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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The new hardwood plant o£ the Shippen 

 Brothers Lumber Company, large producer at 

 Ellijay, Ga., is about completed. This new 

 plant will replace the one which was destroyed 

 by fire some time ago. It is equipped through- 

 out with the latest and most modern machinery, 

 and will be one of tiic best plants of its size 

 in the South. 



The double band sawmill and a large quan- 

 tity of rough and dressed lumber, the property 

 of the Sanor-Whiteman Lumber Company of 

 Caro, Tex., were completely destroyed by fire a 

 short time ago. The planer and other buildings 

 were saved. The loss is estimated at from 

 $75,000 to $100,000 and is practically covered 

 by insurance. 



A recent addition to the industry of Newarlj, 

 N. J., is a large factory for the manufacture of 

 automobile bodies. D. B. Dunham & Sons have 

 let the contract for a five-story building, which 

 is estimated to cost about $65,000. The m.inu- 

 facture of automobile bodies will be this con- 

 cern's specialty and it is planned to have a 

 large output from the start. 



The Pullman Lumber Company is erecting a 

 sawmill in the vicinity of Texarkana. Ark. The 

 company's plant is located at the Red river 

 crossing of the Iron Mountain railroad. The 

 new mill will have a daily capacity of 35,000 

 feet, and its equipment will be of the iiighest 

 type obtainable. Cottonwood is the Pullman 

 Lumber Company's specialty. 



The Porter Screen Manufacturing Company 

 of Winooski, Vt., recently broke all records ru 

 the history of screen door manufacture, so far 

 as regards the output of doors for a single 

 day. In one day of nine and one-half hours the 

 company turned out 3,700 door.s. The company 

 uses several carloads of lumber daily, part of 

 which is hardwood and part softwood. 



A new concern which recently entered busi- 

 ness at Atlanta, Ga., is the George W. Muller 

 Bank Fixture Company, which is capitalized at 



$400,000, and of which George W. Muller is 

 president. The company is now constructing a 

 plant 487x160 feet of brick and wood, which 

 when finished will include four buildings, boiler 

 and engine room, dry kiln and office, and will 

 cost about $40,000. 



A charter was recently filed in the Lake 

 Charles, La., court by the American Lumber 

 Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. 

 The domicile of the company will be at Merry- 

 ville. La., and it purposes to own saw and 

 planing mills, land and lumber, also to manu- 

 facture lumber. The officers of the company are 

 J. M. West, president ; Sam Park, vice-president, 

 and C. B. Granberry, secretary-treasurer. These 

 oflicers compose the board of directors. 



The Dixie Hardwood Manufacturing Company 

 was recently organized at Montgomery, Ala. 

 The capital stock was $3,000. It will manufac- 

 ture auto and wagon spokes, handles and cotton 

 mill specialties, such as loom pickers, sticks, 

 etc., out of hickory. The company's plant had 

 been in operation for about eighteen months 

 before the company incorporated. It turned out 

 from one to two thousand picker sticks and one 

 to three thousand spokes per day. The company 

 reports a good trade and plenty of orders 

 booked ahead. 



Ward F. Brown of Punxsutawney, Pa., has 

 recently purchased of the Murchison Lumber 

 Company, Burnsville, N. C, for the sum of 

 $300,000, a tract of timber land known as the 

 Murchison boundary. The tract abounds in 

 spruce, balsam, hardwoods, poplar and pulp 

 woods. The Murchison company acquired the 

 tract from the Murchison family of Wilmington. 

 N. C, paying for it $200,000. The Murchison 

 family bought the tract in 1S77 for less than 

 $25,000 for the entire piece of property. The 

 .sale of the lands at $25 an acre gives an idea 

 i.f the rapid advance in timber land valuation 

 in North Carolina during thi' pnsit qnai'tor cen- 

 tury. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special CorresDondentlJ 



CHICAGO 



The editor is in receipt ol a picture-postal 

 from William H. White, the distinguished lum- 

 berman of Boyne City, Mich., from Port An- 

 tonio, Jamaica, advising that he and Mrs. White 

 and his party of six, which left New Orleans 

 I'"cbruary 15, on a visit to Central America 

 and the West Indies, are having a delightful 

 time. Mr. and Mrs. White with their friends 

 spent .1 week in the canal zone and pronounce 

 the work very wonderful. iNIr. White says Ja- 

 maica is a lovely spot for a rest and announces 

 he will leave there for Cuba in a few days, and 

 then they will return home. 



JI. M. Wall of the Bufl'alo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., and O. 10. Yeager of 

 PiilTalo are sojourning at Mt. Clemens, Mich., 

 lor a brief period of rest and recreation. 



J. D. Lacey of the big timber house of J. D. 

 I.acey & Co., tjhicago, is just home from a six 

 weelis' visit to his I'acific coast offices at 

 Seattle and Portland. Mr. Lacey reports re- 

 newed interest in Pacific coast timber and that 

 several large and important transactions in 

 these properties arc well-nigh consummated. 



Wood Beal of the timber house of James D. 

 Lacey & Co., Chicago, is home from a visit to 

 the .New Orleans office of the firm and since his 

 relurii has spent a couple of days at Grand 

 Kapids in tlie inlerest of his concern. 



.\. il. Todd, Chicago representative of the 

 (.'has. P. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. St. Louis, is home from a month's busi- 

 ness trip to New York and other eastern com- 

 mercial centers. Mr. Todd secured some very 

 satisfactory orders while in Ihe l'::ist an<l noted 



a large and increased demand for red gum in 

 that section. 



