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HARDWOOD RECORD 



R. L. Loftin of High Point will shortly begin 

 the manufacture of a high grade of hardwood 

 products. He is head of a company tliat lias 

 recently been organized with a capitaJ of 

 $20,000. 



The Alma Lumber Company of High Point 

 is also preparing to begin business with a 

 capital of J2.500. J. P. Redding, J. H. Petty 

 and others are the incorporators. 



The Williamson -Brown Land & Lumber 

 Oompanj' of Cerro Goi'do is rebuilding the 

 sawmill which was bui-ned the latter part of 

 March. The loss was about $25,000. The new 

 plant will be equipped as extensively as the 

 old one and will be modern in everj' respect. 

 One of the most important moves made in 

 this state recently that will result in much 

 advantage to shippers is that Just inaugurated 

 at Wilmington by the shippers of that city 

 in behalf of a thirty-foot depth of water 

 between the city of Wilmington, the largest 

 North Carolina coast town, and the sea. The 

 waterway thus established, it is believed, will 

 be one of the remedies which can be applied 

 to the freight rates in the state, and it is 

 primarily for this purpose that the movement 

 lias been started. The fact that North Caro- 

 lina has had no favorable seaports has been 

 used by the railroads as an argument in favor 

 of a higher freight rate in the state than 

 prevailed in others. The support of the entire 

 North Carolina delegation in Congress will be 

 sought in behalf of the step and those who are 

 pushing the matter believe that they will 

 receive the backin.g of the representatives as 

 the movement is in no wise antagonistic to 

 other waterways in the state. 



The dogwood of western North Carolina is 

 being utilized in .Tackson county by R. F. 

 Jarrett in the manufacture of a shuttle pin 

 that is being marketed with gi-eat readiness, 

 being sold quite extensively in England for use 

 in the cotton mills. Owing to the character of 

 the work that the shuttles must perform it is 

 r.ecessary that they be made of a heavy, 

 tough and hard wood. The dogwood of that 

 section of the state is said to be the best 

 wood available for the purpose. Mr. Jarrett 

 is turning out about 1,000 shuttle strips a day. 

 Lumber shippers are united in action with 

 the shippers of all other classes of goods in 

 North Carolina in an effort to have freight 

 rates remedied. The principal cities through 

 chambers of commerce or boards of trade are 

 organizing to lay the situation before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission this month. 

 Nearly all will be represented at the meeting 

 of the commission and the proposed plan is 

 to have the cities, through their delegates, 

 present a united complaint before that body. 

 Considerable agitation has been manifested 

 throughout North Carolina on alleged unjust 

 discrimination in freight rates and shippers 

 intend to do their best to better conditions. 



The High Point Hardwood Manufacturing 

 Company has been placed in the hands of a 

 receiver. E. D. Steele has been appointed. 

 The assets are given at $5,900 with liabilities 

 amounting to approximately $5,000. This 

 action was taken upon the demand of the 

 Muse-Wilborn Electrical Supply Company, the 

 largest creditor. This is the first lumber firm 

 to go to the wall in this section in many a 

 day. The universal condition is one of ex- 

 ceeding prosperity. 



The plant of the United Lumber Company 

 at Maxton was recently seriously damaged by 

 a windstorm. A considerable loss on ma- 

 chinery and fixtures was sustained. 



The Marler Hub Device Company of Greens- 

 boro has been chartered with a capital of 

 $150,000. This company owns a patent issued 

 to cover a device that dispenses with the use 

 of nuts on tops of vehicle wheels and also 

 avoids the necessity of threads on the spindles 

 of axles. The device becomes a part of the 

 hub and is readily detached from the -vehicle 



for purposes of oiling. The use of wrenches 

 is dispensed with entirely. The company 

 claims that the patent is invaluable and that 

 a large demand will be found in this section 

 for the device which will be manufactured. 

 Prominent men of capital are identified with 

 the company. 



Minneapolis. 



.Tohn C. Hill of the .Tolm C. Hill Lumber Com- 

 pany. St. Paul, entertained Secretary of War 

 William 11. Taft during his stay in St. Paul 

 last week. Owing to the illness which seized 

 Mr. Taft at Fort Snelling. Just before he reached 

 the Hill residence, he was in St. Paul a day 

 longer than was expected, and remained with 

 Mr. Hill from Friday noon until Saturday even- 

 ing, when lie left for South Dakota. Fatigue 

 from his trip, combined with the heat, brought 

 on a temporary collapse, but after his rest in 

 St. Paul Mr. Taft was quite himself again, 



E. Payson Smith of the Paysou Smith Lum- 

 ber Company has gone for a business trip to 

 the South, which will last about thre? weeks. 

 He expects to contract for several mill cuts 

 while on this trip, having about disposed of all 

 of the dr,v stock in southern hardwood which 

 they had on band. George S. Agnew of the 

 same compan.v is in northern Wisconsin. A. S. 

 Bliss, office manager, says May was the best 

 month in their history. The.y have one man 

 buying ties now in the South, and are finding a 

 ready demand for them. 



L. P. Arthur of the Arthur Hardwood Floor- 

 ing Company, Memphis, Tenn., was in Minneap- 

 olis for a day this week. He has been on a 

 business trip to the Pacific coast and was on 

 his way home. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 hardwood wholesalers, has come back from a 

 business trip into Wisconsin. 



A. S. Bliss, representing the R. Connor Com- 

 pany of Marshfield. Wis., was a business visitor 

 in Minneapolis this week. 



W. M. Nutting, president of the Nutting Truck 

 Company of Faribault. Minn., was in the cit.v 

 a few days ago looking for hardwood lumber. 

