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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mowbray & Robinson Company Buys Timber 



The Mowbraj- & Robinsttn Cvimpan^ of Cincinnati, O.. has added a 

 very large tract of timl>er to its large timber resources. The new pur- 

 chase is in eastern Kentucky on the middle fork of the Kentucky river and 

 comprises about 40.000 acres of the best timber remaining in that section 

 of the country. The company expects to operate this particular tract, 

 which is very rich in coal as well as timber, by floating out the logs to 

 Irvine, Ky., where It has five mills running full time. This tract was 

 bought in fee simple and with the 10,000 acres of the Taylor & Crate 

 property recently purchased by the Mowbray & Robinson Company on 

 Trobleson Creek branch of the Kentucky river and quite a large lot of 

 timber rights on about 20.000 acres of land adjacent to its mills, will total 

 up about 70,000 acres of timber now controlled by it. It is operating 

 Ave mills at Irvine and Quicksand, Ky., and building another at Mazu, 

 Ky., and will build more as required. 



Change of Headquarters 



The Laurel River Logging Company, formerly at Stackhouse, X. C, 

 announces that it has moved its otfice from that point and henceforth 

 will be located at 519 Legal building, AshevlUe, N. C. 



Death of Robert Wood 



With the death of Robert Wood, at White Pine, Pa., on July G in the 

 eighty-first year of his life, one of the pioneers of the lumber trade of 

 the section around Williamsport, Pa., passed away. Though Mr. Wood 

 had not been active in the lumber business for years he maintained a 

 keen interest in its progress and followed its development because of old 

 nssociations and also for the reason that his sons, R. E. Wood, G. L. 

 Wood and Clarence E. Wood, are prominent in the hardwood trade, they 

 being the president, general manager and 

 assistant general manager, respectively, of the 

 R. E. Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore. 

 Robert Wood was a son of James Wood, who 

 oame to this country from Yorkshire, England, 

 where the son was born. The latter had not 

 been in this country long before he became 

 attracted to the lumber trade, then in its 

 earliest development, and embarked therein 

 with his brother, the two forming the firm of 

 R. & J. Wood as far hack as 1846. Tlie firm 

 continued until 1864, when Joseph withdrew, 

 selling his interest to James Wood. Jr. This 

 partnership existed until 1876. Meanwhile 

 Robert Wood had become interested in public 

 affairs and was chosen a justice of the peace 

 in 1SG4, holding the office until 1881. whc>n he 

 was elected recorder and register of Lycoming 

 county. He served in this olBce one term, until 

 1884, and in 1891 he was again named as jus- 

 tice, retaining the position for years. He was 

 a member of the school board of Lycoming 

 county, secretary of the Cogan House school 

 board. He held other olBces. being also an 

 active church worker, and contributing to the 

 newspapers of the section, besides holding affil- 

 iation with fraternities. Ilis health remained 

 good until recentl.v. when he rapidly declined. 

 It was his custom for years to spend the 

 winters with his son, R. E. Wood, at the 

 latter's residence, Park Place, Baltimore, his summers being spent at 

 the old home, his wife having died in 1800. There were thirteen children 

 in the family. The funeral took place from the family home at White 

 Pine. 



Mr. Wood took a great interest in the early history of his township 

 and was mentioned in the local chronicles as far back as 1846. when the 

 historian had this to say about him : 



"The first effort at manufacturing lumber here was made b.v James 

 Wood and his son Robert in the summer of 1844. 



"This was before the days of the application of steam to such purposes 

 or before the fine water powers of the streams of the locality had been 

 utilized. 



"The power to drive the saw in this primitive arrangement was fur- 

 nished by Mr. Wood at one end of the pit-saw and Robert at the other. 

 ■. "Today Robert is proprietor of a mill driven by sti'am which cuts 

 1.800,000 feet of lumber per annum." 



Lumberman Enters Building Field 

 The Ragland-Baxter-Morford Company is the name of a new corpora- 

 tion soon to be organized, which has consummated a deal to take over 

 the plant of the Edgefield & Nashville Manufacturing Company, Nash- 

 ville, one of the largest nuinufacturers of hardwood interior finishing 

 and fine furniture in the South. The plant of the company is worth 

 several hiindri'd thousand dollars, and it employs about 400 or .'500 men. 

 Charles M. Morford will be president and treasurer of the new corpora- 

 tion. Mr. Moi-ford is one of the foremost lumbermen of Nashville, being 

 president of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club. He came to Nashville 

 from McMinnvllle some yars ago, and has been highly successful in the 

 lumber business. Edward Ragland and Lewis L. Baxter will be vice- 



TIIE LATE ROBERT WOOD. 

