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HARDWOOD RECORD 



as follows: Atlanta, 34; Bridgeport, 167; 

 Buffalo, 60; Cleveland, 17; Duluth, 110; Har- 

 risburg, 112; Louisville, 50; Nashville, 130; 

 Newark. 26; New Orleans, 48; Omaha, 75; 

 Philadelphia, 11; Portland. 307; St. Louis, 14; 

 St. Paul, 49; Seattle, 30; Syracuse, 34; To- 

 ledo, 93; Tacoma, 111; Wilkesbarre, 271. The 

 following figures show the losses reported in 

 leading cities: Cincinnati, 44; Denver, 26; 

 Indianapolis, 35; Kansas City, 17; Milwaukee, 

 23; Minneapolis, 25; Mobile, 67; New Haven, 

 34. Some of the cities showing a loss have 

 enjoyed a building boom for some years past 

 and diminished building was almost a matter 

 of necessity. Taken altogether, the report is 

 of a most satisfactory and encouraging char- 

 acter and leaves no reason to doubt but what 

 the building operations of the season now 

 fairly under way will break all records. This 

 seems all the more remarkable when it is 

 understood that both wages and building 

 materials are now ruling very high. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The handle factory at Litchfield. Me., be- 

 longing to F. E. Baker was destroyed by fire 

 recently; loss $1,800. 



It is reported that Thomas Scanlon of 

 Nashville, Tenn., will establish a handle fac- 

 tory at Quinton, L T. 



Umbrella and cane handles will be manu- 

 factured by Groveman, Kahn & Murnich of 

 New York City, recently organized with J6,000 

 capital. 



A company has been organized at South 

 Marion, Ind., to manufacture handles, and 

 active steps toward the erection of a plant 

 are being made. 



The Montgomery Land & Lumber Company 

 has been formed at Christlansburg, Va., for 

 the development of several million feet of oak, 

 yellow pine, poplar and other timbers. 



H. T. Phillips. L. V. Phillips. J. W. Noell, 

 J. G. "Walser and others are the incorporators 



of the recently organized Lee Veneer Company 

 of Lexington, N. C. It is capitalized at 

 $10,000. 



The band sawmill at Borden, Ky. , the prop- 

 erty of the Borden Hardwood Company, has 

 been sold to an Arkansas concern, and will 

 be shipped in the course of a few days. The 

 consideration was $3,000. 



The Cache Valley Lumber Company of Wal- 

 nut Ridge. Ark., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $40,000, of which $25,000 

 has been subscribed. C. H. Wood. Charles 

 Ferguson and others are the incorporators. 



The sawmill and hoop and stave factory 

 belonging to the Atlas Cooperage Company of 

 Lindsay, O., was recently burned to the 

 ground. The loss entailed will probably ag- 

 gregate $8,000. partly covered by insurance. 



The Metropolitan Parquet Floor Company, 

 with $10,000 capital, is one of the latest con- 

 cerns to enter the New York field. A. J. 

 Road, Spring Valley, N. Y.; C. A. Wallmenich, 

 and R. V. Wallmenich. Bayonne, N. J., are 

 the promoters of the enterprise. 



The new clothespin factory at West Paris, 

 Me., being erected by L. M. Mann & Sons to 

 take the place of the one recently destroyed 

 by fire, will soon be in operation with an 

 increased number of workmen. It Is much 

 larger and better equipped than the old build- 

 ing. 



The Rogers Hardwood Lumber Company 

 recently organized at Merrill. Miss., has pur- 

 chased the sawmill and equipment of the J. 

 G. Taylor Lumber Company of that place. 

 Extensive repairs being made in the plant are 

 almost completed, and operations will begin 

 shortly. 



The Thistlethwaite Lumljer Company, 

 Washington, La., will next fall erect a band 

 mill to cut timber from a 4.500-acre tract of 

 hardwoods. The principals in the company 

 are Edward Thistlethwaite and his sons, John 

 R. and Lote. all three men of wide experience 

 in the lumber business. 



The contract to furnish 125.000 feet of white 

 oak timber to the government has just been 

 filled by the Nicolette Lumber Company of 

 Parkersburg, W. Va, It was one of the 

 largest shipments of white oak timber ever 

 taken out of the state, and was sent to San 

 Francisco to be used in ship building. 



Extensive repairs have been made in the 

 Union Handle Company's factory at Marion, 

 O.. and operations are now proceeding at a 

 lively rate. An average of 10,000 feet of lum- 

 ber is sawed daily, and 5,000 finished handles 

 shipped out. A railroad siding which the 

 company is constructing to its factory is 

 almost completed. 



