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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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With the Trade 



Wisconsin Mill Begins Operations 

 Tbc iii'w plain 111' 111.' Iciinilunvk Ni'iucr & Itiix Company made its ti-lal 

 run on New Vear's day at Tomaliawk. Wis., and the test was pronounced 

 a great success. At tlic beRinnin); tlie plant will employ between sixty 

 and seventy men, liut this number will be increased to one hundred later on. 

 The factory lias a daily eapnelty of from 2,000 to 3.000 cheese boxes In 

 oddltion to veneers, hoops, etc. The factory Is built on the site of the 

 Bradley company's plant. The officers of the company are Reinhard 

 Me.ver, president : .Ttilius flronmll. vice-president ; W. 11. McDerrnott. 

 treasurer; GtorKe .1. Sladik. srcri'tiiry. .Max Mi'ver is manager. 



Mill Resumes Operations 



IDmploying a force of fifty-five men. the Ohio Valley Bending Company 

 at Parkersburg. W. Va., resumed operations early in January, after having 

 been shut down for over a year, witii a large number of orders on hand. 

 Improvements of an extensive nature have been made to the plant, which 

 has been completely renovated, and among other things two new gas 

 engines have been installed, replacing steam engines. 



Company Name Changed 



The Florence Wagon Conipan.v. capitalized at ,$.'S00.000. succeeds the 

 Florence Wagon Works. Florence. Ala.. The incorporators of the new- 

 company are S. S. Broadus, Decatur, and C. W. Bransfore and H. A. 

 Bradshaw. Flori'nce. The manufacturing facilities at Florence will be 

 enlarged as a ri'snlt nf elinnges made. 



Will Make Chair Stock and Heading 

 The Tticker Timber Company, Elkins, W. Va., has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $50,000. The officers of the company are : J. S. Posten. 

 president ; .T. T. Davis, vice-president ; Vi. C. Posten. secretary-treasurer. 

 The new corporation will erect a plant in Tucker County, West Virginia. 

 and will manufacture lumber, chair back stock and oil barrel heading. 



Another One 



<?eorge H. Schotte. vice-president of the Thomp.son Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati, is the father of a recently born addition to the 

 hardwood trade of Cincinnati. Roy S. Schotte. five weeks old, judging 

 from the lusty way in which he orders his newl.v found parents about, 

 is destined to cut some figure in the lumber trade of the future. Roy S. 

 is the third of the new generation of Schottes. having been preceded by 

 George and Harry. 



Change of Operations 



The Smith & Uent Lumber Company, formerly of New Haven. Conn., 

 announces that it lias changed its corporate name to the Smith Lumber 

 Company and has moved its operations to the OHvit building. Boston. 

 Mass. 



Work on Ferd Brenner Mill Progressing 



W'ork on the big new mill of the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company in 

 the southern suburbs of .Mexandria. La., is progressing nicely. The 

 mill will be a thoroughly up to date hardwood plant, modern in every par- 

 ticular. Machinery is the newest and most modern to be had and the 

 building is being constructed along lines to facilitate the handling of the 

 material in the best mauner possible. 



An Unusual Calendar 



In the last issue Hardwood Rkcord there was a Chicago news note 

 acknowledging receipt of a handsome calendar from the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, Md. The calendar depicted a beautiful 

 photographic view of a mountain scene in North Carolina, but the con- 

 cern which issued this masterpiece overlooked enclosing descriptive lit- 

 erature. Hence, the description was necessarily limited. 



The title of the picture shown is "Eagle Creek Valley from the Sum- 

 mit of Thunderhead." It gives a view of a magnificent height and dis- 

 tance. The sheep pasture in the foreground, from which point the scene 

 was photographed, is a bald knob near the summit of Thunderhead 

 Peak, which is the highest point of the Great Smoky Mountains in Swain 

 county. North Carolina. From this altitude, 6.000 feet above .sea level. 

 can be seen the vast number of high peaks of the Appalachian range. 

 looking east from this point as far as Mt. Mitchell, in view on the 

 northeast, as well as Mt. Toxawa.v, to the southeast. 



The territory embraced in the view is the wonderful timbered valley 

 of Eagle Creek, which from this height, immediately above its source, 

 finds Its way over a southerly course of about eighteen miles until it 

 joins with the Little Tennessee river at Fontana. N. C. The scene em- 

 braced by the photograph covers about 20.000 acres of virgin forest, con- 

 sisting of grrat quantities of fine native woods, such as yellow poplar, 

 red and white oak, chestnut, basswood, ash, maple, birch, etc., and a 

 liberal sprinkling of white pine is also included. The property Is owned 

 by the Montvale Lumber Company. Baltimore, Md., and at Fontana. a 

 village founded by this concern in 1908, the company has located one 



of the most complete band sawmill equipments to be found in the moun- 

 tain region of the southern hardwood section. The products of this 

 operation are being sold on the market by its associated company, the 

 R. K. Wood Lumber Company, also of Baltimore. 



Will Build Hardwood Plant 

 R. W. Hamilton of Klklns. W. Va., a member of the firm of Hamilton 

 Brothers, has bought a small tract of fine hardwood timber near Marlon 

 Center, Pa., and will |)ul in a plant at once to manufacture it. 



