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p.iny. rcrently organized with $10,000 capital 

 sliicli to operate at Bedfotil, Ind. The president 

 of the concern is George M. Dodd and Boone 

 Leonard is secretary and treasurer. The com- 

 pany lias purchased a large tract of timber laud 

 111 supply its timber requirements, which will bo 

 heavy, as about twenty-flve macliiues of large 

 c-apacn.v will be operated. 



The Galloway-l'ease Lumber Company of John- 

 snii t;'ity recently purchased from the Bryan 

 Lumber Company a tract of 1..300 acres of hard- 

 wood timber laud situated near Cranberry, N. C. 

 The tract will, it is estimated, cut about ten 

 million feet and will be developed by the pur- 

 chaser.s. Several circular mills will be installed 

 at ouce. 



The I'nited States consul at San Jose, Costa 

 liica, reports that during the past two years 

 the lumber business has been prosperous in 

 Costa Kica. and a number of sawmills have beeu 

 l>uiU. Many kinds of timber grow there, includ- 

 ing mahogany, dyewoods, rosewood and cedar, the 

 latter being extensively used in building. Much 

 of the valuable timber is inaccessible owing to 

 lack of roads. Could land be obtained adjoin- 

 ing or near tlie railroad a good opening is af- 

 forded for the manufacture of lumber. Prices 

 fur land near the railroad vary from .$50 to .$75 

 a manzana (about one and three-quarter acres). 

 .\r ;i distance away prices are lower, but the 

 fxpensc of marketing tlie timber is much greater. 



.V small lilaze at ITuntsville. Ala., originating 

 from sparks fi-om an emery wheel, caused a loss 

 of $300 in the Consolidated Handle Factory. 



Mrs. Alice Webb, known as the Texas tobacco 

 qtieen, has purchased 12ti,000 acres of coal and 

 liardwood timber lands in Kowan and Morgan 

 c-ounlies. Kentucky, for $1,250,000. J. Strick- 

 land and W. It. Briggs of New York negotiated 

 till' (leal. The lands adjoin the coal properties 

 belonging to the Frick interests. 



A new factory for the manufacture of wagons 

 and sleighs is in prospect for Lansing. Mich. J. 

 >\'. Paterson will remove his plant from Ilolly 

 10 the former city, and u new company capital- 

 ized at $100,000 will be organized. 



The Gonave Island Development (!'ompany has 

 been incorporated at I'iaintiehi. N. .T.. to trade 

 in precious woods found ou the island of La 

 Gonave, Haiti : the concern is capitalized at 

 $125,000 and the incorporators are Charles W. 

 Russel. G. II. Werner and II. (). Ilance. 



M. .7. Mobley is opening up a liaudle factory 

 in Washington C. 11., G. He also operates one 

 at .\enia. 



Incorporation papers have been filed by the 

 (.'ulver Tie and Timber Company of Mobile, Ala., 

 the olijects of the new concern being to buy. sell 

 and own lands and timber rights and to manu- 

 facture ties, timber, lumber and conduct a log- 

 ging business. The authorized capital is $100,- 

 000. Horace T. Culver is president, C. L. Na- 

 biM's vice president and W. M. Culver secretary. 



M. Lawlis of Hugo, Okla., a well-known In- 

 dian Territory lumberman, recently sold to the 

 American Hardwood I.,umber Company of St. 

 Louis 5,000.000 feet of lumber at an average 

 of $o5 per thousand. 



The Burma forest department disposed of 

 O.S.HO tons of teak timber at its depots in the 

 I'yinmana division duriug the last of ilay and 

 first of June at unusually high prices. While 

 in Berlin recently the king of Siam stated that 

 Americans who had established sawmills in his 

 country and begun exportation of teakwood are 

 doing well. The king is negotiating with other 

 Americans regarding new industrial enterprises 

 in which his people cannot be sufficiently inter- 

 ested to invest their money. 



