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The Chihuahua Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which has a plant at Chihuahua, Mexico, 

 will soon build a band sawmill at San Juanito. 

 The company already has two mills in that sec- 

 tion and employs, about 250 men. The band mill 

 is to fill the demand for lumber which will come 

 with increasing mining operations this fall and 

 winter. 



Meyers & St. John of Indianapolis recently sold 

 16,000 acres of southern timber land to an east- 

 ern syndicate for $240,000. The firm operates a 

 large hardwood mill in Louisiana and cotton 

 plantations in that state and Mississippi. 



The woodworking establishment of the Buckley 

 Lumber Company at Abingdon, Va., suffered a 

 loss of about $6,000 by fire early in the month. 



A. F. Bard, connected with the Laguna del 

 Carmen Company, an American mahogany con- 

 cern in the state of Campeche. Mexico, states 

 that an average of 3,000 mahogany logs is being 

 shipped out of that district every month to Bos- 

 ton, New York and Europe. This company owns 

 an immense amount of mahogany stumpage and 

 is capitalized at $6,000,000. 



The Pioneer Pole &. Shaft Company at Muncie, 

 Ind., has resumed operations with a full force 

 of men and expects to keep running all sum- 

 mer. 



The Colorado, Columbus & Mexican railroad 

 will extend its line from Columbus, N. M.. to 

 Durango, Mex. George M. Duncan, representing 

 the Carter Lumber Company of Houston, Tex., 

 secured the contract for supplying lumber mate- 

 rial. 



The Hastings Table Company of Hastings, 

 Mich., will double the size of its factory this 

 spring. 



The Long Beach Sash & Door Company of 

 Long Beach, Cal., repoi'ts more business during 

 the first ten days of March than during the 

 entire month of February and says that building 

 conditions in Los Angeles and vicinity are im- 

 proving right along. 



News from the City of Mexico tells of the de- 

 struction by fire of the property of the J. M. 

 Carr Furniture Company and the large lumher 

 yard of Fernandez Martinez at Monterey, Mexico. 

 The loss aggregates $400,000, with no insurance. 



The number of ties purchased by the steam 

 and electrical roads of the country during 1906 

 was 102,834,040. The demand of the steam roads 



amounted to seventy-five per cent of the total. 



The New York Central and the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad Company have contracted with a Mexi- 

 can concern which owns a large tract of hard- 

 wood timber iu the state of Campeche for ties 

 made of zapote. It is claimed that this wood 

 is almost indestructible and that it will last half 

 a century under the most trying conditions. 



The Girard Lumber Company of Dunbar, Wis., 

 has purchased 2,000 acres of hardwood timber 

 land in Forest county. 



A large part of the town of Open Fork, W. Va.. 

 was destroyed by fire April 11. The blaze started 

 in the plant of the Kentucky Coal & Lumber 

 Company, which was destroyed together with 

 fourteen two-story houses. 



The Grimwood hardwood plant at Owensville, 

 Ind., has closed down temporarily. 



The Milwaukee-Falls-Evansville Chair Com- 

 pany, capitalized at $100,000, will start build- 

 ing at Evansville, Ind., within a very short time, 

 and will be in operation probably by July 1. 



Samuel E. Smith has been appointed receiver 

 for Ernest E. Price, hardwood dealer located at 

 1406 Continental Trust building, Baltimore. Mr. 

 Price's liabilities are scheduled at about $54,000, 

 with assets of approximately $18,000. 



The heirs of William Helwig, who died re- 

 cently at St. Louis, and who had a lumber yard 

 at Broadway and Barton streets, are puzzled over 

 his will and have no idea of what his estate 

 consists, although they know he was wealthy. 

 He sold out his lumber business some time ago, 

 and made a trip to Germany. What has become 

 of his money they cannot tell. They believe it 

 may be buried, however, inasmuch as his grand- 

 father, who was equally eccentric, hid his for- 

 tune under ten feet of ground, and it was only 

 accidentally discovered. 



H. H. Haines of Easton, Pa. ; George H. Mut- 

 ton of East Bangor and J. J. Himmel of Acker- 

 manville have just purchased a large tract of 

 timberland on the Blue Ridge. They will have it 

 manufactured into railroad ties and poles. 



John W. Corbett, a prominent business man of 

 Mountainair, N. M., believes that hardwood will 

 grow in that state, and is following his annual 

 custom of promoting tree planting by giving 

 away saplings to anyone who will agree to nour- 

 ish them. This year he offers 500 young elms. 

 The trees planted in former years are thrifty. 



Hardwood J>JeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



Announcement has been received here that the 

 Warren Ross Lumber Company of Jamestown, 

 N. Y., has succeeded and purchased the business 

 of the Ross Lumber Company at that point. Tha 

 company will maintain a complete stock of for- 

 eign and domestic hardwoods at Jamestown and 

 also at mill points for direct shipment. "High 

 grades at fair values" will be its policy. 



Burdis Anderson of the Great Lakes Veneer 

 Company, Munising, Mich., was a Chicago visitor 

 recently, en route home from New York, whither 

 he had been in the interests of the National 

 Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association, of 

 ■which he is president. 



W. E. Douglass of the Crosby & Beckley Com- 

 pany, Columbus. O., called upon Chicago friends 

 April 14 and 15. 



