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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the St. Francis basin. Some of the plants in the overflow area have not 

 yet been able to resume, but it is said by those in position to know, that 

 o[)erations can be begun by practically all of tbem by the middle of the 

 month. 



Production has been very seriously interfered with during the past 

 month, not only at Memphis but throughout the Memphis territory. This 

 has resulted in quite a decrease in the amount of lumber available for 

 tlio late spring and early summer business. This fact, coupled with the 

 existence of a good demand, makes all of the owners and operators of 

 lumber plants here and elsewhere in this section quite anxious to run on 

 its large a scale as possible. As a result of this condition logging opera- 

 tions are being pushed with all possible speed and logs are being moved 

 as rapidly as they can be handled. 



Weather conditions recently have been very favorable for work in the 

 woods and this has made exceedingly good progress, except in the limited 

 area which has been covered with water. It is suggested that the old 

 crop of timber has been pretty well moved and that receipts during the 

 remainder of the year must come from timber cut during 101.'!. As a 

 rule the mills have a larger stock of logs on hand or immediately availa- 

 ble than they had following the flood conditions last year, and from this 

 viewpoint the situation is much more satisfactory than at that time. 

 There are some exceptions to the adequate timber supply, but these only 

 serve to prove the general rule. 



Ohio Veneer Company Incorporates 



The l)hio Veneer Company has been well known in veneer -circles for 

 a long time as operating at Cincinnati, O. This concern produces a high- 

 grade line of domestic and foreign veneer and cabinet lumber, but until 

 recently has not incorporated. The incorporation does not change the 

 style nor the persons interested in the company, who are Ferdinand .7. 

 Boskeii. .liiseph P.osken. William Bosken, .1. W. I'lummer and Frank 

 Dorger. The ia|>liMl stock at which the company is incorporated is 

 $l.">O,00ii 



Death of Daniel Simonds 



Daniel Siuicmds of I'Mtdiburg, Mass., president of the Simonds Manu- 

 facturing Company of that place, died at his summer home at I.arch- 

 mont. Long Island, on Monday, May r,. The Simonds Manufacturing 

 Company is a well-known large manufacturer ot high-grade saws. 



The cleath of Mr. Simonds takes away a man widely known in the 

 industrial world. The Simonds Manufacturing Company was originally 

 organized at West I'itchburg by the father of the recently deceased. 

 Daniel Simonds was born at Fitchburg, Sept. 18, 1847. He attended 

 public schools and business college, and on leaving the latter was em- 

 ployed by his father. In 18G8 the Simonds Manufacturing Company was 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $.".0.(100 and the plant removed from 

 West Filchlinrg to its present location. The new company took over the 

 business organized by Abel Simonds. and Daniel Simonds continued as 

 an employe of the firm, holding various offices from time 1o time as the 

 company grew. In the early eighties he was made superintendent and 

 vice-president of the company and in 1888 succeeded George F. Simonds 

 as president. In IDOO the company acquired four plants in Montreal and 

 consolidated them with the local plant. I'rom a modest beginning the 

 business of the Simonds JIanufacturing Company has grown to become 

 one cif the. l>lg industries of the country. During the year 1905 a mag- 

 niflcent new plant was constructed on the site of (he old one at a cost of 

 a quarter of a million dollars. 



The development of the company in recent years Is directly due to the 

 ability and resource of Daniel Simonds. With him at its head the com- 

 pany branched out from Fitchburg. and plants were installed in Chicago 

 and at Montreal as noted. The company also has works at Lockport. 

 N. v., branch houses in New York City, New Orleans, Portland, Seattle. 

 San Francisco, London, and St. .lohns and Toronto in Canada. 



In addilicm to his constructive work tending to build up the Simonds 

 organization, Daniel Simcuids was directly responsible for an immense 

 nraount of work tending to benefit employes of the association. lie in- 

 troduced numerous features such as dining rooms and recreation rooms, 

 which liav ' helped to increase the loyalty and efliciency of Simonds 

 workers. 



