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HARDWOOD RECORD 



i>er Compauy, and \V. O. Harris, Jr., Louisville attornc.v, are tin- prin- 

 cipals of tlie concern. 



In addition to the office, the concern will maintain a yard and will 



<loal in soutlicrn hardwoods. The Louisville Hardwood fliili cU-ctcd the 



aiew concern to membership at it.s last meeting. 



New Nashville Concern 



The Wideawake Lumber Company has just starte<l Imsiuess at 71 

 Arcade, Nashville, Tenu., the concern being organized to operate in hard 

 woods on a general waiolesaling basis. Oak and poplar will be the com- 

 pany's mainstay, although it is planned to handle considerable ash, chest- 

 nut and similar southern hardwoods. A close connection has been made 

 with several country sawmills whose output will be handled entirely 

 iby the new Nashville concern. 



The backers of this new organization are II, H. Crossfleld and W. K. 

 Logan, both of Nashville. 



New Arkansas Veneer Concern 



The Morgan Veneer Company has been established to operate at Pine 

 HlufT, Ark. This concern is headed by \V. B. Morgan, treasurer of the 

 Anderson-TuUy Company, Memphis, Tenn., and is formed to operate a 

 tract o£ 75,000,000 feet of timber purchased from the Mclntyre-Mann 

 Timber Company of Pine Bluff. 



The timber is on the Saline river and is excellent in quality and size. 

 Mr. Morgan states that work has already been started on the company's 

 plant, which will be in operation probably In the early part of May. 



C. W. Talge Take up Circassian Walnut Logs 



Charles W. Talge, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Veneer 

 Company, Evansville, Ind.. left Evansville. on Saturday. February 21, 

 accompanied by Mrs. Talge, tor New York. Mr. Talge will be principally 

 occupied while in that city in clearing at the custom office a large ship- 

 ment of Circassian walnut logs, which his company is now importing 

 direct from Russia. The concern's output embodies a large quantity of 

 very high-grade Circassian, although it also manufactures various other 

 lines of veneers, and in fact is in a position to supply the trade with 

 almost anything in this class of manufacture that it might have a call 

 for. 



The company has only recently completed its model veneer plant at 

 Evansville. and in connection is an office which has been erected under 

 Mr. Talge's personal supervision, which is a distinctly striking illus- 

 tration of the possibilities of high-class interior work done in figured 

 red gum. 



The Kraetzer-Cured Lumber Company Incorporated 

 Notice of incorporation was recently issued by the Kraetzer-Cured 

 Lumljer Company, which is a concern organized by B. F. Dulweber of 

 •^.'incinnati. O., which will operate a splendid band mill at Moorhead, 

 Miss. This concern has an unusually fine stand of timber from which 

 to cut its logs, which run principally to oak and gum. This plan is 

 to put the entire product of the mills through the Kraetzer Preparator, 

 so that the company will deal only in Kraetzer-cured stock. 



The company's operations are modern in every respect, great care 

 having been given to the design and construction of the mill and the 

 various accessories of the plant. It is expected not only that the stock 

 will be turned out absolutely perfect in every respect, but it is also 

 anticipated that it will be turned out very economically. In fact it is 

 promised that this plant will be a model one in every respect. 



Lamb-Fish Lumber Company Elects Ofacers 

 The annual meeting of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company. Charleston, 

 .Miss., was held in Chicago on February 20. Garrett E. Lamb was 

 elected president; W. B. Burke, vice-president and general manager; E. 

 Louis Kuhn, vice-president; Scott Brown, secretary; R. B. McCoy, treas- 

 urer. The election of Mr. Burke as vice-president was due to the com- 

 pany's appreciation of his splendid efforts in behalf of the company. 



Kentucky Operation Starts 



The Turkey Foot Lumber Company with main offices in Marietta, O., 

 has begun operations on a splendid tract of hardwood timber, sawing at 

 its mills at Crestmont. Ky. The large double band mill has been in- 

 stalled and in connection a resaw, which will give the mill an annual 

 capacity of 25,000,000 feet, principally of white oak. 



The headquarters of the company will be located after March 1 in the 

 Fayette National Bank building, Ixxington, Ky. 



Prominent 'Veneer Man Dies Suddenly 



On Wednesday of last week. Otis E. Williamson of the Williamson 

 Veneer Company, Baltimore, Md., died suddenly in Chicago, presumably 

 of heart failure. Mr. Williamson was found dead on the steps of the 

 Immanuel Baptist Church, South Wabash avenue. Chicago, and a cor- 

 oner's jury returned the above verdict. The deceased had been stopping 

 at the Auditorium hotel, being in Chicago on a business trip. 



Mr. Williamson was a partner on an equal basis with his brother. D. 

 W. Williamson, in the Baltimore concern. This concern was founded by 

 the father of the two brothers in Indianapolis years ago. The business 

 was moved to Baltimore some fifteen or twenty years ago. and has been 

 carried on by the two brothers ever since, the deceased being the younger 

 .brother, and about flfty-four years of age at the time of his death. 



O. E. Williamson was the log buyer and foreign representative and had 



charge ul (he foieigu business, making regular trips to foreign countries 

 in l>chalf of sales. He had been in the veneer business all his life. 



