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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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With the Trade 



Doing Big Business in Circassian 



The R. S. Bacon Vi'netT Company. Xorth Ann sinn-t. Chicago, reports 

 that it has nearly 2.000.000 feet of Circassian walnut veneer on hand, 

 having been specializing on this highly popular wood for some little time. 

 Mr. Bacon is an expert in picking logs, devoting considerable time each 

 year to trips abroad for the purpose of selecting desirable wood. The 

 company receives monthly shipments of logs direct from the Caucasus. 



The Bacon-Underwood Veneer Company, of Stockton, Ala., an affiliated 

 organization, is constantly increasing its timber holdings whenever a good 

 opportunity offers. The company's veneer mill is now protected by its 

 own holdings of timber for thirty years' cut. So far during 1913 the 

 principals of the Bacon-I'nderwood Veneer Company have acciuired l.'JOO 

 acres of tupelo timber, and are now working on a proposition to take over 

 considerable more. 



Thebes Hardwood Lumber Company Organized in Chicago 



The Thebes Hardwood Lumber Company is the style of a new organiza- 

 tion recently organized at Chicago, with a capital stock of $10,000. The 

 company will engage in wholesaling and retailing hardwood lumber in the 

 city. The incorporators are : Jacob F. Haske. Joseph Kuberski and 

 John Szopinski. 



■Wolf Mountain Lumber Company Buys Timber 



The Wolf Mountain Lumber Company, a North Carolina corporation 

 with headquarters at Asheville. N. C. and headed by S. F. Chapman, of 

 Asheville. and backed by Henry L. Dougherty & Co., of New York, has 

 purchased from George H. Smathers timberlands along the headwaters of 

 the Tuckaseigee river, lying mostly in Jackson county. The consideration 

 was .$144,000. A survey of the property showed that It had more than 

 twenty miles of waterway providing a continuous water power amounting 

 to 13.000 horse power. 



The scheme is essentially a water power scheme, the timber being pur- 

 chased merely for investment with the idea of insuring the conservation of 

 rainfall for the purpose of providing uninterrupted water power. The 

 water power will be utilized in hydro-electric development. The timber 

 will be handled with the idea of conserving the water power. It is 

 probable that a hunting and fishing club will be organized in the near 

 future to take over the fishing rights n( the preserve. 



Important Arkansas Hardwood Deals 



The Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company, of Dermott, Ark., recently 

 purchased 4,000 acres of high-grade hardwood timlxT, lying in Arkansas, 

 from the Morganie Land Company, of New Orleans, La. This tract is in 

 Chicot county, near the Louisiana line. The entire stand is virgin growth, 

 never having been touched by axe or saw. It is considered as fine a bunch 

 of hardwood timber as can be found in the southern part of the state. 



The operations will be connected with the Iron Mountain Railroad by 

 means of a line running four miles Into the timber. The land was orig- 

 inally purchased in IS.Sfi by the Citizens Bank of New Orleans at a ridicu- 

 lously low price. It being inundated most of the time. Drainage facilities, 

 however, have resulted in its ready accessibility, and it is said that the 

 price paid by the Fec-Crayton Hardwood Luml)er Company is close to the 

 record mark. 



This concern will immediately begin the erection of mills on this prop- 

 erty. It is stated that after the removal of the timber the land will 

 be worth considerably more than the purchase price, as it is of high 

 character for corn and cotton. 



Another important deal recently consummated is the sale of a tract 

 known as the Van Ravansway tract in the neighborhood of Brinkley, Ark. 

 This timber was purchased several years ago by Dr. Van Ravansway at a 

 nominal figure. It includes 10.000 acres and during the past two years 

 a small portion of it has been used each year for colonization. The timber 

 has been bought by Pittsburgh capitalists tor $135,000, and will be 

 exploited immediately, being cut clear for cultivation. 

 Famous Bietz Logs Sold 



A crew of men has been placed on the Dietz farm at Cameron Dam 

 by the T. A. Bruett Lumber Company, wholesale lumber, of Milwaukee, for 

 the purpose of transferring the logs from the Thornapple dam territory to 

 Winter, Wis., for shipment. The Bruett company purchased the logs 

 from attorneys for Dietz and has a large motor truck on the grounds 

 to aid in shipment. These logs were the source of much trouble sev- 

 eral years, ago. Most everyone remembers the notorious Dietz case 

 which resulted in the conviction for life of John Dietz for the alleged 

 murder of a deputy sheriff. Oscar Harp, who was killed during a battle 

 between the Dietz family and officers. The Weyerhaueser Lumber Com- 

 pany was the original owner of the logs which were left on the Dietz 

 farm by backwater when the Weyerhaueser company was driving logs on 

 the Tliornapple river about ten years ago. Dietz refused to allow the 

 lumber company to remove the logs from his farm. Legal fights and 

 actual battles with arms resulted, and after Dietz was captured and 

 convicted the logs were sold to the Milwaukee company, which is about 

 to remove them. The timber has deteriorated from insects and weather, 

 hut representatives of the Bruett company claim that It is in good con- 

 dition and will yield from 300,000 to 500,000 feet of lumber. 



