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lath at its Herndon operations, where it has 

 about L5.000 acres of virgin forest; the poplar 

 is of particularly line quality ; the oak is 

 mostly red. On the tract are located oue large 

 band sawmill with lath machinery, one circular 

 mill for handling bill stuff, eight miles of 

 35-pound steel rails, three 20-ton lugging en- 

 gines and one loader. Herndon is of course the 

 principal manufacturing point but the company 

 has several other mills in the vicinity, and this 

 establishment of its general offices in West Vir- 

 ginia is doubtless a wise move. 



Utility and Simplicity Combined. 

 The cut herewith shown represents a very 

 simple, strong and durable machine for turning 

 fork, hoe, take, mop and broom handles, pike, 

 trolley, tent and curtain poles, dowels, rods and 

 other work of this class. It is the No. 10 lathe 

 made by the Ober Manufacturing Company of 

 Chagrin Falls, 0. The lathe has an entirely 

 automatic feeding device, the operator having 

 only to pile the squares between the guides, and 

 is provided wilh a lever and clutch for starting 

 or stopping the feed. The lirst knife rounds the 

 work to the size of the die, and the finishing 

 knife, automatically moved toward or from the 

 renter of the die by the cam pattern, makes the 



OBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY NO. 10 



LATHE. 



shape of I he haudje. The work done by the 

 finishing knife can he made large or small by 

 tinning a screw on the arm which is raised and 

 lowered by the cam pattern. The latter is of 



w I and any pattern can be made and put 



upon the lathe very quickly and at little ex- 

 pense. The taper or knob on any article can 

 be lengthened or shortened without changing the 

 cam pattern. The machine will turn from 500 

 to Too broom handles per hour, and other work 

 accordingly. The regular size will turn up to 

 1 11-16 inches diameter and is supplied with 

 four dies, any si/.es desired, and with gearitm to 

 turn from U to IS feet long. Extra dies and 

 extra gearing can lie supplied .at additional _rost. 

 or special lathes may be made to turn 2, '_' ' , 

 and -% inches in diameter. 



New Veneer Plant Booming. 

 The National Veneer Products plant of Easi 

 Mishawaka. Ind.. is doing a steadily growing 

 business, and has added three or four new build- 

 ings, although a comparatively young institution. 

 Seventy men are now employed by Hie company, 

 and within a year it is probable that 200 will 

 hi' required to take care of the business. The 

 line of manufacture includes beer cases, trunks 

 and barrels. It will soon include suit eases 

 n;ad.' of veneer, which will be strong, light and 

 durable. The concern cuts its own veneer from 

 logs steamed on the premises. 



W. M. Eitter Lumber Company. 



An eastern contemporary in its last issue. 

 under a display head, saysj "As we go to press 

 we receive advices of the formation of a gigantic 

 lumber company, etc." The article presumes to 

 be of a news character, and refers to the W. M.' 

 Hitter Lumber Company of Columbus, O. Un- 



fortunately stub statemepts as are true are not 

 new. and such as are new tire not true. 



The facts of the case are that in March, 1000, 

 the capita] slock of the \V. M. Hitter Lumber 

 Company was increased from $1,000,000 to $8,- 



.nun. At this time there was issued $2,500,- 



in preferred stock and $5,500,000 in common 



stock. At the present time there is outstand- 

 ing $2,000.01"! preferred stock and $.1,000,000 of 

 the common stock, the remainder being held in 

 the treasury of the company. The personnel of 

 the concern remains unchanged and the stock is 

 held by comparatively few people, most of whom 

 ari> identified with the enterprise. Blair & Co., 

 the well-known New York bankers, are stock- 

 holders. The W. M. Hitter Lumber Company is 

 the owner of upwards of 1,000,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood stumpage, growing on some 300,000 

 a ties. A part of this land is beld in fee and 

 the remainder in timber lights. The company 

 operates seventeen mills and is cutting lumber at 

 the rate of over lun. feel per annum. 



The officers and directors are as follows: 

 \V. M. Hitter, president, Columbus, O. ; Isaac T. 

 Mann, vice president, Bramwell, W. Ya. ; James 

 I. Ilamill. secretary. Columbus. 0. ; C. I!. Weak- 

 ley, treasurer, Columbus. 0. ; .1. Mortimer, gen- 

 era) superintendent, Panther, W. Ya. ; Harvey 

 Derne, superintendent manufacturing. Panther, 

 W. Va. ; J. W. Mayhew, sales manager, Colum- 

 bus, O. ; directors, W. M. Hitter, I. T. Mann, 

 .lames L. Ilamill, .1. M. Barr, Norfolk, Va. ; Ed- 

 win Mann, Bluefield, W. Ya. 



Market Conditions. 



Tlio Hardwood Manufacturers 1 Association lias 

 just issued a new statement of market conditions 

 in conformity with suggestions made at the re- 

 cent Memphis meeting. As compared with this 

 report as published in the two last issues of the 

 Hardwood Record, wide poplar stock shows an 

 advance of from $2 to $5 and regular width $1: 

 both plain and quartered oak are advanced $1: 

 ash. s:; to sr.: wide Cottonwood, $4 !.. so ; regu- 

 lar widths. $1 : gum. 50 cents to $1.50. Slight 

 advances were also made in hickory, maple, and 

 furniture dimension stock. 



