HARDWOOD RECORD 



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S. R. Lown of Norfolk, Va., in the erection of 

 a sawmill 26x100 feet, a planing mill 50x80 

 feet and a dry kiln 22x100 feet and their ciiuli)- 

 ment. 



The Advance I.uml)er Company of Cleveland. 

 O., has increased its capital stock from iSioO.OOO 

 to JoOO.OOO. 



The I'orbes Manufacturing Company of Hop- 

 kinsvllle, Ky., is erecting a new wagon factory 

 .■;16xl60 feet in dimensions, of brick and two 

 stories high, which will be equipped with new 

 machinery, giving the company an annual out- 

 put of 10,000 wagons. 



The National Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 Ijany of Walnut Uidge, Ark., has purchased 

 the plant of J. .T. Moore at that place, on which 

 it will make extensive improvements. The 

 company also contemplates the erection of a 

 woodworking factory. 



The HofTman Il^-Mdinc: & Stave Company has 



been incorporated with $150,000 capital stock 

 at Mount Pleasant. Tex. The company has de- 

 I'ided on the erection of a factory at Mount 

 ricasant and the building of a tram road sixteen 

 miles long to its timber holdings, which are rich 

 in wliiti' oak growth. The addition of a barrel 

 and wagon factory la a future possibility. Frank 

 lioodricb of Dexter. Mo., is president of the 

 compiiny. and John V. Moore of Mount Pleas- 

 ant is manager and superlnti'ndent of the rail 

 road. 



W(U-k on the bardwiiod mills of the Sanford- 

 Sullivan Lumber Company at Naples, Tex., is 

 progressing rapidly, and what will undoubtedly 

 be tlie largest hardwood plant in the state will 

 soon be In commission. The establishment ot 

 this operation at Naples has given building an 

 imoetus and Naples bids fair to become quite a 

 Imsiness center. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(B7 HASDWOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondents.) 



Chicago. 



H. J. Clark, president of the I'euinsuiar liark 

 & Lumber Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.. 

 was a welcome visitiu- at the II.vuDwoot) Recokii 

 offices on Sept. 2s. 



C. E. Lloyd. .Jr.. second vice president of 

 the National Ilardw^ood Lumber Association and 

 sales manager of the Cherry River Boom & 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia, Pa., was a 

 Chicago visitor on the 30th ult., en route to 

 St. Louis, and dropped into the Rkcohd offices 

 lor a friendly call. Mr. Lloyd reports business 

 excellent in the ICast. with prices advancing, 

 especially on the coarse end of poplar. 



Frank W. Vetter, the popular president of 

 the Empire Lumber Company. Buffalo. N. Y., 

 was a Chicago visitor on Monday. 



Henry E. Bacon of the Bacon-Nolau Hard 

 wood Company of Memphis, Tenn.. stopped in 

 Chicago a few days on his way home to Mem 

 phis the latter part of the month, and found 

 lime to run into the Kkcokd office for a little 

 chat. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumbi'r 

 Company, Memphis. Tenn.. was among the prom- 

 inent Chicago visitors during the past fort- 

 night. 



The manufacturer of tlie automatic swiuK 

 saw gauge. Francis Marshall of Grand Rapids. 

 Jlich., was in Chicago Sept. 20. and called 011 

 I lie Record. As the desirable features of Mr. 

 Marshall's valuable appliance become known to 

 the trade, bis sales increase with surprising 

 rapidity. 



That trade in hardwoods is active not only 

 in his home state but all over the country is the 

 report which genial Jesse Thompson of the 

 J. W. Thompson Lumber Company of .Memphis 

 gave out on a recent trip to Chicago. 



W. Hollis of the Pine Plume Lumlier Com 

 pany of Montgomery. Ala., was In Chicago and 

 paid a welcome visit to this office a few days 

 ago. 



The irresistible "Wagstaft of Oshkosh" was 

 a Chicago visitor on Oct. 2 and lionored the 

 KIXORD offices with a call. 



