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Sigler, Butcher & Co., manufacturers of ro- 

 tary cut veneer at Parma, Mo., has been suc- 

 ceeded by Sigler, Brorien & Co. The firm con- 

 sists of C. L. Sigler, W. G., J. F. and D. C. 

 Brorien. J. W. Thompson, formerly of Cadillac, 

 Mich., is manager of the plant, which will make 

 a specialty of gum veneer. 



H. F. Donigan of Louisville, Ky., has pur- 

 chased, for $12,000, the plant of the Skinner- 

 Kussell Company of that city, and will establish 

 a plant to be operated by the recently organized 

 Kentucky Rim & Shaft Company. This concern 

 will absorb both the Louisville Spoke & Bending 

 Company and the Louisville Woodstock Company. 

 The site for the plant consists of about 1,500 

 feet along the line of the Louisiana & Nashville, 

 and is well supplied with shipping facilities. 



H. J. Barnard of the Central Veneer Company, 

 Indianapolis. Ind., states that his concern has 

 purchased a tract of property and Is now en- 

 gaged in constructing a modern plant which will 

 be thoroughly equipped with all the latest ma- 

 chinery for veneer manufacture. There will be 

 two brick buildings, one for a machine room and 

 the other to be devoted to dry kilns, warerooms, 

 offices, etc. The company expects to occupy the 

 new buildings by December 15. The concern 

 makes a specialty of high-grade spliced white 

 oak veneer. 



The Williams Brothers Company of Cadillac, 

 Mich., recently shipped the last consignment on 

 an order for 1,500,000 rough ten-pin blocks 

 which it has been supplying the Brunswick- 

 Balke-Coilender Company's plant at Muskegon, 

 Mich. In the future the Brunswick-Balke people 

 will manufacture their own ten-pin blocks at 

 their mills at Big Bay. Lumber from the mills 

 operating on the big timber tract in Marquette 

 county, which the company purchased last 

 spring, will be shipped by water to Muskegon, 

 which city will be the distributing point in 

 shipping the lumber to the factories of other 

 cities. The timber in the upper peninsula dis- 

 trict will not be exhausted before 1913 at least. 

 W. H. Rhodes, Coldbrook. N. Y., is running 

 bis factory, manufacturing button molds, night 

 and day at its fullest capacity. These molds 

 are turned from hardwood, one man operating 

 a machine and turning out thousands of the tiny 

 buttons per day. Quite a large amount of tim- 

 ber is annually consumed in this line of produc- 

 tion. Mr. Rhodes ships his product all over the 

 country and enjoys an extensive trade. 



To President Harrison must be given the credit 

 for establishing the first national forest reserve. 

 On March 30, 1891, he set aside the Yellowstone 

 National Timber Park Reserve. On February 

 22, 1897, President Cleveland, on the recom- 

 mendation of the National Academy of Science, 

 created thirteen additional forest reserves con- 

 taining 21,379,840 acres. 



One of the finest oaks in the state, which 

 stands in the middle of a road at Edgewood, 

 W. Va., has recently been saved by the aid of a 

 tree surgeon. Decay had set in and each year 

 the rains and insects added to its deterioration 

 until it began to look as though its years were 

 tew. A tree surgeon looked into the situation, 

 diagnosed the tree's disease, and with his assist- 

 ants, ladders, cement, skill and knowledge 

 brought the tree back to health and strength to 

 dfrfy the storms of many years. 



The Beaumont Export Company has been or- 

 ganized for the purpose of engaging exclusively 

 in the exporting of lumber to Europe and Africa. 

 The concern is a partnership and is backed by 

 ample capital to make it most successful. The 

 two principals are J. Frank Keefe and B. U. 

 Norvell, both of Beaumont, Tex. Strong con- 

 nections have been formed by the firm in the 

 various Important ports of Europe. 



The Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 the new name under which the Stamps Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company of Stamps, Ark., is now 

 operating at Mansfield, La. The concern moved 

 recently from Stamps to Mansfield, supplement- 



ing its old machinery with some additional 

 equipment, and is now turning out band-sawn 

 equalized forked leaf white oak, thin oak and 

 ash specialties, as well as a general line of 

 southern hardwoods. The firm is composed of 

 A. S. Johnson, president ; R. M. Burton, vice- 

 president, and M. B. Harrel, secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



In response to a recent decision of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, the Chicago & 

 North-Western Railway Company has paid 

 S155.S3 as overcharges to the Oshkosh Logging 

 Tool Company of Cshkosh. The Oshkosh com- 

 pany has also received .$73.36 from the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, also as repara- 

 tion for excessive charges. 



Hardwood jVete?5. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD 



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Chester F. Korn, president of the Farrin-Korn 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, backed by the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati, is a candidate 

 for director of the Business Men's Club of Cin- 

 cinnati, whose annual election was held last 

 evening and the result of which is not yet 

 known. The Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati 

 endorses Mr. Korn for this position and the 

 Record trusts that he has been duly elected. 



The Recobd had the pleasure of a call on 

 November 9 from W. J. Fletcher, representing 

 the Little Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo. 

 Mr. Fletcher enjoys a handsome trade in the 

 Chicago market. 



G. W. Critten, sales manager of the North- 

 western Cooperage &. Lumber Company, with 

 headquarters at Minneapolis, and sawmill and 

 cooperage plant at Gladstone, Mich., was a caller 

 on the Record on November 8. 



E. D. Galloway of the Galloway-Pease Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati was a Chicago visitor Octo- 

 ber 30. 



