HARDWOOD RECORD 



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George Banks of Banks & Co., manufactiirci-s 

 o£ southern hardwood lumber at Hernando, Miss.. 

 died November 29. His father, R. M. Banks, 

 will act as administrator of his estate and in 

 all probability the business will be nintiniicd 

 as heretofore. 



A deal has been consummated by which the 

 Murfreesboro (Tenn.) plant of the I'rewitt-Spurr 

 Manufacturing Company, known as the bucket 

 factory, has been bought by W. R. Patterson, 

 J. W. Overall and W. W. Vaught, the considera- 

 tion being ^35,000. The new management will 

 enlarge the plant and will \ise oak. ash and 

 cedar in the manufacture of buckets and churns. 

 The property has been owned by the Prewitt- 

 Spurr Manufacturing Company of Nashville for 

 twenty years and for a number of years was 

 the only factory of importance in Murfreesboro. 

 The new interests will operate as the Tennessee 

 Red Cedar Woodenware Company. 



The C. P. White Manufacturing Company has 

 just been organized at Evansville, lud., to deal 

 in lumber and manufacture woodstuff. It has a 

 capital stock of $50,000. The organizers are 

 C. P. White, W. T. White, W. L. White and 

 II. C. White. 



The Oregon Hardwood Floor Company has been 

 incorporated at Portland, Ore., with .flO.OOO capi- 

 tal stock to manufacture hardwood flooring. 



The Allen Panel Corporation of Johnson City, 

 Tenn., which has been in the hands of a re- 

 ceiver for some time, has straightened out its 

 affairs and the receiver has been discharged. 



The Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company, 

 well-known red gum specialists of Morehouse, 

 Mo., has moved its sales department to C:ii)e 

 Girardeau. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Company of 

 Louisville, Ky., has increased its capital stock 

 from $150,000 to $200,000. 



The Wyatt Lumber Company of Wyatt, La., 

 recently increased its capital stock to $500,000 

 and purchased a large tract of virgin timber land 

 in Sabine parish, along the line of the Kansas 

 City Southern. It is estimated that the tract 

 will cut about 05,000 feet of hardwoods and 

 113,000 feet of pine. The original holdings of 

 the company approximate 60.000,000 feet. The 

 concern plans the erection of a modern plant on 

 the property as soon as conditions will permit. 

 The president of the company is E. M. McDaris, 

 well known to the trade through his connection 

 with the Consolidated Sawmills Company of St. 

 Louis. 



Fire in tlie plant" of the American Seating 

 Company, manufacturer of school furniture at 

 Kacinc, Wis., destroyed $3,000 worth of hard- 

 wood lumber and finished goods, and damaged 

 the buildings to au extent of about $2,000. The 

 loss is fully covered by insurance. The fire was 

 confined to the dry kiln and storeroom. 



The Flanner-Steger Land & Lumber Company 

 of Laona, Wis., has bought from the Chicago & 

 Northwestern Railway Company 8,500 acres of 

 timber land for $127,454.54. A large sawmill is 

 owned by the company at Laona. 



On December 1 the general offices of the Na- 

 tional Casket Company, formerly located at 

 Oneida, N. Y., have been removed to New York 

 City at 5-7 West Twenty-ninth street. The lum- 

 ber purchasing department will also be located 

 . here. 



The Canton Broom & Brush Company has been 

 organized at Columbus, O., by E. B. Hansen and 

 others. The capital stock is placed at $30,000. 



The Duck Lake Lumber Company of Rocky 

 Mount, N. C, was recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $75,000. ' 



Miles & Whalen of Des Arc, .\rk.. have been 

 succeeded by the Miles Brothers Hickory Manu- 

 facturing Company. The firm will make rims 

 and spokes. 



Harger Brothers, extensive dealers iu lumber, 

 have moved their ofHces from Mount UUa to 

 Mooresville, N. C. They deal in North Carolina 

 pine and hardwood and do an extensive business 

 Ihroughoul the Carolinas. They have been in 

 business eight years and have a large trade with 

 furniture factories at High Point. N. C. and 

 other Carolina towns. 



t>ne of the latest entries in the lumber field 

 is the Sendelbach-Cram Lumber Company, which 

 will operate at Clarendon. Ark., where it has 

 three mills, cutting oak, gum and hickory. The 

 firm is composed of Edward ('. Sendelbacb. presi 

 dent, formerly of the Sendelbacli Wheel Company 

 of East St. Louis, and George A. Cram, vice- 

 president and treasurer, formerly in the insur- 

 ance business in this city. The capital stock of 

 the new company is $25,000, all of which is paid 

 in. It has acquired a large tract of oak, hickory 

 and gum timber on White river, in .\rkansas, 

 and W'ill make oak wagon stock and lumber, 

 hickory wagon and wheel stock, and gum staves 

 and lumber. The company will begin operations 

 about the first of the new^ year. 



On November 24 lumber valued at $25,000 

 was destroyed by fire at the plant of the Pull- 

 n;an Palace Car Company. Chicago. .\n over- 

 heated stove is believed to have caused the fire. 



The Illinois Tie & Timber Company has pur- 

 cliased the plant of the Northern Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Burlington, la., for $17.- 

 133. 4G. The Illinois company is engaged in 

 supplying railroad ties for railroad companies 

 ;ind will operate the mill below the city. 



.\ charter has been recently granted to the 

 ( itizens' Lumber Company of Covington, Ky., 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. 



