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HARDWOOD RECORD 



witb Several of the leading lumber nianufactur- 

 iug concerns of Memphis To ship its flooring in 

 cars with their himber. thus making it possible 

 for buyers to get less than carload shipments 

 of flooring at carload prices. The perusal of 

 the pages of this novel booklet give truth to 

 the statement made by the company that "Ar- 

 thur Memphis stamped on a piece of flooring is 

 a guarantee that it is a little better." 



Snap for Porch Column Builders. 



In its manufa<turt' of liigh-<-lass veneers the 

 Chicago Veneer I'ompany of Burnside. Ky., has 

 as a resultant product several carloads monthly 

 of cores from their poplar logs. These cores are 

 eight and ten inches in diameter and run in 

 lengths of 60. 60. 72. 78. S4. 90 and !t6 inches. 

 As they are from the highest grade of poplar 

 veneer logs and are solid heart, they eonstitute 

 a very desirable basis for their speedy completion 

 into sections or entire porch columns. The Chi- 

 cago Veneer Company has placed a boring ma- 

 chine in commission at its big Burnside plant 

 and bores these cores with a 3-inch hole to 

 prevent cheeking, and offers them to the porch 

 column building trade :it a price very much be- 

 low the cust nf jtoplar squares. Only strictly 

 Xo. 1 cores are bored and shipped. 



S. <i. Ulanton, who represents the Chicago 

 Veneer Company in I'hicago, with offices at 810 

 Great Xorthi^rn l)ui!ding. will bo pleased to call 

 on any of Tbr trade in Chicago or vicinity which 

 is inlerest<'d in This product. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Kir'- in ih"- plant of the Clarksville Hardwood 

 properly to th'- extent of .'i;4,(HMi. insurance 

 ii;:{..">oo. 



The Amory Hardwood Company nf Amory. 

 Monroe county. Miss., has been organized by 

 A. <i. Thompson. K. 1). Elmore and others ; capi- 

 tal, .'S4.0()0. 



The Oval Wood Dish Company of Traverse 

 City. .Mich., is making preparations to operate 

 on the hardwood tract north of Hessel, Mich., 

 which it purchased some time ago. It is esti- 

 mated that there is a ten years' cut on the 

 tract. 



Till' Tuthill & I'attison .Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated under the laws of 

 Alabama to manufacture and deal in lumber of 

 all kinds, to manufacture special articles of 

 hardwood, also veneers and veneered goods. 

 The authorized capital is $:.'00.000. of which 

 .'t;! 20.000 has been paid in. .John U. Tuthill of 

 Florence. Ala.. Jesse A. Tuthill of Sheffield. 

 Ala., and A. B. I'attiscm of Aurora. Ind.. are thi* 

 incorporators. Headquarters will be maintained 

 at Sheffield. 



The Itankin Lumber Company of Henderson. 

 Ky.. is erecting a large sawmill on the Louis- 

 ville & Nashville railroad about tive miles from 

 Brownsville. Tenn. The company recently pur- 

 chased what is known as the .Shaw tract of 

 timber lands in Haywood county, Tennessee, for 

 !|;22.000 cash, and it is this property which the 

 new mill will cut from. Oak. gum. hickory, 

 cypre.ss and poplar are the principal woods on 

 the tract. 



A band mill with 200,ooi) ft-ct daily capacity 

 is being erected at Hampton. Tenn.. by the 

 \V. >L Kitter Lumber Company of Columbus. O. 



Work is being pushed on the erection of the 

 planing mill at Mountain drove. Mo., which the 

 Ozark Lumber t'ompany is building to replace 

 the one recently destroyed by fire. 



The sale of ."(.537 acres of timber land in 

 Craighead county, Arkansas, was recently made 

 by Moore & McKerren of Memphis. Tenn.. to 

 tlie Allison Land Company, a concern allied to 

 the Decatur Egg (;ase Company of Decatur. Ind. 

 The purchase price was .'};i06.,s(Mi. The timber 

 on the property consists principally of gum, Cot- 

 tonwood, cypress, ash and oak, and the tract is 

 unimproved except that Moore & McFerren have 

 cut a small quantity of timber for use in their 

 mills at Memphis. The purchasers will con- 

 struct a railroad t^) the tract ten miles long, 

 frcmi Cardwell. Mo., the nearest point. 



