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HARDWOOD RECORD 



San Francisco Branch E. C. Atkins & Co. 



The branch house of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., 

 located at 21 and 23 Main street, San Francisco, 

 was destroyed by the fire following the great 

 earthquake of April 18, together with a complete 

 line of Atkins circular, band, cross cut, hand 

 and other saws, mill specialties, etc., kept in 

 stock there at all times. N. A. Gladding of 

 Indianapolis, vice president and secretary of the 

 company, arrived at Oakland the morning of 

 April 24, and fortunately secured from Gov. 

 Pardee a pass which enabled him to enter San 

 Francisco and visit the devastated districts. He 

 found that K. W. Neighbor, the enerprising San 

 Francisco manager for E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., 

 had already located a temporary office at 10,").") 

 Broadway, Oakland, Cal., and was ready for 

 business. After reviewing the situation further 

 it was decided to lease a large, well-lighted 

 wareroom at 862 Market Street, Oakland, splen- 

 didly suited for carrying an extensive stock, and 

 it is at this address that the office will be main- 

 tained until further notice. 



Bliss-Cook Oak Company Rebuilding. 



Work has been commenced on the erection of 

 a new mill for the Bliss-Cook Oak Company at 

 Blissville, Ark., to replace the one recently de- 

 stroyed by Are. A large force of men is em- 

 ployed on the buildings and installing an AUis- 

 Chalmers outfit consisting of a 12-inch single 

 band and a 10-inch resaw, with steam setworks, 

 a 20x36 Corliss engine, steam feed, niggers, log 

 loaders, trips, etc. When the mill is finished it 

 will be one of the most up-to-date and complete 

 in the South. The yards of the Bliss-Cook Oak 

 Company contain about 5,000,000 feet of lumber 

 not touched by the fire, and also a well-assorted 

 stock of flooring. The flooring plant remained 

 intact and is running full time, turning out ex- 

 ceedingly fine stock. Superintendent Howard 

 Coles has the new work in charge. 



New Orleans Merger. 



The Otis-Alcus Lumber Company is the name 

 of a new corporation at New Orleans, capitalized 

 at IflOO.OOO. Samuel T. Alcus is president, 

 Henry Alcus is vice president, Henry A. 

 Alcus is secretary and Rowland Otis is 

 treasurer. The company will take over the 

 business of S. T. Alcus & Co. and of the Otis 

 Manufacturing Company, storing the lumber at 

 the latter plant, where the sawmill will engage 

 in cutting Cottonwood when not busy with ma- 

 hogany. Boxes of low-grade cottonwood will be 

 made at the Alcus operation, the upper grades 

 being sold as lumber. 



Knoxville and a Great Knoxville Concern. 



Some of the richest timber in Tennessee comes 

 from the section which might be designated as 

 the Knoxville district. Knoxville has splendid 

 railroad connections besides the Tennessee river 

 to furnish supplies, which serve also in dis- 

 tributing the finished material. 



The city is in the heart of a great producing 

 territor/ and is the home of several large con- 

 cerns cutting and working hardwoods of all 

 kinds. There are also several jobbers who oper- 

 ate from local oflices. This section is noted not 

 only for the profusion of its timber but the 

 high class of the lumber produced by the 

 various concerns there. 



The largest lumber concern in Knoxville is 

 the Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 controlled by the three Vestal brothers, men 

 young in years but veterans in lumber ex- 

 perience. The company has about twenty-five 

 acres of yards on two railway systems, and a 

 large plant up-to-date in every respect. 



ville, Tex., has begun the manufacture of axe 

 handles. 



The Mount Olive Stave Company of Mount 

 Olive, Ark., has increased its capital stock from 

 S25.000 to $.50,000. 



The Pine Bluff Lumber & Veneer Company of 

 Little Rock, Ark., has decreased its capital stock 

 from $100,000 to $50,000. 



The Warren Vehicle Company of Warren, Ark,, 

 is building a tramway six miles long to facilitate 

 the hauling of its timber. 



J. H. Jewett is installing the machinery in 

 his new kitchen cabinet and hardwood novelty 

 factory at Menominee, Mich. 



The Broadway Hardwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Harrisonburg, Va., has recently been 

 organized and a plant will soon be erected. 



The Judson Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated at Boston to manufacture saw 

 frames and handles ; capital stock, $10,000. 



Alex. Rose, a farmer near Lee City, Ky., re- 

 cently sold the timber on his farm, with the 

 exception of the locust and chestnut, for $10,- 

 000. 



The Alluvial & Hardwood Company of Lumber- 

 ton, N. C, has been incorporated to do a gen- 

 eral land, lumber and sawmill business ; capital, 

 $25,000. 



The Vicksburg Veneer Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Milwaukee, Wis., with a 

 capital stock of $50,000, by J. F. Conant, R. W. 

 Grace and T. W. Spence. 



The Little Lumber Company of Harriman. 

 Tenn., contemplates erecting a sawmill and box 

 factory in that place. The company has re- 

 cently purchased 4,000 acres of timber land near 

 Isolene. 



The Illinois Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Alton, with mills in Arkan- 

 sas and Indian Territory. The capital stock is 

 $20,000 and the incorporators are all residents 

 of Alton, III. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company has in- 

 creased its capital stock from $40,000 to $200.- 

 000. As reported in these columns before the 

 company's headquarters are now located at Nor- 

 folk, Va., having been recently transferred from 

 Chattanooga, Tenn. 



