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HARDWOOD RECORD 



lias (It'ciilcd to liavo its weekly meetings all 

 Iluough the summer. Last year some of the 

 meetings were omitted during the hot weather. 

 hut this year they will he continued. 



IJuilding operations in Loui-sville during June 

 were of considerable proportions. 266 permits 

 being issued for buildings having an estimated 

 value of .'jl4:!.S.4.">ri, iin increase of .f.'jo.OOO over 

 the* corresponding month of 1009. 



ane Sparta Lumlier & llanutacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Sparta with a 

 capital stock of .'p.'i.OOO. n. Winn and Joseph 

 Wilson are among the incorporators. 



The O. K. Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Dayton with .?10.000 capital stock 

 by W. S. Sterrett. W. J. Wilmer and Ralph 

 McCracken. 



B. F. Avei-.v & Sons, plow manufacturers, are 

 now installed in their big new plant. The com- 

 pan.v at its annual meeting re-elected George C. 

 Avery president. The concern is a large con- 

 sumer of hardwoods, principally hickory. 



Denial is made that the Louisville & Nash- 

 ville has purchased the Cotton Belt, although 

 if is admitted that a traffic agreement has been 

 made, and that if the road is sold the L. & X. 

 will Ite the probalile purchaser. 



J. Logan (iarable, a member of the dimension 

 stock manufacturing firm of Gamble Brothers, 

 died at the home of G. IL Lindenberger. in Cres- 

 cent Hill. June 22. of heart disease. Mr. Gamble 

 was taken ill a few days before, and was taken 

 to Mr. Lindenberger's home fr'om his apartments 

 in the Coker building. He was fifty-eight years 

 old and went into the lumber business after lie 

 had been connected with several leading banks 

 of Louisville. Hoyt and J. F. Gamble, his 

 brothers, are members of the firm of Gamlile 

 Brothers. The funeral was held June iS. 



ST. LOUIS 



Last inynlh's building record, according to the 

 monthly report of the building commissioner, 

 showed a slight decrease from the record for 

 June. 1909. The aggregate of all permits issued 

 during last month was .$1,884.01.3, while in 

 June. 190J> permits were issued to the aggre- 

 gate of $1,901,254. 



The establishment of a school of forestry in 

 coilperatlon with the Inited States Department 

 u^ Agriculture, was announced recently at a 

 meeting of the Board of Curators of the Mis- 

 souri State University, held in this city. The 

 purpose of establishing the forestry school, ac- 

 cording to the president, is to educate the peo- 

 ple to the great natural advantages of Missouri 

 forests. 



The suit brought by the Henry Gaus & Sons 

 Manufacturing Company, to get the insurance, 

 amounting to something like .$100,000, in their 

 large box factory, destroyed by Are April 8. 1900. 

 has been won by them. 



The following is the report of the numlier of 

 feet inspected and measured by the Lumbermen's 

 Kxchange of St. Louis, during the month of 

 June, as reported by Secretary Bush : 



Feet. 



Yellow pine 180,036 



Plain oak 2,31,429 



(Quartered oak 2.3.301 



Ash 43.748 



I'oplar L'9.40S 



Cypress 78.038 



Gum 2.=;. 814 



( 'ottonwood 7.,'0."i 



WUuut 1.529 



Svcamore 4.810 



Hickory 23.100 



Pecan ll.tj."5 



XLaple 28.209 



Chestnut 95 



Elm 6.61f. 



Total 698.012 



The annual picnic of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of St.' Louis, which was postponed from June 

 4, on account of rain, to June 29, took place 

 at Montesano Springs. Some G50 persons at- 

 tended. The day was fine and the Ijoat ride 



down the river to the Springs on the steamer 

 Grey Eagle, was greatly enjoyed. When the 

 Springs were reached there were gtfmes and 

 races. The principal event pulled off was a 

 game of baseball played between nines made up 

 of yellow piners and hardwood boys. The yel- 

 low pine nine easil.v defeated the hardwood nine, 

 the score being 14 to 0. Other contests, games 

 and races helped to make the day a most en- 

 ioyable one to all who attended. 



The Henry O'Neil Lumlwr & Land Company 

 was recentl.v incorporated in St. Louis, to do 

 a general lumber business in this city. The 

 president. Henry O'Neil. who has l>een identi- 

 fied with the St. Louis lumber business, was 

 recently the president of the O'Neil Lumber Com- 

 pany. William Somerville, the secretary, was 

 recentl.v the street man and traveling repre- 

 sentative for the O'Neil Lumber Company, and 

 Fred B. Goeliel. general manager, was also con- 

 nected with this concern. The yards of the 

 new company will be located in the west end. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Compan.v. with his wife, left recently for Colo- 

 rado, where they will remain for several weeks. 

 The company has recently acquired the hardwood 

 sawmill of the Crossett Lumber Company, lo- 

 cated at Crossett, Ark. The mill has a ca- 

 pacity of 2."i,000 feet per day and will cut prin- 

 cipally white oak car material. 



A better June business is reported by the 

 ('has. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. E. H. Luehrmann says a number of in- 

 quiries for gum. one of their specialties, are 

 l)eing received. 



Chas. E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lum- 

 ber Company, says the hardwood mill is working 

 to its full capacity and shipments are going 

 luit regularly. Orders are coming in better than 

 ihe\- did last month. 



