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ell, T. A. Taylor and D. D. Conway. A twenty- 

 three-acre tract of land owned by the Garrison 

 estate, upon which the company has an option, 

 will be purcliased and an up-to-date plant will 

 l)e built. The company proposes to talie the 

 rough stocit from sawmills — that part whicli 

 can not be sold for lumber — short lengths, etc.. 

 and put the same in shape for manufacturing 

 purposes. 



The F. H. Johnson Lumber Company of Rhine- 

 lander has sold to John H. Korzilious the mill 

 I)roperty of the Woodruff & McUuire Lumber 

 Company located near Three Lakes station. The 

 property consisted of lv>H acres of land, the 

 plant, store building and about twenty cottages. 

 The only thing reserved was the planing mill, 

 which has since been sold to C. 11. Miller of St. 

 Ansgar, la. 



'I'he tirst annual l)usiness meeting since the 

 organization of the Kaudy Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Grand Uapids was held recently. It 

 was decided to sell ,$5,500 worth of treasury 

 stock that the capacit.v of the plant might be 

 increased, most of which was at once taken by 

 stockliolders. The old directors, F. J. Wood, 

 J. A. Cohen. E. Oherbeck, George Halverson and 

 G. J. Kaudy. were reelected and they in turn 

 ret»Ie<'ted the following otBcers : President and 

 manager, (i. J. Ivaudy ; secretary. George Halver- 

 son ; treasurer, F. J. Wood. The company manu- 

 factures articles in furniture, novelties, etc. 



in camp with Battery B, the local artillery or- 

 ganization, in which Mr. Melville is a .sergeant. 

 A. F. llein, the well known hardwood lumber 

 and cooperage manufacturi'r of Tony, Wis., was 

 a Inisiness visitor in Minneapolis tliis week. 



Charleston, 



A representative of W. II. Bailey & Co., 

 Grafton, W. \a.. has been on the road this week 

 looking for ties to supply a large contract which 

 that company recently booked. 



The Charleston Lumber Company, Charleston, 

 W. Va., lost its band mill by fire June 22. Total 

 loss incurred was about .f.S.liOO. The company 

 will rebuild. 



F. II. Rodman of Anderson, W. Va., has pur- 

 chased a large tract of Virginia timber land 

 which, it is announced, he will develop at once. 



The Dixie Lumber Comjjany has purchased a 

 tract of timber on Coal River and will build a 

 mill there immediately. 



Minneapolis. 



Lumbermen in this state are pleased over a 

 proceeding just started by the railroad and 

 warehouse commission. Under a new law it Is 

 having a test made of every railroad track scale 

 in the state. A state employee is going out with 

 a steel car carrying a full tiftyton load of short 

 steel rails, and with this weights will be made 

 on all the scales. There has been much com- 

 plaint of careless weighing and bad order scales. 



F. J. Lang, who represents the Wisconsin 

 Land and Lumber Company of Hermansville. 

 Mich., has opened headquarters here at 716 Lum 

 lier P^xchange, where he will remain a few weeks 

 looking after sales of their maple flooring and 

 other hardwood products. 



F. W. Buswell of the Buswell Lumber and 

 Manufacturing Company has gone to look after 

 operations at their mill at Buswell, Wis., where 

 they are manufacturing hemlock and hardwood 

 lumber, and are on their second year of 'active 

 business. 



The total value of building permits issued in 

 Minneapolis for the first six months of the pres- 

 ent year was .$."i,060,405, and St. Paul made a 

 showing of $,3,410,015. Last year the record for 

 the .same period was ,$4,153,550 for Minneapolis 

 and ,$3,431,007 for St. Paul. The heavy in- 

 crease in Minneapolis has meant more work in 

 hardwood for (he niillwork concerns and in this 

 line business is rushing. 



C. F. Osborne and D. J\ Clark of Osborne & 

 Clark, the local wholesalers of hardwood, have 

 returned from a trip of insijection to several 

 retail lumber .yards they own along the Soo line. 

 In the vicinity of Ladysmith. Wis. 



J. C. Melville of the Melville Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from Camp Lakevlew, where he was 



Ashland. 



Market conditions were never better than 

 at present, and firms are all kept busy ship- 

 ping. There was a small run of timber re- 

 cently, but it was not put on the market, be- 

 ing owned by companies. 



The railroad which is being built by the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company on Grassy 

 creek is progressing rapidly, in charge of 

 James Hatcher of Pikeville. They are work- 

 ing 200 men, and the road, which is a stand- 

 ard gauge, will come to the Big Sandy below 

 the mouth of Grassy. It is reported upon 

 good authority that the road will be extended 

 to Elkhom City, and a big band mill will be 

 built there. The timber in that section is 

 extra large and fine, one tree measuring 

 9 feet 8 Indies in diameter and 90 feet to 

 the first limb. 



Among recent incorporations in this section 

 is the Ashby Lumber Company of Oakland, 

 Md. ; the chief works will be in Barbour 

 county. West Virginia. The incorporators are 

 C. A. Ashby. Deer Park, ]Md.; Albert Ashby, 

 John E. Legg. Milton Rodamer, Oakland, Md.; 

 George Brown, Belington, W. Va., and A. G. 

 Ashby of Bond, Md. 



The Park City Lumber Company lias been 

 organized in this city, the incorporators be- 

 ing George Bartholomew of Bartholomew, Kd 

 Kennedy and W. R. Vansant. 



The Kenova Sawmill Company, recently in- 

 corporated under the laws of West Virginia, 

 has held a meeting and elected the following 

 officers: Dr. S. W. Patton, president; J. R. 

