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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 1919 



With the Trade 



Northern Expert Makes New Connection 



H. G. Maisleiu, who ha-s been cuuiiectcd with iiortliern hardwood opera- 

 tions for a good many years, has just accepted a position as lumber buyer 

 Cor the Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two Rivers, Wis. Mr. Mais- 

 loin has had a thorough schooling in the lumber business in the operating. 

 Inlying and selling ends. He is one of the best-known and best-posted 

 men connected with the northern hardwood field. He terminates a period 

 of fifteen years' employnnuit with the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of 

 Appleton, Wis., for w^hom he has served as buyer and salesman of northern 

 hardwoods in Wisconsin and Michigan. In his new connection, Mr. Mais- 

 Icin will have charge of the purchasing of some 0,000,000 feet of northern 

 hardwoods each year, this material going into the manufacture of printer's 

 furniture, wood-type and special work. 



Grossman Lumber Company Organizes 



The Crossman Lumber Company has been organized and incorporated 

 at Grand Rapids, Mich., the principals being A. C. Wells of Menominee, 

 AHch., and Earle Crossman of Grand Rapids. Mr. Crossman has been 

 associated with the A. L. Dennis Salt & Lnml^er Company of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., for a good many years, having up to the time of his resignation 

 been secretary and sales manager. Mr. Wells is vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company and the Girard Lumber 

 Company, Menominee, Mich. 



Mr. Wells is president of the new company. Mr. Crossman being secre- 

 tary, trea.surer and manager. 



The concern will do a northern hardwood business in Grand Rapids, 

 maintaining offices in the Murray luiilding, and is now making arrange- 

 ments to install two yards. 



Sabine Tram Will Build Hardwood Mill 



The Sabine Tram Company of Beaumont, Tex., is about to taki' up a 

 project which has been postponed for a eouple of years on account of the 

 war. The company has extensive pine and hardwood holdings in Texas, 

 and the one large mill at Deweyville has been operating on both pine and 

 hardwoods. Construction of the hardwood mill will shortly be started, 

 which will give two^^cperations, one exclusively pine and one exclusively 

 hardwood. 



Joins New Deemer Manufacturing Company 



F. H. Stanford, who has been associated with the hardwood business for 

 a number of years, and who recently served as assistant secretary to the 

 erstwhile Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States, has 

 joined the forces of the New Deemer Manufacturing Company, Inc., of 

 Deemer, Miss. Mr. Stanford becomes sales manager and has already taken 

 hold of his new work. 



At a meeting of the board of directors held during .January there was a 

 thorough inspection of the entire operation, and it was decided to make a 

 great many improvements and additions to the plant and logging equip- 

 ment. It is expected that these changes will about double the present 

 capacity and will bring the cut up to considerably over 100,000 feet a day 

 of high grade southern hardwooiis. 



It is estimated that the company has a timber supply sufficient to give 

 at least twenty-five years of cut, which will consist principally of oak and 

 gum with a small percentage of pine and miscellaneous hardwoods. 



It is the company's intention to develop an extensive sale.s organization. 

 enabling it to market direct to. the consumer. 



Tie Company Elects New Officers 



At the annual meeting <if tbi- stuekholders of the Mercereau-Hawkins 

 Tie Company, Huntington, W. Va., held recently, the following officers 

 were eleeted : E. K. Mercereau, chairman of the board ; H. B. Mercereau. 

 president: C. W. Peters, vice-president and general manager; F. B. Thorn- 

 berg, secretary and treasurer. 



Putting Pep into Hardwood Sales 



A new eunibination was recently formed in Memphis, officially .starting 

 on February 1, that promises to be unusually productive of results. H. 

 J. Richards, one of th^ best known and best posted men in the Southern 

 tield, on that date assumed active charge of the sales affairs of the 

 II. W. Darby Hardwood Lumber Company of Memphis, one of the more 

 recent and most aggressive firms in that hub of hardwood affairs. Mr. 

 Richards leaves the sales managership of J. H. Bonner & Sons of Mem- 

 phis, for his new work. He has been with this popular and widely 

 known organization for two years, having opened the company's Mem- 

 phis office when he joined it. 



Darby, while a young man, is an old hand at the game. He has 

 built up a solid and distinctly successful business by sheer force of 

 eharactf-r and alulity. His early days were spent in the most humble 

 connections with the hardwood industry and his rise to a position, of 

 national significance in the business has been brought ab<>ut entirely 

 through his own efforts. 



His first job was with Banks & Company at Hernando. Miss. This 

 was back in 1905 when he was paid $1.25 a day for work in the woods. 

 After two years he was put on the lumber buying end. where in his five 

 years of work he acquired a well grounded knowledge of grades. In 

 1910 he went to Memphis with the E. Sondheimer Co., and a little 

 over a year later he launched his own craft at Ilolcomb, Miss., where 

 he started a lumber jobbing business, doing all the hard work himself. 

 This w-a.s really the beginning of a remarkably successful career, for 

 while he shippeil only about ten cars a month in the old days at Hol- 

 enmb, he had passed the one hundred cars a month mark in 191S. Mr. 

 Darby opened his headtjuarters in Meniphis in March. 191S. having come 

 there from Grenada, Miss., to which point he had moved in 1914. His 

 organization now markets the entire cut of his six nulls, all operating on 

 Mississippi timber. 



Richards originates in Chicago, but has spent most of his twenty 

 years of lumber history right down on the job where they make the 

 sawdust. His beginning was unccmspicuous but his rise consistent and 

 rapid. He had Chicago connections till 1905 though most of this period 

 was spent right out in the sticks. In that year he became receiver for 

 the Tigertail (Tenn.) Mill & Land Co., which job took him three years 

 to finish. From here he jumped into the game on his own hook, start- 

 ing up a mill of his own in Louisiana. He surrendered this project 

 July 1, 1914, when he returned North and became a Chicago commission 

 man. A year and a half later he again went South, this time as sales 

 manager for the Tallahatchie Lumber Co., Philip, Miss. This was his 

 last venliirr up to the tinu^ he joim-d J. II. Bonnrr & Sons. 



L. W. CROW, NOW PRESIDENT CHICA(;0 

 LU-MBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



R. G. MAISLKIX. HUVKIl FUU HAMILTON 



MANUFACTURING COMPANY. TWO 



RIVERS. WIS. 



II. STANFORD, SALES MANAGER, NEW 

 DEEMER MANUFACTURING COM- 

 PANY, DEEMER, MISS. 



