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merit. The erection of another mill adjacent to 

 this one is being planned by the concern. Theo- 

 dore B. and Omar Miikey, both energetic and 

 resourceful business men, compose the firm of 

 Miikey Bros., which is a welcome addition to 

 the business interests of Felsenthal. 



Rice & Ward, of Oakdale, La., recently erected 

 a saw mill with a daily capacity of 90,000 

 feet. Dimension stock and railway timbers 

 will be manufactured. 



Late in December the Chicago & Alton sus- 

 tained a loss of $150,000 by fire at its planing 

 mill at Bloomington, 111. 



Since the location of terminals of the Mis- 

 souri & North Arkansas railroad at Helena, Ark., 

 that city has gained considerably as a manu- 

 facturing center. The Ford-Johnson Chair 

 Company, of Frankfort, Ky.. and Michigan City, 

 Ind., will build a new plant there which will 

 give employment to 700 men. The Helena 

 Woodenware Company and the Arkansas Oak 

 Company are both erecting large plants. 



The Turner, Day & Woolworth -Handle Com- 

 pany, of Louisville. Ky., has filed an amendment 

 to its charter asking permission to operate in 

 Arkansas. R. E. Eldridge and YV. L. Graves, 

 of Paragould, are named as state agents, and 

 $30,000 of the company's capital stock stated as 

 being used in Greene county, Arkansas. 



Frank E. Milburn has purchased from J. E. 

 Edlngton, trustee in bankruptcy for the Lion 

 Spoke Works of Alton Park, Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 the plant and holdings of that company, the 

 consideration being $5,650. Mr. Milburn has 

 for some time been superintendent for the Chat- 

 tanooga Wagon Company, but has resigned that 

 position to devote his entire time to this new 

 enterprise. 



A new concern at Hardy, Ark., is the Morgan 

 Company, recently organized with $20,000 capi- 

 tal stock and the following officers : John L. 

 Reid, Zanesville, O., president ; J. A. Parker, 

 Louisville, Ky., vice president ; C. V. Morgan, 

 secretary, and W. S. Morgan, treasurer. Offices 

 will be located at Hardy. The company will 

 manufacture lumber on an extensive scale from 

 a tract of heavily timbered land in Chicot 

 county. 



The Holland Veneering Company, of Holland, 

 Mich., is moving into new quarters, trie fac- 

 tory formerly occupied by the Pneumatic Horse 

 Collar Company. New buildings have been 

 erected and the company is now in position to 

 fake care of its large and increasing business 

 with promptness. 



The Bluff City Coffin Company has been or- 

 ganized by Keith Blanton and Royster Thurman, 

 members of the Blanton-Thurman Lumber Com- 

 pany, and other capitalists of Memphis. The 

 company is capitalized at $30,000. It has pur- 

 chased tip- business and plant of the Griffith 

 Casket Company and will remove the machinery 

 from the plant to the old spoke fa'ctory of 

 Jacob Weiss & Sons in South Memphis. Exten- 

 sive improvements will be made in the plant. 



The plant of the Planet Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, of La Porte, Ind., which concern failed 

 last spring, has been purchased by H. S. Can- 

 dee, of Cairo, 111., well-known to the lumber 

 trade of the Mississippi district. Associated 

 with Mr. Candee in this new undertaking is W. 

 C raylor, a prominent lumberman of Cairo. 

 The plaut will be put in operation as soon as 

 possible and will manufacture mouldings on an 

 extensive scale. 



The Huber-Schneider Hardwood Floor Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Seattle, Wash. 



It is said that the biggest contract, ever let 

 for railroad ties was closed in New York last 

 month, vVhereby the Rock Island Railroad Com- 

 pany agreed to purchase from A. T. Hert, of 

 Louisville, Ky., $1,000,000 worth of railway 

 ties every year for ten years. This progressive 

 road intends to arrange for a good supply be- 

 fore another advance in prices. 



