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HARDWOOD RECORD 



.MassiU-linsetts avenue and Arlams sti-eet, is en- 

 .ioyinK 111!' largest business in its liistoi'.v. in 

 I he veneer plant unusual business is reiiniring 

 111,' r.iree to put in mueli iivertinie, while in the 

 yarils (here is a steady demiuul for hardwoods 

 lor building and manutacturing piiipnses. Th • 

 eoMipany lias a praetieally new plani in lirighl- 

 wood, one of the city's largest suburbs. 



.T. D. Tennant and J. E. Orant o( Sidney, O., 

 have iiiirchased the manufacturing plant at La- 

 p,,rle ..wned by William E. Crichton. Fanning 

 mills, lawn furniture, chairs, step ladders and 

 Ihe like have been manufactured in the factory 

 for several years and it is one of the leading 

 industries in I.aporte. 



It has been announced that the recenlly or- 

 ganized Jlcllvalue Lumber Company of Vin- 

 cennes will take over the lumber yard and plan- 

 ing mills of D. It. Mcllvaine in that city. The 

 company has a capital stock of $-tO,OnO and ex- 

 pects to make considerable improvement in (he 

 old plant and extend the business. 



The Indiana Realty Company of this cily bas 

 sold to K. M. Smith & Co.. hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers of I'arkersburg. W. A"ii., extensive 

 lioliliugs of hardwood timber lands in Franklin 

 parish, Louisiana. There are about 2(1.000 acres 

 ill the tract and it is understood the price paid 

 was If:i.j0,000, the local company clearing about 

 $.-,(1,(1(1(1 on the deal. J. H. P. Smith, senior 

 member of the West Virginia firm who came to 

 Indianapolis to consummate the deal, said lie 

 li,.Ueved the tract would net 100,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood Uimber and that it would be deareil 

 at the rate of about 1,000 acres a year. As soon 

 as clearcMl Ihe ground will be used for growing 

 collon, which will produce, according lo an esti- 

 mate, about .$.jO worth of cotton to the acre per 

 yi-ar. W. B. Cooley is president of the Indiana 

 itealty Company, which was organized about 

 three' months ago for the purpose of investing 

 In southern timber lands. 



I'urdne University at Lafayette will inaugu- 

 rale a course in forestry, beginning with the 

 fall semester. Students will have the advanlage 

 of hardwood experiments to be conducted at the 

 institution under the auspices of the State Hoard 

 of Forestry and the course will be designed lo 

 meet the needs of farmers, lumbermi'n and manu 

 facturers who handle lumber in large quantities. 

 A timely word of warning relative to the rap- 

 idly disappearing supply of hardwood lumber in 

 Indiana has been issued by the State Board 

 of Forestry to the farmers of the state. The 

 board advocates the planting of forestry lots 

 on each farm to be given the same attention as 

 other crops. While the supply of timber fo^ 

 manufacturing purposes would ultimately be in- 

 lueased from this plant, farmers are urged lo 

 plant trees especially for use on their farms to 

 meet their own demands for fence posts, tele- 

 phone poles and building purposes as well as to 

 furnish lumber yards in their respective locali- 

 ties with timber. From one-tenth to one-eighth 

 of the whole farm should be given over to the 

 exclusive growing of timber, according to the 

 board. From an investigation made in different 

 parts of the state it is found that farmers, with 

 few exceptions, take little interest in forestry on 

 the theory that when the present supply of tim- 

 ber is exhau.sted something will be found to take 

 its place. This, the board says, will never be 

 possible. 



Milwaukee. 



chair and furniture center of Wisconsin. In 

 nearly all instances the leading chair factories 

 own tlielr own sawmills, in wliich tlii'y get out 

 Iheir rough stock. 



