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HARDWOOD RECORD 



to claim for the extra expense by reason of the 

 presence in a car of any low grade stock, or 

 even of his right to refuse such low grade stock 

 at a concession in price. The shipper would be 

 still responsible f«-r such expense, or any other 

 extraordinary conditions arising through the 

 presence of inferior lumber in the car. 



The buyer thus agrees to deal wholly with 

 facts In making his claim instead of an endless 

 and confusing amount of generalities. By this 

 plan the shippers have the satisfaction of know- 

 ing to just what extent their shipments are 

 wrong instead of the amounts being merely 

 guessed at. besides further assisting them in 

 keeping a closer watch over their inspectors and 

 keeping them in line. Be it further 



Resolved. That in the spirit of fair play to 

 all concerned in the proposition herein men- 

 tioned, that the members report to this associa- 

 tion customers who refuse to accept the inser- 

 tion of this adjustment clause in their contracts. 

 By this means those dealers who are inclined 

 to treat the shipper fairly will not suffer 

 through the methods of their less scrupulous 

 competitors. 



New Credit Rating Book. 



The new credit rating book, the third volume, 

 issued by the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Credit Corporation for the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association, is the most com- 

 pact and one of the most valuable volumes of 

 its kind ever issued, and is entirely worthy of 

 the excellent management of the association's 

 department. It contains a classified list of the 

 capital and pay ratings of all manufacturers, 

 wholesale and retail dealers in lumber, as well 

 as factories buying In carload lots. In addi- 

 tion to this is given an index to the railroads 

 operating in each state, a valuable feature in 

 itself. The arrangement of the volume provides 

 an easy and quick means of finding information 

 about any given concern in which the subscriber 

 is interested. The utmost care has been exer- 

 cised by the publishers to make the list as 

 complete and accurate as possible, the informa- 

 tion upon which the capital and credit ratings 

 have been based coming from the most reliable 

 sources. The ratings are admittedly conserva- 

 tive, though consistent with the facts secured 

 in each instance. 



A commission for a charter has been issued to 

 the Darlington Veneer Company of Darlington, 

 S. C, with an authorized capital of $75,000. 

 The incorporators are George E. Dargan, J. P. 

 Brunson and J. K. Goggeshall. 



The hardwood and turning factory of Cook 

 Bros, at Lufkin, Tex., was destroyed by fire on 

 May 13. An insurance of $4,000 was carried. 



The Paterson Handle Works of Newark, N. 

 J., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $100,000 by Harry It. DeMund, Joseph E. John- 

 son and Joseph A. Hogue. 



A mill for the manufacture of wooden pins 

 for telegraph and telephone lines has been put 

 in operation by John Beers and Clarence Green 

 at Orbisonia, Pa. 



J. II. Bonner & Sons of Heth. Ark., have suc- 

 ceeded to the firm of Ulery, Harter & Co., hard- 

 wood manufacturers. The new firm has also 

 purchased the hardwood timber off 5,000 acres 

 of land at Quigley, Ark., and will soon have a 

 mill in operation there. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



An American company is operating a lumber 

 camp near Geronimo in the state of Vera Cruz, 

 in a vast timber district which has been little 

 developed. The company will supply the Mexi- 

 can Central Railroad with ties. 



The Gwynn Veneer & Panel Company of 

 Lenoir, N. C, was recently incorporated bj R. 

 I. Gwynn, I.ula Gwynn, J. L. Nelson and others, 

 all of Lenoir. The capital stock Is $50,000, of 

 which $20,000 Is paid in. 



Saunders, Midi. Is situated in a splendid 

 hardwood belt and with a new line which will 

 tap one of the richest tracts of timber lands 

 in northern Wisconsin the town bids fair to be- 

 come one of the best points in Iron county. 



Governor Enrique C. Creel of the state of 

 Chihuahua, Mexico, has cautioned all land own- 

 ers against wilful destruction of forests. The 



burning of pasture land is also prohibited, since 

 these fires often destroy valuable timber. 



