HARDWOOD RECORD 



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One of Robert Wood's Jokes. 



The Hardwood Record is indebted to the 

 R. E. Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore 

 for a remarkably handsome reproduction of 

 a painting by Henry Farrer entitled "An 

 Old Mill." The picture is beautifully mount- 

 ed in a mat outlined with gilt, and attached 

 to it is a calendar for th^ year 1905. This 

 must be one of Robert "Wood's jokes. The 

 editor of the Hardwood Record has tramped 

 his weary w.'jy up Snake creek, Troublesome 

 fork, Difficulty run, to Sandy Hufe and Hell- 

 forSartin creeks, in West Virginia many a 

 time, chasing up E. E. Wood's sawmills, and 

 he never saw a mill like the one in the pic- 

 ture in his life. No, Wood is simply playing 

 a joke on his lumber customers when he sends 

 out this beautiful calendar. This is no West 

 Virginia sawmill by a hot sight. 



Lvunber Mutual of Boston. 



-A-t the recent meeting of the directors of the 

 Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Bos- 

 ton it was determined to advance the com- 

 pany's dividends to .I.'? 1-3 per cent. This com- 

 pany has had a gradual increase in earnings 

 year by year and has steadily made a gain. 

 It was able to pay back to policy-holders orig- 

 inally of 10 per cent which bas gradually grown 

 to its present higb dividends. 



It is anticipated that this company will show 

 a still further advance of its premium income 

 during the current year, and it is expected that 

 it will have an increase of well toward $50.- 

 000. or approximately $200,000. at the close 

 of the year 1905. This company is one of the 

 most excellent lumber underwriters in the United 

 States, and its success is due very largely to 

 the indomitable energy and sagacious manage- 

 ment of its president, W. C. Johnson. 



Miscellajieous Notes. 



The sawmill of George Prescott at Tawas 

 City, Mich., which was burned last summer, will 

 be rebuilt near the location very soon. Mr. 

 I'rescott has a very fine tract of hardwood tim- 

 ber near Tawas City which he will manufacture 

 into lumber. 



Alexis Wise of Alton, III., is engaged in felling 

 timber on the Polar Wave Ice Company's prop- 

 erty. The logs have been sold in the St. Louis 

 market! 



The Standard Oak Veneer Company of John- 

 son City. Tenn.. has started a new panel fac- 

 tory. The building is -iSxl20 feet and three 

 stories high. This addition to this big enterprise 

 will give employment to fifty additional men. 



The Ahr & Rost Carriage Wood Work Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati was incorporated on Dec. 

 27 with a capital stock of $10,000. The incor- 

 porators are George J. R'ost, John Ahr, Montie 

 L. Green, Henry Kemper and Sanford Brown. 



The National Veneer Company, located at 

 Charleston, W. Va.. is securing a supply of very 

 fine timber along the Elk river. It is also get- 

 ting a quantity of fine logs from Kentucky. This 

 company employs from thirty-five to sixty men 

 and is doing a prosperous business. 



Stone & Klein is the name of a new firm at 

 Sterling, Mich., which is operating this winter 

 in Adams township, getting out a considerable 

 quantity of hardwoods. 



W. A. Mcintosh of Cedar Falls. la., is en- 

 gaged in buying and shipping hardwood from the 

 timber in Allamakee county. This lumber is 

 largely sold to the factories at Dubuque. The 

 maple of that section is said to be very fine. 



The new hardwood mill recently erected by 

 the Rice Lake Lumber Company at Rice Lake. 

 Wis., is now in operation. Robert Sykes was the 

 millwright, and it is said to be one of the 

 model mills of that section of Wisconsin. 



There is a very heavy tall of snow in north- 



ern Wisconsin and Michigan, which is said to 

 range from four to six feet on the level. The 

 snow is so ' heavy that it is embarrassing lum- 

 bermen a good deal to handle their logs to skid- 

 ways. 



