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HARDWOOD RECORD 



i'lu- Hmi-ison-Cochi-an Lumliei- Company of 

 Houston. Miss., was recently incorporated with 

 a capital slock of ^25.000. 



The 101 Pa.so Lumber Company of El Paso, 

 Tes.. has recently filed an amendment to its 

 charter, decreasing its capital stock from $75,000 

 to .«80,000. 



The I'ni.,nti.\vu Lumher Company of Tnlon- 

 town, Ky.. was recently incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of !i-,M>0 by A. J. Thornton. T. W. 

 Thornton and John Creenwell. 



The .1. li. Phipps Lumber Company, manul'ae 

 turer and wholesaler of hardwood lumber at 

 Kayetteville. Ark., has recently increased its capi- 

 tal stock from .«1.50,000 to $200,000. 



Fire recently destroyed the sawmill and aliout 

 40.000 feet of lumber of the Morgan & Martin 

 Lumber C(jmpany of Luverne. Ala. The loss is 

 placed at $50,000, with no insurance. 



The Harrison Cochran Lumber Company, domi- 

 <ilert at Meridian. Miss., was recently incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $25,000 by J. S. 

 Harrison, C. W. Cochran and J. L. Hart. 



The South Texas Lumber Yard of Houston. 

 Tex., was recently incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $100,000 The incorporators are I!. M. 

 rarrar. N. K. Aleador and A. D. Timmons. 



The Hub City Lumber Company has reei-ntly 

 been incorporated at Oklahoma City. Okla., with 

 a capital stock of $20,000. by R. F. Brown. O. H. 

 Elliott and .1. M. Bennett, all of Oklahoma City. 



The P.. F. f;ieason Manufacturing Company, 

 niannfactiu-er <i£ embalming boards at P>rockport. 

 X. Y., advises that it is planning the erection of 

 a new factory 200x40 feet, and will increase its 

 line. 



The .T. G. ^(ash Lumber Company of George- 

 1own. Miss., recently sold its plant and holdings 

 to \V. .T. Boatner of Hopewell, La. Mr. I'.oatner 

 will continue to operate the plant at the present 

 location. 



The Liberty Hill Lumber Company of Liberty 

 Hill, \^!lliamson County, Tex., was recently in- 

 corporated with a capitalization of $10,000. The 

 incorporators are .T. II. Comer, L. W. Kent and 

 .1. C. Landrum. 



A new corporation for the manufacture of 

 furniture is being organized at Chester, 111. The 

 promoters are Dr. George Hoffman. Charles 

 \\'elge, Itudolph Welge. Detlef Ahrens and 

 ICdward C. Ollster. 



The Pine .Mountain Manufacturing Companj 

 of Pikeville. Ky.. was recently incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $5,000, to manufacture lumber. 

 'I'be incorporators are ,T. L. Morgan, W. D. Sut- 

 iiiu and r;. O. Young. 



The White Oak Lumber Company of Ferdi- 

 nand, Ind., was recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $4,500 to deal in lumber. The 

 incorporators are August F. Geblhausen. .\ugust 

 P.artli and S. W. Pitts. 



The Fnion Lumber & Supply Company was re- 

 cently incorporated at Collinsville, Okla., with 

 a capital j^tock of $10,000. The incorporators 

 are .1. II. Middleton. Marvin McCarty and C. T. 

 McCarty, all of Collinsville. 



The Noxapater Lumber Company of Noxa- 

 pater. Miss., whose sawmill was destroyed by fire 

 last Xoveniber. are rebuilding its plant. The mill 

 will have a daily capacity of 35,000 feet and will 

 cut both hardwoods and pine. 



The Danziger Furniture Company of Shclby- 

 ville. Ind.. was recently incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $30,000, to manufacture and sell 

 I'urniture. The incorporators are .\. E. Speigel, 

 C. A. Speigel and Gustav D.inzigcr. 



Homer L. Stanley, manager of the P.. F. 

