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HARDWOOD RECORD 



trip of the lumber centers of the East. This 

 is his arst visit to the States. He is the son 

 of Mr. Cant, the senior partner of the firm. 



Kidd & Bucl5ingham of this city have made 

 an addition to their yard on South Sharp street, 

 which gives them about twice as much room as 

 they had before. The extension was. needed to 

 meet the wants of their increasing business. 



J. B. Hart of the Pigeon River Lumber Com- 

 pany of Mt. Stirling. N. C, and president of 

 the Tennessee & North Carolina railroad, with 

 headquarters at Clarlishurg. was a recent visitor 

 in Baltimore. His company has an office in the 

 Union Trust building. 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcocli & Co. was 

 In West Virginia this week looking after his 

 inspectors and other connections. 



David Baird, president of the Korva Land & 

 Lumber Company and a large lumber dealer at 

 Camden. X. J., was down at the mill for an 

 inspection last week and found everything run- 

 ning smoothly. E. F. Burke of M'allaceton, Va., 

 also connected with this company, has recently 

 returned from an extended European tour. 



CHARLOTTE 



Louisburg, N. C, is becoming quite an impor- 

 tant lumber center. Figures just compiled for 

 that town show that between September 1, lOOS. 

 and September 1, 1000, there were shipped from 

 Louisburg 7,371,290 feet of lumber, cut in the 

 sawmills of Franklin county, North Carolina. 

 The freight paid on the lumber alone amounted 

 to $39,110. The wagon manufacturing plant at 

 Louisburg is in a prosperous condition. 



A new chair manufactory having .$125,000 

 capital has been chartered for Lenoir, X. C, 

 known as the Moore-Stone Chair Company. 

 Among the incorporators are T. J. Stone, J. C. 

 Moore and others of Lenoir. 



A new concern for High Point, X. C, which 

 will manufacture novelties, piano and organ 

 stools, etc., is the Southern Xovelty Works Com- 

 pany. A. S. Caldwell, Jr., and others are the 

 incorporators. The company is backed by ample 

 capital to conduct a large business. 

 " The Park Lumber Company of Roaring River, 

 N. C, has been chartered to manufacture lum- 

 ber, bobbins, spokes, etc. It has a capital stock 

 of $25,000. 



Georgetown, S. C, already one of the most 

 important lumber manufacturing centers in the 

 South, home of the gigantic Atlantic Coast Lum- 

 ber Corporation, is to have .another large new 

 lumber company. Charter has just been granted 

 the Fairfield Lumber Company of Georgetown, 

 with $300,000 capital, to deal in timber and 

 timber lands and manufacture lumber. Incor- 

 porators are H. L. Ellington, M. W. I'yatt and 

 others. 



The Laurel River Logging Company of Stack- 

 house, N. C, in Madison county, has been char- 

 tered with $10,000 capital by Anson Betts and 

 others. 



The Giant Lumber Company's flume, which 

 extends from North Wilkesboro, N. C, home of 

 the company, up Reddies river for twenty miles, 

 is now in working order. It has a capacity of 

 150 ordinary wagon loads per day, and a large 

 amount of tan bark, telephone poles, lumber, 

 etc., is being floated. There is a large wood- 

 working plant at the mouth of the flume. 



The plant of the Tomlinson Chair Manufac- 

 turing Company of High Point, N. C, has just 

 been enlarged to double its capacity. C. F. Tom- 

 linson, head of this concern, says his business is 

 lifty per cent better than it was this time last 

 >-ear. 



The J. H. Wearn Company of Charlotte, ex- 

 tensive dealers in builders' supplies and manu- 

 facturers of desks, etc., reports fine husiness at 

 [jresent. The Carolina Manufacturing Company 

 3f Charlotte, also large dealers in hardwood and 

 Dther varieties of lumber, says its business is the 

 best since the lirst of the year. 



The Gatling Lumber Company, another con- 

 cern of Charlotte, reports fine business. E. P. 

 Gatling, secretary and treasurer of the concern, 

 says : "The winter outlook for trade is fine. 

 We are having all the orders we can handle 

 from builders and contractors. 1 have been in 

 the lumber business for fifteen years and condi- 

 tions were never more favorable, in my opinion." 



A new concern which has just commenced 

 business with fine prospects is the Carolina Box 

 Manufacturing Company of Charlotte, manufac- 

 turers of boxes, crates, shooks, cases, etc. H. E. 

 Everhardt is manager of the company. He says 

 that the husiness has started off so well that the 

 company will build an addition to its plant at an 

 early date. 



The gum tight stave mill known as the Moore 

 Lumber Company of Washington, N. C, was 

 totally destroyed by fire a few days ago, entail- 

 ing a loss estimated at $10,000, with no insur- 

 ance. The plant will be rebuilt at once on a 

 larger scale. L. I. Moore is president of the 

 company. 



The $10,000 breach of contract suit of John E. 

 I'atton of Asheville, X. C, against the Bailey 

 Lumber Company of Mitchell county. North Caro- 

 lina, which was in progress at the Asheville 

 court for two weeks past, has just ended in a 

 victory for the plaintifl:. Mr. Patton was granted 

 damages in the sum of $2,948.48, with interest. 

 The costs of the actions were taxed against the 

 defendant. 



W. M. Moore, expert on forestry, who has 

 been detailed by the National government to 

 malse a forest survey of South Carolina, has 

 just taken the field in Oconee county. He will 

 be assisted in the work by Captain Miller of 

 Commissioner Watson's office, who has had expe- 

 rience with the forestry business in the West. 