$250,000 Fire. 



The woodworking plant of the Wilts Veneer 

 Company at Plymouth, N. C, was burned ou 

 February 1. Nothing was saved but the office. 

 Loss is estimated at $250,000, on which there 

 was partial insurance. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Ed. L. Williams of Hogersville, Ala., who has 

 been out of the hardwood business for some 

 time, has just commenced operating his sawmill 

 again and will manufacture red and white oak 

 exclusively. 



Prices of woods labor in the north country are 

 very high this winter and still going up. Woods- 

 men are getting from $35 to $45 a month, and 

 even this apparently high wage scale seems to 

 be little inducement. 



J. H. Newberry of Riverside county, Califor- 

 nia, is about to plant eucalyptus trees on his 

 600-acre ranch along the Santa Ana river. His 

 expectation is to produce merchantable timber 

 within a short time. 



The Continental Realty Company has sold to 

 the Southern Timherlaud & Mineral Company of 

 Nashville. Tenn., 52,000 acres of coal and timber 

 lauds in Breathitt, Knox and Perry counties. 

 Kentucky, for sums ranging between $800,000 

 and $1. i.t ii in. 



The Allen Powell Company of Orange, Tex., 

 recently purchased 300,000 feet of ash timber 

 for export. 



The Ilunlsville Lumber Company of Decatur, 

 Ala., has disposed of its retail yard at Hunts- 

 ville and in future will confine itself entirely to 

 the manufacture of rough and dressed hardwoods 

 and dimension stock at Decatur. . 



It is reported that W. II. Alexander has pur- 

 chased 2,000 acres of hardwood timber laud 

 near Pineville, Miss., and will install a stave 

 and heading factory at once. 



W. II. llatten and W. II. I lick of New London, 

 Wis., have purchased 15.000 acres of hardwood 

 timber land in Mississippi. The property in- 

 cludes the village of Phillips, with stores, hotel, 

 churches, schools and sewer and waterworks 

 systems. The town is situated on the main line 

 of. the Illinois Central railroad, which is now 

 building a branch line through the timber. 



The White Oak Lumber & Plantation Company 

 has been incorporated at Milwaukee: capital. 

 $100,000. Its principals are Herman Wegwarl. 

 Louis I. and Arthur C. Friend. 



'f'lie West African Timber & Trading Company 

 has been incorporated in Edinburgh, Scotland, 

 with a capital of $10,000. 



The Fosrer-Latimer Lumber Company of Mei- 

 len. Wis., has sold to the Ashland Iron & Steel 

 Company 50,000 aires of hardwood limber in 

 northern Wisconsin, a large producer of charcoal, 

 pig iron and by-products, and now controls 

 200,000 aires of timber land. 



HardWood NeWs. 



By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



E. C. Mershon and Harry Batchelop of Sagi- 

 naw, Mich,, were in town recently en route to 

 Mexico for a short trip. 



The partnership previously existing between 

 A. W. Wylie and Howard D. Casey & Co., in the 

 hardwood and yellow pine department of their 

 business, has been dissolved by mutual consent 

 and both will continue along the same line. Mr. 

 Wylie will engage in business under his individ- 

 ual name, with office at llol Fisher building, 

 < hicago. 



E. D. Pennell, representing the Briggs & 

 Cooper Company, Ltd., of Saginaw. Mich., was 

 in Chicago last week and favored the Record 

 wit h a call; 



William II. White, president of the W. II. 

 White Company of Boyne City, Mich., was in 

 the city last week. With Mr. White were his 

 two sons, Thomas and Lyle. The party was en 

 route t" the Pacific coasl on a combined business 

 and pleasure trip, and expects to be there about 

 two months. 



A welcome visitor from Nashville, Tenn., re- 

 cently was D. S. Hutchinson of the Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, who spent a week 

 .moiig the Chicago trade. 



Special Correspondents.) 



The Hardwood Record is in receipt of several 

 pamphlets published by the Bureau <>t' Forestry 



of the Philippine Islands, of which Maj. George 

 P. Ahern is director, one covering Ids report for 

 the period of the year end inn June 30, 1906, 

 containing valuable statistics and profusely illus- 

 trated, showing methods of logging, wanton de- 

 struction of valuable trees, etc.; another on the 

 mechanical tests, properties and uses of thirty 

 Philippine woods, the Philippine sawmills, lum- 

 ber market, and prices; two giving preliminary 

 working plans for the public forest tracts of the 

 Insular Lumber Company of Negros Occidental, 

 and of the Mindoro Lumber & Logging Company 

 of Bongabou ; the latter also contain many band- 

 some illustrations. 



Wagstaff - Lumber - Oshkosh - Chicago - last 

 week - very busy. 



The Lumbermen's Credit Association. 77 Jack- 

 son boulevard, Chicago, publishers of Clancy's 

 Red Book, have just issued a new edition for 

 January, 1907. The book now contains approxi- 

 mately 60,000 names; it has been carefully re- 

 vised and a great deal of money spent in bring- 

 ing it up to date. There has been the usual per- 

 centage of increase iu uames, and additions to 

 this number over the last issue amount to some- 



