44 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mr. Vnndfrbill to risgali forest. This is the real forested section o( Mr. 

 Vanderliilt's estate. Here they will see what lias been done in the 

 primeval forests in the interests of forest conservation, close utilization 

 and fire protection. Business sessions of the directors have been held 

 en route on the trains. 



First Log Cut at New Chicago Veneer Plant 



On Monday, Mar. i4. the Fred \V. Black Lumlier Company opened up 

 the first log cut at its splendid new veneer plant on Fortieth avenue near 

 Twenty-second irtreet. This plant has been in the course of construction 

 for several months and is now pretty well shaped up in running order. 

 Three veneer saws will be installed within a few days. The plant 

 is equipped with a splendid line of appliances of the very highest design 

 and quality. The plant is undoubtedly a model in design and provides 

 for the maximum of light for working, and of comfort, cleanliness and 

 efficiency. 



The Fred W. Black Lumber Company has unloaded at its yard a splen- 

 did assortment of genuine African mahogany logs and, judging from the 

 high character of the ligure shown in the logs already opened up, a lot 

 of the very best type of highly figured mahogany for piano and furniture 

 manufacture is assured. In addition, a considerable quantity of selected 

 white oak logs of Indiana growth has already been delivered and in fact 

 the company now has sufficient logs on hand to run for a considerable 

 time and has ample cargoes and carloads of both mahogany and oak en 

 route. 



Proposed Sale of Government Timber 



Because of the proposed sale of the 260,000,000 feet of timber in the 

 Priest River valley, Kaniksu National Fores^, Idaho, the government has 

 prepared a prospectus covering this timber. This prospectus shows how 

 the Forest Service furnishes information to lumbermen who might be in- 

 terested in bidding on national forest timber. 



An unusual feature of this sale is the fact that on part of the area 

 the forest will be destroyed. The object will be to clear this area for 

 agriculture instead of forest regeneration. Provision S of the timber 

 sale contract and the privileges regarding agricultural land under the 

 head "Rules for Marking and Process of Disposal" illustrates how this 

 will be done. 



When the area has been cleared of timber and the slash burned, the 

 land will be opened to bomesteading. If the Forest Service did not sell 

 off the timber before opening the land to entry, the value of the present 

 stand of timber would cause the land to be held speculatively, instead of 

 being cleared for farms. But this land will be better employed growing 

 farm crops than growing timber and hence the Forest Service is pre- 

 paring to put it into the hands of bona fide settlers under a procedure 

 which will insure agricultural development. The Federal government 

 will receive about $050,000 for the timber, of which .$223,000 will go to 

 the benefit of the state for public schools and good roads. The maximum 

 stumpagc price of .|5.00 specified for the white p.ine ou these logging 

 chances is unusually high because this western white pine is the most 

 valuable stumpage on the national forests. 



The twelve per cent profit to the lumberman allowed tor in calculating 

 the stumpage rates to be charged is exclusive of interest on the invest' 

 ment, which is figured at six per cent. The minimum prices allow there- 

 fore for a profit of twelve per cent on each thousand feet of timber cut, 

 over and above interest on capital and all overhead expenses. This is a 

 smaller margin of profit than the Forest Service minimum prices usually 

 reckon on logs, but competition for this timber is exceptionally keen. It 

 is recognized that in general the manufacture of lumber is a business 

 which, because of the risks involved, requires a high return in order to 

 induce operators to undertake a logging enterprise. 



For the Boss 



Your men will show interest in you in the same proportion that you 

 show interest in them. Also, never forget that they may know something 

 that you do not know. Therefore, give them a willing ear, and due 

 credit for what they do know. 



Some employers never seem to differentiate between conceit and en- 

 thusiasm in their men. Some men are so enthusiastic about their work 

 that they love to talk about it ; and some employers, blind to then- 

 own interests, mistake it for conceit. That is why a good employe 1% 

 sometimes lost in the scuille. 



Hardwood ^ews l>^otes 



:-< MISCELLANEOUS y 



The Manufacturers' Lumber Company recently began business at Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



The Southern Lumber & Boom Company of Valley View, Ky., has gone 

 out of business. 



A. H. Richardson. Boston. Mass., has been succeeded by the A. H. 

 Richardson Lumber Company. 



The Michigan Handle Company has been incorporated at Brook Haven, 

 Miss., with a capital of ?10,000. 



The Little River Lumber Company has been incorporated at Caruthcrs- 

 ville. Mo., with a capital of $25,000. 



The Athens Table & Manufacturing Company of Athens. Tenn., ha» 

 reorganized, incorporated at ,^550, 000, 



The Sumter Broom & Handle Company has been incorporated at Sumter^ 

 S. C, with a capital stock of .$2,500. 



The Siduaw Handle Company has been incorporated at Sidnaw, Mich., 

 with an authorized capital of .$5,000. 



