HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ngei'. Lansiug is distinctively an automobile 

 inanul'arturiug town, this being the first furni- 

 liire I'uucern to locate there. 



Govei-nor Warner has signed the bill passed by 

 the legislature removing the restriction against 

 mining companies in Michigan owning more 

 than 5U,O0U acres of land. Under the new law 

 they are not limited to their timber holdings, 

 the change being urged on the ground that 

 millions of feet of timber must be used an- 

 nually In timbering the mines, and that large 

 areas were necessary If the cutting operations 

 were to be carried on according to forestry 

 methotls. tailing only the mature trees. 



A bill that provides for a railroad commis- 

 sion has passed the legislature, after a long 

 factional tight. Ueclprocal demurrage Is pro- 

 vided for, in the hope of relieving manufac- 

 lorers aud shippers from the embargo placed 

 on business annually through car famines, 

 though the demurrage clause docs not apply to 

 the upijer peninsula. The matter of exchange of 

 freight with electric roads is left to the com- 

 mission. 



T. Suffell. Mr. and Mrs. Suffell left immediately 

 for an extended wedding trip. 



Cleveland. 



Burt Pero of the Sawmill Company of Chase 

 City, W. Va., was in the city last week buying 

 machinery' for their new plant. 



Albert R. Mason of Taylor & Mason, Buffalo, 

 was a visitor In this marltet recently. 



Hod Dunfee of the Marietta Lumber Com- 

 pany, Waverly, W. Va., was a caller here last 

 week. 



E. II. Walker, representing the Herman H. 

 Ilettler Lumber Company, Chicago, was in the 

 city recently. 



C. R. Gorham of Mount Pleasant, Mich., manu- 

 facturer and dealer in hardwood veneers, spent 

 several days here recently. 



F. L. Finkensteadt of Duluth, representing 

 the Lord & Bushnell Company of Chicago, 

 stopped off here for a day or two en route to 

 Duluth from a visit at his old home In Buffalo. 



Fred Ferguson of Ferguson & Clark, Cincin- 

 nati, slopped over in Cleveland on his return 

 from the convention at Atlantic City. Mr. Fer- 

 guson started In the hardwood lumber business 

 In 1893 as manager of the retail yard in Cleve- 

 land of the Kirk-Chrlsty Company. 



Gilbert Tickle, lumber dealer of Liverpool. 

 ICngland. looked over the stocks of hardwood In 

 I his market recently. 



II. B. Cooper, manufacturer of hardwood in 

 liuckhannon, W. Va., was a visitor among the 

 trade this week. 



W. H. Gillespie of Spittzlnger & Co., New 

 Castle, Pa., also J. C. Roane of Weston, W. Va., 

 called on the trade this week. 



The Gilchrist & Fordney Company, recently 

 Incorporated with a capital stock of $1,200,000. 

 is of especial Interest to Cleveland lumber cir- 

 cles. F. W. Gilchrist, Frank Gilchrist, Ralph 

 Gilchrist, A. W. Gilchrist and Congressman .1. 

 W. Fordney are the organizers, and Frank R. 

 Gilchrist is a resident of this city. They have 

 bought the mill of the Kingston Lumber Com- 

 liany of Kingston, Miss., which has a daily ca- 

 Iiaclty of 150,000 feet of hardwoods and pine. 

 They also purchased in connection with this 

 50,000 acres of pine and hardwood timber land. 



The United Lumber and Supply Company, with 

 a capital of $10,000, was incorporated last week 

 by Cleveland men — A. W. Ferguson, A. S. 

 Krause, F. F. Krause, B. S. Kennedy and Levi 

 S. Bander. 



The steamer E. A. Shores, belonging to the 

 Cleveland Transportation Company, caught fire 

 recently while on the way down with a cargo 

 of hardwood and lath for this port. She sank 

 at the Soo but was not seriously damaged. Ef- 

 forts are being made to raise her and bring her 

 to the Cleveland dock. 



