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oak and pine timber. The flames fanned by 

 high breezes spread- at such a rapid rate as to 

 make the fire impossible tn control. 



Indications that the pine is about cleared up 

 are emphasized by the fact that there are more 

 hardwood logs banked on the Mississippi river 

 below Aitken, .Minn'., than ever before. 



Fire. apparently of incendiary origin, 

 destroyed a quantity of hardwood timber in 

 the yards of II. S. Fullenlove of Louisville. 

 Ky.. entailing a loss of $500. 



Mound City, 111., has a new veneer factory, a 

 branch of the Willianison-Kuhne sawmill. 



Wilh. Muhle, exporter of hardwood lumber, 

 logs and dimension stuff, recently of Bucatunna, 

 Miss., has removed his headquarters to Sanders- 

 ville. Miss., on the N. O. & N. E. R. R., where 

 he has erected an up-to-date hardwood mill 

 with a daily capacity of 25,000 feet. 



A syndicate of lumbermen of Muscatine, Iowa, 

 and Stillwater, Minn., recently bought from 

 the receiver the plant of the West Coast Veneer- 

 ing Company at Raymond. Wash. The purchas- 

 ers are William Kaiser and Charles Mosqua of 

 the Mississippi Box Company, Muscatine ; J. H. 

 Kendig of the Muscatine Lumber & Box Com- 

 pany, Muscatine ; Frank Schoemaker, with the 

 Muscatine Lumber Company. Muscatine, and 

 Timothy Donovan and Henry Stack, loggers, 

 Stillwater, Minn. They will add a double cut- 

 ting band to the saw mill and will also put in 

 a box factory for the manufacture of spruce 

 box shooks. 



The Bissell Chilled Plow Company of South 

 Bend. Ind., has consolidated with the Ohio Cul- 

 tivator Company of Belleview, O. The new- 

 concern has a capital stock of $400,000. The 

 Ohio firm manufactures all kinds of farm im- 

 plements except plows and by thus consolidating 

 with the Bissell company will largely increase its 

 capacity and make its output a complete list of 

 farming implements. 



The Railway Manufacturing Company, Rail- 

 way, N. J., was recently incorporated at Rah- 

 way with a capital of $45,000, to manufacture 

 and deal in ornamental woodwork. 



The new stave factory of E. E. Winch & Co., 



at Park Falls. Wis., started operation Ui 



and is running nil 



Pulaski Sash i !ompany was re- 

 cently in.. | | ],i, ■;,._.,, b j i 



■ V. W. I ramer and Joseph v. 

 with a capital stock ol $10, i a mill- 



In clearing a spa,,- of ground |u 

 Bond Handle Factory at .New Castle, Ind., on 

 Which the company will erect a sawdust bj 

 James B. Compton unearthed almost a cord ol 

 wood, nicely piled and well preserved and 

 ered with about four feet of sawdust an. I 

 ings. According tn Mr. Compton, who has been 

 associated with the Bond company for a number 

 of years, it is twenty years since wood was cut 

 the length of the wood uncovered. The wood 

 was free from worm holes and as dry and hard 

 as bone and will be sold along with the other 

 wood sold at the plant. 



T. II. Ausenbaugh recently purchased a fine 

 lot of white and black oak timber in the vicinity 

 of Confederate, Ky., to be used in the manufac- 

 ture of railroad cross ties. Mr. Ausenbaugh 

 owns several other tracts of timber and will 

 begin cutting at once. The logs will be shipped 

 to large lumber concerns in the North. 



The receipts of lumber at Chatt ga ate the 



largest known at that place in years. Within 



the past three weeks more than .",. ,000 feet 



of logs have come down from the headwaters 

 and tributaries of the Tennessee river. 



The F. J. Blackwell Company, conducting a 

 sawmill and lumber business at Brownville, 

 Tenn.. and in Houston, Miss., has made an as- 

 signment. The assets and liabilities are about 

 the same, in the neighborhood of $30,000 each. 

 A sensation has been created in southern lum- 

 ber and timber circles by the action of President 

 J. W. Black, of the Sullivan Timber Company 

 of Mobile. He has asked for a receiver for his 

 company by bill in chancery. The concern has 

 been doing an enormous export business. 



H. A. Gardner of Vincennes, Ind., owner of 

 a large furniture plant, is thinking of locating 

 a plant at Hbpkinsville, Ky. He is trying to 

 organize a stock company there. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HAKDWOOD RECORD 

 Chicago. 



This office is in receipt of a pamphlet issued 

 by E. W. La Beaume, G. P. & T. A. of the Cot- 

 ton Belt Route at St. Louis, Mo., entitled "In- 

 dustrial Opportunities and Business Openings 

 Along the Cotton Belt Route." The little work 

 comprises an alphabetical list of the various 

 towns and cities reached by this famous railroad 

 and shows at a glance the industrial and other 

 commercial undertakings in which the locality is 

 deficient. As many of these towns afford a 

 rare opportunity for woodworking plants of 

 various sorts, readers of the Hardwood Record 

 who are seeking an extension of their business 

 or a change of location would do well to address 

 Mr. La Beaume for a copy of his pamphlet. 



