HARDWOOD RECORD 



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N. C is a new concern organized witli a capi- 

 tal stoclc of $50,000. It will establish a plant 

 at Asheville for the manufacture of straight 

 hound farm and delivery wagons. Joseph 

 Stifter of Fort Smith, Ark., is president of the 

 company, J. C. Wallace vice-president and 

 J. E. Rector secretary-treasurer. Both Mr. 

 Wallace and Mr. Rector are of Asheville. 



One of the largest deals closed in Appleton 

 in some time was that negotiated between 

 the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of that 

 city and the Edward Hines Lumber Company 

 of Chicago. The Jones company contracted 

 for the purchase of the entire hardwood out- 

 put of the Hines mills at Hayward and Iron 

 River. The season's output at these two 

 plants will aggregate 16,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood. The deal involved about $250,000. 



The Bristol Door & Lumber Company, man- 

 ufacturers of band sawn hardwood lumber, 

 doors, trim and mouldings, is planning a con- 

 siderable extension to its plant at Bristol, 

 Tenn., which will greatly increase its output. 

 The company reports that 1910 was a very 

 good year and it is expecting a still better one 

 for 1911. The company has on hand a good 

 assortment of hardwoods and has facilities for 



kiln-drying and dressing on short notice. 



The West Branch Box & Lumber Company 

 is the name of a new concern at Williamsport, 

 Pa., the principals in which are P. C. Hart- 

 man, Wm. Campbell and John Coleman, all 

 of Williamsport. The company will specialize 

 in the manufacture of packing cases and 

 boxes, and to that end has bought the build- 

 ing known as the Oak mill, formerly the 

 property of John Coleman. Mr. Coleman has 

 decided to begin the construction of a thor- 

 oughly equipped hardwood flooring plant to 

 cost about $40,000. 



A new concern to operate a sawmill and 

 planing mill at Big River, Prince Albert, Sas- 

 katchewan, is the Big River Lumber Com- 

 pany. The principal owners in this enterprise 

 are A. D. McCray of Vancouver, McKenzie 

 & Mann and Col. A. D. Davidson, well known 

 as the land commissioner of the Canadian 

 Road. The sawmill is already being built and 

 will begin manufacturing lumber about May 1. 

 It will have a capacity of 600,000 feet per day, 

 being one of the largest mills in western Can- 

 ada. Mr. Davidson of this company says 

 that there is enough timber to last the com- 

 pany for twenty-flve or thirty years. 



Hardwood JWeWs, 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Special CorreSBondentaJ 



CniCAOO 



Agreeable to previous call, a cunfereiiee of 

 traffic managers of lumber manufacturing con- 

 cerns was held at the Annex in this city on 

 February S and 9. C. A. Bigelow, Bay City, 

 Mich., was chairman of the meeting, which was 

 executive. The work In band was threshing 

 out weights and claim matters to arrive at a 

 better understanding of the railroads on these 

 subjects. 



The next regular meeting of the Chicago 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, under 

 the energetic management of E. A. Thornton, 

 president, will be held at the Union League 

 Club on Tuesday, February 14. Luncheon will 

 be served at 12 :30 sharp. Secretary S. C. Ben- 

 nett requests that every member of the associa- 

 tion should be represented at this meeting, as 

 several important matters are to be taken up, 

 chiefly that of inspection and amalgamation. 



The Record acknowledges with pleasure the 

 receipt of a handy and neat little red leather 

 bound memorandum book from the Maxson Lum- 

 ber company of Milwaukee, Wis. 



Emil Guenther, the well known Philadelphia 

 lumberman, was in Chicago this week as a dele- 

 gate to the traffic managers' conference, repre- 

 senting several of the Philadelphia and other 

 eastern organizations. 



J. W. Thompson, the well known Memphis 

 lumberman, was a Chicago visitor last week. 



M. E. Thomas, sales manager of Cobbs & 

 Mitchell, Inc., and Mitchell Brothers Company of 

 Cadillac, Mich., was a Chicago visitor on 

 Wednesday and Thursday of this week. 



George K. Smith, St. Louis, secretary of the 

 National Lumber JIanutacturers' Association, 

 and George E. Watson, New Orleans, secretary 

 of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, were in attendance at the traffic confer- 

 ence in Chicago this week. 



J. C. Knox of Cadillac, Mich., secretary of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 was one of the visitors at the lumber tralRc 

 conference held in Chicago on February 8 and 9. 

 C. A. Higelow and D. M. Kneeland of the 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company, Bay City, Mich., 

 «■("■(. ci'i'a'-o visitors during the week. 



The Garctson-Greason Lumber Company of St. 

 Louis, Mo., has just closed a deal with the 

 Edgar Lumber Company of Wesson, Ark., 

 whereby it has secured the hardwood timber on 

 the Edgar company's lands. A band mill of 



25,000 feet daily capacity will be erected at 

 once and the owners expect to commence opera- 

 tions in four months' time. The timber holdings 

 of the Edgar Lumber Company are quite ex- 

 tensive, and this new deal will enable the 

 Garctson-Greason Lumber Company to largely 

 increase its output of white and red oak for 

 foreign and domestic trade. 



