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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Consolidation at Cincinnati. 



The Cypress Lumber and Veneer Company 

 was recently incorporated with a capital 

 stock ot $500,000 by J. E. Tuthill, S. Tuthill, 

 William Mitchel. C. C. Arcber and C. I. Bacon, 

 all residents of Cincinnati. The new corpora- 

 tion is a consolidation of the Cypress Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati, the Fincastle Sawmill 

 Company of Wardsville. La., and Tuthill & Pat- 

 tison of Sheffield. Ala. Though the owners of 

 the two southern companies will take consider- 

 able stock in the new company, it is understood 

 that the control and management will be entire- 

 ly with the Cincinnati people. 



Manager J. E. Tuthill of the Cypress Lumber 

 Company says : "I regret that the secrecy that 

 has been necessary in this consolidation has led 

 some persons to draw wrong conclusions, and I 

 am quite aware that we have been subjected to 

 insidious insinuations. I desire to answer tbis 

 by stating that the interests I represent are 

 doubly solvent, for we have assets twice as 

 large as our debts." 



The organization comes as a result of the 

 meeting of the creditois of the company held 

 in the Fourth National Bank last week. The 

 bank officials stated that they and other credit- 

 ors were in thorough accord with the plans of 

 the company. No other change than above stat- 

 ed will be made in the new company and a 

 larger business is expected to result as they 

 now have a larger field to work on. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Interstate Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Oklahoma City with a capital of 

 $10,000. Arthur K. Kice is the promoter. 



Fire in the yards ot the Gallon Lumber and 

 Coal Company of Toledo, O., on June 7 caused 

 a loss of $25,000. 



The Ayer & Lord Tie Company of Chicago has 

 filed papers at Little Rock, Ark., showing a 

 capital of $200,000. J. S. Thomas of Clarendon 

 Is agent. 



J. A. Petty, whose lumber mill at Sycamore. 

 O., was badly damaged by an explosion some 

 time ago, has purchased the McArthur & Grafton 

 sawmill at the same place and will combine the 

 two plants. 



The heading factory managed by J. L. Preston 

 at Grafton. III., was recently totally destroyed 

 by are. It was one of the leading industries of 

 the town. 



J. W. Maddux of the Thomas-Maddux Lumber 

 Company of Calico Rock. Ark., will hereafter 

 devote his time to the hardwood business, along 

 the White River line, in the interest of the 

 company. 



With the completion of the buildings of the 

 Western Lumber and Supply Company, which has 

 just been incorporated at Council Bluffs. la., 

 and the installation of its plant, combined with 

 the lumber interests already there, that city will 

 become an important wholesale lumber center 

 for the West. 



The Martin-Massey Lumber Company, which 

 recently sold its mills and pine timber lands in 

 Izard county, Arkansas, and elsewhere, will go 

 into the hardwood lumber business, furnishing 

 wagon and car material. The mills will be 

 located in Lawrence county, where the members 

 of the company formerly lived and where they 

 own large timber holdings. They were in the 

 hardwood lumber business several years ago 

 and prefer that to the other line of operations. 



Pennington & Evans, lumbermen of Barfield, 

 Ga., were lately awarded $6,190 of the claim 

 which they brought against the Douglas, Augusta 

 & Gulf railroad. The claim was made under the 

 law which prescribes penalties for railroads 

 which fail to furnish cars for prompt transpor- 

 tation of freight. 



Receipts of lumher at San Pedro. Cal.. June 3 

 were the largest of any single day in many 

 weeks, not less than eight vessels having come 

 into port bringing more than 6,000,000 feet. A 



large portion of the cargoes received go to the 

 different railroads for ties and other heavy tim- 

 bers. From the fact that shipments from north- 

 ern mills have been reduced nearly one-half the 

 past month, this speaks well for southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



The Pacific Logging and Timber Company is 

 arranging to build a mill to cut out a large 

 tract of timber which it has acquired on Van- 

 couver Island. The mill will probably be in the 

 vicinity of the city limits. The Genoa mill, sit- 

 uated near Gowichan, has been bought by F. 

