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Company, Chicago, were in the city last week. 



E. L. Crossman, salosman for the East Jor- 

 «lan Lumber Company, has resigned to accept a 

 position with the Grand Rapids office of Brad- 

 street's. 



The Grand Ledge Chair Company has an order 

 for three carloads of oak and maliogany goods 

 to go to Buenos Ayres, Argentina. The furniture 

 goes by boat from New York and is sent boxed 

 and in the knock-down. 



The Pontiac Turning Company has increased 

 its capital stock from $10,000 io $10,000. A. L. 

 Moore and Frank Lloyd of the company just 

 returned from northern ^lichigan. where they 

 bought half a million feet of hardwood timber, 

 which will be used in the manufacture of hall 

 bats and handles. 



The Verity-Caswell Table Company of Port- 

 land. Mich., is building a hirge addition to its 

 factory. 



George H. Heimforth of Traverse City, who 

 has bought several timber tracts on Little 

 Beaver island, will erect a saw and shingle mill 

 there. 



F. S. Uobbins. formerly of Big Rapids, and 

 now president and treasurer of the Robhins 

 liUmher Company. Rhinelander. Wis., writes as 

 follows of the rebuilding of the company's ex- 

 tensive plant, which was burned about a year 

 ago: "We are just completing a large factory 

 and store house and dry kiln for the manufac- 

 ture of rock maple and birch flooring. The 

 flooring factory will occupy the first floor of a 

 two-story cement building. 50x200 feet. It will 

 be a three-machine mill with a capacity of 

 2r>,000 to 30,000 feet a day. The dry kiln, a 

 cement building, with a capacity of 100,000 feet, 

 has a large cooling shed connected with it and 

 the flooring mill. The warehouse for manufac- 

 tured stock will be 100x76 feet. As you see. 

 we will be equipped to handle a large business 

 in this line. We have a good stock of flooring 

 lumber on hand, also extensive acreage of very 

 tine birch and maple timber to draw upon." 



Reports from the upper peninsula indicate 

 That railroad tie timber is growing scarce, with 

 buyers eager for the output at steadily ad- 

 vancing prices. The Lake Superior region has 

 long been an important source of supply and 

 many millions of dollars' worth of ties have 

 been shipped to various states, even as far dis- 

 tant as Mexico. Ten years ago the railroads 

 could buy the best ties for IS cents each, and 

 today they are paying 05 cents for them. 



The Muskegon Boiler Works has a contract 

 to supply new equipment for the large mill to 

 be erected at McKeuna, Wash.. lOO miles from 

 Tacoma, by the Salsich Lumber Company of 

 i^tar Lake, Wis. The company has cut out in 

 AVisconsin. 



Frank Kelley of the Kelley Lumber and Shin- 

 gle Company. Traverse City, recently bought a 

 Harrison touring car in this city, which figured 

 in rather a spectacular fire on the streets of 

 Big Rapids the night of Aug. 3o on the run 

 home. When getting ready to run the car to 

 the barn for the night the acetylene gas tank 

 ■exploded, the machine caught fire and Mr. Kelle.v 

 and his two companions were rather badly 

 scorched in tbeir attempts to extinguish the 

 hiaze. The city hose cart was lirought out to 

 subdue the fire and the machine was saved from 

 total destruction. The car was insured and was 

 shipped back to the Rapids for repairs. 



Governor Warner has appointed the new Mich- 

 igan Railway Commission, to take office Sept. 

 28, it being composed as follows : James Scully 

 of Ionia, C. L. Glasgow of Nashville, who is 

 the present railroad commissioner, and George 

 H. Dickinson of Pontiac. Mr. Dickinson is the 

 practical railroad man of the trio. The inter- 

 ests of shippers of the state rest very largely 

 in the hands of this commission. 



Indianapolis. 



A loss of about $H»,000 wiis caused at the 

 plant of the Capital Veneer Company in this 

 city last month, when a frame building used for 



manufacturing purposes was destroyed. The 

 fire started in a pile of sawdust and a large 

 stock of dry lumber, both finished and unfinished, 

 was burned. Much of the machinery was ruined 

 and it will be some time before the damage can 

 be repaired. 



It is believed that the freight question will 

 be settled finally at a meeting that has been 

 called for Oct. 12 by the Indiana Railroad Com- 

 mission. At this meeting all freight rates will 

 be taken up and discussed and it is not im- 

 piobable that there will be a complete revision. 

 Reports of discrimination, high rates, etc., have 

 reached the commission so frequently that the 

 members h'ave decided to take up the question in 

 an effort to settle it. 



,7. W, Dickerson of Chicago has purchased an 

 interest in the Franklin Desk Company and will 

 assume part of the duties as manager in the 

 future. R. .1. Mossop, who has been superintend- 

 ent for some time, will devote his time to field 

 work. It is announced that extensive improve- 

 ments will bo made in the plant at once. 



George M. Lucas of Freetown has been given 

 a contract by the commissioners of Jackson 

 county for 5,000 feet of oak flooring, which will 

 be used in the construction of a new bridge 

 near Brownstown. 



J. W. Buck, who was a lumber dealer in 

 Indianapolis for about thirty years, was in- 

 stantly killed at Wobb. Miss., last month by 

 fjiUine: timber. The body was returned to In- 

 dianapolis for burial. Mr. Buck had been en- 

 gaged in business in Mississippi for some time 

 and during his absence Mrs. Buck and daughter 

 made their home in Chicago. 



The 'Sew Albany Veneering Company, organ- 

 ized at New Albany a few days ago, will manu- 

 facture veneered and built-up stock. According 

 to the articles of incorporation the company 

 has a capital stock of $100,000. which is held 

 largely by W. A. McLean. E. V. Knight. L. M. 

