HARDWOOD RECORD 



Claiming tliat improved business conditions 

 justify tbem in so doing, all the big lumber 

 mills along the Guit & Ship Island Railroad will 

 be opened within the next few weeks with full 

 lorce. About 5,000 men -will be re-employed. 



The works of the C'bicrigo Tie Preserving Com- 

 pany, at Mount Vernon, III., will resume Au- 

 gust 1 after a shutdown of ten months. A 

 full force of workmen will be employed. 



The Baltimore & Ohio has sold 200,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber in West Virginia for $2,000.- 

 000. The land lies in a mountainless region, 

 drained by the tributaries of the Great Kan- 

 awha. 



New fence posts, patented by Col. W. A. 

 Oliphant of Petersburg, Ind., will be used by 

 the Evansville & Terre Haute System along its 

 right of way, the road having purchased the 

 right to manufacture enough to build 600 miles 

 of fence. The chi.'f features of the post are 

 a block of concrete which goes into the earth, 

 and an inserted post of creosoted wood, solidly 

 jincbored to the block with iron fastenings. The 

 post seems to be practically indestructible. 



The Hall City Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 a newly organized concern, is putting in a fine 

 hardwood mill at Flail City, Fa., and will have 



it in running order within a month. The 

 plant will have a daily capacity of 30,000 feet. 

 The company will lumber some fine tracts of 

 hardwood timber, and will commence operations 

 as soon as possible. 



The Gocdman Lumber Company of Marinette. 

 Wis., has commenced work on a new mill, lumber 

 plant and town which will be built in the 

 woods on the Soo line, ten miles from Dunbar. 

 The Soo Kailroad has already put in a siding 

 and designated the station as Goodman. The 

 company will construct a logging railroad, com- 

 plete modern sawmill and large boarding house. 



E. J. Young of Madison, Wis., and F. N. Nor- 

 ton of Medford, Wis., have purchased a tract 

 of 5.000 acres of timber at Indian river. 



On August 1 an immense flre occurred on the 

 south wharf of the Sawyer-Goodman Company 

 of Marinette, on the Menominee river. The 

 total damage exceeded .$150,000, covered by in- 

 surance. An immense amount of lumber was 

 consumed, the tire departments being practically 

 powerless to stop the blaze. 



The Belhaven Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been organized at Raleigh, N. C, by 

 .1. A. Wilkinson. William Schultz and others: 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECOSD Special Correspondents.) 



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George O'Hara. the hardwood man of Cairo. 

 111., was in town a few days last week en route 

 to the East, where he will join his family for 

 a little stay at Cape May. 



C. J. L. Meyer, formerly a millionaire lum- 

 berman and railroad president of Marinette, 

 Wis., died recently at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. His funeral was held at Fond du Lac. 



T. S. Estabrook of the Estabrook-Skeele Lum- 

 ber Company returned last week from a visit to 

 bis operations at Gould, Ark., where he was 

 in conference with the local manager, S. G. Mc- 

 Clellan. 



E. F. Dodge of the P. G. Dodge Lumber Com- 

 pany. Fisher building, returned to the city last 

 week after visiting his Nashville operations. 



Chicago friends of H. P. Coe of Painesville. 

 O., the well-known veneer machinery manufac- 

 turer, will be glad to know he is convalescent 

 after a severe illness which kept him confined to 

 the house the greater portion of last month. 



R. S. Huddleston, secretary of the Otis Manu- 

 facturing Company, is back from a visit to the 

 mill and main oSace of the company at New Or- 

 leans. Mr. Huddleston reports the mahogany 

 trade in good condition. 



Paul Johnson of the North Shore Lumber 

 Company, Thompson, Mich., was a Chicago 

 visitor last week. 



F. R. Whiting, president of the Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company of Abingdon, Va., and 

 Philadelphia, Pa., was a recent visitor to this 

 mafket. 



Harvey Wilce of the T. Wilce Company, ex- 

 tensive flooring manufacturers of Chicago, is 

 killing two birds with one stone by looking over 

 affairs at his northern camps, and in the mean- 

 time doing a little fishing. 



James D. Lacey, the well-known timber man, 

 accompanied by his wife and his daughter, Mrs. 

 Victor Thrane. spent last week at the cele- 

 bration in honor of the Prince of Wales at Que- 

 bec, where they went in their new craft, the 

 Tonopah. They are now cruising among the 

 Thousand Islands, and have as their guests Mr. 

 Hofstra of the Seacoast Lumber Company, New 

 York, and his wife. 



J. P. McParland, who conducts a large hard- 

 wood yard on Laflin street, has changed over 

 his business somewhat and organized the Mc- 

 I'arland & Konzen Lumber Company, which has 

 been incorporated with a paid-up capital of 



.^50.000. Mr. McParland is Ihe largest stock- 

 holder, and J. r. Konzen, the other principal, 

 is well known to the irade as head of the lumber 

 purchasing department of Kelley, Maus & Co. 

 for the last eighteen years, so that he is par- 

 ticularly fitted to assume charge of the extensive 

 wagonstocfc business of the concern, while Mr. 

 ?iIcParland will conduct the lumber end of the 

 trade. 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 < ompany, w holcsalers of hardwoods, is 'making 

 a lengthy southern trip. 



