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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Wisconsin Lumber Company Starts Opera- 

 tions at Huttig, Ark. 



The reijoi-t from the new mills of the Wiscon- 

 sin Lumlier Company which recently started saw- 

 ing operations at Huttig, Ark., shows things to 

 he running smoothly. The cut is exclusively 

 hardwood, mainly red and white oak. The new 

 mill is one of the largest in the South, three 

 stories in height and covers an area 60x252 feet. 

 The entire mill equipment was furnished by 

 Tyler & Stowell, and consists of a right and left 

 band mill with eight-foot wheels and fourteen- 

 inch saws. Four Casey-Hedges boilers supply the 

 power. The machinery throughout is equipped 

 with electric drive with the exception of the 

 band saws, the power being generated from a 

 Westinghouse dynamo at the plant. The mill Is 

 equipped with baud cut-off and rip-saws which 

 are used for the manufacture of wagon, har- 

 vester and chair dimension stock. 



The Wisconsin Lumber Company is incor- 

 porated under the laws of the state of Wiscon- 

 sin. It is operating mills at Deering. Mo., and 

 Benham, Ky.. in addition to the above named 

 plant. The main offices are in the Harvester 

 building, Chicago, and are in charge of F. R. 

 Gadd, vice-president. 



New York Merger 



II has recently been announced that the 

 A. X. Peale Lumber Company. Flatiron building, 

 New York City; the J. S. Richards Lumber Com- 

 pany, 1 Madison avenue. New York City, and the 

 R. S. Coryell Lumber Company, Newark, N. J., 

 will be merged into a new corporation to be 

 known as the Peale-Coryell Lumber Company. 

 This new concern is to have its offices in the 

 Fifth Avenue building. Fifth avenue and Twenty- 

 third street. New York City. 



These three concerns have been prominent in 

 the local wholesale trade for a number of years 

 and their principals have likewise been asso- 

 ciated with the Metropolitan district wholesale 

 trade for a great many years, being slosely iden- 

 tiaed with the well-known William Whitmer & 

 Sons interests of Philadelphia. 



Succeeds Coq,uillard Wagon Works 



The Henderson Wagon Works Company has 

 recently filed articles of incorporation at Hen- 

 derson, Ky., with a capital stock of $300,000. 

 The company will take over the plant of the 

 Coquillard Wagon Company of Henderson. As 

 will be remembered, this concern went into bank- 

 ruptcy several months ago and was sold upon 

 the order of the court. Among the stockholders 

 in the new company are James B. Rankin, a 

 wealthy banker of Henderson ; Paul J. Meyers. 

 Philip Schlamp, a carriage manufacturer ; James 

 R. Barrett, Maurice E. Denton, and the Ohio 

 Valley Trust Company of Henderson. 



Mill Creek Luml)er Company 



A new concern for Peck's Mill, W. Va., is the 

 Mill Creek Lumber Company, which was recently 

 organized under the laws of West Virginia by 

 George Minister. Mr. Minister recently bought 

 a large tract of timber located near Peck's Mill 

 and will engage in the manufacture of oak, ash 

 and poplar lumber. M. Kramer is president of 

 the new concern, and George Minister is secre- 

 tary, treasurer and general manager. 



The Holland-Blow Stave Company 



A partnership was recently formed by C. A. 

 Weis and M. R. Williams of Decatur, Ala., to 

 engage in the manufacture of hickory rim stock 

 and wagon material. The new concern will 

 operate under the name of the Holland-Blow 

 Stave Company. 



Both gentlemen connected with this concern 

 are well known to the general trade. Mr. Weis 

 for some time has been identified in the lum- 

 ber and box trade, especially so in the manu- 

 facture of staves, being at present secretary 

 and treasurer of the Holland-Blow Stave Com- 

 pany. Mr. Williams has also had considerable 



experience in the lumber business, having been 

 conuecled with the well-known Three States 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, the Kentucky 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati and H. H. Hitt of 

 Danville, Ala. 



An ideal mill location has been secured near 

 Decatur on the Tennessee river, where a der- 

 rick has already been installed which will make 

 the work of handling logs from the river to the 

 mill an item of the least expense. The plant 

 Is also adjacent to the tracks of the Louisville 

 & Nashville and Southern railroads. 



Biltmore Doings for March, 1911 



The middle of March has ended our stay in 

 Germany, as we sailed from Rotterdam on Sat- 

 urday morning, March IS, arriving in New York 

 on March 27. Looking back over the winter's 

 work, it is almost impossible for us to estimate, 

 at this early moment, the value of the informa- 

 tion derived from our stay and from our mu- 

 nection both with German forestry and with 

 German forest industries. In the German forests 

 the results of German sylviculture, German forest 

 management. German forest finance, German for- 

 est policy and German fcresl protection were 

 seen and studied from beginning to end. In the 

 manufacturing institutions we have been struck 

 by the high quality of the work as well as by 

 the small quantity of the output ; further, by the 

 economy practiced under the pressure of high 

 stumpage prices. Our field work during the 

 month of March included two of the most inter- 

 esting trips of the winter. A full day was spent 

 in the Spessart Mountains, a district of Bavaria 

 known as the home of the best white oak on 

 earth. These oaks are up to 400 years old and 

 command a stumpage price of $170 per thousand 

 feet board measure, on an average. We have 

 .seen individual trees — number of them — having 

 a stumpage value which exceeded $500. The 

 texture of the timber seems to be particularly 

 fine. The owners are in the habit of putting an- 

 nually on the market a limited number of trees 

 only, so as to maintain the price. In our country 

 the restriction of the annual cut, in a desire to 

 maintain the price, would be decried as a dam- 

 nable trust. In Germany the same arrangement 

 succeeds in preserving the forests and in sup- 

 plying the country now and forever with oak 

 timber. 



