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HARDWOOD RECORD 



tcreri the wholesale lumbi^r business at Birmin.i;- 

 Iiani, Ala. 



The W, W. Wood Company. Itaymond. \A'ash.. 

 has been succeeded by the Western A'eneer & 

 Basket Company. 



The John Deere Wagon Company, Moline. 111., 

 has been incorporated with an authorized capital 

 stock of $500,000. 



The Prowse Aeroplane Company. Hopkinsville. 

 Ky.. has been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $23,000. 



The Fidelity Lumber Company, Kansas City. 

 Mo., has been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $650,000. 



The Newport Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. Newport, N. C. lias been incorporated with 

 an authorized capital stock of $50,000. 



The r.lood Mountain Lumber Company. Dah- 

 lonegji, <;a.. has been incorporated with a capital 

 slock of $50,000 to manufacture lumber. 



Fire recently destroyed the sawmill and lum- 

 ber yards of the Augusta Lumber Company, 

 Augusta, Me., entailing a loss of $150,000. 



The American Manufacturing Company, chair 

 manufacturer of Sheboygan, Wis., recently in- 

 creased its capital stock from $60,000 to $.'!00.0O(l. 



The Kugel Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated at Grand Rapids. Mich., with an 

 authorized capital stock of $2,500 and will 

 manufacture furniture. 



The Parma Veneer Products Company. Parmo. 

 Mo., has been organized with W. .1. Coyner. 

 president : L. E. Wilcox, secretary-treasurer, and 

 E. Walker, superintendent and general manager. 



The lilack & Norton Company. Brinkle.v, Ark., 

 lias been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $100,000 and will manufacture handles and deal 

 in timber. The incorporators are J. T. Black. 

 J. L. Norton and E. G. Norton. 



The JIagnolia Pine & Cypress Company. 

 Savannah, Ga.. has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $1,000,000. The company has 

 40,000 acres of timber land, but has not as yet 

 determined plans for its development. 



The National Desk Company, manufacturer of 

 office desks and typewriter cabinets. Herkimer. 

 N. Y., has recently added to its plant a building 

 68x40 feet, two stories with concrete floor, foi* 

 the purpose of operating a rotary veneer plant. 



The Milne-Savage Lumber Company is a new 

 concern which will have headquarters at Boston. 

 Mass.. in charge of H. A. Savage. The new 

 company will look after the interests of the 

 Milne Brothers Company in New England terri- 

 tory. 



The Progressive Lumber Company. Hunting- 

 ton. W. Va.. has been incorporated with an 

 authorized capital stock of $25,000 to deal in 

 lumber and timber products, operate .sawmills, 

 etc. The incorporators are D. E. Hewitt, H. G. 

 Sams, Thomas W. Swiger and C. M. Marlett, all 

 of Huntington. 



The White River Lumber Company, with 

 offices at Des Arc. Ark., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. The new com- 

 pany will engage in the timber and lumber 

 busin,'?ss. The incorporators are Chas. G. C. 

 Leigh and D. P. Raff of Chicago and C. D. 

 Rhynes of Arkansas. 



The Empire Lumber Company. Birmingham, 

 Ala., has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $40,000 to do a general sawmill and whole- 

 sale lumber business. The officers and incor- 

 porators include W. C. Hamilton, president : 

 Eugene Fies, vice-president ; and E. C. Crawford, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



The Pilot Mountain Lumber Company. Port- 

 land. Me., has been incorporated w'ith a capital 

 stock of $300,000 to deal in timber, timber lands 

 and lumber of all kinds. A. F. Jones is presi- 

 dent of the new company, and T. L. Croteau is 

 treasurer. 



The Opportunity Manufacturing Company, 

 manufacturer of mission furniture, etc.. at Sag- 

 inaw, Mich., recently increased its capital stock 

 from $10,000 to $20,000. The company is at 

 IHcsent erecting an addition to its factory, 40x00 

 leet, three stories high, which it expects to have 

 complete within about four weeks. 



The Rich Creek Lumber Company of Charles- 

 ton, W. Va., has been incorporated wnth an 

 authorized capital stock of $5,000 to own and 

 sell timber, manufacture lumber, ties, staves, 

 etc. The incorporators are T. L. Iverse. C. B. 

 Uohnert. L. J. Falonc, A. C. Lawrence and 

 Charles O'Grad.v, all of Charleston. 



The American & Guar(*malan Mahogany Com- 



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

 with a capital stock of $150,000 to deal in lum- 

 ber, cedar logs, etc. The incorporators are John 

 Burns, corner Lewis and Seventh streets and 

 Wm. Kelly, 210 Lewis street. New York City, 

 N. Y., and Perry Allen, Short Hills, N. J. 



A concern composed of O. P. Brewster, form- 

 erly of the Bluff City Lumber Company, E. H. 

 EUsberry of the J. W. Sanders Mill, and B. L. 

 Cutler, formerly of the Imperial Wheel Com- 

 pany. PiLc Bluff, Ai'k.. are Ijuilding a hardwood 

 mill at Ilumnoke, Ark. It is hoped by those in- 

 1 crested in the operation to commence work 

 about August 15. They have purchased about 

 fifteen to twcni.v million feet of timber. 



