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tently. In the riailors. halls, reception rooms 

 and dinin;; rooms the floors arc usually of par- 

 quetry design. 



Those small nianufaefurers do not Import 

 lumlwr on their own account, but purchase from 

 the lumlwr dealers in Madrid, with the exception 

 ot the coopers, who get their supplies from Barce- 

 lona. The manufacture ot furniture, especially 

 of imitations of American office furniture, the 

 articles being called "American stylo" furniture, 

 is becoming an important industry, and there is 

 a good prospect of a growing market for (juarter- 

 sawed oak. 



The trade in building materials is very active 

 at present, owing to the demand created by 

 the construction of a large number of bouses 

 in the city. The materials used are about the 

 same as in the United States for framework. 

 As the houses are all of brick, stone or con- 

 crete, and are roofed with tiles, there is no de 

 mand for weather boarding or shingles. 



Three ot the largest importers of lumber in 

 Madrid haye been interviewed and they have 

 all e.\prcssea a willingness to consider oU'ers 

 of American exporters. Their names appear 

 first in the list of importers forwarded and 

 obtainable from the Bureau of Manufactures. 



Cottonwood lumber, about which inquiries have 

 been made with the object of developing a trade 

 therein in this district, is not imported direct 

 at any port in the Valencia district, and is so 

 little known here that only a sample lot offered 

 from Barcelona has been discovered and about 

 to be tried as lining and veneer by a furniture 

 manufacturer. 



TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY 



WANTED—OPERATING MANAGER 



for bardwooti mill and liuibnr tract in Southern 

 Arkansas. Must have experience in handling 

 logging, railroad and band mill operations. 

 Ownoi's are large consumers of lumber and 

 opportunities open for high-grade man to build 

 complete plant and manage same. State age, 

 experience in detail, and salary expected. Ad- 

 dress "BOX 200," care H.iiiDwoOD Hecord. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Beta Lumbor Company of Jackson. Tenn.. 

 was recent iy incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $2.^,000, by George Hundson. 



The plant of the Baton Rouge Lumber Com- 

 pany at Baton Rouge. La., which was destroyed 

 by fire some time ago, will soon be rebuilt. 



Fire recently destroyed the mills and storage 

 yards of the Sumter Lumber Company near 

 Livingston, Ala. The loss is estimated at $500,- 

 000. 



The Hardwood Land Company has been incor- 

 porated at Shelroygan, Wis., with a capital stock 

 of $50,000 to do a general manufacturing busi- 

 ness. 



It is reported that the planing mill of the 

 Gulf Lumber Company ot Stables, La., which 

 was recently destroyed by tire, will soon be re- 

 built. 



The Greenville Mantel & Novelty Company, 

 Greenville, S. C, has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $2."),000 to manufacture hard- 

 wood mantels, showcases, interior finish, etc. 



Work has already begun on the construction 

 of the .'illOO,000 plant ot the Hardwood Products 

 Company at Neenah, Wis. It will be used for 

 the manufacture of Interior hardwood finishings. 



The J. C. Cristy Lumber Company at Ham- 

 tramck, Mich, was recently Incorporated with 

 ri capital stock of .$00,000. The principal stock- 

 iiolders are .Tamos C. and Laura Hart Cristy and 

 Frank R. Cook, all of Detroit. 



The Summers Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Nacogdoches, Tex., for the purpose 

 of doing a general manufacturing business. The 

 incorporators are T. H., .Tames R. and E. J. 

 Summers and a number of others. 



A charter has recently been granted to the 

 Banner Furniture Company, Davidson county, 

 Tenn. The capital stock is $6,000, and the in- 

 <orporators are W. J. March, W". R. Ivey, N. J. 

 I'ritchard, F. S. Ivey and L. M. Ranken. 



A new concern for Los Angeles, Cal., is the 

 Pacific Hardwood Company. Its capital stock 

 is $25,000, $5,000 of which has already been 

 subscribed. Albert Schliem, H. A. Chamberlain 

 and R. B. Chamberlain are the directors. 



A charter was recently issued to the Brown- 

 lee Lumber Company of Carter, Okla. The new 

 concern has a capital stock of $10,000, and its 

 directors are J. A. Wbitehurst and T. L. Brown- 

 lee of Sayre, and R. R. Brownlee ot Carter. 



G. P. Mayberry of Columbia, Tenn., manufac- 

 turer of oak, poplar and walnut, has recently 

 purchased the valley mills from the Valley Mill- 

 ing Company and will add the production of 

 floor, n.oiil and feedstuffs to his hardwood iu- 

 terests. 



Articles of incorporation have recently been 

 Hied by the Metropolitan Lumber Company of 

 Elizabeth, N. J. The capital stock is $10,000 

 and the incorporators are Albert Marsh of New- 

 ark, Lena Sherman of Jersey City and Michael 

 Kurta of Elizabeth. 



Fire recently destroyed the table factory of C. 

 II. Ileckoroth at 1432 North Randolph street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. The building, which is a two- 

 story structure, was filled with much dry timber, 

 unfinished tal)les and other articles of furniture, 

 which burned rapidly. 



The Federal Lumber Company, Clinton 

 street, Newark, X. J., has recently been incor- 

 porated. The authorized capital stock is $50,- 

 000, of which $1,100 is paid up. The incorpo- 

 rators are N. Howell Mitchell, George M. Plum 

 and F. W'. Rosenbaum. 



