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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25, 1919 





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 Sap Gurn 



4/4 Sound Wormy OaK and Chestnut 



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American Trading Co. Cc^oIst*^) 

 Imported and Domestic Hardwoods 



AUSTRALIAN GUM TEAK COCOBOLO (Rosewood) 



CENTRAL AMER. MAHOGANY IRONBARK SPANISH CEDAR 



GENIZERO MAHOGANY CAL. LAUREL LIGNUM VITAE 



And Numerous Other Varieties 



244 California St. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Georjre I!. Young has been appointed receiver for the Indiana Saw Mills 

 Company. Indianapolis. Ind. 



Two recent Missouri incorporations are the St. Louis Cabinet Company at 

 St, Louis, and the Forked Leaf White Oak Company, West Eminence. Other 

 incorporations are : The Merritt Casket Company, Guthrie, Okla. ; the Hunt 

 Mountain Lumber Company, Rutherfordton, N. C, and the B. & K. Manufac- 

 turing Company, Richmond. Ind. 



The capital stock of the .7. B. Doppes Sons Lumber Company. Cincinnati. 

 O., has been increased to $90,000. 



It is stated a receiver has been applied for for the Otis Manufacturing 

 Company, New Orleans, La. 



The name of the Kerns Lumber Company, Roanoke, Va., has been changed 

 to the Old L>ominion Lumber Company. 



The People's Lumber Company, Salem, 0., has increased Its capital to 

 S200.000. 



The business heretofore conducted under the style of the Rock Hill Buggy 

 Company, Rock Hill. S. C. is now the Anderson Motor Car Company. 



The death is announced of E. B. Hallowell of the firm of Hallowell & 

 Souder, Philadelphia, Pa., and of J. B. York, president of the York Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, Memphis, Tenn. 



At Houston, Mo., the Ozark Casket & Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated. 



The Warrior Lumber & Jlanufacturing Company, Tuscaloosa, Ala., has 

 lilcd an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. 



WISCONSIN 



The Racine Manufacturing Company. Racine, ha.s let contracts for a two- 

 story brick and mill factory addition. 45x120 feet, which will cost about 

 .'^aO.OOO with additional machinery. Raymond F. Wiens is secretary and 

 treasurer. 



The United States Glue Company, Milwaukee, with works at Carroll- 

 ville, has increased its capital stock from ,$2,500,000 to ,'i>3, 350,000. The 

 company is owned largely by tanners and leather manufacturers at Mil- 

 waukee and Fre<l Vogel, Jr., is president. 



The Republic Box Company, Chicago, has purchased the box factory of 

 the Brown-Mitcheson Company at Marinette, Wi.s., employing about 200 

 men. The Marinejfte company retains its electric sawmill and will continue 

 this operation.i'*ft. R. McGlashan of Chicago has assumed charge of the 

 box plant as general nmnager. 



The Borgeson-J-lie.b Company, organized recently;.. at Merrill, to manu- 

 facture tool and broom handles, dowels, pins and other small hardwood 

 products, had plans for a one-story brick and frame factory, 100x200 feet, 

 work on which will begin about August 15. Artliur i:. Ilieb will be general 

 Kuj)erintenib'nt. 



.\rticle.s of incorporation recently filed in behalf of the Baird-Van Dyke 

 Box Company, Milwaukee, have been recalled by the organizers. 



The Milwaukee Talking Machine .Manufacturing Company. 41G-420 

 Fourth Street. Milwaukee, will have an increase of about .SOO per cent in 

 Us productive facilities, having leased the seven-story light manufacturing 

 building at 241-245 East Water Street, with 100,000 square feet of floor 

 space. Remodeling work is now under way and after the plant is retooled. 

 possession will be taken about August 15 or September 1. The present 

 factory will be retained and used largely for cabinet work to feed the larger 

 plant. The company was organized in 1915 and is now considered the 

 largest of the socall^ed independent talking machine manufacturers of the 

 United States.' Stanley L. Roth is secretary and treasurer. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company. Milwaukee and Ashland, has 

 started rafting hemlock and hardwood logs from Presque and Oak Islands 

 ..f the Apostle group In Lake Superior, off Ashland, to its large sawmill 



on the mainland. The Ashland mill expects to ship 4,000,000 feet of this 

 lumber by lake before the close of the navigation season. The steamer 

 Sawyer left July 19 for North Tonawanda, N, Y,, with a cargo of from 

 800,000 to 900,000 feet. 



The National Box & Specialty Company, Sheboygan, has awarded con- 

 tracts for the erection of a complete new factory, 60x150 feet, four stories 

 high, at South Fourteenth Street and Kentucky Avenue. It will be ready 

 October 1. The estimated cost, including equipment, is .fTS.OOO. 



The Boscobel Table Company. Boscobel, is breaking ground for a large 

 factory addition and also a dry kiln. The company is a reorganization of 

 a small woodworking interest an<l Avill now devote its attention exclusively 

 to kitchen tables. 