Geo. W. Kelley, of Pine Top, Ky., has pur- 



chased 5,000 acres of property in Knott county, 

 lying along Ball's Fork and Troublesome creeks, 

 which is a fine coal and timber region. The 

 consideration amounted to several hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. 



Z. P. East, of Worthington, Ind., has pur- 

 chased from heirs of Jacob Peter, a tract of 

 land covering 1,200 acres, situated between Wor- 

 thington and Bloomfield, Ind., which is covered 

 with high-class virgin timber. The tract is 

 one of the best in that section and the purchaser 

 intends to subdivide it and sell it in small 

 parcels. The purchase price was $100,000. 



Ben M. Talbot, of Lake Charles, La., has sold 

 to the Hayes Cypress Lumber Company, Ltd., a 

 cypress shingle and lumber mill and a tract of 

 cypress timber, the consideration being $32,000. 

 The Hayes Cypress Lumber Company is com- 

 posed of J. G. Gingerass, president ; W. C. Carle- 

 ton, vice president ; H. W\ Taylor, secretary, 

 and C. F. Crockett, treasurer. All are well- 

 known Louisiana lumbermen, Mr. Carleton hav- 

 ing for years been in the employ of the Bradley- 

 Ramsey Company there. 



The Wagon Makers' Association of Chicago 

 has bought the plant and land of the Rock City 

 Lumber Company, of Little Rock, Ark., and will 

 install a hardwood mill employing 200 men. 

 Operations will be commenced March 1, and 

 $100,000 will be expended in machinery and 

 other improvements. The factory will be a 

 very large one, and will supply members of the 

 association with raw wagon material. 



Capt. W. II. Alexander, of Pineville, Miss., 

 closed a deal last week with the Chess Wymond 

 Cooperage Company, of Louisville, Ky., for 2,- 

 000 acres of hardwood timber lands near Pine- 

 ville. The company will proceed at once to put 

 in a first class up-to-date stave and heading 

 factory on this tract of land, from which they 

 will cut and market the timber. They expect 

 to have their plant in operation by March 1, 

 1007, and will ship their entire output by the 

 K. C. railway from Montrose. 



The Richmond Furniture & Picture Frame 

 Company has been organized with $10,000 cap- 

 ital stock at Richmond, Va., by J. A. Mallory, 

 T. W. Swift and J. R. Tisdale. 



The R. I.. Fromc Manufacturing Company of 

 Sheboygan, Wis,, contemplates the erection of a 

 veneer factory at Ladysmith. 



While in London recently Fred Hoffman, 

 treasurer of the Hoffman Lumber Company of 

 Fort Wayne* Ind., made a large purchase of 

 mahogany logs. Three of these logs Have al- 



ready I □ received. They are the largest ever 



brought into Fort Wayne, measuring 44 inches 

 square. They will be cut up into veneer and 

 will produce some very choice stock. 



The Vincennes Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Vincennes, Ind., has sold out to Claude Maley, 

 Daniel Wertz and Frank W. Snaff, well-known 

 Hoosier lumbermen. The plant will be operated 

 by these men under the firm name of Maley, 

 Wertz & Snaff. 



A line of high-grade furniture will be manu- 

 factured by the Holly Cabinet Company of 

 Holly. Mich., recently incorporated with $60,- 

 000 capital stock. The officers are : Henry 

 Johnson, Detroit, president ; J. W. Brown. Grand 

 Rapids, vice president ; John W. Patterson, 

 Holly, secretary and sales manager. 



Marshneld. Wis., is one of the largest lumber 

 centers in the state. A rough estimate of the 

 lumber handled by the concerns of the city 

 (luring the past year places the total at 100,000,- 

 000 feet, which: with the exception of a little 

 pine handled by the R. Connor Company, is 

 hardwood and hemlock. This company heads 



the list, with 40, .000 feet; Vollmar & Below 



totalled 20,000, i feet : the L'pham Manufac- 

 turing Company and Roddis Veneer Company, 

 each 15,000,000 feet ; the Blodgett-Booth Com- 

 pany, a new concern, 12,000,000 feet, and F. R. 

