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modeled. New machinery will be added and 

 elaborate improvements made, which will ma- 

 terially increase the capacity of the plant. A 

 lath and shingle mill is also to be installed. 

 The Sterling Cedar & Lumber Company has 



l n incorporated with $100,000 capital stock 



at Monroe. Mich. Operations will be eom- 

 menced shortly on a recently purchased tract 

 of land near St. Ignace. The purchase includi 

 4. nun acres of timber hind, largely hardwood. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



Frederick VV. Lipham of [Tpham & Agler, one 

 of tin- leading hardwood bouses of the city, 

 was reelected lasi Tuesday to the Board of Re 

 view by a handsome plurality. The splendid 

 record of Mr. Upham in public office was gen 

 '■rally conceded, and his continuance on the 

 board was a deserved mark or popular confi- 

 dence and is especially pleasing to Ids Chicago 

 confreres. 



Carroll I-'. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lumber 

 .V: Manufacturing Company of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., was in town for a few bours the early 

 paii <d" the week, mi Ids way i<> the Pacific coast 

 for a prolonged visit. 



11. 1'.. Leavitt "i tin' Leavitl Lumber Company 

 lefi "ii Saturday for a three weeks' cruise of 

 southern mill points. 



.1. N. Woodbury, sales manager for E. is. Lom- 

 bard, is just home from a sunt hern purchasing 

 trip. 



A half score "i w {working machinery men 



prominent in the industry wire in the city last 

 week in consultation over business affairs. 

 Among those present were J. II. McKelvey of 

 New York, president of tin' American Wood- 

 working Machinery Company; Capt. Elton A. 

 Smith of the II. B. Smith Machine Works, 



"Smithville, X. .1.: Frank F. W Is of the S. A. 



Woods Machine Company, Boston, Mass., and 

 Capt. Thomas .1. Egan of tin' .1. A. Fay & Egan 

 Company. Cincinnati. 



George I.. Smith, surveyor general of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, has re- 

 signed that position and entered lie- wholesale 

 hardwood lumber business on his own account 

 with headquarters at Indianapolis. .Mr. Smith 

 was very popular in the work in- performed for 

 the National association and from his wide ac- 

 quaintance and specific knowledge of the hard- 

 wood Lumber business should achieve success in 

 his new undertaking. He lias the best wishes 



Of the llAKI'W RECOBD 



the demand experienced by the Cotton Belt 

 Lumber Company, 108 I. a Salle street, is excel- 

 lent, its slock being sold practically as fast as 

 it can In- produced. Trade is hampered some- 

 what by labor conditions at the Mississippi 

 mills and by the car shortage. W. II. Bennett, 

 I. resident of the company, has just returned from 

 a two weeks' trip to New York and eastern 

 points. 



Charles Miller or Miller Bros., who has i , 



in the South the greater part of this year, is 

 spending a few weeks in Chicago. lie will 

 shortly return to the southern operations of the 

 company. He reports that progress in getting 



"in lumber in the southern districts has i d 



hampered en account of heavy rains and cur 

 shortage. At thi Chicago office Milton Miller 

 has been handling a huge volume of trade ami 

 reports business in satisfactory condition. 



The Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 

 has had a successful season, and is siiil buying 

 poplar and Cottonwood box boards and 3-inch 

 common poplar. 



business is exceedingly brisk Willi the Ward 

 Lumber Company. Ii is disposing of the output 

 of its mills as fast as the lumber is manufac 

 tured. in the present state of the demand the 

 company reports thai ii could keep live or six 

 more mills bus} 



I.. It. Lesh of i.esh .x Mai thews Lumber Com 

 pany has ins! returned from a two weeks' trip 

 to si. Louis. Memphis and mill points. He finds 

 business iii g I condition and ii" difficulty in 



Special Correspondents.) 

 disposing of stock 



in spite of the grea! shortage of mahogany the 



country over, there is one Chicago house fully 



able lo take care of its trade in this w 1 This 



is the Keith Lumber Company of Fourteenth 

 and Wood streets. This company has well to- 

 ward 5,000,000 feet of Cuban, Mexican and 

 African wood in all grades and thicknesses in 

 Stock. Among the items are more than .",00,0110 

 leet of remarkably high class and good width 

 Cuban wood, consisting verj largel; of firsts ami 

 seconds. The mahogany stock of this company 

 is one of the fines! ever grouped in the West. 



The executive committee and the ins] lion 



rules commit! 1 the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association will hold a meeting at the or- 

 ganization's headquarters, Rector building, Chi 

 eago. on Thursday, November 22. 



J. W. Mayhew, sales manager of tic- W. N. 

 Hitter Lumber Company of Columbus, O., was in 

 Chicago the latter part of the week on bust 

 ness. 



Business with the Paine Lumber Company, 

 Ltd.. has been excellent. The Chicago sales 

 office of the concern has greatly extended its 

 business during the past year and finds the 

 demand ample to keep the factories busj 



Charles Gordon of the Chicago sales depart- 

 ment of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company has 

 been away for the past two weeks in the South. 

 Reports from him indicate good business 



N. 1'. Bigelow, at the Chicago office of the 

 Fourche Liver Lumber Company, returned some 

 time ago from a trip to the Arkansas mills of 

 his company. During the past six months the 

 company has manufactured considerable oak and 

 gum flooring. 