 Mewett of Vancouver, and additions to be 

 made will bring the plant up to date in every 

 respect. The machinery will be overhauled and 

 new kilns built. 



The Domingo Lumber Company will enter 

 business at Albuquerque. N. M., with a capital 

 stock of $200,000. 



The Hobart-Lee Tie Company, capital stock 

 $50,000, has been incorporated at Little Rock, 

 Ark. 



Manager Andrew Olson of the Carbon Timber 

 Company. Grand Encampment. Wyo.. says the 

 company's cut this season is 800.000 ties. 800.- 

 000 mining timbers, and 5.000,000 feet of logs 

 for the box factory at Fort Steele. 



A. Z. McHenry of Benton, Pa., has finished 

 sawing over 400,000 feet of pine, hemlock and 

 chestnut on the J. A. Myers tract, near Tivoli. 

 Lycoming county, and will soon begin the saw- 

 ing of between 400,000 ahd 500,000 shingles at 

 the same place. He will then saw out over 

 1,500,000 feet of lumber in Luzerne county, 

 near Harveysville. 



The Wood-Galloway Lumber Company of 

 .Johnson City. Tenn., has gone into voluntary 

 liquidation. The trustee is C. J. Morrow, repre- 

 senting William Whitmer & Sons, of Philadel- 

 phia. The assets are $75,000 and the liabilities 

 are in the neighborhood of that amount. The 

 creditors are of the opinion that the assets will 

 more than ofiEset any liabilities and they will be 

 paid dollar for dollar. The principal stockhold- 

 ers of the Wood-Galloway Lumber Company are 

 Haskett Wood and T. J. Galloway. 



S. Montgomery Smith has sold to the Spruce- 

 ment Lumber Company his timber holdings on 

 Jonathan Creek in Haywood county. North Car- 

 olina, for $30,000, according to dispatches from 

 Raleigh. The tract is located at the head of a 

 flume recently constructed for the Waynesville 

 Transportation Company and contains some val- 

 uable balsam and hemlock. It is understood that 

 Mr. Smith retains the management of the com- 

 pany and of the flume line. It is estimated that 

 the quantity of timber on the property is 30.- 

 000.000 feet. 



The rebuilt and enlarged sawmill of the 

 Paine Lumber Company ot Oshkosh, Wis., which 

 cost $100,000, is now complete and being oper- 

 ated at half capacity. When the entire force Is 

 at work, the output will be enormous. The com- 

 pany now has 25,000,000 feet of logs ready to 

 be run through the mill. 



The Minnesota State Forestry Board will soon 

 make arrangements for the opening of the state 

 summer school of forestry at Itaska Park. 



The machinery and supplies for a new hard- 

 wood plant were unloaded at Muskogee, I. T., 

 ^Ncek Ijefore last and are being set up six miles 

 oast of Atoka. In this vicinity the Colby Broth- 

 ers of Richmond. Ind.. have leased 2,500 acres 

 of timber and will work up the oak and other 

 hardwoods into dimension stock. C. L. McKee 

 and Charles Cain wijl manage the business and 

 will reside in Afftlta. 



About 10,000 acres of timber land in Sullivan 

 county, Tennqpsee, has been purchased by the 

 Whiting Manufacturing Company of Abingdon, 

 Va.. for development purposes. 



The Roaring Creek Company, recently formed 

 at Johnson City, Tenn., will build a flume six 

 miles in length at a cost of close to $10,000. 

 It will be used for transporting lumher and tan 

 bark. 



The partnership heretofore existing under the 

 style of Dobell. Beckett & Co. of Quebec, and 

 known in London as Richard R. Dobell & Co., 

 has expired by effluxion of time. T. Stevenson. 

 L. Evans and W. M. Dobell retire from the firm, 

 having made all necessary arrangements for the 

 uninterrupted carrying on of the business by R. 

