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the Fuqua building at Bristol to tlie office struc- 

 ture of tlie newly acquired property. The Peter- 

 McCain Lumber Company now has a yard on 

 the site of the old James Strong Lumber Com- 

 pany's operations at Bristol, and stock in the 

 yard will be moved to the new property. This 

 purchase will give the company a mill and a 

 fine large sorting yard at Bristol. The company 

 also has a band mill at Neva. Tenn., and a large 

 circular mill at Boonetord, N. C, and handles 

 the output of a number of other mills, besides 

 owning another planing mill at Bristol. 



A Philadelphia Lumhennan's Activity 



The city of Philadelphia already has a number 

 of beautiful suburbs, but there is always room 

 for more, especially for one as attractive as Oak 

 Lane Park is, or at least will be in a very 

 short time. Oak Lane Park, in the Chelton 

 Hills, consists of seventy acres of land well 

 provided with old shade trees, and is being ex- 

 ploited by the Oak Lane Land Syndicate, in 

 which Clem E. Lloyd, Jr., well known to hard- 

 wood lumbermen as a successful leader in other 

 lines, is one of the principals. The suburb al- 

 ready has all the modern improvements — good 

 water, gas, electricity, paved streets, wise build- 

 ing restrictions, good transportation to Philadel- 

 phia, etc. The building of handsome homes is 

 going on vapidly in the hands of the Oak Lane 

 Park Building Company, of which Mr. Lloyd is 

 president, and from present indications the sub- 

 urb will within a short time be one of the most 

 inviting spots in the vicinity of Philadelphia. 



Clem E. Lloyd, Jr., is a man of energy and 

 purpose : he has already shown his caliber in the 

 lumber business, and this undertaking will doubt- 

 less bring him new honors. 



Students Visit Dodge Plant 



The visit of engineering students from colleges 

 throughout the Central West has come to be an 

 annual affair at the great works of the Dodge 

 Manufacturing Company at Mishawaka, Ind. On 

 December 3 the junior and senior engineers of 

 Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.. visited the 

 company's plant. The party numbered about 

 180, not including instructors of the university, 

 who accompanied the boys. 



Special exhibits and explanatory methods were 

 so arranged that the students could see clearly 

 every step in the manufacture of "Independence" 

 wood split and "Standard" iron split pulleys, 

 friction clutches, bearings, fly and balance wheels, 

 sheaves, elevating and conveying equipment, 

 "Eureka" water softeners, etc. 



The difference between the treated water and 

 the raw supply was an especially interesting and 

 instructive feature, demonstrated by the "Eureka" 

 water softening apparatus for boiler feeding and 

 industrial purposes. On these visits the young 

 students learn certain practical tacts about trans- 

 mission machinery and methods which cannot be 

 derived from any college curriculum. 



The boys were given a dinner by Melville W. 

 Mix, president of the Dodge Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, at the new Mishawaka hotel, of which he 

 is also the head. 



Miscellaneous Kotes 



The entire plant of the Greer-Wilkinson Lum- 

 ber Company at Winslow, Ind., was recently 

 destroyed by fire. The company's sheds and 

 warehouse stand near the railroad track and 

 the fire is supposed to have originated from 

 sparks from a locomotive. The loss is esti- 

 mated at about $10,000. Bob Tucker, who has 

 managed the Greer-Wilkinson business at Van 

 Buren for some time, has resigned his position 

 and the company has secured Mr. Bush of Win- 

 gate to take charge the first of the year. 



The MoCfett & Bowen Lumber Company of 

 Madison, Ind., has decided to locate at Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., to which place it will ship all its 

 machinery rather than sell it at a loss. The 



company's stock of lumber on hand is being 

 rapidly sold. Inability to get logs down the 

 Kentucky river is one of the reasons given for 

 the removal of this industry. 



The Pass Furniture Company has recently 

 been incorporated at Antwerp, N. Y., to manu- 

 facture lumber, furniture, boxes and crates. The 

 capital stock is .'525,000 and the incorporators 

 are : C. Pass, York, Pa. ; H. L. Baldwin, Water- 

 town : R. H. and W. C. Bent of Antwerp. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Illinois Tie & Timber Company of Chicago 

 with a capital stock of $20,000. Those inter- 

 ested in the new concern are Charles M. Putnam. 

 Eugene S. Nelson and Charles R. Holden. 



The W. M. Rltter Lumber Company of Co- 

 lumbus, O., operating a number of large plants 

 in the South, has established another on Hazel 

 creek in western North Carolina. The company 

 is now constructing a railroad from the plant 

 to Ritter, N. C, where it will connect with the 

 Southern Railway. The plant will employ sev- 

 eral hundred men. It is said that the timber 

 to be developed by the company in that region 

 will probably cut as much as 200,000,000 feet. 



Owing to increased business Uptegrove & 

 Beckwith, who have maintained a warehouse for 

 their veneer and mahogany business at Mus- 

 kegon and Seventh streets, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 for the last ten years, have established this 

 department at Court street and Shawmut ave- 

 nue. Here the company has enlarged capacity 

 and better railway facilities. 



The Birdsell Manufacturing Company, manu- 

 facturer of wagons and agricultural implements 

 of South Bend. Ind.. has recently bought a tract 

 of land containing lour acres, which It will use 

 as a lumber yard. The new property is located 

 at High street and the Lake Shore Railroad. 



A new concern for FoUansbee, W. Va., is 

 the FoUansbee Lumber Company, capitalized at 

 $25,000. The incorporators are : D. Hayden, 

 Montgomery ; J. C. Williamson, Steubenville, O. : 

 Frank J. Morton, A. S. Harris and F. B. Mahan 

 of FoUansbee. 