The Standard Stave & Lumber Company of 

 Charleston. W. Va.. has been incorporated by 

 D. E. Matthews. Itaniel ^Lltthews and T. C. 

 Matthews of Cliarleston and .J. IL Maxwell. A. 



A. Maxwell and .1. H. Wagner of Tango ; capital. 



.S.'iO.OtJO, 



The Lamb Hardwood Company of Minneapolis, 

 Minn., is erecting a plant l(» develop a tract of 

 10.000 acres of timber land. 



The manufacture of caskets will be undertaken 

 by B. Tanner of Sturgis. Mich. He will begin 

 work shortly on the erection of a factory there. 

 'M) by so fept in dimensions and two stories high, 

 which will be fitted up with new machinery. 



The lumber mill and basket factory of the 

 Henry Starke Land & Lumber Company at Ar- 

 cadia, Mich., was burned to the ground August 

 .1. The loss is estimated at .-piOO.ooo. only 

 partly covered by insurance. The company, it is 

 reported, will rebuild immediately. 



(ieo. Webster & Sous of Swanton. Vt.. have 

 purchased a tract of timber land and a sawmill 

 near Malone. ■ N. Y.. and will operate thereon 

 this season. The timber op the property in- 

 cludes a variety of hardwoods and considerable 

 spruce. 



The Spartanburg Lumber Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Spartanburg. S. C, has been incor- 

 porated with !i;2.).000 capital stock. Sash, doors 

 and blinds, in addition to lumber, will be manu- 

 fai.'tured. 



A factory building '\'l by l.jO fpet in dimen- 

 sions and three stories high will be er?cted by 

 the Waverly Woodenware Company of St. Joseph. 

 Mich., ft»r the manufacture of washing machines. 



The Wycoff Lumber & Manufacturing Com 

 pany of Ithaca, N. Y.. has been incorporated 

 with $2."j.000 capital stock to manufacture port- 

 abb* houses and deal in lumber. Two large 

 buildings arc beiug constructed by the company 

 in Hhaca. which will be equipped with the latest 

 machinery. 



The plant of the Eureka Kefrigerator Com 

 pany at Indianapolis. Ind., was recently destroyed 

 by fire. r>ntailing a loss of about .fOO.OOO. 



The Bvirke-Crain Furniture Company has been 

 incorporated at Nacogdoches. Tex., to manufac- 



ture furniture: capital stock, $15,000. Ed 

 liurke is at the head of the concern. 



The Weber Brothers Piano Company. Okla- 

 homa City, Okla., has arranged for the erection 

 of a new $30,000 factory. 



T. R. Van Cleave and others have incorpo- 

 rated under tlie name of the Van Cleave Saw 

 Mill Company at Little Rock. Ark., and will pro- 

 ceed to erect a plant. The capital stock of this 

 corporation is .1^1.1.000. 



Wagner & Wiek. Rich Hill, Mo., have begun 

 the erection of an addition to their factory at 

 that place. 



With a capital stock of $100,000, the Houston 

 Casket & Manufacturing Company has been in- 

 corporated by John McKallip and others of 

 Houston. Tex. A large factory will be erected. 



L. H. Murphy of Chicago, general manager of 

 the American Seating Company, announces that 

 the plant at Wabash. Ind., will be transferred 

 to Chicago. 



The Hastings Cabinet Company is a new con- 

 cern at Hastings, Mich., formed by Lewis D. 

 Waters, who has been interested in the Na- 

 tional Woodenware Company of (Irand Rapids. 

 Mich. The <-ompany has a capital stock of 

 .^30.(100. and will erect a large factory. 



The Lakeshore Woodworking Manufacturing 

 Company is a- new concern, incorporated by 

 William Burney and others, to be located at 

 \'criniliou. (►. : capital stock, .$20,000. 



On Aug. 31 the mill property of the Empire 

 Lumber Company at Empire. Mich., owned by 

 the T. Wilce Company of Chicago, was destroyed 

 by fire ; loss. .S60.000. 



The Carman Manufa< turing Company's hard- 

 wood lumber mill at Tacoma. Wash., was de- 

 stroyed by fire Aug. 24. the company sustaining 

 a loss of "?60,ooo. 



The Highland Carriage Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated by Saul Zilonka and 

 others at Elmwood Place. Cincinnati; capital 

 stock, $50,000. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HAHDWOOD BECOBS Special Corraspondeuts.) 



Chicago. 