The plant of the lloosier Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of New Castle, Ind., will soon be enlarged, 

 and when completed it will be the largest kitchen 

 cabinet factory in the world. Five additional 

 buildings will be erected, representing an outlay 

 of nearly $30,000. 



'ITie Prcscott Company of Menominee. Mich., 

 will this summer turn out five complete saw- 

 mills for the imperial government of Japan. 

 The orders for the machinery were booked a 

 few weeks ago and the goods will be ready 

 for delivery before f&ll. 



The Illinois Central has established a forest 

 reserve in southern Illinois and has planted 

 1,000,000 Cottonwood trees. When large enough 

 these trees will be used for ties, and it is said 

 that when treated with a creosote preparation 



the wood is as good as any other for this pur- 

 pose. 



Fay Cusick of Milwaukee, a hardwood lumber 

 dealer, has recently purchased a third interest 

 in a large tract of red oak timber in the North- 

 west. He values the tract at $100,000. He is 

 making preparations for manufacturing lumber 

 through the Port Wing sawmill, which has a 

 daily capacity of 500,000 feet. 



The sawmill of the Santee Cypress Lumber 

 Company at Ferguson, S. C, was recently de- 

 stroyed by fire. The mill sawed about 50,000 

 feet of lumber a day, and was valued at about 

 $75,000. This is an enterprise in which Francis 

 Beidler of Chicago is largely interested. A large 

 portion of the loss was covered by insurance. 



Palmyra, Mich., contains a stonecutters' mal- 

 let factory, where mallets are turned out made 

 of the best hickory obtainable. They weigh 

 about eight pounds each, and the finishing de- 

 partment can turn out four dozen completed 

 mallets a day. Orders are so steady that the 

 concern runs constantly and never is able to 

 keep a stock, on hand. 



The Southern Seating & Cabinet Company of 

 Jackson, Tenn., has increased its capital from 

 JS.'i.OOO to $100,000. Reorganization has re- 

 sulted in the election of the following ofllcers : 

 Thomas Polk, president ; J. H. Duke, vice presi- 

 dent ; F. L. Ingersoll, general manager ; N. S. 

 *J\'blte, secretary and treasurer, and E. F. 

 Spragins, attorney. The company manufactures 

 school desks and other hardwood specialties. 



The Tennessee Stave & Box Factory is a con- 

 cern recently incorporated to do business in 

 Memphis. It is capitalized at $200,000, and the 

 incorporators are A. H. Kersting, E. J. Hastings, 

 D. A. Robinson, K. P. Cary and R. B. Goodwin. 

 Under its charter the company may buy, sell 

 and deal in lumber, land and forest products, 

 and manufacture staves, boxes, barrels, etc. The 

 company will acquire timber lands near Memphis 

 and erect a large box factory in that city. 



The Sandford-Sullivan Lumber Company of 

 Dallas, Tex., is making preparations to estab- 

 lish a hardwood mill plant at Naples, and ex- 

 tend a railroad fourteen miles northwest through 

 the unsettled timber sections of White Oak and 

 Sulphur. The corporation is capitalized at $500,- 

 000 and has bought real estate to the amount 

 of $61,000 to start with, most of it between the 

 two streams. Three hundred hands will be put 

 to work on the road and plant within a couple 

 of weeks. 



Central Lumber Company has been incorpo- 

 rated at Jackson, Miss., by Fred Herrick, C. F. 

 Latimer. R. R. Hogue and A. C. Hogue and 

 others to engage in general timber and lumber 

 development enterprises. The capital stock is 

 $500,000. The company has 60,000 acres of 

 land, covered with a rich growth of hardwoods 

 and other timber, situated in the Pearl river 

 valley, between Jackson and Carthage, Miss. 

 It bids fair to be one of the biggest lumber 

 concerns of the section. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HABDWOOD RECORD Special Corrsspondents.) 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Northwestern Cabinet Company of Bur- 

 lington, la., is building an addition to its plant. 

 The Krueger Manufacturing Company of Bell- 



Chicago. 



James t'uoper I't the Briggs & Cooper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., Saginaw, Mich., was a Chicago vis- 

 itor last week. 



Chas. S. Bacon of the Eacon Lumber Company, 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., was a caller at the Record 

 office on May 15. 



The general offices of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association have been removed from In- 

 dianapolis to Chicago, and Secretary Frank F. 

 Fish and Inspector General Smith are now lo- 

 cated in a handsome suite. No. 1012 Rector 

 liuilding. corner of ilonroe and Clark streets. 

 It is a matter of a good deal of congratulation 

 to the local members of the association that 

 the offices of the organization should be returned 

 to this city, where they logically belong. Of 



course, the many friends of Secretary Fish will 

 be glad to have him again in town. 



Vicegerent E. G. Shorrey is making big prep- 

 arations for a concatenation of Hoo-Hoo at 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., June 1. He now has seven 

 applications for initiation and expects several 

 more before the event takes place. From pres- 

 ent indications this will be one of the largest 

 concatenations held in Michigan in a long ume. 



A concatenation and general gathering of the 

 IIoo-Hoo of the seventh jurisdiction, compris- 

 ing Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. Indian and 

 ttklahoma territories and New Mexico, will be 

 held at Little Rock, Ark., June 23. Pledges 

 to be present have been received from several 

 hundred persons, including members of the Su- 

 preme Nine, House of Ancients, and others 



