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HARDWOOD RECORD 



New Yorii as a HardWood Center. 



The group of cities known as Greater 

 New York and its surrounding, involving 

 vast wealth, presents to the hardwood trade 

 the greatest center Of consuming demand for 

 fine hardwoods that is contained in any sec- 



JOHN T. DIXON. Ellzabethton. Tenn. 

 Dixon iSt Dewey, New York. 



tion within the United States. Other trade 

 centers consume more hardwoods in quantity 

 than New York, as for example, Chicago ; 

 but there is no district that demands the 

 combined quantity and quality that does the 

 metropolitan district. Its requirements are 

 for high class stock and the demand is very 

 catholic. It utilizes a considerable amount 

 of foreign woods and there invariably is a 

 large demand for the good end of both plain 

 and quarter sawed oak, ash, hickory, cher- 

 ry, walnut, poplar and nearly the entire 

 range of fine American hardwoods. 



While New York for many years has been 

 the financial center of concerns dealing very 

 heavily in spruce, North Carolina pine, long 

 leaf pine and building woods generally; and 

 also mahogany and other imported woods; 

 it is only within a recent date that the deal- 

 erg there have assumed a position where New 

 York could be denominated as a financial and 

 distributing center for American hardwoods. 

 Even now, comparatively little of the im- 

 mense quantity of hardwoods entering into 

 consumption in that district are held in 

 wholesale stocks locally, buf the trade is 

 supplied from sawmills and grouping yards 

 in various parts of the producing hardwood 

 country, while the enterprises are financed 

 from New York, where the principal offices of 

 the various concerns are located. 



During the past few months there have 

 been located in New York the offices of quite 

 a number of new hardwood concerns, some of 

 them old in other parts of the country, but 

 new to New York, and today the city may 

 be regarded as an important commercial cen- 

 ter in hardwoods. 



A roster of the concerns, old and new, 

 which are now factors in the hardwood trade 

 of Greater New York may be enumerated in 

 part, as including William E. Uptegrove & 

 Brother, with principal office at the foot of 

 East Tenth street and yards at Greenpoint, 

 Borough of Brooklyn; Ichabod T. Williams 

 & Sons, Eleventh avenue and Twenty-fifth 

 street; the Indiana Quartered Oak Company, 

 with office at 5 East Forty-second street; 

 The Crosby & Beckley Company, with of- 

 fices at 1 Madison avenue; Dixon & Dewey, 

 with offices in the Flat Iron building; The 

 Barr & Mills Company, with offices in the 

 Flat Iron building; John Catheart, with 

 principal office at 115 Franklin street; Em- 

 porium Lumber Company, with New York 

 offices at 1 Madison avenue; Price & Hart, 

 with offices at 18 Broadway; The Stevens- 



SAM E. BAKU, X.w York. 

 The Barr & Mills Company. 



Eaton Company, with offices at 1 Madison 

 avenue; Wayne Lumber Company, with 

 plant at 138 Front street; George M. Grant 

 & Co. at 401 East Twenty-eighth street; 

 Hamilton H. Salmon & Co. with offices at 88 

 Wall street; William P. Youngs & Brothers, 

 at First avenue and Thirty-fifth street; Wil- 

 son, Adams & Co. at One Hundred and Thir- 

 ty-eighth street and Girard avenue, and sev- 

 eral others. Some of these concerns carry 

 no stocks in New York, and others handle 

 building woods as well as hardwoods, and 

 still others have general offices and ship 

 stock direct, on orders, from their various 

 mills or yards in producing sections. 



The Indiana Quartered Oak Company was 

 incorporated under the laws of the state of 

 Indiana, in December, 1904, to handle the 

 product of the mills of the Henry Maley 

 Lumber Company, Evaiisville, Ind. ; Maley 

 & Wertz, EvansvUlc; Young & Cutsinger, 

 Evansville, and Henry M:iley, Edinburg, Ind., 

 throughout the East, Jiii.i also to do a gen- 



eral hardwood business in native and south- 

 ern hardwoods. Of this corporation Henry 

 i\raley is president, although he does not take 

 an active part in the business, which is un- 

 der the management of Willard Winslow, 

 the treasurer of the company, and William 

 Threlkeld, the secretary. Mr. Winslow was 

 originally with Blacker & Shepard of Boston, 

 for three years, and then went with the 

 firm of Maley, Weston & Co. in 1893, and 

 remained in their employ as buyer for six 

 years. Up to his recent venture, he has 

 been engaged in the lumber business in Bos- 

 ton and New York, save during the last four 

 years, when he has been the active man in 

 George M. Grant & Co. of New York. Mr. 

 Threlkeld was formerly a partner in the firm 

 of Maley, Weston & Co. and Maley, Threlkeld 

 & Co. in Boston, and up to the time of the 

 organization of the Indiana Quartered Oak 

 Company was connected with the Maley con- 

 cerns in Indiana. The Indiana Quartered 

 Oak Company is well equipped with sources 

 of supply, finances and in management to 

 become an important factor in the hard- 

 wood trade of the East. 



Another new New York hardwood lumber 

 concern is that of Dixon & Dewey, consist- 

 ing of John T. Dixon and Harry S. Dewey. 

 Mr. Dixon has been identified with southern 

 hardwood and poplar industries for twenty 

 years, operating for a number of years at 

 Honceverte, W. Va., and after completing the 

 cutting of his timber there, moved his op- 

 erations to Virginia, Tennessee and North 

 Carolina some six years ago, where he has 

 large timber holdings, which he is operating 

 to the extent of about 20,000,000 feet of 

 lumber annually. Aside from his holdings in 

 liinilM'i- luid timber, Mr. Dixon is interested 



HARRY S. DEWEY. New York. 

 Dixon & Dewey. 



in other pursuits. He is a director and vice 

 president of the First National bank of Bon- 

 coverte. Associated with him in his southern 

 operations are his son Harlow and Arthur M. 

 Scutt, the latter having been his right hand 

 man for the past twelve years. 



