HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Lumber Company. Tlie new concern is capital- 

 ized at $100,000, an increa.se of $40,000 over 

 tliat of the old company. J. L. Lane of Chicago 

 is president and G. O. Worland of Memphis, 

 secretary and treasurer of the company. 



George A. Murray, a lumber manufacturer of 

 Asbeville, N. C, and W. H. Wilcox of Water- 

 bury. Conn., will build a large veueer plant near 

 , the former city tor the manufacture of veneers 

 of oalv, chestnut and other woods. The Asbe- 

 ville Veneer Company with a capital of .$30,000, 

 a large part of which has already been sub- 

 scribed, has been organized to operate this fac- 

 tory. 



The Columbus Handle & Tool (^ompany of 

 Columbus, Ind., will greatly enlarge its branch 

 plant at Madison. Ind. Additional ground has 

 byen purchased and the woric of building will 

 begin shortly. Tlie main factory at Columbus 

 will be continued for some time but, owing to 

 the growing scarcity of timber there, it will 

 eventually lie abandoned and (he entire business 

 conducted from iladison. 



Eagle and Henry islands, in the vicinity of 

 Hurliugton, la., have been sold by .T. P. Wolf to 

 the Northern Hardwood Lumber Company for 

 .52,000. The islands cover about 400 acres and 

 are heavily wooded, a large part of the timber 

 being hardwood. The company intends to pursue 

 a systematic method of cutting, 1al<ing only trees 

 tluit are of proper size, and replanting to make 

 the islands a source of supply for years to come. 

 The first and only enterprise of the kind in 

 the country is to be established at Portland, 

 Wash. — a plant to manufacture furniture of the 

 ii^ghest grades of Philippine hardwoods. J. S. 

 Hay of Manila is now at I'orliand looking over 

 territory for the selection of a suitable site for 

 ji lumber yard. A line of steamers in direct 

 communication with the Philippines will prob- 

 ably be maintained in connection with the in- 

 dustry. 



K. E. Knutssou of K(jcliti)rd. III., is engineer- 

 ing plans for a new furniture factory in that 

 city. Tlie structure will be 2.">0x]2S feet, three 

 stories high. The output will be entirely along 

 the line of mission furniture, which has recently 

 attiiined sxicli popularity. About 150 men will 

 be employed at first. Ground will be broken 

 very soon, and it is thought that goods can be 

 placed upon tlie market by fall. 



The Tyoga Lumber Company of Calumet, 

 Mich., expects to put in about 5,000,000 feet of 

 tiuiber this winter and the coming spring, at its 

 jjlant near Deerton. Over 2.000.000 feet of saw 

 logs are now on rollways at the mill. About 

 1.5110. 000 feet of the year's cut will be hard- 

 woods. The new mill is ready to begin opera - 

 lions, and the company expects to install a 

 railroad during the summer, which will do away 

 with team hauling from tile woods. 



The St. Eernard t'ypress Company is now 

 completing purchases of timber and expects to 

 begin work on its plant in a week or two. It 

 will take fifty acres of ground for the mill site 

 and lumber yard, which will represent an in- 

 vestment of ,1150. Olio. The site has already been 

 aciiuired at Borgneinouth. La., and the sawmill, 

 which will be a triple-deck one, will lie connected 

 with the cypress lands by means of a railroad, 

 whicli will be built and operated by the company. 

 Tile sawmill will be a large and modern one. and 

 will have a world of raw material to draw from. 

 The company'^ lumber will be shipped to do- 

 mestic and foreign markets. 



The plant of the Itichmond (Indiana) Handle 

 Company was seriously damaged liy fiie Feb. 2 

 and considerable machinery iiud linished product 

 destroyed. Tlie factory will be repaired at once, 

 liowever, and it is expected that before thirty 

 da.vs it will again be in running order. The loss 

 was covered by insurance and the greatest dam- 

 age will be in loss of time, as twenty-five men 

 were employed and the plant was running at full 

 capacity. The concern had one of the largest 

 outputs of any handle factory in Indiana, and 

 Ihe delay in getting out orders already on hand 

 will mean a considerable loss. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondeuts.) 



Chicago. 



The IlAiinwooi) Kkcoko had tin. iileasiiic of a 

 call a few days ago from Frederick Duulap of 

 the Forest Service of the L'nited States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Mr. Dunlap is working on 

 a special line of particular interest to the hard- 

 wood industry — an analysis of artilicial drying- 

 methods for hardwoods. He has already secured 

 very valuable data on this subject, which he will 

 compile in the way of evidence and which the 

 department will eventually turn over to the 

 lumber trade for its use. 



George C. Crown & Co.. hardwncil lumber 

 dealers, advise that they have removed their 

 main office from McMinnville to -Xashville, Tenn., 

 at which place the yard has been located for 

 several years. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company advises that 

 it has removed its main oflnce and sales depart- 

 ment from Burnside. Ky., to 507 First National 

 Bank building. Cincinnati, where all correspond- 

 ence should be addressed in future. 



Among the recent Chicago visitors were F. C. 

 Fischer, president of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company of Coal Grove. O., and W. M. Ritler. 

 president of the W. M. Eitter Lumber Company 

 of Columbus, 0. 



A. r. Kliss, president and general manager of 

 the lUiss-Cook Oak Company of Blissville, Ark., 

 spent a day in Chicago last week on his way to 

 his home at Saginaw from a visit to the com- 

 pany's plant. Mr. Bliss says that he has re- 

 cently practically rebuilt the entire sawmill and 

 oak flooring efiuipment at Blissville and here- 

 after the company will produce about ISTOOO.OOO 

 feet of oak annually. The company's holdings 

 constitute about 50,000 acres of the highest type 

 of oak timber growing in Arkansas. 