 M. Beckett and N. Christensen. Mr. Dobell will 

 continue to take an active part in the manage- 

 ment. The West Virginian operations in sawn oak. 

 etc., are assumed by Thomas Stevenson, who 

 will carry on this branch of the business as a 

 separate firm, under the name of Thomas Ste- 

 v(*nson & Co., at the same London address. 



Hall Brothers Cedar Company has been 

 Charlotte, Mich., is installing a new dry kilu 

 formed at Burnet, Tex., by D. C. Read, J. T. 

 Hall and W. A. Hall. It is capitalized at $5,000. 



The Brazos Lumber Company is the name of 

 a new concern at Paulding, Ohio, capitalized at 

 $27,500. Its principals are J. P. Glasser, C. H. 

 Allen, D. J. Harkless, J. A. Mohr and T. F. 

 Goodwin. 



Thompson & Fleet of Wausau, Wis., have 

 bought a 3.000-acre tract of timber on the Lake 

 Superior shore, near Bell, for $65,000. The land 

 is covered with cedar and hemlock. An exten- 

 sion of the Bayfield & Western will probably be 

 built to the mill at Cornucopia, where the tim- 

 ber will be manufactured. The land was bought 

 from the Akeley Lumber Company of Utica, 

 N. Y. 



The Vandalia Chemical Company of Carroll- 

 ton, N. Y., has been incorporated to make and 

 sell products obtained from wood distillation, 

 and to deal in wood, timber and lumber. The 

 capital stock is $100,000 and the directors are 

 M. F. Quinn, F. S. Sherman, T. H. Quinn of 

 Straight, Pa.. R. W. Hilton of Smethport. l"a., 

 and M. J. Collins of Olean, N. Y. 



The Park City Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in Boyd county, Kentucky. 



Advices from Mexico City announce that the 

 Compania Maderera de la Sierra de Durango 

 has just been organized in that city with an 

 authorized capital of $2,300,000. The corpora- 

 tion has acquired 280,000 hectares of forest land 

 in the Durango Sierra, which it is claimed con- 

 tain 4,000.000 square feet of lumber and at 

 least 9.000,000 ties. It is thought the yearly 

 production will be 160,000,000 square feet, and 

 operations will be commenced as soon as the 

 Durango railway is completed to the property. 



The Anderson Creek Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Fort Worth, Tex., with a 

 capital of $50,000. The incorporators are J. W. 

 Ripy, O. P. Ripy and D. L. Irwin. 



The Duck Lake Lumber Company has been 

 formed at Green Bay, Wis., and is capitalized 

 at $50,000. Those interested are William and 

 Austin Larsen and W. M. Taylor. 



The Wallingford Art Novelty Company of 

 Wallingford. Conn., manufacturers of articles 

 in wood and metal, has filed a certificate of in- 

 corporation. The authorized capital is $10,000 

 and the incorporators are Edwin T. Carter, 

 Matthew Cunningham and Dwight T. Carter. 



In 1005 the hardwood distilleries in the Unit- 

 ed States numbered sixty-seven, and the wood 

 distilled therein amounted to 659,770 cords, 

 valued at $1,967,800. The output was as fol- 

 lows : 26.370,033 bushels of charcoal, 5.062.076 

 gallons of crude alcohol, 86,685,129 pounds of 

 acetate and 677,480 gallons of tar and oil. 



The Capitol City Casket Company has been 

 incorporated at Columbus, O., with a capital 

 of about $50,000. C. M. Anderson, formerly 

 with the Columbus CoflJn Company, was elected 

 president and treasurer and W. S. Hotelier, sec- 

 retary. Karl T. Webber, B. F. Whipps. R. M. 

 McCoy, C. M. Anderson and W. S. Hotcher con- 

 stitute the board of directors. The company is 

 now operating in a building at Armstrong and 

 Naghten streets with the Columbus Show Case 

 Company, which concern expects to move into 

 a new factory on Mt. Vernon avenue soon. 