Buskirk-Eutledge Lumber Company Buys Out J. W. Johnson 

 Company 



The Buskirk-Rutledge Lumber Company. Inc., Lexington, Ky., has suc- 

 ceeded the J. W. Johnson Company of that place, having bought out all 

 interests of the Johnson company in the lumber business. The new 

 company has a band mill at Quicksand. Ky., a band mill and three 

 circular mills at Straight Creek, Ky., and two circular mills at Oneida, 

 Tenn. 



The Buskirk-Rutledge Lumber Company has recently moved its yard 

 from Lexington. Ky., to Cincinnati, O., and is now located on the Queen 

 and Crescent route at Brighton station in Cincinnati. The company 

 also has a yard at Somerset, Ky.. which it maintains for the purpose 

 of assembling lumber. The main office will be retained at Lexington. 



U. B. Buskirk is president and V. A. Rutledge is secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



Perrine-Armstrong Company to Install Electric Drive 



The first of the month the Perrine-Armstrong Company, the big hard- 

 wood operating concern of Fort Wayne, Ind., suspended operations long 

 enough to enable it to install electric drive throughout the mill. The 

 machines will be connected up in such a way that it will be possible to 

 run any machine in the shop without operating any other machine. 

 Three boilers and two engines were necessary under the old arrange- 

 ment to provide sufficient power for the plant. One boiler will be 

 retained tor heating purposes and all the other similar machinery removed. 

 It is anticipated that the work will be completed by July 1. 



Ferguson-Palmer Lumber Company to Build MiU in Mississippi 



The Ferguson-Palmer Lumber Company of Paducah, Ky., announces 

 that it has preparations pretty well completed for the erection of a saw- 

 mill at Houlka, Miss. George Ingram of Paducah. who will construct 

 the plant, is already at the seat of operations. In addition to the mill 

 building, which will be 40 x 200 feet, various other buildings making 

 up the plant will be constructed and In addition Mr. Ingram wiM build 

 a home for Donald Palmer, who will have charge of the mill. In addi- 

 tion to the mill sctructure. the company will install some ten miles of 

 railroad to tap its large timber holdings in that section. An investment 

 of $50,000 will I>e involved. 



HiU & Mount 



Hill & Mount Is the style of a new organization with offices In the 

 Essex building, Newark, N, J., which concern has been incorporated to 

 do a wlioiesale business in box lumber and box sliooks. The incorporators 

 are F. J. Hill, for years prominent in the box manufacturing trade of 

 Newark, and J. T. and R. I. Mount. The two latter men are identified 

 with the Glilett-Mount Company, also of Newark. All three men reside 

 in East Orange, N. J. 



New Furniture Factory in Texas 



Reese & Carreker, who are building a new sawmill at Diana, Tex., five 

 miles east of Beaumont, are also planning to establish a furniture factory 

 in that connection. These people have a large supply of hardwood which 

 they will work up, and also have extensive holdings of pine timber. An 

 artesian well has been sunk to supply tlie plant with water and 1,500 

 feet of spur track have been laid by the Southern Pacific railroad. The 

 foundation for the mill has been completed. 



Fire in Yards of the J, A. McEntee Lumber Company 



A fire which it is thought was of incen<liary origin was discovered 

 in a tool house of the J. A. McEntee Lumlier Company in the west end 

 of Cincinnati and located right on the Southern railway tracks, on the 

 night of June 10. The Are had gained much headway when the Are 

 department arrived and a general alarm was sent in on account of the 

 tbriatening blaze and the close proximity of the yards adjoining of the 

 Queen City Box Company. The theory on incendiary nature of the fire 

 Is supported by the fact that one Monday afternoon a small fire was dis- 

 covered in one of the sheds, being caused by a large pile of oil waste such 

 as is used in packing axles of freight cars, and a can of oil was later 

 found under a nearby lumber pile. The small fire was quickly ex- 

 tinguished, but the one on June IC was of such proportions as to entail 

 a loss of about $5,000 before the firemen succeeded in getting it under 

 control. 



Long Legal Battle Settled 



A long legal fight, which had been pending in Wisconsin, Michigan 

 and Illinois for twenty-three years, has finally been settled with the 

 payment of $20,000 to Attorney M. M. Riley, for the Union Trust Com- 

 pany of Chicago. When Hoxie & Mellor of Antlgo went out of busi- 

 ness, an assignment was made. This concern had taken over a con- 

 tract from W. W. Hutchinson of Antigo which provided that the title 

 of the (iml>er on a tract in CJogebic county. Michigan, which Hutchinson 

 purchased from Wilson H. Stubbings of Chicago in 18Sf>. should remain 

 with Stubbings until the purcba.se price was paid. Hoxie & Mellor sold 

 the lumber to the Antigo Luml>er Compan.v. After the assignment was 

 made the Antigo Lumber Company started replevin action after the 

 Hoxie & Mellor property had been attached. It then gave a bond of 

 $45,000 and shipped the lumber to Chicago. The National Bank of 

 Oshkosh then instituted suit for foreclosure of the chattel mortgage, 

 naming the Antigo Lumber Company. Stubbings and other attaching 

 creditors as defendants. This suit was appealed to the Supreme court 

 of Michigan, and Stubbings was awarded .$17,000. Stul)blngs meanwhile 