-Vrticles of incorporation of the Clark-Gay 

 Manufacturing Company of Little Rock, Ark., 

 have been filed. The company will make wagon 

 liuljs. spokes and other wood stock and is cap- 

 italized at $80,000. 



The Capitol Veneer Company, 1541 Lewis 

 street. Indianapolis, suffered a loss of $10,000 



recently through the dropping of a lighted 

 candle upon a pile of sawdust. Clearing away 

 the debris has begun and the company will re- 

 build. 



The Atwood Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated under the laws of 

 Wisconsin, with the F. Weyerhaeuser Company 

 and George A. Atwood as the sole stockholders. 

 The capital stock is $200,000. The company 

 owns 300,000,000 feet of timber in Price, Saw- 

 yer and Iron counties, about three-fourths of 

 which is hemlock and the remainder hardwoods. 

 I'lans have been perfected for the erection of 

 mills and factories and work on their con- 

 struction will commence earl,v in January. A 

 hardwood mill with an annual capacity of 12,- 

 000,000 feet will be established. The location 

 for the plants has not been decided upon as 

 yet, hut it will probably be somewhere on the 

 Wisconsin Central between Ashland and Abbotts- 

 ford. 



The Circle Bending Company, Pine Bush, N. 

 Y., has been incorporated by George E. Decker, 

 W. J. Ward, Agnes J. Ward and J. Erskine 

 Ward. The company has a plant with a ca- 

 pacity of 2,500 feet per day, equipped with a 

 bending machine, planer, ripsaw, boring machine, 

 etc. Oak and hickory rims are the principal 

 output and enough orders have been closed to 

 keep the plant in operation for six months. 



The Evansville (Ind.) Veneer Company is soon 

 to receive its first shipment of mahogany logs 

 from Africa. They were shipped to England 

 first and then consigned to Portland, Me., from 

 whence they are en route to Evansville. The 

 value of the logs is about $3,000, and they are 

 said to be of a fine species and very large. The 

 company will use them for veneer work. 



A big cargo of mahogany and cedar was 

 brought to Boston witliin the month from Cen- 

 tral American points. There were SCO cedar logs 

 and 11,804 mahogan,v, all consigned to the 

 George D. Emery Company. 



A Swedish engineer has invented a new metli- 

 od for the utilization of sawdust whereby it 

 may be finely ground and mixed with colors and 

 a binding material, then hydraulically treated 

 and employed for many purposes as a substitute 

 for other building material. It is said to be de- 

 sirable for making furniture, ship fittings, etc., 

 and a large factory will be built in Sweden to 

 produce the new commodity. 



A dispatch from a Sydne.y (Australia) newspa- 

 per says an experimental shipment of 2,250,000 

 feet of Japanese timber has arrived there, and 

 other shipments are to follow, and that a lumber 

 firm says the cargo of Hokkaido pine, of which 

 about SOO.OUO feet were discharged at Sydney 

 and 1,500,000 feet iu Melbourne, cost $2.08 per 

 1110 superticial feet c. i. f. Sydney for ship quan- 



tities. It is not a very high-grade timber, being 

 of poor ciuality and full of knots. 



Samples of wood for lead pencils grown in the 

 I'liilippines are on the way to this country and 

 certain New York capitalists have become greatly 

 interested over the report that they will be 

 found durable and in every way available for 

 that purpose as a substitute for cedar. 



The sawmill of the Lathrop-IIatton Lumber 

 Company at Riverside, Ala., was destroyed by 

 lire September 2 with a loss of $50,000, pa'r- 

 tiaily insured. 



(Jreenwood, Miss., Is becoming quite a lumber 

 town of late. Three new manufacturing plants 

 are being erected there and three more are ne- 

 gotiating for sites. Nash & Dunn are erecting 

 a uew stave factory, and it will have a daily 

 capacity of 5,000 finished staves, with dry kiln 

 and Hnishing plant. W. S. Dundas is building 

 a mill in which he will manufacture ijcrsimmon. 

 liickory and oak dimension stock. Ropp, Whaley 

 & Ilopp. manufacturers of hardwood lumber, are 

 also bidlding a plant. 