W. B. Townsend of the Little River Lumber 

 Company, Townsend, Tenn., and of the Clear- 

 field Lumljer Company of Morehead, Ky., ac- 

 companied by his wife, spent several days in 

 Chicago last week visiting friends. Mr. Town- 

 send is president of the Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association of tiie United States, and he 

 and his wife are on their way home from an 

 extended Pacific coast trip, which covered the 

 last six weeks. 



Leonard Bronson, manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, is busily en- 

 gaged on the program and other work incident 

 to the forthcoming annual meeting of his as- 

 sociation, which takes place at Chicago on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, May 24 and 25. 



W. B. Morgan, secretary of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, Memphis. Tenn., was in the 

 city this week on business connected with his 

 house. 



The offices of the big hardwood manutactur- 

 ic.g house of George T. Houston & Co. have 

 been moved from the Tribune building to "."iT 

 Railway Exchange. The firm's new offices arr 

 much handsomer and afford more commodious 

 fiuarters than tlie old ones. 



R. H. Vansant of Vansant, Kitchen & Co., 

 Ashland, Ky., is at Hot Springs, Ark., taking 

 llie l)aths and a rest from business. 



c. I,. Faust, president and general manager 

 of the Faust Brothers Lumber Company, Pa- 

 (lucah, Ky., was in town several days this week. 

 He reported business very good and the outlook 

 One. B. M. Wakefield, secretary and treasurer 

 of the same firm, was also a Chicago visitor 

 l::st week. 



One of the guests at the last meeting of the 

 Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange was A. C. 

 Steinway of the Hamilton Lumber Company, 

 Silver Creek, Miss. This company is an ex- 

 tensive manufacturer of hardwoods and rail- 

 road ties. 



C. L. Cross, the cypress man, with headquar- 

 ters in the Monadnock building, is home from 

 a visit to New Orleans and the various cypress 

 producing houses which he represents. Mr, 

 Cross reports only a moderate amount of busi- 

 ness at the present time, but thinks prospects 

 for increased volume of business in cypress are 

 excellent. 



Burt Hurd of Hurd Brothers, Buffalo, N. Y., 

 w"as in town a few days this week calling on 

 the trade. 



Herbert Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lum- 

 ber Company, located in the Monadnock building, 

 is absent from the city on a northern pros- 

 pecting trip. 



(.'harles Christiansun. the well-known lumber 

 inspector of Manistee, Mich., was in town for 

 a few days this week. 



Fred L. Nichols, representative of the Shad- 

 bolt & Boyd Iron Company, Milwaukee. Wis., 

 large dealer in wagon stock, has just returned 

 from a trip to Texas, and stopped in Chicago 

 for a day or two this week. 



W. C. Mansfield, representing Sanford 4 

 Treadway of New Haven, Conn., at Menominee, 

 Mich., was in Chicago this week and reports 

 favorably upon market conditions. 



Frank Kent of the Seaman-Kent Company, 

 Ltd., Meaford, Ont.. was a Chicago visitor this 

 week. 



\. F. Anderson, the well-known lumberman 

 of Cadillac, Mich., was a Chicago visitor the 

 middle of the week. On June 1 Mr. Anderson, 

 accompanied by his wife and family, expects to 

 leave for a long sojourn on the Pacific coast. 



H. C. Wendell, 183 La Salle street, has re- 

 cently incorporated the Lumber Manufacturers' 

 .\gency of Chicago, in connection with William 

 I'.'. Eafferty and Edward Graff. 



W. E. Vogelsang, sales manager of the Turtle 

 Lake Lumber Company. Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 recently stopped in Chicago for a day or two 

 I'U his way to his company's mills at Winches- 

 (ir. Wis. 



1!. C. Sliultz of the Y'awkey-Bisseli Lumber 

 <_'.»mpany of .\rbfn' Vifac, Wis., was a recent 

 \-isitor. 



E. H. Siieneir of the Escanaba "t'eneer Com- 

 pany, Escanaba. Mich., was among Chicago's 

 quests during the last few days. 



S. F. Chapman of the Biltmore Veneer Com- 

 pany, Biltmore, N. C, has been spending some 

 time in Chicago recently. He reports business 

 on the increase and prospects excellent. 



Frank B. Houston of fleorge T. Houston & Co. 

 is in Europe, where he is making an extensive 

 trill involving both liusiness and pleasure. He 

 left Cliicago on February S and does not expect 

 lo return before May 1. 



Frank J. Hathway of the Hathway Ijumber 

 Company recently started on a southern trip. 

 During his absence he expects to close pending 

 negotiations for the output of a large hardwood 

 mill, the stock of which he will market in Chi- 

 cago. 



T. S. Estabrook and E. E. Skeele of the 

 Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company, Chicago, 

 have spent considerable time during the last 

 fortnight in looking over northern stocks of 

 hardwoods. 



There will be a meeting of the joint Trades 

 Relations Committee of the Chicago Hardwood 

 Lumber Exchange held at the Exchange rooms 

 a t 1 :.30 p. m. on Tuesday, March 28. 



NEW YORK 



1". D. Langstroth, doing business as F. D. 

 Langstroth ,!<: Co., wholesale lumber, 68 Broad 

 street, has been petitioned into bankruptcy by 

 numerous bankers and other creditors who 



