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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10. 1919 



LIGNUM VITAE BOXWOOD 

 SNAKEWOOD 



We handle all TROPICAL HARDWOODS 



EBONY 

 ROSEWOOD COCO BOLO 



C. H. PEARSON 



29 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY 



VESTAL LUMBER 

 & MFG. COMPANY 



INCORPORATED 



Soft Textured Oak 



Poplar 



Black Walnut 



Tenn. Red Cedar 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT VESTAL 



A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE 



FONDE, KY. 



pany, Fostoria, Tex., has resigned and accepted a similar position with 

 tlie Wier Lumber Company at Wiergate. 



Tlie Dawson Lumber Company. Dawson, Texas, lias been organized with 

 a capital stock of $10,000. Incorporators : J. C. Keitt, F. B. McPerson 

 and W. R. Matthews. 



The Canton Lumber Company, Canton. Texas, has been organized with 

 $10,000 capital by A. J. Brooks, M. G. Sanders and B. A. Mitchell. 



It is expected that the Gates handle factory in Beaumont will resume 

 operations at an early date, the gradual resumption of business already 

 making it necessary to draw heavily on other factories to supply its 

 immediate trade. About $4,000 damage was done the factory during the 

 recent storm, but fortunately none of the machinery was injured and it 

 will require only a few days to place the factory in operation. 



L. L. Chipman, manager of the export department of the Long-Bell 

 Lumber Company, is spending a month on the Pacific coast. 



WISCONSIN 



The E. H. Stafford Manufacturing Company, Chicago, operating large 

 veneer, cabinet and general woodworking factories at Ionia, Mich., and 

 Paxton, III., has acquired the entire interests of The Caloric Company, 

 Janesville, Wis., manufacturing flreless cookers, phonograph cabinets, etc. 

 Important additions and other changes will be made in the plant to 

 Increase the capacity. The business will be conducted as the Stafford 

 Caloric Company. 



St. Paul (Minn.) interests organized within recent months to manu- 

 facture caskets and coffins are erecting the first unit of a new factory at 

 Fox Lake, Wis. It will be of brick and mill construction, 80x230 feet, 

 and contain all departments under one roof. The Fox Lake Commercial 

 Club is assisting the new industry. 



The Barlow & Seelig Manufacturing Company, Ripon, manufacturing 

 domestic washing machines and other specialties, will spend $15,000 to 

 $20,000 in the enlargement of its factory. The improvements include a 

 new woodworking shop, 50x120 feet, and a two-story office building, 32x60 

 feet. Work will begin in about ten days' time. Auler & Jensen, Oshkosh, 

 Wis., are the architects in charge. 



The Tecktonius Manufacturing Company, Racine, will build a two-story 

 factory addition, 100x160 feet, costing about $50,000, with new machinery 

 and equipment. 



The Baird-VanDyke Box Company, Milwaukee, has been Incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $20,000 by Chester D. Baird, John H. VanDyke 

 and Charles Hackbarth. Offices have been opened at 911 Wells Building, 

 Milwaukee. 



The Western Furniture Company, Sheboygan, has increased its capital 

 stock from $5000 to $15,000 to finance expansion of its facilities and busi- 

 ness. John Leick is president and Leo N. Leick secretary and treasurer. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company, Odanah, is completing additions 

 and improvements in its property at that point, which involve a total 

 investment of from $75,000 to $100,000 since last fall, when fire did damage 

 of approximately this amount. 



The Matthews Bros. Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, has the dis- 

 tinction of being the maker of the propellers with which the hydroplane, 

 NC4, made the epoch-making trans-Atlantic flight ended at Plymouth, 

 Eng., May 31. The Matthews company established an aircraft depart- 

 ment a year ago to undertake government contracts. This is in charge 

 of Thomas P. Hamilton, who designed a special type of propeller for use 

 on the navy machines, NC 1, 3 and 4, for this particular flight. Forty- 

 eight sets of blades were made up on special order and shipped by express 

 to Trepassey, N. F. After the three machines were equipped the remainder 

 of the propellers were distributed among the destroyers and other navy 

 craft along the route. 



The Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, maker of wood and 

 metal furniture for printing offices, hospitals, etc., will spend $125,000 

 in the construction and equipment of a plant addition, 100x150 feet, three 

 stories high. Contracts have been awarded and foundations are under way. 



The Router Manufacturing Company, Oshkosh, has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $100,000 by William P. Casey, E. G. Race and 

 James C. Casey to engage in the manufacture of woodworking tools and 

 machinery. 



The International Toy Company, Eau Claire, has broken ground for 

 the first unit of its permanent plant at Michigan and Monomonee streets. 

 It will be 60x200 feet in size, one story high, crescent shaped, with an 

 office building in the curve. The principal product is toy wagons, coasters, 

 skiis, game boards and other hardwood and veneer specialties. L. D. 

 Pangborn is president and general manager. 



Steele & Huffmann, Racine, have taken over the lease of the factory 

 of the former Shawano Manufacturing Company, Shawano, Wis., and will 

 operate it as a handle, hub and spoke factory under the management of 

 Fred L. Huffmann. The factory is equipped for this purpose, but some 

 new machinery will be added. 



William Loeffler, 826 St. Clair avenue, Sheboygan, manufacturer of 

 special machinery for woodworking and veneer mills, is erecting a new and 

 larger shop on South Seventeenth street, near Georgia avenue, to provide 

 much-needed capacity. 



The Girard Lumber Company, Dunbar, which is owned by the same 

 interests as the J. W. Wells Lumber Company, Marinette, sustained a 

 heavy loss by fire on May 30. The sawmill, planing mill and roundhouse 

 were burned to the ground, but the yard, containing nearly 15,000,000 



