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HARDWOOD lECORD 



small lots ot trees throughout the north country. 

 This has been quite a feature of the lumber in- 

 dustry in the vicinity of Saginaw, Mich., where 

 a great number of small mills were in operation 

 on farms and wood lots. 



The Standard Parlor Frame Company of Chi- 

 cago has filed an amendment to its charter in- 

 creasing its capital stock from $9,000 to $26,000. 



Leonard L.. Shertzer has recently engaged 

 in business at Mobile, Ala., where he will 

 market a fine line of hardwoods which are 

 manufactured at his mill at Merrill. Miss. 



The Timpson Handle Company ot Timpson. 

 Texas., has been incorporated with $10,000 

 capital stock to manufacture handles and 

 wagon timbers. The company started opera- 

 tions March 1 in a new and thoroughly 

 equipped factory. H. H. Fory is manager. 



The Boice-Grogan Lumber Company, whose 

 plant at Lexington, Ky., was destroyed by 

 flre recently, plans the erection of a new saw- 

 mill and veneer factory on which will be ex- 

 pended $30,000. The plant will have a daily 

 capacity of 20,000 feet. 



Fire destroyed the plant of the W. E. Will- 

 lams Company, large manufacturers of maple 

 flooring at Traverse City, Mich., recently. 

 The loss is estimated at $60,000. with $29,000 



insurance. The property destroyed included 

 the manufacturing plant proper, a consider- 

 able amount of valuable ^machinery, four dry 

 kilns, and large quantities of maple lumber. 

 It is announced that the plant wmU be rebuilt 

 and will be ready for operation in about three 

 months. 



The Peabody Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bia City. Ind.. has bought of Henry Smith a 

 232-acre farm in De Kalb county, paying for 

 it $18,200. The land is heavily wooded with 

 black walnut. 



The United Walnut Company of Ft. Smith 

 is shipping two car loads of walnut logs a 

 day tor export to Germany, where they are 

 made up into furniture. Black w.ilnut is 

 more highly prized abroad for this purpose 

 than in the United States, especially the wood 

 which shows a curly grain; only about one 

 stump in two hundred supplies this variety, 

 however. 



The Southwestern Lumber Company ot Lake 

 Charles. La., lately purchased 32,000 acres of 

 fine hardwood timber land in Calcasieu and 

 Avoyelles parishes, the consideration being 

 something over $300,000. The property is said 

 to contain some of the finest hardwood timber 

 in that section of the country. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Special Corrsspondents.) 



Chicago. 

 W. E. Douglass of the Crosby & Beckley 

 Company, Columbus, 0., was an agreeable 

 caller at the Record office on the 24th inst. 



O. B, Law. who has been engaged in the 

 sale of timber lands for several years at 

 Detroit, Mich., and is one of the well known 

 and successful operators in this line, has con- 

 cluded to widen his opportunities by a re- 

 moval to Chicago, and has opened an otBce at 

 85 Dearborn Street. Mr. LaWa specialty is 

 handling going yellow' pine and hardwood 

 operations. 



L. P. Arthur ot the .\rthur Hardwood Floor- 

 ing Company of Memphis, well known pro- 

 ducers of oak flooring, has been spending the 

 last ten days in Chicago, organizing plans for 

 the distribution of his product in this market. 



Paul Johnson of the North Shore Lumber 

 Company, of Thompson, and S. G. MeClellan 

 of the Earle Lumber Company of Simmons. 

 Mich., two Northern Peninsula operators, were 

 welcome callers at the RECoitD office this week. 

 Both these gentlemen are specialists in birch 

 production and are much pleased over the 

 advancing prices this variety of lumber is 

 commanding. 



Charles H. Barnaby, the hardwood lumber- 

 man of Greencastle and president of the Indi- 

 ana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, was 

 a Chicago visitor last week. 



W. H. Russe. president of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, spent some 

 time at the association's headquarters in this 

 city last week. 



R. J. Clark of the Peninsula Bark & Lumber 

 Company, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was in 

 town last week. He reports that the largest 

 part of his hardwood and hemlock stock on 

 hand has been sold. 



Among recent Chicago visitors from Wis- 

 consin were A. R. Owen of Owen, George H. 

 Chapman of Stanley, and M. J. Quinlan of 

 Soperton. 



Theo. Schneider, northern purchasing agent 

 for the Brunswick-Balke^Coliender Company, 

 ."pent several days in Chicago last week. 



Joel B. Ettinger, manager of the Chicago 

 branch of the S. A. Woods Machine Company, 

 spent several days in Michigan last week, and 

 met with his usual success in making sales 

 of the high-class machines manufactured by 

 his house. 



Charles F. Braftcit. vice-president of the 

 Simonds Manufacturing Company and man- 

 ager of its Chicago saw factory, is absent on 

 a southern trip for business and pleasure. 



George Greer, purchasing agent for the 

 Joyce-Watliins Company of Chicago, is south 

 on a buying trip. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States, has just issued a revised edition of the 

 inspection rules of his association, wliicli for 

 the first time includes the new rules of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion covei'ing northern hardwoods. These 

 books are supplied free on application to the 

 association headquarters— First National Bank 

 Building. Chicago. 



