HARDWOOD RECORD 



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NeWs Miscellany. 



Reincorporation of the White Interestb. 

 As was noted in the HAni>\vooi> Rkcobii '>i re- 

 eut date, the William H. White & Co. interests 

 of Bo.vne Cit.v. Mich., heretofore a partner.^nip. 

 have been reorj.inized into a stock lompan.v with 

 a capital of .1:1.200.000. full.v paid in. The \ari- 

 <nis hiai:>er and kindred enterprises of Wni. n. 

 AVhile & Co. .onstitute one of the largest hard 

 wood p"opj>sitions in the I'nited States. The in- 

 stitution was established in IKSit l>y William H. 

 White: in 1.SS9 he formed a copartnership with 

 his broilier. .Tames A. White. Two years later 

 Thomas and George W. Wliite, two other broth- 

 ers, were admitted to partnership. 



The stockholders in the new company are the 

 four lirothers and. with a few exceptions, em- 

 ployees who have been identified with the insti- 

 tution for years. The list oi stockholders is as 

 follows: William H. \\"hite. James A. White. 

 Thomas White. George 'iVhite. Robert W. White, 

 superintendent of mills: William I,. Martin. .1. M. 

 Harris, attorney : Samuel C. Smith, cashier of 

 the Boyne City liank : George liussell. chief ac- 

 countant ; Martin D. Reeder. woods superintend- 

 ent : and a tew other employees of the concern 

 holding i-esponsible positions. 



The Oihcers of the new c.orpcralion are: Wil- 

 liam 11. 'A'bite. prssidenl : James .\. White, first 

 vice presidciit : Thomas Wiiitc. second vice presi- 

 dent and treasurer, and Wiliiam I,. .Martin, sec- 

 retary. These cfliccrs. wiih !!<;l)eri W. White, 

 constitute the board of directors. 



Tile While corporation is a very comprehensive 

 one. as it owns one of the largest, if not the larg- 

 est, a-ea of hardwood timber in the northern 

 portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan. It 

 is a tract which extends from near the line of 

 the 'i. li. & I. Railway well across the siaie to 

 Lak.e Huron. Bisecting this timber tract is a 

 standard gauge railroad run entirely in the in- 

 terest of the corporation, and at the seat of its 

 manufa* turing enterprises at Boyne City the 

 company has several modera sawmills, a wood 

 chemical plant, a planing mill and a maple iloor- 

 ing factory. Allied with the same interests are 

 a blast furnace, a tannery, a ci>operage factory 

 and a new veneer plant whicli is just about 

 ready for operation. 



Boyne City, although Mr. White dees net wish 

 to have it recognized as such, is very largely a 

 "one-man. " or more trul.v speaking, a "one- 

 famil.v" town. The community within a few 

 years has -^rown to a population of well i-jvvard 

 5.000 people, and is a modern and handsome 

 town in ever.v respect. Every encouragement is 

 given outside enterprises to locate there. It is 

 fast becoming one of the very best towns "n the 

 stale and has the advantage of both rail and 

 wat'ii- transoortation. The commercial history 

 oi this great enterprise borders almost on the 

 phenomenal, and reflects gi-eat credit on its 

 founde:- and genius, William H. White. 



Death of George M. Hinckley. 



George M. Mintkley. manager of the sawmill 

 department of the Allis-Chalmers Company of 

 Milwaukee, died Diec. 14. in the seventy-flfth 

 year of his age. He was ill but a short time, 

 and his .sudden death was a great shock to his 

 friends. 



Mr. Hinckley was born in Seneca county. Xew 

 York. At the age of seventeen he removed to 

 Saginaw. Mich, .\tter learning the millwright's 

 ■rade he was emplojed in building many of the 

 pioneer sawmills in that section, and tinall.v took 

 up the manufacture of shingles. At the breaking 

 "Ut Of" the Civil War he enlisted in the Union 

 :rmy ?nd served faithfully until its close. Mr. 

