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HARDWOOD RECORD 



<if Toledo, and is the senior ijartnei' o£ the tiim 

 111' Flannel- & Reeves. 



The company both in its personal fquipnu'nt 

 and financially constitutes one of the strongest 

 factors in the Michigan trade. It has an annnal 

 output of approximately 20,000.000 feet, which 

 is shipped to market l>y both rail and water. 



In the last issue of the Hakdwood Kkcmkh 

 wei-e siiown photographs illustrating lumber 

 ready for shipment and vessels loading at the 

 docks of the North Shore Lumber Company a I 

 'J'hompson. Mich. 



Removal Case Lumber Co,'s Headquarters. 



The headquarters of the Case Lumber Com 

 |iany. wliich, since its inception three years ago. 

 liave been at Chattanooga, Tenn.. have been 

 removed to liirmingham, Ala. The change wa:. 

 made so as to be nearer the chief source of sup- 

 \Ay\ A little over a year ago the company com- 

 |ili't«'(l a tine band mill at Birmingham, where 

 it owns a large boundary of liardwood timber 

 lands. This mill is operated under the style of 

 I he FowlerPersonett Lumber Company and is 

 said to be one of the finest hardwood mills in 

 I he state. 



The Case Lumber Company has been one of 

 Tennessee's most successful lumber firms. The 

 president of tlie company is .T. D. Case of Indi- 

 ana ; M. M. Erb is vice president and sales man- 

 ager; A. B. Irwin, secretar.v. and William I'ow 

 b'T-. treasurer and general manager. 



Purchase of Hardwood Timberland. 



The Henry Maley Luinher Company of lOvans 

 ville, Ind., has just completed the purchase of 

 a valuable tract of hardwood in Mississippi, con- 

 taining approximately .S.OOO acres, .and it is 

 understood that the price paid for the property 

 was .1-140,000. The company, which includes 

 Henry Maley, Claude Maley. Daniel Wertz, 

 l''rank Cutsinger and Bedna Young of Kvausville 

 and Messrs. Barney and liiui'S of Memphis. Tenn.. 

 already has extensive interest at Evansville, Jlem- 

 phis and at t.irenada. Miss. Arrangements are 

 being completed by the Illinois Central liailroad 

 to run a line into the timber and open up Hie 

 tract so that the company can ship the logs to 

 their various sawmill poluls. where it is intendi'd 

 to cut nj) the stock. 



Claude Maley spent siuni' timr in the South 

 recently before buying the present tract and 

 while there looked over other timber lands, with 

 a view to extending the holdings of the company. 



The Government Recovers 'Walnut Logs. 



The suit instituted at Tecumsi'h. Dkla.. some 

 time ago by the T'uitert States government to 

 recover walnut logs alleged to have been illegally 

 cut on the reservation of the Kaw and I'onca 

 Indians has been decided in favor of the federal 

 authorities. Two carloads of logs had already 

 lieen shipped from the reservation and sixty-ftve 

 more were in process of being hauled out when 

 the business was stopped by the United States 

 marshal. For some time there had been a steady 

 business in the cutting of walniit logs on the 

 reservations for shipment to Germany, selling the 

 less valuable ones on the home market. The 

 federal department in cliarge of the reserva- 

 tions has positively forbidden anything of the 

 kind and there is nothing to be cut or sold on 

 the reservation for such purposes. A suit at 

 iiklahoma City is still pending to recover the 

 remainder of the logs, and, as the issues are 

 just the same as in the one concluded, it is ex- 

 pected that the government will ultimately gain 

 possession of the entire quantity. 



Consolidation of Memphis Hard-wood In- 

 terests. 

