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every applicant for a position In the forest 

 service pass a civil service examination. Legal 

 residence in the state or territory in which em- 

 ployment is desired is generally necessary. 



Model Northern Michigan Village. 



A model sawmill village is Simmons, huilt 

 and owned by the Simmons Lumber Company, 

 thirty miles east of Mnnistique, Mich. Three 

 mills are operated, the largest with a capacity 

 • it 35,000 feet of hard or C0.000 feet of soft 

 wood lumber daily. .V pony mill is turning out 

 10,000 pieces of dimension material daily. A 

 new drying plant, which will hold 100,000 feet 

 Of lumber and is guaranteed to dry lumber 

 free of check 01* warp in seven or eight days, 

 was recently erected. All the mill buildings 

 are being perfected tor the extension of the 

 service to the village. A railroad, owned and 

 operated by the company, connects with the 

 Soo Line at Bovee. Several logging camps are 

 operated year in and year out, and the mill 

 plant has not closed down since the start, three 

 years ago, prior to which time the site of the 

 town was a virgin forest. 



No saloon is allowed in Simmons, and the 

 men are encouraged in various ways to save 

 their money. A building, o0x60 feet in ground 

 dimensions, is being erected for use for social 

 gatherings, indoor baseball and other amuse- 

 ments. Attached to this will be reading, gym- 

 nasium, bath and smoking rooms, free to all 

 employes. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The New Union Lumber Company of Lin- 

 ton, Ind., is building a large planing mill, 

 which will be equipped with modern wood- 

 working machinery, and will manufacture 

 sash, doors, counters, store fronts, stairways, 

 mantels and other building materials. 



Milledgeville, Ga., will soon have a new 

 industrv. Deals have been closed for the pur- 

 chase of hardwood timber lands on the Oconee 

 river, below that city, and plans have been 

 made for the erection of a factory to turn out 

 all kinds of wood handles. 



Hoyt & Woodin Manufacturing Company, the 

 well-known hardwood and cypress lumber manu- 

 facturer of Memphis, Tenn., has temporarily 

 removed its general office to 1 Broadway, New 

 York City. 



A new company for Palmyra, Mich., is 

 Ehinger & Vogt, who will engage in the manu- 

 facture of mallets and hardwood novelties. 



Work has been started on a big sash and 

 door factory by the Portland Sash & Door 

 Company of Portland, Ore., which will cover 

 half a block of ground and cost in the neigh- 

 borhood of $10,000. 



Albert Baily of Evansville, Ind., who lost an 

 arm by falling against a saw while in the 

 • mploy of the Evansville Hoop & Stave Com- 

 pany, has filed suit against the firm for 

 .$10,000. 



The Wisconsin Pail Company of Oconto, 

 Wis., has enlarged its factory to accommo- 

 date a new stave machine, jointer, knot saw 

 and gluer. Improvements have also been 

 made in the dry kiln, but it is even yet hardly 

 sufficient to dry material as fast as it is 

 needed. The company's daily output of pails, 

 all of which are used in the candy trade, runs 

 from 1.900 to 2,000. 



The Charles Derleth Company was recently 

 incorporated in New York by Jacob Froelich 

 and Charles Dirlam of New York City, and 

 Win, C. Allan of Brooklyn, to manufacture cab- 

 inet work. The company is capitalized at 



■no. 000. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders 

 of the Great Lakes Veneer & Panel Company 

 held recently, the report of the secretary-treas- 

 urer showed that the company had made ma- 

 terial advancement since its reorganization a 

 year ago. Encouraged by this progress, the 



directors decided to build a new storage ware- 

 house, 10 install additional steam fans In 

 dry kiln, and make other minor improve!. 

 which will no! onlj Increase the capacity ot 

 lh '- Plan! crease th ..st of pro- 



duction. 



J. H. ] , m ^,, Ka, n i will soon 



a barrel ,1 Man 



Thousands of bt ir< used in the vicinity 



for potatoes and Mr. Bennett will undoubtedly 

 meet with success. 



ter several weeks idleness the big hard- 

 wood n, ill of the Dierks Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany of De Queen, Ark., has started. The 

 'Hit. plant is now being run on full time. 



About $12,000 worth of property belonging 

 to T. F. Russell ,<: Co.. barrel manufacturers, 

 and Thomas Male, manufacturer of wooden 

 boxes, both ot Boston, was recently destroyed 

 by fire. 



A long-felt want will be realized when the 

 Rockford Chair & Furniture Company com- 

 pletes the contemplated addition to Its ma- 

 chine shop. The building will be four stories 

 in height, 128 feet long by 16 feet wide. The 

 plant will continue operation while the work 

 is being done. 



It is announced that the tangled affairs 

 of the Andrews Cabinet Factory, Andrews, 

 Ind., have at last been satisfactorily settled, 

 and business will be resumed in a short time. 

 A brother of the former proprietor purchased 

 the property and plant for $5,S50, thus settliur. 

 the greater part of the claims against the 

 company. 



The Acme Handle Company was recently 

 established at Green Spring Depot, Tenn. S. 

