August 10, iai5. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Grand Rapids Picnic This Month 

 The sevcutli auuual picnic of tlie Grand R.ipids Lumbermen's Association 

 will be held on Saturday, August 21, at SpriHg Lake hotel, a beautifully 

 located point near Grand Rapids. The committee in charge, consisting of 

 A. M. Manning, Herbert Schneider, Arthur Wolf and Dave Boland, has 

 made provision for all kinds of entertainments, eats, games, etc. There 

 will be dancing and bathing, in fact a little of about everything in the 

 picnic line. 



Board Meeting of American Forestry Association 



The American Forestry Association announces that the fall meeting of 

 the board of directors will be held at Boston. Mass., August 31, and from 

 there will adjourn to the Profile House, N. 11.. to meet September 1-2. 



Buffalo Exchange Outing 



The Buffalo Lumber Exchange was again lucky in its first summer out- 

 ing, given on July 20 at the Buffalo Automobile Club, sixteen miles from 

 the city, for the afternoon was fine. 



The attendance was about eighty and was made up of the great part 

 of the lumber Interest of the city and a number of their friends, the num- 

 ber including John G. Staats of New York, R. G. Keizer, Idaho White 

 Pine Manufacturers' agency, and George W. Taylor, Holt Timber Com- 

 pany, Chicago. On account of special services rendered, William Landslll, 

 vice-president of the Buffalo Stock Yards Bank, and Frank E. Williamson, 

 trafllc manager of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, were elected hon- 

 orary members. A message was received from Major John S. Noyes, the 

 dean of the Buffalo lumber trade, who is now past 80 years old, regretting 

 that he was not able to attend. 



The afternoon was crowded full of games, so that the swimming event 

 took place before the contemporary games of hard base ball and indoor 

 base ball were finished. There were also a medicine ball relay race, a 

 foot race, a blindfold match, and a tug of war, not to mention some 

 good croquet games. The Buffalo lumbermen have always played a stiff 

 game of base ball and it is pleasant to note that the younger members 

 were keeping up the reputation made b.v the older ones, while the latter 

 now get quite as much interest, though not so much violent exercise, in 

 the indoor base ball game. 



There were many successful contestants In the sporting events and at 

 the supper much sport was had over the presentation of freak prizes to 

 them and afterwards to anyone else who seemed to make a good mark in 

 the line of fun producing. The supper was a good one, but the special 

 proceedings that were added to it increased the general good feeling. 

 C. W. Belts and W. P. Belts were the base ball umpires. John A. Murphy 

 gave out the prizes and Millard S. Burns was made toastmaster. He 

 called on a number of the guests and always received graceful responses. 



The after-supper speakers from out of town joined in, declaring that 

 they had never seen a body of business men together who appeared to 

 be so of one accord or who enjoyed themselves so well. They were sure 

 that these outings did much toward uniting this market and preventing 

 undue competition. President W'. P. Betts of the Exchange and the enter- 

 tainment committee, with Charles N. Pcirin, chairman, worked hard to 

 make the outing a success and everybody was delighted. 



Huddleston-Marsh Lumber Company to Import Mahogany Logs 

 and Open New York Office 



Information h.as just reached Haudwood Recoiuj to the effect that the 

 Huddleston-Marsh Lumber Company of Chicago, for many years dealer in 

 mahogany and other fancy woods, in both lumber and veneer, is now 

 importing its own mahogany logs in large quantities, through New York, 

 where they are being manufactured, and where large stocks of both lumber 

 and veneer will be carried. About September 1 this company will open 

 offices in New York. 



New North CaroHna Mill 



The Laurel River Lumber Company with lioidiugs in North Carolina and 

 Tennessee, has contracted with the Currie Bros. Lumber Company, Ridg- 

 way. Pa., for twenty-five per cent of its timber holdings in these two 

 locations. Currie Brothers are planning to erect near Runyan, N. C, on 

 the Madison County raiJro.id, a modern band sawmill for manufacturing 

 this stock. 



This company will manufacture mainly white pine and yellow poplar. 

 The deal was completed through the agency of .-Vnson T. Betts & Co., 

 Asheville, N. C, which concern owns a good deal of timber in the vicinity 

 of Asheville and operates a band sawmill at Biltmore, which was recently 

 put into operation. 



Mill Property Sold 



The bankrupt stock of the Swift Lumber Company, ThomasvlUe, Ga., 

 was put up at public sale on July 12. The largest part of it went to 

 J. A. Barfield of Alapaha, who also owns other mills in hat section. The 

 property consists of sawmill, planing mill, dry kiln, sheds, machinery 

 and tools, timber, a locomotive, hand cars, cross ties, steel rail and 

 leasehold interest in a tramroad with right of way in the town of Meigs. 

 Also the right of way in a tramroad running in an easterly direction, 

 and a large lot of timber cut and uncut, and various other mill property. 



Cypress Company Elects Officer 



The Big Salkehatchie Cypress Company of Varnville, S. C, held the 

 annual meeting of the board of directors on July 10, at which time Prank 

 A. McClure was elected assistant secretary-treasurer and was also elected 

 to the board of directors. 



