HARDWOOD RECORD 



in charge of the company's headquarters, says 

 they are having a very fair run of business and 

 on the whole have little complaint to make. 

 The demand for northern hardwood is in good 

 proportion to the light supplies that are in sight, 

 he believes. 



Harry C. Reynolds, secretary of the Southern 

 Lumber Company, Inc., of Clayton, Ga., manu- 

 facturers of hardwood, has been in Minneapolis 

 on a visit for several days. He was formerly 

 associated here with his father, the late W. T. 

 Reynolds, in white cedar post and pole business, 

 and having lived here several years, has many 

 friends in the city who were glad to shake his 

 band again. 



L. E. Brown, sales manager of the Brown 

 Brothers' Lumber Company, Rhinelander, Wis., 

 was a business visitor in Minneapolis a few days 

 ago. 



The Villaume Box and Lumber Company of 

 St. Paul had a peculiar accident in their factory 

 a few days ago. A 5-foot drive wheel hurst and 

 threw pieces in every direction, one going through 

 a 2-foot floor to the room above and out through 

 the roof, but no employee was struck or In- 

 jured. 



The Reed & Sherwood Lumber and Manufac- 

 turing Company of Anoka, Minn., is going to 

 build a two-story brick factory building to ac- 

 commodate the growing needs for space for their 

 woodworking machinery. 



The Osterhout & Fox Lumber Company, newly 

 organized, has opened oifices in the Lumber Ex- 

 change and will handle west coast lumber, shin- 

 gles, hardwood lumber and flooring and other 

 specialties. Ciofton W. Osterhout, head of the 

 company and its active manager, has been asso- 

 ciated with the Virginia Lumber Company of 

 Virginia, Minn., and recently has been in the 

 lumber business in California. He is well qual- 

 ified by experience to look after both buying 

 and soiling. 



E. Payson Smith, president of the Payson 

 Smith Lumber Company, is absent on a trip to 

 Milwaukee, Chicago and Indianapolis. He will 

 also make a visit to his mill in southeast Mis- 

 souri before returning home. Mr. Smith says 

 that business for the first three months of the 

 present year were better than those of the same 

 period of 1907. He anticipates a good fall 

 business. 



G. W. Everts of the Forbes-Everts Lumber 

 Company, is absent on a business trip to their 

 mill in Missouri. • Manager H. A. Broughton 

 has well appointed offices at 1043 Lumber Ex- 

 change, and is one of those good fellows that 

 make it agreeable for all visitors. He is look- 

 ing forward to a big fall business, but does not 

 think it will open before October. 



Wm. C. Bailey, one of the pioneer lumber- 

 men of the northwest, always has a pleasant 

 smile and a warm handshake for a newspaper 

 man. Mr. Bailey is located at 600 Central 

 avenue, where he has been for years. He has 

 a trade especially desirable among the wagon- 

 makers throughout ^the Northwest. Mr. Bailey 

 was one of the founders of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, and was its first 

 vice president. He was one of the first sub- 

 scribers to the Record and has not missed one 

 issue. He says it is better today than ever, 

 and every hardwood lumbermen in the country 

 should be a reader of it. 



A number of the lumbermen will attend the 

 annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association at Milwaukee, June 11 and 12. 

 It Is possible a car will be chartered and all 

 go in a body. 



LITTLE ROCK 



The lumber Interests, particularly in the 

 southwestern and southern portion of the state, 

 have suffered severely from the recent severe 

 storms. Some companies estimate that as high 

 as 50,000,000 feet have been blown down by the 

 storms, In several individual instances, while 



the total loss is very great. Mills have been 

 put to cut this fallen timber, however, and the 

 majority of it will be worked up. Hans and 

 Herman Diercks of Kansas City, chief owners 

 of the interests of the Diercks Lumber Company, 

 one of the largest timber concerns in the South- 

 west, visited the scene of the storm's work and 

 immediately ordered their mills to center their 

 eft'orts on the waste timber. Aside from the 

 injury to commercial timber an almost equally 

 great damage has been done the young forests. 



A big deal in hardwood has been closed where- 

 by A. C. McComb of Oshkosh, Wis., Ijecomes 

 the owner of 11,000 acres of virgin timber in 

 eastern Arkansas, located along the Memphis & 

 Helena railway in Desha county. The timber 

 was originally a part of the holdings of Max 

 Fleisher of the Fleisber Stave Company of Mem- 

 phis. The timber is chiefly white and red oak. 



The Rock Island Railway Company sustained 

 a $10,000 loss recently through the burning of 

 a large supply of ties along the track at Abbott. 



The plant of the Cunningham & Kitchen Com- 

 pany of Tinsman has been destroyed by fire, en- 

 tailing a loss of about §5,000. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company of Augusta, 

 Ark., has placed in commission eighteen new 

 spoke machines, which will require the addition 

 of about seventy-five men to the working force. 



Among tie new hardwood concerns is the 

 Carter-Glattly Lumber Company, with headquar- 

 ters at Riverside, in Woodruff county. The con- 

 cern is capitalized at $20,000. The incorpora- 

 tors are R. J. Carter, J. D. Carter, William and 

 Emma Glattly. 



W. A. Matthews & Co. of Clarksville, Tenn., 

 will establish a stave mill at Pine Bluff, on the 

 site of the old Ezell Stave Company's plant. The 

 promoters are extensively engaged in the stave 

 industry in Tennessee and northern Mississippi. 