 WHITE PINE, PA. 



presidents : E. G. Hollada.v, secretary, and F. C. Tower, assistant secre- 

 tary. \. B. Ransom, head of John B. Ransom & Co.'s interests, will be 

 a director 



Leavitt Land & Lumber Company Changes Name 

 The Leavitt Land and Lumber Company of Dermott. Ark., announces 

 that the name of the incorporation has been changed to the Dermott 

 Land and Lumber Company. The change became effective July 10 and 

 business is now being carried on under the new name. No change has 

 been made in the officers and managers of the new concern. H. B. 

 Lusch of Chicago is president ; Elmer H. Adams, Chicago, vice-presi- 

 dent : W. L. Briscoe. Dermott, manager ; H. C. Luidahl, treasurer. The 

 general offices for the "transaction of business are located at Dermott. 

 This concern is one of the large hardwood manufacturing companies in 

 the South, specializing in band-sawn oak, cypress, gum and hickory. It 

 controls a tract of 25,000 acres of hardwood timber in the vicinity of 

 its mill and logs with a standard gauge railroad. It is now engaged 

 in tlie construction of six additional miles of road into the timber. 



Change in German Firm 



F. W. Barth &.Co. of Bremen. Hiisseldorf, Hamburg and Emden, 

 Germany, announce considerable changes in the personnel of their com- 

 pany under date of July 1. Joseph Zerchen, Sr., leaves the firm after a 

 friendly agreement and at the same time the former Bremen representa- 

 tives. Walter Zollmann of Hamburg and Walter Wolf of Bremen, and in the 

 IMisseldorf and Hamburg houses Gerhard Mertins. buyer of the Hamburg 

 house and B. Jarne Larssen, buyer for the r>iisseldorf house, under abso- 

 lution of their management, will enter the firm together inider the man- 

 agement of the several active and passive former partners. It is further 

 announced that Frederick W. Barth of Diissel- 

 dorf and Richard Barth of Bremen will con- 

 tlniu^ in the same way as heretofore. 



Big Shipment of Mahogany 



What is claimed to be the largest single 

 shipment of mahogany lumber ever made from 

 any port in the I'nited States is being loaded 

 by the Otis Manufacturing Company, New Or- 

 leans, La., from its plant at that city. 



Beginning with July 11 the shipping crews 

 of the company have been loading car after 

 car of mahogany lumber to fill an order for a 

 large ICnglish firm at London. The order was 

 fur seventy-five carloads, all to be shipped sim- 

 ultaneously. Shipment was booked on two 

 steamers of the Southern Atlantic line and the 

 Leyland line, and both left New Orleans last 

 week. The total value of the order was con- 

 siderably more than $10(1,000, and President 

 J. S. Otis of the Otis company says that it is 

 an unmistakable indication that New Orleans 

 manufacturers arc receiving very favorable at- 

 tention in the largest markets of the world. He 

 stated that the shipment as a whole com- 

 mamlcd the highest j)rice he had ever known 

 paid for mahogany lumber. 



The largest order of mahogany from ail 

 American house was made about two years ago 

 by the I'nited States government, when $375,000 

 worth of rough mahogany lumber was shipped to be manufactured into 

 furniture for the different government offices in various parts of the 

 world. This order was lille,! In New Orleans in a nnnibcr of installments. 



Paepcke Leicht Interests to Move 

 The I'aepcke Leicht Lumber Company, the Chicago Mill and Lumber 

 Company, and the various allied Paepcke Leicht interests have' taken a 

 lease for the entire twentieth flo<ir in the first section of the Conway 

 building, now in the course of construction on Washington street near 

 LaSalle. It is understood that the lease is for a long period and that 

 the aggregate will run into six figures. The present location, which 

 lias been occupied for seven years at Chicago avenue and Sangamon 

 street, will be sold. 



New Hardwood Yard in Oklahoma 



The Thomas E. I'one Mill & Lumber Company of SI. Louis, Mo., an- 

 nounces the estiiblishment of an assembling yard at Hugo, Okla. The 

 yard will be maintained for the purpose of drying and remanufacturing 

 lumber for the Oklahoma trade and will be equipped with rip saws, cut- 

 off saws and similar apparatus for sizing stock to meet individual re- 

 quireuients. The principal wood to be handled is oak, while other woods 

 will be ash, poplar, cypress and various other kinds of hardwoods. Wil- 

 liam M. Drum will manage the Hugo business. It is expected that the 

 business will aggregate from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 feet each year. 



Forest Engineers Get Large Contract 

 The James Maclaren Company, Ltd., of Buckingham, Quebec, has 

 awarded ibe contract to survey and cruise Us limits on the Lievre river 

 to Vltale & Rothery, forest engineers, 527 Fifth avenue. New York City. 



