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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 2G, 1921 



Stillions-Mingea Lumber Company Organized 



The StllliouK-Miiiaeii Uimlier Coinpnny lias been iji-Kiinlzed in Memphis 

 under the laws of Tennessee and Incorporated for .f2D,000. The incor- 

 porators arc : J. F. Mingea, W. A. Stilllons, J. K. Stillions, H. C. Stilllons 

 and R. L. Barlles. The Stilllons in the organization are prominent lumber- 

 men, sinners, merchants and planters of Rome, Miss., who have operated 

 lumliering and other enterprises tor over tweuty-Ilve years as G. W. Stil- 

 llons' Sons. They are farming about five thousand acres of cut-over land 

 in Uie vicinity of Rome. .\t their saw mills they have been cutting cypress 

 almost exclusively. 



G. W. Stillion.s' Sons have never had a sales organization to market 

 their lumber, and for the past seven years the Tustin Ilardwood Lumber 

 Company has liad the exclusive sale of their products. The new company 

 will have the exclusive sale of the output of both mills at Rome. Future 

 plans also include a large Louisiana band mill and timlier project, insur- 

 ing about a tifteen-year cut. 



The lumber manufactured by G. W. Stillions' Sous will be handled by 

 the new company on a strictly commission basis, thus leaving the capital 

 of the comi)auy available for general wholesaling. 



J. F. Mingea, tlie secretary of the company, has for the past three years 

 been associated with the Tustin Hardwood company as secretary and sales 

 manager. He had previous experience with Ilayden & Westcott and Faust 

 Brothers lumber companies. 



Kellogg Company Buys New Hardwood Supply 



The Kellogg Lumber Company, witli headquarters at Memphis and mills 

 at Richey Sunflower County, Mississippi, has closed negotiations during the 

 past few days for the purchase of 1!),000 acres of hardwood timber lands, 

 principally gum and oal;, together with a band mill and re-saw and a 

 six-mile logging road, from the J. M. Jones Lumber Company, Fondale, La. 

 The firm has practically completed cutting its timber in Sunflower county 

 and has acquired the new timber holdings in order to assure itself a 

 plentiful supply of raw material for a number of years ahead. The pur- 

 chase price is not known. U. L. Kellogg, brother of C. M. Kellogg, head 

 of the purchasing firm, has gone to Fondale to take charge of the new 

 plant. This is the largest transaction in southern lumber circles for a 

 number of months and indicates that increasing confidence in the situation 

 is decidedly existent. 



"Scandalous" Competition Alleged 

 In a hearing at Jefferson City, Mo., of Attorney General Barrett's suit 

 against the Lumber Dealers' Association in St. Louis, O. A. Pier, Secretary 

 of the Lumbermen's Exchange, testified that iirior to the formation of the 

 exchange competition among tlie lumbermen in St. Louis was "scandalous." 

 Asked for a definition of scandalous used in this instance, Jlr. Pier stated 

 that business was bad, lumbermen were financing jobs, advancing money 

 on pay rolls, etc. When asked by Barrett whether the exchange had 

 corrected these evils, he said he could not answer, but that the tendency 

 was in that direction. 



A. D. Ganahl, president of the Helm Lumber Co., testified his company 

 refused to become a member of the Exchange after his attorney had notified 

 him the practices of the Exchange were unlawful. The attorney represent- 

 ing the lumber companies, R. L. Goode, drew from Mr. Ganahl the admis- 

 sion he had difficulties with the Exchange and had been fined. He would 

 not admit, however, that the fine was for substituting grades. 



Hardwood News Notes 



The Pacific Hardwood Floor Company has been incorporated at Los 

 Angeles, Cal., as has the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Company, Hattiesburg, 

 Miss. 



T. A. Sampson has been appointed receiver for the Ross Hardwood 

 Flooring & Lumber Company, Mercer, Pa. 



Clarence Kirven of Demopolis, Ala., is now in full control of the Com- 

 mercial Hardwood Company, that city, having bought out his associates' 

 interests. 



Recent incorporations are : The Timber Manufacturers' Distributing 

 Company of Maryland, Baltimore ; Sull Sash Window Company, St. Paul, 

 Minn. ; the K. M. K. Woodworking Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Red Cedar 

 Products Company, Memphis, Tenn. ; Merrill Wood Products Company, 

 capital $12,000, Merrill, Wis., ; Moore Lumber Company, Charleston, 

 W. Va. Among the furniture companies are: The Paramount Furniture 

 Manufacturing Company, New York, N. Y., capital $10,000 ; the Fairfield 

 Chair Company, Lenoir, N. C, capitalization $100,000 ; Mallin Brothers, 

 to manufacture general line of furniture at New York, N. Y., capital 

 $35,000. Max Mallin of 1424 Crotona Park, East, Bronx, is among the 

 incorporators ; the Mechanicsville Furniture Company, to muuutacture 

 furniture and store fixtures at Mechanicsville, N. Y. ; Pioneer Cabinet 

 Company, authorized capital $20,000. Tulsa, Okla. ; the Lux Furniture 

 Company, Luxemburg, Wis., $20,000 ; the Kentucky Desk Company, Sparks 

 building, Louisville. Ky. ; Gans Brothers of 227 Broadway, New York, 

 N. T., $25,000 capital. 



The Wisconsin Parlor Frame Company, Milwaukee, Wis., lias sustained 

 a flre loss of $5,000. 



