HARDWOOD RECORD 



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There are two provisions in this connection : One 

 that any company holding more than this amount 

 will forfeit one-half of It to the state, and the 

 other that not more than $250,000 worth of 

 stumpage lands, based on thB purchase price, can 

 be held by any one company. This last provi- 

 sion, it is stated, is for the purpose of forcing 

 these companies to sell their lands as fast as 

 they have been cleared, thus stimulating the 

 agricultural development of the state. This 

 solution is not wliat the large lumber and timber 

 syndicates desired, but it is so much more liberal 

 than they expected that they are much pleased 

 with the outcome. 



The following additions are reported to the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis : .1. F. Mclntyre 

 of the Memphis Kim & Bow Company. A. C. Lang 

 of the I'aepcke-Leicht Lumber Company. Chicka- 

 sawba. Ark. : O. Dircks of the Askins-Dircks Lum- 

 ber Company, Tnion City. Tenn., and H. W. 

 Mosby of the Helena Box Company, Helena, Ark. 



Moore & McFerren report that the work on 

 buildings to replace those destroyed by fire some 

 weeks ago is progressing rapidly and the plant 

 will be in readiness for operation about July 1. 



Spur tracks are being run into the tract of 

 land recently acquired by C. L. Willey of Chi- 

 cago for the establishment of a big sawmill. The 

 E. Sondheiraer Company, which has the tract 

 adjoining, will build enougli liouses to accommo- 

 date all the employes of its own plant and yards 

 as well as those of C. L. Willey. These houses 

 will be built on a strip ]."iO feet wide and 1.200 

 feet long and will be rented exclusively to em- 

 ployes of the two companies. 



The crest of the rise in the Mississippi river 

 has passed Jlcmphis and the water is receding 

 slowl.v. The levees are all intact and no over- 

 flow of land protected by levees is anticipated. 

 There is considerable timber being brought out 

 on this rise and it now seems certain that the 

 beneficial efl'ects of the rise will more than com- 

 pensate for any loss that may have resulted. 



Ashland, Ky. 



Business is excellent in the Ashland district. 

 The local mills are all running, but the supply 

 of logs is short. The demand for dry lumber 

 exceeds tlie supply, and firms are turning down 

 orders. Prices firm and strictly list. There is 

 a small run of timber in the Big Sandy and 

 Guyandotte rivers. 



O. D. Garred of Huntington, W. Va., has about 

 completed the work of arranging and building 

 his camps on the Clear fork of Coal river, 

 where he has the contract to cut the timber on 

 a tract of land comprising 9.000 acres. A large 

 force of men is at work. It will take between 

 three and four years to clear the land of the 

 timber, which is the finest virgin oak and yellow 

 poplar. 



Miss Carrie White of this city and J. B. Lytle 

 of Pittsburg were married in Parkersburg on 

 March 10. Mr. Lytle is located at Bayard, W. 

 Va.. as representative of Curll & Lytle Lumber 

 Company of Pittsburg. Miss White has been 

 employed as stenographer tor the Carolina Pine 

 Company of Huntington, W. Va. 



One of the largest runs of walnut timber that 

 has lloated down the Guyandotte river for some 

 time is now drifting down the stream from 

 Wyoming county. Manj of the logs will cube 

 several times and will bring the owners a good 

 round sum. They are owned by Jeff Gill and 

 others who are actively engaged in lumbering 

 operations at tlie head of the river. 



Tom Jloore, lumber inspector for the Keyes- 

 I'annin Lumber Company at Graham, Va., is in 

 the city. 



'J"he W. 11. Pawkuis Lumber Compan.y has sold 

 3,000 acres of valuaiile limber land in Logan 

 county. West Virginia, to J. W. Johnson & Co. 

 of Huntington, W. A'a. 



.".re running their mills at full capacity. There 

 is still quite a large quantity to be received and 

 operators are making ready for a busy time. 



