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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10. Will 



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. 



Judj,'t' Vincent (J. riifford. in superior court, has appointed George B. 

 Young, of Indianapolis, receiver for the Indiana Saw Mills Company, on 

 petition of Talbert & Son, lumber dealers of Westfield, Ind. The receiver 

 after an examination of the company's timl)erlands, said he was confident 

 that the entire in<lebtedness of the company would be paid. 



William Nessler, secretary of the Marion Handle Works, and Klmer 

 Alleyer and his wife and daughter were badly injured when their auto- 

 mobile crashed through a bridge rail and sent them down a 15-foot 

 embankment. The accident occurred when the party was returning from 

 Farmland, where Mr. Nessler had gone to buy timber. He is a leading 

 manufacturer of Marion. 



W. J. Stuebe, of the Hooten Lumber Company. Terre Haute, Ind., is very 

 optimistic about the building outlook and is of the opinion that there will 

 be hundreds of homes built in Terre Haute this year. The Hooten company 

 has been kept busy during the past few months in supplying materials for 

 ••instruction work and, according to Mr. Stuebe, there has been a decided 

 increase in business over last year with indications that the volume of 

 business will continue to increase steadily. The same opinion is expressed 

 by other Terre Haute lumbermen. The demand for more houses, and still 

 more houses, is having its effect on the trade and the opening of several 

 large real estate plats, will further increase building activities. 



The Mathews Hardwood Lumber Company. Matthews, Ind., has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. Directors of the new company 

 are Caleb B. Carson. Fred B. Carson and Welter Redick. 



The Thompson Lumber Company, I^ogansport, Ind., incorporate*! with a 

 capital stock of $30,000. Directors are Harry S. Thompson, Charles F. 

 Thompson and Edward J. Thompson. 



The Mid-West Box Campany, Anderson. Ind., has increased its preferred 

 stock from $225,000 to $500,000. 



The Wasmuth-Endi<'ott Company, of Andrews, Ind., has bought the plant 

 4if the Boothe Furniture Company at Peru, Ind.. and will use the plant to 

 manufacture cabinets for phonographs. The Peru company was established 

 in 190*! by .Tohn Booth. The plant is one of the largest in Peru and manu- 

 factures many kinds of furniture. J. W. Conaty, the manager, will retain 

 his position under the new management. The new factory building is 358x 

 220 feet, with a three-story addition of 220 feet square. The price for the 

 plant is said to have been $140,000. 



The Roachdale Veneer & Lumber Company, of Roachdale, Ind.. has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000. Directors of the company are 

 Harry Hill. C. J, Morris and Ivory J. Drybread. 



EVANSVILLE 



Tlw "build Ddw" campaign, hiunoherl in Evansvillc a short time ago, is 

 making considerable progress. Building lias taken on new life since the 

 lampaign was started and architects and contractors will have a fair 

 amount of work the rest of the season. While nothing like a building boom 

 is looked for in Evausville, it is believed that lillO will witness more than 

 double or treble the building that was done during ISIIS. 



J. ('. Greer, manager of the J. C. Greer Lumlier Compan.v, reports that the 

 company's stave mills at Lone Oak, Louise, and Cumberland Furnace, Tenn.. 

 lire being operated on steady time and that the demand for staves for 

 tobacco hogsheads is the best in several years. 



Fire which is believed to have been caused liy spontaneous combustion on 

 the early morning of .luly 1 destroyed the planing mill and lumber yards 

 of Theodore E. Rechtin in this city at a loss of about $100,000. covered by 

 insurance. The Rectin mill was one of the oldest in this part of the 

 state and Mr. Rcihtin docs not know at this time if he will rebuild. A 

 large number of men have been thrown out of employment. 



.\ few days ago Stafford rhillips sold the timlier rights on a tract of land 

 containing il6."> acres in Hopkins county, near White Plains, Ky.. for $21,000 

 to Paullus C. Uzzle. of White Plains, who will erect a saw mill on the 

 land at once and saw up the timber. It is saiii this is one of the finest 

 tracts of timbered lands to be found in western Kentucky. By the terms 

 of the sale all timber of one foot or more must be cut from the tract during 

 the next four years, the cutting to start on June 30. 



Walter Ilaney. a lumber dealer of this city, who purchased recently a 

 timber tract on Green river near Rumsey, Ky., has erected a sawmill' on 

 the land anil is now engaged in sawing up the timber. There is a gr<'at 

 deal of valuable white oak timber on this tract. 



(irimwood & Hinton. log buyers here, report they have bwn getting a 

 liberal supply of black walnut stumps during the past month or so, and the 

 prices paid for the stumps were rather high. The stumps are being shipped 

 • nvay to be cut into veneers for piano and furniture manufacturers. 



MEMPHIS 



\ golf touriia nt will be held in Memphis in the near future for lumber- 



nien of Memphis and the Memphis territory, according to announcement of 

 F. T. Dooley of the Dooley Lumber Company, who entertained the visiting 

 lumbermen who participated in the recent Tri-State tourney at the Colonial 

 Country Club. The tournament will be held on the links of the last named 

 organization ami a big time is anticipated by all who tak» part in it. Such 

 a tournament will be rather uniipie in the annals of the Royal and Ancient 

 Scottish game as nothing of the kind has ever been staged here. Quite a 

 large number of the Memphis lumbermen indulge in golf almost everv day 

 while those at Pine Bluff, Helena. Ark.; .lackson. Miss.; Charleston, Miss., 

 and other points in this territory are adepts in wielding the brassle, the 