A twostory frame building in the yards of the 

 T. Wilce Company, West Twenty-second and 

 Throop streets, was partly destroyed by fire early 

 on the morning of April 16. The loss was about 

 $1,000. For a time it looked as though the 

 flames might sweep through the entire lumber 

 yard, but they were fortunately checked befOMj 

 this happened. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Memphis, 

 president of the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation, spent Sunday, April 12, in Chicago 

 In conference with Frank F. Fish, secretary of 

 the association. Mr. Russe was on his way 

 home from a trip to Great Britain and th» 



Continent, where he has been for the last three 

 months. He has again taken up association 

 work vigorously and is already making plans 

 for the June convention, which will be held in 

 Milwaukee. Mr. Russe had a very rough passage 

 in crossing the Atlantic ; the storm retarded the 

 steamer so it had to put into Halifax for coal, 

 making a record breaking trip — on the wrong 

 side of the record — of thirteen days between 

 Liverpool and New York ! Mr. Russe reports 

 lumber conditions abroad as being a good deal 

 worse than they are on this side. He states 

 that the consignment evil has again reasserted 

 itself, and that the docks are full of undesirable 

 and unsaleable lumber. 



The H.VRDWOOD Recokd is in receipt of largo 

 special editions of "Timber and Woodworking 

 Machinery" and the "Timber Trades Journal," 

 two well-known lumber publications of Great 

 Britain. Both numbers are handsomely illus- 

 trated and give elaborate writeups of prominent 

 lumber concerns abroad. 



At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia 

 Lumbermen's Exchange, held April 9, a vote of 

 thanks was extended to the Hardwood Record 

 for the issues supplied it during the year ending 

 March 31, 1908. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit 

 Corporation of St. Louis, W. T. Biederman, 

 superintendent, forwards the Record Its April, 

 1908, edition of the Credit Hating Book. The 



current number is the ninth volume which has 

 been issued by the corporation, and shows a 

 great amount of work. Each number is better 

 than the last, and promises a valuable addition 

 to any lumberman's library. 



F. M. Shaw of the Rib Lake Lumber Com- 

 pany, Rib Lake, Wis., was a Chicago visitor 

 a few days ago. Mr. Shaw says his company 

 has large holdings in hardwood and hemlock 

 in Wisconsin ; it is operating in birch, elm, ash 

 and maple, and is fortunate in having some dry 

 stock on hand. 



N. A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., 

 Indianapolis, was in the city April 9 and 10, 

 visiting the company's Chicago office. 



Dan Arpin of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Wis., was in Chicago 

 within the past few days, accompanied by his 

 wife. 



C. Fred Yegge of the Chicago Mill & Lumber 

 Company has recently made a tour of the Ar- 

 kansas and Mississippi mills. 



Horace Wildberg of the Wildberg Box Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, was in the city on business 

 the other day, and incidentally remarked that 

 he would buy 1,000,000 feet of shortleaf yellow 

 pine for box purposes — six to twelve feet. 



Charles Linder, secretary of the John H. 

 Kaiser Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., was 

 in town the past week and reports that his mill 

 is busy on hardwoods and hemlock. The com- 

 pany is one of the largest box manufacturers in 

 Wisconsin. 



R. A. Johnson of the Mereen-Johnson Com- 

 pany of Minneapolis, has been out on the 

 Pacific coast with C. A. Smith of the C. A. 

 Smith Lumber Company, looking over timber 

 purchases. 



M. A. Hayward, the popular wholesaler of 

 Columbus, O., was a welcome visitor at the 

 Record office April 23. 



Edward Hines, the foremost Chicago lumber- 

 man, was obliged to submit to a severe operation 

 a few days ago. Mr. Hines is at present in the 

 Presbyterian hospital, and reports from his bed- 

 side are favorable to his prompt recovery. 



Boston. 



William E. Litchfield has recently returned 

 from a business and pleasure trip through the 

 South and West. He states that the mills that 

 he came in contact with had small stocks only 

 of hardwood lumber and that it is his opinion 

 that what lumber there is in the West is held 

 largely in dealers' hands. 



Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin, 

 Boston, reports business as only moderately ac- 

 tive. He states that furniture and piano man- 

 ufacturers are not large buyers of mahogany at 

 present, as they are not as busy as usual at this 

 season of the year. Mr. Lawrence is very enthu- 

 siastic over the Lumbermen's Golf Association 

 meeting that will be held near Boston this sea- 

 son. He is secretary of this association, and 

 Frank Witherbee of the H. M. Bickford Com- 

 pany, Boston, is president. 



The following comprised a recent shipment 

 from Boston to South America : 1,343,616 feet 

 of white pine, 50,050 feet of oak, 25,618 feet of 

 ash and 14,797 feet of poplar. 



Omer Schoffner of Nashville, Tenn., was a 

 recent visitor in the Boston market. Mr. Schoff- 

 ner is a large handler of hardwood. 



The Wendall F. Brown Company of Boston 

 has been incorporated in Kittery, Me., with a 

 capital stock of $300,000. 



Chelsea. Mass., the home of several large lum- 

 her concerns, has been visited by a bad fire that 

 caused a loss of $10,000,000 and destroyed over 

 a thousand dwellings, as well as churches, 

 schools, stores and factories. Lumber dealers es- 

 caped this great conflagration. The George D. 

 Emery Company, large mahogany importers and 

 dealers, offered a part of their property to the 

 telephone company, whose head(iuarters were de- 

 stroyed. The company erected fifteen public pay 

 stations on this property. The Pope and Cottle 

 Lumber Company, whose yard Is in Chelsea, has 



