October 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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MAHOGANY 



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Logs awaiting shipment by rail, thence by sea to our mill and yards in Long Island City. 

 Such logs as these produce a high percentage of upper grades and the texture is excellent. 



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HUDDLESTON-MARSH MAHOGANY COMPANY 



33 West 42d Street NEW YORK CITY 



the New York house of Calflsch, Spicker & Allen, mahogany experts; 

 F. E. Risley of the Norwood Sash & Door Jlanufm-turing Company. 

 Cincinnati, who was on his way to the southern pine mills: Oscar 

 Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, en route to 

 Memphis and Nashville, and Elmer S. Anderson of the Export & Do- 

 mestic Hardwood Company, Beaver street. New York. 



Out of a total of 2,G50 claims presented before the Workmen's Com- 

 pensation Board, since the law went into effect on August 2, but one 

 contest case has been heard before the board, and this case was dis- 

 allowed, the claimant not being able to show that the cause of his 

 injury happened after August 1. At the October meeting the board 

 approved of sixty-five claims, making a total of 150 that have been 

 settled. The Magoffin Stave Company of Salyersville, Ky., and the 

 Belle Point Ijumber Company were authorized to carry their own 

 insurance. 



The Quartermaster's Depot, at Jefficrsonville, Ind., has opened bid>; 

 recently for several large lots of lumber, bids having been opened on 

 October 19 for 200,000 feet of seasoned cottonwood, for use by the 

 •depot. The bids have been forwarded to Washington, and contracts 

 will shortly be awarded. Several big contracts were placed a few 

 weeks ago by the depot. 



X. D. Easier. Inter-Southern building. Louisville, recently filed a 

 notice in the Jefferson county court affirming ownership of the Easier 

 Tie & Lumber Company. 



What is said to be one of the largest poplar logs ever seen in Indiana 

 was that which recently passed through Greensburg, Ind., en route to 

 Indianapolis, where it was shown In the Centennial parade. The log 

 was forty-eight feet long, forty-eight inches in diameter at the butt, 

 and thirty-four inches at the top. Four horses were required to pull 

 it, and it was valued at .f250. The log was cut in Ripley county. 



The Crescent Lumber Company, Danville. Ky., is erecting a new brick 

 planing mill, which it expects to be ready to start up inside of a few 

 weeks. 



=-< ST. LOUIS >■- 



During the nine months from January 1 to September 30, the total de- 

 clared value of buildings tor which permits have been ti\ken out in St. 

 Louis amounted to .$11,277,704. This shows an increase of 28 per cent 

 over the corresponding three-fourths of last year. The total of the nine 

 months last year was $.S,S02,7S2, showing an increase during the nine 

 months this year of .$2,474,922. 



A change was made recently in the personnel of the Walsh-Grifflth Tie 



and Lumber Company. This company has its general offices in the Title 

 Guaranty building. The change consists in the retirement of George C. 

 Griffith, who for many years has been engaged in the tie and lumber busi- 

 ness. Mr. Griffith formerly resided at Bald Knob, Ark., where he conducted 

 extensive operations. After coming to St. Louis he was connected with 

 the Bagnell Timber Company and afterwards with the Walsh-Grifflth Tie 

 and Lumber Company. His retirement is made from the company for the 

 purpose of curtailing his business activities. The company will continue 

 in business under the name of the Walsh Tie and Lumber Company. 



P. It. Walsh, president of the company, also has been actively identified 

 \\itli the tie and lumber business in St. Louis for many years. Under Mr. 

 Walsh's management the company has established an extensive organiza- 

 tion in the tie producing territory of Missouri and .\rkansas and will con- 

 tinue, as heretofore, to furnish ties and lumber to various railroads in 

 large quantitii's. 



=-< ARKANSAS >■= 



Spice Brothers, who own a hoop factory at Pocahontas, Ark., have re- 

 cently closed a contract with the, Chapman-Dewey Lumber Company of 

 Jonesboro for a site for their plant which will be removed to that place. 

 The work on the new buildings will be begun at once. The new plant will 

 employ about fifty men, and will consume principally gum timber in its 

 manufacture process. 



Ford Yancey of Ridgeway, Mo., has closed a deal for all of the timber on 

 a l.GOO-acre tract lying a few miles east of Mena, Ark., and owned by Dr. 

 M. R. Regan of Eureka Springs. Mr. Yancey and his associates expect to 

 install a mill on the tract to work up the hardwood timber into axe handles. 

 The pine timber will be sold to local mills. 



A new hub factory is I>eing erected at Mountain View, Ark., and it is 

 expected that it will be finished and ready to begin operations in a short 

 time. Timber for its use is now being stacked on the yards. 



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The box factory an<l contents of A. Schwartz & Son. 183-189 Barclay 

 street. Milwaukee, was destroyed by fire on October 15. The loss exceeds 

 .$10,000. and is covered by Insurance. 



The Dumphy Boat Works. Eau Claire, have been granted permission to 

 erect a frame manufacturing building on Water street. Operations will 

 begin .at once. 



The American Seating Company has leased a three-story building which 

 it owns at Racine. Wis., to the Johnson-Field Manufacturing Company, 

 whose plant was destroyed by fire recently. 



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