James C. Cowen of Schultz Bros. & C!owen. 

 Old Colony Building, has just returned from a 

 three weeks' southern buying trip. 



The warehouse ot the Morgan Sosli iV; l>oor 

 factory, at Twenty-second and llalsted streets, 

 was destroyed on Oct. 7. causing a loss esti 

 mated at .$100,000. The tire is thought to have 

 originated from a fault in the electric wire 

 installation. 



I-'. J. Roys, sales manager of the Fullerton- 

 I'owell Hardwood Lumber Company of South 

 Hend, Ind.. was in town on Oct. 4. in consulta' 

 tion with the local manager of the house. F. P.. 

 McMnllen of the Chamber of Commeree liuibl 

 ing. 



John li. Spanlding of the Southern oak l.uni 



ber l'onii>aoy Is liolne from a southern trip 

 during which be visiteil bis company's plant 

 at Memphis. 



John 11. .lenks. vice-president of the Robert 

 II. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleveland, O.. 

 was a Chicago visitor on Oct. ;i. Mr. Jenks 

 reports general lumber conditions in exccllenl 

 shape aud Is especially well pleased with tln' 

 hardwood end of his enterprise. 



The n.\iin\vo(iii Uecoed received a call a few 

 days ago from C. D. Boynton of St. Louis, 

 manager of the Boynton Lumber Company of 

 Boynton, Ark., and incidentally litterateur, bon 

 vivant. raconteur, royal entertainer and good 

 himlierman of the northeast corner of Arkansas. 

 Mr. Boynton's company owns a solid township 

 of virgin oak, gum, Cottonwood, ash, and hickory 

 In Washington county, which It is turning into 

 lumber at the rate of upwards of 40.000 feet 

 a day. He reports sales clear up to green 

 lumber at the present time and. while he has 

 a large stock of logs in sight for his mill, he 

 Mntlcipates that the weather for the remainder 

 of the season will i)reclude any but the mosl 

 moderate log output in his section. He looks 

 for a manifest shortage of all varieties of hard- 

 woods in the southwest for months to come. 



The llABiiwooD Recohii desires to present its 

 compliments and apologies to Southwest of 

 Houston, Texas, for purloining and publishing 

 witbiuit credit an article on the subject of 

 black walnut in its issue of July 2.j last, which 

 was printed in the publication named In Its 

 following August issue. However, the blunder 

 is liapplly corrected by Forestry and Irrigation 

 In its September issue, whicli reprints the arti- 

 cle, and credits it to our more or less esteemed 

 southwestern contemporary. 



C. E. Le Crone, representing the J. W. Thomp- 

 son Lumber Company. Memi)his. Tenn., was a 

 laller at the RucuiiD office Oct. .S. Mr. Le Crone 

 has just returned from an extended sales trip 

 through the Mississippi valley and reports an 

 unusually good business with a notable call 

 for oak. 



Among the recent lumbermen visiting Chicago, 

 were, D. J. Peterson of Toledo and H. W. 

 Reeves of Detroit. 



C. U. Danaher. the well known tiniberman of 

 t'hicago. who has acquired large interests on 

 Ihe I'aciflc Coast during the last few years, 

 has closed his office in Ihe Title & Trust 

 ISuilding in this city and will make bis futiMM' 

 headquarters at Tacoma. Wash. 



J. N. Woodbury, recently of St. Louis, for- 

 merly in the hardwood business on his own ac- 

 count and. at one time, manager of the Ozark 

 Coopi'rage Company, has joined forces with K. 

 H. Lombard in the wholesale hardwood trade tit 

 21:1 Itailway Exchange. Mr. Woodbury will be 

 manager of the business. He has b.-id a long 

 experience and his success wilb .Mr. Lombard 

 should be assured. 



Fred. W. Black of the Fred. W. Black Lumber 

 Company has recently returned from a trip 

 among the Tennessee mills. Mr. Black has ac- 

 cumulated a nice stock of hardwoods at his 

 Blue Island and Robey streets yards and has 

 secured a line source of supply fov rhi- fall 

 trade. 