G. P.. II. Stallings, Stallings, N. C, has im- 

 proved the efficiency of his power plant by in- 

 stalling a Cordon hollow blast grate outfit, which 

 is manufactured by the Gordon Hollow Blast 

 <;rate Company of Greenville, Mich. He states 

 that the working of the grate is entirely satis- 

 factory in every way, and that its installation 

 has solved a difficult power problem for him. 



McLaughlin Bros. & Co. of Denison, Tex., have 

 about twenty carloads of walnut logs, cut from 

 the surrounding country, which they are pre- 

 paring lor shipment to England and Germany. 



An Oregon paper tells of an oak tree in the 

 first output will be egg cases. 



Madison, Ind., has a new veneer factory. Its 

 Willamette valley near Halsey that is famed 

 lor its huge size. It measures twenty two feet 

 in circumference at the stump line, which gives 

 it a diameter of more than seven feet. 



A deal was recently closed at Jackson, Miss., 

 whereby a tract of 4,000 acres of hardwood . 

 lands in Yazoo county were sold to a French 

 wine manufacturing concern, who will engage 

 in the manufacture of barrel staves. 



I. F. Lewis of Newport, Tenn., who is in the 

 employ of the Standard Oak Veneer Company 

 of Knoxville, has. within the past two months, 

 shipped tu Knoxville fifty cars of logs. 



Fire in the sawmill of Charles Shong at Lud- 

 ington. Mich., destroyed a quantity of hardwood 

 lumber, entailing a loss of $5,000, without in- 

 surance. 



The Dollarvllle Hardwood Lumber Company 

 at Dollarvllle, Mich., has resumed operation 

 after a month's idleness of waiting for fresh tim- 

 ber supplies. 



An Ontario, Can., paper reports that the 

 Canadian government has been interviewed by 

 American capital with a view to establishing at 

 Haileyburg, New Ontario, a small-ware factory 

 to manufacture tool handles and other hardwood 

 products. They ask for a large tlmber'grant in 

 perpetuity, and plan to spend the Erst year 

 $100,000. 



The Carruthers Lumber Company of Yalmar, 

 Mich., has sold its entire season's hemlock 

 output to the James Pickands Company, Ltd. 

 The Carruthers company during the past winter 

 has cut some 2. 000,000 feet of hardwood for the 

 Longfellow & Skillman Lumber Company at 

 Grand Rapids. About 1,00(1,000 feet of elm, 

 birch and maple will be sawed this year for 

 other Grand Rapids concerns. The company 

 recently installed new machinery and otherwise 

 increased the capacity of its plant. 



The South Arm Lumber Company of Mar- 

 quette, Mich., has commenced the operation of 

 the Dead River mill. About 10,000,000 feet of 

 timber were cut this season, including quantities 

 of hemlock and hardwoods. Most of the lumber 

 will be shipped to Tonawanda. N. Y. 



II. Crawford & Sons of Canton. Pa., have in- 

 stalled new machinery and increased the capac- 

 ity of their plant. They will handle hardwoods 

 almost exclusively hereafter and manufacture a 

 variety of building material. 



T. F. Main of Wytheville ana <:. W. McGlnley 

 of Pulaski, Va.. recently shipped several thou- 

 sand f'-it of tin.- whit.- oak logs from Dublin, 

 Va. They also shipped about the same amount 

 of walnut logs and stumps. Part of these logs 

 wen- Intended for export and the remainder for 

 veneer mills at various points. 



Arthur Delapierre, president of the Interna 

 tlonal Handle Company, who bought 3,000 acres 

 of timber land near Phillips, Ga., a few months 

 ago, has about completed plans for the erection 

 of a plant to work the tract. The fifty-acre fac- 

 tory site, independent of the forest, will be 

 reached by a spur track that is now in the 

 process of construction. The International 

 Handle Company is not interested in the enter- 

 prise. It is solely the private venture of Mr. 

