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and is Iiiyins in a good supply of elm, basswood 



and bii'cli logs. 



Ashland. 



Dr. Vickers and \V. B. Fowler of Pikeville 

 have bought 6.000 acres of timber from the 

 r.rushy Creek Timber Company and are prepar- 

 ing to develop the property. The timber is lo- 

 cated in Pike county, on John's Creek. 



The Ward Lumber Company on Grassy Creek 

 in I'ike County, W. B. Sutton manager, will 

 complete a three years' cut in September and re- 

 move their mills to other operations. 



Jack Bush of Argillite, Ky., had his leg taken 

 off at the Deaconess' hospital recently in Iron- 

 ton as the result of having his foot caught in a 

 sawmill near Argillite about a month ago, at 

 which time the limb was badly lacerated. 



Work is being pushed on the narrow gauge 

 road being built on Big Ugly Creek, in Lincoln 

 County, West Virginia. A number of Hunting. 

 W. Va., people are interested and they hope to 

 soon be hauling timber and ties to the Guyan 

 Valley road at Gill. 



Thurman Scott, one of the best-known lum- 

 bermen in this section, and superintendent of 

 tbe Ashland Lumber Company's .sawmill, while 

 riding tlie carriage at the mill was struck on the 

 shoulder by a lever, breaking his collar bone. 



J. A. Meridith of the Ashland Lumber Com- 

 pany intends to spend two weeks in the Kast, 

 taking in the exposition among other sights. 

 He will be accompanied by his wife. 



W. H. Dawkins of the W. H. Dawkins Lum- 

 ber Company is recuperating at West Baden 

 Springs, Ind. 



O. L. Wade of W. M. West & Co., Boston, was 

 in the city this week. 



H. F. Pullen was a recent visitor, represent 

 ing the C. L. Monger Company of Elkhart. Ind. 



The work recently begun by the government 

 forest assistants in co-operation with the state 

 of Kentucky is now well under way. The great- 

 er part of the field work in Pike county will be 

 completed this week. Hearty eo-operation has 

 been given by the mill owners and is much ap- 

 preciated by the men in charge of the work. 



Tlie Yellow I'oplar Lumber Company has or- 

 ders from all jiarts of the country, the saw 

 and planing mill departments are in full opera- 

 tion and the prospects are for a long steady 

 run. 



The offices of the VV. U. Vansant Lumber Com- 

 pany have been removed from this city to Rush, 

 Poyd County. Kentucky, which is the nearest 

 railroad point to the li,000-acre tract recently 

 purchased. Mr. Vansant has also removed his 

 family to Rush. 



Little Bock, Ark. 



The demand for railroad ties is one of tbe im- 

 portant features in the hardwood industry of 

 this state at present. This is due, of course, to 

 the fact that this section is drawn on largely for 

 ties for the entire Missouri Pacific system. There 

 is now under construction the Missouri & North 

 Arkansas Railway, crossing the state from north- 

 west to southeast ; the Burdon & Fort Smith 

 line, running in a parallel direction, but south 

 of the Arkansas river ; improvements for the 

 Rock Island in the southern part of the state, 

 and many short lines under construction. The 

 Missouri & North Arkansas is penetrating a 

 splendid timber belt, much of which is virgin 

 hardwood forest, and is of course supplying its 

 needs along the way. , 



This city suffered a serious loss in the recent 

 fire which totally destroyed the Buddenberg fur- 

 niture factory and the Arkansas boat oar plant. 

 The Buddenberg factory will perhaps rebuild, but 

 the owners of the oar factory announce that they 

 will not replace their plant. 



W. H. Langford, Fred Fox and S. C. Alexan- 

 der, Jr., of the Citizen's Bank of Pine Bluff con- 

 summated a deal in this city recently whereby 

 they secured control of the Pine Bluff Lumber 

 & Veneer Company's plant. This plant went 

 bankrupt several months ago, the Citizens' bank 

 holding heavy claims against it. The price, ad- 



.iudged by the referee in bankruptcy, was $20,- 

 (100. The former owners were C. D. Voorheis 

 and L. D. Hill of Profitville. Ind. An effort will 

 be made to secure capable men and put the plant 

 into commission again. 



The option taken some weeks ago on the hold- 

 ings of the Henderson Hardwood Company at 

 Xashville, Ark., by the Nashville Lumber Com- 

 l)any has been declared off, the prospective pur- 

 ( basers not finding the amount of timber ex- 

 pected. The Henderson Hardwood Company 

 controls a very tine tract of hardwood, compris- 

 ing 7,000 acres, along the Saline and Little 

 livers. 



A new concern has been organized at Fort 

 Smith, Ark., under most favorable auspices, the 

 American Veneer Company. Twenty-five men 

 will be employed at the start and the pay roll 

 will be about $8o0 dollars a week. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at .'(i2,"i,000 and Joseph Strand 

 is president and C. B. Hughes secretary and 

 treasurer. At the beginning of operations only 

 gum veneers will be manufactured but later oak 

 and all kinds of stock will be cut. Three acres 

 of ground have been purchased for a plant and 

 work on the erection of three large buildings has 

 already begun. The members of the company 

 hope to have the plant completed ready for op- 

 eration about the end of September. 



The above company is the third woodworking 

 concern secured b.y Fort Smith this year and 

 the second the past month. The others were 

 the Dow-Eads t'hair Company, capitalized at 

 .i;]00,iiOO. and the Fort Smith Handle Company, 

 both large concerns. The incorporators of the 

 new handle factory are R. Bittle, J. H. Hollo- 

 way, Frank S. Bittle. Allie Bittle and M. J. 

