46 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



rest Additon. 1'. T. Davis. 11. I'. Roberts. J. \T. 

 TanniT and J. A. Chastain. The new company 

 will liave a dall.v capacity of 1,200 chairs. 



Tlic Marshalltown Buggy Company, Marshall- 

 town, la., has imroascd its authorized capital 

 stock to $200,000. 



Illingworth, Ingham & Co., Ltd.. with head- 

 quarters at Leeds, Eng., has opened an ofBce at 

 Clarksburg, W. Ta. 



The Rockford Light Furniture Company. 

 Rockford, 111., has increased its authorized capi- 

 tal stock to ?2r),000. 



The Barry Lumber & Tie Company of Clarks- 

 ville, Tex., lias decreased its capital stock from 

 $40,000 to $27,000. 



Fire recently destroyed the lumber yards of 

 C. A. Pullen & Co., of Attleboro. Mass., entail- 

 ing a loss of $200,000, 



The Valley City Chair Company, Grand 

 Rapids. Mich., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $75,000. 



The Summerfield Company. Boston. Mass., has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $60,000 

 and will manufacture furniture. 



The McConnell Land & Lumber Company. 

 York, Ala., has been incorporated with an au- 

 thorized capital stock of $50,000. 



The Automatic Wagon & Truck Company, Wil- 

 mington, IJel., has been incorporated with an 

 authorized capital stock of $100,000. 



The Eureka Manufacturing Company, Tampa. 

 Fla., ha.s been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000 and will manufacture lumber. 



The Given Moore Company, Columbus, Ind., 

 has been incorporated with an authorized capi- 

 tal stock * of $23,000, and will manufacture 

 implements. 



Herbert W. Fry of Atlanta, Ga.. has been 

 succeeded by the Fry-Rushton Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, which is incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $15,000. 



Price Brothers & Co., I,td., wholesalers of 

 spruce lumber, with headquarters at Quebec, 

 Can., recently opened an office at 1 Madison 

 avenue, New York, N. Y. 



The W. T. Eaton Lumber Company, Lockwood, 

 Mo., has been incr»rporated with a capital stock 

 of $20,000. The incorporators arc W. R. Eaton, 

 G. H. Eaton and H. H. Holland. 



The White Oak Stave Company, Sutton. W. 

 Va., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $5,000. The Incorporators are H. H. Ucan, 

 T. G. Dean, George F. Skldmorc and others. 



The W. T. Smiths' Timber Company, Birm- 

 ingham, Ala., has been Incorporated with an au- 

 thorized capital stock of $50,000. E. V. Smllh 

 is president of the new company and W. T. 

 Smith, .Tr., Is treasurer. 



The Theodore I'"athauer Lumber Company, 

 Helena, Ark., has purchased the plant of the 

 Helena Hardwood Lumlx-r Company of that city. 

 The new owner will make general and extensive 

 Improvements In the plant. 



The Bnvard Manufacturing Company Is being 

 organized at Brcvanl, N. C, by J. S. Calhoun, 

 F. L. DcVane and O. V. Summcy. The company 

 will manufacture, wholesale and retail hard- 

 wood lloorlng, celling and siding. 



The Kvansvllle Veneer WorKB, EvansvUle, Ind., 

 Is erecting a warehouse, wiilch if i-xpeols to 

 have ready for ocoupaucy within about forty 

 days. The new building will be of brick con- 

 sfructlon, .5."ixl80 fei't, two stories In helKhl, and 

 will coat fS.OOO. 



The Schevc & Angert Company, Cincinnall, O., 

 has b<'en Incorptjraled with n capital stock of 

 $»0,000, and will manufacture and deal In 

 fumlluro. The Incorporators arc C'hrlat Angert, 

 .loseph Kcheve, ,1m. B. Scheve, A. M. Bralg and 

 George H. Angert. 



The Gilford Lumber Company, Glen Falls. N. 

 v.. has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000. The incorporators are ,lay OifTord 

 and George H. Giflford of Glen Falls, and Mollis 

 Witherell of Cadyvllie, Clinton County, X. Y. 

 ■ C. F. McGhee of Pickney. Tenn.. is erecting 

 a large saw and planing mill in that city and 

 will manufacture hardwood lumber, flooring and 

 interior finish. Mr. McGhee owns a large tract 

 of liardwood timber near Pickney which con- 

 sists principally of wliite oak, chestnut anil 

 Kum. He e.tpccts to begin operations about 

 .Tune 1. 



The large flooring plant of Bliss & Van 

 Auken. Saginaw, Mich., which was destroyed 

 by fire on .Tan. 2, has been rebuilt, and has 

 again resumed operations. The plant is con- 

 siderably larger than its predecessor. It is of 

 frame construction, and is oue story in iieight. 

 It has been equipped with such additional ma 

 chinery as to double its capacity, and now has 

 a daily capacity of about -15,000 feet. 



The Girard Lumber Company of Menominee 

 Mich., has filed articles of association con- 

 tinuing its corporate existence. The company 



was incorporated Mar. 10. 18S2, for a thirty- 

 year period, which expired this year, and in 

 filing its papers it asks for another thirty-year 

 existence. The company is incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $30,000, which amount is fully 

 paid up and is divided into 3,000 shares of 

 $10 each. The stockholders of the comi)any are 

 ,T. W. Wells, A. C. Wells. James .\. Cnlbcrlson. 

 ("has. B., Cordelia A., Kate, Margaret and Wil- 

 liam Cullx'rson and Belle C. May. J. W. Wells 

 is secretary. 



The Xell Springs Lumber Company of rloratio. 

 .Vrk.. has sold its tract of land near ttiat city 

 to Foster & Baer of Hope. Ark., for $444.00(1. 

