HARDWOOD RECORD 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Tlif Itiit'im Vista Veneer «'<>mi>aii.v 1ms been 

 imuriionited at IH-s Arc. Ark., wltli u capital 

 1 $Ui,iMHi. llcrnitm lComuu<lcr is president. 



I'lie rananm Hardwood Company lias been in- 

 cor|H)rated at I'ortiaud. Ore. to deal in wood 

 and limljer. It is capitalized at SIi"'.i"'U. 



4Jne of the largest timber deals consummated 

 In California in a long time is the purchase 

 by E. II. Ilarriman of the timber and sawmills 

 of the vVlblon Lumber Cttmpany of Men<Iocino 

 •■ounty. The llarrlniau railroad lines in .Mexico 

 have imported ties from .lapan. steel rails from 

 Spain and lielgium, coal for locomotives from 

 .\ustralia. grading machinery from Germany and 

 laborers fr<)m many countries. All these na- 

 tionalities have worked side by side with Yaciui 

 Indians without friction. The new road runs 

 from Guaymas to Guadalajara, connecting there 

 with the -Mexican Central. It is iilanued to ex- 

 tend the road down the coast to Tehuanlepec. 

 l.TiiHi miles farther. 



KIre recently destroyed the handle factory 

 and moulding mill of G. \V. I'atten at Rrewer, 

 .Me. 



The Rice Lake Lumber Company of Kice Lake, 

 Wis., has ceased operations as far as conifers 

 are concerned and will henceforth confine the 

 work solely to hardwoods. A shingle mill will 

 be run in loanection with the planing mill. 

 Two heavy purchases of timber have recently 

 been made, which will keep the mills In opera- 

 tion for some years. 



The Milton-Peter Manufacturing Company of 

 New Albany. Ind., has removed to Louisville 

 and will begin the erection of a lumber products 

 factory at once. About thirty men will be em- 

 ployed. They have purchased land on the South- 

 ern Railway at Sixth street and Mix avenue. 



Lawrence Blair of Lancaster. O., Is establish- 

 ing a factory which will be devoted to cabinet 

 work, the manufacture of mantels, hardwood 

 flooring, fixtures, etc. 



The Gigax Ladder Works ai .Vrchbokl. O.. has 



Just finished up one of the best seasons In the 

 history of the plant. New machinery Is Ijeing 

 installed. 



The Ktacuaro Itaucli i^ear .Morella, Mex., will 

 furnish the oak ties for the new railroad of the 

 .Mexican .Milling & Transportation Company. 

 The ranch contains some 17,0U<i acres, heavily 

 wooded with oak and meziiuite. A sawmill is 

 lieing erected thereon with n capacity of 100,000 

 board feet of lumber per day. 



i:. O. I'aulkner of the Atchison, Topeka & 

 Santa Fc has signed a contract with the Ha- 

 waiian Mahogany Lumber Company for 90,000,- 

 000 feet of obia railroad ties to be shipped from 

 Ililo, Hawaii, within live years. This wood is 

 considered very desirable for ties, and the rail- 

 road will have to pay a goodly sum to obtain 

 them. 



The l'"ec-Crayton Hardwood Company is moving 

 into its new oflice building on Us mill tract just 

 north of Newport, Ark. 



The Browne-.Morse Company, an organization 

 (it Muskegon (Mich.) business men, has just 

 taken possession of a factory for manufacturing 

 filing cases, cabinets, etc. The company is capi 

 talized at $50,000. 



P. II. Roland and John il. Boland have sold a 

 large tract of hardwood timber land located in 

 Florence county, Michigan, to the A. W. Miller & 

 -Sons Lumber Company of Florence. 



A cargo of G.l.OOO ties lor the Atchison, Topeka 

 & Santa Fe has arrived at the port ot Kedondo. 

 Cal., from .Tapan. 



