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Miscellaneous Notes. 

 Cummings & Retlig o£ Sabine, Tex., liave re- 

 cently completed a new combination hardwood 

 and lumber sawmill, which is now running on 

 full time and turning out a big cut constantly. 

 Most of the output will be exported. The mill 

 has facilities for cutting 40.000 feet of hard- 

 wood daily. 



John M. Duecker, Gustav A. Duecker. Hugo C. 

 Duecker and Walter H. Duecker are the incor- 

 porators of the new J. M. Duecker Hardwood 

 Company of Kiel. Wis. This company has a 

 capital stock of $25,000. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Company of 

 Minneapolis, maker of flour barrels, is about to 

 Introduce more machinery into its factory. At 

 present it is using Holmes apparatus for hooping 

 and heading barrels, thus materially reducing its 

 cooper force. 



C. A., J. R. and E. R. Johnson of Rockford, 

 111., have organized the Rockford Wood Finishing 

 Company ; capital $25,000. 

 , The Kennett Cypress & Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of Davenport. Iowa, is considering 

 the purchase of 10,000 acres of rich, partially 

 submerged land in southeastern Missouri, drain- 

 ing it, clearing It of a quantity of valuable 

 hardwood timber, and then converting it into 

 farms. 



The Weyerhaeuser-Turrish syndicate, one of 

 the largest lumber syndicates in the world, hav- 

 ing extensive operations in Washington and 

 Idaho, are planning to erect a large mill in the 

 vicinity of Palouse, Wash. 



According to a recent report of Secretary 

 Rhode of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Valley 

 Lumbermen's Association, the common impres- 

 sion among laymen that the vast resources of 

 hardwood timber in Wisconsin. Minnesota and 

 upper Michigan are about exhausted, is very 

 erroneous. For the past fifty years these vast 

 forests have been raided constantly by lumber- 

 men; nevertheless the supply has by no means 

 given out. On the contrary. Mr. Rhode asserts 

 that many billions of feet of hardwood timber 

 still remain standing, and that the numerous 

 factories in these states can be adequately sup- 

 plied for manv years to come. This great re- 

 gion is still and will long continue to be an 

 Influential factor in the lumbering industry of 

 the United States. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Buffalo, N. y., has just purchased 300,000 feet 

 of hardwood lumber from W, J. Prichard of 

 Lotus. Miss., through its representative, W. B, 

 Smith. 



W. O. Jeffs, who is in the lumber business 

 near Portland, Ore., is at present in the middle 

 states on a business trip. He says that lum- 

 bering in Oregon is not much like lumbering in 

 Michigan in the old days. In the West the trees, 

 whether fir, cedar or hardwood, are too large to 

 be handled by horses, and pony engines are used 

 to get them down the skidways to mills. Trees 

 cutting 10,000 feet of lumber are not unusual. 

 He says many of the trees are from 8 to 10 

 feet in" diameter at the butt, and rise 200 feet. 

 The Case Lumber Company has purchased a 

 lot 150x800 feet on the Birmingham, Ala., belt 

 line, and will erect a $25,000 plant at once. 

 They will saw up hardwood logs and be pre- 

 pared to furnish lumber to manufacturers of 

 hardwood finished articles. 



The Michigan Central Railroad Company has 

 discarded oak for ties and in future will use 

 cedar exclusively. l"he Lake Shore road will 

 use only white oak. 



A. T. and A. O. Newman of Washington, Vt., 

 have sold to Irving L. Slocum 400 acres of tim- 

 ber land containing spruce and hardwoods. Mr. 

 Slocum will soon commence cutting and manu- 

 facturing the wood into lumber. 



The Detroit & Macinac Railway has built an 

 extension north of Alpena, Mich., to Cheboygan, 

 thereby opening up a large hardwood and hem- 

 lock timber belt. The region is abundantly sup- 

 plying the many new sawmills which have been 

 recently built along the line, and the road has 

 contracts to haul 55.000,000 feet of logs to 



Alpena this winter, wherfe they will be manu- 

 factured. 



