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HARDWOOD RECORD 



be ready for operation six months after con- 

 struction is begun. The company has bought 

 225,000,000 feet of cypress and much other tim- 

 ber In Brevard and Osceola counties, Florida. 



11. F. Clark is president of the company ; J. M. 

 Clark, general manager ; C. H. Clark, woods 

 superintendent, and H. L. and W. K. ClarU the 

 other directors. 



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Hardwood l>Jeivs ISfotes 



CmCAQO 



Lawrence D. Ely, under the title of Osgood & 

 Ely, with headquarters at 732 Monadnock build- 

 ing, Chicago, will carry on the lumber business 

 of the late Henry D. Osgood. Mr. Ely will han- 

 dle redwood lumber and shingles, hemlock, white 

 pine and hardwoods. 



H. P. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company, Chicago, has gone to Memphis and 

 other milling points to look over stocks. 



J. L. DuPlain. representing William Buchanan 

 of Texarkana, Ark., in the Illinois and Wisconsin 

 territory, was in Chicago last week. 



A. H. Ruth, sales manager of the G. W. Jones 

 Lumber Company of Appleton, Wis., and Chicago, 

 spent a few days during the last week with the 

 Rockford, 111., trade. 



H. F. Below of Vollmar & Below Company, 

 Marsbfleld, Wis., was a Chicago visitor last 

 week. 



C. Christiansen of the Christiansen Lumber 

 Company spent a few days last week at Wausau 

 and other Wisconsin milling points. 



F. H. Kelly, sales manager of the Grand Rapid.s 

 Veneer W'orks, Grand Rapids, Mich., was in Chi- 

 cago on Thursday trailing up a big order for 

 dry-kilns. Mr. Kelly reports the dry-kiln busi- 

 ness of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works to be 

 larger than ever before in Its history. 



O. B. Bannister of the Muncie Wheel Com- 

 pany, Muncie, Ind., was a Chicago visitor this 

 week. 



E. M. Holland, sales manager of the Stearns 

 Salt & Lumber Company, Ludington, Mich., was 

 a Chicago visitor on Thursday of this week. 



Among Chicago lumber visitors of the week 

 was W'. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis, Mo., and Max L. Pease of the 

 Galloway-Pease Company, Poplar Bluff, Mo. 



Floyd Day of the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany, Clay City, Ky., was a welcome Chicago 

 visitor Nov. 23. 



NEW YORK 



The state canals closed Nov. 15 notwltli- 

 Btanding an application to have them continued 

 open a week or two longer. The result is that 

 a good deal of lumber is tied up at northern 

 ports which will have to remain over until 

 spring or be brought down by rail. 



Joseph Rathborno, veteran cypress lumber- 

 man of New Orleans, La., and head of the 

 Louisiana Cypress Company at Harvey, that 

 state, arrived In this port a few days ago from 

 an extended trip In Europe. Mr. Rathborne 

 spent several days at the Waldorf-Astoria before 

 leaving for New Orleans. 



George H. Storm, head of George H. Storm 

 ft Co., hardwood flooring specialists, foot of 

 East .Seventy-second street, Manhattan, is erect- 

 ing a fine summer bungalow at Little .Moose lake 

 In the Adirondacks. 



The Stevens-Eaton Company, prominent whole- 

 sale house, 1 Madison avenue, Manhattan, 

 which for several years has operated a whole- 

 sale storage yard at Gllman, W. Va., Is closing 

 out the latter operations to develop still larger 

 and better facilities at Elklns, W. Va. At this 

 point It has recently acf|ulr'd a large distribut- 

 ing yard with excellent railway connections and 

 Is accumulating a large and complete assort- 

 ment of hardwood lumber suitable for the 



eastern trade. It is also contemplating the 

 erection of a planing mill to facilitate quick 

 service in dressed hardwoods. This new facil- 

 ity, in connection with the well established gcn- 

 rral supply sources of the company, will place 

 it in a still stronger position to extend the very 

 best service to eastern buyers that is possible. 



I. I. Cole & Son, mahogany and hardwoods, 

 foot of East Eighth street, suffered a slight 

 damage by fire on Nov. 8. Fully insured. 



Gochnour, Soble & Co., wholesale hardwoods, 

 is the name of a new house Just organized 

 with headquarters at 1 Madison avenue, capi- 

 tal, .$40,000. The Incorporators are R. M. 

 Gouchnour of Windber, Pa. : Charles and 

 Harry Soble of Brooklyn, the latter two gentle- 

 men having been formerly identified with the 

 hardwood operations of Soble Brothers of ibis 

 city and Philadelphia. 



T. J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company. Cincinnati, 0., large domestic 

 hardwood lumber and veneer manufacturer, 

 was in this city a few days in the last fort- 

 night, visiting F. F. Burgess, manager of the 

 local office at 05 Beaver street. The general 

 business of the company is reported as ver.v 

 satisfactory considering all conditions. Its 

 wholesale and distributing yard at Erie Basin. 

 Brooklyn, is being increasingly appreciated by 

 the foreign buyers and the company is in a 

 strong position to extend to them very prompt 

 and efficient service. 



The Guatemalan & Mexican Mahogany Export 

 Company, a New Jersey corporation with offices 

 in this city, has been placed in the hands of 

 receivers, Edward I. Edwards of Jersey City, 

 and Angus McKinscy of Plainlield, having quali- 

 fied with bonds of $50,000. This company was 

 formed several years ago and has been cutting 

 and shipping mahogany in Guatemala and Mex- 

 ico under government concessions. The peti- 

 tioners claim .$197,874. A New Jersey bank and 

 sever.al New York, London and Mexican houses 

 are named as creditors. 



