HARDWOOD RECORD 



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kinds of store, bank and office fixtures and 

 wood mantels. 



The Southern California Hardwood Manu- 

 facturing Company of Los Angeles is a con- 

 cern which manufactures show cases, finish, 

 sash, doors and general mill work. It also 

 handles veneers and hardwood lumber. 



Reports of short stocks and decreased out- 

 put of hardwoods continue to come from 

 Arkansas, Mississippi and western Tennessee. 

 The heavy rains and the yellow fever scare 

 make it doubtful if this year's total output 

 will reach 50 per cent of that of former years. 



The mill of the National Veneer Products 

 Company at East Mishawaka, Ind., is com- 

 plete, and with the early installation of the 

 engine, boiler and heating apparatus, will 

 soon be placed in commission. 



The Hill Veneer Company, with a paid-up 

 capital of $10,000, was organized at Winston- 

 Salem, N. C, Sept. 6. The company will pro- 

 duce quartered and plain oak veneers. The 

 manager of this enterprise is Carl Hill. 



The Caledonia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 is the name of a new corporation at Caledo- 

 nia, N. Y. It is capitalized at $20,000. to deal 

 in timber lands, logs and lumber. The incor- 

 porators are Samuel W. Murdock, Elbert A. 

 Tennent and Alpheus H. Tennent. 



The Edge Tool Works of Evansville, Ind., 

 is erecting a new addition to its handle fac- 

 tory, to be used for the storage of hickory 

 billets. 



New machinery is being installed at the 

 Delk Handle Company's factory at Green- 

 ville, O., with a view to increasing the ca- 

 pacity of the plant. 



The Adams Manufacturing Company is one 

 of the well known woodworking plants of Los 

 Angeles, which produces office and bank fix- 

 tures, cabinet work, turning and miscellaneous 

 mill work. The company operates a factory 

 and machine shop. 



The recent fire at Efland, N. C, destroyed 

 the sawmill of G. W. Albright, together with 

 a quantity of oak lumber belonging to J. H. 

 Slippen of Sutherlin. Va. The loss is about 

 $4,000. 



The Western Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 a Los Angeles concern which handles both 

 building woods and hardwoods. While the 

 company has only been established about a 

 year, it is enjoying a very handsome business. 



Manistee, Mich., is becoming one of the 

 most important hardwood manufacturing cen- 

 ters in the United States. The output does 

 not assume the volume of the old-time white 

 pine days, but still the hardwood production 

 of that city will run well toward 125,000,000 

 feet during the current year. 



The Richmond Handle Company of Indian- 

 apolis is making preparations to manufacture 

 an increased variety of handles. The works 

 are now closed down for the installation of 

 new machinery. Up to the present time the 

 only woods used by the company have been 

 ash and hickory, but now it will use many of 

 the cheaper woods as well. 



A Los Angeles concern that deals very 

 largely in hardwood lumber and hardwood 

 llooring is the Western Commercial Company. 



S. P. and Chas. Jennings will equip their 

 factory at Newcastle. Ind.. with machinery 

 for the production of interior finish. 



The Cox Lumber Company is a new cor- 

 poration at Asheboro, N. C, organized for 

 the manufacture of doors and interior finish. 

 The capitalization Is $25,000 and the incorpo- 

 rators are C. L. Cox, W. L. Ward and J. R. 

 Ward. 



D. W. Hogan and Dan Turner of Martins- 

 ville, O., have purchased a tract of oak tim- 

 ber near Harwood, Highland county, O. They 

 will erect a mill for the manufacture of the 

 timber into lumber. 



Richardson Brothers of Sheboygan Falls, Wis.. 



are among the largest manufacturers of cheese 

 boxes in Wisconsin. Their annual output ap- 

 proximates 200,000 boxes. The company Is 

 doubling Its capacity in this department. The 

 entire plant of the concern comprises a cheese 

 box factory, chair factory, sawmill and planing 

 mill, and occupies thirty-flve acres of ground. 



Silas Kllbourn of Grand Haven, president ; 

 Otis A. Felger of Grand ltaplds, vice president! 

 and Charles A. Phelps of Grand Hapids, secre- 

 tary-treasurer, constitute the officers and board 

 of directors of the Uackiey Cooperage Company 

 of Hackley, Wis., recently organized with a capi- 

 tal of $20,000. The company will manufacture 

 heads and staves in connection with the Hack- 

 ley-Phelps-Ilonnell Company of Hackley. Work 

 has already been commenced on the plant, which 

 will be in operation by November. 



The Columbiana Handle Works at Columbi- 

 ana, O., was sold recently by the receiver to 

 Frank W. Grove for $5,200. Nine years ago 

 the same property was sold at receiver's sale 

 for $1,500. 



Mr. Rocker of Greensboro, Ga., has ordered 

 machinery for a factory to be established at 

 Millldgeville, on the Oconee river, to manufac- 

 ture all kinds of wooden handles. There Is 

 much valuable hardwood timber available and 

 the enterprise will doubtless prove a profitable 

 one. 



The large barrel factory and commission store 

 house of W. E. Tuchton. at Wilmington, Del., 

 was burned on Aug. 19, entailing a loss of 

 $35,000, partially Insured. 



Edson H. Gibbs of Eaton Rapids, Mich., has 

 contracted with the National nub Company of 

 Jackson to supply 120,000 buggy hubs. 



The Inlaid Floor Company, a San Francisco 

 concern, has recently incorporated in Wash- 

 ington, and It is alleged to be about to establish 

 a manufacturing plant at Seattle. 