The .Tones Hickory Company has recently 

 leased the plant of the Little Pine Lumber Com- 

 pany at Tannehill. La., and will begin the cut- 

 ting of hardwood there at an early date. 



.John S. Goldie, a lumberman of Cadillac, 

 Mich., has contracted to stock several mills with 

 limber this winter and expects to cut ,S, 000. 000 

 feet of hardwood lumber for that purpose. He 

 owns large tracts of timber in northern Michi- 

 gan. 



The .\ntrim Iron Company of .Maucelona, 

 Mich., is erecting a new sawmill. 



The Carey Lumber & Washboard Company 

 is a new concern for Cairo, 111., capitalized at 

 $100,000. 



The Furniture & Chair Stock Company recently 

 started business at 1214 Filbert street. Philadel- 

 phia. It will manufacture hardwood and di- 

 mension stock lumber. 



The Dixie Novelty Works is a new concern 

 for Nashville. Tenn,, to manufacture wood 

 specialties. 



The property of the Breon Lumber Company, 

 bankrupt, Williamsport, Pa., has been sold by 

 the receiver to George B. Breon and the busi- 

 ness will be continued under the old firm name. 

 The Pearson-Hutchinson Lumber Company has 

 entered the lumber business at Nashville, Tenn. 

 It is located on Eleventh avenue, near Church 

 street. The members of the firm are D. S. 

 Hutchinson and E. W. Pearson of Lebanon, 

 Tenn., neither of whom need an introduction to 

 the trade. Mr. Hutchinson has long been con- 

 nected with the lumber and building industry 

 of Nashville, while Mr. I'carson is a well-known 

 lumber dealer of central Tennessee. The com- 

 pany will deal in all kinds of building lumber 

 and mill work. 



The Hardwood Floor Company has been or- 

 ganized by Clark Jackson, It. W". Wilbur and 

 I'aul Zedwick, with a capital stock of $10,000, 

 to manufacture hardwood floors. 



The I. P. Russell & Brothers Land &. Lumber 

 Company is a new concern for Cape Girardeau, 

 Mo. It is capitalized at $15,000 by Theodore P., 

 .\rch D. and Forrest D. Russell. 



United States Senator Bourne of Oregon has 

 bought a farm of 130 acres in Warrick county, 

 near Boonville, a few miles east of Evansville, 

 Ind. He will raise trees on this land and has 

 bought 100,000 catalpa, 50,000 black locust and 

 10,000 Osage orange trees, to be delivered and 

 set ont at once. Thomas P. Littlepage, clerk of 

 the committee on expenditures in the United 

 States Senate, is associated with Senator Bourne 

 in the purchase. Mr. Littlepage has been an ex- 

 pert in tree culture for a number of years. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(B7 KABDWOOD BECOBD Special CorrespondentsJ 



CHICAGO 



Among the welcome Record visitors on De- 

 cember 7 were I!. K. Allison of Decatur, Ind., 

 president of the Cardwell Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cardwell, Mo., and George B. Jobson, 

 secretary and sales manager of the A. C. Davis 

 Lumber Company, Columbus, O. 



."imong the distinguished Chicago visitors dur- 

 ing the last few days was William E. Litch- 

 field, well-known hardwood operator of Boston. 

 Mass., and a member of the firm of Litchfield 

 Bros., North Vernon. Ind. Mr. Litchfleld was 

 in Chicago December 2 to 4, inclusive, in com- 

 pany with a large delegation from the Boston 

 Chamber of Commerce, which reached here on 

 a special train as guests of the Chicago Asso- 

 ciation of Commerce. Mr. Litchfleld is a director 

 of the Boston chamber of commerce. While 

 here the delegation was entertained with a 

 tour of inspection of the stock yards, the live 

 stock show, a dinner at the Saddle and Sirloin 

 Club, an automobile trip about the city, a dinner 

 at the Congress hotel, etc. In regard to hard- 

 wood conditions in the East, Mr. Litchfleld says 

 that while the situation is improving, trade Is 

 still somewhat spotted. While here in Chicago, 

 Mr. Litchfleld paid his respects to the Record. 



Sara IJurkholder. well-known lumberman of 



Crawfordsville, Ind.. called on the RiiCORD De- 

 cember 2, while visiting his trade in Chicago. 

 Mr. liurkholder reports that hardwood business 

 is improving in his section of Indiana and says 

 a better trade in the lower grades of oak is 

 particularly noticeable. 



Collin S. Piper of the Astoria Veneer Mills, 

 Long Island, M. Y., called on the Record De- 

 cember 2. Mr. Piper says that the big plant 

 of the Astoria Veneer Mills has recently added 

 new equipment of an up-to-date cedar plant for 

 the production of cigar box lumber, and that the 

 entire institution is now very busy sawing ma- 

 Iiogany lumber, cutting mahogany and other 

 fancy veneers and making cigar box material 

 for the trade. 



Russe & Burgess of Memphis have purchased 

 Mr. Mulvaney's interest in the Mulvanoy-Pratt 

 Lumber & Tie Company of this city, as an- 

 nounced in the last issue of the Record^ and 

 the name of the concern has been changed to the 

 G. C. Pratt Lumber & Tie Company. The com- 

 pany will continue along the same lines, with 

 headquarters in the Fort Dearborn building. 



C. L. Willey, well-known manufacturer of hard- 

 woods and veneers in this city, with a large 

 branch at Memphis, has recently installed at the 

 latter operation a 70-inch resaw. which will 

 begin cutting about December 15. This new 

 resaw, with the big band saw. will increase the 

 output of the plant to a million and a half 



