HARDWOOD RECORD 



26A 



Bavarian Furniture Market. 



A recent consular report from Munich. Ba- 

 varia, says tliat coui-.try is an unknown quan- 

 tity to American furniture exporters, and 

 predicts tliat success would follow a well 

 directed exploitation ot American furniture. 

 The native woods ot the southern and central 

 parts of Europe are few and not particularly 

 adaptable to furniture making and are very 

 high priced. Thus furniture in southern Ger- 

 many is exceedingly costly — an ordinary suit 

 bringing about double the price received for it 

 here. The furniture is mostly veneered, made 

 from thin stock, and hence not durable, since 

 it warps and cracks quickly. 



One disagreeable feature of the market, 

 however, is the fact that the long ci-edit sys- 

 tem obtaining in southern Gei'many must bo 

 considered for a time at least. Bills are sent 

 out by some tradesmen only once in six 

 months, or even only at the beginning of a 

 new year. 



In spite of freight charges, duty. etc.. the 

 American manufacturer could undoubtedly 

 place superior furniture upon the market at 

 a lower price than tlie home jiroduct. and still 

 profit by the transaction. Showrooms possess 

 great advantages over the catalog system of 

 introducing goods, since the average merchant 

 is not familiar with English, and an exhibi- 

 tion in charge of an energetic, well-posted 

 business man speaking German fluently would 

 bring more trade in one year than catalogs 

 would in many. The field is undoubtedly an 

 excellent one. 



Japanese Hardwood Market. 



It is stated on i:iii)d authority that there is 

 no reason why hardwoods from the United 

 States and the Philippines should not find a 

 good market in certain parts of Japan, if efforts 

 were made to meet the requirements of the trade. 

 Teak is a wood which resembles some varieties 

 of oak, and which is particularly favored in 

 shipbuilding, American oak and other hard- 

 woods should find a ready sale as substitutes 

 for it. 



Japanese importations of teakwood from Siam 

 and Dutch India were, for 1905, $308,406, 

 against $73,445 in 1904, most of which was en- 

 tered at Kobe. This gives an idea of the grow- 

 ing demands fur hardwoods for vessels, buildings 

 and the manufacture of. furniture. Teak logs ar- 

 rive in IT to 45-toot lengths. Teak planks, 15 to 

 lio feet in length are S Inches wide, 4 inches 

 thick and up, smallest size, while the liu-foot or 

 more lengths are 12 to 20 inches wide and 2^ 

 to inches thick, those 30 feet long running as 

 high as 714 inches thick. They are required to 

 he without worm holes or cracks. Teak deck 

 planks must likewise be sound, and run from 

 :;o to 30 feet long, 5 to 5^^ by 2V2 to 3% 

 Inches. 



Forest School in South Africa. 



According to recent consular reports, the 

 possibilities of forestry in South Africa have 

 led a number of young residents to go to 

 Europe and the United States to study the 

 question. The cost of this training has been 

 so great and so much of what was learned 

 proved useless in the climatic conditions of 

 .South Africa that a forest school has been 

 established there. The cost of a two-year 

 course will be about $1,250, as against $5,000 

 abroad. The training at the new institution 

 will comprise practical work on the govern- 

 ment experimental reservation at Tokai, near 

 Cape Town, where are grown practically all 

 species of trees known in the country. Cape 

 Colony now pays on an average $2,500,000 

 yearly for imported timber, while the total 

 South African timber bill is said to be not 

 less than $7,500,000. 



been compiled, and the following statement 

 shows the number of cords used in this indus- 

 try in rennsylvania and Michigan and the 

 volume and kind of products. The woods almost 

 universally used are beech, birch and maple, 

 only about 1 per cent being oak and chestnut. 



Pennsylvania used 20.S.8G1 cords of wood and 

 produced 2,242, .S90 gallons of alcohol, 39.573,508 

 pounds of acetate and 7.890,340 bushels of char- 

 coal. Michigan used 239,992 cords of wood, its 

 product being less than Pennsylvania's, as fol- 

 lows: .\lcohol, 1,24(3,121 gallons: acetate. 14,- 

 77S,G95 pounds ; charcoal, 8,193,387 bushels. 

 The total wood used in the United States for 

 this purpose was 570,411 cords. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Hardwood Distillation. 



Reports made to the mitcd States Forest 

 Service by fifty-eight hardwood distillers have 



H. P. Baker & Co. recently established a 

 handle plant at Columbia. Mo. 



A veneer factory is to be erected at Ashe- 

 ville, N. C, by the J. S. Bailey Company. 



The Big Sandy Telephone Pin & Bracket 

 Company will build a factory at Louisa, Ky. 



Fred M. Davis will engage in the manufac- 

 ture of woodenware at Joplin. Mo., in the near 

 future. 



The Loeffler Wagon Company of Tampa, 

 Fla., is planning the erection of a large fac- 

 tory there. 



The Bender Wagon Company was recently 

 organized at Texarkana, Ark., with $25,000 

 capital stock. 



Til.-? Knoxville (Tenn.) Table & Chair Com- 

 pany has increased its capital stock from 

 $50,000 to $100,000. 



Robert Dickinson and George Boyle will 

 establish a chair factory at Huntsville, Ala., 

 in the near future. 



The new handle factory at Pleasanton. Kan., 

 is completed and in operation turning out 

 fifty dozen handles a day. 