B. C. Miles, secretary of the Charles K. 

 Spaulding Logging Company of Salem, Ore., was 

 a Record caller on November 2. 



G. P. DeWitt, representing the Horace G. 

 Hazard Company, hardwood factors of Philadel- 

 phia, paid his respects at the Record sanctum 

 on October 30. 



R. M. Cunningham, the aggressive head of the 

 Louisville Lumber Company and sales manager 

 of the Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company 

 of Louisville, Ky., spent a couple of days in Chi- 

 cago last week. Mr. Cunningham says business 

 is in very fair shape and looks to improved con- 

 ditions as the season advances. 



The well-known hardwood lumber people of 

 Nashville, George C. Brown & Co., have recently 

 had under consideration the removal of their 

 general headquarters to Cincinnati, and news 

 items to this effect have been published. This 

 concern advises the Record that it has decided 

 not to remove to Cincinnati, at least for the 

 present, and will continue to conduct its busi- 

 ness from the Nashville headquarters. 



The Chicago Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation held a monthly business meeting and 

 lunch at the Hotel La Salle on Tuesday noon, 

 at which many subjects of interest to the trade 

 came up for discussion. 



On October 24 Charles F. Spalding, a million- 

 aire lumberman of Chicago, well known in the 

 business and financial world of the country, died 

 after an illness of three weeks. Acute jaundice 

 complicated with kidney trouble was the cause 

 of his demise. Mr. Spalding was president of 

 the Spalding Lumber Company and was also 

 interested in several Chicago banks as well as 

 banks and other commercial concerns in other 

 cities. He was a prominent clubman and was 

 a well known athlete, being an active advocate 

 of all outdoor sports. 



Charles F. Kerry of the Kerry & Hanson 

 Flooring Company, Grayling, Mich., was in 

 Chicago the latter part of last month visiting 

 his many friends in the trade. 



J. M. Hesti^r, sales manager for the Marsh- 

 Uathway Company, is making an extensive trip 

 through Florida and Louisiana, visiting the 

 sawmill plants in those states. 



Special CorrespondentsJ 



S. L. Eastman of the S. L. Eastman Flooring 

 Company of Saginaw, Mich., was a receut Chi- 

 cago visitor. He reported that his concern is 

 busy and that business generally is active. 



R. S. Huddleston, president of the Huddleston- 

 Marsh Lumber Company, returned a few days 

 ago from a week's trip to New Orleans. 



Charles Willey, son of the big mahogany and 

 veneer manufacturer, C. L. Willey of this city, 

 stopped at Chicago for a few days recently on 

 his way home from the East. The younger Mr. 

 Willey is manager of the Memphis business of 

 C. L. Willey. 



C. G. Powell, vice-president and general man- 

 ager of the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, South Bond, Ind., and Frank Wilson, 

 traffic manager of the same concern, were recent 

 Chicago visitors. 



Lucius Holbrook Wheeler, who has charge of 

 the Chicago office of the Wheeler-Timlin Lum- 

 ber Company of Wausau, Wis., was married 

 Tuesday, October 26, to Miss Wilhelmina Hoff- 

 man of Logansport, Ind. After December 15 

 Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler will be at home at 5641 

 Wayne avenue, Chicago. The many friends of 

 Mr. Wheeler are extending to him their warm- 

 est congratulations on his recent marriage. 



W. W. Dings, the popular secretary of the 

 Garetson-Greason Lumber Company of St. Louis, 

 Mo., who, as announced in the last issue 

 of the Record, will open a branch oflice for his 

 concern at Chicago, has announced that he will 

 be located in the Fisher building. He has se- 

 cured accommodation at Room 1416 in that 

 structure, and commenced operations about the 

 first of the month. The Garetson-Greason Lum- 

 ber Company, with headquarters in the Times 

 building. St. Louis, Mo., and with mills in 

 Arkansas and Louisiana, has had a steady and 

 rapidly increasing business in Chicago during 

 the past several years. Mr. Dings has been 

 furthering this business very largely, and has 

 catered notably to Chicago wholesalers and 

 manufacturers until he found that he was com- 

 pelled to spend so much of his time in Chicago 

 that it would be more advantageous for him to 

 locate here permanently. Mr. Greason will con- 

 tinue to maintain general charge of the manu- 

 facturing end of the business as well as that 

 part of the trade pertaining to the St. Louis 

 field, and the general headquarters of the con- 

 cern will remain at St. Louis. Mr. Dings is 

 well known to the hardwood trade not only in 

 St. Louis but in the country at large, so that 

 there will be few lumbermen in Chicago to whom 

 he is a stranger. He is an active force in hard- 

 wood affairs and a most welcome addition to 

 Chicago's lumber fraternity. 



William Clancy, president of the Lumbermen's 

 Credit Association of Chicago, returned a few 

 days ago from a two weeks' automobile trip. 

 On August 13, accompanied by his wife and two 

 daughters, he left for the East, going by way 

 of South Bend and Detroit. The party visited 

 various eastern cities, going up into Canada and 

 taking in Toronto. The trip home was made by 

 rail, but the party covered 3,000 miles of terri- 

 tory without a breakdown. It is needless to 

 say that Mr. Clancy had a most delightful trip. 

 John W. Dickson of the John W. Dickson 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., was a 

 Chicago visitor on November 2. 



J. H. P. Smith of the Hardwood Lumber 

 Company recently located in Cincinnati, Ohio, 



