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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 finds the demand for chestnut excellent and is 

 shipping up a lot of It. with oak and poplar 

 from the Tennessee mills. Options on timber 

 tracts there will 60on be taken up. 



C. H. Stanton Is taking care of a lot of the 

 maple stock of the Michigan Maple Company 

 and Is fast making up the time lost early in 

 the year by sickness, as he is quite well now. 



Taylor & Crate are shipping liberally from 

 their lake yard on the Niagara side of the city, 

 but find their oak proposition in Mississippi the 

 better part of the production at present, the 

 quality is so fine. 



H. A. Stewart of I. X. Stewart & Bro. seems 

 to know where the oak lumber Is secreted In 

 the South, as he digs out a lot of It whenever 

 he goes that way. A stock of mahogany is now 

 coming to the yard. 



Scatcherd & Son find it hard to do a full 

 business at Memphis now, but manage to keep 

 the general demand satisfied from that direction, 

 while the district more directly south keeps 

 the home yard up. 



H. S. Janes has gone south in the interest 

 of the Empire Lumber Company, as It is neces- 

 sary to get hold of oak and other stock from 

 points east of the company's Arkansas tract. 



Grand Rapids. 



Archibald Gibbs of Gibbs & Hall, hardwood 

 lumber dealers of this city, is now engaged In 

 putting in an electric plant for lighting the 

 village of Klngsley. He will utilize the water 

 power at that point. 



L. L. Skillman of the Longfellow & Skill- 

 man Lumber Company, has been In the north- 

 ern part of the state for several days looking 

 after the adjustment of the company's loss 

 by fire at Levering. 



The Enge! Lumber & Land Company has 

 bought three acres of land at Godfrey avenue 

 and the Pere Marquette crossing as a site 

 for a lumber yard. The two yards In this city 

 will be consolidated at the new location and 

 an office and sheds erected there. President 

 George Engel reports that the company Is 

 still unable to dc anything toward completing 

 the plant at Englewood. La., because of the 

 quarantine against yellow fever. 



The VanKeulen & Wilkinson Lumber Com- 

 pany Is doing a good business In hardwood 

 lumber and crating stock this fall. 



Walter C. Winchester and C. C. Follmer 

 will start early in October on a trip around 

 the world, expecting to return in April. 



Henry Schneider of the Dudley Lumber Com- 

 pany Is still carrying his right arm in a sling, 

 as the result of a bad fall some time ago when 

 he strained the ligaments of the shoulder. 



George Moeke & Sons of Bucolo. Mich., have 

 bought a ten-acre site at Jenison for a saw 

 and planing mill. They will cut timber from a 

 hardwood tract in northern Michigan and ship 

 the logs to Jenlson. 



The Burrlll Chemical Company is putting in 

 ten charcoal kilns at Manlstique. 



Boyne City has been enjoying a building 

 boom this season, owing largely to the active 

 operations of W. H. 'White & Co. The record 

 so far is twelve business blocks, nine of which 

 are brick, a large livery' barn, two new manu- 

 facturing plants and over 200 dwellings. 



Papers have been signed for the transfer of 

 the billiard and pool table manufacturing de- 

 partments of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender 

 Company of Chicago to Muskegon. The Cham- 

 ber of Commerce of Muskegon agrees to erect 

 three buildings, a power house 50 by 100 feet, 

 one story, and factory buildings 65 by 321 feet 

 and 65 by 129 feet, three stories. The company 

 also agrees to put up three buildings, each 65 

 by 321 feet, three stories, a dry kiln and an 

 additional building. At least 600 men will be 

 employed. 



The Cadillac Lumber Company, capital $15,- 

 000, has been organized at Cadillac by S. W. 

 Kramer, Morris E. Thomas, and Fred S. Lamb 

 of that city and Chauncey D. Burritt of 

 Lapeer. The company will build and operate 

 a planing mill, the principal product of which 

 will be interior finish. C. D. Burritt will re- 

 tain his interest in Tuttle & Burritt at Lapeer, 

 and will have the management of the Cadillac 

 concern. 



Nashville. 



The building boom In Nashville continues un- 

 abated even though the nasty fall weather will 

 be here in a few weeks. There is an unprece- 

 dented demand for building materials, and lum- 

 bermen are unable to supply It. Shop work Is 

 from thirty to sixty days behind. In Nashville 

 the number of buildings put up in nine months 

 of IOC) equals what was accomplished during 

 all of the twelve months of 1904. 



In keeping with the general boom conditions 

 prevailing in Nashville In a business way, lum- 

 bermen are getting their share of the pros- 

 perity. A glance at the various lumber features 

 of this center will clearly show why Nashville 

 Is recognized as probably the greatest hardwood 

 producing center in the country. There Is over 

 SS.000,000 invested here in lumber and timber 

 r^ady to be converted Into merchantable stock. 

 There are some forty mills here, four wagon 

 factories and numerous dealers in wagon stock, 

 half a dozen hardwood specialty concerns, one 

 being the largest hardwood flooring factory this 

 side of Chicago ; one big coffin factory, two large 

 screen door factories and several smaller ones, 

 two spoke factories, twenty-one planing mills, 

 several of them being unusually large ones ; two 

 hoop factories, six large box factories, several 

 stave and cooperage plants, five furniture facto- 

 ries, and the only red cedar bucket factory In 

 the world. The railroads are annually bringing 

 more than 25,000,000 feet of lumber into Nash- 

 vllle and the Cumberland river Is giving up more 

 than loO.OOO.OOO annually. It Is estimated that 

 8,000 people here rely upon the hardwood Indus 

 try for a living. 



