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HARDWOOD RECORD 



nnd a movement has been started to do a general 

 wliolesale and maunfacturing business. 



Altapass. X. ('.. will be tbe scene of operations 

 of tbe Tipp City Lumber Company of Bristol, 

 wbicb lias recently establisbed itself on the 

 South & Western railroad near Spruce Fine, 

 X. ('. 



The Xoell-Anderson Company of Danville, Va., 

 manufacturer of office furniture, tables and 

 desks, has begun the construction of a new 

 factory which will be completed in a couple of 

 months. The addition was necessary on account 

 of increased business, and represents an expendi- 

 ture of aliout .$2.", 11(10. The concern is preparing 

 to manufacture betweeu two and three million 

 feet of hogshead staves per year fur consumers 

 in and around Danville. 



Louisville. 



r. ]>. l.anbitm. fnrmi'riy of Lelianun. Ky.. and 

 others have organized the Lanham Lumber Com- 

 pany, to manufacture parquetry flooring. The 

 company is equipping a plant at 12th and 

 Magnolia streets. ' Down-town offices have been 

 established in the Columbia building. Mr. Lan- 

 ham has already had some experience in this 

 work at Lebanon, where be developed quite a 

 business in pariiuetry tlo<»riug, shii^ping to the 

 eastern trade. The new venture simply means 

 going into the same business on a larger scale. 



A. E. Xorman reports that his company is 

 putting in two or three new mills down in its 

 Kentucky timber territory which will increase 

 manufacturing facilities considerably. Speaking 

 of the liardwood situation generall.v, he says 

 that it has improved materially in point of 

 supply. The company now gets stock more 

 freel.v over country roads and is also getting a 

 better supply of railway cars, so that tlie out- 

 look for a busy summer is rosy. 



The A. P. Turner Lumber Company is making 

 better progress in tbe woods now than for some 

 weeks, but not enough to be entirely satisfac- 

 tory. It hopes to continue improving the work 

 in the woods and expects pretty busy times all 

 summer. 



Albert R. Kampf says there is larger demand 

 for hardwoods than can be cared for, and while 

 he keeps booking orders from time to time to 

 cover his accumulations, he has to turn away 

 considerably more orders than he is able to 

 accept because he hasn't the stock with W'hich 

 to fill them. He thinks the situation in oak is 

 pretty strong and it is only a matter of time 

 until oak prices go up. In fact, he is a firm 

 believer in all hardwood prices being firmly fixed 

 and inclining upwards. 



Minneapolis. 



The local consumption of liardwoud promises 

 to he fully up to last year. Building opera- 

 tions are under way with assurance that they 

 will not be interrupted. The carpenters com- 

 promised their demand on the contractors for 

 an increase in wages, the strike was called 

 oft and all the building trades are ciuiet and 

 satisfied. The building permits for April 

 reached a total estimated cost of $1,147,960. 

 compared with $893,090 for April last year. 

 St. Paul's were valued at $623,119. The sash 

 and door factories have a big line of special 

 work calling for oak, birch, maple and bass- 

 wood, and while not buying heavily now they 

 will be in the market right along. The fur- 

 niture factories have been having rather a 

 liglit business. 



Notices have been sent to the trade of the 

 new table of estimated weights adopted hy tiie 

 Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation, which makes a nimiber of increases 

 on account of the tendency to ship so much 

 nardwood dry or half dry. The new table of 

 standard weights per thousand feet, which 

 means some increase in price, reads thus: 



Pounds. 



Birch 4.000 



Hard maple 4,000 



Soft maiile 3,500 



Rock elm ; 4.00(1 



Soft elm '. 3.000 



Brown ash 3,250 



White oak 4,000 



Red oak 3,800 



Butternut 2,500 



Bas.swood 2.400 



Basswood ceiling. % in 1,500 



Ba-sswood siding and ceiling. -Ki in 800 



-Oak flooring. 13-16 2,100 



Maple ftooring, 13-16 2.100 



Birch flooring, 13-16 2.inii 



In this connection it is of interest to Minne- 

 sotLL producers of luirdwood that lumber rates 

 within tlie state have been reduced by the 

 legislature about 10 per cent and that a law 

 has been passed giving the state railroad com- 

 mission jurisdiction over the question of rail- 

 road track scales. An inspector will be de- 

 tailed to test the scales and also to check up 

 on the present careless methods of weighing. 



John E. Glover, the New Richmond, Wis., 

 lumberman, was in the twin cities last week 

 looking up the hemlock and hardwood situa- 

 tion. He has sawed about 7.000,000 feet of 

 hardwood for the summer and fall trade, now 

 in pile, most of it birch. He expects to cut 

 about 20.000.000 feet of hemlock during the 

 season. 



E. Pa.vson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company has been away on a sliort trip 

 to Milwaukee and Chicago. He reports their 

 business good and enough now on the books 

 to give them a good volume of shipments for 

 three montlis. George S. Agnew, who has 

 been in the South looking after shipments of 

 oak for them, will be home this week. 



Tlie Transfer Warehouse Lumber Company, 

 a new concern which expects to asseml>le lum- 

 ber and look after mixed ear business, w'ith 

 shipping facilities at Minnesota Transfer, has 

 been organized witli $50,000 capital stock by 

 C. W. Dewey. A. J. Si^e and C. T. Dewey, all 

 of Minneapolis. 



W. O. Barndt of tlie W. O. Barndt Lumber 

 Company is back from a business trip in Wis- 

 consin territory looking after the condition of 

 stoclc. 



Ashland, Ky. 