W. H. Hoskins is a missing landmark among 

 the Point mills this year, having moved the cen- 

 ter of his milling operations to Arkansas, whore 

 he is interested with E. M. Cunningham in cut- 

 ting from quite a tract of hardwood timber. 



I!. M. Cunningham says of the hardwood mar- 

 ket situation that the main worry is to get stock. 

 There is no trouble selling hardwoods, but the 

 rains, scarcity of cars and almost everything else 

 that could happen has kept the output much 

 below normal. 



The Southern Lumber Company has something 

 of the same story to tell. The demand is good 

 and everything in the line of merchantable hard- 

 wood can be sold at a fair price, but there is 

 not enough stuff to take care of orders as 

 priimptly as might be desired. 



lOd Ithubesky, Columbia Building, is building 

 u|i quite a nice hardwood business. Like the 

 others, be reports that it is generally easier to 

 sell hardwood these days than it is to get it. 



and it is beginning to be a problem to supply the 

 demands of dealers. Those who want oak can- 

 not always get just what they want, but must 

 lake what there is and are glad to. 



Louisville. 



The local river sawmills have received quite 

 a bunch of the spring crop of logs already and 



Minneapolis. 



A. S. TUiss of this city, who has represented 

 I be R. Connor Company of Marshfleld, Wis., in 

 Twin City territory for the past three years, has 

 lieen advanced to the rank of hardwood sales 

 manager and has left for Marshfleld to take 

 r barge of his new work. This position is one 

 made necessary by the growth of the business. 

 I he veteran sales manager- of the company having 

 all he can do handling other stocks. Mr. Bliss 

 is well qualiflod for the position, being a thor- 

 oughly experienced hardwood man. He has 

 I'een with the R. Connor Company for eleven 

 years past, for eight years traveling almost con- 

 stantly as inspector and buyer for the company. 

 Tlu' company will not abandon this field, Mr. 

 Bliss continuing to give it considerable personal 

 attention. I<"or the present he will not move his 

 family <o Marshfleld. Later a permanent rep- 

 ri'sentative may be located here. 



r. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Ciunpany reports a steady trade and says the 

 iiiiiipany has been able thus far to keep enough 

 dry stock on hand to supply orders for a while 

 lo (ome. The factories are all enjoying a sea- 

 son of prosperity and using hardwood exten- 

 lively. A continuance of warm, windy weather 

 siu'h as the northwest has been having for a few 

 days will dry out lumber rapidly, and Mr. Ham- 

 illou hopes to be able to move some of the new 

 cinp of basswood in two weeks or so. 



]•;. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 i 'ompany returned this week from an extended 

 business trip through the southern states. He 

 says moneyed men from the north are flocking 

 iiiTo the south to buy up tracts of timber, both 

 pini' and hardwood. The mills in Alabama arc 

 shipping heavily, but those along the Mississippi 

 arc flooded and compelled to shut down. Tbi- 

 labor problem is a serious one also with the 

 soul hern mills. It is next to impossible now to 

 secure common labor at prices two or three 

 limes what they were half a dozen years ago. 

 There is a great deal of railroad building, and 

 Ihe sections Jlr. Smith visited are enjoying tre 

 mendous prosperity. His company is having a 

 big demand for oak, whicli is hard to meet. 

 Heavy shipments were made from the mill at 

 Henderson Mounds, Mo., before the flood came, 

 running as high as twenty-four cars a day, but 

 I lie stock shipped lias been cleaned up and the 

 plant is now Hooded, the offices even being two 

 lei't under water. Owing lo the wet winter sea- 

 sou there is little green lumber now in the south. 



L. (_'. Nolan of the Bacon-Nobm Hardwood 

 Company. Memphis, Tenn., is visiting for a few 

 clays In the Twin cities. 



I). I'^. Clark of Osborne & Clark has gone to 

 Winnipeg to look after business there. The firm 

 ships considerable hardwood to the Canadian 

 lity. ('. K. Osborne of the same company reports 

 Ibcii- trade from (be retail yards active as ever. 



