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ing on considerable experiments in northern 

 Michigan, with a view to bringing about tlie 

 leforestation of the pine barrens of that sec- 

 tion Ijy raising tlie trees from seed. An at- 

 tempt is also being made to grow soutliern 

 Cottonwood on northern Mieliigan lands. It is 

 believed this timber would be ideal for pulp- 

 wood, of which commodity the Cleveland Cliffs 

 Iron Company is a heavy consumer. A consid- 

 erable quantity of Cottonwood cuttings will be 

 planted on lowlands in the vicinity of Coal- 

 wood. All these experiments are in charge of 

 expert foresters. The company's holdings com- 

 prise nearly 1,500.000 acres, and much of the 

 land is covered with hardwood, which the 

 company uses in the manufacture of charcoal 

 to supply its various furnace plants. 



The Elmira Interior Hardwood Company, a 

 new concern at Elmira. N. Y. , has been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $100,000. 



A new company witli a capital of $10,000 has 

 been incorporated at Ripley, Tippah county, 

 Virginia, by J. W. Paulk. William Ruff and 

 I. M. Paulk. It is to be known as the Missis- 

 sippi Sawmill Company. 



The Crosby- Bonds Lumber Company of 

 Bookhaven, Lincoln county. Virginia, has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000. 

 W. P. Bond? Jr.. L. O. Crosby and others are 

 the incorporators. 



R. C. Oliver, A. C. Jones and others have in- 

 corporated the Hurricane Creek Lumber Com- 

 pany at Columbia, Marion county, Virginia, 

 with a capital of $50,000. 



The Cisco Lumber Company, recently organ- 

 ized in Wausau, Wis., by Wausau capitalists, 

 has closed a deal for the purchase of a large 

 tract of timber land in Gogebic county, Mich., 



in the vicinity of Cisco Lake, whereon is over 

 100,000,000 feet of standing timber. While it is 

 not definitely stated, the probabilities are that 

 this timber will be hauled to Wausau and 

 sawed there. 



The Richwood Lumber Company of Hatties- 

 burg. Perry county, Virginia, has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $25,000 by A. 

 E. Causey, O. B. Perry and others. 



A new stock concern, under the name of the 

 Harris Lumber Company, has recently been or- 

 ganized at Junction City, Ark., with a capital 

 stock of $6,000. divided into sixty shares of 

 $100 each. The general business of the com- 

 pany is the manufacturing, buying and selling 

 of lumber and the buying and selling of land 

 and timber. 



The Ohio Handle and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Jonesboro, Ark., has been organized 

 with a capital stock of $25,000 for the purpose 

 of manufacturing handles, etc. The company 

 will erect a frame building 60x100 feet. All 

 necessary machinery has been purchased and 

 the plant will be installed and ready for op- 

 eration by June 1. N. Hetherington has been 

 elected president and E. S. Hetherington sec- 

 retary. 



The Beaumont Iron Works Company of 

 Beaumont, Tex., has begun building a large 

 logging car factory, which will be developed 

 into a general car factory. It is planned to 

 install a carwheel foundry later. 



The Hilton Lumber Company of New Ha- 

 ven, Conn., has filed a certificate of incorpora- 

 tion in the office of the secretary of state. The 

 capital stock is $20,000 and the incorporators 

 are C. H. Hilton, J. W. Palmatier, William 

 Aufort and E. C. Sloan. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(B7 HABOWOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondents.) 



Chicago. 



In\'itations have been received in this city 

 for the marriage of Stephanie Suzanne Bens- 

 dorf and Rudolph Sondheimer, which will 

 occur at the Hotel Gayoso in Memphis on the 

 evening of Tuesday, June 11. 



Registered at Chicago hotels May 16 were 

 John Catheart of New York, A. F. Anderson 

 of Cadillac and C. B. Dudley of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. 



Harry P. Coe of the Coe Manufacturing 

 Company, well-known manufacturers of veneer 

 machinery at Painesville, O., was in town 

 May 16. 



James Cowen of Schultz Brothers & Cowen. 

 left town on May 15 for a trip through the 

 hardwood producing sections of the South- 

 east. Before returning home he will attend 

 the annual meeting of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association at Atlantic City. 



L. L. Harris of Harris & Cole Brothers, Inc.. 

 Cedar Falls. la., was a Chicago visitor May 15. 



Secretary Doster has had another lemon 

 handed him; the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association has decided to remove its head- 

 quarters to Nashville. These constant changes 

 of the official headquai-ters of this organiza- 

 tion are getting to be a very serious matter 

 for the young bachelor secretary. Just about 

 the time he gets properly introduced into so- 

 ciety and has a girl lined up to the courting 

 stage, he is steered off to some far distant 

 spot on the niap. The fair and marriageable 

 femininity at Nashville is liereby notified that 

 Doster is not only an eligible but a very sus- 

 ceptible bachelor, and if they want him it's 

 wise to get busy early. 



The forces of J. D. Lacey & Co.. leading 

 timber dealers, are reassembling at the Chi- 

 cago office, 1200 Old Colony building. Mr. 

 Lacey and a corps of clerks have already ar- 

 rived, but Victor Thrane is now in the East 



and Wood Beale is at the New Orleans office. 

