

 M. Noll. 



H. D. Brashear of the H. D. Brashear Lumber 

 Company has returned from a buying trip In the 

 southern markets. 



The Bloomville Lumber Company of Bloom- 

 vllle, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 of $5,000 to do a general lumber business. The 

 incorporators are John R. Gobey, H. C. Creith, 

 R. S. Miller, Charles J. Cummins and L. B. 

 Schneider. 



.. A new lumber company recently Incorporated 

 to do a general wholesale hardwood lumber 

 business In Cincinnati is the Anchor Lumber 

 Company, with a capital stock of $25,000. It 

 will be under the active management of C. W. 

 Sprinkle and E. F. Williams, both of whom 

 were formerly connected with the hardwood lum- 

 ber trade of this city. 



M. A. Hayward of AI. A. Ilayward & Sons 

 has returned from Detroit where he found a good 

 market. He says that the demand is good for 

 all grades of hardwoods, especially hardwood 

 flooring. Stocks are light and prices are firm 

 in all grades. 



W. M. Ritter of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company has returned from his annual vacation 

 trip in the White mountains. He contemplates 

 a trip to London and Liverpool some time in 

 October to look after his foreign interests at 

 those points. 



F. B. Pryor of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company reports an excellent trade In hard- 

 woods in all sectfons of the country. He says 

 there is a good demand for the lower grades, 

 especially chestnut and oak. Poplar is selling 

 better, automobile concerns buying panel sizes 

 more liberally. 



W. L. Whitacre of the W. L. Whitacre Lum- 

 ber Company says that prices in hardwoods are 

 firm and that the tendency of the market is to 

 advance. He predicts a good trade during the 

 fall and winter. 



L. B. Schneider of John R. Gobey & Co. says 

 that prices are advancing and that the volume 

 of trade is satisfactory. There Is a good de- 

 mand for all varieties of hardwoods. Stocks 

 are generally scarce. The company Is having 

 trouble in all orders because It is impossible to 

 make deliveries promptly. 



COLUMBUS 



There was a decrease in the valuation of 

 buildings erected during 1912. Building permits 

 Issued for the first six months numbered 1869 

 as compared with 1885 in the corresponding 

 period in 1911. The valuations for 1012 were 

 $3,414,000 as compared with $3,364,000 for 

 1911. During the month of August, 1912, 222 

 permits were issued with a valuation of $389,- 



INDIANAPOUS 



giving his liabilities at approximately $64,000 

 and his assets at about $4,200. He was formerly 

 identified with a lumber company now in bank- 

 ruptcy and most of his liabilities consist ot 

 notes indorsed for the company. 



The Hoosler Veneer Company, which recently 

 succeeded the Advance Veneer & Lumber Com- 

 pany, is erecting a new one story warehouse at 

 Its plant In Brightwood, at a cost of $5,000. 



W. W. Knigat of the Luny-Knight Lumber 

 Company has returned from New York City. 



The St. John Lumber Company of Muncie has 

 filed notice with the secretary of state of an 

 increase In capital stock from $150,000 to $350,- 

 000. 



Showers Brothers, furniture manufacturers at 

 Bloomington, have increased their preferred 

 stock from $800,000 to $1,050,000. An addition 

 that will cost $200,000 and will double the ca- 

 pacily of the plant and a new sawmill are to 

 lie erected at once. 



The state board of forestry has decided to 

 plant at the state forestry reservation at Henry- 

 vllle fifty acres in red oak, white oak, sycamore, 

 catalpa and black locust. The work is to be done 

 this fall. 



John E. Donahue, a lumber manufacturer of 

 South Bend, has filed a voluntary petition in 

 bankruptcy In the federal court In this city. 



NASHVILLE 



The Lumbermen's Club of Nashville has de- 

 claed to take no further steps in the milling-in- 

 translt case now before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission Tintil that body takes some action 

 oi" issues an order. The commission now has 

 the club's complaint. 



The machinery for the Bonner Furniture Com- 

 pany's plant is being installed and General Man- 

 ager T. F. Bonner says he expects to begin opera- 

 tions about Oct. 1 with one hundred operatives. 

 The plant will be operated by electricity. 



McEwen Ransom, a prominent local lumber- 

 man, has returned from a summer vacation spent 

 in Colorado. 



J. B. Ransom & Co., through the H. A. Pride 

 Manufacturing Company, have just completed 

 and installed handsome new solid mahogany 

 furniture in the Tennessee supreme court room. 

 The mahogany logs were exported from Cuba by 

 the lumber company and sawed into lumber 

 which the manufacturing company finished. 



The Smokey Lumber Company of Knox county 

 has been granted a charter by the secretary of 

 state. The company is capitalized at $5,000 

 with the following incorporators : J. F. Holt, 

 Russell Harrison, P. E. Templeton, L. C. Hardl- 

 son and H. H. Clement. 



Charles Wood of Birmingham, England, a 

 manufacturer of interior wood finish and mould- 

 ings, and Frederick HooCon of C. Noel Legh & 

 Co., Liverpool, England, were visitors in this 

 city last week. They are on a tour of the 

 hardwood sections of the United States and 

 came to Nashville from New York, visiting 

 jiolnts in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky 

 in route. While In the city both gentlemen 

 said that business in all lines in England was 

 improving. 



LOUISVILLE 



Charles H. Barnaby, president ot the National 

 Hardwood Lumber A.ssoclation, was in Louisville 

 last week. He and Mrs. Barnaby, who is a 

 former Louisville girl, attended the races at 

 Douglas Park as the guest of T. M. Brown of 

 the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company. Mr. 

 Brown Is a director of the National association. 



The Louisiana Logging Company has been or- 

 ganized In Louisville by Henry Koehler and 

 others. It will operate a logging proposition 

 near Monroe, La. The same parties are inter- 

 ested in the Hardwood Manufacturing Company 

 at Monroe. 



A good deal of criticism directed at Rule 19, 

 proposed by the American Railway Association, 

 has been heard from local shippers, and (he rule 

 has been discussed and disapproved by the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club. It provides that a 

 shipper specify destination and routing of each 

 car he applies for, and that cars delivered shall 

 be handled according to those specifications. It 

 is Intended to result In equipment being sent 

 back to the road owning it as soon as possi- 

 ble, but it is believed that It would result in 

 increasing the severity of car shortages. The 

 Sonlliern and the Louisville & Nashville have 

 thus far refused to adopt the rule. 



The mahogany mill of C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company, which has been running day and night 

 for several months. Is still putting in all the 

 time there is. Even at this rate no surplus 

 stock is accumulating, the brisk demand serving 

 to keep the yard cleared even of green lum- 



