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fere he had reached the age of twenty-one years. 

 In 1906 the company was incorporated with 

 Harrison Parker, president ; Irving S. Palmer, 

 treasurer ; Franlj D. Sawyer, vice-president, and 

 William I. Palmer, assistant treasurer and secre- 

 tary. The company is a large manufacturer of 

 mahogany veneers, but also handles large lots of 

 other costly and rare woods. 



James C. Hall of the Hall Lumber Company 

 recently visited the New York market. 



A party of business men, members of the 

 Boston Chamber of Commerce, will leave on 

 December 1 for a visit to Chicago. Several 

 lumbermen will be in the party. 



Herbert K. Blanchard of William Haskins & 

 Son, Boston, returned early in the month from a 

 six months' trip to South America. 



Frederick R. Smith of the Clark & Smith 

 Company died at his home in Reading, Mass., 

 November IS. Mr. Smith was one of the oldest 

 retail dealers in this section. 



BALTIMORE 



Preparations have been practically completed 

 for the next annual meeting of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange, which will be held on Decem- 

 ber 6 at the Merchants' Club on German street, 

 to be followed by the yearly banquet. The nom- 

 inating committee, consisting of George W. 

 Eisenhauer of the Eisenhauer-MacLea Company. 

 John H. Gels and Joseph D. Virdin of the Can- 

 ton Lumber Company, has put into the field a 

 ticket w'ith John L. Alcock at the head, and 

 there is not believed to be any doubt about its 

 success. 



E. M. Terry, secretary of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, returned home on No- 

 vember 6 from an extended tour in the interest 

 of his organization. Every place he visited he 

 endeavored to get in touch with the membership, 

 and was successful in seeing about fifty per cent. 

 He also secured some new accessions to the mem- 

 bership. 



Complaints are being heard again about a 

 car shortage. This lack of rolling stock on 

 railroads is especially pronounced on the Chesa- 

 l>eake & Ohio railroad. In response to a letter 

 written to one of the officials two weeks ago, a 

 Baltimore shipper received word that on three 

 divisions the shortage amounted to not less than 

 seventy-flve cars. The railroads, however, say 

 they are doing the best they can. 



Samuel W. Sowers of Hagerstown, Md., has 

 secured an option on 17,000 acres of hardwood 

 timber along a truck line railroad in West Vir- 

 ginia. A company is being organized to erect 

 sawmills, build railroads and lumbermen's houses, 

 and develop the tract. The company will have 

 a capital stock of $450,000. 



Holger A. Koppel, a hardwood exporter, re- 

 turned from a trip of about ten days or two 

 weeks in West Virginia, where he looked up 

 mill connections and arranged for stocks. He 

 is of the opinion that the foreign outlook has 

 improved very much of late, and that a brisk 

 movement of lumber and logs to the other side of 

 the Atlantic will set in perhaps in the early 

 part of next year. Already the inquiry is far 

 nioi'e active, and only the approach of the holi- 

 days tends to hold down the volume of business. 

 James Cant of Cant & Kemp of Glasgow, who 

 was here two weeks ago on the way to the 

 West and South, to make an extended trip in the 

 lumber manufacturing sections, gave it as his 

 opinion that the business in England has been 

 held back by the presentation of the budget, 

 which has aroused much discussion and given 

 rise to a feeling of unsottlement. He said until 

 the budget was disposed of the natural strength 

 of the British market for stocks could not be 

 expected to assert itself. 



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

 on a brief trip to West Virginia two weeks ago. 

 Ho went to look after some of his mill connec- 



tions and to take up matters which required his 

 personal attention. 



The N. W. James Lumber Company, Aliceanna 

 street, has laid in an extensive stock of hard- 

 wood flooring, which is at present in strong 

 demand among builders. Oak flooring Is espe- 

 cially in favor, and the company carries a full 

 line. 



Among the visiting lumbermen in Baltimore 

 within the past two weeks have been H. O. 

 Bonham of Chilhowie, Va. ; George G. Barr of 

 Beecher & Barr, Pottsville, Pa. ; G. W. Beebe, 

 Southern Lumber Company, Clayton, Ga. ; Genio 

 Cardwell of the Cardwell & Kreger Lumber 

 Company, North Wilkesboro, N. C, and L. E. 

 Hunter of the Carr-Hunter Company of Graham, 

 Va. 



CHARLOTTE 



The Cole Manufacturing Company, located near 

 Charlotte, extensive manufacturers of farming 

 implements, is building a plant which will In- 

 clude six large buildings, to cost $50,000. 



A large new concern for Hudson, X. C, is the 

 Hudson Chair Company, just chartered, with 

 $50,000 capital stock, by J. L. Sigmon, T. J. Lutz 

 and others. Chairs and furniture of all kinds 

 will be manufactured. 



Indicative of the improvement affecting the 

 hardwood trade in the Carollnas is the fact that 

 most of the furniture factories are now working 

 full time. Last year during the dullness in the 

 furniture business many of the factories were 

 forced to closed down, and most of them cur- 

 tailed production heavily. 



The Parker-Whitaker Lumber Company is a 

 new concern for Nashville, N. C, having $25,000 

 capital. J. R. Parker and others are the incor- 

 porators. They will deal in timber, etc. 



The Seaboard Lumber Company of Carthage, 

 N. C, has just been chartered with $50,000 

 capital stock. The incorporators are M. G. Dal- 

 rymple and Alton Mclver of Carthage and J. J. 

 Angle of Greensboro and J. T. Penn of Asheboro, 

 N. C. 



L. A. Briles, receiver for the Standard Fur- 

 niture Company of High Point, N. C, will sell 

 the property and real estate of this concern 

 at public auction in High Point within the next 

 few days. 



