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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(ii-y dock and niarlni' n:i,v at Norfolk, Va. It 



is announced that the oi-ganizers have purchased 

 a tract ot land suitalilc fur the jihint ni-ar Nor- 

 folk. Mr. Norris gavi- it out thai the company 

 does not intend to enter the shipluiildiug busi- 

 ness, but will devote all its time to tlie repair- 

 ing of small craft. The capital will not he 

 extensive and will he controlled by Philadelphia 

 and Virginia parties. 



The State Forestry Comuiission is Laving dif 

 ticulty to secure land for forestry reserve pur- 

 poses. Land is scarce now. Times are good 

 and nobody wants to sell. It is evident land 

 owners are holding off for higher figures, hut 

 the state will not pay fanc.v i^rices. 



The Lewis Chair Compan.v, Wilmington, Del., 

 was incorporated under Delaware laws Sept. 

 lli. capitalized at .$100,000. 



The Damascus Lumber Compan.v, West Ches- 

 ter, Pa., obtained a charter under lielaware 

 laws Sept. 12. capitalized at $100,000. 



The Philadelphia Textile Machinery Company 

 is too busy tilling orders to worry over trade 

 conditions. Their Proctor system dryer is highly 

 commended by those fortunate enough to have 

 it installed. The Koddis Lumber and Veneer 

 Company of Marshfleld, Wis., has installed the 

 Proctor girt conveyor dryer, which they report 

 eminently satisfactory. Tlie National Veneer 

 and Panel Manufacturers' Association, which 

 met in Munising recently, inspected with groat 

 interest the two Proctor girt conve.vor dryers 

 which are being operated in the plant ot the 

 Great Lake Veneer Company, and it was the • 

 consensus of opinion that the problem of proper 

 drying has at last been solved. The Goshen 

 Veneer Company, Goshen, Ind., writes that the 

 new Proctor girt conveyor dryer enables them 

 to turn out their entire product in ten hours 

 instead of twenty-four, as heretofore, with a 

 corresponding saving of labor and fuel. The 

 Park Falls Manufacturing Company, Park Falls, 

 Wis., is installing a Proctor girt conveyor dryer. 

 These are but a few of the many favorable re- 

 ports coming in testifying to the worth of tliis 

 machine. 



Henry Disston & Sons. Inc., Tacony, Penn., 

 veteran saw and flic manufacturers, stand as a 

 stupendous illustration of what enterprise, push 

 and the production of honest goods for the 

 . money can accomplish. The business was start- 

 ed by William and Charles .Johnson in 183(;, 

 and Henry Disston was one of their employees. 

 In 1.S40 the firm failed and Mr. Disston in pay- 

 ment for services due him received tools, steel 

 and other material sufficient to begin the manu- 

 facture of saws in his own name. From this 

 humble nucleus has sprung the present gigantic 

 business, which is of world-wide distinction. 

 Up to 1845 a number of small concerns statiCd 

 up, which were eventually bought out by Mr. 

 Disston. Mr. Disston had a hard struggle to 

 introduce the American made article, as all 

 saws, files, etc.. were at that time imported 

 from England, but integrity in work and an 

 unfailing tenacity of purpose had its reward 

 and today the Disston saws and files are shipped 

 to all the South American states, England, 

 France, Germany, Russia, India, Australia and 

 South Africa. From generation to generation 

 the Disstons have controlled this business ; even 

 the mechanical part has never been yielded to 

 outsiders. Father and son have followed in an 

 unbroken sequence, and the little town of Ta- 

 cony has become a populous and attractive place 

 of residence as the site of these famous works. 

 The Disstons are proud to refer to the good 

 feeling and confidence existing among their em- 

 ployees. They have six mechanics who have 

 been with them for over fifty years : thirty em- 

 ployees who have worked for them uninter- 

 ruptedly for forty years and upwards : 149 for 

 thirty years and 300 for twenty years, all of 

 whom combined constitute, of course, but a 

 fraction of the labor employed. They claim to 

 have been the first concern to make crucible 

 ■<heet steel in the United States and the first 



in the United States to build and install an 

 electric furnace in which crueilile steel is made. 

