HARDWOOD RECORD 



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is out again, looiiing for a piace to bide from 

 worli for a while and liave a little rest. 



J. E. Buscher of tbe Louisville Spoke & Bend- 

 ing Company, says that vehicle wood stock is 

 moving fairly well, but that prices on this class 

 of stock are not high enough to lie in harmony 

 with the increased value of raw material, espe- 

 cially liickory, which is soaring high at the 

 stumpage cnil. 



Alliert K. Kampf has been adding some to liis 

 limher lioldings along the Illinois Central. 



Kd. liuliesky took a little jaunt to Evansville 

 last week to see what is going on in that hard- 

 wood center. Me says the market looks good, 

 (hough there is nothing exciting in his line. 



IJ. M. Cunningham, who has been ill, is now 

 able to take up business again. 



Minneapolis. 



'I"hc .\nrlhei-n llardwunii Lumin'r Compan.v of 

 jMarslilield, \\ifi., has incorporated with .f.lO.OOU 

 <apital stock, and will engage in the nianufac- 

 (urc of hardwood lumber. The incorporators are 

 Herman i. anger. 11. T.. Kleeme and T. A. Tack. 



The lluswell Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Alinneapolis has increased its capital 

 >iock to .'SGO.UOU, for the purpose of e.\panding 

 its operations. The company operates a mill a1 

 Buswell, Wis., manufacturing hemlock and hard- 

 wood, and is enjoying a good business. It is 

 running the sawmill both night and day. F. W. 

 liuswell, president of the comjamy. lias just paid 

 a visit to the plant, which has phining machin- 

 ery run by electric motors. W. II. Ilogue, a 

 prominent salesman of experience in northern 

 territory, has entered the employ of this com- 

 pany and will represent it on the road in Illinois 

 and Wisconsin territory. 



E. I'ayson Smith of the I'ayson Smith Lumber 

 I Company is ill at Hot Springs and may remain 

 in a physician's care there for a week or more. 

 Tills is the second time within a year that Mr. 

 Smith has been stopped on a southern trip by 

 illness, and forced to put in to Hot Springs for 

 repairs. He writes that he is nut dangerously 

 ill, although his temperature lias been hovering 

 around 104. A. S. Bliss of the same company 

 says they have been enjoying a splendid summer 

 business in all lines they handle, and they feel 

 i|iiite confident of a brisk fall trade. 



.7. C Signor, Iiead of Signor. Crisler & Co., 

 manufacturers of hardwood and hemlock lumber 

 at Signor and Couderay, Wis., was in Minneapo- 

 lis on a business errand a few days ago. He 

 says they have been hustling to keep enough 

 dry lumber on hand to fill orders as they come. 



The Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company of 

 Uermansville. Mich., has issued a circular recom- 

 mending general use for red birch flooring, which 

 is sold at about .$10 over the price of hard 

 maple, and is claimed to be little if any inferior 

 I" oak for the purpose. 



C. E. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 hardwood whole.salers, has gone ■ to look over 

 their retail lumber yards at Erie, 111., and 

 other points. They are having a tine trade, 

 especially in yard stock from the retail dealers. 



.T. II. Henderson of the Kendall Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburg, I'a.. stopjied in this city a few 

 days ago on his way home from the Pacific coast. 

 The company is a large liardwood dealer, but 

 contemplates a departure into the manufacture 

 '( fir lumber, and Mr. Henderson's trip west was 

 lor the purpose of investigating some proposi- 

 tions. 



C. P. Coon of the Beidenville Lumber Com- 

 pany. Bruce. Wis., large hardwood producers, 

 was looking over the Minneapolis market a few- 

 days ago. 



The building activity in the twin cities is 



just as heavy as ever, and .Tuly came near setting 



a new mark for building permits in Minneapolis. 



The total estimated cost of permits issued was 



■ *1,600,S20. The record for the same month of 



' last year, when building was also lively, was 



?8S1,970. The total for seven months was 



:. $.">,703..570 for this year, and .$5,66y,S4(i for 



' 1905. Last year eclipsed all previous records. 



and may be excelled by the total for this year. 

