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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1910 



were *1,0T3,000, a gain o* /^Sa^OOov.- the previous year Th^ 

 amount o£ Insurance carried is $3S,flii,0iJU as corapaieu lu ,p , 

 the previous year. 



Adds to Veneer Equipment 

 The Louisville Veneer Mills, Louisville, Ky., manufacturer of veneers 

 ami plywood, ba.s started work on a new 100 by 100 foot st™cture to 

 accommodate two rotary veneer machines, two slicers for figured red gum 

 drag saws and other accessory equipment. New concrete vats will be 

 constructed in conjunction with this addition. It 'Y^T^L^nt^^lZ 

 of the space now occupied by the cutting department will be devoted to 

 increasing plywood production. 



Correcting a Misunderstanding 



Harry E. Christenscn. the big works of the General Lumber Company, 

 Milwaukee, is still very much in business and wishes that fact to be 

 generally known aud recognized. He therolore desires H.utDWOOD Recohd 

 to publish the following letter, tending to correct any misunderstandmg 

 regarding the recent purchase of the General Lumber Company of Memphis 

 by Brown & Hackney, Inc., of that city : 



It h'ls been called to our attention that some of the papers have pub- 

 lished that Brown & Hackney. Inc., of Memphis have bought out the Gen- 



eral Lumber Company without stating their location. 



H,4 to state that this is not the General Lumber Company of Mil- 

 waukee ^v4s We have sold out to no one and are still operating our 

 business the same as heretofore. This business was founded about ten 

 years ago by ntriy Christiansen, who still operates and expects to continue 



""■we'«iank"^you™to°corect the impression that is prevailing in some 

 sources that we have sold out. We do not intend to or contemplate any 

 change of management whatsoever. general Lumber Company. 



C. H. Pearson Adds to Facilities 



C H Pearson, 29 Broadway, New York, handler of foreign and domestic 

 cabinet woods, announces that he has recently moved the stock from the 

 foot of Twentieth street, Brooklyn, to the new yards at 91 Ninth street. 

 Brooklyn. 



In addition, he has taken over the mahogany business owned and op- 

 erated by Chas. E. Rogers, Jr., Twenty-first street, Brooklyn. This busi- 

 ness will be continued as heretofore at the same address under the im- 

 mediate supervision of Paul C. Fredericks. In addition to mahogany and 

 cedar a line of domestic hardwoods will be carried in stock. The New 

 York office remains at 29 Broadway. 



Perkins Enlarges Factory 



It has been learned that the Perkins Glue Company, of Lansdale, Pa., 

 and South Bend, Ind., is making an extensive addition to its factory at 

 Lansdale. This is the fourth addition which the company has been obliged 

 to make and indicates steady growth in its business. The increassd re- 

 quirements for capacity in which to carry on the manufacturing process 

 of Perkins glue also requires larger warehouses to take care of the raw 

 material used in the manufacture of glue as well as the finished goods. 



In addition to its warehouse capacity at the factory, the Perkins com- 

 pany maintains warehouses at South Bend, Ind., Tacoma, Wash., James- 

 town, N. Y., High Point, N. C, and also the Canadian factory at Hamil- 

 ton, Ont. 



Crane Interests Will Extend Timber Road 

 It was decided at a recent conference of the executives of the Cole & 

 Crane interests of Cincinnati that a contract would be awarded immedi- 

 ately for the extension of the rail line of the Pond Fork Creek and Bald 

 Knob Railroad. This line now extends three miles from the Coal river 

 division of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad up Pond Creek. The contract 

 was recently made for the construction of eighteen miles of standard gauge 

 railroad. The extension -will tap a 30,000 acre tract of virgin forest which 

 is included in the Cole & Crane trust holdings in Boone county. This is 

 one of the few large remaining tracts in West Virginia and contains about 

 200,000,000 feet. 



The new extension leaves Coal river at the mouth of West Fork. 



New Company Has 70,000 Acres 



The Forked Leaf White Oak Lumber Company has been organized by 

 prominent lumbermen to carry on a large operation in Missouri. The mill 

 location will be at West Eminence, the 70,000 acres of timberland being 

 located in Shannon county along the Current river. This timber is a mix- 

 ture of genuine forked leaf white oak which very largely predominates 

 aud soft Missouri pine. 



The proposition has been a going operation, the company taking over 

 not only the timber, but the entire mill equipment, consisting of a modern 

 bandmill of 140,000 to 150,000 feet daily capacity. Since the property 

 has been taken over the company has been at work installing new boilers, 

 a band resaw and a new additional bandmill. The mill is already equipped 

 with extensive dry kilns. The operation which is served by the main line 

 railroad has thirty-five miles of track into its timber for logging purposes. 



