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tion at Its annual meeting In BufCailo last spring, 

 became effective on December 1. The entire set 

 of rules lias been printed in attractive pampiilet 

 form, and can be obtained from the secretary, 

 Frauli F. Fish, 617 Traction building, Indianapo- 

 lis, at 10 cents a copy. 



Incidentally, Charles E. McSmith, 1200 Sev- 

 enth street, New ».)rleans, has been appointed 

 deputy surveyor general of the association for 

 the Louisiana district. Mr. McSmith has had 

 long and practical experience in the handling 

 of hardwoods in the South, and latterly has 

 been associated with the Sutherland-Innes Com- 

 pany. 



Building Operations for November. 

 Official reports of building construction in 

 seme fifty leading cities throughout the country, 

 compiled by the American Contractor, Chicago, in- 

 dicate that the building industry is in a flourish- 

 ing condition and in somewhat greater volume 

 than in Xcvember. 1904. While about a dozen 

 cities of the tifty show a decrease compared 

 witli Xovember, 1904, tlie balance show a de- 

 cided gain, running as high as 449 per cent in 

 Omaha. A general average throughout the en- 

 tire list presents a very favorable aspect. Among 

 the cities most conspicuous for increased build- 

 ing construction are : Baltimore, 24 per cent : 

 liutfaio, 38 ; Chattanooga, 383 ; Cincinnati, 66 ; 

 Davenport. 104 ; Denver, 223 ; Detroit, 34 ; Du- 

 luth, 61 ; Harrisburg, 26 ; Indianapolis, 78 ; Jer- 

 sey City, 110: Louisville, S2 ; Manchester, 152: 

 ^lilwauliee, 41 : Mobile, 84 ; Newark, 43 ; New 

 York, 30 : Philadelphia, 71 ; Pittsburg, 43 ; St. 

 Louis, 76 : St. Paul, 131 ; San Francisco, 33 : 

 Scranton, 105: Seattle, 27; Spokane, 113: South 

 Bend, 142 : Topeka, 50 ; Terre Haute, 56 : Wash- 

 ington, 152 : Worcester, 174 ; Wilkesbarre, 281. 

 The figures from Denver, Los Angeles, San Fran- 

 cisco, Pittsburg, Washington and especially of St. 

 Louis show an extraordinary building activity, 

 vionsidering the population involved. Denver 

 stored the heaviest building of any month in 

 many years. Thus far building and construction 

 has been satisfactory and there is no sign of 

 a let-up in the near future. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



A contract has just been closed at Bayfield, 

 Wis., which provides that the R. D. Pike Lumber 

 Company saw for the Wachsmuth Lumber Com- 

 pany, both of that place, all the timber pur- 

 chased by the latter concern last summer, known 

 as the McBrien tract, amounting to about 15,- 

 000.000 feet of basswood, oak, birch and maple, 

 5,000,000 feet of pine and 10,000.000 feet of 

 hemlock, as well as all that may be purchased 

 by this company while the above tract is being 

 manufactured. The R. D. Pike Lumber Company 

 will operate its mill at full capacily day and 

 night the entire season in handling this con- 

 tract. 



After January 1, 1906, the Rockford Mantel 

 Company, Rockford, III., will be under the man- 

 agement and control of the Rockford Cabinet 

 Company. The Rockford Mantel Company, the 

 Rockford Cabinet Company and the Haddorff 

 Piano Company have been under the same man- 

 agement for some time, and in order to facili- 

 tate the work, the business of the three com- 

 panies will be conducted from one office. 



The Whitmore Handle Company was recently 

 incorporated with a capital of $2.5il0 to manu- 

 facture handles at Eldorado, 111. Jay M. Whit- 

 more. D. L. Wood and Charles D. Watson are 

 the promoters. 



Lindstrom & Berg have made extensive im- 

 provements and installed new machinery at their 

 stave plant at Tacoma, Wash. 



A new pick handle factory has located at 

 Bergholz, O. 



Fire recently destroyed the heading factory, 

 veneer plant, sawmill and warehouse of the E. 

 W. Bond Company at Lake Helen, Fla., also the 

 depot of the Florida East Coast railway. The 

 loss is estimated at $50,000, only about half 

 covered by insurance. 



The completion of the Durham & South Caro- 

 lina railroad into Durham, N. C, has been an 

 impetus to business and several new concerns 

 have located there. A large sawmill plant is 

 now being constructed below East Durham and 

 a spoke and handle factory is being erected 

 which will probably begin operations the first of 

 the year. 



The Heath Witbeck Company of Chicago is 

 contemplating the additon of a dry kiln, flooring 

 plant and planing mill to its large hardwood 

 lumber yards at Thebes, 111. 



Ladoga, Ind., is now the address of the Hoosier 

 Veneer Works, formerly located at Spencer. 



The McLean Hardwood Lumber Company was 

 recently organized at Buffalo. N. Y., with a 

 capital of $100,000. Angus McLean and Hugh 

 McLean of Buffalo and W. A. McLean of New 

 Albany, Ind., all connected' with the Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company of Buffalo, are the 

 promoters of the project. 



The Union Stave & Basket Company of Colum- 

 biana, O., sustained heavy damage by fire re- 

 cently. The loss includes the planing mill, which 

 was entirely destroyed, the boiler and machinery 

 and a quantity of stock and unfinished stuff. 

 The company carried little insurance, but will 

 rebuild immediately. 



During the past year lumbermen operating in 

 the Adirondack and Catskill forests have cut 

 789,215,523 feet of timber, valued at .$12,000,- 

 000, an increase over last year's figures of 

 165,000,000 feet. Of this quantity 56,879,479 

 feet were hardwoods. 