 He says that in the past they have bought 

 their timber supply near home from small port- 

 able mills, but they have cleaned out about all 

 the available timber, and it becomes necessary 

 to go into the general market for supplies. 



The J. C. Hill Lumber Company of St. Paul 

 has been made northwestern sales representative 

 of George T. Houston & Co., the well known 

 Chicago hardwood wholesalers. 



W. H. Sill of the ^linneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a short business trip to 

 Chicago and Wisconsin points. 



O. K. Hobe of the Hobe Lumber Company 

 has been looking over the hardwood and hem- 

 lock situation over in Wisconsin. 



Louisville. 



The hardwood mills on the Point have been 

 quite busy of late and the busy times have been 

 added to by stray logs coming down the river. 

 Some of the up-river mills seem to have lost 

 quite a bunch. Quite a number passing are 

 said to have escaped from the booms of C. 

 Crane & Co. at Cincinnati. Just how many were 

 caught here and how many passed by to be 

 gathered up further down the river is not 

 known. 



H. J. Gates, formerly with the Hugh' McLean 

 Lumber Company of Buffalo, has not only con- 

 cluded to become a citizen of Louisville but has 

 also gone actively into the hardwood manufac- 

 turing business by purchasing a half interest 

 in the Louisville Point Lumber Company, Mr. 

 Gates succeeds J. E. Dowe as secretary and 

 treasurer. The holdings represent an invoice 

 value of $100,000, besides logs and other assets. 

 Mr. Gates is a young man in the lumber busi- 

 ness, but he has already won his spurs, and did 

 good service for the McLeans. He is a wel- 

 come addition to the Louisville lumber frater- 

 nity. The president of the company is E. S. 



Shippen. who was one of the original organizers 

 of the institution, and is too well known in the 

 local trade to need any introduction. 



There is a new veneer enterprise under way 

 at New Albany. Ind.. to be known as the Mc- 

 Lean-Knight Veneer Company. The prime mov- 

 ers in this enterprise are E. V. Knight, formerly 

 manager of the Indiana Panel and Veneer Com- 

 pany. New Albany, and W. A. McLean of the 

 Wood-Mosaic Flooring Company, New Albany. 

 The new enterprise will not manufacture veneer 

 but will use it in the manufacture of table tops 

 and similar products. The Wood-Mosaic com- 

 pany manufactures quarter-sawed veneer and 

 it is very likely that a part of this product will 

 be made use of in the new business. 



.T. E. Busclier of the A. P. Turner Lumber 

 Company says the demand for hardwood is not 

 so vigorous as it has been, but there is a fair 

 volume of orders and they are getting along 

 very nicely. They are equipping a new mill out 

 on the L. H. & St. L. railway, about forty miles 

 out of Louisville, that will add to their manu- 

 facturing facilities and enable them to handle a 

 larger voltime of business. 



Albert R. Kampf says that while the demand 

 for hardwood ma,v not be as vigorous as it was, 

 he has at times more orders than he can take 

 care of, and while, of course, there is stock of 

 some kinds that does not always move as 

 promptly as he would like, still it is doing pretty 

 well all around and he is fairly satisfied with 

 the situation. 



Wansau, Wis. 



The Thompson-Flirth Lumber Company of 

 Wausau has purchased 3,000 acres of mixed 

 timber lands in Baytield county, paying therefor 

 .$05,000. The purchase means the erection of 

 a sawmill. 



In the Mark-Hessey mill at Iron River a 100- 

 horsepower electric motor has been installed to 

 operate the machiner.v. 



The new C. & N.-W. railway depot being built 

 in Chicago will require 15,000 pieces of elm 

 and oak piling 20, 22. 24 and 26 feet in length. 

 Frank Blandon of Crandon has been awarded 

 the contract to furnish them. 



The L'nited States Leather Company has taken 

 over the property purchased last summer from 

 the Upham Manufacturing Company, consisting 

 of a sawmill in ilarshfield and large timber 

 holdings. The mill in Marshfield was built in 

 1878 and, it is estimated, has cut 348,000,000 

 feet of timber since that time. In later years 

 it has been almost exclusively a hardwood mill. 



The Scott & Howe Lumber Company will 

 build twenty-five dwelling houses for its em- 

 ployees this summer in Ironwood. at an average 

 cost of $1,200 each, 



R, C. Merryman recently made a sale of 2,- 

 000,000 feet of hardwood logs to the Sawyer- 

 Goodman Company. They are being cut in the 

 mill of R. W. Merryman & Co. All are Marin- 

 ette firms. 



The Linden & Miller Company of Marinette 

 is building two additions to its plant. The con- 

 cern manufactures interior finishings, etc. 



A. C. McComb of (^shkosh has disposed of a 

 cypress brake near Lumberton. Fla., to the Ray- 

 mond Land Company of Dade City, Fla., for 

 $25,000. This tract is in Polk county on the 

 Plant railway system. 



The Lake Nebagamon Lumber Company, con- 

 trolled by the Weyerhaeuser syndicate, and the 

 second largest logging concern in Wisconsin, 

 with an annual output of "5,000,000 feet of 

 mixed lumber, will abandon its logging opera- 

 tions and withdraw from Lake Xebagamon by 

 September. The company is nearly if not the 

 oldest lumber firm in Wisconsin and has stripped 

 the surrounding country of timber. As a conse- 

 quence the huge mills, valued at $500,000, and 

 the yards, containing two and one-half miles of 

 tramways, will be sold, the machinery going to 

 Canada for re-erection and operation. Nearly 

 600 men are employed by the company and the 

 departure of the mill and its allied industries 