Mr. Simonds was taken ill last .Tul.v and in October went to a sanitarium 

 In Dansvilh. X. Y. The diagnosis showed a complication of diseases. He 

 returned from the sanitarium and again entered business, but about two 

 months agci was again taken seriously ill at a New York hotel. He was 

 moved from the hotel to his summer home at Larchmont and has been 

 failing ever since. Tlie funeral was held on Wednesday, May 7, from the 

 Calvanlstlc Congregatbmal Church at Fitchburg. 



Joins Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company Forces 



■f. A. .\lc-i;liealli. Iciruierly secrelaiy of the Mc-reaiitile I.nniber & Sup- 

 ply Company. Kansas City, Mo., and having his headquarters at Chicago. 

 joined the forces of the Ilayden & Wescott Lumber Company, Railway 

 Exchange building, Chicago, on May 1, in the capacity of manager of the 

 yellow pine and car lumber department. Mr. McElreath will have full 

 charge of this character of business tliroughout the East and middle 

 eastern territories. He has had a long experience in the yellow pine 

 business, his recent connection having been of four years' duration. His 

 advent in the lumljcr business dates back seventeen years. During this 

 period he has worked practically only for two concerns, namely, the 



Seymour Lumber Company ot Cordele, Ga., and the Mercantile Lumber 

 & Supply Company. 



Frank Tiffany Moves OfiSce 



Frank TilTany of Leeds, England, and European representa'tive of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association, announces that in June he will 

 remove his office to Leamington, which is on the main line between Lon- 

 don and Liverpool. He states that this will enable him to deal more 

 expeditiously with the growing calls upon his services. Leamington is 

 only altout an hour and a half run from London, with frequent train 

 service. 



Bossert Case Decided Favorably to Millmen 



The Bossert case, which has been one of the foremost labor cases in the 

 courts of the state, ended last week in a verdict for the lumber firm. 

 Louis Bossert & Son, who conducted a non-union mill in Brooklyn, sued 

 for an injunction restraining the Carpenters' Union from calling strikes 

 on buildings in which Bossert trim was being installed. In 1010 a tem- 

 porary injunction was granted and the case just closed was to have this 

 injunction made permanent. The trial ran over several days and a deal of 

 testimony was olfered. It was shown at the trial that the Carpenters' 

 Union, by the same methods used against the Bossert firm, had practi- 

 cally closed Manhattan to all manufacturers of non-union trim. The firm 

 of Louis Bossert & Son and the Albro J. Newton Company, who had a 

 like case, are to be congratulated for the stand they took against the 

 Union. By the decision the great market of the Borough of Brooklyn is 

 kept open to all manufacturc-rs of trim, and the conspiracy ot certain 

 manufacturers and the Carpenters' Union is routed 



THE LATH DA.MKI. SIMci.M 



FirclllUlii;. MASS. 



Two Million DoUar Timber Deal 



One of the most important timberland deals ever made on the Pacific 

 coast was announced on Apr. 20 by .Tames D. Lacey & Co., Chicago, who 

 acted as factors in the sale of Berth W on the Lllloet river. The Deering 

 Plow Company took over the timber at a total cost of .$2,100,000. It 

 was sold on the basis of .$.'5.00 a thousand feet, the estimated yield of the 

 tract being 700,000,000 feet. Less than a year ago the former owners 

 bought the tract from the Sbevlln estate of Minneapolis for $700,000. 



Taylor & Crate Interests Expand 

 Taylor & Crate, hardwood wholesalers ot liutTabi. have acquired con- 

 siderable property for yarding purposes at ButTalo. Last fall the com- 

 pany bought twenty-seven acres fronting on Military road. Buftalo. 1.000 

 feet deep to the New York Central tracks and extending south from the 

 point where the Lackawanna railroad crosses Military road to a point 

 between Coulson and Winton streets. Hccenlly an additional seventeen 



