HARDWOOD RECORD 



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-\ni-fh Carolina. The company is incorporated 

 under the laws o£ New York state, but head- 

 qiiarters will be at Morganton, N. C. Three 

 mills will be set up ou the property to cut the 

 limber, which is principally white pine and pop- 

 lar, and operations will commence about Sep- 

 tember 15. The company is composed of J. A. 

 l^arker o£ the banking house of J. A. Tarker & 

 Co. and H. E. Thompson of J. K. Farrington & 

 Co., both of New York City, and J. B. Veeder 

 of Valhalla, N. Y., who has been manufacturing 

 lumber at that place for a number of years and 

 who will have active charge of the company's 

 operations. 



The White Oak Lumber Company of Syracuse. 

 N. Y., has been organized with $2.^,000 capital 

 stock to manufacture white pine, making a spe- 

 cialty of this lumber. The incorporators are 

 J. K. Bramer, A. M. Mitchell, George Stanton, 

 Lewis Bramer and F. L. Burdick. 



The Western Tie and Timber Company of St. 

 Louis. Mo., has sold 27,000 acres of hardwood 

 timber lands near Harrisburg, Ark., to E. L. 

 Keal of Chicago, for $800,000. The purchaser 

 will establish a large hardwood manufacturing 

 plant at Harrisburg immediately. 



lieichard & Bealer of AUentown, Pa., will set 

 up an additional sawmill outfit in Lower Milford, 

 where they have bought two tracts of land of 

 twenty-four and thirty acres respectively. They 

 have their mill near Big Hocks in operation and 

 are sawing up oak, chestnut and hickory trees 

 for railroad building and wheelwright's lumber. 

 The members of the firm are George Iteichard 

 and Harrison K. Bealer. 



E. C. Ingram of Jefferson, S. C, and others 

 will establish a plant at Cheraw, S. C, for the 

 manufacture of coffins and caskets for the whole- 

 sale trade. 



It is reported that Robert 'Vestal and J. F. 

 Sehultz of the Vestal Lumber Company, Knox- 

 ville. Tenn., are planning the development of 

 timber land in that vicinity, and will build 

 sawmills. 



J. M. Cartwright of Fort Wayne, Ind., and 

 I'rank Brewer of Angola, Ind., have purchased 

 a tract of hardwood timber land near Lexington, 

 Ivy., which they will cut. 



IHinbar & Welch have purchased oak and pop- 

 lar timber lands at Farkersburg, W. Va., and 

 will erect sawmills to develop same. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(B7 HABD'ffOOD BECOBD Special Correspoudeats.) 



Chicago. 



Fred W. Black of the Fred W. Black Lumber 

 Company is at Nashville, Tenn., superintending 

 the work of getting the company's new veneer 

 plant at that city in shape for operation. He 

 states that things are in readiness, including the 

 installation of engines and boilers, but that there 

 has been ditliculty in getting a sufficient water 

 supply by boring, and it may be necessary to 

 pipe it from a stream at a considerable distance 

 away. 



E. F. Dodge, head of the P. G. Dodge Lumber 

 Company of this city, has purchased the shed 

 property of the bankrupt J. C. Smith Lumber 

 Company at Nashville, Tenn. The building is 

 170 feet long by 77 feet wide. It will be used as 

 a storage plant for the company's southern stock 

 and as a distributing point for the east and 

 north. This will fill a need long felt by the 

 company and will be a great benefit in enabling 

 it to supply its customers' wants promptly. 



W. N. Kolley, president of the Kelley Lumber 

 and Shingle Company, Traverse City, Mich., was 

 in Chicago last week on business and was a 

 welcome caller at the Record office. 



The Hardwood Record was favored last week 

 with a call from S. Spittle, timber merchant of 

 New Southgate, N., London. Mr. Spittle accom- 

 panied the editor to Jennings, Mich., and spent 

 two days reviewing the timber, lumber and floor- 

 ing operations of the Mitchell Brothers' Company 

 at that place. Mr. Spittle was accompanied to 

 this country by his wife, who spent some time 

 in London, Can. They sailed for home on the 

 Celtic, August 22. A picture of the English 

 gentleman will be found in connection with the 

 white cedar article in this issue ; he is shown 

 standing beside the twin trees. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood' Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, which recently moved its 

 general offices to Nashville, spent last week 

 among friends in this city. 



Maisey & Dion, Loomis and Twenty-second 

 streets, are sending out a unique little ad in the 

 way of a card with bell attached, saying "We 

 are ringing you up to tell you we are well 

 cipiipped to take care of your hardwood wants 

 in air dried or kiln dried stock; we have three 

 thoroughly up-to-date sheds covering a space of 

 :!0.000 square feet, also dockage and private 

 switch : both members of the firm take an active 

 part in the business, all orders being filled under 

 their direct supervision." 



The Timber Trades Journal of London pub- 

 lishes under date of August 3 an interview with 

 E. C. Mershon, of William B. Mershon & Co., the 



well-known band sawing machinery makers of 

 Saginaw, Mich., who is taking a trip abroad for 

 his health — business being incidental to it. Mr. 

 Mershon spent some time in London, and intend- 

 ed visiting Brittany, Manchester and Glasgow 

 on the way home. In the course of conversation 

 he said that from impressions gained in Eng- 

 land he believed that if that country ever lost 

 her commercial supremacy it would be principally 

 on account of jealousy between competitors. For 

 instance, if a big manufacturer in England buys 

 a new machine which is capable of turning out 

 a larger amount of work than its predecessor, 

 he keeps the information to himself for fear that, 

 should his neighbor hear of his success, he would 

 purchase one and again become a keen competitor. 