The J. R. Wheler Company, capitalized at 

 $40,000, has been organized at Pittsburg, Pa., 

 to conduct a lumber and mill work business. 

 Wilson II. Cralle of Sewickley is treasurer of 

 the concern. 



The Aroostook Lumber Company has started up 

 its mills at Presque Isle, Stevensville and Fort 

 Fairfield, Me., and they are now running full 

 capacity. A. R. Gould, president of the com- 

 pany, states that about 6,000,000 feet of logs 

 will be cut to stock the mill at Presque Isle. 

 Stumpage rights have been secured with property 

 owners for a term of years and forest tracts 

 have been opened by the building of a new elec- 

 tric railroad, so that the company has supplies 

 to keep its mills running several years. The 

 company manufactures pine and hardwood lum- 

 ber, and it is estimated the two mills will cut 

 about 15,000,000 feet of lumber yearly. 



The Richland Handle Works of Butler, Ohio, 

 has recently increased its capital stock to $20,- 

 000. The company's business has been growing 

 rapidly and the additional capital will place it 

 in better position to care for its trade. 



The Bay City Swing & Ladder Company of 

 Bay City, Mich., has moved all its machinery 

 into a new factory Just completed. Considerable 

 new machinery has also been added, so the new 

 plant is well equipped for this line of manufac- 

 ture. 



The contract for supplying the machinery for 

 the new sawmill which the I. Stephenson Com- 

 pany of Wells, Mich., is building has been 

 awarded to the Prescott Company of Menominee, 

 Mich. This will be one of the largest mills in 

 the section and will contain four band mills 

 and a horizontal resaw. Besides the band mills 

 the saw floor machinery will consist of four car- 

 riages with steam feeds, the necessary log dock 

 machinery, two heavy 84-inch gang edgers, one 

 gang rift machine, two heavy slashers and two 



under-cut trimmers. The live-roll beds are to 

 be entirely of steel and all the equipment will 

 be of Prescott's latest designs. It is expected 

 that the mill will be ready for operation about 

 April 1. 



The North Carolina Land & Timber Company 

 on the Murphy branch of the Southern railroad, 

 near Marshall, N. C, has reorganised and re- 

 sumed business under new management after 

 seven years' idleness. The company has large 

 tracts of timber land and valuable plants in 

 Madison county. North Carolina. 



C. E. LeCrone, well known to the hardwood 

 trade in the South through his connection with 

 various large companies, has recently accepted 

 a position with the Robinson Lumber, Veneer 

 & Box Company, with headquarters in the Hi- 

 bernia Bank building. New Orleans, as sales 

 manager of the hardwood department. This 

 company, in addition to its pine mills, operates 

 a plant at Cates, Ala., cutting hardwoods, and 

 at Meridian, Miss., has two assembling yards, 

 where large quantities of hardwood lumber are 

 collected from eastern Mississippi and western 

 Alabama and sorted for shipment. Mr. LeCrone 

 will not only sell the stock from these sources 

 but has made contracts for the hardwood output 

 of other mills, so that his department will be 

 well supplied with stock to care for the wants 

 of a varied line of hardwood buyers. Mr. Le- 

 Crone is a thoroughly trained lumberman, having 

 served in the capacity of inspector, manufacturer, 

 buyer and salesman at various times in his ca- 

 leer. 



J. L. Breuchley and A. E. Campbell of Shunk, 

 Pa., and F. D. McMuUen of Norwich, N. Y.. 

 have formed a copartnership and purchased a 

 400-acre tract of hemlock, oak and pine timber 

 at Schuyler Lake, N. Y. This tract contains 

 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 feet of as fine timber as 

 there is in New York. Mr. Breuchley took 

 charge of the operations in July and is manufac- 

 turing hemlock and pine ceiling, siding and 

 flooring, lath and mouldings, also oak and hard- 

 wood lumber, rough and surfaced. They expect 

 to manufacture about 2.000,000 feet a year with 

 the up-to-date 60-horsepower mill they purchased. 

 Mr. Campbell will handle the sales department 

 from the home office at Shunk, Pa. 



The Roseland Veneer & Package Company of 

 Koseland, La., is again in operation after a shut- 

 down of about three months. During this time 

 the plant was thoroughly overhauled and many 

 of the old buildings torn down and new and 

 modern structures erected in their place. 



Cumberland, Wis., is to be the home of a 

 veneer and box factory which will be established 

 by Julius Ewald of Minneapolis and a number 

 of Cumberland men. Contract for a new brick 

 factory has been let and work on it will be 

 pushed. 



The boom in the auto trade at Detroit, Mich., 

 has resulted in a scarcity of labor that is be- 

 coming serious in some quarters. Furniture 

 manufacturers in particular complain that they 

 are unable to hold high class men, as their 

 services are in constant demand from the auto- 

 mobile concerns at greatly advanced wages. 



The Illinois Division of the Vandalia Line 

 has decided to use old ties removed from its 

 lines for firing locemotives at its various termi- 

 nals. Formerly old ties were given away for 

 firewood, but it is said that many good ties 

 were taken under this offer. The road has pur- 

 chased a sawmill at Maroa, where abandoned 

 ties will be cut into small sections for round- 

 house use. Similar plants will be operated on 

 other branches of the line. 



A chair is being made in a Grand Rapids 

 furniture factory lor President Taft, which will 

 be a souvenir of the trip he made to Japan and 

 the Philippines when he was Secretary of War. 

 At th.Tt lime members of the party secured sev- 

 eral koa logs which were brought home and sea- 

 soned and after being sawed into lumber at 