D. W. WSUiamson, the brother, came to Chicago to take charge of the 

 remains, which were shipped to Indianapolis and buried on Monday. 

 I'ebnmry 23. Mr. Williamson leaves a wife, five sons and one daughter 



Cincinnati Concern in Receivers' Hands 



.\s a n-sult of the appointing of a receiver for the carriage wood- 

 work lirm of Ahr & Host this week. .ludge Caldwell has appointed Clyde 

 .lohnson and L. W. Radina joint receivers of the lumlxT tirm of L. W. 

 Radina & Co., who are wholesale hardwood dealers with good sized 

 .yards in the west end. The appointment was made on petition of L. W. 

 Radina and his wife, .Tulia Radina, who comprise the Radina firm, in 

 which they set out that they are indorsers on notes of Ahr & Host in 

 the amount of .^32,000 and because of the receivership of that firm the 

 notes become due at once and the Radina concern is unable to meet 

 them. They say the liabilities of the Radina company are $3.%000 and 

 the assets $04,000. 



Big 'West Virginia Timber Deal 



One of the largest timber deals of which information has come 

 to Baltimore from West Virginia was that whereby the Lost River Lum- 

 ber Company, with M'. B. Cornwell of Romney, W. Va., an attorney, as 

 president, acquired possession of some sixty different tracts of stump- 

 age in the territory known as Dutch Hollow, the Sperrys Run country, 

 Baker's Run and a large part of the drains of Lost River, including 9,000 

 acres near Wardensvllle, W. Va. The timber area purchased lies in 

 Hardy and Hampshire counties, and is estimated to contain not less 

 than 100,000,000 feet, about sevent.v-flve per cent of it l)eing a high 

 grade of white oak. Mr. Cornwell has been at work gathering up the 

 loose ends of the deal for the last fifteen months, and the transfers are 

 now being made. Besides Mr. Cornwell the officers of the company are : 

 William Trapnell, vice-president : W. M. W. McClalne, secretary and 

 treasurer, and John J. Cornwell. attorney. Mr. Trapnell is general man- 

 ager of the Hampshire Southern Railroad. The property is to be developed 

 on an extensive scale, with a railroad running through the tracts. The 

 route tor the line selected will probably be from Wardensvllle, Hardy 

 county, eastward about fifteen miles to Strasburg Junction, on the Balti- 

 more and Ohio and the Southern Railroads. This route is said to be the 

 most practicable and the shortest. Two others are to be surve.ved. 



Eastern Furniture Concern In Control of Creditors' Committee 



Julius Rayner, through his attorneys, recently filed suit against the 

 Pooley Furniture Company to recover about .fl,800 alleged to be overdue. 

 Edward Stein & Co. have entered judgment against the Pooley com- 

 pany for $1,022 for want of defense. A few days later Judge Kinsey 

 appointed Max Weinmann receiver of the company in a reported amicable 

 suit brought in Common Pleas Court No. 1 by the Bank of North 

 America. Lewis Thompson & Co., Inc.. and Delaney & Co.. creditors, 

 and D. G. Pooley and W. F. Wagner, stockholders of the corporation. 

 The company is capitalized at $240,000 and since January. 1912, its 

 affairs have been under the control of a committee of creditors. Judge 

 Kinsey was informed that the business of the company was active 

 and flourishing, but there was a lack of sufficient capital to conduct it. 

 J. Howard Reber, attorney for the petitioners, said that more than ninety 

 per cent of all creditors had given their consent for the continuance 

 of the business, but it was in the interest of the creditors and stock- 

 holders if a sale were necessary, that the company should be sold as a 

 going concern and it was the belief that this could be accomplished within 

 a reasonable length of time. The company joined in the receivership 

 proceedings and Mr. Weinmann's bond was fixed at .?100,000. 



Important Timber Purchase in Arkansas 



A tract of 15,069 acres of timberland in White county. Arkansas, lying 

 along the west bank oi the White river on the Memphis branch of the 

 Iron Mountain on the north, and the N. and N. A. railroad on the south, 

 has been sold to C. L. Goodwin of Greensburg, Pa., by Rudolph Stecher 

 of Murphysboro, III. The land is known as the Stoneman-Zearlhg tract, 

 and is principally bottom land, the timber being mainly gum, red oak, 

 white oak. cypress and hickory, of importance in the order named. 



The consideration named in the deed is $150,690.90. There are no 

 plans as yet for the manufacture of this timber. The Mark H. Brown 

 Lumber Company, Mounds. Ark., has an interest in the property. 



Big Hardwood Mill for New York State 



A mammoth lumber mill for the handling of hardwood lumber will be 

 constructed between Cranberry Lake and Childwold, N. Y., this spring 

 by the Emporium Lumber Company which owns an 86,000 acre timber 

 tract in this section. The new mill will cost $500,000, completely 

 e<rulpped. Wagon hubs also will be manufactured. The decision to 

 construct the new lumber mill was reached at special meeting of directors 

 of the Emporium Lumber Company in Conifer, N. Y. W. L. Sykes, presi- 

 dent of the company, has not yet decided where the lumber mill will be 

 constructed. 



Important 'Wisconsin Amalgamation 



.Vn important deal in the chair industry of Wisconsin has been con- 

 sumated by the consolidation of four of the largest concerns engaged in 

 that line, with the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington as the 