 Scott, vice president, and J. C. Hearne secre- 

 tary. The offices of the company will be 

 maintained in Catlettsburg, though the plant 

 is located on the banks of the Ohio just below 

 the Norfolk & Western bridge at Kenova. 

 The authorized capital of the concern is $25,- 

 000; subscribed and paid. $5,000. The mill 

 will begin operations in a few days, and will 

 be under the supervision of James Vanhorn. 

 one of the most experienced men in this sec- 

 tion. It has a capacity of 35,000 feet per 

 day. 



A sad death occurred here on July 13. when 

 Miss Clotine Ward, stenographer for the Giles- 

 Wright Lumber Company of Catlettsburg. 

 was struck and killed by a train on the 

 O. & B. S. division of the C. & O. railroad. 

 Miss Ward was on her way home in this city 

 for dinner, and was waiting in front of the 

 office tor the street car, which runs parallel 

 to the railroad. She was standing on the 

 railroad track, and seeing a freight train 

 approaching, stepped out of its way in front 

 of the passenger, which struck her, throwing 

 her a distance of fifteen feet. She was 

 brought to the King's Daughters' Hospital 

 in this city, where she died in a few hours. 



The citizens of Big I'gly, in Lincoln county. 

 West Virginia, are jubilant at the prospect 

 of a railroad up that stream, upon which 

 work has been commenced. They believe that 

 the road, though a narrow gauge, will be the 

 means of making that stream prominent in 

 the prosperity of West Virginia, and that it 

 will be extended over to the Coal River road 

 and have connection on both sides, which can 

 receive the immense quantity of coal and 

 timber lying on its waters. Huntington, 

 W. Va., capitalists are interested in the road 

 and are very enthusiastic over the outlook, 



Mrs. R. H. Vansant and children are at 

 Waynesville. N. C.. where they expect to 

 spend the heated season, while Mr. Vansant 

 will recuperate at the seashore, leaving for 

 the East about the middle of August. 



T. N. Fannin has returned from a trip to 



Arizona and other points in the West, where 

 lie has extensive investments. 



E. C. Means of Lowmoor, Va., president of 

 the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, was a 

 recent visitor to this city, visiting relatives 

 and looking over business affairs. 



W. R. Vansant has purchased a large band 

 mill from the Smith. Myers & Schnier Company 

 of Cincinnati, manufacturers of "Climax" band 

 sawmills, and is now in that city, superintending 

 the shipping of same. The mill will be put up at 

 once on the 2,0O0-acre tract recently purchased 

 from the Ashland Iron and Mining Company, 

 which abounds in high-grade oak and poplar, 

 Mr. Vansant will remove his oflices from this 

 city to Rush, a small town on the Lexington 

 division of the Chesapeake & Ohio, near which 

 the land is located. The mill is expected to be 

 ready for operation about the middle of Sep- 

 tember. 



Toledo. 



The Frank W. Mills Company has opened 

 a factory at 200 West Mount street. Colum- 

 bus, for the manufacture of office furniture, 

 window and door screens and specialties in 

 wood. Some delay has been caused by the 

 inability to secure proper machinery, but the 

 plant will be in full operation in about two 

 weeks. Henry J. Sharp is president, Frank 

 W. Mills vice president and superintendent, 

 and Oscar W. Kallmerton secretary and treas- 

 urer of the company. One novelty to be man- 

 ufactured by the company is a new porch 

 screen, adjustable so that in winter the porch 

 can be inclosed in glass and in summer 

 changed to screen in a very short time. 



At the annual meeting of the Columbus 

 Coffin Company held in Columbus last week 

 H. W. St. John was elected secretary and 

 treasurer in place of C. M. Anderson, re- 

 signed. 



The Curleright Caj-riage Company, recently 

 incorporated, is making preparations for the 

 erection of one of the largest plants in Ham- 

 ilton. The new building will be 181x128 and 

 will have 100,000 square feet of floor space. 

 The company figures that fts yearly output 

 will be about 15,000 vehicles. The Columbia 

 Carriage Company will occupy part of this 

 new building. 



The business of the Harden, Winders Com- 

 pany, 1232 East Long street, Columbus, has 

 increased so rapidly that the officers, Allen 

 G. Harden and David T. Winders, are look- 

 ing about for a suitable location for a new 

 factory. The company is engaged in the 

 manufacture of oak furniture and has been in 

 operation only a short time. Extensive im- 

 provements have been made to the present 

 plant, a lease of which was secured a short 

 time ago. 



In about a week the new freight rates on 

 lumber will go into effect. So far there has 

 been little indication of how this change of 

 lumber from a commodity class into the high- 

 er class is going to affect the market. The 

 matter has not yet been settled and certain 

 roads have not definitely decided whether 

 they will charge the new rates or continue 

 the old ones. The majority of the roads will 

 undoubtedly decide on the new rates, which 

 will eventually increase prices. 



Another railroad question of interest at this 

 time is the 2 cent rate in the South. While 

 no formal action is yet noted, there are sev- 

 eral dealers in this market who have money 

 coming by virtue of the 2-cent rate law, and 

 they are speaking of, forming a committee to 

 start action to recover this money. 



"Six months in the workhouse" was the 

 sentence pronounced by Judge W. L. Morris 

 against the twenty-one lumbermen of this 

 city who were charged with violating the Val- 

 entine anti-trust law. Naturally this is cre- 

 ating quite a stir in local lumber circles, as- 

 it was thought that inasmuch as the offense 