Jacob Doll, well-known piano manufacturer 

 of this city, died Nov. 13, from a complication 

 of diseases. Mr. Doll came to this country 

 when fourteen years old. In 1871 he engaged 

 in the manufacture of pianos in a building he 

 erected In East Thirtieth street, where he con- 

 tinued in business until 190G, when the build- 

 ing was destroyed by fire. I-'ollowing the lire 

 he erected a large factory at One Hundred and 

 Thirty-Third street and Southern bo\ilevai'd, 

 Bronx. Mr. Doll was sixty-one years old. He 

 Is survivi'd by a widow, nv<,' sons and live daugh- 

 ters. 



KNOXVILLB 



lid .Mii|)lM'l of the l,ijKMn-Mii|iiiet Lumber Com- 

 pany, has left for a business trip to ('Inclnnatl 

 and expects to be gone a week or ten days. 



W. E. Douglass and J. D. Hitchcock of the 

 Douglass & Walkley Company, Cleveland, 0., 

 were In this city this week en route to their 

 band mills at Elk Valley, Tenn. They report 

 trade good with their concern. 



'!■:. M. Hugglna, Columbus, 0., president ot the 

 Maryville Lumber Company, was a Knoxvllle 

 visitor this week. This company's banil mill is 

 Kiluated at Maryville, Tenn., and It also operates 

 two mills at Cbllbowee, Tenn. 



J. F. Cleland of the Mlltlinore Lumber Com- 

 pany Is In Baltimore, Md., on a selling trip. 



Walter Mct.'abc has been In Phllaililpbia, Pa., 



in the interest of his concern. It is shipping 

 large quantities of high grade poplar and oak. 



The lumbermen of this city are very much 

 pleased with the Knoxville number of Hardwood 

 RixoRD of Nov. 10, and have received many com- 

 pliments on the Issue from their out-of-town 

 friends. 



Hardwood business in this vicinity seems to 

 be about normal, all concerns busy filling orders ; 

 however, orders for future delivery are not com- 

 ing in as fast as they did a few weeks ago. De- 

 mand for straight cars, however, remains about 

 the same, with prices unchanged, while orders 

 for mixed cars from the small buyers are not 

 so plentiful. Collections seem to be coming In 

 promptly, and wholesalers report that in most 

 cases buyers are discounting their bills. It Is 

 not expected that new buildings will be started 

 before spring, however, the unfinisbed buildings 

 will require considerable lumber and keep re- 

 tailers busy until spring. Furniture and mantel 

 factories report trade favorable and buying con- 

 siderable oak and other hardwoods. Ash seems 

 to be a decided drug on the market, while all 

 grades of poplar and oak are moving steadily. 

 Lumbermen in this vicinity expect a scarcity Id 

 hiirdwoods before the spring trade opens. 



BUFFALO 



The theory advanced that the up-luru in 

 hardwoods, which has been looked for, is just 

 starting. Business generally shows signs of 

 reviving and foreign trade is in good position, 

 and tbc banks have lots of money seeking 

 judicious investment. 



The last week has been Industrial week in 

 this city and a period for the display of Buffalo- 

 made goods in the stores throughout the busi- 

 ness section. One of the chief features of 

 (he week was an automobile parade of machines, 

 both pleasure vehicles and motor trucks. The 

 Chamber of Commerce committee having the 

 parade in charge included 0. E. Yeager, I. N. 

 Stewart and A. SV. Kreinbeder. 



S. B. Taylor, who has become eastern sales 

 representative of the Wood-Mosaic Company. 

 New Albany, Ind., has returned from a western 

 trip. He will continue his offices here. 



James A. White, president of the Buffalo Maple 

 Flooring Company, has returned from Boyne 

 City, Mich., where he has lately been shipping a 

 large amount of hardwoods. 



The Empire State Forest Produ'cts Association 

 held a convention at Watertown, N. Y., on 

 Nov. 10, at which there was a representative 

 attendance of owners of large timber tracts 

 in the Adirondacks and elsewhere in the 

 state, as well as of others interested In the 

 preservation of the state forests, those present 

 numbering about one hundred. 



The association entered a protest against 

 further arrangements with any foreign country 

 whereby paper, pulp-wood and forest products 

 may enter this country free of duty. A res- 

 olution was adopted recommending that arrange- 

 ments already made with Canada be abrogated 

 forthwith. Inasmuch as Canada has failed to 

 ratify the reciprocity agreement. Congress will 

 be asked to further these resolutions. 



Frank L. Moore of Watertown was re-elected 

 president of the association : Ferris J. Meigs, 

 vice-president; II. J. Caldwell, secretary and 

 treasurer. W. L. Sykes, president ot the Empo- 

 rium Lumber Company, Buffalo, was elected 

 chairman of the forestry committee. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company Is 

 receiving n large amount of lake hardwoods, 

 and shipments will continue until about the 

 first of next year. 



Hugh McLean visited New York recently and 

 saw lb" Yale-I'rlncelon football game on Nov. 

 IS, wh<re he "rooted" for Yale. In wliicli uni- 

 versity bis son Is a student. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company Is 

 at present finding a larger sale for the lower 

 grades ot chestnut, with fair Inquiry for upper 