Wausau. 



The C. A. Goodyear Lumber Company of 

 Tomah, which had but two more years of saw- 

 ing, has purchased an immense tract of hardwood 

 lands in northern Michigan, the timber from 

 which will keep the company's mill employed for 

 at least ten years. The company is also nego- 

 tiating for the purchase of another large tract 

 of timber lands which will cost several hundred 

 thousand dollars. The flrm employs 300 men in 

 and about its mill and several hundred more in 

 the woods. The average daily output is 90,000 

 feet of lumber. 



The Roper Lumber Company of Menominee has 

 purchased 1,200,000 feet of lumber from a firm 

 at Seizer Bay. About 90,000 feet of the lot is 

 white pine, the balance mixed hardwoods. Much 

 of it will be retailed from yards at the bay, 

 while the balance will be transferred to yards in 

 Menominee. 



The Antigo Building & Supply Company of 

 Antigo is at present doing the largest business in 

 its history. The company has a sufHcient supply 

 of logs on hand to keep running throughout the 

 season. They are a choice lot of birch and maple. 



The Chippewa Falls Furniture Company, Chip- 

 pewa Falls, which lately completed the erection 

 (if a large plant, has started the same in opera- 

 tion and is running night and day. At present a 

 large order for refrigerators is being filled, ship- 

 ments made at the rate of a car a day. Later 

 the manufacture of mission furniture will be 

 taken up. The officers are : R. H. Shook, presi- 

 dent and general manager ; W. B. Castenholz, 

 secretary and treasurer ; G. E. Smith, vice presi- 

 dent and salesman ; Morris Breuning, superin- 

 tendent. The company also has a plant at Plain- 

 field, Ind., which is worked to its fullest capacity. 



Ex-State Senator D. E. Eiordan of Eagle River 

 has sold to N. A. Coleman of the same place 1,000 

 acres of hardwood lands, situated in Vilas and 

 Oneida counties, the price paid being .$] 0,000. 

 The lands were formerly owned by Mr. Coleman 

 and were sold to Mr. Eiordan in 1898 for .'i!2 

 per acre, since which time they have more than 

 trebled in value. 



Messrs. Emil Maas, Justin Means, Lige Gould 

 and Fred Smith of Merrill have purchased 

 7,700 acres of timber lands in Houston county, 

 Texas. The timber growth is oak. ash, black 

 jack and other hardwoods, and will cut from 

 4,000 to 5,000 feet per acre. They will hold it 

 as an investment. 



Proposals were opened in the Indian office in 

 Washington, D. C, recently for the sale of logs 

 on the Menominee Indian reservation in Wiscon- 

 sin. The timber growth on the reservation is 

 largely hardwood, the pine having been sold oft 

 years ago. 



The Edwards-Ihrig Company of Oshkosh has 

 filed an amendment to its charter, increasing Its 

 capital stock from .$2.'5,000 to .fl.-)0,000. The 

 company was organized in the fall of 1902. The 

 firm occupies a huge stone building and manufac- 

 tures caskets, furniture and other hardwood arti- 

 cles. 



One of the largest lumber manufacturing con- 

 cerns of Oshkosh has refused to accept the de- 

 cision of the Association of Hardwood and Hem- 

 lock Manufacturers to increase the price of all 

 grades of lumber and its manufactured products 

 $l..-.0 per 1,000 feet. The result, it is said, will 

 mean a clash between the company and the as- 

 sociation. Local contractors, of course, are 

 pleased at the stand taken by the Oshkosh con- 

 cern and point to the figures taken from the 

 ■•universal price list." showing that in two years 

 hardwood flooring has advanced from .|27 to $45 

 per 1,000 feet, varying slightly according to 

 grade. Other building materials have advanced 

 even greater. The outcome of the situation Is 

 being watched by contractors all over the state. 



