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HARDWOOD RECORD 



County Horticultural Society devoted its April 

 meelliiK entirely to the forestry question. 



Big Philadelphia Fire. 



on the night of March liT the l)ig lumber sheds 

 and contents belonging to J. Gibson Mcllvalne 

 & Co.. were destroyed by Are which Is 

 thought to have originated froiu an electric 

 wire. The lumber yard occupied several squares 

 and the fire broiie out In one of a series of five 

 big hardwood sheds on the Fifty-eighth street 

 end. near the Baltimore & Ohio traclts. It 

 spread rapidly, and before the fire engines had 

 any effect upon it had reached enormous pro- 

 portions, lighting up a large section of the 

 city. The heat was intense and greatly inter- 

 fered with the work of firemen, compelling them 

 to abandon the sheds and devote themselves to 

 saving surrounding property and preventing 

 trains on the B. & O. from being run past the 

 ruins for some time. 



The hardwood yard of J. Gibson Mcllvalne & 

 Co. is the largest in I'hiladclphla and at the 

 time of the fire contained a large quantity of 

 valuable lumber. The loss on the property, esti- 

 mated at ?oOO.uOO, is well covered by insurance. 

 Indoubtedly the structures will be rebuilt and 

 the business be continued. 



New Sondheimer Yard and Mill. 

 The i:. Sondheimer Company, of Memphis, 

 has purchased from the Union Land & Improve- 

 ment Company twenty acres of land in the same 

 city and will erect thereon a planing mill which 

 will cost about $."iO.OUO, using the rest of the 

 land as a lumber yard. During the past year 

 the company has purchased large tracts of tim- 

 ber in the South, and it controls twenty-one 

 mills, fifteen of which are in .Mississippi. The 

 lumber will be cut and cured in the various 

 sections, and shipped to Memphis for assorting, 

 working and distributing. A stock of hardwood 

 lumber of 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 feet will 

 be carried at that point. The K. Sondheimer 

 Company moved Its general otHces from Chicago 

 to Memphis a year ago. 



Weight of Tupelo Gum. 



The Southern Cypress Manul'aclurers' Associa- 

 tions estimated weights of rough and worked 

 tunelo or bay poplar lumber are as follows: 



Pounds per M. 



SIS 



Rough, or S2S 



Green. Dry. Dry. 



Lumber, 2 V." and 3" 5,000 3,500 2,900 



Lumber, 2" 5,000 3,200 2,600 



Lumber, ] '/.!", 1 1/4 "and 1". 5,000 3,000 2,400 



"/i" panel stock 1,400 



'lit" panel stock 1,700 



l'3-16" flooring, partition, dropsiding, 



moulded casing and base 2,200 



%" telling l.tJUU 



%" cellini 1.300 



%" celling l.UOO 



Vj" bevel siding 1,000 



Lath, %" 500 



Lath, %-' 900 



O. G. battens, 2" 300 



O. (i. battens, 2 Vi" 350 



O. G. battens, 3" 400 



%x3 battens 300 



Forestry for the Fanner. 



C. W. Wald, writing in the Ohio Karmer on 

 the subject of practbal forestry for farmers, 

 says that among the trees which can be trans- 

 planted successfully are sugar maple, which Is 

 adapted to many soils and la valuable for sugar 

 and syrup as well as for timber. The silver 

 maple, more rapid In growth but less valuable. 

 Is one of the best trees for the production of 

 firewood. White ash Is best adapted to second 

 bottom land. Black cherry Is a comparatively 

 rapid grower and the lumber Is very valuable ; 

 It grows to marketable size sooner than black 

 walnut. Its leaves are a favorite food for the 

 wcbworm, however, so that it needs care and 

 attention. Sycamore grows rapidly and is well 

 adapted to planting along the banks of streams 

 or on land subject to overflow. Black or yellow 

 locQst will grow well In the woodlot If given 

 attention, especially when young. It must not 



be planted too closely or too near other trees. 

 Catalpa Is well adapted to planting where suit- 

 able soil and drainage conditions exist. This 

 tree and locust will grow more rapidly than the 

 trees before mentioned, and their value for posts 

 and poles places them among the best of trees 

 with which to fill vacant spaces In the farm 

 woodlot. 



In planting seedlings the soil should be loos- 

 ened for a space of a foot and a half or more 

 In diameter, where the tree is to be set. A 

 spade may be thrust into the soil, worked back 

 and forth until a space large enough to admit 

 the roots is made, when the opening should be 

 closed bj thrusting the spade Into the ground 

 several inches away. Loose soil should be 

 thrown into the opening and made firm about 

 the roots. Weeds and grass should not be 

 allowed to grow up close to the tree. 



A grove of catalpa trees In Clinton county. 

 Ohio, twenty-three years old, has produced .'1,390 

 posts to the acre, while a locust clump produced 

 3,560 posts to the acre In nineteen years. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Yellow Pine ,.\: Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany has recently been organized at Estabutchie. 

 Miss. 



The Somerset Door & Column Company has 

 been incorporated at Somerset, Pa. ; capital. 

 $25,000. 



The Loudonville Handle Company of Loudon- 

 ville, O., was recently incorporated with a capital 

 of $5,000. 



The Kanawha Stave & Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Odell, W. Va., with $25,000 

 capital stock. 



The Hanson & Ward Veneer Company of Bay 

 City. Mich., will soon build an addition to its 

 veneer factory. 



L. A. Ross' sawmills and sash and door fac- 

 tory, Cornwall, Ontario, were destroyed by fire 

 March 18, the loss being $25,000. 



