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John W. Smith of Fayette, Mo., last month 

 shipped twenty-two farloads of walnut logs to 

 the Singer Sewing Machine (.'ompany at Cairo, 

 III. There were llL'.dOU feet in the lot, which 

 he was twenty-seven months in collecting. The 

 highest price paid for a single tree was $50 ; 

 It contained about 1.000 feet. Mr. Smith has 

 already begun collecting more walnut trees and 

 is buying everything of value in sight. 



The Karner Bros. Milling Company was re- 

 cently established at Mexia, Tex. The company 

 has an up-to-date plant, nearing completion, 

 about sixteen miles from Mexia on a branch of 

 the Houston & Texas Central railway. About 

 30,000,000 feet of timber is controlled by the 

 concern in that section, which consists largely 

 of oak, elm and ash. W. T. Smith, late of Bir- 

 mingham. Ala., an expert hardwood operator, 

 will have charge of the plant. 



C. C. Putnam & Son of Putnamville, Vt, re- 

 ce.Ttly installed a second complete set of clothes- 

 pin machines in their new factory, which has 

 now been running about a year. This concern, 

 in addition to running large saw and planing 

 mills, has also built up quite a business in 

 clothespins, making the small spring pin exclu- 

 sively. Stock for these pins is worked from the 

 edgings and clippings left from cutting hardwood 

 flooring which the concern manufactures in 

 large quantities. 



The factory at Charlotte, Alich., which the 

 John Widdicomb Company of Grand Rapids has 

 been operating for some time, has been pur- 

 chased by Colonel Brinkerhoff & Son of Jackson 



and G. A. Knight of Denver, Colo. It will be 

 used for the manufacture of pianos and increased 

 in capacity so as to turn out six instruments a 

 day. The purchasers are experienced piano 

 men, Mr. Brinkerhoff having been with the Kim- 

 ball Piano Company for years, and Mr. Knight 

 being the largest retailer of pianos in Denver. 



The longest tow of hardwood timber seen in 

 the Xecbes river in many years recently left 

 Beaumont, Tex., for Port Arthur. The timber 

 is the property of F. E. Howard Newcomb of 

 Lake Charles and contains 470,000 feet of oak, 

 walnut and ash. The longest stick in the 

 bundi was eighty-four feet and the shortest sixty 

 feet. The rafts were .strung out in ten sections 

 and covered an aggregate length of 2, .TOO feet. 

 The timber was collected and brought down the 

 Neches river from the tributaries of the stream 

 in Jasper, Tyler and Angelina counties. It will 

 bo exported to England. 



The new sawmill which the Little River Lum- 

 ber Company of Townsend. Tenn.. has been build- 

 ing to replace the one destroyed by fire some 

 months ago has been completed and is now 

 running at its greatest capacity. It is prac- 

 tically a duplicate of the old mill, a double 

 band, and will cut from 80,000 to 90.000 feet of 

 hardwood per day. During the present season 

 it will cut out a total of about l."), 000,000 feet. 

 Tlie product will run about one-third poplar, 

 one-tliird hemlock and the balance white pine, 

 chestnut, oak, ash and otlier hardwoods. The 

 stock is sold through the office of W. M. McCor- 

 mick of Philadelphia, who is president of the 

 Little River Lumber Company. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



C. M. Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany, Clay City, Ky., was in Chicago several 

 days last week. Mr. Clark has started on an 

 extended western trip for pleasure as well as 

 business. 



R. S. Cooper, Memphis manager of the Briggs 

 & Cooper Company, Ltd., Saginaw, Mich., 

 dropped into the Record office on Thursday last 

 on his way back to the South from a little fish 

 ing trip in the north woods country. 



One of the callers at the Record office a few 

 days ago was E. W. Leech, a well-known hard- 

 wood lumberman of Detroit. 



J. L. Lane of the Lane-White Lumber Com- 

 pany, Fort Smith, Ark., was a welcome visitor 

 to his many friends in the trade on Monday and 

 Tuesday. 



Wagstaff, Lumber, Oshkosb, was a recent 

 visitor. Mr. Wagstaff has a large clientage at 

 Chicago and sells a large quantity of hardwoods 

 In this market yearly. 



John P. Brown, editor of Arboriculture, Con- 

 nersviile, Ind., was a caller at this office re- 

 cently. Mr. Brown was en route west on a 

 timber investigating expedition. 



The Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt 

 from Forestry Commissioner C. C. Andrews of 

 St. Paul, of a copy of the eleventh annual re- 

 port of the forestry commission of Minnesota. 

 The volume comprises nearly 150 pages and Is 

 well printed and illustrated. It contains sum- 

 maries of forest and prairie flres ; a review of 

 the operation of the law for preventing tires : 

 extracts from reports of fire wardens ; sketches 

 of forests that have been investigated, includ- 

 ing the Burntside forest ; an object lesson in 

 forestry, and practical accounts of forest man- 

 agement In sixteen dilferent European countries. 

 The book is a valuable document for the citi- 

 zens of Minnesota, and possesses special interest 

 to all students of forestry. The report shows 

 that there are 12,000,000 acres of arable land 

 in central and northern Minnesota not under 

 cultivation, and besides there are fully 3,000,000 

 acres in scattering .localities of rocky, hilly or 

 sandy land that is only suitable for reproduc- 

 tion of coniferous forests, which it is recom- 



mended that tlie state acquire as an investment 

 and bold perpetually for forest purposes. It 

 says that on an average only about twenty per 

 cent of cut-over pine land reforests itself nat- 

 urally. 