It is announced that the Oak Lumber Com- 

 pany of Monroe, La., has purchased a tract 

 of land in West Monroe on which it will 

 erect a large plant to manufacture hardwood 

 lumlier. The company recently purchased all 

 the hardwoods on the Monroe Lumber Com- 

 pany's holdings. A flooring plant will be 

 added in the course of a few months. Be- 

 tween $700,000 and $800,000 will be invested in 

 the enterprise. 



The Tioga Lumber Company of Tioga, 

 Mich., lately purchased 4,000 acres of timber 

 lands contiguous to its holdings in Alger 

 county. It is estimated that there are about 

 60,000 feet of hemlock, pine and hardwoods 



on the property which will be sufficient to 

 give the company several years' cut for its 

 mill at its present capacity. The Tioga Lum- 

 ber Company now has holdings amounting to 

 over 7,000 acres, most of which is virgin 

 timber. 



The Woodstock Hardwood & Spool Manu- 

 facturing Company, manufacturer of wooden 

 spools and bobbins for textile mills, will re- 

 move its plant from Woodstock, 15 miles from 

 Charleston. S. C. to that city some time 

 during the summer. A two-story frame build- 

 ing has been secured, 80x120 feet in dimen- 

 sions, and $15,000 will be expended in im- 

 provements and equipment. The company 

 will increase its capital stock from $15,000 

 to $50,000. 



The Acme Lumber Company, recently in- 

 corporated at Toledo. O., has the following 

 officers: President, J. L. Hosier; vice presi- 

 dent, Robert C. Bowlus; secretary and treas- 

 urer, James W. Hosier; directors, the above, 

 H. T. Lawton and Mrs. C. M. Bowlus. The 

 new concern has taken over the business of 

 J. L. Hosier, & Co., dealers in hardwood lum- 

 ber. Offices will be maintained at Toledo, 

 and the concern will do a wholesale and retail 

 business in hardwood lumber. 



The Montgomery Cooperage & Hardwood 

 Company. Montgomery, Ala., declared insol- 

 vent some months ago, was purchased at 

 public auction recently by Richard Tillis for 

 $51,500. The appraised value was $112,000, 

 and the value placed by the company was 

 $120,000. The purchase includes besides the 

 plant at North Montgomery, hardwood tim- 

 berlands. so that it would seem that the 

 purchaser got quite a bargain. Operations 

 will be resumed at the factory at an early 

 date. 



In a petition filed in the United States Dis- 

 trict Court by C. W. Lanar, Pensacola, Fla.. 

 on two notes aggregating $3,050; A. S. Hop- 

 kins of Chicago on two notes aggregating 

 $4,750 and the Hibernia Bank & Trust Com- 

 pany of New Orleans on two notes aggregat- 

 ing $2,109, the South Arm Lumber Company 

 of Milwaukee, Wis., is declared an involuntary 

 bankrupt. It is claimed that the South Arm 

 Lumber Company owes $1,000 more than it is 

 able to pay, and that while insolvent it has 

 disposed of lands in Chippewa county, Mich. 



The Schramm Wooden Toy Company, manu- 

 facturer of wooden horses and other similar 

 toys, recently organized at Trenton, N. J., Is 

 the only concern of the kind in the United 

 States. F. Schramm, a native of Germany 

 who has had years of experience in toy mak- 

 ing there, is president, and William H, Baker, 

 proprietor of the East Trenton Machine 

 Works, Trenton. N. J., is secretary and treas- 

 urer of the company. The factory will be 

 located for the present in the second story 

 of the East Trenton Machine Works. Thirty 

 hands will be employed at first, and large and 

 small wooden horses, platform rocking and 

 swinging horses, carved deer heads and sim- 

 ilar articles, all of which were heretofore 

 imported, will be turned out. Two large 

 wholesale concerns have already contracted to 

 take $100,000 worth of the toys before Christ- 

 mas. Some idea of the field the new company 

 has will be gained when it is known that last 

 year the importations of this class of products 

 into the United States aggregated $17,000,000. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HAHOWOOD BZCOBS Special Correspondents.) 

 Cliicago. 



The big hardwood flooring house, the T. 

 Wilce Company, has just issued a very hand- 

 some flooring catalog, in which is incorpor- 

 ated a mass of information for the benefit of 

 dealers and users of hardwood fiooring. 



E. B. Lombard, recently of the firm of 

 Hayden & Lombard, has entered the lumber 

 business on his own account, and is fitting up 

 a handsome suite of offices at 213 Railway 

 Exchange. Associated with Mr. Lombard will 

 be John T. Hughes, who is well known to the 

 local trade. 



