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New Veneer Warehouse 



C. L. WiUey's new foiu'-stoi'y brick flrcproof! 

 veneer wareliouse in connection with iiis big 

 plant at Robey street and Blue isiand avenue 

 has been completed and is already slocked witli 

 veneers. Mr. Wllley lias lunised In this new 

 and adjoining warehouse I he larpiest stock of 

 veneers in the United Slates, aggregating up- 

 wards of ll.ono.O(](l I'oet. The stock comprises fig- 

 ured mahogany, English oak, paduc and a collec- 

 tion of nearly every variety of foreign and 

 domestic woods In veneer form. While a large 

 portion of the "tock is sawn veneers, Mr. Wiiley 

 also carries a largo stock of sliced and rotary 

 cut poplars, maple and other veneers made from 

 domestic woods. 



Last week the Wiiley institution received an 

 additional large consignment of figured mahog- 

 any and Vermillion logs. Itoth the Wllley plants 

 at Chicago and Memphis are running in full 

 force and the house reports an e.'icellent vol. 

 lime of t>nsitloss. 



Veneer News Notes 



The new plant of the Linderman Box & 

 Veneer Company at Eau Claire, Wis., is almost 

 completed and within a very short time the 

 company expects to have it in full operation 

 with- an increased number of employees the 

 year round. The factory is a model in every 

 respect and is equipped with up-to-date ma- 

 chinery. 



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Following the incorporation of the Ileimberger 

 & Drinkard Veneer Mills at New Albany, Ind., 

 the concern announces that additional machinery 

 will be installed in its plant, making the out- 

 put of veneers almosi double the former amount. 

 This concern has been unusually successful from 

 the start. It was organized about two years 

 ago and for the past few months has been 

 working a day and a night shift, getting out 

 its product of sawed veneers, which has all 

 been contracted for in advance. 



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The Anderson Veneer & Sawmill Company has 

 begun operations in Parkland, just out of Louis- 

 ville, Ky. It is run in connection with t'lc- 

 Lauisviile Planing Mill and the Kentucky Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, which are operated 

 by W. V. Shepardson. O. Anderson is the prin- 

 cipal owner and W. V. Shepardson is manager. 

 The mill is working on quarter-sawed oak 

 veneers and although it has been in operation 

 but a short time the future for the business 

 seems bright. The veneer mill is equipped witli 

 some of the machinery of the old Peerless Veneer 

 Company which operated in Louisville a short 

 time. 



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The Cincinnati (O. ) Panel Company has boon 

 Incorporated with ,$100,000 capital. 

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The Texarkana (Ark.) Seating Company, re- 

 cently organized, will establish a plant for the 

 manufacture of school deslis, chairs and other 

 furniture. 



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The Milford Veneer Company has been organ-- 

 ized at Milford, Ind., to operate a veneer plant. 

 Those interested in the company, which is capi- 

 talized at $20,000, are S. E. Ilollopeter, .Tohn 

 Beer and Emma E. Hollopeter. 



Notable Nashville Wedding 



At four o'clock on Saturday, October 20, at 

 the Presbyterian Church of Nashville, Tenn., 

 will be solemnized the wedding of Harry A. 

 Batchelor, .Ir., head of the Tennessee Oak Floor- 

 ing Company, to Miss Estelle Shook, daughter 

 of Col. A. M. Shook, a millionaire of that cily. 

 Itev. James I. Vance will officiate. The chui'ch 

 will be beautifully decorated and the bridal party 

 will include some twelve or thirteen bridesmaids 

 and groomsmen. Mrs. E. A. Price, sister of Miss 



Shook, will l)e matron of honor, and her daugh- 

 ter, little Miss Margaret Price, will be maid of 

 honor. The wedding will be followed by an 

 elaborate reception at I he home of the bride, 

 and a large number of out-oftown guests will 

 attend. 



Mr. Bali'hcliir, who draws this lucky prize in 

 the matrimonial game, went to Nashville a little 

 over a year ago from Saginaw, Mich., and estab- 

 lished an immense flooring plant there, in which 

 a quarter of a million dollars arc invested.- He 

 is very popular with lumbermen In Nashville 

 social circles, which duplicales his popularity 

 and slanding in his home cily. 



IIAIiKV .1. BATCIlICr.OI!. .Tit. 