It will be recalled that quite a hardwood area 

 in Chippewa, Price and Oneida counties, in Wis- 

 consin, was devastated by a cyclone last sum- 

 mer, which uprooted well toward 30.000,000 feet 

 of timber. This winter an attempt is being made 

 to save the timber from being a total loss by 

 converting it into logs. The heavy snow is 

 making the work very expensive. 



Rockford, the furniture manufacturing center 

 of northern Illinois, is said to consume upward 

 of .50,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber annually. 

 It is anticipated that the expiration of the 

 lease of the Log Owners' Booming Company of 

 Muskegon, Mich., which occurs next October, 

 may redound to the advantage of Big Rapids. 

 It is expected that a large hardwood sawmill 

 will be erected at that place. 



A purchase of about 200 acres of excellent 

 hardwood timber land along the Wisconsin river, 

 near .\rena. has been made by W. A. McCutchin 

 and Edward Lloyd, on which logging operations 

 have been commenced. 



The Haytian government has recently granted 

 two concessions to cut valuable woods on gov- 

 ernment lands of the island. These two con- 

 cessions, which embrace about 8.000,000 acres, 

 have been granted to Haytians with the privilege 

 of sut>-letting or forming a foreign company to 

 undertake the enterprises. The timber on the 

 property consists of mahogany, rosewood, ebony, 

 lignum-vita.*. satinwcod, red cedar, Spanish ce- 

 dar, oak. yellow pine, candelon, latanier and 

 other valuable hardwoods. A company in this 

 country, known as the American Tropical Hard- 

 wood Company, has already been organized to 

 take over this concession. It is said to be cap- 

 italized in New Xork City, and a public meeting 

 was held at "New Haven on Jan. 6, at which the 

 financial possibilities of the proposed company 

 were fully explained, and opportunities given for 

 stock subscriptions. 



George E. Patterson of Indian River, a mem- 

 ber of the Embury-Martin Lumber Company of 

 Cheboygan, Mich,, which operates a sawmill at 

 Cheboygan and a small circular hardwood mill 

 at Indian River, says that the company has IS,- 

 000.000 feet of hemlock logs to begin sawing 

 with in the spring. 



The De War Lumber Company of Topeka. 

 Kan,, manufacturer and wholesale dealer in wal- 

 nut, oak and cottonA'ood, says there is a steady 

 demand for the products of the mill, and it is 

 contemplating adding a box factory. 



The sawmill plant of the Roddis Lumber and 

 Veneer Company at Park Falls. Wis., is one of 

 the model mills of the state. It is a three- 

 decker, operating two saws. The company em- 

 ploys 300 men in its mill and camps ;;ud oper- 

 ates ten miles of railroad. 



The Escanaba & I^ke Superior railway, con- 

 trolled by the I, Stephenson Company of Wells, 

 Mich,, has placed an order for twent.v-flve flat 

 cars. Thty will be used in hauling logs. 



The Worchester Lumber Company of Chassell. 

 Minn., has resumed operations at its mill after 

 an idleness of several weeks, during which time 

 numerous repairs were made. 



The Conewango Desk and Table Company of 

 Warren. Pa,, has been succeeded by the Cone- 

 wango Furniture Company. 



The West Coast Cypress Company of Fort 

 Myers. Fla., has incorporated with the follow- 

 ing officers : President, Henry C, Butcher, Jr. : 

 vice president. Walter G. Langford : secretary- 

 treasurer. H. Radclyft'ee Roberts. 



The Rexford & Collins Lumber Company of 

 Bristol and Stone Creek, Tenn.. has filed a 

 petition in bankruptcy with liabilities of $51,000 

 and assets of $32,000. 



The Ronda Lumber Company at Ronda, N. 

 C. has gone into voluntary bankruptcy. Liabil- 

 ities $10,000. 



