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HARDWOOD RECORD 



G. W. Connor, who recently established a 

 handle factory at Hickory Nut Gap, near Ashe- 

 ville, N. C, Is meeting with most unlooked-for 

 success. He operates a small factory, using 

 water power, but turns out exceptionally straight 

 products. He is now working on an order which 

 will try the capacity of his plant for some 

 months. 



A Plalnfield. Ind., paper states that more tim- 

 ber is being shipped from that vicinity this sea- 

 son than for years. The Indianapolis Veneer 

 Company has e.'cpended over ?25,000 and A. 

 Young of Indianapolis representing three com- 

 panies has purchased ?35,000 worth of timber, 

 mostly oak. during the past few weeks in this 

 territory. 



Louis J. Tripp has been selected as the presi- 

 dent of the Mesick Manufacturing Company of 

 Cadillac. Mich., organized with a capitalization 

 of $8,000, to manufacture barrel and keg head- 

 ing and dimension stock. George F. Williams 

 of Manton is the vice president of the company : 

 Lewis J. Ward is treasurer : .T. II. Williams, sec- 

 retary, and W. S. Williams, director. 



Chas. A. Sauer & Co. of Ann Arbor, Mich.. 

 hftve presented to the University of Michigan a 

 set of samples of the various woods they handle. 

 The collection includes twenty-six varieties of 

 woods gathered from all parts of the world, and 

 will be valuable to students of forestry who 

 must become familiar with the structure and 

 characteristics of the different woods. 



The Reeves-Powell Company, Ltd.. Oscar Gart- 

 ner and Hugo Forchheimer are prominent in a 

 movement for the organization of a New Or- 

 leans Exporters' Club. A meeting for this pur 

 pose was held in tlie committee rooms of the 

 Hlbernla Bank & Trust Company building on 

 Jan. 3. Without doubt much good will redound 

 to the New Orleans export trade from this or- 

 ganization. 



Crystal Falls, Mich., is to be the scene of a 

 new saw mill venture. Philip Campbell and 

 Hay Kimball have purchased a portable mill and 

 will soon start at work cutting up some timber 

 which Mr. Kimball owns. The gentlemen have 

 secured some timber lands and are h'&ving logs 

 put into the river for them now. They have a 

 planer and matcher and will cut lumber for 

 home consumption mainly. 



A. C. Fclton, Jr., has organized a company. 

 heavily capitalized, to manufacture spools and 

 bobbins at Macon, Ga. He has purchased the 

 business of the Georgia Spool & Bobbin Company 

 at that place, and will make improvements in 

 the plant, increasing the capacity three-fold. Mr. 

 Felton is interested in the Massee & Pelton Lum- 

 ber Company of Macoii, which is one of the larg- 

 est manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds in 

 the South. 



Shipments by water from Marinette, Wis., have 

 shown a decld.id decrease during the past year. 

 This year the total aggregated 6G,230,000, while 



last year's reached T8.b(j5,0UU, and the year be- 

 fore 118,700,000. This is accounted for by the 

 fact that the Sawyer-Goodman Company and 

 other large concerns at Marinette are now ship- 

 ping a considerable proportion of their output 

 by rail. Menominee has also fallen behind Its 

 record this year. 



The Postal-Telegraph-Cable Company has re- 

 cently established a camp in Pocahontas county. 

 West Virginia, for cutting and treating chestnut 

 telephone poles. The Forest Service Is cooperat- 

 ing with the company in devising successful meth- 

 ods of seasoning and handling. A number of 

 poles will be soaked in water for thirty days to 

 liasten seasoning, while others will be air sea- 

 soned without soaking. The value of soaking 

 will be demonstrated by a comparison of the re- 

 sults of the two methods. 



The Grafton. 111.. Stave & Heading Company 

 has been operating a large plant for the past 

 three years. To supply the timber for this plant 

 a large force of men is constantly employed cut- 

 ting and rafting logs on the Illinois and Missis- 

 sippi rivers. The company manufactures mate- 

 rial for flour, salt, sugar, lime and apple barrels. 

