HARDWOOD RECORD 



lias selected a site for Its new factory and be- 

 gun building. The main building is t.> be 60x160 

 feet. There will also be erected a structure 

 20x100 feel tn be used as a trim', tool and engine 

 room. The dry kiln will !>•■ a separate building 

 and will be 20x60 feet. The factory will be 

 equipped with modern machinery and is . \ 

 pected to be in operation by January l. 1907. 



The Moon Desk Company of Muskegon, Mich.. 

 has increased Its capital stock by $40,000 and 

 will enlarge iis presenl plain. Among t lie Im- 

 provements i" be made will be a large group of 

 kilns and a storage warehouse for lumber. 



Tin' Vicksburg Veneer Company of Vicksburg, 

 Miss., will Install another veneer machine and 

 drying plant at iis factory. 

 * i). C. Myrick and associates have purchased 

 the siic f<n the new handle factory which they 

 intend t" establish at Gadsden, Ala. A building 

 luxsn feet will In- erected anil equipped for a 

 daily capacity of 120 dozen handles per day. 

 E. C. Wallace will he the general superintendent. 



The (alien Company will establish a furniture 

 factory at Athens. Ala. The site has been de- 

 cided upon and machinery is now being negoti- 

 ated for. 



A. A. Johns is building a factory lor the manu- 

 facture of slaves and lumber at Starke, Fla. 

 The building will he 30x121 feet and the equip- 

 ment throughout the best. 



McClung & Parks recently erected a hardwood 

 sawmill at Havana, Ark., where they will manu- 

 facture a choice line of hardwoods, 



A. A. Boon has purchased the interest of 

 Vester Thompson in the sawmill they owned 

 jointly in Hamburg, Ark. He will move the 

 plant to the property of the Greenfield Lumber 

 Company at Greenfield, where he will manufac- 

 ture hardwood lumber for the concern under 

 contract. The Greenfield Lumber Company has 

 decided not to rebuild its mill recently destroyed 

 by tire, but will operate another and smaller 

 mill at that place with the lloon mill until the 

 remainder of the timber in Ashley county is 

 worked up. 



It. I.. Patterson of the Automatic Yoke Com 

 panj "i Indianapolis purchased the Wynne Hoop 

 vV Cooperage Company's plant at Wynne at the 



i" Iver's sale on October '■>. The price paid 



was s'_\ ii'.-,. The purchaser proposes to convert 



the 1 p mill into a hickory working plant and 



cut yokes, spokes, singletrees, etc. The plant 

 of the Wynne Hoop & Cooperage Company cost 

 originally $16,000 and was operated two years. 

 II went into the hands of a receiver one year 

 ago with an Indebtedness of $7,000. The com 

 pany was composed of M. Collins. G. W. Eldrldgc 

 and .1. .1 i lee. 



Tie Gartner-Hancock Lumber Company is a 

 inw concern at Johnson City, Tenn., at the head 

 ot which are Waller Gartner and \V. C. Han 

 <oek The company will operate two circular 

 sawmills in western North Carolina, where it 

 owns a tract or oak, chestnut and poplar timber 

 land. Tim company will make a specially of 

 lumber and logs for the export trade. 



.1 A Browne ..V Co.. Inc.. of North Manchester, 

 lnd.. will build a carriage and wagon factory at 

 Texarkana, Tex. 



The (). II. Wheeler Company, recently incor- 

 porated with $1110, lino capital stock, will manu- 

 facture furniture, hardwood specialties, handles, 

 etc.. at Erie, 1'a. 



Tlie West Virginia Veneered Door Company 

 has been incorporated at Parkersburg, W. Va., 

 with $100,000 capital stock. 



Tlie Asiiboi'o Wheelbarrow & Manufacturing 

 Company has decided to take up the manufac- 

 ture of handles and is installing machinery for 

 that purpose. 



The Pierce Tie & Lumber Company of May 

 field, Tenn.. has been incorporated with $240,- 

 i» in capital stock. 



The El Dorado Hardwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated with $4,000 capital 

 stock to manufacture hardwoods at El Dorado, 

 Ark. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 

 A. C. Fuller of the Hanchet i s« age Works, 

 Big Ra'pids, Mich., was a Chicago visitor a few 

 days ago ami called on rbe Record. Mr. Ful- 

 ler says tluit even the large, new works of his 

 company are taxed to their capacity. Lasl weed 

 the company shipped two full carloads of tools 

 to the Pacific coast. 



E3. II. Eldridge, the veteran retail lumberman 

 of Indianapolis, was a welcome caller a1 this 

 office a few days ago. 



w. a. Gilchrist, vice-president oi the Three 

 States Lumber Company. Memphis, Tenn., was 

 in Chicago last week and paid a friendly call 

 to the Record. 



.Tool Ettinger, Chicago manager for the S. A. 

 Woods Machine Company of Boston, spent last 

 week in Michigan and secured some large orders. 

 His company's tools an' very popular in thai 

 st a i". 



C. 11. Mengel. president of tin.' C. C. Mengel 

 »v Bro. Company. Louisville. Ky.. left yesterday 

 for a two months' trip in Central America to 

 go over his mahogany operations. 



Paul Johnson, the well-known president of tin 

 North Shore Lumber Company of Thompson, 

 Mich., was a Chicago visitor on October L.'.:. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the Taiited States, 

 is off on a southern trip, where he will visit 

 the various hardwood mills. 



A large delegation of Chicago lumbermen is 

 in attendance at the semj-aninial meeting of 1 1n- 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association at Cln 

 cinnati. October 25 and 26. 



