HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Sprigg Lumber Company has been organized at Weston, W. Va., 

 with a capital stock of $15,000. The company will deal in forest products. 



The name of the Michigan Hearse & Carriage Company at Grand 

 Rapids. Mich., has been changed to the Michigan Hearse & Automobile 

 Company. 



The Snyder Manufacturing Company, a furniture concern, of Logan, O.. 

 Is planning to rebuild its plant which was destroyed by fire at that point 

 several months ago. 



The AUis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., has incorporated under 

 the style of The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company with a capital 

 stock of $42,500,000. * 



The Scarritt-Comstock Furniture Company recently leased a plot of 

 ground at Main and Dock streets, St. Louis, where it will erect and 

 operate a furniture factory. 



Henry Isserman & Son of Bealville. Ind., are planning to start their 

 new veneered door factory at that place by the first of May, The plant 

 will have an output of 200 doors a day. 



The dimension plant of Holmes & Balmer, Lima, O., was recently 

 completed. This company will specialize in wagon stock and baseball 

 bats. Its plant is modern in every particular. 



The Three States Manufacturing Company, Kenova. W. Va., has been 

 succeded by the Breece Manufacturing Company, which concern has its 

 headquarters at Portsmouth, O., manufacturing rims and spokes. 



The Section-fold Company, Inc., has been incorporated at Brookl.vn. 

 N, Y„ with a capital stock of $25,000. The company will manufacture 

 cabinets, sectional cases, etc., and will deal in lumber of all kinds. 



The For.sythe Dining Room Furniture Company recently incorporated at 

 Winston-Salem, N. C, wUl shortly erect a new plant for the manu- 

 facture of dining room furniture. This company has a capital stock 

 of $250,000. 



The sawmill plant of the Southern Lumber & Boom Company at 

 Valley View, Ky., on the Kentucky River, has been purchased by Milikan 

 & Aldridge of New York, and has been shipped to Irvine, Ky.. where It 

 will be rebuilt and become part of that firm's extensive operations there. 



J. F. Mclntyre & Sons, Inc.. are spending considerable money in 

 improving the hardwood sawmill at Pine Bluff, Ark. In addition to 

 doubling the capacity of the power plant, a new vertical resaw and a 

 heavy trimmer and edger will be installed, which it is anticipated will 

 double the capacity of the mill. 



The Fordyce Manufacturing & Ice Company of Fordyce. Ark., is 

 busily engaged in reconstructing and enlarging its hardwood mill at 

 Fordyce. The old plant will be entirely removed and set up again on 

 the Rock Island road in that city. The present plant is on the Cotton 

 Belt. The sawmill is equipped with circular saws, and will have a 

 capacity of 35,000 feet per day. 



=-< CHICAGO y 



John S. Weidman, of Mount Pleasant, Mich., president of the Weidman 

 & Son Company, Trout Creek, Mich., spent a few days in town this week. 



H. W. Xordyke of the Adams & Raymond Veneer Company of Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., was in town the early part of this week. He says that his 

 plant, though shut down, was not damaged b.v the flood and is now 

 operating normally. 



The fourteenth annual special issue to the Timber Trade Journal pub- 

 lished at London. England, dated Mar. 29, is a most unusual number in 

 every respect. It contains 325 pages of reading matter and advertising. 

 and the feature is an historical review of the development of the lumber 

 industry in English, Scottish and Swedish points. 



E, B. Nettleton, well known in lumber and lumber trade journal circles, 

 has just started the wholesale and commission business in hardwoods. 

 Inland Empire and Pacific coast products. Mr. Nettleton is maintaining 

 an office in the Fisher building. 



I. A. Minnick, vice-president of the National Dry Kiln Company of 

 Indianapolis, was in Chicago for several days last week, and favored 

 Haedwood Record with a call. 



W. D. Wheeler of the Wheeler-Bissell Lumber Company, Marshfield, 

 Wis., made a business trip to Chicago last week. 



I. A. Bushong of the Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company, 

 Gladstone, Mich., has been in the city on business for several days. 



Walter N. Kelly, the hardwood man of Detroit, was in Chicago on a 

 business visit on Apr. S. 



E. B. Norman of the Norman Lumber Company of Louisville. Ky., 

 and Holly Ridge, La., was in the city the latter part of last week. 



Louis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 who will shortly take up his duties as general representative of Joshua 

 Oldham & Sons, Brooklyn, N. Y., was in Chicago most of last week. 



F. T. Peitch, prominent in lumber circles at Clevelond, O., called at 

 this oflBce on Mar. 28. 



George M. Cornwall, the capable editor and publisher of "The Timber- 

 man", Portland, Ore., was a welcome caller at this office on Apr. 8. . 

 Mr. Cornwall was in Chicago attending the box case hearing before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission on behalf of the Pacific coast box 

 interests. Before leaving for home he will visit his mother and other 

 relatives at New York. 



