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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Jlohawk Desk Company has been incor- 

 porated at Herkimer, X. Y., with $100,000 capi- 

 tal stock. 



The Gorham P.rotliers ("ompan.v. Mt. Pleasant. 

 Mich., will erect a new veneer factory at Sagi- 

 naw. Mich. 



The roughkeep.sie Cliair Company, I'oughkeep- 

 .•^ie. N. Y., will rebuild its plant burned some 

 months ago. 



A new concern at Augusta, Me., is the N. S. 

 Stowell Spool ..^ Wood Turning Company : capi- 

 lal .«.'i0.niKi. 



The A. I£. T. Coin| any. Timpson. Texas, has 

 been incorporated with .*4.000 capital to manu- 

 facture handles. 



The lltirlington Art Woodworking Company 

 has been incorporated at Burlington, N. ,T., with 

 $i;."i.(io0 capital stock. 



The Elgin Manufacturing Company, New Y'ork 

 City, has been incorporated with .f 10. 000 capital 

 to manufacture churns. 



A new furniture plant is to be established at 

 Farmington, t'tah. T. W. Talmer and others are 

 back of the movement. 



The Portsmouth Veneer & Panel Company, 

 Cincinnati. O.. has increased its capital stock 

 from .$.10,000 to .fTS.OOO. 



The Charlotte Hardwood Specialty Company 

 has been ini-orporated at Charlotte, N. C. with a 

 capital stock of .1:25.000. 



The r^ansing Wheelbarrow Company of Lan- 

 sing. Mich., is planning the erection of a large 

 addition to its plant there. 



The Kentucky Singletree & Spoke Company of 

 Knifley. Ky., is contemplating the establishment 

 of a branch plant at Danville. 



Fire in the Washington Manufacturing Com- 

 pany's plant at Washington. N. J., caused a loss 

 of .$70.000 : insurance 5:30,000. 



The New York Mahogany Company has been 

 incorporated in that city with a capital stock 

 of $111.1100 by ,7. Traugott, C. V. Caldwell and 

 W. Itobertson. 



T'be City Sasli & Door Company has been 

 organized at Minot, X. D., by William L. Snell, 

 Minot ; B. W. Smith and S. H. Phillips of Min- 

 neapolis ; capital stock. $10,000. 



The Odorless liefrigerator Company is the 

 new name given to the Keyser Manufacturing 

 Company of Hamilton county. Tennessee, by a 

 recent amendment .to its charter. 



Fire recently damaged the plant of the Ozark 

 Planing iHll & Lumber Company at Mountain 

 Grove. Mo. The loss is estimated at $15,000. 

 The plant will be rebuilt shortly. 



The Warren Vehicle Stock Company of War- 

 ren, Ark., was incorporated in February, 1906, 

 and will commence sawing August 1. P. S. 

 Donnelly is secretary and treasurer. 



The Monroe Lumber Company of Monroe, La., 

 sustained a loss of about $100,000 by fire on 

 July 25. The planing mill, together with three 

 dressed lumber sheds, were destroyed. 



The lies Moines Cabinet Company of Bedford. 

 Iowa, has increased its capital from $15,000 

 to $25,000. The concern will install additional 

 equipment to take care of growing business. 



The Interior Hardwood Company, with a capi- 

 tal of $10,000. has been incorporated at New 

 York City by C. H. Ketcham and F. V. Ketcham 

 of New York City and T. Adams of Queens. 



The Campbell Handle Company has been in- 

 corporated with $:i.O00 capital stock, half of 

 which is paid in, at Campbell, Mo. W. B. Grant, 

 I.. Williams and L. D. Pollock are the incor- 

 porators. 



A walnut log measuring nine feet in length 

 and containing 1,300 feet was recently cut on 

 the (.eorge Richmond farm, near Beeson's Sta- 

 tion, Ind., .and shipped to Cincinnati by Frank 

 Morris of Milton. 



