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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mich., which were destroyed by fire recently, 

 is being rebuilt. The buildings will be of brick 

 and first-class in every respect and will cost 

 ?8.000. The Michigan Central is building a 

 spur track up to the site of the proposed plant. 



The American Butter Dish Company of 

 Traverse City, Mich., will commence operations 

 in its new factory March 1. John S. Benedict 

 of Chicago is president and treasurer of the 

 company : John F. Ott of Traverse City, vice 

 president, and C. J. Bartell of Chicago, secre- 

 tary. 



One of the dry kilns at the I. Stephenson 

 Company's plant at Wells. Mich., was destroyed 

 b,v fire last month. The kiln was used only dur- 

 ing rush seasons, so that its destruction will iu 

 no wise interfere with operations. The loss is 

 covered by insurance, and the kiln will be re- 

 placed immediately. 



The Anchor Mills. Memphis. Teun.. manufac- 

 turers of bobbin stock, are making inquiries re- 

 garding coast dogwood, with a view of ascer 

 taining the possibilities for locating on the 

 coast. Coast dogwood has not hitherto been re- 

 garded of scarcely any value, as the frees are 

 loo small for lumbering purposes. 



H. 0. Coughlan, John K. Turner and II. Staf- 

 fi.rd Mantz are the incorporators of the Ameri- 

 can Creosotlng Company of Jersey City, X. J., 

 lapitalized at $250,000. The company will 

 creosote lumber and timber for paving, piling, 

 railroad ties, etc.. and manufacture chemicals 

 for rendering fabrics non-inflammabic. 



The Pittsburg & Southern Veneer Manufac- 

 turing r*ompany has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of .|5OO.O00 by <;. M. Xeagley. E. 

 Kern and W. G. W. Taylor. The company will 

 be located at 147 East State street, Trenton. X. 

 J., and besides manufacturing veneer will buy 

 and sell timber, farming, grazing and other 

 land. 



The Ohio & Tennessee Lumber Company, 

 Alliance, O., has been incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $50,000. The company is putting 

 in a mill at Fulton. Tenn., on the Mississippi 

 river, and will establish a wholesale yard at 

 that point, where it will be prepared to fill 

 orders in oak, cypress, gum. hickory, beech 

 and maple. 



The Veneer Box & Tanel Company. Greenville. 

 Me., will rebuild its mill destroyed by fire last 

 summer. The main building will be lOOx.350 

 feet, and for 112 feet of its length it will be two 

 stories high, the remainder one story. The 

 power house will be 50x50 feet, and 250 horse- 

 power will be generated for driving the mill 

 machinery. 



The Union Handle & Manufacturing Company 

 of Ashley, O.. has leased a plot of land just 

 north of that town on the railroad and will soon 

 commence the erection of a factory thereon. 

 Modern machinery will be Installed and numer- 

 ous labor-saving devices added which will greatly 

 increase the company's output and augment the 

 number of factory bands employed. 



The gift of l.v,000 acres of land, known as 

 Manltou Park, and valued at $150,000. which 

 Gen. W. J. Palmer and Dr. VV. A. Pell made to 

 Colorado College, is for the establishment of a 

 school of forestry. The land Is located about 

 twenty miles from Colorado Springs, is about 

 two-thirds covered with forest growth and con- 

 tains a fine hotel and a number of cottages. 



D. N. McLeod of Newberry, Mich., has closed 

 a contract with the owners of the sawmill lo- 

 cated at Rex, on the Soo line, to manufacture 

 the timber he Is cutting on his tract located 

 about ten miles southeast of Newberry. Mr, 

 McLeod Is operating a crew of sixty men and Is 

 taking off all the timber, which consists of 

 hardwood, birch, hemlock, cedar and pulpwood. 



Commissioner Whipple of Ihe Xew York state 

 forest, fish and game commission has brought 

 suit against S. T. Coykendall of Rondout, presi- 

 dent of the Ulster & Delaware railroad, to re- 

 cover the penalty of $10 per tree on 2.'{1 hard- 

 wood trees which it Is asserted Coykendall cut 

 from state land In the Catsklll preserve In the 



construi-tion cf a private roadway ti-> his pri 

 vate preserve. 