The Gilmore-Rankin Lumber Company of Fay- 

 ctteville, N. C, has recently been chartered with 

 $50,000 capital stock. C. E. Rankin, J. E. Gil- 

 more and others are the incorporators. 



Charter has just been granted the Duck Lake 

 Lumber Company of Rocky Mount, N. C, with 

 $75,000 capital. S. T. Anderson. W. L. Groom 

 and others of Rocky Mount are the incorporators. 

 The White Furniture Company of Mebane, 

 N. C, which has had many large orders from 

 the War Department for goods to be shipped to 

 Panama, has just booked another large govern- 

 ment order. It calls for 360 library desks, 290 

 sideboards and 240 extension tables for use in 

 oflJcers' quarters in various army posts of the 

 product of this concern ranks with that ol any 

 similar manufactory in the country. 



A petition in bankruptcy was filed a few days 

 ago by W. H. Lassiter of Asheville, N. C, manu- 

 facturer of carriages and wagons. Liabilities 

 are stated at $42,7S1.G0 and assets at $37,366.91. 

 Mr. Lassiter owned a large number of firms. 

 This is one of the largest failures occurring in 

 Asheville for some time. 



Mention of the sale of the Kinston Lumber 

 Company's large sawmill and railroad at Kins- 

 ton, N. C, to the John L. Roper Lumber Com- 

 pany was made in the last issue of the Hard- 

 wood Record. The purchase price at auction 

 was $35,000. It is understood that the large 

 sawmill at Kinston will be operated and the rail- 

 road property developed by the new purchasers. 

 Messrs. Ellington and Guy, who had held $28,000 

 in first mortgage bonds and interest against the 



company, own extensive timber lands in the Kins- 

 ton section, including much fine hardwood tlmbei'. 

 and if they sell out to the new purchaser it is 

 certain the mill will continue operations for 

 some time. 



Some of the finest hardwood timber in western 

 North Carolina has been destroyed by forest fires 

 during the past two or three weeks. The last 

 heavy rain in the mountains occurred October 10, 

 and the leaves are dry and fires spread rapidly. 

 On the Murphy branch of the Southern, out 

 from Asheville, N. C. much valuable timber was 

 burned, although it is impossible at this time 

 to estimate the loss. A report from Asheville, 

 N. C, states that forest fires have been raging 

 for several days in the vicinity of Canton, N. C, 

 and on the Vanderbilt estate fires are now burn- 

 ing. It is said these fires were started by 

 hunters to run the deer out. 



An important meeting of the North Carolina 

 Case Workers' As'sociation, representing promi- 

 nent furniture manufacturers of North and 

 South Carolina and Virginia, was held Nov. 17 

 at Greensboro, N. C. It was decided to advance 

 the price of all grades of furniture on an average 

 of ten per cent. This advance is due to the fact 

 that the cost of material entering into the man- 

 ufacture of furniture has increased to a consid- 

 erable extent. The new tariff has resulted in 

 largely increasing the price of glass, for example, 

 an important item in the manufacture of fur- 

 niture. Action of the Carolina manufacturers is 

 said to be in line with recommendations of the 

 American Furniture Manufacturers' Association, 

 which recently met in Chicago, and urged a ten 

 per cent increase in furniture prices. The in- 

 crease will go into eft'ect the first of the year. 



At a largely attended meeting of the North 

 Carolina Chair Association, held at Thomasville. 

 N. C, a few days ago, similar action to that of 

 the Case Workers' Association was taken. 



The Muckenfuss Manufacturing Company's 

 plant, at Spartanburg, S. C, was destroyed by 

 fire a few days ago ; loss is estimated at $20.- 

 000 with about $15,000 fire insurance. The fac- 

 tory manufactured brooms and whisk brushes. 

 Something like 18,000 brooms were burned with 

 the plant. Whether the plant will be rebuilt is 

 not known as yet. 



The Dixie Floor Finishing Company is the 

 name of a new concern for Spartanburg, S. C, 

 headed by P. T. LeMaster and H. L. Bomar. The 

 company is to handle the fioor scrapers and pol- 

 ishers invented and patented by Mr. LeMaster. 

 They also propose to manufacture a high grade 

 of floor stains, and will use in their manufacture 

 weeds that grow around Spartanburg. 



A condition bordering on a state of terror ex- 

 ists in the lumber camps of the Waccamaw Lum- 

 ber Company, whose headquarters are at Bolton, 

 N. C. in Brunswick county, following the wreck- 

 ing of a logging train a few days ago. resulting 

 in the death of a Russian laborer and fatal in- 

 juring two others. Oflicials of the company say 

 they believe the train was wrecked by "squatters" 

 on their lands, and this opinion is shared by their 

 several hundred laborers, more than one hundred 

 of whom have quit work rather than be made 

 the target of further attacks by "squatters." Mr. 

 Clark, general manager of the lumber company, 

 says the "squatters" on the lands, many of 

 whom claim possession of the lands by right of 

 adverse possession, have brought the company 

 thousands of dollars loss recently by spiking logs 

 that were cut. More than $5,000 worth of saws 

 have been destroyed. Spikes have been driven in 

 trees and skidders blown up with dynamite. A 

 night watchman was fired upon recently by men 

 in ambush and a skidder was wrecked by dyna- 

 mite. The lumber company has employed detec- 

 tives who are in the woods and several arrests 

 have been made. 



The Green Swamp Cypress claims were bought 

 by the Waccamaw company two years ago and an 

 old man named Brady and his kith and kin were 

 insulted thereby. The lands include many thou- 



