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Big Timber Purchase. 

 i in,, of Hi'- largest timber land sales in the 

 history ,>r Oregon has just been consummated 

 by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., of Cadillac, who have 

 thus become large owners of tit - , spruce, hemlock 

 and cedar timber in the Siletz l'.iisin in I'olk and 

 Lincoln counties. By this proposition the bis; 

 Cadillac hardwood and hardwood flooring house 

 collates several hundred claims, and has consoli- 

 dated the holdings known as the Chapman tract, 

 formerly owned by Mitchell & McClure of Sagl 

 naw. Mich., and also the holdings of the Lane 

 County Lumber Company and of Henrj Hewitt 

 The purchase involves nearly 25,000 acres, and 

 was made at a stumpage price or from 50 cents 

 to II a thousand. 



The cruising anil sale of this property was 

 made by J. 1'. I.aeey & Co., Hie big timber 

 operators of Chicago, New York and Portland, 

 and is but one of several transactions on the 

 • oast that have been consummated during the 

 past year by Victor Thrane, junior partner <>i 

 the Lacey house. 



New Headquarters W. J. Cude Land & 

 Lumber Company. 

 The \V. .1. Cude Land & Lumber Company, 



whi.h operates sawmills at Kimmins. Tenn.. ami 

 Cude. Miss., for the purpose of unifying the 

 handling of its business, has just opened a gen- 

 eral business and sales headquarters at Nash- 

 ville, where \V. J. Cude, president of the com- 

 pany, will spend a considerable portion of his 

 time. Temporary headquarters have been se- 

 eured in the First National Bank Building, but 

 within the next month the company will occupy 

 a handsome suite of offices, 1013-1014 in He' 

 new, palatial Stahlman Building. The company 

 is also installing a new lumber yard, where it 

 will group stoek, at Colesburg, near Dickson, 

 Tenn. A branch ottice will also be maintained 

 ai that place. 



The \V. .1. Cude Land & Lumber Company has 

 i„.,oiiie mo- i i the important hardwood producing 

 bouses of the country, and its recent move will 

 enhance lis ability to serve the trade witli sat 

 Isfaction. 



New Memphis Saw Mill Colony. 

 lb,' new sawmill and veneer plant of C. 1 

 Willey in North Memphis are now complete and 

 the former is in operation. It occupies a fifteen- 

 acre tract near the junction of Main street and 

 the New Raleigh road ear line and the Union 

 Belt Line. The veneer plant will commence 

 operations as soon as the machinery arrives and 

 is installed. This plant will cut till. ("JO feel "I 



lumber a day and over 5, '.'"'i' feet of logs are 



already on the premises. 



The i:\ansville Veneer Company of Evansville. 

 Ind.. and the Frost Veneer Seating Company of 

 Sheboygan, Wis., will soon erect sawmills and 



v,. c plants on land adjoining the Willey prop 



erty. These new industries will employ at least 



two hundred men. In this same neighbor! I 



the E. Sondheimer company owns a twenty-acre 

 tract upon which it is reported they will build 

 saw- and planing mills and establish large lum- 

 ber yards. 



Opening of Navigation. 



The carrying charges on lumber, established 



by the l. iimher carriers' Association at a r nt 



meeting in Detroit, are reported to I"' generally 

 satisfactory to the trade, ami a good season's 

 business is anticipated. Owing to disasters and 

 migration to salt water, there are fewer carriers 

 engaged in tie' lumber traffic than usual, wind, 

 will doubtless result in keeping the remaining 

 fleets well occupied the entire season. 



Tile opening rate on pine and dry leu 

 from the head of Lake Superior was made si: 50. 

 with 25 cents extra on hemlock cut less than 

 ninety days. Hardwood lumber rates were 

 made 75 cents higher than pine from Lake Su- 

 perior and 50 cents higher from short points. 

 Cedar ties were advanced from T to T'j cents 



and cedar posis ii, ,ii i t lo -1 1 1 cents. Lumber 

 from Georgian Bay, Lake Huron and Lake 

 Michigan will pay \-'j cents more than last 

 year. No agreement was made with the Sea 



ns Union and lasi year's wages will prevail 



pending a new contract. 



A $100,000 Hardwood Corporation. 



The sterling Lumber & Cedar Company has 



been organized at Monroe. Midi., with w. C. 



Sterling as president and a capital stock »,f 



s in, i. mill. A ileal involving Hie purchase of 



4. nun acres ,,t timber land i ■ si. [gnace. Mich.. 



a sawmill, cam] I outfit, stores and dock. 



and lake front privileges of the Michigan Cedar 



Company, has recently i n closed by the c 



pany. it is estimated that the property will 



cut 25,000,000 feel of hardw Is, 30,000 cedar 



poles. 250,000 tics. 250,000 po^ts and about l",. 

 nun cords of pulpwood. The land is situated on 

 Hie Carp River about fifteen miles north of 

 St. [gnace, along St. Martin l'-a.\ Operations 

 will he commenced immediately. 



Advance Lumber Company. 



A paragraph in the Pittsburg news section of 

 Hie last issue of the Hardwood Record an 

 nounceil that the Advance Lumber Company of 

 Cleveland, O., bad opened a I'il tsluirg office, and 

 vouchsafed other information regarding the com 

 pany which was somewhat lacking in accuracy 

 and value. As a matter of fact Hie Advance 

 Lumber Company of Cleveland has had a Pitts- 

 burg office ever since the company was organ 

 iy.ed. some live years ago. which has been in 

 charge of c. c. McCoy. The company's Pitts- 

 burg ottice lias been recently removed to 2425 

 Farmers' Bank building. 