It is with the sincerest regret that the Hard- 

 WOOD Rkcoici) makes announcement of the death 

 of F. C. Fischer, the eminent lumber magnate at 

 thcTiead of the YeTlow I'oplar Lumber Company 

 of Coal Grove. O. Mr. Fischer had been seri- 

 ously ill at the Auditorium Annex. Chicago, for 

 some weeks and about a month ago submitted to 

 an operation on the nose for catarrhal trouble. 

 The operation itself was not of serious nature, 

 but unfortunately infection of the blood pre- 

 vailed, and Mr. Fischer's condition rapidly be- 

 came exceedingly critical. He was later re- 

 moved to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, 

 where he died Monday morning. September 10. 

 The funeral services will be held at Ashland, 

 Ky.. September 11. at 3:30 p. m. Mr. Fischer 

 was one of the most prominent men connected 

 with the hardwood industry, and his unfortunate 

 death will be mourned by a host of friends and 

 business ass(»ciates. 



W. M. Kelley of the Kelley Lumber & Shingle 

 Company. Traverse City. Mich., was in Chicago 

 on business last week and dropped into the 

 RiH'oiui office on Friday for a friendly call. 



John <\ Spry of the Southern nak Lumber 

 Company and an extensive timber land holder 

 of the Chamber of Commerce Building, is ex- 

 pected to arrive home from an extended Euro- 

 l»ean trip Sept. 11. 



The McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company is 

 the name of a new concern organized with 

 .'5;.")0.ooo capital stock to engage in the cypress 

 l)usiness. The incorporators are Irvin McCauIey. 

 D. ii. Saunders and John <i. Hale. Mr. McCau- 

 Iey has been identified with the Chicago trade 

 for the past three years in connection with the 

 D. (I. Saunders Lumber Company, which concern 

 the new company will succeed. The company's 

 otfices are in the Fisher Building. 



K. W. Pratt. Jr.. of the Pratt-Worthington 

 Company of Crofton. Ky., was a Chicago visitor 

 Sept. 3 and made the Record office a friendly 

 call. 



C. :\1. Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany of Clay City. Ky.. spent a few days in 

 Chicago last week en r<uite home from a trip to 



the Pacific Coast and Alaska, and paid the 

 Hardwood Rkcord a welcome visit. 



The Rkcord offices received a pleasant call on 

 Saturday last from A. C. Fuller, advertising 

 manager of the Hanchett Swage Works of Big 

 Rapids, Mich. 



Boston. 



ileorge D. Emery of the George D. Emery Com- 

 pany. Chelsea, made an assignment Aug. 25 to 

 Charles A. Vialle, president of the National Bank 

 of the Republic and a director in the company, 

 and Charles W. Noj'es, an attorney. Mr. tlmery 

 is a stockholder in the First National Bank of 

 Chelsea, which was recently forced to close its 

 doors. It is stated that Mr. Emery has property 

 enough to more than offset his liabilities. Mr. 

 Noyes has stated that this personal assignment 

 will not affect the company in any way. 



F. E. Parker of Mershon. Schuette. Parker & 

 Co. of Saginaw, Mich., is visiting the trade here. 



Charles C. Batchelder of the Boston Lumber 

 Company is spending two weeks in Maine. 



The Associated Lumber i'ompany, Boston, has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,- 

 oo(t. The directors are Arthur Lyman. Daniel 

 U'Hara and Michael J. Connolly. 



The Washburn & Haywood planing mill, Brock- 

 ton, has been visited by fire, causing a loss of 

 $ir..O(H). The insurance Is placed at .$1,700. 



William E. Litchfield left early this week for 

 a trip to Washington and Virginia. Mr. Litch- 

 field recently acquired large timber holdings in 

 Virginia and has gone there in the interests of 

 this purchase. 



The William A. Hall Lumber & Fiber Com- 

 pany has been incorporated under Vermont laws 

 with a capital stock of $200,000. The main 

 offices of this concern will be at Bellows Fails. 

 Vt. 



Alfred Ackerman. who for several years has 

 held the position of state forester in Massachu- 

 setts, has resigned and has accepted the Peaboiy 

 Chair of Forestry in the Tniversity of Georgia. 



The Somerset Timber Company has been in- 

 corporated in Maine with a capital stock of 

 $30n.ooo. The incorporators are : William J. 

 Lanigan. Waterville : Frank E. Boston, Gardi- 



