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with it the virgin titnbet area of the company. 



The olBcers and stockholders of the Conasauga 

 r, umber Company are among the most prominent 

 lumbermen and business men of Nashvilie. Tenn., 

 and tho company is capilaliz.ci at $1,100,000. 



Purchase Entire Mill Cut 

 The totai year's cut of the Schuh-Mason Lum- 

 ber Company's band mill' at Selma, Ala., has 

 been purchased by 0. P. Ilurd, Jr., & Co., of 

 Cairo, 111. The cut will appi'cximate 800,000 

 feet per month, and will consist principally of 

 poplar, Cottonwood, cypress, nsl. and plain and 

 quartered red and white oak. 



The lumber will be cut entirely from the vir- 

 gin stand of timber belonging to the Schuh-Mason 

 Lumber Company. This timber runs to excep- 

 tional sizes, and is of the quality which makes 

 the stock cut from this locality famous. 



O. P. Hurd, Jr., & Co. will maintain a yard 

 at Selma. in addition to the present yards at 

 Cairo, 111. The company has unusual shipping 

 facilities for export trade, and shipments to the 

 middle West and East. It is in a position to 

 resaw and surface all the stock, as the plant is 

 equipped with a planing mill, resawing and sur- 

 facing machinery. 



Waterway Convention 



About one thousand delegates, representing 

 thirty-three states, were present at the annual 

 convention of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water- 

 way Association at the Auditorium theater, Chi- 

 cago, Tuesday, October 10, and "boosted" their 

 pet project vigorously and uproariously. E. S. 

 Conway of Chicago, one of tho vice presidents, 

 called the meeting to order at 11 :45 a. m., and 

 in his opening talk declared himself in favor of 

 improving all navigable streams in this countrj'. 



The address of welcome was delivered by Law- 

 rence E. McGann, Chicago's commissioner of pub- 

 lic works. Mayor Carter H. Harrison was sched- 

 uled for the address, but was prevented by an 

 affection of the throat from attending the meet- 

 ing. Mr. McGann pronounced the purpose of the 

 convention a great movement, the success of 

 which is well assured. 



Governor Charles S. Deneen of Illinois, being 

 still confined to his home by a broken leg, sus- 

 tained in a recent automobile accident, Eobert 

 R. McCormick of Chicago, former president of the 

 .Sanitary District Board, spoke in his stead. He 

 said that although some progress had been made, 

 it has not been as much as had been wished for. 

 It had been expected that a deep waterway bill 

 would have been passed by Illinois within the 

 last year, but it has not been done, although, in 

 the light of more recent developments, such a 

 bill is assured. Mr. McCormick attributed the 

 falling off in Chicago's lake commerce to inade- 

 quate harbor facilities. The city will be the 

 mouth of the waterway and a public harbor 

 will have to be developed. 



President Kavanaugh made a brief address, 

 reviewing the work of the association for the 

 last year and the general progress toward the 

 attainment of the great purpose. In it ho spoke 

 of the awakening of the people to actual need 

 of the projected deep waterway, the work neces- 

 sary to .bring about its successful consummation 

 and its vast importance to the commercial de- 

 velopment of the great interior through which 

 it will run. 



The afternoon session developed much of in- 

 terest in the way of argument in favor of the 

 waterway. R. M. Patterson of Chicago created 

 something of a stir by catechising Isham Ran- 

 dolph, its chairman, on the subject of expenditure 

 for water power by the Internal Improvement 

 Commission of Illinois. The president inter- 

 posed and deprecated anything in the nature of 

 political differences in the convention. 



Governor H. S. Hadley of Missouri addressed 

 the convention, saying in the course of his speech 

 that the necessity of waterways had been dem- 

 onstrated by the poor success attending the 

 attempts of American people to regulate rates 

 and service by other means of transportation, 

 and that while they are better, it is plain to 



any studcnl <if transportation that they arc not 

 impartial. Waterway transportation, he said, 

 is not only rate regulation, it is land reclamation. 

 The waterways are in the hands of the govern- 

 ment, but it has failed to keep their waters 

 within their proper confines. 



Following Governor Iladley's address were a 

 number of short lalks by associalion members 

 setting forth the many advantages to the com- 

 merce of the interior along the course of the 

 prospective waterway and advocating strongly 

 immediate and vigorous actlou of Illinois in the 

 advancement of the project. The meeting 

 throughout lacked nothing of vigor in the gen- 

 eral manifestation of spirit and enthusiasm, and 

 al its close Tuesday afternoon the opinion was 

 pro%'aleut that its ultimate object eventually 

 would be attained. 



New Hardwood Company 



Tuesday, October 10, the Howard-Barber Lum- 

 ber Company was incorporated at Cincinnati, O., 

 to handle all lines of hardwoods as well as do 

 an export business. Alfred De W. Howard, 

 formerly of the Alfred Howard Lumber Com- 

 pany, and Edward Barber, former American 

 representative of Illingworth, Ingham & Co., 

 Leeds, England, are at the head of the new 

 company. E. S. Hubbell, J. W. Roberts and W. 

 F. Landwehr are the incorporators. The cap- 

 ital stock is given at $10,000. The company's 

 offices are in the Provident Bank building. 



