HARDWOOD RECORD 



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District Meetings Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



There was a meeting of hardwood manufac- 

 turers producing lumber in the vicinity of Hot 

 Springs, Arl5.. held in that city yesterday, 

 under the auspices of Lewis Doster. secretary 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



Another meeting of the same character will 

 be held by the hardwood producers of Mis- 

 souri at Morehouse in that state, on Tuesday, 

 June 12. This meeting will be held at the 

 Forest Hotel and will convene at 10 o'clock 

 in the morning. 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 will also hold a district meeting at the Gait 

 House. Louisville. Ky., on Saturday, June 16, 

 In which lumbermen of the Louisville district 

 will participate. 



Secretary Doster is arranging other district 

 meetings the dates of whicli will be an- 

 nounced later, at Nashville, Tenn. ; Meridian. 

 Miss.; Evansville, Ind.. and at some central 

 point in northern Louisiana. 



Death of Pendennis White. 



No shock has come to the lumber trade in 

 a long time of so sad a nature as the violent 

 death of Pendennis WTiite of Buffalo, who was 

 killed by the collision of an automobile with 

 a street car. in Buffalo on Thursday evening. 

 May 31. The details of this terrible accident 

 are recounted elsewhere in this issue of the 

 Haedwood Kecobd. 



Mr. White has been prominently identified 

 with the lumber interests of the Northwest, 

 the Niagara frontier and New York City for 

 many years. He has been among the leaders 

 in association work, giving special attention 

 to the question of reciprocal trade relations 

 between manufacturer, jobber and retailer. 

 He has been foremost in the formation and 

 carrying on of lumber insurance companies, 

 and was interested financially in many other 

 commercial enterprises. Zi was a leader in 

 social and club life. Eve.." \:.:i.\ who ever 

 came in contact with Pendennis White was 

 his friend, and this friendship he most thor- 

 oughly deserved. He was kindly, he was hon- 

 est, he was just. The loss to the community 

 and to the trade, occasioned by his death, can- 

 not be estimated. 



Witbeck and C. H. Wolfe. Business grew steadily 

 and almost from the start presaged the success 

 which later days brought to pass. About three 

 years after the partnership was formed Mr. Wit- 

 beck died. A stock company was formed, com- 

 posed of Edward Heath, president and treasurer. 



Coming Meeting Southern Cypress Manu- 

 facturers' Association. 

 The coming meeting of the Southern Cy- 

 press Manufacturers' Association, to be held 

 at Atlanta, Ga., Monday and Tuesday, June 

 11 and 13, promises to be the largest cypress 

 gathering ever assembled. The new Kimball 

 Hotel will be headquarters, and the first ses- 

 sion will be held there at 2 p. m. Monday. 

 Favorable replies to the call have been re- 

 ceived from a very large number of the 

 strongest concerns engaged in the manufac- 

 ture of cypress lumber, many of whom are in 

 other states than Ijouisiana, the headquarters 

 of the association. Considerable enthusiasm 

 has been aroused, and much good will doubt- 

 less result from this extension of the move- 

 ment. 



A Foremost Chicago Hardwood House. 



With two such men as Edward Heath and 

 C. H. Wolfe at Its head, there was only one road 

 in which it was possible for the Heath-Witbeek 

 Company of Chicago to travel, and that was 

 the road to success. It is not surprising that 

 the business of the company has flourished al- 

 most phenomenally, making the concern's prod- 

 nets standard in the hardwood lumber trade, 

 when one knows these two men. Such a com- 

 bination of business foresight, energy, determina- 

 tion and reserve force as they possess could spell 

 no such word as fail. Under their able manage- 

 ment the onward march of the Heath-Wltbeck 

 Company has been uninterrupted, 

 i The Arm was organized in 1891 as a copart- 

 .nership, composed of Edward Heath, Richard T. 



EDWARD HEATH. PRESIDENT AND 



TREASURER HEATH-WITBECK 



COMPANY, CHICAGO. 



and C. H. Wolfe, secretary. The company does 

 a general wholesale and retail business, handling 

 all kinds of hardwood lumber and flooring. The 

 Heath-Witbeck Company is well and favorably 

 known wherever hardwood lumber is produced 

 or consumed. It is one of the solid Institutions 

 of the trade and a credit to the lumber industry. 

