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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10, 1918 



VESTAL LUMBER 

 & MFG. COMPANY 



INCORPORATED 



Soft Textured Oak 



Poplar 



Black Walnut 



Tenn. Red Cedar 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT VESTAL 



A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE 



FONDE, KY. 



Have you seen any better Walnut logs than these? 



' I "■ HEY all grew right in Indiana where 

 ■*■ hardwoods have always held the 

 choicest farm lands. The best growth of 

 timber as well as the best yield of wheat 

 comes from good soil. The soundness of 

 the log-ends shows that they fed on the 

 fat of the land. My 



Indiana Oak 



come* from the same soil 



CHAS. H. BARNABY 



Greencastle, Indiana 



Among recent incorporations iisted are : The Imperial Tie & Lum- 

 ber Company, Danbury, Conn. ; the H. Bollwerii & Brother Vehicle Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, Mo., with a capital of $1S.000 ; the Dominion Lumber 

 & Hanrlle Company, Bristol, Tenn. ; the Four States Lumber Company, 

 Texarliaua, Arl;., increased capital from $40,000 to $75,000 ; the Elmlra 

 Casket Company, Elmira, N. Y. ; the Northwest Box Company, Everett, 

 Wash., capital $50,000 ; the Campbell Hub Company, Manchester, Tenn. ; 

 the Eagle Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Meridian, Miss. ; the 

 American Veneer Company, Ilayward, Wis. ; the Berry Airship Com- 

 pany, Vancouver, Wash., capital $250,000. 



Tlie Strable Lumber & Salt Company, Oakland. Cal., succeeded by 

 the Strable Manufacturing Company, capital $30,000. 



The general offices of the Whiting Lumber Company. Philadelphia, Pa., 

 have been removed to Port Huron, Mich., and the eastern business has 

 been succeeded by the Pecn-Florida Lumber Company. 



A receiver has been appointed for the Port Barre Timber Company, 

 Port Barre, La. 



There has been a change in ownership of the Retting Furniture Com- 

 pany. Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Muirhead Lumber Company, Weldon, Ark., has been succeeded by 

 the Weldon Hardwood Lumber Company. 



n.iRDWOOD Record has received word that the postponed meeting 

 of the Northern Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Association, which was 

 to have been held two or three weeks ago, will be held at the Milwaukee 

 Athletic Club, Milwaukee, on Friday, November 15. 



The postponed meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation has been called for Shelby Hotel, Detroit, Wednesday, Novem- 

 ber 13. 



=-< CHICAGO >■ 



The death is announced of S. Karpen, vice-president of S. Karpen & 

 Brothers, city. 



The Star Moulding Company, city, has increased its capital to $100,000. 



F. W. Mowbray of the Mowbray & Robinson Company, Cincinnati, was in 

 the city for a few days of last week. 



The full membership of the American Walnut Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion attended the meeting at the Congress Hotel this week, the conference 

 covering various questions having to do with the walnut business. The 

 unvarying expression of the members indicated distinct satisfaction with 

 the present and future supply of walnut for the commercial veneer and 

 lumber consuming trade. .\s one old-time producer expressed it, the most 

 experienced walnut man never even dreamed of the vast supply of walnut 

 existing in this country until Uncle Sam's entry into the war made speed- 

 ing up of production necessary. Wide investigation disclosed the walnut 

 supply to be many times over what the most optimistic producer ever 

 dreamed of, and it was the emphatic pronouncement of all the members 

 of the association that in spite of great quantities used for war produc- 

 tion, the walnut business is really just getting well started. 



Prominent members of the trade who were present at the meeting 

 were J. N. Penrod, Kansas City, president of the association ; George Lamb, 

 secretary, Washington, D. C. ; Frank Purcell, John Rodahaffer, Kansas 

 City ; Ray Pickrel, St. Louis ; Mr. Fletcher, East St. Louis : Louis Moschel, 

 Pekin, 111. ; W. P. Norris, Chillicothe, Mo. ; W. W. Knight, Indianapolis ; 

 George W. Hartzell, Piqua, O. ; V. L. Clarke, Des Moines ; H. B. Sale, 

 Ft. Wayne : A. B. Ransom, Nashville. 



W. C. Landon, formerly of Wausau, Wis., and formerly president of the 

 Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, and who has 

 since operated in the white pines of the Inland Empire in the West and 

 is now locating two large yellow pine mills in the South in which are 

 interested other Wisconsin operators, passed through Chicago on his way 

 north to Wausau last week. Mr. Landon said that his operations are 

 progressing very nicely and he is very optimistic over the future outlook 

 of the lumber business. 



P. E. Gary, who recently sold out his interest in the Crenshaw-Gary 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., has arrived in Chicago with Mrs. Gary 

 and will take up his residence in this city. 



J. II. P. Smith of Detroit, Mich., was in the city last week on busiueas 

 for two or three days. 



■< BUFFALO >= 



Nelson S. Taylor of the firm of Taylor & Crate, has left business to 

 enter the artillery school at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. A. 

 Conger Goodyear, who has been a lieutenant-colonel at this camp, has been 

 raised to the rank of colonel and has gone abroad for service. 



The building situation in Buffalo shows no Improvement over a month 

 ago, though the need for houses is fully as great as ever. When the war 

 Is over it is likely that a good many new houses will be erected here, since 

 the city is growing and little building has been done for months. 



To relieve the local housing situation it was proposed by certain business 

 Interests here to ask the government to finance the erection of several hun- 

 dred houses on North Elmwood avenue. The need Is greatest in that 

 section and will increase, in all probability, during the next few months. 

 A proposal in line with this is made by the Real Estate Association, which 

 is planning to induce owners of about 200 vacant stores to fit them for 

 housekeeping. The association will also try to secure a modification of 

 the rule forbidding more than two families to do housekeeping in a single 



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