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n saving of millions of dollars annually in 

 pulp wood, assisting in the preservation of 

 forests, and reducing the price of newspaper 

 to about one-half the present price. Black 

 paper can be made of old newspapers and 

 almost any fibrous stock, while white paper 

 requires spruce and hemlock wood. Wisconsin 

 paper manufacturers intend bringing the nnat- 

 ter before the eastern manufacturers, and if 

 possible bring about concerted action with the 

 publishers of the country. Action will prob- 

 ably be taken immediately after the conclu- 

 sion of the congressional Investigation now on 

 in Washington. 



The Camden Mill Company of Camden, Ark., 

 which recently suffered a fire loss is again 

 running full force. At a recent meeting of 

 the directors it was decided to build a large 

 sash, door and blind factory and to increase 

 the capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000. 

 Fourteen machines for this work have been 

 ordered and will be instaUed as soon as the 

 buildings can be erected. The company has 

 secured eight acres adjoining its plant, which 

 will be used as a site for the new buildings. 

 G. F. Blanchard, secretary of the Fayette- 

 ville Lumber Company of Fayetteville, Ark., 

 who also owns a large planing mill and lum- 

 ber yard, will make Talihina. Okla., his head- 

 quarters hereafter, installing a nice ofHce 

 building. 



The Ozan Lumber Company, Prescott, Ark., 

 is again running its night shift, this feature 

 of the plant having been discontinued during 

 the recent lull in the lumber trade. 



The Steenerson Brothers Lumber Company 

 was recently incorporated at Felton, Minn., at 

 $100,000. 



A charter of incorporation has just been 

 granted the Houlka Tie Company. Houlka. 

 Miss., who will engage in a general timber 

 and lumber business, especially railroad ties, 

 piling and bridge timbers. The incorporators 

 are D. H. Hall. G. H. Langford, and S. J. 

 Riggan, and the amount of capital stock 

 510,000. 



The mill of the Midway Lumber Company, 

 at Seale, I^., commenced operation on April 

 6, and has been running ever since. Over a 

 hundred men are given employment, and both 

 pine and hardwood lumber are being manu- 

 factured. The operating force is A. B. Seaie. 

 president and general manager; L. P. Seale, 

 vice-president. 



The Kiemeyer Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at St. Louis with a capital of $50,- 

 000. W. T. Jones, H. C. Bayker and W. W. 

 Seibert are interested. 



The Hollywood Lumber and Coal Company of 

 Berkeley Springs, W. Va., has purchased a tract 

 of 5,000 acres of timber and mineral land in 

 Webster county, West Virginia. The land is rich 

 in hardwoods and contains a valuable seam of 

 coal. The property will be developed at once. 

 C. E. Glenn of Belington is manager and J. W. 

 Scott of Pittsburg has large holdings in the 

 company. 



The plant of the Myers Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Warsaw, Ind., is busy night and day 

 manufacturing hay ears, step ladders, porch 

 swings, etc. 



Consul General Robert J. Wynne of London 

 reports that there is a decrease of 35 per cent 

 in shipbuilding in the United Kingdom over the 

 year ending in March, 1907. 



In the construction of the earliest railways of 

 Indiana, Illinois and Missouri there were several 

 hundred thousand cross-ties used, many of which 

 endured for twenty to thirty-five years without 

 decay. 



The .7. B. Veeder Lumber Company of Okla- 

 homa City and Morganton, N. C, has been or- 

 ganized and capitalized at ?25,000. 



E. O. Faulkner, head of the tie and timber 

 department of the Santa Fe railroad, has just 

 returned from a six months' trip around the 

 globe, for the purpose of investigating supplies 

 of timber suitable for ties, in various countries 



of the Orient, and making a special study of the 

 eucalyptus in Australia. Mr. Faulkner first went 

 to Hawaii to investigate the ohia wood, about 

 which considerable has been published, and 

 which resulted in the Santa Fe purchasing a 

 large quantity of ties of that wood. From there 

 he went to Japan, the Philippines and Australia. 

 His observations will result in extensive experi- 

 ments in eucalyptus growing, and that the wood 

 is remarkably well suited for ties Mr. Faulkner 

 believes there is no question. However, it will 

 require perhaps twenty years to determine the 

 full value of the tree for this purpose. 



The portable sawmill of George Stevens at 

 Great Barrington, Mass., with 2,000,000 feet of 

 sawn chestnut and other lumber, was destroyed 

 by fire the last of May. 



The Buckley Lumber Company has been incor- 

 porated at Abingdon, Va., by F. B. Hurt and 

 others. 



Repair work on the tracks of the Pennsylvania 

 railroad on the main line east of Pittsburg and 

 the Panhandle to the west, will begin immedi- 

 ately. With a flood of requisitions from section 

 foremen, and prompted by results of recent in- 

 vestigations, it is said that the Pennsylvania 

 will go into the market within the next thirty 

 days for more than 1,000,000 cross ties. Orders 

 for additional trackage repairs and bridge im- 

 provements will follow and the repair gangs will 

 be largely increased. The repairs on the main 

 line and the Panhandle out of Pittsburg have 

 been neglected the past six months, it is as- 

 serted, as they have not been in ten years. 



The J. H. Allen Lumber Company, recently 

 incorporated, will engage in a general lumber 

 business at Mounds, Ark., with its principal of- 

 fice located at Memphis, Tenn. The incorpo- 

 rators are James H. Allen of Memphis, Tenn.. 