A receiver has been appointed for the Lake 

 Geneva Manufacturing Company of Lake Ge- 

 neva, Wis. This concern manufactured piano 

 stools. It is thought that its assets are at least 

 equal to its liabilities. 



The Maplewood Planing Mill & Stair Company 

 has been incorporated at Maplewood, Mo., with 



a capital stock of $15.000. Thomas C. Bryant, 

 James Hardie and Albert Blood are the pro- 

 moters of the enterprise. 



The L. A. Rink Lumber Company has been 

 oi-ganized at Cairo, III., with a capital stock of 

 $7,000. to do a general lumber manufacturing 

 l)usiness. I^. A. Rink, ^^'iIson West and Reed 

 Green are the incorporators. 



Robert (xerstner of Iron Mountain, Mich., 

 purchased 1,000 acres of land near Mountain. 

 Wis., which is heavily timbered with pine, hem- 

 lock, cedar, spruce and hardwoods. He will 

 c-ommence logging operations this winter. 



The National Handle Company is making ex- 

 tensive improvements in its factories at Frank- 

 fort. Ind.. and Findlay. o. Large warehouses 

 are being constructed. The Fort Wayne, lud., 

 branch will doubtless be likewise improved. 



J. M. Cherry of the Adrian Handle Factory 

 has bought the old Lesh & Young saw-mill at 

 Adrian, Mich., and will convert it into a handle 

 plant. Part of the old machinery will be 

 utilized and some new equipment purchased. 



The Gilchrist mill at Alpena, Alich., has fin- 

 ished sawing maple, beech, ash and other hard- 

 woods for the season and has commenced on 

 hemlock. Over 3,000.000 feet of hardwoods 

 have been manufactured into lumber this year. 



A charter has been granted to the American 

 Tie & Timber Company of Brunswick. Ga.. to 

 engage in a general tie, timber and lumber busi- 

 ness. The incorporators are A. J. Cravatt, BoU- 

 ;jg Whitfield and J. W. Nussbaum of that city. 



The Dearborn Desk Company, composed of 

 Chicago capitalists, is pushing the construction 

 of its plant at North Marion, Ind. Cabinet work 

 of all descriptions will be manufactured by the 

 compan.v. which expects to begin operations 

 within a few weeks. 



An order which will require almost two years 

 in the filling has recently been taken by the 

 Frankliuville Veneer Mills of Franklinvilie, N. 

 Y. About $80,000 is involved in the contract. 

 The force of men employed at the factory will 

 be increased to handle the work. 



The Lansing Veneered Door Company of Lan- 

 sing. Mich., will start operations again the first 

 of August, in charge of Receiver W. C. Brown. 

 Orders on hand will be tilled and new ones will 

 i»robab;y be taken. Permission has been granted 

 for a ]<rau witli which to pay employees. 



The .Mei-cliants' & Manufacturers" Association 



of Saginaw. Mich., has secured the new Strable 

 maple flooring and crate plant for that cit.v. 

 The factory was formerly located at Reed <'it.v. 

 liut was destroyed by fire July 7. It will emplo.v 

 from seventy-five to loO men and will operate 

 the .vear round. 



It is reported that the amount of lumber sent 

 from Nova Scotia to .Vmericau ports this year 

 is very large. The cut in Annapolis and Corn- 

 waliis exceeds any cut known there for many- 

 years. The lumber shipped from Cornwallis is 

 largely supplied by the New Y'ork Lumber Com- 

 pany, which owns 45,000 acres at (iasperaux 

 lake. 



The work of rebuilding the plant of the 

 .\meriian cigar Box Lumber Comi)any of John- 

 sr)n City. Tenn., of which William E. Uptegrove 

 of Brooklyn. N. Y.. is president, which was re- 

 I'ently destroyed by tire at a loss" of about $90,- 

 000, has already commenced and it is expected 

 that operations will be in full swing by Septem- 

 ber 1. The company owns some 40,000 acres 

 of timber land near Johnson City. 



