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mits issued being .$200,000. In April, 1909. 

 the amount involved was $274,000. 



It is i-eportetl tliat President Taft may veto 

 the rivers and harbors bill, which carries large 

 appropriations for work on the Ohio river, on 

 the ground that tile work cannot be done at 

 once and therefore the mone.v is not immediately 

 needed. Lumbermen are particularly interested 

 in the appropriations for the Ohio and Ken- 

 tucky rivers. 



Louisville & Xashville earnings are showing 

 continuous increases. For the third week of 

 April the gain was $105,000 ; for the three 

 weeks of the month it was .$401,000 and for the 

 current fiscal year to date it is S4. 856.000. 



ASHLAND 



The "W. II. Uawkius Lumber Company reports 

 business quiet. On the last timber run it re- 

 ceived enough logs for one month's sawing. The 

 company reports the demand for wide poplar 

 greater than it can supply. 



Vansant. Kitchen & Co.'s mill is closed down 

 because the timber supply is exhausted. They 

 were unable to get their logs which are lying in 

 the side streams, on the last tide. Business is 

 reported quiet, but the company is optimistic of 

 a better showing in the near future. 



The Wright-Kitchen Ltimber Company, on the 

 last tide, received enough timber to keep its mill 

 going for two months. It reports business satis- 

 factory. This company recently acquired a large 

 tract of fine poplar timber on Elkhorn from a 

 Pittsburg syndicate and also has an option on 

 the oak in the territory. 



J. W. Kitchen of the J. W. Kitchen Lumber 

 Company recently returned from a trip to his 

 North Carolina interests. Mr. Kitchen reports a 

 steady demand for quartered oak and wide 

 poplar. 



The lieese-Kitchen Lumber Company of Wrig- 

 ley, Ky., is now shipping its stock right along. 

 This concern has h.td considerable trouble with 

 delays in shipments the past two months. At 

 present it is getting out some fine quartered oak 

 and poplar. 



It is reported that the narrow gauge railroad 

 running from Salt Lick to Yale, Ky., will be 

 made into a standard gauge road. 



Pikeville. Ky., will soon have a new industry. 

 The Pikeville spoke factory, to be operated by 

 Jesse Sanders, is now in the course of construc- 

 tion. 



The Whisler & Scearcy Company of Ironton, 

 Ohio, says business is good. Its mills at Ironton. 

 Ohio, and Farmers, Ky., are both running 

 steadily. 



The Salt Lick Lumber Company, Salt Lick, 

 Ky., recently resumed work, owing to the recent 

 tide in Licking river. 



The W. R. Vansant Lumber Company states 

 that business is .good, much better in the last 

 two weeks than for months past. 



Clarksburg, \V. Va., is experiencing a building 

 boom to such an extent that men are reported 

 to be loading cars of lumber at night and the 

 demand for carpenters far exceeds the supply. 



Giles Wright of the Wright-Kitchen Lumber 

 Company left this week on a business trip for 

 the firm through Chicago and Detroit. 



Raftsmen ot Guyan river, who were up-river 

 men and did not recognize the right of any one 

 to block the channel, cut the corker that was 

 used to kei-p some of the logs in the boom in 

 that river and almost caused a big loss to the 

 Guyandotte Hoom Company and C. Crane Co., 

 but for the prompt work of the steamer J. 0. 

 Cole in throwing out wingboom of fleets. The 

 drifting expense and boomage alone would have 

 been heavy, had not the Cole been lying at the 

 mouth of the river. 



ST. LOUIS 



Building permits for April amounted to .$2,- 

 326,880, or ?21,009 less than for March. As 



compared with April, 1909, when there was an 

 unusual splurge in building operations, the fig- 

 ures show a decrease of 36 per cent, the total in 

 that month being $3,679,690. March, 1909. 

 showed permits aggregating $2,675,087 and 

 March, 1910, $2,347,044. 



The following is a report of the movement of 

 lumber at this market during April : Receipts 

 by rail during April, 1910, were 17,845 cars ; 

 during April. 1909, there were 12,812 cars, an 

 increase of 5,033 cars in 1910. Receipts by 

 river during April, 1910, were 219.000 feet: 

 during April, 1909, 657,000 feet, a decrease of 

 438,000 feet this year. Shipments by rail dur- 

 ing April. 1910, were 11,676 cars ; shipments by 

 ■.ail during 1909 were 9,669 cars, an in- 

 crease of 2,007 ears this year. Shipments by 

 river during April, 1910, were 215,000 feet, dur- 

 ing April, 1909, 93,000 feet, an increase of 

 122,000 feet this year. 



George H. Marting, fifty years old, president 

 ot the George H. Marting Lumber Company, 

 720 Cass avenue, with a branch yard at 1426 

 North Tenth street, died at his home from apo- 

 plexy on April 26. He is survived by his 

 widow, one daughter and three sons, George 11.. 

 Alfred G. and Arthur A. IMarting. George II. 

 Marting succeeded to the presidency ten years 

 jigo, after tiie death of his father. He was norn 

 and reared in St. Louis. His death occurred 

 while he and his family were anxiously watching 

 at the bedside of Mrs. Marting, who is seriously 

 ill. She has been suffering from heart disease 

 for more than six months and fears are enter- 

 tained for her life during the present trying or- 

 deal. Mr. Marting, although up and al)out until 

 within a few hours of his death, had suffered 

 several weeks from apoplexy. 



