HARDWOOD RECORD 



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520,000 worth of hardwoods and pine de- 

 stroyed. Both kiln and lumber were insured. 

 Davis & Stilt of Marinette. Wis., advise 

 that their concern is going out of business. 

 The Adirondack Hardwood Timber Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Wairensburg, 

 N. Y., with a capital stock of $10U.0U0. The 

 directors are E. M. Beals, Helen A. 'Seals 

 and A. A. Mudge. 



A. Knight & Son of Battle Creek. Mich., 

 are greatly improving their plant and increas- 

 ing their facilities for the manufacture of 

 doors, sash and specialties. 



The Wachsmith Lumber Company of Du- 

 luth, Minn., reports a flourishing business. 

 The season's cut of hemlock and hardwood 

 lumber was 13,000,000 feet. The company 

 has eight logging camps which employ 500 

 men. It owns 2,500,000 feet of standing hem- 

 lock, birch, basswood and red oak. 



S. F. Derry of Staadish, Mich., will run 

 three lumber camps and cut 4,500,000 feet 

 of hardwood logs this winter. 



H. McDonald of West Mansfield. O., will 

 build a handle factory in Prospect. O. 



A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was 

 tiled recently against the Buffalo Panel & Ve- 

 neer Company. Buffalo, N. Y., by three creditors 

 v.'ho allege that the company is insolvent and 

 has debts amounting to over ,$3,500. 



Ephraim Byrne is running his axe handle fac- 

 tory at Bryneville, Ind., to its utmost capac- 

 ity, turning out first-class handles by dozens, 

 t-nly second growth timber and one length of 

 a tree are used. 



According to a Toronto, Can., paper there 

 is a movement under way for the amalgamation 

 of manufacturer of cooperage stock and the 

 fcrmation of a big joint stock company with a 

 liew to improving trade conditions, which have 

 been unsatisfactory for some time. A number 

 of the principal manufacturers of staves, hoops 

 and headings in Ontario met at Toronto recently 

 to discuss matters pertaining to the industry, 

 .and talk over the proposed consolidation. Those 

 present were members of the Canadian section 

 of the American Cooperage Association. The 

 meeting was of a private character. 



Fire in the barrel manufacturing plant of 

 <5oepper Bros., East Cambridge, Mass., recently 

 destroyed buildings and stock to the extent of 

 $40,000. Adjustment has been made for $28.- 

 ■000 ; $25,000 on stock and $3,000 on buildings. 

 The company will rebuild immediately. 



Dixon, 111., during the past two weeks has 

 .'-.hipped 18,000 feet of walnut logs to William 

 McCurley, purchasing agent tor the Lesh, Prouty 

 & Abbott Company, East Chicago, Ind. Half 

 these logs were cut from the (iodfrey farm near 

 Dixon, 



Lumbermen operating in the vicinity of Hope- 

 well, N. J., have felled soma very large white 

 oak trees. A number of fine logs have been cut 

 on the farm cf Charles N. Hoagland, which 

 measure fifty feet in length and from three to 

 four feet across the butt. 



The new handle factory at Tower, Mich., 

 owned and operated by D. A. Stratton of Al- 

 pena, is a busy one. It turned out 12.000 

 handles complete as a day's work recently. 



Salamanca, N. Y., is to have a new industry. 

 The Salamanca Veneer & I'anel Works Com- 

 pany, capitalized at $40,000. has been incorpo- 

 rated there for the establishment of a veneer 

 .and panel plant. P. E. Senett of Buffalo, E. B. 

 Vreeland, Hudson Ansley, C. E. Gibson and c. 

 W. Terry of Salamanca are the directors. 



Three carloads of machinery and equipment 

 for the handle factory at Connersville, Ind.. 

 arrived a few days ago and will be installed at 

 cnce. 



The Hawkins broom handle factory, Sumas, 

 Wash., has commenced operations. It has a 

 capacity of 10,000 handles a day, besides other 

 ,^turning work. 



In the trophy room of President Roosevelt's 

 •Oyster Bay home there is a mantel made from 

 the log of camagon wood which was part of 



the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis fair and 

 was presented to the president at the close 

 of the exposition. The wood var'ies in color 

 from a light greenish tint to a vei'y dark green 

 aiid is exceedingly li,ard. The camagon tree 

 grows only in (lie I'liilipiiincs. and cveu there 

 it is tare. 



The plant ul tlie llurdwoud Manufacturing 

 Company, a new corporation recently formed at 

 Caledonia, N. Y., is nearly completed and the 

 company will shortly begin tiie manufacture of 

 all kinds of hardwood merchandise. 



It. A. Wheeler, W. F. White and others are 

 the promoters of a new enterprise at High 

 I'uint, N. C. Decorative molding for furniture, 

 street cars, store fixtures an-i show cases will 

 lit manufactured. The company has good tinan- 

 cini backing and other lines of manufacture will 

 lie undertaken later. 



A new handle factory is being built at Scotts- 

 iiurg, Ind. 



The large addition to the Jamestown Panel & 

 Veneer Company's factory at Jamestown, N. Y., 

 is being rapidly completed. The company is 

 pressed with orders, making the hurried work 

 on the factory necessary. 



The recently organized Hill Veneer Company 

 of High Point, N. C., has commenced work on 

 several new buildings there. 



The Carrison Veneer & Woodwork Company's 

 plant, Columbus, Oa., was tolally destro.ved by 

 lire recently. The loss was heavy, hut being 

 well covered by insurance, the company will 

 probably rebuild. The plant was erected about 

 a year ago. 



