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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Miscellaneous Notes 



Schroeder Mills & Timber Company, Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., has been incorporated witb a capital 

 stock of $24,000. 



The A. P. Bohlinger Table Company, St. 

 Louis, Mo., has increased its capital stock from 

 $15,000 to $25,000. 



The Eggers Lumber Company, Monessen. Fa., 

 has been incorporated with an authorized capi- 

 tal stock of $20,000. 



The C. F. Schmoe Furniture Company of 

 Shelbyrille, Ind., has increased its authorized 

 capital stock to $25,000. 



The Colonial Cabinet Company, St. Louis, 

 Mo., has been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $10,000. 



The New Orleans Saw Mill Company, New 

 Orleans, La., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $60,000. 



The Chicago Heights Lumber Company, Chi- 

 cago Heights, 111., has "increased its capital 

 stock from $16,000 to $75,000. 



The M. E. Leming Lumber Company, Cape 

 Girardeau. Mo., has been incorporated with 

 an authorized capitalization of $50,000. 



The Crescent Lumber Company, Washington, 

 N. C, has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $50,000 to manufacture lumber. 



Fire recently visited the plant of the Cherry 

 Riyer Boom & Lumber Company at Richwood, 

 W. Va., entailing a loss estimated at $10,000. 



Arthur A. Brown & Co., Pensacola, Fla.. 

 have been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $30,000 and will export lumber. 



The Eller Wagon Company of Houston, Tex., 

 has been succeeded by the Texas Wagon Works, 

 and the capital stock increased from $40,000 

 to $80,000. 



It is announced that the Panama Manufac- 

 turing Company of Malvern, .\rk.. has plans 

 under way for the erection of a new wagon 

 factory and veneer mill. 



The Goodyear Lumber Company, manufac- 

 turer of hemlock lumber of Buffalo, N. Y.. has 

 opened an oflSce at 831 Real Estate Trust 

 building, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Wilcox Lumber Company, Mclviuney, 

 Tex., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $7,000. The incorporators are George Wil- 

 cox, F. E. Wilcox and S. W. King. Jr. 



The Piedmont Hardwood Company, States- 

 vlUe, Va., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $100,000, of which $10,000 has been 

 subscribed by B. R. Thurman. A. J. Bailey and 

 others. 



F. O. Bailey & Co., manufacturers of car- 

 riages and show cases at Portland, Me., have 

 been succeeded by the F. O. Bailey Company, 

 which is Incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $75,000. 



The New York & New Jersey Lumber Com- 

 pany, Jersey City, N. J., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $150,000. The incor- 

 porators are I. F. Goldenborn, T. F. Farrell 

 and C. Wolf of Jersey City. 



The Dunn-Oliver Lumber Company of Plain- 

 field, N. J., has been incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $50,000. The incorporators are 

 John E. Dunn and L. E. Dunn of Plainfleld : 

 Alfred C. Oliver and Rogers K. Oliver of At- 

 lantic Highlands. 



The Gammill Lumber Company, Pelahatchie. 

 Miss., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $250,000 for the purpose of develop- 

 ing timber land and manufacturing lumber. 

 The incorporators are Stewart Gammill, John 

 I.ockwood, H. L. Nolan and associates. 



It Is announced that the furniture finishing 

 plant of the Ohio Valley Manufacturing Com- 

 pany will be removed from Kentucky to Waco, 

 Tex., at an early date. A factory building 

 C5x200 feet, three stories high and of brick 

 construction, will be erected immediately. 



The D. Goldman Fixture Company has been 

 Incorporated in New York City, N. Y.. with a 



capital stock of $2,000 to manufacture cabi- 

 nets, store fixtures, woodworking, etc. The 

 incorporators are Aaron Goldman, 220 W. Tenth 

 street ; Jacob W. Zipkes and Bernhard David- 

 son, all of New York City. 



The F. Fastenrath Company, Manhattan. New 

 York City, N. Y., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $10,000 to do a general 

 wood-working and lumber business. The incor- 

 porators are Henry F. Fastenrath, 213 West 

 Houston street ; Joseph S. Klein, 1230 Lenox 

 avenue, an(} Frederick Fastenrath, 22 West 

 Fourth street. 



According to advices from Shreveport. La., 

 the Timpson Handle Company, whose head- 

 quarters are located at Timpson, Tex., will 

 build a plant at Cedar Grove, La., and remove 

 its general offices to this place. The plant will 



handle hardwood lumber in .Shreveport,' and 

 will be one of the largest of Its kind in the 

 country. The products of the Timpson Handle 

 Company are confined exclusively to handles 

 for tools, plows, etc., and are manufactured 

 from hickory timber. 



The Kentucky-Indiana Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, which w'as recently incorporated at 

 Louisville, Ky.. has temporary offices at Owens- 

 boro. Ky., pending the establishment of its yard 

 at Twenty-third and Magnolia streets, Louis- 

 ville. The company has been delayed in the 

 establishment of the yard owing to Its in- 

 ability to get its railroad switch properly in- 

 stalled. Although it has considerable lumber 

 bought, it has been necessary to hold up the 

 shipment of this lumber until the switch could 

 be installed. 



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CHICAGO 



W. E. Heyser of the W E Heyser Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, dropped into town on 

 May 21 and spent a few days visiting his 

 trade. 



