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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(levclop (he piiipcrly. It Is phinnoil to install 

 several small mills to cut the timber on -the 

 land. 



A plant for mnnnfacturlng oars, etc., Is to' be 

 erected by the Vlcksburg Ash Oar Company, 

 recently orsanlzed at Vleksburg, Miss., by A. K. 

 Shaffer and others. 



.Announcement Is made that a number of In- 

 diana capitalists are contemplatinpr the establish- 

 ment of a veneering factory, rmmet Vaughnn, 

 cashier of the Dcs Arc Hank and Trvist Com- 

 pany of Des Arc, Ark., is interested in the 

 movement. 



A sawmill of 1 5.000 feet daily capacity will 

 be erected by the recently organized BulTalo 

 Lumber Company of Burkevllle, Tex., near that 

 place. The company is capitalized at $20,000 

 and E. E. Montgomery, L. J. Miller and E. S. 

 Hicks are the Incorporators. It is also planned 

 to establish a furniture factory In the near fu- 

 ture. 



Hearn Bros.' sawmill at Willard, N. C, has 

 been destroyed by fire, together with about 200,- 

 000 feet of lumber. Tiie loss, little if any of 

 which is covered by insurance, will reach .$40,000 

 or more. 



Fire recently totally destroyed the box fac- 

 tory at Walters, Miss., which is the property 

 of Anderson & Tully of Memphis, Tenn. The 

 plant was a large one. the frame building occu- 

 pied being l.'iO.\ino feet, and was under the di- 

 rection of W. .1. Shepard and employed 100 men. 

 Tile loss is not known, nnr the lusurance, but 

 the plant will undoubtedly be replaced. 



The Andrews Cabinet Factory at Huntington. 

 Ind., is making extensive improvements, made 

 necessary by growing business. It has added a 

 sawmill and veneer machinery. 



The Rubber Grip Tool Handle Company has 

 filed articles of incorporation at Paducah. Ky. 

 It is capitalized at 1510,000. 



,T. W. Sanders lost his hardwood mill at Pine 

 Bluff, Ark., by fire recently ; loss, $100,000, witli 

 partial insurance. 



The New York Star announces the sale of two 

 blocks of ground at Kowenlioven street and 

 Riker avenue, to the Astoria Veneer Company, 

 by Steinway & Sons. The property is valued at 

 $12.5.000. 



The Kephart Handle Factory at Ada. Ohio, 

 which burned to the ground two weeks ago, will 

 locate in Lima, employing from fifty to one hun- 

 dred hands. Tlie company will double its capital 

 stock and branch out. The Lima Progressive 

 Association will donate a site, the only request 

 asked by the concern. 



At a price of .$2.5.000 Newton, Reed & Fisher, 

 a lumber firm, has purchased about 700 acres 

 of virgin oak timber land at East Brady, Pa., 

 on the Allegheny river. The tract will be lum- 

 bered soon. Jlr. Reed Is a Rouseville man and 

 Mr. Fisher formerly lived at Spartansburg. 

 They have been associated in the lumber busi- 

 ness along the Allegheny river for years. 



The Wilkes Veneer Company of North Wiikes- 

 boro has signified its intentions of moving its 

 plant to Elizabeth City, N. J., at a near date. 

 This plant will be of a capacity to consume 

 100,000 feet of gum timber per month and will 

 employ a number of hands. 



H. D. Hale of the L^nion Handle Company, 

 Ashley, Ohio, has purchased new machinery and 

 will build an addition to its factory. An extra 

 force of workers will be put on also. 



The Davis-Biek Company's handle factory at 

 Lafontalne, Ohio, will soon start operations, 

 making ash handles. 



The Bimel Handle Factory at St. Henry, Ohio, 

 has started up after a shut-down of a couple of 

 months. 



The Starr-Davis Lumber Company has just 

 put in two hardwood lumber camps of 160 men 

 each near Menominie, Wis. They expect to bank 

 8,000,000 feet of lumber the coming season. The 

 company's mill will shut down next week. 



The planing mill of the Mortar Creek Mill 

 Company, manufacturers of pine and hardwood 

 lumber at Baldwin, Ala., was recently burned. 



The loss was about $7,000, including several 

 cars loaded with lumber. 



Tliere is at present great activity In the trop- 

 ical liardwood forests, particularly tliose of Mex- 

 ico, and enormous quantities of ebony and ma- 

 hogany are being cut and sent to tidewater for 

 shipment to European ports mostly, though 

 some of it goes to the States. 



The Gallon Handle Company of Oalion, Ohio, 

 is fast getting in siiape for business. The com- 

 pany Is incorporated at $8,0ii0. Timber has been 

 purchased and operations will be commenced 

 as soon as the necessary equipment is installed. 



C. F. Dunbar and the C'oliarStange Lumber 

 Company of Merrill, Wis., recently engaged In 

 a big timber transaction wliereby Mr. Dunbar 

 transferred G.OOO acres of timber, principally 

 hardwood, to the company. The land involved 

 in the deal is in Vilas County near Star Lake 

 and contains about 40,000,000 feet of timber, 

 which will be cut in the company's mill at Mer- 

 rill. 



The Santa Fe Railroad Company has contract- 

 ed for $2.."i()0.000 worth of oiiiawood railroad 

 ties to be delivered from Hawaii during the next 

 five years. 



George Mickelson of Two Rivers. Wis., lias 

 closed a deal for 500 acres of hardwood timber 

 at Hoicombe. He is erecting a camp prepara- 

 tory to logging it. He expects to erect a saw- 

 mill in the spring. 



