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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Micli. They will be used for rolls in large wall 

 paper manufacturing institutions. The design 

 for the paper is engraved on the maple cylinder 

 and the process of reproduction is similar to that 

 of ordinary printing. 



A new and handsome imported wood, which 

 bids fair to be very popular tor fine cabinet 

 work, is the Tasmanian myrtle. It is of a rich 

 pinkish color, hard and close grained. 



The Ked River section of Texas is shipping 

 considerable walnut timber to the Liverpool mar- 

 ket. A large quantity of the wood, purchased 

 from farmers iu the neighborhood, w;is shipped 

 from Annona last month. The Zeiglcr Saw Mill 

 Company of Richmond, Tex., recently shipped a 

 fine lot of ash timber to the Houston market. 



The Lansing Veneer Company has purchased 

 over two carloads of black walnut from farmers 

 in the vicinity of Chelsea. Mich., which are be- 

 ing delivered to the Michigan Central for ship- 

 ment. 



The Grand Rapids-Oregon Timber Company has 

 been formed at Grand Rapids, Mich., for the 

 purpose of dealing in timber lands. It is capi- 

 talized at ?S0,000. The stockholders, all of 

 Grand Rapids, are as follows : A. G. Dickinson, 

 F. I. Nichols, W. E. Cox, C. H. Walker, J. H. 

 Walker, J. R. Taylor, J. II. Haak, C. A. Coye, 

 Adrian Otte, Edward Ansorge. F. II. Nichols, 

 P. H. Travis, C. L. Grinnell, L. T. Wilmarth, 

 W. E. Gill and B. B. Luten. 



Consul-General Richard Guenther of Frank- 

 fort, Germany, reports that near Algiers, Mo- 

 rocco, there is a large plantation of soap trees, 

 from which several thousand tons of berries are 

 gathered annually. This fruit is used for making 

 an extract which may be destined to be of great 

 service for domestic purposes, since it will clean 

 linen, silk and colored embroideries much better 

 than ordinary soap. 



The Southwestern Lumber Company, a New 

 Jersey concern, has purchased 32,000 acres of 

 hardwood timber land in Calcasieu parish, Louis- 

 iana, for the sum of $271,580. The land was 

 the property of the Orange Land Company and 

 J. B. Watson. 



The Virginia Timber Company has commenced 

 operation near Kilbourne. 111. A sawmill plant 

 and other necessary machinery for the manufac- 

 ture of hardwood lumber will be installed and 

 a mile of railroad track built. The company 

 owns 1,000 acres of timber land .along the San- 

 gamoif river. 



The Henry Quellmalz Lumber and Manufactur- 

 ing Company has been formed at St. Louis, Mo., 

 to manufacture and deal in wagons, woodwork, 

 etc., and to establish sawmills ; the capital stock 

 is $100,000. 



The St. Louis Woodwork Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been organized at St. Louis with a 

 capital of $10,000. The incorporators are E. P., 

 E. R. and C. A. Maule. 



The Pennsylvania railroad will expend in the 

 neighborhood of $4,000,000 for wooden cross- 

 ties this year. 



The Straus sawmill, near Coleman, Wis., was 

 destroyed by fire recently, entailing a total loss 

 of $5,000. 



The Chicago Tie and Timljer Preserviug Com- 

 pany has been incorporated in that city by E. E. 

 Gray, C. P. Tallmadge and E. Murray. It will 

 deal in and treat railroad ties and timber and 

 is capitalized at $00,000. 



Nineteen girls employed in the clothes pin 

 department of the Oval Wood Dish Company's 

 plant at Traverse City, Mich., went on a strike 

 week before last, which necessitated shutting 

 down that branch of the big concern. They de- 

 manded a "raise" of 10 cents a day, but were 

 refused, although they were offered their old 

 positions back again at the same wages. The 

 girls refused to take them, however, and were 

 replaced by new employees. 