 ■linckley then reiiirned to the lumber trade, 

 in 187t; he went into the machinery business 

 >n his own account, and three years later be- 

 ' ame idtnlifled with the E. P. Allis Company 

 .)s head of the sawmill department. When that 



concern w;l^ alisi rlicd by ilic .\llis-Clialmers 

 Company he remained in charge, and conducted 

 that branch of the business up to the time of 

 his death, a period of thirty-two years. To 

 every detail in the manufacture of the numer- 

 ous sawmill trols produced by this company 

 Mr. Hinckley gave the most minute attention, 

 and to his knowledge and ?kill are largely due 

 the efficiency and success of the company's saw 

 mill machinery. His life has been one of value 

 not only to the lumber industry but to all with 

 whom ne rame in contact, either in a I)usiness 

 way or socially. 



Government Purchase in New York. 



The -New York Slate Forest Purchasing Board 

 has recently purchased from private parties ap- 

 prsximately 1,.'!00 acres of desirable land at %2 

 per acre The property lies in the Cat.skili re- 

 gion, in close proximity to rtate lands, and wii. 

 expand the park .boundaries considerably. The 

 lands are covered with a good growth of hard 

 woods, the softwoods throughout these rejjions 

 having been cut years ago. They are mainly in 

 Oelaw-ne and L'lster counties, along the lister & 

 Delaware railroad and through the valley of 

 the Delaware river. 



The commissioners are at present considering 

 the purciKise of other tracts of land, for which 

 the owners ask a price of from $2..'')0 to §3.-50 an 

 acre. It is rare that the board feels disposed 

 to pay more than .«2 an acre for CatsklU land. 

 Comparativ-ely little of it has been taken over 

 by the state up to the present time, and the 

 greater pare of the .$.50.ooii appropriation for 

 the purpose is still untouched. A larger part 

 of the appropriction of .$100,000 for the purchase 

 of Adirondack lands has beeo expended, but is 

 not by any means exhausted. 



McClure Ala'oama Operation. 



The McClure Lumber Company of Detroit. 

 Mich., has commented operations on its immense 

 timber tract eighty-five miles south of Birming- 

 ham, Ala. The forest contains lOO.OOO.oOO feet 

 of oak, ash. hickory, gum and yellow pine. The. 

 mill is cutting .50.00" feet of lumber daily, while 

 the railroad, eight teams and several rafts are 

 delivering CO.OOO feet every day. Two carloads 

 of lumber a day have been shipped to Detroit 

 ever since the commencement of operations, but 

 this amount will be greatly increased when all 

 the machinery is in place. ' George and Bert Mc- 

 Clure, who manage the big business of the De- 

 troit office and yard, are In charge of the Ala- 

 bama operations, which represent an outlay of 

 S123.0O0. The company now has back orders to 

 the .amoi;ut -i I'.oo.OOO feet to fill, a large part 

 of 'nhich has come from sections of the south. 



The little .-.eitlement being built up around the 

 mill is known en the latest map of Alabama as 

 •JlcCiures. " 



Stirling- West Cf'apany Infrolvent. 



Alfred It. ifiggs has been appointed receiver of 

 the Stirling- West Company of Baltimore, Md.. the 

 bill of complaint having been filed by William H. 

 West, alleging that the company is insolvent. 



The Stirling-West Company was incorporated 

 under the laws of Maryland in February. ISO!), 

 by William 11. West. A. R. Riggs. Holzer A. Kop- 

 pel. Philip I.ittig and Charles C. Stirling, for 

 the purpose of carrying on an export lumber busi- 

 ness. The <-apital stock of the concern was 

 §12.000. It was practically a successor to the 

 original lumber business of Charles C. Stirling, 

 established some .years previous to the organiza- 

 ti.on of the Stirling-West Compan.v. With its 

 large stock carried in England, where most of the 

 business was transacted, and other outside in- 

 vestments, the enterprise has been considered in 

 excellent shape, with no question whatever as to 

 its stability, so that the failure comes as a mat- 

 ter of surprise to the lumber fraternity. 



