laiefl with expensive mncliiiiri\\-, all of whirli 

 was ruined. 



M. E. llarkins of I'oriland. Ind., recently pur- 

 chased ^2^)^^ acres of land near Allegheny Springs, 

 leun.. heavily timbered willi 1.000,000 feet of 

 piue. pojilar and oak. lie also purchased a saw- 

 luill and will al once bejiin manufacturing luni- 

 ber. Mr. llarUins proj>oses to establish a hnnber 

 yard at rortland in the near future. 



George T,. Switzer of Michigan t'ily. Ind., is 

 preparing to establish a planing mill there, for 

 the manufacture of doors, casings, sash and in- 

 side finisli for dwellings. Construction of a 

 building will begin at once, and macbinery will 

 be installed in time lo have the mill iu opera 

 lieu some time this spi-ing. 



The Veneer Ceiling & Flooring Company has 

 been incorporated at Newark. N. .1., to manufac- 

 ture veneer flooring, ceiling, moulding, wains- 

 coting and woodwork of all kinds. The company 

 is caijitalized at .S.'iO.ikki and the incorporators 

 are \V. Hurd, Watkins. N. i. : !•". 8. Ilurd, New 

 York City: .1. W. Brinton. Newark, N. J. 



The A. E. Smith Shingle Mills located near 

 firange, Tex., is towing cypress logs from the 

 Xeches river to its plant. The company reports 

 a better supply of cypress logs since last May 

 than in any season for several years. Unless a 

 liigb river comes this montli it is not believed 

 that - much cypress will be gotten from the 

 swamps the coming ppring. 



At an early date the Consumers' Lvimber Com- 

 pany of Chattanooga. Tenn.. expects to receive 

 its charter, when the organization will be per- 

 fected and officers elected. The concern will 

 deal principally in hardwoods, the product being 

 used largely by the Acme Kitclien Furniture 

 Company, the Chattanooga Furniture Company 

 and the Keyser Manufacturing Company. 



.John .1. BTood of Bay City, Mich., is manufac- 

 turing mahogany logs into lumber for Edward 

 Germain of Saginaw. Mr. (Jermain buys his 

 mahogany in the tree in Africa, has it hauled to 

 the coast and freighted to the Flood mill to be 

 sawed. It is then shipped to Saginaw to be 

 utilized in the finish of the high-grade pianos 

 wiiich are turned out at the Germain plant. 



Work is being pushed on the four-story build- 

 ing at Holland. Mich., for Chas. P. Limbert & 

 Co. of Grand liapids. The' factory is of the 

 slow burning type. 00x350 feet in dimensions, 

 of brick and concrete. It is expected that it 

 will be read.T for occupancy about the first of 

 May. when 200 men will be employed and a fine 

 line of arts and crafts and old hickory furniture 

 will be turned out. 



T. F. Fulkerson of Trenton, Mo., has estab- 

 lished a plant there to manufacture wooden pins 

 used by telephone and electric light companies 

 for mounting their glass insulators at the tops 

 of the poles on which the wires are hung. One 

 machine will turn out from 1.000 to 2.000 pins a 

 day. The pins sell for from eight to twelve dol- 

 lars a thousand. They are made of locust wood, 

 because it seasons with little shrinkage. 



The Alaska Refrigerator Company of Muskegon 

 made a record-breaking ptirchase of ash lumber 

 when the.v bought from the McKillup & Hooper 

 Lumber Compan.v of Manistee 1.000.000 feet of 

 ash of the cut of 1905. The Alaska Refrigerator 

 Company is using more than 600,000 feet of lum- 

 ber a month. Tills includes the cheapest kinds, 

 employed in making shipping crates, and the 

 costly woods that go into fine refrigerators. 



Frank Buell of Ba.y City. Mich., expects to 

 install a plant there for the manufacture of wood 

 alcohol, charcoal, tar and acetate of lime, simi- 

 lar to other works of the kind throughout the 

 country, where there is an abundant supply of 

 hardwood. It is Mr. Buell's plan to use the 

 refuse from the Detroit mill owned by the 

 'Wylie-Buell Lumber Company. He says Detroit 

 and Chicago capitalists are in the deal, and that 

 it will be pushed through as quickly as possible. 



