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at $100,000. The incorporators are J. G., Q. R. 

 and L. C. Shelton and William Moore. 



Tlie Hammond Box & Veneer Company of 

 Hammond. La., is mailing good progress in tlie 

 erection of its factory, some of tiie macliinery 

 being already on the way to the manufacturers. 



The Loeper-Wyatt Lumber Company of Cole- 

 man, Tex., recently increased Its capital stock 

 from $50,000 to .$7.5.000. It has also moved its 

 lieadquartcrs from that place to I^'ort Worth, 

 Te.\-. 



The C. H. Nold Lumber Company was recently 

 incorporated at St. Joseph, Mo., with a capital 

 Steele of ,$110,000. The incorporators are Chas. 

 H. Nold, James S. Taylor and William G. Rob- 

 bins. 



The Hall & Legen Lumber Company of Mor- 

 ton, Scott County. Miss., was recently incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of .|200,000. The 

 Incorporators include A. B. Hall, J. W. Legen 

 and Jeff Kent. 



The Hamlin Lumber Company, Bangor, Me., 

 is a new concern capitalized at ,$10,000. The 

 company will do a general manufacturing busi- 

 ness. Hs incorporators are Geo. H. and Chas. 

 M. Hamlin and others. 



Fire on October 24 destroyed the dry-kiln and 

 a large amount of lumber in the yard of the 

 Holly Lumber Company. Pickens, W. Va. The 

 Holly company is a manufacturer of poplar and 

 hardwood lumber and its loss is estimated at 

 $75,000. 



The I'. S. Torrey Veneer Company of Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., has been incorporated with $20,- 

 000 capital. The head of the concern was for- 

 merly connected with the Grand Rapids Veneer 

 Works and later with the H. S. Holden Veneer 

 Company. 



The Anchor Furniture Company was recently 

 incorporated at Pine Bluff, Ark., with a capital 

 stock of ?] 5,000, .$8,800 already being subscribed. 

 The incorporators are T. L. Davis, H. E. Wil- 

 liams, A. Uickoy, C. A. Huber and (_'. IL and 

 William Fuddlehester. 



A new concern for Auburn, Me., is the Han- 

 cock Lumber Company, capitalized at $50,000. 

 The concern will carry on a general lumbering 

 business and has is its president It. B. Straton, 

 Uumford, Me., and treasurer and clerk D. K. 

 Hastings of Auburn. Me. 



The United Mill Work Company of Stuttgart, 

 Ark., has been granted a charter by the secretary 

 of state. The company has a capital stock of 

 $50,000. Its incorporators are C. C. Van Du.yne, 

 J. A. Harr, J. R. Pennington, G. B. A. Sickel, 

 Jerome L. Tindall, J. I. Porter and Ray 0. Burks. 



The Edgar Veneer & Manufacturing Company 

 of Edgar, Wis., will start up its excelsior plant 

 about the tlrst of the year and will begin to 

 manufacture veneer in the spring. Tlie com- 

 pany will carry a capital stock of $.30,000 and 

 the value of the plant will approximate $18,000. 



The New England Cabinet Works of Cumber- 

 land, Md., was recently incorporated with a cap- 

 ital stock of $25,000. The concern will deal in 

 and manufacture office fixtures, mantles, soda 

 fountain fixtures, etc. C. W. Clifford of Bath 

 is president and i!. F. Maxcy of Portland, is 

 treasurer. 



The plant of the Texas Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, located six miles north of Brookeland, 

 Tex., was destroyed by fire on October 15. The 

 plant was just new, having only recently been 

 moved from Brookeland and new machinery in- 

 stalled. The exact loss is not known, and there 

 was no insurance. 



The Calcasieu Veneer, Box & Crate Company 

 has been incorporated at Lake Charles. La., with 

 a capital of $L'5,000. The company has erected 

 a plant in whi<di is already installed veneer ma- 

 chinery to the value of $5,00(). It will be capa- 

 ble of turning out from 20,000 to 40.000 feet of 

 veneers a day, using gum, pine and oak. 



Roy E. and Arthur Taylor of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., and H. D. Lyons of Muskegon, have organ- 

 ized the Lyons Folding Wardrobe Company, 

 capitalized at $20,000. Th.' new concern has 



purcha.sed the building, formerly occupied by 

 the Muskegon Carving Works and will commence 

 business as soon as necessary arrangements arc 

 made. 



The Enterprise Lumber & Commission Com- 

 pany of New Orleans, La., has secured a lease 

 on a site near CarroUton avenue on the Illinois 

 Central road, on which to operate its plant. The 

 company has a capital of $25,000. S. W. Boyd 

 is vice president and General manager and L. 

 Strauss is secretary. The company will handle 

 yellow pine, hardwood and cypress. 



Word comes from Little Rock, Ark., that the 

 Poinsett Lumber & Manufacturing Company of 

 that place has let a contract for the erection of 

 a $100,000 sawmill and veneer plant at Tru- 

 mann. Ark. Work on the new plant, which will 

 bo up-to-date iu every particular, will be rushed 

 with the greatest: expedition. Two hundred men 

 will be employed when it is finished. 



The Johnson-Baker-nonaldson (.'hair Company 

 was recently organized at Morristown. Tenn., 

 with a capital stock of $25,000. The new con- 

 cern owns a fully equipped plant lliat will com- 

 pare favorably with any other institution of the 

 kind in the South. The following otficers were 

 elected : J. K. Johnson. pr-esi<lent: : R. I. Donald- 

 son, vice-president : Geo. W. Baker, secretary and 

 treasurer. The plant is now ready to begin 



operations, and has a dally capacity of 500 

 chairs. 