The Thornhill Wagon Company of Lynchburg, Va., has increased its 

 capital slock from ,$300,000 to .$1,000,000. 



The Otis Manufacturing Company of New Orleans, La., has increased 

 its capital stock from $200,000 to $700,000. 



The Standard Red Cedar Chest Company, Inc., Altavista, Va., has- 

 increased its capital from $25,000 to $100,000. 



The Michigan Chair & Table Company recently began business at 

 Lakeview, Mich. It will manufacture furniture. 



The Western Grand Rapids Company has been incorporated at Albany, 

 N. Y., with a capital of $10,000, to manufacture furniture. 



The El Dorado Manufacturing Company will erect a large plant for the- 

 manufacture of crates, boxes and baskets at El Dorado, Ark. 



The Ypsilanti Furniture Company of Ionia, Mich., has recently suffered 

 a loss of about $263,000 by fire. The plant will be rebuilt. 



The F. H. Smith Company of St. Louis, Mo., has been succeeded by 

 the Smith-Sueme Lumber Company and will operate with a capital of 

 $25,000. 



The lumber mill of Hare, Robinson & Hughes, Richmond, Va., was 

 recently destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss was estimated 

 at $20,000, partly covered by insurance. 



The Crawfordsville Furniture & Lumber Company of Crawfordsville^ 

 Ind., ha,s been incorporated with a capital of $75,000, to succeed the 

 Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Company. 



Messrs. James R. Andrews and J. A. McQuire of Marinette, Wis., have 

 purchased a tract of 6,400 acres on Lake Superior, where they plan to- 

 erect a sawmill to be ready for operation next tall. 



The Manchester Lumber Company is a new corporation at Manchester, 

 Vt. The company, which is capitalized at $50,000, will erect a sawmill, 

 planing mill, novelty and hardwood flooring company. 



Frederick S. Giddings, a pioneer hardwood lumberman, died recently at 

 the home of his daughters, Mary and Helen Giddings of Cleveland, O. 

 Mr. Giddings was eighty-one years of age and is survived by five 

 children. 



The Wolfe Lumber Company, McMinn county, Tennessee, has received 

 its charter. The company is capitalized at $10,000. The incorporators- 

 are M. E. Bryant. J. R. Wolfe, J. L. Ferguson, J. W. Brown and J. H. 

 Dougherty. 



The Midland Lumber Company of Minneapolis recently purchased from 

 the North Star Lumber Company a line of lumber yards in eastern 

 Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. The consideration is said to be 

 about $200,000. 



The Monarch Lumber Company has been incorporated at St. Louis, JIo., 

 with a capital stock of $23,000, half paid. The incorporators are 

 Frederick A. Goodrich, .1. E. Crawford of Oklahoma City, J. A. Meyer, 

 G. A. Halt and E. E. Hart. 



The Scranton Road Lumber Company, Cleveland, O., which suffered 

 loss by fire in November, is preparing to go out of business. The un- 

 burned lumber, together with the buildings and lease on the land, will 

 be taken over by the C. 11. Foote Lumber Company. 



The wagon stock plant of the Clark-Gay Manufacturing Company of 

 Little Rock, .Ark., which burned last December, is now nearly recon- 

 structed. The plant will probably be in operation the last of the n^onth 

 and is one of tlie largest and most costly hardwood plants in .Arkansas. 



The Hooton Hardwood Company, a branch of the R. A. Hooton Lumber 

 Company of Terre Haute, Ind., will open offices in the Wright building. 

 St. Louis, to manufacture and wholesale oak, cypress and ash. The presi- 

 dent of the company is R. A. Hooton, Terre Haute ; the vice-president, 

 R. U. Metchef, St. Louis. 



A new corporation is the Preserved Tie Company of Kenova, W. Va.. 

 which will operate with a capital of $150,000, dealing in lumber and 

 rimbcrlands and operating tie storage and treating plants and manu- 

 facturing cross-ties. The incorporators are G. A. Allen and J. B. Linn of 

 Springfield, o. ; Douglas W. Brown, M. S. Irons and Cary N. Davis of 

 Huntington, W. Va. 



The Oval Wood Dish Company, located at Traverse City, Mich., uses 

 annually 7,000,000 feet of maple in the manufacture of wooden butter 

 dishes The wood is bought in the logs. The dishes are cut of steam- 

 softened material by means of a scoop-like knife. Some, however, are 

 made from flat veneer by fastening up the ends with wire. The daily 

 shipments of the company average seven carloads. These go to all parts 

 of th..- United States. 



< CHICAGO >- 



J. A. Levings, president of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company, 

 Moorhead, Miss., was in the city Monday, Mar. 24. 



A. r. Bliss of Saginaw, Mich., of Bliss & Van .\uken of that city, as 

 well as of the Bliss-Cook Oak Company of Blissville, Aik., was a Chicago 

 visitor last week, and while here placed aft order with the Kraetzer 



