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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Brown & Duty of Olive Branch. Miss., have 

 been succeeded by the Olive Branch Lumber 

 Company, which is incorporated with a capital 

 stocis ot $20,000. 



The officers and directors o£ the I'hiladelphia 

 Veneer & Lumber Company. Philadelphia, Pa., 

 will liquidate the aCfairs of that company prp- 

 , paratory to discontinuing its business. 



The Island Mill & Lumber Company, Alpena. 

 Mich., started up its big mill on Jan. 8, and lias 

 a stock of logs on hand to enable it to cut 

 hardwoods exclusively until .Tune 1 next. 



The Garrison Spoke Company of l'"ranklin, 0., 

 has been Incorporated with an authorized capi- 

 tal stock of $10,000. The incorporators arc 

 A. R. Stecker, John J. Schwartz and others. 



The Lexington Broom Works. Le.\ington. Ky., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock ot 

 $10,000. The incorporators are J. M. Letton, 

 Jr., of Jackson, J. H. Letton, Sr., and others. 



The I. Stephenson Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Marinette, Wis., with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $8,000. The incorporators 

 are H. A. J. Upham, C. A. Russell and J. W. B. 

 Van Houten. 



Night work has just been started by tbo Rice 

 Lake Lumber Company of Rice Lake. Wis., at 

 its mill at that place. This move is the result 

 of a much strengthened demand for northern 

 hardwoods of late. 



The Blanchard Lumber Company. Buffalo, 

 X. Y., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $75,000 to manufacture lumber, etc. 

 The incorporators are T. H. Blanchard, N. A. 

 Darrow and C. E. Ladd. 



A new Tennessee operation will shortly be 

 started near Sneedsville, Hancock county, Tenn. 

 T. J. Cantrell recently purchased a good sized 

 tract of hardwood in that county and will in- 

 stall a mill at this point. 



The Williams Brothers Company of Detroit, 

 Mich., recently consummated one o£ the biggest 

 timber deals in Detroit in recent years by pur- 

 chasing 50,000,000 feet of hardwood Umber in 

 Gaylord county, Michigan. 



The Campbell Lumber Company, Hay City. 

 Mich., has sold Its mill, mill equipment and 

 realty on Water street to Ross & Wentworth. 

 The Campbell Lumber Company will continue 

 in business but in another branch ot the trade. 



William Haas &. Sons are establishing a handle 

 factory at Houston, Tex. The plant will make 

 a specially of shovel handles and will have a 

 capacity of 150 dozen per day. It is under the 

 management ot Pred and Henry Haas, and will 

 be enlarged should the business justify. 



On Jan. 1 the ownership of the rotary ve- 

 neer plant of the Southland Veneer Company at 

 Tuscaloosa, Ala., changed back to J. T. Horn & 

 Co., of Indian.ipoUs. The business will be con- 

 tinued under the latter's name. The plant orig- 

 inally belonged to J. T. Horn. It was started 

 by him and W. S. Hitt in 1903. being sold in 

 1910 to the Southland Veneer Company. 



The lumber mill ot the Escanaba Lumber Com 

 pany at Masonvllle. Mich., was recently totally 

 destroyed by fire. The mill and tramways were 

 totally wrecked, and were not covered very 

 heavily by Insurance. However, the greater loss 

 will come from the timber already cut Ibis sea- 

 son, which will have to be disposed of in some 

 way or held over for several months until the 

 mill is rebuilt. 



It has been announced that the Brunswick- 

 Balke-Collender Company, large manufacturer of 

 billiard tables, hotel supplies, etc., which for 

 years has been located at Long Island City, will 

 move to Chicago, where the business of the com- 

 pany will be concentrated. The chief reason 

 for this move is to enable the company to lo- 

 cate nearer sources of supply. It is also under- 

 stood that better freight rates are available. 



Charles Oliver and A. S. Bliss,< formerly hard- 

 wood jobbers in Minneapolis, operating as the 

 Oliver & Bliss Lumber Company, have dissolved 

 partnership and each will continue on his own 

 account. The former business will be continued 

 by Charles Oliver in the old offices. Mr. Bliss 

 has organized the A. S. Bliss Lumber Company 

 to handle all kinds of hardwood and shop lum- 

 ber. He is located at the Lumber Exchange. 



Shreveport, La., acquired another hardwood 

 manufacturing house when the Mansfield Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company removed its headquar- 

 ters to 404 Hutchinson building. This concern 

 operates big band mills and hardwood dimen- 

 sion mills at Mansfield and Winfleld, La. While 

 specializing in quartered white oak and thin 

 ash and oak specialties, the company also manu- 

 factures a large line of buggy shafts, rims, poles 

 and hickory dimension. 



Fire of unknown origin recently destroyed the 

 plant of the Louisville Planing Mill & Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, Louisville, Ky.. entail- 

 ing a loss estimated at .$120,000. Plans have 

 been completed for the reconstruction of the 

 plant. A building ot brick and frame will be 

 erected, which will be 100x150 feet and two 

 stories in height. The company will rebuild its 

 boiler house and will continue to produce elec- 

 tric current for the individual motors which 

 will operate its wood-working machines. It is 

 expected that the company will be ready for 

 liusiness in about ninety days. 



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Hardwood iSJeivs ISlotes 



CHICAGO 



Charles Knott ol Charles Knott &. Co., New 

 Madrid, Mo., was a Chicago visitor this week. 

 Mr. Knott operates a hardwood sawmill at New 

 Madrid, and markets his output largely to the 

 jobbing trade. 



