HARDWOOD RECORD 



Michigan Association Will Build Watch Tower 



iiml fiMiiiturt' workers who iiki^ t( 

 Chicagoans in Hardwood Deal 



pci-mit Hre 

 iindiim coun- 

 hi.ve gained 



< i«w'i/^M!»^aiK:)tre<atatiiTOi^iTOigit^^ 



With the Trade 



New Cincinnati Concern 



about eiclit acres 

 he company has 

 IDO-foof switches. 

 iU-d is lieing rap- 

 Ued with choice 





Mr 



is liuilding a pianing 

 mill which he expects 

 In liave completed In 



where he will do sur- 

 facing a n d re'sawing. 

 specializing in hevcl sid- 

 ing. Mr. Hay is well 

 known in the lumber 

 trade, having been iden- 

 lilied with the M. B. 

 I'arriu I-nmher Com- 



ly deserves in 

 undertaking, 

 r. Hay says tha 



li(ltnilalion of the Wi- 



horg & llanua Oompan.v 



is almost completed and 



• LUMBEK Cd.MI'ANY. I'l.N- lie will soon he in a 



CINNATI. position to make a full 



and final report to the 



ri-al estati' li:i-i b. ,ii disposed of and there remains to 



I (.nly ahonl SJ.-,,iinij worth of stock. The only creditors 



Capital Chair Company Moves 



ir c.impany of Kockford. 111., lias moved its machinery 

 II. f.- .111,1 Wyman streets on the Water Tower and ha., 

 :ii 111 II 11. -w site. It is announced that the concern 



industry of Ro 



eft 



:)ldini.' of 



Chair Company to Build 



KMI.i.l- I'iMii r,,i,i|.:ii.y ,,r Ci.iiid Itapids. Mich., announces 

 "- "I th. |,i, v.„i iHiyinu ...is.iu it will erect an addition to 

 ■ c.l M.iiii,,. ,.v( , ..!.■. ri!i^ :nl,lition will he in the form of an 

 ry .iliout i;(i.\UH) f.et and will cost several thousand dollars. 



R. L. Jurden Talks on Walnut 

 n. secretary and general manager of the Tenrod Walnut and 

 an>. Kansas City. Mo., and the r.'nrod-.Iurden-Mcfowen 

 In.^li.'l.l. .\rk., ha^ l.een s|,rn,liii^ s,„„r liair in (;i;ni,l K.anids 



Franklin H. Smith Has New Appointment 



inklin II. Smith, now statistician in forest products in the l)c 

 of Agriculture and located in Chicago, has been appointed 



rcial 



!ind 



proved by S.-. i-.iai > .,1 ( omm. r.c l!<.dtield. 



Mr. Smiths . xp.iinnr ii.is -aiued for him an accurate knowledge of 

 marketing and i.ili.i |na.h<al iihases of the lumber business, and he will 

 be eminently .pialilie.i lo serve in the new capacity as commercial agent 

 to investigate lumber markets iik various parts of (he world. 



Tlie Department of Commerce is preparing to send him to China, .Japan, 

 India, Australia. New Zealand, the I'aclfic Islands and the Hast Indies, 

 to conduct a series of lumber market investigations, as indications are that 

 Tliose localities offer the n.ost attractive dormant maik.^ts for the lumber 

 |tro<luct of this country. 



William Seiber 



William Seihcr, president of the Central Veneer Company, Huntington. 

 W. Va., and n prominent politician in tli.-it section, died Sunday. .Inly ]-J, 

 after an Illness extpnd- 



took 



pla 



Wa> 



ton avenue. Ills death 

 was due directly to 

 bjood poisoning follow- 

 ing an operation per- 

 formed on Mr. Seibers 

 foot. The deceasiMl had. 

 however, been seriously 



ill for more tha n 



months and the oper- 

 ation was made neces- 

 sary by the resulting 

 condition. Death had 

 been expected for sev- 

 eral days, all of his 

 relatives being present 

 when the end finally 

 camp. 



Mr. Seiber had been 

 identified with ijiany 

 important enterprises 

 connected with the de- 

 velopment of Hunting- 

 ton, having been a 

 member of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. He 

 had lived in Hunting 



ing to that city in tlie spring of 

 Seiber was fonty-fivc years old. 



Mr. .Seil.ier had been elected mayoi 



a III, ml. i ■>! Ill Inited Commereia 



i-ellers, Knlgli 



>li ~- - 111 Ills veneer career as an emplo.ve of the K. 1 1. Allun 



Veil. , 1 .^ 1 1 Company of Cincinnati, O., where he was born. He 



remained with that concern for fifteen years and managed the plant 

 during the last three years before leaving. In l.S!)4 be established the 

 present plant for the J. II. Moore Compan.y, for which concern he served 

 as manager a year. In the year following the Central \'eneer Company 

 was organized and Mr. Seiber became president, which oflice he held uii 

 to the time of his death. 



ny has a good reputation as 

 especially in poplar. The 

 ently improved to the exte 



lufacturer 

 is on an 

 installing 



.Mr. .s,il„i I 

 argaret rApi 

 Id Charles .T. 



eft 



Change in Bassett Company 

 The Bassett Hardwood Manufacturing Company of Monticello, Ky., 

 announces that a deal has ,iust been consummated in which George O. 

 Bassett, president of the Bassett Hardwood Manufacturing Company, 

 has purchased the stock owned by P. W. Miiit..n i.l' the same concern. 

 This makes Mr. Bassett owner of all mills and Inhliiiij- <.i ihe Bassett 

 Hardwood Manufacturing Compan.v, which is pi.n iirall\ tli. largest con- 

 cern of its kind in the country. It manutaetun s vrhirl.- n Istock and 



owns several saw and dimension mills in central K.-ntinkv. 



