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HARDWOOD RECORD 



both o£ Grand Rapids ; Guy S. Brown of Central 

 Lake, secretary and manager, and Charles W. 

 Liken of Sebewaing, treasurer. Messrs. Brown 

 and Liken will be the active members of the 

 organization and will personally supervise the 

 manufacturing operations. For tbe present the 

 main office will be in the Michigan Trust build- 

 ing, Grand Rapids. 



The company has acquired a 12,000-acre tract 

 of land in Ontonagon county, comprising mixed 

 woods, a.nd has enough material to keep its 

 plant running for ten years with a force of 

 about 150 men, which it is expected to employ. 



The building operations will provide for a 

 double band saw mill and a stave and heading 

 works. It is impossible to give the capacity of 

 the plants at this time, but the enterprise will 

 become one of the important industries of the 

 state. 



State Forestry Association in Maine. 



At a meeting held recently at Augusta, Me., 

 the organization of a state forestry association 

 was effected. This step is the outcome of a 

 movement instituted some time ago by promi- 

 nent residents of the state, chief among whom 

 is Gordon E. Tower, professor of forestry at 

 the University of Maine, who did much of the 

 preliminary work necessary. The meeting was 

 attended by a large number of men interested 

 in forestry either in a scientific or business 

 way. and addresses of great value were made 

 on the subject of perpetuating the forests of 

 Maine. Officers for the ensuing year were 

 appointed as follows : Frank E. Boston, Gardi- 

 ner, president : Charles E. Oak, Bangor, vice 

 president ; E. E. Ring, Orono, secretary ; W. W. 

 Thomas, Portland, treasurer ; also seven di- 

 rectors. This is a step in the right direction 

 and will doubtless result in much good in per- 

 petuating the forests of the state and in ensur- 

 ing a source of supply to one of its greatest 

 industries. 



Meeting of Executives N. H. L. A. 



A meeting of the Board of Managers of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association -was 

 held at the organization's headquarters In "the 

 Rector building, Chicago, on Thursday. March 

 28. There were present W. H. Russe, president ; 

 O. O. Agler, vice president; F. F. Fish, secre- 

 tary ; G. J. Landeck, B. R. Thompson, E. F. 

 Dodge, J. M. Scatcherd, Edw. Buckley, G. I. 

 Jones, W. A. Bonsack, Earl Palmer, C. F. Sweet, 

 O. E. Yeager, G. E. Hibbard, directors ; Theo. 

 Fathauer, chairman of Inspection Bureau Com- 

 mittee, and J. M. Dickson. 



The session was devoted largely to routine 

 inspection matters, and especially to the ap- 

 pointment of new salaried inspectors to take 

 the place of fee inspectors, whom the associa- 

 tion is very largely displacing. The secretary 

 was instructed to forward a resolution to the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission to appeal for 

 longer time for unloading lumber at points of 

 export. — 



A communication was received from D. I'. 

 Clark, president of the Northwestern Hardwood 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, on behalf 

 of his organization, inviting the officers of the 

 National association to be guests at a banquet 

 at Minneapolis at some date in April, to suit 

 the convenience of those invited. The invitation 

 was accepted, the date to be fixed later. 



Twenty new members were admitted to tbe 

 association. A communication was received 

 from tbe Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 Association asking for a conference on the sub 

 jeet of inspection looking to the amendment of 

 certain rules and the unification of them. The 

 matter was referred to the _ Inspection Rules 

 Committee. 



The secretary was instructed to arrange suit- 

 able transportation facilities for western mem- 

 bers of the association attending the annual 

 meeting at Atlantic City, May 23 and 24. 



Important Consolidation at Memphis. 



A change which has excited a great deal of 

 interest in hardwood circles in Memphis is the 

 consolidation of two of the most prominent 

 concerns of the city — the I. M. Darnell & Son 

 Company and E. E. Taenzer & Co., Inc. — under 

 the style of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com- 

 pany. The capital stock is placed at $500,000, 

 fully paid in. It was intended to have the con- 



E. E. TAENZER. FIRST VICE PRESIDENT 



OF THE NEW DARNELL-TAENZER 



LUMBER COMPANY. 



solidatioH effective April 1 

 delay, and operation now 

 date at which the charter 

 The new company takes 

 lands in Arkansas and 

 with stocks of ■ lumber at 

 where owned by the two 

 It will operate four mills. 

 circular and a planing mill 



but there was some 

 is dependent on the 

 is issued. 



over valuable timber 

 Mississippi, together 

 Memphis and else- 

 combining concerns, 

 two bands and one 

 and it will increase 



WALTER S. DARNELL, TREASURER AND 

 GENERAL MANAGER DARNELL-TAEN- 

 ZER LUMBER COMPANY. 



the capacity of these by tbe installation of con- 

 siderable new equipment. The Memphis plants 

 of the two old concerns adjoin each other and 

 their consolidation of stocks will be a simple 

 matter. 



