HARDWOOD RECORD 



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W. II. Sill o£ the Sliuuoapulis Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip lasting 

 over a weelc. 



Morehead, Ky. 



The Licliing River Lumber Company, Farmers, 

 have soid their miils, lumber, etc., to the R. G. 

 Page Lumber Company of Ashland. The new 

 company takes possession at once. The con- 

 sideration is said to be $150,000. This com- 

 pany owns considerable timber on Licking River 

 and has been doiug a fair business. The R. G. 

 rage Lumber Company was formerly of South 

 Bend, Ind. 



S. BI. Bradley is complaining considerably of 

 car shortage. He claims he is not receiving 

 more than one-fourth enough cars to take care 

 of his shipments. He says there is a better 

 demand for lumber this week. 



E. B. Camp has sold his interest in the Salt 

 Lick Lumber Company and has bought a tract 

 of timber in Wolfe county, where he will com- 

 mence operations at once. T. B. Staggs will 

 be general manager of the Salt Lick Lumber 

 Company. They have recently installed an up- 

 to-date tiooring plant and will make a specialty 

 of beech flooring. 



A number of prominent lumbermen spent last 

 Sunday at Olympia Springs. Among the number 

 were S. M. Bradley of Morehead, W. J. Fell, 

 E. B. Camp and E. H. Camp of Salt Lick, Jay 

 G. Briley of Chicago. R. M. Scobee of Win- 

 chester, N. H. Trimble of Mount Sterling and 

 Mr. McCausey of Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The directors of the Clearfield Lumber Com- 

 pany held a meeting here this week and de- 

 cided to extend their road on through Morgan 

 county, a distance of eighteen miles. This will 

 make their road thirty-two miles long and will 

 extend into an immense lot of timber and coal 

 land. Their large band mill at this place is 

 running steadily and they are already com- 

 mencing shipments of lumber. They are build- 

 ing a concrete dry house and a large planing 

 mill, which will be in operation soon. 



George Fassold, representing the Indiana Lum- 

 bermen's Mutual Insurance Company of In- 

 dianapolis, was here this week calling on lum- 

 bermen. 



P. D, Gordon of Mason, Gordon & Co., Mon- 

 treal, Can., was here this week in the interest 

 of his firm. 



McGlone Bros, of this place are hauling in 

 a nice lot of oil barrel staves and are com- 

 plaining about cars for these shipments. 



York on the passenger rate subject made the 

 statement that of all the shipping done in 

 Korth Carolina TO per cent was by the lumber- 

 men. 



The woodworking establishment of John A. 

 Shute & Sons at Monroe was recently burned, 

 entailing a loss to the owners of about $10,000. 

 There was no insurance. 



Chailotte, N. O. 



The plant of Asbury & Finger in this city, 

 which was recently burned, has been remodeled 

 and the firm has started operations again, some- 

 what crippled, but with prospects of picking up 

 all their former business. 



Lumbermen generally are interested in a new 

 railroad which will be constructed by Henry 

 Lichford of Raleigh, U. E. Mclver and C. L. 

 Chisholm of Sanford and William Moncure. 

 The ro.ad will be known as the Bladen & North- 

 ern railway and will extend from Stedman on 

 the Atlantic Coast line to White Oak in Bladen 

 county, a distance of twenty miles. It will 

 reach what is perhaps the finest tract of timber 

 lands in the entire state. The road will be in 

 operation in about three months. 



The lumbermen of Lenoir are building a saw- 

 mill plant in the mountains about eighteen miles 

 north of Wilkesboro. where they have a fine lot 

 of timber. The Eernhardts, Ilarfus and Gwinns 

 of Caldwell are interested in the project. 



The weather has been favorable to logging 

 in the mountains for the past two or three weeks 

 and reports are to the effect that a great deal 

 of work has been done. The labor problem is 

 troubling lumbermen, as it is every other indus- 

 try. Negro help is the only help available and 

 that is not to be depended on for steady work. 



It is of interest to note tliat John M., Daley, 

 an expert accountant of Chicago, III., in his 

 testimony before Judge Montgomery in New 



Toledo. 



If the present depression continues until the 

 close of the season the value of building opera- 

 tions in this city will be more than a million 

 dollars below those of last year. Already the 

 records in the office of the building inspector 

 show permits issued for buildings valued at 

 about half a million dollars less than those 

 issued for the same period last year. Last year 

 showed an increase over the year previous of 

 more than a million dollars. It will therefore 

 be seen that, considering this as a legitimate 

 growth for a city of this size, Toledo building 

 operations will fall more than two million dol- 

 lars short of what they should have been this 

 year. 



The depression seemed to follow the action of 

 the grand jury last April, when nearly a hun- 

 dred building material men were indicted for 

 conspiracy in restraint of trade. These cases 

 are still pending in the courts. As there is no 

 other apparent cause for the depression m the 

 building business, and as prosperous conditions 

 are found on all sides outside of Toledo, it is 

 claimed by those in best position to know that 

 the attitude of the local officials will cost the 

 city handsomely in the sum total of its building 

 improvements. 



