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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The ties are 

 loaded on ears direct for the new Pacifle coast 

 extension of that line. 



The Boone Lumber Company has filed»articles 

 of incorporation. The principal oSBce will be at 

 Ford, K.v. The company is capitalized at $20,- 

 000, and the incorporators are E. S. Shippen and 

 H. J. Gates of Louisville, W. F. Fielder of Iron 

 Mount, Ky., and George J. Ballard of Winches- 



The Galax Furniture & Lumber Company of 

 Eadford, Va., which was burned last fall, has 

 lieen rebuilt on a larger scale, and is now Tun- 

 ing with 200 employes on the payroll. 



Fire practically destroyed the plant of the 

 John A. Bunn Chair Company of St. Paul on 

 April 30. The loss is about ?5'0,000. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Company of 

 Minneapolis, Minn., will be obliged to pay $2,500 

 to Mabel Abell, who lost three fingers as a result 

 cf an accident which occurred recently in the 

 company's plant. 



A new incorporation at Columbus, O., is the 

 Scranton Road Lumber Company, capitalized at 

 $25,000. 



The plant and business of the Cabinetmakers' 

 Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., manufacturers 

 of library and dining room furniture, has been 

 sold to W. C. Grcbhiser of Sturgis, Mich. The 

 factory will continue under the present manager. 



The Richmond Cedar Works of Richmond, Va., 

 has started up on full time and will probably 

 so continue hereafter. 



The S. Knechtel Wood Turning Company, Ltd., 

 of Southampton, Ont., has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $40,000. 



H. C. Seymour of Philadelphia and D. N. Far- 

 riugton of New York have gone to San Domingo 

 in the interests of manufacturing concerns of 

 both cities to inspect a tract of 100,000 acres of 

 land, which is alleged to be covered with fine 



virgin growth of mahogany, cedar and satinwood. 



The state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has an abun- 

 dant supply of mesquite wood, which is now be- 

 ing used to considerable extent for the manu- 

 facture of furniture. While Mexico imposes an 

 export duty on unmanufactured wood, there is 

 no tax on that which can be classed as manu- 

 factured, states Consul Clarence A. Miller of 

 Matamoras, Mexico. 



Steam has been turned on for the first time 

 through the 35,000 feet, or over six miles, of 

 pipe in the Diamond Match Company's veneering 

 plant at Chlco, Cal., and the test was found so 

 satisfactory that next week logs will be shipped 

 to Chico for testing the machinery, and it is 

 probable that orange slats and matchwood will 

 be the first products. 



Rev. A. A. Turner has patented a preparation 

 designed to take the place of veneer in many 

 instances, and a company capitalized at $25,000 

 has been organized at Elkhart, Ind., to promote 

 the invention. Several of the ingredients of 

 cement are contained in it, it is said, and the 

 material can be stained to any wood finish. It 

 is said to have great possibilities as a building 

 material. 



The Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company Is a new 

 company at Wausau, Wis., with a capital stock 

 of $681,000. 



R. S. Monroe, a timber broker of Fairmont, 

 W. Va., has sold the property of the Birch River 

 Boom & Lumber Company at Glendon, Braxton 

 county, to George H. Austin and others, who 

 will form a company to be known as the Glendon 

 Boom & Lumber Company. 



The Xuevo Mahogany Company of Hartford, 

 Conn., has filed articles of incorporation. It Is 

 capitalized at $50,000 and proposes to acquire 

 timberlands in Mexico and manufacture lumber. 

 The incorporators are A. I. Jacobs, C, F. Wood 

 and L. E. Stoner, all of Hartford. 



Hardwood J^eWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



Walter Winchester, a prominent Grand Rapids 

 Mich., lumberman, was in Chicago the past 

 week. Mr. Winchester is interested in exten- 

 sive lumber operations in Wisconsin. 



Fred W. Black, president of the Fred W. 

 Black Lumber Company, is paying a visit to his 

 veneer mill at Xashville. 



Walter L. DeWitt, formerly with the Kelley 

 Lumber and Shingle Company of Traverse City, 

 Mich., has taken the position of sales manager 

 with the Estabrook-Skeeie Lumber Company of 

 this city. 



W. E. Barrett of W. E. Barrett & Co. has re- 

 turned from a recent trip to British Columbia. 



A. K. Owen of the John S. Owen Lumber Com- 

 pany of Owen, Wis., was a visitor to this mar- 

 ket early in the week. 



C. F. Liebke of the Hardwood Mill and Lum- 

 ber Company, St. Louis, was in town a few 

 days ago In the interests of business. 



The IIAKDWOOD Recoed regrets to learn of the 

 recent death of Mrs. George F. Williams, wife 

 of the head of Williams Brothers Company of 

 Cadillac and Manton, Mich., which occurred re- 

 cently at Manton. 



John C. Spry, the well-known timber owner 

 and dealer, has removed his offices from the 

 Chamber of Commerce to handsome quarters in 

 the Corn Exchange Bank building, corner of La 

 Salle and Adams streets. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson- 

 Greascn Lumber Company, St. Louis, was a wel- 

 come caller on the Chicago trade last week. 



Edward Germain was in the city last week en 

 route to St. Louis, where he held a conference 

 with George Boyd, his associate In large southern 

 yellow pine enterprises. 



Both W. B. and E. C. Mershon of Saginaw 

 were Chicago visitors a few days ago. E. C. 