 The sale includes about 10,000 acres of land, 

 about 9,000 acres of which are partially cut 

 over, the remainder being a virgin forest com- 

 posed of pine, oak. gum and hickory : a saw- 

 mill with a daily capacity of 50.000 fi'ct : a plan- 

 ing mill with a daily capacity of 30.000 feet : 

 twenty miles of standard gauge railroad, two 

 lecomotives, twenty-six cars and one large steam 

 I* ador. 'J'he new owners are already overhaul- 

 ing the mills and railway and will licgin oiiera- 

 tionsat once. 



Hardwood iSlews ^otes 



CHICAGO 



ll.UiDwuuD i;i;i'ui!ij liaU a call mi .Mar. 14 

 from A. .T. Gillette of Gillette Brothers, .Meni- 

 jihis, Tenn. This concern conducts an impor- 

 tant plant at Memphis for the manutacturo of 

 carriage and wagon stock. It is located t)n the 

 Illinois Central tracks in South .Meinpliis. Ir 

 consumes oak and hickory in the manufactiui- "!' 

 its product, and i)roduces rims, shafts, poles, 

 bars and singletrees. The company has a sec- 

 ond manufacturing operation at Boston. Mass., 

 which draws its bolls from tlie Memphis plant. 

 It is also an important timber owner in Louis- 

 iana and operates two mills for the sawing of 

 timber into dimension for remanufacturing pur- 

 poses. Besides this it buys a good deal of stock 

 in the open market. 



M. E. Thomas, sales manager of Cobbs & 

 Mitchell, Inc., and the MKchell Brothers Com 

 pany, Cadillac, Mich., was in Chicago on busi- 

 ness. Mar. 20. 



Charles T. Mitchell, manager of the Milcliell 

 Brothers Company, Cadillac, Mich., passed 

 flirough Chicago on Mar. 20 en route to Pasa- 

 dena, Cal., where his father and family are 

 spending the winter. Mr. Mitchell expects to be 

 absent from Cadillac about six weeks. 



Henry Ballon, manager of Cobbs & Mitchell, 

 Inc., Cadillac, Mich., passed through Chicago 

 on Mar. 20 on his way home from an extended 

 trip to the Pacific coast, where he has been 

 for the past two months, and on which lour 

 he was accompanied by his wife. 



.1. C. Knox, Cadillac, secretary of the Michi- 

 gan liardwood Manufacturers' Association, was a 

 Chicago visitor Mar. 20, engaged In work of 

 (he association. 



Hakuwoou Uf.coiii" had a call on Mar. I'.i 

 from .lames Downs of Downs Brothers, hardwood 

 operators at Rochester, Ind. 



Robert Allen of the Wlllson Brothers Lumber 

 Company. Pittsburgh. Pa., was In Chicago on 

 Mar. IS, engaged In selling West Virginia lianl 

 woods produci'd by Ills house. 



X. A. (Jladdlng, vice-president and secretary 

 of the big saw manntaclurlng house, E. C. Atkins 

 & Co., Inc., IndlnnapollH, dropped Into Chicago 

 last Friday on one of his periodical visits to 

 the company's local agency. .Mr. Gladding Is 

 always welcomi'd In Chicago by n host of personal 

 friends and admlrem. 



.1. .M. IJoltim has retired from his connection 

 with the W. 1'. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 of Louisville, Ky., and it is understood will enter 

 the hardwood lumber business at Chicago on his 

 own account at an early date. 



G. V. Kerns of the Kerns-t'tley Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago, is on a southern trip in the lum- 

 ber producing sections. 



It is announced that on May 1 the Herman 

 II. Heftier Lumber Company will close out its 

 'i'went.v-second street branch yard and consoli- 

 date it with its main plant on the north side. 



Ralph JlcCracken. sales manager of (he Ken- 

 tucky Lumber Company, Ciucinuati. was a Chi- 

 cago visitor last week. 



The quarters on the fourteenth floor of the 

 Great Xorthern hotel building, which about Apr. 

 1 will he occupied by the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Chica.go, are receiving the finishing touches 

 this week, and during the next two weeks the 

 furniture and fixtures will be ready for delivery 

 to the club rooms. Manager Roth of the Great 

 Xorthern hotel is co-operating heartily with the 

 otlicers of the club in fitting up remarkably 

 handsome, comfortable and convenient club 

 (luarters. The opening date of the new club has 

 not yet been decided upon, but it will be cele- 

 lirated with a suitable function. 



NEW YORK 



.lames P. Patteu, formerly up-state representa- 

 tive for the W. M. Ritter Lumiier Company, has 

 been appointed Metropolitan district representa- 

 tive by the company and will hereafter make his 

 headquarters in this city and solicit trade assisted 

 liy l.ewis G. Farnum. 



T'ptcgrove & Beckwlth, Inc., the large 

 mahogany veneer house of this city, will erect 

 a three-stor.v warehouse for veneers at Stelnway 

 and RIker avenues. Long Island City. 



W. L. Sykes of the Emporium Lumber Com- 

 pany. 1 Madison avenue, recently arrived here 

 from Porto Rico In company with ,lames P. 

 Lewis, a prominent pulp and paper manufai'lurer 

 of Beaver Falls, and widely known in the .\dlron- 

 dack seclion. Both gentlemen liad made the 

 trip In the Interest of pleasure, but their .tourney 

 had a sad ending Inasmuch as Mr. Lewis upon 

 arriving at Xcw Y'ork was taken severely III 

 with aente Indigestion and died at the Hotel 

 Belmont, Mr. Sykes was stricken with n heavy 

 cold and was ordered to go South by his pliysl- 