The Lang-Decker Molding & Manufacturing 

 Company of St. Louis, Mo., was recently or- 

 ganized with $3,000 capital stock. 



The Mount Vernon Lumber Company of 

 New Orleans, La., has changed its title to the 

 Mount Vernon Hardwood Company. 



The F'orrest City Manufacturing Company, 

 Forrest City, Ark., has completed its new 

 sawmill, which has a capacity of 50,000 feet a 

 day. 



It is reported that a handle factory is to 

 be e:;t,-iblished at Fayetteville, Ark., by the 

 Chaiiesworth Lumber Company of Dutton, 

 .'^rk. 



About $35,000 will be expended on a handle 

 plant to be erected at Memphis, Tenn., by the 

 Brown, Hinman & Huntington Company of 

 that city. 



The Jefferson Pin Company has been in- 

 corporated at Charlestown, W. Va.. to manu- 

 facture pins, cross arms, etc., for telephone 

 and telegraph lines. 



Plans are in preparation for a showcase fac- 

 tory to be creeled at Houston, Tex., by the 

 Bender-Brown Company, recently incorporated 

 with $10,000 capital. 



The Marshfield Land & Lumber Company, 

 Murthflcld, Wis., has been purchased by the 

 great United States Leather Company. The 

 price paid is said to be in the neighborhood 

 of $500,000. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Chicago Walnut Company, Chicago, with 

 $2,500 capit.al stock. H. C. Bangs, Francis 

 K. M.althews and Elmer Schlesinger are the 

 incorporators. 



James A. Boch, Joseph Rosenheimer and 

 Victor Husting are the incorporators of the 

 Badger State Stave and Lumber Company, 

 recently organized at Milwaukee, Wis., with 

 a capital of $85,000. 



A. H. Stange of Merrill, Wis., has purchased 

 for $40,000, from F. S. Baines and J. F. 

 Sweeney of Janesville, 3,700 acres ot fine 

 hardwood timber land in Lincoln County, west 

 of the Wisconsin River. 



A new butter-dish and tooth-pick factory 

 is being erected by the Union Dish Company 

 at Johnsburg, Pa. From seventy-five to 

 eighty men will be employed and the output 

 will be a carload a day. 



A site at Johnson City, Tenn., has been 

 purchased and active measures are being 

 taken toward the erection of a plant thereon 

 for the manufacture of interior finish, hard- 

 wood doors, mantels, etc. C. B. Allen and 

 others are interested. 



Yongling Bros, of Monroeville, O., who re- 

 cently purchased 3.500 acres of fine hardwood 

 timber lands in Cleveland County, Arkansas, 

 besides numerous other tracts in the vicinity 

 of Pine Bluff, will engage in the manufacture 

 of hardwoods in that city. 



The Cleveland, O., plant of the Frankfort 

 (Ind.) Handle Company, lately purchased by 

 G. J. Burrell and others, will be completely 

 overhauled, extensive alterations and addi- 

 tions njade. and will be operated by the pur- 

 chasers within a few weeks. 



The Pacific Coast Hardwood Manufacturing 

 Company is a new Portland, Ore., concern 

 recently incorporated by George F. Martin, 

 Alexander Kunz and William T. Muir. The 

 capital .stock is $30,000, and the company will 

 conduct a general timber, lumber and saw- 

 mill business-. 



The new Hartwell Brothers handle factory 

 at Mammoth Spring, Ark., uses four cords ot 

 hickory a week, in making about 1,000 handles. 



The new Palmetto Manufacturing Company 

 of Nashville, Tenn., of which W. H. Cooper 

 is president, is installing machinery and will 

 be ready for operation at an early date. 



Extensive repairs are being made by Max- 

 well Bros, in their plant at Mellrue, Wis., 

 which has been idle for several years, and 

 the sawing ot hardwoods, of which the firm 

 has a liberal supply available, will be com- 

 menced in the fall. It is rumored that they 

 will also build a planing mill and box factory 

 at Mellrue. 



The Saluda Pin & Bracket Manufacturing 

 Company, Saluda, N. C, organized by E. B. 

 Andrews and Ben Drearybury, is now operat- 

 ing its plant in that city manufacturing locust 

 and oak telephone pins and brackets. Tho 

 company has orders ahead for over 1,500,000 

 pins, and the plant has a capacity of 800 pins 

 and brackets per day. 



Three men were burned to death in a fire 

 which practically destroyed the excelsior 

 works and butter tub manufactory of Charles 

 M. Allen at Fulton, N. Y. The great mass 

 of excelsior bales and butter tub bottoms and 

 covers furnished excellent fuel and was en- 

 tirely consumed. The loss on building and 

 contents has not yet been estimated. 



The Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail- 

 road Company has purchased a site at In- 

 dianapolis, Ind., on which is being erected 

 shops for the building ot cars and locomotives. 



Plans have been completed and work will 

 soon commence on the erection of a new 

 wagon factory for the Harrison Wagon Works 

 of Grand Rapids, Mich. The estimated cost 

 is $15,000. 



The Frary Manufacturing Company, wood 

 turners ot Charlemont, Mass., recently greatly 

 increased its capacity by installing two new 

 lathes and a new steam plant. The concern 

 enjoys an extensive export business, as well 

 as shipping its products to all parts of the 

 United States. The company is composed of 

 men of long experience in this line of manu- 

 facture; George H. Frary, treasurer, is of the 

 third generation ot wood turners. 



