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of $15,000. the principals beinj; John C. Meyer, 

 J. M. Meyer, Wm. L. StrotUfang and W. K. 

 Thomson. 



A new lumljer concern at Churubusco. Ind.. is 

 the Spangler and Grouleff Lumber Company. 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. The directors 

 are William F. Spangler, Rachel Spangler and 

 Albert Grouletf. 



The Kiscr-Clement Manufacturing Company 

 has been incorporated at Greensboro. N. C. with 

 a capital of .flOO.OOO. by Claude Kiser. W. L. 

 Clement and O. N. Kiser. The company will 

 manufacture lumber and furniture. 



E. W. Forstbauer. D. II. TurnbuII and W. E. 

 Zweigle are the directors in the newly formed 

 Four-in-One Manufacturing Company located at 

 Mishawaka. Ind.. with a capital of $"..500. This 

 new concern will manufacture ladders. 



The National Handle Company will improve 

 its plant at Blythevillc, Ark., to the extent that 

 when completed it will be one of the largest 

 handle factories in the state. The buildings 

 will be constructed of reinforced concrete. 



Another incorporation is that of the National 

 Pole Company of Escanaba, Mich, with a capital 

 of $1,000,000. of which $100,000 is represented 

 by property in V.'isconsin. Clark Kirkpatrick of 

 Park Falls, Wis., is among the interested parties 

 in this concern. 



On Sept. 1,") fire destroyed the plant of Hart- 

 man, Schloss & Co., located at 167 North Ann 

 street, Chicago, 111. This concern manufactured 



picture frame mouldings. The loss upon the 

 building is reported as ,$20,000, and a like 

 amount upon its contents. 



Joseph T. McGowin, Mobile, Ala., is reported 

 to have purchased 11,000 acres of timberland 

 estimated to contain 60.000,000 feet of cypress 

 and hardwood timber, and 70,000,000 feet of 

 long leaf pine. The property includes a mill 

 with a daily capacity of 50,000 feet of lumber. 



Articles of incorporation have been tiled at 

 Frankfort. Ky., for the Kentucky River Railroad 

 and Lumber Company, with a capitalization of 

 $100,000. The company is to construct a rail- 

 road from Stafford Station, on the Big Sandy 

 division of the Chesapealie & Ohio to Lick 

 Fork, Ky. 



The W. E. Terry Lumber Company of Gales- 

 burg. 111., was Incorporated on Sept. 12 with a 

 capital stock of $o0,00U. The company is the 

 same as that which operated a business in this 

 city for some years under that name. The in- 

 corporators are : W. E. Terry, Jr., J. D. Welsh 

 and F. ,0. McFarland. 



The Carter Lumber Company of Cairo, 111., 

 ha.s, built two mills near Ra.vsville, La., to manu- 

 facture wagon and dimension stock. The south- 

 ern buying office of the concern has been moved 

 to Ra.vsville. and is in charge of C. C. Carter as 

 manager. M. S. tarter is manager of the main 

 office at Cairo, 111. The output of the mills will 

 be shipped to the latter point, where it is manu- 

 factured into finished condition. 



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Hardwood 'News ISfotes 



CHICAGO 



Edward C. Mershon of Wni. B. .Mershon & Co.. 

 S.aginaw. Mich., called at Hardwood Record 

 offices on Sept. 18, on his way to the South. 

 Mr. Mershon has just returned from a trip to 

 Russia and is now planning to visit southern 

 mill points. 



R. T. Cooper, sales manager for the Memphis 

 Saw Mill Company, Mempliis, Tenn., was in 

 town a few days a week ago. 



R. L. Rhymes of the R. L. Rhymes Company. 

 which concern is located at Mempliis, Tenn., 

 spent several days of last week with the local 

 trade. 



L. Wheeler of .T. W. Wheeler & Co., Madison, 

 Ark., has been in the city for several days in 

 conference with members of the local trade, 

 and with his customers, 



J. T. Phillips, vice-president and general man- 

 ager of the Diamond Lumber Company, located 

 at Green Bay, Wis., spent Thursday of last week 

 in the city on matters in connection with the 

 Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, with headciuai- 

 ters at Cadillac, Mich., was in the cily Wednes- 

 day and Thursday of last week. Mr. Knox came 

 to Chicago to attend the meeting of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission with reference to 

 the hardwood rate to the I'aciflc coast. 



W. L. Saunders, general manager of the Cum- 

 mer-Diggins Company, Cadillac, Mich., was in 

 town with Mr. Knox of that place. Thursday 

 and Friday of last week, also in the interests 

 of the hardwood rate to the Pacific coast. 



Herman H. Hettler of Chicago, head of the 

 Herman II. Hettler Lumber Company, is spend- 

 ing a couple of weeks at the northern operations 

 of that concern in the Georgian Bay district. 



A. T. Goldsmith, general manager of the Rad- 

 ford-Portsmouth Veneer Company, Radford, Va., 

 was in town most of last week soliciting trade. 

 Mr. Goldsmith is now spending several days in 

 the Wisconsin valley, and reports that trade has 

 hcen good with him throughout the entire east- 



ern and middle west territory. 



E. A. Thornton, president of the E. A. Thorn- 

 ton Lumber Company, with oflices in the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. Chicago, returned the middle 

 of last week from a northern buying trip. 



