HARDWOOD RECORD 



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established by the Hoosier Stave & Lumber Com- 

 pany at Henderson Mounds, Mo. The plant is 

 located on the Cotton Belt road in southeastern 

 Missouri and began operation September 15. The 

 company has 10.000 acres of timber with a fine 

 growth of red oak, which will be fifty per cent of 

 the output, the remainder being elm, maple, gum, 

 hickory and ash. There are eight miles of logging 

 road installed to bring the logs to the mill, 

 which has an up-to-date equipment, and will 

 turn out about 800,000 feet of lumber a month. 

 A good stock is already on hand for shipment. 

 Mr. Smith says there is no trouble now in dis- 

 posing of stock, and ne.xt year promises to be 

 even better than the present one. A. S. Bliss, 

 who is associated with Mr. Smith and looks 

 after northern hardwoods, has returned from a 

 two weeks' trip through Wisconsin, where he 

 found business good and preparations on for a 

 heavy winter's logging. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, reports that there is still a good 

 trade from the retail yards, and a good many 

 carload shipments of flooring are being made. 

 While stocks with the exception of oak are 

 in fair supply, the price situation seems to 

 be holding pretty level. Northern red oak is 

 about out of the market. 



The Buswell Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, recently organized here, which has 7,000 

 acres of hardwood, hemlock and pine timber in 

 northern Wisconsin, will immediately begin the 

 erection of a mill, which will be built on the 

 shore of Papoose Lake, near the Michigan line. 

 It will be a modern band mill with a capacity 

 of about 1,000,000 feet a month, and with plan- 

 ing mill, dry kiln and all accessories. It is hoped 

 to have the plant in operation by January 1. 

 It will turn out an assorted stock of pine, hem- 

 lock and hardwood, and cater to the mixed car 

 trade. The sales will be handled from Minne- 

 apolis, and the mill will be in charge of John C. 

 Bull, vice pi-esident of the company, who is an 

 experienced mill operator. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a fair trade. The factories are 

 working steadily and cutting up about the usual 

 amount of hardwood, but are buying in small 

 quantities. Elm and ash have profited by the 

 shortage and high price of oak and are being 

 substituted whei-ever possible. The hemlock 

 trade, which with most dealers goes hand in hand 

 with hardwood, is heavy, most of the mills now 

 shipping right from the saw. 



A. H. Barnard of Barnard & Strickland, hard- 

 wood wholesalers, says they have experienced a 

 revival of their cooperage trade recently. In 

 other lines business is satisfactory and about 

 up to the usual volume at this time of the 

 year. 



Louisville. 



A new concern entering the harwood consum- 

 ing trade here is the Columbia Mantel Company, 

 which has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $2.'5,000. The officers are : C. P. Beecher, 

 president ; C. J. Leonard, vice president, and C. 

 H. Kramer, secretary-treasurer. The new com- 

 pany has taken over the old Koop furniture 

 factory at Ninth and Breckenridge streets, which 

 will be converted into a plant to manufacture 

 wood mantels. 



P. B. Lanham of the Lanham Lumber Com- 

 pany, Lebanon, Ky., who was in Louisville a few 

 days ago, says his company is having a good 

 call for its parquetry flooring. The company 

 ships mostly to the eastern trade and has during 

 the past year built up a nice business, which is 

 still increasing so that an enlargement of opera- 

 tions will probably be necessary. In addition to 

 the manufacture of parquetry, the Lanham Lum- 

 ber Company operates a sawmill and carries on 

 an extensive retail business. 



A German lumber buyer visited the trade here 

 a few days ago in the person of Arno Spalte- 

 holz of Dresden, who is specially Interested in 

 hardwoods but also handles some yellow pine. 

 He has not thus far traveled extensively in the 



South because of quarantine regulations, but in 

 a couple of months' travel about the country 

 has picked up a few bargains and become ac- 

 quainted with the trade, which he thinks will 

 be of material assistance to him in the future. 

 He claims to have picked up a bargain or two 

 in hard maple and is manifesting a lively inter- 

 est in tupelo gum, which he believes would be 

 a great wood in the German market if we could 

 in some way overcome the warping tendency. 

 He says it takes stain and holds varnish well 

 and is, in fact, a splendid wood all around, ex- 

 cept that it warps and twists. 



N. II. Whitehead, formerly in charge of the 

 Bedford, Ind., plant of the Hugh McLean Lum- 

 ber Company, has taken charge of the company's 

 plant in Highland Park, Ky., south of this city. 

 O. M, Krebs, who superintended the erection of 

 the plant here and has had charge of it until 

 recently, has gone to Memphis to look after 

 the erection and operation of a plant the com- 

 pany is putting in there. 



Perkins & Pettiboue note a lively demand for 

 chestnut, with an upward tendency in prices. 

 Other hardwoods they say continue about the 

 same, with the outlook favorable for an increase 

 in the demand, and nothing that looks like easier 

 prices. 



E. M. Overstreet of the Southern Stave & 

 Lumber Company says his company is having 

 an exceptionally good business, with enough 

 orders on hand for everything from sound wormy 

 chestnut to firsts and seconds in oak to keep 

 them on Easy street as far as orders are con- 

 cerned for some time to come. There is an occa- 

 sional order for quartered oak, but the call for 

 this stock is not as lively as it ought to be, and 

 yet this company figures that the present is a 

 pretty good time to cut quartered oak. The slow 

 market of the past year has turned quite a num- 

 ber of people from the manufacture of quar- 

 tered oak to plain oak almost exclusively, and it 

 now seems that when the demand for quartered 

 oak does liven up the supply will be even more 

 limited than was anticipated. The sum and sub- 

 stance of this logic is. that while it is not a very 

 good time to sell quartered oak right now, it is 

 time to give attention to its manufacture against 

 possible future needs. 



