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The latter is known as the Champion Lumber 

 Company. All of these mills turn out first- 

 elass stock, and have facilities for resawing and 

 planing, while the ' Champion mill is equipped 

 with adequate dry-kiln facilities. This mill is 

 located on a tract of 90,000 acres of virgin tim- 

 ber owned by the Whitmer interests, and Cin- 

 cinnati is the natural outlet for this stock to the 

 North, Northwest and to Canada. 



Mr. Bradley, who actively manages the busi- 

 ness of the E. C. Bradley Lumber Company. 

 was formerly connected with the Fullerton- 

 Powell Hardwood Lumber Company at the South 

 Bend office. "When that company opened up a 

 yard at Cincinnati, he was shifted to that city. 

 He remained with the company for two years, 

 at the end of which time he started in business 

 for himself, operating along those lines, until 

 his recent affiliation with NA'm. Whitmer & Sons, 

 as above mentioned. 



The offices of the K. C. Bradley f.umber Com 

 pany are in the Gerke building. The other mills, 

 besides the Champion Lumber (Company mill, 

 are located at Dobbin, Horton and Laneville, W. 

 Va. 



New Cypress Organization 



The Flint River Cypress Company is Ihe style 

 of a new organization recently incorporated to 

 erect a mill at Albany, Ga. Kbon J. Marsh of 

 Waycross, Ga., formerly of the Mar.sh Cypress 

 Company ; R. H. Paul of Watertown, Fla., and 

 F. B. Gardner of Jacksonville, Fla., are the 

 principals of the new corporation, Mr. Marsh 

 being president. R. H. Paul, ,secretary and 

 treasurer and Mr. Gardner, sales manager. 



The new mill will have a daily capacity of 

 40,000 feet, and will be modern in every detail. 

 Mr. Marsh will lie in active charge of the Albany 

 end of the business while the sales department 

 will be located at .Jacksonville. Mr. Gardner 

 has already opened a sales office in the Atlantic 

 National building in that city, and is ready to 

 do business. The plant will saw cypress, poplar 

 and hardwoods. The mill will have connections 

 with three railroads. 



New Quarters Chicago Association 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago has 

 taken new quarters iu the Stock Exchange build- 

 ing, which have been completely remodeled to 

 suit the requirements of the association. The 

 new quarters provide much more ample room, 

 and are much more conveniently laid out than 

 the old rooms in the Chamber of Commerce. 

 There are five rooms, each of them being desig- 

 nated for a particular jjurpose. Secretar.v E. 



E. Hooper has his private office on one side of 

 the large entrance hall, and directly opposite 

 him is the general working room in which will 

 be the multigraph and other machines. In the 

 back of the suite is a large general meeting 

 room. The work of remodeling and moving in 

 has just been completed and Secretary Hooper 

 Is well pleased in his new quarters. 



An Important Reorganization 



One of the most notable happenings in hard- 

 wood circles of late is the reorganization of the 

 Bayou Sara Lumber Company of Bayou Sara, 

 La. The officers of the new corporation are J. 



F. Irvine, president ; E. G. Westmoreland, vice- 

 president and manager ; G. M. Lester, secretary 

 and treasurer. Associated with them in the di- 

 rectorate are K. C. Smith and A. L. Sprague. 

 The affairs of the reorganized company will i>e 

 actively managed by E. G. Westmoreland, who 

 has a wide experience in cypress affairs. 



This company now owns in the neighborhood 

 of 100,000,000 feet of timber in the West 

 Feliciana Parish, La., running mostly to cypress, 

 tupelo, Cottonwood, oak and gum. 



The company's sawmill is up-to-date in every 

 particular, and it will turn out a large produc- 

 tion of high-grade lumber. It is planned to tear 

 down the present planing mill and erect a new 

 one. 



Capital for the newly extended operations of 



this company was secured by a ten year bond 

 issue on the timber holdings and mill plant for 

 $123,000. T. S. McGrath of Chicago, who has 

 been prominently identified with work of this 

 kind for some time placed the loan, the bonds 

 being purchased by W. A. Hamlin & Co. of De- 

 troit, Mich. 



New President Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 Club 



Charles F. Shiels of Charles F. Shiels & Co., 

 r'incinnati, was elected on Monday. May 6. to 

 Ihe presidency of the Cincinnati Ltimbermen's 

 Club. Mr. Shiels has been in the hardwood man- 

 ufacturing and wholesaling business in Cincin- 

 nati for a good many years, and is esteemed as 

 one of Cincinnati's most alert and aggressive 

 lumbermen. He is amply qualified in every way 

 to successfully carry on the work of his prede- 

 cessor, Sam W. Richey. 



Liunberman's Trip to His Mills 



Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & Co.. 

