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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The merger of two of the largest lumher con- 

 cerns of Grand Rapids. Mich., was recently 

 effected. The Grand Rapids Lumber Company, 

 with a paid-up capital of ?250.(i00, has succeeded 

 the Fuller & Rice Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and the Mercer & Ferdon Lumber Company. 

 John W. Ferdon has been elected president and 



Carnill F. Sweet, treasurer and general manaj;er 

 of the new corporation. The company announces 

 that it will erect a modern factory for the manu- 

 facture of Interior finish. The wholesale business 

 of both concerns will be handled under the trade 

 name of the Fuller & Rice Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company. 



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Hardwood 'News ISlotes ' 



CHICAGO 



H.utDwooD Record had a call on Nov. 6 from 

 G. V. P. Lansing of Baer & Lansing, Seattle. 

 Wash., handlers of timber lands and investments 

 in the Tacific Northwest. Mr. Lansing has been 

 making an extended trip to all the principal 

 cities of the East, seeking to interest investors 

 in I'aclfic Coast property. He reports timber 

 sales very inactive at present. 



.T. F. McSweyn of the Memphis Saw Mill Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn., was a Chicago visitor 

 Oct. 27. 



R. E. Lee Wilson, the well-known lumber 

 operator whose headquarters are in Memphis. 

 was a Chicago visitor this week. 



C. M. Kellogg of Dooley-Kellogg Lumber Com- 

 pany, manufacturer and exporter of southern 

 hardwoods at Memphis, Tenn., was a recent vis- 

 itor in the Chicago market. 



One of the recent visitors in the Chicago mar- 

 ket was E. B. Brown of Buffalo, N. Y.. specialist 

 in wagon woodwork, who has an excellent trade 

 in this city. 



John C. Spry, the well-known timber man of 

 the Corn Exchange Bank building, has so far 

 recovered from his recent attack of ptomain 

 poisoning that he makes occasional short visits 

 to his office. Mr. Spry contemplates a trip to 

 s.ome salubrious climate very soon for a pro- 

 tracted stay, where he may fully recover his 

 strength and energies. 



n. L. Jurden, secretary of the Penrod Walnut 

 & Veneer Company, Kansas City, Mo., was a 

 Record calU-r on Nov. 2. Mr. Jurden says that 

 the work on the company's new plant at Helena. 

 Ark., is progressing rapidly under the direction 

 of Alexander Lendrum and it is expected that it 

 will be in operation early in February. 



Walter L. Dewitt has resigned his position as 

 sales manager of the Estabrook-Skeele Lumber 

 Company and has taken the position of buyer 

 with the Seaman-Kent Company of Meaford. Ont. 

 This company manufactures maple flooring and 

 has a plant at Meaford and a second one at Fort 

 Williams, Ont. 



Z. Clark Thwing, head of the Grand Rapids 

 Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Its 

 allied dry-kiln interests, was a Chicago visitor 

 last week. Mr. Thwlng states that, in spite of 

 general business depression, his company will 

 have Inslnlled more dry-kilns in 1911 than in 

 any two previous years of its history. 



henry M. Stack of the Masonville Lumber 

 Company, Escanaba, Mich., manufacturer of 

 lumber and maple flooring, was in Chicago sev- 

 eral days last week. 



A. W, Lucas, head of the Lucas Land & Lum- 

 ber Company, Paducah. Ky., visited his custom- 

 ers In the Chicago market lost week. 



J. W. Thompson, late of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, has entered the 

 wholesale lumher hnsineas at Chicago on his 

 own account with offices In the McCormlck build- 

 ing. Mr. Tliompson .snys he was received with 

 open arms by his many friends in the Chicago 

 market, and he already has hooked a very satls- 

 inctory volume of business. 



Among the lumbermen who have visited the 

 Chicago market during the last fortnight arc 

 John Smith of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumher 



t'oniimny of the Dickson, Tenn.. plant; II. S. 

 I'ullenlove of R. L. Rhymes Lumber Company, 

 Mi-mphis ; A. J. Smith of Smith & Bell, Decatur, 

 Ind. ; C. II. Barnaby, Greencastle. Ind. 



Percy C. Stone of P. F. Stone Company, Rock- 

 ford. III., n few days ago purchased a new powiM' 

 boat at lie Pere, Wis., which he brought down 

 to Chicago by lake and had a rough voy.Tge in 

 doing it. Mr. Stone contemplates taking his 

 new craft for a long cruise down the Mississippi 

 river, in which lie will be accompanied by a 

 party of friends. 



During the last week Record has been in 

 receipt of a letter from a Vladivostok, East 

 Siberian iumlierman, asking for a sample copy 

 of II.MiDWoon llEcouri with a view of subscribing, 

 and among other letters from a far-off source is 

 one from a lumber concern at Ketchikan, Alaska, 

 asking for assistance in marketing 300,000 feet 

 of spruce. 



CAIRO— MOUND CITY 



Through the efforts of Mayor George Parsons 

 of Cairo Hon. John A. Fox of the Senatorial 

 Rivers & Harbors Commission recently visited 

 that city and addressed the city council and 

 invited guests on the waterways question. 



Since the beginning of the railroad strike 

 business on tlie river has multiplied. All freight- 

 ers are heavily loaded, and receiving wharf boats 

 are congested with merchandise. 