The forests of Trippstadt were interesting to 

 us particularly because here it is that white 

 pine seeds were planted by a German officer, in- 

 gloriously returning from the Revolutionary War 

 of America, some 130 years ago. Having failed 

 to gather any laurels in his desire to defeat 

 CJeorge Washington, he returned to Germany 

 loaded with white pine cones. The result is 

 stunning indeed ; it consists of giant white pines, 

 surrounded nowadays by a second growth of 

 white pine up to thirty-five years old. It is 

 particularly interesting to note that the second 

 growth has been obtained by nature free of 

 charge and without any help rendered by men 

 other than fire protection. 



The day at Trippstadt was most enjoyable and 

 ended in a sharpshooters' match between Ameri- 

 can, German and English foresters, ending (natu- 

 rally) in a clean victory for the U. S. A. 



Just before leaving Germany we spent an in- 

 teresting day in some factories at Frankfort, 

 visiting a shoe last works using hornbeam and 

 beechwood and employing American machinery ; 

 and some tight cooperage works using American, 

 German and Russian white oak and employing 

 altogether a German make of machines manu- 

 factured by Schmaltz Brothers. The factory is 

 up to date in every particular, exporting wine 

 and beer barrels all over France and England. 



Our passage across the Atlantic was most com- 

 fortable. Dr. Schenck continued his lectures in 

 the main parlor of the first cabin every day, giv- 

 ing us the finishing touches in "American Forest 

 Policy." 



Arriving in New York we were given the first 

 five davs' vacation that the Biltmore Forest 



School has had during the year. We shall re- 

 port for duty at Lake Clear, in the Adirondacks, 

 on April 2, and shall stay at that place engaged 

 in the study of Empire state forestry for two or 

 three weeks. — Herbert L. Sullivan, Class Pres- 

 ident. 



New Memphis Concern 



Among the new enterprises established at 

 Memphis, Tenn., Is the Eagle Lumber Company, 

 which has recently been chartered under the 

 state laws with an authorized capital stock of 

 $25,000, of which $18,000 is paid in. The com- 

 pany will do a general wholesale hardwood busi- 

 ness, giving attention to all branches of the 

 trade, and has offices located in the new Ex- 

 change building. 



The president of this new enterprise is F. E. 

 Ragland of Oxford, Miss., who is also president 

 of the Southern Trust Company. The vice- 

 Ijresident is W. T. Hudson, who is also vice- 

 president of the Memphis Construction Company, 

 while C. B. Snowden is secretary. Mr. Snowden 

 was formerly connected with the New York 

 Lumber Manufacturing Company. 



The company recently purchased 4,000 acres 

 of timber land in Crittenden, Ark., for $100,000. 

 The land lies' south of Edmondson and was 

 largely owned by Hill, Fontaine & Co. The price 

 paid was $25 per acre, spot cash. The timber 

 is mostly oak, although there are other hard- 

 woods on the property. Sawmills will be placed 

 on the tract at an early date for getting out 

 timber in merchantable shape. The transaction 

 was made through Frank Trimble of Frank 

 Trimble & Co. of this city, and the price involved 

 is considered rather higher than that connected 

 with other similar transactions in this territory 

 recently. 



Old Lum1}erman Passes Away 



Charles S. Green, for many years an exten- 

 sive lumberman and more recently a coal oper- 

 ator, of Philadelphia, died on March 26 at the 

 age of eighty-one. At the time of his death 

 he was manager and treasurer of the Red Run 

 Coal Company of Pennsylvania. In his will he 

 bequeathed $600,000 to maintain a home for 

 aged persons at Roaring Branch, where he had 

 lived for more than half a century. Numerous 

 other bequests, most of them of considerable 

 size, indicated the charitable spirit of the de- 

 ceased and his friendship tor the homeless. 



McLean Lumber Company Suffers Severe 

 Fire Loss 



The plant of the McLean Lumber Company at 

 Chattanooga, Tenn., was destroyed by fire the 

 night of March 22, a large amount of expensive 

 machinery being ruined. The total loss will 

 probably aggregate $50,000, which is mainly 

 covered by insurance. The principal damage was 

 done in the mill, the other buildings and lumber 

 in the yards not being reached by the flames to 

 any extent. 



The fire was of a spectacular nature and 

 owing to the complication of runways and pip- 

 ing, was very difficult tor the firemen to com- 

 bat. They, however, put up a strenuous oppo- 

 sition to the advance of the flames, and eventu- 

 ally succeeded in subduing them and confining 

 them to the mill. 



Lumljer Insurance Company Merger Com- 

 pleted 



The proposed consolidation of the Lumber 

 Insurance Company of New York and the Adiron- 

 dack Fire Insurance Company into one company, 

 to be known as the Lumber Insurance Company 

 of New York, was formerly ratified at a recent 

 meeting of the stockholders and directors of 

 both companies held at 84 Williams street. New 

 York City. 



To all intents and purposes the merger be- 

 came effective on April 1, and the minor details 