Acknowledgment is made of tie* receipt of a 

 vry artistic wall hanging in I he form of a 

 calendar for the remaining months of this year 

 and the first nine months of 1907, which is the 

 gift of that enterprising concern, the Bryan 



Lumber Company of Bristol, Va. The company 

 is to be congratulated on being the first in the 

 field with a calendar for 1907. 



A million dollar structure is to he erected al 

 Harrison street and Michigan avenue, to be 

 known as the Harvester building, a large part 

 id' which will he occupied by the International 

 Harvester Company. Tlie building will cover an 

 area 77 V. feel by L73 feet, and will be fifteen 

 stoii.-s high. The International company will 

 occupy the upper ten stories and half the base- 

 ment, for which it pays a total rental of $3,- 

 041.s::s tor a period of thirty years. This is 

 said to be the largest office building lease ever 

 made in Chicago. 



Fred W. Upham "i the well known local hard 

 wood bouse of Upham & Agler is nominee on 

 tin- Republican ticket to succeed himself as 

 president of the Board of Review. His excellent 

 record in tins trying office will probably result 

 in his reelection with an increased majority. 



Tie- Hardwood Record received recently from 

 the American Lumber «v Manufacturing Company 

 of Pittsburg, l'a., a handsome desk clock. The 

 time-piece is set in the center of a. section of 

 hardwood with the bark unremoved, around 

 Which in gill letters is inscribed "American 

 Lumber & Mann lad in Ing < '"in pany, Pittsburg, 

 Pa., Always on Time.'" The motto is surely ap- 

 plicable to the donors of the gift and the SARD 

 wood Record lakes this opportunity to compll- 

 nt the company on its advertising enterprise 



and l; 1 lasle. 



Herbert Fuller lias become associated with 

 Ltindsej Shepard, He was formerly connected 

 with Granville Fuller & Son, Brighton, M 



Tli.- Blanchard Lumber » Jompany announces 

 that George K. Smith, for several years in 

 the employ of Blacker & Shepard, has taken 

 a position in the New York office of this 

 company and will cover the New York city 

 trade. 



The N.w i [ampshire Lumbermen's Associa 

 tion lias brought suits against tin- Boston & 

 Maine Railroad, involving in all about $1,500,- 

 oimi. The association claims thai for aboul 

 three years tin- railroad company has un- 

 justly, illegally and wrongfully collected from 

 its members ami others $2 more than the 

 legal rate of each ami even car shipped 



within the state. The association has placed 

 its interests in the hands of a committee 

 composed of L. A. Glines of Canterbury. Mil- 

 ton Reed of Exeter and Nathaniel Doane of 

 Hillsboro county. 



The C. S. Hall Lumber Company -if Epsom, 

 N. H.. lias bet_'n dissolved. C. S. Hall will 

 continue the business ami B. M. Towle and 

 B. R. White have retired. 



George A. Litchfield of North Vernon. Ind., 

 brother of "William E. Litchfield, who has been 

 visiting in Boston and the cast, returned home 

 last week. William E. Litchfield left early 

 this week for Cincinnati, where he will attend 

 the semiannual meeting of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association. 



Gardiner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood 

 Company and W. M. Weston of the W. M. 

 Weston Lumber Company will attend the 

 semiannual meeting of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association at Cincinnati. Mr. Wes- 

 ton returned late last week from a two weeks' 

 trip through the west. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co.. Boston, has been making a trip 

 through Maine. 



William A. Webster, who for some time 

 past has been in the employ of the Shepard 

 & Morse Lumber Company, lias become a o 

 eii led with William E. Litchfield and will 

 visit tin- trade in Boston and nearbj points 



Harry A. Savage, who for some time pas! 

 has been manager of the Cypress Lumber 

 Company, with offices in the Broad Exchange 

 building, Boston, has opened ;1 new office in 

 i in Exchange building and will represent 

 ' iouverneur E. Smith, the well-known New 

 York hardwood lumber dealer. 



Oscar L. Woodruff, well known in Connecti- 

 cut woodworking circles, died at his bom.- in 

 New 1 1. 1 \ < 1 1 . Oct L3, after an illness of loni 

 duration. Mr, Woodruff was a manufacturei 

 oi croquet sets. 



Boston. 



John Ordway, tin- populai and well known 

 sah-sman of the Atlantic Lumber ' 'onipany, 

 Bo ton, has been recently confined to bis 

 home with heart disease. [I Is feared by bis 



lie nds that bis illness w:tl in- very serious. 



New York. 



J. B. aud M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hard 

 wood Lumber Company, Buffalo, were recent 

 New York visitors, having run down to witness 

 the International Automobile Race on Long 

 Island on the 6th ami visit their friends in the 

 trade. The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has added lately a large and complete stocl 

 sawed and sliced quartered oak and mahi 



vei rs of all thicknesses, and also thin oak. 



poplar, ash, elm, gum, bass wood, maple and 



beech. 



A big deal in i be wholesale trade was con 

 stimulated last week through the merging of the 

 wholesale business of Henry Cape of 1 Madison 

 Avenue with that of tic- Davison Lumber Com- 

 pany, Limited, of Nova Scotia, of which .1. M. 

 llastiims of Pittsburg is president, Dndei 

 arrangements Mr. Cape becomes vice president 

 of the company and a stockholder therein and 



I he main office wilt be removed from Nova Sni- 



i la tq, this city, and M w. Teufel, managing 



director of I he compa n\ , will make his head 

 quarters here with Mr. Cap ompany 



owns a gigantic enterprise in Nova S a ■ 



manufactures L00,000,000 feet of hardwoods, 