 Thomas I/Umber Company of Carthage. Mo., has 

 bouj'ht a half interest in the company. The 

 name of the company will remain unchaugi'd. and 

 the policy and management will remain as here- 

 tofore. 



The Tiachman Lumber Company of Easton. Pa., 



was recently incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $5,000 to manufacture hardwood lumber. 



A new incorporation for Marshall. Va.. is the 

 Madison Lumber Company, which has an author- 

 ized capital stock of $10,000. 



The Folding Table & Bench Company of Chi- 

 cago, 111., has recently been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $10,000 to manufacture tables, 

 benches and household furnishings. The incor- 

 liorators are Markoa Smiljanic. Peter Badovinac. 

 -Made Smiljanic and Nick Makar. 



Articles of incorporation have recently been 

 tiled liy the White Bear Lumber Company of 

 St. Paul, Minn. The capital stock of the new- 

 company is $12,000 and the officers are Robert 

 Stoughter. president: T. A. Stougbter, treas- 

 iprer. and Carl R. Magnu.son, .secretary. 



The E. T. Lindsay Manufacturing Company 

 was recently incorporated at Jackson. Tenn., with 

 a capital stock of $15,000. to manufacture bank, 

 school, office, store, church and other kinds of 

 furniture. The incorporators are T. E. Lindsay. 

 John Cockrill, E. G. Parish, L. L. Fondille and 

 Paul lialdridgc. 



R. Alden & Sons liave establislnMl a new fae- 

 lory at Bruce, Wis., in which they are manufac- 

 turing wood turnings both enameled and in the 

 white. This concern was formerly located at 

 Waukegan. 111., and afterwards at Ladysmith, 

 Wis. The Ladysmith plant was burned in 

 August. 1(110. 



A new incori)oration for Birniingluim. Ala., is 

 the Jay Smith Lumber Company, which has an 

 authorized capital stock of $10,000. The new 

 concern will do a general lumber business. The 

 officers elected for the first year's business are : 

 Jay Smith, president ; Ed S. Moore, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



John Burmeister, associated with Xolan Brotb- 

 ( rs of Memphis, will develop a 12.000-acre tract 

 of hardwood in Louisiana which be purchased 

 some time ago. Mr. Burmeister will open ufi a 

 biirdwood distributing yard at Minnesota Trans- 

 fer, whi-re K. 11. Xnlan will make his beadquar 



ters. L. C. Xobiti will be located at the mill 

 end. 



The Butte County Mill & Lumber Company of 

 (iroville, Cal., was recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $75,000. The company has in- 

 i-orporated for fifty years and its purpose is to 

 do a general lumber business. The directors .ire 

 James .\. Edgecnmbe. Robert I. Pierce. Fred 

 Kemp and W. W. Ogier of Pasadena ; Wm. H. 

 (iermain i»f Los .\ngeles and Clark Standiford nf 

 Tilden. 



S. J. Sparks of Troy, Ala., and R. L. Hobdy 

 of I'nion Springs. Ala., have formed a i)artner- 

 ship under the firm name of Hobdy & Sparks to 

 i-arry on a lumber business on an extensive scale 

 The new concern has secured the site formerly 

 occiipied by the handle mill of Caldwell & Haynes 

 and will shortly erect thereon an oflSce building 

 and sheds capable of carrying the complete stock 

 of the company. 



The Range Lumber Company, formerly owned 

 liy Wm. and F. King of Grand Rapids. Minn.. 

 with yards in Chisholm, Buhl, Gilbert and Xash- 

 wauk, has sold its interests to the Dower Lumber 

 I 'ompany of Wadena. L. I>. French, who has 

 l;een auditor for the Range company, is now a 

 ni( ud)er of the hoard of directors of the newly 

 iirganized company and will have bis office and 

 lieadunarters at Chisholm, Minn. 



The New Orleans Furniture Company of Xew 

 Orleans, La., one of the largest and best equipped 

 manufactories of its kind south nf the Ohio 

 river, will soon spend more than $100,000 in the 

 construction of a new addition to its present 

 large factory at Front and Bellcastle streets. 