The operation has a yard capacity of 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 feet 

 and now has a stock on hand of 2,500,000 feet of pine. It Is anticipated 

 that all changes and improvements will be completed and the plant In full 

 opcrrition by September 1. 



From a labor and operation standpoint the plant is ideally located, being 

 on high ground not subject to the diflicult logging conditions prevailing 

 along the Mississippi river. This feature with white labor of very good 

 quality will practically insure a year-around operation. 



The officers of the company are : G. E. Lamb, Clinton, Iowa, and Charles- 

 ton, Miss., president; R. B. McCoy, Clinton, vice-president and treasurer; 

 Geo. B. Osgood, Chicago, secretary, and E. R. Butler, assistant to treasurer, 

 assistant to secretary and general manager. Mr. Butler will be located at 

 the works at West Eminence, while the sales offices in the Peoples Gas 

 building, Chicago, will be in charge of Geo. B. Osgood. 



New West Virginia Operation ' 



The Nicholas Lumber Company has been incorporated with headquarters 

 at Fenwick, W. Ya., and will shortly begin operations on a large tract 

 of timber in the vicinity of Fenwick recently acquired by those backing 

 the company. 



The company is composed largely of Fenwick capital and has been incor- 

 porated under West Virginia laws. Shipments will be made from Fen- 

 wick. 



Hines in Big Northern Deal 

 It was announced last week that a deal contemplating taking over the 

 entire properties of the Rice Lake Lumber Company, Rice Lake, Wis., had 

 been consummated between that company and the Edward Hines Lumber 

 Company. Through this transaction the Edward Hines company has 

 taken over some 70,000 acres of fine timberlands, a large modern double 

 bandmill with gang saws, planing mill and other equipment which will 

 give the Hines company a cut at its northern operation of some 90,000,000 

 feet a year. The Hines company will install dry-kiln equipment, planing 

 mill and other improvements and changes, making the new Rice Lake plant 

 an entirely modern and up-to-date outfit. It is intended that new gravity 

 conveyors and other similar equipment will be added. 



Other Wisconsin operations involved in the Edward Hines Wisconsin 

 holdings are the Park Falls Lumber Company, Park Falls, holding 150,- 

 000 acres and the Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, 

 which have also recently been acquired with some 12,000 acres. This 

 latter deal did not involve any sawmill equipment. 



All of this timber is closely adjacent and it is planned to operate the 

 entire area as a single logging operation, and extensive and Improved 

 logging plans are now being formulated for this purpose. 



The new mill at Rice lake will be converted into a strictly hardwood 

 operation, while the Park Falls mill will be devoted in the future entirely 

 to manufacturing of soft woods taken from the company's extensive areas. 

 It is contemplated that this timber will give the company a run of twenty- 

 five to thirty years in Wisconsin. 



Big Plans for Northern Salesmanship Congress | 



The 3rd annual Northern Lumbermen's Salesmanship Congress will | 

 be held at Antlgc, Wis., on September 26, 27 and 28, under the Joint 



auspices of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and the : 



Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. It will be j 

 recalled that the two preceding meetings were respectively at Merrill, 



Wis., and Bay City, Mich. Both of these meetings were epoch-making , 

 from' every standpoint and the results have been discernible in a closer 



relationship between the sales and manufacturing departments in the \ 



respective companies involved and also between the sales departments ol j 



competing companies. „ , , ' 



Elaborate and complete plans have been made not only by the officials i 



of the congress for the association's entertainment, but by the local lum- j 

 bermen of Antigo who are capable and anxious to do everything possible 



to provide for the very large attendance which is certain. j 



George C. Robson of the Klnzel Lumber Company, Merrill, is president ; 

 of the congress and with his associates is planning a program for the 



meetings and for the field work and entertainment that will be a winner | 



in every particular. ' 



While the two meetings at Merrill and Bay City were world beaters, ^ 



the Antigo contingent is so constituted that it can be counted on to try to j 

 equal and, if possible, surpass any former attainments. The congress this 



year comes at a period when the northern regions are at their very best ^ 



and the social and entertainment features can be reckoned as sufficient j 



inducement to attend regardless of the high measure of value that will i 



certainly develop from the business sessions. ( 



Big Plans for Hoo-Hoo Annual 



The twenty-eighth annual meeting of IIoo-Hoo will take place at the , 

 Morrison hotel, Chicago, on September 9 and 10. There will be a session : 

 of the Osiiian Cloister September 8. 



This meeting, according to the plans of Chicago members and members i 

 of Hoo-Hoo all over the country, is designed to combine in one meeting , 

 as much pep and enthusiasm and thorough enjoyment as might ordinarily 

 be the reward of delegates attending two meetings. It will be remembered : 



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