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"John S. Owen of Eau Claire, president of the 

 John S. Owen Lumber Company, already one o£ 

 the largest land-owners of Wisconsin, is negoti- 

 atinfT a deal with George Earley of Chippewa 

 Falls for an extensive tract of fine hardwood 

 timber lands in Chippewa county. Undoubtedly, 

 as the differenge in price offered and asked is 

 slight, the deal will be closed soon. 



A hoop factory is to be added to the list of 

 industries at Sycamore, O. William Shedenhelm 

 of Tiffin has purchased the machinery and plant 

 ownec ^j ri. L. Holmes, which has been idle sev- 

 eral years but was operated only a few months. 

 After a thorough overhauling the plant will be 

 put in operation. Mr. Shedenhelm is an expe- 

 rienced hoop manufacturer and will undoubtedly 

 meet with success. 



Frfed HerricU of Lac du Flambeau, Wis., with 

 other Wisconsin capitalists, has purchased for 

 $600,000 the 50,000-acre tract of hardwood and 

 yellow pine timber lands in the Pearl River val- 

 ley, bought some months ago by Foley & Larson, 

 the St. Paul capitalists, and formed the Interior 

 Lumber Company, capitalized at $500,000, with 

 privilege of increasing this to $l,00o,000 at will. 

 The company proposes establishing a large mill 

 at Jackson, Miss., and building a road through 

 the Pearl River valley for the purpose of devel- 

 oping these holdings. 



Pittsburg and local capitalists have organized 

 the Pittsburg & Southern Veneer Manufacturing 

 Company and are planning the erection of a 

 large veneer factory at Narrows, Giles county, 

 Virginia. The site has been chosen, and R. H. 

 Enoch of Pittsburg, who will be the general man- 

 ager of the business, is on the ground arranging 



for the immediate erection of the plant. The 

 main building is to be SO by 500 feet in dimen- 

 sions and two stories high. The factory will be 

 operated uay and night, seventy-five men on the 

 day shift and probably an equal number at night. 

 The output of the plant will be about four car- 

 loads of veneer a day. 



The Wolverine Manufacturing Company and 

 the Cadillac Cabinet Company, both of Detroit, 

 Mich., will establish a hardwood manufacturing 

 plant at Memphis, Tenn. The companies referred 

 to have purchased about three acres of ground 

 and secured an option on more for the location 

 of the plant, in which it is proposed to invest 

 about $10,000 at first. It is planned to begin 

 work at once on a dimension mill to have a 

 capacity of two carloads per day, the product to 

 be used by the Wolverine Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and the Cadillac Cabinet Company in the 

 manufacture of tables, cabinets, etc. George A. 

 Blessed, Tennessee Trust building, Memphis, will 

 be in active charge of the plant at Memphis, 

 which is to operate as the Wolverine Manufac- 

 turing Company. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company has 

 transferred its principal offices and yards from 

 Chattanooga to Norfolk, Va. The company has 

 for several years conducted a branch plant at 

 the latter place, and from this time forth the 

 entire business will be conducted through the 

 Norfolk office, where all correspondence should 

 be addressed. Ferd Brenner and Leland G. 

 Banning of Cincinnati, stockholders in the con- 

 cern, will make a European tour together this 

 summ/sr, visiting the principal lumber markets. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



This office is in receipt of a communication 

 from a committee consisting of W. A. Bennett, 

 T. B. Stone, C. H. Pease, J. Watt Graham and 

 C. F. Korn, acting on behalf of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club, announcing the candidacy of 

 their fellow member, Thomas J. Moffett, for the 

 office of president of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association. The Memphis Lumbermen's 

 Club announces the candidacy of William H. 

 Russe for the same office. If the candidates are 

 confined to these two distinguished lumbermen, 

 the association cannot go far wrong in the choice 

 of its next president at the Memphis meeting. 

 May 3 and 4. 



J. G. Leavitt of the Leavitt Lumber Company, 

 this city, has just returned from a seven weeks' 

 trip to the Pacific coast. The company reports 

 business as excellent and the demand tor oak 

 still particularly strong. 



Henry Ballou of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., Cadil- 

 lac, Mich., was a Chicago visitor last week. 



The Hardwood Record acknowledged receipt of 

 the thirty-third annual special Issue of the Timber 

 Trades Journal of London, England. This num- 

 ber is exceedingly handsome and large and con- 

 tains many special articles on a variety of sub- 

 jects of interest to the lumber trade. Among 

 them may be mentioned one on Canadian lumber 

 camp life, with portraits of prominent Quebec 

 and Montreal shippers ; on methods of felling, 

 preparing and transporting Benin mahogany 

 logs ; another on "Mahogany as a Decorative 

 Aid ;" one on Scandinavian forests ; the "Teak 

 Trade of Burmah ;" the developing of woodwork- 

 ing machinery, etc. The number is full of hand- 

 some Illustrations, and reflects great credit on 

 Its publishers. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia 

 courteously acknowledges by a vote of thanks 

 the copies of the Hardwood Record that are 

 regularly supplied the association's club rooms. 



The Southern Oak Lumber Company will be 

 located in its new and handsome quarters, 910 



Special Correspondents.) 



Chamber of Commerce building, next week. The 

 company is getting its new yard at North Mem- 

 phis stocked with lumuer, but it will continue to 

 maintain Its downtown office at 1'217 Tennessee 

 Trust building. Manager John D. Spaulding is 

 dividing his time between the Memphis plant 

 and Chicago headquarters. 



