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HARDWOOD RECORD 



contracted for both in the tropics and at Liverpool, which insure him a 

 full stock of fancy veneer flitches and fancy wood lumber material for 

 nearly a year to come. 



The high price of oak and other better types of American woods has re- 

 sulted in a tremendous increase in demand for mahogany and other im- 

 ported woods. This has resulted in not only that Mr. Willey but all 

 other fancy wood producers are extremely busy at the present time with a 

 demand that exceeds the supply. 



New Oak Flooring Factory 



As is generally known to the trade, the larger proportion of the lum- 

 ber product of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove. 0., is 

 now white oak from that region of the splendid growth of this wood in 

 Dickinson County, Virginia, although a considerable quantity of yellow 

 poplar is still being made. Fully eighty per cent of the output of this 

 sterling hardwood house is now white oak, the larger portion of which is 

 manufactured into quarter-sawed stock. 



The company is now engaged in the building and equipping of an oak 

 flooring plant at Coal Grove, in connection with which there has already 

 been put in commission a new Grand Rapids dry kiln of the latest type, 

 and within the next month the entire installation of electrically driven 

 machines will be in place for the production of flooring. 



Death of D. P. Mann 



Lumber interests in Memphis were very much shocked Sunday. March 

 16. by the announcement of the death of Donald P. Mann, vice-president of 

 the Chapman-Dewey Lumber Company, which occurred the night before. 

 Mr. Mann had been quite ill for some time but his partner, Mr. Dewey, 

 who had been with him for some time, left on a business trip Saturday 



on the theory that he 

 was very much improv- 

 ed. His death occurred 

 a few hours later from 

 heart trouble. He was 

 known to be in a some- 

 what serious condition 

 but the end was not ex- 

 pected so soon. 



Mr. Mann came to 

 Memphis from Kansas 

 City. He had been en- 

 gaged in the newspaper 

 business at that point. 

 He became associated 

 with the Chapman- 

 Dewey Lumber Com- 

 pany and for a long 

 time looked after the 

 interests of this firm at 

 Marked Tree. Ark. 

 The firm largely in- 

 creased its holdings in 

 that territory and later 

 Mr. Mann not only be- 

 came a partner in the 

 firm but was elected 

 vice-president. He was 

 one of the best known 

 lumbermen in this part 

 of the country. He leaves a wife and two children. He also had three 

 brothers and three sisters. Two of the former are Bishop Cameron Mann 

 of North Dakota, and Rev. Alex Mann of Trinity Church, Boston. 



Chas. K. Parry & Co. Make New Connection 



Beginning April 1 Charles K. Parry & Co., Philadelphia, will offer to 

 the trade, the product of the Carolina Spruce Company, Pensacola, 

 Yancey County, N. C. The tract of timber was formerly known as the 

 Johnson tract, and is conceded to be one of the finest in that section. 

 Everything new and the best to be had has been Installed ; a Wheland 

 band bill, a new .American loader and a new Shay engine, which outfit 

 will place this company in a position to furnish to the trade the best 

 manufactured lumber possible today. 



The oflicers of the Carolina Spruce Company are C. S. Aldrich, for- 

 merly of the Nelson Lumber Companj', Johnson City, Tenn., president and 

 general manager : Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & Co., Phila- 

 pelphia, vice-president ; L. E. Faulk of Pensacola, N. C, secretary and 

 JC. A. Oberlin. formerly of the Nelson Lumber Company, treasurer. 



Planing mill facilities will be added this summer, and the capacity 

 the mill will be not less than an average of 90,000 feet daily. The 

 timber was estimated at 140,000,000 feet all in one compact body. Of 

 this approximately 100.000.000 feet is spruce and the balance mostly 

 hardwood with some hemlock. The first cut will be hemlock and spruc^, 

 although there is at present about two million feet of hardwood ready for 

 shipment. All of this timber is exceptionally large, nothing ever having 

 been cut from it. Many of the poplar, oak and chestnut logs are too 

 large to handle with ordinary equipment. Railroad connection has just 

 been established, as the timber lies eighteen miles from Boonford, on the 

 C, C. & O., which railroad has financed the Black Mountain railroad, 

 built from Boonford to Pensacola, in order to get the hauling of this 



CHAS. K. PARRY. PHILADELPHIA. VICE- 

 PRESIDENT CAROLINA SPRUCE COMPANY 



L, 



lumber. The railroad rates are all favorable to the eastern shipment of 

 this lumber, and the entire output will be handled by Charles K. Parry 

 & Co., at 1431 Land Title building. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Charles K. Parry, vice-president of the Carolina Spruce Company, and 