Hemlock and Hardwood Quarterly 



The Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association will hold its quarterly meet- 

 ing at Hotel Pflster, Milwaukee. Wis., Thursday, 

 Oct. 26, beginning at 10 a. m. A meeting of 

 great interest is expected. Members will be 

 afforded an opportunity to hear President Taft 

 in an address in the auditorium the same even- 

 ing. 



Open New Orleans Branch 



Bennett & Wilte. that foremost Cincinnati 

 domestic and export hardwood house, announce 

 that on account of their growing foreign business 

 they have opened an export oflice in New Orleans, 

 La., at 1324 Whitney-Central Bank building. 

 This oflice will be in charge of A. W. Euler, 

 ■who has been manager of Bennett & Witte's ex- 

 port department for several years. The branch 

 office of this concern will be continued at Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., under the management of A. G. 

 Fritchey, and of course the principal office will 

 bo maintained at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



Dunbar & Hart ri'Ccntly entered into the manu- 

 facture of columns at Lebanon, Ky. 



The Hickory Handle Manufacturing Company 

 of Conover, N. C. has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $100,000. 



George J. Kummerle recently entered the hard- 

 wood lumber trade at Brooklyn, N. Y. He is 

 located at Union and Montrose streets. 



P. E. Gilbert & Co. recently entered the whole- 

 sale hardwood trade at Memphis, Tenn. 



The Carleton Lumber Company is a new con- 

 cern to be incorporated at Kansas City, Mo. It 

 has an authorized capital stock of $50,000. 



The plant of the Peerless Furniture Company 

 of Jamestown, N. Y., recently sustained a loss 

 by fire of $25,000. 



C. O. Stone, manufacturer of wooden handles 



lor chisels and awls, lias removed his business 

 from Putnam, Conn., to Gardner, Mass. 



H. L. Frank has established a new factory at 

 Crandon, Wis., for the manufacture of all kinds 

 of broom handles. 



The Spaulding Manufacturing Company of 

 Grinnell, Iowa, is planning the establishment 

 of a plant at Memphis, Tenn., for the manufac- 

 ture of wagons and farm vehicles. 



The Central Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Chattanooga, Tenn., with an au- 

 thorized capital of $50,000. Those interested in 

 the new company are D. W. Hughes, J. D. Day 

 and Sam Guyther. 



A new concern to incorporate at Norfolk, Va., 

 is the Neuse River Lumber Company, with an 

 authorized capital of $75,000. E. B. Freeman 

 is president of the company, L. R. Freeman, vice- 

 president, and S. H. Lloyd, secretary. 



Fire recently destroyed tho lumber yard and 

 planing mill of the Westchester Woodwork Com- 

 pany of New York, N. Y. The loss is estimated 

 at $60,000. 



The Imperial Export Company is a new con- 

 cern at New Orleans, L.a., that will engage in 

 the manufacture and exportation of timber and 

 hardwoods. 



The Stewart Vehicle Company of Martinsburg, 

 W. Va., is planning the erection of an addition 

 to its plant which will he 70x60 feet, three 

 stories and basement. When this addition is 

 completed the plant will have a daily capacity 

 of seventy-five buggies. 



The Maine Wood Turning Company of East 

 Livermore, Me., has been organized for the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing lumber and the turning 

 of novelties. It has a capital stock of $50,000, 

 of which $25,000 is paid in. Edward S. Caw- 

 t borne of Leominster is president and treasurer 

 of the company. 



The American Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany was recently chartered at Charlotte, N. C, 

 with a capital stock of $25,000 by F. S. Ken- 

 nett, W. H. Westall and others. Ground will be 

 broken for the erection of the company's plant 

 at an early date. 



It is announced that .Adrian Shuford of Hick- 

 ory, N. C, has purchased the spoke and handle 

 factory from J. Hunsucker of Conover, N. C, 

 and has changed the name of the plant to the 

 Hickory Hardwood Company. Mr. Shuford will 

 take charge of the plant at Conover at once. 



The Baldwin Refrigerator Company of Bur- 

 lington, Vt., has completed the erection of a 

 two-story brick addition, 108x250 feet, to its 

 plant, which will enable the company to double 

 its present capacity of 125 refrigerators per day. 

 During the last year the company consumed 

 2.500.000 feet of hardwood as well as consider- 

 able soft wood in the manufacture of its product. 



The LoomiS & Hart Furniture Company, Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn., has been incorporated with $200,- 

 000 capital, and has taken over the furniture 

 manufacturing department of the Loomis & Hart 

 .Manufacturing Company. It is stated that the 

 construction of a new plant is to be pushed as 

 rapidly as possible. New machinery will be 

 installed and each machine will be operated by 

 an individual electric motor. 



The Crescent Lumber Company of Little Rock, 

 Ark., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $2,200,000. The incorporators are R. S. Wil- 

 son, A. J. Reap, J. C. Cremer, C. G. Powell and 

 W. W. Atkinson. 



The Decatur Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Decatur, Ala., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $15,000. The incorporators 

 are E. M. Knight, W. F. Bixby and D. A. Bixby. 



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J. C. Bennett, who has long been identified 

 with the hardwood trade iu Chicago, is now 

 associated with the Archer Lumber Company of 

 Helena, Ark., as purchasing agent and sales man- 



ager. The company's office is located at Helena, 

 and its yards and mills at Helena and vicinity. 

 Mr. Bennett will continue to make his home at 

 Austin, 111. 



On Oct. 18 Justin Peters, manager of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insur- 

 ance Company, Philadelphia, Pa., was a welcome 



