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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Out of Receivers' Hands 



The E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 announces under date of Nov. 20 that a meet- 

 ing of its creditors was held at Memphis on 

 November 15, at which time $0-40,000 of the 

 total indebtedness of ?6G3.000 were represented. 

 At that time a plan of settlement was unani- 

 mously agreed upon, and this agreement Is 

 being put Into writing, and as soon as com- 

 pleted wiU be mailed to creditors for acceptance. 



This plan will place the property of the E. 

 Sondheimer Company bacl; into its own hands 

 under the direction of Max Sondheimer, presi- 

 dent, and Rudolph Sondheimer, secretary. The 

 company is to be congratulated upon its prompt 

 release, which is in line with the prophecy made 

 by Hardwood Record at the time of the receiver- 

 ship. 



A Specialist Who Has Made Good 



At 372 Baynes street, Buffalo, N. Y., is located 

 E. B. Brown, who is distinguished in the lumber 

 trade as a specialist in the purchase and distri- 

 bution of wagon-wood stock. 



Mr. Brown entered the lumber business in 

 1889 as yard man with E. & B. Holmes of 

 Buffalo, and afterward was employed as yard man 



E. B. BROWN, WAGON WOODWORK SPE- 

 CIALIST, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



by the Klrlt-Chrlsty Company, which was merged 

 Into the Empire Lumber Company at Buffalo, up 

 to 1902. when he went with Anthony Miller for 

 four years as buyer and salesman. On Jan, 1, 

 1907, he started out on his own account In a 

 special line of wagon-wood slock. Mr. Brown la 

 quite proud of the fact that he has only a half- 

 dozen customers, which keep his time fully oc- 

 cupied in securing from small mills throughout 

 the country their requirements for oak bolsters, 

 sand boards, cveners and reaches, and hickory 

 and maple axles. Mr. Brown spends much of his 

 time In buying the stock, and training sawmill 

 illen in manufacturing the stock, to enable them 

 to secure the highest results from their timber. 



Export Timber Measurement 



The conimlttfe of the .National Lumber Ex- 

 porters' Association appointed to confer with 

 members of the Timber Trades Federation of 

 London on measurement ha* begun work and 

 a report of the results of the first conference 

 Is at hand. The committee and representa- 

 tives of the brokers discussed the subject at 

 considerable length In London on Oct, 24, only 

 to discover afterward that the brokers had no 

 antbority to enter Into an agreement. It was 

 therefore resolved to hold another conference, 

 this time with the mcrcluinm rirul Iniyers, on 



Oct. 31, when it is hoped a decision binding 

 upon the other side can be arrived at. The 

 committee, which includes Gustave A. Farber, 

 London representative of Russe & Burgess, Mem- 

 phis. Tonn. ; R. D. McLean of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, and ,1, R. Williams of the 

 Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., 

 submitted for consideration the following four 

 articles. 



"1. in taking the thickness of all Ameri- 

 can lumber, the same to be taken one foot from 

 the thinnest place. (This rule has been adopted 

 hy Liverpool and has been in use there for some 

 time.) 



"'2. In case not more than ten per cent In 

 plain oak and twenty per cent, in quartered 

 oak should be one si.\teenth of an inch scant in 

 thickness, no notice to be taken and the par- 

 cel as a whole to be considered full thickness. 



"3. Where shipments are found by the port 

 authorities to have the superficial contents 

 marked on each piece in figures, such figures 

 must stand : or alternatively, every piece with 

 the measurements of which the port authorities 

 disagree shall be laid aside for inspection, ship- 

 pers paying the necessary expenses. 



"4. When the variation in measurement does 

 not amount to more than one per cent, no 

 claim for shortage is to be made, provided the 

 lumber is measured full contents according to 

 the board rule. 



"•This is understood to apply to one Inch 

 thickness and up, and similarly it is suggested 

 that in case of three-quarters of an inch and 

 under 1-32 scant shall be considered full thick- 

 ness." 



The proceedings were marked by the utmost 

 cordiality and good will, and it is believed that 

 there is every prospect of getting together on 

 a complete agreement. 



Well Under Way 



The recently incorporated Reliance Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company of Columbus, O., 

 which took over the Reliance Lumber Company 

 of that place, has passed through the period of 

 formation and is now well established in Its new 

 yard and ofllce on Dublin street. 



