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will leave a big gap In the town of Nebagamon. 

 It Is an interesting fact that the steel rails 

 owned by this concern will sell for more, after 

 eight years of service, than they originally cost, 

 owing to the advance in steel. 



W. H. Hatten of New London has purchased 

 of the .Tohn O'Brien Land and Lumber Company 

 of Chicago 1.3,600 acres of timber land In Talla- 

 hatchie county, Mississippi. The purchase price 

 was $240,000. 



.\11 of the 200 employees of the N. Ludlngton 

 Company of Marinette, controlled by the I. Ste- 

 phenson Company, were agreeably surprised re- 

 cently when receiving their pay envelopes to find an 

 increase of ten per cent in wages. The Increase 

 was made without any request from the men and 

 without any public announcement. The step 

 is In accord with Mr. Stephenson's custom of 

 l)rotit-sharIng with the men who have been with 

 him from five to twenty years, though all the 

 employees are Included In tlie raise. 



The Bean & Maxwell sawmill at Park Falls 

 was destroyed by Are recently. No Insurance 

 was carried. This Is the fourth sawmill to burn 

 In that village within two years. 



Franlv Krieg of the town of Emmet has a 

 contract to log 2.000.000 feet of hardwood for 

 the Clifford Lumber Company of Stevens Toint. 

 It is located along the Kau Plclne river. 



August Stecker of Marshfield has purchased 

 the Nickolay hardwood mill near KozellvIUe. 

 The mill is stocked this year, and will be for 

 a number of years to come, by the Blodgett- 

 Booth Lumber Company of Marshfield. 



The Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company's 

 mill erected this spring to replace the one 

 burned last winter was put in operation June 24 

 with a full crew. 



The Pelican Lumber Company of Rhinelander 

 has purchased the Smith & Winkler sawmill on 

 IVlIcan river. It has a capacity of 30,000 feet 

 daily and the firm has a big cut ahead. 



.Tames W. HIckey of Rhinelander and Peter 

 Mitchell of Plainfield have succeeded in inter- 

 esting outside capital in a factory enterprise at 

 Grand Rapids. It is the intention to manufac- 

 ture all kinds of lumber products. 



The Wausau Box and Lumber Company of 

 Wausau suffered a disastrous fire last week. 

 Hnring a high gale a hot-box set the plant 

 alilaze. and. being located in a remote section of 

 the city, it was doomed to destruction before the 

 lire department arrived. The large stock of 

 mixed lumber on the yards was saved after hard 

 work. The loss Is about $35,000, on which 

 there was ,f43,000 insurance. The company has 

 had a strike on its hands for a month and was 

 operating with a reduced crew. The firm suf- 

 fered a similar loss at Eau Claire last winter. 

 The LanglU mill at Eagle River was burned 

 last week : loss $10,000 ; no Insvirance. 



The Collar-Stange Lumber Company was re- 

 cently organized in Merrill : capital stock, $100.- 

 000. The incorporators are W. G. Collar, A. 

 II. Stange and John Van Hecke. The firm has 

 purchased the old Merrill Lumber Company's 

 l)lant and will remodel the same, starting to 

 operate in the fall. A veneer mill and box fac- 

 tory will also be erected by the company. 



Preparations arc being made by the Menomi- 

 nee Indians to cut the dead and down timber 

 on their reservation, they having secured per- 

 mission from the government. Four mlllsites 

 have been located on the lino of the Wisconsin 

 & Northern railway to take care of the timber. 

 About 35,000,000 feet will be cut this year. 

 Two years ago a cyclone blew down a large 

 amount of timber on the reservation and much 

 of this can be saved. 



The Nash Lumber Company's plant at Shana- 

 golden was burned recently: loss $40,000, well 

 protected by Insurance. The entire hardw^ood 

 cut had been contracted for by Volmar & Below 

 of Marshfield. An effort will be made to have 

 the logs sawed out elsewhere. 