F. F. Fee of the Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company, Dermott, 

 Ark,, was a visitor at Chicago during the week. Mr. Fee has been away 



from his office for a couple of months and is planning to sail on May 

 10 for an extended business trip abroad. He will be accompanied on 

 this trip by some of his associates. 



M. L. Peasi- of the Galloway-Pease Company of Saginaw. Mich., and 

 Poplar Bluff, Mo„ was in the city on business for a few days last week. 



E. W. Benjamin, manager of the Cadillac Veneer Company, Cadillac, 

 Mich., was in the city for a few days this week on business. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Assso- 

 elation, Cadillac, Mich., and R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the Northern 

 Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Wausau, Wis.. 

 attended the hearing in Chicago on Apr. 3 and 4 on the Prldham case, as 

 extended from the Los Angeles, Cal., hearing, involving rates on wooden 

 vs. fiber containers. 



Horace Taylor, president of Taylor & Crate, Buffalo, N. Y.. was In the 

 city on business some time ago, and favored Hardwood Record wtlh a 

 call on Mar. 25. 



F. D. Timlin of the Whceler-Timlin Lumber Company, W.ausau, Wis., 

 spent several days in conference with his partner in Chicago, the earljr 

 part of the month. 



W. M. Stephenson, Supreme Scrivenoter of Hoo-Hoo, spent the last 

 few days of March in Chicago. 



E. H. Donaldson of Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company. Rhlnelander, 

 Wis., was one of the distinguished visitors to the local trade recently. 



W. A. Ranson of the Gayoso Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., made 

 a visit of several days' duration with the Chicago trade, the early part of 

 the week. 



E. E. Taenzcr of I. M. Darnell & Sons, Memphis. Tenn., spent the 

 week of Mar. 24 with the local trade. 



C. B. Allen, manager of the veneer department of the .\nderson-TnlIy 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., has been In Chicago for a couple of weeks on 

 a selling trip. 



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

 Moorhead., Miss, spent the first week In Aprlk with the local trade on a 

 business trip. 



^•< NEW YORK y- 



E. H. Barton of Barton, Thompson & Company, lumber and timber 

 importers of London, England, is on a business trip to American mills. 

 This firm is one of the largest importers of American lumber, and Mr. 

 Barton is well-known to manufacturers in the States. 



George M. Stevens of the Stevens-Eaton Company, prominent whole- 

 saler, is on a trip to the Pacific coast lumber markets in the interest of 

 business. In addition to its hardwood lumber department this company 

 handles a large volume of softwoods including Pacific coast stocks. 



A visitor to New York during the fortnight was Hugh McLean, the 

 prominent Bufi'alo hardwood lumberman. Mr. McLean spent several days 

 in town in the interest of business. 



The Santo Domingo Hardwood Company recently took offices in the 

 Hudson building, 32 Broadway, this city. 



The Milne Brothers Company, wholesale hardwood specialist of 18 

 Broadway, has been incorporated under the same style with a capital 

 of $30,000. The incorporation is nothing but a formality and the busi- 

 ness will be conducted as heretofore without any change. 



Jesse C. Hofer, for many years prominent in the wholesale trade of 

 this city, has engaged in a selling capacity with the Blanchard Lumber 

 Company, and will assist Manager Loomis of the New York office. Mr. 

 Hofer had been out of active business for some time because of ill health 

 but is now fully recovered and ready for active business. 



Russell Johnson Perrine, president of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association, and head of Johnson Brothers, Brooklyn, returned last week 

 from a trip to the Panama canal zone. Like every one else who has 

 made this trip Mr. Perrine was greatly impressed with the enormous 

 proposition which the government is now hurrying to completion. 



Fire on Apr. 1 damaged the stock of lumber and plant of the National 

 Show Case Company. 48G Leonard street, Brooklyn. 



The affairs of Collins, Lavery & Company, bankrupt, have been settled 

 and the receiver discharged. The settlement comprehends the acceptance 

 of extension notes in full for all claims. The business will be continued 

 with Frederick W. Cole as president, and James L. Noble, vice-president. 

 The creditors will be represented on the board of directors. 



J. S. H. Clark Lumber Company, recently incorporated, have opened 

 offices at 4 East Forty-Second street. The firm will conduct a general 

 wholesale lumber business. The officers are J. S. H. Clark, president ; 

 W. G. Mennen, vice-president : F. M. McCracken, treasurer, and A. B. 

 Clark, secretary. 



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George W. Butler, formerly with B. D. Peterson. Jr., Boston, has 

 started in the commission lumber business for himself. He has opened 

 an office in the State Mutual Life building. 



B. D. Peterson, Jr., who for several years has conducted a lumber 

 business In Boston, has been petitioned into involuntary bankruptcy. 

 Mr. Petersoa left Boston early In March and his present whereabouts 

 are unknown. 



The Cottijge Lumber & Supply Company, Hartford, Conn., has been 