P. M. Mishler of Ilagerstown, Md., president 

 of the Bear Pond Lumber Company, has sold 

 0,000 acres of limber land in Shenandoah 

 county, ^'irginia, to Mowell & Brother of Hano- 

 ^■er, Pa. T'he tract will cut approximately 15,- 

 000,000 feet of white oak and other hardwoods. 

 Tlie oak will l>e manufai'lured into plow handles 

 and beams. It is said that tlie purchase price 

 was $40,000. 



California capitalists have secured from the 

 Jlexican government a large tract of land in 

 the state of Sinaloa, on which will be estab- 

 lished a colony of 2,000 Americans. Part of the 

 land is excellent for farming, sections are cov- 

 ered with rich hardwood growth and there are 

 also mineral deposits of value. The colony 

 will be on the line of the new Randolph road 

 now under construction from Guaymas to Guad- 

 ala,iara. 



Reports from Table Rock. Neb., say that farm- 

 ers in that locality- who are so fortunate as to 

 own walnut timber are reaping a splendid liar- 

 vest. Prices paid there recently range from 

 $15 to $.'J5 a thousand feet. Logs thirteen inches 

 in diameter at the top were the rainiuuim size 

 accepted. More tlian tJO.oOO feet will be shipped 

 from I'awnce county to Kansas City to be sawn 

 and sliipiied to Europe, where it will he used in 

 furniture construction. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondeuts.) 



Cliicago. 



J. W. Thompson and E. E. Taeuzer of 

 Memphis. Tenn.. were Chicago ^-isitors the 

 early part of the week. 



G. J. Landeck of the house of Page & Lan- 

 deck, Milwaukee. Wis., was in the city on a 

 short l:iusiiiess trip this week. 



Park Richmond has been in the South tliis 

 week, looking up stocks of hardwood. Mr. . 

 Richmond is chief inspector in this market 

 for the National Haidwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion. 



F. C, Fischer of tlie Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company. Coal Grove, O., spent a few days 

 iu Chicago recently. 



The Leavitt Lumber Company of Cliicago 

 will henceforth make Cairo. III., headquarters 

 for its southern ijusiness. The company has 

 hitherto maintained an office at Memphis, 

 Tenn., which will be discontinued. B. F. 

 Richardson, vice president of the company, 

 will make his home in Cairo and manage 

 affairs in that section. 



The firm of W^illiam Cappei & Co., 67 West 

 Twenty-second St., is tlie latest addition to 

 the hardwood contingent in this city. Mr. 

 Cappei. the principal of the firm, came here 

 from Dayton, O.. many years ago. His first 

 position was with Hayden Brothers; later he 



obtained a position with C. L. Willey. which 

 he has held until recently. Mr. Cappel's 

 long experience in the trade and conservative 

 methods of transacting business will doubtless 

 bring" him success in his new venture. 



C. L. Willey left July 28 for a seven weeks' 

 trip to Europe. Mr. Willey will visit the Lon- 

 d(Ui and Liverpoftl markets in a search of fancy 

 mahogany logs for his big veneer mill in this 

 cit.v. 



Harry A. Gorsuch, the well loiown of Kansas 

 City, called at the Recokd office July 27. 



Floyd Tilghman Logan, secretary and treas- 

 urer of John A. Ganger & Co.. manufacturers of 

 sash and doors, died in Chicago July 20, at the 

 age of forty-six. Mr. Logan was born in New- 

 port. Ky.. and became associated with Mr. Ganger 

 in 1891. He was a Mason and belonged to sev- 

 eral proniineHt Chicago clubs. His wife and 

 one son survive him. 



W. L. Wallace, the timber expert of the Star 

 insurance building, has recently returned from 

 a four months' crui.se of a large timber property 

 in Mexico. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark. Minneapolis, 

 was in Chicago on business recently. 



It is with much regret that the H.vrdwood 

 Rkcoud learns that M. A. Hays, who for several 

 years past has occupied the positicjn of general 



