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The Racine General Manufacturing Company 

 of Camden, Ark,, is erecting ;i hardwood maim 

 facturing plant. Tracks have been laid to the 

 site 1 11. n 1 the I mil Mountain road. The rum 

 pan3 has had aboul 400,000 feel of logs cut. 

 'iii'' mill will be ready for operation within 

 iii>' near future. 



T. J. Williams will expend $10, n the 



establishment of a hardwood operation a1 Hous- 

 ton, Texas. Mr. Williams owns two large saw 

 mills in N;ii"l:<|m. ins county, cutting hardwoods 

 from a tract of several thousand acres of fine 

 timber land. This timber will be manufactured 

 Into interior finish at Houston, where large 

 yards will be provided for storage purposes, 

 Mr Williams also owns large timber interests 

 in Chihuahua, Mexico, rich in hardwood growth, 



which will also be manufactured al the Houston 



plant. 



The Wagner Manufacturing Company, of 

 Waterloo, la., has had a busy season, having 

 manufactured 36,000 hand sin is, ;is well as 

 its usual amount of other articles. The com 

 pany lias a well equipped plant and Turns out 

 an unusually tine line of go. ids. using only tilt- 

 lust material in its work. 



All kinds of carriage and wagon spokes will 

 be manufactured by the United Manufacturing 

 Company, of Jonesboro, Ark., which is erecting 

 a plant to be equipped throughout with up-to- 

 date machinery for this line of manufacture. 

 .1. ]>. Moody, one of the promoters of the enter- 

 prise, expects 10 have the factory in operation 

 by ih" firsl of February. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



Several prominent Memphis ami Chicago lum- 

 bermen were the guests of S. !.. Dodds al Hick- 

 man, K.v.. the first of the month, who enter- 

 tained them with a very enjoyable hunting 

 party. Among them were Charles Westcotl of 

 1I1-' Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company, * ' 1 1 i- 

 cago ; F. 1'.. Montgomery of tin' International 

 Harvester Company, Chicago; Wylie E. Hooper 

 of Chicago, ami .Max Sondheimer of the E. 

 Sondheimer Company, Memphis. 



William Wilms of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber 



Company has been making a trip i" the 



pany's operations in southern Illinois, Tennes- 

 see. Arkansas anil Missouri. 



A. c. Quixley, representing the Mason-Don- 

 aldson Lumber Company of Rhinelander, Wis.. 

 lias established an office at ltiL'l First National 

 Bank building. 



<'. II. Wolfe of the Heath-Witbeck Company 

 has been very ill. 



On Jan. 26 J. W. Embrc f the Rittenhouse 



& Embi Company, is planning to sail from 



New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. 

 accompanied by his family, to take an extended 

 Mediterranean trip. 



During the past fortnight the llumw 



Record has i n the recipient of a number of 



verj acceptable gifts from the various members 

 of the trade. .1. S. Goldie sends a wall hanger 

 on which is embossed a most tempting display 

 of "Choice Apples" with his card. The Cherry 

 River Boom & Lumber Co. of Philadelphia sends 

 on>- of the most complete memo hooks seen this 

 season, hound in red morocco. Calendars of 

 unusually attractive design were received from 

 the Niiholls & Cox Lumber Co.. Grand Kapids. 

 Mich.; He- Billmeyer Lumber Co., Cumberland, 

 Md. : Ii. II. Day, Glen Haven, Mich ; the W. 1'. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Co., Louisville. Ky. ; the 

 John Gillespie Lumber Co., Chicago; Robert C. 

 Llppincott, Philadelphia; W. M. Hitter Lumber 

 Co., Columbus; .las. Kennedy & Co., whose 

 headquarters are at Glasgow, Scotland, and 

 American branch al Cincinnati. 



Word has I n received here that the part- 

 nership existing between William Mallinson, 

 .lames Richardson and William .lames .Mal- 

 linson, operating under tie arm n. if 



William Mallinson & Co., London. Eng., has 

 i n dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Richard- 

 son retiring. The new firm to he known as 

 William .Mallinson & Sou will assume all debts 

 of the old concern and will continue business 

 as timber and veneer merchants as heretofore. 



The Atlas Engine Works, large exclusive 

 builders of steam engines and boilers at Indl- 



anapolis, Ind.. is sending to its pan a a gen 



eral bulletin, No. 134, containing specifications 

 and illustrations of a number of its engines and 

 boilers. The company, with branch offices all 

 over the United States, is peculiarly well titled 

 lo take care of the wants of users of this elass 

 of products of which it manufactures perhaps 

 a more complete line than any other concern 



in the world. Copies of this bulletin may be 

 had on application. 



Chas. L. Himmeiberger of the Himmelberger- 

 Harrison Lumber Company of Morehouse, Mo., 

 spent a few days in Chicago last week. He 

 states the business outlook for 1907 is excellent. 



Tie- Hardwood Record is in receipt of a 

 handsome little volume entitled "In Forest, 

 Land" which contains a hundred or more poems 



from the pen <•! 1 glas Mai loch, published by 



the American Lumberman, and illustrated 

 with reproductions from negatives by Sidney 

 Vernon Streator. The poems, as may he in- 

 ferred from the title, deal with Hie woods and 

 with other beauties Of Nature: with the quaint 

 characters found about logging opera i ions, and 

 the various phases of camp life. They range 

 in style from the humorous to the pathetic, and 

 the collection well displays the talent and ver- 

 satility of this clever young writer. 



Gardner I. .Lines of the Jones Hardwood 

 Company, Boston, visited Chicago last week 

 Mr. Jones was accompanied by his wife. 



