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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A Competent Inspection Force. 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States is justly proud of its inspec- 

 tion force, and the following sketch of the indi- 

 vidual members of it, with accompanying pho- 

 tographs, will be of interest to the trade, and 



H. M. Marshall, a native Virginian, has spent 

 practically his entire life in the lumber indus- 

 try and by his travels in West Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, Virginia. Tennessee, Mississippi and ad- 

 joining states has become thoroughly familiar 

 with all kinds of hardwoods ; most of this time 

 has been spent in the inspection of lumber. He 



J. V. HILL, CHICAGO, CHIEF INSPECTOR. 



particularly to manufacturers who have come 

 in contact with their careful and conscientious 

 work in the past. 



J. V. Hill, chief inspector of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, is a native of Ohio, 

 and was born and raised in the vicinity of Co- 

 lumbus. Since early boyhood he has been en- 

 gaged in one lumbering pursuit or another, and 

 has successfully filled a wide variety of posi- 

 tions connected with the manufacturing of tim- 

 ber into lumber and placing it upon the market, 

 so that he is thoroughly conversant with every 

 detail of production and grading. He has spent 

 considerable time at various periods in the 

 employ of manufacturing consumers, especially 

 of dimension stock. He has been employed by 



JOHN F. FOUNTAIN, STURGEON, MO., TRAV- 

 ELING INSPECTOR. 



entered the employ of the Manufacturers' asso- 

 rt: "Hun iu November, 1906, and was shortly 

 thereafter located in the St. Louis district, 

 where he handles the inspections of the local 

 trade, and also travels to mill points or to the 

 plants of. consumers as occasion may require. 

 Mr. Marshall has shown himself peculiarly 

 adapted to the duties of such a position. 



E. W. Hill Is a brother of J. V. Hill, and like 

 him has spent a large part of his time in various 

 phases of the lumber industry, making a special 

 study of the wants of manufacturing consumers. 

 He was employed' by the association late in 1906. 

 and is well qualified both by his intimate knowl- 

 edge "I hardwood lumber and his personal char- 



that section, and becoming thoroughly acquainted 

 with all forms of the product, both rough and 

 dressed. Later he spent considerable time in 

 the Southwest and became familiar with cotton- 

 wood, gum and other hardwoods of western Ten- 

 nessee and contiguous territory. He has been 

 employed by the association since March, 1906, 

 and has thoroughly convinced the management 

 of his integrity and ability to interpret and ap- 

 ply the rules of the bureau of grades. He is 

 employed as traveling inspector. 



E. W.- HILL, COLUMBUS, 0., TRAVELING 

 INSPECTOR. 



t lie Hardwood Manufacturers' Association since 

 1903, and by his thorough study of the grading 

 question and careful application of its prin- 

 ciples, both at mill points and in consuming 

 territories, h» has become an authority on such 

 matters. 



H. M. MARSHALL, ST. LOUIS, MO., DISTRICT 

 INSPECTOR. 



acteristlcs for the position of traveling inspec- 

 tor which he holds. 



John F. Fountain was born and bred in cen- 

 tral Missouri. He began his career as a lumber 

 inspector in eastern Tennessee, spending con- 

 siderable time studying the woods indigenous to 



American Woodworking Machinery Company 

 Removal. 



The space covered by the American Woodwork- 

 ing Machinery Company's salesrooms at 43-45 

 Canal street, Chicago, will soon be utilized by 

 the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company 

 for Its new depot, which will necessitate the 

 removal of the former in the near future. Ac- 

 cordingly the American has secured offices in 

 the new Fisher building. Dearborn and Van 

 Buren streets, and the sales department will be 

 located there on and after May 1. In order that 

 the company may have a large stock of ma- 

 chinery on hand to show prospective buyers it is 

 now building a large warehouse at Thirty-sixth 

 and Morgan streets, which will have Chicago 

 Junction railway switching tracks, making it a 

 general distributing point in the West for the 

 company's different factories ; wire connections 

 will be maintained with every freight depot in 

 Chicago. 



Simmons Lumber Company. 



The timber holdings, plant and equipment of 

 the Simmons Lumber Company, located on Duel 

 lake in Mackinac county, Michigan, have been 

 purchased by the newly organized Earle Lumber 

 Company, of which Dr. W. O. Earle, president 

 of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company of 

 Hermansville, is at the head. The railroad 

 which connects Simmons with the Soo Line, as 

 well as the sawmill, timber, village buildings, 

 etc., are all taken over by the Earle interests. 

 The Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company is one 

 of the largest manufacturers of hardwood floor- 

 ing and other dressed hardwood products in the 

 North. 



Superintendent S. G. McClellan, to whose ef- 

 forts and business ability the village of Simmons 

 largely owes its existence, and who has been for 

 some time at the head of operations for the 

 Simmons Lumber Company, has been engaged by 

 the new concern and will continue in the same 

 capacity. Work is going ahead briskly again. ' 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



C. R. Cummings, the well-known lumber 

 exporter of Houston, Tex., is removing his 

 Saliine mill to Beaumont, where it will be set 

 up on a recently purchased, site on the Neches 

 river. The mill has a daily capacity of 50,000 

 feet and new and improved machinery will be 

 added which will considerably increase the out- 

 put. Mr. Cummings expects to use the mill 

 principally for cutting hardwoods for export to 

 Europe, but some pine will also be turned out. 

 The mill will be in operation in about eight 

 weeks. 



The Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company of 

 Curtin, W. Va., has recently purchased 9,000 

 acres of fine hardwood timber land in Nicholas 

 and Greenbrier counties, the price paid not 

 having been made public. The property is 

 adjacent to the company's operations at Curtin 

 and contains some very choice timber. 



The Union Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized with $100,000 capital stock by Perry Hatt 

 of Hillsboro, Ind. ; George C. Pratt of Indian- 

 apolis, and C. F. Johnson of Casey, 111. The 

 new company will engage in a wholesale busi- 

 ness in hardwoods and yellow pine and will 

 maintain offices at 817 Lemcke building, Indian- 

 apolis, and in the Casey National Bank building, 

 Casey. III. Arrangements have been made 

 whereby the company becomes the exclusive. 



