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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sively used are those for making rice drums, 

 butter dishes, woodenware, matches, tooth- 

 picks, skewers and dowels; canoes, veneered 

 wall paper and thousands of minor things. 



One unique use to which rotary cut veneers 

 are placed is the making of very thin wood 

 shavings which are used to make ladies' hats. 

 This cut wood material takes the place of 

 straw, and Prance imports great quantities 

 of it. 



To the close observer it cannot fail to be 

 evident that the veneer business holds much 

 promise for the future of the woodworking 

 industry of the country. That this is true 

 is proved by the fact that the largest timber 

 owners in the country are putting in veneer 

 plants in connection with their sawmills. A 

 great saving of material appeals to them and 

 they feel that to keep abreast of the times 

 they must have a department where fine 

 woods can be cut to the best advantage, and 

 where short crooked logs, that would other- 

 wise possess little value, can be utilized at a 

 profit. Any kind of timber can be cut into 

 veneers at a profit. There is little waste, for 

 even the cores that are left after the veneer 

 material is cut from them, can be worked 

 np into staves or sawed into slats for crat- 

 ing, or for some higher class purpose. As 

 American hardwoods grow scarcer, and the 

 price higher, of necessity this economical 

 method of manufacture will increase even 

 more rapidly than in the past. There is no 

 branch of the hardwood industry which prom- 

 ises so great a future and so many fortunes 

 as the veneer business. 



A Change at Memphis. 



Braughton & Company of Memphis. Tenn., 

 and T. H. Harris & Son of Trezevant. Tenn., 

 have, under the firm name of Braughton, Harris 

 & Son, begun the erection of a modern planing 

 mill plant at Trezevant. This new arrangement 

 will enable both firms to ship dressed stock 

 and not be confined to the sale of rought lum- 

 ber as in the past. 



Braughton & Company, who have yards and 

 dimension mill at Memphis, will handle the sale 

 of the dressed stock. T. H. Harris & Son have 

 a sawmill, stave and heading mill at Treze- 

 vant already, and own timber accessible to their 

 mill aggregating about 18.000,000 feet. This 

 timber consists of gum, poplar, oak and cypress. 



The capacity .of the new planing mill will 

 be upward of 15.000 feet per day. The output 

 will consist of moldings, siding, ceiling, floor- 

 ing and finish, notably in gum. 



New Credit Eating Book. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit 

 Corporation of St. Louis announces that about 

 April 15 it will deliver to members a combined 

 edition of its credit rating book, covering forty- 

 three states. Pocket editions of this book will 

 be made up on orders only, and any states 

 desired will be bound up for members on 

 application. The corporation requests that 

 members of the association send their orders 

 in promptly, so it may know how many extra 

 copies of each state to furnish. These books are 

 to be bound in convenient form for use by travel- 

 ing salesmen. Prices of the pocket edition 

 are $1 for one state, $2 for two or three states 

 under one cover, and $3 tor four or five states 

 under one cover. The address of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corporation Is 

 704 Kquitable Building. St. Louis. Mo. 



Gillett & Cunningham Dissolve. 



The firm of Gillett & Cunningham, lumber In- 

 spectors, has been dissolved. J. M. Gillett. con- 

 iinuing the Traverse City. Mich., office and M. 

 Cunnirgham the Boyne City, Mich., office. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HARDIHOOD RECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 

 The American Walnut Company, the largest 

 handler of black walnut in the country, which 

 controls an aggregate of nearly 20.000,000 feet 

 annually, and which for some time past has 

 maintained its principal office In the Railway 

 Exchange building, is about to move Its head- 

 quarters to Kansas City. This company constl- 

 tates the selling department of the East St. 

 Louis Walnut Company of East St. Louis, III. ; 

 the K. & P. Lumber Company of Cincinnati, 

 O. ; Lesh, Prouty & Abbott Company of East 

 Chicago, Ind., and of the Penrod Walnut Cor- 

 poration of Kansas City, Mo. 



W. B. Burke, vice president and general man- 

 ager of C. M. Carrier & Son of Sardis. Miss., 

 was a local visitor on business bent a few days 

 ago. 



O. O. Agler, of Upham & Agler, and A. K. Vln- 

 nedge of the A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Company 

 were in Cincinnati last week, in attendance upon 

 the meeting of the board of managers of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



D. F. Clark of Osborn & Clark, the well 

 known hardwood lumber and baidvvood flooring 

 concern of Minneapolis, was in the city last 

 week on his way to attend the meeting of the 

 excutlves of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association at Cincinnati. 



Max Sondheiraer, president of the E. Sond- 

 heimer Company, is expected h(pme within a few 

 flays from one of his periodical visits of review 

 of the sundry sawmill enterprises of his com- 

 pany, lying between southern Illinois and Texas. 

 Francis F. Davis, the wholesale lumberman 

 tnd hardwood flooring man of the Old Colony 



market on Wednesday and favored the Hakdwood 

 Record with a call. 



