HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Grand Rapids are being made into chairs for 

 various members of the Taft party. 



The Becl;er Wagon Works have recently been 

 incorporated at Evansville, Ind., with a capital 

 slock of $45,000. 



The Boston Floor Company, capitalized at 

 $30,000, is a new concern for Boston, Mass. 



The Lowell Auto Body Company has recently 

 been organized at Grand Rapids, Mich., with a 

 capital stock of $30,000. 



The Furniture & Chair Stock Company is a 

 new concern to embark in the wholesale hard- 

 wood lumber business at Philadelphia, I*a. 



The Southern Carriage Works, capitalized at 

 $100,000, have recently been organized at Em- 

 poria, Va. 



The Western Veneer & Box Company has been 

 incorporated at Edmonds, Wis., with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. 



A new concern for Superior, Wis., is the 

 Superior Lumber & Manufacturing Company, cap- 

 italized at $25,000. 



Barger Brothers recently started business in 

 Coresville, N. C. They will manufacture hard- 

 wood and pine lumber. 



The Hudson Chair Company has been incor- 

 ])orated at Hudson, N, C, with a capital stock 

 of $50,000. 



Paris & Williams have recently started busi- 

 ness in Marlington, W. Va. They will be whole- 

 salers of spruce, hemlock and hardwood lumber. 

 The N. A. Webster Lumber Company has re- 

 cently commenced business at Shrcveport, La. 

 The Superior Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Madison, Wis., 

 with a capital stock of $25,000. 



The Acme Box Company of Detroit. Mich., has 

 increased its capital stock from $75,000 to $150,- 

 OOO and changed its name to the Yeomans Body 

 & Box Company. 



The Vehicle City Lumber Company of Flint. 

 Mich., has been organized with an authorized 

 capital of $15,000. 



Charles M. Fletcher & Sou. manufacturers of 

 hardwood lumber at Bernie, Mo., have recently 

 gone out of business. 



The Keller Manufacturing Company of Sauk 

 Center, Minn., has placed a contract covering 

 its oak requirements for next year with W. J. 

 Walsh of Eau Claire. Wis. The contract totals 

 over $10,000 and will be furnished from Mr. 

 Walsh's northern stock whica Is an exception- 

 ally choice lot and equal to any in the North 

 at the present time. 



Members of the Morton-Lewis & Willey Lumber 

 Company, who have just disposed of their in- 

 terests at Bristol, Va., to the Peter-McCain 

 Lumber Company, and who have been in the 

 lumber business at Bristol for fifteen years, will 

 return to their old home at Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. They have yet to dispose of their band 

 mill and railroad. 



The Gemmer Lumber Company, Indianapolis. 

 Ind., of which Frank Hanley, former governor 

 of Indiana, is president, has lately increased its 

 capital stock from $12,000 to $25,000 and the 

 life of the corporation has been extended twenty- 

 five years. A short time ago the company 

 purchased the plant of the Standard Veneer 

 Company. 



The Giant Lumber Company of North Wilkes- 

 l.oro, N. C, has just purchased between 00.000.- 

 000 and 75,000.000 feet of pine, oak, poplar 

 and chestnut timber. This will be cut and 

 floated down the company's newly completed 

 flume to its plant at North Wilkesboro. The 

 flume e.xtends into the near-by mountains a dis- 

 tance of nineteen miles. The company operates 

 a number of sawmills in the Blue Ridge district 

 and floats large quantities of timber down this 

 flume. 



After having been in operation four years and 

 having cut about all its stumpage in the vicinity 

 of its mill the Fair Cypress Company, with a 

 circular mill at Ludivine, La., has sold its 

 plant and equipment to the Bowie Lumber Com- 

 pany of Bowie, La. This purchase is a particu- 



larly advantageous one to the Bowie Company, 

 as it will use the mill to cut stumpage it owns 

 in the vicinity of Ludivine, and will thus be 

 saved the expense of logging to Bowie. The 

 Fair Company is composed of S. S. Fair and 

 A. W. Fair, brothers, and E. Sondheimer of 

 Memphis. It has manufactured rough lumber 

 only, having no planer equipment, and has met 

 with considerable success. 



