HARDWOOD RECORD 



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New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion. 



The New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion met in the Hibernia Bank building on Jan. 

 26, at 8 p. m. 



The committee on by-laws, consisting of W. A. 

 Powell, Oscar Gartner and Ludwig Haymann, 

 submitted their recommendations for constitu- 

 tion and by-laws. The various articles sub- 

 mitted were discussed and adopted, with some 

 amendments. The objects of the association are 

 therein set forth, as follows : "This association 

 is formed for the purpose of improving the con- 

 ditions relating to the business of exporting 

 forest products, and of affording to its members 

 all the facilities, advantages and protections 

 derived through cooperation." 



An initiation fee of $25 was decided upon. 

 The dues are to be $50, payable semiannually in 

 advance. It was further decided that a board 

 of seven directors be formed, which sltould elect 

 a president, vice president, secretary and treas- 

 urer annually. Railroad, maritime, arbitration 

 and complaint, and grading committees will 

 have charge of tliose respective branches of the 

 work. In the board of directors will be vested 

 the power to employ a competent commissioner 

 or claim agent, who will devote his entire time 

 to the work of the association. The membership 

 roll will be enlarged by the addition of other 

 New Orleans exporters than those at present 

 Identified with the movement, and an attempt 

 made to interest and enroll exporters in various 

 parts of the South. 



The session was a very enthusiastic one, and 

 the outlook for the association's success is excel- 

 lent. Another meeting will be held in the near 

 future. 



Big Clothes-Pin Factory at Custer, Mich. 



The blood and sinew, as it were, of the little 

 village of Custer, in Mason county, Michigan, 

 is the plant of the Custer Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, known as the "pin mill." Marshall Bray- 

 man, president and manager, built the first mill 

 at Custer in 1SS2, which was rebuilt after 

 the flre five years later. The mill started in 

 1887 with four pin machines and at present 

 there are twelve of these machines in opera- 

 tion, with capacity for turning out 48,000 dozen 

 clothes pins in ten hours. Beech is the timber 

 used, and the big logs are first cut into six- 

 foot lengths by a drag saw, then sawed into 

 boards. The boards are cut into square strips, 

 then are fed through another machine with 

 nineteen saws, cutting the strips into lengths of 

 tour inches, the size being now suitable for 

 turning into a pin. The little sticks are ele- 

 vated to the third story and dropped into a 

 hopper, which feeds the turning and slotting 

 machines. Finally the pins are carried to the 

 tumbler, where the friction scours and smooths 

 them ready for packing and market. The com- 

 pany has on hand at present more than 400,000 

 feet of timber and the mill will be operated 

 steadily through the winter. The Custer mill 

 and a pin mill of equal capacity in West Vir- 

 ginia rank as the two largest plants of the kind 

 in the world. The Custer plant has warehouse 

 room for storing 33,000 boxes, or 1,980,000 

 dozen clothes pins. A general store and meat 

 market, with four clerks, are also operated by 

 the company at Custer. 



fore been .shipped to other places for manufac- 

 ture will now be sawed at Clarksville, and made 

 up into useful articles. 



Messrs. Dewes and Gilliland are capable men, 

 who are well able, both financially and other- 

 wise, to carry out their proposed plans. 



Kew Concern at ClarkS'Tille, Teun. 



Recognizing the many .advantages of Clarks- 

 ville, Tenn., C. E. Dewes. A. J. Gilliland and 

 A. H. Card, well known lumbermen of Nash- 

 ville, have purchased the Whitfield sawmill 

 property and will begin operations next week. 

 The firm, which will be known as the Clarks- 

 ville Hardwood Lumber Company, is capitalized 

 at $15,000, and will be operated on a large 

 scale. It is also part of the new company's 

 plans to install a box factory. Factories in 

 Clarksville use. it is said, 400,000 boxes an- 

 nually and a factory to manufacture these has 

 long been needed. The timber which has hereto- 



Advance in Cypress Prices. 



The Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion has advanced prices on various items of 

 cypress over the list of Dec. 20, as follows : All 

 items of tank stock, firsts and seconds, selects, 

 No. 1 shop. No. 2 shop and selected common, 

 $2 : all finishing lumber, $2 ; % and % inch 

 ceiling, $1 : % ceiling and worked flooring, drop 

 siding, molded casings and base, $2 ; all short 

 ceiling, flooring and wainscoting, partition and 

 molded casings, $2 ; bevel siding, $1 ; short 

 turned stock, $1 ; panel stock, $1 ; window and 

 door frame stock, $2 ; 4-foot and longer short 

 lumber, $2 ; all No. 1 and No. 2 common, $1 ; 

 Byrkit's sheathing lath. $1 : % lath, 25c, and 

 % lath, 50c. There are no changes in any other 

 items. 



Wood Industries of Thomas'Tille. 



Thomasville, N. C. a thriving town of 3,000 

 population, boasts an industrial plant for every 

 200 inhabitants, a proportion which is excelled 

 by few towns in the country. Many are wood- 

 working enterprises and there are safe, chair, 

 dresser and chiffonier factories, table, machinery, 

 spoke and handle plants, and flour mills. Of 

 the sixteen plants, seven are chair factories, 

 which during the year 1905 turned out over 

 1,000,000 chairs. One of the new companies, 

 the Thomasville Chair Company, established 

 during the past year, has a capital stock of 

 $20,000 paid in, and John T. Cramer and G. A. 

 Allison are the principals of the concern. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Messrs. I'ickard and Mott of La Porte, Ind., 

 have lately engaged in the manufacture of 

 picture frames at that place. About twenty men 

 will be employed. 



Hardwood lumber and cypress shingles will 

 be manufactured by the Culver Company, re- 

 cently organized at Sedgwick, Ark., with a capi- 

 tal stock of $25,000. 



