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meeting held recently : Fred A. Diggins, K. J. 

 Haynes. S. II. Kramer. F. J. Cobbs. T. C. Beach, 

 G. M. retrie. Henry Knnwlton. D. B. Kelly and 

 A, H. Webber. It was reported at this meeting 

 tl>at orders ahead amounted to more than $80,- 

 0(K). and business jjrospects are very bright. The 

 ronijiany will show a line in this market in June 

 and .luly. 



The E.xcelsior Wrapper Company of Sheboy- 

 gan, Wis., is beginning worl? on its new fac- 

 tory in thi.s city. The site of five and a half 

 acres is located at the intersection of Hall street 

 and Godfrey avenue. It is expected that the 

 local plant will consume T.OtKi cords annuall.v of 

 three foot basswood and poplar bolts, running 

 from 3 to 10 inches in diameter. 



John H. Bonnell of the Ilackley-PhelpsBon- 

 nell Company has returned fnmi San Francisco, 

 where he was stopping with a sister on Van 

 Ness avenue when the earthquake occurred. He 

 says that there are signs up all over the ruins 

 reading, "Stop talking and get busy," and this 

 was the slogan of the people. He came east 

 with Dr. Hartland Law, owner of the Fremont 

 hotel and the Monadnock l>uilding. who was 

 worth .$8,000,000 before the fire and now has 

 only the real estate left. Dr. Law's mission 

 east is to raise funds for immediately restoring 

 his buildings. 



Tlie power-house of the Brunswick-Balke-Col- 

 lender Company at Muskegon is practicall.v com- 

 pleted, and work on the three otlier Iiuiidings 

 is being pushed. 



Fire destroyed the sawmill, which was oper- 

 ated in connection with the furniture manufac- 

 turing plant of Spencer & Barnes at Benton 

 Harbor, It is doubtful if the mill will be re- 

 placed, since timber has grown scarce in that 

 section. The ratio of native woods to foreign 

 u.sed by the Spencer-Barnes people is one to 

 twenty. 



S. A. Wellman & Co. have replaced their 

 burned handle factory at South Boardman with 

 a two-story building, with granite roof and 

 steel sides, equipped with new machines, and 

 the manufacture of broom handles has been re- 

 sumed. Bolts are being cut at the Springtield 

 camp and hauled to the mill. 



The desk and table manutacturers are already 

 beginning to feel the influence of tlie San Fran- 

 cisco calamity. A Los Angeles furniture man 

 was in the city last week, coming here from 

 Kentucky chair factories where he placed large 

 orders. Some of the large 'Frisco houses have 

 written the trade here that they will be doing 

 business again within thirty days. 



The Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company, of 

 which Walter C. Winchester is president, has 

 purchased a site for a new factory in the soutlt 

 end, near the JIacey plant. This is one of the 

 most prosperous concerns in the city, using large 

 quantities of maple and other hardwoods. 



The American School Furniture Company, of 

 which the Grand Kapids School Furniture Com- 

 pany is a part, has been reorganized and is now 

 known as the American Seating Company, witli 

 ?-i,000,000 capital. The old company was capi- 

 talized at $10,000,000. 



The Turtle Lake Lumber Company of this city 

 has increased its capital from $150,000 to $300.- 

 000, the additional stock being taken by the old 

 stockholders. The company owns 17,000 acres 

 of hardwood, pine and hemlock lands in Vilas 

 county, Wisconsin. A railroad has been built 

 into the tract and active manufacturing opera- 

 tions will begin this year. W. S. Winegar of the 

 Winegar Furniture Company is president of the 

 company, Henry Idema is vice president, and 

 Walter C, Winchester is secretary and treasurer. 

 John J. Foster and Charles W. Johnson of 

 Greenville, J. R. Wylie, Fred C. Miller, F. B, 

 Winegar and George A. Rumsey of this city are 

 stockholders. 



tional Hardwood Lumber Association. He as- 

 sisted R. B. Watrous of the Citizens' Business 

 League in trying to secure llie next conventi<ui 

 for Milwaukee, but failed. Mr. Landeck's man.^■ 

 friends are glad to know that he was elected 

 a director and a member of the executive board 

 of tlie big association. 