Coming Association Meetings. 



January Ki and 17 — Hardwood .Manui'adnr 

 ers' Association of the I'nited States. (!alt House, 

 Louisville, Ky. 



January 18 — Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 .\ssonation. Grand Hotel. Indianapolis. Ind., at 

 2 p. m. ; banquet. 7 ;30 p. m. 



January 2.'! and 24. lilOfi — Southern Lumber 

 Manufacturers' .issicialion. George K. Smith, St. 

 Louis, secretary, at New St. Charles Hotel. New 

 Orleans. La. 



January 24, U»>t> — National Lumber Kxport- 

 ers' Association. Xew Willerd Hotel. Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



March 7 and S — Fourteenth annual meeting of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation : place of meeting yet to be decided 

 upon. 



May 17 and 18. I'JOG — National Hardwood 

 Lmuber .Association. Memphis, Tenn. 



Simonds File Company. 



The Simonds Manufacturing Company has ac- 

 quired an interest in the Culley File Works of 

 Fitchburg. ilass.. and a new corporation has been 

 formed, under the name of the Simonds File 

 Company. The officers of the new organization 

 are as follows : President. Daniel Simonds : vice 

 president. Walter E. Culley : treasurer. Albert E. 

 Culley : secretary. John E. Kelley : directors, the 

 foregoing and Gifford K. Simonds, Alvan T. 

 Simonds and T. Fred Howarth. The new com- 

 pany will commence business with the already 

 'arge patronage of the Culley File Works, and 

 by their association with the Simonds Manufac- 

 turing Company expect to greatly increase their 

 production of files, hack-saws, hack-saw frames 

 and kindred articles. The immense home and 

 foreign interests of .the latter concern will place 

 the products of the Fitchburg works before the 

 trade of the world. 



Sawmill Machinery Business Booming. 



The dei-ia.id fni- sawmill machiner.v and other 

 Numbering equipment is said to be greater this 

 season than ever before, and manufacturers are 

 loaded down with orders, particularly from the 

 MLssis5!ppi '.alley region. This is attributed to 

 [he formatio.n of a number of new companies in 

 Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, 

 growing oiit of the rapid advance in the price 

 of all kinds of lumber, particularly southern 

 hardwoods and yellow pine. There is a marked 

 scarcity of dry stock, and prices have now 

 reac:Ued the highest mark for the year, and in- 

 deed for a num'oer i>f seasons. Besides the orders 

 for machinery to supply new mills, lumber manu- 

 facturers in ^lany parts of the country are broad- 

 ening out and -.•stahlisuing additional operations 

 or transferring their interests in the sections 

 named, for which they arc purchasing all or 

 partially uew etjuipment. 



New Hackley Interests. 



The Wisconsin Chemical Company has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of .$100,000. 

 The company is subsidiary to the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonnoll Company of (jrand Rapids. Mich., aud is 

 constructing .1 large chemical plant at Hac!;ley. 

 Wis. Its offices will be in Detroit. The output 

 will be charcoal, wood alcohrl. acetate of lime 

 and other by-products. Operations will be com- 

 menced ill Febixary. and the plant will have a 

 daily eapa-it.v of forty cords of wood. 



Another subsidiary concern recently organized 

 with §50,000 c-apital will manufacture birch, 

 ba.=5swocd and birds-eye maple veneers at Hack- 

 ley. Aside from these two enterprises, the big 

 Graad Eapids concern has built fifty houses, a 

 nne school building and a larg« cooperage plant 

 at Hackley during the current year. 



Cooperative Work of Forest Service. 

 The cooperative, work of the Forest Service 

 with owners of timber lands, according to the 

 plan outlined in circular No. 21. is highly bene- 

 ficial and far reaching in sc-ope. Since the offer 



