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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Andien-s Cabinet Company. Andrews. Ind.. 

 has been incorporated by Kd. Colbert, with a 

 capital stock of .''S.'i.OOO. The company is now 

 employing an Increased force, and the incorpora- 

 tion was made to meet the growing demands of 

 the business. 



The Litchtield Manufacturing Company of 

 Waterloo. Iowa, manufacturer of special farm 

 machinery, has under way the erection of an 

 addition to its woodworking department 50 by 

 100 feet, to cost $5,000. An equal sum will be 

 spent on equipment. 



S. T. Alcus & Co.. box manufacturers of Xew 

 Orleans. La., whose plant was recently destroyed 

 at a loss of ¥73.000, will erect two new build- 

 ings, one of them to cost alioul .$100,000. Both 

 will be model factory structures, fitted up in 

 the most approved style. 



A. L. Burford. of Mount Pleasant, Tex., has 

 recently filed a charter at Austin for the Cook- 

 ville Coal .S: Lumber Company, capitalined at 

 .^100, OOO for the purpose of mining lignite and 

 saiving hardwoods in Titus county. The timber 

 to be sawed is white and red oak. 



The >Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company of 

 Traverse City has purchased of Eugene Brainerd 

 the timber on eighty acres of land fronting on 

 East bay, consisting of about 700.000 feet of 

 beech, maple and hemlock. The work of lumber- 

 ing has already commenced and the logs are 

 being towed to the company's mill at the head 

 of the bay. 



The Southern Handle & Lumber Company has 

 secured a building at Corning. Ark., which will 

 be overhauled and equipped with machinery for 

 the manufacture of handles. About $20,000 will 

 be expended. The business will be carried on 

 under the title of the Corning Handle Company. 

 Especial attention will be given to export trade, 

 and sixty men will be employed. 



The Planett Manufacturing Company of La- 

 porte, Ind.. organized about five years ago to 

 manufacture picture frames and room moulding, 

 was placed in the hands of a receiver August 7. 

 The failures of the Bank of America and the 

 Creelman Lumber Compan.v of Chicago are indi- 

 rectly responsible for the difficulty. The factory 



will be continued in operation, however. It 

 employs about 200 hands. 



The Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Chicago is making an addition to its 

 woodw'orking department which will increase the 

 capacit.v in that line about 50 per cent. Xew 

 machinery will he installed and a new dry kiln 

 added. The company's woodworking department 

 man\ifactures parts tor goods of its own make, 

 such as lawn mower handles and rollers, wrench 

 handles, etc., and boxes for shipping these prod- 

 ucts. 



The large hardwood mill of the Sullivan-San- 

 ford Lumber Company, near .Naples. Tex., is be- 

 ing rushed to completion. The foundation, which 

 is of brick, is laid and several miles of railroad 

 out to the timber is graded. The company is 

 capitalized at $500,000 and its promoters are all 

 men of integrity, so that any project they under- 

 take will be carried to a successful issite. They 

 are planning the establishment of a large furni- 

 ture factory as soon as the mill is started. 



The lands of the Whittier Lumber Company, 

 in Swain county. North Carolina, were purchased 

 by Charles .1. Harris of Dillsboro for $449,024.05. 

 Mr. Harris' bid was made on behalf of the 

 Harris-Woodbury Company of Bryson City, N. 

 C. formed several months ago. The Whittier 

 boundary was sold at public auction at Bryson 

 City under a decree of the United States circuit 

 court. The property contains more than 70,000 

 acres of land and is covered with virgin forests, 

 including the more valuable hardwoods. 



The Wilson Cypress Company of Palatka, Fla., 

 will erect a new cypress mill at Mayo, in Lafa- 

 yette county, Florida. It will be located on Half 

 Moon lake. The work of construction will prob- 

 ably not begin until October. The company pro- 

 poses to ship the product of the new mill to 

 Palatka. where it will be loaded on vessels for 

 the northern market. The capacity of the new 

 plant will depend on the amount of timber to be 

 cut : the company already owns approximately 

 150.000,000 feet of cypress in that locality, and 

 if more can be purchased a mill of about the 

 same capacity as the Palatka plant will he 

 erected, if not a single band mill or one of about 

 half the capacity will be built. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABD'WOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



F. C. Fischer, presideiu of the Yellow I'oplar 

 Lumber Company, Coal Grove, O., spent sev- 

 eral days in Chicago recently. 



Edward Germain, the piano manufacturer and 

 lumberman of Saginaw. Mich., was in the city 

 on the loth inst. 



Otis A. Felger. secretary of the Hackley- 

 rhelps-Bounell Company of (irand Rapids. 

 Mich., called at the IJecoup office last week. Mr. 

 Felger was euroute to the company's Evansville, 

 Ind.. and Helena. Ark., branches. 



IX. E. Wood, president, and J. K. I*ainter. sec- 

 retary and treasurer of the E. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company of Baltimore, Md., spent a couple 

 of days in Chicago recently. 



Lewis Doster left on Aug. 10 for a pleasure 

 I rip to eastern points. He will visit his mother 

 in I'hiladelphia before returning to (.'hicago. 



.V meeting of the executive committee of the 

 .National Hickory Consumers' Association has 

 been called for ^^'ednesday. Aug. 29, at 10 a. m., 

 at the Auditorium Annex. Chicago. The secre- 

 tary has sent out an urgent call requesting the 

 members of the committee to be present in full 

 force, as at this time tliey will be called upon 

 to decide just w^hat the scope of the work to 

 be undertaken by the association will be. Mem- 

 bers who cannot be present are asked to send 

 a representative empowered to act for them 

 without fail. 