The F. F. Krause Company, capitalized at 

 .$40,000, whicli will manufacture interior finish 

 and woodwork and deal in lumber, is a new Chi- 

 cago concern. 



J. V. Stimson, the well-known lumberman of 

 Huntingb'irg, Ind., was a recent caller at the 

 Record oflice. 



OIlie Clem, a prominent handle manufacturer 

 of Hngh, Okla., was a Chicago visitor the last 

 of the month. 



R. M. Carrier of Sardis, Miss., was in the 

 city the latter part of July. 



The T. B. Stone Lumber Company consum- 

 mated a deal last week whereby they purchased 

 all the stock and assets of the Stone & Heyser 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati. O.. with a 

 1-ranch office at Memphis. Tenn., and assume ali 

 liabilities. W. E. Heyser. who had charge of 

 the Memphis office, will be located at Cincinnati 

 headquarter.s. The Stone & Heyser Lumber 

 Company will go out of business and the Mem- 

 phis office will be discontinued. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago has 

 taken decisive action in favor of improvement 

 of lhe Chicago river and the proposed deep 

 waterway from the gulf to the lakes. The 

 trade committee of the association was in- 

 stnicteil to continue its efforts to obtain an un- 

 obstructed 200-foot channel from the head of 

 the drainage canal to the mouth of the river, 

 and to urge the city of Chicago, the drainage 

 trustees, and the government that no more 

 bridges be constructed over the main river uil- 

 less the draws be 200 feet wide, and that no 

 further money be paid on other channels until 

 the main channel is completed. It urged, also, 

 that the bridges now over the main river at 

 points narrower than 200 feet be removed as 

 speedily as possible, that all center piers be 

 removed, that the river be straightened where 

 there are obtruding parts, and that condemna- 

 tion proceedings be prosecuted vi.gorously wher- 

 ever property obstructs the 200 feet width. 



One of the largest lumber deals of the year 

 was consummated last montli when the Edward 

 Hines Lumber Company purchased the entire 

 cut of three sawmills, two belonging to the N. 

 Ludington Company of Marinette, Wis., and the 

 Ford River mill of the I. Stephenson Company. 

 The amount of lumber sold was over 65,000,000 

 feet, and it is said the consideration was close 

 to $700,000. 



The G. C. Pratt Lumber & Tie Company, cap- 

 italized at $10,000. will deal in lumber and 

 railroad materials at Chicago. It is a newly 

 organized concern. 



The new factories and office buildings of the 

 Ileywood Bros. & Wakefleld Company at Gard- 

 ner. Mass.. will be ready within a month. The 

 new buildings cost about $400,000, and are 

 constructed of pressed brick with concrete trim- 

 mings, with the exception of the office building, 

 which is of granite up to the third story. The 

 various factories are connected by steel bridges. 



W. F. Whitney & Co., manufacturers of 

 chairs. South Ashburnham, Mass., suffered a loss 

 of about $15,000 by fire last month. The flre 

 was confined to the company's storehouse. 



Morris and James R. Hall of the Hall Lum- 

 ber Company, Boston, have been spending the 

 past two weeks in British Columbia and the 

 State of Washington. They are expected home 

 in a few days. 



B. P. Wheedon of W. D. Young & Co., Bay 

 City, Mich., has returned home from a trip 

 East. He spent about two weeks in this city. 



E. N. Eames of the Boston Lumber Company 

 has returned from a business trip to Maine. 



W. C. Bates of the W. C. Bates Company, Bos- 

 ton, has been away on a vacation trip for the 

 past three weeks. 



F. B. Reynolds of the Boston Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from his vacation. 



Mr. Hawes, representing Scatcherd & Son, 

 iiardwood dealers, Buffalo, N. Y'., has been a 

 \isitor in the Boston market recently. 



L. F. Rollins of New York, representing F. 

 M. Farrior & Co., Birmingham, Ala., was in 

 the East last week. 



The woodenware factory of Brown Bros.. 

 Winchenden, Mass., has resumed operations after 

 a shutdown of nearly five weeks. 



Stetson. Cutler & Co.. Boston, has closed its 

 mills at St. Johns. N. B. 



The Dixie Lumber Company, with a capital 

 stock of .$100,000, is the latest addition to the 

 lumber interests of Nashville. The two moving 

 spirits in the enterprise are John J. Ward and 

 J. G. Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham will be in 

 active charge of the business. He has had much 

 experience in the world of lumber and has been 

 making his plans for many months, and during 

 the recent financial stringency, when the market 

 was down, he bought heavily. The company 

 believe that the advance in the market which 

 has come with the return of confidence, will 

 bring a handsome profit for them on the stock 

 already on hand. A site for the plant has been 

 secured in South Nashville on the line of the 

 Tennessee Central, and on this the necessary 

 buildings will be erected. The executive offices 

 of the company will be located in rooms 1104, 

 1106 and llOS Stahlman building, the same 

 ones in which are also located the offices of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and 

 other lumber representatives and interests. A 

 charter for the company will be taken out in a 

 few days. 



A special from Dover, Tenn., announces that 

 J. H. Ellarson of Clarksville, Tenn.. has bought 

 a half interest in the A. M. Tippilt planing 

 mill and lumber plant at Dover, Tenn. Mr. 

 Ellarson, who is a trained lumberman, will tak- 