A wedding of interest to local lumbermen 

 occurred Thursday evening. June 20, when Miss 

 Cora II. Putnam, sister of Sam Putnam of Put- 

 nam & Savage, was united la wedlock to A. P. 



Indianapolis. 



A boiler house to cost $2,000 will be built by 

 llie Interior Hardwood Company at its plant at 

 I he Belt railroad and Linden street. Work will 

 bc> started Immediately and new boilers will be 

 installed when completed. 



William Alote, a cut off saw man, was killed 

 and two other employees seriously injured by 

 the explosion of the boiler in the planing mill 

 of Colbert Brothers' novelty works, Andrews, 

 on June 17. The loss on the plant was about 

 $1,000, covered by Insurance. 



The North Vernon Lumber Company of North 

 Vernon has asked the Indiana Railroad Com- 

 mission to place the freight rate on lumber out- 

 right on a basis of 30 per cent less than the 

 rate on logs. At present, it is said, such a 

 rate is in effect, but that the Pennsylvania and 

 B. & O. railroads compel the lumber to he 

 shipped back over the same line that hauled 

 the logs, aud that the rebate is not allowed 

 until all shipments are made. 



J. C. Greer has bought an interest in the 

 Federal Lumber and Stave Company at Evans- 

 vlUe aud will take an active part In the busi 

 ness of the company. 



E. L. Aukermau has bought what are said to 

 be the last giant walnut trees in Wabash coun- 

 ty. The purchase consists of thirty trees from 

 each of which about 6 logs 12 feet in length 

 can be sawed. It is said that not a walnut 

 tree remains in Wabash county over 12 inches 

 in diameter and Mr. Aukerman says that within 

 live years there will not be a sawmill remaining 

 in the county. 



Permission has been gi-anted for switching 

 rights to W. H. Coburn, proprietor of the Co- 

 burn Timber Company, by the Board of Public 

 Works. The siding will be Installed at once 

 at the company's yard on Twenty-third street 

 near the Monou railroad. 



As trustee In bankruptcy, J. M. Neely has 

 sold the plant of the Southern Indiana Lumber 

 Company at Martinsville to W. K. Bellls, owner 

 of the Martinsville sanitarium. The price paid 

 was $-1,700 and the plant will be fitted up for 

 an amusement hall for the sanitarium guests. 



A purchase of 140 acres of timber land in 

 Knox county has been made by R. O. James, 

 a well known lumberman of this city. Mr. 

 James has contracted for two sawmills to clear 

 the land this summer. The property contains 

 a choice assortment of hardwoods. 



The Indianapolis Freight Bureau has received 

 notice from the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion that on July 15 new rates will be in 

 effect on furniture to Peoria. Chicago and Mil- 

 waukee and on chairs to western points. New 

 lumber rates are anticipated in the near future. 

 'I he changes mean a reduction on furniture to 

 Chicago and Peoria from 25 cents to 21% 

 cents on 12,000 pounds minimum, and from 

 2.''i cents to 17% cents on the 20.000 pounds 

 minimum. 



Two loaded tie barges, one belonging to the 

 Moss Company and the other to the Gray Com- 

 pany, were sunk In thirty feet of water at the 

 I'ulton avenue wharf, Evansville, a few days 

 ago during a heavy storm. 



It is announced that the Wells-Kreighbaum 

 Manufacturing Company at South Bend has been 

 succeeded by the Wells-Shidler Manufacturing 

 Company, a reorganization of the old company. 



An increase from $.50,000 to $75,000 has been 

 made in the capital stock of the Indiana Tie 

 Company at Evansville. Allen Gray is presi- 

 dent and R. R. Williams secretary of the 

 company. 



Herman Nauter, for many years the largest 

 manufacturer of furniture in this city, died at 

 his home a few days ago. He had been ill for 

 some time. When a lad Mr. Nauter came to 

 the United States from Germany and began as 

 an ordinary workman in a furniture factory. 



