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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Charlotte, N. C. 



A cUai'tei- lias been granted the Utility Man- 

 ufacturing Company of Goldsboro, N. C, capi- 

 talized at SUOO.OOO, with the privilege of begin- 

 ning business with .fuO.OOO. Incorporators are 

 X. A. Berry, J. E. Wilty, H. Weil & Brothers 

 and others. Object : To engage in the lumber 

 business. 



A new company for the manufacture of 

 wagons and other vehicles is being organized at 

 White riains, X. C, near Mount Airy, N. C. 

 M. H. Sparger of Mount Airy will be secretary 

 and treasurer. 



Xorth Wilkesboro. X. C, is one of the coming 

 towns in the hardwood lumber industry. It 

 already has two large furniture factories, sev- 

 eral planing mills, sash, door and blind fac- 

 tories, one cotfin factor.y, twenty wholesale lum- 

 tier dealers and several large cross-arm, liracket 

 and locust pin factories. North Wilkesljoro 

 prol)abl.v .ships more oak and poplar hiniber 

 than any otlier town in the state. An average 

 of nearly 500 wagonluads of lumber, tan bark 

 and country produce comes in daily. 



Charles W. Sapp of fireen.sboro, X. C. has 

 been appointed receiver for the Thompson Liim- 

 lier Company of Greensboro, N. C, recently de- 

 <'lared bankrupt. In about ten days a meeting 

 of the creditors will be held and a trustee will 

 be elected to wind up the affairs. The schcifiile 

 of the assets and liabilities have been tiled with 

 the clerk of the United States court. Total 

 assets are stated at $39,04'J.34 and its liabilities 

 at $37, .5:1. 83. 



The American Veneer and Box Company of 

 Raleigh, N. C, is now in full operation, getting 

 out plank and strips of variovis thickness from 

 poplar and oak. 



The sawmills of the Snow Lumber Company 

 of High I'oiut. X. C, in Moore and Montgomery 

 counties, have been forced to close down for 

 lack of cars to handle the great stock of lumber 

 that is piled up. However, the plant in High 

 Point, which is fed b,v these mills, is still run- 

 ning. It is stated that 800 cars are needed by 

 this company alone. It is the sincere hope of 

 the many lumber manufacturers of this state 

 that the car famine, which so seriou.sly crippled 

 business last winter and .spring, may not be 

 '■xperienced again. 



A movemi'nt, previously mentioned, is on foot 

 to build a thirty-foot channel to the sea from 

 Wilmington, X. C. tlie idea being to make 

 Wilmington one of the largest seaports on the 

 .\tlantie. If this scheme is successful, as it 

 promises to be, the lumber industry will be 

 greatly advanced. Already Wilmington does a 

 large lumber business, and this business is 

 growing, as may be seen from statistics just 

 compiled. For the eight months from January 

 1 to August 31 this year the domestic exports 

 of lumber and cross ties at the Wilmington port 

 amounted to 89,230,854 feet and the foreign 

 exports for the same period amounted to 

 0,778,148 feet. The total exports for the whole 

 of last year were ; Domestic, 51,556,404 feet : 

 foreign, 5,049,524 feet, the gain this year show- 

 ing a big per cent. The exports so far, in 

 other words, exceed those of last year by about 

 40,000,000 feet. 



The Board of Trade of Asheville, X'. C, has 

 succeeded in landing for that city the large 

 plant of the United States Furniture Company 

 of Lenoir. X. C. The plant will be removed 

 to Asheville and will be running by Xovember 

 1. It is thought numerous other woodworking 

 plants will now be established in Asheville. 



The He Soto Land & Timber Company of 

 Red Springs, N. C, has just been chartered 

 with *300,000 capitaL J. G. Williams of Red 

 Springs is president. The company has secured 

 large timber tracts in De Soto county, Florida. 



Caress & Corbett of Denmark, S. C, have 

 purchased fifteen acres of land and will erect 

 an up-to-date planing mill, dry kilns, etc. 



The lumber mill of Hearn Brothers at Wil- 

 lard. X. C, was destroyed by fire recently, loss 



being estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000. 

 There was very little insurance. 



Tile Alexanaer Lumber Compan.v of Lilesville. 

 X. C, whose plant was recently destroyed hy 

 fire, will be rebuilt. The plant was one of the 

 largest in .Vnson county. 



The business of the I.,indsay Chair Company 

 of High I'oint, X. C, recently adjudged bank- 

 rupt, has been sold at auction. The Ford 

 Johnson Company of High Point, X. C, pur- 

 chased the property, paying $15,025. 



Probably the question of greatest interest to 

 local lumbermen is the fight inaugurated by 

 the Retail Merchants' Association of Charlotte 

 and other cities of the state over freight dis- 

 rrimiuati'tn against Xorth Carolina points in 

 favor of Mrginia cities. A few days ago tlie 

 local ;Mercliauts' Association filed a complaint 

 whicli cited many instances where Charlotte 

 merchants and manufacturers are forced to 

 l)ay 50 per cent more than manufacturers and 

 merchants in Virginia. Other cities of the 

 state will file similar complaints, and later the 

 corporation commission wiil make out a case to 

 be carried before the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. 



Minneapolis. 



