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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago visitor. He reports thai his company 

 shows small fire losses and increasoJ business. 



On Oct. 14 Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Scolt. Mr. and 

 Mrs. George T. Howe, Mfss Hazel Howe and Mr. 

 Chauncey Howe stopped off In Chicago enroute 

 to New York for an extended I'luropean trip. 

 Messrs. Scott and Howe are largely interested 

 in the Scott & Howe Lumber Company of Iron- 

 wood, Mich., and are taking this opportunity of 

 making an extended vacation accompanied by 

 their immediate families. 



K. C. Dayton of the Wisconsin Veneer Com- 

 pany. Rhinelander, Wis., who called on Uecord a 

 few days ago, thinks there is au improved con- 

 dition in the veneer and panel business, al- 

 though prices on veneer products are still very 

 much lower than will guarantee a reasonable 

 profit in the business. Mr. Dayton announces 

 that his house is fairly busy. 



C. D. Hendrickson of the C. D. Ilendrickson 

 Lumber Company. Memphis, Tenn., was in town 

 week before last as a delegate to the deep water- 

 ways convention. 



The picture of the camp cook with which the 

 famous silver steel saw people, 1'^. C. Atkins & 

 Co.. Indianapolis, Ind., bare recently been embel- 

 lishing their trade paper advertisements, is from 

 a photograph of one of Cummer, Diggins & Co.'s 

 wood chefs, and was made by the editor of 

 Hardwood Record during a visit at one of the 

 camps of this lumber company in July last. The 

 picture of the tote boy in the Atkins adver- 

 tisement in this issue is from a photograph made 

 by the editor at the woods operations of the 

 Little liiver I^umber Company at Townsend, 

 Tenn., last June. 



Among the lumber visitors in the Chicago 

 market during the last fortnight have been the 

 following : 



A. W. Sumner, American Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis. Mo. 



John Edinger. Vilas County Lumber Company, 

 Foslerville, Wis. 



D. R. Arpin, Arpin Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Grand Kaplds. Wis. 



G. von Platen, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Walter E. Ueyser of the W. E. Heyser Lumber 

 Company, Wlnton Place, Cincinnati, O. 



J. W. Welch, Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Buffalo, N. Y. 



I.afe Clore, May Brothers, Memphis, Tenn. 



H. F. Below, VoUmar & Below Company, 

 Marshfleld, Wis. 



W. A. Gilchrist, Three States Lumber Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



Ralph McCracken, Kentucky Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, O. 



W. D. Y'oung, W. D. Young & Co., Bay City, 

 Mich. 



J. H. P. Smith, The Hardwood Company, Cin- 

 cinnati, O. 



Guy F^ilton, Chas. I". Luchrmann Hardwood 

 I.,umber Company, St. I^ouis, Mu. 



A. M. Todd, Cbas. V. 1-uchrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, St. Louis, Mo. 



John D. Mershon, John D. Mcrshon Lumber 

 Company. Saginaw, Mich. 



John K. Stack, I^sccnaba Lumber Company, 

 Escanaba. Mich. 



R. C. Dayton. Wisconsin Veneer Company, 

 Rhinelander, Wis. 



G. G. Roberts, Trl-Stale Lumber Company, 

 Toledo, O. 



Nels Ducbolm, Scott & Howe Lumber Com- 

 pany. Ironwood, Mich, 



John Hlmraellicrger and W. H. Harrison of the 

 Hlmmeltjerger-Horrison Lumber Company, More- 

 house, Mo. 



W. R. Chevls of St. Louis, Mo. 



George D. Burgess, Russe & Burgess, Ind., 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



W. W. Dings, Garctson-GreasOD Lumber Com- 

 pany. St. Louis, Mo. 



Max L. Pease. fialloway-Peasc Lumber Com- 

 pany, Saginaw, Mich. 



D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills, Louis- 

 ▼Hlc, Ky. 



it. K. Hodges of Milwaukee. 



Frank Dooley, Dooley-Kellogg Lumber Com- 

 pany, Memphis. 



DeWost .MurroUo, Steel & Hibbard Lumber 

 Company. St. Louis, Mo. 



F. L. Baker, HoUey-Baker Lumber Company, 

 Slkeston, Mo. 



Ralph Merrill. Long-Knight Lumber Company, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



George McBiair, secretary Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis. 



W. B. Reeves, Helena, Ark. 



J. F. McSweyn, Memphis Saw Mill Company. 



J. J. Lnmm, sales manager of the Clyde Iron 

 Works, Duluth, Minn., manufacturer of the 

 famous MeGillert log loaders, was a welcome 

 caller at the Record office on Oct. 23. 



C. L. WlUey, the well known Chicago mahog- 

 any and veneer man, accompanied by his wife. 

 will leave Chicago on Sunday for a two months' 

 trip to Great Britain. Mr. and Mrs. Willey will 

 sail for Liverpool on the Lusitanla from New 

 Yard on Nov. 1. 



The Howard & Barber Lumber Company, Inc., 

 with offices at 309 Provident Bank building, Cin- 

 cinnati, O., .is the name of a new lumber cor- 

 poration, made up of Alfred Howard, formerly in 

 business as The Alfred Howard Lumber Com- 

 pany, and Edward Barber, formerly in charge 

 of the export business of Illingworth, Ingham & 

 Co., Ltd. The ne\v company has taken over and 

 will continue the domestic business of The Al- 

 fred Howard Lumber Company, and in addition 

 will also handle wagon oak plank and scantling 

 and all kinds of hardwood lumber for the export 

 market. 



The Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation held an executive session at the Pont- 

 chartrain hotel, Detroit, Oct. 26. 



