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walnut stump. The one recently purchased was grubbed near Centervillo, 

 Md., and rings indicate an age of 200 years. That was not a great age for a 

 tree so large. The diameter is stated to have been eight and a half feci. 

 at the stump's largest part. Its weight was 13,000 pounds. The wood is 

 finely figured, and its high value is due to that fact. A pretty general notion 

 prevails that all large walnut stumps are valuable. Such is not the case. 

 Not one in a dozen is worth digging out of the ground. 



New Expansion Steam Trap 



The Automatic Steam Trap & Specialty Company of Detroit, Mich., 

 has issued catalogue No. S describing the Barton expansion automatic 

 steam trap. The booklet carries a complete description, photographically 

 and otherwise, of the many features which it contends should recommend 

 this steam trap to the careful attention of buyers in every line. 



Hardwood Record suggests that those interested in such appliances 

 might find investigation in this proposition profitable. 



West Virginia Firm Changes Name 

 The Lewis Doster Lumber Company of Bluefield, W. Va., announces 

 that since the fifteenth of March the company has been known as the 

 McClellan-West Lumber Company. The personnel and management will 

 remain the same. 



This compan.v is one of the newer organizations in West Virginia 

 hardwood producing territory and has made a success of its work so far. 

 It has as its principals men who are young and energetic and altogether 

 familiar with hardwood conditions in all of its branches. 



Refrigerator Sale Unsuccessful 



The trustees' sale of the assets of the United Refrigerator & Ice Ma- 

 chine Company, Kenosha, Wis., which took place on March 17 was 

 decidedly unsuccessful. The sale was made for the purpose of settling 

 claims of more than $50,000 against the company. After an all day's 

 effort to stir up a little interest there was not a single bid made on the 

 plant in bulk. Parcels of property were sold for $18,000. 



Trustee John D. Rowland will make a report to the United States 

 court of the failure of the sale and a resale will probably be ordered. 

 James H. Baird 



On Tuesday, March 16. .James II. Baird, president of the Southern 

 Lumberman of Nashville, and one of the leading factors in civic life in 

 Nashville, died as a result of being struck by a train in the yards of one 

 of the roads centering in Nashville. The accident occurred at eight 

 o'clock on Tuesday morning just as Mr. Baird stepped from a train on 

 his return from Montgomery, Ala. The sleeper in which he had been 

 riding bad been side-tracked and Mr. Baird was crossing the tracks after 

 leaving it when he was struck. He was immediately taken to the hospital, 

 where every effort was made to save his life, but he died shortly after. 

 He suffered a fractured left arm, a crushed side and internal injuries. 



Mr. Baird had been publisher of the Southern Lumberman for a good 

 many years. For sixteen years he was connected with the IIoo-Hoo as 

 scrivenoter, being one of the first members and a prime mover in this 

 organization. 



Mr. Baird was bom in the little town of Baird's Mill. Wilson county, 

 Tenn., August 18, 1866. His father, D. W. Baird, was editor of the 

 Wilson County News, and it was in the office of the News that J. H. 

 Baird got his first training in publishing and newspaper work. 



The Southern Lumberman was founded in Lebanon in 1881 by Mr. 

 Baird's father and a cousin. Shortly afterwards it was moved to Nash- 



ville and has been there since. About three years after It was moved to 

 Nashville, A. E. Baird sold out his Interest to the late Col. Roberts and 

 Mr. Baird, and Mr. Baird became secretary and treasurer in 1880. The 

 company then became known as the Balrd-Uol>ert» Publishing Company. 

 Mr. Baird recently started the automobile paper known as the Southern 

 Automobile & Garage. 



Mr. Baird was a member of the Old Oak Club and of the board of 

 trustees of the University of Tennessee. He was also associated with 

 his brother-in-law in the Baird-Freeman Company, timber factors. He 

 was a man of winning, but forceful piTsonallty and has a great many 

 close friends in the lumber trade, and his death is everywhere considered 

 as a genuine loss. He is survived by one brother. Kdward M. Baird of 

 Mt. .loliet. Tenn., and two sisters. Miss .\nn Shcrrlll Baird and Mrs. 

 Luke Russell of I'aducab, Ky. Mr. Baird was a member of the First 

 Presbyterian Church of Nashville. 



Prominent Chattanooga Lumberman Dies 



J. F. Loomis, well-known citizen and pioneer resident of Chattanooga, 

 Tenn.. died at liis home in Chattanooga a couple of weeks ago after an 

 illness of several weeks. The funeral was held from the Chattanooga 

 residence. Uev. R. L. Lambert offlciating. 



Mr. Loomis went to Chattanooga in ISe.'J, first engaging in the sawmill 

 business with F. J. Bennett under the firm name Loomis & Bennett. This 

 was one of the first sawmills built in Chattanooga after the war and was 

 located on the grounds on which the sawmill of the Loomis & Hart I'^irni- 

 ture Company now stands. In 1870 Mr. Bennett sold out his interests to 

 .1. H. Han. who wns one of the had-rs in I'hattanooga business affairs uj 

 to the time of liis d'iitb. 



Moore-Galloway Company Starts Present Cut 



Repairs and general overhauling are in progress to make the Moore- 

 Galloway Company's mill at Fond du Lac ready for this season's cut. 

 The mill will start up between the first and fifteenth of .\pril, dependent 

 on the weather. The company expects to make a full season's cut, having 

 employed its full force and many new hands, thus giving many who are 

 out of work an opportunity to secure positions. 



Leaves Employ of Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company 



The Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company, Rhinelander, Wis., advised 

 Hardwood Record that T. A. Packer of Sharpsburg, Pa., is no longer in 

 the employ of that concern in the Indiana and Ohio territory. He 

 started to work February 1, 1910, but resigned within a month. Ills 

 successor will be chosen promptly. 



Bruce Odell Goes with Consolidated Lumber Company 



Bruce Odell, formerly sales manager and manager of the office of the 

 Cummer-Diggins Company, Cadillac, Mich., has become secretary, treasurer 

 and general manager of the Consolidated Lumber Company, Manistlquc, 

 Mich. Mr. Odell is associated with W. T. Culver, Ludington, Mich., who 

 is president of the new company, and L. C. Harmon, vice-president. 



The Consolidated Lumber Company has been purchased from W. S. 

 Crowe of Manistique. The business was started by Mr. Crowe in 1912, and 

 at that time succeeded the Chicago Lumbering Company and the Weston 

 Lumber Company, two pioneers in the upper peninsula. 



The principals in the company are especially well-known throughout 

 northern manufacturing circles, Mr. Culver being vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager of the Stearns interests at Ludington. 



Mr. Odell ims trained a wide reputation for his close grasp of marketing. 



Till-; L.\TE JAMES H. BAIRD OF 

 NASHVILLE, TENN. 



liRUCE ODELL, SECRETARY, TREASURER 

 AND MANAGER CONSOLIDATED LUM- 

 BER COMPANY, MANISTIQUE, MICH, 



T. CULVER, LUDINGTON, PRBSIDEINT 

 CONSOLIDATED LUMBER COMPANY. 