Dr. T. C. Kimball of Marion, Ind., father of 

 Carl V. Kimball, secretary and treasurer of the 

 A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Company of this city, 

 died at Jacksonville. Fla., on March 6, age 63 

 years. Dr. Kimball was a well known physician 

 of Marion, and had been In bad health for some 

 time. He went south a few months ago to at- 

 tempt to regain his health, but died quite sud- 

 denly of heart trouble. Carl V. Kimball had 

 been notified of his father's serious Illness, but 

 reached his bedside only a few hours before his 

 death. Mr. Kimball was buried with Masonic 

 honors on March 10 at his home. The many 

 friends of Carl V. Kimball will condone with him 

 the loss of his father. 



building, had a visit last week from W. A. Mc- 

 Lean of New Albany, Ind.. who Is vice president 

 3f the Hugh McLean Lumber Company of Buf- 

 falo, and general manager of the Wood Mosaic 

 Flooring Company of New Albany, Ind., and 

 Hanan H. Barklay. manager of the Rochester 

 factory of the Wood Musaic I'loorlng Company, 

 and the Habdwood Hkcokd Is indebted to the 

 three gentlemen for a friendly call. 



On March 1 L. H. Bell severed his connec- 

 tion with the United Mill & Lumber Company 

 of this city, with whom he has been associated 

 for a number of years. Mr. Bell Is leaving for 

 an eastern trip to perfect new business rela- 

 tions. 



Lewis Doster of Columbus, secretary of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States, was in Chicago on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday of this week in attendance upon the 

 sixth annual convention of the American Rail- 

 way Engineering and Maintenance of Way As- 

 sociation. 



The American Walnut Company, the largest 

 manufacturer and jobber of black walnut in the 

 country, which controls about one-half of the 

 total production, and which has had Its princi- 

 pal office In the Railway Exchange, Chicago, 

 since Its organization, will remove Its head- 

 quarters to Kansas City on April 1 proximo. 



H. Schneider, of the Dudley Lumber Company, 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., was a visitor on the Chi- 

 cago market this week, and found some busi- 

 ness awaiting him, and had time to call at the 

 Hardwood Record oflice. 



J. D. King of Till' Gage & Possell Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, C, was a visitor In this 



New York. 



Sam E. Barr. president of The Barr & Mills 

 Company, wholesale hardwood dealer in the 

 Flat Iron building, is off again on a West Vir- 

 ginia business trip. This company, since its ad- 

 vent in New Yiork two months ago, has been very 

 successful, having booked a large volume of 

 business. Fortunately it controls several of the 

 largest oak stocks In the country. 



A. P. Bigelow, retailer of building hardwoods 

 at the foot of east Fifty-third street, has ad- 

 mitted Charles Gi-osskurth to partnership under 

 the style of A. P. Bigelow & Co. Mr. Grosskurth 

 has been associated with the concern since It 

 began business. 



Hugh McLean, president of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company of Buffalo, spent several days 

 in town in the early part of the month, after 

 which he started homeward on a selling trip 

 through Hudson river valley points. 



The Indiana Quartei-ed Oak Company, 5 For- 

 ty second street, which controls the output of 

 several large Indiana oak mills, reports busi- 

 ness opening up In very satisfactory shape. 

 This company will have between 15.000,000 and 

 20,000,000 feet of stock for sale in the eastern 

 market this year. 



George M. Grant & Co., hardwood men of 

 Twenty-eighth street and First avenue, report 

 the local trade Is good. Charles H. Grant, son 

 of the head of this firm, Is now engaged with the 

 concern. 



The Indiana Lumber & Veneer Company of 

 Indianapolis, Ind., for many years prominent In 

 the western trade, has opened a warehouse at 

 First avenue and Thirty-first street, under the 

 management of L. P. Hollowell and V. Ne- 

 mours. The warehouse is a ground floor affair. 

 In a new fireproof building, and Is being stocked 

 with all kinds of domestic hardwood veneers. The 

 company has had a large eastern trade for a 

 good while, but carrying a local stock is an 

 Innovation with It. 



James A. Noone, receiver of the Voosnack l>um- 

 ber Company, the hardwood veneer firm of lyjng 

 Island City, whose affairs were placed In his 

 hands some months ago, owing to disagreement 

 among the stockholders, has given notice that all 

 claims against the company must be proved 

 within six months from March 14. 



General Appraiser McClelland rendered an Im- 

 portant decision on March 14 relative to the duty 

 chargeable on veneers. It was to the effect that 

 the United States Board of General Appraisers 

 had sustained a protest of F. B. Vandergrlft & 

 Co. of Chicago, against the classification as man- 

 ufacturers of vrond, at 35 per cent of very thin, 

 high class boards, to be used for veneering. Mr. 

 McClelland ruled that this class of stock was 

 (iuliabie at 20 per cent. 



Robert H. Jenks of the Robert H. Jenks Lum- 

 ber Company, Cleveland, O., visited the local 

 trade last week. 



John Cathcart, the prominent hardwood manu- 

 facturer, has Just returned from a three months' 

 stay at his New Decatur, Ala., sawmill plant. 



John Lynch, the pioneer hardwood lumber 

 dealer, who for many years operated a yard In 

 the Eleventh avenue district, died at his home 

 • <n March 4, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