Jerome G. Leavitt. vice-president of the 

 Leavitt Lumber Company, returned last week 

 from an extended southern trip. 



The Record is in receipt of a letter from 

 John H. Lank, secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 Excliange of Philadelphia, announcing that a 

 vote of thanks was extended to the Hardwood 

 Record for copies of the paper furnished the 

 Exchange during the past year. 



Ryan & McParland have removed their yards 

 from the corner of Blue Island Avenue and 

 Robey Street, where they have been located 

 ever since they started in business, to Twenty- 

 second and Laflin Streets, the site of the John 

 O'Brien Land & Lumber Company's old yard. 



The John O'Brien Land & Lumber Company 

 is now nicely situated in commodious ofllces 

 at 185 Dearborn Street. 



Owing to the illness of his brother. Ben W. 

 Davis, who superintends operation of the 

 John R. Davis Lumber Company at Phillips, 

 Wis.. John R. Davis of this city has been 

 spending most of his time at Phillips per- 

 sonally overseeing work at the big plant. 



Irvine McCauley of the MeCauley-Saunders 

 Lumber Company. Fisher Building, this city, 

 has left for a fortnight's visit to the cypress 

 mills of Louisiana. 



Clarence Boyle, an expert hardwood lumber- 

 man who has long been connected with tlie 

 trade of this city, has recently resigned his 

 position with the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 pany and has obtained an interest in the 

 Heath-Witbeck Company of the Willoughby 

 Building. As vice-president and manager of 

 the company Mr. Boyle will have sufficient 



opportunity to display his energy and ability. 

 His connection with the concern is thought 

 especially advantageous at this time owing 

 to the prolonged illness of Mr. Wolfe, secre- 

 tary of the company, and to the inability of 

 Mr. Heath, president, to give his attention 

 to the details of business because of his long 

 absences from the eity. Mr. Wolfe is steadily 

 improving in health, and although he is able 

 to be out. he is not yet strong enough to 

 supei-intend the sales department, which is his 

 special duty. 



The steamer Louis Pahlow and consort 

 Delta, belonging to the Edward Hines Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, were driven ashore at 

 Clay Banks, near Sturgeon Bay, Wi.s., April 

 15, during a snowstorm. An alarm was sent 

 to the life-saving station at the latter place, 

 and the crew went out overland tor the wreck. 

 They succeeded in saving the entire crew 

 without loss of life, although the steamer is 

 totally wrecked. The Delta escaped serious 

 injury. 



A new concern in Chicago is the Chicago 

 Wood Turning Company, recently incorporated 

 with $10,000 capital stock. 



Secretary Fish of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association is figuring on arranging for 

 a special train to run from Chicago to Atlantic 

 City over the Pennsylvania lines, to carry 

 those who wish to attend the annual meeting 

 May 23 and 24. The plan is to have visitors 

 from northern Indiana, 'W'isconsin and Michi- 

 gan join with the local contingent and go to 

 the eastern meeting in a body. On the basis 

 of the plans now contemplated the special 

 train will leave Chicago at noon. May 23. 



John N. Penrod, the black walnut king of 

 Kansas City, was a Chicago visitor on 

 April 23. 



Oscar H. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co.. 

 Pittsburg, was in Chicago last Tuesday. 



John N. Bonnell, treasurer of the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Company of Grand Rapids. 

 Mich., spent last Tuesday in the city on his 

 way home from a Pacific coast trip that has oc- 

 cupied several months. Dm-ing his absence Mi". 

 Bonnell has cruised a good many thousand 

 acres of timber in Oregon, and is figuring 

 on timber deals of considerable magnitude in 

 that state. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwooil 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States, is in the South on association work. 



Upham & Agler, the well known Chicago 

 jobbing house, of the American Trust Build- 

 ing, has practically concluded purchases of 

 its season's stock. Between its northern and 

 southern lumber holdings the company has 

 secured an aggregate of nearly 40,000,000 feet, 

 which puts it in a very enviable position in 

 the market. 



F. E. Creelmun, who was recently defend- 

 ant in a suit in which he was charged with 

 assisting in the wrecking of the Bank of 

 America, has been declared by the jury not 

 guilty. The president. vice-president and 

 cashier of the bank were declared guilty, and 

 the first two will receive a penitentiary sen- 

 tence, while the cashier will escape with a 

 fine. 



Boston. 



Boston wholesalers state that several large 

 consumers of hardwoods are carrying such 

 small stocks that their • purchasing agents 

 have visited Boston personally which, in sev- 

 eral instances, is unusual. Among the buyers 

 were those from the Heywood Bros, and John 

 A. Dunn Sons. Gardiner. The purchasing 

 agent for the latter concern stopped in Boston 

 en route for New York. 



The hardwood division of the Metropolitan 

 Exchange of Boston held its meeting in the 

 rooms of the exchange, Tuesday, April 23. 



Frederick B. Cole, treasurer of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, vis- 

 ited Boston last week. 



