December 10, 191G 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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new factory building ou Sjiring Grove avenue in Winton Place. Tlie 

 company, whicli is one of the pioneer carriage manufacturing concerns of 

 Cincinnati, manufacturing also commercial and pleasure automobiles, 

 makes a specialty of motor ambulances and hearses. The old plant, located 

 on Colerain avenue, Brighton, was destroyed a few months ago by fire. 

 The new plant will be the last word in modern factory construction and 

 equipment. 



The new capital will be divided into $200,000 six per cent cumulative 

 preferred stocli and $4.^0,000 common stock. The preferred stock will be 

 brought out by Irwin, Ballman & Co., the stock to be put on the market 

 some time in December. The common stock has been taken by insiders 

 tn the company. 



W. A. Sayres is president of the company and F. F. Scoville vice-presi- 

 dent. With the new plant and capital the company plans to extend its 

 field of business widely, which will make it a still heavier consumer of 

 hardwood lumber and yellow pine. 



Large Cut of Hardwood Planned 

 The Connecticut Valley Lumber Company, with headquarters at Holyoke, 

 Mass., plans to cut 80,000,000 feet of hardwood logs this winter. The 

 labor problem has been provided for. It is said that 50,000,000 feet of 

 it will be cut from yellow birch and sugar maple. The company has con- 

 trol of 500,000,000 feet of hardwood, which will suffice to keep the plant 

 in operation several years. 



Cameron L. Willey 



On November 28. 1916, occurred the death of Cameron L. Willey of 

 Chicago, a well-known lumberman who of late years had specialized in 

 fine veneers of both foreign and domestic woods. Death came suddenly 

 while at his home on Grand Boulevard and was due to heart failure. The 

 funeral was private. 



Mr. Willey was of English and Scotch descent, but the famOy has been 

 in America since before the Revolution. He was born at Dansville, N. Y., 

 in 1806, and in 1890 made Chicago his home when he located there for 

 the purpose of engaging in that branch of the lumber business which 

 deals in costly foreign and domestic woods. Previous to his location in 

 Chicago he had lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was engaged in the 

 lumber business, and where he handled large quantities of walnut and 

 cherry, as well as white pine, which was still being ratted down the 

 Allegheny river from norhwestern Pennsylvania and western New York. 



After he located in Chicago he acquired property in Memphis, Tenn., 

 where he established a branch of his business. His Chicago plant was 

 equipped with the best machinery obtainable for producing veneers. It 

 contained a sawmill, seven veneer saws, two rotary cutters, and a power- 

 ful slicer, as well as other machines, dry kilns, and appliances necessary 

 to operate one of the largest veneer plants in the world. 



He was an expert in foreign woods that are used in this country, and his 

 office contained samples of nearly every wood of commercial importance 

 that grows on earth. It was his custom to go to England every year to 

 attend the auction sales of mahogany, Circassian walnut, padouk, and 

 other high class woods. His judgment was remarkably correct and his 

 extensive purchases of costly woods were uniformly successful. In his 

 purchases he sometimes took chances which his competitors regarded as 

 unnecessarily daring, but his plans nei'er failed to work out as he wished. 



His will disposed of property valued at a million dollars, consisting of 

 real estate and personal property. It went to his widow, Mrs. Emily 

 Priston Willey, and his son, Charles B. Willey. 



To Build New Logging Railroad 



S>urveys now are being made for the building of a logging railroad to 

 open up timber holdings of the Mowbray & Robinson Company, Cincin- 

 nati, in. Leslie and Clay counties, Kentucky. The concern owns and con- 

 trols about 70,000 acres of forest land in these two counties. The rail- 

 road will be about fifty miles long and will connect with a division of 

 the Louisville & Nashville. Work will l>e started early In the spring. 

 The company also plans to build two or three new sawmills on the 

 properties. 



James McD. Price Enters Lumber Business 

 The resignation of J. McD. Price as secretai-y of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association has been promptly followed by the proposal and 

 election of Harvey M. Dickson of Norfolk, Va., formerly president of the 

 Dickson Lumber Company and widely known in the export trade. Mr. 

 Dickson became involved in difficulties several years ago and the com- 

 pany was dissolved, but he has never lost his interest in the lumber ex- 

 port trade. He was induced to make application for the vacancy created 

 by Mr. Price's resignation, and the board of managers elected him with- 

 out a dissenting voice. It is thought that Mr. Dickson, who is admira- 

 bly qualified for the post, having made several t^ips abroad to study for- 

 eign conditions and to confer with buyers on the other side relative to 

 certain business practices, will take charge about January 1. 



Mr. Price resigned to engage in the wholesale and export hardwood 

 business. He will become a member of the old firm of Price & Heald, of 

 which Richard W. Price, his uncle, was for years senior member. After 

 the death of J. M. D. Heald, the surviving member, Dwight D. Hartlove, 

 who had been manager for several years, engaged to carry on the busi- 

 ness under the old name. Mr. Price's entrance into the firm will make it 

 in fact as well as nominally a continuance of the old one, which dates 

 back more than seventy-five years and was among the pioneers of the 

 hardwood export trade. Mr. Price himself, prior to becoming secretary 

 of the National Lumber Exporters' Association some years ago, was in the 

 hardwood business, his father having been in it also. Mr: Price, who was 

 sick for several months with bronchial pneumonia, is rapidly getting back 

 to his former physical condition and looks forward to getting back into 

 the hardwood trade. He will carry with him the best wishes of the 

 members of the National Lumber Exporters' Association. 



West Virginia Company Increases Capital Stock 



The Huntington Hardwood Company at Huntington. W. Va., announces 

 an increase in its capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000, and that the 

 plant at Westmoreland will be immediately opened. The Huntington 

 Hardwood Company was formerly the National Interior Finish Company. 

 The plant still manufactures interior finish. 



Atkins New Advertising Manager 



The last issue of Hardwood Record contained the announcement of the 

 new advertising manager for E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., Indianapolis. 

 II. T. Benham, who pushed the silver-steel saw line, withdrew to enter 

 other work, as announced, and T. A. Carroll, who has been connected 

 with the publicity department, takes his place. Mr. Carroll's photograph 

 is shown on this page. 



Mr. Carroll's assistant is Max Leckner. Jr., who formerly was con- 

 nected with the Russell M. Seeds Advertising Agency. 



T. A. CARROLL, ADVERTISING MANAGER 

 E. C. ATKINS & CO., INDIAN- 

 APOLIS. IXD. 



THE LATE CAMERON L. WILLEY, CHICAGO. 

 ILL. 



H. M. DICKSON, NORFOLK, VA., NEW SEC- 

 RETARY NATIONAL LUMBER EX- 

 PORTERS' ASSOCITION 