The Advance Lumber Company does a general 

 lumber business, hardwoods constituting a com- 

 paratively small part of what it distributes in 

 the Pittsburg territory. It is not an outgrowth 

 of the old Kirk-Christy firm, as stated in the 

 paragraph, but has a branch organization known 

 as the Kirk-Christy Company, which confines ils 

 attention to dealing in timber, timber lands, and 

 other properties. II. C. Christy has been the 

 general manager of both institutions since the 

 beginning. Aside from being a large factor in 

 the hardwood lumber business, the Advance 

 Lumber Company is a heavy producer of yellow 

 pine, with timber holdings and mills in Georgia 

 and Louisiana, and is also a large manufacturer 

 ,,f while pine and hemlock from upper lake 

 ports, which it handles in cargo lots, with 

 stocks at Duluth, Bayfield and Ashland. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Eugene V. Knight, who has I n secretary and 



general manager of the Indiana Panel & Veneer 

 Company at New Albany, has disposed of his In- 

 terests in the concern, being succeeded by C. 

 Bird The capital stock of the company has 



1 n increased from .f::4,unu to $1'"'. and the 



plan! will be remodeled and enlarged. 



S. 1'. I.oomis of the Loomis & Hart Manufac- 



turing Company, and F. W. Blair, both Chatta 



nooga, T i.. 1 bermen, .ire incorporators oi 



Hie new- ltnnihursi I. limber Company of Ram 



hurst, Ha. They will build a plan! thet i 



sisiiuu of p, , liable sawmills and planing mill. 



The Southern Hardwood Manufacturing com 

 pain of Banks, Ark., has tiled articles of incot 

 poration ; capital stock, $10,000. A. A.. A. V. 

 and A. It. Smith are the incorporators. 



The Rural Retreal Handle Company has I ii 



Incorporated at Rural Retreat, Va. w. F. Cam 

 mon is president; w. s. i.indscy. vice president, 

 and S. M. Corbett, Jr., secretary and treasurer. 



A full carload ,,f birds, -ye maple was shipped 



recently from Me uince county, Michigan, to 



London. England The demand for logs of Ibis 

 kind from foreign markets is large ,,! late, to be 



used in the nianul'actiii special kinds of fur 



nil ure and lor finishing materials, and prices are 

 on Hie increa > 



The Kihhe Sbiiinan Lumber Company Of Sulli 

 van, 111., has purchased a large tract of hard 



w 1 timber lands in southeastern Arkansas 



There is a mill on the properly, which the com 

 pany has in operation culling the timber, and 

 another of large capacity will be erected shortly. 

 The company also has offices ai Harrisburg, Ark., 

 and hereafter the headquarters will be located 

 at that city, with M. G. Kibhr. president of the 

 company, in charge. The property contains «. 

 rich growth of hickory and white oak of fine 

 quality. 



A school of forestry will be established al I lie 

 Washington state College, commencing next fall. 

 The curse will cover two years and will be opei, 

 to all students who have completed the equiva 

 lent of two years - high school work. Forestry, 

 silviculture, forest measuration and valuation, 



prelection, dendrology. < lomlc managements, 



etc., will be taught by competenl ami thorough 

 instructors. 



Averill & Mitchell, wholesale lumber dealers 

 of Christiansburg. Va.. will build a furniture la, 

 tory which will employ more than loll men. 



The Sanders & Egbert Company of South Bend, 

 Ind.. which operates a big hardwood mill there, 

 recently added to its timber holdings a tract oi 

 line wooded land in (Hive township near the 

 Michigan slate line. The consideration was 

 *16,000. 



II. 1'. Lucas, who reoonih acquired a con 



trolling interest in the Escanaba W lenware 



Company of Escanaba, Mich., announces a num- 

 ber of changes in the company's business to be 

 made at an early date. Plans are being made 

 I,, increase the business very materially. The 

 sawmill, which is of large capacity, will be op 

 dated both winter and summer, and operations 



will I onduded in the woods throughout the 



year. 



.Maine lumbermen have asked the legislatun 

 lo enact a law providing for an open season for 

 killing beavers, bcause of the damage they do 

 lo standing timber. Trees from I wo to twelvl 

 inches in diameter, li is claimed, are often de- 

 stroyed by them. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



.1. II. 1'. Smith of R. M. Smith .V; Co., Parkers- 

 burg, W. Va., was a recent visitor to the Chicago 

 market, 



Gilbert Y. Tick f 'fickle. Bell & Co., Livet 



pool, 'I the oldest houses in the mahogany 



and American lumber trade ill that port, sailed 

 lor the United Slalcs on March 30 for a general 

 lour of the lumber producing sed ions of this 

 country and Canada. Mr. Tickle will be in Chi- 

 cago the latter pari of April. 



The St. Louis Lumberman is issuing in pamph 

 id form a document that will he of more than 

 passing Interest to every manufacturer of lumber. 



It is entitled "The Exact Cost of Lumber — a 

 Problem Solved." and was written by ihe late 



Special Correspondents.) 



Car] Wchlcrin. Copies of the pamphlel may he 

 obtained postpaid for 50 cents on application i" 

 ihe si. Louis Lumberman. 



Th litor "f the Il.ua, w R wishes 



know ledge an invitation ft i t be i. bi i 



men's Exchange of Philadelphia to be present at 

 a dinner ai the Union League Club on Thursday, 

 \pnl 11, which will follow the twenty-first an- 

 nual meeting of ibis organizat ion 



i: ipi is acknowledged of the thirtj I th 



annual special issue of th,- Lumber Trades Journal 



,,!' London. This number cnsisis of about I 10 

 pages primed ,,n coated paper, and contains il 

 lustrated articles pertaining to timber and lum- 

 ber topic from tcai'ly all p. world. Il 



is a splendid es pie of Made paper enterprise, 