The new sawmill of the Beswick-Daley Manu- 

 facturing Company of Menominee Is ready for 



operation. It will saw out the lumber needed 

 for the construction of a large factory building 

 to be erected by the same firm. The latter will 

 be built largely of concrete blocks. Wooden 

 columns, casks, tanks, sash, doors and wooden 

 novelties will be manufactured. 



Charleston, 'W. Va. 



G. G. Roberts, with D. G. Courtney, a promi- 

 nent lumberman of tills city, has been visiting 

 the trade In Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo, 

 Ohio, and Detroit, Mich, He reports that the 

 lumber business is good in all of these places. 



The Reltz-Martin Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Parkersburg, W. Va., with a cap- 

 italization of $24,000. The main plant of this 

 company will be at Mingo, W. Va. 



W. A. Cool of W. A. Cool & Sons, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, is looking up stock in this locality this 

 week. 



I. F. Paisley, representing the Willson Bros. 

 Lumber Company of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting 

 Charleston and vicinity and looking up stock for 

 his company. 



It is reported that the Flynn Lumber Com- 

 pany has purchased 22.500 acres of timber land 

 from the People's Coal and Land Company and 

 that it will begin operations there at once. 



The Lick Run Lumber Company, which was 

 recently incorporated at Pennshoro, W. Va.. has 

 purchased maciilnery and has a new plant in 

 course of construction. 



The Donaldson Lumber Company of Anthony. 

 W. Va., has its new band mill running at full 

 capacity. It has a large tract of Virginia forest 

 to cut down and is doing good work. 



Ashland. 



The timbermen of Fourteen Mile, on Guyan 

 river, will build a bridge over the stream at 

 that place to transport their product to the 

 Guyan Valley railroad. This will be the third 

 structure of the kind along that river. The 

 one at Adenville was destroyed about eight 

 months ago, when scoundrels went at night and 

 chopped the girders that held up the bridge, 

 letting It fall into the river. These bridges 

 are built of wire and swing nicely, but carry 

 great weight. 



One of the biggest if not the very largest 

 saw logs ever taken from the forest of the Big 

 Sandy valley came down on the last freshet. 

 It is the property of John Bently and George 

 Pelcher of PIkeville, who are owners of a large 

 number of logs in the river coming from the 

 I'ond river section. The monster log Is poplar, 

 containing more than 450 cubic feet. It re- 

 quired twenty-six yoke of cattle to place the 

 log in the stream. It is understood here that 

 the log will be taken to the Jamestown expo- 

 sition. 



A. B. Priest, a prominent timber dealer of Mar- 

 tin county, Kentucky, brought to market eight 

 rafts of about 100 logs each on the last rise of 

 the Big Sandy. Mr. Priest has a tract of 300 

 acres of land on Wolfe creek, from which he 

 will get over 3,300 logs of merchantable size. 

 Jlr. Priest tells of a pending deal in timber 

 which is one of the biggest in this section of 

 the state. The land formerly belonged to Mr. 

 Gosho of Williamson. W. Va.. but according to 

 Mr. Priest's information It now belongs to some 

 compan.v. Men are now on the ground measur- 

 ing and counting the trees. The tract contains 

 8.000 acres, and the price to be. paid for it will 

 be in the neighborhood of $63,000. 



Noah Wells of John's Creek, Ky., was 

 drowned while looking after his timber during 

 the late rise. The current of the creek in its 

 flooded condition was so swift that it carried 

 him beyond the reach of rescue. 



Sol Kimble of Ironton. an employe of the 

 Fearon sawmill, recently had two fingers on his 

 left hand severely mangled by a saw. The at- 

 tending physician amputated one of the fingers, 

 but hopes to be able to save the other. 



An important deal Is under headway in Pike 



county by which John C. C. Mayo, the million- 

 aire timberman of 'Palntsvllle, Ky., and At- 

 torney Z. Taylor Vinson of Huntington, W. Va., 

 may take over the holdings of the Northern 

 Coal &. Coke Company, east of Levlsa Fork. 