A new concern for Magnolia, N. C, is the 

 Magnolia Furniture Company, which has re- 

 cently been incorporated with a capital stock 



of $25,000. _ The company will do a general 

 manufacturing business. The incorporators are 

 J. C. Home and L. M. Sanderson. 



An application for a charter has been made 

 by the Openn Lumber Company of New Castle, 

 Pa. The incorporators are P. A. Robinson, V. E. 

 Dennis. James T. Ray and Harry W. White. The 

 now concern expects to manufacture lumber and 

 will have the power to buy and sell or lease 

 timber land. 



A charter has been issued to the Oklahoma 

 Hardwood Manufacturing Company of Muskogee, 

 Okla. The new concern is capitalized at $10.- 

 000, and its incorporators are J. M. Sberrod and 

 Mrs. J. M. Sherrod, Muskogee ; T. B. Sorrel of 

 Tupelo and W. H. Gillispie and J. W. Bush of 

 Birmingham, Ala. 



Mhe Hardwood Manufacturing Company has 

 recently been incorporated at Conway, S. C. 

 with a capital stock of $2,000. for the purpose 

 of mannfiiclu)'ing shuttle blocks, hickory bandies 

 and plow beams. The officers of the new con- 

 corn are ('. R. Scarborough, president, and 

 Miriam L. Scarborough, secretary-treasurer. The 

 company will erect a building 50x100 feet of 

 ordinary construction in the near future. 



Work on the Wright Lutpber Company's new 

 sawmill at Merrill, Wis., is progressing steadily, 

 and it is expected that it will be in operation 

 by the first of the year. As soon as the build- 

 ing is enclosed the work of installing the ma- 

 chinery will begin, and by the time the structure 

 is complete the equipment will be in place ready 

 for work. Several crews of men arc engaged in 

 cutting logs, and already several million feet 

 nave been cut and are awaiting shipment to the 

 mill. 



Plans have been completed for the erection of 

 the new chair manufacturing plant which is to 

 be located at North Mobile, Ala., and work there- 

 on will begin shortly. N. F. Thompson of the 

 North Mobile Development Company states that 

 the main structure of the new building will be 

 "h" shaped. SSOxlOO feet, the "L" extending 

 liack 300 feet. Inside the "L" will be four other 

 large buildings. The location is excellent, be- 

 ing in touch with Mobile by three railroads and 

 .in electric car line. 



Hardwood J^eWs. 



(B7 HABDWOOD BECOBD Special CorressondentsJ 



this week in Chicago and incident to business at- 

 ■^^^^^M tended the opera. 



CHIC AGO 



William B. Ileinemann of the B. Heinemanii 

 Lumber ('onipany, Wausau, Wis., was a Chicago 

 visitor hist week. He visited his wife, who has 

 been ill in a hospital here for some weeks. Mr. 

 Ileinemann is to be congratulated upon the fact 

 that his wife is rapidly convalescing. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 spent several da.vs in Chicago last week on 

 business connected with the organization. 



John W. Blodgett. the well-known timber 

 owner of Grand Rapids, Mich., was In Chicago 

 December 1 en route to the Soutli country. 



John Madden, the well-known inspector of 

 Duluth, Minn., spent several days last week in 

 this city. 



E. W. Pratt of the PrattWortbington Com- 

 pany, Crofton, Ky., manufacturer of wagon 

 wood stock, visited his several customers in tlio 

 local trade last week. 



George W. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 Memphis, 'I'eiin.. accompanied by his wife, was 

 in Chicago December 1 and 2 on business. Mr. 

 Burgess states that his associate, W. H. Russe, 

 sailed from Bremen for home on December 1. 



Henry Ballon, superintendent of the big lum- 

 ber and maple flooring institution of Cobbs & 

 Mitchell, Inc.. Cadillac, Mich., accompanied by 

 bis wife ami daughter, spent the greater part of 



George P. Montgomery of Jacksonville, Fla., 

 interested in gum production, paid his respects 

 to the Record office on November 2D. 



Sam Burkholder of Crawfordsvillo, the dean 

 of the Indiana hardwood profession, was a Rec- 

 oiiD caller on November 29. Mr. Burkholder is 

 very much pleased with the immediate outlook 

 for hardwoods. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo., was a 

 Chicago visitor last week and paid the Recoup a 

 call. While in town Mr. Dings visited his nu 

 nierous customers in this market and reports the 

 best trade he has had here for months. 



The branch oflioe of the big machinery house 

 of Beloit. Wis., the Berlin Machine Works, lo- 

 cated at Columbia, S. C in charge of E. H. Mac- 

 Lean, has been transferred to Atlanta, Ga.. 

 where it is believed the business interests of the 

 company in the Atlantic coast and south central 

 stales can bo carried on with greater dispatch. 

 The office formerly located at Montgomery, Ala . 

 will join the Atlanta office. The new branch 

 office is located at 1502 Candler building, and 

 is already enjoying a good business. The new 

 office is in charge of E. IT. MacLean and C. II. 

 Hitchcock, each having the responsibility of bis 

 own territory as heretofore, Mr. MacLean being 

 sales manager for the Atlantic coast states and 

 Mr. Hitohoock for the central southern states. 

 A. E. VallfMin also makes his headquarters at 



