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HARDWOOD RECORD 



I. Stephenson Company's Mill Burned 



On October 15 fire broke out in the I. Ste- 

 phenson Company's mill No. 1 just as work for 

 the day was being started. The company has a 

 splendid fire department of its own. which im- 

 mediately set to work to endeavor to save the 

 building. The flames spread rapidly, however, 

 and this was impossible. The planing mill, 

 which adjoins the main building destroyed, was 

 not damaged in the least and trams leading up 

 to the mill were also saved. It was a remark- 

 able sight to see the mill building burning at 

 one end and the planing department running 

 at the other end of the mill and loading lumber 

 on cars as if nothing unusual were happening. 



This Are will not interfere in any way with 

 the company's shipment of orders, as it has a 

 good stock of lumber on hand, and the planing 

 mill remains intact. The company's hardwood 

 mill is running day and night, and the big 

 flooring factory is being operated on full time, 

 turning out the usual excellent quality of 

 product. 



The matter of rebuilding the burned struc- 

 ture will not be decided until after the loss is 

 adjusted. 



Activity of a Philadelphia Concern 

 The Henry A. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 put up this summer one of the largest cedar 

 mills in the country, adjoining its pi* ' at Phil- 

 adelphia. Cedar is now brought direc. .?rom the 

 forests of Cuba and Mexico and manufactured 

 into cigar box lumber, without the inconvenience 

 and expense of importing it by way of New 

 York. The heavy storage charges and the ex- 

 pense of lighterage and measuring, together with 

 the continual objection of the few sawmills to 

 undertake the sawing of the cedar, which have 

 always been a serious handicap in the cigar box 

 business, have now been overcome. 



The machinery newly installed in the com- 

 pany's building consists of five large veneer 

 saws, one drag saw and one large band mill. 

 In addition are three other band mills, four band 

 ripping mills, two circular sawmills, a battery 

 of fourteen planers and lour scrapers which be- 

 longed to the old equipment. With twenty or 

 more dry kilns and several acres of air drying 

 space which have been provided, the Henry A. 

 Sheip Manufacturing Company is prepared to 

 manufacture direct from the log to the box the 

 finest Spanish cedar in the world, at the lowest 

 possible cost. A cargo of wood can be loaded at 

 Cuban or Mexican ports and brought up the Dela- 

 ware almost to the door of the mills. Two new 

 yards for the storage of logs have been secured. 

 Such cedar as comes into New York can also be 

 easily shipped to Philadelphia, as the loading 

 from ship to ship can be accomplished without 

 extra cost. The new yards were filled with logs 

 a month ago and the big saws are already work- 

 ing on the supply to meet the present enormous 

 demand for cedar from all parts of the country. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Douglass & Walkley Company has moved 

 its headquarters from Columbus to Painesville, 

 Ohio. This concern operates a large mill at 

 Drew, Miss., and enjoys patronage that is coun- 

 trywide. 



The Rice Lake Lumber Company of Rice Lake, 

 Wis., has recently transformed its large plant 

 into a hardwood mill and has rearranged its 

 lumber yards. 



The plant of the Washington Veneer Company 

 at Meeker Junction, Wash., was destroyed by 

 fire October 16. The loss is approximately 

 .^85,000. with about $7,000 insurance. The plant 

 was worth if-o.OOO and the standing lumber in 

 the yards $10,000. 



Lombard & Rittenhouse of Cheboygan, Mich., 

 have discontinued their yards at Alpena and 

 Newberry, and are shipping their stock of poles 

 lo Cheboygan, where will be located the general 

 distributing yard. 



The Standard Veneer Barrel Company was 

 recently organized at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., 

 with a capital stock of $200,000. 



The East Buffalo Mill & Lumber Company is 

 a new concern for Buffalo. It is capitalized at 

 $10,000 and will operate a planing mill. The 

 incorporators are Anthony and A. H. Klaus and 

 J. Frederick Berner, all of Buffalo. 



The St. Mary's Mineral Lands Company re- 

 cently sold to the W'isconsin Veneer Company 

 of Rhinelander, Wis., a tract of timber in Ke- 

 weenaw county, regarded as one of the largest 

 liardwood stands in that county. It is roughly 

 tstimated that 1,500,000 feet of red oak alone will, 

 be taken Out of it. A camp is being estab- 

 lished in the heart of the tract. 



Chris Eby, the land man of Rhinelander, "tt'ls., 

 has closed a deal with the Goodman Lumber 

 Company of Goodman for the sale of a large 

 tract of hardwood timber located in Forest 

 county. 



The hardwood sawmill at East Tawas, Mich., 

 owned by .Tohn J. Kantzler & Son of Bay City, 

 has shut down for the season, having manufac- 

 tured all the logs on hand. 



Arthur Jones, manager of the Hickory Jones 

 Company, with a hardwood sawmill at Dodson, 

 La., has purchased the plant of the Little Pine 

 Lumber Company near Tannehill, La. He will 

 begin cutting the hardwood at an early date. 



It is reported that the Eastern Canadian 

 Limber & Construction Company, Ltd., said to 

 h* ve been incorporated in New York by New 

 York men, has purchased the lumber stocks and 

 sawmill of Isaac Prescott located in Albert 

 county. New Brunswick, for approximately 

 $1,000,000. The company will develop the hard- 

 wood lumber industry in that section and will 

 reopen the Albert Southern railway. 



Fire in Pittsburg on the night of October 20 

 destroyed considerable property belonging to the 

 R. A. McCall Lumber Company, the Jones & 

 Rogers Company, the S. W. Means Lumber Com- 

 pany and the United Planing Mills Company. 

 The planing mill buildings, valuable machinery. 

 10,000,000 feet of lumber piled in the yards and 

 a number of horses were burned. The loss is 

 estimated at $100,000. 