 Botli will be in town soon. 



The Morton Dry Kiln Company of this city 

 has just issued a handsome little catalogue 

 profusely illustrated, setting forth the many 

 advantages of its product and an explanation 

 of its method of seasoning lumber, which is 

 universally conceded to be among the very 

 best. 



Gilbert Y. Tickle of Tickle, Bell & Co., 5 

 St. Albans Rd., Liverpool, has been making 

 an extended trip through the chief lumber 

 markets of the United States, and dropped 

 into the REcoiiti office May 14. Mr. Tickle is 

 a prominent factor in the mahogany trade of 

 the United Kingdom, and also a large buyer 

 of American hardwoods. He will .sail for liome 

 the middle of June. 



G. von Platen, the well known lumber manu- 

 facturer of Boyne City, was a recent caller 

 at the Recokd office. Mr. von Platen was en 

 route home after an eight months' trip to 

 the Pacific Coast. 



Wagstaff-Lumber-Oshkosh is back from an 

 extended southern trip which included the in- 

 spection of timijer properties with a view to 

 purchasing, and a little vacation sojourn at 

 French Lick. 



The Record acknowledges receiirt of a very 

 elaborate and attractive "ad" from the In- 

 terior Hardwood Company of Indianapolis, 

 which consists of a wall hanger displaying to 

 excellent advantage types of the floors which 

 they make a specialty. 



W. F. Biederman. superintendent of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corpora- 

 tion, with executive office in the Victoria 

 building, St. Louis, is out with his seventh 

 credit rating book, dated April, 1907. It con- 

 tains the usual classified list with capital and 

 pay ratings, of all manufacturers, wholesale 

 and retail dealers in lumber, and factories 



which buy lumber in carload lots. It is an- 

 nounced that the utmost care has been taken 

 to make the new list as complete and accurate 

 as possible. The information on which the 

 capital and rating are based has been obtained 

 from sources deemed reliable, and conserva- 

 tism consistent with the facts in each case, 

 has been exercised. Corrections, business 

 changes, new firms, failures, etc., are taken 

 care of by weekly correction sheets, and a 

 trade report is issued each week which is a 

 source of further important information to 

 members. The book is published semi-annu- 

 ally and is of great value to lumbermen in 

 their commercial transactions. 



John N. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut Cor- 

 poration, Kansas Citj', Mo., was a recent Chi- 

 cago visitor. 



The American Wood Working Machinery 

 Company lias removed its general offices to 

 Rochester, N. Y., where all remittances and 

 correspondence regal-ding collections and ac- 

 counts should be directed in future. For prices 

 or information regarding machinery, the near- 

 est salesrooms should be addressed; they are 

 at Cedar and West streets, New York; Hen- 

 nen building. New Orleans; Fisher building, 

 Chicago, and 591 Lyell avenue. Rochester. 



The IlAKDWooD Record acknowledges re- 

 ceipt from the Lidgerw,ood Manufacturing 

 Company, New York, of a set of six fine 

 photographs illustrating Lidgerwood logging 

 systems, contained in a handsome frame 21x 

 2S inches in size. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburg, was in town on May 11. 



The Michigan Maple Company of Grand 

 Rapids has removed its offices from the Mich- 

 igan Trust building to 414 Houseman block, 

 that city. 



R. J. Clark, president of the Peninsula 

 Bark and Lumber Company of Sault Ste. 

 Marie, Mich., was a welcome caller at this 

 office on May 11. 



The Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of South Bend, Ind., announces that 

 Wm. P. Schmuhl, for the last twelve years 

 buyer and inspector for the Ford & Johnson 

 Company of Michigan City, Ind., has resigned 

 his position witli the latter concern and ac- 

 cepted one with the former, to take effect 

 July 1. 



The American Central Lumber Company, 

 formerly of Anderson, Ind.. has moved its 

 office from that city to Central City. W. Va. 

 The company manufactures and wholesales 

 oak and hickory wagon stock in the rough 

 and lias about twenty mills in various parts 

 of the country in opei'ation. It is under the 

 management of G. A. Lambert. 



The Rotary File and Machine Company, 

 Inc., 5S9 Kent avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.. is 

 out with a neat little booklet about its band 

 saw machines, sharpeners, setters, blades, 

 guides and brazers, which gives in concise 

 form considerable information about its tools, 

 and a number of useful pointers for hard- 

 wood manufacturers. 



E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., of Indianapolis, 

 whose Chicago branch at 38 S. Canal street 

 was recently destroyed by fire, are noted for 

 their ability to get to the front and surmount 

 all sorts of obstacles with the utmost dis- 

 patch. Another instance of this is shown 

 in the following communication, dated May 

 11: "We write to announce the fact that 

 we have opened new headquarters in Chicago 

 at 75-77 Market street, and while we are not 

 doing business at the same old stand, still 

 we are doing business right along, and lots 

 of it." 



J. W. Embree, vice president of the Ritten- 

 house & Embree Company, has returned home 

 from a week's trip to the company's mill at 

 Warren, Ark. 



William Wilms of the Paepcke-Leicht Lum- 



