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HARDWOOD RECORD 



. n .lit on the corporation and especially on W. 

 I'. Biederman, superintendent. It contains a 

 classified list, with capital and pay ratings of 

 all manufacturers and wholesale and retail 

 dealers in lumber in the country, as well as 

 factories which buy lumber in carload lots. The 

 book shows evidences of careful and painstaking 

 preparation and is without doubt as reliable a 

 work of reference of the kind as could be pro- 

 duced. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit 

 Corporation is furnishing lumbermen with inval- 

 uable information in the issuance of these vol- 

 umes in April and October of each year ; also 

 in the weekly correction sheets, in which are 

 contained corrections, business changes, new 

 firms starting, failures,, fires, etc.. and the 

 weekly trade reports. The company urges that 

 members using the names appearing in the 

 weekly trade reports give the results of their 

 transactions promptly, as it is only in this 

 manner that information can be gathered of 

 value to creditors. 



New Tennessee Corporation. 



The Kimmins Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized at Kimmins, Tenn.. to take over the 

 interests of W. .T. Cude at Kimmins and Uohen- 

 wald as well as those of J. B. Ransom & Co. 

 in that section. The officers are W. .7. Cude of 

 Kimmins, president and treasurer : ,T. B. Ran- 

 som of Nashville, vice president, and Arthur 

 KaDsom of Nashville, secretary. Headquarters 

 will be at Kimmins and W. J. Cude will lie in 

 charge. 



The new company recently bought the poplar 

 and chestnut timber on a 13,080-acre tract, 

 known as the Hurricane Iron & Mining Company 

 tract, in Hickman county, Tennessee, which is 

 one of tin 1 finest bodies of timber in the state 

 About three-fourths of this timber is fine soft 

 yellow poplar. It has also large timber and 

 lumber interests at Hohenwald, Tenn., anil be- 

 gins operations under most favorable conditions, 

 having now about 10,000,000 feet of lumber 

 available tin 1 marketing as rapidly as same can 

 In' hauled in from lb'- mills. 



Meeting Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association. 

 This meeting will lie held tit New Orleans on 

 Wednesday, November 14. It will probably be 

 in session two days, fur questions of great im- 

 portance to the cypress interests will be thor- 

 oughly discussed and acted upon. Members from 

 vorth Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Geor- 

 gia, Alabama. Mississippi. Arkansas and Louis- 

 iana will be in attendance and a general Invita- 

 tion is extended to till manufacturers, whether 

 members of the association or not. to participate 

 in the. meeting. 



Kentucky Merger. 

 The Hugh McLean Lumber Company of High- 

 land Park, Ky.. has consolidated with Edward 

 L. Davis & ''". anil the Berry-Davis Sawmill 

 Company of Louisville, Ky.. under the name of 

 the McLean-Davis Lumber Company. The for- 

 mer concern is widely known through its main 

 office at Buffalo. N. Y.. its great wood mosaic 

 flooring plant at Rochester and its operations 

 in Indiana and Kentucky; while Edward L. 

 Oavis ,V Co. tire well-known manufacturers ol 

 poplar, oak, hickory and ash. with mills at 

 Scottsville, Ky., Camden, Tenn.. ami office and 

 yard at Louisville. Ky., where the headquarters 

 of the new company will be maintained. The 

 officers tire \V. A. McLean, president ; Edward 

 I.. Davis, vice president and' general manager; 

 C. M Sears, Measurer: and .1. A. Strack, secre- 

 tary. The company will control an output of 

 approximately 80,000 feel of hardw 1 a' day. 



from present indications looks as though it 

 would revolutionize the dressing of hardwood 

 floors. Its name is the "Little Giant" floor 

 scraper and, like all important inventions, it is 

 based upon a scientific principle, the very sim- 

 plicity of which marks its success. It does 

 not require much effort to see the great saving 

 to the contractor made possible by the use of 

 this machine. Although it has not been on the 

 market very long, the factory is already running 

 day and night and is far behind on orders. 



The following letter from the George A. 

 Fuller Company, a large building contractor of 

 ciii.ago, with branch offices in all the large 

 cities, will give some idea of the way the "Little 

 Giant" is being received: 

 "Hurley Machine Company, Chicago, III. 



"Dear Sirs: — Enclosed please find our check 

 for $260 in payment for four of your "Little 

 Giant" floor scrapers. We have used them in 

 I be American Trust & Savings Bank building. 

 Nut only have they done- the work well Intl they 

 have done it economically. They have saved 

 us time and money and thoroughly .iustiiied all 

 your claims for the machine. 



"William a. Merriman, 



"Vice President." 



To 'point out the advantages of the "Little 

 Giant" floor scraper is purely a matter of aritb 

 luetic. Under the old method of scraping floors, 

 one man down on his knees working hard will 

 scrape by band about two squares or 200 square 

 feet of flooring in eight hours. The wage scale 



New Floor" Scraper. 



The Hurley Machine Company of (.'lib ago 



whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this 



issue of the Hardwood Record, has lately put 



upon tie market a useful little machine, which 



LITTLE GIANT Fl.ncH; SCRAPER. MANU- 

 FACTURED BY THE HURLEY MA- 

 CHINE COMPANY, CHICAGO. 



lor this is from 4<> to l.'c cents ati hour, or from 

 $3.20 to $4.40 for .'mi square feet, which makes 

 the cost from $1.00 to $2.20 per square. With 

 a "Little Giant" floor scraper one man standing 

 up and moving freely and swiftly will scrape 

 eight squares or sun square feet of flooring in 

 eight hours, which at the same wage scale re- 

 duces the cost of the work tec from 1" eents to 

 55 cents per square. Thus it will be readily seen 

 that the machine pays for itself in a few- days. 