The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company of Chicago 

 lias recently completed some handsome cars for 

 the Kenosha (Wis.) electric railroad. They are 

 finished in Honduras mahogany, with poplar ceil- 

 ings, tinted Nile green. 



Ten years from now there will be a good har- 

 vest of railroad ties in Kosciusko county, Indi- 

 ana ; small trees to the number of 8,000 were 

 unloaded at Claypool recently and set out on 

 a neighboring farm belonging to Ivan Tucker. 

 This sort of enterprise is to be recommended to 

 farmers all over the country. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By EABDWOOD BECOBD 



Chicago. 



Gi'orge W. Stoneman. the popular hardwood 

 manufacturer of I)e Vails Hlulf. Ark., has been 

 a Chicago visitor during the last few days. 

 .Mr. .Stoneman reports that his mill is running 

 on full time and that his trade at both this 

 rilant and his Chicago yard is very satisfactory. 



Carroll F. Sweet of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 accompanied by his wife, was in Chicago last 

 week on a little pleasure Irlp. 



The many friends of M. W. Hopkins of the 

 Theodore Fathauer (.'ompaiiy are extending their 

 sincere symjiathy over the loss of his aged 

 father, who died at La tlrange last Thursday 

 from pneumonia. 



Mr. Tuttle ot the Cypress Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, was a Chicago visitor on Thursday. 



Eugene H. Nettleton ot the West Florida 

 Hardwood Company, Marysvllle. Fla., was a 

 laller at the Rkcoiip oflice on Friday last. 



E. L. Edwards, the enterprising hardwood 

 man of iJayton and Cincinnati, was a caller 

 on the local trade during the last few days. 



Robert 11. .Tenks of the Robert H. .lenks Lum- 

 ber Company, Cleveland, who has been indisposed 

 for some time, resorted to a surgical operation 

 for internal abscesses last Tuesday at a Cleve- 

 land hospital. Latest advices report that Mr. 

 .lenks is doing well and is on the road to re- 

 covery. His host of friends will deplore his 

 Illness and anxiously await his complete restora- 

 tion to health. 



The liEnutii Is In receipt of announcement 



<'ards of the marriage on Monday. Nov. 4, of 



1 Ferdinand A. Kirby. the popular and efficient 



<ales manager of the Cherry River Boom & 



Lumber Company, Scranton, Pa., to Florence 



Special Correspondents.} 



Brennan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 

 Henry Brennan of Wilmington. Del. .Mr. and 

 Mrs. Kirby will be at home after Jan. 1 at 

 1013 Ridge Row. Scranton. The Record adds its 

 congratulations to those ot Mr. Kirby's numerous 

 other friends. The writer has insisted for a 

 long time that Mr. Kirby would eventually make 

 a husband for some good girl. 



The meeting of the National Hickory Associa- 

 tion, which was called tor Nov. 1. has of neces- 

 sity been po.stponed. However, it will be held 

 within a short time and due notice of It will be 

 given in ihese columns. 



Frank K. Miller, the Nashville representative 

 of \V. IC. Kelley & Co. of Chicago, was married 

 at that city Oct. 2u' to Miss Matilda Watkins. 

 The ceremony was performed at the home of 

 I he bride's parents. The bride and groom left 

 tor a trip to eastern cities and will be at home 

 in Nashville after Nov. 1. 



Cards are out for the wedding of Miss Pearl 

 Evelyn White, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. William 

 H. While of P.oyne City. Mich., and .1. Ralph 

 Aldendlfcr, to be held Tuesday evening, Nov. 

 12. in that city. 



The many friends ot .1. D. R. Steven ot Eau 

 Claire will be pleased to hear of his marriage 

 to Miss Merle Pickford at Madison, Wis., Oct. 

