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HARDWOOD RECORD 



other trades out on a sympathetic strike, but 

 the Retail Merchants' Association brought 

 about conferences which finally led to builders 

 and carpenters appointing committees with 

 power to act. They settled on a compromise 

 basis of 421^ cents an hour. Sash and door 

 factories and flooring: men were not buyers 

 during the trouble, as there was danger of 

 their being left with a lot of repudiated con- 

 tracts on hand. 



The Hobe Lumber Company has engaged 

 Charles C. Covel. formerly of Pittsburg, as 

 sales manager. Mr. Covel is experienced par- 

 ticularly in the hardwood line, and will em- 

 phasize that branch of the business of the 

 company more in the future. The company 

 also handles a line of pine and hemlock. 



P. H. Hammer of the Red Birch Lumber 

 Company, Catawba. Wis., was a business vis- 

 itor in Minneapolis the other day, inquiring 

 into the spring situation as to supply and 

 demand. 



F. W. Buswell of the F. W. Buswell Lum- 

 ber Company is back from a visit to the 

 company's mill and logging camp in northern 

 Wisconsin. He says that because of the deep 

 snow and abundance of thawing weather the 

 log product was lower than was figured on. 

 High cost of labor and provisions also con- 

 tributed to the greater expense of logging. 

 He also reports a great deal of trouble in 

 getting cars to fill orders. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company is braving the Jibes of his friends 

 who take a lively interest in the Sill chicken 

 farm. Mr. Sill has been devoting considerable 

 thought and attention to an incubator, which 

 he loaded with 350 eggs, and when the said 

 incubator came oft the nest the other day with 

 only two chickens the childish glee of Mr. 

 Sill's friends knew no bounds. They put him 

 on the entertainment committee for the doings 

 of April 19, with especial injunctions to fur- 

 nish the chicken for the table. Mr. Sill is not 

 at all discouraged, as la.st year he only drew 

 one chicken out of the incubator and thinks 

 a 100 per cent increase is certainly encourag- 

 ing. 



John Hein, Jr., of the John Hein Company, 

 Tony. Wis., brought his young son down a few 

 days ago for an operation in a Minneapolis 

 hospital. At last reports the lad was doing 

 very well. 



A. A. Rotzien, with the Hawkins Lumber & 

 Land Company, hardwood and hemlock manu- 

 facturers, is back from a short business trip 

 into northern Minnesota. 



Toledo. 



The railroad situation remains about the 

 same, but the chances are that relief will be 

 felt in a short time, since the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission is conducting an investi- 

 gation of the car shortage situation in Toledo 

 on complaint of the Toledo Produce Exchange. 

 It seems that the members of the Produce 

 Exchange are of the opinion that the local 

 gi-ain market has been badly discriminated 

 against in favor of the other markets. Act- 

 ing on this basis. President Fred Mayer of 

 the Produce Exchange filed formal complaint 

 with the Interstate Commerce Commission at 

 Washington. As a result of his communica- 

 tion. Special Agent Ralph M. McKenzie was 

 sent to Toledo to make a thorough investiga- 

 tion. The natural and probably the correct 

 inference is that the car shortage in other 

 lines is being probed, and it now looks as 

 though everybody interested in shipping may 

 expect some relief in the very near future. 

 In fact, it may be stated that the past few 

 days have shown a decided improvement in 

 the car situation. 



Kenneth McLeod, president of the Cache 

 Lumber Company, returned from St. Louis 

 recently, where he went to arrange the de- 

 tails for the purchase of 25,000 acres of terri- 

 tory, including a large mill, in northeastern 



Arkansas. The Cache Lumber Company 

 already controls a large lumber tract in that 

 section. The company has also received a 

 proposition to purchase 12,000 additional acres 

 lying to the north of its present holdings, 

 and the matter will be brought before the 

 board of directors at its next meeting. 



The Brooke Lumber Company, capital of 

 $25,000. was recently organized at Pataskala. 

 The company takes in the ' Henry Brooke 

 Lumber Company, the planing mill of E. 

 Frankenberg & Bro., and the business of 

 W. S. Hanna. The new company will engage 

 in the wholesale and retail lumber business. 

 Henry Brooke was elected president; A. 

 Frankenberg. vice-president; H. H. Baird, 

 secretary; Emil Frankenberg, treasurer. 



Twenty-three local lumbermen were indicted 

 by the Lucas County grand Jury, charged with 

 conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation 

 of the Valentine antitrust law. Some sixty 

 plumbers and nine brick manufacturers are 

 also included in the list. The lumbermen are 

 Justly indignant over the action and are re- 

 solved to fight the case hard. 



Indianapolis. 



The Showers Bros.' Company, operating a 

 large furniture factory at Bloomington, Ind., 

 i.s preparing to build a large veneer plant to 

 be run in connection with its present factory. 

 It will cost approximately $50,000 and will be 

 ready for occupancy within a few months. 



Within the last few days the Brown, Mar- 

 tin & Phillips Lumber Company has Ijeen 

 organized at Salem to deal in a full line of 

 lumber, including hardwoods. The capital 

 stock is $15,000 and the directors are S. D. 

 Brown. F. A. Martin and H. H. Phillips, men 

 well known in the Indiana lumber trade. 



There is a ray of hope for the solution of 

 the car shortage proposition by the announce- 

 ment that railroads centering in Indiana will 

 probably appoint car distributers, to assure 

 the just distribution of cars in compliance 

 with the Indiana shippers' law. These dis- 

 tributers, it is understood, will liave control 

 of the distribution of all cars on the various 

 lines and will have a large corps of clerks 

 under them. The Pennsylvania railroad is the 

 first company to make such an appointment. 