George Townsend of the Holston Box & Lum- 

 ber Company, Knoxville, Tenn.. was a Chicago 

 visitor this week. 



John M. Diver, head of the big white pine 

 institution, Clevcland-Sarnia Sawmills Com- 

 pany. Sarnia. Ont.. spent Sunday in Chicago 

 on his way home from an extended Pacilic 

 coast trip. 



George E. Foster of the Foster-Latimer Lum- 

 ber Company, Mellen, Wis., was in Chicago 

 on May 15 on one of his regular visits. 



C. N. Coupland. general manager of the Tim- 

 ber Importing Company, London, was a Chi- 

 cago visitor last week. Mr. Coupland is seek- 

 ing American hardwoods for export, and is 

 particularly intoresterl in black walnut logs. 



John F. Fountain, formerly salesman for the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, has been en- 

 gaged as Chicago representative for Maley & 

 Wertz of Indianapolis. 



Robert Maisey of Maisey vi Dion. Chicago, 

 left on May 21 for about a week's southern 

 trip. He will visit the Dixon. Tenn.. branch 

 of his firm, and from there will go down 

 through Tennessee and Mississippi. 



The J. B. Sprague Lumber Company has 

 moved its offices from the First National Bank 

 building. Chicago, to 440 Marquette building. 



Francis Beidler, president of the Santce 

 River Cypress Lumber Company, Ferguson, 

 S. C, has moved the offices of this concern 

 and his various other interests from 72 W. 

 Adams street to suite 1405 Great Northern 

 building, 20 W. Jackson boulevard. 



The Chicago offices of the American Wood 

 ■Working Machinery Company, whose head(iuar- 

 ttrs are at Rochester, N. Y.. have been moved 

 from the Fisher building to Washington and 

 Jefferson streets. 



McEwen Ransom, treasurer of several of the 

 Ransom houses of Nashville, Tenn., registered 

 at the Lumbermen's Club of Chicago on May 21. 

 J. V. Cleland of the Miltmore Lumber Com- 

 pany, Knoxville, Tenn., was a Chicago visitor 

 May 18. 



W. D. Reeves, the well-known Helena, .\rk.. 

 hardwood manufacturer, was a Chicago visitor 

 for several days recently. 



S. B. Anderson of Anderson-Tnlly Company, 

 the big hardwood lumber, veneer and box manu- 

 facturer of Memphis. Tenn.. was a Chicago vis- 

 itor this week, and left for home on May 23. 



M. Baughman Cross, manager of the Santee 

 River Cypress Lumber Company, Ferguson, S. C, 

 spent a few days In Chicago last week in con- 



sultation with President Beidler of this institu- 

 tion. The company at present is engaged in the 

 manufacture of cypress lumber, but within a 

 few days will turn its big mill over to the pro- 

 duction of red gum for some months. 



NEW YORK 



The Gillette-Mount Company. 50 Church street. 

 New York City, has been incorporated under 

 the laws of New Jersey with a capital stock of 

 $50,000. and will wholesale hardwoods, spruce 

 and white pine. The company is composed of 

 R. B. Gillette, who for many .years was con- 

 nected with the R. G. Peters' interests of Mich- 

 igan, and R. I. Mount, a graduale forester. 



The Hofferberth Company with headquarters 

 in this city has been incorporated with a capital 

 slock of $100,000 for the purpose of dealing in 

 timber lands and operating concessions in the 

 Republic of Honduras. Charles F. Hofferberth. a 

 piominent hardwood man of this city, is at the 

 head of the company. The other incorporators 

 are W. H. Darth and H. R. Woods of New York. 



The DuBois Lumber Company is the style of 

 the ne*v wholesale eastern spruce house located 

 at 225 West Broadwa.v. W. E. DuBois, who 

 for many years was connected with Simpson, 

 Clapp & Co. of this city, is head of the new 

 company. 



Fire on May 12 destroyed the sawmill plant 

 of J. D. Hull. 2-6 Tompkins street, city, entail- 

 ing a loss of $25,000. 



The Baldwin Lumber Company, Jersey City, 

 N. J., recently purchased the mill and working 

 plant of the Yeandle Company, 1002-4 Gariield 

 avenue, Jersey City. The Yeandle Company will 

 retire. 



The Bleeker Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated to operate a lumber and box business 

 at lis Bleeker street. City. .The company Is 

 headed by Charles Garibaldi, who bought out 

 the box and lumber business of S. Lauterstein 

 some months ago. 



The Michigan Flooring Company of this city 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000 by C. J. Kellar of the Norfolk Lumber 

 Company. Flatiron building, and M. Griggs and 

 H. E. Hanes. The new company will do u 

 wholesale hardwood flooring business. 



The sheriff has received an execution for .f36.- 

 COS against the Lincoln Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, manufacturer of tireproofed wood for trim, 

 with plant at One Hundred and Fifty-second 

 street and Harlem river, Bronx, and office at 

 220 Fifth avenue. New York City. The she.-iff's 

 keepers are now in charge of the factory. The 

 company was incorporated in January. 1010. 

 with a capital of $1,000,000, with W. B. Chis- 

 holm of Charleston, S. C, as president. 



Since the demise of the Lumbermen's Club of 