 The counties of Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, 

 Anderson, Spartanburg. Cherokee, Union and 

 Laurens will be surveyed and then the forester 

 will commence to work toward the coast. The 

 survey is made with the view of securing cer- 

 tain data, the ultimate end to be the reforesta- 

 tion of the lands of the state. 



CLEVELAND 



The Vermillion Lumber & .Manufacturing 

 Company of Cleveland has increased its capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $35,000 on account of its 

 rapidly increasing business. 



The Simons Brothers Lumber Company is the 

 name of the reorganized Simon Lumber Com- 

 pany, which is disposing of its stock prepara- 

 tory to moving to a new location on West 

 Fifty-third street near Walworth Run. Several 

 new buildings are being erected tor the accom- 

 modation of the company and the location prom- 

 ises to afford many facilities, the railroad track- 

 age being especially convenient. 



The call for mahogany for interior finish is 

 reported quite active by the Martin Barriss Com- 

 pany, dealers in hardwoods. So promising is 

 tlie outlook that the company is adding several 

 drying kilns to take care of its rapidly increas- 

 ing business. W. B. Martin, with his wife, took 

 an automobile trip to Boston a few days ago. 



J. J. Wemple, secretary and manager of the 

 Ohio Sash & Door Company, has been elected 

 president of the Wholesale Merchants' Board 

 of the Chamber of Commerce. This board em- 

 braces nearly all the big wholesaling concerns 

 of Cleveland and to become its head is a dis- 

 tinct honor. Mr. Wemple formerly occupied the 

 position of vice-president. The board is consid- 

 ering a trade extension tour of the western 

 states, taking two weeks' time, next spring. 

 Cities between Chicago and Omaha would be 

 visited in search of new fields to conquer. A 

 number of the Cleveland wholesale lumber con- 

 cerns are members of the board. 



The Interstate Lumber Company is having a 

 busy season in its regular hardwood lumber 'de- 



partment and in its cedar pole section. Over 

 fifty cars o£ poles have been sold to railroads 

 and similar corporations during the past few 

 weeks. 



Walter Cook has joined the forces of the Rob- 

 ert H. Jenks Luml)er Company and will cover 

 the central Ohio district for the firm. 



E. M. Carleton of the Mills-Carleton Company 

 was married to Mrs. Anna Rouse on Oct. 12. 

 They left immediately for a wedding tour Id 

 the East. 



One of the visitors to the local market during 

 Ihe past week was S. E. Smith of the Tri-State 

 Lumber Company of Uniontown, Pa. He reports 

 trade active, with a good call for both high and 

 low-grade hardwoods. 



ri. M. Loud, hardwood manufacturer of Au 

 Sable, Mich., called on the local trade during 

 the past week, as did also George D. Jackson, a 

 lumber inspector of Bayfield, Mich. 



The box business throughout this territory if; 

 said to be slowly picking up again, although 

 dealers declare that the revival in their branch 

 of the industry is not as rapid as in some of the 

 others. It is believed that the winter trade 

 will be much improved. 



H. G. Irwin, salesman for the Erie Lumber 

 Company of Erie, Pa., and C. M. Zengerle of 

 Detroit, who is interested in the Georgian Bay 

 Company, were visitors in Cleveland this week. 



C. A. Krauss of the Lake Shore Saw Mill & 

 Iiumber Company took an auto trip to Buffalo 

 during the past week. The trip going was very 

 pleasant, but bad weather and a great deal of 

 mud was encountered on the return. 



The F. T. Peitch Company reports a good line 

 of orders for hardwoods. The company recently 

 received two cars of African and Mexican ma- 

 hogany as the beginning of a large stock which 

 will be carried by the concern. 



F. D. Jenks of the Port Huron Lumber Com- 

 pany called upon the local trade during the ^ 

 past week. 



John Wagner of the Central Lumber Company 

 met with a bereavement during the past week 

 when his father died at New Philadelphia, O. 

 Two sons, John and P. J. Wagner, survive. 

 The latter is a lumber dealer at Canal Dover, O. 



At the art exhibit held in the Rose building 

 during the past week one of the interesting 

 exhibits was that of Philippine mahogany, used 

 for interior finish. It was the exhibit of the 

 Nicola, Stone & Myers Company, which deals 

 extensively in this wood. There were also some 

 line displays of hardwood furniture from local 

 aits and crafts shops. 



COLUMBUS 



The next meeting of the Union Association of 

 Lumber Dealers, which includes Ohio and Indi- 

 ana and parts of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, 

 will be held at the Southern hotel. Columbus, 

 Ohio, the third Tuesday in January. The place 

 and time were decided at a meeting of the 

 executive committee held in Columbus recently. 

 There are more than GOO members in the asso- 

 ciation, of which a majority always attends the 

 annual meeting, and an especially large attend- 

 ance is anticipated in Columbus because of the 

 central location. Columbus members of the ex- 

 ecutive board are M. J. Bergin, Edward A. Hil- 

 dreth and H. S. Adams. The program will he 

 arranged at a later meeting of the committee. 



R. L. Gilliam, secretary of sales for the W. M. 

 Ritter Lumber Company, says ; "Trade so far in 

 October warrants the belief that the month will 

 be a record breaker as far as orders are con- 

 cerned. Orders are coming in well from every 

 section of the country and there are now not 

 many weak spots in the territory covered by us. 

 Railroads are buying more lumber, and the same 

 thing is true of factories of all kinds. Dealers 

 are also stocking up better, contrary to the usual 

 custom at this time of the year, when retailers 

 prepare for the annual inventory. I believe 