 Mershon is just back from an extended Pacific 

 coast trip, where he booked a large number of 

 orders for both sawmill and planing mill re- 

 saws.- He says there Is no evidence of a slowing 

 down of trade in the Mershon plant. They have 

 not shortened their time nor reduced output in 

 the least since the 'panic," and now have orders 

 enough in advance to keep them running for a 

 good while to come. 



W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac, Mich., accompanied 

 by his wife, spent several days in Chicago last 

 week. Mr. Mitchell and his family have spent 

 the past three months on the Pacific Coast and 

 were en route home. He expresses himself as 

 having had a very delightful winter. 



C. H. Holden, representing the Pardee & Curtin 

 Lumber Company, the big West Virginia hard- 

 wood manufacturing house, with office headquar- 

 ters at Clarksburg, was in Chicago a few days 

 last week and secured some very handsome 

 orders. 



J. C. West, secretary and general manager of 

 the Midland Lumber Company, Parkersburg, W. 

 \a.. visited this market May 2. Mr. West en- 

 joys a very good trade in this territory. 



According to the report of the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics of the Department of Commerce and La- 

 bor lumber exports to Germany in the nine 

 months ending with March, 190S, show a marked 

 decline as compared with the same period of 

 the previous year. The export trade with Ger- 

 many for the nine months ending with March 

 amounted to $1,476,644, while the corresponding 

 exports of the latter period total only $1,290,- 

 840. 



A. F. .4.nderson of Cadillac, Mich., accompanied 

 by his partner In the Wexford Lumber Company, 



Joseph Campbell, has left for an extended trip 

 to the Pacific Coast, where both have consider- 

 able timber interests. 



L. P. Groffnian of the St. Louis Basket & Box 

 Company, St. Louis, Mo., was a caller at the 

 Record office on May 1. 



Max L. Pease oi the Galloway-Pease Company, 

 Johnson City. Tenn., was calling on friends in 

 the Chicago market May 5 and 6. 



E. B. Nettleton. formerly of Marysville, Fla., 

 but now eng.iged in the manufacture of refrigera- 

 tors at Kansas City. Mo., was in the city May 6. 

 The R. E. Wood Lumber Company of Balti- 

 more started up its new band sawmill at its 

 plant near the mouth of Eagle Creek, Tennessee, 

 at Bushnell, on April 24. It is one of the finest 

 poplar, oak and chestnut timber properties in the 

 United States and will add new laurels to the 

 fine quality of lumber product turned out by the 

 Wood concerns. The company is sending out as a 

 souvenir of its first day's sawing an envelope of 

 poplar sawdust. If the lumber comes out as fine 

 as the dust — as it undoubtedly n-ill — it will sure- 

 Ij be a "crackerjack" lot of material. 



R. H. Mader, who for a long time has been a 

 general sales representative of W. B. Mershon & 

 Co. of Saginaw. Mich., has been appointed Pacific 

 coast agent for the Mershon resaws, and in fu- 

 ture will be located at 617 Lumber Exchange, 

 Seattle. 



The wholesale lumber house of Soble Brothers, 

 formerly located In the Land Title building, 

 I'biladelpbia, has moved its headquarters to No. 

 1 Madison avenue, New York city. The office 

 will be in charge of John J. Soble, who will be 

 assisted by Charles Soble. Harry I. Soble of this 

 firm has removed to Honaker, Va., where he will 

 maintain a branch office and take charge of the 

 interests of the firm in that vicinity. Soble 

 Brothers have made a distinct success of the 

 jobbing lumber business since they entered the 

 trade in Philadelphia a few years ago, and their 

 removal to New York will very likely contribute' 

 to their further advantage. 



The co-partnership heretofore existing between 

 Frank R. Crane and Fred D. Smith, under the 

 firm name of F. E. Crane & Co., was dissolved 

 by mutual consent on April 30. Mr. Smith has 

 purchased Mr. Crane's interests, assuming all 

 assets and liabilities, and will continue the busi- 

 ness under the name of Fred D. Smith. Since 

 the organization of the original concern in 1889 

 Mr. Smith has had the entire management of 

 the business, and therefore the same policy of 

 good service and fair treatment may be expected 

 in the future. 



The H.1EDW00D Recokd has received a neat 

 case containing six handsome specimens of bay 

 poplar from the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association of New Orleans. They were finished 

 by Berry Brothers, Ltd., of Detroit, Mich., in 

 Flemish green, natural, silver gray, dark ma- 

 hogany and Filipino water stain, and Luxeberry 

 wood finish, rubbed to an egg-shell gloss, and 

 are fine examples of the possibilities of bay pop- 

 lar. 



A. E. Gilbert of the Red ClifE Lumber Com- 

 pany, Duluth, Minn., was registered at the An- 

 nex May 6. 



J. W. Dickson of the J. W. Dickson Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, was a Chicago visitor April 

 30. Mr. Dickson had been making a tour of a 

 number of the large markets and found business 

 rather dull. Believing that with prevailing con- 

 ditions curtailment of production Is the wise 

 course, he has closed down his Memphis mill 

 until the clouds roll by. 



J. L. Scheve of the W. B. Reeves Lumber Com- 

 pany, Helena, Ark., has been visiting the Chi- 

 cago trade during the last few days. Mr. Scheve 

 is one of the best known lumber salesmen in the 

 country and has a large clientele in the Chicago 

 market. 



Theodore Fathauer of the Theodore Fathauer 

 Company left early in the week for a visit to 

 northern milling plants. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis, 

 was a Chicago visitor of a few days ago. 



J. H. P. Smith of the newly organized Hard- 