E. R. Buchanan of Lorain, O., has just pur 

 chased a tract of timber in the Little Kanawha 

 valley of West ^*irginia which will cut from 50.- 

 1.000 to 00,000,000 feet of hemlock, oak, pop- 

 lar and other hardwoods, which he will manu- 

 facture into lumber. 



The American X'eueer Company has alrcaily 

 begun work upon its buildings at Fort Smith, 

 Ark. 



The spoke and hub factory at Mt. Carmel, 111., 

 recently destroyed by fire, will probably be re- 

 built. .\bout 100 men were employed. 



The Virginia Land and Improvement Com- 

 pany of Williamsburg, Va., which owns a 5.(ttMt- 

 acre tract in New Kent county, is about to build 

 a large veneer factory at Boulevard, employing 

 from forty to fifty men. 



The I'ugh pipe factory of Louisiana. JIo.. 

 made and shipped 310,000 pipes the past year 

 from hickory poles. 



The Crescent Lumber Company, with offices 

 at Marietta, O., will on September 15 begin 

 operating its new mill near Clay, W. Va. The 

 equipment consists of an eight-foot Giddings & 

 Lewis bandmill, two steam skidding outfit.s, 

 Americjin litg loader, etc. The company has just 

 completed eight miles of three-foot gauge rail- 

 road to connect witli the Buffalo Creejj & Gaulley 

 road. 



liartwell Brothers of Chicago Heights, 111., 

 large manufacturers of handles, are operating 

 a modern mill and shaving shop recently estali- 

 lished at Mammoth Springs, Ark., manufactiir 

 lug their hand shaved ax-handles, which are 

 tnade from the bi'st second-growth hickory. Tlii' 

 plant is operated under the title of the Maui 

 oioth Sjirings Handle Works. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



IB7 HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



E. F. Dodge of the P. G. Dodge Lumbei- Com- 

 l>any lias returned from a southern trip. 



William J. Wagsttiff of Oshkosh. Wis., was a 

 Cliitago visitor recently. 



M. S. MoCuUom, representative of Schultz 

 Bros, in Roanoke. Va., visited the home office 

 this week. 



W. W. Mitchell uf Cadillac. Mich., head of the 

 large lumber interests which bear his name, was 

 in the city a few days ago. 



J. K. Meadows. Memphis manager fur the 

 Advance Lumber Company, of Cleveland, called 

 at the Record office Sept. G. 



L. L. Skillman of the Skillman Lumber Com- 

 liany of (jJrand Rapids called at the Record 

 otiice Sept. 7. lie reports that trade in his city 

 is excellent. 



The Chira.iio Association of Commerce has 

 decided to mark the site where Father Jacques 

 Marquette and Louis Joliet first set foot on 



Chicagi) soil, nearly two hundred and lifty 

 years ago. Flistorical documents and traditions 

 indicate this spot to be on the bank of the 

 Chicago river, just south of Blue Island avenue, 

 and the city has donated a site for the erection 

 of a suitable monument to commemorate the 

 event. C L. Willey. the prominent manufac- 

 turer and importer of mahogany and other i>re- 

 cious woods, has generously donated a handsome 

 mahogany cross, which will he erected late in 

 September — that being the month, in 1673, when 

 the two great explorers first landed. The eruss 

 will be fourteen feet in height and twelve inches 

 thick. Dedication services will be held and a 

 committee, consisting of T. E. Wilder, H. L. 

 Green, Granger Farwell. J. E. Kehoe and F. U. 

 Kimbark, has beeu appointed to arrange a pro- 

 gram. 



Miss ^lary E. Ilrowu. dau^,':teT' of John P. 

 Brown, editor of Arboriculture, Connersville, 

 Ind., died at her father's home last numtii. 