 Ford, with R. Bittle president. 



The McHue handle factory at McHue. Ark., 

 took a rest last week on account of lack ot 

 water. New wells will be drilled at once. 



One of the largest hardwood timber deals in 

 the history of northeast Arkansas has just been 

 closed whereby E. L. Reed of Chicago becomes 

 the owner of the former holdings of the South- 

 western Tie & Timber Company of St. Louis, in 

 Poinsett <-ounty. The tract contains 27,000 acres 

 and the consideration was $810,000. 



C. W. Muirhead and M. W. Muirhead have 

 <Iosed deals for extensive belts of cypress timber 

 along White river and on Bear lake. Mills will 

 be put in to work up the products. 



J. R. Bowles of Ashdown is now' in St. Louis 

 purchasing an outfit to replace the plant of the 

 Howies & Bridewell Lumber Company, which 

 was recently lost by fire. 



Negotiations are in progress for a lease for a 

 site on which to establish a spoke factory at 

 Hot Springs. 



The Grant Manufacturing Company of Bates- 

 ville has begun the operation of its handle fac- 

 tory. It reports paying fancy prices for handle 

 timber. 



The Veedersburg Handle Company of Veeders- 

 burg. Ind., is making arrangements to remove 

 its two Indiana handle factories to Newport, 

 Ark. 



The Ilartzell Handle Company of Memphis has 

 purchased the Paragould plant of the Turner, 

 Day & Woolworth Handle Company. 



C. S. Jackson, manager of the Eldorado Hard- 

 wood Manufacturing Company's plant, was 

 among the visitors in the city the past week. He 

 reports a fine run of business for his plant. 



President J. C. Ong of the Ong Chair Company 

 came up from Malvern last week. Mr. Ong 

 states that he is installing five new machines 



and will turn out several additional patterns 

 oi high grade woik. 



J. E. Poston of Topeka, Kan., made a visit to 

 Marshall, in Searcy county, last week looking 

 over the cedar timber of that section. 



Charlotte, N. C. 



A fine boundary of timber land in North Bun- 

 combe, known as the Coleman, Walker and Peach 

 Orchard tract, has been sold to Northern capi- 

 talists after negotiations which have extended 

 over a period of several months. There are 

 15.000 acres in the tract. General interest is 

 felt in the purchase in the western section of 

 the state on account of the belief that a railroad 

 will be constructed from Craggy, a little dis- 

 tance from Asheville, through the Ivy section on 

 toward Waynesville. In fact, a survey has been 

 made alread.v of the greater part of the dis- 

 tance. 



The land sold for $S per acre, the low price 

 being due to the inaccessibility of the property. 

 Oak, cherry and poplar abound on the tract, 

 the oak, it is said, being of especiall.v high 

 quality. 



As evidence of the rapid increase in the value 

 of timber properties in North Carolina, a real 

 estate firm of Asheville has just negotiated the 

 sale of a timber boundary in Transylvania county 

 for ,$."!,. jOO which was purchased a year ago for 

 ,f 1.500. The purchaser of the property Is W. D. 

 Pendleton of West Virginia, who will at once es- 

 tablish a sawmill and begin <-utting. The tract 

 contains l.OSO acres and is said to be abundant 

 In hardwoods. 



General interest is felt among the lumbermen 

 of the state in the action of the state authori- 

 ties on freight rates which follows one of the 

 most sensational fights between the federal and 

 state authorities on the rate question ever 

 known. Governor Glenn has taken up the mat- 

 ter of freight rates and declares that the last 

 legislature gave him $4,000 to spend, in an 

 effort to ascertain why North Carolina shippers 

 ai-e discriminated against, and the authorities 

 have taken hold of the situation with deter- 

 mination. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with 

 the secretary of state by the Stevens-Kirkland 

 Company of Asheville to do a general lumber 

 business. The capital stock is $10,000. The in- 

 corporators are J. H. Stevens, J. C. Adams and 

 W. L. Kirkland. 



By its many manufacturing industries. High 

 Point. N. C. is coming to be known as "The 

 Grand Rapids of the South," and if the record 

 of the last few years is continued, it will lead 

 the country in the number of its woodworking 

 iiidustries. There is a prospect of several new 

 factories being established here within the next 

 twelve months. 



The New South Art Company is the latest 

 addition to the manufacturing fraternity of Lex- 

 ington. It will manufacture mirror and picture 

 frames and mouldings. J. W. Croweil is one of 

 the organizers of the company. Suitable build- 

 ings will be erected at once and new machinery 

 purchased. 



Sills & Klutts of Concord are establishing 

 yards in North Charlotte. This makes the fifth 

 yard under their management in this section, 

 the others being at Concord. Salisbury, Gold 

 Hill and High I'oint. They will carry a large 

 stock of lumber here and will ultimately estab- 

 lish a furniture and woodworking factory. C. 

 Frank Klutts will have charge of the local 

 yards. 



Hardwood Market. 



Chicago, 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD Ezclnsive Uaxket BepoTtexs.) 



year, there is a dragging of demand. Prices are 

 being well maintained and .just as soon as sum- 

 mer vacations are over there is every prospect 

 that there will be a strong and active call, which 

 will make the fall trade equal to that of last 



While there is a fair trade in hardwood dis- 

 (ribution, there is no particular vim in the 

 market. As invariably happens at this time of 