 The company has ,iust issued its handbook for 

 1307, which contains a most complete history 

 of the Disston business, a detailed description 

 of all kinds of saws, how they are made and 

 how they should he preserved, with excellent 

 illustrations of the various important mi'chan- 

 leal dejiartments in these works. 



Baltimore. 



Secretary E. U. Terry, of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association has come back from a 

 long trip south made in the interest of the or- 

 ganization. He went as far as New Orleans, and 

 not only got in touch with the association mem- 

 bers in different cities, but also conferred with 

 exporters outside the organization with such 

 good result as to make various additions to the 

 roll. The main object of his journey, however, 

 was to open negotiations with kindred bodies 

 and urge consolidation, to the end that the trade 

 might be strengthened and the association be 

 made a more effective instrument for good. 

 Some excellent results have already been at- 

 tained, but the fact that a number of influential 

 exporters remained outside the ranks has at times 

 militated against the work. Then, too, the ex- 

 istence of several bodies, each pursuing the same 

 or similar aims, served to create confusion in 

 the minds of buyers abroad and tended to weak- 

 en the endeavors to remedy trade abuses. To 

 the end that the ranks of the exporters might 

 be lined up solidly in behalf of the adoption of 

 the American system ot inspection and other 

 eminently equitable demands, and that the move- 

 ment ot stoi-ks might be better regulated, espe- 

 cially with regard to the forwarding of lumber 

 suitable for the foreign trade, a conference with 

 the New Orleans Exporters' Association was ar- 

 ranged by Secretary Terry. At this conference 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association was 

 represented by William H. Russe, of Russe & 

 Burgess, Memphis ; Gustave A. Farber. of Mem- 

 phis ; M. S. Baer, of R. P. Baer & Co., Balti- 

 more, and Secretary Terry. On the part ot the 

 Crescent City body a number of the most influ- 

 ential members attended. The situation was ex- 

 tensively discussed, and as a result the Gulf ship- 

 pers announced that their association would 

 combine with the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association on certain conditions. These condi- 

 tions were deemed by the representatives of tile 

 national organization entirely acceptable, but 

 they asked to be allowed to submit them to the 

 board of directors, which is confidently expected 

 to give its assent, so that amalgamation seems 

 assured. Mr. Terry was accorded a cordial re- 

 ception in New Orleans and spent three busy 

 days there. He went from Baltimore to Norfolk, 

 Va., thence to Bristol. Knoxville, Chattanooga, 

 Memphis, Mobile and New Orleans, everywhere 

 encouraging the members and studying export 

 conditions. He returned via St. Louis, South 

 Bend, Ind.: Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; 

 Pittsburg, Pa., and Cumberland, Md., making a 

 complete circuit. 



The National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 has received an invitation from the Lumbermen's 

 Club at Memphis, Tenn., to hold the next an- 

 nual meeting in January, 1008, there. The in- 

 vitation is likely to be accepted. The Neal-Dolph 

 Lumber Company and the Pettibone-Taylor Com- 

 pany, of Memphis, are the latest concerns to be 

 admitted to membership. 



Some disappointment is felt here among mem- 

 bers of the Hoo-Hoo becau.se John L. Alcock, 

 Baltimore's candidate, was not elected grand 

 snark of the universe at the Hoo-Hoo annual. 

 His popularity was fully attested, however, by 

 his election as senior Hoo-Hoo. 



The Baltimore office of G. S. Briggs & Co., of 

 Norfolk, dealers in hardwoods and pine, will 

 hereafter he conducted as an independent con- 

 cern, the G. S. Briggs Lumber Comiiany liaving 

 been incorporated here last week by Richard J. 