The Baltimore Veneer Panel Company, incor- 

 porated October 24, will erect a large plant at 

 Ilighlandtown, Md. Ground has been broken 

 i'or the main building, which will be three 



stories high and 153x60 feet in dimensions. A 

 dry kiln 40x108 feet, a boiler and engine house 

 and other outbuildings will also be constructed. 

 The plant will cover a block of ground and the 

 lotal cost of buildings will lie $50,000. Charles 

 .1. F. Steiner is president and Edward A. Geiger 

 secretary-treasurer of the company. 



Capt. Lorenz A. Nelson of Racine, Wis., has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities in 

 excess of $40,000 and assets of less than $10,- 

 000. For twenty-five years Captain Nelson has 

 been successfully engaged in the vessel and 

 hardwood lumber business at Racine, enjoying 

 ihe entire confidence of business men of that 

 and other cities. It is rumored that he will 

 endeavor to engage in business again. 



Russell K. Gardner, a St. Louis buggy manu- 

 facturer, recently closed a deal for 6,500 acres 

 of hardwood timber lands in Grant, Cleveland 

 and Dallas counties, Arkansas. He is looking 

 for a factory site in the vicinity of Pine Bluff', 

 on which will be erected a large buggy manu- 

 facturing plant which will use timber from this 

 tract. 



The new veneer mill at Owcnsboro, Ky., on the 

 L. & N. railroad, is nearly icmpleted. It is a 

 substantial two-story frame building and will 

 be equipped with up-to-date machinery for saw- 

 ing and finishing veneers. 



A Toronto paper announces that a veneer 

 mill will probably be established in the near 

 future at St. John to handle the woods grown 

 on the property of the Chemalapa Land Com- 

 pany of Mexico, making that city the distribut- 

 ing point for the Dominion. There should be 

 a good demand for the twenty-five varieties of 

 woods, which includes Spanish cedar and ma- 

 hogany, since .Canadian hardwoods are growing 

 scarce. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago, 



Among the local callers at the Recoed office 

 during the last few days was S. P. C, 

 Hostler of 314 Giddings street, who is the 

 local representative of the Advance Lumber 

 Company of Cleveland. This company has 

 grown to be one of the largest as well as 

 most catholic handlers of lumber in the 

 l.Tnited States, its line of manufacture in- 

 cluding nearly all varieties of hardwoods and 

 building woods. It operates numerous hard- 

 wood plants in "W^st Virginia and through- 

 out the South, besides being a large buyer of 

 bulk stock. Mr. Hostler says that in his 

 thirty years' experience in the lumber busi- 

 ness, he has never seen trade as active as at 

 the present time. The only drawback to a 

 large volume of business is the inabiUty of 

 his company to secure transportation facili- 

 ties. 



The Hakdwood Recokd is indebted to C. 

 Crane & Co., the big poplar and oak manu- 

 facturers of Cincinnati, with an annual ca- 

 pacity of 100,000,000 feet, for a handsomely 

 framed halftone engraving, made from wash 

 drawings and photographs, illustrating its 

 several sawmills and big lumber yard along 

 the Ohio river at Cincinnati, and several 

 views of rafts of big poplar on the Guyan- 

 dotte and Ohio rivers. 



Among the himdreds of letters enclosing 

 subscription orders, which the Hardwood 

 Record has received during the last few 

 months, perhaps the , most modest concern 

 writing is the Benoit Lumber Company of 

 Watizit, La, Prominently displayed across 

 its letterhead is the legend "Onliest One-Hoss 

 Lumber Concern in the South." It is possible 

 that the Benoit Lumber Company is too mod- 

 est, or has not visited all the "one-boss" saw- 

 mill plants in the country, as. for example, 

 that of the Rattlesnake Lumber Company, 



near Elkins, W. Va. The Benoit Lumber 

 Company is a manufacturer of yellow pine 

 and hardwoods and H. T. Benoit is its man- 

 ager. 



W. A. Post, the hardwood lumber and hoop 

 manufacturer of Greenwich, 0., was in town on 

 Thursday participating in the cooperage conven- 

 tion and paid the Recced office a call. 



For quite a number of years there has been 

 plowing around in the slough of trade jour- 

 nalism a paper known as Dixie, published at 

 Atlanta, Ga. A recent issue of this publica- 

 tion has just reached this office, under the 

 title of "Dixie" Wood Worker, with the 

 word Dixie outlined and subordinate to the 

 title of Wood Worker. If the publishers of 

 this paper had had the good taste not to 

 purloin the name of a well-known publication 

 of standing and character — the Wood Worker 

 of Indianapolis — it is more than likely that 

 it might have been welcome in the class of 

 woodworking publications. 



There will be a meeting of the 'Vehicle 

 Woodstock Company, of which B. F. 'Von 

 Behren of Evansville is president, at the Great 

 Northern hotel, Chicago, on Nov. 21 and 22. 

 A banquet at the hotel on the evening of 

 Nov. 21 will be a feature of the meeting. 



The Record sanctum was Illumined Nov. 2 

 by a call from the bald-headed bard of the 

 Pacific Northwest. Frank B. Cole, editor of the 

 West Coast Lumberman of Tacoma, Wash. 



The Record has a letter from E. McCracken 

 of the Kentucky Lumber Company of Burn- 

 side, Ky., announcing a Hoo-Hoo concatena- 

 tion to be held at Somerset on the evening of 

 Nov, 15. 



B. R. Thompson of the Thompson Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, spent a few hours 

 in Chicago last week, homeward bound from 

 a southern buying tour. He alleges he has 

 never seen oak so scarce in the south country 

 as it is at the present time. 