Frank Robinson of the Anderson-Tully Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn.. spent last week in this 

 cily on business. 



It is announced by the Farson & Sons Com- 

 pany, bankers of Chicago, that the entire issue 

 of six hundred tliousand dollars of bonds on the 

 John R. Davis Lumber Company, Phillips, Wis., 

 plant has been retired. 



Henry Ballou of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., 

 Cadillac, Mich., spent a few days last week in 

 (Chicago on business connected with the Mitchell 

 interests. 



R. L. Stearns of the Stearns Coal and Lum- 

 ber Company, Stearns, Ky., was one of the re- 

 cent distinguished visitors in the hardwood 

 trade. 



R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the Northern Hem- 

 lock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 Wausau, \\'is., spent a few days in Chicago last 

 week. 



The September edition of the Lumber Law 

 Review, published monthly by the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corporation of St. 

 Louis, was recently received. In it are noted 

 a number of cases in which decisions have been 

 iianded down to the interest of the lumber trade. 

 A feature of this bulletin is a list of fourteen 

 questions and answers as shown on the back 

 page and covering the fundamental business 

 laws of the state of Nebraska. 



The Mechanic, an interesting little .journal 

 covering machinery and wood workers, issued by 

 ll-.e H. B. Smith Machine Company of Smith- 

 ville, N. J., has just arrived at this office. 

 The book is interesting as usual and contains 

 considerable instructive information. 



Walter Muller of T. F. Miiller & Sons, Ham- 

 burg. Germany, has been in Chicago for several 

 days this week. He is making an extended tour 

 through the States, looking over hardwood con- 

 dUions. Mr. Miiller states tliat aside from the 

 seriousness of the ocean freight rate question, 

 conditions abroad are extremely favorable. 



NEW YORK 



J. S. Richards of the Peale-Coryell Lumber 

 Company, Fifth Avenue building, selling agents 

 for the Wm. Whitmer & Sons operations, re- 

 turned during the fortnight from a special trip 

 with Mr. Wliitmer inspecting the big operations 

 of the Whitmer interests in North Carolina. 

 New plants are being built at I'resmont and 

 Sunburst, N. C, which will soon be operating 

 on some of the choicest virgin spruce and 

 hardwood in the country, and give the Whitmer 

 interests an annual output of over 200,000,000 

 feet. 



Among the recent arrivals from European 

 pleasure trips were Lewis Dill of Lewis Dill 

 & Co., Baltimore. Md.. and Secretary E. F. 

 Perry of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, New York City. 



E. C. Mershon, band resaw expert of Saginaw, 

 ilich., arrived here on Sept. 6 after a lengthy 

 pleasure trip through Europe. After spending 

 a day or two in town, Mr. Mershon returned to 

 Saginaw. 



F. R. Seeley, general manager of the H. H. 

 Hitt Lumber Company, Decatur, Ala., hardwood 

 manufacturer, was in town during the fort- 

 night in the interest of business. 



The Madison Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized here to conduct a lumber and storage 

 business at 137th street and Madison avenue, 

 ]\Ianliattan, by 11. J. Smith, formerly secretary 

 of Konkle «Sc Co., of this city. 



J. Edward Piftinger. associated formerly with 

 Watsori & I'ittinger, has engaged in the whole- 

 sale lumber business at 547 Lincoln place, 

 Brooklyn. 



The annual dinner and meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Newark, which was scheduled 

 to take place on Sept. 10, has been postponed 

 until Oct. 8. 



There will be a special meeting of the exec- 

 utive committee of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers* Association at headquarters, 06 

 Broadway, on Oct. 2. Tlie routine work of the 

 several departments of the organization will be 

 reviewed and special matters will be considered. 



Tile Mosaic End-up Wood Company has been 

 incorporated in this city to manufacture Mosaic 

 wood flooring. The capital stock is $150,000, 

 and the incorporators are I. D. Brokaw, J. K. 

 Joyce of New York City, and M. J. Kenny of 

 Summit, N. J. 



Tile Mills Lumber Company, whicli was or- 

 ganized a few months ago witli headquarters at 

 IS Broadwa.v. has closed ovit at that location and 

 esfablished headquarters at Meredith, N. H., at 

 which point the shipping operations are cen- 

 tered, W. R. Creed & Co., 1 Madison avenue, 

 will act as selling agents for the Mills Lumber 

 Company. 



PITTSBUROH 



I'ittsliurgli feels good in general over its 

 hardwood business this fall. Nearly every con- 

 cern has gotten to the jioint where it is in a 

 large measure selecting its customers. Whole- 

 salers are able to name their own quotations on 

 stocks which are wanted most. White oak is 

 the l)est seller in the market. No trouble is 

 found to get a premium on good stock for 

 reasonabl.v early delivery, as both the railroads 

 and the coal companies arc taking large amounts 

 of this lumber. Furniture factories are buy- 

 ing aetivel>, chiefly of maple, bc'ech and chest- 

 nut. Beech is a favorite wood this fall owing 

 to the fact that it is being used quite largel.v 

 as a cheap substitute. The chestnut trade is 

 good. The range of hardwood prices tlirough- 

 out the list is considerably higher than last 

 spring and the bulk of buying orders is increas- 

 ing right along. 



I. F. B.ilsley, for the past few years sales 

 manager of the Palmer & Semans Lumber Com- 

 pany, has started in business for himself at 



