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HARDWOOD RECORD 



nil wiTi.' roiKiits 1)1' Trc'iis 

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Otiii'i- lo;iturrs "f tlio l.usiiu'ss s^ 

 BiMiiU'tt. which showtci llie hnanc 

 and (if George ('. Klhg, soerctnry. 



William A. Eager, chairman o( the entcrtainiiuiu cipmmittee. was 

 the recipient of a siieeial vote nf thanks tendered hy (he memhers for 

 his most enthusiastic ami cdiiieiit work as the head of that important 

 committee. 



Kollowlns his election to Ihe oflice of president, A. ('. Qui.\ky was 

 escorted to the chair by the committee appointed by Mr. Gadd. He ex- 

 pressed himself as duly appreciative of the honor bestowed upon liim. and 

 urjrtHl those present to assist in the work of obtaining new mi'mliers. 



With the Trade 



A Correction 



.Just pi'evious to llie last issue (If ilAatiwooD llKCdUP there was re- 

 ceived in this oftice notice from the Atlantic Lumber Company. Boston, 

 the wording of which give the distinct impression thiit that company 

 had moved its headquarters to Toronto, Ont. 



Word has been received from the company that the notice run to that 

 elt'ect was incorrect, and simply had to do with the removal of the 

 Toronto oftice fiom on. buil^linn t" allot her. 



New Manisticjue Plant Ready for Operation 



As announced previously in IIaiiuwduu Ukcokd a site for tlie new 

 Mani-stique Handle Manufacturing Company plant has been purchased 

 by the Manistique Commercial Club, and operations will begin as soon 

 as machinery can be placed. 



The company will start operations in the building formerly owned by 

 the Consolidated Furniture Company. The Commercial club put up 

 .^1.000 for its use, this being the second appropriation since the first of 

 the .year. 



The new Williams Flooring Compaiij will start breaking L'rouud for 

 its new plant at Manistbiue about April 1. 



I. F. Balsley Moves to Philadelphia 



I. F. Balsley. a veteran hardwood man of I'ittsburgb. Ta.. has gone 

 to Philadelphia, Pa., where he will handle the stocks of the Craig 

 County I.umberl Corporation, whose mills are at W'aiteville, W. Va., and 

 shipping point at Kay, W. Va. Mr. Balsley is perhaps as well known as 

 any wholesale hardwood man in the state. He was for many .years with 

 the (lid Mead & Speer Lumber Company, later for five .years with the 

 Willson Brothers Lumber Company, then manager of the Palmer & 

 Semans Lumber Company and lor tin- past two years an independent 

 hardwood wholesaler. 



Indianapolis Concern Expands 



The American Timber Products Company of Indianapolis was recently 

 incorporated with a capital stock of S.50.000. This concern has been 

 operating as an unincorporated company for some little time. O. M. 

 Pruitt being president. The concern started out to handle veneer logs 

 and flitches for veneer companies, but gradually enlarged Its business so 

 that it eventually was handling an extensive line of high-grade veneers 

 to consuming trade. The incorporation was for the purpose of giving it 

 an operation of its own and further enlarging its scope. 



Shortly after the incorporation the company purchased the Murdock 

 mill at Indianapolis, which is a veneer mill that was constructed a short 

 time ago but never run on account of the death of its owner. The mill 

 is well arranged and is equipped at present with two saws. The American 

 Timber Products Company is planning to add another saw and proliably 

 a slicer and band saw within the year. As it is now operating it has a 

 first-class contract for flitches and for slicing. This company is catering 

 only to high-class trade and hence its stock is in every particular all 

 that could be expected or desired. Mr. Pruitt states that the company 

 will coutiuue to handle veneer flitches and veneer logs. 



Provision has been made in the incorporation whereby the capital 

 stock can be increased as the extent of the company's operations are 

 inci-eased. 



Baldwin Locomotive Works Active 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works closed a contract with the Illinois Cen- 

 tral railroad recently for the construction of fifty locomotives of the 

 heavy Mikado type. They also received orders for one ten-wheel loco- 

 motive from the Arkan.sas Lumber Company ; one "2-6-2" type for the J. 

 R. Buckwalter Lumber Company, L'nion, Mass. ; six ten-wheelers for the 

 Georgia Southern and Florida railway ; one Mikado type for the Mason 

 County Logging Company of Bordeaux. Wash. : one four-coilpled engine 

 for the city of Newark. X. .7.. and one "2-0 2" tyiie for the John L. Roper 

 LuniLier Company, Norfolk. Va. 



Fire Destroys Plant of Jerome H. Sheip 



A disastrous fire visited the cigar box lumber plant of .Jerome II. Sheip. 