A. C. Pennington of Vincennes, Ind., has just 

 completed a novelty in the way of hardwood 

 commodities, in the shape of a suit case. The 

 entire case is of various hardwoods, and is a 

 remarkably unique and handsome piece of work. 

 Dillman Bros, of Bangor. Mich., are now mar- 

 keting their oak logs and report a considerable 

 advance in prices. 



The Malcolm & Souter Furniture Company of 

 Hamilton, Ont., has just received the largest 

 shipment of mahogany ever brought into Canada. 

 It consists of two carloads of dingy looking 

 logs, which look anything but valuable to the 

 layman. The shipment was drawn by oxen from 

 the Jungles of Africa and taken to Liverpool 

 where it was manufactured for the express use 

 of Malcolm & Souter. This company will work 

 the shipment up into all kinds of beautiful 

 furniture, solid mahogany throughout. 



The stave business in Texas Is flourishing. 

 The Austro-American Stave Company of Beau- 

 mont has a large force of men at work getting 

 out staves on the Sabine. Angelina and Attoyac 

 rivers. White oak is the only kind of timber 

 used. Several hundred thousand staves reached 

 Logansport a few days ago, having come down 

 from the upper courses of the Sabine. They 

 will be shipped by rail to Galveston and ex- 

 ported from that port to Germany, 



The South Atlantic Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Richmond, Va., with a capital 

 stock of $25,000. The officers are F. M. Hiolla- 

 day, president, Peake's Turnout, Va. ; C. C. 

 Thompson, treasurer, Staunton, Va. ; T. N. Walk- 

 er, auditor, Richmond, Va, 



Lumbermen of the State of Vera Cruz, Mex- 

 ico, exported about $200,000 worth of mahogany 

 and other valuable woods during the first few 

 days of this month. 



Dillman Bros, of Bangor, Mich., are now mar- 

 keting their logs and report a great advance In 

 prices over two years ago, oak being especially 

 high. 



The Nuter Cedar Company of Whitehall, re- 

 cently cut a huge elm tree on the farm of Lee 

 Bobbins near Hesperia, which scaled 7,775 feet. 

 The stump was over six feet across. 



Hardwoods play an important part in the out- 

 l)Ut of Newcastle, Ind., factxiries. Pianos, 

 kitchen cabinets and shovel handles are manu- 

 factured extensively and shipped to all parts 

 of the world. The "D" Shovel Handle Com- 

 pany Is at present working on an order for 35,- 

 000 shovel handles to be shipped to EIngland. 



W. D. Applegate, W. W. Wilson, W. C. McLel- 

 land and Jerome Swinford have incorporated the 

 Jasper Lumber Company of Applegate, Tex., with 

 a capital stock of $25,000. The company will 

 construct saw mills and manufacture lumber. 



The tie question is becoming a serious one 

 with the railroads, since it now costs more to 

 maintain them than it does the rails. Some of 

 the roads are buying up cheap land on their 

 lines and planting It with woods used for this 

 purpose, expecting to use the trees for ties within 

 twenty years or less. 



The Blair & DeLarme Manufacturing Com- 

 -iny of Newport, Vt„ maker of veneering and 

 bobbins, recently made an assignment, this being 

 decided upon after an examination of the books 

 by a Boston accountant. The company is capi- 

 talized at $100,000. Charles L. Wilson of New 

 York is president. 



The Hulsart-Soper Manufacturing Company, a 

 Michigan concern, is putting up a veneer factory 

 at Cookeville. Tenn. About fifty cords of wood 

 :ire now In readiness for the commencement of 

 work, which will begin in about a month. 



A company known as the Chicago-Texas Lum- 

 ber Company is a large owner of hardwood lands 

 on the Louisiana side of the Sabine river. It 

 now holds about 16.000 acres scattered along 

 this river from Echo, thirty or forty miles 

 north. 