 T. Pyle and D. D. Pyle are the principals. 



A quantity of ninety-foot oak logs from the 

 headwaters of the Kentucky river were re- 



mand to be used by a fa- 

 mous shipbuilding firm. It i ...; an 

 unu 



lirm of shlpbu . will 



iot of it 1.. gth logs. 



It. 

 'lams I in., his In- 



t having been acquired by Williams 

 which will 1 vie of the 



ceeding Arm. 



rocomoko City, .M.i . 

 hay. disposed of their crate, basket ant bar- 

 rel '' I have Joined forces with the 



Gauley Compai on-Gauley, \V. 



As will !»■ not.. I by tl ..mont on 



tin- Pittsburg pan.. ,,f this issue, tl 

 w.-ll-known lumber lions.- ot Flint, Erving & 

 Stoner ha .organized as the Flint, 



.;;,' & Stoner Company, with J. B. Flint 

 as president, R. H. Erving as vice 1 

 and E. H. Stoner as secretary and treasurer. 



D. A. Stratton has almost completed a large 

 Plant at Tower. Mich., for the manufacture 

 of dimension stuff, broom handles and other 

 hardwood specialties. The plant represents an 

 expenditure of $50,000 and includes a factory, 

 office building, machine shop, blacksmith shop, 

 a barn and several houses for employes. 



\V. li. Bennett Is Installing new machinery in 

 his broom factory at Crandon, Wis., which will 

 largely increase the capacity of his plant. 



The Ontonagon Stave & Ycnecr Company of 

 Ontonagon, Mich., recently purchased 350,000 

 feet of £ne birch logs on Modallne Island from 

 the Wachsmuth Lumber Company, which will be 

 manufactured into staves. The work of remod- 

 eling the Ontonagon company's plant Is almost 

 completed and operations will begin in a short 

 lime. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Corraspondents.) 



Chicago. 



Karl I'almer of Paducah, president of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, was In 

 Chicago, August 14. He had a conference here 

 with Frank F. Fish, secretary of the association, 

 who came op from Indianapolis to meet him. 



W. S. Darnell of I. M. Darnell & Sou Company, 

 Memphis, was in Chicago, August 12. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & WItte, Mem- 

 phis, made the Record a pleasant call on Au- 

 gust 12. 



J. II. Garrison of Paducah. buyer for W. A. 

 Davis, the well-known wholesaler of this city, 

 was in town several days week before last. 



S. II. Nigh ot S. II. Nigh & Brother, the well- 

 known poplar manufacturers of Ironton, O., was 

 in Chicago August 17. 



J. N. Woodbury, manager of the lumber de- 

 partment of the Ozark Cooperage Company of 

 St. Louis, paid the Recoup a call, August 14. 



Harry A. Gorsuch, secretary of the Southwest- 

 ern Lumbermen's Association, called on the 1:1 . 

 ord on August 18. Mr. Gorsuch, accompanied by 

 bis wife, was en route to Ottawa Beach, Mich., 

 for a few days' outing. 



The Hardwood Record was favored with a 

 call, August 16, from Walter Mllller of I. F. 

 Miiller & Soliu of Hamburg. Mr. Mllller Is mak- 

 ing a general tour of the United States and Is 

 interesting himself particularly in the natural 

 wonders of this country, as well as timber growth 

 and forest produ 



G. K. Estcs, the new Milwaukee Inspector of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association, has 

 au office with the South Arm Lumber Company 

 at 214 Grand avenue. He can be reached by 



those desiring his serv p at this number 



or at his home address. 'M.'. Park street, Milwau- 

 kee. 



Acknowledgment Is herewith made of the re- 



ceipt in pamphlet form of the official proceed- 

 ings of the third annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association, which 

 was held at Chicago, May 9 and 10, 1 



N. A. Gladding of Indianapolis, vice presi- 

 dent and sales manager of F. C. Atkins & Co., 

 Inc., was in Chicago on the 22d, In consultation 

 with the heads of the local house of that com- 

 pany. Incidentally. Mr. Gladding met several of 

 his traveling emissaries on this occasion. Hi' 

 reports the business of his great saw house as 

 being excellent, and that the works are running 

 to full capacity. 



The Hardwood Record had a call on Tuesday 

 from Ira B. Bennett, the well known lumber- 

 man formerly of Detroit, but now located at 

 San Francisco. It Is In the realm ot possi- 

 bility that very soon Mr. Bennett will launch 

 an Important lumber enterprise in California. 



W. A. Smith, president of the Kenova Poplar 

 Manufacturing Company. Kenova, W. Ya.. was a 

 Chicago visitor last week, aud honored the 

 Hardwood Recoup with u call. 



A welcome caller at this office Aug. 22 was 

 T. W. De. ; ot the American 



Lumber Company of Albuquerque, N. M. 



A. knowledgn: 

 at this office on Tuesday from thai 

 his trad-. Harvey Saws Avery, New 

 manager for K. C. Atkins A; Co., Inc. Mr. 

 is on his way to his Grand Traverse 

 farm, for his regular summer vacation. 



ins ot the St. Louis 

 Lumberman, with his usual pious look. ■ 

 hanging around the Auditorium the last of 

 the week, putting up the bluff that 

 money. 



The strike of the Chicago woodwoi 

 sett!. men who I 



>d by the strike ha heir 



