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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The great Eastern Lumber Company, Savannah, 

 Ga., has been organized with a capital stocl: of 

 $1,000,000. The new company will develop tim- 

 ber lands in Georgia and South Carolina and con- 

 struct railways, etc.. near Savannah. It will 

 also build a plant with a daily capacity of 150,- 

 000 feet of lumber, construct an electric plant 

 and develop water-front property for industrial 

 sites. 



It is announced that a new hardwood flooring 

 plant will soon be started in Nashville, Tenn. 

 The new plant will be located in the building 

 formerly used by the Prewitt-Spurr Manufactur- 

 ing Company. It is understood that Chas. Mor- 

 ford and C. P. Street, together with several 

 stockholders who were formerly interested in 

 the Prewitt-Spurr plant, will be associated with 

 the new concern. 



The Grandin Lumber Company, Lenoir, N. C, 

 recently began the construction of a saw and 



planing mill, box factory, etc., which will have 

 an annual capacity of 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 

 feet of lumber. The company has more than 60,- 

 000 acres of land, estimated to contain 710.000,- 

 000 feet of standing timber, 350.000 cords of 

 pulp and acid wood, 100.000 cords of oak and 

 hemlock tanbark and 3.500,000 railroad ties. 



The Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company, Her- 

 mansville, Mich., is erecting a large up-to-date 

 sawmill to replace the one destroyed by fire about 

 a year ago. The new mill will greatly increase 

 the capacity of the company. When completed 

 it will be equipped with the latest and best ma- 

 chinery obtainable and will also have the most 

 modern conveniences and appliances to be found 

 in a lumber manufacturing plant. The Wisconsin 

 Land & Lumber Company makes a specialty of 

 IXL rock maple flooring and red birch flooring. 

 It also manufactures hemlock and basswood lum- 

 ber, ceiling, siding and moulding, and deals in 

 white cedar posts and poles. 



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Hardwood 'News Notes 



CHIC AGO 



J. H. Faust of the Faust Brothers Lumber 

 Company, Paducah, Ky., pased through Chicago 

 this week and spent a couple of days with his 

 local manager. Mr. Faust is returning from a 

 three weeks' trip to Michigan and Canadian 

 points. J. F. Mingea, who represents this con- 

 cern in Chicago, has also just returned from a 

 three weeks' trip through the South. 



E. C. Dawley of the Gill-Dawley Lumber 

 Company of Wausau, Wis., has been in town 

 for the past few days on business. 



J. B. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., was one of the dis- 

 tinguished visitors to the Chicago trade re- 

 cently. 



Earl Palmer of the Ferguson & Palmer Com- 

 pany, Paducah, Ky., and a director in the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, spent sev- 

 eral days visiting the local trade a short time 

 ago. 



E. Bartholomew of John B. Ransom & Co.. 

 Nashville. Tenn., spent a few days with the local 

 trade a week ago. 



D. S. Hutchinson of the Dickson Planing Mill 

 Company, Dickson, Tenn., was one of Chicago's 

 recent distinguished visitors. Mr. Hutchinson 

 was formerly associated with T. Wilce of Chi- 

 cago, being in charge of sales for several years. 



A. C. Lange, general manager of the Chicago 

 Mill & Lumber Company's plant at BlythevlUe, 

 Ark., visited the Chicago ofBce of that concern 

 a few days last week. At the same time E. C. 

 Nelson, manager of the Helena, Ark., plant was 

 in town. 



J. F. McSweyn of the Memphis Saw Mill 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., made a short busi- 

 ness trip through Chicago last week, calling on 

 the local trade. 



E. A. Lang, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company, 

 returned a week ago from a ten days' trip to 

 the southern mill points of that concern. 



W. N. Kelly of Traverse City, Mich., was one 

 of the hardwood men to visit the local trade 

 lately. 



J. W. Kitchen of the J. W. Kitchen Lumber 

 Company of Ashland, Ky., spent a few days with 

 the local lumbermen a week ago. 



W. McEumally of Sidney, Australia, was an 

 Interested and interesting visitor locally last 

 week. Mr. Mcl?umally is making a leisurely trip 

 through this country with his wife, to combine 

 pleasure with a general search for information 

 as to American conditions and methods. He 



plans to enter the lumber business in Australia 

 and Is looking for suitable machinery. 



A. C. Quixley of the Quixley & Bulgrin Lum- 

 ber Company returned a week ago from a vaca- 

 tion in Michigan. 



NEW YORK 



\ prominent hardwood visitor to this city 

 during the past fortnight was Chester F. Korn 

 on the Korn-Conkling Company, Cincinnati, who 

 was on his way home after an extended trip 

 abroad in the interest of business. Mr. Korn, 

 like other exporters, is of the opinion that the 

 volume of business with foreign markets promises 

 to increase as soon as there is an improvement 

 in conditions with respect to the freight situa- 

 tion. The current demand for American woods 

 in the markets abroad is excellent and would 

 doubtless be larger were it not for the dlfli- 

 culty in securing tonnage. 