The Chas. Stolper Cooperage Company, Milwaukee, reports a decided 

 revival in the export demand for beer and wine casks and other liquor 

 packages, which is expected to compensate to an important extent for 

 the decline in domestic business resulting from prohibition. On July 14 the 

 Milwaukee concern forwarded a shipment of two carloads of beer kegs 

 to France and Belgium, and is now filling orders of considerable size for 

 export to England, South America, Canada and Mexico. 



The Wisconsin legislature has made several changes in the state law 

 ]U-oviding for lumber districts and relating to the inspection and measure- 

 ment of logs, timber and lumber. The inspectors hereafter will have head- 

 quarters as follows : District No. 1, Rhinelander ; No. 2, Ladysmith ; 

 No. S. Eau Claire, and No. 4 Stevens Point. The fourth principal meridian 

 and the township line between townships 30 and 31 north, form the divid- 

 ing lines of the four districts. The pay of the inspectors and deputies 

 is fixed at eight dollars a day and expenses when actually on duty, \vhich 

 is to be paid by the owner of the logs, timber or lumber scales or measureil. 

 A fee of fifty cents is fixed for recording each mark or assignment. 



The Lawson Aircraft Corporation of Green Bay, which was organized 

 abotit four .years ago by Alfred W. I.,awson. has fileil a voluntary petition 

 in bankruptcy, claiming assets of $99,150 and admitting liabilities of 

 $37,500. Of the assets $92,000 is classed as unliquiilated claims. Mr. 

 Lawson went to Mihvaukee .several months ago to buihl a large passenger 

 and mail airplane at the plant of the Cream City Sash & Door Company, 

 and later 'organized a new corporation, the Lawson Airplane Company, 

 with an authorized capital of $1,000,000. 



Alexander Schwartz, head of the A. Schwartz & Sons Company. Mil- 

 waukee, box manufacturers, died Jul.v 13 at San Francisco, at the age of 

 spventy-^wo years. ,*He went to the Pacific coast about a year ago to benefit 

 his health and visit relatives. 



Joseph Mayo, for several years with the Langlade Lumber Company of 

 Antigo, in charge of its woods work at Bass Lake, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of woods superintendent of the Chas. W. Fish Lumber Company, \vith 

 headquarters at the sawmill recentl.v acquired b.v the Fish interests at 

 Ililes, Wis. 



.\. G. Wilson, for six years sales manager of the Mason & Donaldson 

 Lumber Company, Rhinelander, Wis., has resigned and will go to Detroit, 

 Mich., to engage in the wholesale lumber business with his brother. 



Raymond A. Wiens, formerly secretary of the Mitchell Wagon Com- 

 pany, Racine, has returned from mllitar.v service at Washington and on 

 .July 15 became secretary and treasurer of the Racine ^lanufacturing Com- 

 pan.v. Mr. Wiens handled the liquidation of the old Mitchell company and 

 the government later acquired his services in a financial capacity for the 

 army. 



L. A. Maier. Mellen, has accepted the position of manager of the land 

 department of the Langlade Lumber Company, .\ntigo. This department 

 is a new one and will handle cutover lands. Of the total of 47,000 acres 

 owned by the company in Langlade county about 17.000 acres have been 

 shorn of timber and are ready for homeseekers. 



Cyrus C. Yawkey, a prominent lumberman of Wausau, has been commis- 

 sioned colonel and given command of the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry, State 

 Guard. Mr. Yawkey was commissioned captain of Company C, Wausau. 

 in .August, 1917, and promoted to major of the First Battalion in May, 191.S. 



CHICAGO 



The following prominent lumbermen were recent visitors to the city : 

 Ray E. Plekrel, St. Louis, Mo. ; L. C. Moschel, Pekin, 111. ; A. B. Ransom. 

 Nashville. Tenn. ; J. N. Penrod. Kansas City. Mo. ; Frank Purcell. Kansas 

 City. Mo. : V. L. Clark, Des Moines, Iowa : Harry Daugherty, Indianapolis, 

 Ind.: George W. Ilartzell, Piqua, O. : H. Brooke Sale, Fort Wayne, Ind.. 

 and W. W. Knight, Indianapolis, Ind. 



R. M. Carrier of the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, 

 Miss., and R. L. Jurden of the Penrod-Jurden Company. Memphis, Tenn.. 

 were in the city last week in important conferences with members of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



Sam 'I'hompson of the Anderson-Tully Company. Memphis, Tenn., was 

 in town last wed; on his way South after having been on a business trip 

 Ihrough the East. 



Charles Hoffman of the Central Timber Export Company, New York, was 

 here on important business. 



L. A. Smith, vice-president of Maisey & Dion, has returned from West 

 Virgina, where he has been for over a month. While there he completed 

 a big deal for oak, poplar and chestnut, 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber Company has been enjoy- 

 ing a fishing trip at Stone Lake, Wis., for the past two weeks. 



S. A. Vangeness, Chicago represetttative for the Stevens & Jarvls Com- 