The strike for higher wages and shorter hours 

 made recently by laborers at the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company's plant, Southport, La., has 

 been settled without trouble, the men returning 

 to work at a slight increase in pay but the same 

 hours. 



A. T. 'Vail, president of the Fort Wayne Coop- 

 erage Company. Fort Wayne. Ind., is building a 

 barrel stave and heading plant at I'aragould. 

 Ark. The factory is located on the 17,000-acre 

 tract of timber recently purchased by Mr. Vail. 



By the prompt action of employees Armour & 

 Co.'s tub factory at Ithaca. Mich., was saved 

 from destruction by fire. The loss was only 

 about $100. 



Benton Harbor. Mich., is endeavoiing to secure 

 the plant of the Buchanan Cabinet Company, 

 which was recently destroyed by tire at Bu- 

 chanan, Mich. 



Newton Black, Charles Fehr and Charles II. 

 Wixom are the incorporators of the Arkansas 

 Hardwood Lumber Company of Spring Valley, 

 Ark. 



It is announced that the Winton Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company of Morehead, Ky.. which 

 was organized about one year ago, has gone into 

 bankruptcy, with possible liabilities of $100,000 

 and small assets. Several local banks are caught 



in the lailure. L. P. Morgan, president and 

 general manager of the company, it is alleged, 

 left Morehead on the night of November 18, 

 saying that he was going to move his office to 

 Ashland, Ky. He was heard from at Cincinnati 

 on November 19. where, it is said, he left imme- 

 diately for St. Louis, where all traces of him 

 have been lost. It is said that there are several 

 warrants out for his arrest on various charges. 

 It is thought that Dr. Williams, cashier of the 

 Lenore National bank at Morehead, was inter- 

 ested with Morgan. 



The American Wood Preserving & Developing 

 Company, New Y'ork City, has been incorporated 

 to deal in and treat all kinds of wood, to man- 

 ufacture clothespins, etc. The capital stock is 

 $300,000. 



The Core Hardwood Company has been organ- 

 ized at Charlotte, N. C, with an authorized 

 capital of $125,000. George M. Core, L. L. 

 Caudle and F. M. Redd are the incorporators. 



The explosion of a can of gold paint in the 

 factory of Gorsch Bros. & Co., manufacturers 

 of picture frames, molding, etc., Philadelphia, 

 Pa., started a fire which destroyed $40,000 worth 

 of property. 



Work will commence shortly on a large gun 

 stock and hardwood manufacturing plant at 

 Muskogee, I. T., for Casbeer & Barnes, who 

 operate a similar factory at Des Moines, Iowa. 



The J. W. Willis Lumber Company, Washing- 

 ton Court House, C, recently purchased about 

 200 acres of land at Little Rock, Ark., and will 

 immediately begin the erection of a large hard- 

 wood mill and chair factory thereon. 



A new concern for Oshkosh, Wis., is the 

 Excelsior Manufacturing Company, capitalized 

 at $25,000. Charles G. Maulick, Henry Dehde 

 and H. J. Otto are the promoters. 



Ten new machines for the manufacture of 

 clothespins have been installed in the Oval 

 Wood Dish Company's factory at Traverse City, 

 Mich. This doubles this concern's capacity for 

 manufacturing clothespins, bringing the daily 

 output up to a carload a day. 



J. F. McLean, one of the largest stave 

 dealers in Nashville, has begun the erection 

 of a plant in North Nashville for the man- 

 ufacture of hardwood barrel heads, to cost in 

 the neighborhood of $20,000. It will embrace 

 besides up-to-date -sawing machinery, t'wo 

 large dry kilns. 



Sonestown, Pa., is soon to have a hardwood 

 factory which will turn out broom handles, 

 rolling pins and similar articles. 



J. C. Templeton recently purchased the ma- 

 chinery of the Barron County Handle Company 

 of Rice Lake, Wis., for the Oak Grove Handle 

 Company of Cameron, in which he is heavily 

 interested. The latter concern will build an 

 addition to its factory to accommodate this 

 machinery, thus about doubling its capacity. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HASD'WOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



W. A. Davis, the well-known wholesale hard- 

 wood operator of the Monadnock building, has 

 recently established two permanent branch of- 

 fices for the more thorough systematizing of his 

 business. One of these offices is located in the 

 Randolph building, Memphis, and is in charge of 

 J. II. Garrison, who handles Mr. Davis' corps 

 of buyers in Arkansas, Mississippi and the 

 South. The other office is located in the Fra- 

 ternity building. Paducah, Ky., and is in charge 

 of J. W. Riglesberger, who handles the buying 

 and shipping in the states of Kentuck.y and 

 Tennessee. 



The Habdwood Record is in receipt of cards 

 announcing the marriage on Oct. 28 of Mr. 

 William Dolbeer Mershon and Mrs. Hilda Jane 

 Harlan Comstock at New York city. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Mershon will reside at Uevere II.tII. 622 



West One Hundred and Fourteenth .street. Mr. 

 Mershon is New York sales manager for 

 Mershon, Sehuette, Parker & Co. of Saginaw. 

 Mich., and is one of the best known and most 

 competent lumbermen of the metropolis. The 

 Record's congratulations are most heartily ten- 

 dered. 



The Record is indebted to George E. Watson, 

 secretary of the Southern Cypress Manufac- 

 turers' Association, for a pamphlet descriptive 

 of standard grades and classifications of cypress 

 lumber and shingles authorized by that asso- 

 ciation at its meeting in New Orleans on Nov. 

 23. The work is copyrighted, but copies can be 

 obtained upon application to Mr. Watson at his 

 office in the Liverpool & London & Globe build- 

 ing. New Orleans. 



The Estabrook-Steele Lumber Company, 

 Fisher building, Chicago, announces that James 