 Xew machinery will be installed and the present 

 force of workers increased. The company is en- 

 ileavoriug to have the Orleans Levee Board 

 move the levee at Front and Bellcastle streets 

 some 300 feet toward the river. If this is done 

 iimple room for the new addition to be erected 

 will be made. Just as soon as the levee is 

 moved work on the new addition will be com- 

 uii'nei'd. It will take about three months to 



tnn\e the leVee. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By KAKDWOOD BECOBD Special CorresDondentsJ 



CHICAOO 



K. A. Thornton, iiresideni ol the E. A. Thorn- 

 Ion Lumber Compau.\-. left last Wednesday to 

 spend a week at Hammond. La. 



Vansant. Kitchen & Co. of Ashland. Ky.. will 

 open a branch oflice at 1.504 Steger building on 

 March 1. W. II. Matthias, who is well-known 

 to the trade in this vicinity, will be in charge. 



Secretary H. C. Miller of the Hardwood Mills 

 Lumber Company, Monadnock building, Chicago, 

 nlurned on February 22 from a three weeks' 

 ti-ip to siiutbern mill points. lie rc'p.ots a 

 shortage in plain red oak and a decidedly un- 

 proved cdiidition in the gum market. 



il. II. l.angille, manager of the Portland office 

 of .lames 1 1. Lacey & Co., visited Chicago re- 

 cently in company with Victor 'I'lirnne of the 

 same concern. 



George I). Griftitli, accompanied liy i'. i'. Iliili 

 bard, the head of the hardwood deiiarlnieni nf 

 Geor.ge I). Griffith & Co., Chicago, madi' .i trip 

 to Wausan and Rib Lake, Wis., last week lo 

 pick np sonu' stock. Mr. Hibbard luis ri-maiued 

 (jver lo overlook the shipment. 



W. II. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. .Mein- 

 pbis, Tenn., w.as a Chicago visitor on l-'ebruary 

 17. and beside transacting considerable business 

 was a guest at the monthly meeting of the Chi- 

 cago Hardwood Lumber Exchange. 



Kilward Hart of the Panama Hardswoods Com- 

 |iany of Los .\iigeles. Cal. was a Cbieago visitor 

 last week. 



I. II Laei'y of the timber house of J. D. Lacey 

 \ Co.. Chicago, reached Chicago from Xew York 

 liir a few days last week and has now returned 

 to bis winter home in New Orleans. 



John Weidman, Jr., of Mount Pleasant, Mich, 

 was a H.iUDWoOD Record caller on February 17. 

 Mr. Weidman was on his way to the northern 

 lieninsula of Michigan, where he and his father 

 have large timber holdings. 



II. C. .liibnson of the Drummond Timber Com- 

 pany, Kreetan, Mich., was a Chicago visitor on 

 February 17. Mr. Johnson is spending most of 

 bis time at present straightening out the affairs 

 ..f fbi' P.ogardus Land it Lumber Company of 

 I'alston. .Mich., of which he is receiver. 



F. I. Nichols of the Nichols & Cox Lumber 

 Company, the hardwood lumber and flooring 

 manufaelurer, of Grand Rapids, Mich, was a 

 Chicago visitor on February 16. 



J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lutu 

 lier Company, Louisville, Ky., spent a few days 

 with his Chicago customers last week. 



(iscar Babcock of E. "V'. Babcock & Co.. Pitts- 

 burg. Pa., was in Chicago on business on' Feb- 

 ruary 14. 



/,. Clark Tbwing. head of the Grand Uaiiids 

 \etieer Works. Grand Rapids, Mich,, manufac- 

 turers of lumber drying equipment, was a Chi- 

 cago visitor on February 13. Mr. Tbwing re- 

 ports a tremendous demand for his dry kiln 

 e(|uipnient. Mr. Thwing on this visit bad with 

 bim E. II. Sonneman, his western dry kiln repre- 

 sentative. 



There was an unusually large number of bard- 

 wood sales managers and salesmen in Chicago 