 The Walnut Lumber Company of this city 

 has a number of good sized orders on hand 

 and is expecting a phenomenal business this 

 season. While some difficulty is being ex- 

 perienced in getting new stock, the officers 

 of the company were far-seeing enough to 

 order early in the season, and as a conse- 

 quence orders are being cared for witli little 

 delay. Some improvements have recently been 

 made at the company's plant. 



Win Runyan and Wallace Caswell have 

 formed a partnership and will establish a 

 furniture and cabinet works at Huntington, in 

 the northern part of the state. The men were 

 formerly in charge of the Syracuse Grille 

 Company's plant at North Manchester and 

 have had several years' experience in the 

 business. 



The Mcllvaine Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Vincennes with ,a capital stock 

 of $40,000. John A. Cox, Joseph L. Ebner, 

 William B. Robinson, William H. Davenport. 

 Heathcote R. Mcllvaine, Frank E. Sheldon 

 and Mason J. Niblack have been elected 

 directors. 



The Paoli Spoke Company will manufacture 

 spokes, wooden handles, and sell a line of 

 hardwood lumber at Paoli, according to arti- 

 cles of incorporation filed last week. With a 

 capitalization of $15,000 the company expects 

 to carry on an extensive business. Among 

 those interested in the new venture are 

 Ernest Stout, Oscar Ellis and Ellen M. Stout. 

 Due to prospective building contracts 

 amounting to nearly $4,000,000 during the sea- 

 son, all local dealers are paying special 



attention to the hardwood branch of the trade. 

 From lack of a local organization of dealers 

 there is sharp competition for business, al- 

 though there cannot be any great price cutting 

 due to market conditions. 



An effort will be made to ascertain what 

 lands are best suited for the growth of tim- 

 bers used for manufacturing purposes, and the 

 relative strength of each kind of timber, by 

 Will H. Freeman, secretary of the Indiana 

 Board of Forestry. The tests, which will be 

 started this summer and will likely be con- 

 tinued for several years, will be started in 

 several counties of Indiana. Mr. Freeman 

 believes that sooner or later forestry will be 

 driven to the cheap lowlands of the state and 

 that the tests will show timber grown on 

 waste lands to be as good for manufacturing 

 purposes as that grown on the best ground. 

 Samples of wood will be obtained from various 

 regions selected for tests, and will be shipped 

 to the government experiment station at Pur- 

 due University. Timber will be tested when 

 both green and cured, undei" similar conditions, 

 eitlier in sun or kiln. Both physical and 

 chemical analysis of soil will be made, as well 

 as a study of insect pests that infest woods. 

 The three kinds of timbers to be used in 

 tests will be oak, hickory and ash, and the 

 timber for experiments will be procured in the 

 hilly lands and bottom lands of different sec- 

 tions of Indiana. In addition to tests of tim- 

 bers used for manufacturing, similar tests 

 will be made with the twenty best Indiana 

 timbers. 



Ashland. 



There has been a big output of logs, mostly 

 oak and poplar, from both the Big Sandy and 

 Guyandotte rivers the past few days. The 

 timber is reported as being of the best qual- 

 ity, and is bringing fancy prices. 



A tragedy that resulted in the death of 

 Virgil Fannin, a nineteen-year-old boy, oc- 

 curred at Normal, Ky., and Marion McPeak. 

 timber guard for the Nigh Lumber Company 

 of fronton, is held under $500 bond charged 

 with the boy's death. Young Fannin and a 

 companion were detected by McPeak stealing 

 chain dogs from the company's property boat. 

 When they saw McPeak they started to run 

 and he. armed with a shotgun, started in pur- 

 suit. Fannin carried some chain dogs in his 

 hand, but! dropped them, McPeak says, and 

 pulled a revolver. McPeak immediately fired, 

 the heavy charge entering the boy's back and 

 neck. The coroner's Jury rendered a verdict 

 of killing in self-defense, but McPeak was 

 bound over by the grand Jury under a $500 

 bond. 



T. N. Fannin of the Keyes-Fannin Lumber 

 Company has returned from a month's stay in 

 Arizona, where lie has large copper interests. 



Chas. Kitchen. Jr., of Leon, son of Chas. 

 Kitchen of Vansant, Kitchen & Co., is very 

 low with typhoid fever in a hospital in Louis- 

 ville. His father and two sisters are at his 

 bedside. The young man was taken sick at 

 the winter home of the family at Eaugallie, 

 Fla. 



Barboursville, W. Va.. at the mouth of 

 Guyandotte rlAcr, is soon to have a new 

 furniture factory. It will be quite an exten- 

 sive affair, employing a large number of men. 



The Ironton Tool Handle Manufacturing 

 Company has been formed in Ironton, Ohio, 

 for the manufacture of all kinds of tool 

 handles. The incorporators are; F. J. Ginn, 

 D. C. Davies, T. J. Gilbert, F. E. Deidrick 

 and F. J. McConnell. The capital stock is 

 $15,000. They will operate the Deidrick plant 

 in South Ironton. 



W. L. Watson is here from Mahan, W. Va., 

 for a brief visit to his family. 



B. B. Fannin of Paintsville, Ky., a success- 

 ful lumber and tie dealer, is in Louisville 

 looking after a big lumber deal. 



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