At a consideration of $300,000, Detroit capi- 

 talists have recently acquired the controlling 

 interest in the Cheney Lumber Company, which 

 had a new cypress and hardwood mill in opera- 

 tion at Monroe, La. Charles E. Cheney, now 

 president and general manager, will continue 

 in charge. John T. Shaw, president of the First 

 National bank of Detroit, is treasurer and di- 

 rector of the company. A. . L. Stephens and 

 W. J. Gray, also of Detroit, are the other direc- 

 tors. The new interests in the company will 

 spend $250,000 in increasing the activities and 

 acquiring additional stumpage. 



A. M. Kinney of Pittsburg is starting a new 

 mill on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad, near 

 Pittsburg, to cut off a tract of fine white oak 

 timber. This will be used mostly for trestle 

 stuff and car timbers and will be marketed in 

 the Pittsburg district and Buffalo. He is also 

 getting a considerable quantity of first-class 

 hickory, ash and cherr.v. 



The American Mahogany Company is a new 

 concern recently organized at Tampa, Fla. 



Sheridan L. Walden, a popular foreman, has 

 been promoted to superintendent of the Ports- 

 mouth Veneer Works at Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. 

 Walden has been in the employ of this company 

 for a number of years and is well equipped to 

 fill the position of trust. 



The Wolverine Lumber Company of Bay City. 

 Mich., expects to get out about 5,000,000 feet of 

 pine and hardwood at Menominee and about 

 27,000,000 feet at Little Current. The com- 

 pany's principal operations this winter will be 

 carried on in the vicinity of the Georgian "Bay, 

 near W'ebbwood, Ont. 



Lake commerce during September, as meas- 

 ured b.v the volume of shipments in the domestic 

 trade from all lake ports, continued practically 



at the same high rate as during the preceding 

 montii. The total shipments for the thirty days 

 of September, as reported to the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics of the Department of Commerce and 

 Labor, amounted to 12,527,865 net tons, com- 

 pared with 9,458,605 net tons during September, 

 1908, and 11,137,927 net tons during Septem- 

 ber. 1907. 



The lumber shipments for the month, 163,301 

 M feet, were 23.965 M feet in excess of the Sep- 

 tember, 1908, shipments, though 11,095 M feet 

 below the September, 1907, total. Considerable 

 gains as compared with September, 1908, fig- 

 ures, are shown in the lumber receipts at North 

 Tonawanda, Cleveland, Buffalo and Ludington, 

 though Chicago receipts for the month, 41,837 M 

 feet, show a decline of 9,860 M feet as com- 

 pared with September, 1908, receipts. The sea- 

 son shipments to the end of September, 834,422 

 M feet, were about 30 per cent larger than tor 

 the corresponding portion of the preceding year. 



Automobiles have displaced carriages to such 

 an extent that carriage builders will be obliged 

 to retire from business or devote their attention 

 to the construction of automobile bodies. This 

 was the statement made by Maurice Connolly 

 of Dubuque, Iowa, president of the Carriage 

 Builders' National .Vssociation, which convened 

 in its thirty-seventh annual meeting in Wash- 

 ington, October 19. The situation of the car- 

 riage builders as presented by President Con- 

 nolly in his annual address is so serious that 

 already many carriage manufacturers have re- 

 linquished their business or have directed their 

 energies along somewhat different lines. 



Consul Theodosius Botkin of Campbellton calls 

 attention to the activity of American lumbering 

 enterprises in New Brunswick. Fire destroyed 

 the mills at Mission Point on August 7 ; new 

 machinery was quickly procured from the United 

 States and sawing recommenced on September 

 S, with a capacity of 50,000 feet per day. The 

 permanent plant will be rebuilt at once. At 

 Bathurst an American company has purchased 

 a large lumber mill, wharves and timber rights 

 on 30.000 square miles of crown forest lands, on 

 which they will cut 30,000,000 feet or more this 

 winter. The disposing company furnished shin- 

 gles to the American market and deals to Eu- 

 rope, while it is stated that the new concern 

 will erect a new lumber mill to supply the 

 American market ; also an extensive pulp plant. 



The Carriage Factories, Ltd., has been formed 

 by the combining of the E. N. Heney Company, 

 Ltd., of Montreal and Quebec ; the Tudhope Car- 

 riage Company, Ltd., at Orillia, Ont. ; the Can- 

 ada Carriage Company at Brockville, Ont., and 

 the Monro & Mcintosh Carriage Company, Ltd., 

 at Alexandria, Ont. These companies have been 

 established for many years and are in excellent 

 financial condition. The headquarters of the 

 new companj' is to be in Montreal. The capi- 

 talization is $2,000,000. The physical value of 

 real estate, buildings and machinery of the four 

 original companies is $378,210, not including 

 buildings now in the course of construction. 

 Tlie liquid assets of the combined companies are 

 approximately $1,325,414, the current liabilities 

 $345,936, leaving a surplus of $979,478. It is 

 thought that the new company will derive all 

 the benefits possible from the concentration of 

 management and the standardizing of the output 

 of the component parts. 



The Elmore Veneer Company has been organ- 

 ized at Conneaut, Ohio, by H. H. Truesdale, 

 C. M. Cooke, A. J. Vacker and F. L. Maxton. 

 The capital stock is $30,000. 



The Northern Cooperage & Lumber Company 

 of Gladstone, Midi., plans the erection of a 

 flooring mill as an addition to its present plant. 

 The mill will produce several million feet of 

 flooring a year, and will require a number of 

 additional employes. 



The Moos Land & Lumber Company is a new 

 concern at Marked Tree, Ark., incorporated by 

 Paul Westbrook, W. L. Black and others. Its 

 capital stock is $12,500. 