 Philadelphia, gives an interesting account of a 

 recent trip to their mill at Pensacola, N. C, 

 where he spent so much time he had to forego 

 a more extended tour, which he intended, of his 



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southern connections. At this mill the firm is 

 cutting some poplar, oak, chestnut and bass- 

 wood, and ill all Mr. Parry's trips through West 

 Virginia and the Canadian timber fields, he 

 says, he has never seen such large timber as he 

 found on the mountains at Pensacola. A large 

 percentage of the spruce trees are at least three 

 feet in diameter and hold that width in many 

 cases for eigiity and ninety feet. The red oak 

 and poplar trees are enormous in size and the 

 average cut of the mill is considerabl.v higher 

 in grade than any other stock Mr. Parry has 

 ever known. One large chestnut log by actual 

 count and inspection, made while he was at the 

 mill, was over eighty per cent I's and ii's, and the 

 balance etiuall.v divided between No. 1 and No. 

 2 common. Mr. Parry states that their chest- 

 nut thiYiughont will average at least fifty per 

 cent common and better. 



Most ijeeuliai- conditions exist on the moun- 

 tain side, Mr. Parry says, at this time. In many 

 places a coating of ice from one to six inches 

 thick is seen, apparently kept from melting by 

 the heavy moss which covers the entire mountain 

 side, and which in some places is two feet thick. 

 At some points it was utterly impossible to see 

 the sun through the dense tree tops, and the 

 soil was very wet antl damp, even though the 

 location is ."..uni) feet above the sea level. 



A Notable Expansion 



The Chicago oflices of the Lumbermen's Credit 

 Association were recently removed from the 

 Great Northern building to beautiful quarters 

 at 174G-1762 Heisen building, one of the latest 

 additions to Chicago's skyscraper colony.,. The 

 building is at 60S South Dearborn street. . , 



The Lumbermen's Credit Association ',will oc- 

 cupy 4,000 square feet of space, representing 

 double the space formerly occupied. The offices 

 comprise the entire south end of the : bliilding, 

 and are Ught, cheerful and commodious.-. The 

 new quarters strikingly reflect the growth and 

 success of this institution. . . 



At the same time the New York office has 

 been obliged to seek more commodious quarters, 

 and has removed to Suite 1600 Hilliard building, 

 M .John street. The association extends an in- 

 vitation to the trade to visit its new quarters. 



Death of Mrs. A. E. 'Wilson 



.\fter a lingering illness, the wife of A. E. 

 Wilson of the Wilson Cypress Company, well- 

 known manufacturer at Palatka. Fla., died at 

 Aiken. S. C. on Apr. 29. Mr. Wilson will have 

 the sincere condolence of many friends, both 

 within and without the lumber industry at the 

 loss of his life's companion. 



Notable Cargo Cuban Mahogany 



The wc'll-known lirm of Moffett, Robbins & 

 Co., composed of T. .T. Moftett and E. W. Rob- 

 bins, who are also owners of the Maley, Thomp- 

 son & .Moffett Compan.v of Cincinnati, O., pro- 

 ducer of high-class foreign and domestic lumber 

 and veneers, has been operating in Cuba for 

 many years past. The firm entered the Cuban 

 lield Immediately after the Spanish-American 

 war. and since that time has been engaged in 

 • xploiting the island tor mahogany. It equipped 

 au up-to-date band sawmill at Havana, which is 

 also fitted tip with planers and dimension mill 

 iiiaehinery. which have been in operation for the 

 past ten years. At this plant the firm carries 

 a large stock of Cuban mahogan.v lumber, which 

 Is sold in part locally, but to a considerable 

 extent is exported to the United States and to all 

 European countries. 



The company's mill is located on Havana bay, 

 and has its own wharf. It is thus equipped to 

 make delivery to any part of the United States 

 as quickly as from most local markets. 



In addition to the office at Cincinnati, in con- 

 nection with the Maley, Thompson & Moffett 

 Company, Moffett, Robbins & Co. have an office 

 at 6.") Beaver street. New York City, two blocks 

 below Wall street, and also have a fine storage 

 yard and mahogany warehouse in Brooklyn, both 

 of which they have maintained for many years. 



The firm has exploited the island of Cuba very 

 fully, and by reason of long experience, knows 

 just where to find the best timber on the island. 

 For this reason it is able at all times to supply 

 Cuban mahogany, either in the log or in the 

 form of lumber, of such texture, color, quality 

 and figure as has been unknown tor many years 

 heretofore. 



This firm has been shipping many millions of 

 feet of Cuban mahogany to the United States and 

 abroad for years, but never in the history of the 

 industry has such a cargo of mahogany logs been 

 shipped as that on board the steamship .Vntares, 

 which has just arrived in New Y'ork harbor. 



This cargo consists of nearly a million feet of 

 Cuban mahogany, and embraced in the lot Is 

 some of the best and finest figured wood that the 

 Island of Cuba ever produced. Owing to the size 

 and quality of the wood, it is regarded as a re- 

 markably notable cargo of Cuban mahogany, and 

 one which is causing a great deal of favorable 

 (■omment on the enterprise of Messrs. Moffett 

 and Robbins. The cargo will be distributed 

 throughout the United States and European 

 countries which they supply with this class of 

 wood. 



Moffett, Robbins & Co. are by far the largest 

 exporters of Cuban wood in the world, and have 