(1. J. Landeck of the Page & Landeck Lumber 

 Company, Milwaukee, was a business visitor 

 within the last few days. 



W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com 

 pany, St. Louis; E. C. Groesbeck of the Stearns 

 Company of Grand Kapids and Cincinnati; W. 

 W. .Mitchell of Cadillac: Delos F. Im^his ,,i 



C mer, Diggins ,v Co., and John II. Jenks of 



tic Robert II. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleve- 

 land, were visitors to the Chicago market within 

 the week. 



John Murphy of Murphy & Co.. Liverpool, 

 England, is paying a visit lo the United States, 

 ami was a caller upon members of the Chicago 

 trade this week. 



.1. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Company 

 of Pittsburg, was a Chicago visitor a few days 

 ago 



John rjlrich of the Chicago Car Lumber Com 

 pany is taking a trip to the Pacific coast. 



J. v. Hill, chief inspector for the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United states. 

 is in Chicago on business 



Advices have I o received from St. Mary's, 



Pa., stating that M, II. Scott, for fourteen years 

 hardwood buyer for the Kaul ,x Hall Company, 

 suffered a severe stroke of apoplexy Jan. 7, 

 and for a time his life was despaired of. He 

 is improving slowly, however, and his many 

 friends arc hopeful of his complete recovery. 



Boston. 

 The Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston, 



which has been talked of for the past three 

 months, was finally organized at the Exchangl 

 Club, Boston, January Hi. The membership of 

 this organization comprises both wholesale ami 

 retail lumber dealers who have come together 



t itual benefit. 



E. J. "Marsh of ihe Seaooast Lumber Company, 

 Ne„ Eork, was a recent visitor in this market. 



M. W. Hart, on,- of the youngest hardwood 

 if alers in Boston, ha, taki a a large offii •■ in the 

 Mason building. Mr. Hart reports the outlook 

 t.o business very bright. 



It. F. Lamb & Co. tiled a voluntary petition 

 ill bankruptcy. The assets arc given as about 



$12,000 and liabilities si i..- This firm has 



1 n in business in Lesion for several years. 



Samuel Hutchinson .0 the Hutchinson Lumber 



Company, Lynn, Mass. is making a s hern 



trip. 



The lion. John M. Wood left Boston recentlj 

 tor a European trip 



W. M Weston of the W. M Weston Company 

 has returned from a trip to New York. 



New York. 



Victor E. freeman, a prominent stave inanii 

 facturer of 17 Battery place, has just purchased 

 .1111,11110. (inn feil of standing timber in Ihe 

 vicinity of Norton, Va., on which he will 

 immediately erect large stave and heading mills. 



The recent changes in the business of Mer 

 shon, Schuette, Parker & Co., at Saginaw and 

 Bay City. Mich,, as announced from those 

 I" inis. carry with them a broadening on- 01 

 tic local branch office ai is Broadway, in charge 

 of W. 1). Mershon. Mr. Morshon has increased 



his selline stalT by securing the services of Ceo 



1' Gray, who will look after trade in Pennsyl 

 vania and .New Jersey. The local office will 

 push their big California redwood connection 

 actively in future and will add North Carolina 

 pine and hardwoods to their general business. 



The local sales office and exhibition room of 

 the Iroquois Hour Company of Buffalo, located 

 at 18 Broadway, carries samples of veneer and 



solid hanlw I doors and interior w 1 work 



which an- as complete and handsome as cm be 

 imagined. 'The doors arc particularly attractive: 



each sample has been finished in differen lors 



and imitations and the exhibit is well worth 

 inspection. 



Halfpenny & Hamilton, prominent Philadelphia 

 wholesalers, have opened a local sales office in 

 He New Stork Lite building, 346 I', road tvn y . with 

 ic urge E. Demming as sales manager. They will 

 make their specialties hemlock and har.lw Is. 



John McKelvey. vice-president of the Toledo 

 Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Sandusky, 

 Ohio, left last week for a month's stay in Cuba. 

 accompanied by -Mrs. McKelvey and daughter. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 

 New York Lumber Trade Association, held Jan 

 uaiy '.i. an important feature of the meeting was 

 ihe discussion of the question of revising tic 

 New Votk hardwood inspection rules, which. 



after full deliberation, was referred to the c 



millee on inspection, and that committee was 

 also given power to confer with the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association in ihe premises, 

 if it so desired 



A happening of more than passing interest 

 during the fortnight was the arrival of the 

 clipper ship Shenandoah, 131 days out of Port 

 Blakley, Wash., with 2,500,000 feet oi big fir 

 limbers consigned to Dixon & Dewey, well known 

 wholesale hardwood house in the Flatiron build 

 ing, Manhattan, who have become interested in 



that eon litj during the past year. The cargo 



averaged thirty feet and up. including lots of 

 24x24 Ml feel sticks. It was loaded by the 



Port Blakley Mill company and tin- entire cargo 



was sold before arrival. 



s. Lieberman of Leiberman, Loveman ..V 

 O'Brien, Nashville, Tenn., spent several days in 

 town during the fortnight, devoting his alien 

 Hon to a settlement of lire insurance on their 

 big loss at Nashville some months ago. The 

 matter has been finally readjusted and the plan! 

 will be rebuilt at once 



George \v Stoneman, well known wholesale 



lumberman, for rly of Chicago but now of SI 



Louis, was a visitor here during the fortnight 

 in the Interest of his new operation at Devalls 

 Bluff, Ark., which is being carried on by Ihe 

 Stoneman-Zearing Lumber company. 



E. J. Marsh of He Sea Coast Lumber C m 