The Overlook Lumber Company of Buffalo, has 

 been organized with a capital stock of $30,000. 

 i'he directors are L. A. Ferguson and S. A. Hol- 

 hrook, of Bradford, Pa., and W. F. Strasmer of 

 Buffalo. 



Churchill & Sim of Liverpool. England, large 

 handlers of American lumber, have removed 

 their offices to 2 Exchange street, east. 



The Lamb Hardwood Lumber Company, Clin- 

 ton, Iowa, officered by Lafayette Lamb, presi- 

 dent : G, E, Lamb, vice president, and C. It, 

 Lamb, secretary and treasurer, with a capital 

 stock of $650,000, has purchased a 50,000 acre 

 tract of hardwood timber land in the northern 

 part of Mississippi on the Illinois Central Rail- 

 road. Sawing will begin in a few months. It 

 is the intention of this company to manufac- 

 ture about 30,000,000 feet of lumber a year 

 a I this plant, the output to be exported. — prin- 

 cipally to Germany and England, The main 

 office of this company is to be at Memphis, 

 Tenn, with II, E. Bacon of Minneapolis. Minn., 

 in charge. 



The Fellwock Roll & Panel Company, capital 

 .'?20.000. recently filed articles of incorporation 

 .-It Evansville. Ind. Furniture will be manu- 

 factured with veneer panels and rolls a spe- 

 cialty. A new factory will be bulit. 



Secretai-y of State E. R. McDavid recently 

 received notice of the incorporation of the 

 Bacon-Underwood Veneer Company, of Mobile, 

 Ala., capital stock .S40.000. Incorporators are 

 R. S. Bacon, J. A. Underwood and A. W. Under- 

 wood. 



The Yadkin Lumber Company, wliirli owns 

 no.OOO acres of timber lands on the Yadkin river 

 iu North Carolina, held its annual meeting in 

 Knoxville, Jan. 20. with thirty-six members 

 present. It is stated that the company "has 

 yiven New Y'ork parties an option on its lands, 

 which produce white pine, poplar, oak. chestnut, 

 basawood and other timbers. The tract lies 

 ill \V;iutauga. Wilkes and Caldwell counties, 

 with two railroads within eight miles. 



The Bromaim Block Company of Detroit. 

 Mich., has recently reorganized, increasing its 

 capital to $50,000. I: will employ seventy- 

 five men and n-ill manufacture butchers' sup- 

 Plies and maple and basswood office desks. H. 

 S. Hull, president ; L. G, Grimes, vice president, 

 and C. H. Bromann. secretary, were elected at 

 Ihe reorganization. 



The Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Ash- 

 land. Wis., whose annual log output is 23,000,- 

 000 feet per year, bas recently increased its 

 capital stock from $125,000 to $300,000, the ad- 

 ditional capital being furnished by the old 

 stockholders and by John Joyce of the Ash- 

 land Lumber Company, George E. Foster was 

 elected president. John Joyce, vice president. H. 

 I. Latimer secretary and C. F. Latimer treas- 

 urer. 



The hardwood sawmill of Baily & Baily. five 

 miles east of Savannah, Ga., is now ready to 

 begin operations. The tramway of this com- 

 pany penetrates the swamp and cypress brakes 

 and the lumber will be drawn from the dense 

 swamp to the tram road by means of cables. 

 Teams are absolutely useless. All this part 

 was originally pine woods. 



Waldo W. Miller of Wellsboro. N. Y., closed 

 a deal the latter part of January for S,00O 

 acres of very fine hemlock and hardwood timber 

 land in the northern peninsula of Michigan. 

 This timber tract all dips toward the shore 

 of Lake Superior, which it skirts for a long 

 distance, and the manufactured lumber will 

 be within easy access of the lumber markets 

 of the world. Associated with Mr. Miller in 

 this purchase are George Raish. W. D. Van 

 Horn, F. R. Field and George C. Brooks. A 

 corporation will be formed to conduct the 

 lumberinp- operations and all the gentlemen 

 named will be actively interested in the busi- 

 ness. 