 The holdings, which consist of several thousand 

 acres of timber and coals lands, are amongst the 

 most valuable In that county. 



It is reported that the Dawkins Lumber Com- 

 pany of Ashland, Ky., and N. Goodman, formerly 

 of the Ironton Lumber Company, want to se- 

 cure possession of the J. W. Pierce Lumber 

 Company's plant, which was recently closed 

 down. Should these gentlemen be successful 

 in securing the lease Mr. Goodman will have 

 charge of the planing mill, and the Dawkins 

 people, the sawmill. 



It Is also said that a company of Ironton 

 men, one of whom is a leading business man 

 and another a practical lumberman, who re- 

 cently returned home from the South, is being 

 formed to take charge of the works. 



The Fearon Lumber Company of Ironton, C, 

 and the Wright Lumber Company of Ashland, 

 Ky., had an enormous amount of timber break 

 away from their moorings in the Big Sandy 

 and pass out in the late rise. 



Fifty thousand runaway saw logs were car- 

 ried out of the 'mountains of West Virginia by 

 the late cloudburst and consiTjuent freshet that 

 swept everything before them on the Kanawha. 

 Big Sandy and Gu.vandotte rivers. With the 

 logs of walnut, oak, poplar and sycamore floated 

 thousands of railroad ties, and the grinding 

 mass of timber made up stream travel In the 

 Ohio impossible for several hours. The current 

 of the Ohio was faster than for years, and 

 thousands of the logs will go on to the gulf. 

 I'or the first hours of the run the river swarmed 

 with rowboats and launches towing the run- 

 aways to shore, hut work In the swift current 

 was so hard that rivermen soon gave It up. 

 C. Crane & Co. of Cincinnati, O., were the 

 principal losers by the demolishing of the great 

 log rafts in the mountain rivers. The Crane 

 company's steamboat. Crown Hill, was sent out 

 on rescue work, but her wheel was jammed hy 

 -a log and she floated helplessl.v down the Ohio. 



The R. G. Page Lumber Company has se- 

 rurefl the services of a new lumber inspector, 

 one of the most efficient in Pike county — J. L. 

 Morgan — who has been engaged In the business 

 for years. Mr. Morgan goes with the well- 

 known concern at once. He will work along 

 the Big Sandy division of the C. & 0. railroad. 

 This company has lately changed offices and 

 now occupies handsome quarters In Broadway. 

 The DeitzMartin Lumber Company, re- 

 cently incorporated under the laws of West 

 Virginia with a capital stock of $24,000 has 

 bought from Stuart Wood of Philadelphia and 

 others 2.000 acres of timberland located on 

 Burning Creek, Mingo county, W, Va. The price 

 paid was $20,000 in cash. The company now 

 owns a number of sawmills and they will be 

 removed to the new tract at once. The land is 

 alongside the N. & W. railroad, making the 

 shipping facilities the best. Nearly all of the 

 timber is oak. By agreement the company must 

 complete Its work within six years, and then 

 the land reverts to the original owners. Thomas 

 G. Martin, W. D. Camden and Ralph D. Martin 

 will go to the tract immedlatel.y and will remain 

 there until all the timber is cleared away. 



C. Crane & Co. of Cincinnati have made one 

 of the largest trades in timber ever made in 

 Mingo county. West Virginia. This was the 

 purchase of some 30.000 trees situated on 

 Pigeon Creek In the vicinity of Elk and Rock 

 House, and those two tributaries of the larger 

 creek. They will soon put In operation for 

 marketing the timber. The laud was owned 

 by some forty people on the creeks named, and 

 involved about 6,000 acres of land. The timber 

 only wa.s sold. The timber was sold in grades 

 at about an average price of $2 per tree, and 

 the amount involved was $75,000. 