Reports from the Tennessee members of the 

 Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo say they are 

 having a great trip through the West. Local 

 lumbermen were much gratified to learn that 

 for the eleventh successive year J. II. fialrd was 

 elected Scrlvenoter of the order. 



Many Inquiries arc being made here by people 

 desiring to locate in the lumber business in this 

 section. Herbert S. Janes of the Empire Lum- 

 ber Company of Buffalo. N. Y., was here this 

 week looking for a location for a sawmill in 

 Middle Tennessee. Mr. Janes Is looking for a 

 tract of several thousand acres of hardwood 

 timber, and he has gone to work In earnest with 

 that end In view. 



F. \V. Pettlbone of the Kingston Lumber 

 Company of Laurel, Miss., was in the city this 

 week. Mr. I'ettibone Is a director in the John 

 M Smith Lumber Company and is on his way 

 home from New York, where, at a meeting of 

 the directors of the Kingston Lumber Company. 

 Wallace B. Hogers of New Orleans was elected 

 president. 



Hamilton Love of the firm of Love, Boyd & 

 Company is in Now York city this week on a 

 business trip. 



The Edgefield and Nashville Manufacturing 

 Company has been awarded the contract of in- 

 stalling two handsome revolving doors In the 

 new addition to the postofflce here. The com- 

 pany gets $2,270 for the work. The doors will 

 be of hardwood and will be massive and orna 

 mental. 



According to M. R. Grace, president of the 

 Southern Handle Company, options have been 

 secured on every handle factory company in 

 the United States, twenty-seven In all. and a 

 deal is about to be closed for a big combine. 



The aggregate capital of the concerns expected 

 to go Into the deal Is about $4,000,000, but the 

 capital for the consolidated company has not 

 been Indicated. It Is expected the scheme will 

 be put through in the next two weeks. The 

 plants to be taken in are located in Tennessee. 

 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama and Kentucky. 

 The Southern Handle Company and the Hart- 

 zell Handle Company of Memphis will be in 

 the combine. 



Jackson. Tenn., has one of the few skewer 

 factories in the world and recently a terrible 

 accident took place there, James Hudson, one 

 of the employes, falling Into a vat of scalding 

 water, dying from the effects. 



Athens. Ala., has added a new Industry to 

 its list In the shape of a carriage factory oper- 

 ated by J. A. Brown, who came to Alabama 

 from Nebraska. 



The charter of the Capitol Planing Mill has 

 been taken out here. The Incorporators aro 

 W. H. McCullough, Finis V. Gold, James S 

 Pllcher, J. W. McCullough and J. M. Coyle. 

 The capital stock Is $5,000. The new firm will 

 buy, sell and manufacture lumber. 



Lumbermen are pleased with the work the 

 government is doing in improving the Tennes- 

 see river. A channel has been made at Rock- 

 wood large enough to permit a big river 

 steamer and nine barges. 



Regen Bros. & Co., who have conducted a 

 carriage factory at Lynnville. Tenn., have sold 

 out their business to the Evans-Kerr Company. 

 The Regens will come to Nashville to engage 

 In business. 



According to reports sent out by the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis to this city the 

 dealers of Memphis last year did $8,699,000 

 worth of business. The city proper handled 

 72.000.000 feet valued at $1,970,000. Memphis 

 concerns handled outside the city 174,500,000 

 feet, valued at $3,288,000. 



The Haley Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Sheffield, Ala., has bought several 

 acres of land adjoining Its plant. The plant 

 will be Improved and enlarged and $40,000 will 

 be spent on It. 



The Green River Lumber Company, an In- 

 diana corporation, has filed a certified copy of 

 its charter in this state. The company will 

 do business in Tennessee. It Is capitalized 

 at $30,000. 



McEwen Ransom of John B. Hansom & Co. 

 has just completed a handsome home In the 

 Murphy addition of Nashville and will move 

 there In a few days with his bride. 



A movement Is on root to establish another 

 carriage factory at Lynnville. Tenn., with a 

 capital stock of $10,000. 



Cincinnati. 



The first meeting of the season of the Cin- 

 cinnati Lumbermen's Club will be held Mon- 

 day evening, October 2, at the Stag Cafe. An 

 elaborate program is being prepared. 



F. K. Conn, representative of the T. B.. 

 Stone Company, was wedded this month at 

 Loveland. a Cincinnati suburb, to Miss Har- 

 riet Fisher. Mr. Conn will be located at 

 Natchez, Miss., after October 1. and the couple 

 will reside there. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 

 has opened its New York office at Thirty- 

 first street and First avenue. W. H. Stubbs 

 has been appointed manager with Edward 

 Burgess, formerly of this city, as assistant. 

 The export business of the company will be 

 conducted from the eastern office. 



The United States Lumber Company of this 

 city has been granted a charter by the sec- 

 retary of state. The capital stock was placed 

 at $100,000 and the incorporators were: George 

 R. Berry, W. L. Howe. C. H. Robinson, A. A. 

 Andrldge and A. J. Wellman. The company 

 holds an option on 1,000 acres of white oak 



