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HARDWOOD RECORD 



maple. Three of the largest lumber firms here— 

 Cobbs & Mitchell. Ltd. : Mitchell Brothers Com- 

 pany, and Cummer. Diggins & Co., who operate 

 half a dozen mills, own enough hardwood timbec 

 in the southern peninsula to keep their mills 

 busy making lumber for over twenty-five years, 

 full time. And there are a half dozen other 

 firms here who do a large business. Cadillac 

 lumbermen also have Immensp holdings in hard- 

 wood in the upper peninsula, but that timber 

 will be sawed up at Green Bay. Wis., at some 

 time in the future, the freight rates being too 

 expensive to get the logs to this city, to say 

 nothing about the difficulty of transportation. 



The .Tones & Green maple flooring plant, which 

 is being built at Dighton. will he in shape to 

 start operations this month. 



A bill has passed both houses of the legisla 

 turt. which abolishes the measure restricting the 

 mining companies of the state to ownership of 

 50,000 acres of land. The bill was urged in 

 its passage on the ground that the companies 

 require largely in excess of 50,000 acres of tim- 

 ber land in their mine-timbering operations. The 

 governor will grant a public hearing on the bill 

 before signing it. 



President Koosevelt is credited with having ad- 

 vised Gov. Warner to go slow in railroad legis- 

 lation and to let the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission work out the problems now imder con- 

 sideration, on the occasion of his recent visit at 

 Lansing. Three railroad commission bills have 

 been introduced during the present session, and 

 such a wide difference of opinion has developed 

 as to the powers that should be invested in such 

 a body that there is little hope of the passage 

 of any one of them. 



W. H. Thompson, formerly manager of the 

 American Handle Company of Grand Kapids. has 

 bought a tract of timber in Washington and is 

 operating a mill at Centralia. His successor 

 hye is D. A. Stratton, formerly of Tower. 



The Michigan ilaple Company is closing up 

 its affairs as fast as possible and will go out of 

 business as soon as its stocks are disposed of. 

 which will probably be a matter of three ()r four 

 months. The company's olflces in the Michigan 

 Trust building have been closed and the busi- 

 ness removed to the Stearns Company's offices 

 in the Houseman building, where H. N Stone is 

 looking after its affairs. W. A. Spencer, who 

 has been in charge for some time, has gone to 

 Stearns. Ky.. where he takes a position in the 

 office of the Stearns Company. 



Indianapolis. 



The Walnut Lumber Company on Lewis street 

 has made a number of improvements, among 

 which is an addition to its office building. At 

 present the company is enjoying the largest 

 business in its history and requires more elbow 

 room to take care of it in. 



It Is announced, through a notice filed with 

 the secretary of state, that the L. C. Thompson 

 Manufacturing Company of this city has changed 

 its name to the B'urnas Office & Bank Furni- 

 ture Company, and the new name has gone into 

 effect. 



At a meeting held last week the Indiana Com- 

 mercial League was permanently organized. The 

 new organization is composed of two representa- 

 tives from each of twenty-five commercial or- 

 ganizations in the state, the hardwood dealers' 

 association and the retail lumber dealers being 

 represented. Legislation tending to improve ship- 

 ping will be looked after both in the Indiana 

 legislature and congress. 



Safe blowers visited the offices of the Cline 

 Brothers' Lumber Company and of the Kendall- 

 Tille Manufacturing Company at Kendallville on 

 the night of May 30. At the former place a 

 sign above the safe stated that it contained 

 nothing but books, but the safe blowers were 

 not willing to take it for granted. At the latter 

 place they were scared awiiy before getting any- 



thing and their net profit from the two places 

 consisted of a few cents. 



The Bedford Handle Company is a new cor- 

 poration at Bedford and has $10,000 capital 

 stock. The directors are George M. Dodd. Boone 

 Leonard and James W. Douthitt, all well-known 

 business men of Bedford. 



Two large barges, loaded with lumber from the 

 south, have arrived at Evansville. via the Ohio 

 and Mississippi rivers. One of these barges, the 

 Louisa Barrett, contains 500,000 feet of lumber 

 for Evansville lumber men. but heavy rains have 

 made it impossible for wagons to get to the 

 levee where the barges are ready to unload. 



One of the cheapest sales of timbered land on 

 record has been made to David N'aroun of 

 Knightstown. who has purchasd ten acres of fine 

 timber land from Linville Wallace, a farmer near 

 Milton. The sale price was $100 an acre, or 

 $1,000. The land had belonged to the Wallace 

 family for eighty years. 



The Caswell-Runyan Company has been incor- 

 porated at Huntington to do a general wood- 

 working business. The capital stock is $75,000, 

 which is held by David R. Hemmick. Winfred 

 Runyan. John W. Caswell and John A. Snyder. 

 A modern plant will be occupied and the com- 

 pany -nili start business operations within a 

 short time. 



Quite a pretty custom was observed by em- 

 ployes of E. C. Atkins & Co. on Memorial Day, 

 when they decorated the graves of seventy-six 

 deceased employes of the plant. Committees from 

 the various departments visited the different 

 cemeteries of the city. The custom was started 

 several years ago and there is a permanent or- 

 ganization for the purpose. 



The Long-Knight Lumber Company is now re- 

 ceiving hardwood shipments with a certain degree 

 of promptness and has a better supply of all 

 grades of hardwoods on hand than for some 

 time. Southern shipments, which were delayed 

 for a time because of car shortage are said to 

 be arriving nicely and the company anticipates a 

 big business on account of the universal pros- 

 perity of manufacturing plants of the city and 

 because of unusual activity in building. 



A fire which for a time assumed threatening 

 proportions and entailed damage amounting to 

 $12,000 occurred last week at the plant of E. C. 