F. G. Kberhart of Misbawaka, Ind., a member 

 of the Page Lumber Compan.v, has returned 

 from a business trip through West Virginia in 

 his company's interests. 



E. C. .Means and C. M. Crawford of tbe 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company are among the 

 incorporators of the Kiissell Fork Railroad Com- 

 pany. The road will lie a standard gauge and 

 will run through Dickinson and Buchanan coun- 

 ties, Virginia, to the Kentucky border, and will 

 promote tlie development of the rich timber 

 and mineral lands in that section. This 

 begins tbe railroad development in the brakes 

 of Big Sandy, in which the people of this sec- 

 tion are interested, and foreshadows the devel- 

 opment of great riches in that portion of the 

 rich Big Sandy country. 



O. F. L. Beckette and wife are in Caliluruia. 

 where they will s]iend several weeks in travel 

 after taking in the Shriners' meeting at Los 

 Angeles. 



W. 11. Dawkius has returned from a trip 

 east, where he looked after business interests 

 and visited his daugliter, Miss Hazel, who is 

 attending Fairmont College, Washington. D. C. 



.lohn Hartman. head sawyer for tbe Dimen- 

 sion Lumber Company at Xorth Catlettsburg. 

 was friglitfnU'y mangled by one of the rapidly 

 revolving saws, a few days ago. and was thought 

 to be fatally wounded, but tbe attending physi- 

 cians say there is a slight chance for his life. 

 He fell on fop of the saw, which severed every 

 rib in the left side from the backbone and 

 cut the end off of one lung. So great was the 

 wound that the liver protruded, while ills lungs 

 could be seen moving. Hartman recently came 



from Cincinnati, where he worked for C. Crane 

 & Co. lie has a wife and four cliildreu. 



Ironton, (Jhio. lias Inst one of its best-informed 

 and nidst prominent luinlii'rmen in tlie death oi 

 .Tames W. Pierce, president and manager of the 

 Pierce Lumber Company, who died at his home 

 of pneumonia after a week's illness. He is 

 survived by his wife and a young son. Mrs. 

 pierce was made executrix of her husband's 

 estate and will carry on his business without 

 any change. 



Giles Wright has purchased of C. C. C'hirk a 

 fine tract of poplar on Rockcastle, in Martin 

 County, Kentucky. There are 3,(100 trees ttf tlie 

 finest quality and extra large. Mr. Wright lias 

 just made a business trip through Michigan. 

 He reports business brisk, witli all the orders 

 be can comfortably handle. Iievelopment of the 

 vast and unexcelled timber along the lines of 

 the Deepwater Railroad in Raleigli and Wyo- 

 ming counties. West ^'irgiuia, is being pnslieil 

 with unusual vigor at a number of points along 

 the route. Capitalists seeing the possibilities of 

 this region are attracted to it almost daily. 



■Wausau, Wis. 



The Cisco Lake Lumber Company of Wausau 

 has been organized with a caiiital stock of 

 $200,000. The incorporators are Walter Alex- 

 ander, Cyrus C. Yawkey and Benjamin Ileine- 

 mann. The firm has lately purchased lands in 

 (jogebic County, Michigan, on wbicb tliere is 

 100,000,000 feet of hardwood and beiiilock, 

 whicli will be shipped by rail to Wausau iind 

 manufactured. 



The I'pbam Manufacturing Coniiiany of Marsli- 

 field recently paid ^'inrcnt Milkowski. an em- 

 ployee, .f3.200 for the loss of both feet while 

 in the company's employ. It was a volnutiuy 

 act. 



The lumber barge Arcadia, whicli recently 

 left Manistee, Mich., for Two Rivers. Wis.. Inadeil 

 with a cargo of hardwood, was lost willi lier 

 crew. 



The Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Compauy of Wau- 

 sau, a liardwood concern, has increased its capi- 

 tal stock from .^lo.ooo to .$23,000. 



W. D. Connor, head of the R. Connor Com 

 pany of Marshtield, and lieutenant governor. li:i>^ 

 been acting governor during Governor Davidson's 

 recent absence from the state. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company of 

 Marsbfieid, which is rebuilding its plant de- 

 stroyed by fire last winter, w'iil have a roller 

 drier with a cafjacity for drying 120,000 feet of 

 thin veneer every ten hours. 



Tbe lOngllsb Manufacturing Company of Mer- 

 rill is adding machinery to its plant which will 

 greatly increase its capacity. It is engaged 

 largely in the manufacture of paint pails and 

 has one order which will take five years to fill. 



C'. P. (^rosby, a lihinelander hardwood man, 

 and family are visiting in the Sonrli and in 

 Cuba. 



A carload of birch lumber containing 20,22'. 

 feet was recently shipped out of Hundy to tbe 

 Lesh-Matthews Lumber Company of Chicago. 

 This is one of the largest amounts of that grade 

 of lumber ever put on a car in northern Wis- 

 consin. 



The hub factory recently built by businesn 

 men of Athens has been put in operation. The 

 concern has 100,000 feet of timber on hand, 

 sufficient to turn out 14,500 sets of hubs. 



The I'ayne Lumber Company of Oshkosli is 

 enlarging its sawmill plant at a cost of ,$100, Odd. 

 which will make it one of the largest in the 

 world. 



What is claimed to be the largest tree in Wis- 

 consin is (m the farm of Matthew JIallon near 

 Reedshurg. It is an elm and it requires a string 

 thirty feet long to reach around the trunk. It 

 is about eighty feet high and tbe body holds 

 its si/.i' remarkably well for about forty feel, 

 when several large branches are thrown out. 

 making a symmetrical an<I beautiful specimen. 



Tbe (-1. W. Jones Lumber Company of Apple 