A valuable addition to the large number of 

 woodworking iudustries in Portsmouth. (►.. will 

 be the U'ait-Fullcr Cabinet Company, which 

 is erecting a number of buildings and expects 

 to begin operations about March 1. The main 

 factory is a brick structure, 140x90 feet, and 

 Ihe wareroom 120x70 feet. The factory has an 

 Ideal location, being convenient both (o the river 

 and railroads. 



At Aberdeen. Miss., the Aberdeen Furniture 

 Manufacturing Company, recently incorporated 

 with $50,000 capital stock, will shortly begiu 

 the erection of its plant. A machine room, two 

 stories in height. 00x200 feet in d"mensions. and 

 a warehouse and tiuishing room, two stories 

 high, 50x200 feet, will be constructed at an esti- 

 mated cost of $35,000. Medium grade chamber 

 suits and sideboards will be manufactured. 



George H. Dickerson of Terre Haute, Ind., lias 

 Just closed a contract with the American Car & 

 Foundry Company to furnish a large quantity 

 \ii car oak within the next three months. The 

 deal was made by Purchasing Agent C. A. Lay- 

 man for the company, and the lumber, which is 

 to be used chiefly in the construction of box 

 cars, will be shipped to Chicago. The material 

 will be procured in Illinois and southern In- 

 diana. 



The McCulloch-Kuhn-Atkinson Company, with 

 offices at 218 Lumber Exchange, is a new firm 

 in the sash and door field at Minneapolis. Minn. 

 Warehouses have been established and they are 

 replete with a line of high grade stock, includ- 

 ing everything usually carried by a modern 

 sash and door concern. The company will also 

 handle hardwood Interior finish and will be in 

 position to supply everything in the line of odd 

 work* 



A tract of 4,200 acres of lieavily timbered 

 land located in Gregg county, Texas, was re- 

 cently purchased by J. L. Wright. Author & 

 Meeker, James Moore, Charles Burnsides and 

 I. F. Pritchard, all of Illinois, the consideration 

 being $21,000. The area contains about 7,000,- 

 000 feet of hardwoods, also 1.000,000 feet of 

 pine. It is near a railroad and the purchasers 

 will erect sawmills and begin the work of devel- 

 oping at once. 



Richards & Morrison of Herkimer. X. Y., have 

 ,iust completed the purchase of a tract of land, 

 comprising about 4,000 acres of splendid tim- 

 ber, on which they will begin operations in the 

 spring. They will build a modern steam mill 

 on the tract and will manufacture all kinds of 

 hardwood novelties, such as brooms and saw 



bandies, clothes-pins, etc. The hardwood will 

 he cut into lumber in the mill, while the soft 

 wood will be available for pulp. 



The ,\cme Handle Company, recently organ- 

 ized at St. Louis, has p\irchased the plant of 

 Ihe Acme Handle Company of lUerne. .\rk. The 

 factory is located on the main line of the Iron 

 Mountain railroad in what is conceded to be one 

 of the best hickory timber districts in the coun- 

 tr.v. Xew machinery has been installed, ma- 

 terially increasing the capacity of the plant, 

 which will manufacture axe, sledge, pick and 

 hammer handles of ash and hickory. 



A. W. lirown of Alpena, Mich., has sold his 

 excelsior plant to Frank A. Richardson. This 

 deal includes the i»Iant, containing a two- 

 machine mill, and all the stock. The new Rich- 

 ardson business has since been absorbed by the 

 Michigan Veneer Company, of which R. H. Ray- 

 burn and W. H. Campbell are the principals. 

 The new company will be known as the Michi- 

 gan Veneer Company, Inc.. and Mr. Richardson 

 has been taken In as a third stockholder. 



The Dare Luiuber Company, liingharaton, X. 

