March 2D, 1910 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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G. W. Sims of Nfuhardt, Ark., is cutting 35,000 feet of hardwood timber 

 daily, and has started a new town on the Marlauna Cut-off of the Iron 

 Mountain, known as Kanema. 



It is estimated that since January 1 more than $1,000,000 worth of 

 lands have been sold in Crittenden county. Kussell E. Gardner of St. 

 Louis soId-8.000 acres of timberiands to the Lansing Wheelbarrow Company 

 of Lansing. Mich., and Parking Ark., for $300,000. The Crittenden Railway 

 Company has purchased 6.000 acres of fine timberiands about Blackfish 

 Lake for .$300,000, and will extend its line there for the purpose of get- 

 ting out the timber and manufacturing it. 



The Chess & Wymond Company of Louisville has recently shipped sev- 

 eral carloads of stave bolts from O'Neal to Batesville, Melljurne and other 

 points where its stave mills are located to be manufactured. 



A new sawmill has been erected at Batesville. Ark., and will be operated 

 by the Batesville Excelsior Company. The new plant has a daily capacity 

 of 40,000 feet, and will employ a large force of men. 



Charles T. Abeles & Co.. Little Rock, are erecting a shingle mill at Doolcy's 

 Ferry, on the Red river, south of Hope, Ark., and will soon have the same 

 ready for operation. 



The Melburne Stave Company is the name of the new concern recently 

 organized at Melburne for the purpose of manufacturing staves. Consider- 

 able machinery has already been installed in the new plant and the com- 

 pany has commenced the work of cutting two milion staves from timber 

 available near that place. J. W. Williamson of Batesville, Judge J. B. 

 Baker of .Melburne and F. L. Saffell of Guion are the owners of the com- 

 pany. 



The C. F. Leibke Hardwood Mill and Lumber Company of St. Louis will 

 establish two harrlwnoil mills within the next two weeks along the Althelmer 

 branch of the Cotton Belt Railroad, according to the southern man- 

 ager for the company. The mills will be located at Tucker and Secrest. 

 Each mill will have a capacity of 50,000 feet per day. The company has 

 recently bought several thousand acres of flue hardwood timber in the 

 vicinities of the two places where the mills are to be located. 



On March 15 about 50.000 or 60,000 staves belonging to C. D. Gibbs were 

 destroyed by fire at Caddo Gap, Ark. The fire did little damage to the 

 plant. The staves were insured for $2,000. ^ 



=■< MILWAUKEE >= 



The .1. II. O'Mclia Lumber Company of Uhinelaiider, Wis., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $25,000 by J. II. O'Melia, W. Schumann and 

 M. Y. O'Melia. 



The Crown Brush Company has been incorporated at Milwaukee with a 

 capital stock of $20,000 by Hans DeTroy. Frank Meller and B. H. Osborn. 

 Leenhouts & Guthrie. Milwaukee, architects, are completing plans for 

 the erection of a new chair manufacturing plant at the Milwaukee county 

 house of correction. The plant will cost $75,000 and will be equipped in 

 the most modern manner. 



Charles Dikeman, well-known lumberman and timber land owner of Ke- 

 waunee county, died at his home in Kewaunee, Wis., on March 9 at the age 

 of eighty-three years. He had been a resident of the county since 1866. 

 Mr. Dikeman is sur\'ived by his widow and one daughter. 



Hearings on the Tittemore complaint, which seeks to bring about a read- 

 justment of existing freight rates in Wisconsin, will be held soon before 

 both the Interstate Commerce and the State Railroad commissions. A 

 hearing before the interstate body will be held in Oshkosh, April 4, while 

 the hearing before the state body will open at Madison on March 27. A con- 

 flict between the two is expected, as it is said that the Madison hearing 

 will last a week or more. 



The Kenfield-Lamoreaux Company of Washburn, Wis., has installed 'a 

 new $1,200 nailing machine and other equipment in its plant which is now 

 operated on a day and night shift. The company is meeting with a brisk 

 demand for boxes and crates. 



A conference of all members of the Wisconsin forestry force was held 

 at Trout Lake, Wis., last week when Commissioner F. B. Aloody outlined 

 plans for the coming season and issued a call for every man in the Forestry 

 Service to prepare for a campaign against forest fires during the year. Pre- 

 vention of forest fires and all subjects in connection with forestry and forest 

 fire conditions were discussed in a series of nineteen papers, which were 

 followed by expressions of the views of experienced men in the service. 

 Wisconsin has had no destructive forest fires since 1911. 



That grain alcohol, manufactured from wood waste, ma.v be used as sub- 

 stitute for gasoline as a result of the .soaring price of the latter, is predicted 

 by Howard F. Weiss, director of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madi- 

 son, Wis., who has completed three years of experimenting on the propo- 

 sition and lias attained some startling results. From one ton of sawdust 

 the laboratory produced twenty-five gallons of 95 per cent alcohol at a 

 cost of from 13 to 15 cents per gallon. Gasoline is now selling at around 

 30 cents per gallon. 



Advices to the offices of the Xorthern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association at Oshkosh indicate that prices of hemlock bark are 

 advancing rapidly. Prices of late have risen to $11 and $12 per cord and 

 there is talk of sales in the neighborhood of $13 for immediate delivery. 



It is reported that the condition of C. R. Smith, millionaire lumberman 

 of Menasha. Wis., head of the Menasha Woodenware Company and the 

 Southern Oregon Company, is much improved. Mr. Smith was taken ill 

 at Spokane, Ore., while en route from Menasha to Marshfield, Ore. He 

 Is the owner of extensive timberiands on the Pacific coast. 



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iller Lumber Company | 



I St. Francis Basin | 



I RED GUM I 



I We are putting in pile 50,000 to 60,000 | 



1 feet of Hardwoods every day and will J 



■ have a well assorted stock in shipping H 



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I MARIANNA, ARKANSAS | 



10,000,000 Feet 



Choice Northern Hardwoods 



This stock is rapidly getting in ship- 

 ping condition and we shall be glad 

 to receive your inquires. 



Ideal 



Hardwood 



Sawmill 



Are putting In pile every month 

 two and one-half million feet of 

 choicest Northern Michigan Hardwoods 



Stack Lumber Company 



Masonville, Michigan 



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