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$60,000, covered by insurance to the extent of 

 $43,000. The tin- »as discovered at midnight 

 and all attempts to check it were unavailing. 

 President \V. II. Roddis intends to rebuild the 

 plant at once, but may locate the new operations 

 at Park Falls instead of Marshfield. This is 

 the third Are that has totally destroyed the 

 plant, and each time it has been rebuilt larger 

 and more complete than before. The new build- 

 ings will doubtless be built of con. -rote or some 

 other non-combustible material. 



Unusual Tree Growths. 



Near Clay city, Iiul.. in the timber lauds 

 about Eel river, is a timber freak that arouses 

 considerable discussion and attention and is a 

 landmark for miles around. Two elm trees 

 standing at least twelve feel from each other 

 have become grafted together at a height of 

 twenty-five feet or more. Above this union of 

 the two trunks the elms are perfectly blended 

 into one tree. 



A sycamore in Branch county, Michigan, re- 

 cently cut down, was found to measure six feet 

 through at the base. It was cut up into four 

 logs; the butt log contained 1,155 feet of lum- 

 ber and took four horses to haul it to the mill. 

 In all, the sycamore contained 5,155 feet of 

 lumber, and is believed lo have been the largest 

 tree in that county. 



A cedar tree recently felled near Onaway, 

 Mbh., made a telegraph pole eighty-five feet in 

 length, said to be the largest pole ever cut in 

 that part of the stale. When compared with 

 the many 45-foot poles now in use. it will be 

 seen that its length was decidedly out of the 

 ordinary. Poles of that size are so scarce, at 

 least in that section, that they are not listed 

 in Michigan cedar, and the owner of one can 

 almost name his own price for it. 



New Lumber Company Organized in New 

 York. 



The Douglas Fir Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new incorporation organized in New 

 York City recently, with D. E. Skinner as presi- 

 dent. L. I'.. Stoddart vice president. Victor Elfen- 

 dahl secretary and treasurer and Harry S. Dewey 

 managing director. The new company will make 

 a specialty of handling Pacific coast products 

 and will carry in New York a stock of large 

 and long fir timbers. It takes over the lumber 

 from three ships now under charter by Dixon & 

 Dewey which are loaded with fir, and will also 

 succeed to the other business of this firm. Those 

 interested in the new enterprise are largely 

 identified with the manufacture of lumber on 

 I he Pacific coast and in vessels that will carry 

 stock from the mills to New York. By a friendly 

 arrangement between partners, the affairs of 

 Dixon & Dewey are being liquidated as rapidly 

 as possible and the outstanding indebtedness will 

 be cared for in regular form as it becomes due. 

 When the affairs of Dixon & Dewey are closed 

 up .Mr. Dewey will give his entire attention to 

 the management of the Douglas Fir Lumber 

 Company, and his office will be continued in the 

 Flatiron building. 



A New-Old Detroit House. 



The old established wholesale house of Brown- 

 lee & Co.. at Detroit, Mich., has just been 

 reorganized as the Brownlee-Kelly Company. The 

 change is merely in name, the management re- 

 maining the same as it has been for the past 

 five years. W. E. Brownlee is the second son 

 of the founder of the business. W. W. Kelly 

 has been connected with the lumber trade of 

 Detroit for the past eighteen years, during a 

 large part of that time as secretary of the 

 Delta Lumber Company and manager of its 

 large wholesale yard in South Detroit. For the 

 past five years he has been associated with Mr. 

 Brownlee in the management of Brownlee & Co. 



The large yard at River Rouge, South Detroit, 

 will be continued, and an extensive line of hard- 

 woods will be received there from lake points 



t.\ vessel, to be distributed by car over a wide 

 field, including the New York and New England 

 territory. The offices will be. as heretofore, in 

 the Telegraph building, Detroit. 



This business was established by the late W. 

 G. Brownlee in 1870, and has enjoyed a steady, 

 substantial growth until it now ranks among 

 the largest wholesale lumber enterprises in Mich- 

 igan. The firm is manufacturing hardwood in 

 the Saginaw valley this winter and is also pro- 

 ducing large quantities of yellow pine through 

 its affiliated companies, the Brownlee Lumber 

 Company of Shubuta, Miss., and C. C. Brownlee 

 ,v. Co. of Cisco, 6a. 



Hood Lumber Company Purchase. 



The Hood Lumber Company of Bridgeport, W. 

 Ya.. has purchased what is known as the Mills 

 tract of timber land located in Wetzel county, 

 on the West Virginia Short Line. The land 

 consists of about 6,000 acres and was sold for 

 approximately $60,000. The timber consists of 

 line white and red oak and yellow poplar, and 

 will produce between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 

 feet of lumber. Operations will be commenced 

 at once, and the company expects to have sev- 

 eral consignments of lumber ready for shipment 

 within the next thirty days. Instead of install- 

 ing a big plaut at a cost of several thousand 

 dollars, a number of small mills in the heart 

 ot tlie forest will be constructed. Two tram- 

 ways will be built to connect with the railroad. 



