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HARDWOOD RECORD 



C. H. Cadwell of Bean Bridge. Ua., lias re- 

 iintly leased his large sawmill plant and 

 grounds to a compauj' who will operate an 

 extensive hardwood mill at that point. It is 

 said that work will begin on the plant in the 

 near future. 



The Muskogee Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 a new firm that has recently located in Mus- 

 kogee, Okla. The company will make that 

 city a distributing point and will handle hard- 

 wood flooring, doors, window facing and every- 

 thing in the hardwood line. 



■ The Green Lumber Company of Suffolk. Va., 

 was recently incorporated with a maximum 

 capital stock of $25,000 and a minimum of 

 $5,000. The officers of the company are W. J. 

 Green, president: George T. McClenny, treas- 

 urer, and R. J. McClenny, secretary. 



A new $10,000,000 combination of boat build- 

 ers has been formed, with the Kacine Boat Com- 

 pany of Muskegon, Mich., at its head. Walter 

 J. Keynolds has been elected president ; J. M. 

 Truescott. vice-president, and J. D. Eowe, sec- 

 retary. Various other boat concerns in Michigan 

 and Wisconsin are interested. 



James McConnell & Son have recently re- 

 moved their offices from Cowen to Ketchell in 

 Marion county, Tennessee. The McConnells re- 

 cently bought a tract of virgin poplar in Ten- 

 nessee, most of which is located in Marion 

 county. Besides poplar the tract contains a 

 nice stand of hickory, which will be cut with 

 the poplar. 



The factory of the Lawton Basket Company 

 of Lawton. Mich., was recently destroyed by 

 lire, causing a loss on the building of $1,000, 

 machinery $1,500 and stock $2,500. The com- 

 pany is making preparations to build new fire- 

 proof buildings and will also purchase new 

 machinery. Most of the machinery is now 

 damaged to a great extent. 



The output of the Tennessee Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, l^ouisville, Ky., which has recently 

 been organized, will be sold by the J. T. Mor- 

 gan Lumber Company of that city. The com- 

 Iiany has a plant with a capacity of 30,000 to 

 40,000 feet of oak, poplar and gum per day. 

 It also has a new band mill located on the 

 Ohio river near Kockport, 111., with good shipping 

 facilities. 



Harold C. Johnson of the Drummond Timber 

 Company of Kreeton. Mich., was appointed by 

 the United Stales Court of Grand Rapids. Mich.. 

 on Tuesday. December C. as receiver of the 

 liogardu^ I.aml & Lumber Company, the Pelis- 

 ton Light & I'ower Company. Pellston Planing 

 Mill Company and the Pellston Turning & 

 Manufacturing Company, all of Pellston, Mich., 

 and is now in clirirgi-. 



The woodworking plant of Liles Brothers at 

 Liles, Mi.ss., was recently destroyed by Pre. 

 The plant was leased by tiie Scott Spoke Com- 

 pany, which lost all of its machinery for the 

 manufacture of spokes, while the loss to the 

 Liles Brothers is that of the sawmill and planer. 

 The Scott company's loss is placed at $15,000, 

 while the Liles Brothers' less is estimated at 

 $3,000. There was no insurance 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 been filed in the Federal Court at Nashville 

 against H. C. Card, A. H. Card and the firm 

 of A. n. Card & Co., also the Clear Fork 

 Lumber Company, by Lucien B. Beckner. who 

 enters a claim of $9,000 for the rent of a 

 sawmill and machinery for three years : the 

 Duncan Lumber Company with a claim of $09.79 

 and Heth, Simmons & Co. with a claim of $50. 



'a new planing mill is to be built by Becker 

 Brother & Son in Baltimore. Md. The plant 

 will be thoroughly modern in every particular 

 and will have a full and complete equipment 

 of up-to-date machinery. The buildings proper 

 will be solidly constructed and fireproof as far 



as it is possible to make them. The plumbing 

 throughout will be sanitary and a sprinkler 

 system of the most improved kind will be in- 

 stalled throughout the plant. 



R. E. Klages and Madison Lafell have opened 

 a porch furniture factory at 1217 Fair avenue. 

 Columbus, O., and are doing business under the 

 name of the Buckeye State Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. The plant is only a small one producing 

 from forty to fifty swings and other small 

 products per day. The machinery, which con- 

 sists of cutoff, rip and band saws, a flooring 

 machine, a six-inch molder, sander and a small 

 planer, has been Installed and is now in opera- 

 tion. 



Papers of incorporation were recently filed 

 for the Deakle Lumber Company by Frank Hem- 

 ley and B. C, C. M. and R. L. Deakle, who are 

 the directors and officers of the company for 

 the first year. The capital stock of the com- 

 pany is $4,000. The purpose of the new con- 

 cern is to buy, sell and deal in and mortgage 

 lands, leases and timber, and they also intend 

 to handle turpentine privileges. All the incor- 

 porators are residents of Bayou la Batre. .\la., 

 where the office of the company is to be. 



Because of the congealing or thickening of 

 the greases customarily used, the oiling of ma- 

 chinery, particularly that used in unwarmcd 

 places, is sometimes difficult in winter. Oils 

 thinned with kerosene do not readily thicken 

 or congeal. A combination of cylinder oil. 

 kerosene and graphite will stand a temperature 



several degrees below zero. The cylinder oil 

 and graphite should be mixed to the consistency 

 of a thin paste and this thinned by the addi- 

 tion of kerosene until it flows quite freely. 