 St. Paul's record for July was .f.510.570, com- 

 pared with $1.5li,!)10 in the same month last 

 year. A large share of the building calls for 

 hardwood floors and finish, and the factories 

 have a larger proportion of this kind of work 

 than ever. 



A.shland. 



C. Crane & Co. of cinciiiiiali. <)., have just 

 closed a deal for (iO.OOO acres of timber land in 

 the West Virginia mountains. The purcha.se in- 

 volves more than .$.500,000, and the territory 

 thus aciiiiired gives the concern dominion over 

 more than 400,000 acres of the finest limber 

 hind in the state. The deal inchuies the stand- 

 ing timber on 00,000 acres of land in Boone. 

 Wyoming and Ualeigh counties. This purchase, 

 which is the climax of several which have been 

 made by Ibis concern during the last few years, 

 gives it enough timber to last nearly twenty- 

 five years, estimating that 100,000,000 feet of 

 lumber is cut each year. It will be ten or 

 twelve yeais probably before cutting is begun 

 oil the new lands, the concern's plan being to 

 make sure of a future supply. 



W. R. Vansant is looking after his interests in 

 North Carolina. 



Tile liig store of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company at Coal Grove, O., is soon to be aban- 

 doned by the company, as it is found to Ije 

 unprofitable. The large stock of goods will Ije 

 shipped to one of the company's stores in the 

 West Virginia mountains. 



.-V mill will probably be located at Louisa, l\y.. 

 to manufacture hickory handles. 



Sonny Blankenship of Ci.x's Landing, O., tried 

 to get some timber up the Guyandotte river to a 

 sawmill some time ago, and he alleges he could 

 not do so on account of obstructions in the 

 stream in the way of logs belonging to C. Crane 

 & Co., so he sued the latter firm for $300 dam- 

 ages. Tile case may bring up the right of log 

 men to obstruct the channel oi a river and end 

 in the court of appeals. 



A. L. Rogers of Kipley, W. Va.. has purchased 

 a fine tract of timber land in southern \\'est 

 Virginia. It contains several thousand acres of 

 timber and coal land on the Lick Fork of Twelve 

 ]*ole. It is rich in virgin poplar and oak, and 

 contains a wealth of almost every kind of hard- 

 wood known to tliat section of the country. 

 I'reparations will begin at once to prepare the 

 timber for market, and a number of mills will 

 be installed. Cross ties will be cut, in addition 

 to the vast quantity of high-grade lumber. Tram- 

 ways will be built by which the product may be 

 transported to the Norfolk & Western railway 

 to be shipped to the various markets. It is Mr. 

 Rogers' intention to engage in export trade also. 

 The price paid for the land was .$200. Ouu. 



Thomas Newton, Jr., the C-year-old son of 

 T. N. Farrin of the Keyes-Farrin Lumber Com- 

 pany, died on August 2 at Herndou, W. ^'a.. 

 where the family were spending the summer. 

 The body was brought home to Ashland for 

 burial. The boy was a bright, sturd.v lad. and 

 his death is a great blow (o his parents. 



N. J. Pullings. of Windsor. Canada, was here 

 tills week looking over the market for heavy 

 ship timber. 



.L S. Walker of rle- .1. S. Walker Lumber 

 Company, Orav. \V. Va.. was transacting business 

 in the city this week. 



W. E. Berger of the W. II. Hawkins Lumber 

 Company is rejoicing over the arrival of a son 

 at his home, born August 4. 



Wausau. 



The Kewaunee Casket & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Kewaunee, Wis., has been organized 

 with a capital stock of .$00,000. John M. Berg- 

 man is president and L. A. Cowell, secretary. 



Never before lias there been such a scarcity 

 of men in the woods of Wisconsin as at the 

 present time. Timber that has been cut for 

 months still lies in the woods and it is impos- 

 sible for lumbermen to secure men to haul it to 

 cars and i)repare it fnv market. No less than 



1,000 men could find employment in northern 

 Wisconsin woods. The situation is becoming 

 alarming and every day that passes, under these 

 conditions, has a tendency to increase the price 

 of lumber. 