Max Sondheimer has returned to this city, 

 after having spent five weeks in the south, vis- 

 iting his large lumber operations at Big Creek, 



Liberty county. Tex., and many of the important 

 lumber assembling and distributing points 

 throughout that region. He says the hardwood 

 business is being greatly retarded by bad weath- 

 er, and that he found stocks at the mills to be 

 exceedingly low. Mr. Sondheimer has purchased 

 G.CKIO acres of hardwood timber In Arkansas 

 which adjoins 22.000 acres purchased by him a 

 -few months ago. 



C. L. Curry, president, Norfolk, Va. ; B. D. 

 White, vice-president, Norfolk, and I. D. Curry, 

 secretary and treasurer, Norfolk, are the officers 

 of the new Southern Lumber Company. 



There is no reason why Fort Smith, Ark., 

 should not become one of the greatest timber 

 working manufacturing p<jint8 in the South or 

 Southwest. It may truly be said that no city 

 in the Southwest has better timber resource* 

 than that city. The supply is said to b« 

 not only ample but sufficient to run all the 

 manufacturing plants that may be located there 

 for an Indefinite period. To Quote an expert 

 who was recently asked about the timber sun- 

 ply by a man who afterward located a handle 

 factory in that city : "If I don't show that 

 there is supply enough of second growth oak 

 and hickory within ten miles of this city to 

 run all the handle factories nf the United 

 States for a twentv-year cut, I'll pay the ex- 

 penses of the trip." This statement seems to 

 be no exaggeration. 



The St. Louis Haple & Oak Flooring Com- 

 pany was recently incorporated at St. Loula ; 

 capital stock, $10,000, fully paid. Incorpora- 

 tors: J. J. Nichols, V. E. Nichols, E. F. Olson, 

 J. B. Crawford, J. B. Bishop, T. H. Cobbs and 

 J. E. Ferguson. 



The Ontonagon Stave & Veneer Company of 

 Ontonagon, Mich.. Is doing a very profitable 

 business, although it Is a comparatively new 

 concern. it has as fine an industrial site as 

 can be found in the upper peninsula. J. J. 

 Russell, one of the directors. Is also the In- 

 ventor of a new process of making staves and 

 builds the machines. 



It is said that there is still a large amount 

 of sDlendld hardwood timber In the section 

 about Wellington, O. Almost every day large loads 

 of logs are hauled to the Sharp mill in that 

 city. 



The Cadillac Veneer Company is enlarging 

 the floor space oi its plant at Harrison, Mich.. 

 about 2,000 feet, to provide room for new ma- 

 chinerv. It expects to increases Its output 

 materially. 



A York, Pa., concern will ship ten portable 

 sawmills to Cuba In the near future. They 

 will be used in cutting hardwood timber. 



The Thomas Forman Company, Ltd., of De- 

 troit, has changed Its title to the Thomas For- 

 man Company, Increased its capital from $120,- 

 000 to $200,000. Sailing. Hanson & Co. of 

 Grayllni? have become large stockholders In 

 this concern. 



The Roberta & Connor Company Is the name 

 of a new company at Muncie, Ind. John Bol>- 

 ertB, John N. Roberts and James W. Connor 

 constitute the board of directors. This com- 

 pany win buy, manufacture and sell lumber and 

 Veneer. 



The WllUamson-Kuny Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Mound City. III., is preparing to do a 

 large business during the coming year. It 

 recently purchased a tract of poplar and whlta 

 oak, and Is Investing several thousand dollar* 

 In new machinery. It expects to employ a 

 much larger force of men, and to greatly In- 

 crease its present output. 



The Rice Lake Lumber Company of Rice 

 Lake. Wis., Is again operating lu hardwood 

 mill. 



Klssell & Sons of Hartford, Wis, have just 

 purchased 40,000 feet of basswood, oak and 

 maple lumber from the W. B. H. Kerr Com- 

 pany of North Lake. 