The C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is fairly 

 busy at its mahogany mills here and has received 

 a fair supply of logs from Honduras, notwith- 

 standing that the yellow fever there has inter- 

 fered with operations this summer and fall. Hon- 

 duras has not been troubled with this epidemic 

 for a number of years. The situation is now 

 pretty well under control and it is expected 

 that in a few months this handicap to business 

 will be entirely removed. 



Los Angeles. 



The Marshall Floor & Supply Company's gen- 

 eral office has been removed from the business 

 portion of the city and now occupies spacious 

 quarters alongside its manufacturing plant. East 

 Ninth and Lawrence streets. 



Carl Leonardt has secured contract for the 

 construction of the new Majestic Theater build- 

 ing. The interior and exterior woodwork of 

 this amusement place will be the most elaborate 

 in Los Angeles. The best maple flooring obtain- 

 able will be used, while the finest of oak trim 

 will predominate. Some birch and cherry will 

 be used. >& 



Alpeter, Hall & Alpeter will construct the 

 Long Beach, Cal., Savings Bank building. The 

 contract for furnishing labor and material for 

 the interior woodwork will be sublet, and there 

 is considerable rivalry manifested by local mills 

 to secure this job, as considerable advertising 

 will accrue to the successful bidder. 



The Hughes Manufacturing Company is fur- 

 nishing all the woodwork to be used in the new 

 Homer Laughlin Fireproof building. 



The interior and exterior trimmings of the 

 new Steele, Farris & Walker department store 

 are of polished cherry, which is stained a deep 

 red. which produces a very striking effect. The 



Santa Fe Planing Mill furnished all the wood- 

 work. 



Archs. Marshall & Russell have completed 

 plans for the First Baptist Church at Long 

 Beach, Cal. Specifications call for all white 

 maple flooring and pew seats of plain red oak ; 

 with a few minor exceptions, the balance of the 

 interior woodwork will also be in plain red oak. 



All the mills report more orders than can be 

 handled, with more prospective work than for 

 some time past. It is rumored that a new mill 

 will be in the field in the course of the next 

 two months, but parties indicated as interested 

 would not confirm or deny the report. There 

 certainly is need of another mill here. 



Wausau. 



The Wilkin-Challoner Company, which re- 

 cently decided to locate in Oshkosh, has its 

 plant nearly completed and will possess some- 

 thing rather novel in the shape of a machine 

 shop. The building is 80x170 feet in dimen- 

 sions and its four sides are constructed prac- 

 tically all of glass, 10,810 panes serving to 

 light the interior. The company will make a 

 specialty of manufacturing gang mills, "nig- 

 gers" for canting logs and steam set works for 

 all sizes of sawmills. The company has con- 

 structed 200 mills, built under patents of T. D. 

 ^yilkin, the company's vice president. 



The Moore & Galloway Company's mill in 

 Fond du Lac, which was burned last spring, has 

 been rebuilt and is again in operation. It will 

 be operated twelve hours per day throughout the 

 winter. 



The two-story frame warehouse of the Ed- 

 wards-Irig Furniture & Casket Company, Osh- 

 kosh, was totally destroyed by fire recently. 

 The warehouse contained high-grade furniture 

 and caskets and the loss was estimated at $19,- 

 000, with $17,000 insurance. 



What is believed the largest and oldest oak 

 tree in Wisconsin is located in the yard of Par- 

 Ian Semple in the city of Oshkosh. Its branches 

 have a spread of ninety-three feet. It was 

 spoken of as a very large tree by the French 

 voyageurs who traversed that section a century 

 ago. 



The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company and 

 the G. D. Jones Land Company, Wausau, which 

 jointly own 8,000 acres of land in the township 

 of Hewitt, Marathon county, will this winter 

 log the same. The logs will be hauled to Wau- 

 sau and sawed in the mill of the first named 

 company. The Barker & Stewart Company also 

 owns lands in Langlade county and from the 

 two tracts it is estimated that 70,000,000 feet 

 of the better grades of hardwoods, with a scat- 

 tering of softwoods, will be cut. 



The Werheim Manufacturing Company, Wau- 

 sau. which during the summer suffered two dis- 

 astrous fire losses on unmanufactured stock and 

 plant, has two new factory buildings under roof 

 and is able to operate a large part of its old 

 machinery. The new buildings have more floor 

 space than the factory burned and with the addi- 

 tion of new machinery the capacity for turning 

 out finished product will be increased. The com- 

 pany will probably operate night and day to 

 catch up on its orders. 



The John Week Lumber Company. Stevens 

 Point, recently acquired title to 1.720 acres of 

 hardwood land in southern Marathon county. 



The Arney Specialty Company has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $15,000. The 

 company will erect a plant in Marinette and 

 manufacture wood specialties and novelties for 

 which a large amount of oak and ash will be 

 consumed. 



The mill of the Heineman Lumber Company 

 at Heineman, which has had a steady run of 

 nine months, is closed to make repairs for win- 

 ter sawing. 



The Torrey Cedar Company of Clintonville 

 has gone into the hardwood business and is buy- 

 ing all the mixed varieties it can secure of small 

 jobbers. 



The Wisconsin Chair Company of New Lon- 



