HARDWOOD RECORD 



27 



Ashland. 



The rminnfacturing lumber business is very 

 riuiet and unless tliere is an early rise most 

 of the mills will be shut down. The custo- 

 mary June rise in the Big Sandy tributaries 

 has failed to materialize, in consequence of 

 which the timber men are feeling decidedly 

 "blue. There is little doing at present, for the 

 dealers are all away on their summer vaca- 

 tions. 



The "W'. H. Dawkins Lumber Company 

 bought up the entire cut of poplar of the 

 Ironton Lumber Company, of Ironton, Ohio. 

 This comprises between 4.000.000 and 5,000.- 

 000 feet. This company is away behind in 

 filling orders, and inquiries are being turned 

 down every day. 



Mrs. R. H. Vansant and children are spend- 

 ing a few weeks at Pence Springs. W. Va. 



W. L. Watson, and son, Dennis, were at 

 home for tlie 4th of July from Mahan. W. 

 Va.. where they are looking after Mr. Wat- 

 son's extensive lumber interests. 



.\ fine son h.as arrived to gladden the home 

 of J. E. Walker of the Keyes-Fannin Lum- 

 l>er < 'ompauy of this city. 



W. R. Vansant has returned from North 

 Carolina, where he has been looking over the 

 ground with a view to locating in the lum- 

 ber business. 



The following companies have been incor- 

 porated under the laws of West Virginia: The 

 Janny Gap Coal & Land Company of Charles- 

 ton, chief works in Raleigh county: for the 

 purpose of buying and selling coal, coke and 

 timber, and carrying on a general merchan- 

 dise business. Capital $50,000, of which $3,000 

 has been subscribed, and $300 paid. The 



Clielyan Coal & Land Company of Charles- 

 ton, chief works in Cabin Creek district; to 

 mine and sell coal, manufacture coke, buy 

 and sell timber lands, build and operate rail- 

 roads, steamboats and barges, carry on a 

 genera! merchandise business, etc. Incorpo- 

 rators, E. W. Grice, O. O. Cooper, W. H. Gar- 

 nett. R. B. Miller. R. F. Dunlap. of Hinton. 

 Capital $20,000. $4,500 subscribed, $450 paid. 



but the mills are making very good time and 

 supplies are coming along as well as misht 

 be expected under the circumstances. 



Wausau. 



Louisville. 



Fire visited tln' mills un the Toint a few days 

 ago, destroying the sawmill and planing mill of 

 W. II. Coucher. The mill was entirely wiped 

 out. Just the amount of insurance carried is 

 not known, but it was nothing like the full 

 value of the mill. However, Mr. Coucher is 

 going to work to rebuild the plant again. The 

 lire department turned their hose into the 

 Louisville I'oint Lumber Company's plant and 

 did some damage to belts and the filing room, 

 but this concern suffered no loss from lire. 



The Herry-Lavis .Saw ilill Company is very 

 liusy, cutting oak almost exclusively. A little 

 walnut is also cut, but most of the work is oak 

 bill stutf. f:ir material and plain sawed lumber. 

 Tlie company is not making a great deal of 

 quartered stock just now, the logs not running 

 very well for that class of work. 



R. M. Cunningham says that while he has 

 nothing exciting personally to report in the 

 hardwood market, it appears to be stiffening 

 right along, and it is not much trouble to sell 

 anytliing in hardwood at a reasonably fair price. 



W. C. nallard of Wehmhoff & Ballard sold a 

 block of luilf a million feet of No. 2 Cottonwood 

 the past week. lie says the cottouwood market 

 is climbing right along and practically every- 

 thing the mills have in stock has been cleaned 

 up. the only thing his concern has in sight 

 being a little bunch of .Vo. 1 common. 



The Mengel Box Company, w'hich cuts consid- 

 erable hardwood for the furniture and factory 

 trade along witli box factory stock at its mills 

 down in the country, reports a splendid demand 

 for hardwood and is kept sold out jjretty clean, 

 having disposed of quite a lot of stock this 

 spring and summer. 



Ed Rhubesky says there are more inquiries for 

 hardwood than there are offerings right now. 



The ^^'llsoIl-^^'el)el■ I.iunl)pr Company of Me- 

 nominee has piu'cliased The entire retail lumber 

 btisiness of X. C. Foster of Fairchild. The pur- 

 chase includes six retail yards at Mondovi, 

 Fairchild, Humbird. Osseo. Strum and Eleva. 



The (i. W. Jones Lumber Company of Apple- 

 ton has purchased the entire hardw^iod cut of 

 the ,racob Mortenson Lumber Company of Wau- 

 sau and will ship most of the same to its Ap- 

 pletim yards. There is about :^,(100,000 feet of 

 stock, cut last winter. 



The Maxwell Lumber Company of Rosholt, 

 which handles hardwood entirely, is building a 

 planing mill. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 been filed in the Vnited States coiu't in Mil- 

 waukee against the South Arm Lumber Com- 

 pany. The combined claims of the creditors, 

 whiili are for notes, amount to .fD.OOn.Td. The 

 jietitiriu alleges that prior to the beginning of 

 bankruptcy proceedings the company knowing 

 itself to be insolvent transferred lands in Wis- 

 consin and Michigan to the Milwaukee Trust 

 Company for the benefit of the Milwaukee First 

 National hank, and the court is asked to set 

 aside the transfer. The oificers of the com- 

 pany are: Theodore Plathner. president: W. 

