HARDWOOD RECORD 



white oak trees for the sum of $1,500. The 

 trees were bought l>y .1. A Sheets, representing 

 the Union City Lumber Company of Union City, 

 Ind. The company will saw the timber into ties. 

 The steamer Export arrived at Jackson, Miss., 

 recently with about 100.000 feet of quarter- 

 sawed oak, which had been unloaded for ship- 

 mem to the north. This is the biggest load ever 

 carried by the little steamer There are nearly 

 hair a million feet more such hardwood to be 

 hauled to Jackson. 



I'. F. Clark of Minneapolis in a recent inter- 

 view said that he believed there will be a boom 

 in hardwood lumber this season. There is prom- 

 more building in both towns ami cities 

 than for many years, ami. since the hardwood 

 rut is not within 73 per cent of , the usual 

 amount, the natural result will be increased 

 prices. 



A. C. Cirler of Carlisle. Pa., has purchased 

 a fine tract of timber land in Adams county, 

 consisting largely of white oak. Mr. Girler will 

 move his saw mill at once to this newly pur 

 chased land. 



Harry Miller of Ottawa. Can., is shipping hick- 

 ory anil oak to Penn Yan. where it is to be used 

 in manufacturing wagon spokes. 



Martin II. Seippel of Bloomington, Wis., is en- 

 gaged in manufacturing lumber from the many 

 varieties of oak, walnut and basswood trees 

 with which that section abounds. 



W. A. Buntin of Lebanon. Ind.. has purchased 

 :ii rrs of timber in Vermilion county, con- 

 sisting mostly of white and burr oak. 



The big mill at Frederick. Wis., has shut down 

 for needed repairs and improvements. Dining 

 the winter the Wisconsin Oak Lumber Company 

 had a togging camp in Luck township, where it 

 cut something over a million feet of logs, which 

 were sent to Frederick on cars. 



Work lias been begu i the new- mill of the 



I.utz Klaokburn Hardwood Company of Live Oak, 

 I-'la. 'I'lc company's increasing business de- 

 manded more room than iis present quarters 

 afford. 



The National Veneer Products Company has 



comme I work on iis new factory east of 



Mishawaka. Ind. 



'I'Im* improvement work which will make il Id 



mill of the Lake Superior Veneer -Si Coop, •rage 

 Company ol Munising, Mich., practically a new 

 plant is now in progress. The mill force will 

 remain the same, but the capacity of the plant 

 equipped as it will be with up-to-date machinery 

 will be materially increased. 



The Buckeye Hardw I Company of Newark. 



ii.. was incorporated March 2S at Columbus with 



$25, capita] stock by I'. M. Black. Jas. A. 



Wells, s. E. Siegfried, .1 R. Fitzgibbon and Alice 

 II. Black. This company will handle all kinds of 

 hardwood. 



During the past i.-w weeks 32,000 acres of 

 timber land in Houghton county, Mich., have 

 been acquired by Wolf Brothers of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. They are still Inlying and at the present 

 time have about 4,000 acres, said to be covered 

 chiefly wilh hardwood and hemlock. The firm 

 may build a mill at Alston, where the lumber 

 will be converted into select stick for the fur- 

 niture factories at Grand fiapids. 



Work has been begun on a new hardwood fac- 

 tory at Alexandria. 1ml, ami is contracted to 

 be completed in four months. The factory will 

 work forty-two hands. 



Joseph E. Ilouser oi' Philadelphia, Pa., has 

 located an office in Danville, Va., for the purchase 



of hardw i lumber contiguous to that city. 



This was a mplished as a result oi the Com- 

 mercial Association's advertising letters to the 

 trade papers througl I unity, calling at- 

 tention lo the resources, advantages and possi- 

 bilities of Danville to the lumber trade. 



The Geo. A. Lowe Company of Ogden City, 

 Utah, which is now occupying its spacious new 

 building, is branching out into several distinct- 

 ively new lines of trade, ime of the innova 

 is the erection of a large and modern machine 



shop, which will manufacture hardwood wagon 



of every description. Nothing along this 



line has ever been undertaken in Utah and a 



g felt want will be filled. 



