HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Forestry in Massachusetts. 



Massachusetts contains a total area of 

 6,321,600 acres, of which 1,290,000 acres are 

 under cultivation or in permanent pasture. 

 It is alleged that the state has waste area 

 enough that the greater part of the forest 

 supplies now consumed within it might be 

 produced therein if proper means were taken 

 to that end. 



The state has adopted a forest polii y 

 which is to establish and maintain a nursery 

 for the propagation of forest tree seedlings on 

 such lands as the trustees of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College may set aside for 

 that purpose on the college grounds at Am- 

 herst. Expert assistance to private owners 

 is one of the chief duties of the new depart- 

 ment of the state forestry board. 



State Forester Alfred Akerman, in his first 

 report, speaks enthusiastically of the work, 

 and he anticipates wonderful results from it. 

 He says that three fundamental conditions 

 must precede the permanent development of 

 forestry, viz., the presence of a considerable 

 area of nonagricultural land which is capable 

 of producing forest growth; a good market 

 for forest supplies; and the presence of good 

 transportation facilities. Ail these conditions 

 he finds fulfilled in Massachusetts. He sug- 

 gests that some of the park reserves within 

 the state could be wisely used for timber 

 growing. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



TV. II. Moran of Jamison, Pa., has bought out 

 A. Tate, formerly jobber for the Emporium 

 Lumber Company at that place. Mr. Moran is 

 at present under contract to deliver 4,000,000 

 lit! of hardwood to the B. & S. R. R. 



Ilammett Brothers of Salama. W. Va., have 

 sold to It. Merydith and W. II. Elston of Ma- 

 rietta, O., the timber on 125 acres of land near 

 the former place. The forest, which consists 

 of oak, poplar and ash, will be cut at once and 

 used in the manufacture of veneers. 



Citizens of Little Rock and Osceola, Ark., are 

 working hard to secure a right of way for an ex- 

 tension of the Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern 

 railway into Osceola. The district through 

 which the proposed extension will pass is rich 

 in hardwoods. 



A, handle factory in Piqua, O.. is receiving 

 shipments from South America of a hardwood 

 called "hochbolo." it is a very heavy, dark- 

 brown wood and is being manufactured into 

 handles or grips used in steering automobiles. 



The Wausau, Wis.. News states that on May 

 1. 160,000,000 feet of hemlock, pine and hard- 

 woods were in pile in Marathon county, valued 

 a! $2, .olio. 



A. \V. Victory, I. M. Vickory and C. S. Cude 

 have formed the A. W. Vickory Company of Ra- 

 leigh, X. ('., capitalizing it at $25,000. Spokes 

 and other articles will be manufactured from 

 hickory. 



Bruce, Wis., is a growing town. It now num- 

 bers among its industries a saw and planing mill 

 belonging to the Arpin Hardwood Company and 

 a veneer mill, operated by the Beldenville Lum- 

 ber & Veneer Company. 



The Gurley Handle Company, Huntsville. Ala., 

 has discontinued operations there and will move 

 us plant to Bowling Green, Ky. 



A hardwood manufacturing company has been 

 established at Hawkinsville, Ga., by c. B, Adams 

 Of -Macon. Ga.. and local capital. The plant has 

 been completed and the company starts operations 

 under most favorable circumstances with a num- 

 ber of large orders ahead. 



The W. F. Ilurd Company recently incorpo- 

 rated at Detroit, Mich., with a capital stock of 

 $25,000 to manufacture sash, doors and interior 

 finish. The stockholders are William F. Hurd, 

 Earl A. M. Hurd and Frank X. Kenaud. 



Fire destroyed the sash and door plant of the 

 Wheelihan-Weidauer Company at Everett. Wash . 



July 12. The loss sustained wa 



Sb'0,000 n h insu ai I "■■ i 



000 and $40,000. It is probable thai the plant 

 will ! 



The Richland Lumber Com] Mangbam, 



as begun tin ion ol a uai-dw I 



mill at , h wn. 



Tie- National Handle Company is building 

 its plant just east of Fort Wayni 

 lions. • 136 by 72 feel in dimensions and two 

 slori.'s high. 



The Indiana Vei i & Lumber Company was 



recentlj i^-orporated at Indianapolis with a 



capital of MK,.n L. Goodwin, 0. M. 



ITuitt and M. I. HOVl 



i hi North G I ipany of Asheville, 



\ ( '.. a corporation composed of New York. 

 Michigan and Georgia capitalists, recently closed 



a timber deal by which it acquired about 50,' 



acres "f hardwood timber land. The tracl 

 located in western North Carolina anil northern 



i; gia and was purchased from the Tallul&h 



River Lumber Company for $250,000. The work 

 of developing the timber will begin at once. It 

 is also reported that plans are under way for 

 developing the valuable mineral deposits on the 

 property. 



The Gulf Land & Lumber Company of Lake 

 Charles. La., has begun operation on a tract of 

 20,000 acres of fine hardwood timber land. In- 

 cluding oak, red gum and other valuable bard 

 woods. 



George W. Morgan of Reedsburg, Wis., who 

 owns 1.900 acres of timber land in Rice county 

 will erect a mill and the necessary buildings for 

 bis help and proceed at once to manufacture Hie 

 timber, which is mostly hardwood, into market- 

 able lumber. 