Another buried forest has just been brought to 

 light near Peterborough, England. Oak trees, 

 which have been buried for perhaps two thousand 



years, have been discovered at a depth of seven 

 feet. The wood is extremely hard, as is usually 

 the case with these buried timbers, and can 

 only be worked by machinery, as it turns the 

 edge of an ax. 



The H. M. Hoskins Lumber Company of Bris- 

 tol, Va., which was incorporated April 4 with a 

 capital stock of $25,000, elected H. M. Hoskins 

 president, C. A. Reyburn vice-president and gen- 

 oral manager and F. W. Kelly secretary. The 

 company will erect a band sawmill of a capacity 

 of 25.000 feet per day and three circular saw- 

 mills, each of a capacity of 10,000 to 12.000 feet. 

 C. C. Hagemeyer of Butler, Ky., H. L. Mlckle 

 of Highlands, Hall Hagemeyer of Covington and 

 Lurancy Mickle of Highlands have incorporated 

 the H. L. Jlickle Lumber Company at Covington, 

 Ky., capitalized at $50,000. 



TTie Alabama Black Locust Pin Company has 

 been organized at I'ort Payne, Ala., with E. 

 Cochran as president and J. G. Bohling as secre- 

 tary and treasurer. A factory has been built 

 and the concern is now manufacturing locust and 

 oak insulator pins and oak brackets. 



The Nelson Lumber Company has been incor- 

 porated at Johnson City, Tenn., with a capital 

 of $50,000 by J. A. Summers, Guy L. Smith, 

 L. W. Missimer and others. 



The Sunflower Lumber Company will establish 

 a sawmill at Sunflower, Ala., with a daily ca- 

 pacity of 20,000 feet to develop 4,000 acres of 

 pine and hardwood timber lands. They propose 

 to add a kiln and planer. C. L. Flora, formerly 

 of Tiffiu. O., is general manager. 



The Genessee, New York, valley is a natural 

 black walnut belt, but the great demand for 

 trees for the German export trade is causing 

 them to be rapidly cut down. They are used 

 abroad for veneers, and are given a very high 

 polish in the construction of fine furniture. For 

 large black walnut trees as much as $100 has 

 been paid, although the price of average trees is 

 about $35. 



The Sabino Lumber Company of Lake 

 Charles. La., has been formed with a capital 

 stock of $200,000 to saw hardwood from 16,000 

 acres of land recently acquired from the re- 

 ceiver of the Chicago-Texas Land & Lumber 

 Company. This land lies in the Sabine bot- 

 toms in the western part of the parish. With 

 the purchase was included a hardwood mill at 

 Merryville. on an extension of the Santa Fe. 

 The company will improve this mill and make 

 a specialty of quarter-sawed oak. 



The Cadillac Veneer Company of Cadillac, 

 Mich., is now running twelve hours a day 

 three days in the week, and still cannot keep 

 up to its orders for panels. At present eighty 

 men are on the pay roll. 



The veneer factory of Mulholland & Co. at 

 Sundridge. Ontario, was totally destroyed by 

 nre recently. The plant was valued at $16,000 

 and only a small portion of the loss was 

 covered by insurance. 



The Chandlei-ville Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chandlerville, 111., has decided to 

 move its offlces to Springfield, where it will 

 have quarters in the Booth Building. A large 

 tract of timber near Havana will be pur- 

 chased and the mill moved to that point as 

 soon as the supply of timber near its present 

 site is exhausted. E. A. Williams is president 

 of the company. 



The Seamans-Kent Company of Meaford, 

 Ontario, is establishing <a woodworking plant 

 which will make sash and doors, blinds, hard- 

 wood flooring, etc. It will cost in the neigh- 

 borhood of $100,000 and will employ 100 men. 

 The Underwood Veneer Company, of Wau- 

 .sau. Wis., cut 1.250.000 feet of hardwood logs 

 during the last winter, in addition to the 

 large supplies which it purchased from others. 

 This will insure keeping the plant busy during 

 the coming summer. 