Henry Sondheimer, Chicago representative of 

 the E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis, is away 

 on a selling trip through Indiana. 



C. L. Miller of the L. K. Miller Company is 

 absent from the city on a business trip and will 

 not return for some days. 



Wood Ileal of .lames Ii. Lacey & Co. hit 

 Chicago a few days ago for the New Orleans 

 headquarters of the company, where he will 

 remain for tin- winter. 



Gardner I. .Tones, (he genial treasurer of the 

 Jones Hardwood Company. Inc.. of Boston, 

 Mass.. paid a hurried visit to Chicago last week 

 and favored the Recobd offices with an appre- 

 ciated call. Mr. Jones was en route home after 

 attendance upon the recent semiannual meeting 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 a 1 Cincinnati. 



R. I.. Witbnell. representing Duncan Ewing 

 & Co. of London and Liverpool, England, was a 

 reeeiil Chicago \isilor and (ailed at the RECORD 

 Offices. Mr. Withnell will make an extended 

 trip through the states, having span consider 

 abb- time already in the eastern markets lb' 

 will visit all the principal lumber centers, gain- 

 ing a general insight into c litions on this side 



and paying particular attention to lumber manu- 

 facture. From Chicago he went south, where he 

 will visit Memphis, Louisville. Cincinnati. Si 

 Louis and other centers. 



C. 11. Barnaby of Greencastle, tnd., presidenl 

 of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa 



lion, was shaking hands with his host of friend 

 in Chicago on November 2. 



s. G. McClellan, manager of tic Simmons l.um 

 b"i- Company. Simmons, Mich., was in the city 

 on business November 1. 



.1 S. Goldie. he of the auburn locks, the win 

 ning smile and tic maple bat' trade mark of 



Cadillac, Mich., was a welcome Chicago visitor 

 on November i . 



A. Johns i the Pennington Lumber Coin 



pany, Pennington Gap, Va . was in Chicago on 

 business November 2. 



Among the Chicago visitors the early pari ol 



the month was Hairy .1, Gott, western represen 

 tative of Hamilton II. Salmon & Co.. New York 

 City. 



Mitch. 'ii Brothers' Company of Cadillac, Mich., 



the well known producers of maple and birch 

 flooring, are .,,it with an attractive circular 

 pertaining to their specialty which contains in 

 formation that will be appreciated by both 

 dealer and consumer. 



Tic Hardwood Record acknowledges with 

 thanks tic receipt of a blotting stone from the 

 Indiana Quartered Oak Company of New York 

 city. It is a unique advertisement and a depar 

 lure fr the style of the ordinary blotter. 



Tic Hardwood Record acknowledges the re 



eeipi of i wo I ks, "The Steel Square as a Cal 



culating Machine" and 'The Steel Square Pocket 

 Hook." Both are published in the interest of 

 carpenters, builders, lumber dealers, etc. and 

 are replete with interesting information. They 

 are issued by the Industrial Publication Com 

 pany of New York City and are handsomely 

 bound and illustrated. 



The Hardwood Record has received a hand 

 some booklet entitled ■"Modern Hardwood 

 Floors," published by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc.. 

 Cadillac. Mich. As this company is one of tin 

 leaders in floor construction and specialists in 

 everything pertaining to that industry, the new 

 bit of literature will be interesting both to the 

 trade and the layman. It is addressed specifi- 

 cally to home builders, and offers many valuable 

 suggestions to those contemplating building 

 homes. It can be had on application to the 

 sales department of Cobbs i*i Mitchell, Inc. 



R. B. Cooke of James Cooke & Co., Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, England, is visiting this country in 

 the interests of his house. He attended the 

 Cincinnati meeting of tin- National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association and was an interested spec 

 tator of the proceedings. 



The It. J. Munhall Lumber Company. Pitts- 

 lung. Pa., is assisting President Roosevelt in 

 popularizing the phonetic way of spelling by 

 issuing a booklet containing the first 300 words 

 adopted by the United States government. 



W. II. .Matthias, representing in the Chicago 

 territory the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of 

 Columbus, 0., dropped into the Record offices this 

 week, and reports Octo'ber one of the best 

 months in business results to date. 



Park Richmond ..v Co. have .joined tin' down- 

 town lumber crowd and removed their office 



from I'm West Twenty second street to -no 



Monadnock building. Their new telephone niim 

 ber is Harrison 5165. 



O. E. Faught has recently engaged in the 

 wholesale hardwood business at o Easl Eighth 

 street, Cincinnati. lie has had extensive ex- 

 pend ami is familiar with everj department 



"I the business. 



Boston. 



Charles s. Wi ntworth ol Charles S w 

 worth & C" he- returned from a trip to New 

 Brunswick, where he went in tic Inl 

 business. Considerable delay in shipment duo 

 i " i shortage of cars was complained of by 

 the mills, and .Mr. YVentworth took this trip 

 io New Brunswick in an endeavor to facili- 

 tate mattei 



IT. G. Home of Rome liros. has purchased 

 He propertj ol I a. Wright & Co; of Gar- 

 dinei Mass., and reports that he is in hopes 



of inducing a huge manufacturing coi rn to 



loeat,.. there. The firm which he has in mind 

 manufactures sash and Minds. 



Douglas F. Smith, manager of 

 River Lumber Co., Biddeford, Me., was 

 itor in t Ic Boston ma i ket I 



William !•:. Litchfii I 