'Ihe Osage Welch School Desk Furniture Com- 

 liany recently filed articles of Incorporation at 

 Oklahoma City, Okla. The company is capital- 

 ized at $75,000 and has among its board of 

 directors a number of prominent citizens of Okla- 

 homa City. The plant of the company will be 

 located at Osage City and the contract has al- 

 ready been let for the four main buildings. The 

 factory will have an output of 50,000 school 

 desks per year besides other furnishing products. 

 I). S. Welch, president of the new company, for 

 many .years was local agent for the Welch Desk 

 ".nipany of Anamosa, la. 



The Maley. Thompson & MolTett Company, 

 hardwood and veneer house of Cincinnati, has 

 closed out the wholesale domestic and export 

 yard at the foot of East Thirtieth street, Man- 

 ila I tan, N. Y., and will open new yards at At- 

 lantic Basin, Brooklyn. The new quarters will 

 carry a complete stock of mahogany, domestic 

 hardwoods and veneers for home and foreign 

 consumption, and inasmuch as they are situ- 

 ated in the heart of the export district, the facil- 

 ities of Ihe 'company will bo greatly augmented. 

 Manager Burgess will henceforth maintain head- 

 iiuarters at i>5 Beaver street. New York, and 

 will establish a branch office at the yard. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD Special CorreSDondentiiJ 



CHICAGO 



R. S. Kellogg of ^^'ausau, Wis., secretary of 

 the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, attended the meeting of the 

 Board of Governors of tlie National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association in Chicago on Octo- 

 ber 25. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, was a recent visitor to tlie 

 Chicago trade. 



C. M. Christiansen of the Christiansen Lumber 

 Company. Rector building, Cliicago, lias returned 

 from a trip to the northern part of Wisconsin. 



R. J. Wiggs of the R. J. Darnell Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn., made a short stop in Chicago 

 recently. 



F. D. Timlin of the Wheeler-Timlin Company, 

 with offices at the First National Bank building, 

 Chicago, and headquarters at Wausau, Wis., re- 

 cently spent a few days with the Chicago trade. 



L. B. Lesh of the Lesh & Matthews laimher 

 Company, Marquette building, has returned from 

 a short business trip to Memphis. Tenn. 



W. A. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Company 

 of Memphis recently spent a few days in Chicago. 



The entire plant of the Turner Cabinet Com- 

 pany of West Chicago, III., was recently de- 

 stroyed Ijy fire. The loss in Iiuilding and stock 

 was total. 



Among the American visitors in attendance at 

 the Liverpool mahogany auctions Novemlier 9 

 and 10 was R. S. liacon of the R. S. Bacon 

 Veneer Company. Chicago. Mr. Bacon sailed 

 on October 20 on the steamer Laurentic and 

 from Liverpool he will continue to the Caucasus 

 to take up a lot of Circassian logs. 



T. Finnic of Marsball. Knott & Barker. I,td., 

 of Marsh Lane, Liverpool, Eng., has been making 

 an extensive selling trip through American con- 

 suming points, covering both the Nortli and the 

 South. lie visited tlii' Chicago mahogany buyers. 



The miiin Furniture Company of Rockford, 

 111., has erected a new plant to take the place 

 of the one destroyed by fire last spring. As yet 

 there has been no machinery or equipnicnl in- 

 stalled. 



The Wright Carriage Body Company of Moline 

 has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to 

 $150,000. 



The Fort Dearborn Company lias been incor- 

 porated in Chicago with $SO.000 capital, to do 

 a general contracting and manufacturing busi- 

 ness. The incorporators are T. W. Kelly, W. D. 

 Watson and S. Anderson. 



The Wisconsin Lumber Company of Chicago 

 has begun sawing at its new hardwood mill at 

 lliittig. Ark. The capacity of the mill is 100,- 

 000 feet. It will manufacture, besides lumber, 

 such products as car and wagon stock, poles, 

 reaches, sawed felloes, bolsters, hubs, axles and 

 sjiokes. The plant is modern in every way. 



C. W. Manning, the well-known veneer and 

 hardwood lumberman of New York City, was a 

 Chicago visitor on November 1 and paid ihe 

 RfX'OHD sanctum a call. 



B. S. Sacksionie of Dunn, La., and Paris, 

 France, was in Chicago last week offering some 

 very desirable Louisiana hardwood timber prop- 

 erties for sale. 



Blrd's-Eye Walker of the Walker Veneer & 

 Panel Works, this cit.v, has just returned from 

 a four months' vacation spent on his farm near 

 Alpena, Mich. Mr. Walker is enthusiastic over 

 the simple life and is very much improved in 

 health. His friends arc glad to see him back 

 in tlie local trade again. 



At a recent meeting of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturcr.s' Association it recommended to 

 owners of short line railroads who wish to have 

 a standing with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission that they each appoint A. F. Tennllle, 

 :i5 Bliss building, Washington, D. C, as resident 

 agent and give notice to the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission of this fact so that service of 

 notices and processes may be had. Some such 

 an appointment is required by section C of the 

 new Interstate Commerce Act and Is Important 

 because otherwise notices and proces.ses are 

 served by simply posting in the office of the 

 Commission, whereas In the case an agent is 

 appointed papers are served upon the agent, 

 who in turn transmits them direct to the parties 

 itil crested. 



Maurice Everly, the well-known manufacturer 

 of dimension lumber and of carriage stock, who 

 lias been located for many years at Island, Ky.. 

 has moved to Ashland City, Tenn., where he has 

 purchased 1,400 acres of hickory timber known 

 as the Sycamore Powder Mills Tract, and has 

 the new mill in operation, cutting the timber 



