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HARDWOOD RECORD 



New Arkansas Company. 



The Cleveiand-McLeod Lumber Company has 

 been organized, with a capital stock of $100,000. 

 The company has bought what has been known 

 as the Phoenix Lumber Company operation at 

 Neal Springs, Ark. In addition to the 11,500 

 acres of timber land secured by the purchase, 

 it has since added considerable more land to 

 its holdings. There extends through the timber 

 some eight or ten miles of railroad, which is 

 equipped with two standard locomotives and 

 with logging cars. It is the Intention of the 

 company to manufacture both pine and hard- 

 woods, and they expect to handle a great deal 

 of wagon stock material. 



At the first meeting of the stockholders of 

 the company the following directors were elect- 

 ed : George T. Sparks, C. E. Speer, George W. 

 Cleveland. T. J. Hayes. Ira Oglesby and A. 

 Mi l.wd. all of Fort Smith, and S. E. Roberts 

 of Neosho. Mo. A. McLeod was named as presi- 

 dent, G. W. Cleveland as vice president and 

 general manager, George T. Speer as treasurer, 

 and S. E. Roberts as secretary. 



Australian Hardwoods. 

 It Is alleged that one characteristic feature of 

 Australian hardwood trees, of which there ex- 

 ists an almost endless variety, is the great size 

 of the timbers which may be obtained from 

 them as well as the extreme toughness and dura- 

 bility of their wood, the gray lronbark having 

 a resistance to breaking equal to 17,900 pounds 

 per square Inch, as compared with a mean of 

 11,800 pounds for English oak and 15.500 for 

 teak. None of the other timbers has so high a 

 resistance to breaking as this description of 

 lronbark, but nearly all the varieties have a 

 greater strength than oak. The quality of the 

 wood Is materially Influenced by the soil on 

 which the trees grow, while the absence of 

 branches for the greater portion of the height 

 enables the timber to be obtained to the best 

 advantage ; and as full grown trees of most 

 varieties are rarely less than 100 feet high, 

 with corresponding girth, the quantity of tim- 

 ber obtainable from the virgin forests Is very 

 great. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



A number of large land deals have recently 

 been transacted In the vicinity of Raymond, 

 Tenn., the largest being In Leflore county, where 

 one concern bought about 11,000 acres. Exten- 

 sive hardwood mills and factories will be oper- 

 ated by the purchasers on this land. 



A. B. Nickey & Sons of Princeton, Ind., were 

 forced to close their big hardwood mill recently 

 because of a strike among the unskilled labor- 

 ers. They demanded an increase of 25 cents 

 a day, which the company refused to give. 

 About sixty men were affected by the strike. 



The last shipment of logs for this season 

 from Bellalre, Mich., to the Elk Rapids Iron 

 Company was made a few days ago. Bert 

 Trail, who has charge of the loading there, 

 states that this company received over 1,300,- 

 000 feet of hardwood timber from Bellalre dur- 

 ing the season. 



The month of April has shown a most satis- 

 factory aspect in all lines of business, and 

 especially in the lumber trade, in the vicinity 

 of Baker City, Ore. Recent shipments Included 

 a carload of hardwood for Caldwell & Benton 

 of that city. Outgoing freight was equally as 

 active for the month, with lumber In the lead. 



Ohio capitalists are preparing to establish 

 an Industry at Clinton, O., in the shape of a 

 sawmill which will saw hickory timber for the 

 Buckeye Whip Stock Company of Van Wert, 

 O. President York of that company will visit 

 Clinton shortly to select a site for the new 

 plant, which will be located on the Clinch 

 river. 



The Chicago Mill and Lumber Company has 

 Jusft completed the shipment of 300,000 feet of 



oak lumber from Blytheville, Ark., to Chicago, 

 necessitating the use of thirty cars in Its trans- 

 portation. J. A. Fox of the land department 

 of the company recently sold about 3.000 acres 

 of the firm's cutover lands in the Chickasawba 

 district. The land was divided into forty-acre 

 tracts and was sold to parties who will build 

 homes. 



E. M. Wason, a real estate and timber dealer 

 of Superior, Wis., has closed an option on 60,- 

 000,000 feet of timber on the north shore in the 

 vicinity of Two Harbors, thus completing one 

 of the largest timber deals ever negotiated 

 in the northwest. Mr. Wason also purchased 

 some 1,500 acres of choice land on the north 

 shore, which will be sold for farming purposes 

 when the timber is cut. The timber on this 

 land consists mostly of pine, although there 

 is considerable hardwood and some spruce and 

 hemlock. 



D. W. Hogan of Blanchester, O., has installed 

 a fine mill at his lumber yard just south of 

 that town. He calculates that this new sawmill 

 will turn out about three carloads of oak lumber 

 a week. 



The National Hickory Handle Manufacturers' 

 Association held its annual meeting at Louis- 

 ville, April 5, and elected F. W. Peters of New 

 Albany, Ind., president and general manager 

 of the I. F. Force Handle Company of that 

 city, its president. The manufactories repre- 

 sented at this meeting comprised eighty per 

 cent of the Industry in America, which prac- 

 tically means in the world, for no hickory han- 

 dles are made in foreign countries, thirty-three 

 per cent of the handles manufactured in this 

 country being exported. 



E. A. Gyde of Duluth, Minn., is building a 

 river boat 130 feet long to be used In handling 

 hardwood logs for his barrel stock factory. 



