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HARDWOOD RECORD 



which not long ago bought the assets ot Jen- 

 nings Brothers in West Virginia, and which 

 contemplated the opening ot a branch office in 

 the Keyser building, this cit.v. appear to have 

 been abandoned. The lettering on the doors 

 has been removed and the furniture already m 

 the rooms has been taken away. 



John Cant, son ol James Cant of the Glasgow 

 firm of Cant & Kemp, stopped in Baltimore re- 

 cently on his return from an extended trip 

 through the Middle West and South. Mr. Cant 

 said he found the millmen everywhere animated 

 by a strong feeling of confidence in the future, 

 and the movement increasing. Mr. Cant was 

 entertained here by John L. Alcook of John I.. 

 Alcock & Co. It was his intention to go from 

 Baltimore to I'hiladelphia and New York, there 

 to take the steamer for home. 



William E. Sowers of Ilagerstowu. Md., has 

 secured an option on IT.OOO acres of timber land 

 along a trunk line in West Virginia, and is or- 

 ganizing a stock company with a capital ol 

 $450.0(1(1 .to engage in the development of the 

 tract. It the deal goes through, mills, railroad, 

 dwellings for Ihe workmen and other buildings 

 will be erected and operations conducted on a 



large scale. , , „,, 



Cook Brothers ol I'ittsburg, who control thi 

 North Maryland Lumber Company, are about to 

 begin the operation of several sawmills on an 

 SyOO-acre timber tract on the Elk Lick and Sav- 

 a'-e rivers, near Lonaconing, Md. It is reported 

 from Cumberland. Md., that A. C. Woodman has 

 sold a tract of timber in the heart of the Laurel 

 Hill mountains, near the mining town of Bos- 

 well. Md.. to the Boswell Lumber Company for 

 ,$100,00(1. 



CHARLOTTE 



The sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns, ollices, 

 storeroom and warehouses of the Kingsdale 

 Lumber Company, located five miles from Lum- 

 berton, N, C, were destroyed by fire a few 

 nights ago. Six dwelling houses, occuiiied by 

 tenants of the company, were also burned. To- 

 tal loss is estimated at between *80.000 and 

 $90,000, partially covered by insurance. It 

 has not been anounced whether or not the plant 

 will be rebuilt. 



Extensive damage from forest fires continues 

 to be reported both from eastern and western 

 Carolina. Several fires o£ serious proportions 

 have been raging in the mountain section as 

 well as in the seacoast territory. The North 

 Carolina Geological Survey has taken the mat- 

 ter up and is sending out a list of queries rela- 

 tive to extent, cause and damage of forest 

 fires in various parts of the state, loss to lum- 

 ber interests and standing timber, etc. .\I1 that 

 can be done to cut down or prevent this annual 

 loss will be done by the state authorities. 



The Railroad Commission of South Carolina 

 has just received a ten-page typewritten com- 

 plaint from Attorneys Miller, Whaley and Mitch- 

 ell of Charleston, S. C, representatives of a 

 score or more ot low county lumber dealers, ask- 

 in" for a reduction on the rates on lumber on 

 the score that the present rates are excessive 

 and unreasonable by comparison with the Georgia 

 and Florida rates. The commission has ap- 

 pointed a hearing for January 4 on the mat- 

 ter Signing the petition are several big lum- 

 ber companies of Charleston and the Charleston 

 Freight Bureau and the lumber companies 

 operating at Tvson, Mosedeal, Hampton, Moucks 

 Corner, Effingham, S: C, and elsewhere. Lum- 

 bermen of South and North Carolina are taking 

 a great deal ot interest in the coming hearing 

 and it is thought that ample data will be sub- 

 mitted to bring about a readjustment of rates^ 

 North Carolina lumbermen have complained 

 often of alleged discriminatory rates charged, 

 also by railroads operating in this state. 



The Giant Lumber Company ot North Wilkes- 



boro, N. C, one of the largest in the state, has 

 purchased between 00,000,000 and 75,000,000 

 feet of pine, oak. poplar and chestnut timber, 

 which it will cut and float down its newly com- 

 pleted flume to its plant at North Wilkesboro. 

 The flume extends into the near-by mountains 

 nineteen miles. The company operates many 

 sawmills in the Blue Ridge and floats large 

 quantities of timber down daily. By means of 

 the flume it brings into North Wilkesboro 40,- 

 000 feet of lumber and 35,000 pounds of tan 

 bark, which is shipped by rail from the city to 

 various markets. 



A company has been organized at Henderson- 

 ville, N. C, to manufacture solid bored columns 

 with patent machinery, patents having been 

 secured by Dr. G. H. Lamhert on his own in- 

 ventions. Capital stock will bo $10,000 and 

 those Interested are W. A. Smith, R. C. Clark, 

 G. H. Lambert and others. Capacity of the 

 plant, will be 250 columns per day, to 12 

 inches in diameter, manufactured from poplar. 

 The Tolson Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of New Bern, N. C, has been chartered 

 with $50,000 capital by L. C. Tolson and 

 others. 



The r(-gram I'arm & Lumber Company of 

 New Richmond. N. C, has boon chartered with 

 $25,000 capital stock. 



The planing mill and lumber yard of Bruce 

 & Bivens located at Pickens, S. C, was totally 

 destroyed by Are a few days ago. Loss is esti- 

 mated" at $0,000. There was no insurance on 

 the plant. 



