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HARDWOOD RECORD 



In describing tbo process of cutting them out tlie article says that they 

 are cut and then hauled or "snaked" to the river banlc and piled waiting 

 to be cast into the river. Then when the drive commences the inspectors 

 and buyers rheck t'le ties. They are branded with the buyer's mark, the 

 seller's mark and the cutter's mark, a painted circle, a cross, an initial 

 or an odd-shaped figure at the end. As the drive nears the tie pile 

 a chute from the bank is leveled off. In some cases these chutes are 

 on a sroiit level, one being 400 feet from the log pile to the river. The 

 key log is knocked away, and the ties slip down a chute and hit the 

 water, either floating free or dumping on some shoal or other obstruction. 



Prices ranging from thirty to thirty-eight cents are paid for ties on 

 delivery at Van Buren, Mo. When they are bought on the river Ixink an 

 allowance is made for driving charges and the purchase price Is from 

 five to fifteen cents less. About 2,700 ties are used to the mile on 

 ordinary railroad construction. 



Still Plenty of Timberlands In Northern Michigan 

 A report containing a map of a portion of Wexford country. Mich.. 

 prepared by an employee of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, sliows that the timberland area patrolled by this one man 

 covers 120,000 acres. Of this .SO, 000 acres are still uncut and are 

 owne<i by a lumberman. 



Austrian Government Sells Ties 

 The government of Austria soils 1,500,000 ties annually, which ties are 

 cut and finished up in the National forest reserves. The practice in the 

 United States is well established of selling standing timber and down- 

 timber on the forest reserves. It would seem thai the example offered 

 by the administrators of the .\ustrain National forests might possibly be 

 followed here with profit. 



Jamaica's One Sawmill 



An American firm has built a sawmill in Jamaica which will soon 

 begin operations. This is the only sawmill on the island, ami it will 

 have a capacity of 10,000 feet of lumber and from 5,000 to 10,000 

 shingles a day. The mill is located at St. Margaret's bay, seven miles 

 .from Port Antonio. It is proposed to saw mahogany (Stcientenia mahay- 

 oni), Spanish or West Indian cedar (Cedrela odorata), mahoe (Hibisctis 

 elatus), greenheart Ifiloanea jamaicensisi, bullet (Dipholis montana), satin- 

 wood (Fagara flavaj, ebony (Bri/a evenus), and lignum-vitae (Chuaiacum 

 O0cinale}, for export and local consumption. To meet local demands 

 for lumber for building purposes other timber may be sawed. Shingles 

 will be made- chiefly from cedar. As there is not much timber in the 

 immediate vicinity of the mill it may before long have to depend on tim- 

 ber brought by the railroad to the station, quite near the mill. 



This mill offers to cabinet makers and furniture manufacturers in the 

 United States an opportunity to test the value of some of the fine woods 

 of Jamaica. 



Hardwood 'News Notes 



■< MISCELLANEOUS >• 



The B Line Furniture Company of New York City recently became a 

 bankrupt. 



It Is announced that the Bohon Buggy Company will start business at 

 Harrodsburg, Ky. 



The Dione Lumber Company of Bristol. Tenn., was recently incorporated 

 with $15,000 capital stock. 



0. H. Keller Chair Company of Marion, Ind., has been succeeded by 

 the Marion Chair Company. 



The Rush Box & Furniture Company of Hawkins, Wis., has increased 

 its capital stock to $35,000. 



The Fletcher Manufacturing Company recently began the manufacture 

 of furniture at Nashville, Tenn. 



The Kingston Wood Work Company of Kingston, N. Y., recently filed an 

 involuntary petition in bankruptcy. 



The Jasper Furniture Company of Jasper, Ind.. recently changed its 

 name to the Jasper Desk Company. 



The Champion Wagon Company has been incorporated to do business 

 at Owego, N. 1'., with $25,000 capital. 



The Acme Wood Work Company has started business at New York City. 

 This company is incorporated with $6,000 capital. 



The Moreland-Rix-MeCreight Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently 

 changed its name to the Rix-McCrcight Lumber Company. 



The Freeport Casket Company of Freeport, 111.', recently was placed in 

 bankruptcy. W. B. Horlocker has been appointed receiver. 



The Ovid Furniture Company of Ovid, Mich., has sold out to the Kirk- 

 ham-Matson Manufacturing Company of Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Keystone Lumber Company of Scotts Hill, N. C, has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $50,000 to manufacture lumber. 



'Xhe Rex Lumber Company is the style of a concern recently formed to 

 do business at Washington. N. C. The company has $50,000 capital. 



The Sutton Folding Crate Manufacturing Company has been incorpo- 

 rated at Sutton, W. Va. The company has a capital stock of $50,000. 



The J. R. Wilson Lumber Company, Hendcrsonville, N. C. has been in- 

 eorporate<l with $25,000 capital stock by E. E. Alexander and J. R. Wilson. 