Of late weeks there has been a general 

 emigration of lumber dealers from the outlying 

 districts to the downtown office buildings. 

 Among these movers was the R. A. Wells Lum- 

 ber Company, formerly located at Clark and 

 Twenty-second streets, which is now housed in 

 a handsomely appointed suite of offices at 234 

 La Salle street. The company will still main- 

 tain yards at the old stand, in addition to 

 shipping direct from the timber lands. 



M. M. Wall, treasurer of the Buffalo Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, was in town a few days 

 ago and announces that his company has pur- 

 chased ten acres of land on the Belt Line in 

 Memphis, Tenn., and will open a branch dis- 

 tributing yard there. It therefore happens that 

 the company will be in the market for round 

 lots of all kinds, grades and thicknesses of hard- 

 woods, green or dry, for some months to come, 

 and will send inspectors to take up lumber at 

 any points contiguous to Memphis, if quantity 

 warrants, and will pay cash for all lumber pur- 

 chased. The company's Memphis office is 

 located at Room 262 Randolph building. 



Boston. 



The Lumtier Dealers' Association of Rhode 

 Island, through the secretary, G. Waldo Par- 

 rott, sent out an announcement stating that 

 the mid-summer outing of the association will 

 be held at King Town Farm. R. I., the prop- 

 erty of James S. Kenyon. ex-president of the 

 association. The outing will be held July 12, 

 1906. 



Charles H. Elliott, a lumber dealer of Chi- 

 chester, N. H., died June 21 at the age of 67 

 years. 



Henry A. Porter, a retired lumber dealer of 

 Marblehead, Mass., died June 21 at the age 

 of 87 years. Mr. Porter retired from active 

 business about fifteen years ago. 



William E. Litchfield, the well-known hard- 

 wood lumberman of Boston, has opened his 

 summer home at Bolton, Mass. 



Charles C. Batchelder, treasurer of the Bos- 

 ton Lumber Company, has opened his summer 

 home, which Is also situated in Bolton. 



Fred D. Stimpson. representing Brawley & 

 Smith, of Philadelphia, has been spending a 

 few days in this city. 



Andrew W. Leatherbee, who was injured in 

 an accident about two weeks ago. has recov- 

 ered. 



The firm of Barker & Co. has been organ- 

 ized in Boston with a capital stock of $100,000. 

 The incorporators are George J. Barker, Gros- 

 venor Calkins and Thomas B. Hinkley. 



The C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company, 

 Boston, whose property was recently visited 

 by fire, has practically finished rebuilding the 

 shed for the storage of hardwood lumber. 



The C. E. White Lumber Company of 

 Andover, Conn., has been incorporated with 

 a capital of $60,000. The incorporators are 

 C E. W'hite, Edgar D. White and Eva M. 

 White. 



The D. F. Robbins Lumber Company, Ply- 

 mouth. Mass., has succeeded to the business 

 of the late Leavitt Robbins. 



Charles E. Hayes, Marlboro, Mass., has 

 been making a business trip in West Vir- 

 ginia. 



George K. Nason. one of the best known 

 lumber dealers in New England, died at his 

 liome ill Willimantic. Conn., on June 21 after 

 an operation for appendicitis. 



New ■york. 



The Beulah Lumber ('ompany, Pittsburg. 

 Pa., manuf.acturers of hardwood, spruce and 

 hemlock, have opened a New York selling of- 

 fice at 18 Broadway under tlie management 

 of W. M. Pownall. 



The Iroquois Door Company, of Buffalo. 

 N. Y., which is operating a local exhibition 

 and sales room at 18 Broadway, this city, 

 has just received at the latter place a com- 

 plete set of samples of its fine hardwood and 

 veneer doors and general mill work, which is 

 one of the liandsomest exhibits ever made 

 of this class of work. The company is ex- 

 perimenting successfully with some beautiful 

 and unique finishes and its samples now on 

 exhibition illustrate the possibilities In the 

 way of up-to-date finish. Manager Salmon 

 reports business as very satisfactory, and 

 says that the local exhibit is being visited by 

 a large number of buyers. 



At a special meeting of the stockholders of 

 Stevens-Eaton Company on June 20 to elect a 

 president and director to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Pendennis White, 

 George A. Mitchell, of White, Gratwick & 

 Mitchell. North Tonawanda, was elected 

 president; W. H. Gratwick, vice-president, 

 and T. S. Miller, director. Mr. Miller has 

 been manager of the hardwood department 

 for tlie past year and a half and his election 

 is an acknowledgment of his valued services 

 to the corporation through his department. 

 He is one of the most popular hardwood 

 salesmen of the local district, and has many 

 friends to congratulate him on his advance- 

 ment. Wm. A. Eaton continues as secretary 

 and George M. Stevens, Jr., as treasurer. 



At a meeting of the board of trustees of the 

 New Y'ork Lumber Trade Association held 

 June 20, the following new members were 

 elected: Wm. M. Pownall, of the Beulah 

 Lumber Company. IS Broadway; the Casca- 

 pedia Manufacturing & Trading Company, 

 Arthur H. Campbell, resident agent, 1 Madi- 

 son avenue; C. Schmitz & Co., J. A. Lacy, 

 New York representative, 162 Greene street, 

 and E. H. Daley, Flatiron building. Routine 

 reports were also rendered, which showed the 

 work of the association to be progressing 

 actively. 



Barker & Co., incorporated with $100,000 

 capital, under Massachusetts laws, will have 

 headquarters at 18 Broadway, city. George J. 

 Barker, of the Wood-Barker Company, Bos- 