On indictments diarging conspirac.v to de- 

 fraud the government liy means of alleged land 

 frauds in the state of Oregon, Leander Choate, 

 James Matt Bray, Ben.iamin Doughty, James 

 Doughty and Thomas Daly of Oshkosh, and .\u- 

 gust .\u(lersen and Joseph Black of Shewano 

 were arrested and placed under .$2,000 bonds 

 each. They will be given a preliminary hearing 

 Friday. May 11. It is charged tliat tliese men, 

 who are prominently ideutilied as officers and 

 stockholders with the Bray & Choate Lumber 

 Company of Oshkosli furnished money to Ore- 

 gon parties to make entries and buy home- 

 steads in that state in 1000-1903. The defend- 

 ants protest their innocence, and declare they 

 never owned any land within a radius of forty 

 miles of that described in the indictment. In 

 their land transactions they have dealt tlirougli 

 tiiirtl parties, and their friends believe that they 

 have been made the victims of Oregon laud 

 sharks. 



Asheville. 



R. E. Wood, president of the It. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, Md., was in this 

 section recently in company with a party of 

 friends. They arrived here Saturday afternoon, 

 April 21, spending Saturday and Sunday at the 

 Battery Bark Hotel, then proceeding to Lake 

 Toxaway in the Sapphire country for a week's 

 stay of pleasure and business combined. Mr. 

 Wood's company owns in that section 12.3.000 

 acres of timber land. The company is represented 

 in Asheville by G. L. Wood, brother of R. E. Wood. 

 ITie party was comjiosed of R. E. Wood, Miss 

 Ailie Wood, Mr. Wood's sister; A. P. .I'erley of 

 Williamsport, Pa., president of the West Branch 

 National Bank of that city ; P. B. Shaw, presi- 

 dent of the street railway and electric light com- 

 pany of Williamsport, and daughter ; H. S. 

 ilosser. a prominent manufacturer and tanner of 

 Williamsport. and daughter ; A. T. Page, presi- 

 dent of the Williamsport Furniture Company and 

 also interested in the Wood enterprises, and 

 wife ; O, F. Ilershey of Baltimore, attorney for 

 and interested in the Wood enterprises, and 

 wife ; W. L. Taylor, general counsel for the Wood 

 interests : G. L. Wood and wife, who have re- 

 cently removed to this city, and Henry H. Gib- 

 son, editor of the Hahdwood Record of Chicago. 



F. C. Fischer of Tryon, N. C. was here a few 

 days ago on his way home from New York. Mr. 

 Fischer is president of the Yellow Poplar Lum- 

 ber Company of Coal Grove, O. 



The lumbermen in Asheville and western North 

 Carolina are experiencing some inconvenience on 

 account of car shortage. They say that the 

 Southern railway claims that it has a sufficient 

 supply of cars, but that it is short of engines 

 and that delays are due to this fact. 



A number of North Carolina hardwood men 

 met here Saturday afternoon. May o, to discuss 

 plans for organizing the trade into local organi- 

 zations subordinate to the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association of the United States. There 

 were forty-six hardwood men in attendance, all 

 having interests in this section of the country. 

 A number of short interesting Jalks were made 

 on the purpose of these district meetings and the 

 value of menil>ership in the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association. It was decided to establish 

 an association here to be known as the Ashe- 

 ville Lumber Kxc-hange, and a meeting was called 

 for May 2<i wlien permanent organization will be 

 effected and officers elected. 



Milwaukee. 

 George J. Landeck of the Page & Landeck 

 Lumber Company is just home from Memphis, 

 where he attended the convention of the Na- 



Bristol, 'Va.-Tenn. 



