HARDWOOD RECORD 



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imny Is back from a bUBinoss trip whicli took in 

 Kansas City and othci' towns. lie predicts a 

 line corn crop in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa and 

 says tliat while business is quiet down there 

 now it is bound to boom when the crop returns 

 ti''£rin to come in. 



W. K. Header of the Hawkins Land and Lum- 

 ber Company is back from a trip to their mill 

 at Hawkins. Wis. This is a new proposition, but 

 is coming; alons nicely and this summer has cut 

 1 ..")iiti,0(l(> feet oi himber. inchniiuy; maple, birch, 

 elm aud hemlock. 



it. P\ Clark of tjsbornr & Clark is back from 

 .M business trip over in Wisconsin and is now 

 busy nursing hay fever, which lia.s troubled him 

 lur eighteen years. C. F. ftsborne. who recently 

 liad a short sojourn in the hospital with ner- 

 \<)us prostration, is still down in Illinois recu- 

 licrating and getting ready to resume the busi- 

 ness grind. 



-V. V. Ilein of Timj-, Wis., vice president and 

 secretary of tlie Jolin Heiu Ccuupany, hardwood 

 lumber and cooperage; manufacturers, was here 

 on business a few days ago. Tliey are figuring 

 "U branching out with a pulp mill at Tony and 

 are getting estimates un the cost of putting in 

 water power to run the plant. 



li. Fa.vson Smith of the I'aysiiu Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is back at his desk after a short 

 v;ication. He says sltipments are coming along 

 uii'ely now from the southern hardwood mills 

 and that they are getting caught up on orders 

 for t!ie lirst time in elglit mouths. Trade is 

 .'-atisfactory with tlieni and prices lioiding firm. 



.Many retail dealers have been in the twin 

 < ities attending the Minnesota State Fair. They 

 are not buying much lumber as yet. but gen- 

 erally report prosper<jus conditions in tlieir com- 

 jiiunities. 



Toledo. 



The Ohio Shippers' Association has won in 

 its efforts to compel the railways to abide by 

 the new rules adopted b.v the (Jhio Railway 

 ('■imniissiun governing car service and demur- 

 rage for charges in this state. It would seem 

 that every railway doing business in the state 

 has now concluded to respect the authority of 

 the local tribunal. In order to give time for 

 the service of notice on the interst,ate commis- 

 sion of the changes in rules made necessary 

 by the new order, the time for taking effect was 

 e-Kteuded to Oct. 1, at which time it is now 

 • ertain they will be in force. Some of tlie 

 features of the new rules are that shippers will 

 ))e able to arrange for the average plan, whicli 

 was not before available to them, while the 

 time for loading and unloading cars without 

 demitrrage charges has been extended one day. 



There have been claims filed with the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commissii>u against the south- 

 4Tu railways for repayment of overcharges under 

 I lie decision of the Supreme Court, amounting to 

 lietween *2,000,UOO and .$;!.UU(i.OUO. of which 

 more than .fSOO.OOO come from Toledo and 

 other (jhio lumber firms. This does not. how- 

 ever, represent nearly the total claims, as many 

 itf the lumbermen have forwarded their claims 

 directly to the railway companies themselves 

 for adjustment instead of tiling them with the 

 '■ranmission. Willie .tiiere liave as yet been no 

 remittances received, the claims have been ac- 

 knowledged and the assurance given tliat tliey 

 will receive proper attentiou. 



Asliland. 



The I!. G. Page Lumber Company of this city 

 .-ind Nathan Goodman of Ironton. Ohio, have 

 purchased the entire stock and lioldings of the 

 rjcking River Lumber Company of Farmers, 

 Ivy. The consideration was .fl.jO.OOO. and the 

 purchase included planing and sawmills, with a 

 daily capacity of .5ti.000 feet, houses, store, hotel, 

 office buildings and real estate, together with 

 large booms and about 8,000,000 feet of logs. 

 The purchasers have opened a sales oiHce in 

 Ashland. They will retain tlie name of the 



Licking River liUmber Company. H. (i. Irvine, 

 who has Ik en sales manager for the Licking 

 River (.'onipany, will have charge of the local 

 office. The plant at Farmers will be in charge 

 of Mr. (bH)dman. who was for many years gen- 

 eral manager f)f the Ironton Lumber Company 

 of Ironton. 



R. II. Vansant of Vansant. Kitchen & Co. is 

 confined to his home In this city, very low with 

 tyiihoid fever. 



R. ti. I'age has returned from a coinliincd 

 business and pleasure 'trip to South Rend. Ind. 



N. Goodman, vice jiresident of the Licking 

 River Luiiilier Ctuupan.v. has returned from 

 Micliigan. wiiere he bought machinery for the 

 new band mill tlie comjiany is building at l*'arin- 

 ers, Ky. 



(.'onti'aetor W. L. .Schweickart of Ironton. 

 Ohio, lias recently bought from the Hawkins 

 Lumber (;'ompany its Second street plant in 

 that city. Before the deal was closed Mr. 

 Scliweickart had begun building an extr-nsive 

 addition lo bis plant. 



The W. II. Itawkins Lumber (Jomiian.v of this 

 <-ity is c(mteniplating the erection of an up-tct- 

 date sawmill at Ironton. The company owns 

 about :;, 0(10, 000 feet of lumber whicli was cut 

 by Feason's mill and is now stackt'd in the 

 Feas<ui yards. It is doing a large business in 

 Ironton and feels the necessity of a new mill. 



The .1. L. Walker Lumber Compan.v will soon 

 erect a new mill on Keech street. Kenova. W. 

 Va.. near tlie tie hoist. The superintendent. 