D. F. Clark, the well known Minneapolis hard 

 wood man, .■.^pent a day or two in town last week. 



Lewis Uoster, secretary of "the Hardwood 

 JIannfacturers' Association of the United States, 

 was in Chicago several days last week in con- 

 ference with President William Wilms of the 

 association. 



W. G. HolHs of Minneapolis, "premier secre- 

 tary" of lumber association work, was a welcome 

 caller at the UKc.oiiD office a few days ago. Mr. 

 Hollis was on his way home from an extended 

 southern trip which included Cuba. 



The executive board of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States held 

 a meeting at Cincinnati on Saturday, as the 

 H.iiiowooD liKCoini was going to press. It is 

 thought very likely that the secretary's office 

 and the entire machinery of the association will 

 be moved from Columbus to Chicago, but of 

 course this announcement is not authoritative. 

 It would seem to be a very wise move on the 

 part of the association to move its headnnarters 

 to this city, as Chicago is the natural center 

 of the hardwood business, from financial, manu- 

 facturing and distributing viewpoints. 



It is a pleasure to chronicle the fact that, 

 after an enforced rest of several days on account 

 of a severe cold, O. (J. Agler of the prominent 

 hardwood firm. Upham & Agler, is again at his 

 office. lie is about the busiest man in the trade 

 at present, in the endeavor to catch up with 

 accumulated detail. 



Sam liiirkholder. the veteran Indiana hardwood 

 man. was in Chicago last Monday shaking hands 

 with his many friends. 



The IIAKDWOOD Record had a call a few days 

 ago from .T. T. Phillips of Phillips & Seeley, the 

 wholesale hardwood dealers of Saginaw, Mich. 



Quite a number of the manufacturers of maple 

 flooring held a conference in Chicago last week 

 analyzing present and prospective features of the 

 tiodiiug Industry-. 



The riisl si like of any importance iu the 



woodworking Industry in Chic-ago this year was 

 called a few days ago by the workers in the 

 furniture factory of S. Karpen & Bros., who 

 number nearly 500. It marked the third large 

 strike of woodworkers within eight months. The 

 trouble resulted from an atlempt to introduce 

 (he piece-work system of paying employees. 



George (i. Roberts, manager of the hardwood 

 department of the Robert H. .lenks Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cleveland, O., was , a Chicago visitor last 

 week and honored the Rkcoku with a call. 



Wm. F. Abbott, formerly with the R'umbarger 

 Lumber Company of I'hiladelphia, is now asso- 

 ciated with Schofield Brothers, 1020 Penusyl- 

 \ania building, who are largely interested in 

 cypress and hardwood production and jobbing. 

 -Mr. Abbott will conlinue to make his head- 

 quarters at York. I'a. 



W. E. Barrett of W. [■:. B.-uiett & Co., Stock 

 Exchange, this cily. has just returned from a 

 Cuban trip. 



J. W. Thompson of Memphis was in Chicago 

 this week. Jesse is always a welcome Chicago 

 \isitor. 



Brother Ed Defebaugli of the Barrel & Box, 

 Louisville, Ky., was a welcome caller at the 

 Record office Friday. 



Boston. 



Lumbermen in the north and east are in a 

 better state of mind than a month ago. as tne 

 heavy fall of snow gives them opportunity to 

 get logs out of the woods. The cut of native 

 hardwood is reported up to the average. 



In the death of Edgar A. Drew of Waltham, 

 Mass., that city loses one of its most prominent 

 citizens. Since 1889 Mr. Drew has conducted 

 in Boston a wholesale lumber business. He is 

 survived by a widow and one daughter. 



Negotiations are practically concluded whereby 

 the casket manufacturing and supply business 

 carried on by the William L. Lockhart Company 

 of Boston and East Cambridge, Mass., is to be 

 absorbed by the National Casket Company, Ho- 

 boken, N. .1. The Lockhart company has a 

 large factory in East Cambridge. 



The Grand Isle Lumber Company has been 

 organized at langor, .Me., with a capital stock 

 of $36,000. The incorporators are : President, 

 Fred B. Cutler of Brookline, Mass., and .James 

 Crawford of Van Buren. Me., treasurer. 



The Swift & Up.son Lumber Company of New 

 Britain. Conn., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $50,000. The incorporators aru 

 O. E. Swift, H. D, Humphrey and F. C. Upson 

 The Torrington Lumlier Company of Torring 

 ton. Conn., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $10,000, The incorporators are William 

 D. and Thomas D. Farley of Torrington, Conn., 

 and Thomas F. Ryan of Litchfield, Conn. 



The C. Woodman Company has been organized 

 at Bangor. Me., for the purpose of conducting 

 a wholesale and retail lumber business. 



Hon. C. A. Milliken of Augusta, Me., has 

 purchased the 'Van Huren Lumber Company's 

 plant and timber lands. Mr. Milliken will carry 

 on the business. 



M. W. Hart of Boston, who does a large hard- 

 wood business, reports the outlook as favorable. 

 .\t the recent meeting of the Connecticut 

 Lumber Dealers' Association it was recommended 

 that the association unile with the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' .Association in raising a 

 fund of $150,000 to endow a chair of "applied 

 forestry and practical lumbering" at Yale. This 

 was referred to the board of directors. A. Schu- 

 maker of Waterbury, Conn., was elected presi- 

 dent ; Prank Vt\ Bogardius, Stamford, vice presi- 

 dent ; secretary and treasurer, Louis A. Mans- 

 field, New Haven. Mr. Mansfield was also 

 elected insurance director. 