Advance in Arkansas Hardwood Rates. 



The press of Arkansas announces an advance 

 in freight rates on hardwood lumber within the 

 state of Arkansas which becomes effective on the 

 Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt March 1 aud on 

 the Rock Island system March 7. This increase 

 is on hardwood and hardwood products, and 

 amounts to an average increase of about 15 per 

 cent. The territory affected is divided by the 

 Arkansas river, with the south side having an 

 increase of 2 cents per hundred, while on the 

 north side of the river the rate is increased 1 

 cent per hundred. It is alleged that the iu- 

 creased rate will amount to about $8 per car 

 out of the north section of the state, and $16 

 out of the south section. Hardwood manufac- 

 turers and shippers in that section of the 

 country have filed vigorous protests against the 

 advance and have strong hopes of prevailing 

 upon the railroads not to insist upon it. 



Stewart-Roy Lumber Company. 



On January 23 under the laws of Ohio the 

 Stewart-Roy Lumber Company of Cincinnati was 

 organized with a capital stock of $50,000 paid in. 

 The company is made up of the well known 

 members of William H. & G. S. Stewart of Cin- 

 cinnatl and G. A. Roy, the hardw 1 manufac- 

 turer of Nicholasville, Ky. The officers of the 

 new company are: Gregory S. Stewart, presi- 

 dent; G. A. Roy, vice president, and William 11. 

 Stewart, secretary and treasurer. 



On March 1 the company will take over the 

 poplar and hardwood business of the present 

 firm of William 11. & G. s. Stewart, and will 

 open an assembling yard at Cincinnati. The 

 offices of the new company are at 611 and 012 

 Mercantile Library building. 



All the members of the new company have 

 iiad long experience in the lumber trade and are 

 well equipped financially and otherwise to carry 

 on a successful hardwood lumber enterprise. 

 They have always been sticklers for high and 

 uniform grades, and all persons doing business 

 with tie- new company can rely on fair treatment 

 and satisfactory dealings. 



Extension of Wall Interests. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., an extensive manufacturer and 

 dealer in hardwood lumber, has just established 

 a large plant in that city for manufacturing 

 glued up veneer stock. 



The fac.ory is equipped with (he most mod- 



ern machinery and appliances known for get- 

 ting out this 1 hiss of work, and places the com- 

 pany in position to furnish goods of superior 

 quality witli promptness. 



The principal output will be veneered tops, 

 fronts and panels of all woods. The company 

 is particularly well equipped for furnishing 

 quartered oak, mahogany, figured birch and other 

 fancy woods, cut to length, jointed and taped to 

 required widths, ready lor the glue room. The 

 quality of glued up veneered slock that this 

 house will manufacture puts it in the market 

 as one of the largest buyers of rotary cut, 



sawed and sliced ve irs, wormy chestnut and 



other hardwood lumber, etc., in the United 

 States. The plant is now in operation and is 

 turning out large quantities of glued-up stock. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is so 

 well atul favorably known to the producing and 

 consuming hardwood trade of the entire coun- 

 try that this new addition to their extensive 

 business is tin assured success. Its motto has 

 always been "Good goods and prompt delivery," 

 and this precept will be as carefully lived up 

 to in future its it has been in the past. 



A Fine Ohio Oak. 

 The Hardwood Record is indebted to the 

 Bluffton Hardwood Company of Bluffton, O., 

 for the photograph from which the halftone 

 engraving accompanying this article was repro- 

 duced. It is a while oak which was cut near 

 Bluffton and scaled upwards of 6,000 feet. The 



BIG olllo WHITE OAK. 



logs were quarter-sawed into 1-inch stock. At 

 the base of the tree was a hole which at one 

 time was a bear's den, and it was within this 

 opening that the man whose head appears in the 

 foreground was concealed. 



Standard Lumber Reference Book. 

 The Hardwood Recobd has received from the 

 Southern States Publishing Company of Atlanta, 

 Ga., a bound volume containing upwards of 250 

 pages, entitled Standard Lumber Reference Book 

 and Code. The book has a compendium of rules 

 hi classification and inspection of lumber as 

 adopted by the principal lumber associations 

 and railroad companies of the United States, 

 together with a telegraphic cipher code and 

 other information of value to the lumber trade. 

 It is sold by the publishers at $3 per copy. 

 The work is compiled by Benjamin F. Ulmer and 

 will doubtless prove a standard reference book 

 for lumbermen and students of lumber affairs. 



