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HARDWOOD RECORD 



It is announced from Escanaba, Mich., that the new factory of the 

 Bird's-Eye Veneer Company, recently Incorporated at that place, will be 

 ready for occupancy by the first of April. 



The Concordia Land & Lumber Company at Jeffris, La., started opera- 

 tions on Mar. 1, after being idle for several weeks. The plant was shut 

 down on account of poor logging conditions. 



The Burgaw Lumber Company, Inc.. has been incorporated at Norfolk, 

 Va., the officers being : W. "E. Tolleth, president ; J. M. Marshall, vice- 

 president : R. M. Brown, secretary and treasurer, all of Norfolk. 



The D. W. Atchison Lumber Company has been formed at Chattanooga, 

 Tenn., with a capital of $10,000. those connected with the enterprise 

 being A. P. Conklin, D. W. .\tchison, Paul Campbell, C. S. Coffey and 

 R. A. Cogswell. 



The Wabash Hardwood Company of Terre Haute, Ind.. and Memphis, 

 Tenn., extensive hardwood dealer and exporter of timber and lumber, 

 has established a branch office in Beaumont, with L. L. Boone, .Jr., as 

 its representative there. 



The Straight Creek Lumber Company has been organized at Barbour- 

 ville, K.V., and has purchased the standing timber in Bell and other 

 southeastern Kentucky counties from the Continental Coal Company. It 

 is estimated that ten years will be required to get off the timber. 



The factory and machinery of the Merganthaler-Hortons Basket Com- 

 pany of Paducah, Ky., was recently purchased by the Lucas Land & 

 Lumber Company of that place, the consideration involved being about 

 $50,000. The purchase was made by the I^ucas company with the idea 

 of providing facilities for the manufacture of boxes from its low-grade 

 lumber. It is well equipped and well located. The capacity of this plant 

 is about five times that of the Lucas box plant which was destroyed by 

 fire last December. 



=-< CHICAGO >• 



J. O. Wetherbee of the J. O. Wetherbee Company, Boston, Mass., was 

 a Chicago visitor, Mar. 10. 



The Union Show Case Company, of Chicago, 111., recently filed an in- 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy. 



M. J. Fox, manager of the Von Platen Lumber Company's operations 

 at Iron Mountain, Mich., was in Chicago several days of last week. 



Harry Schadt, secretary of the Hyde Lumber Company of South Bend, 

 Ind., spent several days of last week in Chicago. 



Ralph May of May Brothers, Memphis, Tenn., spent several days with 

 the local trade about a week ago. 



J. T. Edwards, manager of the Medford Veneer Company, Medford, Wis., 

 was in Chicago in conference with his local representatives a week ago. 



H. D. Leavitt, vice-president of the Oconto Company and manager of 

 Its opel-ations at Oconto, Wis., spent a few days of last week in this city 

 in conference with the local office. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Chicago gave a highly successful stag and 

 smoker in the club rooms on Friday evening, Feb. 28. 



J. C. Turner of the J. C. Turner Lumber Company, New York City, ac- 

 companied by his wife, reached Chicago on Feb. 26, having come from 

 French Lick, Ind. 



Hardwood Record has just been advised that the Gaylord Motor Car 

 Company has closed a contract with the Michigan Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, for a car of special design for the use of the chief 

 of the forest fire protective department, Charles V. Hickok. 



=-< NEW YORK y- 



The southern railway and steamship lines have announced that, effec- 

 tive March 11, they will eliminate free lighterage within the New York 

 lighterage limits. This will amount to about $1.25 per M on shipments 

 from Southern Pacific milling points. 



Charles W. Booth, for many years identified with the domestic and 

 foreign hardwood trade, died at Bayonne, N. ,1., Feb. 22 of heart disease. 

 Mr. Booth was a member of the firm of Wm. Booth & Bro. of Manhattan. 

 He is survived by a widow and three children. 



The C. C. Mengel & Brother Company has opened a sales office in the 

 Aeolian building. West Forty-second street, Manhattan. S. C. Strock 

 will be in charge. This company is one of the foremost importers and 

 exploiters of mahogany in the world. 



Charles Milne of the Milne Brothers Company, wholesale hardwood 

 specialist, 18 Broadway, left for Washington with the Essex Troop, New 

 Jersey, which appeared in the inaugural parade. 



G. .T. Howie of Wright, Graham & Co., Glasgow. Scolland, who has 

 been spending some time at hardwood manufacturing poiuls in the States, 

 sailed for home during the past fortnight. 



E. L. Edwards of the Edwards Lumber Company. Cincinnati and Day- 

 ton, C, sailed from New York Feb. 27 on the steamer "France" of the 

 French line for a brief trip to Paris. 



Gustavo A. Farber. London ropre.scntalive of Russe & Burgess. Inc., 

 hardwood manufacturers and exporters of Memphis, sailed for home last 

 week. 



W. S. Harlan of the Jackson Lumber Company, Lockhart, Ala., returned 

 home after a few days spent in town visiting the local representative. 

 Mr. Harlan was optimistic over the business outlook. 



T. Thompson has opened an office in the Aeolian building and will con- 

 duct a wholesale mahogany import business. 