B. F. Brucker, A. C. Snow and R. M. Boudreaux have organized the 

 Brucker Lumber Company at Meridian, Miss., with a capital of $10,000. 



Announcement is made liy George N. Harder of the 1. Steplienson Com- 

 pany, Wells, Mich., of the re-opening of the hardwood mill on October 10, 

 after having been closed down for two months, with an increased output. 

 The hardwood mill, together with the flooring factory, shingle and planing 

 mills, will be operated throughout the winter. 0|>erations at the company's 

 big mill, however, were suspended about a week ago until there is a 

 notable improvement in business conditions. 



CHICAGO 



Thanks to the initiative of its advertising department the American 

 Seating Company of Chicago has largely overcome the effects of depression 

 on the sale of church furniture and is now able to operate its factory at 

 Manitowoc, Wis., nearl.v to capacity on the new business created. The 

 company conducted an extensive advertising campaign directed to the 

 general public, urging the purchase by those who had suffered the bereave- 

 ment of lo\ed ones of memorials for placing in churches to honor these 

 beloved dead. They offered beautiful carved wood altars, litany desks, 

 consoles, i)aptisiual fonts and such articles of church furniture, including 

 masterly reproductions in wood panels of such masterpieces as "The Last 

 Supper," "Christ Before Pilate," "The Adoration of the Magi." The 

 response to the sentiments and religious consciousness of the public was 

 so generous as to surprise the originators of the campaign. A recent issue 

 of "Printers' Ink" carried an article on the campaign, citing it as a strik- 

 ing case in which an advertising idea overcame the effect of depression. 



George W. Hand and Fred Conn, representatives of the Bayou Land & 

 Lumber Company at Cincinnati, O., recently visited the trade in Chicago. 



W. J. Comentz, sales manager of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of 

 Appleton, Wis., visited the Chicago branch of his company during the 

 week ending September 17. 



Wm. Farris, Jr.. of the Farris Hardwood Company of Nashville, Tenn., 

 was a recent visitor in Chicago. 



T. E. Jones of the F. T. Dooley Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 visited Chicago on a northern selling tour during the week ending Septem- 

 ber 17. 



L. H. Levisee of the Scott & Howell Lumber Company of Oshkosb, Wis., 

 and Ironwood, Mich., made a business trip to Chicago during the middle 

 week of September. 



P. L. Rawn, a tie man of Chattanooga, Tenn., was in Chicago on business 

 a few days ago. 



In the atelier of Nellie V. Walker in Chicago the clay model of a statue 

 of Senator Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, Wis., founder of I. Stephenson 

 Company, has been completed preparatory to the making of a bronze cast. 

 When finished the bronze will be erected in the park of the lumberman- 

 senator's native city. Miss Walker is one of America's most successful 

 and original sculptors and she is said to have achieved particularly happy 

 results with the Stephenson study. By remembering that senators often 

 sit down like the ordinary run of humanity. Miss Walker is said to have 

 given a fine touch of originality to the figure of the senator. The senator 

 is depicted seated with one arm resting easily on .a table, the table merging 

 into an alcove, which makes an excellent background. 



The Dean-Spicker Company, manufacturer of veneers, has recently pur- 

 chased a half million feet of walnut logs and will start cutting them up 

 at once. 



The Veneer Lumber & Plywood Company has been incorporated here. 



The Empire Auto Specialty Company has filed an involuntary petition 

 in bankruptcy. 



M. J. Fox of the Von Platen-Fox Lumber Company, Iron Mountain, Mich., 

 was in Chicago on September 15. having come this far with his son, 

 Abbott, who was enroute to Gambia, Ohio, to enter Kenyon College. 



R. M. Weidemann of the Weidemann & Lindem Manufacturing Company 

 of Marinette, Wis., was in Chicago September 15 enroute to Fort Deposit, 

 Md., to enter his son in Tome School to prepare for entrance to Michigan 

 University. 



Eowland ITtley, nianngcr of the Chicago office of the Chicago 

 Lumber & Coal Company, is expected to return on September 26 

 from Windham, Conn., where he was called because of the death of 

 his father. 



BUFFALO 



President Harry L. Abbott reports a good attendance at the recent meet- 

 ings of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, and he is planning to carry out the 

 plan of having speakers at the meetings once a month, which has thus far 

 proved a drawing card. A matter in which the exchange has lately been 

 interested is the proposed waterfront park, which it strongly favors. 

 The New York Central Railroad is opposing the city's interests and desires 

 to build an ore dock ou land wanted by the city. 



Frank .Ai. Beyer, treasurer and manager of the McCabe Furniture Com- 

 pany, Coudersport. Pa., formerly of Beyer, Knox & Co., of this city, and at 

 one time county treasurer, was in Buffalo lately looking after trade. The 

 company's principal business is cutting up gum for bedroom sets. He says 