Officers of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com- 

 pany are : I. M. Darnell, president of the old 

 1. M. Darnell & Son Company, president; E. E. 

 Taenzer. president and treasurer of E. E. Taen- 

 zer & Co.. Inc.. first vice president ; F. Zupke, 

 vice president and secretary of E. E. Taenzer 

 & Co.. second vice president ; W. S. Darnell, 

 secretary and treasurer of the I. M. Darnell & 

 Son Company, treasurer and general manager ; 

 and W. A. Dolph, assistant secretary and treas- 

 urer of the 1. M. Darnell & Son Company, secre- 

 tary. All are experienced lumbermen, well 

 known to tbe hardwood trade the country over. 



With men of such business ability as these at 

 its head it is certain that the consolidated en- 

 terprise will meet with great success. 



New Nashville Hardwood Company. 



The Sylco Lumber Company is the name of a 

 new hardwood concern just organized by promi- 

 nent operators of Nashville, Tenn. The princi- 

 pals of the company are John B. Ransom of J. B. 

 Ransom & Co., president ; C. B. Benedict of the 

 Davidson-Benedict Company, vice president and 

 general manager; M. F. Greene of the same con- 

 cern, secretary, and John Burns, also of the 

 Davidson-Benedict Company, treasurer. Other 

 stockholders are John W. Love of Love, Boyd & 

 Co. and Walter Keith. 



The company has acquired 30,000 acres of 

 virgin timber land in Polk county, southeastern 

 Tennessee, situated near the line of the Louis- 

 ville & Nashville railroad, and eighty-five miles 

 south of Knoxville. The timber consists of pop- 

 lar, white and red oak, white and yellow pine, 

 and is estimated to cut upwards of 2ii0.uihi.hihi 

 feet. Tbe company will establish a town, build 

 a double-band sawmill and install dry kilns and 

 planing mill where tbe L. & N. crosses the Cona- 

 sauga river. It will build a standard gauge rail- 

 road ten miles in length to penetrate the timber 

 properties. This railroad will be equipped with 

 locomotives and steam log loaders and skidders. 

 About half of the timber is white and yellow 

 pine and the remainder high-class hardwoods. 

 The property is said to constitute a very desira- 

 ble logging proposition, as it is not particularly 

 rough. 



C. B. Benedict, the vice president, who is an 

 experienced operator, will have charge of the 

 building of the new town and plant, as well as 

 general charge of the operation. It is expected 

 that the plant will be in operation shortly after 

 midsummer. 



The Reed City Veneer Works. 



The Reed City Veneer Works is the name of a 

 new concern, capitalized at $40,000, fully paid in, 

 which has entered into business at Reed City, 

 Mich. Fred S. Torrey, for fifteen years secre- 

 tary-treasurer of the Grand Rapids Veneer 

 Works, is one of the principals, and associated 

 with him in the enterprise are Gerber Brothers, 

 the maple flooring manufacturers of Holland. 

 J. S. Goldie of Cadillac and Ward Brothers of 

 Big Rapids. 



Four acres of land have been acquired for a 

 site, and the company is now erecting several 

 buildings which are being equipped with ma- 

 chinery and will be up to date in every respect. 

 Through close association with timber owners in 

 that section ample supplies of excellent quality 

 are assured, and the outlook for business is very 

 favorable. The plant will have a capacity of 

 2.500,000 feet of veneers annually, which will 

 consist of all kinds of panel and furniture 

 veneer, including mahogany and oak. 



New Albany Made Headquarters. 

 There was a meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Wood-Mosaic Flooring Company at Buffalo. 

 N. Y., on March 23. This is a New York cor- 

 poration with a plant at New Albany, Ind., and 

 one at Rochester, N. Y. The mill and timber 

 property of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company 

 at Highland Park, Ky.. have been acquired by 

 the company which will make it a very large 

 producer of hardwood lumber. For this reason 

 it was deemed best to change the title of the 

 corporation to the Wood-Mosaic Flooring & 

 Lumber Company. A resolution was adopted 

 increasing the capital stock of the company 

 from $300,000 to $550,000 and it was decided 

 to establish the general offices of the company 

 at New Albany. The company will now extend 

 its lumber operations, which are already exten- 

 sive in the South, very materially. The com- 

 pany is the foremost producer of wood-mosaic 

 flooring in the country. W. A. McLean wilt 

 continue as general manager of the institution. 