MISS ESTELLI-: SIIOOI-C 



Miss Shook is one of the most beautiful, charm- 

 ing and taloiiled young ladies of Nashville. 



i'he bride and groom have the most liearty 

 congratulations of Hakdwood IfECORD. 



The Big Taft-Balch Syndicate of Cincinnati 



About a year ago a parly of Cincinnali capi- 

 talists were induced to look into a project em- 

 bracing the purchase of 00,000 acres of timber 

 land in Louisiana, with a view to investment. 

 Several meetings were held and a visit to the 

 limber land by those interested was finally de- 



cided on. An expert timber cruiser went with 

 I he party, wlio spent two weeks in the survey, 

 in the meantime enjoying "roughin it," and the 

 hunting and lisliing. Upon the return to Cln- 

 ciimatl a syndicate headed by G. K. Balch was 

 rormed and sufllclent capital interested to take 

 over tlic property. For a time it was debated 

 whether to parcel the land out to mill men and 

 let them cut off the timber or form an operating 

 company to cut the limber and then put the 

 land on the market for farming purposes. 



The argument for an operating company 

 finally prevailed, and work was at once com- 

 inenced to that end. It then developed that 

 another Cincinnati syudlcati^ known as the Taft 

 syndicate, owned ten thousand acres adjoining 

 the tract of the Baieh syndicate. Overtures 

 were made to the Taft people and the two hold- 

 ings were consolidated as the Taft-Balch syndi- 

 cate. This arrangement gives control of 70,000 

 acres of the finest oak and red gum timber land 

 now slanding in the United Slates. The timber 

 land lies in Concordia and other jiarishes in 

 Louisiana and is easily accessible to the Black 

 Itiver, Tensas and Bayou Macon. 



The land proposition having been finally con- 

 summated, upon the advice of S. A. Conn, the 

 noted timber cruiser, who is familiar with every 

 foot of timber on the land, it was decided to 

 form an operating company to erect mill plants 

 and manufacture and dispose of the lumber 

 through the foreign and domestic markets, the 

 lii-operty being readily accessible to the Missis- 

 sippi liiver. A part of the plan determined upon 

 by the new company is to operate towboats and 

 barges for handling their output through New 

 Orleans to the foreign markets, and also reach 

 the domestic trade through Cairo, St. Louis and 

 up-river centers. The completion of the nine- 

 foot stage on the Ohio Kiver will enable the 

 company by means of barges to put lumber in 

 the Cincinnati and Ohio liiver markets at a 

 lower rate than by rail. The company will 

 build its own boats and barges should any difli- 

 culty be experienced in procuring the necessary 

 transportation. 



Contracts have already been closed for a mill 

 of 50,000 feet daily capacity, with all the latest 

 improved machinery. The' general manager of 

 the new company, S. A. Conn, is on the ground 

 superintending tlie erection of the new band- 

 mill, which it is expected will be installed and 

 cutting lumber by February I, 1911. 



This is but the preliminary work to extensive 

 operations, as mills will be erected at various 

 points on the land as rapidly as possible. 



The operating company has been incorporated 

 under the laws of Louisiana, with a capital of 

 $100,000, for the purpose of erecting a mill on 

 the bank of the Tensas River, the northern 

 boundary of the property and on the line of the 

 N. & W. Railway. 



The company is named "The Tensas River 

 Lumber Company, of Louisiana." and is officered 

 as follows: President, Geo. R. Balch; vice-presi- 

 dent. Cliff S. Walker ; treasurer, C. A. Bosworth ; 

 secretary, L. C. Black : the additional directors 

 are C. P. Taft, L. A. Ault and S. A. Conn. A 

 number of well-known Cincinnati capitalists are 

 stockliolders in the concern. 



This list of names, all of Cincinnati, speaks 

 well for the financial solidity and success of 

 the new organization. S. A. Conn, the general 

 manager, is well-known to the lumber and tlm- 

 bermen of the country as the best posted man 

 on standing hardwoods in the West and South. 

 "Sam" Conn, as he is familiarly called, says that 

 he has known this property for ten years and 

 been over every foot of it. He considers it the 

 finest piece of timber land in the country, espe 

 daily for oak and red gum. 



Temporary headquarters of the big company 

 are in Cincinnati, and It is expected that the 

 general headquarters will be permanently located 

 there. Manager Conn has opened an office for 

 the company at Natchez. Miss., for the trans- 