Hardwood Record was honored with a call 

 on Jan. 15 from O. C. Lerake of the Under- 

 wood Veneer Company, producer of veneers and 

 veneered panels, Wausau, Wis. 



G. von Platen, Grand Rapids. Mich., who 

 operates sawmill plants both at Boyne City, 

 Mich., and at Iron Mountain. Mich., was a 

 Chicago visitor last week. Mr. von Platen Is 

 seriously contemplating moving to Chicago for 

 the purpose ot making his business headquar- 

 ters here. 



Hardwood Record Is Indebted to the Slmonds 



Munutacluring Company for a new piece of 

 I.amphlet literature entitled "Slmonds' Guide tor 

 Millmen." which is the January Issue of Its 

 neat little house organ, telling all about the 

 various plants and processes of the Slmonds 

 Manutaclurlng Company at Fitchburg. Mass., 

 and Chicago, III. 



Acknowledgment Is made of a communication 

 from Hugo Forchhelmer, Frankfort-on-Main, 

 Germany of Jan. 1, announcing that after that 

 dale Mrs. Hugo Forchheimer will be a limited 

 partner In the house and that Hans Forch- 

 heimer has joined as an active partner. 



O. F. Yeager, the well known BulTnlo lumber- 

 man. Is being congratulated on his election as 

 president of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, 

 one of the foremost commercial organizations 

 In the United States. lUnder the leadership of 

 Mr. Yeager there Is no doubt that the work of 

 this Important body will be rnrrled forward to 



greater success than has ever transpired in the 

 past, and 1912 will certainly be a memorable 

 year in the history of this organization. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt of an 

 illustrated pamphlet involving a very complete 

 stock list of that foremost San Francisco bard- 

 wood house. White Brothers. The list includes 

 a comprehensive stock of practically all leading 

 varieties of foreign and domestic hardwoods, ve- 

 neers and panels. White Brothers announce that 

 the stock listed is the largest on the Pacific 

 coast, and as to variety of woods, few yards ii> 

 the country carry such a comprehensive stock. 



During the forthcoming annual meeting of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at Cincin- 

 nati. Hardwood Record will have an office Id 

 Room 900. on the convention floor, of the Sin- 

 ton hotel. This room will be shared during the 

 meeting by E. H. Klann, secretary of the Lum- 

 ber Sales Managers' Association, where both Mr. 

 Klann. the editor and the attaches of Hardwood 

 Record present at the meeting will be glad tc^ 

 receive the calls of their friends. 



M. W. Perry, secretary and general manager 

 of the Ahnapee Veneer & Scaling Company at 

 Algoma, Wis., spent a few days in this city 

 last week on business. 



C. H. Donaldson and A. Wilson of the Mason- 

 Donaldson Lumber Company of Rhinelander, 

 Wis., spent last week calling on the Chicago 

 trade. 



J. A. Ganahl ot the Fidel GanabI Lumber 

 Company ot St. Louis, was in town for a tew 

 days last week on business. 



J. C. Cremer, formerly of the Chicago Lumber 

 & Coal Company of St. Louis but now head 

 of the Cremer Lumber Company, of that city, 

 was in Chicago last week in the interests of his 

 business. 



Leonard Bronson. manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, whose head- 

 quarters are at Tacoma, Wash., spent several 

 days in Chicago this week. 



A. E. Gorham, president of the Gorham 

 Brothers Company, well-known veneer and 

 panel manufacturer of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., was 

 a Chicago visitor last week. 



J. C. Turner, the cypress manufacturer, whose 

 offices are in the Townsend building. New York. 

 and who carries a big stock of cypress at Irving- 

 ton, N. Y., was a Chicago visitor on .Tan. 23. 

 nnd paid a visit to H.\rdwood Record'.s sanctum. 

 Mr. Turner was en route to the South, to visit 

 his various sawmill plants, and incidentally 

 other cypress producers in the Guit country. 



E. J. Gillouly. sales manager of the Foster- 

 Latimer Lumber Company ot Mellen, Wis., 

 spent several days in Chicago last week. 



E. R. Moore, an associate ot A. S. Pierce of 

 lihinelander. Wis., was in town on Jan. 16. 



J. T. Edwards of the Medford Veneer Company. 

 Medtord, Wis., was In the city during the past 

 week and reports that conditions in his country 

 nve pretty quiet on account ot the Inclement 

 weather. 



Harry Wilbur of the Brittlngham & Young 

 Company, Madison. Wis., was In town several 

 days ago on business. 



Bud Levings of the Morehead Manufacturing 

 Company, Jlorebead, Miss., was in Chicago this 

 week and expects to go from here to Cincinnati 

 to attend the meeting of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association ot the United States next 

 week. 



L. P. GrolTmann. secretary ot the St. Louis 

 Basket & Box Company, spent a few days Id 

 Chicago recently In connection with the business 

 of his firm. 



Mr. Kendall of Ihe Nichols & Kendall Furni- 

 ture Company of Ilunllngton. W. Va., visited n 

 number of local lunibeniien ilurlng Hie past week. 



F. M. Baker of the Hanlwood Mills Lumber 

 I'onipany ot Chicago spent Ibis week on a busl- 

 ress trip to Arkansas and Memphis. 



J. F. McSweyn. head of the Memphis Saw 

 Mill Company. Memphis. Tenn.. was In Chicago 



Ihe tlrst of this week nn i>iie of Ills regiiliir 



