HARDWOOD RECORD 



permitted of no doubt as to the advisability of 

 tlie constfuction of sucli facilities in New Or- 

 leans as would insure the movement of the vol- 

 ume of export lumber traffic to which the port is 

 properly entitled. The idea was received with 

 unanimous approval and resulted in instructions 

 being given to the engineer of the Port Com- 

 mission and the engineer of the Public Belt Rail- 

 road Commission to draw up plans with the as- 

 sistance of the lumbermen, for the construction 

 of such a dock, the same to be considered at a 

 meeting to be held for the purpose in the near 

 future. 



The association was especially careful to se- 

 cure the hearty support of the Belt Railroad 

 Commission, inasmuch as It intends that this 

 dock shall be accessible to all roads so that an 

 c.vporter may be enabled to accumulate cargo ar- 

 riving over different lines and deliver to a steam- 

 er at one point. J. H. Hinton, president, ad- 

 dressed the meeting, outlining the plans as above 

 stated, and exporters are now confident that the 

 erection of these facilities is only a question of 

 a short time. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



A bill now before the legislature of Michigan, 

 which is backed by the Forestry Association of 

 that state, provides for the appointment of nine 

 men, who during the next two years shall make 

 an examination of the waste lands of the state 

 and report the wisest method of administering 

 them. According to the state forest warden, 

 there are 0,OiXi,OliO acres of waste land in Michi- 

 gan which produce little of value. Because of 

 the denuded condition of the water sheds Michi- 

 gan towns and cities are subject to floods. A 

 great part of this waste land can be made to 

 grow trees, and this is one of the important 

 problems that should have the early attention 

 of the legislature. 



The Ohio .Sash & Door Company of Cleveland 

 has increased its capital from $60,000 to $10o,- 

 OOO. 



The Adams Wood Products Company has been 

 Incorporated at Cleveland, O., with a capital 

 of .'i;iOO,000, by A. J. Adams, John McDonald, 

 I'. F. Brady, A. E. Powell and M. A. Foran. 



The schooner Oneida, bound from Cecil bay to 

 Chicago with a cargo of hardwood lumber, was 

 stranded during the night of May 27 on North 

 Manitou island. The crew escaped. 



The Interstate Veneer Company has been in- 

 corporated at Emporia, Va., with D. E. Stone 

 of Baltimore as president. 



The Salmen Brick & Lumber Company of New 

 Orleans has landed a big contract for piling to 

 be used on the Isthmus of Panama. The con- 

 tract amounts to over $45,000 and this is the 

 second contract of that size to be secured for 

 furnishing piles within the last few weeks. 



Padonia, Kan., is shipping out quite a large 

 number of walnut logs of late. Recently eleven 

 log heaps were noted in the yard of the depot, 

 «acli heap containing on an average of 22 wal- 

 nut logs, or about 240 in all. They were from 

 8 to. IS feet in length and 1 to 2Vi feet in 

 diameter. 



The Cornie Stave Company of Junction City, 

 Ark., has purchased a large tract of land in 

 Winn Parish, La., from the Gulf Land Company. 

 The Henry Qualmalz Lumber Company has 

 filed articles of incorporation at Little Rock. 

 Ark., capital .«100,000. 



The Joseph T. Steinacker Lumber Company, 

 capitalized at .$oO,000, has tiled articles of incor- 

 poration at Baltimore. 



S. G. M. Gates of Bay City, Mich., has sold 

 1,500,000 feet of hardwood lumber to be cut at 

 his mill to the McCormick-Hay Lumber Company 

 of Saginaw. 



The fifteenth session of the National Irrigation 

 & Forestry Congress will be held in Sacramento, 

 Cal., in September. The expenses of the conven- 

 tions are defrayed by the cities in which they 

 are held. 



Col. Charles Bogardus, late of Paxton, 111., re- 



cently purchased the extensive plant of the Lake- 

 wood Lumber Company at Lakewood, Mich., five 

 miles north of Pellston, where he resides. The 

 property purchased consists of the mills and ma- 

 chinery of ever.v kind, tramways, boarding houses, 

 stores and flfty-two dwelling houses. The pur- 

 chase was made for the Bogardus Land & Lum- 

 ber Company, which owns quite a lot of fine tim- 

 ber near by. 



About 400 acres of fine timber land was de- 

 stroyed on South Mountain near Leesburg, N. 

 Y., recently. The Are started in several places at 

 once and about thirty men were employed to 

 stop its further progression. 



Two thousand woodworkers employed by the 

 Fixture Manufacturers' Association were granted 

 an increase in wages by agreement with the 

 officers of the Carpenters' District Council of 

 Chicago. 



The Ohio-Pennsylvania Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated under the laws of Alabama, 

 with principal place of business at Axis. A 

 woodworking plant will be operated by the com- 

 pany. 



High water carried out the mill dam of the 

 North Wisconsin Lumber Company at Hayward 

 recently, as well as the trestle of the railway 

 spur. Three million feet of logs were carried 

 out and scattered along the river. 



J. D. Tennant and G. E. Grant of Cygnet. O.. 

 recently closed a deal at Laporte, Ind., by which 

 they became the owners of a large factory at 

 that place where all kinds of woodwork is manu- 

 factured. 



The lumber mill of B. Grier at Montreal was 

 destroyed by fire the afternoon of May 24, and 

 adjoining buildings also badly damaged. The 

 loss is estimated at $40,000. 



Case & Crotser, extensive hardwood dealers 

 at Kingsley, Mich., have acquired considerable 

 timber in Matchwood township and it is re- 

 ported that they will build a large mill there. 



