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27 damaged the property of the Ahnapee Veneer 

 & Seating Company at that point to the extent 

 of $1,000. 



Middletown, O., will soon have an additional 

 manufacturing plant in Ihe Harland Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, which is beiug organized at 

 that point. 



A new automobile manufacturing plant has 

 been incorporated at South Bend, Ind.. with a 

 capital stock of .$20,000, by S. W. Nicholson. 

 J, C. Paxson and V. E. I'axson. The company 

 i& located in the Manufacturers' Plant and Power 

 Company's buildings. 



The Jesse French & Sons Piano Company has 

 recently succeeded the Krell-French Piano Com- 

 pany at Newcastle, Ind. 



The Independent Lumber Company, Lafayette, 

 Ind., has been incorporated for .$15,000 wilb 

 J. C. Frey. E. S. Frey and Kussell K. Bedgood 

 as directors. 



The French Broad Manufacturing Company of 

 Barnard, N. C, has been succeeded by the 

 French Broad Handle Company, which has been 

 incorporated at $23,000. 



The Northern Veneer Company has been or- 

 ganized at Houlton, Me., with a capital of $25,- 

 000. W. H. Trafton of Caribou, is president 

 and treasurer of the concern. 



Fire in the dry kilns ot the Simonson Broth- 

 ers' Manufacturing Company at Nashville, Tenn., 

 destroyed 35,000 feet of hardwood. The loss 

 incurred is estimated at .$5,000. 



Improvements will be made in the plant of 

 the Wilkinson-Matthews Company at Damascus, 

 Va., and the company will manufacture plain 

 and quartered oak table tops with chestnut 

 cores. 



The firm of Mendel & Co., Cincinnati, O., has 

 consolidated with Drucker & Co., which concern 

 has been incorporated as the Mendel-Drucker 

 Trunk Company with an authorized capital of 

 $325,000. 



The Southern Manufacturing Company, Gads- 

 den, Ala., has increased its capital from $15.- 

 000 to $75,000, as lias also the Evansville Desk 

 Company, Evansville, Ind., its capitalization now 

 being $30,000. 



The Veneer Pail and Machine Company. 

 Omaha, Neb., has been organized with a capital 

 stock of $150,000, and will build a factory for 

 the mannfacture of pails, tubs, veneer barrels, 

 veneers, etc. 



The Sterling Lumber Company of Pine Bluff, 

 Ark., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $10,000, all ot which has been subscribed for. 

 J. H. Allen, W. J. Lockwood and M. F. Ruther- 

 ford are the incorporators. 



The Buckley and Douglas Lumber Company, 

 Manistee, Mich., consummated a deal on Aug. 

 15 whereby it becomes the owner of the State 

 Lumber Company, whose mill it has been oper- 

 ating for the past two years. 



It is announced that the Great Eastern Lum- 

 ber Company of Savannah. Ga., which was or- 

 ganized in June last with a capital stock of 

 $1,000,000, will erect mills, dry-kilns and con- 

 struct a railroad on its property. 



H. M. Teichman, E. J. Cowan and H. D. 

 Cowan are directors of the -(Vestern Art Cabinet 

 Manufacturing Company, which filed incorpora- 

 tion papers on Aug. 15, and will operate at Los 

 Angeles, Cal. The capital stock is $3,000. 



The American Woodenware Company has been 

 incorporated at Manistee, Mich., and is manu- 

 facturing kitchen woodenware and woodenware 

 specialties. The machinery used in this com- 

 pany's plant is up-to-date and first-class in every 

 respect. 



A fire which destroyed the plant of the Lucas 

 Land & Lumber Company at Paducah, Ky., 

 caused a damage approximating $65,000, but 

 fortunately the company carried insurance of 

 $34,000, and will rebuild. The mill was one of 

 the oldest in Paducah. 



The Webster Basket Company has recently 

 been incorporated at Webster, N. Y., with a 

 capital of $50,000, for the manufacture of bas- 



kets, crates, etc. The incorporators are G. Kit- 

 telberger, B. Kittelberger aud E. Kittelberger. 



The Boraer-Banks Company, an affiliated con- 

 cern of the Bomer-Ferguson Lumber Company of 

 lake Arthur, La., will erect a big hardwood mill 

 near Lottie, La. The Lake Arthur concern has 

 an excellent band mill at that point, cutting 

 4U,000 feet of cypress daily. 



It is announced that the plant of the National 

 Lumber Company, recently destroyed by fire at 

 Winnfield, Tenn., will be rebuilt but at some 

 other point in the hardwood lumber belt of 

 Tennessee. The headquarters of this concern 

 are located at Louisville, Ky. 



A new veneer manufacturing concern at Bir- 

 mingham, Ala., is the Birmingham Box and 

 Veneer Works, capitalized at $16,000. G. T. 

 Douglass is president ; S. F. Cornelius, vice- 

 president : J. N. Cornelius, secretary and treas- 

 urer, and W. B. Douglas, general manager. 



Among the new tie manufacturing concerns 

 are the Clinchfleld Tie and Lumber Company at 

 Wytheville, Va., with a capital of $30,000, and 

 the Smalley Tie and Timber Company of West 

 Lminence, Mo., capitalized at $50,000 by J. B. 

 White, H. H. Smalley and C. C. Shcppard. 



The Bonner Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Nashville, Tenn., recently incorporated at 

 $bU,OOU, will erect a factory at this point. A 

 building lias been leased by the company in which 

 motor-driven machinery will be installed. T. F. 

 Bonner is president and general manager. 