 Their plant will be largely for the manufacture 

 of tight barrel staves for the foreign trade. 



The Nashville Lumber Company of Nashville, 

 Ark., will add a furniture factory as well as a 

 spoke and handle factory to their already exten- 

 sive lumber interests in Howard county. 



The Williams Cooperage Company of Leslie 

 was a sufferer as a result of the recent flood 

 (onditions In their section, among their losses 

 lieing a railway bridge, which was swept away 

 by the river. 



A new Interest for Des Arc is an ax handle 

 factory, which is to be put in operation soon. 



The Camden Mill Company has increased Its 

 capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000, and will 

 add a plant for the manufacture of sash, doors, 

 etc. Fourteen new machines will be installed. 



The Ozan Sawmill Company of Prescott rushed 

 work on several miles of tram railway during 

 the days immediately after the heavy storms and 

 are now engaged In working up the timber felled 

 by the wind. 



At a recent annual meeting of the stockhold- 

 ers of the Nashville Lumber Company the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected : C. C. Henderson, 

 president ; W. W. Brown, vice president ; W. K. 

 Eamsey, treasurer ; J. W. Bishop, secretary, and 

 A. C. Ramsey, general manager. 



The Stout-Greer Lumber Company has branched 

 out in a rather novel direction for lumbermen. 

 It has established two of perhaps the largest 

 demonstration farms in the state in Calhoun 

 county, and is experimenting with scientiflc farm 

 methods in conjunction with the efforts of the 

 government special agents. On one of the farms 

 have been placed 10,000 Elberta peach trees, 

 and other fruit trees have been Introduced. Gar- 

 den products are to be Interspersed among the 

 orchard growth. 



A general concatenation of the order of Hoo- 

 Hoo for southeast Arkansas has been called for 

 June 20, at Pine Bluff, by Vicegerent Louis 

 Rucks. George Darby and James Holmes of that 

 city have the affair in charge. A large class of 

 kittens will be put through the "degrees." Prom- 

 inent Hoo-Hoo from over the southwest, particu- 

 larly from Texas, are expected to be in attend- 

 ance, among them J. A. Bomar of Houston, Tex., 



and J. F. Davis of Louisiana. Boiling Arthu 

 Johnson of Chicago, founder of the order, ha 

 promised to attend. 



G. R. & I. railway officials. Vice President 

 and General Manager J. H. P. Hughart, General 

 Freight Agent E. C. Leavenworth and Commer- 

 cial Agent M. F. Quaintance were here last week 

 conferring with Cadillac lumbermen. Their visit 

 left a good impression and it is hoped they will 

 come often. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mitchell are in Detroit 

 for a week. 



F. A. Diggins has returned from a few days' 

 visit in Detroit. 



M. D. Reeder of the Boyne City Lumber Com- 

 pany passed through the city June 1. 



A. W. Newark, secretary of the Cadillac 

 Handle Company, is expected home this week 

 from a business trip. 



Preparations have been made for the starting 

 of the Mitchell-Diggins iron furnace, which will 

 give employment to about 200 men. 



The Cadillac Handle Company is running- a 

 day and night shift in cutting its stock of logs 

 on hand. 



W. H. White and Thomas White of the W. H. 

 White Company, Boyne City, passed through the 

 city last week. 



The G. R. & I. railway have started their 

 northern Michigan train service by putting on 

 the "Northland Limited" train running semi- 

 weekly until June 2S, when daily service will be 

 given. This train carries through sleeping cars 

 between St. Louis, Louisville, Indianapolis and 

 Cincinnati. 



Quite a delegation from Cadillac will attend 

 the eleventh annual convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association at Milwaukee, 

 June 11 and 12. 



Lumber manufacturers in this vicinity report 

 orders coming in but slowly, but there is a feel- 

 ing prevalent that trade will open up in every 

 way before long. 



Judge Taylor has appointed Adam Schauss re- 

 ceiver for the Kieper Bros. Furniture Company 

 and he is now in charge of the business and 

 assets of the company. No list of either assets 

 or liabilities have yet been filed or made public, 

 but it is thought that the claims will far ex- 

 ceed the assets. The company suffered a heavy 

 loss from fire recently and the present embar- 

 rassment is in part due to that. 



Fire this week destroyed the dry shed and 

 carpenter shop of the H. C. Wason Company, 

 lumber dealers at Toledo. The entire loss is 

 estimated at about $10,000 and was well covered 

 by insurance. The blaze is supposed to have 

 been caused by tramps smoking in the dry shed. 



There is now a whirl of activity at the plant 

 of the Ames-Bonner Brush Company, caused by 

 the receipt of an order for 23,000 brushes, backed 

 with rosewood, for use in the United States 

 army. The work is to be completed within 

 thirty days after the placing of the order, and 

 a large number of extra men have been put on 

 the job. 



Creditors of the Fremont Lumber Company of 

 Fremont, O., have filed a petition in involuntary 

 bankruptcy in the United States courts here. 

 The petitioners hold claims aggregating more 

 than $1,000. 



Tariff duty amounting to about $1,000 was 

 paid on a cargo of railway ties which came In 

 from Canada a few days ago. This Is one of 

 the largest importation fees ever charged on a 

 single timber cargo at Toledo. The ties are in- 

 tended for the use of the Wabash railroad. 



Damage amounting to about $200,000 was 

 caused by the burning of the plant of the Dayton 