Several hardwood concerns are creditors of 

 the Joannin-IIansen Company, a sash, door and 

 blind concern which has gone into involuntary 

 bankruptcy. The compan.v's assets are esti- 

 mated at $20,000. The petition upon which the 

 conipau.v was declared bankrupt was signed by 

 W. C. Bailey. F. H. Lewis and X. C. Bennett 

 of iliuueapolis, all hardwood dealers, and by 

 the I'nited Lumber and Shingle Company, the 

 Central Warehouse Company, Minneapolis, and 

 E. Sondheimer Company of Memphis, and the 

 Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., of Saginaw, 

 Mich. The receivers appointed by the court 

 are C. W. Dewey, J, B. Burkholder and Charles 

 Oliver. The company has a large number of 

 unfilled contracts which will be put through in 

 order to realize upon the stocks of material 

 held. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, who was 

 compelled to drop work for a while as a 

 result of a slight attack of nervous prostration, 

 has returned and is spending part of each day 

 at the office. He spent some weeks on his farm 

 near Erie, HI., recuperating and came back 

 home very much improved. D. F. Clark has 

 been over in Wisconsin on a business trip. 



S. H. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany, dealers in pine and hardwood, while on 

 his recent trip to the West Coast made connec- 

 tions with some mills there and will pay par- 

 ticular attention hereafter to supplying factory 

 trade with western pine from mills in the In- 

 land Empire territory. Mr. Davis enjoyed the 

 beauties of the Canadian Rockies and Yellow- 

 stone Park, besides a boat trip from Vancouver 

 to Seattle. 



A. H. Barnard, the local wholesaler, has re- 

 turned from Marshfield, Wis., where lie attended 

 the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Hardwood 

 Lumbermen's Association. He reports the de- 

 mand for northern hardwoods strong in propor- 

 tion to the visible supply. 



The Payson Smith Lumber Company reports 

 an increased demand from the railroads and an 

 inquiry that betokens some heavy business among 

 factory buyers a little later. The shipping sit- 

 uation in the South is beginning to give some 

 bother again, but tliey are still tilling orders 

 with fair promptness. The nortliern hardwood 

 situation shows a decided scarcity of oak, and 

 while birch seems plentiful the demand for it 

 is more general this year than ever. 



The fact that the shortage seems to be con- 

 fined to certain limited districts would not seem 

 so bad on the face of it, but a different aspect 

 is presented when it is understood that those 

 are the only sections from which Toledo deal- 

 ers seem to be able to secure poplar and other 

 supplies. With plenty of these materials there, 

 and a good strong demand for them here, it is 

 particularly annoying to be unable to secure 

 cars for transportation between the two points. 



The new car service rules adopted by the 

 State Railway Commission wiil go into effect 

 October 1, and while they are considered a step 

 in the right direction they are not of great 

 value to dealers. The provision which will be of 

 most universal benefit to shippers is that which 

 adds an additional day to the prescribed time 

 for loading and unloading cars. The rules also- 

 make it possible for the shipper to arrange for 

 what is known as the average plan, which has 

 not heretofore been within his reach. As there 

 are several disagreeable strings attached to this 

 plan, and as the time allowed without demur- 

 rage is ample for Toledo dealers, who are al- 

 wa.vs in a hurry at loading and unloading time, 

 it is not thought probable that any considerable 

 number w-iil avail themselves of the benefits 

 of this provision. 



Toledo. 



Toledo hardwood dealers are turning their at- 

 tention to the car shortage, which in certain 

 sections is causing no end of annoyance. This 

 is particularly true in West Virginia, from 

 which place it seems to be impossible to secure 

 cars. 



Ashland. 



The Hawkins Land Company has been reeently 

 chartered in West Virginia, its chief works to be 

 iu Fayette county, and principal business oflices 

 in Charleston. 



A charter has been granted the West Virginia 

 Timber, Coal, Land and Oil Company, which 

 will have its chief business offices in Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va. The incorporators, all Huntington 

 men, are S. M. Croft, H. C. Harvey, Thomas H. 

 Harvey, J. C. Kiger and J. T. Graham. 



The Cole-Crane Company has had special 

 police in Ironton, Ohio, making an effort to have 

 an investigation into the matter of log stealing 

 by Lawrence county, Ohio, men instituted by the 

 grand jury. This company has lost so many 

 logs recently that it is determined to teach log 

 thieves a lesson. 



John Hugart of Vaughan, W. Va., and Miss 

 Pearl Vencill of Charleston were recently united 

 in marriage at the Ventura hotel in this city. 

 Mr. Hugart is engaged as lumber inspector for 

 the Keys-Fannin Lumber Company, 



A charter has been issued by the secretary of 

 state at Charleston, W. Va., to the Walters 

 Timber Company, with offices at Huntington, 

 W. Va., and chief works in Kentucky ; the in- 

 corporators are W. L. Walters of Winchester, 

 John C. C. Mayo of Paintsville, L. X. Davis. 

 R. D. Davis, Jr., and S. S. Willis of Ashland. 

 This company has recently closed a big deal 

 with the Broase Company of Xew York City for 

 a large boundary of virgin forest timber, consid- 

 eration $G5,000. 



A viiit to the general office of the Licking 

 River Lumber Company found the files filled 

 with orders and a general air of prosperity 

 prevailing. The general and sales offices of 

 the company have recently been removed to 

 Ashland from Farmers, Ky., where their large 

 mills are located. On August 28, last, the com- 

 pany changed management, and the entire stock 

 was bought in by the following parties, who are 

 the officers : F. G. Eberhart, Jr., president ; 

 Xathan Goodman, vice president ; Rollo G, Page, 

 secretary and treasurer. The new management 

 has had long and successful experience in the 

 timber and lumber manufacturing business, and 

 expects to increase the business in every way. 

 Xew machinery, consisting of boilers, a band 

 mill, carriage, etc, is being installed in the mill 

 at Farmers, also new planing mill machinery, 

 and wli«i the machinery is in place and the 

 general construction complete this will be one 

 of the largest producing mills in Kentucky, hav- 

 ing a capacity of 50,000 feet daily. The hold- 

 ings of the Licking River Lumber Company con- 

 sist of large timber interests in Kentucky, and 



