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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Advices from Boonville, Ind., say that buy- 

 ers of hardwood have bought up every piece 

 of timber that can be purchased in the county 

 at a high price. But little oak remains and 

 owners have placed an extraordinary price 

 on the trees to keep them as long as possible. 

 The price offered for timber at present is 

 more than was given for land and timber to- 

 gether five years ago. As high as $2.50 a 

 hundred feet has been i^aid for oak timber 

 suitable for quarter sawing. 



Howard County, Missouri, is doing quite an 

 extensive walnut export business. Logs to 

 the value of $17,500 have recently been shipped 

 to Hamburg, Germ.any, and the total ship- 

 ments of walnut from all parts of the county 

 to this same importer amount to $25,000. 



Robert McMillen of Oshkosh, Wis., died June 

 20, after a long illness. He was president of 

 a large sash and door concern, and his father 

 was the late Robert McMillen, a pioneer lum- 

 berman. 



The Ohio Manufacturing Compajiy has been 

 organized at Asheville. N. C, with $25,000 

 capital stock, to manufacture oak and hickoi'y 

 carriage and wagon woodwork. The officers 

 are: A. F. Hill, secretary and treasurer of 

 the W. T. Mason Lumber Company, president; 

 F. Littlefield, secretary and treasurer, and 

 S. J. Taylor, general manager. Later the 

 Company expects to extend its operations, 

 and to establish mills in a number of the 

 southern states. Headquarters will be main- 

 tained at Asheville, where commodious offices 



have been leased in the new Adelaide building. 



The Moline Plow Company, Moline, 111., is 

 erecting buildings at Rock Island, 111., for its 

 woodworking department. The company's lum- 

 ber yards will be consolidated and all work in 

 this line will be done at Rock Island when the 

 plant is completed. The wood shop will be 

 120 by 183 feet, one story and basement, with 

 saw-tootli roof. North of this will be a build- 

 ing for storing finished work, 27 by 40 feet 

 at the east erid, narrowing to conform to the 

 railroad ti'ack. Connecting therewith a 20- 

 foot shipping platform will be Ijuilt, from 

 which the railroad will take the woodwork to 

 cars bound tor the main factory. The pmui 

 will also include a boiler house 20 by 40 feet 

 and a modern dry kiln about the same size. 



A new industry for Mason City, la., is as- 

 sured by the sale of the sash and door manu- 

 facturing plant of Davy Eros, to the Weir 

 Wardrobe Company, lately organized with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. The new company 

 will begin at once the manufacture of a pat- 

 ented fixture for stores, especially clothing 

 stores, and private houses. The officers of 

 the company are: President, I. W. Keerl, 

 Iowa State Bank, Mason City; general man- 

 ager, A. F. Shotts, Mason City. Directors: 

 William Georgeson, Winnipeg. Canada; C. H. 

 Newton and T. A. Potter, Mason City. The 

 stockholders of the concern include the offi- 

 cers, Davy Bros, and Charles Webster of Wau- 

 coma, Iowa. The plant will be enlarged and 

 will employ forty men. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Coriespondents.) 



Chicago. 



Among the prominent hardwood lumbermen 

 who have visited Chicago during the past few 

 days are W. H. Russe of Memphis, president 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion; Earl Palmer of the Ferguson & Palmer 

 Company, Paducah, Ky. ; Gus J. Landeck of 

 the Page & Landeck Lumber Company, Mil- 

 waukee, Wis.; C. H. Barnaby, Greencastle, 

 Ind.; W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lum- 

 ber Company, Indianapolis; T. B. Stone of tlie 

 T. B. Stone Lumber Company, Cincinnati; 

 Max Sondheimer of the E. Sondhelmer Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn.; W. A. Bonsack of the 

 Bonsack Dumber Company, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 Carroll F. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, Grand Rapids, 

 Mich.; M. S. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co.. Balti- 

 more, Md.; Thomas Moore of the Moore Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, Mo., and D. F. Clark of Os- 

 borne & Clark, Minneapolis, Minn. 



The receipt is acknowledged through the 

 courtesy of George K. Smith, secretary, of a 

 pamphlet containing the proceedings of the 

 fourth annual meeting of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, held at St. 

 Louis, May 8 and 9. 



The Hardwood Record has just printed and 

 delivered to the secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association a large edition 

 in book form of the report of the ninth annual 

 meeting held at Memphis, Tenn., May 3 and 4. 

 The book includes forty-eight pages and cover, 

 and incorporated therein are handsome duo- 

 tone gravure portraits of William H. Russe, 

 president, and of Earl Palmer, retiring president, 

 as well as smaller pictures of the other offi- 

 cers, board of directors and chairmen of com- 

 mittees. The pamphlet shows the list of offi- 

 cers and committees, includes the proceedings 

 of the convention, list of those present, and 

 concludes with a complete roster of the mem- 

 bers of the association up to June 1, 1906. 

 This work will be mailed to every member of 

 the association; others interested desiring a 

 copy can obtain it on application to Frank F. 

 Fish, secretary, 1012 Rector building, Chicago. 