 The Lamb Hardwood Lumber Company, the 

 Baeon-Xolan Hardwood Company, and the Guirl 

 Stover Lumber (I'ompany have announced in a 

 circular letter that they have consolidated then- 

 various businesses, in<-Iuding timber lands, mills, 

 stocks on hand, etc., under the name of the 



Lamb-Fisli Lumber Co. The three companies 

 have been operated together recently under a 

 working agreement I'stablished some time ago. 

 and the new corpoi-ation announces that the man- 

 agement will be the same, and that, on comple- 

 lion of the large Iciii.iioii feet capacity band mill 

 at t^'harleston. Miss., it will have four mills in 

 operation. The headcpiarters of the new con- 

 cern will remain in tlie Memphis Trust Build- 

 ing, Memphis. 



LaFayette Lamb, president of the consoli- 

 dated interests, accompanied by his son, C. li. 

 I.amb, together with a number of friends, 

 readied Memphis early this week, after a tour 

 of inspection which included the mill at Lam- 

 bertsville, about twenty-live miles above Mem 

 phis. They also sjient some time in Charleston. 

 Miss., in company with H. E. B-acon. general man- 

 ager of the I-amb-Fish Lumber Company, when- 

 I he company is erecting its new hardwood plant. 



Temporary Discontinuance of Box Factory. 



The new box and shook factory, together with 

 I he engine and boiler houses, of the Garetson- 

 • ireason Lumber Company at Fisk, Mo., was 

 destroyed by fire on Sept. i.3. Owing, to the 

 fact that it would require several months to 

 rebuild and a great length of time to secure 

 the special machinery necessary for operation, 

 the company has decided to discontinue that 

 branch of its business, and lias notified its 

 customers of tlie cancellation of all existing 

 contracts for boxes and shooks. 



New Maple Flooring Factory. 



Tlie Manistee I'laning .Mill tAuiipany of .Manis- 

 tee, Mich., is erecting a maple tlooring factory 

 in connection with its planing mill, which will 

 lie In operation about Xov. ,1. Tlie new plant 

 will have a capacil.\- of about 4,000,000 feet 

 a year and will be equipped with the latest 

 improvements in kilns and machinery. The 

 company has already employed a force of thor- 

 oughly experienced men and expects to manu- 

 facture a superior product from the start. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The McKinnie Veni-er I'ackage Company of 

 Mechanicsburg. Ky.. sustained a loss of over 

 •fl.'i.OOO by fire recently. The factor.v, which was 

 a frame structure 20i)x2.50 feet in dimensions, 

 was badly damaged and considcu-able finished 

 stock destroyed. The company was not insured. 



Hugh Murphy, .lames A. Lewis, D. B. Scott 

 and L. .1. Gregor are the incorporators of the 

 Alnliama Hardwood Lumber Company of Mobile. 

 Ala., recent l.v organi'/ed with a capital stock of 

 .1(20,000. 



The .Smilh-Snyder Company of Sandusky. O., 

 and the Akron Woodworking Company of Akron 

 liave merged their interests and filed articles of 

 incorporation at Columbus a few days 

 ago, with a capital stock of .$150,000. 

 The machinery of the Akron concern will 

 he removed to Sandusky and installed in 

 the present plant of the Smith-Snyder 

 Company. The new concern, for which a name 

 has not yet been chosen, will manufacture sash, 

 doors, screens, grille work, hardwood flooring 

 and engage in a general woodworking business. 



The Mitchell Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Mitchell. Ind., has been incorporated with .$15.- 

 1100 capital stock to manufacture lumber, buy 

 and sell timber. lumber, etc. F. (i. Cline, F. X. 

 Newman and Morton ,1. Traub are the promoters 

 of the enterprise. 



Fire, entailing an estimated loss of $30,000, 

 destroyed the factory of the Anderson 'Veneer 

 Iioor Company at .Tamestown, N. Y. 



The Union Ilh-kory & Lumber Company is a 

 new concern at Corning, Ark., capitalized at 

 $3,000. T. W. Fry is president of the company : 

 H. C. Dow, vice president and secretary, and 

 .T. W. McKee. treasurer. 



The plant of Parker & Barnes at Lowville, N. 

 Y.. was partially destroyed by fire on Sept. 7. 



The sawmill, planing mill, broom handle factory, 

 pulp mill and boiler house w-ere badly damaged. 