The mill of T. B. Allen near Brookeland, Tex., 



is reported as cutting 10, Eeel of hardwood 



lumber per day, all of which is sold to export 



1 pie. The mill is situated in the midst of a 



line timber belt with enough hardwood in sight 

 to keep it busy two years or longer. 



Lumbering business is reported brisk in North 

 Brookfield, Mass. A number of men at work on 

 a neighboring farm found fifteen gray squirrels 

 in hollow chestnut trees they felled. One of the 

 largest chestnut logs was found lo have 160 

 annual rings, indicating at bast that age. It 

 was 4 1 ' feet across anil with others is too big 

 to be handled in the saw mill and will have to 

 be blown open with dynamite before ilie saw can 

 he used. 



Work & Yend of Ravenna, 0., dealers in hard- 

 wood and one of the oldest partnerships in that 

 section, have dissolved. Mr. Vend will continue 

 the business. 



The success of A. N\ Roach, formerly of Cicero. 

 Ind., but at present engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness, being the largest stockholder in the Ben- 

 nett & Roach Lumber Company of Yazoo City. 

 Miss., is worthy of notice. This company lias 

 one of the largest saw mills in the South. It 



has on the lakes and rivers over '-.< ,000 feet 



of oak and cypress logs, 



G. A. Bergland of Milwaukee is contemplat- 

 ing the erection of a saw mill at Bergland, Mich,, 

 for cutting hardwoods exclusively. From the 

 fact that the town's only industry is the large 

 saw mill, which is kept busy continually, from 

 Ufteen to twenty carloads of logs being delivered 

 daily. Mr. Bergland believes the new mill will 

 be a paying investment. 



Mr. Wyi f Crawford ville, Ark., shipped out- 

 three carloads of extra flue hickory logs re- 

 cently. These logs were so |:irc,e and long that 

 it took five yoke of oxen to load them ou the 

 cars. 



Fort Smith. Ark., wants more factories lo- 

 cated there which employ hardwoods, and offers 

 good inducements for the location of such in- 

 dustries. 



The Conner Veneer Company of New Albany, 

 Ind.. is engaged in building a new plant. About 

 $55,000 worth of machinery is being installed 

 and nearly 100 men will be furnished employ- 

 ment. 



A farmer near Clyde, N. Y\, recently bought 

 a small farm near that village for $1,500. On 

 it were sixty to seventy large willow trees. 

 These trees he sold to a Rochester manufac- 

 turer of artificial limbs, at prices said to have 

 been $40 a cord for four foot wood of the 

 proper diameter. It is estimated that the 

 trees yielded him enough money to pay for the 

 farm. Willow is a wood whose physical char- 

 acteristics of toughness and elasticity, combined 

 with lightness, make it more desirable for the 

 manufacture of artificial limbs than any other. 

 Cartersville. Ga., wants a wagon factory, and 

 local authorities claim that a large quantity of 

 choice white oak. hickory and poplar grows in 

 the immediate vicinity, which will afford an 

 abundance of material for a wagon factory, or 

 for any other woodworking enterprise, at a low 

 price. 



Knoxville. Tenri.. is to have two more wood- 

 working manufacturing establishments, located 

 in its mw suburb of Lonsdale. One is a veneer 



plant, of which W. II. Kay ml of Indianapolis 



is to be the prime mover. 



Grimore & Sons put in 4,000.000 feet of hard- 

 woods on the cast branch Of the Au Gres, near 

 Standisb, Mich., this winter. 



George W. O'Neal recently shipped five car- 

 loads of walnut logs from Harrison. Ark. 



The mill of the MoShaiio Lumber Company at 

 Kountze. Tex. which was completed last year. 

 will take on the production of hardwood in addi- 

 tion to pine. I hi I- ity of the plant is 

 loo. i feet per day ami the company has fif- 



teen years' stumpage ahead -f it. It sells its 

 product entirely to 



The property of the Tioga Lumber Company 

 at Tioga, La., including mills, yard stock and 



-i>, acres of timber lands ii and 



Avoyelles parishes, has been sold to St. Louis 



capitalists for $550, A new- stock company. 



to be known as the i .,.,■ Lumber Company, has 

 been organized with a capital of $800,000 to 

 operate it. 