The active members of the firm are C. T. Nel- 

 son and R. B. Lovell. who formerly were co- 

 partners in the Reliance Lumber Company. 



The old concern occupied offices in the Schultz 

 building, but soon realized the advisability of 

 establishing a sorting yard. As a result new 

 offices were built in connection with those of 

 the C. T. Nelson Company, and a yard was laid 

 out. It Is intended to carry a large stock of 

 West Virginia and southern hardwoods. Plans 

 are about completed for the operation of two 

 hardwood mills in Ohio near the West Virginia 

 border, and when these arc running the Reliance 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company will have an 

 extensive line of its own stock to draw from. 



Notes of the Veneer Trade 



The Coast Line Veneer Mills have been incor- 

 porated at Norfolk, Va., with a capital of .$5,000, 

 C. F. Wells is president. 



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Adolph Sturm, president of the Adolph Sturm 

 Veneer Company, Chicago, died at his home, 

 1408 Wells street, Friday, Nov. 3, from the 

 elTects of a stroke of paralysis which occurred In 

 1909. He was born In Vienna, Austria, Oct. 

 15, 1848. He went into the veneer business In 

 1872, and later became Inlercsted in other busi- 

 ness enterprises in t'hlca;;o. Mrs. Sturm, nine 

 children and nineteen granilchlldren survive him. 

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The Puyallup Mill & Veneer Company, Puyal- 

 lup. Wash., which has large timber holdings at 

 Eagle Gorge, will erect a sawmill at that iiolnt 

 to replace the one recently burned at I'uynllup, 

 The company's planing mill niul box factory will 

 he rebuilt on their former sites. The sawmill Is 

 to have n twelve-foot band saw that will cut 

 tlTiiliiTH I'-'O feet long. 



A large warehouse is being built by the Han- 

 son-Ward Veneer Company of Bay City, Mich., 

 and machinery is being installed for the manu- 

 facture of all kinds of panel doors, maple floor- 

 ing, veneers, auto dash boards, table and machine 

 tops. 



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The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company at 

 P.ark Falls, Wis., has finished Its season's cut 

 and will be closed for annual repairs. The mill 

 has been in steady operation the last season and 

 very successful. It is expected that the plant 

 will be ready to resume operation in about one 

 month. 



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The Anderson Veneer & Saw Mill Company 

 was incorporated at Louisville, Ky., Nov. 11, 

 with a capital stock of 100,000. The company 

 will manufacture and sell veneers, lumber and 

 logs. Olaf Anderson, B. M. Cunningham and W, 

 V. Sheperdson are the incorporators. 



The Maryville Lumber Company 



The portrait accompanying this paragraph is 

 that of H. G. Tarvin of the Maryville Lumber 

 Company, Maryville, Tenn. This company has 

 just finished cutting the timber from 0,000 acres 



II. G. TARVIN, MARYVILLE LUMBER COM- 

 PANY, MARYVILLE, TENN. 



in Blount and Monroe counties. Tennessee, and 

 will soon begin cutting the timber on an 8,000- 

 acre tract in Monroe county. This timber Is lo- 

 cated along the Tennessee river, six miles east of 

 Chllhowie on the Tennessee & Carolina Southern 

 railway. The concern will move its band mill 

 from Maryville to the last-named tract, and ex- 

 I)ects to begin cutting lumber about Mar. 1, 

 This' tract is priuclpally a poplar and white pine 

 proposition, 



Mr. Tarvin, manager and treasurer of the 

 .Maryville Lumber Company, was formerly asso- 

 ciated with the Ward Lumber Company of Chi- 

 cago, having had charge of Its mills In Arkansas. 

 Later he was connected with the W. M. RItter 

 Lumber Compan.v of Columbus, O. .Mr. Tarvla 

 controls the manufacturing and distributing endi 

 of the business with hea(l(|uarters nt Maryville, 

 a thrifty lumber and wood-worUliii: manufactur- 

 ing town, located eighteen miles southeast of 

 Knoxville, on the Knoxvllle and Augusta branch 

 of the Southern railway and on the Louisville & 

 Niislivllle railroad. 



October 1911 Blue Book 



The National Lumber Credit Manufacturers' 

 Corporation of St. Louis, Mo., of which W, F. 

 Biederntan is sniierlntendent. Is out with its 



sivt.-.'iit h vnlnnir. oi' (he llhii* Hook, which con- 



