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nected with the Seth operation. Arrangements have been made to bring 

 the logs to the mill over the Laurel Creek railroad, which is owned by the 

 Lackawanna Coal & Lumber Company. This road connects at Scth 

 with the Coal river branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, thus afford- 

 ing excellent shipping facilities for sawed lumber and other products of 

 the mill. 



The standing timber on the company's 30.000 acres in Highland and 

 Bath counties, Virginia, has been conservatively estimated to average 

 10,000 feet board measure to the acre, eighty-five per cent of which is 

 oak, white pine and poplar. The two mills which the company will erect 

 on its Virginia properties will each have a capacity of 75,000 feet of 

 sawed lumlier a day and will be modern in every respect, being patterned 

 after the Seth plant. The extreme southern end of the company's timber 

 is fourteen miles from the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at 

 Milboro, Va., and the Highland company will construct a standard gauge 

 railroad twenty miles in length, beginning at a connection with the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio and extending north to the lower end of the property and 

 thence through the valley of the Cow Pasture river to the vicinity of 

 ■Williamsville. 



The Men 'Who Sell Steams Lumber 



On this page is shown a group photograph of the six men who are 

 responsible for the remarkable volume of business done by the Stearns 

 Salt and Lumber Company, Ludington, Mich., during the past year. As 

 stated in a recent issue of Hardwood Record, the business of this company 

 has kept up in remarkable shape, and in fact the payroll was increased 

 during 1914. 



The picture was taken in front of the home office at Ludington while 

 the boys were in for a conference on plans for the new year. The camer.i 

 did not record anything that resembled worry as showing on their faces. 

 which is quite natural, as they just 

 closed a good year and are looking 

 forward to excellent business dur- 

 ing 1015. 



The men are, from left to right : 

 E. P. Grignon, H. L. Randall, W. H. 

 Morse, J. D. Rounds. J. E. Dewey. 



A. W. Wasey, 11. W. Bates, and 



B. L Warner. 



Later Report on Camden Fire 



As a result of a more thorough 

 investigation it has been ascertained 

 that the recent disastrous tire whicli 

 visited C. B. Coles & Sons Company, 

 Camden, N. J., was confined to mill 

 and portion of the ,vard lying be- 

 tween the Delaware river and Front 

 street. The total insurance carried 

 on the mill and wharf, etc., is $77,- 

 350 and on lumber in the new yard 

 $20,000, a total of S97,350. In ad- 

 dition to the old line companies the 

 following insurance companies are 

 Interested with amounts of their 

 risks : Lumber Mutual Insurance 

 Company, Boston, $7.0II0 ; Pennsyl- 

 vania Lumbermen's Mutual Insur- 

 ance Company, Philadelphia, $9,000 : Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany, Mansfield, Ohio, $8,000; Indiana Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance 

 Company, Indianapolis, Ind., $6,500; Central Manufacturers' Mutual In- 

 surance Company, Van Wert, Ohio, $6,500; Lumber Insurance Company. 

 New York, $S,0O0 : Toledo Fire Marine Insurance Company, $2.500 : 

 Lumber Underwriters, New York, $6,000; Mill Owners' Mutual In- 

 surance Company, Iowa, $4,500; Pennsylvania Millers' Insurance Company, 

 $4,500; Grain Dealers' Mutual Insurance Company, Indianapolis, Ind.. 

 $4,500. The losses are said to be practically those of insurance. The 

 Charles Este Company states that It has not arrived at any settlement as 

 yet as to insurance, but has always made it a rule to carry insurance full 

 up to stock. 



Montgomery Lounge Company Gives Banquet to Employes 



The Montgomery Lounge Company, Montgomery, Pa., has just advised 

 Hardwood Rlcoed that during the early part of the month it tendered the 

 regular annual banquet to all salesmen and factory emplo.vos, at the 

 Houston hotel, Montgomery. The employes, in a formal expression of 

 their sentiments, promised to make 191p the banner year in production in 

 the history of the company. 



An orchestra composed of some of the factory employes furnished a 

 fine line of selections which helped to liven the occasion. 