J. L. Lane of the Lane-White Lumber Com- 

 pany, Fort Smith, Ark., was in town on April 

 13. Mr. Lane will continue his general sales 

 office in the Stock Exchange building, but will 

 spend most of his time at the Fort Worth plant. 



Charles ,,olUin, ex-vicegerent of the southern 

 district of Indiana, is planning a Hoo-Hoo con- 

 catenation to be held at Evansvllle April 27. 

 This will be the first concatenation that has 

 been held in Evansvllle for several years. The 

 prospects are good for a large class and a very 

 successful meeting. 



N. A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., 

 Indianapolis, was in Chicago last week and paid 

 the Record office a friendly call. Mr. Gladding 

 has started out on another of his "grand tours" 

 of the West to visit his company's branch offices. 



C. H. Pease of the Pease Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, O., called at the Record office while 

 in Chicago last week. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, Is back at the Chicago 

 office after an extended trip over a large por- 

 tion of the hardwood district of the South. 



The Danforth Picture Frame Company, Chi- 

 cago, has been Incorporated with $20,000 capital. 

 George Danforth. William Rukeberg and Perelval 

 Steele are the promoters of the enterprise. 



H. E. Bacon of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood 

 Company, Memphis, paid the Record office a call 

 a few days ago. 



Charles H. Barnaby, of Greencastle, Ind., was 

 in Chicago a few days last week. 



A. C. Fuller, advertising manager of the Han- 

 chett Swage Works of Big Rapids, Mich., paid 

 the Record office a call a few days ago and left 

 a copy of his first work for the Hanchett insti- 

 tution. It is a handsome Illustrated catalog of 



the complete equipment of automatic filing room 

 machinery and saw fitting tools manufactured by 

 the Hanchett Swage Works. As a specimen of 

 catalog work, explaining in minute detail the 

 features of the many appliances manufactured by 

 the company. It Is excellent. Copies of the work 

 can be secured by addressing the foremost manu- 

 facturers of filing room machinery, the Hanchett 

 Swage Works, Big Rapids, Mich. 



The Record acknowledges receipt of a booklet 

 from the John Schroeder Lumber Company, Mil- 

 waukee, in which are Illustrated the various 

 methods pursued in the manufacture of Its fa- 

 mous "Steel Polished Perfection" hardwood floor- 

 ing. This house makes a very high-class product 

 of beech, birch, maple, red and white oak, plain 

 and quarter-sawed flooring, and also on special 

 orders produces walnut and cherry flooring for 

 ornamental borders. The company will be glad 

 to supply copies of the handsome little booklet 

 on application. 



The Morton Dry Kiln Company Is out with a 

 very handsome illustrated pamphlet entitled "The 

 Morton Dry Kiln." Within Its pages are many 

 handsome pictures showing the superior meth- 

 ods of construction of its kilns, methods of pil- 

 ing lumber in the kilns. Its roller bearing channel 

 steel car bunks, steam traps, recording thermom- 

 eters, canvas doors, etc. A list of users of the 

 Morton system is Incorporated In the book. Cop- 

 ies can be secured on request from the Morton 

 Dry Klin Company, 1328 First National Bank 

 building, Chicago. 



The Globe Mirror & Frame Works, 330 South 

 Clinton street, this city, reports an increase in 

 its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. 



In addition to the district meeting of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, which Is 

 being held today at Greenville, Miss., a second 

 meeting in the same Interest will be held at 

 New Orleans at the office of the Southern Cypress 

 Manufacturers' Association on April 27, and a 

 third meeting is scheduled for Asheville, N. C. 

 lit the Battery Park hotel, on May 5, at which 

 time the hardwood manufacturers of western 

 North Carolina expect to join forces with the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



Boston. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Associa- 

 tion held its regular meeting and banquet at 

 the Parker House Tuesday, April 17. About 

 twenty members were present. Following the 

 dinner. President Litchfield called upon Morris 

 Hall for a report of the committee appointed at 

 the last meeting to consider the advisability of 

 uniting the wholesale and retail trade Into one 

 association. Mr. Hall stated that the committee 

 had had only one meeting, but at that meeting it 

 was decided that they preferred to undertake 

 some means to Increase their own association 

 rather than to unite with the retail branch of 

 the business. It was voted to extend the power 

 of the committee and give them additional time. 



Burrows & Kenyon, Providence, R. I., were 

 visited by fire early in the month. The loss was 

 about $100,000. Two lumber sheds erected 

 about two years ago were completely destroyed. 



The Blair Veneer Manufacturing Company of 

 North Troy, Vt., Is planning a large addltiou to 

 its plant. 



Isam Mitchell of I. Mitchell & Co., Brockton, 

 has returned from a trip to California. 



William E. Litchfield states that his brother 

 is remodeling their mill at Mt. Vernon, Ind. 



Amasa Pratt of the Amasa Pratt Lumber 

 Company, Lowell, Mass., has transferred his in- 

 terest in that company to his sons. 



The Kempton Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized under the laws of Maine with a capital 

 of $125,000, all paid in. E. L. Kempton is 

 president and H. H. Furbish treasurer. 



The Franklin County Lumber Company, Green- 

 field, Mass., is planning to build an extensive 

 addition to its plant. 



J. S. McMaster & Co., a new wood working 

 firm in Rutland, Vt, is erecting a factory for the 