.Mr. McClure is an experienced lumber office man, having started with 

 the Louis Werner Sawmill Company, Griffin, Ark., then going with the 

 Freeman Lumber Company, Gleason, after which he was with the F. B. 

 Williams Cypress Company, Patterson, La. Just previous to coming with 

 the Big Salkehatchie company he had charge of the office of the St. 

 Bernard Cypress Company, Arabi, La. 



D. H. Day Prominent in Preparing Tourist Directory of 



Michigan 



D. II. Day of Glen Haven, Mich., inenibcr of the executive committee 

 of the West Michigan Pike Association, has been instrumental in pre- 

 paring maps, routes and tourist directory of the West Michigan Pike, 

 a scenic highway along Lake Michigan through Michigan's summerland 

 territory from the Lincoln Highway to the Straits of Mackinac, this being 

 the northernmost link of the Dixie Highway, the Gulf to Straits route. 

 The booklet shows what has been accomplished in developing western 

 Michigan as a summer resort and of excellent results of efforts to pro- 

 vide proper highways so that this immense territory will be at all times 

 accessible to motorists. 



Will Develop Hickory Holdings 



W. S. Elder of Brownsville, Tenn., has taken over the Hickory stump- 

 age on 15,000 acres of timberlands belonging to the J. F. Mclntyre & Sons 

 Company in the Saline River Valley, about twenty-five miles south of 

 Pine Bluff, Ark. It is estimated that there are about 10,000,000 feet of 

 hickory timber on this property, and Mr. Elder will take immediate steps 



Will Remove Large Hardwood Mill 



The Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company which operates a number of 

 sawmills and pulp factories in West Virginia has cut out its holdings at 

 Lanesville and will remove that mill about twenty-five miles south and 

 erect it at Horton where It will be operated as a hardwood mill, drawing 

 supplies from Highland county, Va., and Randolph, Pendleton and Poca- 

 hontas counties, W. Va. The company has operated a softwood mill at 

 Ilorton for fifteen years and has cut spruce chiefly. 



Arkansas Company Not Dissolved 



It was rumored a short time aso that the Carnaban-.VUport Lumber 

 Company, .\llport. Ark., has been dissolved. Haudwood Rkcord has ascer- 

 tained this rumor was not correct. It was stated the company had filed 

 notice of dissolution in the office of the secretary of state. What really 

 happened was the Union Logging Company held a meeting in the office of 

 the Carnahan-Allport Company and adopted a resolution to dissolve and 

 accordingly a notice was filed in the office of the state secretary. 



To Cut Alaskan Timber for Government Railroad 



The Forest Service has given a permit to the Alaskan Engineering Com- 

 mission to cut 85,000,000 feet of timber in the Cugach national forest for 

 use in constructing the new Government railroad in Alaska. The timber 

 will be cut in designated areas along the right-of-way of the proposed 

 railroad, which runs through the Cugach national forest for several miles. 



Experiments and tests of Alaskan spruce and hemlock are being made 

 at the Forest Service laboratory at Seattle, Wash., and so far have sub- 

 stantiated the opinion of foresters that Alaskan timber is sufficiently 

 strong for practically all structural purposes. 



Gunstock Factory in Missouri 



The Des Moines Saw Mill Company is building a factory at Springfield. 

 Mo., for the manufacture of gunstocks for the European armies. It is 

 said that the factory will not be maintained permanently. It will use 

 black walnut which grows in Missouri, and will operate under a sub- 

 contract for the Remington Arms & Ammunition Company. It is esti- 

 mated that the walnut lumber which will be consumed by the factory 

 will be worth .'55.000.000. 



Tennessee Hardwood Tract Purchased 

 Recently the U. C. DuiT Lumber Company of Duffleld, Va., purchased a 

 large tract of hardwood land near Kingsport, Tenn., and it is planned 

 to build a branch railroad to carry the lumber out. Connections will be 

 made with the Carolina, Clinchfleld & Ohio. The mill which will cut this 

 timber will be in operation before the close of the present year. 

 . Forester Will Raise Fruit 



E. M. Griffith, former state forester of Wisconsin, who has beeii maneu- 

 vered out of his position by a change in the state law, will go South, 

 purchase a tract of fertile land in the sunny clime, and raise fruit where 

 the wicked cease from troubling: and the weary are at rest. If Mr. Griffith 

 does as well in the fruit business as he has done with forestry, he will be 

 a valuable acquisition to the state that receives him as a citizen. 



Commonwealth Timber Securities 

 Edward J. Young of Madisou, Wis. ; Grant T, Stephenson, Marinette, 

 Wis., and Frank R. Barns, Chicago, 111., have organized the Commonwealth 

 Timber Securities Company, capital stock .?1 50,000. and on August 10 will 

 open offices at 1515 Corn Exchange Bank Building, Chicago, under the 

 management of Frank R. Barns. 



The offlcere of the Commonwealth Timber Securities Company are : 

 Frank R. Barns, president and treasurer ; Grant T. Stephenson, vice- 



