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exceeded forty feet. The opening into tlie liol- 

 low of the trunli was ten feet wide at the 

 bottom and nine feet high. In June. 1S08, thir- 

 teen men on horseback rode into the hollow 

 of the trunk, and there was room for two 

 more. California alone can beat that tree 

 story. 



The Holland Willow Works. 



There are comparatively few factories in 

 the United States manufacturing willow ware, 

 and the Holland Willow Works of Holland, 

 Mich., one of the largest in the country, al- 

 though operated to its fullest capacity, is un- 

 able to supply the great demand. The plant 

 has this year turned out over a thousand 

 dozen clothes baskets, besides many small 

 orders for baby and doU carriages, various 

 kinds of baskets, and children's chairs. The 

 entire output was purchased by Chicago par- 

 ties. 



The company expects to hariest over 125 

 tons of willow whips this year, although Man- 

 ager A. W. Gumser says that the crop of 

 willows is much lighter this season than 

 usual on account of the continued wet 

 weather. This crop will be cut from the 100 ' 

 acres of timber land owned by the company 

 in various parts of Michigan; 60 acres in 

 Newaygo county, 35 near Holland and 5 in 

 the vicinity of Muskegon. The company pro- 

 poses to plant an additional 30 acres in wil- 

 low seedlings, so that next year's cuttings 

 should approximate 200 tons. 



eru trade, ^ill ha\t' jurisdiction over the Mem- 

 phis, .Atlanta and New Orleans branches, with 

 the litlo of general southern sales manager. 



Officers National Lumber Insurance Com- 

 pany. 



The National Lumber Insurance Company 

 of Buffalo, the organization of which was 

 announced in the last issue of the Habdwood 

 Kecokd, has elected officers and directors for 

 the ensuing year. The company starts out 

 with a capital and surplus of $250,000, and 

 will engage exclusively in the lumber fire in- 

 surance business. Its principal office is in the 

 Fidelity Trust building. Buffalo. The officers 

 elected are as follows: 



President, M. S. Tremaine, Buffalo; vice 

 president, Carlton M. Smith. North Tona- 

 wanda; secretary. William P. Haines, Buffalo; 

 treasurer, H. E. Montgomerj', Buffalo. Direc- 

 tors: Carlton M. Smith, North Tonawanda, 

 N. Y.; G. B. Montgomery, Buffalo, N, T.; 

 H. E. Montgomery, Buffalo, N. Y.; M. S. Tre- 

 maine. Buffalo, N. Y.; Frank C. Rice, Spring- 

 field. Mass.; George S. Dailey, North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y.; WUllam P. Haines, Buffalo, N. 

 Y.; Lewis Dill, Baltimore, Md.; M. E. Preisch, 

 Buffalo, N. Y.; A. W. Booth, Bayonne City. 

 N. J.; H. C. Mills, Buffalo, N. Y.; H. F, Tay- 

 lor, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. D. McLean, Buffalo, N. 

 Y.; R. W. Higbie, New York City; R. S. 

 White, Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. C. Laidlaw, T'j- 

 ronto, Ont. ; William L. Marcy, Buffalo, N. Y.; 

 H. P. Smart. Savannah, Ua. 



New Branch House. 



E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., the prominent In- 

 dlanapolls saw manufacturers, opened a new 

 branch house at New Orleans, La., November 15. 

 The store occupies a large building at tlic corner 

 of North I'ctors and Canal streets. It will be 

 stocked with a full line of circular, band, and 

 mill saws of all kinds, crosscuts, band, hack, 

 wood, butcher and small saws of every descrip- 

 tion, saw tools, filing room machinery, etc. Con- 

 nected with It will bo a nell equipped repair 

 shop. 



llarvey Avery, who has represented the com- 

 pany In southern Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana 

 for many years, will be In charee of this New 

 Orleans branch. 11. B. White will be his assist- 

 ant. Mr. While has long been head of the 

 order department of the Indianapolis office, nnU 

 Is admirably efjulpped for his new position. 



B. M. (;iad<lini;. also well known to the south- 



Fort Wayne Plant National Handle Company, 



It is said that the Fort Wa.vui- plant of the 

 National Handle Company is the largest handle 

 factory in the world. This Institution is tne 

 second largest user of freight cars in that city. 

 The plant last year shipped abroad upwards of 

 l.'SiJ carloads of handles. The piiucipal Euro- 

 pean markets to which the goods were sent weri* 

 London, Liverpool. Birmingham, Rotterdam. 

 Hamburg, Frankfort, Bergen, Odessa, Christiania. 

 Gothenburg and Copenhagen. A large quantity 

 of handles are also shipped to Cape Town and 

 other South African cities. Australia is another 

 large buyer of .\merican handles, as are the 

 chief cities of South America. Even Mexico. 

 China and Hawaii purchase them extensively. 



Very few people are aware of the f.ict that 

 the United States supplies practically all the 

 handles of the world. This not only includes 

 tool' handles, but those used in all forms of 

 agricultural implements, shovels, forks, rakes 

 and hoes. This country also produces the great- 

 est amount of broom handles, and probably isf' 

 the largest maker of wooden-backed brushes, al- 

 though it is Just possible that Germany runs a 

 close second for this honor. Besides the vasr 

 amount of finished handle work that is produced 

 here, there is a great ijuantity of small dimen- 

 sion material cut and shipped in the rough to 

 European countries, which is there turned into 

 various forms. The fort-ign buyer refers to 

 this class of stock as wood billets. After being 

 taken to England, France and Germany this ma- 

 terial Is remanufactured into spindles, toys, bun- 

 dle sticks and an infinity of other articles. 