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CHICAGO 



^ Hardwood Recokd is in ncipt of the August 

 edition of the Red Book published by the Lum- 

 bi'rmen's Credit Association with offices in the 

 Transportation building. Chicago. 



F. L. Brown, president of the Chicago Lum- 

 l)ermen's -\ssoclation, who at the last annual 

 n'.i.etin.g of the Lumber Sales Managers' .Associa- 

 tion accepted, for a temporary period, the office 

 of president, has now •resigned and C. L. Harri- 

 son, sales manager of the Himmelberger-Harri- 

 son Lumber Company at Cape Girardeau, Mo., 

 who was first vice-president, is now the acting 

 president of this organization. E. H. Klann, 

 SIR Fisher building, secretary of the Lumber 

 Sales Managers' Association, announces that the 

 association is in good working order, and is 

 tloing effective service for its members. 



George McBlair, secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of St. Louis, was in Chicago for 

 several days during the past week on business in 

 the interest of St. Louis concerns. 



Hakdwood Record is pleased to receive word 

 from W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lum- 

 ber Company of St. Louis that he is now back 

 at his desk after a severe attack of appendicitis 

 which necessitated an operation. Mr. Dings was 

 in the hospital about two weeks, after which he 

 spent two weeks recuperating at his country 

 home. He reports business to have been in fine 

 shape upon his return to the office and states 

 that there is every appearance that his company 

 will clean up a profltable line of orders during 

 the next few months. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 v.as in the city last Monday in the interest of 

 iuspection matters. Mr. Doster reports the 

 affairs of the' association to be in a thriving 

 condition. 



F. E. Jones of the liooley Luniljor Company, 

 Memphis, Tenu., was one of Chicago's recent 

 visitors from the South. 



Franl\ B. Pryor, assistant sales manager of 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Columbus, 

 O., spent several days recently with friends in 

 the local trade and with his local salesmen. 



Walter Quick of the Cincinnati firm of Eichey, 

 Ilalsted & Quick was in town a few days during 

 the past week on business connected with that 

 concern. 



F. D. Timlin, manager of the Wausau office of 

 the Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company, also lo- 

 cated in Chicago, spent last Monday in this city. 



Arthur Jarvis of the Steven & Jarvis Lumber 

 Company of Eau Claire, Wis., spent Saturday 

 of last week in Chicago. 



J. O. W. Danielson of Daniclson & Pierce, 

 Rhinelander, Wis., was in the city Friday of 

 last week. 



C. H. Law and Nathan Bradley, secretary and 

 sales manager respectively of the J. W. Wells 

 Lumber Company, Menominee. .Mich., recently 



spent several days in the city in the interest of 

 the firm's business. 



W. N. Coulson, sales manager of Lee Wilson & 

 Co., Wilson. Ark., was one of Chicago's dis- 

 tinguished visitors of late. 



B. C. TuUy of the Anderson-Tully Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn., spent several days of the past 

 week working up business among the local trade. 



R. II. .Jones, secretary of the G. W. Jones 

 LumUn- Company of Appleton, Wis., stopped oft 

 at Chicago this week en route from a trip to 

 Michigan points where he reports he did a very 

 nice business. A. H. Ruth, Chicago representa- 

 tive of that company, just returned from a trip 

 of several days to Illinois points adjacent to 

 Chicago, bringing with him an excellent line of 

 orders. 



H. F. Below of the VoUmar & Below Company, 

 whose headquarters are at .M.irshHeUl. Wis., spent 

 part of the week in town in the iuterest of that 

 concern. 



Lawrence Ford, sales manager of the Good- 

 lander-Robertson Lumber Company of Memphis, 

 Tenn.. was in the city last week and reports 

 that things are shaping up very nicely in the 

 Memphis territory. 



Geo. i). Griffith of Geo. D. Griffith & Co., 

 Monadnock block, Chicago, just returned from 

 an extended trip to European points. 



E. II. Klann has decided to give up the man- 

 agership of the Lumbermen's Club as he has 

 found that the combination of secretary and 

 manager of the club, secretary of the Lumber 

 Sales Managers' Association and hardwood 

 wholesaler, makes a pretty strong combination 

 even for a man of his capacity for work. 



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

 partment of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago, has just returned from a 

 \acation spent in Wisconsin. 



E. A. Thornton of the E. A. Thornton Lumber 

 Company-, Chicago, lias receutly left for a vaca- 

 tion of several weeks' duration which he will 

 spend in northern points. 



Hakdwood Record acknowledges receipt of an 

 engraved announcement from Geo. H. Iluganir of 

 Philadelphia of the advent of a baby boy, George 

 Henry Huganir, Jr., on July ao, with a total 

 weight of eleven pounds. Mr. Huganir Is a well- 

 known I'hiladelphia lumber salesman, but while 

 he recounts the weight of his heir, he fails to 

 specify the length and other dimensions. Of 

 course it goes without saying that the boy 

 grades as "firsts." 



The Southern Pine Company of Savannah, 

 Ga., of which Wm. B. Stillwell is secretary and 

 treasurer, announces that it has opened an office 

 in Jacksonville. Fla., and has extended its 

 lacilities for both the manufacture and market- 

 ing of yellow pine. Mr. Stillwell will give the 

 Jacksonville office a good deal of personal atten- 

 tion. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges a call on 

 July 29 from J. P. Bartelle of Toledo. O., 