Yate, which is native to western Australia, 

 is believed to he the strongest of all known 

 woods. Its average tensile strength is 24.000 

 pounds to the square inch, equaling that ot 

 good cast-iron. Many specimens, however, are 

 much stronger, and one was tested up to seven- 

 teen and a half tons to the square inch, which 

 is equal to the tensile strength of wrought 

 iron. The tree grows to a maximum height ol 

 100 feet, and sometimes has a diameter of two 

 and one-half or even three feet. Automobile 

 manufacturers are experimenting with the wood. 



Lumber has been going down the Great Lakes 

 for a good many years and some fairly large 

 cargoes have gone from the head of the lakes. A 

 recent load, however, sets a new record. A ves- 

 sel cleared from Duluth, Minn., recently bearing 

 1,900,000 feet. The largest previous cargo on 

 the lakes was shipped to Tonawanda eighteen 

 years ago. It contained 1,700,000 feet. 



The toughest wood is that which bears the 

 greatest load, and bends the most at the time 

 of fracture. The following list shows the com- 

 parative toughness of various kinds of timber, 

 ash being 1.00, beech .85, cedar of Lebanon .84, 

 larch .83, sycamore and common walnut each 

 .GS, occidental plane .66, oak, hornbeam, alder. 

 Spanisli mahogany, each .62, teak and acacia 

 each .58, elm and young chestnut each .52. 



Hardwood f^eWs. 



(By HABDWOOD B£COBD Special CorrespondestBj 



CHICAGO 



J. S. Weidman. Jr.. of Mt. Pleasant. Mich., 

 was a Chicago visitor on December 20, accom- 

 panied by his wife. Mr. Weidman and his wife 

 are just bacli from a Pacific coast trip of some 

 months' duration. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 of Louisville. Ky.. accompanied by his wife, spent 

 several days in Chicago last week and paid the 

 Recoi!D a call. 



Burdis Anderson of the Great Lakes Veneer 

 Company of Munising, Mich., was among the 

 welcome callers at the Record office last week. 

 He was here in attendance at the National 

 \ eneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association 

 annual. 



W. D. Young & Co.. the well-known manu- 

 facturers of hardwood lumber and "finest" maple 

 liooring, are sending their friends as a Christmas 

 renienibi-ance a very fine leather card and bill 

 book in which is enclosed an accident insurance 

 policy for $2,500, good for one year from date. 

 The editor of the Record wishes to acknowledge 

 receipt of one of these handsome Christmas gifts. 



There have been fewer lumbermen visitors in 

 Chicago during the last fortnight than for any 

 period for a year. The average lumberman is 

 apparently engaged in taking inventory, closing 

 up his year's business or engaged in holiday 

 festivities. 



The Charles J. F. Steiner Mantel Company of 

 Baltimore. Md., announces a new organization 

 for the manufacture of wood mantels. It has 

 selected a new factory site and has made plans 

 lor a modem plant. The concern expects to be 

 ready to ship goods by early spring. Chas. J. F. 

 Steiner. the head ot this house, has a long record 

 as a manufacturer of wood mantels. 



H. T. Cowan, who has been local manager for 

 the past three years of the Dickson, Tenu., 

 branch of the American Lumber Company of 



(■liiia;;o, has bought from the company its south- 

 ern interests. Mr. Cowan has been prominent in 

 lumber circles for over eight years. He was 

 formerly with W. B. Earthman & Co.. and went 

 with the American Lumber Company when it 

 opened up its Dickson office. The new manage- 

 ment will be under the firm name of H. T. Cowan 

 Lumber Company, and will do a general lumber 

 business. 



The Owen M. Bruner Company, manufacturer 

 oL' yellow pine and hardwood lumber, of Phila- 

 delphia, is remembering its friends this year with 

 a handsome leather stamp box. the cover of 

 which bears a monthly card calendar for the 

 yiar 1911. The Record wishes to acknowledge 

 receipt of one of these cases. 



The Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company of Chi- 

 cago has just been advised by cable of the sud- 

 den death of Richard Koller of Hamburg, Ger- 

 many, who for the past six years has been its 

 lepresentative on the continent of Europe. Mr. 

 Koller was a very valuable employe ot the 

 Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company, and it is with 

 extreme regret that they learn of his demise. 



The Griffin H. Deeves Lumber Company of 

 (;hicago recently lost a decision to the Chicago 

 & Northwestern Railway, in which the com- 

 plainant charged that unreasonable rates had 

 been levied on shipments from Greenville, Mo.. 

 to Roodhouse, 111., and from Dotban, .Ma., to 

 Chicago. The court held that the fact that .iver 

 nine months after shipment moved the defendant 

 provided for absorption of shipping charge was 

 not sufficient in itself to justify finding that the 

 eliarge was unreasonable. 



George W. Jones, president of the George W. 

 Jones Lumber Company of Appleton, Wis., at- 

 tended the Interstate Commerce Commission's 

 bearing in Chicago last week. 



E. J. Petteys of the Leavitt Land & Lumber 

 Company of Dermott, Ark., visited Chicago last 

 week. Mr. Petteys reports better prices in out- 

 lying districts than the Chicago market offers. 