 Gus K. Jones and Chris Ledwidge of Little 

 Rock. The company is incorporated with a cap- 

 ital stock of ?10,000, all of which has been sub- 

 scribed. 



.\nother new incorporation is the Hood-Hay- 

 ward Lumber Company of Wheeling, W. Va., 

 with chief works in Wetzel county, West Vir- 

 ginia. Capital stock $150,o00. 



The McCoy-lsabell Lumoer Company of Hora- 

 tio, Ark., has dis.solved partnership. 



According to communications received from 

 Lefebvre's Spur, on the line of the Escanaba 

 and Lake Superior railroad, a large number of 

 ties and a quantity of logs belonging to the I. 

 Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., were 



threatened with destruction when a forest fire 

 broke out near that place recently. The fire 

 was discovered by A. Heyman, who lives at the 

 Spur, and with the members of his family, after 

 working for several hours, he succeeded in stop- 

 ping the progress of the flames and prevented 

 the loss of a large amount of property. 



The Eoyes Monorail Coaster Company of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., has been chartered, with a 

 caoital stock of $25,000. It will engage in the 

 manufacture and sale of roller coasters. 



The Canadian Clothespin Company of Arn- 

 prior, Ontario, will soon have its plant in run- 

 ning order to commence manufacturing these 

 ;iousehold necessities. 



On May 24 fire attacked the plant of the Na- 

 tional Box Company, Thirty-eighth and Morgan 

 streets, Chicago, destroying 2,000,000 feet of 

 lumber, three frame buildings and 150,000 

 wooden pails, causing a damage exceeding $150,- 

 000. Five firemen were overcome while fighting 

 the blaze, which could be seen for miles and at- 

 tracted a crowd of 20.000 people. That the fire, 

 the second within a week to damage the plant, 

 was of incendiary origin is believed by officials 

 of the company. An investigation will be made. 



The American Timber and Lumber Company 

 has been organized at Philadelphia, Pa., with a 

 capital of $125,000. The incorporators are J. T. 

 Flournoy, L. P. Thomas and C. F. Thomas. 



The Hawaii Mahogany Lumber Company is 

 considering a proposition to furnish 2,500,000 

 ties for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. 

 The company is installing machinery in a new 

 mill on the island of Hawaii, which will be used 

 entirely to cut railroad ties. It heretofore has 

 operated a small mill, but with the additional 

 machinery it will be possible to put out 2,000 

 or more ties a day. The timber used for the 

 purpose is known as ohia. A big contract has 

 been secured for furnishing ties for the Santa 

 Fe. 



The Universal Lumber Company has been 

 formed at New York City, with a capital ol 

 $100,000. 



The Railway Lumber and Supply Company 

 has been incorporated at Kansas City, with a 

 capital stock of $25,000. L. H. Atkinson, C. 

 V. Dodge, Jr., and A. Follett are among the in- 

 corporators. 



Fire recently caused a loss of $30,000 in the 

 Kalamazoo Kitchen Cabinet Company's factory 

 at Kalamazoo, Mich., which was only partially 

 covered by insurance. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABDttrOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



The editor of the II.irdwood Record acknowl- 

 edges receipt of an iuvitation to be present at 

 the forthcoming' eleventh annual meeting of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association at the 

 Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee, June 11 and 12, 1908. 



B. Payson Smith of the E. Payson Smith 

 Lumber Company, Minneapolis, called on Chi- 

 cago friends the last of the month. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., of the well-known 

 hardwood house of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., 

 Philadelphia, spent several days in the city 

 recently. 



A. Fellabaum of the Frankfort Handle Manu- 

 facturing Company, Frankfort, Ind., was a caller 

 at the Record office May 27. 



A $100,000 fire recently visited the plant of 

 the Standard Sash & Door Company at Fifty- 

 eighth street and Center avenue, following a 

 series of explosions believed to be of incendiary 

 origin. Scores of firemen worked for several 

 hours in an attempt to extinguish the flames, 

 but did not succeed before several individuals 

 were injured, and a number of adjoining build- 

 ings damaged. It was reported that there was 



no insurance on the building of the sash and 

 door plant, nor on the lumber which was con- 

 sumed. 



Giles Wright of the Giles Wright Lumber 

 Company. Ashland, Ky., was in the city last 

 week. Mr. Wright reports that he had a very 

 satisfactory trade in oak and poplar. 



W. -4. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, was a visitor to the Chicago 

 market June 3. 



Tom J. Christian of South Bend, Ind., sales 

 manager for Maley & Wertz of Evansville, called 

 at the Record office June 5. Mr. Christian re- 

 ports that trade is fair, and seems to be im- 

 proving ; he finds it specially strong in quar- 

 tered oak. 



The stork li ilic editor's office: 



However, h.' -lightly different 



from his usu;ii this time it is a 



new edition of .' ' Machine Company's 



catalogue, liand-sonely illustrated with cuts of 

 the company's famous band-saws, saw-tables. 

 Jointers, disk grinders, shapers, planers, boring 

 machines, etc. Several new machines are also 

 shown. The catalogue may be had by anyone 

 interested in this line of tools, on application 

 to the home office at Leetonia, O. The advance 

 announcement of tho book c;ime in the form 