 Atkins & Co.. Inc.. on the south side. The flames 

 were confined to the west building, a four-story 

 structure of brick, concrete and iron, and fire- 

 proof. For this reason the chief damage done 

 was to machinery and stocl< in the two upper 

 floors of the building comprising the polishing 

 department of the plant. The factory was not 

 disabled for more than a day. The Indianapolis 

 fire follows but a little over a week a $10,000 

 fire in the Chicago warehouse. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



The iloutezuma Lumber Company has been 

 organized here and the company will at once 

 begin business at Montezuma. X. C. Tiie organ- 

 izers are George H. Mell of Kane, Pa., president, 

 and George H. Jones, secretary and treasurer. 

 The capital stock is $25,000. fully paid in. The 

 company owns about i 5.000.000 feet of timber 

 near Montezuma. 



Frank R. Whiting of Philadelphia, president of 

 the Janney-Y^'hiting Lumber Company of that 

 cit.v and the Whiting Manufacturing Company of 

 Abingdon. Va.. was in the city recently on busi- 

 ness. Mr. Whiting W'as in company with his 

 brother, W. S. Wbiting, and visited the mills at 

 Abingdon. Speaking of trade conditions, he said : 

 "Business with us is good. Our Abingdon mill 

 has averaged over a million feet a month for 

 over a year. We have about 175,000.000 feet of 

 timber here, which is. I estimate, seven or eight 

 years' cut. I have recently heard some com- 

 I>laint. but. as I say. witli us business is good 

 and if there is any change for the wors; in the 

 market we haven't observed it." 



J. Walter Wright of the J. Walter Wright 

 Lumber Company of Mountain Cit.v. Tenn.. Is 

 preparing to build a five-mile fiume to transport 

 logs and bark and will expend $10,000 on the 

 project. 



E. C. Crow, who has been manager of the 

 Stuart, \'a., office of J. .A. M'ilkinson. has been 

 Stuart. E. W. Reed has resigned his position 

 with the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company at Nor- 

 folk to accept a position with Mr. Wilkinson. 

 W. H. Waters and John Butler also entered the 

 employ of Mr. Wilkinson last week. 



W. G. Offutt of Parkersburg, W. Va.. is visit- 

 ing his brother. M. N. Offutt of the Tug River 

 ;e sq \\\i\ Ba!SiE.a 'a 'X' put: 'loisrig u4 pa||B.) 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Offutt is in the lumber 

 business in West Virginia and contemplates en- 

 tering it here. 



Frank B. Folsom of Soble Bros.. Philadelphia, 

 is buying lumber in this section. Mr. Folsom 

 was with Rode & Horn of New York until a 

 short time ago. 



"The export business is not as good as it 

 should be," said Dwight D. Hartlove, represent- 

 iug W. O. Price of Baltimore, who was in the 

 city last week. "The market is inclined to be 

 dull. It is my belief that it is the result of 

 shippers .sending too much stuff over on con- 

 signment, just to keep up their shipments. This 

 tan only affect the market temporarily." 



C. H. Smith, Jr., of Philadelphia, representing 

 R. A. and J. J. Williams, will make Bristol head- 

 quarters in the future. Mr. .Smith is buying 

 lumber in east Tennessee, southwest Virginia and 

 western North Carolina. 



Curtis Rush of the Duff & Rush Lumber Com- 

 pany of St. Paul. Va.. was in the city last week. 

 He reports that construction woik on the South 

 & Western railway is progressing and that trains 

 will be running between St. Paul and Clinchport 

 by December 1, if there is no hitch in present 

 plans. 



W. H. 'Vates, representing the Rumbarger Lum- 

 ber Company of Philadelphia, came to the city 

 this week to buy lumber in this section. 



J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company is 

 at his mills in North Carolina. 



B. C. Shelton of Elizabethton was in the city 

 this week. Mr. Shelton now h:is mills running 

 near Cranberry, N. C. 



W. G. McCain of W. G. McCain & Sons was 

 here from Neva, Johnson county, Tenn., on busi- 

 ness this week. 



James Faulkner, Jr., of the Faulkner Lumber 

 Company of Crandull, Tenn.. was in the city 

 last week. Mr. Faulkner reports that his com- 

 pany has seven mills in operation near Crandull 

 and that business in that section is very brisk. 



A syndicate headed by John Laing, T. L. Tel- 

 ford and others of West Vii-giuia has purchased 

 an immense tract of timber lying in Craig and 

 Giles counties. Virginia, and extending into West 

 Virginia. Surveyors are now at work going over 

 the propert.v. 



E. K. Bradley, who has been at Elizabethton 

 for the past five or six .years, has returned to his 

 homo at Bay Cit.v, Mich., with his family. Mr. 

 Bradley decided upon this course after the death 

 of his father, the late N. B. Bradley, one of the 

 best known lumbermen in Michigan. Nathan 

 Bradley. Jr.. has charge of the company's busi- 

 ness at Elizabethton. 



Among the visitors on the local market last 

 week and the earlier part of this week were : 

 J. M. McRea. Laurel Fork Lumber Company, 

 Mount Sterling, N. C. ; T. K. Garland. T. K. 

 Garland Lumber Company. Johnson county, Ten- 

 nessee ; J. E. Ballard, Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 Company. Butler, Johnson county, Tenn. : Va. 

 Luppert, Luppert Lumber Company. Butler, John- 

 son county. Tenn. : C. Boice, Boice Lumber Com- 

 pany, Abingdon. Va. : B. C. Shelton. Elizabeth- 

 ton : S. D. Hoover. James Kennedy ..^ Co.. Cin- 

 cinnati : J. R. Lowe, Montezuma Lumber Com- 

 pany. Montezuma, N. C. 



Columbus Crussell, son of a prominent citizen 



