THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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Arkansas, witli headquarters at Cedar, 

 Ark., was a visitor among Memphis lum- 

 bermen this week. 



•CONTINENTAL'S" NEW RECORD. 



Tlie \\'aUash '•L'outinentul Limited" 

 made a new recoi-d Thursday night l>e- 

 tween Decatur and St. Loui.s. cutting two 

 minutes off the best previous record. 



Engineer Braddock. with No. ij<17. a new 

 high-speed engine, made the lo.'i miles from 

 Decatur to Granite City in 101 minutes. 

 A tive-minute stop was made at Litchfield, 

 making the actual running time ninety-six 

 minutes, an average of G.").4 miles for the 

 whole distance. Best previous time was 

 ninety-eight minutes. 



From Staunton to Cai-penter, 10.2 miles, 

 the time was seven miuutcs. or at the rate 

 of S7.42 miles an hour. 



Tlie forty-seven miles from Boody to 

 Honey Bend were made in forty minutes— 

 7(i..5 miles an hour. 



The train departed from Decatur an 

 hour and forty minutes late, and had, be- 

 sides the regular equipment. President 

 Ramsey's private car. Wabash officials 

 say tliat the new engines will make a hun- 

 dred miles an hour before the summer is 

 over.— St. Louis Republic. April 11. 1902. 



NEWS SUMMARY. 

 The Record is in receipt of the monthly 

 stock list of Wickes Bros., machinery 

 manufacturers, and dealers in second-hand 

 machinery, Saginaw, Mich. It sliows the 

 >arious items in stock at New York, Pitts- 

 burg and Saginaw, and includes all kinds 

 of saw mill and wood-working machinery. 



The .L P. Walter Lumber Company of 

 Crawfordsville, lud.. report the shipment 

 of a car containing 18,100 feet of IVi-incli 

 firsts and seconds quartered white oak 

 from their yards at Orleans. Ind. This is 

 a record-smasher. 



The Knoxville Furniture Company's 

 lumber mills at Clinton, Tenn., are being 

 enlarged and a large amouut of new ma- 

 chinery is being installed. When finished 

 it will be one of the most thoroushlv 

 equipped plants in East Tennessee. 



S. C. Payne, whose mill was recently 

 burned at New Decatur, Ala., will rebuild. 



The strike of the employes of A. B. 

 Xickey & Sons at their hardwood mills at 

 Princeton, Ind., which was inaugurated 

 some weeks ago, has been brought to a 

 close, the firm having signed the scale of 

 the American Federation of Laboi. 



The Record is in receipt of a very in- 

 teresting pamphlet, "The Forest and Its 

 Uses," by .John M. AVoods, head of the 

 house of .lohn M. Woods & Co., an old- 

 establislied lumber firm of Boston, Mass. 

 It is in line with the forest preservation 

 idea, and coming from a practical lum- 

 berman is good, sound reading for lum- 

 bermen, and worth more to the cause of 



forestry and forest preservation than a 

 whole wagon load of printed matter that 

 has come under our notice within the last 

 year. 



The Dickson Lumber Company of Ashe- 

 ville, N. C, has closed a deal for a large 

 tract of poplar and hardwood timberlands 

 near Bayou Chicot, La., and will com- 

 mence the erection of a large saw mill 

 on the property. 



lent ti-ade in oak car and other dimension 

 material. He is also fully satisfied witb 

 the demand for other hardwood commodi- 

 ties, and says his general business is very 

 heavy. 



Vice-Gerent C. D. Rourkc will hold a 

 concatenation at Cairo, 111.. May 22. Mr. 

 P. T. Langan of Cairo has been appointed 

 custocatian for this occasion, and is look- 

 ing after the preliminvai-j- work. The pros- 

 pects are that a large class will be initi- 

 ated. Lumbermen and traveling men 

 eligible to membership are invited to l>e 

 present. 



B. W. Edwards, manufacturer of the Ed- 

 wards log turner, Laceyville. Pa., reports ■ 

 business flourishing. Recent sales and 

 shipments were made to the following par- 

 ties: 



H. N. Fischer, Webbville, Ky. 

 H. G. Bradley, Abingdon, Va. 

 Isaac Paul, Kantner, Pa. 

 Teter & Scott, ilonroe, W. Va. 

 D. H. Ramey, Granville, O. 



C. L. Zinn, Philippi, W. Va. 



I. J. Warden. Silver Lake. Tenn. 



The Benedict-Love Company, which suc- 

 ceeded the Benedict Company, as an- 

 nounced in these columns recently, will 

 have their new mill completed and in 

 operation by July 1. They have moved 



A NEW BAND SAW SET. 

 We illustrate herewith the new 

 Criterion Band Saw Set. which is manu- 

 factured only by E. C. Atkins & Co. The 

 illustration shows the method of using the 

 set. which is a very simple one. It is 

 made of the best refined malleable iron 



their office from Nashville, Tenn., to Cal- 

 houn, S. C, where their mill and timber- 

 lands are located. 



The Davidson-Benedict Company of 

 Nashville, Tenn., have a fine large brick 

 furniture factory in connection with their 

 other business, which has been in opera- 

 tion since the first of March. It is valua- 

 ble to their lumber business in that it 

 uses up a very large portion of their low- 

 gi'ade stock to good advantage. 



and the die and anvil are drop forged 

 from the finest tool steel and properly hard- 

 ened. It is admirably adapted for setting 

 narrow band saws, carpenters' rip saws 

 and any saw having teeth of similar shape. 

 It is fully warranted in keeping with the 

 methods of this house, and at the price 

 of 75 cents no one who uses such de- 

 scrilied saws can afford to be without it. 



T. J. Youmans has sold out his lumber 

 business at Chattanooga, Tenn., and will 

 engage in the yellow pine business at Ar- 

 lington, Ga., under the firm name of the 

 Arlington Lumber Company. 



JIcArtliur & Grafton Company, owning 

 and operating saw mills in Bucyrus, Syca- 

 more, Robinson and Upper Sandusky, O., 

 have gone into the hands of a receiver 

 account of internal dissensions. The mills 

 will be sold. 



OLD TIME LUMBERMAN GONE. 



The death of George H. Burr, which oc- 

 curred recently at his home in Knoxville. 

 Tenn., removed an old-time lumberman 

 and a respected citizen from that fine old 

 town. Colonel Burr was 73 years old, 

 born in Connecticut, and was a direct de- 

 scendant of Aaron Burr. About thirty 

 years ago he established a lumber manu- 

 facturing business at Knoxville. Asso- 

 ciated with him were the late David Rich- 

 ardson and Col. Adrian Terry. When the 

 laud boom struck Knoxville 15 years ago 

 the firm disposed of its holdings and re- 

 tired from business. 



The large planing and saw mills of the 

 Itoy & Jackson Company at Nicholasville, 

 Ivy., were entirely desti'oyed recently. The 

 loss is estimated at $30,000, and insurance 

 given at $11,000. 



On April 21 a fire comipletely desti'oyed 

 the Gem City saw mill at Quincy, 111. 



L. D. Benedict & Co. is the name of a 

 new hardwood lumber concern. They are 

 located in the Association building, Chi- 

 cago. 



E. H. Hill, of the Hallett Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports that he is having an excel- 



The Steffey Lumber Company is a cor- 

 poration recently formed, with capital 

 stock of $15,000. The company succeeds 

 to the business of T. P. Steffey, whose mill 

 and plant is located at Rayville, La. 



