HARDWOOD RECORD 



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taius a classified list witb capital and credit rat- 

 ings of all manufacturers' wholesale and retail 

 dealers in lumber as well as factories that huy 

 lumber in carload lots. 



The Blue Book Is issued semi-annually — in 

 April and October — and the publishers advise 

 that this edition has been compiled with the 

 utmost care to make the list as complete and 

 accurate as possible, and that they have been 

 very conservative in quoting the capital and 

 credit ratings of concerns listed therein. 



It may be of interest to know that E. G. 

 Griggs, Tacoma, Wash., president of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association, is also 

 president of the National Lumber Credit Manu- 

 facturers' Corporation. 



Meeting of Board of Directors luin'ber Sales 

 Managers' Association. 



The directors of the Lumber Sales Managers" 

 Association held a meeting at the Auditorium 

 hotel, Chicago, on Thursday, Nov. 23. 



The Stearns Salt & Lumber Company of Lud- 

 ington, Mich., on application, was admitted to 

 membership. 



The resignation of A. G. Fritchey as president 

 was accepted, and F. L. Brown of Chicago, first 

 vice-president, will act as president until the next 

 annual meeting. 



The resignation of C. F. Korn of Cincinnati 

 as a director was accepted and B. F. Dulweber 

 of Cincinnati was substituted to take his place 

 until the next annual meeting. 



E. M. Holland, sales manager of the Stearns 

 Salt &■ Lumber Company, Ludington, Mich., was 

 elected to fill the vacancy on the board of direct- 

 ors occasioned by the non-acceptance of C. A. 

 Bigelow of Bay City. Mich. 



The board carefully considered the different 

 departments of work which it is organizing for 

 the benefit of its members, and it was decided 

 for the present to pay especial attention to the 

 statistical information bureau ; arbitration and 

 adjustment of claims ; collections and credits ; 

 market conditions report ; lumber exchange fea- 

 ture ; employment of buyers, inspectors and sales- 

 men ; educational features ; and purchases and 

 general policy. 



This last feature of fully carrying out the 

 principles upon which the original organization 

 was made, to effect the highest efficiency in sales- 

 manship and strict integrity in the line of work, 

 was emphasized above everything else. 



It was decided to hold the next annual meet- 

 ing at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, on Thurs- 

 day and Friday, Feb. 16 and 17, 1912. A com- 

 mittee consisting of E. H. Klann, W. W. Dings 

 and E. M. Holland was appointed to work out a 

 program for the two days' session. 



The meeting was marked by manifest enthu- 

 siasm over not only the current, but prospective 

 work of the organization, and it was believed 

 that the painstaking way in which the work is 

 being perfected shows that there is no lack of 

 interest in the movement, and that the work of 

 the association is going forward in such an 

 intelligent way as to warrant the assumption 

 of its ultimate success. 



The present roster of membership of the or- 

 ganization is between forty and fifty. All lumber 

 sales managers interested in allying themselves 

 with the association should address E. H. Klann, 

 secretary. Masonic Temple, Chicago. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Hickory Manufacturing Company, Hick- 

 ory, N. C, has recently been incorporated. 



A new wagon stock plant established at Oak 

 Grove. La., is that of Briggs Brothers & Will- 

 iams. 



The Baltimore Lumber Company of Baltimore, 

 Md., was recently incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Linolith Sanitary Flooring Company at New 

 York City to manufacture flooring of all kinds, 

 with a capital stock of $200,000. 



The Smith NovcKy & Carving Company has 

 been incorporated at Fort Smith, Ark., with a 

 capital of $10,000. 



A new concern to start business at Wilming- 

 ton, Del., is the Ridgeville Lumber Company, in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $25,000. 



W. N. Hawlcy's lumber yard at Herington, Kan., 

 was destroyed by fire Nov. 10. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $30,000, partly covered by insurance. 



The Whitter & Gay Manufacturing Company 

 was recently incorporated at Atlanta, Ga., with 

 an authorized capital stock of $2,500. The com- 

 pany will manufacture bank and store fixtures. 



The Flat Creek Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Richmond, Va., with a capital 

 stock of $50,000, and will establish sawmills in 

 Virginia to have a daily capacity of 50,000 feet 

 of lumber. 



0. P. Schafer, V. F. Marshall, J. V. Canavan, 

 Fred Wettengel and E. G. Jones have incor- 

 porated the Oregon-Wisconsin 'limber Holding 

 Company at Appleton, Wis., with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. 



F. L. BROWN, CHICAGO, PRESIDENT LUM- 

 BER SALES MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The Chess & Wymond Company of Jackson- 

 ville, Miss., manufacturer of barrel staves, etc., 

 has bought from the Keystone Lumber & Brick 

 Company 8,000 acres of hardwood timber lands 

 in Jefferson county. 



Glidden, Wis., has a new wood-working enter- 

 prise in the Glidden Manufacturing Company, 

 just organized, which will manufacture clothes 

 pins, candy pails, butter tubs, etc. The new com- 

 pany will give employment to a large number of 

 men. 