 owner of Charles K. Parry & Co., has had much valuable experience in 

 the lumber business. In 1909 the present firm of Charles K. Parry & 

 Co. was formed. Mr. Parry evidently inherits his knowledge of the 

 lumber business as his father conducted a large retail yard near Hat- 

 boro. Pa., for twenty-five years, and his great grandfather, Isaac Conard, 

 operated a sawmill where now stands that section of Philadelphia known 

 as Kensington. Mr. Conard bought rafts, which were at that time 

 floated down the Delaware river, also sawed locally for people owning 

 timber in the immediate vicinty of Philadelphia. Mr. Parry is vice-presi- 

 dent of and controls the output of the Selma Lumber Company, Selma, 

 N. C. He also controls the Clio Lumber Company, Bingham, S. C, and is 

 interested in and controls the output of B. B. Gray, at Pine Bloom, Ga. 



Baird-Coale Lumber Company 



The Baird-Coale Lumber Company is a new lumber organization that 

 has just been incorporated under the laws of Delaware with a paid up 

 capital of $15,000. and home oflice at 814 Fisher building, Chicago, which 

 will commence doing business on Apr. 1. The principals of the company 

 are D. W. Baird. president and general manager, and George M. Coale, 

 vice-president and treasurer. 



D. W. Baird, who has been identified with the Chicago lumber trade 

 for several years under the title of the D. W. Baird Lumber Company, 

 was born at Greenwood, Clark county. Wis., August 27, 1877. He is 

 unanimously known in the trade as "Dan." He started in the lumber 

 business in 1897 with 

 the Fenwood Lumber 

 Company at Fenwood, 

 Wis., as inspector. In 

 January. 1898, he went 

 with the Morton-Edgar 

 Lumber Company at 

 Lancaster. Wis., as 

 buyer and inspector of 

 northern hardwoods. In 

 January, 1899, he en- 

 gaged with the Tucker- 

 Hooper Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago, as buy- 

 er and inspector of 

 southern hardwoods, 

 and a year later joined 

 the Dudley Lumber 

 Company, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., as man 

 ager of its southern 

 hardwood operations, 

 and opened up a yard 

 for that company at 

 Logansport, Ind., and 

 later in Memphis, Tenn. 

 He remained with this 

 company for six years 

 and then went with 

 Banks & Co., Hernando, 

 Miss., as general manager of their sawmill operations and domestic and 

 foreign sales, where he remained until January, 1910, when he estab- 

 lished the D. W. Baird Lumber Company, which institution was removed 

 to Chicago on Jan. 1, 1911. This company has done a largely increas- 

 ing business from that time until now, when the concern is being merged 

 into the new Baird-Coale Lumber Company. 



George M. Coale, vice-president and treasurer of the new concern, was 

 born at Gosport. Clarke county, Ala., May' 30. 1885. He started in the 

 yellow pine business as clerk for the Kirby Lumber Company. Beaumont, 

 Tex., and from there went with the Keith Lumber Company at Voth, 

 Tex., as chief clerk to the secretary and sales manager. This position 

 he held for two years, gaining much practical mill experience. In 1905 

 he went with the Continental Lumber Company at Houston, Tex., as 

 chief clerk, where he remained until the first part of 1907, when he 

 succeeded Ben S. Woodhead as secretary and sales manager, where he 

 remained until October, 1909, when he re-entered the employ of the 

 Kirby Lumber Company as northern sales manager with headquarters at 

 Chicago. On Feb. 1, 1911, he returned to the Continental Lumber Com- 

 pany as vice-president and sales manager, which position he has held up 

 to the present time, when be resigned to join D. W. Baird in the Baird- 

 Coale Lumber Company. 



The many friends of lx>th principals of the Baird-Coale Lumber Com- 

 pany will wish the new company the success it undoubtedly will achieve 

 because both the principals are well-equipped to command an excellent 

 business in Chicago and vicinity. 



Smoker of St. Louis Lumbermen 



The St. Louis Lumbermen's Club held a smoker in the cabin at Faust's 

 Restaurant on Tuesday evening. Mar. 18. The fun began when the 

 members sat down to a Dutch lunch and did not end until many enter- 



W. BAIRD, PRESIDENT BAIRD-COALE 

 LUMBER COMPANY, CHICAGO. 