George K. Green of Newark, Ark., has pur- 

 chased hardwood limber along the Black river 

 for $10,000. Ue recently secured the hardwood 

 mill of D. P. Whisnant on this river, together 

 with 2,200 acres of timber land adjoining it. 

 Extensive Improvements will be made in the 

 plant. 



The Byrd-Matthews Lumber Company has 

 been capitalized at $1,000,000 at Gainesville, 

 Ga., and is controlled by Chicago capitalists. 

 The company has plans for developing 80,000 

 acres of timber land, building mills, etc. Its 

 land is estimated to cut SOO.OOO.OOO feet of 

 lumber. 



The holdings of the United Logging Company, 

 Escanaba, Mich., have been sold to the Kim- 

 herly Clark Company of Menasha, Wis., and the 

 Beaver Timber Company, a newly organized con- 

 cern, which is composed of the Menasha Wooden- 

 ware Company aud the Escanaba Manufacturing 

 Company. 



The Wm. C. Baik-y Lumber Company, Min- 

 neapolis, Minn., has moved from 600 Central 

 avenue to Fifteenth avenue, N. E., and Central 

 avenue, and large sheds have been erected at 

 its new location. The company expects to still 

 further enlarge its yard capacity by securing 

 additional land within a short time. 



C. M. Carrier of Buffalo, N. Y., as presideut 

 tind J. H. Hancock of Punta Gorda, Fla., as 

 treasurer, together with other men from these 

 two cities, have organized the Punta Gorda Lum- 

 ber Company with a capital stock of $1,000,000. 

 Extensive tracts of timber in De Soto county 

 will be developed and big sawmills will be con- 

 structed. 



The Ruthbell Lumber Company has been 



formed at Elkins, W. Va., to own and develop 

 timber lands in Preston county and to manu- 

 facture lumber. The capital stock is $130,000. 

 and the incorporators are R. Chaffey, Charles 

 S. Robb, D. F. Strock and R. Darden of Eikins, 

 and Merritt Wilson of Wildell, W. Va. 



A new incorporation at Hagerstown, Md., is 

 the Oak Hill Lumber Company, succeeding the 

 D. L. Dewey Lumber Company, which company 

 will soon install about a thousand feet of rail- 

 road siding. Solomon George, Charles S. Lane, 

 D. L. Dewey of Hagerstown ; W. H. Hyatt of 

 New York City, and S. S. Steele, Elkins, W. Va., 

 are the incorporators. 



The lumber industry in Servia is not expand- 

 ing as rapidly as in some other parts of the 

 world. Nevertheless a consular report states 

 that two new sawmills started operations in 

 that country during the past year. Their com- 

 bined yearly output will be about thirty mil- 

 lion feet board measure, worth a little under 

 twenty-three dollars a thousand. 



A new organization has been formed at Wa- 

 loga, W. Va., known as the Watoga Lumber 

 Company to operate sawmills in Pocahontas 

 county, W. Va. It has a capital stock of $75, 

 000. The incorporators are Rodgers K. Foster, 

 Clarence L. Peaslee, Henry C. Parsons and 

 Charles E. Krape of Williamsport, Pa., and 

 Henry Gilmer of Lewisburg, W. Va. 



Among recent incorporations are the following 

 concerns : The McDavid Veneer Company at 

 Brewton, Ala., with a capital of $6,000 ; the 

 Southern Hardwood Lumber Company, Little 

 Rock, Ark., capitalized at $5,000 ; the Rusk Box 

 & Furniture Company at Hawkins, Wis., with an 

 authorized capital stock of $20,000. 



The Haddock-France Lumber Company, Har- 

 rison building, Philadelphia, Pa., has completed 

 improvements to its mill at Mt. Sterling, N. C, 

 including the installation of dry-kilns, steam- 

 skidding appliances, and various other acces- 

 sories. The company specializes in basswood, 

 chestnut, largely to the piano trade, hemlock and 

 poplar lumber. This company's product is sold 

 in Philadelphia by the Monarch Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



The new plant of the recently organized and 

 incorporated firm. The Cook & Duncan Com- 

 pany, Ltd., at Meadowvale, Pa., will have a 

 daily capacity of 20,000 feet. The company 

 just completed a logging road into a tract of 

 timber, which it owns, involving more than five 

 million feet of hardwoods. The Cook & Dun- 

 can Company, Ltd., is capitalized at $60,000 

 and is composed of H. C. Cook of Johnstown, 

 J. C. Duncan of Windber and D. L. Parsons of 

 Johnstown. 



The Hardwood-Forest Company with offices 

 at 410 Godchaux building. New Orleans, La., 

 has recently been organized to do a general 

 business in hardwood logs of all kinds and hard- 

 wood specialties. In addition it will manufac- 

 ture under contract handle billets and other 

 specialties at various points in the southern 

 states where it has mill connections. Ladson L. 

 Boone, Jr., is general manager of the company, 

 and associated with him are E. F. and J. M. 

 RoUosson. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAQO 



W. S. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lum- 

 ber Company is back in town from a two weeks' 

 sojourn at French Lick Springs, Ind. 



The Faust Brothers Lumber Company, whose 

 headquarters are in Paducah, Ky., has moved its 

 Chicago offices from the Monadnock building tj) 

 1319 Fisher building; telephone Harrison 4657. 



W. B. Morgan of the Anderson-TuUy Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn., spent several days in Chicago 

 last week. 



'S. B. Anderson of the Anderson-TuUy Com- 

 pany, Memphis, spent a few days in Chicago 

 recently, but is putting in most of his time 

 during the hot weather at Michigan resorts. 



Max L, Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company, 

 Poplar Bluff, Mo., has been dividing his time 