 It also operates five other plants located in St. 

 Louis and East St. Louis. J. L. Preston is sec- 

 retary and treasurer and manager of the plant at 

 Grafton, which is valued at $25,000. 



Capitalists of Boston and other Massachusetts 

 cities are interested in the Cuba Eastern Rail- 

 road Company, which will build a line running 

 In a westerly direction from San Pre to San Luis 

 in the La Maya valley, opening up a rich sugar 

 and timber district. This company, wjiich is 

 capitalized at $3,000,000, now operates a stan- 

 dard gauge line from the United States naval 

 station on Guatanamo bay fifty miles north to 

 Concepcion City, where an affiliated concern, the 

 Cuba Hardwood Company, owns extensive timber 

 lands. It is reported that fully $5,000,000 will 

 be expended in erecting various kinds of facto- 

 ries along the route of this road, which will be 

 as efiicient as any first-class American line, with- 

 in tile next few months. 



The new timber-preserving plant of the Atchi- 

 son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad to be located 

 at Somerville. Tex., near Galveston, will be of 

 the most advanced type in the country. In its 

 operation the Riiping process will liencel'orth be 

 used. Heretofore the Santa Fe and other roads 

 have been treating tIeS by the various zinc- 

 chloride processes, which have thus far been con- 

 siderably cheaper, but not as satisfactory other- 

 wise as creosotlng. The Riiping process, how- 

 ever, so reduces the amount of oil necessary to 

 be used that the railroads generally have been 

 desirous of using some means of creosoting ties 

 and would probably have done so uniformly if 

 it were not for the expense involved. If the 

 process as used by the Santa Fe shows the 

 results expected the Somerville plant is likely 

 to be duplicated by several railroads. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



>2y HABOWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents. ) 



Chicago. 



The Ukcobd office was honored a tew days 

 ago with a call from H. K. Bacon, treasurer and 

 manager of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Company 

 of Memphis and from C. U. Lamb, secretary and 

 treasurer of the Lamb Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis and Chicago. 



H. C. Jackson, formerly salcsnianager of the 

 Michigan Maple Company, and more lately asso- 

 ciated with the Thomas Wllcc Company, has 

 Just retired from the latter employment, but 

 expects very soon to be again In the harness. 



It Is with regret that the Hakdwood Kei-ouii 

 announces the death of Frank G. Kalblc, adver- 

 tising manager of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc.. at 

 Indianapolis, who died Dec. 16, lOO.'}. Mr. Risi- 

 ble was a very able and conscientious advertis- 

 ing man awl will be sadly missed by the great 



saw manufacturing liouse whose business he so 

 faithfully handled. 



"WagstalT, Lumber, Oshkosli," was in Chicago 

 last week. Me reports the advance sales of Wis- 

 consin hardwoods at the present time greater 

 than ever before In the history ot the trade, and 

 prophesies Increased values for northern hard- 

 wood products. 



George G. Roberts Is the new manager of the 

 hardwood department of the Robert II. Jenks 

 Lumber Company of Cleveland. He Is a hustler 

 from away back, and has made a great record 

 for the company's hardwonfl deparlmont since he 

 took charge of It. 



Frank B. (.'orkrell, for a long time salesman 

 with the Ward Lumber Company of this city, 

 has retired from that employment and entered 

 the commission lumber business with headiiuar- 



ters at 738 National Life Building. Chicago. Mr. 

 Cockrell has the liest wishes of the Hardwood 

 Rlicdkd for success in his new enterprise. 



Herbert B. Leavitt, president of the Leavitt 

 Lumber Company, sails from New York on Jan. 

 13 for a trip to Porto Rico and other of the 

 West Indies. He will return via one ot the 

 Mexican ports and the city of Mexico. Mr. 