 S. Johnson, secretary : S. S. Johnson, treas- 

 urer. 



The Murphy Lumber Company has about com- 

 pleted operatious at .\rmstrong creek. It has 

 been cutting hardwood there for ten years. 



The Marshfleld Land & Lumber Company, of 

 which ex-liov. W. H. Upham of Marshfleld was 

 one of the principal owners, has disposed of its 

 entire interests to the Copper River Land Com- 

 pany. The property sold includes 22.244 acres 

 of hardwood lands in the vicinity of Athens 

 and Medford. the lugging railway and logging 

 cars, and 11 mill :it Marshfleld. The considera- 



tion was something over half a million dollars. 

 The former owners will retain possession of 

 the mill for one .year. 



J. J. Russell, K. ('. Bert. K. It. Mathis and 

 L. E. Glynn, of .Minneai>olis. have secured an 

 option on the Toiimhawk Stave & Veneer Com- 

 pany's manufacturing plant at Tomahawk. 

 They own a large cooper plant in Minneapolis 

 and intend purchasing the Mohawk works and 

 using them for a stave factory. 



The Uoddis Lumber & Veneer Company of 

 Marslilieki is receiving carloail shipments of 

 mahogany lumber, which is being cut up into 

 veneer. 



W. C. Culhertsiin, who recently died at the age 

 of eighty-one years, was the fomuier and presi- 

 dent of the (iirard Lumber Company of Dunbar. 



Fred I!. I'ollard has resigned as manager of 

 the retail yard of the Marshfiebl Land & Lum- 

 ber Company at Fpham and will embark in busi- 

 ness for himself. He has already purchased 

 some stocks of hardwood and hemlock. 



Robert McMillan, president of the R. McMil- 

 lan Company, one of the largest hardwood 

 manufacturing companies of Gshkosh, died re- 

 cently of tuberculosis, aged thirty-four years, 

 lie came into great wealth at the death of his 

 father in 189S and shortly thereafter reorgan- 

 ized the company. He was a very successful 

 business man. 



The Wolf River Company, witli capital stock 

 of ,f:iOO,0ii(i. has been organized and taken hold 

 of the Wisconsin Chair Company's plant at 

 New London. The business will be enlarged 

 and the lines of manufacture increased. It Is 

 said a capitalist of Buffalo, N. Y.. will be the 

 president of the new concern. 



At the annual meeting of the Coye Furniture 

 Company of Stevens Point, held recently, 67T 

 shares of stock were represented, and the fol- 

 lowing officers elected : D. E. Frost, president ; 

 F. A. Southwith. vice-president ; W. H. Coye, 

 treasurer ; W. S. Young, secretary. Reports 

 showed that the business the past year had in- 

 creased TO per cent, while the operating ex- 

 penses had decreased. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



The Chicago hardwood market is featureless. 

 There is some desultory buying going on, but 

 little action in the local trade, ilanufacturing 

 institutions producing furniture and interior 

 finish are fairly well stocked and seem to pre- 

 fer not to place many orders for lumber until 

 later In the season. It is not an unexpected or 

 unnatural condition at this time of .year, and 

 the trade generally is very optimistic regarding 

 au exceedingly active fall business. 



Boston. 



The market for hardwoods has shown con- 

 siderable firmness during the past two weeks. 

 Letters received from mill points state that 

 dry stock is in small supply. Dealers here who 

 have been west and south report a fair 

 amount of logs on hand, but confirm the re- 

 ports of generally small supplies of dry lum- 

 ber. 



Manufacturing consumers in this city and 

 vicinity are fair buj'ers. but there is not 

 enough new business to bring about an active 

 market. Many of these consumers have 

 very good stocks and are. therefore, only 

 taking on additional supplies when a lot is 

 offered that looks like a bargain. Some of 

 the furniture manufacturers are still bothered 

 by labor troubles, but this does not hinder 

 them from buying when they consider the 

 price right. The export demand is of very 

 moderate proportions for the most part. 

 Quartered oak and walnut are In fair call 

 from exporters. 



The demand for plain oak Is not active: 

 In some instances It is reported that lots 



Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



have been offered at concessions. Quartered 

 oak is firmly held. A prominent dealer stated 

 recently that anyone who had quartered oak 

 to sell could do better a little later than they 

 could by pushing for business now. Some ex- 

 port business is reported. Chestnut is in 

 \ ery good call and offerings are not large. 

 The demand for maple flooring is moderate. 

 Brown and white ash are very firm and offer- 

 ings small. Whitewood is firm, especially in 

 the better grades. A fair volume of new 

 business Is reported. Cypress for the most 

 part is firmly held, but the demand is not 

 large. 



Ne'w York. 



The general movement of liardwood lumber 

 in the local market is reported fair. The 

 amount of good dry lumber at mill points is 

 sufficiently small to eliminate any forc- 

 ing of the market by wholesale or manu- 

 facturing interests. There are excellent pros- 

 pects for an active fall trade. All the yard 

 dealers, particularly those catering to the 

 building trades, report a big volume of busi- 

 ness, with more coming out all the time, and 

 there is every indication that 1906 will com- 

 pare very favorably with last year and be con- 

 siderably ahead of 1904. The yard trade In 

 hardwoods is somewhat light, in view of the 

 heavy early purchases of the dealei's for 

 their summer wants, but the manufacturing 

 trade Is very fair and buyers in this latter 

 line are sailing so close to the wind that 

 their orders are all of the rush nature. The 

 local situation can truly be said to be in 

 very fair shape. 