H. A. Schllentz of Detroit. Mich., has been 

 in the Genesee valley, New York, buying black 

 walnut for shipment abroad. The wood Is sent 

 to Hamburg, Germany, where there is a demand 

 for black walnut for furniture. For a number 

 of years Mr. Schlientz has been buying black 

 walnut In Kansas, Illinois and Ohio, and he 

 finds that of New York state to be equal to the 

 western product. Genesee valley is located in 

 a natural black walnut belt which extends 

 north to Lake Ontario and south to Steuben 

 county. The trees of this belt attain a degree 

 of excellence rarely reached even in the west- 

 ern states. 



The Sedro-Woolley Veneering & Excelsior Com- 

 pany, the first veneer factory in the state of 

 Washington, began operation early in April. 

 The company's first order consisted of two car- 

 loads of veneer for the Puget Sound Basket 

 Company of Seattle. The new concern has thus 

 tar expended $21,000, and will probably invest 

 as much more before its other factories start 

 to work. 



During the past few weeks every county in 

 the state of Mississippi where virgin forests 

 of hardwood exist has had an influx of buyers, 

 and the prices being paid for these tracts, 

 compared with the figures at which they could 

 have been purchased only a few years ago, 

 are considered almost beyond belief. Large cor- 

 porations, backed by millions of dollars of capi- 

 tal, have their agents touring the state in 

 search for hardwood lands. The timber re- 

 sources of Mississippi are evidently about to be 

 fully developed, and the next few months will 

 see the construction of a great number of plan- 

 ing mills and lumber manufacturing plants 

 throughout the state. 



Wilkinson county, Tennessee, contains vast 

 areas of fine pine, cypress and hardwood timber 

 lands. The sawmills in the northern section of 

 the county are rapidly converting the timber 

 Into lumber, but the western portion, which is 

 rich in poplar, beech, magnolia, hickory, gum 

 and oak, was a stranger to the sawmill until 

 recently. The Raworth Lumber Company has 



operated for several months in this vicinity and 

 Hall Bros, of Vieksburg have recently located 

 west of Woodville. This company has pur- 

 chased over 1,000,000 feet of timber and the 

 supply is almost inexhaustible. 



Jackson, the most centrally located point in 

 Mississippi, having roads in every direction ex- 

 cept northeast, wants a road to Columbus along 

 the Pearl river or into Alabama. The territory 

 through which the road would pass is prac- 

 tically undeveloped. It would be invaluable in 

 timber shipments and would be an important 

 item in making Jackson the metropolis of the 

 state. 



A petition of involuntary bankruptcy against 

 the Virginia Hardwood Company of Fort Smith, 

 Ark., was filed by Janet Hodder and local credi- 

 tors. The company was unable to pay a $50,000 

 mortgage. 



C. E. Tobey of Phillips, Wis., recently sold 

 16.000 acres of hardwood timber land to the 

 G. F. Sanborn Land Company of Ashland, Wis., 

 for a consideration of $100,000. 



J. R. Holmes, of Corbett, Pa., has recently 

 Increased the capacity of his sawmill by install- 

 ing a set of grates manufactured by the Gordon 

 Hollow Blast Grate Company, ■ of Greenville, 

 Mich. He states that they are giving the very 

 best of satisfaction. 



William Stewart of Buffalo has been appointed 

 deputy inspector of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association, with headquarters at Cincin- 

 nati. 



A. G. Wentz, Columbus, Ohio, who has been 

 associated with the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany for quite a number of years and recently 

 in charge of the sales department, has resigned 

 his position and has engaged with John R. 

 Gobey & Co. of Columbus as general office man. 



The Coos Bay Furniture, Veneer & Box Com- 

 pany of North Bend, Ore., will manufacture all 

 the veneer to be used in the furniture for the 

 Coos county building at the Lewis and Clark 

 Fair. The company's plant is one of the most 

 complete on the Oregon coast and has facilities 

 for turning out an unusually fine class of goods. 



The East Jordan Lumber Company of East 

 Jordan, Mich., has purchased 500.000 feet of 

 maple lumber which will be manufactured into 

 "Imp'erial" flooring. 



The Ontonagon Stave & Veneer Company of 

 Ontonagon, Mich., has Increased Its capital 

 Btock from $30,000 to $50,000. The additional 

 capital will be used in the purchase of timber 

 land. This company's plant has been In opera- 

 tion only a short time, but has demonstrated 

 its ability to run successfully. The staves are 

 manufactured from maple, birch and other hard- 

 woods through a veneering process perfected by 

 James Russell of Milwaukee. The company 

 claims that these staves make better and stronger 

 barrels than staves manufactured from ejm by 

 the old process. 



Certain Canadians are Insisting that an Im- 

 port duty be placed upon hardwood lumber. It 

 Is alleged that Canada possesses a great belt of 

 hardwood between Klllaloe and Parry Sound and 

 It is urged that steps should be taken to utilize 

 It and stop the importation of hardwood floor- 

 ing from the United States. The Canadians had 

 better let manufacturers of this country supply 

 them with their hardwood flooring for a while 

 yet. aud at least until they have learned some- 

 thing of the fine art of producing maple flooring. 



The J. J. Flood mill at West Bay City has a 

 contract for cutting 300,000 feet of mahogany 

 logs for the Germain Piano Factory of Bay City. 



Considerable quantities of quarter-sawed oak 

 are being received by a barge at Vieksburg, Miss, 

 This lumber comes from above Vieksburg In the 

 neighborhood of Edlnburg and Carthage. 



The Gilchrist mill at Alpena Is receiving from 

 thirty to forty carloads of hardwood logs dally, 

 and also has fully 5,000,000 feet of hardwood 

 logs to come forward. This will Insure the run- 

 ning of the mill for the full season of 1905. 



A Henry county, Indiana, farmer has sold 385 