 Y.. capitalized at $000,000, will soon build a 

 sawmill upon its extensive property in Dare 

 county. .North Carolina, consisting of 100,000 

 acres of pine, juniper, cypress and gum timber 

 lands. T'he mill will have a capacity of 100.000 

 feet per day. A lath mill and shingle mill will 

 also be built. It is said that this company is 

 in the market for skidders. two twelve-ton loco- 

 motives and narrow gauge equipment for logging 

 and lumbering operations. 



A Johnstown. Pa., paper states that one of 

 the largest timber deals made iu the section 

 fur many years was consummated recently, 

 when 400 acres was transferred to C. E. Specht 

 and H. C. Cook by Philip McCaffrey and the 

 Mct.'affi-ey estate. The consideration is said to 

 have been $40,000. The tract Is located in Pine 

 township, Indiana county. It is estimated that 

 the timber will cut 6,000,000 feet of oak and 

 hemlock, and is one of the largest tracts of 

 virgin timber in the Keystone State. 



At the annual meeting of the Hardwood Com- 

 pany, Greensboro, N. ('.. ('apt. Xeil Ellington 

 was elected president ; C. D. Benbow. vice presi- 

 dent, and O. C. Benbow. secretary and treasurer. 

 The board of directors remain the same. The 

 affairs of the company are iu very satisfactory 

 condition. During the coming year new ma- 

 chinery will be installed, which will double 

 the output. The concern recently acquired an 

 extensive tract of timber land, and preparations 

 are being made to handle a large business dur- 

 ing 190G. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(■By HABBWOOD BECOBD 



Chicago. 

 The last issue of the IIardwoop Rkoorp. con- 

 taining as it did the complete reports of both 

 the annual meeting of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States and 

 of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation, not only Involved a good deal of cost 

 and labor, but very naturally resulted in some 

 omissions as well as a few slight Inaccuracies. 

 An apology is due J. V. Stlmson, the well- 

 known hardwood manufacturer tif Huntlngburg, 

 Ind., and Owensboro, Ky., who was prominent 

 in both meetings, and who delivered an espe- 

 cially valuable address at the Indianapolis meet- 

 ing, for not making specific and commendatory 

 reference to it and for the omission of his por- 

 trait from both reports. Tlie Kkcobd Is al.so 

 chagrined at the omission of the portrait of 

 W. 11. Dawklns of Ashland. Ky., who was pres- 

 ent at the Manufacturers' nu'Cting and Is (Uie 

 of Its most loya) supporters, and who occupies 

 a very prominent place In poplar production. 

 There are doubtless others to whom the Itr.coTtD 

 owes apologies, but It wants them all to be 



Special Corraspondents.) 



iicvc thai the i>\(M'sights were not Intentional, 

 and of omission rather than commission. 



It is announced that Sam E. Barr of New 

 Y'ork has withdrawn from the Barr & Mills 

 Company of Zanesvllle. 0. Hereafter the com- 

 pany will devote Its time to Its western In- 

 terests, with heiidiinnrters at Zanesvllle. while 

 Mr. Barr will engage In business on his own 

 account, with offices In the Flatlron building, 

 New York. 



The sixteenth annual meeting of (he Illinois 

 Lumber Dealers' Association will be held at the 

 Sherman house, Tuesday. Wednesday and 

 Thursday, Feb. 1."!, 14 and l."). 



The J. S. Ilosklns Ltimber C(uupany. dealer in 

 piling, hardwoods and ship timber at Baltimore, 

 advises the Rbciiiu) that It Is located In new 

 offices at 1102 American building, Ballimnre. 



HooHoo Is to have a great show at Hutllg, 

 Ark., at the t^pera House on the evening of 

 Feb. 24. In addition to an elaborate concatena- 

 tion, Boling Arthur Johnson. Seer of the House 

 of Ancients, will deliver hla stereoptlcon lec- 

 ture on the Passion Play of 1000. All good 

 IIoo IIoo will take nollco, and those who can 