.Tulius G. Ingram, tlie well known iiiiUioimirc 

 liiiiilicriniin of Eau Claire, Wis,, has offered 

 ,f4ii,iiii(l to Ihe trustees of the Congregational 

 Cliiirili of the I'ilgrims, Washington, II. C. 

 with which to erect an institutional church, (o 

 lie a memorial to Jlr. Ingram's son, who diiMl 

 about a year ago. 



The Long-Bell Lumber Company of I.iidingto'i. 

 La., has bought the entire southern interests of 

 Isaac Stephenson, .Jr.. for .i;3„")00,000. 



As the result of a 'conference between repre- 

 scntalives of the Milwaukee, the Xorth-Western 

 and the Wisconsin Central roads and members 

 of the legislative committee of Ihe ilerchants' 

 & Manufacturers' Association, the rate on lum- 

 bci- shipped from the South lo Milwaukee has 

 been reduced so as to he in conformity with 

 that shipped from the north to Chicago. The 

 new tariff became effective May 7. This rate 

 puts Milwaukee manufacturers using southern 

 lumber in a position to compete with Chicago 

 manufacturers in the same line. 



The Milwaukee road is turning oul twenty- 

 eight complete freight cars a day iu i(s shops at 

 West Milwaukee. It expects to add at least 

 ,S,000 freight cars to its rolling slock this year. 

 Heavy wooden beams for the body work of these 

 cars is being discarded, steel being sulntil iited. 

 owing to the scarcity of lumber of a high cpiality 

 demanded in car construclion. The company is 

 also building a large number of mail and ex- 

 press cars. It is not putting out any passenger 

 coaches at this time, though it has beiu build 

 iug many sleepers. 



The Milwaukee market continues steady, 

 though business on the whole is light. Prices 

 remain firm. The outlook is considered highly 

 favorable by local dealers. 



lain City is preparing to install mills and begin 

 cutting on a big tract of limber which it 

 recently purchased iu .lohnsou county. Tennessee. 

 M. X. iiffiitt of the Tyg Kiver Lumber Coin 

 jiaiiy lias gone on a business trip iu \'irginia. 



Milwaukee has been a furniture manufactur- 

 ing city since as early as ISoo, when the Arm 

 of A. Meinecke & Son was established, which 

 still continues in business, though in another 

 line. The first chair manufactory was started 

 in 18oT, among the first concerns in this line 

 being the Milwaukee Chair Company and the 

 Mayliew Manufacturing Company, which sti'.I 

 exist. The city's output last year was more 

 than it;?.,riOO,OllO. In recent years it has been 

 distanced by Sheboygan, which has become the 



Bristol, 'Va.-Tenn. 



The first I-Ioo-IIoo concatenation of Ihe year 

 was held here May 3. The attendance of lum- 

 bermen from all over this section was large and 

 twenty-four kittens were initiated inli, the 

 mysteries of Iloo-IIoo. Vicegerents Irving 

 Whaley of Tennessee and T. W. Fugati' of 

 Virginia conducted the ceremonial session. The 

 guests repaired to Hotel Tip Top. where a 

 sumptuous banquet was served. C. D. Clark of 

 .\bingdon acted as toastmaster and toasts were 

 responded to by W. A. Ilassinger. .1. .\. Wilkin- 

 son. A. D. Reynolds. .Tr.. and others. 



C. II. Smith, .Tr., of Nashville, Teun., was in 

 the city last week buying hardwood. 



.Tohn T. Xagle and O. C. Ilathway. managers 

 of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company's eastern 

 Tennessee and western North Carolina opera- 

 tions, were iu the city last week. ilr. Nagle 

 heads the Linville River Lumber Company, the 

 new concern that is preparing to begin cutting 

 near I'ineola, X. C, on a large scale. The com- 

 pany is building a railroad to its timber lands 

 near Saginaw and will use the big band mill of 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company near that 

 place. 



Natlian Bradley and D. D. Anderson of the 

 Itradley Lumber Company of Elizabethton, Teun., 

 were in the city last week. 