William <;. Foss of Tomahawk, a practical 

 lumbi'rman and manufacturer, has purchased the 

 Tomahawk Stave ,.<c Veneer Company's plant in 

 Tomahawk. Glenn Foss, a son, who lias been 

 attending the Wisconsin Universily, will liave 

 charge of the oflice work. 



The factory of the Upham Manul'ariuring 

 Company at Marshfleld. which was closed down 

 for six weeks for repairs, has been started in 

 operation again with a full force. The company 

 is shipping furniture in car lots to San Fran- 

 cisco. 



The Brelimer sawmill in the l<iwn of l''lielh. 

 near Wausau, was recently totally destroyed by 

 lire. The lumber in the yards was saved by 

 cutting the tramways leading from the mill to 

 the yards. The yards contained :!, 000.000 feet 

 of choice hardwood of last winter's cut. T'lie 

 mill, for its size, was the l>esl equipped in 

 northern Wisconsin, and was built exclusively 

 for winter sawing. It will probably be rebuilt. 



The Eland Traffic Company has sold its last 

 winter's cut of timber, and sliiiunent of the 

 same has begun. The liardwood. aliout 1,000,000 

 feet, has been sold to the Crocker Chair Com- 

 pany of Antigo. Mr. Rideout, owner and mana- 

 ger of the company, has a deal on for the sale 

 of the mill, though he has taken a contract to 

 plane 1,01)0,000 feet of maple flooring for the 

 Edwards Lumber Company of Antigo. 



The Northern Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 JIarshfleld has been incorporated with a caiiital 

 stock of $50,000. The incorporators are Her- 

 man Langer. II. L. Klemme and T. A. Tack. 



The Wolf River Company, which recently pur- 

 chased the plant of the Wisconsin Chair Com- 

 pany at New London, has incorporated under 

 Wisconsin laws, with a capital stock of .$;{00.000. 

 The officers are : F. M. Parke, Bufl'alo, N. Y., 

 president : J. M. Holden. New London, Wis., 

 vice president ; E. C. Jost, New London, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. The new company intends 

 to enlarge the plant and to engage in additional 

 lines of manufacture. 



It is said tliat 20.000 acres of choice liard- 

 wood lands lying in the vicinity of Crandon will 

 lie logged next winter. Another railroad is be- 

 ing built to the town and new woodworking fac- 

 tories are going up. 



Toledo. 



.\s one well-known hardwood dealer put it. 

 "The midsummer trade in hardwood lumber was 

 never better than it is this season." Stocks are 

 ample for the demand, prices are firm and busi- 

 ness is good. 



J. B. Tennyson of Defiance, O., has ojiened a 

 lumber office on South street at the crossing of 

 the Clover Leaf railroad. A. T. Neff of Findlay. 

 ().. has also opened an office opposite the Tenny- 

 son otfice. 



John Wisdom & Son of Sycamore. ("1.. have 

 sold tlieir mills to Silas Chesbrough of c^arey. 

 The Wisdoms have taken charge of a stave mill 

 at Sabula. la. 



The George Wilson & Sons Co. of Toledo has 

 filed a motion for a new trial of the condemna- 

 tion proceedings instituted by the Toledo Central 

 Railway Company, in which the defendants were 

 awarded !i;7.800 for land appropriated. 



C. W. Riegel of the Pbipnix Box Company and 

 his son have returned from an outing in .Michi- 

 gan. 



J. H. Campbell nf llie Campbell Company has 

 returned from a mouth's trip through the West. 



Andrew Speas, formerly with the Rib River 

 Lumber Company, has gone into business for 

 himself at Monroevllfe, O. 



The building permits issued by the city build- 

 ing inspector for July number 121, with a valua 

 tion of nearly .$230,000. which is far in excess 

 of tlie same period of a year ago. 