 .1. L. C'orn. will have charge of the building of 

 the new mill. 



V/ausau, Wis. 



The John Week Lumber Company of Ste- 

 vens Point, owner of a large tract of hard- 

 wood northwest of Mosinee, will log about 

 4,000,000 feet of down timl^er the coming win- 

 ter. A heavy windstorm felled about that 

 amount recently, so that it must be cut soon 

 to save it. 



Ed Weinkauf of Wausau has purchased 

 eighty forties of hardwood lands near Inter- 

 wald. Taylor county, from his father, Carl 

 Weinkauf. There is 1.500,000 feet of timber 

 on the lands. 



The Standard Core Company has l^een or- 

 ganized in Grand Rapids by R. L. Kraus of 

 Marslifield, George W. Mead and I. P. Witter 

 of Grand Rapids. The capital stock is $10,- 

 000. It is proposed to build a plant in the last 

 named city for the manufacture of liardwood 

 cores. The cores are used in paper mills to 

 wind rolls of paper on. 



W. H. Dick and famiLv have moved to 

 Phillips, Miss., to reside. Mr. Dick is a part- 

 ner of State Senator W. H. Hatten of New 

 London in the lumber and factory business. 

 They have purchased large tracts of timber 

 lands in the Soutit. 



The Stang-Ellis Lumber Company of Grand 

 Rapids expects to get its plant in operation 

 .about October 1. Work was started on the 

 plaiit last spring. The main factory building 

 is 180x100 feet, two stories high. The com- 

 pany is also building a sawmill. 



The hardwood mill of Ciiris Wunderllch at 



Mayking-, near Antigo, was recently destroyed, 

 loss $20,000. A considerable amount of lum- 

 ber was also burned. The mill was destroyed 

 once before, about nine years ago. resulting 

 in a long drawn out legal Imttle between 

 Wunderlicli Bros., the name of the firm at 

 tliat time, and insurance companies. The 

 Wunderlichs finally got a judgment of $35,000. 

 The present firm cuts out large quantities of 

 l^icycle rims and plow handle stock. 



Ex-Governor W. H. Upham, who about a 

 year ago disposed of most of his lumber in- 

 terests to th« Cojiper River Land & Lumber 

 Company, recently purchased 3.500,000 feet of 

 hardwood on Jump River and a like amount 

 near Ogema. It is likely that most of it will 

 be manufactured into veneer stock. 



F. Schubriug of Wausau has purchased 

 Hoenisch Bros.' s,awmill in the city men- 

 tioned. It is strictly a hardwood mill and 

 cuts 20,000 feet daily. 



The Daley-Beswick Company of Menominee 

 is liuilding a plant for the manufacture of 

 hardwood columns, etc. 



A log six feet in diameter was recently 

 sawed into lumber in a Chippewa Falls mill. 

 The log was cut ten years ago and it has lieen 

 in the water ever since. Before it could be 

 sawed up it was necessary to split it into 

 tour sections with the aid of dynamite. 



The Coye Furniture Company of Stevens 

 Point is building a new dry kiln 40x80 feet in 

 size, nearly doubling the firm's drying capac- 

 ity and increasing the output of the mill. 



The R. Connor Lumber Company of Marsh- 

 field has purchased of A. C. McComb of Osh- 

 kosh a tract of 4,000 acres of hardwood land 

 in Iron county on which are several million 

 feet of higli grade timber. Mr. McComb is 

 largely interested in Arkansas and Louisiana 

 lands, and the above tract was the last of 

 bis nortiiern holdings. 



The Wisconsin Cabinet Company, recently 

 organized, has purchased the Badger Sewing 

 Company's plant in Fond du Lac and will 

 convert the same into a factory for the manu- 

 facture of higli grade furniture. A dry kiln 

 38x34 feet has been erected and a boiler and 

 engine room constructed. 



Tlie planing mill operated in Waupaca b>" 

 the Central Lumber Company of Oshkosh was 

 recently struck by lightning and destroyed to- 

 gether with a large amount of finished lum- 

 ber. Tliere was no insurance on the plant or 

 lumber. 



Wisconsin, one of the greatest lumbering 

 states in tlie country at one time, has practi- 

 cally been denuded of its forests, and yet it 

 ranks third in the list of states having forest 

 preserves. Although the state practically neg- 

 lected its forest wealth as far as state inter- 

 vention is concerned, up to four years ago. 

 it now has 274,000 acres under preservation 

 in the northern part. The northern part is a 

 Ijarren waste as a consequence of the reckless 

 and wasteful methods of the great lumbering 

 companies of early days. Now the companies 

 are using more restraint in cutting timber 

 and better care is taken of old slashings, to 

 prevent forest fires.. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Exclusive Market Beporters.) 



Chicago. 



Demaiui bas bad a dragging teudencj' for 

 some weeks, but there seems to be quite a recov- 

 ery in tbe call lor nearly every variety of bard- 

 woods at tbe present time, with very favorable 

 prospects for a satisfactory fall trade. Oak and 

 poplar bave been tbe two items that bave held 

 up in good call all during tbe summer, and 

 there has been very little noticeable cutting in 

 prices to induce orders. Gum has been a ratber 

 slow seller except in tbe coarse qualities, which 



bave been takL-u <i!i very freely by tbe box- 

 makers. Tbe demand for wagon stock, espe- 

 cially in sawed pattern material, has been slow 

 for two months. The wagon trade, apparently 

 by united effort, ceased buying to any apprecia- 

 ble extent some time ago, with an evident inten- 

 tion of breaking tbe market if possible. This 

 result has not been accomplished and there is 

 at the present time an increased call for nearly 

 every variety of wagon material. Northern 

 woods are in very short supply and arc having 