 1(1. The couple is now taking a wedding trip 

 through Ihe eastern slates. Mr. Steven Is well 

 known to the traile, being president ot the Steven 

 & Jarvis Lumber Company of Eau Claire and 

 vice president of the l»avis & Starr Lumber 

 Company of the same city. William .1. Walsh, 

 salesman and buyer for the former company. Is 

 holding dttwn the big desk during Mr. Steven's 

 absence. He Is sending out that big signature of 



his on letters to the trade without eilra charge, 

 but although "BUI" Is hard to beat around the 

 olllce. Us hard to keep lilni from running after 

 f rains to "go .some |)lace I" 



James Crowcll, dealer In hardwood lumber and 

 Hoorlng at .Newark, N. J., announces that he has 

 purchased the entire stock ot the E. p. Backus 

 Lumber Company and will continue the same 

 lines heretofore carried by both concerns. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, has issued a 

 neat little booklet containing a list ot officers, 

 committees, members, etc., with the constitution 

 and bylaws ot his association, which will be 

 mailed to anyone interested. 



W. F. Strangways. president ot the P & S 

 Lumber Company of St. Francis. Ark., spent 

 several days in Chicago recently and favored 

 the Record with several pleasant calls. 



J. V. Stimson, one of the best known and 

 most popular members of the Indiana lumber 

 contingent, was in Chicago last week calling on 

 Iriends. 



.\ meeting ot the Board of Managers of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association has been 

 called at the offices ot the association in this 

 city on Tuesday, Dec. 3. 



W. H. White ot Boync City, Mich., president 

 of the W. 11. W'hite Company, has been spending 

 a few days in the city this week, as has also 

 W. L. Martin, secretary of the company. 



.\mong the callers on the Chicago trade the 

 last few days was W. D. Young of Bay City. 

 -Alich. Mr. Young has recently returned from 

 Europe. 



The Rittenhouse & Embree Company has re- 

 duced its working time one hour a day since the 

 first ot the month, and is curtailing production 

 somewhat, as is their regular custom at this 

 time of year, when building operations are less 

 active than at other seasons. 



Walter Winchester ot Winchester & Daniels, 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., visited the Chicago market 

 last week. Other prominent visitors were 

 Thomas Friant of White & Friant. Grand Rap- 

 ids ; II. I. Latimer ot the Foster-Latimer Com- 

 pany. Mellen, Wis., and J. J. Foster ot Green, 

 ville, Mich. 



W. O. King ot the well-known hardwood house 

 of the same name is back from an eastern trip 

 which iniluded a visit to the Jamestown Expo- 

 sition. 



The now plants of the Fred W. Black Lumber 

 Company and the P. G. Dodge Lumber Company 

 at Nashville. Teun.. are models ot their kind. 

 The former has just commenced sawing and for 

 the present will make poplar veneers exclusively. 

 The latter will start operations in a short time. 



George D. Emery, accompanied by his wife. 

 was in the city last week ; they are making an 

 extended western trip. 



Boston. 



The West Lynn Company has been organ, 

 ized under Massachusetts laws to transact a gen- 

 eral lumber business at Lynn. Mass. The prop- 

 erty now occuiiied by W. R. and N. 1". Forsyth, 

 operating under the firm name ot William For- 

 syth & Soil, has been transferred to the new 

 company. 



The courts have been asked to a|>point a re- 

 ceiver for the J. H. Butler Company. Plttsfield. 

 Mass. The liabilities of this corporation are 

 reported as about $10,000. Several suits have 

 been brought against this concern by the cred- 

 itors, and others are expected. IMliclals of the 

 company state that while there .are no available 

 funds to meet the liabilities now due, they have 

 every reason to expect that sufficient funds will 

 be available within a short time. 



The National Hardwood Jjumber Association 

 recently issued its new riUes of inspection, 

 which will go Into effect December 1. Some of 

 the city exchanges have entered protest asalnst 

 these rules and others have Indorsed them 11. •> 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Assoclati<>u hah 

 them under advisement. 



Charles 1>. Butler of the Berkshire Lumber 