Opens Office as Forest Engineer 



D. E. Lauderburn. forest engineer, announces that he withdrew as a 

 member of the firm of Vitale & Rolhery, New York, on December 31, and 

 that he is now engaged in business of timber estimating and in every 

 branch of forest engineering, with offices al 56 Worth street. New 

 York, N. Y. 



Will Open Hardwood Region 



The building of tlie proposed railroad through Hardy, Pendleton and 

 Pocahontas counties. West Virginia, and Highland count.v, Virginia, will 

 open a rich hardwood region, which likewise contains much hemlock 

 and spruce and some white pine, as well as extensive iron ores. The road 

 will cross the Alleghany mountains from the headwaters of the south 

 branch of the Potomac river to the sources of the Kanawha river, a 

 tributary of the Ohio. It is of Interest that one of the earliest railroad 

 surveys in America, made by engineers of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad 

 eighty-five years - ago, followed practically the same route as that on 

 which it is now proposed to build. The old route was rejected in 

 1829 because a railroad there would strike the Ohio river too far south. 

 No railroad at that time crossed the Alleghany mountains, and the pro- 

 motors of the infant Baltimore & Ohio line were aiming for Pittsburgh, 



New Factory at New Orleans 



It has been announced that oars, golf sticks, handles, shuttleblocks 

 and other hardwood articles will constitute the principal product of the 

 new plant of the Anchor Saw Mills Company to be built at New Orleans, 

 La. A site has been purchased on the river just above the city where a 

 convenient landing can be had for rafts and barges which will bring logs 

 down the ri^er. Work on the plant will begin at once, and when in 

 operation eighty men will be employed. 



Large Hardwood Mill for Oklahoma 



Between 300.000,000 and 400,000.000 feet of cottonwood and oak timhep 

 have been purchased by H. A. Waddell, H. .7. Williams and associates of 

 New Orleans, La. The tract is located on the Washita river near Isles- 

 worth. Okla. A mill with the capacity of 50.000 feet is to be erected at 

 once. Crossties and lumber will be manufactured. Mr. Waddell will be 

 in active charge of the operation. 



Death of Veteran Michigan Lumberman 



On .January 1, William A. Phelps, president of the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonnell Compan.v. Grand Rapids, Mich., and Hackley. Wi.s.. passed away. 

 Mr. Phelps was one of the old school of Michigan lumbermen and has 

 been operating in various parts of Michigan for years. He has been 

 actively connected with the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company since Its 

 incorporation, spending most of his time at the company's operations at 

 Hackley, Wis. 



Mr. Phelps' long connection with the Michigan lumber trade has made 

 for him many friends and his death is considered as a distinct loss to 

 the lumber trade. 



Death of John R. Whiteside 



At Joplin, Mo., Jan. !J, 1914. occurred the death of John R. Whiteside 

 of that place, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a native of Illinois. 

 He was identified with the lumber business twenty-five years, part of the 

 time in Chicago, where be was identified with George T. Houston & Co. 

 He had been with the KoUy-Maus Company, and was also in business 

 for himself. From Chicago he went to Duluth, where he was connected 

 with the Kelly Hardware Company. Later he was identified with the 

 J. M. Darnell & Son Company at Memphis. Tenn. During the last few 

 .years he was traveling salesman for the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 the Goodlander interests and the Baker Lumber Company. 

 Death of Robert N. Archer 



Lumber manufacturers and wholesalers throughout the hardwood field 

 learned with regret of the death January 10 of Robert N. Archer, formerly 

 one of the most prominent hardwood lumbermen in the United States. 

 Mr. Archer, who died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Frank K. 

 Rodman, at Evanswood avenue and Cornell place, Clifton, Cincinnati, was 

 one of the organizers of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. He 

 was widely known in lumber circles throughout the country, and especially 

 the South, up to the time of his retirement about fifteen years ago. He 

 organized the Kentucky Lumber Company in the early eighties. The com- 

 pany started mills at Frankfort, Burnside and Williamsburg. Ky. At that 

 time the output, in addition to poplar, oaks and other hardwoods, con- 

 sisted largely of walnut. The Kentucky Lumber Company since his retire- 

 ment has continued its growth. Mr. Archer had been in poor health for 

 some time and death was not unexpected. Since his retirement from active 

 business affairs he had traveled extensively, spending much time abroad, in 

 California and in Florida. 