 The "Little Giant" floor scraper is sold under 

 the Hurley Machine Company's guarantee to do 

 belter, faster ami cheaper work than by any 

 other method. It is simple in construction and 

 is built of the linest material, on the simplest 

 possible lines. There is no mechanism of any 

 kind to get 'nit of order. It will last a lifetime. 

 The machine is easily operated by one man. 

 with no other motive power. The principle of 

 operation is similar to that of a hand scraper, 

 while file capacity for work is greatly increased 

 an 1 the work done perfectly. The knife is made 

 of the finest imported steel. It scrapes the floor 

 when the machine is pulled toward the operator 

 and scrapes every inch of it — into corners and 

 along baseboards. A shaving about two inches 

 wide and three feet long is removed with each 

 stroke. All rollers of the machine are rubber- 

 tired, protecting tie tloc.rs The handle is 

 adjustable as to height and length. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 

 Tie Indiana-Mississippi Veneering Company, 

 rec ntlj incorporated with $1.50.000 capital 



stock, has commenced operations at Green- 

 wood, Lefiora county, Miss. 



The Standard Tie & Equipment Company, 

 capitalized at $3,000,000, will carry on opera- 

 tions at Pittsburg, , Pa., and Guthrie, Okla. 

 The incorporators are: Lyman S. Ailes, Oak 

 Harbor, O. ; O. H. W. Case, James Murtha 

 ami A. Granville of Pittsburg; G. V. Pattison 

 and H. W. Penrose of Guthrie. 



It is probable that Mellen, Wis., will have 

 i new veneer factory before long. Messrs. 

 Burkhardt, Zimmerman and Mesch of Kiel, 

 who recently established a veneer plant at 

 that place, are back of the movement. They 

 are now looking for about 1,000,000 feet of tim- 

 ber suitable for veneer manufacture. 



Gorham Bros, are making extensive- im- 

 provements in their plant at Mt. Pleasant. 

 Mich. Among other additions they are setting 

 up the large saw mill recently in operation at 

 Fosters, Saginaw county. This will increase 

 the firm's capacity greatly and put it in posi- 

 tion to handle its growing business with 

 prompt to ss. 



A petition in involuntary bankruptcy has 

 been filed by the Pine Bluff Lumber & Veneei 

 Company of Pine Bluff, Ark. Liabilities are 

 placed ot $87,000. The company is in tin- hands 

 of a receiver. 



The plant of. the El Dorado Hardwood & 

 .Manufacturing Company, a new corporation at 

 EI Dorado. Ark., capitalized at $4,400, is now 

 running on full time after a brief shut down 

 owing to the illness of T. J. Emerson, man- 

 ager. Although the company was incorpo- 

 rate.! but a few weeks ago, the factory has 

 been in operation for some time. 



A new lumber company called the Rapides 

 Land Company has been organized by W. O. 

 Hughart and George Kendal of the firm of 

 Hughart & Kendal of Grand Rapids. Mich. 

 The new company has been capitalized for 

 $100,000 and fifteen thousand acres of hard- 

 wood timber lands have been purchased in 

 Rapides parish, Louisiana. Following are the 

 stockholders: E. W. Stiles, Robert Shanahan. 

 Maurice- Shanahan, Butterworth & Lowe. J. 

 Edward Earle. Van A. Wallin, N. G. Avery, E. 

 H. Barnes. Ralph W. Widdicomb, A. M. Coit, 

 Thomas Peck and Hughart & Kendal. 



Two new automatic dryers are being in- 

 stall il at the plant of the Great Lakes Veneer 

 Company. Munising. Mich., which is rapidly 

 nearing completion. These dryers were pur- 

 chased by Burdis Anderson, treasurer and 

 manager of the company, at a cost of $16,000. 

 Tie factory will be thoroughly equipped, the 

 company having already spent $L'0.000 for new 

 machinery and intending to install also a new 

 rotary cutter and a 300-horsepower boiler. 

 Work is being pushed on the Munising plant, 

 as the' company's cut at Grand Marais is prac- 

 tically exhausted. 



The holdings of the Cedar River Land Com- 

 pany, comprising 7^.000 acres of hardwood, 

 hemlock, cedar ami pine timber lands, the 

 large sawmill at Spaulding, Mich., a number of 

 dwellings and other buildings, have been pur- 

 chased by the Oliver Iron Mining Company of 

 Iron Mountain. Mich., for something over 

 $50,000. The property is located in Dickinson, 

 Delta ami Menominee counties, Michigan. The 

 Oliver Mining Company will operate the saw- 

 mill, cutting mining timbers exclusively. 



Z. T. Robinson of Owensboro. Ky.. is build- 

 ing a large addition to his veneer mill there. 



The Holland Veneering Company is making 

 additions and improvements in its plant at 

 Holland. Mich., which will double its present 

 i apacity. 



The- Knoxville Hardwood Fixture Company 

 of Knoxville, Tenn.. has been incorporated with 

 $10,000 capital stock by Noble Smithson. Guy 

 Smithsoii John Culver. T. B. Henly and J. J. 

 Henlj 



The hardwood mill of the Ride Lake Ltini- 

 l.i Company at Rib Lake. Wis., is to be re- 