MILWAUKEE 



The first courses of instruction in wood tech- 

 nology and the mechanical engineering of wood- 

 working plants ever offered at the I'niverslty 

 of Wisconsin have been announced for the com- 

 ing .year as a result of the cooperation of the 

 college of engineering with the new forest prod- 

 ucts laboratory. Four courses, in wood distilla- 

 tion, wood preservation, the chemical constitu- 

 ents and the physical properties of wood will 

 Ite given by the staff of government experts in 

 charge of the laboratory. A fifth course in wood 

 manufacturing machinery will be given by Prof. 

 Ilobert M. Keown of the engineering college. 



Representatives of several of the le.iding lum- 

 ber and land companies met recently at Chip- 

 pewa Falls, Wis., and organized the Equitable 

 Taxpayers' Association. This organization will 

 work for the bettering of public highway condi- 

 tions in the counties of Ashland. Bayfield. Iron. 

 Price. Taylor, Sawyer and Rusk by looking after 

 the expenditure of th(^ money raised for road 

 improvements. It will also seek to obtain a 

 more suitable tax rate for the different lands 

 in tile northern part of the state. The officers 

 elected are : President, .7. T. Barl>er. Eau Claire ; 

 vice president. G. H. Atwood. Park Falls ; secre- 

 tary. Harr.v Albright. Ashfand : treasurer. George 

 Foster. Melien. 



William Brigham of Crandon. Wis., has closed 

 a contract with the J. J. Bonneau Company of 

 New York, for fourteen carloads of peeled bird's- 

 eye maple logs. These logs will be cut from 

 tlie lands of the Goodman Lumber Company and 

 are used in the manufacture of veneer. 



The Flambeau log drive recently arrived at 

 I,adysmith. Wis., far ix^hind its scliedule time. 

 .\s a result, the mill of the Flambeau River 

 Liimher Company will be in continuous opera- 

 tion until winter. Three crews have already 

 been sent into the woods to prepare for next 

 year's cut, which will run between eight and 

 ten million feet. 



John K. Davis, of the John R. Davis Lumber 

 Company, has been spending a portion of his 

 time recently at Phillips. Wis., overseeing the 

 erection of the company's new sawmill. 



As the result of the installation of new resaw 

 machinery and other equipment an additional 

 crew has lioen added to the force employed in 

 the plant of the M. H. Sprague Lumber Com- 

 pany at Washburn. Wis. 



With the completion of two new fireproof dry 

 kilns the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Church Furnish- 

 ing Company has been forced to add a large 

 number of men to its staff of employes. The 

 compan.v has quite a number of large orders on 

 hand. 



The Allen Lumlier Company of Berlin, Wis., 

 has commenced the erection of new buildings to 

 replace those recently destroyed by fire. The 

 new structure will lie larger and more con- 

 venient than the old ones, and will greatly 

 increase the facilities of the concern. 



Negotiations have lieen practically closed for 

 the removal of the G. W. Price woodworking 

 plant from Crandon to Shawano, Wis. A stock 

 company with i563,oOO capital stock, .i;23,000 of 

 which is preferred and $42,000 of which is com- 

 mon stock, has been formed to take over the 

 business. It is planned to erect a large factory 

 building and expand the business. 



The Wisconsin Handle Company of Sturgeon 

 Ba.v. Wis., has been reorganized and incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000 for the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing broom handles. The offi- 

 cers of the company are : President, August 

 Kleboldt : vice president, Mrs. Laura Pankratz : 

 secretary-treasurer, Joseph Wolter. 



The A. Streich & Brother Company of Osh- 

 kosh. Wis., manufacturer -of wagons and other 

 vehicles, is planning to enlarge its present fac- 

 tory by building a three-story brick addition. The 

 structure will be used for both office and manu- 

 facturing purposes. 



The J. H. Queal Company of Minneapolis has 

 sold its planing mill at Rhinelander. Wis., to 

 the Robbins Lumber Company of that city. D. 

 F. Recker. who has been local manager for the 

 Queal company at Rhinelander for the past four- 

 teen years, has retired. 



Frank M. Lay, lumber buyer for the Mandt 

 Wagon Compan.v of Stoughton. Wis., has re- 

 turned from an extended liusiness trip through 

 Louisiana and Alabama. 



At a recent meeting of the directors of the 

 Edgerton (Wis.) Wagon Company, the purchase 

 of the machinery necessary to equip the new 

 factory was authorized' and W. H. Wheeler of 

 Beloit was engaged as consulting engineer to 

 aid in the installment of the machines. 



Emanuel Andrae of Marinette, Wis., has ob- 

 tained a patent on a safety device to be used by 

 persons operating a planer. This invention is 

 said to permit the device being used constantly 

 and does not have to be removed when the gauge 

 is changed, as is tno case with most safety de- 

 vices. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



No rain has fallen here during the whole 

 season, except a few showers which have barely 

 laid the dust. It has been a bad thing for gen- 

 eral btisiness conditions, but. of course, the sunny 

 skies have been ideal for building, and work 

 has gone ahead in great shape. Sash and door 

 factories are rushed to get out orders in time 

 for the builders. The June record of building 

 permits .showed a total of $1,548,145. Last year 

 .(line was an extraordinary month, with a total 

 of $2,338,513. but the whole six months up to 

 July 1, last year, gave a total of only $0,605,340, 

 while this year the first half of the year permits 

 estimated at $8,133,580 were issued. 



This is the vacation season, and the staff 

 of the Payson Smith Lumber Company has 