Widespread depredation by "squatters" on the 

 property of the Waccamaw Lumber Company, 

 in the vicinity of Bolton, N. C, near Wilming- 

 ton, has attracted state wide interest. Squat- 

 ters have for some time past been making se- 

 cret attacks upon employes and property of 

 the lumber company. They claim that the 

 lands, which were secured by the Waccamaw 

 company by Federal court procedure, were taken 

 from them wrongfully. Many of the employes 

 of the company quit work several days ago, 

 fearing further secret attacks. Detectives from 

 Washington were employed, and numerous ar- 

 rests have been made. At a trial just held in 

 Wilmington the following men were bound over 

 to await trial to answer charges ot wilfully 

 injuring property of the Waccamaw Lumbet 

 Company : J. W. Brady and his son, Horace 

 Brady. Trial of O. W. Brady and "Shade" 

 Bullard will be held the second Tuesday in 

 December, the charge being spiking logs. In 

 one instance it is alleged that dynamite was 

 used to blow up a skldder. 



The Tennessee and North Carolina Railroad, 

 at present running from Newport, Tenn., to 

 Waterville, in Haywood county. N. C, 21 miles, 

 is to be extended to Canton, N. C. The road 

 will lead up Pigeon river and will traverse a 

 rich timber section. Owners of the railroad 

 company are largely interested in the Pigeon 

 River Lumber Company, which owns 55,000 

 acres of richly timbered lands along the line 

 of the proposed road. The road will be a great 

 boon to the Champion Fibre Company, in that 

 it will give it access to millions of cords of 

 pulp wood and will more than likely decrease 

 the high freight rate in effect all along the 

 Murphy branch of the Southern railway. 



Barger Eros., extensive dealers in lumber, 

 have moved their offices from Mount Vila to 

 MooresviUe, N. C. Barger Bros, deal in North 

 Carolina pine and hardwood and do an ex- 

 tensive business throughout the two Carolinas. 

 They have been in business eight years and do 

 a large business with furniture factories at 

 High Point, N. C, and other Carolina towns. 



CLEVELAND 



AND Y 



Two Cleveland men are at the head ot a big 

 scheme to grow thousands of eucalyptus trees in 



California. With the launching of the United 

 States Timber Company, with olfices at lo2i) 

 Rockefeller building, comes the announcement 

 that the concern has acquired 5,000 acres of 

 land in Salano county, California, with a view 

 to beginning next spring to set out 080 trees 

 to each acre of land, or nearly 7,000,000 trees 

 in all. The trees will be furnished by a big 

 nursery which has been started near Los An- 

 geles. 



Willard (i. Alioru. head of the Lake Erie Nail 

 Company, is president of the new concern, and 

 W. G. Kennedy, formerly with the Bankers' Se- 

 lurity Company in this city is secretary. Among 

 the directors of the company, which has oeen 

 incorporated under the laws of Delaware for 

 $150,000, are: J. C. Carpenter, president of the 

 First National Bank at Clifton Forge, Va. ; G. H. 

 Sparhawk, chief engineer of the American Bridge 

 Company at Ambridge, Pa. ; R. L. Foster, sales 

 manager for the J. C. Pearce Company, Boston, 

 Mass. ; F. D. Perry, forester, who is now in Sa- 

 lano county arranging the work ; J. G. Fogg, at- 

 torney in the Williamson building and coach for 

 Case school, and K. S. Fowler, capitalist of Chi- 

 ca.go. A. B. Shaw is to be consulting forester. 

 'Ihe eucalyptus flourishes in great quantities in 

 Australia, where it sometimes goes by the name . 

 of the Australian mahogany. It is said to be a 

 dense, heavy wood, very hard, equally as hard, 

 when tested, as second growth hickory. Its chief 

 value, the promoters of the company say, is its 

 rapid growth. It Is an evergreen, growing all 

 the year round. In a period of ten years it 

 usually grows to a thickness in the main part 

 of the trunk from twelve to fifteen inches. It 

 takes on a beautiful polish and is adaptable 

 for veneering purposes. With the rapid ex- 

 haustion of the hardwood supply of the coun- 

 try and the steadily advancing prices of all 

 kinds of hardwoods it is believed that the new 

 venture will be a paying one in a decade's time. 

 The very latest methods of foresting will be 

 applied and it is believed that fully 600 of the 

 (JSO trees planted per acre will be available in 

 ten or twelve year's time. As trees are cut they 

 will be replaced with smaller ones, so the forest 

 will always be in growing order. 



The plan was inaugurated by Messrs. Aborn 

 and Kennedy some months ago, but nothing 

 definite has been announced until recently. 



One of the most prosperous concerns in the 

 hardwood business in Cleveland these days is the 

 Martin-Barriss Company. Business is reviving 

 so rapidly that the company finds it imperative 

 to extend its plant. As a result several ad- 

 ditional buildings are being erected, the largest 

 of which is a two-story structure twenty-three by 

 seventy-two feet. The company reports business 

 to be in good condition, with the outlook for 

 winter consumption of hardwoods bright, 



J. V. O'Brien, secretary of the Cleveland Board 

 of Lumber Dealers, estimates that the volume 

 of business being enjoyed by Cleveland concerns 

 is now twenty per cent over that of a year ago 

 and that the same ratio promises to hold good 

 for the entire year. 



At the Monday noon luncheon of the Cleveland 

 Lumber Company the sole topic of discussion was 

 the death of J. E. Defebaugh of the American 

 Lumberman, who was well known in Cleveland. 

 General regret was expressed at the news of his 

 death, received that day. 



Dawson E. Winn, for many years associated 

 with the Woods-Perry Company, one of the 

 pioneer lumber firms in Cleveland, died some days 

 ago at his home here. The funeral was largely 

 attended by lumbermen and others. 



Mrs. Elizabeth J. Barner, wife of George T. 

 Barner of the Barner-Meade Lumber Company, 

 died several days ago at St. Vincent's Hospital 

 after a brief illness. A number of floral tributes 

 were sent by Cleveland lumber dealers, a num- 

 ber of whom attended the funeral. 



A unique social organization has been formed 

 by the four lumber companies controlled by C. H. 



