HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Tug River Lumber Company Purchase. 



The Tug Rivei' Lvimber Company, which re- 

 <"ently moved its ofBccs from Bluefield, W. Va., 

 to Bristol, Tenn., has .iust purchased from J. B. 

 Adams of Tazewell a large tract of timberlaml 

 in southwestern Virginia, estimated to cut 20,- 

 '100,000 feet of merchantable lumber. The com- 

 pany will soon commence the construction of 

 two large band mills and will manufacture the 

 stock as rapidly as possible. Three hundred 

 men will be engaged in operations, and it is 

 estimated that several years will be required 

 to exhaust the s;u!i]'!,\' of tinitier. 



New Cypress Company. 



The Hayes Cypress & Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Hayes, La., to succeed 

 the Dearborn Cypress Company. B. M. Talbot 

 ■of Gibson. La., is president ; .Tesse Thorn, vice 

 president, and W. J. Ltuhiug of Houston, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. The company is capitalized 

 jit .f50,oo(i. Its general offices will be at Hdyes, 

 La. The mill has a daily capacity of 50.000 

 feet of cypress, 50,000 shingles and 25,000 lath. 

 It is located about twenty miles from Lake 



Charles. 



Southern Timber Deal. 



Wm. St. James of St. Ignace, Mich., has 

 recently purchased a tract of cypress, gum and 

 oak timber, estimated at 20,000,000 feet, near 

 <'rawfordsviIle, Ark. His company, which is a 

 J)ranch of the Standard Tie Company of Detroit, 

 is now building a mill at Crawfordsville to 

 Juanufacture this timber into lumber. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



R. E. Teuipleton of Cameron. Wis., is about 

 to move his handle factory to Bemidji, Minn. 



A bill to establish a state forestry department 

 has been favorably reported upon in the Ohio 

 legislature. 



The Kendallville Cliair Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Peru, Ind.. has commenced extensive 

 improvements. 



The Peshtigo Lumber Company of Marinette, 

 Wis., is loading hardwood which has been stored 

 in its lumber yards and shipping it to Chicago. 



Parker & Barnes, who recently erected a plant 

 at Parkers, N. T., for the manufacture of broom 

 handles, shipped their first carload of 50,000 

 handles last week. 



Brooks Brothers of St. Paul, Minn., will 



shortly invest $20,000 in a new factory building 

 and dry kiln. This concern manufactures sash, 

 doors and lumber. 



The sawmill of the Northern Lumber Com- 

 pany of Birch, Minn., is expected to be in oper- 

 ation by March ]."i. and will have a capacity of 

 about SO, 000 feet of hardwood. 



Tl>e Hoosier Manufacturing Company will soon 

 commence extensive improvements and additions 

 to its already large plant at Newcastle. Ind. 

 Two largo two-story brick buildings will be 

 erected. 



The Jlechanical Dividend Ten I'iu Company 

 has been incorporaied at Camden, N. J., capital- 

 ized a( .1!12o,0nii. The incorporators are L. M. 

 Gilbert. II. .T. Steiuer. S. G. Wilson and W. B. 

 Wolcoll. 



Articles of incorporation of the B'aust Broth- 

 ers Lumber Company of Paducah, Ky., were 

 filed recently. The new concern is to do a 

 general hardwood lumber business, and is capi- 

 talized at .$2,"i.0(i0. 



The Illinois Cabinet Company of Itockford. 

 111., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 .$10,000, to manufacture in lumber and iron. 

 K. E. Knutson, L. Barkman and ,Iohn P. I.un- 

 dell are the incorporators. 



Tlie High Point Hardwood Manufacturing 

 (,'ompany of High Point, N. C, is making -an 

 addition to its plant and adding new and im- 

 proved macliinery, which will place it in the 

 front rank of like industries. 



The Belmont Casket & Furniture Jlanufactur- 

 ing Company, of Bellaire, W, Va., which recently 

 took over the plant of the Federal Company at 

 Shadyside, is getting its affairs in shape for an 

 early resumption of operations. 



The fireen Bay, Oshkosh, Madison & South- 

 western, a line which has been projected to open 

 up immense hardwood holdings in northeastern 

 Wisconsin, has let a contract for 6,000 tons of 

 steel rails for this season's delivery. 



Fred and O. R. Clarke, president and secre- 

 tary-treasurer of the Alert Handle Company of 

 Okolona, Miss., have Sold their interests in that 

 concern to a stock compan.v. with a capital of 

 .$5,000. The name has been changed to the Alert 

 Handle Company. Inc., and the officers are as 

 follows : D. W. McCarby. president : Walter 

 Smith, vice president ; D. H. Shell, secretary and 

 treasurer : H. F. Clarke, general manager. The 

 entire output for the next four years is sold. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HABDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



The Southeru Oak Lumber Company, now 

 located at 707 Chamber of Commerce building, 

 will remove May 1 to larger and more attractive 

 quarters in suite 010, now occupied by the John 

 O'Brien Land & Lumber Company, in the same 

 big office building. The Southern Oak Lumber 

 Company has recentl.v leased between four and 

 five acres of ground in North Memphis, on the 

 main line of the Illinois Central, and opposite 

 the driving park, upon which it will erect large 

 storage sheds and convert the property into an 

 assembly ground for the various stocks of hard- 

 wood it owns in the vicinity of Memphis. It 

 will continue its Memphis office in charge of 

 S. S. Ford at 1217 Tennessee Trust building. 



The John O'Brien Land & Lumber Company 

 has leased the old Arthur Gourley pine yard on 

 Latlin street, south of Twenty-second, and will 

 convert it into a hardwood yard for the handling 

 of both northern and southern woods. This 

 yard has a frontage on the South branch, of 

 500 feet, and a depth of 300 feet. On May 1 

 it will remove its offices from the Chamber of 

 Commerce building to the yard. 