 Clapp and Henry K. Jewett, who have been 

 elected directors. 



The Evansville Veueer Company of Evansville 

 has asked the Indiana Railroad Commission to 

 fix a lumber rate for veneers not to be used for 

 decorative purposes. The Indianapolis Freight 

 Association holds that it can not consistently 

 reduce the veneer rate to a lumber rate, hence 

 the appeal was made to the commission. 



The Southern Lumber Company has moved 

 its offices from 932 State Life Building to 811 

 Pythian Building, where it has larger quarters. 



C. D. Houghton of the Greer-Houghton Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from a three weeks' 

 vacation at Asheville. N. C. 



J. W. Hankins, formerly with the Dixie I-.um- 

 her Company of St. Louis, is now chief clerk in 

 the offices of the Robinson Lumber Company in 

 this city. 



The Indianapolis File ind Cabinet Company 

 has been organized and will locate in this city, 

 manufacturing staple articles and novelties. 

 William Gielow. H. A. W. Roesner and John 

 Reagan hold the capital stock of $15,000. 



Frank Martin, a Manila lumber dealer, was 

 killed at that place recently by being run down 

 by a passenger train. A slight deafness pre- 

 vented his bearing the approaching train. A 

 widow and two chiklren survive. 



A wholesale merchants' board will be organ- 

 ized by the Commercial Club, and will include all 

 wholesale concerns in the city who are repre- 

 sented in the club membership. Every effort will 

 be made to induce outside dealers of every kind 

 to patronize local concerns and missionary trips 

 will be made frequently to different parts of 

 the state. 



Cincinnati. 



The planing mill, the long lumber shed for 

 the housing of finished material and hundreds 

 (>f thousands of feet of lumber, the property 

 of the Farrin-Kom Lumber Company of Winton 

 Place, were destroyed last week by a fire orig- 

 inating from some unknown cause, either in 



the planing mill or one of the stacks of lumber 

 not far from it. Lumber, buildings and ma- 

 chinery were destroyed at a total loss of 

 .f 100.000. The property of the M. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Company, which is directly opposite 

 the Farrin-Korn Lumber Company's yards, was 

 threatened, but the firemen did yeoman service 

 and kept the flames from that place. Seven 

 carloads of lumber and sawdust, ready for ship- 

 ment were ruined. Three of the cars destroyed 

 contained quartered oak. and were billed for 

 Chicago. The concern employs about 100 men 

 and they will be put at work to clear up. M. 

 11. Farrin is president of the company, and 

 Chester F. Korn secretary and treasurer. Mr. 

 Korn, when seen, said; "I cannot give you the 

 exact I0.SS, but it will not exceed $125,000. 

 and may not be more than $100,000. There 

 were destroyed about half a million feet of 

 Unnber— oak and southern hardwoods. I do 

 not know what amount of insurance we carry, 

 hut I am inclined to believe that the loss will 

 be pretty well covered. We will rebuild every- 

 thing that was destroyed, and will also install 

 practically all new machinery. Our business 

 w ill not be sadly crippled, as we have still 

 enough lumber on band to furnish all orders 

 tliat we have and what we anticipate, and by 

 the time that our present supply of lumber 

 runs down, we will be ready to turn out 

 more, as by that time I think our planing mill 

 will be completed. Several piles of lumber that 

 were not totally destroyed, and some of which 

 were 'heated and wetted.' will be sold as in- 

 ferior stock, and the loss on that will not be so 

 irreat." 



The saw mill of (he Cincinnati Floor Com- 

 pany, located at 250 Butler street, was visited 

 by fire during the last two weeks. The blaze, 

 however, was noticed before it gained much 

 headway and was extinguished with a loss of 

 only .11500, which is fully covered by insurance. 

 The sawmill received all the damage, but for- 

 tunately no saws were damaged. 



Another large fire visited Cincinnati last 

 week and licked up over a million dollars* 

 worth of property. This fire, it is alleged, 

 originated in the stables of the E. Roberts 

 Lumber Company, in the rear of the Eagle 

 White Lead Company's plant. The flames 

 spread to the White Lead Company's plant and. 

 fanned by a northeastern wind and fed by oil. 

 paint and dry timber, reached the Morrison & 

 Snodgrass Lumber Company's yard. The fire 

 destroyed a large quantity of lumber, together 

 with the planing mills and a great deal of 

 veneered stock and machinery. The loss sus- 

 tained by the E. Roberts Lumber Company is 

 estimated at about $20,000, of which only a 

 part is covered by insurance, while the Morri- 

 son & Snodgrass Lumber Company's loss will 

 reach about $100,000, which is also only partly 

 covered by insurance. Both companies will re- 

 build their plants at once, making tlie new 

 buildings as nearly fireproof as possible. Both 

 companies were doing a good business and had 

 many orders on file for delivery in the fall as 

 well as for immediate delivery. These will be 

 filled by the companies, as they will he able to 

 secure the stock from local dealers. This is 

 the second disastrous fire the Morrison & Snod- 

 grass company has had within a few years. 



Southern roads must make restitution to lum- 

 ber dealers within a short time, according to a 

 ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 In a communication to the Cincinnati Lumber- 

 men's Club the commission asked that organiza- 

 tion to make report of claims, under the Su- 

 preme Court ruling, not satisfied. Cincinnati 

 lumbermen claim the roads are showing no dis- 

 position to pay up. but that they are doing 

 their best to bring about disputes between ship- 

 pers and receivers as to which party should be 

 the beneficiary of the restitution. 



A chattel mortgage was given last week by 

 the' Cypress Lumber and Veneer Company to 

 the Covington Savings Bank and Trust Com- 

 pany, as trustee for the creditors. The mort- 