H. T. Benham, advertising manager of E. C. 



Atkins & Co., In.;., Indianapolis, has had a 

 reprint made of the story entitled "Shorty," 

 which appeared in the Hardwood Record of 

 May 25, and of the illustrations accompanying 

 it. Mr. Benham has issued an edition of 25.000 

 of these attractive little booklets, and is hav- 

 ing them distributed in every woods camp in 

 tlie United States. This is an entirely new 

 advertising proposition, and the Haedwood 

 Record and the author of the story both ap- 

 preciate the compliment and the credit given 

 them. 



D. S. Hutchinson, the popular and energetic 

 sales manager of the Nashville Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, made a brief visit to Chi- 

 cago the first of last weyk. Mr. Hutchinson 

 reports the demand for oak flooring very 

 strong. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, is back at the 

 home office for a few days from one of his 

 tours for holding district meetings in various 

 parts of the countrj'. 



A welcome caller at the Record office on 

 Thursday was M. E. Thomas, sales manager 

 of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., and of the Mitchell 

 Brothers Company of Cadillac, Mich. Mr. 

 Thomas is just starting out on a several 

 weeks' cruise among the western clients of 

 the big flooring concerns he represents. 



Although no report has been received at this 

 office, there must have been "doings" at 

 Little Rock, Ark., on Saturday, June 25. as 

 on that date were scheduled a retail lumber 

 convention, a district meeting of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association and a Hoo- 

 Hoo and Osirian Qloister "fundom." 



The Illinois Central Railroad, which already 

 penetrates a large portion of the hardwood 

 timber area of the South, is reported as reach- 

 ing out in a new direction. The engineering 

 forces of that road are engaged in making 

 surveys in the states of Mississippi and Ala- 

 bama, in contemplation of the building of a 

 branch line to Birmingham. The road will 

 leave the main line at Jackson, Miss., and 

 run through the Pearl River Valley to Colum- 

 bus, Miss., and from there straight to Bir- 

 mingham. It is said that the work of con- 



struction will begin at once. The territory 

 traversed by this new line is extremely rich 

 in hardwood timber. 



The Erie Railroad's recent report for the 

 past nine months, showing a gross earning of 

 $37,880,906, justifies the expectation that the 

 company will earn upwards of $50,000,000 dur- 

 ing the fiscal year, and that it will show re- 

 turns equal to three per cent on the common 

 stock for that period. This is considerably in 

 excess of any earnings shown by the company 

 for many years. 



The meeting of the Michigan Maple Com- 

 pany, which was scheduled for June 26, has 

 been postponed to Friday, June 29, at 2 p. m., 

 at the company's general offices in Grand 

 Rapids. 



There is a movement on foot for a general 

 meeting of the hardwood manufacturers of 

 Michigan, which will probably be called at 

 Grand Rapids either during the first or second 

 week of July. The meeting is for the purpose 

 of a better acquaintance among hardwood 

 producers, an . analysis of trade conditions, 

 and for making an attempt to widen the dis- 

 tribution of Michigan forest products. It is 

 expected that the meeting will call out prac- 

 tically every hardwood producer in the state. 



Robert Maisey of Maisey & Dion, Chicago 

 hardwood wholes.alers, is home from a north- 

 em purchasing trip. 



The Leavitt Lumber Company is moving its 

 office headquarters from Thirty-fourth street 

 and Centre avenue to its new office and yard 

 on Laflin street, south of Twenty-second. 

 The company has arranged very handsome 

 quarters for carrying on its business at the 

 new plant. The old yard will be used for stor- 

 age purposes, but the principal distribution 

 will be from the new plant, which has a 

 capacity for piling 6.000.000 feet of lumber. 



F. S. Hendrickson of the F. S. Hendrickson 

 Lumber Compan.v, accompanied by his wife, 

 W'ill sail from New York for France next 

 Thursday. They will make an extended con- 

 tinental trip and expect to reach home in Sep- 

 tember. 



Franklin Greenwood, manager of the South- 

 ern Cypress Lumber Selling Company, Ltd., 

 of New Orleans, was a Chicago visitor last 

 week. He reports a slight lull in cypress de- 

 mand, but on the whole finds trade in a' 

 very excellent condition. 



Casket makers held a session at the Strat- 

 ford Hotel, June 21, at which the principal 

 theme discussed was the price of their prod- 

 uct. Manufacturers maintain that trade con- 

 ditions justify higher prices, and some favor 

 an increase of thirty per cent — others ten. 

 Action on the matter was deferred until the 

 next meeting. 



Boston. 



Frank Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin has 

 returned from a trip to New York. Mr. Law- 

 rence played in the trade golf tournament. 



Gardiner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood 

 Company, Boston, has been in New York and 

 was also present at the golf tournament held 

 there. 



The J. O. Wetherbee Co.. for many years 

 located in Boston, has moved to East Cam- 

 bridge. 



Hugh McLean of Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company of Buffalo. N. Y., visited Boston 

 during the past fortnight. 



William "W. Reilly, also of Buffalo, was in 

 Boston recently. 



The woodworking establishment of Lord & 

 Kitchen, Foxcroft. Me., has been visited by 

 fire, causing a total loss of the drying room. 



J. E. Lauder of Toronto, Can., has been 

 making his headquarters in Boston for a few 

 days. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co. has been in Maine on a business 

 trip. 



The H. B. Stebbins Lumber Company has 