Cohasset, Minn., is becoming a promising man- 

 ufacturing center. The Cohasset Hardwood 

 Manufacturing Company is iuiiiding a large wood- 

 enware factory there and will later install a 

 large sawmill plant. Surrounding this town are 

 stretches of tine timberiand and other resources 

 which when developed will add to its impor- 

 tance. 



The S:ii,'inaw Talilc and Caliinet Company, 

 wiiicli broke groun<i tor a new factory in .July, 

 commenced shipping goods in September. Tills 

 month it expects to ship $10,000 worth. The 

 output will be increased eacli month until the 

 capacity has been reached. About sixty hands 

 are now emjiioyed, and this number will be in- 

 creased to 100 soon. 



The Duriiam Tie and Lumber Company of 

 Borden, Ind., has been organized with a capital 

 of $10,OI]0. 



Latest rejiorts of the census office show that 

 in 1002 there were in operation approximately 

 7<iO,UO0 miles of telegraph and telephone pole 

 lines, and at the present time there are about 

 800,000 miles. The average line contains about 

 forty poles a mile, so that there are approxi- 

 mately 32,000,000 poles in use. The average 

 life of a pole being aliout twelve years, the main- 

 tenance of the lines in operation requires more 

 tlian 2,500.000 poles annually. Experiments are 

 being conducted by various companies, in connec- 

 tion with the government experts, toward pro- 

 longing the life of poles. 



The plant of the Hex Manufacturing Company 

 at Paducah, Ky., has been purchased by W. F. 

 Paxton of that city for $12,500. The company 

 manufactured picture frames, curtain poles and 

 novelties. 



The mill of J. W. Sanders at Pine Bluff, Ark., 

 was recently destroyed by fire, entailing a loss 

 of $100,000. 



The Theo. Kundtz Company of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 manufacturer of hardwood articles, is anxious 

 to locate a plant in the South, and although a 

 site has not yet been decided upon, it is likely 

 that Raton Rouge. La., will be chosen if proper 

 rates and necessarj- hardwood supply can be se- 

 cured in that district. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD R£COBI> Special Corraspondents.j 



Chicago. 



Paul .Johnson of the North Shore Lumber 

 Company, Tliompson, Mich., was registered at 

 the Annex October 12 and 13. 



G. von Platen, the well-known lumberman of 

 Boyne City, Mich., was a Chicago visitor on 

 October 12. 



J. D. Lacey & Co., the prominent timber brok- 

 ers, have placed B. W. Bawden in charge of 

 their Seattle office. His territory will cover 

 Washington and British Columbia. Mr. Bawden 

 has had years of experience in lumber and tim- 

 ber affairs, having liegun work in that line 

 at the age of eighteen. Of late he has been 

 manager of the Pigeon River Lumber Company, 

 Mt. Sterling, N. C, of which J. D. Lacey is pres- 

 ident. 



F. R. Babcock of Pittsburg and G. F. Craig 

 of Philadelphia, both actively engaged in the 

 lumber business, have been admitted to the 

 Lumber Underwriters of New York, taking the 

 places made vacant by the retirement of J. J. 

 McKelvey and F. W. Mattocks, attorneys-at-iaw. 

 The fire insurance as written by the Lumber 

 Underwriters is conducted by lumbermen solely 

 in the interest of lumbermen and is confined to 

 insuring lumber and lumber-working plants ex- 

 clusively. No risk of any other kind is ac- 

 cepted. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 spent several days in Chicago the early part 

 of the month. Mr. Doster addressed the meet- 

 ing of handle manufacturers which was held in 

 this city October 8. 



E. C. Mershon, head of the band resaw manu- 

 facturing house of W, B. Mershon & Co. of Sag- 

 inaw, Mich., accompanied by W. P. Powell, who 

 has charge of sales, spent several days in Chi- 

 cago last week. Both gentlemen report con- 

 tinued activity in the sales of the Mershon re- 

 saws. 



C. P. Crosby, manufacturer and wholesaler of 

 northern hardwoods at Rhineiander, particular- 

 ly of "Wisconsin mahogany" — red birch — was In 

 Chicago for several days last week, accompanied 

 by his wife. He favored the Record office with 

 a call. 



F. A. Richardson of the Michigan Veneer Com- 

 pany, Alpena, was a caller on October 10. He 

 states that their veneer plant has been shut 

 down for several weeks to connect up the new 

 excelsior plant which has been installed to re- 

 place the one destroyed by fire. Trade condi- 

 tions are fair and Mr. Richardson expects his 

 plant to be running full force very shortly. 



John C. King has resigned the management 

 of the Earie Lumber Company at Simmons, 

 Mich., and spent a few days in Chicago the 

 early part of the week. 



The first reminder of the New Year which 

 has come to hand is a handsome calendar from 

 I. F. McLean, manufacturer of staves and lum- 

 ber at Nashville, Tenn. 



Sam E. Barr, the well-known hardwood man 

 of the Flatiron Building, New York City, lias 

 been making a western trip, taking in Cincin- 

 nati, Chicago and other important lumber mar- 

 kets. He paid the Recobd a call on October 21. 



Fire broke out in the building at 563-565 JTul- 

 ton street occupied by the L. M. Johnson Com- 

 pany, manufacturers of picture frames, about 1 

 a. m. October 19. Firemen gained control of 

 the flames after a loss of about $15,000 had been 

 entailed. 



For the idea of the cartoon appearing in this 

 issue the Record is indebted to John L. Coch- 

 ran, New York representative of Vansant, Kitch- 

 en & Co. of Ashland, Ky. 



Thomas W. Hewlett, representing the Phila- 

 delphia Textile Machinery Company of Phila- 

 delphia, was in Chicago on business this week 

 and dropped into the Record office. Mr. How- 

 iett states that during the last month he has 

 sold veneer drying equipment to the Paducah 