1'. V. Widener, manager of .T. A. Wilkinson's 

 Hluefield. W. Va., ofBce, came to the ity last 

 week and will spend several days at Mr. Wil- 

 kinson's offices in this city. 



Chas. A. Baker, manager of the T. \\'. Tliay<'r 

 Lumber Company, at Damascus. A'a.. was in the 

 city on business last week. 



The II. M. Hoskins Lumber Company of this 

 city has received articles of incorporatiim under 

 the laws of Virginia, with a capital stock of 

 .t;2.3,000. 



A. M. Scutt of the .T. Walter Wright Lumber 

 t^ompany of Mountain City. Tenn.. was in l!rist,,l 

 last week. 



'i'he T. K. Cailand Lumber Company of Mouu- 



Cincitmati. 



AVilliam A. Bennett, president of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce of Cincinnati, has been ap- 

 jiointed receiver "with honds of $25, Otto for the 

 Pease Company. This action wa.s taken upon 

 the petition of C. H. Pease, president of the 

 Pease Company, dealers in sash, doors, build- 

 ing: material and general millwork, with plant 

 located at Avondale. a suburb of Cincinnati. 

 The company is capitalized at $50,000 and bas 

 assets of over $30,000, with liabilities of .f200.- 

 OOO. President Pease avers iu his petition 

 that he is, in addition to being a heavy stock- 

 holder and the president of the company, a 

 creditor in the sum of $90,000 as security on 

 the company's paper for money liorrowed with 

 which to meet current obligations in conduct- 

 ing the business. He is not. he says, secured, 

 and while the concern is perfectly solvent, he 

 asks the court to take the business in charge 

 and conduct it through, not sacrificing to 

 jiressui-e of creditors, as there are others than 

 hi» and some are pressing for collection. 

 Lengtb.v and expensive litigation with forced 

 sales, he says, would sacrifice the business, 

 while if free will is preserved and time given 

 in which to wind up or straighten out the 

 affairs of the company, all creditors will be 

 Itaid in full and there will be a substantial 

 balance for distribution among stockholders. 

 The Receivers and Shippers' Association re- 

 cently made public a reply to the statement 

 of Vice-President Murphy of the Cincinnati 

 Southern Railroad, in which he called atten- 

 tion to the necessity for an increase in freight 

 charges in order to keep pace with increased 

 cost of materials and labor used by trans- 

 portation companies. The statement is a very 

 warm one and took up more than 2.000 words. 

 A conference of shippers will be held in the 

 association I'ooms to arrange to bring the 

 case of the Southern's rates before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. 



Cliester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company has gone to New York to meet M. 

 R. Farrin and wife, who are returning from 

 a pleasure trip to the Orient. He will also 

 look after business affairs while in the East. 

 'J'he Dornstreet Lumber Company of Toledo, 

 ()., has been incorporated with a capital sto"'.\ 

 of $20,000 by C. P. Brigham, William M. Ha.n- 

 ilton, F. M. Dotson, G. McKay and J. M. 

 ■Weaver. 



E. M. Schantz of North Fairmount is adding 

 another one of his patented dimension ma- 

 chines to his mills. The new dry kilns are 

 now in full operation. 



Frank F. Fish, secretar.v of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, was in town 

 recentl.v to look after the affairs of the 

 oi-ganization. 



The Wiborg-Hanna Company has added ad- 

 ditional land to its yards at North Fairmount 

 liy filling' up the bottoms in the rear of the 

 plant. The yards have been increased sev- 

 eral hundred feet. The company has been 

 doing a better business this season than ever 

 before and was pressed for .a bigger yard 

 accommodation. 



The Cincinnati lumbermen are figuring on 

 sending a large delegation to the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association's con\'ention, to 

 be held at Atlantic City the middle of May. 

 A special car will probably be chartered and 

 several of the married men are contemplating 

 taking their wives with them and spending 

 se\'eral days on the seashore after the 

 convention. 



William E. Delaney, general manager of 

 the local offices of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company, lias gone South on a business trip. 