Col. Jack P. Richardson, confederate veteran, 

 former member of the St. Louis School Board 

 and a pioneer lumberman of this city, died at 

 his home April 30. of heart disease. Colonel 

 Richardson bad been ailing for three months, but 

 was not thought to be in a serious condition 

 until the morning of the day he died. Mem- 

 bers of the family had planned a reception as a 

 surprise for him on his seventy-sixth birthday, 

 which he would have celebrated May 5. 



Mr. Richardson in 1873 entered the lumber 

 business and later organized the firm of J. P. & 

 W. H. Richardson, of which he had since been 

 the senior partner. He was a member of the 

 Lumberman's Club of St. Louis, which adopted 

 resolutions on bis death at a special meeting. 



Articles of incorporation were taken out on 

 May 3, b.v the Manufacturers' Cooperage Com- 

 pany, with a capital stock of $30,000 fully paid, 

 divided among W. P. Anderson, N. V. Turner 

 and J. E. Mulvey, one hundred shares each. The 

 new coHipany intends to open a jobbing and sell- 

 ing market for the products of coopera.ge con- 

 cerns, valued at $800,000 and situated at Mai- 

 den, Mo., Gideon, Mo. and in Arkansas. The 

 company will represent the United States Coop- 

 erage Company, of Maiden, and the Gideon 

 Cooperage Company, of Gideon. Mo. The offices 

 of the company are located at 512-513 Wright 

 building. 



The April meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 has been postponed from May 10, the regular 

 night, to a date later in the month. This post- 

 ponement was made in order to have the meet- 

 in.g take place when Mr. Pinchot was in the 

 city and it is not now know'n when he will be. 

 Mr. Pinchot was invited some time ago to ad- 

 dress the club and be promised to do so. 



The following are the number of feet of lum- 

 ber inspected and measured by the Lumberman's 

 Exchange of St. Louis during the month of 

 March, as reported by Secretary Bush : 



Feet. 



Plain oak 262.107 



(Juartercd oak 49,211 



Ash 03,471 



Poplar 47,783 



Cypress 27,073 



Gum 121,801 



Walnut 2,143 



Hickory 3,667 



Maple 11,009 



Hackberry 220 



Elm 243 



Total 588,728 



It is reported in lumber circles, but which can- 

 not be confirmed at this writing, that negotia- 

 tions for a long term lease of a 900foot tract 

 on the river front at Angelica street, are in 

 progress between the North Wharf Land Com- 

 pany and the Vaughan Lumber Company, a 

 large hardwood lumber company of Memphis, 

 Tenn., which if successful, will mean the re- 

 moval of the headquarters of the company to St. 

 Louis. The closing of the deal hinges on the 

 character of the contract the Terminal Railroad 

 Association is willing to make with the company 

 for a private switch to serve the yard. The 

 general manager of the lumber company is in 

 St. Louis conducting the negotiations in person. 

 Itppresentatives of the land company and of the 

 lumber company express the belief that the Ter- 

 minal will make the contract for the switch on 

 terms desired, and that It will result in bringing 

 another new industry to St. Louis. 



The lumbermen are going to do things up 

 right this year in the way of their excursion. The 

 Entertainment Committee of the Lumbermen's 

 Club, Julius Seidel, John Schneiders and Jos. 

 llafner, have chartered the steamer City ot 

 Alton and as the lumbermen close their places 

 ot business on that day in order to let their em- 

 ployes enjoy the excursion, there will be a big 

 and merry crowd. 



MILWAUKEE 



A movement has been set on foot in Grand 

 Rapids, the center of Wisconsin's hardwood dis- 

 trict, to change the name of the city to Gran- 

 dalia. This movement has been started as a 

 result ot the great contusion which is constantly 

 in evidence in the delivery of mail, express and 

 freight to Grand Rapids, Alich., when it is 

 intended to go to Grand Rapids, Wis. The nam* 

 (irandalia is taken as a combination of Grand 

 Rapids and Centralia, the two towns which were 

 joined to make the present city of Grand Rapids. 



A new Corliss engine has been installed in the 

 sawmill of the M. H. Sprague Lumber Company 

 at Menomonie and the mill has been opened for 

 the season. 



Plans are being made by the Plumbers' Wood 

 Work Company of Algoma to erect an addition 

 to its present plant. The new part will be 

 150x150 and three stories high. 



The John Schroeder sawmill at Ashland has 

 been started for the season's cut. A number of 

 delays were encountered owing to the non-arrival 

 of new machinery and equipment which has now 

 been installed. 



An addition is being built to the planing mill 

 of the East River Lumber Company at Green 

 Bay. New machinery will also be installed. 



The Park Falls Manufacturing Company, Park 

 Falls, has installed a new fifty-six inch veneer 

 machine in its plant. 



Hans Heyer of Manitowoc has purchased an 

 interest in the Nelson Lumber Company at Two 

 Rivers. The concern will soon commence the 

 manufacture of store and bar fixtures. 



Otto Hardt and William Schultz are preparing 

 (0 open a horses' neck yoke factory at She- 

 bi.vgau. 



The Automatic File & Index Company of 

 Green Bay will rebuild its plant which was 

 recently destroyed by fire. Additional stock to 

 the amount of $7,000 has been sold and work 

 on the new buildings, which will be considerably 

 larger than the old ones, will commence at once. 



The first meeting of the directors and com- 

 mittees of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood 

 ^lanufacturers' Association since its organiza- 

 tion was recently held in Wausau. A general 

 discussion of matters of interest to memliers of 

 the association was gone into and an outline of 

 the work to be done by the organization was 