The next annual meeting of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, which 

 is always a matter of interest to a great many 

 lumbermen, will be held on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, Mar. G and 7, 1912, at a place yet 

 to be determined. The foregoing is in conform- 

 ity with an announcement that has been made by 

 Secretary Perry. 



H. B. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company, Monadnock building, has been on a 

 buying trip of several days' duration through 

 Wisconsin mill points. 



G. W. Jones of the G. W. Jones Lumber Com- 

 pa.ny, Appleton, Wis., stopped off at his Chicago 

 office last I'^riday on his return from the com- 

 I)any's Arkansas mills at Nettleton and Forrest 

 City. 



John D. Laskey, with C. L. Willey, left Chi- 

 cago on Monday for Rockford, St. Paul and 

 Minneapolis on a selling trip. 



L. J. Pomeroy, Chicago representative of the 

 I.andeck Lumber Company of Milwaukee, married 

 on Oct. 24 Adah Virginia Huston of Chicago. 



KNOXVILLB 



Dealers In this vicinity tiiliik tlie time is at 

 hand for permanent improvement In the hard- 

 wood market. Ordi-rs have been coming In more 

 freely of late and the last week has shown in- 

 creasing strength, especiuiiy In oak, plain and 

 quartered. Prices have shown an advanc- 

 ing tendency, especially In the lower grades, de- 

 iTi.md for which Is brisk. Chestnut Is more 

 lilentiful and stock Is moving freely. Ash is In 

 good demand and Is liccoming somewhat scarce. 

 Hardwood flooring Is In good demand and local 

 plants are behind In their orders. 



Tile nnintel liuslness Is ImiirovIng and all the 

 factories In tills city are running full lime. 

 There seems to he much conlldence among the 

 manufacturers that business will Improve con- 

 siderably In the ni'xt few weeks and that when 

 the had weather sets In dry stocks at the rail- 

 road will be In good demand. 



W. B. Townsend, president of the Little River 

 Lumber Company, Is In Washington, D. c.. 

 where be Is completing negotiation wilb the 



Forest Service to purchase the timber land of 

 the Little River cumpany for the Appalachian 

 park. 



J. Park Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Comiiany. spent last week in middle 

 Tennessee looking over timber land which he 

 <ontemplates buying .for bis concern. Edward 

 Vestal of this company is leaving this week for 

 a trip south, expecting to be gone about two 

 weeks. W. G. Home of this company has just 

 returned from Norma, Tenn., where his concern 

 has been operating for some time. It has just 

 moved its mill bactc to Knoxville, and expects to 

 locate it on the Tennessee Central later in the 

 season. 



J. E. Obcrnc of the Blue Ridge Tie Company 

 is in Cincinnati. O.. on business of his concern. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witto. Cincinnati, 

 O.. was a visitor In Knoxville last week. 



E. S. Stevens, local representative of Wm. K. 

 Galle & Co., Cincinnati, O., Is in Chattanooga, 

 Tenn. 



II. B. Nlclds of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 iiany in Pittsburg, Pa. He states that he is 

 getting his full share of the business. W. B. 

 Townsend of this company will be in Williams- 

 port, Pa., next week with Mrs. Townsend to 

 attend the wedding of the daughter of F. T. Mc- 

 Cormlck, a director of the compan,v. Joe Mur- 

 phy of this company was a Knoxville visitor 

 this week. 



J. M. Logan of the Logau-Maphet Lumber 

 Company is taking a trip through Canada with 

 I. M. Asher. who is his representative in Cincin- 

 nati, O., and expects to return in about ten 

 days with some good orders. 



The Knoxville Sawmill Company says business 

 is good and that it is running its band mills full 

 time. 



C. R. Swan of the Logan-Maphet Lumber 

 Company, who has been ill for several weeks, 

 expects to report for duty the last of this month. 



J. C. Kimball of Kimball & Kojxke has just 

 returned from Asheville, N. C, and says busi- 

 ness is lively. 



Walter McCabe has just returned from 

 Waynesville, N. C, and reports business very 

 good. His local yard is well stocked with hard- 

 woods and he expects a good fall trade. 



NEW YORK 



W. E. VanWert, sales manager of the Em- 

 porium Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue, 

 large hardwood manufacturer with mills and ex- 

 tensive timber holdings in Pennsylvania, Ver- 

 mont and the Adlrondacks, announces through 

 I'resident W. L. Sykes of the company, that It 

 has just received word that the fine new saw and 

 planing mill plant of the company at Childwold. 

 .X. Y., has started operation on tlie big tract of 

 timber recently bought by the company In that 

 vicinity and that it may expect to receive some 

 i^holce lumber from this plant at an early date. 

 A year or two ago the Emporium Lumber Com- 

 pany bought one of the choicest boundaries of 

 hardwood, spruce, hemlock and pine between 

 Childwold and Cranberry lake, In the Adlron- 

 dacks. and Immeillalcly arranged for the con- 

 struction of this plant at Childwold as well as 

 the building of about twelve miles of railroad 

 to Cranberry lake to develop the property. About 

 two miles of the road has been completed and 

 the mill Is now stocked with about nine million 

 feet of spruce, hemlock and hardwoods, and the 

 balance of the railroad will lie constructed by 

 next spring. This facility added to the other 

 large operations of the ICmporium Lumber Com- 

 pany, places It In a stronger position than ever 

 before in the eastern hardwood trade. 



The Iroquois Door Company, large manufac- 

 turer of si>celal hardwood veneer doors and mill- 

 work with main plant and warehouse at Buffalo. 

 N. Y.. and brani'li factories and warehouses at 

 Milwaukee, Wis., and Tncoma, Wash., has re- 

 cently entirely renovated its local sales and ex- 