A. B. Ransom of Nashville, Tenn., spent a couple of weeks in town re- 



cently. Mr. Ransom finds hardwood conditions generally strong with firm 

 prices and a scarcity of good grades. - 



The American Veneer Company, formerly at Kenilworth, N. J., is again 

 doing business at a new location in Hoboken, N. J. The new plant is of 

 much larger capacity and facilities for handling business are vastly In- 

 creased. The company has acquired the plant and taken over the busi- 

 ness of Joel H. Woodman. 



The Emporium Lumber Company interests have organized the Emporium 

 Forestry Company, a New York corporation which Is now owner of 86,00ii 

 acres of land in New York state and mills and railroad operations formerly 

 owned by the Emporium Lumber Company. The stockholders and officers 

 of the Emporium Forestry Company are practically the same as of the 

 Emporium Lumber Company. The lumber products of the Emporium 

 Forestry Company will be marketed by the Emporium Lumber Company. 

 The operations of the Emporium Lumber Company at Keating Summit 

 and Austin. Pa., are expected to be completed this spring and the offices 

 of the company will be moved to Utica, N. Y.. which will be closer to the 

 operation at Galeton, Pa., and more conveuicnt to the principal trade of 

 the company. 



--<, BUFFALO y- 



On May 1 the headquarters of the Emporium Lumber Company will 

 bo at Utica, N. Y., with the Buffalo office reduced in size and some of 

 Ihe Pennsylvania offices discontinued. President W. L. Sykes has not 

 decided whether or not he will remove to Utica this spring. Utica was- 

 selected because it is a sort of half-way point between the mills of the 

 company in the Adirondacks and Vermont on the one side, and Austin 

 and Galeton. Pa., on the other. 



The Bufl'alo dealers who are in Michigan and Wisconsin hardwood 

 trade are finding prices very high this winter, and they would go else- 

 where tor supplies if they knew where to find them. There is now no- 

 hardwood coming out of Canada, so that everything has to come from 

 the South or the Southwest, if the lake district will not produce it at 

 paying prices. Of course New York, Pennsylvania and Now England 

 are doing considerable in hardwoods. 



The Setter Brothers Company, a lumber and veneer manufacturing 

 plant of Cattaraugus, has entered into an arrangement to move the busi- 

 ness to .Jamestown, and it is expected that the business will become part 

 of a new $100,000 corporation being formed to manufacture furniture 

 veneers. The name of the new plant and its location are not yet dis- 

 closed. 



F. M. Sullivan reports excellent winter trade at the Arthur street ,vard. 

 much of it in soft gray elm and brown ash. Stocks of oak and maple are 

 also being replenished. 



A. J. Chestnut has returned from a short trip to Florida. He reports 

 that Jacksonville impressed him as favorably as any other town he vis- 

 ited, but he thinks that the North is the section to live in. 



Hugh McLean left for the southern mills of his company early this 

 month, planning to be away for three weeks and to spend some days ii> 

 Florida before coming home. 



Anthony Miller finds the hardwood trade very fair for March, although 

 the presence of much snow makes it difficult for his men to handle all 

 the incoming lumber now arriving. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. have l>een moving a good amount of oak and 

 poplar this month and are looking to see the present good inquiry for 

 iiardwoods still more improved soon. 



Horace F. Taylor of Taylor & Crate. Inc., is going South right away 

 to look after the interests of Ihe company beyond the Ohio. The office 

 r( ports business as never better. The new yard will be developed slowly 

 as soon as the weather permits and will have a fireproof office building. 



O. E. Yeager and J. B. Wall left early this month for a trip to Mt. 

 Clemens, where they will spend alx>ut two weeks'. Mr. M^al! has been 

 appointed a member of the finance committee of the International Con- 

 gress of School Hygiene, which will be held in this city in August. 



F. T. Sullivan has returned from a 'business trip to New York and 

 Philadelphia and is now busily engaged in making plans for lake ship- 

 ments this summer to the local yard oT II. H. Salmon ■& Co. 



M. M. Wall and W. L. Sykes were among the Buffalo lumbermen who 

 took in the inauguration of A\'oodrow \\ilson. The.v also attended the 

 wholesalers' convention at Atlantic City. 



.\t the annual election of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange held Mar. 8. 

 .\. W. Kreinheder was elected president, John McLeod vice-president, and 

 John S. Tyler secretary and treasurer, with the following board of 

 directors : II. I.. Abbott. W. P. Belts. John F. Knox, .\nthony Miller. 

 W. A. Perrin. James N Scatcherd. John S. Tyler. A. W. Kreinheder. J. 

 M. Briggs, Peter McNeil and John McLeod. Satisfactory reports were 

 made by the secretary and treasurer. 



-< PHILADELPHIA > 



Dauii'I B. Curll tostitics to progressive trading with iuquirics multi- 

 plying. Unfortunately bo is obliged to turn down orders for some of tlie- 

 woods unusually scarce at this time. His four portable mills near Butleiv 

 Tenn.. and the one at Fort Blaekmar, Va.. are rushed to the limit get- 

 ting out hardwoods and hemlock. 



The W. R. Taylor Lumber Company reports business increasing right 

 along. W. R. Taylor, who is at present on a business trip through New 

 York and New Jersey, will return in a few days before luakinj; an ex- 