The Hardwood Record is in receipt of a 

 handsome catalog from the Nashville Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, manufacturers of the famous 

 *'Acorn" brand of hardwood flooring, which 

 evidently is from the resourceful pen of D. S. 

 Hutchinson, the well-known sales manager of 

 that concern. The little volume tells practically 

 all that is worth knowing about oak and beech 

 flooring, contains a description of the manu- 

 facture of hardwood flooring, the various sizes 

 and grades in which it is made, rules for grad- 

 ing, manner of bundling and tallying, and 

 various other details pertaining to the industry. 

 It also contains a very comprehensive descrip- 

 tion of the best methods of finishing and main- 

 taining hardwood floors. The entire work is 

 fully illustrated, showing methods of laying 



Special Correspondents.) 



floors in fancy patterns as well as the propel 

 handling of parquetry flooring, which is a con- 

 s T derable output of the big Nashville plant. 



The well-known hardwood firm of Craudali , r c 

 Richardson of this city, was dissolved on May 

 15, B. F. Richardson retiring, and a new copart- 

 nership has been entered into between J. N. 

 Crandall and F. L. Brown, under the name of 

 Crandall & Brown, which will carry on the busi- 

 ness as successors to the old firm. 



A welcome visitor to the Record office 

 w< , I; was II. B. Dunsmore, western manager of 

 the S. A. Woods Machine Company of Boston. 

 Mass.. whose handsome offices are located 

 Sll Railway Exchange, this city. Mr. Dunsi 

 reports a very satisfactory state of trade in the 

 woodworking machinery line, he having recently 

 booked several very handsome orders for placing 

 mill equipment. 



The Record had a call mi Wednesday, from 

 I?. B. Martin, city passenger and ticket agent (t 

 the Wisconsin Centra! Railroad, whose offici 

 at 204 Clark street. Chicago. The Wisconsin 

 Central has recently issued some very hand 

 illustrated literature pertaining to the summer 

 resorts located "ii its lines, and copies of t 

 pamphlets will be cheerfully furnished to anyone 

 calling on or addressing Mr. Martin. The 

 of this companj : some very plct ir< 



and beautiful north oi <Is country, and which 



offers special att to those seeking rest 



and pleasure, with equal allurements to 

 sportsman. The tishing season Is now open In 

 the northern Wisconsin country, and reports 



well-known 

 l,a,,! and who 



i liday 

 oi In 



1 

 hands of N. n. Ingalls, • 



eneer .^ Panel Compai 

 Mich., of a i 



a of bird's eye n r, cut 1 64 



Inch iti Hi maple 



cut by this concern runs twenty-elgl 

 He- inch. 



II. \v. Reeves of Planner & Reeves. Toledo, O.. 



at the Record office on 



W'l'dnesdaj Planner & Reeves are amen- it,. 



i. remi st handlers i i white pi,,. 



1 '■<•■■ ■■ theli ','i Hiring May aggregating 



12, ,000 feet. 



Karl Palmer, president of the National Hard- 

 1 Lumber Association, was a visitor at asso- 

 clation headquarters on Thursday and Friday of 

 this week. 



Tim editor is in receipt of a card from Mr. 

 and Mrs. John P. Hamilton of pitt burg, Pa., 

 announcing the marriage of their 

 Eleanore, to Alexander Willson of the well-known 

 lumber manufacturing and wholesale hou- 



Pittsburg. This event took plat i .Inn, i;. 



and the bride and groom will be at home after 

 Sept. 1 at 580S Darlington Road. There are le- 

 aner chaps made than Alex Willson, and 

 therefore with undisguised pleasure that the 

 editor congratulates Mrs. Willson on her cap 

 of a thoroughly manly man for a hue 

 with equal enthusiasm he wishes to congratt 

 Mr. Willson on the i made 



in the selection of one of the Smokj City's most 

 charming young ladies as a life companion. 



The Chicago teamsters' strike, which during 

 the last three weeks has involved the drivers of 

 lumber delivery wagons, Is still dragging along 

 its weary and troublesome way. The lui 

 dealers and woodworking main 

 ei. illy are standing together to a man. to 

 out "f existence the sympathetic strike pri 

 ganda inaugurated by the anarchistic element of 

 trade unionism. Undeniably the are 



already beaten to a finish, and they are only 

 looking for a loophole by means of which they 

 can retire as gracefully as possible from the 

 tight, before the imbroglio is ended. In the 

 meantime non-union teamsters are employed who 

 are delivering lumber under police protection, 

 and while this method is not at all satisfactory, 

 it is answering the purpose of the present re- 

 quirements of the trade. Chicago lumbermen 

 are to be congratulated on the stand they have 

 taken in this matter, and their eventual so- 



■ its cost, will CO to the final ex 



tlnction of trade unionism evils. 



Boston. 

 George H. Davenport of era * 



Co. e who with his family is touring 



in Europe, is i 

 until next October. 



e Clark ,v Smith ■ on, which 



recently Ini with a capital 



elark 

 hard ■ - 



W. C. 1'-- I 'um- 

 ber < Dera- 

 tion improving slowly and 

 his many friends will be glad to learn that he 

 ;s to retu- n or aboot the 



I nress 



Luml- • om- 



hlcola. Fla., in the near 



Inc., of Boston will 

 hold i on Thurs- 



this week. 