The Walkerton Lumber Company has suc- 

 ceeded Frank Quirk .'.t Walkerton, a small town 

 in northern Indiana. The business will be 

 cuuducted along the same lines as formerly. 



Bristol. 



The Wood-Giilloway Lumber Company at John- 

 son City has gone into voluntary liquidation. 

 A meeting of the creditors was held last week 

 and C. J. Morrow, representing William Whlt- 

 mer & Sons, Inc., of Philadelphia, one of the 

 heaviest creditors, was elected trustee and will 

 take charge of the assets at once. The liabili- 

 ties of the company are about $75,000, while it 

 is believed the assets will be sufficient to pay 

 off all obligations in full. The firm Is com- 

 posed of Uaskett Wood, T. J. Galloway and 

 others. Considerable of the company's paper, 

 bearing the endorsement of Mr. Wood's father, 

 Is In Bristol, Johnson City and Bakerville banks. 



The new band mill of the Tug River Lumber 

 Company of this city at Big Cherry, Scott coun- 

 ty, Va., will be put into operation this week. 

 This mill was built by the company to supplant 

 several circular mills that were burned. It has 

 a dally capacity of 40,000 feet and will be kept 

 running to full capacity, as the company has ,a 

 large boundary of timber in that region. 



B. B. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany and Bolce, Burns & Offutt left last week 

 for a trip through Ohio and West Virginia on 

 business of importance. 



J. II. Teneyck, treasurer, and P. T. Pohlman, 

 ^'ice president, of the Tipp City Lumber Com- 

 pany, were here last week from Tippecanoe City, 

 Ohio. C. H. Kerr, who is interested in the 

 company, was also here. The party visited the 

 new operations of this company at Altapass, N. 

 C, on the line of the South & Western Railway. 

 I'aul Cline, formerly with J. A. Wilkinson, E. 

 A. Scott and J. M. Sanders have charge of the 

 company's business at Altapass. 



Walter J. Sharpe of Liverpool, England, last 

 week was a visitor In the local market. Mr. 

 Sharpe thinks the prospects in the foreign mar- 

 kets are very bright. He will shortly sail for 

 home. 



Frank Carrier of the Empire Chair Company 

 of Elizabethton was in the city during the past 

 week and confirmed the report that the com- 

 pany's big plant at Elizabethton, which was de- 

 stroyed by fire about three weeks ago, would be 

 rebuilt. The new plant will be completed and 

 In operation by October 1. It will give employ- 

 ment to 125 men and the daily output will be 

 between 800 and 1,000 chairs and rockers. 



II. M. Ho.skIns and bride, nee McKInney, who 

 were married at Lynchburg two weeks ago. ar- 

 rived here the first of the week after a delight- 

 ful honeymoon in the East and North. Mr. IIos- 

 klns will at once resume his work at the head 

 of the II. M. Ilosklns Lumber Company. 



Dwight D. Ilartlove, representing W. O. Price 

 of Baltimore, bought and shipped several cars 

 of tine oak stock for export near Chllhowie 

 this week. Mr. Ilartlove was in the city this 

 week and returned to Baltimore to spend Sun- 

 day with his wife. 



The heavy rainfall in this section during the 

 past few weeks has kept the roads in bad con- 

 dition so that heavy hauling has been Impos- 

 sible. This has caused logging and milling op- 

 erations to fall to about the same unsatisfac- 

 tory condition as was experienced last fall. 

 Some of the mills report that they are handi- 

 capped by a shortage of logs and that the rains 

 have prevented to some extent logging. 



"Activity characterizes the business in John- 

 son county," said O. H. Vail, a representative 

 lumber manufacturer of that county, who was in 

 the city this week. "The rains have to some 

 extent handicapped us, but the mills are nearly 

 all running now and business was never better. 

 The roads are improving fast and the country 

 mills are getting their stock to market as rap- 

 Idly as possible." 