 Pollard, 8, .ooo feet. 



Work on the new plaut of the Washington 



Veneer Company at Puyallup. Wash., is pro- 

 gressing rapidly, and the company will in a 

 short time be in position to turn out stock with 

 rapidity. The factory will be equipped 

 throughout with modern machinery and will be 

 one of the finest plants in the west. 



A single mahogany tree in Honduras was re- 

 cently cut into boards which, when sold in the 

 European market, brought over $10,000. 



Tasmanian myrtle, which has found consid- 

 erable favor abroad, has recently been imported 

 into the United States and is being used with 

 good results in the manufacture of pianos. It 

 is of a rich pink color. 



A very profitable industry in Texas is the 

 cutting of red cedar, which is sawed into thin 

 strips and exported to Germany to he used in 

 the manufacture of pencils. There are some 

 40,000 acres of this wood in Matagorda, Whar- 

 ton and Brazoria counties. 



After a brief shutdown, necessitated by the 

 making of repairs, the hardwood mill of the 

 Rice Lake Lumber Company at Rice Lake, Wis., 

 has resumed operations. The company has a 

 large stock of logs on hand, with additional 

 supplies arriving by rail daily, and the mill 

 will be run day and night. 



New machinery and extensive improvements 

 have recently been made in the plant of the 

 Embury-Martin Company at Cheboygan. Mich., 

 and the company is now sawing hardwoods 

 with increased facility. 



The Duggan & Brennan Company of Reeds- 

 ville, Wis., has recently purchased the timber 

 on 960 acres of hardwood land near Leona, 

 from the Brillion Lumber Company of Brillion. 

 The company is having the timber cut and 

 transported to its mill for sawing. 



The Kentucky Tie Company has been incor- 

 porated with $45,000 capital stock to manufac- 

 ture ties and lumber at Elizabethtown, Ky. O. 

 S. Pond is president of the company and A. B. 

 Montgomery is secretary and treasurer. 



The Greenpoint Grill, Mantel & Molding Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Brooklyn. N. Y., 

 by John Murray, J. E. Poppe and C. P. Kirwin. 

 The company is capitalized at $5,000. 



The Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company's rail- 

 way from Bruce to Swan Creek, Wis., will be 

 extended in the spring to Radisson, and later 

 to Hayward. 



The new Grand View Coal & Timber Com- 

 pany of Chattanooga, Tenn.. intends to develop 

 0,500 acres of coal and timber lands in Marion 

 county and to build a new town on Walden's 

 Ridge. 



The British steamship Vermont is under 

 charter to bring a cargo of Siberian hardwoods 

 to Portland, Ore. It is now loading in one of 

 the Asiatic ports. The wood will be brought in 

 the form of logs. Banfield & Kuntz are build- 

 ing a sawmill for the purpose of manufactur- 

 ing the Siberian and some Oriental hardwoods 

 into lumber. 



That Omaha will have a large new factory 

 for the manufacture of butter tubs, washing 

 machines, tubs, etc., is practically assured. 

 William Keogh, an extensive manufacturer of 

 excelsior, with factories in Wisconsin, is the 

 prime mover. 



The plant of the Graham & Davis Manufac- 

 turing Company at Windfall, Ind., was par- 

 tially destroyed by fire recently. The concern 

 manufactured kitchen cabinets. 



The Petroleum Iron Works, of Houston, Texas, 

 recently purchased a tract of land on which it 

 will erect buildings to be fitted up with machin- 

 ery for the manufacture of storage tanks, etc., 

 and a general line of cabinet goods. 



A. W. Jones, J. Monk, W. A. Blair, E. R. 

 Coombs and Delia C. Jones are the incorporators 

 of the Oklahoma Hardwood & Handle Company, 

 recently organized with $25,000 capital stock. 

 Headquarters will be maintained at Quinton, 

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