F. M. Cutsinger to Absorb Interests of the Late Bedna Young 

 Hardwood Record has been advised by F. M. Cutsinger of Evansville, 

 Ind., that owing to the death of Bedna Young of the firm of Young & 

 Cutsinger. hardwood manufacturers of Evansville, tlie business will be 

 succeeded by F. M. Cutsinger and will be conducted along similar lines 

 as heretofore. Young & Cutsinger have made a country-wide reputation 



GROUP OF THE STEARNS SALT & LUMBER COMPANY SALESMEN 



for the excellence of their quartered oak, on the manufacture of which 

 they have concentrated their attention for years. It is expected that Mr. 

 Cutsinger will continue this policy. 



George H. Foster Dead 



George H. Foster, prominent as lumber manufacturer and for years 

 connected with the Wisconsin trade, died at his home in Oshkosh, Janu- 

 ary 8. Mr. Foster was fifty-two years old at the time of his death. He 

 was a member of the police and fire board of Oshkosh and was prominently 

 connected in other ways with the local civic affairs. Mr. Foster had been 

 unconscious for the greater part of tlie week preceding his death and 

 had been in bed for two weeks. He is survived by a w^dow and son, 

 Carlton. 



John Oelhafen Company Lacorporated 



The John Oelhafen Company of Tomahawk, Wis., has filed articles of 

 Incorporation with the Register of Deeds at Merrill, Wis. The capital 

 stock of the company is set at $100,000 to do a general real estate and 

 mercantile business and operate its own saw and other woodworking 

 mills. The incorporators are John Oelhafen, Andrew Oelhafen and Edward 

 E. Sein. 



Employe Awarded $3,000 'Verdict 



In the case of George Smith vs. tlie Sagola Lumber Company, Iron 

 Mountain, Mich., the Jury, after nine hours debate, handed in a verdict 

 allowing Smith $3,000 as compensation tor the loss of one of his legs below 

 the knee by being run over on the logging railroad operated by the Sagola 

 Lumber Company. 



Milne, Hall & Johns Company, Inc., Starter 



IIai:i>woO!> Record was advised 

 on January 15 that the Milne, Hall 

 & Jones Company, Inc., has been 

 incorpor.'ited in the slate of New 

 York. The personnel of the com- 

 pany consists of A. N. Milne, presi- 

 <l('nt, P. M. Mali, secretar.v-treasurer, 

 W. E. Johns, vice-president and 

 general manager. The offices of the 

 company will be in Cincinnati, O., 

 and New York City. For the pres- 

 ent the company will handle whole- 

 sale southern hardwoods, c.vpress, 

 white pfno and will specialize in 

 oak and ash. 



Messrs. Milne and Hall are con- 

 nected with the present Milne Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, 

 Grand Central Terminal building, 

 Now York City, and W. E. Johns 

 was formerly of the Johns, Mow- 

 Itray, Nelson Company of Cincin- 

 nati. 



The general business of the com- 

 pany will t)e transacted from the 

 Cincinnati office — that Is all the 

 bu.ving and selling — the financial 

 end only being taken care of at the 



New York City office, which will be in the Grand Central Terminal building. 

 The company opened offices at 805-806 Gerke building, Cincinnati, on 



January IS, and the firm is already doing a fair share of business. 



The Milne Lumlier & Manufacturing Company in New York City l9 In 



no way affected liy this new incorporation, the two companies being entirely 



separate. 



A Remarkable Car of Cherry 

 Cherry has been so e.vtensivfly manufactunil in tlie past that any 

 quantity of this stock in exceptional sizes and of exceptional quality is 

 rarely seen now, as the best of the timber has been sawed and marketed 

 long ago. 



Hardwood Record has recently learned, however, that a car of this 

 stock has been brought to the attention of a few large bu.vcrs, and had the 

 actual figures not been available it would have been difficult to believe 

 that the description of the stock was correct. 



The lumber is estimated to fill about a good sized car and is made up 

 of 5/1 Is and 2s cherry, seventy per cent Is, and averages 14 V> inches 

 wide. This lumber has been in possession of the man who now owns it 

 for several years and is the accumulation of selections of stock received 

 during the last sev,en or eight seasons. It has been on sticks for four and 

 a half years and as a consequence is of exceptional dryness, which makes it 

 even more unusual. 



Hardwood Record is not running this notice as an advertisement for 

 the man who owns this stock, but simply because the lumber presents such 

 unusual qualities that Hardwood Record considers the trade might be 

 interested in knowing that this kind of cherry still does exist, even though 

 In small quantities. John Halfpenny, Commercial Trust building. Phila- 

 delphia, is the fortunate possessor of this lumber. It might be added that 

 lie has not requested this notice. 



