HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Northern Hardwood Company. 



It is announced that the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonneil Company of Grand Rapids. Mich., and 

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

 have consolidated under the latter name, with 

 a capital stock of $1,000,000. 



The company will engage in the buying and 

 selling of timber lands, and owns at present 

 140,000 acres of hardwood lands in Wisconsin 

 and Michigan. Its headquarters will be at 

 Ashland, Wis. 



The officers of the company are: G. F. San- 

 born, Ashland, Wis., president; Albert Stick- 

 ney, Grand Rapids, vice president; J. H. Meer, 

 Ashland, secretary; and Charles Slattery. 

 Bessemer, treasurer. G. F. Sanborn. A. W. 

 Sanborn and J. H. Meer, Ashland; Charles 

 Slattery, Bessemer, Thomas Hume, Muskegon. 

 and Albert Stickney. E. L. Maddox, Charles A. 

 Phelps and John H. Bonnell, Grand Rapids, 

 are the directors. 



Remarkable Lumber Shipment. 



One of the largest producers of hardwood 

 •lumber in the northern country, and the larg- 

 est manufacturer of maple flooring in the 

 world, is the I. Stephenson Company of Wells, 

 Mich. It is therefore remarkable to recount 

 that a shipment of lumber by water was re- 

 ceived by this company at their docks near 

 the mouth of the Escanaba river on April 29. 

 The shipment, which was of maple and was 

 made from Boyne City, Mich., was purchased 

 to supplement the company's own stock for its 

 big maple flooring factory. 



Since Escanaba, of which the suburb of 

 Wells is the chief lumber manufacturing cen- 

 ter, became a lumber producing section, which 

 dates back well toward fifty years, this is the 

 first shipment of lumber by water ever re- 

 ceived there. 



The water shipping season from the docks of 

 the I. Stephenson Company is now in full 

 swing. Several barges have recently been 

 loaded with various kinds of lumber for the 

 Chicago market. 



A New Chicago Selling Corporation. 



It is announced that the allied interests of 

 1. Lamb .V s.ms of Clinton, Iowa, will soon 

 establish in this city a joint selling agency 

 which will handle the product of the Lamb Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company of Mississippi ; the Lanib- 

 Davis Lumber Company of Leavenworth, Wash., 

 and the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 panj of Mississippi. 



The first named concern has 46,000 acres of 

 hardwood timber land in Tallahatchie county, 

 .Mississippi, about sixty miles below the Tennes- 

 see line, in the Yazoo delta country. The land 

 has about 10.000 feet of timber to the acre. GO 

 per cent of which is hardwood, largely white 

 and red oak, the remaining 40 per cent being 

 red gum. There is also considerable cypress on 

 this tract. The company will soon erect large 

 sawmills and enter the market as an important 

 factor in southern hardwoods. The location of 

 the mills will be about twenty miles northwest 

 of Philipp, Miss. The officers of this company 

 are L. Lamb, president ; G. E. Lamb, vice presi- 

 dent and C. R. Lamb, secretary and treasurer. 

 The general southern offices of this company are 

 at Memphis, Tenn., in charge of H. E. Bacon. 



The same interest controls the Bacon-Nolan 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, which is in active 

 operation and owns 60,000 acres of Delta timber 

 lands immediately adjoining the Lamb Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company's timber, but west of the 

 Tallahatchie river. This company operates a 

 sawmill at Chancr. Miss., and is located on what 

 will be known when finished as the Swan Lake 

 cut-off of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley rail- 

 road. The third branch of the Lamb lumber 

 interests whose stock will also be handled 

 through a Chicago office, is a Washington pine 

 and spruce proposition, with headquarters at 

 Leavenworth, Chelan county, Washington. 



It is announced that the local oflices of the 

 sales company will be in charge of Otto Lach- 

 mund, who for several years has been general 

 sales agent for C. Lamb & Sons at Clinton, 

 Iowa. 



Lumber Company, Memphis, was a visitor in the 

 city during fortnight. 



J. A. Van i \. B. Vansickle & Son, 



Tamms. 111., was a welcome caller at the Habd- 



w Record office last week. 



John s. Gold I man of Cadil- 



lac, Mich., was a caller on the local trade 

 Friday. His popularity was proof even against 

 a si rike period of dullness, and he captured 

 some good orders for Michigan hardwoods. 



The Tanner mothers' Lumber Company, 

 wholesale hardwoods, has leased a spacious dock 

 frontage from the Beldler estate, just north of 

 the Loomis street bridge, and will soon remove 

 its yard to that point from its present location 

 at Twenty-second and Johnson streets. A new 

 office and spacious storage sheds will be erected 

 at the new site. 



Maisey & Dion, wholesale hardwood dealers 

 of Loomis street, south of Twenty-second, have 

 removed their yard from the west to the east 

 'side of Loomis street. The firm will retain its 

 old oflice on the east side of the street. 



P. A. Byan of Ryan & McParland is in south- 

 ern Indiana this week looking after business. 



J. J. Fink of the Fink-Heidler Company was 

 in the North last week taking up 200,000 feet 

 of basswood. Mr. Heidler reports that bass- 

 wood is doing a little better, but there is still 

 lots of room for improvement. 