 The loss is estimated at $20,oao, with only 

 $5,000 insurance. 



The t^larksvilie Hardwood Lumber Company. 

 ClarksvlUe, Tenn.. will rebuild at imce its plant 

 which was damaged b.v fire late in August. 



The style of the Great Lakes Veneer & Panel 

 Company of Grand Marals and Munising, Mich., 

 has been changed to the Great Lakes Veneer 

 Company, operations to be continued at both 

 places as heretofore. The concern has an author- 

 ized capital stock of $100,000. 



The Ohio Manufacturing Company of Ashe- 

 viile. N. C, has been incorporated with $25,000 

 capital stock and tlie following officers: A. F. 

 Hall, president : F. Llttleford, secretary, and 

 S. J. Taylor, general manager. The company has 

 for some time been operating mills at Whittier. 

 X. C. and Morristown, Tenn.. manufacturing oak 

 and hickory wagon dimension stock, and is con- 

 templating the increase of the capacity of botli 

 plants in the near future. 



George Strable, whose maple flooring factory 

 at Beed City, Mich., was destroyed by fire in 

 •Inly last, is building a large maple flooring and 

 crate plant at Saginaw, Midi., which he expects 

 will be read.v for occupancy by December 1. The 

 plant will be modern in ever.v respect and will 

 have a capacity of 30.000 feet of maple flooring- 

 and 20.000 feet of crating a day. 



Tile Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, formerly 

 of Chattanooga. Tenn., but now of Norfolk, Va.. 

 has recently established a branch .yard at Salis- 

 bury. N. C. In addition to its regular export 

 trade, which has grown to such enormous pro- 

 portions, the compan.v is fast building up a 

 profitable business in supplying material to the 

 furniture factories along the Atlantic seaboard. 



The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail- 

 way Company has employed P. ,T. Dennison and 

 Thomas A. Enochs of Lexington, Tenn.. under a 

 yearly contract to buy ties for that system 

 from Hollow Rock Junction to Mempliis and 

 from Lexington to Perr.vville. The contract calls 

 for an annual output of 125,000 ties. 



The contract to log 4,000,000 feet of hard- 

 woods was recently taken by Mark Ilessey of 

 Iron River, Wis. The timhi'i- in question lies 

 about ten miles northeast of that city on the 

 Washburn branch of the Northern Pacific rail- 

 way, and will be shipped via that line to the 

 WebstiT Manufacturing Coiii|iany of Superior. 

 Wis. 



The Turner. Day & Woolworlh Handle Com- 

 pany of Louisville. Ky.. recently purchased a 

 tract of land at Paragould, .\rk.. on which it 

 will erect a new handle factory. 



The firm of Pritchett & McDonald is a new- 

 concern w-hich will handle hardwoods on com- 

 mission, witli oflices in the Macheca building. 

 New Orleans, La. F. M. Pritchett. formerly 

 with the Forest Lumber Company of .Tackson, 

 Ala., and more recently with McDonald Bros, 

 of Helena, Ark., and Charles JIcL»onald, a 

 hardwood lumberman witli a lifelong experience 

 who has lately been engaged in logging opera- 

 tions near Washington. T,a.. are the organizers 

 of the firm. 



The Montgomer,v Hardwood Lumber Company 

 lias been incorporated at Craw-fordsville. Ind.. 

 to manufacture and buy and sell hardwood 

 lumber. It is capitalized at $15,000 and Thomas 

 Hill, Edward A. Sterzick. Charles Hammond, 

 Walter J. Neibie, Harry M. Schooler and Robert 

 G. I'orter are the directors. 



Work has been started on the erection of a 

 sawmill at Richmond, Tex., for Dr. Ziegler. The 

 plant will he equipped for the manufacture of 

 hardwoods, and it is probable tliat a planer will 

 be installed later. 



The Grace Furniture Company is the name 

 of a new^ concern at Salisbury, N, C, which 

 will operate a large factor.v there in the manu- 

 facture of furniture. The capital stock is 

 $100,000. 



An investment of .S: 10.000 will be made b.v 