The officers of the new Lane-White Lumber 

 Company of Fort Smith, Ark., manufacturers 

 and wholesalers of 'hardwood lumber and logs. 



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are as follows ; A. I'. White, jiresident ; .1. 1.. 

 l.ane. vice president and manager: George o. 

 Worland, secretary. The oHlcers, with W. U. 

 .\bbott and II. J. Fitzhugh, arc the directors of 

 the company. .1. L. Lane will continue his- Chi 

 cago business, and it is understood that he will 

 take a partner, adopting the linn name of .1. I., 

 l.auc & Co. 



The Slandard Export l.iiiubi.r Coiupaii.^', l.ld.. 

 has recently been incorporated by William S. 

 Ilotstra. president of the Sea Coast Lumber 

 Company of New York; .lames D. Laicy of .1. 1 1. 

 I.ac^-y i.\; Co.. New Orleans and Cliirago. anil 

 ]■: K. ilii Mont, manager for Hunter, r.i'iin & 

 1 'o. 'I'bc new concern will exfiort from New 

 <lrlcans. I'ort Arthur and Gulfporl. Its foreign 

 agents are I'rice & Pierce of London. The offices 

 of llic c(-inpan.i' ai-e in Ilic ITiJici-ni.-i Hank Iiiiild- 

 iiig. New I ill, Mils. 



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The Bogen Mills iVc Lumber Company, with 

 mills at Croghan, N. Y'., and offices at 14S Lib- 

 erty street. New York City, bas been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital stock of .f25,U00. The 

 company owns and operates a sawmill with a 

 lapacity of 25,000 feet per day and has con- 

 tracts for the supply of this mill for .'JO. 000.000 

 leel of hard and soft timber, with options on as 

 ir.ucli more. A veneer mill will be installed 

 within tile next few weeks lo cut veneers from 

 maple and birch, also a sliingle mill to make 

 cedar .shingles. The rest of I he lumber will be 

 sold in the rough to New York retail yards ex- 

 cept the beech, whicli will be cut into small 

 squares for dimension stock and .sold to chair 

 manufacturers. 1'be incorporators are fieorge 

 W. Bogen, jS'ew York City : K. L. Klotz. Singac, 

 N .7.: .lames A. Ilublianl of the llulihard Lum- 

 ber Company, ratcison. N. .!. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



!By KABB'WOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondents.) 



Chicago. 



The IIaupwood Uecokd is in receipt of an 

 announcement from E. H. Detebaugb, editor and 

 proprietor of the Barrel and Box of Louisville, 

 that the tenth birthday of bis publication will 

 be celebrated in his March issue. Mr. Defebaugh 

 is to be congratulated on the excellent paper 

 he is puhlisliing, and on the splendid work he 

 has accomplished for the box anil cooperage in- 

 dustry. There is no man associated with the 

 trade newspaper press who is more highly appre- 

 ciated by his constituents than is Mr. Defe- 

 baugh. 



Notice has been received at this olhce from 

 George E. Watson, secretary, announcing the re- 

 moval of the offices of the Southern Cypress 

 ilanufacturers* Association from the Liverpool 

 & London & Globe building to the twelfth floor 

 of the Ilibernia building. New Orleans. 



The recently received statement of the Penn- 

 sylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Company exliibits a highly satisfactory condition 

 of the business and finances of that sterling 

 institution. The insurance iu force by this 

 company on January 1 last was $6,160,771, with 

 total assets of .^595.010.19 and no liabilities. 

 The company shows a surplus of over $140,000. 

 This condition of the company's affairs must be 

 highly gratifying to the policy holders, and re- 

 flects unqualitied credit on ^lanager .Tustin Pe- 

 ters. 



The IlAiiuwooD Hecokd is in receipt of a very 

 handsomely printed pamphlet from the Kelsey- 

 Dennis Lumber Company of North Tonawanda. 