 The general otHces of the company are in the 

 Willoughby building, 6 East Madison street, Chi- 

 cago. The ofBce work is in charge of C. F. 

 nolle, a man who was brought up in the lumber 

 trade and who knows the inside of this business 

 in the minutest detail. In Chicago the company 

 maintains a large distributing yard, with a 

 modern dry kiln which has a shed capacity of 



C. H. WOLFE, SECRETARY HEATH- 

 WITBECK COMPANY, CHICAGO. 



2,000.000 feet. The main distributing yards are 

 located at Thebes, HI. Here the company Is 

 erecting a new kiln with a capacity of 170,000 

 feet. There are also large distributing yards 

 at McEwen. Tenn., and at Holly, Ark. At the 



latter place the company operates a. modern 

 band and resaw mill, cutting 25,000 feet of 

 quarter-sawed oak daily. 



Speaking of the company's business, Mr. Wolfe 

 said to the representative of the Hahdwood Eec- 

 OKD : "In hardwood lumber manufacture we claim 

 to be expert. It Is upon the real merit and 

 worth of our product that we ask the trade to 

 pass judgment. Our drying facilities are un- 

 equaled in the West. We have shed capacity 

 for over 2,500.000 feet of kiln-dried stock, and 

 are the only people in Chicago that always carry 

 a complete line of kiln-dried lumber on hand 

 ready for shipment. All the latest machinery 

 of special design required in manufacturing 

 flooring and ceiling is operated at our mills. In- 

 deed, the work performed by these machines In 

 producing a hardwood flooring with smooth, even 

 surface, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, 

 with matched ends and holes bored for blind 

 nailing, is so remarkable for exactness that but 

 little more skill or labor is required In laying It 

 than would be necessary in laying pine." 



Politics in Michigan. 



The political campaign is on in Michigan, 

 and of particular interest to the lumber fra- 

 ternity is the candidacy of Hon. Arthur Hill 

 of Saginaw for United States senator to suc- 

 ceed Hon. Russell A. Alger, and of J. W. 

 Wells of the I. Stephenson Company, Wells, 

 Mich., and several other large lumber enter- 

 prises of the Northwest, for United States 

 representative from his district. Both these 

 gentlemen are Republicans, and nomination is 

 practically equivalent to election. It is to be 

 hoped that both will achieve success in their 

 ambitions. Each is a lumberman of sagacity 

 and with an intimate knowledge of forest 

 conditions in Michigan. With these men, one 

 in the Senate and the other in the House, the 

 country would have two prime advocates of 

 a logical forest policy in this country. Both 

 are clean-cut, upright and honorable. In their 

 respective sections they stand foremost, and 

 the state of Michigan can do itself and the 

 country honor by bestowing congressional 

 honors upon them. 



Liberty Hardwood Lumber Company. 



A new company composed of local capital- 

 ists has been incorporated at Galveston, Tex., 

 to be known as the Liberty Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company. It is capitalized at $150,000. 

 The officers are Moritz O. Kopperl, president; 

 C. H. Moore, vice president; Julian Ranger, 

 secretary and treasurer. The board of direct- 

 ors is composed of the above named and I. 

 H. Kempner and John Neethe. 



The company's holdings consist of 10,000 

 acres of timber land, comprising the various 

 kinds of hardwoods, near Big Creek, Liberty 

 county, Texas. These holdings were formerly 

 in possession of the Ranger Hardwood Export 

 Company of Houston, in which the E. Sond- 

 heimer Company of Memphis was interested, 

 but which recently met with financial dif- 

 ficulty. On the property is one of the best 

 hardwood mills in Texas. 



Building Operations for May. 



Reports from some fifty of the leading 

 cities of the country, received by The Ameri- 

 can Contractor, Chicago, tabulated and com- 

 pared with those of the corresponding month 

 of last year, show that the building opera- 

 tions of May, 1906, fully' justified the predic- 

 tions made in the last report. Two-thirds 

 of the cities show an increase over the opera- 

 tions of 1905. In Greater New York the gain 

 is small, only 1 per cent, but this is a remark- 

 able showing when the enormous, record- 

 breaking business of last year, with which 

 the comparison is made, is taken into account. 

 Chicago breaks all its records with $6,494,220, 

 a gain of 60 per cent over May, 1905. The 

 percentage of gain in other leading cities Is 