William H. Russe of Russe & Burgess. Inc., 

 Memphis hardwood dealers, was in New York for 

 a few days prior to sailing for Europe. Mr. Russe 

 went to London, where his firm bus a branch 

 ortice in charge of Geo. A. Farber, who is well 

 known to the hardwood fraternity of the States 

 From London the two will visit the hardwood 

 markets of Great Britain and the continent. 

 Mr. Russe will return early in September. 



The A. Sherman Lumber Company announces 

 that it has made a connection with the San 

 Vincente Lumber Company, of Santa Cruz. Cal.. 

 which will give it the selling agency for the 

 redwood product of the California company in 

 the New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and 

 New England markets. The Sherman company, 

 through its local wholesale department, now 

 handles practically evrything in the lumber line. 



The Milne-Savage Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in New York by the Milne Brothers 

 Lumber Company interests, hardwood special- 

 ists of this city. The new company will confine 

 its activities to the Boston and New England 

 territory, practically as the representative of 

 the Milne Brothers Company. 



It is reported that the Republic Motor Com- 

 pany, a new corporation, organized to manufac- 

 ture motor cars and trucks, will erect factories 

 in this and other cities throughout the country. 

 Report has it that the factory in this city will 

 be erected on Eleventh avenue between Fifty- 

 sixth and Fifty-seventh streets. Each factory 

 will be fully equipped for producing complete 

 cars and trucks, and it is expected that the 

 new company will become a large buyer of hard- 

 wood lumber in conjunction with Its operations. 



J. H. Henderson, who recently resigned as sec- 

 retary of the Kendall Lumber Company of Pitts- 

 burgh, was a passenger on the Baltic, which 

 sailid for Liverpool on July 3. Mr. Henderson 

 will take personal charge of the affairs of the 

 Croft Lumber Company, hardwood producers at 

 Clarksburg, W. Va., on his return from abroad, 

 which will bo .about Sept. 1. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The directors of the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 held a meeting on July 9 at which the following 

 new members were elected : The Hilton-Dodge 

 Lumber Company, the W, M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Williamsport Planing Mills Com- 

 pany. 



William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., testify to a 

 steady trading, and regard the outlook with 

 favor. E. M. Bechtel, sales manager, reports 

 very desirable business coming in at this time 

 from the Manhattan district, and a considerable 

 volume of trading from the suburban territory 

 of Philadelphia. 



The W. R. Taylor Lumber Company reports 

 fair trading right along and prices strong. W. 

 R. Taylor has just returned from the Georgia 

 lumber camps, where he closed a very desirable 

 deal. 



The D. T. McKeithan Lumber Company, the 

 Meckley-I.ance Lumber Company and the Sum- 

 mit Lumber Company, petitioning creditors, filed 

 a petition on July 10 to have Mary C. Smenner 

 individually and as surviving partner of Alonzo 

 W. Smenner. trading as Smenner & Co., ad- 

 judged an involuntary bankrupt. 



Wistar. tlnderhill & Nixon are not disposed to 

 question conditions. Frederick S. Underbill says 

 things are moving along in fair shape, with the 

 outlook encouraging. R. Wyatt Wistar has just 

 returned from a protracted stay at their mill, at 

 Evergreen, N. C. where he was looking after 

 some stock. T. N. Nixon is making his regular 

 weekly trips to New York city and as a recrea- 

 tion feature is spending his nights at Asbury 

 Park, N. J. Gilbert B. Woodhull. formerly with 

 Gouverneur E. Smith & Co. of New York, has 

 been engaged to look after the firm's interest In 

 New York state, with headquarters in Syracuse. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company, owing in a great measure to 

 its careful management, continues to sustain an 

 excellent record. H. J. Pelstring. assistant man- 

 ager, says the first six months' business for 1912 

 has been equal to expectation, and if the balance 

 of the year holds out as well, the management 

 will be amply satisfied. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's .Association 

 held its semi-annual convention at the Paxlnosa 

 Inn, Easton, Pa., on July 17 and 18. An open- 

 ing address of welcome was made b,v Mayor 

 Nevin. Business, as is the rule at the summer 

 meeting, was of a routine character. A muslcale 

 and an automobile trip to the large cement mills 

 through a country which abounds in the most 

 delightful Bcener.v were two very enjoyable fea- 

 tures of this combined business and pleasure 

 outing. 



BUFFALO 



The Hardwood Exchange recently elected R. D. 

 McLean as president: J. B. Wall, vice-president; 

 and F. T. Sullivan, secretary. The last men- 

 tloned has Joined the exchange as a representa- 

 tive of II. H. Salmon & Co., New York, for whom 

 he has opened a yard and chartered steamers for 

 the bringing of a good supply of stock by lake. 



The loss by the fire which destroyed consider- 

 able hardwood lumber at the yard of Taylor & 

 Crate has been placed at .$28,000. a smaller 

 amount than was at first estimated. 



The McNeil Lumber Company suffered a loss 

 by fire on July 17 of about $2,000. The frame 

 office building and three plies of lumber were 

 burned. 



The estate of F. W. 'Vetter will be administered 