J. L. Lane of the Lane White Lumlter Coni- 

 pany. Fort Smith, Ark., who has been ill for 

 some time has relttrned t<> his Chicago office 

 for a protracted slay. 



Wood Heal ot J. H. I.aeey & Co. has Just 

 relurned from an outing to the Pacific Coast 

 and Yellowstone Park, in which he was ac- 

 companied by his wife and mother. 



C. L. Wllb'y. the well-known Clii<'ago viuu'er 

 and fancy wood man, is just back from a trii> 

 to Oreat Britain, wliere he made exiensivi' ma- 

 hogany log purchases. 



Secretar.v Fish of the National Hardwood 

 Luml>er Association spent last -week in Mem- 

 phis on association business, and this week 

 is visiting SI. Louis, Evansvllle and Louisville. 



Lewis Doster. secretary of the Hardwood 

 .Maiiufacturers' .\ssociatlon, is out of town on 

 a s<mtbweslern trip among the sawmills. 



.\s thi' HAKUwooti IlE<'oiU) goes to press the 

 iliirteenth anhual convention ot the Nathmal 

 .Association of Agricultural Implement & Vehicle 

 .Manufacturers is in session at the Auditorium 

 hotel. The delegates number aliout 2."iO nn<\ 

 represent twenty-two states. 



Boston. 



The C. W. Leatheroee Lumber Company has 

 removed its wholesale office from 70 Kilby street 

 to 107 Atkinson street, Roxbury, In order to con- 

 .solidate the office force. The retail yard and 

 mill ot the company Is located on Southampton 

 street. Roxbury. 



Charles S. Wentwoi-lh of I'liarles S. Went- 

 worth & Co. made a trip through the White 

 Mountains late in September. 



William E. Litchfield, hardwood manufacturer 

 ;uid deali'r and president ot the Massachusetts 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associalion. is vis- 

 iting his mill at North Vernon, Ind. 



Hugh .McLean ot the Hugh McLi'an Lumber 

 Company. Buffalo. N. Y'.. visited this market 

 ■ early in the month. 



Henry E. Sanford of Sanford & Tredway, New 

 Haven. C(mn.. made a trip through the South- 

 west early in the month. 



.-V circular letter has been sent out by the 

 creditors ot Ihe Vergennes School Seat Company 

 of Vergennes. Vt.. stating that the affairs ot 

 the company have been In an unsettled condition 

 for several months. They also make an offer to 

 settle their Indebtedness on a basis of ."0 cents 

 on the dollar. 



C. H. .Vnnable. who has conduct c>d a lumber 

 business in Springfield, Mass.. for several years, 

 has incorporated his company under the name 

 of the C. H. Annable Lumber Company with a 

 capital stock of .$2."i.00O. In addition to thi'ir 

 present property a retail yard will be estab- 

 lished. .Mr. .\nnable Is ireasuri'r and manager 

 of the new company. 



The woodworking establishment and ware- 

 houses ot Silliker & Co.. Amherst, N. S.. have 

 been destroyed by lire. 



Knott & Sampson of Boston have uicoip.. 

 rated a company under the name of the Knott 

 Sampson Lumber Company with a capital stock 

 of .fl 0.000. 



William Edgar Lawton. who has been in the 

 em|)loy of Burrows & Kenyon, Providence, R. I.. 

 for many years, as salesman and deputy sur- 

 veyor of lumber, died at the home ot his brother 

 In Orange. .Mass.. Sept. 22. 



Edward C. Hammond was married Sept. '_'(> to 

 Miss Daisy G. Dutcher, Worcester, Mass. Ale 

 Hammond is the son of Edward J. Ilammoiw 

 l)rominent In Boston lumber circles, and is m 

 sociated with his father In business. 



The W. A. Hall Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Bellows b'alls. VI., with a capi- 

 i.-d stock of 1*200.0(10. 