• Edward E. Carriere & Co. of Mobile, Ala., 

 have bought the hardwood plant and business 

 of the Mcintosh Lumber Company at Mcintosh 

 Bluff. This mill cuts about twenty thousand 

 feet of hardwood lumber a day and manufactures 

 gum staves. 



The Seaboard Hardwood Corporation has been 

 incorporated in Manhattan to deal in lumber, 

 timber lands, etc., with a capital stock of $200,- 

 000. J. A. W. Pine and W. Essen of New York 

 City, and L. J. Angevine of Brooklyn are the in- 

 corpoi-ators. 



J. W. Johnson & Co. have organized at Hunt- 

 ington, W. Va., to deal in lumber and cross-ties, 

 with an authorized capital of $30,000. The in- 

 corporators are J. W. Johnson, Lexington, Ky. ; 

 Fred W. Williams, B. E. Williams and Paul 

 Scott of Huntington. Ky. 



The Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., has just closed a contract with 



the Gibson Refrigerator Company of Greenville, 

 Mich., for two additional dry-kilns. This com- 

 pany already is employing three Grand Rapids 

 kilns and this purchase gives it a battery of five. 



The G. H. Evans Lumber Company of Chatta- 

 nooga, Tenn.. which lately made that city its 

 center of operations, is making good progress 

 in the hardwood trade. Its specialties are red 

 and sap gum, and it also carries oak and pop- 

 lar. Tile company's other mills and connections 

 are at Mobile, Decatur and Demopolis, Ala. 



The referee in bankruptcy of the K. & P. 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., makes a report 

 under date of Nov. 13, showing receipts on behalf 

 of the creditors of $30,075.47 and disbursements 

 of $19,771.01. It shows an inventory of prob- 

 able assets for distribution to creditors amount- 

 ing to $26,669.60. The report would indicate 

 that eventually the general creditors will receive 

 a total dividend of about twenty per cent. 



The Hice Manufacturing Company of John- 

 son City, Tenn., manufacturer of wheels, rims, 

 etc., is enlarging its plant. An addition 50x 

 100 feet Is being built. It will have a new 

 boiler room and the latest shavings exhaust 

 system. The concern has made rapid progress 

 under the management of Mr. Hice, and gives 

 promise of becoming one of the largest wood- 

 working plants in that section of the country. 



The Flint River Cypress Company has been 

 organized at Albany, Ga., with a capital stock 

 of $250,000. The company has bought timber 

 lands along the Central of Georgia railroad and 

 the Georgia, Southwestern & Gulf line, and is 

 negotiating for more. E. J. Marsh, Waycross, 

 Ga., formerly of the Wabash Cypress Company, 

 is president ; R. H. Paul of the East Coast Lum- 

 ber Company, Watertown, Fla., formerly of the 

 Gardner & Lacy Lumber Company, secretary- 

 treasurer and sales manager. 



The Beckman Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized at Seattle, Wash., by Victor H. Beckman, 

 for many years secretary of the Pacific Coast 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and one of 

 the best informed men on current conditions 

 in the manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing 

 of lumber in the Pacific Northwest. Wholesale 

 trade in hardwoods and dressed stocks and tim- 

 ber lands are his specialties, and he has a num- 

 ber of important deals on hand. The company's 

 offices are located at 1001 Alaska building, 

 Seattle. 



L. S. Clough & Co., for many years operators 

 of large luOibering plants in Forest county, 

 Pennsylvania, have sold their entire holdings, 

 about eight thousand acres of valuable timber 

 lands, to Frank K. Kreitler of Nebraska and 

 Frank K. Brown of Clarion, this state, manager 

 of the "Watson Lands" Lumber Company's 

 operations at Mayburg. The price paid was 

 $290,000. The new owners are L. D. Collins, 

 one-half, Messrs. Kreitler and Brown, one-fourth 

 each. It is estimated that the timber amounts 

 to 40,000.000 feet, a large amount of which is 

 hardwoods of all kinds. 



Notable among the developments of Weston, 

 W. Va., this fall, are the improvements being 

 made by the Davis-Eakin Lumber Company in 

 its manufacturing facilities. Among them are 

 the erection of a big band mill and the construc- 

 tion of a railroad. The company's circular mills 

 are on the Birch river, near Erbacon, W. Va. 

 Poplar, oak ana chestnut are the company's spe- 

 cialties, but it will manufacture all kinds of 

 native woods in rough and dressed stock. The 

 headquarters of the mill will be located at the 

 mill about April 1, 1912. J. R. Davis will have 

 charge of the selling end, and P. E. Eakin will 

 control operations. 



A single band steel frame sawmill with a 

 daily capacity of 50,000 feet will be erected by 

 the Union Cypress Company, recently organized, 

 at Melbourne, Fla. The building will be large 

 enough to accommodate a double hand mill of 

 double the capacity. This plant is expected to 