At a meeting of the state board appointed 

 by the governor ol Mew York to purchase addi- 

 tional lands for the Adirondack and ''atskill 

 stati- parks several lands in i ounty were 



purchased, aggregating 6,102 acres a $3.70 an 



and land in I'lster county at $1.'50 an 

 The former lias both bard and soft woods on 



it; the latter, hardw Is only. At a previous 



meeting the board acquired a tract of 7.000 acres 

 in Warren eountj al $5 an acre and 5,800 acres 

 in Frankin county al prices ranging from $2 



to $3.75 an acre. The !■ I says thai 'he prices 



paid were in each case considerably below what 

 the owners demanded. 



White birch logs are an important item of 

 lumber manufacture at Garnar's mill at lladley, 

 near Saratoga Springs. N". Y. 



A new sawmill is being built by ,1. !•'. Menees 

 at Greenwood, near Vicksburg. Tenn. The new 

 mill will cut hardwoods exclusively, witli quar- 

 ter sawed oak as a specialty. 



Three red oak logs were recently unloaded in 

 the yards of the Marinette Lumber Company, 

 Marinette, Wis., which measured 2,100 feet. The 

 logs were cut from a tree at Fisher, which was 

 estimated to be 700 years old. 



The late Timothy Sullivan of Buffalo left an 

 estate worth upward of $50, His will pro- 

 vided that the bulk of his property should go 

 to his wife. The will is dated November 30, 

 1S0S, but by a ccdocil drawn at Tacoma shortly 

 before his death he directs that his son. Frank 

 T. Sullivan, be paid $5,000 in cash before any 

 division is made of the business or estate, 

 and that his son. William G. Sullivan of Galeton, 

 Pa., shall have the family homestead. 



At Fredericton, X. B., it is proposed to amal- 

 gamate the business of the Prescott interests 

 with that of the Aptus Veneer Company, and to 

 have them known as the Canada Lumber Manu- 

 facturing & Transportation Company. The head- 

 quarters Of the mw p;in\ will be at Albert. 



and the concern will be capitalized at .$2", 



A timber deal recently transpired al Carthage, 

 N. Y.. by which Peter Younsey purchased all 

 the interests of the estate of the late A. E. Max- 

 well and Fred Maxwell in the timber property 



belonging to Maxwell, Y sey -V .Maxwell. The 



property is located al Aldrich, on the Chicago & 

 Alton railroad, and comprises a sawmill and 

 7,000 acres of hardw nod timber. The new owner 

 will engage largely in the produi ueers. 



There is said to be considerable development 

 In hardwood production in the vicinity of Bruns- 

 wick. Go. 



The Finch & Pruyn Company will lumber an 

 operation of the so called Garner lots, in the 

 northwest part of the town of Stony Creek. 

 N. Y.. during the coming - I 



Some one has discovered est by means of 



which "modern antique' mahogany furniture may 

 1 . rom i if ." nuine ai Ii le He says : 

 "I'm your knuckles against the finished surface 

 as you would :ilt:i ills i to I'll its t hick 



nc^s ; if the reflection shows the linger clearly 

 v ii mi in- -me ihat ii is new : if the reflection. 



is i loUded it is antique." 



Fourteen carloads of black walnut timber have 

 obtained from farmers in the vi- 

 cinity of Hannibal. Mo. ier averaged: 

 I. i feet to Hie car. It was shipped lo Indian- 

 apolis. L. II. Best of Quincy > ' pale? 

 $700 I'-r seventy wain ■• his farm in the 

 vicinity of I. a M aibal. 



The win operations of the Page & 



Landeck Company, near Crandon, Wis., have been 

 - leted. The i nl involves abi n( 12.01 

 and consists of basswood. birch, maple, elm» 

 ash and oak. wil I cedar. 



