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locontly organized at Roanoke, Va. S. D. Fergu- 

 son is president of tlie company ; H. O. Spangler, 

 vice-president ; .T. A. Martin, secretary. 



Tlie Hardwood Manufacturing and Supply 

 Company at Smyrna, Ga., is moving its liead- 

 nuarters from that place to Dublin, Ga. The 

 offices at Smyrna will be discontinued. 



The plant of the American Wood Block Com- 

 pany has been leased by the Imperial Hoop Com- 

 pany at Bucyrus. O.. and will be reopened for 

 the manufacture of hoops and hub blocks. 



The Walker Springs Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Parkersburg, W. Va., to deal 

 in timberlands and manufacture lumber. Its 

 capital stock is $5,000 and the incorporators are 

 A. .T. String, W. E. G. Reed, H. B. Hogg, John B. 

 Hofmeier of Parkersburg, and W. E. Deegans of 

 Glen Jean. 



Articles of incorporation were recently filed 

 with the secretary of state for the Madison River 

 Lumber Company. The company Is capitalized 

 at .130,000 and will cut and mill lumber in the 

 upper reaches of the JIadison river. Those back- 

 ing the concern are T. M. Hodges, Wm. Wilcox, 

 and J. n. Chapman. 



The warehouse of the Lake Independence Lum- 

 ber Company, Big Bay, Jlich., was recently 

 burned with a loss estimated at between ten and 

 fifteen per cent of $600,000 insurance. The plant 

 had recently been purchased by the Brunswick- 

 Balke-CoUender Company, and over 100.000 bowl- 

 ing pins were burned. 



At a special meeting of the creditors of the 

 Tomb Lumber Company, Philadelphia, Pa., held 

 recently in the office of the referee in bank- 

 ruptcy, Harry P. Droney, the trustee, was given 

 permission to sell the right, title, and interest 

 of the bankrupt concern In its real estate and 

 personal property to the Watoga Lumber Com- 

 pany for the sum of $10,500 in cash. 



The Varner Land & Lumber Company of Alt- 

 heimer. Ark., has recently purchased 7,500 acres 

 of white oak and hickory timber north of this 

 city and is now building a new mill on the prop- 

 erty. It win shortly move its plant now located 

 at Altheimer to the new site and in addition 

 install a Mershon 66-inch resaw. which will in- 

 crease the capacity of the plant to about 40.000 

 feet daily. 



The Virginia-Carolina Lumber Company, manu- 

 facturer and wholesaler of hardwoods and yellow 

 pine, with headquarters at Lynchburg, Va.. and 

 mills in Virginia, Xorth Carolina and South 

 Carolina, recently filed a petition of bankruptcy 

 with liabilities of $89,972 and assets of .Si 23.9510. 

 The action was taken by the board of directors 

 of the company in justice to all the creditors 

 and by reason of the fact that banking facilities 

 have not been sufficiently large to take care of 

 the business. Richard T. Yates, president of the 

 company, also filed a personal petition in which 

 his liabilities are given at $43,295 and assets at 

 $35,000, of which $33,000 is stock in the Vir- 

 ginia-Carolina Lumber Company. 



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CHICAGO 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess. Inc.. 

 Memphis, Tenn.. was in Chicago the early part 

 of the week, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Bur- 

 gess had been taking a short pleasure trip in 

 Wisconsin, after which he went to the East on 

 business, returning to Chicago en route to Mem- 

 phis. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 Louisville, Ky., was in attendance last week at 

 the meetings of two of the veneer clubs. Mr. 

 Kline called on some of his trade while in the 

 city and was extremely optimistic as to condi- 

 tions in the veneer business. 



W. E. Johns of the Johns-Mowbray-Xolson 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., was with the local 

 trade a few days during the week. 



H. S. Janes, president, and G. I. Jones of 

 Boston, treasurer of the New England Hardwood 

 Company of Wilmington, Vt., stopped at Hard- 

 wood Record offices between trains en route to 

 Memphis on Tuesday of this week. 



T. J. McDonald of Knoxville. Tenn., who con- 

 ducts an extensive timber cruising business at 

 that place, spent several days last week in Chi- 

 cago in connection with some big cruising work 

 which he has on hand in the South. 



C. T. Jarrell, with B. C. Jarrell & Co.. Hum- 

 boldt, Tenn., was one of the prominent veneer 

 manufacturers in attendance at the recent meet- 

 ings in Chicago. 



Ralph May of May Brothers, Memphis, Tenn., 

 was one of the out of town members of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Chicago who attended the 

 entertainment given on the night of Oct. 12, at 

 the club rooms. Mr. May was in the city for 

 several days and says the condition of trade 

 with him is highly satisfactory. 



C. M. Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company of Louisville, Ky., was one of the 

 recent prominent out of town visitors to the 

 local trade. 



John Penrod, prominent veneer and fancy 

 wood man of Kansas City, was one of tin' dis- 

 tinguished visitors locally during the la>t two 

 weeks. 



S. B. Anderson of the Anderson-TuUy Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn.. has been in the city for 

 the last week in connection with the veneer meet- 

 ings and also on business. 



E. H. Klann, hardwood wholesaler with offices 

 in the Fisher building, is at work again after 

 having been confined to his Ijome for almost 

 two weeks with a severe illness. 



