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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mahogany and 

 Circassian 



Lumber & Veneers 



^ The larg-est assortment of finest figured 

 Mahogany Logs, Lumber and Veneers in 

 the country can be found at the Chicago 

 plant of C. L. Willey. 



^ We are just in receipt of fifteen cars of 

 remarkably superior Circassian Walnut 

 Logs, large size, well-figured and of good 

 color, which are now being cut into 

 Veneers. 



^ A visit or correspondence from discrim- 

 inating buyers of all varieties of fine Im- 

 ported and Domestic Cabinet Woods in 

 Lumber and Veneer is solicited, 



^ You will not only find the Willey ware- 

 houses well stocked with a superb collec- 

 tion of Circassian, Mahogany, Vermilion, 

 Black Walnut and other fancy foreign 

 and domestic lumber and veneers, but 

 buyers are assured of prompt and pains- 

 taking service, and a quality of product 

 not usually obtainable. 



^ To visit the plant take Blue Island Ave. 

 car at the postoffice to Robey Street. 



C. L. WILLEY, Chicago 



Largest Fancy Wood Veneer 

 and Lumber producing plant in the world 



operations in a short time. Tlie company has just secured an amendment 

 to Its charter whereby its cai)ital stoclt Is Increased from $10,000 to 

 $300,000. One oi: tlie ilrst phases of the deveiopment is to be the con- 

 struction of a railroad from the Southern into the tract. 



The well-itnown lumber firm of T. J. Shryocli & Co., which has for years 

 occupied the wharf and j'ard property on Phiipot street, just at the bend, 

 has moved to the place formerly occupied by Thomas A. Charshee & Bro., 

 on South Caroline street, where a lumber shed has been erected and other 

 improvements have been made. 



=-< COLUMBUS >• 



Malcolm Jennings was eiecti'il SLLTi-lar.v of the Ohio Manufacturers' 

 Association by the executive committee of that organization, to succeed 

 Opha Moore, who resigned a short time ago. 



Extensive additions to its yard space have been planned by the Edwards 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, O. The company has Just leased for a 

 period of live years the entire bloclt between Eighth, Ilorne, Seventh and 

 Garrard avenue, mailing a yard 200 by 500 feet in extent. 



Bcn.iamin W. Putnam, aged seventy-nine years, founder of the Putnam- 

 nooker Company of Cincinnati and father of Harry B. Putnam, a lumber 

 dealer of Columbus, died suddenly of heart trouble recently. 



Claiming that there are millions of acres of land in the state which 

 would give a greater return devoted to forestry than to any other purpose, 

 members of the Ohio State Forestry Society, who held their tenth annual 

 meeting at Columbus recently, adopted a resolution to the effect "that 

 the Ohio State Forestry Society does request and urge the general assembly 

 at its next regular session to enact a law which will be broad in scope 

 and of gcneial application to the forestry interests of the state." 



The annual meeting of the stocldiolders of the Marion Lumber Com- 

 pany of Marion was held recently. Reports of the work last year were 

 heard and proved very satisfactory. Directors and officers were elected. 



The Bucyrus Lumber Company of Bucyrus. O.. was organized recently. 

 It is officered by Jacob Colter, president ; P. J. Carroll, vice-president : 

 C. J. Scroggs, secretary ; W. A. Blicke, treasurer ; S. S. White, general 

 ■manager, and Peter Conkle, assistant manager. Operations will begin at 

 once. The Vollrath mill property was taken over by the company. 



The John S. Oram Company of Cleveland has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $60,000 to engage in the cooperage business. The incor- 

 porators are W. H. Keim, Oscar T. Oram, William Clark, E. J. Oram and 

 Edward J. Kovanda. 



Fred Bower, who had been in the sawmill business in Risingsun, C, 

 for the last forty-three years, closed his business recently because of old 

 age, he being over eighty years of age. When he started in the business 

 the mill was located on the Whitman property, and in 1883 it was rebuilt 

 on the present site. Since then the mill has been enlarged several times. 



R. B. Lovell & Co., who recently opened offices and wholesale yards on 

 Dublin avenue, Columbus, report a very satisfactory business and are going 

 into the manufacture of West Virginia hardwoods, in which they are 

 specializing, on a large scale at an early date. 



B. M. Freeman was elected president of the Columbus Builders & 

 Traders' Exchange at the annual meeting held January 5. R. L. Watson 

 was elected first vice-president and W. H. Beckett second vice-president. 

 The exchange endorsed the plan of the Columbus Manufacturers & Jobbers' 

 Association to hold a Columbus-made exposition for the week beginning 

 June 8. An invitation was received personally from J. M. Vollner, secre- 

 tary of the Louisville Builders' Exchange, to attend the meeting of the 

 national organization at that city January 20-22. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus, O., 

 reports an increase in the volume of business in all varieties of hardwoods. 

 He says there is a good movement and shipments are coming out promptly. 

 Prices are holding up well and strength is shown on all sides. Yard 

 stocks are still short in most places. Mr. Horton recently returned from 

 a business trip in the Buffalo territory. 



A. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Lumber Company says trade in hard- 

 woods is holding up well and prices are fairly firm under the circumstances. 



At Newark, H. O. Norris has admitted Frank C. Webb as a partner, 

 and the business is now Norris & Webb. 



The Clay Tie & Lumber Company of Chillicothe has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $5,000 to deal In lumber of all kinds and railroad 

 ties. 'The incorporators are Harvey Clay, William R. Snyder, Lillian F. 

 Snyder. Sallie Herrnstein and William Herrnstein. 



The Gotshall Manufacturing Company of Toledo has increased its capital 

 stock from $00,000 to $250,000. The company has included in the corpora- 

 tion its factory located at Archbold, O., and the lumber plant of C, W. 

 Woeman at Vickery. O. The company has a large plant at Elyria. 



Because of the appropriation last year of $2,000,000 for new buildings 

 at state institutions, State Auditor Donahey staled a large saving in 

 architects' fees could be made if the office of state architect were created. 

 He computed that in the last five years Frank L. Packard of Columbus, 

 who has been employed as architect for most of the state buildings, has 

 drawn $125,000 in fees, and other architects have been paid $130,000. 



Charles Tudor Williams, vice-president and general manager of the 

 Cleveland Box Company of Cleveland, died at his home January 7. 



Columbus contractors are protesting vigorously against the state liability 

 rates applied by the Industrial Commission, and have asked that the 

 Columbus Builders & Traders' Exchange appoint a committee to make 

 an investigation. It is complained that the charges in many instances 

 exceed the rates of the liability insurance companies. The new schedule 



