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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Wm. Wilms, Chicago, 111. ; W. A. Giltbi-ist, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn. ; John B. Ransom, Nashville. Tenn., 

 and Lewis Doster, secretary, Chicago, 111. 



Those from the Wisconsin Hardwood Lum- 

 bermen's Association are F. H. Pardoe, Wausau, 

 Wis. ; Edw. J. Young, Madison, Wis. ; M. J. 

 Quinlan, Soperton, Wis. ; Geo. E. Foster, Mellen, 

 Wis., and A. E. Beebee, secretary, McMillan, 

 Wis. 



All the other manufacturing lumber associa- 

 tions of the country affiliated with this organiza- 

 tion will be represented by delegates. 



Building Operations for April. 



isuikiing statistics from fifty-four leading cit- 

 ies throughout the country, officially reported to 

 fhe American Contractor, Chicago, and tabu- 

 lated show a gradual increase as the season 

 progresses over similar reports for the same 

 month in 1906, showing a widely distributed 

 building activity for April. In the aggregate 

 the gain, as compared with April, 190G, is 

 a trifle over 5 per cent. Twenty-six cities show 

 gains ranging from 6 to 199 per cent, and 

 twenty-eight show a loss varying from 2 to 77 

 per cent. 



.\pril. .Vpril. I'er I'or 



1SK)7. lUOU. <'ent cent 



Cit.v — cost. cost. i.'alii. loss. 



.\tlanta $ 395.306 .$ nOU.OT" ... :!0 



BaltitQOrc 846,544 795.000 II 



Bu-mingh:im 126.29G 173,200 ... 27 



Bridgeport 302,910 152,300 00 



Buffalo 1,086,700 l,42fl,30.-i ... 23 



Chicago 5,336.950 12,139,875 ... .16 



Chattauooga 05,835 103,37.". ... 7 



Davenport 60,430 30.2on 12<l 



Dallas 379,410 456, »so ... 16 



Denver 520,995 486,07.'j 7 



Detroit 1,271.400 1.438,10 1 ... 11 



Dullitb 376.493 313,507 20 



EvansTille 82,515 128,49ii ... :i5 



rail River 61,000 286,09.". ... 77 



Grand Rapids 160,664 210,077 ... 22 



Harrishurg 376,515 261,7oii 44 



Hartford 343,700 386.88.". ... U 



ludianapolis 677,710 852,664 ... 20 



Kansas Cily 1,129,995 1,424,7411 ... 20 



Louisville 445.220 328.790 ys 



Los Angeles 1,451.632 2,002,351 ... 27 



Milwaukee 1,463.195 l,003,6(rr 46 



Minneapolis 1,147.960 893.0911 2S 



Memphis 482,030 451.,S39 



Mobile 173,270 121,3511 42 



Nashville 1.82,979 255,070 28 



New HaviMi 354,935 478,219 ... 25 



Newark 1,280,933 783,402 63 



New Orleans 327.361 442.896 ... 26 



Manhattan 12.647.223 13,275.445 ... 4 



Brooklyn 9,594.513 4,828,079 9S 



Bronx 2,797,420 3.157.195 ... 11 



New York £5,039,158 21,260,719 17 



Omaha 413,375 373,3.".5 10 



Philadelphia 6,893.500 4,071.885 69 



Patcrson 223.493 128.008 74 



Pittsburg 1,386,142 4,226.I.S.-1 ... 67 



Pueblo 17,560 20.942 ... 34 



Portland 1.645.450 .550.8112 199 



Rochester 786,045 657.046 19 



St. Jjseph 109,280 112, OO.'. ... 2 



St. Louis 2,560.447 4.450.713 ... 42 



St. Paul 623.110 726,603 ... 14 



San Antonio 130:693 73.845 7S 



.San Francisco .... 8,615,042 



Scrauton 222,110 172.575 28 



.Seattle 741,999 1,074,322 ... 31 



Spokane 554,380 476.043 16 



South Bend 87.395 59,240 47 



Syraonse 606,633 437,685 52 



Toledo 339,224 388.433 ... 12 



Tacoma 462,385 312,533 48 



Washington 1,0IX),9SS 1,881,198 ... 4 



Worcestei- 476,613 316.804 50 



Wilkesbarve 270,395 411,943 ... 34 



Winnipeg 1,125,250 2.072,41X1 ... 45 



Total $75,947,209 $72,401,224 5 



Tennessee has just been torn away to permit 

 the erection of a part of a modern mill plant, 

 which will house the business of the T. M. 

