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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 1922 



BLAIR 

 LUMBER CO. 



Hardwood 

 Manufacturers 



CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 



Thomas Forman Company 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN 



Lumber and Interior Finish 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



FOREMAN'S FASIOC8 FLOORING 



OAK AND MAPLE 



We Specialize in Less than Carload Shipments 



has been idcntitioil for years with tbe Lumlifrniens riuh of Memphis, the 

 SoutherD Hardwood Traffic Association, the American Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association and the Southern Alluviai Land Association. He 

 served the latter as president for one term. Regret is expressed over his 

 leaving Memphis, but the best wishes of a large circle of friends go with 

 him In his new field of endeavor. 



Delta Hardwood Lumber Company Puts New Mill to Work 



The newl.v furniiil Delta Uar.hvoud l.unib.T Company, with a capitaliza- 

 tion of $400,000, has about completed its new liand mill at Rayville. La., 

 and this was placed in operation about April 7. The mill is equipped with 

 an 8-foot band saw and is thoroughly modern in everv respect. It will 

 have an annual capacity of 12.000,000 to l.-j.OOO.OOO feet. The company 

 owns enough timber and controls enough stumpage rights to supply it's 

 requirements for fifteen to twenty years. 



Joseph Xewburger. president of "the Xewburger Cotton Company and 

 one of the most prominent business men of Memphis, is vice-president of 

 this firm. Other officers are: W. B. lloffa. Crenada, Miss., president and 

 Wilmer J. Thomas, secretary-treasurer. .Mr. Thomas will take up his resi- 

 don<e at Rayville. 



Hardwccd Timber in Receiver's Sale 

 Appro.ximately one million feet of hardwood timber is included in the 

 assets of the Dix Lumber Company, Terre Haute, Ind. The timber is on a 

 -23acre tract in .Martin County. Indiana. Factory buildings, dry kilns 

 warehouses, mill plant, Ijoilers. engines, electrical plant and the" blower 

 system, locate.l on the ground of the company, together with the timber 

 tract are in.ludcil in the assets of the company to be sold at a receiver's 

 sale April 19. The plant of the company is appraised at .'tl.jO.ooo and 

 occupies apiiroximately C5.000 square feet of ground. 



Brunsw:ck-Ba:ke-ColIender BuUdirg Into New Timber Holdings 



Approximately six miles of standard - luge r.HlruM.I will b,. built by the 

 IJeech p-ork Timber Company of Cin.iniiati in Andersen and Camp- 

 bell counties. Tennessee. The line will branch off of the Ten- 

 nessee Railroad, a branch of the .Southern R lilroad at Oneida Tenn and 

 traverse up the left bank of Beech Fork of New River for six miles The 

 Beech Fork Timber Company was recently incorporated under tbe laws of 

 the State of Illinois by the Brunswick-Balk '-Collender Companv of Chi- 

 cago and the Buskirk-Heyser Lumber Co. of Cincinnati. 



Benjamin Bensinger. president of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Com- 

 pany, is also president of the Beech Fork Timber Company, and John C 

 S,hank. treasurer of the Chicago concern, vice-president and treasurer 

 William K. Heyser of the Buskirk-Ileyser Lumber Co.. is secretary and 

 general manager. The Be.'ch Fork Timber Company recently boight'sooo 

 a< res of virgin timber land in Anderson and Campbell counties, Tenn.. from 

 the Coal Creek Mining Company. 



Logging camps have already been built on the land of the timber com- 

 pany ami the officials hope to have the railroail in operation bv next fall 

 'llie legs. .Mr. Ileyser said, will be shipped to the veneer plant of the 

 Brunswick, Balke-Collender Company at Knoxville. Tenn. The main offices 

 "t the company will be Eighth and Home streets, this city, in connection 

 with those of the Buskirk-Heyser Lumber Co. .\ branch office will be estab- 

 lisbi'.l in Chicago. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



rile KIberg Ktdler Body .Manufacturing Company. Kansas City. .Mo is 

 now operating as the Elberg B,„ly .Manufacturing Company. 



At (irand Rapids, Mi<h.. the .Menlzinski Furniture Companv has been 

 iricorporaterl. 



The 'I', J. Moss Tie Company, St. Louis, .Mo., has increascrl its capital 

 stock to SOOO.COO. 



The Raine-Andrews Lumber Company 'of Elkins, W. Va., filed i,..ti.-.. of 

 dissolution on .March 25. 



BUFFALO 



r.uffal.i held a "Better Home Exposition- during the week ending April 

 1, and the Broadway Auditorium was visited by many thousands of per 

 sons desirous of seeing the many exhibits for the improvement of the 

 home. It is proposed to hold the exhibition annually at about the saiiie 

 time of year. Among the exhibitors were (i. ^;lias & Bros., who had a 

 display of the many woods used in home construction, and the Ray H. 

 Bennett Lumber Company, North Tonawancbi. who showed a model of a 

 ready-cut house. The show equipment was taken from here to Detroit, 

 where a similar exposition will be held in the General Motors buildin- 

 In .May. 



The 11. I!. Edgett Company of (Jenesee, Allegany County, has been 

 incorporated to carry on a business in to.vs and novelties, with capital 

 of $2.5.000. 



Maurice M. Wall was last month honored with the presidency of the 

 Steuben soiiety of Buffalo, composed of former resiilents of that county. 

 A dinner of the society takes place on April 21. with a number of promi- 

 nent speakers present. 



Orson E. Yeager. accompanied by his wife and son, Orson E. Yeager. 

 Jr.. who is a student at the Mtlford School, Milford. Conn., have been 

 enjoying a vacation at Hot Springs, Va. 



Mrs. Lillian R. Cummings, wife of .Mark Cummings, head of the Mark 

 Cummings Lumber Company, died on April 3 after an illness of twelve 

 weeks, during which she was in the Buffalo General Hospital and sus- 

 tained an operatlim. Besides her husband, she leaves her mother. .Mrs. 

 Timms, and a son, Marcus A. Cummings. 



Horace F. Taylor, Jr., son of the president of Taylor & Crate, has been 

 elected captain of the swimming team at Dartmouth Colleg,. He is a 

 graduate of Nichols .School, in Buffalo, where he was a miMiiber of the 

 swimming team. He is a member of the class of 1!)23. 



Charles N. Perrin is the chairman of the entertainment committee of 

 the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, having recently been appointed bv Elmer 

 J. Sturm, president, as successor to William 1'. Betts. who has filled the 

 place for a numlier of .years and now wisb.Ml to resign, lie still remains 