M. L. Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company. 

 Saginaw, Mich., just reached Chicago after 

 having spent several weeks at the company's 

 mills at Poplar Bluff, Ark. Mr. Pease states that 

 his chief difficulty at present is in getting a 

 sufficient amount of dry hardwood lumber to 

 meet his orders. 



J. O. W. Danielson of Danielson & Pierce, 

 hardwood wholesalers of Rhinelander, Wis., spent 

 a few days the latter part of the week with the 

 local trade. 



R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the Northern Hem- 

 lock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 spent Wednesday of this week in Chicago en 

 route from Wausau to Detroit, where he will 

 attend the meeting of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association. 



Harold Coppes of the Coppes, Zook & Mutsch- 

 ler Company, manufacturer of Indiana hard- 

 woods, with headquarters at Nappanee, was in 

 the city on Wednesday of this week on business 

 in connection with that company. 



C. L. Wallace has taken offices in the Peoples 

 Gas building, this city, under the style of C. L. 

 Wallace, agent. He will do a commission lum- 

 ber business. 



NEW YORK 



W. L. Sykes. president of the Emporium Lum- 

 ber Company, hardwood lumber operator In 

 Penn'sylvania, Vermont and the Adirondack re- 

 gion of New York state, recently visited Man- 

 ager W. E. VanWert at the local sales office 

 of the company. 



W. C. Sykes, son of W. L. Sykes and head of 

 the .Vdirondack operations of the company, was 

 united in marriage recently to Miss Marion I. 

 Chappell. at Syracuse, N. Y. After their honey- 

 moon Mr. and Mrs. Sykes will reside at Coni- 



fer, N. Y., the new town site of the milling 

 operations of the company in the .\dirondacks. 



The new electric-power concrete fireproof box 

 factory of the Mengel Box Company of Louis- 

 ville, Ky., which has been building on the 

 Newark Meadows, N. J., the past year Is fast 

 nearing completion. It will be one of the most 

 modern and largest box plants in the country 

 and exceedingly well located in the matter of 

 water and rail receipts and shipments, adjoin- 

 ing as it does the main line of the Pennsylvania 

 railroad. 



The sympathy of the lumber trade of the 

 Metropolitan district is extended to Mr. Russell 

 J. Perrine, president of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association and head of Johnson Brothers, 

 Brooklyn, in the loss of his esteemed father, 

 Duncan K. Perrine, retired, which occurred at ^ 



his residence in Brooklyn, Oct. 10. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, hard- 

 woods, Memphis, Tenn., spent several days in 

 town during the fortnight in the interest of 

 business. He reports hardwood conditions 

 strong. The mills of this company are running 

 double shifts and the sawmills eleven to twelve 

 hours. The company finds a ready market at 

 satisfactory prices for all it can produce. 



The Hoban, Hunter. Feitner Compan.v. whole- 

 sale specialist in cypress, Brooklyn, is just mak- 

 ing a substantial addition to its lumber shed 

 for the purpose of carrying more of the higher 

 grades of cypress under cover. This house is 

 one of the most successful in the local lumber 

 trade and the facilities which it employes are 

 being increasingly appreciated by the trade. 



Theodore F. Dinkel, vice-president of the Din- 

 kel & Jewell Company, large lumber and mill- 

 work house of Tarrytown, N. Y.. died recently 

 at Cornish inats, N. H., where he had been 

 spending the last two years on account of his 

 health. Mr. Dinkel was widely known in the 

 lumber trade. A host of friends mourns his loss. 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company, Indianapolis, Ind., was a prominent 

 hardwood visitor during the fortnight in the 

 interest of National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association affairs. 



The Frank J. Parks Lumber Company succeeds 

 to the wholesale business of Frank J. Parks, 1 

 Madison avenue, Manhattan. 



The local wood-working machinery trade and 

 many members of the lumber trade of this city 

 and the Atlantic seaboard, were grieved to learn 

 of the death of Lloyd A. Kimball, manager of 

 the New Y'ork office of the Simonds Manufac- 

 turing Company, large saw manufacturer of 

 Fitchburg, Mass.. and a director in several other 

 corporations. Mr. Kimball died at his residence 

 in Brooklyn in the sixtj--first year of his age. 

 He had not been in good health since early 

 spring. 



BUFFALO 



The Sparkman Mill & Lumber Company. Little 

 Rock, Ark., of which L. H. Allen of this city 

 is vice-president and manager of the Buffalo 

 office, bas become a member of the Buffalo 

 Lumber Exchange. Mr. Allen opened an office 

 on the twelfth floor of the Prudential building 

 several months ago and is handling yellow pine 

 and oak in this territory. 



Anthony Miller states that his .yard has 

 lately been getting plent.v of ears with which to 

 fill orders, but that the chief difficulty at pres- 

 ent is to secure labor. 



O. E, Yeager reports the hardw-ood trade as 

 showing much improvement. 



Charles Perrin of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, 

 with his wife and a party of friends, has been 

 making an auto tour of southern New Y'ork. 



J. B. Wall has returned from a trip of several 

 weeks through the South, looking after lumber 

 shipments. The yard of the Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is getting in a good stock of 

 oak. 



It. D. McLean has returned from the South, 