 Michaels Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 

 This firm has been using the old mill as one of 

 three until it was decided that its great age 

 made it no longer safe. 



It was built by George Harris, a mill man, 

 also known as the author of the humorous book 

 "Sutt Lovingood." .lohn Craig used it for some 

 time, and it was long known as "Craig's saw- 

 mill." Later it was taken over by S. T. Atkin, 

 a pioneer lumber dealer and manufacturer, who 

 occupied it for several years. During the flood 

 of 1867 — a well remembered epoch to those who 

 lived along the Tennessee river — the old mill was 

 partially carried away by the tide, as was also 

 one of the planing machines which it contained. 

 It was later removed further from the river 

 bank and became the nucleus of the present 

 Michael plant, several buildings having been 

 placed around it, so that the original structure 

 could not be seen by the passer-by. 



During the long and honorable history of this 

 old mill, great masses of woodwork have been 

 turned out for all sorts of building purposes — 

 from rough boarding and shingles to mantels 

 and doors. The old structure is being torn down 

 to make room for another more modern depart- 

 ment. 



Filer Hardwood Lumber Company. 



The Filer Hardwood Lumber Company, a 

 concern capitalized at $1,000,000, was organized 

 April IS at Detroit, Mich. The company has 

 acquired title to 80,000 acres of timber land in 

 Arkansas, consisting of ash, cypress, pine, hick- 

 ory and other varieties, the oak greatly predomi- 

 nating. This tract is said to be one of the Quest 

 hardwood propositions remaining in that section, 

 and the cruiser's estimate shows nearly 800,- 

 000,000 feet of standing timber. The incorpor. 

 ators are : Frank Filer, James E. Danaher, B. 

 A. Scott and F. F. Tillotson of Detroit ; Edward 

 L. Ueel and F. W. Clements of Springfield, Mo., 

 and Sidney Tremble of the banking house of 

 Devitt, Tremble & Co., Chicago. 



Cincinnati and to Cleveland, from 10 to 12 

 cents ; to Pittsburg and to Buffalo, from 12'/2 

 to 15 cents ; to Philadelphia, from 18 to 23 

 cents ; to Baltimore, from 17 to 22 cents : to 

 New York, from 20 to 25 cents ; to Boston, from 

 22 to 27 cents. 



Important Timber Deal. 



K. M. Smith & Co., the prominent hardwood 

 lumber manufacturers of Parkersburg, W. Va., 

 ou April 23 completed negotiations with the 

 Indiana Realty Company of Indianapolis where- 

 by they come into possession of 20,000 acres of 

 timber land in Louisiana. The purchase price 

 was $330,000, and it is estimated that there are 

 about 100,000,000 feet of hardwood upon the 

 tract. E. M. Smith & Co. intend to clear about 

 1,000 acres every year, and will commence opera- 

 tions at once. 



Old Knoxville Landmark Gone. 



One of the first structures built in the city 

 of Knoxville and the first sawmill built in 



Advance in Bates on Eastbound Freight. 



It has been authoritatively stated by promi- 

 nent railroad men that on and after June 1. 

 1907, a new schedule of rates on freight going 

 from or through Chicago to eastern points will 

 be put into eft'ect, which will mean an advance 

 of. from ten to thirty per cent on lumber ship- 

 ments. Commodity rates on lumber and other 

 forest products have been eliminated and the 

 rates of Class 6 have been substituted. An ad- 

 vance of 1 cent in the freight rate on hardwood 

 lumber means that the transportation charge 

 will be augmented by from 40 to 60 cents, while 

 an increase of 5 cents a hundred is equivalent 

 to a difference of from $2 to $3. These ad- 

 vances are based on minimum weights of 4,000 

 pounds and maximum 6,000 pounds to the thou- 

 sand feet, and under this prospective classifica- 

 tion all forest products will be listed and 

 charges assessed on the basis of Class 6 rates, 

 with the exception of valuble cabinet woods, no 

 distinction being made on various kinds of 

 lumber. 



