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and veneei' saws, and produces large quanti- 

 ties of high-class quartered oak, mahogany, 

 black walnut and other hardwood veneers. 

 The Havana end of the enterprise is oper- 

 ated by the company under the name of 



L. \V. ItADINA, L. W. RADINA & CO. 



Moffett, Bobbins & Co., but the entire output 

 is sold through the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company's general offices at Cincin- 

 nati. 



The enterprises noted are owned entirely 

 by and under the direct management of 

 Thomas J. Moffett, who is president and 

 treasurer, and E. W. Eobbins, vice president 

 and general manager, of the parent com- 

 pany. The Maley, Thompson & Moffett 

 Company has a large yard and warehouse at 

 424 East Thirty-first street. New York City, 

 where it carries a complete assortment of 

 veneer.s, mahogany and American hard- 

 woods. It does a large domestic business 

 in all parts of the United States, and has 

 also been engaged in the export trade for 

 many j^ears. Its goods are sold extensively 

 in Great Britain, continental Europe, Scan- 



dinavia, South America, South Africa and 

 New Zealand. The company's specialties 

 comprise a complete line of sawed, sliced 

 and rotary cut veneers of all woods, Cuban 

 mahogany, Indiana quartered white oak, 

 black walnut, ash, hickory and poplar. It 

 goes without saying that the Maley, Thomp- 

 son & Moffett Company is one of the fore- 

 most institutions of its kind, not only in Cin- 

 cinnati, but in the United States. 



Important Wisconsin Deal. 



TUe Forster-Whitman Lumber Company is a 

 new concern which has purchased from the F. P. 

 Hiles Lumber Company of Mi.lwaukee the entire 

 village of Hiles, Wis., a large farm and its stock, 

 logging outfits, logging railroad, with 25,000 

 acres of fine hardwood timber land. About 

 $500,000 was involved in the transfer. The prop- 

 erty includes one of the largest timber tracts 

 in northern Wisconsin. The village of Hiles was 

 founded live years ago by F. P. Hiles. It con- 

 tains two sawmills, a shingle and lath mill, a 

 planing mill, a stave mill, a hotel, thirty cot- 

 tages and a store, with a complete stock of gen- 

 eral merchandise. On the farm are 100 head of 

 cattle and fifteen horse teams. It is estimated 

 that it will take about fifteen years to clear the 

 timber tract. 



Car Stake Conference at Pittsburg. 

 It will be remembered that immediately follow- 

 ing the convention on the car stake and equip- 

 ment matter held in Wasbiugton a conference 

 was held between representatives of the railroad 

 companies and ot the lumber interests, which 

 lesulted in the appointment of a subcommittee 

 ot eight, four from each of the parties in inter- 

 est. This subcommittee of eight was authorized 

 to consider all designs and plans which might 

 be submitted to them for permanently equipping 

 cars and to make and offer any designs which 

 might suggest themselves to the committee. At 

 their meeting in Chicago, March 22, several plans 

 were presented, and after considering the ques- 

 tion of permanent stakes in all its bearings they 

 resolved to recommend to the full conference 

 committee of fourteen that a telescopic stake for 

 gondola cars seemed to be both feasible and prac- 

 ticable, and to further recommend that a certain 

 number of cars be equipped with these telescopic 

 stakes for the purpose of demonstrating whether 

 or not such stakes would answer tbe purpose for 

 W'hich tbey were intended. 



The full committee met at Pittsburg April 12 

 to receive the subcommittee's report. The rec- 



ommendations above named were unanimously 

 adopted and the subcommittee authorized to have 

 equipped sixty gondola cars with telescopic stakes 

 on the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Illinois 

 Central and such other railroads as might be 

 selected. 



LKI.AND i;. PANNING. 



The question of permanent equipment of flat 

 cars was discussed at the Pittsburg confereuce, 

 and the sense of the meeting seemed to be that 

 a certain number of cars should be equipped 

 with movable stakes which could be ^provided 

 with boxes underneath the cars for holding them. 

 This question, together with one or two 'other 

 plans, was referred back to the subcommittee 

 with directions to report the result of their 

 further investigations, so that the situation in 

 brief is that the two parties in Interest have 

 agreed upon a stake which seems to be worthy 

 of full investigation as far as gondola cars are 

 concerned, and the experiments for the test of 

 this slake will be made forthwith. 



P. F. Noble & Co. of Cincinnati are erecting a 

 band sawmill at Pisgah, Ala. The company will 

 also erect a planing mill at Hollywood, Ala., to 

 manufacture window casings, doors and other 

 finishing material. It will draw its timber sup- 

 ply from 3,0t)0 acres of hardwood timber lands. 

 .\ ferry boat service will be operated on the 

 Tennessee river to effect delivery of lumber and 

 other products tci the railroads. 



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