 I'oloiiiKi, Charles T. Howard and J. Kemp Bart- 



lett, of Baltimore, and George S. Briggs and 

 William L. Perry, of Norfolk. The capital of 

 the company is fixed at $25,000 and business will 

 be carried on in much the same way as hereto- 

 fore. Messrs. Colonna and Howard have been 

 in charge of the office for some time. Mr. Co- 

 lonna since the withdrawal of the late W. S. 

 Rowe to engage in the lumber trade on his own 

 account. The incorporation will not affect the 

 Norfolk office, incorporation having been decided 

 on as a means of fixing liability and recognizing 

 the energetic work of Mr. Colonna. Mr. Briggs 

 will be a stockholder in the company. The office 

 of the company will remain at East Falls and 

 Canton avenues. 



The firm of Hays, Wasmuth & Co., has been 

 appointed Miy the National Lumber Exporters' 

 -Association to look after the relations between 

 the railroads and the shippers. 



Mr. Price, of the Price Hardwood Company, 

 al.so an officer in the newly organized Chatta- 

 nooga Lumber Company, returned from the scene 

 of that corporation's operations at Madison, S. C. 

 where a mill is being erected, and reports that 

 the plant will probably be in running order about 

 Nov. 1. Some delay occurred over the construction 

 of the track to the mill, a distance of about one- 

 half mile. This track is now completed and the 

 machinery is being put up as fast as possible. 



There is a prospect that with the inauguration 

 of the coastwise direct service Ijetween Baltimore 

 and New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Louis- 

 iana red cypress will become a more important 

 factor in the lumber trade here than it has been 

 in the past. The Louisiana Red Cypress Com- 

 pany has been sounding dealers here with regard 

 to the placing of shipments by the new steamers, 

 and even proposes to send a full cargo to Balti- 

 more. The local representative of the company 

 here is Robert C. Irwin. 



A. C. Bonham, a well-known hardwood pro- 

 ducer at Chilhowie, Va., was here about ten days 

 ago and called on a number of firms. He stated 

 that the plants had plenty of orders on hand and 

 that practically all of them were running to the 

 limit of their capacity. He expressed the opinion 

 that the market would hold up well. 



G. W. Eisenhauer. of the Eisenhauer-MacLea 

 Company, dealers in hardwoods at Central and 

 Eastern avenues, this city, was in New York this 

 week taking a vacation. He was accompanied 

 by Mrs. Eisenhauer. 



Pittsburg. 



The William Schuette Company is pushing its 

 hardwood business with a good measure of suc- 

 cess and finds the general tone better than one 

 month ago. Its salesmen have pulled in some 

 very nice trade from the big manufacturing 

 towns lately. 



W. A. Kessner of the Crescent Lumber Com- 

 pany is taking a week off in Ohio. The Crescent 

 is getting a good list of orders for posts, ties and 

 piling and is making a specialty of locust posts. 

 W. A. Clay of the Clay-Schoppe Lumber Com- 

 pany spent a few days in Parkersburg last week. 

 Farther down in West Virginia he bought a large 

 lot of white oak. A big order of piling is going 

 from this concern's mills to Parkersburg by 

 barge this week. 



J. T. Parsons of the Parsons-Cross Lumber 

 Company is spending the week among Ohio 

 towns. The firm is getting a good call for chest- 

 nut and is making rapid headway in the yellow 

 pine market. 



Manager S. A. Seaman of the C. P. Caughey 

 Lumber Company is well satisfied with his Sep- 

 tember business to date. This company has 

 four mills cutting white oak in Washington 

 county, Pennsylvania, and is well prepared to 

 make quick shipments on either the Pennsylvania 

 or the Wabash 1-aiIroad. Washington county oak 

 is known the country over for its splendid qual- 

 ity, and the Caughey company has built up a 

 fine trade in timbers. It has recently contracted 

 for a large amount of mine rail stock and ties 