Lewis J. Parker of Huntingdon. Tenn.. re 

 eently purchased 1,870 acres of timber land near 

 Senatobia, Miss., thirty seven miles south of 

 Memphis, and will commence sawmill operations 

 thereon. The tract is estimated to cut 5,000,000 

 feet of white oak. 1,000,000 fed of poplar and 

 500,000 feet each of hickory, ash and gum. 



E. E. Weed & Co.. manufacturers of fruit 

 packages, operate a fine factory on the Kalama- 



i iv,-r at Douglas, Mich. Fifteen varieties 



,,f hardwoods, supplied by an extensive timber 

 property owned by the company in Allegan 

 county, are used in the manufacture of baskets, 

 boxes and crates. 



The firm of C. S. Bacon & Co., wholesale lum- 

 ber dialers of Grand Rapids, Mich., has been 



, ganlzed as the C. S. Bacon Company, which 



will take over several hardwood lumber and 

 ■ ill tip propositions in Alabama and Mississippi 

 previously bandied by C. S. Bacon & Co. 



Anderson, Ind., has a new artificial flooring 

 plant recently established. The institution is 

 known as the Kuco Floor I ompany, and its pro 

 (lu.e is an imitation of hardwood flooring, 

 of :i roin position of rubber and cork. The mate- 

 rial is said to imitate linoleum, but to have 

 decorative qualities of its own. 



The business heretofov nducted bj do- stave 



and hardwood department of Lucas i: Moore .v 



Co ol New Orleans has a taken over by 



Lucas E. Moore Stave Company, Inc.. with a 



pal [ up i ipital of $1 D Cbomaf Reese 



,1,1 his interest iii tl Id fir 



com] y. The change means i n in 



the general policy, a- the management will re- 

 allj the sam ■ 



i h, I tiit.-d Walnut Log Company is the 



I ort Sum' 



sidents of ) 



bash, ! r 1 1 1 . It has r I ISefl 



ad there, upon whlcli falnut log 



ralued at $75,00 " utends 



,,, ..,.,i,i ,,oi i lu.r cai • which « 



IS Xew 111-].., 



: walnut loi Indian 1 



part 



of Li till. Tex., and S. It- 



Beaumont e 



i,., 'i ing 



land 

 'he s having overflowed ail the 



i nt ry. 



I. E. K ti ' l,| s 



till, which wns recently closed down on 



■.:ik, whb b 

 exclusively. 

 Weiui.-tn 



filed a petition In bank- 

 Liabilities an- .'si , and 

 l"7. 

 V\ V. I'.itoii. .1. F. snin-j.-l an. I c E Slnnet 

 of Buffalo have 'he Buffalo 

 Veneering Company, capitalized The 

 output ..f this concern win be table tops, dn 



tops, etc. 



Bayl eneer 



plant, .ii. ,1 



ists. 



II. C. Butler \ . Mich., has sold p. 



Black & Co. of Baj ( Itj .i tracl Im. 



,i-li and soft maple timber tbal will yield 500.000 



of lumber. 'I'lo- purchasers will cut n i 



18,1 t.. 2u. e.-i per day. 



The Sequacbee, Tenn., Handle Works is do 

 ing a flourishing business. Among July . . 

 is one for a thousand dozen hammer bandh 

 ipped i" New I, .hi. I. hi. Australia. 



A large sawmill owned by C. w. Kelster of 

 laronsburg, Pa., was recently destroyed by tire. 



'lb.- loss Included 10, feel of chestnut. The 



mill was not Insured and the hi- cost Mr. 

 Keister $6, 



A recent fire at Port land, Ind desl royed tht 

 dry kilns and thirty elong- 



ing to s. It Adams & Co. 



v.. V. Kautsky'.s sawmill at Cherokee, Wis. 



has closed down, having cut 1.200. f< 1 



timber, principally hardwood, Blnce April 1. 



The Hardwood Mill Compan] <>f Live Oak, 



I'la.. is enlarging its plant to n t Increasing 



demands, and adding new machinery for the 

 manufacture oi sti 



The Ohio Itiver Lumbe pans lias been »>r- 



ganlzed nt Pickens, W Va., to deal in coal and 

 timber landa it is capitalized at $25,000. 



The Glidden Veneer Factory, Glldden, Wis. 

 bus resumed operations, it employs 250 men. 



The Tucker File *\ Cabinet Company of [lion, 

 x. v.. has s,,i.i out to the Clark ,x Baker 

 pany of Xew rork New York 



agents f-.r the products of the company. Tie 

 purchasers Intend erecting a large factory with 



t lent equipment on the land recently acquired, 



which is situated on the West Shore railroad. 



which will .nabie tb to continue the manu- 

 facture of high grade office furniture, cabinets, 

 tiles, etc., which ill.- Tucker company bus always 

 put on the mail 



It is announced thai the Novelty Tinning 1 'om- 

 pany ..f FItchbui g Mass., will .b-. "in mi- 

 ni thai cit\ and open a manufacturing 

 establishment al Norway, Me., about August i-V 



Tb.. now Skinner a Steenman S 

 inn ..1 Greenville, Mich., is running mil fi 

 manufacturing an 



Tb.- new veneer factorj of thi n 1 on 



nor Veneer Com| Jew Albany. Ind.. will 



ration about September 1. 



beretofoi 1 1 « lib the 



Wilbur I. umber Company ol Dixon, 111. bat 

 gaged w iii! an Qardwood ' lompai 



Madison, Wis . as tn Mr Ma 



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