The principals of the Paddock Lumber Com- 

 pany of Pana, 111., have returned from a trip 



to Arkansas, where they purchased about 

 9,000 acres of fine timber land which contains 

 about 10,000,000 feet of hardwood and 60,000,000 

 of yellow pine. They will develop the prop- 

 erty at once, it is understood. 



F. W. Teal and Felix Teal, formerly of 

 Owosso, Mich., but late of Baltimore, have 

 returned to the former place and will enter 

 into the manufacture of veneer. They are 

 experienced in this line, having been with the 

 Estey Manufacturing Company before its de- 

 struction by fire a year ago. 



Of the total area of Ireland, about 1.5 per 

 cent is wooded. The latest return shows 

 301,132 acres of forests, of which 44,227 are 

 larch, 31,281 fir, 16.201 spruce, 3,230 pine, 22.- 

 536 oak, 7,521 ash, 9.533 beech, 2,756 elm, 

 2,613 sycamore, and 161,244 "mixed." 



The name of the Kenova-Portsmouth Rim 

 & Spoke Company of Kenova, W. Va., manu- 

 facturer of ciuarter-sawed oak veneer, thin 

 lumber and hickory spokes, has been changed 

 to the Three States Manufacturing Company. 

 There is no change in the institution other 

 than in name. John T. Breece continues as 

 president, G. E. Breece as vice-president. 

 J. W. Breece as secretary, and W. W. Breece 

 as treasurer and manager. 



Judge A. M. Post, the referee appointed by 

 the Nebraska Supreme Court to take testi- 

 mony on the alleged lumber trust in that 

 state, made a report recently, finding that 

 the Nebraska Lumber Dealers' Association, as 

 now maintained, is not contrary to any of 

 the state laws relating to trusts. The judge 

 made a thorough investigation, covering sev- 

 eral months' time, and if the Supreme Court 

 supports the referee the suits will of neces- 

 sity be dismissed. 



City Forester Boddy, recently appointed to 

 that position by the city of Cleveland. O.. 

 has commenced the planting of trees along 

 the streets. A large shipment was received 

 last week and planting started on both the 

 East and West sides. The public square 

 will be beautified by the addition of several 

 handsome specimens. 



A correspondent in Bellingham, Wash., 

 writes that the foreign trade shows an in- 

 crease of 105.000.000 feet of lumber over the 

 exports of 1905. The heaviest buyers were 

 Australia and China. The former imported 

 110,000.000 feet and the latter but little less. 

 Australia increased its importations by 47,- 

 000,000 feet, Siberia by 5,000,000 feet. Japan's 

 receipts, however, show a loss of 2.900.000 

 feet, and it appears that trade with that 

 country has passed from the hands of Pacific 

 coast lumbermen. Japan has invaded Man- 

 ohurian forests, from which it evidently in- 

 tends to supply its needs and those of China. 

 The loss of Chinese trade would be deplorable, 

 for it has been constantly increasing. Hawaii, 

 Alaska and the Philippines substantially in- 

 creased their imports, and the outlook for 

 their business continues excellent. 



One of the new and progressive lumber 

 concerns of Wisconsin is the Blodgett-Booth 

 Lumber Company of Marshfield. manufacturers 

 and wholesalers of hardwood and hemlock. 

 The company was incorporated in November 

 last and is made up of C. E. Blodgett. presi- 

 dent, N. E. Blodgett and George D. Booth, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



J. W. Romine has recently engaged in the 

 wholesale hardwood lumber business at 

 Parkersburg, W. Va., with oflices in the Citi- 

 zens' National Bank Building. 



The Bayspring Spoke & Manufacturing 

 Company has been incorporated with $20,000 

 capital stock to engage in the manufacture 

 of spokes and other articles of hardwood at 

 Bayspring. Miss. 



Tlie Forestry Commission of the province of 

 Quebec has planted nine million forest trees 

 along the Ottawa river. i 



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