W. E. Davis has installed a new plant at 

 Point Pleasant, Mo., tor the manufacture of oak, 

 ash, hickory and elm squares. The capacity is 

 about 5,000 feet a day. 



A tract of 15,000 acres of timber land in 

 Virginia will be developed by the Elkhorn Stave 

 & Lumber Company, articles of incorporation for 

 which will be filed shortly. 



The Goshen Veneer Works, Goshen, Ind., is 

 settled in its new factory, which provides ample 

 room and excellent facilities for handling its 

 large business expeditiously. 



Capt. John F. Dearborn, who conducted a 

 spool factory at Bryant's Pond. Me., for many 

 years, died at his home in that city on Jan. 27 

 after a long and serious illness. 



The Mendenhall Stave Company has been or- 

 ganized at Fort Wayne, Ind., with a capital of 

 $10,000. A. T. Vail, Amos Mendenhall and 

 Clem C. Wasson are the incorporators. 



Charles L. Ciough. formerly of the lumber 

 Arm of Wiedman & Ciough, Marinette, Wis., has 

 engaged with a brother in the manufacture of 

 hemlock and hardwoods at Warren, Pa. 



The American Woodworking Machinery Com- 

 pany, New York City, has bought ten acres of 

 land at Gates, Long Island, N. Y., where a plant 

 will be erected some time in the future. 



A shuttle factory is being erected at Decatur, 

 .\la., by J. W. Pace, who hopes in time to make 

 it one of the largest of its kind in the country. 

 Dogwood and beech will be the woods most used. 



The Butter Tub & Tank Factory of Storm 

 Lake, la., will be run at its full capacity dur- 

 ing this year — 1.000 tubs daily. At a meet- 

 ing of stockholders recently, the former officers 

 were reelected. 



The Batesville Lumber & Veneer Company of 



Batesville. Ind., is one of the latest concerns 

 to add its name to the constantly increasing 

 list of veneer producers. It is capitalized at 

 $20,000. 



Fire in the Lutke Showcase Manufacturing 

 Company's factory at Portland, Ore., destroyed 

 hardwoods, plate glass and other material, also 

 machinery to the value of $50,000. But little 

 insurance was carried. 



The Ilaggerty Mantel Comptiny of Morgan- 

 town, W. Va.. capitalized at $75,000. will manu- 

 facture hardwood mantels, interior marble fit- 

 tings and trimmings, and plumbers' supplies for 

 all classes of buildings. 



Arnold Wittlin of Ellington, Wis., recently 

 sold to Manser, Renner & Graef at Appleton four 

 fine white oak logs. They were solid and nearly 

 fifty feet long and brought $50 per thousand 

 feet of lumber crntained. 



J. D. Hills, who has been local manager for 

 the McDonough Manufacturing Company of Eau 

 Claire, Wis., recently severed his connection 

 there and now Is associated with the Seattle 

 branch of the Allis-Chalmers Company. 



The J. W. Willis Lumber Company of Wash- 

 ington Court House, O., recently sold to Semon 

 Bache & Co. of New York, 180 large walnut logs, 

 or nine carloads. The lumber was shipped from 

 their yard at Washington Court House. 



A wholesale business in hardwoods, with a 

 specialty of mine timbers, will be carried on by 

 the Hood Lumber Company, incorporated at 

 Bridgeport. O., with a capital stock of $25,000. 

 Oflices have been leased in the Oglebay block. 



The Standard Manufacturing Company, Apple- 

 ton, Wis., reports an active season. It finds that 

 the demand for high-grade office and bar fixtures 

 has Increased to such an extent that next spring 

 the concern will enlarge its plant considerably. 



Garvin. 1. T., is soon to liave a new $75,000 

 veneer plant, which will cover two acres of 

 ground. Operations will begin on the mill with- 

 in three months, and already the electric light 

 and waterworks are being built and a spur track 

 laid. 



The Hume Cooperage Company's plant, said 

 to be the second largest in the United States, 

 was sold recently by order of court for $12.- 

 000, T. S. Burnham, supposedly representing 

 Hiram Blow & Co. of Louisville being the pur- 

 chaser. 



The entire output of the next three months 

 of S. A. Wellman & Co.'s cant-hook and broom- 

 handle factory at I^oardman, Mich., has been 

 sold. The mill is now being operated to the 

 limit of its capacity, turning out stock to fill 

 orders. 



The Dryden Lumber Company, Dryden, Ark., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $5,000. The company has a plant with a 

 capacity of 10,000 feet per day. Oak lumber 

 will be manufactured principally, also some 

 hickory. 



The Northern Hoop Company is operating the 

 old sawmill in the village of Burgeon, O., to its 

 full capacity, employing a force of forty men. 

 It is reported that a veneer factory will be 

 started up there shortly which will boom the 

 town considerably. 



W. H. Coleman & Co. of Indianapolis, Ind., 

 have purchased a plot of ground at Houston, 

 Miss., near the crossing of the Mobile, Jackson 

 & Kansas City R. R. and the Mobile & Ohio, 

 where they will begin the erection of a heading 

 factory at an early date. 



The Lignum-Vitae Supply Company, Man- 

 hattan, recently incorporated with $10,000 capi- 

 tal, will handle logs, lumber, timber and veneer. 

 H. M. Hobart, George F. Tailaday and John 

 S. Hamilton, all of New York City, are pro- 

 moters of the enterprise. 



James A. Hunt, president of the Grand Rap- 

 ids Stave Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., died 

 suddenly of apoplexy last month at the age of 

 61 years. He was one of the city's most es- 

 teemed residents and his death was keenly felt 

 by a large number of her people. 



The Buchanan Cabinet Works of Buchanan, 