The Habdwood Recobd was favored with a 

 call on Saturday from Warwick Benedict, special 

 agent of the Manufacturing Lumbermen's Under- 

 writers, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Benedict states 

 that it is the intention of his company to enlarge 

 its field of operations by entering the insurance 

 field in the North. Heretofore this insurance 

 corporation has confined its business to the 

 South. The great success it has achieved among 

 the larger operators in the South and the econ- 

 omy it has vouchsafed to policy holders has 

 become so well known to many of the larger 

 northern lumbermen that they have asked the 

 Manufacturing Lumbermen's Underwriters to 

 review their risks with a view of adding them 

 to the company's business. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 

 The Hardwood Record is in receipt of a 

 handsome and finely illustrated pamphlet en- 

 titled "The Making of Lumber," issued by the 

 Cherry River Boom & Lumbar Company, whose 

 principal oflice is at Philadelphia and is de- 

 scriptive of the operations of that great spruce 

 and hardwood corporation's operations at Rich- 

 wood. W. Va. The work was prepared by C. E. 

 Loyden, Jr., sales manager of the company, and 

 the illustrations are from photographs made in 

 the company's woods and about its milling 

 plants. 



Frank Chickering, the Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 lumberman, was in Chicago on Saturday. 



The Hardwood Record is in receipt of a hand- 

 somely engraved invitation signed by Earl 

 Palmer, president, and A. R. Vinnedge, secretary, 

 inviting its presence at the eighth annual con- 

 vention of the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation to be held in the Iroquois Hotel, Buf- 

 falo, on May IS and 19 next. 



Secretary Perry of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association is out with a hand- 

 somely printed pamphlet entitled the "Year Book 

 for 1905." The pamphlet contains a summary 

 of the objects and workings of the association, 

 a roster of the members and a list of the several 

 committees for the year. It is a very worthy 

 and timely contribution to association literature. 

 The Habdwood Record wishes to acknowledge 

 the receipt from Samuel J. Shimer & Sons, the 

 manufacturers of the "Shimer Cutter Head," a 



well and favorably known adjunct to practically 

 every four-side planing machine in the country, 

 of their new catalogue for 1905. This work 

 numbers 192 pages and is finely illustrated and 

 complete in every detail. Copies will be sent 

 to those Interested on application, and the work 

 should be in the hands of every operator of 

 woodworking machinery. 



W. O. King & Co. completely overhauled their 

 oflice last week and put in a new floor and other 

 permanent improvements. 



Maisey & Dion are building a commodious 

 lumber shed to increase their dry storage facil- 

 ities. 



W. B. Crane of W. B. Crane & Co. recently 

 captured an eight-and-a-half-foot, 150-pound alli- 

 gator in the lake at their mill at Fulton, Miss. 

 The Hardwood Record does not publish fish 

 stories except as they can be substantiated by 

 an exhibit of the fish. Mr. Crane shows the 

 goods. 



S. P. C. Hostler, representative of the Ad- 

 vance Lumber Company of Cleveland and the 

 Empire Lumber Company of Buffalo, paid the 

 Hakdwood Record office a call last week. 



W. E. Trainer, and J. Slimmer, of local hard- 

 wood fame, made this oflice a pleasant call last 

 week. 



W. A. Whitman of the South Arm Lumber 

 Company, Marquette, Mich., called at the Rec- 

 ord office a few days ago. 



Frank Robertson of the Goodlander-Robertson 



New York. 



F. F. Abbott of the Lesh, Prouty & Abbott 

 Company, the large walnut house ofl Goshen. 

 Ind., was a New York visitor last week. 



S. M. Smith of the Smith Bros. Planing Mill 

 Company, Heaters and Parkersburg. W. Va., one 

 of the most prominent and promising young 

 sawmill operators in that state, spent a few 

 days in town last week. 



T. H. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., who enjoys a wide 

 acquaintance at both manufacturing and con- 

 suming points, made a brief stay in the city the 

 latter part of the week. 



E. L-. Edwards, a hardwood wholesaler of 

 Dayton, O., was in town last week. Mr. Ed- 

 wards is pushing east in the distribution of his 

 hardwood products and is already enjoying a 

 very good trade. 



The Neufeld Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated at Brooklyn to manufacture hard- 

 wood trim and molding, with a capital of $10,- 

 000. The incorporators are: Nortis Neufeld, 

 Chas. Neufeld and S. Ferlmutter. 



John Hodder of this city, who was secretary 

 and treasurer of the Virginia Hardwood Manu- 

 facturing Company, has filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy with liabilities of $69,900, of which 

 SH. 700 is on account of being an officer of 

 the company, for which debts he may be liable. 

 The assets are placed at $11,900. 



C. W. Throckmorton has resigned as traffic 

 manager of the transportation bureau of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, and the executive committee of the organ- 

 ization will meet in the near future to appoint 

 his successor. 



The Atlantic Equipment Company, which han- 

 dles the output of the American Locomotive 

 Company, comprising a full line of locomotives 



