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probably be made in automobiles. Various side 

 excursions will be enjoyed. 



On Thursday morning-. July IS, another auto- 

 mobile ride through the profile notch to Mount 

 Washington hotel will be furnished. Here the 

 directors will remain Thursday and Friday, and 

 short excursions will be made to the new state 

 reserTation at Crawford Notch, and to some of 

 Ihe tracts recently purchased by the National 

 Forest Reservation Commission under the Weeks' 

 law. 



An Interesting Logging Proposition 



On the Island of Formosa, on which is located 

 Mount Ari, there is being consummated the 

 installation of a very interesting system of log- 

 ging, which has been installed by the Formosan 

 government. The exploitation of the valuable 

 forests on Mount Ari has been unsuccessfully 

 attempted for a good many years. The mountain 

 is seven thousand feet above sea level, and on 

 it are found three species of hardwood of ex- 

 treme value. Some of the trees are of immense 

 proportions and very old. 



The process by which the trees are to be 

 logged is a mountain railway on which will be 

 operated two American built locomotives of the 

 Shay geared type. 



TYPICAL BASSWOOD ON THE HOLDINGS OP 

 THE P. W. FRENCH LUMBER COM- 

 PANY, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 



A Michigan Timber Purchase 



In connection with this story will be seen a 

 photograph of a typical basswood as found on 

 the holdings of the F. W. French Lumber Com- 

 pany of Battle Creek, Mich., which timber was 

 recently purchased from B. L. Quirk, Jr., of 

 Ypsilanti, Mich. The recent purchase of the 

 F. W. French Lumber Company comprises one 

 of tlie few remaining areas of virgin timber of 

 any extent in the state. It is located in Wayne 

 county, Michigan, near Belleville, and is a com- 

 paratively short distance from Ann Arbor. The 

 tract has been used for a considerable period 

 by the students of the University of Michigan 

 in connection with geological observations. It 

 lies in one body and is covered with a growth 

 of sound, tall, choice stock, comprising several 

 hundred acres of valuable oak, poplar, maple, 

 basswood and ash, and so far has been absolutely 

 untouched by saw or ax. The F. W. French 

 l/umber Company is planning to erect a band 

 mill on or near this property within a few weeks, 

 and will manufacture a high grade of lumber, a 

 large percentage of which will be of the woods 

 above named. This deal represents one of the 

 most valuable purchases of hardwood timber in 

 southern Michigan made in a long time. 



Prominent Lumberman's Wife Dies 



Mrs. -Tennie NefE Hayward, wife of Morris A. 

 Hayward of Columbus, Ohio, died suddenly of 

 heart failure on June 27. Mrs. Hayward was 

 born in Piqua, O., in 1855. She was a graduate 

 of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and an 

 active church worker in the Presbyterian Church 

 in Columbus. She had no club connections, but 

 was devoted to her home and family. Last win- 

 ter Mr. and Mrs. Hayward celebrated their 

 twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. 



Besides her husband, two children survive, 

 Mrs. H. E. Stafford of Columbus, and Benjamin 

 N. Hayward, formerly secretary of the Ohio 

 Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, and now 

 connected with the Jarver Lumber Manufactur- 

 ing Company of Tippecanoe City. O. 



Mrs. Hayward died at the residence of Mr. 

 J. S. Hayward, who is a brother of her husband, 

 and is connected with the Nicola, Stone & Meyers 

 Company of Cleveland. Mr. Hayward was in 

 Indianapolis the morning his wife's death oc- 

 curred, and reached Columbus but an hour be- 

 fore her remains arrived from Cleveland. The 

 interment took place in Columbus. 



New Southern Concern 



The Laurel Lumber Company is the title of a 

 new concern organized at Laurel. Miss., to do a 

 general wholesale business in hardwoods and 

 .vellow pine. The Laurel company commenced 

 business on July 1 with a capital of $50,000. 

 The incorporators are L. K. Bradshaw and' 

 Arthur Corry, of Laurel : L. A. Buzard, of Lami- 

 .".on, Ala., and Eber Darling, of Elkhart, Ind. 

 Mr. Bradshaw is president and Mr. Corry. treas- 

 urer. The latter has been with the wholesale 

 department of the Caul Lumber Company, Bir- 

 mingham, for a number of years, while Mr. 