Government engineers are making a compre- 

 hensive survey of the Mississippi river south 

 from Cairo. The channel and bank will be traced 

 and described, foot by foot, with numerous other 

 details of statistical information. The greatest 

 depth found so far is eighty-flve feet. The com- 

 plete survey, to the Gulf, will take about six 

 years. 



The B. F. Yoakum, new all-steel transfer boat, 

 passed Mound City recently. This boat is 305 

 feet long, 91 feet wide, 10 feet deep, with a 

 displacement of 1,400 tons. Etiormous boilers 

 develop 3,800 horsepower, and the load carried 

 can be two trains — eighteen passenger cars. The 

 boat cost .$250,000. and will be used as a Frisco 

 transfer at Baton Rouge, La. 



NEW YORK 



A speeiul meeting of the Board of Trustees 

 of the New York Lumber Trade Association was 

 Iirld at henili|uar1ers, 18 Broadway, on Oct. 31. 

 at which time routine and special reports were 

 renilered covering the general work of the associa- 

 tion and the governm<-nfs action against the 

 eastern associations, which reports were not 

 made public. Charles B. Thomson was elected 

 to niemlxTshlp In the association. 



The H'gnlar anninil meeting of the New York 

 LiiDiber Trade Assoclalhm will he held at head- 

 quarters on Nov. ,s, preieded by a Delaware 

 luncheon. The nuetlng Ibis year marks the end 

 of the Iwenly-nflh year of (he association, Spe- 

 <lnl reports will be rendi'rcd by the Board of 

 Trust eis ami olllcers, and from the plans In 

 hand the meeting will undoul>te<lly be of special 

 Interest, 



On Oct, 21, at East Orange, N. J., Miss Ethel 



C. Palmer of that place was united in marriage 

 with Charles Milne, head of Milne Brothers Com- 

 pany, wholesale hardwood, 18 Broadway, New 

 Y'ork, Miss Palmer is the daughter of Mr, and 

 Mrs, Albert W, Palmer of East Orange. The 

 wedding took place at the residence of the bride, 

 Archibald N. Milne, brother of the bridegroom, 

 acting as best man. After an extended honey- 

 moon Mr. and Mrs. Milne will reside in East 

 iirange. Mr. Milne is one of the younger lum- 

 Inrmen of the Metroiwlitan district and has built 

 lip a successful business. For many years he was 

 identified with his brother-in-law. G. E. Smith, 

 starting in for himself January 1, 1908. 



Robert W. Higbie of the R. W. Iligbie Com- 

 pany, 45 Broadway, well-known hardwood manu- 

 facturer, returned recently from a visit to the 

 large operations of his company in St. Lawrence 

 lounty, New York, where he found everything 

 running along finely. The plant is operating full 

 time, cutting a very choice run of maple, birch 

 and beech from its large timber holdings in that 

 county. 



President F. R. Babcock of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, head of E. V. 

 Babcock & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., accompanied by 

 Mrs. Babcock, spent several days in this city 

 recently on business and pleasure. 



Arthur V. Charshee of Thomas A. Charshee & 

 Bro., Baltimore. Md., was a recent visitor for 

 several days sightseeing with Mrs. Charshee, after 

 which they left for Atlantic City for a brief 

 stay. 



The Loumll Company. 37 East Twenty-eighth 

 street, this city, has engaged in the wholesale 

 commission business under the management of 

 Charles Warburton, who formerly was connected 

 for several years with D. L. Gillespie & Co., 

 I'iltsburgh. The Loumil Company, it is under- 

 ylood. will act as the selling agent for the Louis- 

 ville IManing Mill & Hardwood Company and the 

 .Milton-Peter Company of Louisville. Ky.. and the 

 A. G. Brietwiescr Lumber Company of Pittsburgh. 



BUFFALO 



The political situation absorbed a good deal 

 of attention of tlie lumbermen early this montli, 

 many of them taking an especial interest in the 

 vote on certain municipal offices, giving consider- 

 able time and energy to the matter both as tax- 

 jjayers and as members of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce. There were several lumbermen on the 

 local ticket, including Horace C. Mills, treasurer 

 of Taylor & Crate, who was on the Republican 

 ticket for councilman and bad the support of 

 most of the members of the trade. 



The Salamanca, N, Y',, Furniture Company is 

 soon to begin the erection of a four-story brick 

 building adjoining its factory, and when it is 

 completed and equipped the number of men em- 

 ployi'd will be a little more than doubled. The 

 plant now employs ninety men and the force 

 under the new conditions will be 190, The 

 Walker Veneer & Panel Works, of Alpena, Mich,, 

 has made Salamanca Its eastern hendquprters 

 and has established a warehouse there, 



J, W, Welsh has been spending two weeks at 

 Memphis. Tenn., in the interest of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company. The yard has been 

 taking in a large amount of lake hardwooils dur- 

 ing the last month, 



Hugh McLean has returned from his hunting 

 trip to New Brunswick and a visit to the plant 

 (it the Itathurst Lumber Company, In which he 

 is Interested, 



Sales at the yard of A. Miller this month have 

 included a good quantity of birch and basswood, 

 of which large supplies came In by lake early 

 in the season. Fair sales of other hardwoods 

 are also reported. 



Birch and maple have been coming In lately 

 In good <piantlty at the yard of T, Sullivan & 

 Co,, and F, M, Sullivan is moving a large amount 

 of this wood. 



Blakeslec, Perrin & Darling state that their 