At Knoxville, .'Tenn., in the parlors of Hotel 

 Imperial, on Friday morning, April 27, Ellis Hale 

 Wilkinson, a prominent young lumberman, son 

 of .T. A. Wilkinson of tills city, with whom he 



is associated in Imsiness. was married to Miss 

 Virginia Jones, one of the most beautiful and 

 ai'complished yiuing women in this section. 'I'he 

 couple had eloped from a german which was 

 danced at tlie i;iks' home on Shelby street. Thurs- 

 day evening, .\pril 2(i. Mr. Wilkinson and .Miss 

 Jones had lieeii engaged f<u' some time, but for 

 reasons best known to themselves decided to 

 elope to Knoxville. The decision was reached 

 only a very short time before the departure of 

 the train for Knoxville. which pulled out with 

 Mr. Wilkinson and his bride- to be aboard. They 

 rcai hod 'Knoxville early the next morning and 

 were married at (1:30. After a bridal tour of 

 two weeks Jlr. and Mrs. Wilkinson will be at 

 hnme ill Bristol. 



II. W. Nealy. of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany of Philadelphia, is in Bristol looking over 

 the company's operations liere. This company 

 owns three mills in western North Carolina and 

 a 24.000-acrc tract of timber land, and is ship- 

 jiing a large amount of stock out of this section. 



The .McMillan Lumber Company of Pittsburg. 

 Pa., has moved its offices from Wilson to Bay- 

 nard. W. Va.. where it has extensive lumber 

 operalions. 



The lumbermen and business jieopie generally 

 through this section have responded liberally to 

 the call for aid to the tliousands on the Pacific 

 coast bereft of home and propert.v b.v tlie terrible 

 earthquake, and a considerable amount of money 

 has been sent from Bristol by Ma.Tor W. L. liice 

 to the mayor of San Francisco, to be used in 

 furnishing food for the homeless. 



R. S. Reynolds, son of Maj. A. D. Reynolds, 

 tlie latter one of the wealthiest men in this sec- 

 tion, is heading a company which will manufac- 

 ture furniture and establish a large furniture 

 factory in Bristol. Mr. Reynolds and associates 

 have their plans outlined, and will at once secure 

 a charter for the company. 



The large plant of the Ordway Manufacturiug 

 Company, in South Bristol, erected by the Ord- 

 way interests of South Framingham, Mass., in 

 1 002, at a cost of over $100,000, has been sold 

 at public auction to Homer E, Jones, president 

 of the Dominion National Bank of Bristol for 

 $17.."iO0. The purchase was made by Mr. Jones 

 in behalf of himself, the Dominion National 

 Bank and other bondholders of the defunct Ord- 

 way Manufacturing Company, which is being 

 wound up. A pro rata distribution of the 

 assets of the company will be made in a short 

 time by Trustees St. John and Anderson. 'I'he 

 .judgment creditors will secure priority over the 

 other creditors and bondholders. The purchas- 

 ers expect to start the plant within a short time. 

 It is one of the liest equipped chair factories in 

 Tennessee, and has a large daily capacity. E. L. 

 Webster of Chicago now has charge of the plant. 



A big extract plant, using bark in large quan- 

 tities, will be started in Carter County, Ten- 

 nessee, near Elizabethton, within a few months. 

 The site has already been purchased, and it is 

 said work will soon begin on the new operation. 



The Coretta Lumber Company, which is al- 

 lied with the Virginia Pocahontas Coal Compan.v, 

 and one of the operations of the George L, 

 Carter syndicate of Bristol, has over 15,000,000 

 feet of sawn oak, poplar and otlier stock on its 

 yards at Coretta, McDowell county, W, Va. 

 (Jeorge L. Carter purchased a large tract of min- 

 eral land in McDowell county some time ago and 

 decided to manufacture the timber thereon. He 

 established a band mill and a circular mill, and 

 liegan cutting the stock. Not a stick has been 

 sold since the mill was started. The Kiugsport 

 Lumber Companv is being organized by Mr. 

 Carter's syndicate and will arrange to put the 

 stock on the market and act as sales agent 

 for the Coretta Lumber Company. The latter 

 company will continue to operate the mills. Mr. 

 Carter's syndicate has a vast amount of virgin 

 timber forests in West Virginia, Kentuck.v, Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Caro- 

 lina. 



J. W. Difendefer. of J, W. Difendefer Cim- 

 pany of Philadelphia, and president of the 