The Owen-Arnold Casket Company is building 

 an addition to its factory at Allegan, Mich., 

 which will nearly double its capacity. 



The mill of the Ahnapee Veneer & Seating 

 Company at Birchwood, Wis., twenty miles from 

 Rice Lake, was destroyed by fire recently. The 

 loss was $20,000, covered by Insurance. 



W. S. Beard and J. Reed of Versailles, Mo., 

 are about to enlarge their handle factory at 

 that place and equip it with new machinery. 

 Other products besides handles will be turned 

 out. 



The National Cabinet Company has been grant- 

 ed a charter to do business at Ililbert, Calumet 

 county, Wis. It is capitalized at $25,000, and 

 L. S., F. V. and E. G. Simpson are the incorpo- 

 rators. 



The work of rebuilding the plant of the Rich- 

 mond Handle Company. Riclimond, Ind., recently 

 destroyed by fire, has been undertaken and will 

 be rushed to completion. \\'itliin a few weeks 



it is expected that everyliiing will be in first- 

 class shape to handle tlie large number of orders 

 already liooked by the company. 



The Batesville Veneering Works will soon lo- 

 cate in Lawrenceburg, Ind., going there from 

 Batesville. A three-story brick building, de- 

 signed to accommodate a large sawmill and 

 veneer plant, will be erected at a cost of ${i0.tK>l>. 

 oiierations will be carried on day and night and 

 a liundred men will be employed. 



A comparatively new concern is the Kentucky 

 Singletree & Spoke Company of Knifley. Ky., man- 

 ufacturers of singletrees, neck yokes and spokes. 

 The company is composed of men of long ex- 

 perience in this line of business and will un- 

 doubtedly meet with great success, as is war- 

 ranted by the quality of Its products. 



Billsteiu & Hillman operate a .sawmill on a 

 0.500-acre tract of hardwood timber land in 

 Guadalupe county, Texas, said to be one of the 

 tinest hardwood tracts in tlie state. Forty per 

 cent of the timber is ash, thirty per cent pecan, 

 eighteen per cent oak and twelve per cent live 

 oak. The mill is turning out timber for bridge 

 building, etc. 



The Michigan Toy & Novelty Company of Hol- 

 land. Midi., wliich has been engaged in the 

 manufacture of wood novelties in that city for 

 the past nine years, has been dissolved and its 

 interests absorbed by the Holland Veneering 

 Company, a new concern organized with a capi- 

 tal of $20,000. L. Van Putten is manager of 

 the new company. 



The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company of St. 

 I'aul has purchased the former plant of the St. 

 Paul Harvester Company and will use it as a 

 lumber yard, which will be stocked with oak, 

 ash. elm. basswood, butternut, maple and other 

 hardwoods. The site contains nine acres witli 

 trackage on the North Pacific and Omaha, and 

 has two brick buildings that will be used for 

 warehouses. 



It is announced that the Benton County Cas- 

 ket Company. Bentonvllle, Ark., will not transfer 

 its plant to Fort Worth, Tex., as was stated in 

 these columns some time ago. Extensive im- 

 provements are being made In the factory at 

 Bentonvllle, which will double the capacity of 

 the plant. A building 40x60 feet is being con- 

 structed, to be used as a machine room. In which 

 a 20horsepower gasoline engine and about $1,000 

 worth of other machinery will be installed. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company, which is pre- 

 paring to do business in Blount county, Tennes- 

 see, has been incorporated by Jesse L. Rogers of 

 Knoxville and Virginia capitalists. Two saw- 

 mills will be established and the dally output 

 of lumber will be fifty thousand feet per day. 

 One mill will be located at .Mlegheny Springs 

 and the other further east. Both will he on 

 the new line of the Southern Railway. It Is the 

 Intention of the company to begin sawing by 

 April 15. Large timber resources are available 

 for these mills. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HASDWOOD BECOBD Special CorraspondentB.) 



Chicago, 



II. E. Stone, secretary of ihe Lumber Mutual 

 I'Mre Insurance Compatiy of Boston, advises that 

 on April 2 the general oHlces of his company 

 were removed from Ihe Exchange building to 

 rooms 1128, 1120, 1130 and 1133, 141 Milk 

 street. The new oDlces arc occupied In common 

 by K. .T. ,Tohnson, former secretary of the Lum- 

 ber Mutual Fire Insurance Company, who now 

 represents the associate lumber Insuring mutual 

 companies as general agent. The particular rep- 

 resenlatlon covers the I.umlK'rmon's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance (.'ompany of fililo and the Central 

 Manufacturers' Mutual Fire IiiHuran<'e Company, 



The ILviiuwooD Rkcohii Is In receipt of a letter 

 from Laurens P. Rider, slating that he has with- 



drawn from the firm of White, Rider & Frost of 

 North Tonawanda and New York City, and Is 

 engaged In the wholesale lumber business on his 

 own account, with ofllces at 1 Madison avenue. 

 Mr. Rider has had a long experience In the met- 

 ropolitan trade and Is well equipped in every 

 way to carry on a successful lumber operation. 



On May 1 Upham & Agler will remove from 

 their present oHiccs In the Bedford building to a 

 handsome suite In the new American Trust & 

 Savings Bank building, probably on the tenth 

 door. Tliolr lumber yard on the west side of 

 Loomis street, near Twenlysecond, will be 

 changed to a location directly opposite, on the 

 same street, adjoining that of Malsey & Dion. 



A very complete stock of veneers and fine 