The Ilinkley Handle Company is organizing at .\hinson, Mich. The 

 company will have a capital stock of $30,000 and will manufacture broom 

 handles. 



It is reported that a plant will he built at Hickman. Ky.. by the Erie 

 Basket Company of Lamington, Ont., to manufacture handle blanks, 

 veneers and baskets. 



The Elgin Silo Company is the style of a recently incorporated silo 

 manufacturing concern which will operate at Elgin, 111. This company 

 has $100,000 capital. 



The Templeton Lumber Company has been formed at Upland, Ind., by 

 L. A. Prlckett, F. C. MiUef and Ethel M. Miller, directors. It has a 

 capital stock of $12,500. 



The Beardslee-Graham Show Case Company with a capital of $20,000 

 has been formed at Seattle. Wash., the directors being W. J. Graham, 

 W. S. Beardslee and Frank Lanning. 



A hardwood plant, including sawmill, box factory, and veneer machinery. 

 will be built at Helena, Ark., by the Chicago Mill find Lumber Company. 

 The plant will be located on a site of 100 acres. 



At Bridgeport, Ala., a new spoke concern has been incorporated under 

 the name of Bridgeport Spolie Works, with G. W. Williams and others as 

 Incorporators and with a capital stock of $10,000. 



The announcement is made that the Morgan Lumber Company of Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., contemplates the establishment of four or five sawmills to 

 manufacture the timber on 30,000 or 40,000 acres. 



The R. P. Walsh Tie & Lumber Company has been organized at St. 

 Louis, Mo., with a capitalization of $100,000. The incorporators are : 

 R. P. Walsh, George C. Griffith and A. C. Hopmann. 



The Waynesvilie Lumber & Timber Company was capitalized at Waynes- 

 ville, N. C, with an authorized capital of $100,000, of which $10,000 has 

 been subscribed by C. Y. Mayo, J. H. Anderson and others. 



The capital stock of the Southern Box and Manufacturing Company of 

 Birmingham, Ala., has been increased to $100,000. The product of the 

 concerns is excelsior, crates, boxes, and novelty woodwork. 



The Wilson Cypress Company, I'alatka, Fla., has completed a planing 

 mill of iron, 90x200 feet, equipped with latest machinery, capacity of 

 60.000 feet a da.v, and expects to have it in operation very soon. 



The Bernardin Timber Manufacturing Company at Kansas City, Mo., 

 has been incorporated with authorized capital of $300,000, and with J. M. 

 Bernardin, Henry Koehler and Thomas A. Currier as incorporators, 



A new incorporation at Celina, O., is The Celina Hardwood Manufac- 

 turing Company. A. R. Hunter, J. C. Malan, J. E. Randabaugh, E. 

 Bourelle, B. A. Myers and Orel J. Myers are the parties at interest. 



Incorporation papers have been issued to the City Lumber Company of 

 Buffalo, N. Y... capitalized at $10,000, the incorporators being George M. 

 Stone, Jr. of Buffalo, Fred Degan, Lockport. N. Y., and Paul Heinrieh. 



The Paiatka Veneer Company, Palatka, Fla,, Wolfonden Brothers, man- 

 agers, began operations Oct. 13, with thirty employes. Its entire out- 

 put of orange box material, 5,000 boxes per day, is under contract for 

 the coming year. 



The Big Creek Lumber and Timber Company has been incorporated with 

 $25,000 capital to carry on a general lumber and timber business at 

 Wirmsboro, La. The incorporators are E. A. Enochs, J. W. Lockridge rind 

 Eugene S. Enochs. 



The Treas Lumber Company has been incorporated at Benton, Ky., by 

 Charles Treas. Aberdeen, Miss., Cliff Treas, G. G. Treas, Trentie Treas, 

 T. F. Treas and Guy Treas of Benton, and Mary E. Klotz of Memphis. 

 The capital stock is $17,500. 



Incorporation papers have been secured by the Coldwater Timber Com- 

 pany of Huntington, W. Va. The business will be carried on in Martin 

 county. K.V., with a capital stock of $15,000. The concern is incorporated 

 by C. M. Roebig, C, R. Comor, W, H. Cunningham and .S.. B, and S. J. 

 Hyman. 



< CHICAGO >.= 



O. H. Burgoyne of Burgoyne Brothers, Hugo, Okla., spent several days 

 of this week on a business trip to Chicago. 



The October number of the Blue Book, published by the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Credit Corporation, has just been received and offers 

 pi'oof of growth of that organization. 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Bros. Lumber Company. Chicago, spent 

 part of this week at West Baden with his family. 



E. .\. Lang of the Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company, and F. R. Gadd of 

 the Wisconsin Lumber Company, Chicago, attended the meeting of the 

 red gum manufacturers at Memphis, Saturday of last week. These two 

 men are prominent in the forwarding of the best interests of red gum. 



Charles H. Mackintosh, advertising manager of the Clyde Iron Works, 

 Duluth, Minn,, was one of the distinguished* visitors to the trade early 