 This method is bad for the machine trade gen- 

 erally. But in America there is a greater ex- 

 change of ideas, and though it may bring 

 greater competition, it is of vast benefit to a 

 nation, which, by the means of this exchange, 

 speedily finds where the best is to be obtained 

 and what it is wise to discard. 



A Chicago real estate broker was surprised 

 the other day to receive a call from "Indian 

 Joe" Schwartz, whom he had befriended when 

 the latter was a stable boy, years ago, and 

 given .$20 to reach his native West, forgetting 

 the incident as soon as it was closed. But 

 the Indian boy returned, a lumber magnate, 

 redolent with diamonds and fat "wads" to pay 

 the debt, with interest. Mr. Schwartz now 

 owns 10,000 acres of choice hardwood and ma- 

 hogany forest land in Santo Domingo. 



Ed F. Dodge of the P. G. Dodge Lumber 

 Company, well known hardwood lumber oper- 

 ators of this city, is spending the summer va- 

 cation period at Green Lake, Wis. 



While the big lumber schooner, A. N. Luckey, 

 carrying a cargo from the Escanaba Lumber 

 Company at Masonville, Mich., to the Esta- 

 brook-Skeele Lumber Company of this city, was 

 being towed through the Chicago river last 

 week, the line parted and the schooner swung 

 into the shore. About 200 people were stand- 

 ing on the abutment but made their escape 

 from the jib boom in time, though it crashed 

 up through the rock and dirt and to the side- 

 walk, where it broke off. The schooner, thus 

 released, was captured before it drifted into 

 the bridge, and further trouble was averted. 



Charles Miller of Miller Bros., wholesalers 

 and manufacturers of this city, has returned 

 from a business trip to the company's southern 

 operations at Macon. Miss. 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lum- 



ber Company has returned from a visit to the 

 Memphis market. 



J. M. Schultz of Sehultz Bros. & Cowen is 

 spending several weeks at Mullet Lake, Mich., 

 with his family. A. J. Schultz will remain 

 with them for a couple of weeks. Meanwhile 

 H. V. Richards, their Indiana representative, 

 is assisting to care for the business. 



Thomas E. Wilce of the T. Wilce Company, 

 manufacturers of hardwood flooring, is spend- 

 ing his vacation near Empire. Mich., from 

 which place E. Harvey Wilce has just returned, 

 after a month's rest. 



T. S. Estabrook of the Estabrook-Skeele Lum- 

 ber Company has been visiting a plant at 

 Gould. Ark., in which he is interested — the 

 Newhouse Mill & Lumber Company. 



R. H. Fenn of the Fenn Brothers Company. 

 Memphis, spent a couple of days in the city 

 last week. 



H. S. Hayden, the well known lumberman 

 of the Railway Exchange, received a flve-foot 

 alligator the first of the month, shipped him by 

 a friend in Alabama. Inasmuch as the building 

 has no zoo connected with it. Mr. Hayden turned 

 the "critter" over to the Lincoln Park institu- 

 tion. 



M. F. Rittenhouse, president of the Ritten- 

 house & Embree Company, left the city August 

 14 for Detroit, where he boarded his handsome 

 yacht "Onward" with a party of friends, who 

 will cruise with him through Lake Huron to 

 Mackinac Island and down the shore of Lake 

 Michigan. This latter part of the voyage will 

 be taken with Mr. Rittenhouse himself at the 

 wheel. The yacht is 70 feet long and a power- 

 ful boat as well as an exceedingly liandsome 

 one ; It is beautifully finished in mahogany, 

 with white enameled bathroom, complete elec- 

 tric light plant, and all the necessities as well 

 as most of the luxuries to be had in modern travel. 

 E. J. Ostrander of the same concern has been 

 spending his vacation at Hamlin Lake, near 

 I.udington, Mich., with his family. 



G. M. Flynn. buyer of hardwood and pine 

 lumber. located at Macon. Miss., made the 

 Record a pleasant call the first of the week. 



M. A. Hayward of M. A. Hayward & Sons. 

 Columbus. Ohio, was a visitor to the Chicago 

 market during the early part of last week. 



C. W. Burt of Burt & Brabb, Ford, Ky.. 



called on Chicago friends several days recently. 



A. B. Ransom, manager of John B. Ransom 



& Co. of Nashvile, Tenn., was a welcome caller 



on Tuesday last. 



Frank F. Fee, the well-known white oak ex- 

 pert of the Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Newport, Ark., spent several days 

 among his Chicago friends recently. 



Sam Burkholder, still the youngest veteran 

 lumber operator in Indiana, came up from 

 Crawfordsville for a few days this week and 

 paid the Record a call. Mr. Burkholder re- 

 ports light stocks and business booming. 



E. W. Benjamin of the Cadillac Veneer Com- 

 pany, Cadillac, Mich., called at the Hardwood 

 Record oflice August 23. 



The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company, 

 large manufacturers of hardwoods, spruce and 

 hemlock, at Scranton. Pa., announces that it 

 has secured the services of F. L. Cheney of 

 PittsHeld. Mass., lo represent it in the I'itts- 

 burg district. Mr. Cheney is thoroughly famil- 

 iar with spruce as well as with hardwoods, and 

 the company is very much pleased at this new 

 addition to its selling force. 



Boston. 



The George D. Emery t.'ompany has recently 

 received a cargo of SCO cedar logs and 11.894 

 mahogany logs by the steamer Chelston. This 

 steamer sailed from Carlagenia and touched sev- 

 eral jiorts on its way north. 



All the tenants in the building located at 141 

 Milk street have been obliged to seek new quar- 

 ters, as the firm of Stone & Webster have taken 

 the entire building. This affected several lum- 