 N. Y.. illustrated with photographic views of its 

 stocks, yards and sheds of hardwood lumber. 

 The text of the booklet gives an idea of the 

 splendid stock carried by this company and fully 

 warrants the title of the booklet — "Acres of 

 Lumber." Doubtless duplicate copies of this 

 little work can be obtained by addressing the 

 Kelsey-Den'nis Lumber Company at North Tona- 

 wanda. 



H. C. Barroll & Co.. the well known bankers 

 of the First National Bank building of this city, 

 whose specialty consists of ftnancing large lum- 

 ber oi)erations, announces that on March 12 they 

 will receive subscriptions at par for $600,000 

 first mortgage serial timber bonds of $500 each 

 of the W. R. Pickering Lumber Company of 

 Kansas City, Mo. This loan is secured by about 

 420,000,000 feet of yellow pine and about 85,000,- 

 000 of hardwood timber in Louisiana and Texas, 

 and on two large lumber plants at Pickering and 

 Barhan, La. H. C. Barroll & Co. have had 

 unqualified success in placing securities for a 

 number of large lumber manufacturing houses, 

 and as the securities offered by the Pickering 

 loan are exceptionally good, they will doubtless 

 be marketed very promptly. 



A. H. Eutli. Chicago representative of the G. 



W. Jones Lumber Company, Applelou. Wis., and 

 William J. Wagstaff of Oshkosh were pleasant 

 callers at the Record office on March 8. 



H. B. Leavitt. president of the Leavitt Lumber 

 Company, returned recently from a trip through 

 the West Indies. He speaks enthusiastically of 

 the islands, and says that his trip was very en- 

 joyable -with the exception of part of the out- 

 going voyage, when the steamer encountered a 

 heavy storm and came near foundering : in the 

 meanl;ime fire broke out on board, and the fate 

 of the vessel was conjectural. This state of 

 affairs was of short duration, however, and the 

 voyage continued without further accident. Mr. 

 Leavitt met a number of Chicago lumbermen 

 while in Havana. 



The Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Cympany of this 

 city, which now has offices in the Tribune build- 

 ing, is erecting a new two-story and basement 

 brick office structure 100x100 feet, on the north- 

 east corner of Chicago avenue and Sangamon 

 street. It will be used for the offices of the 

 Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, the Marked 

 Tree Lumber Company, the American Box Com- 

 pany, the Chicago Packing Box Company and 

 the Cairo, Memphis & Southern Railroad & 

 Transportation Company (allied concerns) as 

 well as of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company. 

 The building is but one block from the Chicago 

 I'acking Box Company's plant. It will be mod- 

 ern in every particular and finished in mahog- 

 any. The company will take possession May 1. 



The Habdwood Recokd is in receipt of an 

 announcement from the Gibbs, Hall & Allen Com- 

 pany of Grand Rapids, Mich., stating that on 

 March 1 it succeeded the firm of Gibbs & Hall 

 of that city and will continue tlie manufacture 

 and sale of lumber, shingle.s, lath, posts and 

 other forest products. All unfilled orders and 

 contracts are assumed by the new concern and 

 shipments will be made as arranged : a much 

 larger assortment in all lines will be carried. 

 The new member of the company is Edward C. 

 Allen of LeRoy, .Mich., already favorably known 

 to the trade. 



The Western Electric Company of Chicago 

 will spend about $1,000,000 this year in the ex- 

 tension of its works. A woodworking branch 

 will be installed tor the manufacture of switch- 

 boards. It will involve the construction of a 

 number of buildings and the establishment of a 

 hardwood lumber yard, to contain 4,000,000 feet 

 of lumber, with dry kilns and sheds. 



The Hardwood Record acknowledges the re- 

 ceipt of the wedding cards of Franklin Howard 

 Smith and Grace Harris Mason, accompanied 

 by the announcement that they will be at home 

 at 304 East Sixty-second street from this date 

 forward. Mr. Smith will be remembered by all 

 I'hiladelphia lumbermen as a writer for the 

 lumber press from that city for several years, and 

 lately of the editorial staff of the American 