Just now the local lumber dealers are trying 

 to solve the freight rate and car service prob- 

 lems that are confronting them. Thus far 

 twenty-one railways have announced their in- 

 tention of abiding by the new rules adopted 

 by the State Railway Commission, governing car 

 service and demurrage charges. On the other 

 hand, nineteen railways have decided to ignore 

 the new rules, upon the theory that the state 

 board has no authority to assume jurisdiction 

 over interstate business, and that the rules of 

 interstate commerce apply to all commodities 

 until they are delivered into the hands of the 

 consignee. The Ohio Shippers' Association, con- 

 sisting of 4,000 members, has taken the matter 

 up with the Railway Commission and the At- 

 torney General, and that official, as a result, 

 will institute proceedings in court against one 

 of the offending railways for the purpose of 

 securing a decision defining the scope of the 

 powers of the commission. 



In the meantime the railways do not seem to 

 be obedient to the orders of the Interstate Com- 

 mission, either. Although the two-cent raise in 

 freight rates from Southern points was declared 

 to be unreasonable and illegal, car loads of 

 lumber have been received within the past few 

 days still bearing the burden of the thirty-cent 

 rate. Other cars have been received at the 

 twenty-eight-cent rate. F'rom this it would 

 seem that the railways have no definite or fixed 

 conclusion in the matter themselves. Local 

 wholesale lumbermen have mailed statements 

 to the railways for the two-cent overcharge, but 

 as yet there have been no remittances received- 



Ashlaud. 



A tragedy which resulted in two deaths and 

 tile probable fatal injury to two other men oc- 

 curred at the Hatcher-Davis Lumber Company's 

 plant, which is located at a point where Pike 

 county, Kentucky, and Dickinson county, Vir- 

 ginia, join. The timbermen were in the camp 

 enjoying themselves when Mid Thackett, a des- 

 perate man of that locality, and a number of 

 his followers appeared on the scene. Soon a 

 quarrel was started, in which guns and knives 

 were put to work, and within ten minutes Dick 

 and Harry Wilson, aged 21 and 23 years, sons 

 of William Wilson, of Pikeville, were dead, and 



two of the Thackett followers were so badly 

 wounded that there is little or no hope for their 

 recovery. 



John Davis Bentley of the Elkhorn Valley 

 Lumber Company, Jewel, Ky.. who has been op- 

 erating a mill and doing a profitable business in 

 West Virginia for two years, will soon remove 

 his mill to Jewel, where he has several years' 

 sawing. 



T. W. Keeveny, a wholesale lumber dealer of 

 Cincinnati, O., was a recent visitor here and 

 bought some big orders from local dealers. He 

 reports business excellent with his firm, and 

 especially so for this season of the year. 



It is probable that a bent wood factory will 

 soon be located in Pluntington, W. Va., as the 

 representatives of a factory in northern Ohio, 

 which contemplates removing to another city, 

 have been in Huntington, and seem greatly 

 pleased with the location and outlook. 



The affairs of the bankrupt Winton Lumber 

 Company are now in the hands of Referee Reu- 

 ben Gudgell of Owingsville, before whom the 

 case had a final hearing a few days ago in More- 

 head, Rowan county, and it is thought he will 

 pass judgment within the next few days. This 

 company went into bankruptcy several years 

 ago, and the main question at issue now is that 

 of priority of liens. The liabilities are said to 

 be $90,000, with $24,000 assets. 



Booth & Talbert have finished their sawing 

 near Dingess, W. Va., and will move their mill 

 farther up the creek. 



The Guyandotte Timber Company has made 

 a settlement for damage done by their logs to 

 the bridge across the Guyandotte river, at Hunt- 

 ington, W. Va., several weeks ago, at which 

 time the pontoon bridge and nearly completed 

 bridge were swept away. The sum paid was 

 $15,000. 



While haulipg logs on Greasy creek, in Mor- 

 gan county, Ben Faulkner was caught between 

 two logs, sustaining injuries from which he died 

 a few hours later. 



Harrison Arnett of Salycrsville, Ky., has a 

 contract for sawing 25,00ii tics for the Cincin- 

 nati Southern railroad. The work lies along 

 the Licking river. 



Mrs. Brodie Duke has recently purchased a 

 tract of land in Morgan and Rowan counties 

 which is said to be unusually rich in coal and 

 timber. The deal was made through Pride & 

 Day, attorneys of Lexington, and the price paid 

 was $280,000, or $5 per acre. The land is on 

 the Licking river. 



The W. G. Ward Lumber Company of Ironton 

 has filed suit against the Norfolk & Western 

 Railroad Company for $135. the price of a car 

 of lumber which the railroad company took from 

 the yard of the lumber company. The suit will 

 be watched with much Interest by the lumber 

 dealers, as it ^yill test the question as to 

 whether the Ohio commission has jurisdiction 

 over interstate business or not. The commission 

 has ruled that a shipper can have four days in 

 which to unload his car, while the railroads 

 claim that only two days are allowed. 



J. A. Meredith of the Ashland Lumber Com- 

 pany is in the east on a two weeks' pleasure 

 trip, accompanied by his wife. They will visit 

 Jamestown, going from there to New York, 

 Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. 



Lewis Doster was a recent visitor here from 

 Nashville. 



R. H. Vansant has returned from a visit of 

 several weeks at Waynesville, N. C. 



The W. II. Dawkins Lumber Company will 

 at once begin the erection of an eight-foot band 

 mill in Ironton, O., with a capacity of 67,000 

 feet per day. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company of Clearfield. 

 Pa., has a new sawmill running near Morehead. 

 Rowan county, Ky., which gives employment 

 to 300 men. This compauy has completed a 

 line of railroad from Morehead to Paragon. Mor- 

 gan county. The survey for a line of railroad 

 eighteen miles long, extending from Paragon 

 up the north fork of Licking river to Rush 