The Vaughn Manufacturing Company is in- 

 stalling a new plant at its mill at Columbia, 

 Tenn., for the manufacture of hardwood floor- 

 ing. 



The Dame Mantel Company of Harrlman. 

 Tenn., is engaged In enlarging its plant, In order 

 to take care of an unprecedented Increase in 

 its business. 



A recent fire at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.. 

 completely destroyed the barrel factory of 

 Henry Ellison, and damaged adjoining prop- 

 erty considerably. 



The Goshen Veneer Company of Goshen, Ind., 

 has purchased a new two-story brick factory 

 building, 250x65 feet in size, as an addition to 

 its present plant. This affords the company a 

 floor space of 32,000 square feet. New veneer 

 machinery will be sold, and It Is proposed to 

 make the plant one of the finest veneer fac- 

 tories In the country. The highest class line 

 of veneers will be produced. The members of 

 the Goshen Veneer Company are M. C. Dow, Sr., 

 Charles E. Gorhain and M. C. Dow. Jr. 



A. J. Edminster of Holcombe, Mich., has 

 purchased from John Becker of Menominee, 

 thirty-five "forties" of hardwood limber land, 

 located east of Holcombe, and expects to 

 have a source of supply for lumber manu- 

 facture for three years to come. 



The Omaha Railroad is building a six-mile 



spur from Sillhawn oil the Holcombe branch, 

 to Ruby, where the Sill i Hawn Lumber 

 Company's saw mill Is located. The company 

 has a large quantity of timber along the 

 route of the spur which will be hauled to the 

 mill by rail in the future. 



A considerable hardwood timber area Is be- 

 ing opened up for exploitation near liurant, I. 

 T. Agriculturists are so anxious to get the 

 timber off their holding* that It Is alleged that 

 they are willing to sell It at a very low price. 

 The wood consists of ash, hickory, pecan, wal- 

 nut, bols dare and elm. 



Emory Mix of Wlllseyrllle, N. v., has sold 

 his chair factory to parties who will engage In 

 the manufacture of wood novelties. 



The city of St. Johns, Mich., has purchased 

 the building and real estate of the St. Johns 

 Table Company, which Institution was recently 

 moved to Cadillac. It Is doubtless the Inten- 

 tion of the city to Induce some other manufac- 

 turing enterprise to occupy this property. 



The N.\v York Handle Company is a recent 

 Now York corporation capitalized at $10,000. 

 The incorporators arc Alex. C. Schleslnger. 

 Leon Kauffman and Wm. J. Clarke. 



The machinery for the new plant of the 

 Roberts-Conner Veneer Company at New 

 Albany, Ind., has been delivered and Is rap- 

 idly being put In place. 



A boiler explosion in the stave mill of lMw 

 Jennings, near Plnconnlng, Mich., on Sept. 

 16, resulted in killing five men and Injuring 

 eight or ten others. 



The Laigle Stave & Lumber Company has 

 incorporated at Hermitage. Ark., with a capi- 

 tal of $25,000, to manufacture oak lumber and 

 staves. 



Finke Broth' 1 factory and w 



house near Astoria, Ore., were destroyed to. 

 fire Sept. 7. The plant was the largest of its 

 kind on the Columbia river. 



The axe handle factory at Stockport 

 has resumed operations. 



Great Commercial Enterprise. 



Although the matter has not heretofore been 

 exploited In print, there Is a great enterprise 

 about to be Inaugurated near Manistee, which 

 will undeniably mean much to the progress 

 of that Michigan shore city. The undertaking 

 Is no less than the building of a great dam 

 across the Manistee river at Sherman, forty 

 miles from Mam- The dam will be an Im- 

 mense concrete structure, which will afford a 

 head of water of between fifty and sixty feet. 

 When It Is known that the average flow of the 

 Manistee river Is estimated at nearly a million 

 cubic feet per second some Idea can be obtained 

 of the vast wafer power that this dam will de- 

 velop. The public Is not yet admitted to the 

 confidence of the promoters and financiers of 

 the enterprise as to the disposition that will 

 be made of the water power obtained, but since 

 Edward Buckley, president of the Manistee & 

 Northeastern railroad and of the Buckley & 

 Douglas Lumber Company of Manistee, Is at the 

 head of the venture, it foes without saying that 

 there are well defined plans back of the deal 

 for Its utilisation. 



HardWood NeWs. 



By HAEDWOOD BE CORD 



Chicago. 

 II. C. Humphrey of the n. W. Jones Lumber 

 Company, Applcton, Wis., was a visitor at the 

 IIaiipv n office on Friday. Mr. Hum- 



phrey was on his way home from the meeting 

 of the board of managers of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association at Indianapolis, on 

 Thursday. He reports an excellent meeting and 

 good attendance. Those present were Earl 

 Palmer, president: >>. t> Agler, rice president: 

 II. C. Humphrey, second vlre president: C. E. 



Special Corraspondenta.) 



Lloyd, Jr.. third vie. •• 1 Wager, 



treasurer; D. V. Clark. B. F. Swain. W. H. Russe. 

 Dodgi W v Bennett, Edward Buckley and 

 W. A. Boni 



J. V. Stlmson, the well known oak manufac- 

 turer of Huntlngburg, Ind,, made the Record a 

 very pleasant call on Friday last. 



The Rt ' lasure of a call last 



week Iron, 1 nt of the 



Canton Lui any and of the Mississippi 



Mr. Foot's con 