Miss .\lice E. Gordon, formerly associated with 

 Haedwood Record, but more recently in the em- 

 ploy of E. C. Atkins & Co. at their Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina, house, was married on Satur- 

 day, February 4, at her home in Sterling, 111., 

 to Senor Federico Alfredo Sorenson of Buenos 

 Aires. Mr. and Mrs. Sorenson are now on a 

 wedding trip to the Pacific coast and on the first 

 of April will return to Buenos Aires, which will 

 be their future home. Mr. Sorenson is engaged 

 in the exploitation of American woodworking 

 macliinery and other supplies at the big South 

 -\merican cit.v. The bride and groom have the 

 sincere congratulations of Hardwood Record. 



The Taylor-Brown Timber Company, whose 

 general office until recently was located at Hunt- 

 ington, W^ Va., advises that its otBce has been 

 moved to Harden, 0., and requests that future 

 communications be addressed to this point. The 

 company will continue to maintain a sales office 

 at Huntington, but letters to that office should 

 be addressed to C. S. Brown. 



The Record is in receipt of a notice that Her- 

 bert Mead, Jr., and Lawrence J. Mead, who have 

 been carrying on the wholesale merchandising 

 of lumber at 20 E. Forty-second street. New 

 York City, for some time, have dissolved and 

 the total interest has been acquired by Herbert 

 Mead. Jr.. who will operate under the title of 

 the Mead Lumber Company. Mr. Mead an- 

 nounces that the main office of the company will 

 be removed to Hastings-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 



The Record wishes to acknowledge receipt 

 from F. C. Atkins & Co., Inc.. of a handsom" 

 illustrated menu card of its annual banquet to 

 Its employes held at the Spencer Hotel, Indian- 

 apolis, en January 28 last. The card is illus- 

 trated with pictures of several pioneer employes 

 who have been associated with the company for 

 a period ranging from twenty-four to thirty 

 years, and includes a half-tone engraving of a 

 photograph showing a large group of Atkins' 

 pioneers. The function is reviewed in another 

 article in this issue of the Record. 



The Record acknow'lcdges the receipt of an 

 announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Living- 

 ston of Wausau, Wis., of the marriage of their 



daughter, Grace Dorothy, to Harry Howard 

 Heineman of that city on Thursday, February 2. 

 Mr. Heineman is one of the well-known and 

 energetic young lumbermen of the Wisconsin 

 city and the Record extends its congratulations. 



J. A. McNeil, who for ten years has been in 

 the employ of the Lesh & Matthews Lumber 

 Company, Wausau, Wis., has severed his con- 

 nections with the above firm, coming to the 

 Webster-Whipple Lumber Company of Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. Mr. McNeil's past experience as 

 inspector, salesman and buyer will enable him 

 to help in the marketing of the stocks of north- 

 ern hardwoods handled by the Webster-Whipple 

 Lumber Company, who will have about eight 

 million feet cut for it this winter. With this 

 block of stock it will be in excellent shape to 

 take care of its increased volume of business. 



The Huddleston-Marsh Lumber Company of 

 Chicago has not quite completed its new office 

 quarters. It has recently received a fair sized 

 shipment of the best Cuban mahogany to be sold 

 on the market. 



C. F. Holle of the Heath-Whitbeck Compan.v, 

 Chicago, recently returned from a pleasant trip 

 to Cincinnati, St. Louis and other cities of the 

 South. While away he closed several good con- 

 tracts for this .year. 



D. J. Peterson, the well-known lumberman of 

 Toledo, O., accompanied by his wife and his son 

 and business associate, J. Harold Peterson, spent 

 a few hours in Chicago on Sunday last. The 

 I)arty. with a number of other friends, were en 

 route to San Diego, Cal., where the son is to be 

 married in a few days to a belle of that southern 

 California city. 



E. C. Groesbeck, the well-known Michigan 

 lumberman, who has been spending considerable 

 time on the Pacific coast during the last few 

 months, is a Chicago visitor and leaves in a few 

 days for a pleasure trip in the South. 



J. H. Dickinson, manager of the logging de- 

 partment of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Now York City, called at the Record 

 office on February fi. Mr. Dickinson was on his 

 way home from an extended trip through the 

 South. He was accompanied by W. G. Wilmot, 

 who represents the Lidgerwood Manufacturing 

 Company in the South with headquarters at New 

 Orleans. 



Ex-President Carrier of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association and president of the Car- 

 rier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, 

 Jliss., spent several days in Chicago last week. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, was a Chicago visitor last 

 Friday and Saturday. 



J. H. P. Smith of the Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. Cincinnati, spent several days in Chicago 

 last week. Mr. Smith announces that hereafter 

 the Chicago business of his house will be handled 

 by Carl V. Kimball, formerly secretary of the 

 A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Company, Chicago. Both 

 Messrs. Smith and Kimball are to be congratu- 

 lated on the alliance. 



Frank F. Fee of Little Rock, Ark., head of 

 the Fee-Cray ton Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 was a Chicago visitor the latter part of the 

 week. Mr. Fee reports a manifest shortage of 

 all varieties of desirable hardwoods in his dis- 

 trict of Arkansas, and prophecies a higher range 

 of values. 



A. P. Steele, sales manager of the Carrier 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, 

 Miss., spent several days in Chicago last week. 



G. Von Platen of Boyne City. Mich., who has 

 just started up another sawmill at Iron Moun- 

 tain. Mich., in the northern peninsvila, dropped 

 in the Record office February 1, en route to his 

 new operations. 



The Record acknowledges receipt from Major 

 George P. Ahearn. director of forestry at Philip- 

 pine Islands, of his new report covering the 

 period irvolved during June 1, 1009, and June 1, 

 1910. There is nothing very new in this report 

 save the fact that It Is very evident that the 

 major is having his troubles with general forest 