 Delapierre, who has great confidence in the 

 future of the section. 



A very valuable walnut log was recently dis- 

 covered by a resident of Clarksville, Tex., in 

 the river at that point where it had evidently 

 laid for some time, as it was almost completely 

 covered with sand. Recognizing its value, he 

 purchased it from the owner of the land for 

 $10. After the log was removed C. M. Mc- 

 Laughlin of McLaughlin Bros, of Denison pur- 

 chased it for $750. It was a fine curly walnut 

 log and although somewhat discolored and rot- 

 ten on the outside brought $2,500 from a foreign 

 buyer. 



The singletree factory at Columbia. Ky., has 

 been running almost constantly since its estab- 

 lishment a year ago in spite of the prediction 

 of many that there would not be sufficient hick- 

 ory timber in the vicinity to keep it running, 

 and there ye( remains in the county a great 

 deal of hickory timber. 



The rapid development of Chatham and other 

 upper peninsula Michigan towns is due largely 

 to the progressive spirit of W. S. Mather and 

 his associates of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Com- 

 pany, who own 70 per cent of the land. A 

 new hotel has been built at Chatham, cement 

 walks will be laid and artesian wells drilled dur- 

 ing the summer. I.. 1'. Hale of Frankfort has 

 completed arrangements for the erection of a 

 shingle and hardwood mill there. The supply 

 of hardwood in the locality is practically un- 

 limited. 



Waggner S Berry will establish a lumber yard 

 at Kola. La., in the near future, where the prod- 

 ucts of their hardwood mill near Eola will be 

 hauled for export shipment. 



The new furniture anil veneer factory at 

 North Bend, Wash., lias a contract with the 

 California Fruit Ass,,, iati.m for 3,000,000 orange 

 boxes to be shipped at the rate of 250,000 a 

 month. 



A,!:; ins & Raymond, veneer manufacturers of 

 Indianapolis, have secured a tract of land at 

 Lonsdale, Miss., and will erect a factory for 

 the manufacture of veneers. Eventually they 

 will move their Indianapolis plant south. 



The hickory mill of C. Huckaby, near Stone- 

 wall. Ark., has passed into the hands of J. II. 

 Wright and T. Fowler, who will assume charge 

 at once. Tin- mill has been in operation some 

 t iine. 



Attorney Watson B. Berry of Carthage, N. Y., 

 recently obtained control of 75,000 acres of 

 hardwood and spruce timber in the state of 

 Vermont. A number of Carthage and northern 

 New- York paper manufacturers are interested 

 with Mr. Berry. The spruce will be shipped to 

 mills in the vicinity of Carthage and the bard- 

 wood manufactured into lumber in Vermont. 



A new concern to be known as the American 

 Hydlolll Company has been incorporated at 

 Hoboken, N. J., to manufacture all kinds of 

 flooring and pavement and deal In builders' sup- 

 plies. The incorporators are J. J. Sullivan, 

 Benjamin Jacobs and Thaddeus Faber, and the 

 capital stock $250, 



Tin- Skinner & Steenman Company of Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., has completed at Greenville one 

 of tin- largest and most modern factories for 

 the manufacture of sideboards, buffets and china 

 closets in Do- will. I I his new plant occupies 



150, square feet of floor space and is a 



del oi lern construction. The company 



guarantees thai its goods and prices will meet 

 the closest competition when quality is taken 

 into con Idei atlon. 



The buildings of the Roberts & Conner Veneer- 

 ing Company at Albany, Ky., are about com- 

 pleted and il" 1 machinery will be Installed In a 

 [ew 'lays. 



111.- sawmills in tin upper peninsula of Mich- 

 igan are starting on the season's int. The cut 

 of logs during thi season was large, espe- 



cially of the hardwoods and hemlock, and the 



lumber product will be heavy. Aboul 15,1 



000 feet of lumber will be Cut, 