Although only a two-year-old, the Wisconsin 

 Timber & Liuuber Company occupies a promi- 

 iH'nt place in the lumber world in general and 



Special Corraspondeats.) 



Chicago lumberdom in particular. This lusty 

 infant was born at Jellico, Tenn., cutting Ten- 

 nessee hardwoods. The main office is located in 

 the Monadnock building, Chicago. In addition 

 to this the company has a buying office at Hous- 

 ton. Tex., and one at McHenry, Miss. The com- 

 pany is a welcome addition to the lumber circle 

 in Chicago. It manufactures and wholesales yel- 

 low pine, hardwood and Paciflc coast products. 



Representatives of the hardwood associations 

 of the country met on Thursday of last week 

 at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, to talk over 

 among themselves the matter of freight rates to 

 the Paciflc coast. A very interesting session 

 was held and a committee appointed from 

 among those present to draw up a report of the 

 meeting covering the recommendations decided 

 upon, which report will be submitted to all the 

 associations interested. The following were in 

 attendance : John B. Ransom. Xashviilc, Tenn. ; 

 E. P. Arpin, Grand Rapids. Wis. ; O. O. Agler, 

 Chicago : .T. G. Landeck, Milwaukee, Wis. ; J. M. 

 Pritchard, Indianapolis, Ind. : Charles A. Bige- 

 low. Bay City, Mich. ; G. F. Moore, Boyne City, 

 ^lich. : Lewis Doster, Chicago. 



.lames M. Schultz of Schultz Brothers & 

 Cowen is in Mississippi on business. James 

 C. Cowen of the same house is back from a 

 recent trip through Kentucky and Tennessee. 



H. Murphy, president of the Alabama Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company of Mobile, made a visit 

 to Chicago last week. 



O. O, Agler of Upham & Agler is home from 

 a visit in Lienver. 



Ed Heath of the Heath-Witbeek Company, 

 who has been abroad for some time, has re- 

 turned to home and business, feeling much bene- 

 fited by the trip. 



H. G. Sheldon of Fremont and E. M. Sprague 

 of Cincinnati, Ohio representatives of the Ed- 

 ward Hines Lumber Company of this city, were 

 in town last week and paid the Record a 

 friendly call. 



William J. Wagstaff of Oshkosh, Wis., paid 

 the Record office a welcome call on the 21st. 



Boston. 



Frank Lawrence and Harry Wiggin of Law- 

 rence & Wiggin are spending the summer in the 

 neighborhood of Gloucester. Mr. Lawrence is 

 a guest at the Hotel Morelaud. Bass Rocks, and 

 Mr. Wiggin has his own cottage in Aunisquam. 



W. R. Chester of W. R. Chester & Co., Bos- 

 ton, has returned from his vacation spent in the 

 Appalachian Camp, Lake Winnipesaukee. Harry 

 Chester of the same firm has been spending a 

 few days in Maine. 



George H. Davenport of the Davenport-Peters 

 Company is enjoying his spare hours at his 

 summer cottage at Marblehead. 



The executor of the estate of the late George 

 K. Xason. Willimantic, Conn., has sold the 

 lumber business to a new corporation known as 

 the Willimantic Lumber & Coal Company. P. 

 J. Twomey and F. J. Tilden, formerly yard fore- 

 man and bookkeeper, respectively, for the old 

 concern, with Judge L. J. Storrs of Mansfield, 

 are the incorporators of this concern. 



L. Sweet of Sweet, Clark & Co., Providence, 

 R, I., who has been making a tour of the moun- 

 tains in his automobile, has returned. 



Horace JL Andrews of Hartford, Conn., died 

 at his home August 1. He was one of the or- 

 ganizers of the Big Rapids Door & Blind Manu- 

 facturing Company, Big Rapids, Mich. He is 

 survived by a widow and one daughter. 



John Vose of Marlboro, Mass., who for many 

 years was engaged in the lumber business at 

 Princeton, died at his home July 26. He is 

 survived by his widow. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co., Boston, is making a trip in Xew 

 P.runswick. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, X. Y., visited the trade in 

 this city last week. 



William E. Litchfield reports that the mill 

 owned and operated by Litchfield Bros., of which 

 firm he is a member, at North Vernon, Ind., has 

 been thoroughly equipped with modern machin- 

 ery and enlarged, and is now ready for opera- 

 tion. 



The J. H. Blake Lumber Company, Hartford, 

 Conn., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000. This company is organized 

 chiefly to deal in southern timber lands. The 

 promoters are Noble E. Pierce, president ; James 

 R. Graham, Hartford, and K. L. Wolfe, Windsor. 



J. J. Mead of Mead & Speer, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 was a recent Boston visitor. 



Charles O. Stone of Gardiner, Mass., has sold 

 his woodworking business to Waldo H. Lowe. 

 It is reported that Mr. Stone will continue in 

 the manufacture of ladders and pumps. 



New York. 



Quite a stir was created in local wholesale 

 circles recently by the announcement by one 

 of the trunk lines that it would curtail lighter- 

 age limits by cutting out all points on the 

 Gowanus canal, Brooklyn, one of the biggest re- 

 ceiving depots of the district, but through 

 bringing pressure to bear it is believed that the 

 decision will be reconsidered. 



Labor troubles among the yards have broken 

 out intermittently during the past few weeks in 

 the efforts of the walking delegates to unionize 

 the hands, but in each case the efforts have been 

 vigorously opposed and all such cases are well 

 in hand and the yards operating as usual with 

 new help. There is no likelihood that the dis- 