On May 1 the Heath, Witbeck Company will 

 remove its general offices from its yard to the 

 Willoughby building, corner of Madison street 

 and Michigan avenue. 



Ben C. Keator, formerly of the firm of Fair 

 & Keator, Pittsburg, Pa., has established him- 



self in the wholesale hardwood trade in Chicago, 

 with offices in the Monadnock building. 



Miller Brothers, the hardwood wholesalers of 

 Twenty-second street and Centre avenue, have 

 transferred their general office from the yards 

 to the Willoughby building, Madison street -and 

 -Michigan avenue. 



In explanation of the portrait of Carroll F. 

 Sweet, president of the Grand Rapids Lumber- 

 men's Association, printed in connection with 

 a report of the Grand Rapids meeting last week, 

 it is only fair to Mr. Sweet to state that he is 

 not as funny as he looks. The camera was 

 snapped on him just as Toastmaster Bundy 

 called particular attention to his manly figure 

 and personal pulchritude. 



The Veneer Marketing Company of Chicago 

 lias been incorporated with a capital of $30,000, 

 by Elmer H. Adams. A. F. Piper and M. L. 

 Rosenbom. The company will manufacture hard- 

 wood veneers. 



W. E. Kelley & Co. on Jlay 1 will remove their 

 office from the Chamber of Commerce building to 

 liandsomer and more commodious quarters on 

 the second floor, over the Michigan avenue eu- 

 rrance of the Railway Exchange. 



Benjamin N. Lukens of Carmel, Ind., notifies 

 the ri.\itDWOOD ItECOKD that he has purchased 

 the sawmill and business of the D'onner Lumber 

 Company, Greeucastle, Ind.. and has taken up 

 his permanent residence there. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, returned from a three 

 weeks' eastern and southern trip on Friday, and 

 will now spend some days at the association 

 headquarters in the First National Building, this 

 city. 



Cards have beon received at this office an- 

 nouncing the marriage of Miss Edna Rhea Tay- 

 lor of Kalamazoo. Mich., to Royden Albert K. 

 Rothermel, advertising manager of the Coe 

 Manufacturing Company. I'ainesville, O., which 

 took place at the former city March 14. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Rothermel will be at home after May 

 1. at PainesviUe, O. The Hardwood Record 

 tenders its congratulations. 



II. E. Bacon, treasurer and manager of the 

 Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Company of Memphis, 

 was a Chicago visitor last week, and a welcome 

 caller at this office. 



W. A. Davis, the well-known hardwood whole- 

 saler, has removed his offices from 1612 Mar- 

 quette building to more commodious quarters at 

 1001 and 1002 in the same big office structure. 

 Mr. Davis maintains branch offices at both 

 Paducah. Ky., and Memphis, Tenn. He reports 

 a handsome accretion of business during the 

 past few months. 



The announcement is made that the firm of 

 Richmond, Slimmer & Co., with offices and 

 yards at 65 West Twenty-second street, has been 

 dissolved. Park Richmond retiring. The remain- 

 ing partners will conduct the business under the 

 firm name of J. Slimmer & Co. Mr. Richmond 

 has not yet taken up any new business venture, 

 but it goes without saying that he soon will 

 again be in the harness in the hardwood trade. 



W. E. Barrett of W. E. Barrett & Co., Stock 

 Exchange, is again making a Pacific coast trip. 

 and is expected home about April 1. 



C. L. Willey, the big fancy wood and veneer 

 manufacturer of this city, is at Memphis for a 

 few days. Mr. Willey has recently purchased 

 fifteen acres in that city for a mill site, and will 

 soon commence the erection of a double band 

 sawmill, which will be stocked with logs from 

 his liardwocd timber holdings in that vicinity. 

 Part of the output will be lumber and the re- 

 mainder oak flitches with which to supply his 

 Chicago veneer mill. 



A. J. McCausIand, manager of the hardwood 

 department of W. E. Kelley & Co., was in town 

 a few days last week on one of his periodical 

 trips to tlie company's general offices in this 

 city. 



Robt. F. Whitnier of Wm. 'Whitmer & Sons, 

 Inc., Philadelphia, was a Chicago visitor last 

 week. 



Other Chicago visitors during the last 

 few days were Earl Palmer. Paducah, Ky., presi- 

 dent of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation ; Flank F. Fish of Indianapolis, Ind., 

 secretary of the same organization : D. F. Clark 

 of Minneapolis, Minn. : W. II. Russe and J. W. 

 Thompson of .Mempliis. Tenn. : W. W. Knight 

 of Indianapolis. Ind.. and J. \'. Stimson of 

 Iluntingburg, Ind. 



It may be of interest to note that the South- 

 ern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, at its 

 meeting on March 1, adopted a set of inspection 

 rules for tupelo or bay poplar. The Hardwood 

 Record will refrain from publishing these rules 

 until they have been passed upon by the large 

 hardwood associations, as without their endorse- 

 ment they can scarcely be recognized as standard 

 rules of Inspection for a wood that is fast coming 

 into general use. 



Boston. 



The New Hampsliire Lumbermen's Association 

 held its annual meeting at Manchester, N. H., 

 March 15. The principal matter taken up at 

 this meeting was the stake and wire question. A 

 committee composed of Warreu C. Ti'ipp, James 

 B. Tennant, Hiram A. Tuttle, was appointed to 

 meet with the officials of the Boston & Maine 

 Railroad relative to this question. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected ; Warren C. Tripp, presi- 

 dent ; John Walker, vice president ; F. E. Parker, 