 Bradshaw was formerly of the Bradshaw Lum- 

 ber Compan.v of Union. Tenn. Mr. Darling will 

 be on the road for the company, covering Indiana 

 and Michigan. 



New Pittsburgh Representative 



The Goodyear Lumber Company of Buffalo, 

 X. Y.. has Just engaged E. J. Flautt as Its Pitts- 

 burgh representative. He will sell principally 



old concern for years has been one of the most 

 prominent and successful hardwood houses of 

 Louisiana, but it has cut its last log, and lumber 

 is now being shipped from the yard, after which 

 the mill and equipment will be dismantled and 

 sold. 



Mr. Hoshall was a resident of New Orleans 

 until six months ago, and was president of the 

 New Orleans Lumbermen's Club at the time of 

 his departure. He is a director of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. 



The active management of the new company 

 will fall upon Mr. Hoshall, who will maintain 

 his office in the Carter building. The firm will 

 do a wholesale hardwood business, and aims to 

 develop the hardwood resources of Texas. Mr. 

 Hoshall has made some excellent connections 

 with hardwood concerns, and^when he opens his 

 business will have a full stock of cypress and 

 hardwood lumber at his command. 



New Pittsburgh Enterprise 



The latest concern in the hardwood line to 

 enter the Pittsburgh field is the Union Lumber 

 Company, located at 516 Federal street. William 

 Hunter, who until recently was president of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumber Company, will be the 

 active head of the concern. Mr. Hunter has 

 l>een selling lumber for twenty years. He sold 

 out his interest in the Pennsylvania company 

 early in June and shortly associated with him 

 II. B. Butler, formerly also connected with the 

 I'Enns.vlvanin Lumber Company and a lumber 

 salesman of renown in the Pittsburgh territory. 



A. E, Butler is also in the new business. The 

 latter is from Butler, Pa., where he is a wealthy 

 oil producer. He also owns a considerable area 

 of timber land in western Peunsylvania. 



The new concern is capitalized at $65,000 and 

 will do a general wholesale lumber business, but 

 will specialize In mixed carload trade of fine 

 hardwoods going to first-class wood-working fac- 

 te ries of various kinds. 



The Union Lumber Company will establish a 

 yard, which will carry a full line of hardwood 

 lumber. It is also planned to begin operations 

 at once at Emienton, Pa., where the company 

 will cut oak. 



"MAHOGANY GOING CP" 



the company's hemlock, long leaf pine and M(-xi- 

 can white pine. The Pittsburgh representation 

 of this concern is a new move, but was found 

 necessary on account of increasing business in 

 that section. The company has a new liemlock 

 mill at Norwood. Pa., cutting 75,000.000 feet 

 annually, and is also the exclusive eastern sales 

 agent for the Great Southern Lumber Company 

 at Bogalusa. La. It represents the Madera Com- 

 pany of Madera, Mexico, which concern turns out 

 1,300,000 feet Mexican white pine annually. 



Hardwood House Locates at Houston 



It is announced from Houston. Tex., that W. E. 

 Hoshall, president and general manager of the 

 hardwood manufacturing firm of Hoshall & 

 McDonald Brothers, Eola, La., has severed his 

 connection in Louisiana and will open offices 

 in the city of Houston about July 1. The style 

 of the new firm will be W. E. Hoshall & Co. The 



Mahogany Goes Up 



If concrete evidence that mahogany is soaring 

 is needed, the accompanying cut should be ample 

 proof. This picture was taken at the yard of 

 the R. S. Bacon Veneer Company of Chicago, 

 and shows a big African log being raised from 

 the yard to be placed on the carriage tor trans- 

 portation to the saw. 



To the Trade 



There came to Hardwood Record oflices simul- 

 t.'ineously two notices from Pittsburgh concerns, 

 the first of which is from the Flint, Erving & 

 Stouer Company, which announces that owing to 

 complications in which its affairs have been in- 

 volved through its affiliations with various lum- 

 lier manufacturing companies, it is not at this 

 time in a position to transact a general whole- 

 sale lumber business. This concern advises the 

 Irade that it has turned over the organization 