Historic Tree Near Baltimore. 

 A gigantic chestnut tree with a girth of about 

 twenty-five feet, under whose branches in 1777 

 Washington and Lafayette held a council of 

 war, and ate their meals while camping when 

 the American army was marching from Balti- 

 more to Philadelphia, is one of the many objects 

 of Interest shown to visitors on the McCormick 

 farm near Baltimore, says the Baltimore Ameri- 

 can. It is alleged that the foregoing statement 

 is not a tradition, but a well authenticated fact, 

 abundantly attested by the archives of the Mc- 

 cormick family. 



The Lasting Qualities of Hard Maple. 



C. D. Smith of Edgar county, Illinois, writing 

 in Wallace's Farmer, tells a story about the last- 

 ing qualities of hard maple which will at least 

 interest hard maple manufacturers and prove a 

 s;ood advertisement. The writer says he has re- 

 cently torn down a house that was built In 1838, 

 all the sleepers of which were of hard maple, 

 which wore as sound as a hound's tooth. He has 

 employed the same timbers In constructing a new 

 hfuse, and he alleges that apparently they are 

 as free from decay as though they had not been 

 In use for sixty-seven years. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



George S. Clark & Co. have leased the mill 

 formerly operated by the George S. Brad- 

 ford Knitting Company at Bennington, Vt,, 

 and will manufacture handles and backs for 

 brushes of all kinds. The concern's head- 

 (|Uarters are at Lanslngburg and It operates 

 a .sawmill at Shaftsburg. 



The establishment of a hardwood mill at 

 Colfax, La., within the next few weeks. Is 

 announced. Although the organization of the 

 company Is not yet completed. It Is under- 

 stood that Clarence Ellerbee of the Louisiana 

 Railway & Navigation Company and other 

 parties prominent In railway and lumber fields 

 arc Interested In the project. 



The Huedy Bushing Company of Toledo was 

 Incorporated recently with a capital of 125,000 



bj Harry \V. Kuedy. Llrich Uuedy, Elisha B. 

 Southard. Cams J. Southard and Charles H. 

 McDonough. For the present the company 

 will use the plant of the Etna Machine Com- 

 ;jany in its manufacture of bushing. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Company has 

 been incorporated at Louisville. Ky., by Anscel 

 Woods. I". Marion .\llon and B. F. Gardner. 



Marcus Nelson Is about to begin the con- 

 struction of a sawmill at McGregor, Minn., 

 where he will cut principally hardwoods. 



Fire, which is believed to have been caused 

 by an overheated steam pipe, destroyed hard- 

 wood, cedar and pine stock at the car shops 

 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at 

 East Buffalo, N, Y., recently, damaging $7,000 

 worth of property. 



A company subsidiary to the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Bonncll Company, which will probably 

 also be located at Hackley, is now being or- 

 ganized to erect and operate a large plant to 

 manufacture birdseye maple, basswood and 

 birch veneers. The company will be capital- 

 ized at $50,000. Aside from Charles A. Phelps 

 the parties interested are not known. 



Custom house reports show that during 

 the current fiscal year there has been a nota- 

 ble Increase in the importation of precious 

 woods from Mexico. Immense quantities of 

 rich hardwoods have been shipped to New 

 York and Bristol. Tenn., from Vera Cruz and 

 Tampico. 



Floyd & Jones of Wilmington, N. C. recent- 

 ly shipped a cargo of poplar to the Wood 

 Pulp Company of Philadelphia. Next month 

 a steamer will leave Wilmington with a cargo 

 of gum timber for the Acme Tea Chest Com- 

 pany of Glasgow, Scotland. 



The exporting of staves from Gulf ports to 

 France, Spain and Portugal has been un- 

 usually active this fall, several steamers hav- 

 ing recently taken full cargoes, valued at more 

 than a million dollars. Staves for export are 

 made in various sizes, according to their use. 

 Some are less than one foot long and others 

 as long as ten feet. Prices also vary, rang- 

 ing from a few cents to $4 and $5 each. 

 Dealers In staves are authority for the state- 

 ment that the hand-made stave is more in de- 

 mand than the m.achine-made article and 

 brings a much higher price. European buy- 

 ers base their Judgment on the fact that noth- 

 ing but straight-grained wood can be hewn 

 into staves, while If machines are used the 

 staves can be fashioned without regard to 

 the grain. A few years ago Louisiana fur- 

 nished a large part of the staves exported 

 from the Gulf ports, but the stave timber was 

 gradually exhausted In that state, and stave 

 makers have moved over into eastern Texas. 

 It is said that the Industry is just In Its In- 

 fancy in Texas and that the business will 

 increase steadily for some years to come. 



Setter Brothers of Cattaraugus, N. Y., are 

 about to broaden their hardwood manufactur- 

 ing interests by the addition of another ve- 

 neer factory, which they will build at Wan- 

 akena, N. Y. The new mill will be 80x200 feet 

 and will be equipped throughout with modern 

 machinery, costing altogether $25,000. It will 

 employ about thirty men. 



A special meeting of the New Hampshire 

 Lumliormen's Association was held at the 

 New .Vmerlcan House, Boston, Nov. 15. The 

 meeting was called to take up the matter of 

 car slaking. W. C. B. Bobbins, who attended 

 the Chicago convention as a delegate, sent 

 In his report which was read. It was decided 

 to let the matter of raising funds for the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 go over to the next meeting. The board of 

 directors called upon the officials of the Bos- 

 Ion & Maine Railroad before the meeting and 

 reported that President Tuttio appeared much 

 Interested In the matters talked of. The road 

 promised to see what could be done In the 

 matter of car staking. 