 Leavitt expects to be gone about six weeks. 



The Leavitt Lumber Company has leased a 

 dock front on the south branch of the Chicago 

 river at Twenty-second and Laflin streets, 250x 

 600 feet in size, which is a lumber yard site 

 formerly occupied by the Soper Lumber Com- 

 pany. The company will erect on this location 

 a handsome office, barns and a shed for dry kiln 

 stock, which will accommodate 2.000.000 feet. 

 This yard will be operated in addition to its 

 present yard on Centre avenue near Thirty-flftli 

 street. 



The Soper Lumber Company has purchased a 

 lumber yard site on Loomis street near Twenty 

 second, and it is announced that It will soon 

 move to its new location. 



The Hardwood Record has been bountifully 

 f.ivored with New Year remembrances. .\moDg 

 rc( ent arrivals at this office are attractive cal- 

 endars from Samuel H. Shearer & Son, Phila- 

 delphia : Leavitt Lumber r'ompany, Chicago : In- 

 diana Sawed Veneer Company, Indianapolis : 

 P.rownlee & Co.. Detroit : Richey. Halsted & 

 Quick. Cincinnati : Thomas McFarland Lumber 

 Company. Cairo: John Gillespie Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago : Standard Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Buffalo ; John M. Woods & Co.. East 

 Cambridge, Mass. ; Mackie Lumber Company. 

 Piedmont, W. Ta. : Gibbs & Hall. Grand Rapids. 

 Mich. : J. S. Goldle. Cadillac. Mich ; Steele & 

 Ribbard. St. Louis: George C. Brown & Co.. 

 McMlnnville, Tenn. : John Dulweber & Co., Cin- 

 cinnati. From (he W. E. Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany. Memphis, and Russe & Burgess. Memphis, 

 came neat notebooks in leather : from Hobart 

 & Co., Boston, and Frank B. Stone. Chicago, 

 leather bill-books : from the Ingram Lumber Com- 

 pany. Wausnu. Wis., a useful brush : from the 

 Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company, a match 

 holder : from J. M. Darnell & Son. Memphis, and 

 from the Tyler Lumber Company. New York, 

 handy and novel memorandum pads to attach to 

 a desk phone. 



The Rkcord had the pleasure of a call on Jan. 

 2 from H. B. Holroyd of the Forest Service. 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. 

 Holroyd has been making a special study for 

 some months of wagon and agrlculttu'nl Imple- 

 ment woods, hip investigation covering forest 

 products which it would be possible to substi- 

 tute for those now employed. The growing 

 scarcity of hickory, ash and oak makes the work 

 of Mr. Holroyd of special interest to wagon and 

 agricultural Implement makers, 



J. W. Beechcr, the well-known lumberman of 

 Pottsvllle, Pa., announces In » handsome en- 

 graved card, dated Jan. 1. that he has admitted 

 to partnership G. G. Barr. and fh.Tt In future 

 the business will be conducted under the firm 

 name ot Beechor it Barr. The specialties of the 

 firm will be hardwood lumber, mining timber and 

 railroad ties. 



The J. Walter Wright Lumber Company of 

 Mountain City. Tenn., announces that .\. N. 

 Scutts, who was formerl.v associated with the 

 John T. Dixon Lumber Company of Ellzabethton. 

 Tenn.. has become a member of the company and 

 will have charge of the selling end of the busi 

 ness. 



W. M. Hopkins of the Theodore Fathauer Com- 

 pany has been away from business some days, 

 at the bedside of his father, who Is very 111. 



It was not a stratagrajihlc disturbance that 

 occtirred (hroughnut the lOast a few days ago. 

 hut It Just happened on account of Lewis Dos 

 ter's stepping off the gang plnnk •f a trans- 

 Atlnntle steamer upon the .solid rock of Man- 

 hattan. Lewie went abroad some months ago 

 for a combined business and pleasure trip, but 