Walter McCormick of the Hay-McCormick 

 Lumber Company of Saginaw, Mich., was in Bay 

 City recently purchasing a million and a halt 

 feet of hardwood lumber which is being manu- 

 factured at the Gates sawmill. 



About 18,000 acres of timber land in Wayne 

 county, Tennessee, have been purchased by T. S. 

 Ilassel of Clifton. The land is estimated to cut 

 close to 51,000,000 feet of lumber, and large 

 quantities of cross-ties, hickory and stave tim- 

 ber. 



A woodworking plant is to be established at 

 Crossville, Tenn., by E. S. Cram & Co. They 

 have purchased several thousand acres of tim- 

 ber land and will manufacture all kinds of house 

 trimming. About $50,000 will be invested in 

 the plant. 



The Lester Mill Company of Lester, Ark., is 

 equipping its pine mill so as to saw hardwood. 



Good & Miller of Camden, Ark., were com- 

 pelled to close down last week on account of 

 high water. 



R. D. Newton of Camden, Ark., is putting in 

 a small mill near Louann, Ark., where he ex- 

 pects to cut considerable pine. 



Weather conditions the past two weeks in 

 southern Arkansas have been very unfavorable 

 for logging. 



Q. McCraclien. manufacturer of hardwood lum- 

 ber at Mound City, 111., and D. K. Taylor, have 



just started a factory at Joppa, 111., for the 

 manufacture of elm hubs. They are getting in 

 a fine lot of poles and turning out some nice 

 stock. The firm name is Taylor & Co. 



Sturm & Sturm, manufacturers of special 

 wagon stock at Calhoun, Ky., have incorporated 

 their business and changed the name to the 

 Sturm I^umber Company. The capitalization la 

 .513.000, and the officers are E. Sturm, president; 

 II. A. Sturm, vice president ; J, L. Schutt, secre- 

 tary. 



At a meeting of employing carpenters and 

 builders of Dubuque, la., it was decided to sus- 

 pend all building operations June 1 unless the 

 boycotts of the woodworkers against the local 

 sash and door factories be raised or the builders 

 be allowed to use the product of the factories. 

 Building at Dubuque is now practically at a 

 standstill : the factories are continuing work 

 with a two-thirds crew. 



The Hilton Lumber Company has just been 

 incorporated at Belleview, Fla., with a capitali- 

 zation of $20,000. C. W. Hilton of New Haven, 

 Conn., who has an option on a large tract of tim- 

 ber land at Belleview, is the founder of the 

 company. Interested with him in the project 

 are J. W. Palmatier, B. C. Sloan and William 

 Aufort, all of New Haven. The general offices 

 of the company will be at New Haven and a 

 small mill will be erected at Belleview. The 

 company will produce, oak, baywood, other hard- 

 woods and pine. 



The Hay Land & Lumber Comp.iny of Dar- 

 danelle, Ark., has been incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $50,000, fully paid in, to buy and 

 sell lands and timber, manufacture and sell lum- 

 ber, ties and piling, build and operate railroads 

 and tramways, sawmills, planing mills, etc. The 

 incorporators are Alfred G. Hay. J. B. Crown- 

 over, C. B. Cotton, F. H. Phillips, II. Crown- 

 over, J. H. Crownoyer and George N. Goodier. 



The Pioneer Cooperage Company of St. Louis, 

 which operates a large sawmill and heading fac- 

 tory at Forest, La., is building a twenty-mile 

 broad-guage railroad extending through fine hard- 

 wood timber sections. It is thought that the line 

 will be extended to the Iron Mountain. Both 

 freight and passenger service will be maintained. 

 The Novelty Hardwood Company has been 

 organized at Durham, N. C, with a paid in 

 capital of $10,000. The company will manu- 

 facture hardwood specialties of all kinds. A 

 plant win be built and up-to-date machinery in- 

 stalled. The directors are R. G. Jones, J. E. 

 McDowell, A. Crumpacker, N. M. Johnson, W. J. 

 Griswold, J. H. Erwin and R. L. Lindsey. 



J. M. Carpenter of Corinth, Miss., will estab- 

 lish a sawmill at Raymondsville, Tex., for the 

 purnose of working up mesquite, ebony, guayacan 

 and other hardwoods. The introduction of mes- 

 (luite for furniture will be something entirely 

 new ; the wood can also be used for veneering. 



The sawmill of the Upham Manufacturing 

 Company at Marshfleld, Wis., has sawed its last 

 log, and is now in the hands of the United 

 States Leather Company. This mill has been 

 an important factor in the lumber history of 

 Wisconsin, having been in operation since 187S, 

 its yearly cut of logs averaging 12,000,000 feet, 

 or about 348,000,000 feet for the entire period. 

 It is not decided whether or not the leather 

 ["ompany will continue milling operations. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HABQWOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondents.) 



Chicago. 



A. R". Vinnedge has returned from the East, 

 where he went to attend the annual of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association at Atlantic 

 City. Mrs. Vinnedge accompanied him, and in 

 addition to the stop there they visited other 

 cities and took in the Jamestown Exposition. 



E. P. Arpin, the well-known hardwood lumber- 

 man of Grand Rapids, Wis., was a welcome caller 



at the the Ri:cord office last Thursday. 



A strike of thirty woodworkers and carpenters 

 in the shop of the Commercial Cabinet Company, 

 Ilalsted and Division streets, has completely tied 

 up work in that establishment. The strike was 

 called because one of the carpenters, who was 

 boarding with the foreman of the shop, changed 

 his boarding place. The foreman had the man 

 discharged. The discharged mechanic appealed 