 Incorporated, at Cheetah Point. Mobile. Ala., on March 5, at 2 o'clock in 

 the morning, creating a loss of from $100,000 to $110,000. The fire started 

 in the dr.ver, where men are employed all night, but nothing definite can 

 be learned as to the origin. The destruction of the entire plant was 

 rapid, liut the Mobile fire department fortunately succeeded in confining 



tlie fire to the manufacturing section, thereby saving some 4fs0 stacks of 

 liried lumber cut to the thickness of a cigar box top, and which in its 

 dry state would have been an easy prey to the flames and a heavy addi- 

 tion to the loss. In addition to the destruction of the mill proper, the 

 veneer cutting mill was burned to the ground, including the ruination of 

 one of the only two cedar veneer cutting machines in that section of the 

 country. The cutting machine, which is an entire loss, had an eighteen- 

 foot, razor-blade knife, and cost $ls.OOO. Other special heavy losses in- 

 clude a new additional engine put in a year ago at a cost of nliout $25,000, 

 and a new dr.vcr, put in a little later. Jerome H. Sheip, president of the 

 concern, wlio had spent a week at the plant, left for Philadelphia the 

 night before the fire. He did not hear of the accident and its ravages 

 until he reached this city. Mr. Sheip deplores the disastrous interruption 

 of the business at this time, as they have been fairly busy right along. 

 The loss has been fairly covered by insurance, and the rebuilding of the 

 plant will begin as early as possible. 



Colorado Firms Buys New Mexico Timber 



Tlie llallaik and Howard Luiuljcr Comiiany of lienver. Col., has just 

 bought 117.000,000 board feet of timber on the Carson national forest, 

 New Mexico. The timber is purchased under competitive bids at a 

 stumpage rate of two dollars a thousand and the species to be cut include 

 yellow pine and Douglas fir. 



The timber is located at; the headwaters of Valleeitos creek and in 

 order to successfully log the area the company is planning to establish a 

 large mill near the Schomburg holdings and has already started the survey 

 for a railroad from Caliente Siding on the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. 

 The contract provides for a cutting period extending over ten years. 

 Actual lumbering will commence July 1, 1915. 



In addition to the 117.000,000 feet purchased from the government, the 

 company has also secured 30.000,000 feet of privately owned timber in the 

 same neighborhood and will cut this in connection with that from the 

 government holdings. 



Forest officers say that the Car.son forest will be greatly benefited by 

 this sale. It will take the large mature timber which will be cut into lum- 

 ber and railway ties. Furthermore, they think that it will mean a great 

 deal for that part of northern New Mexico, which is susceptible of con- 

 siderable development, this new timber activity being one of the largest 

 industrial undertakings in that locality within the past decade. 



Changes to Cincinnati Concern 

 Clyde E. Jones, formerly with the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 - Charleston, Miss., announces that he recently took a position with the 

 Korn-Conkling Company, Cincinnati, O., and will travel in Illinois, Iowa, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana. Mr. Jones has called on the 

 trade from the Missouri river east to New York City, and is thoroughly 

 acquainted with the majority of consumers. 



He will make his headquarters in Chicago at his residence, 4o.jl Ken- 

 more avenue. 



Chair Company to Enlarge 



In the fall of l;)12 the Cbarlnttc Chair Company. Charlotte. N. C. was 

 organized for the manufacture of dining chairs. The company took over 

 the Potter factory and after installing modern machinery has been 

 operating there ever since, starting with a force of about twenty-five men, 

 and ultimately employing over fifty. 



The plant has a capacity of 1.50 chairs a day and Inasmuch as it has 

 been running behind in orders for some little time, the officers recently 

 decided to effect a reorganization which was done about the middle of 

 February. New capital was taken in and it is now the intention of the 

 company to enlarge the plant permitting of an output of 250 chairs 

 daily. 



Chair Company 'Will Erect New Factory 



Following the increase in capital from .'S25.IKI0 to .^lOO.imO. which was 

 effected for the purpose of supplying funds, the John D. Kaab Chair 

 Company of Grand Rapids, Mich,, is to erect a new factory building at 

 Monroe avenue and Mason street, that city. The structure is to be 

 200x220, four stories high. 



With the completion of the new home, the company will no longer be 

 forced to seek exposition quarters outside the jilant. Work will be 

 commenced in the near future. 



Michigan Furniture Company to Erect Building 



The Michigan Furniture Company, one of the largest concerns of its 

 kind in Michigan, is arranging to erect a seven-story building in Spring- 

 field, O. Arrangements have been made by E. D. Kahn and the structure 

 will be erected at the corner of Main and Liiin'stone streets. The build- 

 ing will be used for business purposes. 



Knoxville 'Veneer Company Expands 



The first of the year the Knoxville Veneer Company of Knoxville, Tenn., 

 increased its capital stock to .$100,000. This increase was necessitated 

 by the company's rapidl.v expanding business and several innovations in 

 the way of utilizing waste, also the necessity for the improvement and 

 enlargement of its plant. P. B. Raymond, president of the company, 

 states that on Saturday, March 14, ground was broken for a new ware- 

 house which will be erected in connection with the plant's factory and 

 which will be of two-story brick construction 24 feet high and 80x140 

 feet on the ground. 