The rate from Chicago to Toledo and to De- 

 troit will be advanced from 9 to 10 cents ; to 



New North Caiolina Enterprise. 



One of the largest real estate deals made 

 recently in the state was consummated at 

 Wilkesboro, N. C, this week, the Giant Lumber 

 Company, a nev/ly organized concern, purchasing 

 from T. E. Findley over 10,000 acres of fine 

 timber lands. This property contains white 

 pine, oak, poplar and chestnut of flue physics, 

 and lies at the foot and in the coves of the 

 Blue Ridge mountains on the Reddles river. 



The lumber company is preparing to construct 

 a flume from the railroad at North Wilkesboro 

 up the river through the land. It will cost over 

 .fSO.noo. When the lumber is sawed at the mill 

 it will be floated to the railroad in this flume, 

 a distance of eighteen miles. At least $30,000 

 additional, and probably a much larger sum, 

 will be put in sawmills, planing mills, box 

 factories, etc., whicli the company will estab- 

 lish. Within a few weeks the company expects 

 to expend on the work more than $150,000. It 

 will bring a large number of northerners to the 

 section to engage in logging, cutting, fluming, 

 manufacturing and selling the timber on this 

 property. 



The Giant Lumber Company Is composed of J. 

 M. 'Barnhardt and W. J. Palmer of Lenoir, N. 

 C. ; F. G. Harper of Peterson and E. P. Wharton 

 of Greensboro, all men of prominence and wealth. 

 The company will conduct a lumber, timber and 

 sawmill business. Mr. Barnhardt is one of the 

 pioneer lumbermen of the state and has been 

 very successful in the business. The personnel 

 of the company is altogether capable of making 

 the enterprise one of the leading concerns in 

 North Carolina. The capital stock is placed at 

 $125,000. 



N, W. L. D. A. Committees. 



Among other committees which President 

 Hastings of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association has appointed is a hard- 

 wood inspection committee, of which J. V. Stim- 

 son of Huutingburg, Ind., is chairman, and the 

 other members are : J. L. Lytle, Pittsburg ; J. B. 

 Stark, Memphis : R. F. Kreinhedcr, Buffalo ; W. 

 M. Weston, Boston, and H. P. Wiborg, Cin- 

 cinnati. F. R. Babcock, who has served the 

 railroad and transportation committee as chair- 

 man so admirably during the past year, has 

 been reappointed to that office. M. P. Wheeler 

 of Endeavor, Pa., becomes chairman of the 

 forestry committee, with R. C. Lippincott as 

 chairman of the advisory committee to the 

 -Vmerican Forestry Association. 



Embarrassment of Cincinnati Company. 



W. A. Bennett has been appointed receiver of 

 the Pease Company of Cincinnati and announces 

 that the financial embarrassment of the Standard 

 Millwork Company has produced this similar 

 condition with the Pease Company. The cred- 

 itors of the Standard Millwork Company have 

 agreed upon a plan by which that business Is 

 to be continued under the supervision of a 

 creditor's committee. In order to protect the 

 interests of all creditors alike, the common pleas 

 court of Hamilton county has appointed Mr. 

 Bennett receiver of the assets of the Pease 

 Company, with authority to carry on the busi- 

 ness as a going concern pending a sale of the 

 property. The appointment was made on appli- 

 cation of C. H. I'ease, president and large stock- 

 holder of the company. An inventory is now in 

 preparation and the receiver states that he will 

 soon be able to make a correct statement of the 

 assets and liabilities. 



In the light of present information Mr. Ben- 

 nett feels .iustlfled in making the statement that 

 the claims against the Pease Company will be 