Arthur Oelhafen and Arthur Lindquist have 

 formed a partnership and opened an office at 

 203 Washington street. Green Bay, Wis., where 

 they will conduct a general jobbing business, 

 buying and selling on commission hardwoods, 

 hemlock and crating. Both these young men 

 are experienced and active business men and 

 have a wide acquaintance in the trade. Mr. 

 Oelhafen has been connected with the business 

 of his father at Tomahawk, Wis., for seven 

 years, and Mr. Lindquist lias gained his experi- 

 ence with the Bradley Lumber Company, C. P. 

 Crosby and the Colman Lumber Company. The 

 new partnership will undoubtedly rapidly make 

 a place for itself in the Wisconsin trade. 



A disastrous fire occurred at Saginaw, Mich., 

 a few days ago, destroying the entire plant of 

 the Handy Wagon Company, with the exception 

 of one warehouse. The damage will amount to 

 more than $250,000, it is said. 



S. L. Nicholson has recently been appointed 



general sales manager of the Westinghouse Elec- 

 tric & Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, Pa. 

 Mr. Nicholson will have direct charge over the 

 sales policy of the company. He has been with 

 the company for eleven years as salesman, dis- 

 trict department manager and as industrial and 

 power sales manager, which position he has held 

 for the last five years and leaves for his new 

 place. 



A large timber land deal was recently con- 

 summated in West Virginia which gives to the 

 Ritter Lumber Company, with branch offices at 

 Bluefleld. W. Va., 31,000 acres of timber land 

 in the vicinity of Grundy, Va. This property 

 gives the Ritter Company very extensive stump- 

 age, as it already has immense holdings in West 

 Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and other 

 states. Sawmills will be placed on the newly 

 acquired tract at once, and it is expected that 

 operations will be in full swing by next spring. 

 The land is underlaid with valuable coal deposits. 



A veneer plant is to be erected at Plymouth, 

 Wis., which will cost close to $40,000. Douglas 

 Meyer, formerly superintendent of the Frost 

 Veneer Factory at Sheboygan, and .V. L. Kanes, 

 deputy factory inspector, are promoting the 

 concern. 



The Thomasville Veneer & Panel Company is 

 erecting a plant at Thomasville, N. C. J. 

 Robert Kiser is president of the concern. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD Special CorraBpondenta.) 



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A disastrous fire occurred at Racine, Wis., 

 December 16. destroying in a few hours the 

 larger part of the immense new plant of the 

 Racine Manufacturing Company, with a loss 

 estimated at over half a million dollars. There 

 has been some confusion in the minds of some 

 lumbermen that this fire involved the Racine 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, the well- 

 known domestic and export lumber wholesalers 

 in that city. This concern did not suffer any 

 loss and is doing business as usual in northern 

 and southern liardwoods. agricultural and wagon 

 stock. Pacific coast products, etc. 



Webster Howland Sturdivant of Toledo, O., 

 was married to Miss Anna Ruth Van Rensselaer 

 of Cleveland. O., on Wednesday, December 15, 

 last. Jlr. Sturdivant is a well-known salesman 

 employed by D. J. Peterson of Toledo, O. .After 

 January 1 the bride and groom will be at home 

 at The Belvedere, Toledo. 



The Recohd is in receipt of the announcement 

 of the marriage of Herbert M. Hayward of 

 Columbus, O., to Miss Muriel Davis, daughter 

 of Jlr. and Jlrs. Charles Q. Davis of Columbus, 

 In that city on Friday, December 10. Mr. Hay- 

 ward is the son of Morris A. Hayward, the 

 well-known poplar and oak flooring lumberman 

 of that country. Mr. Hayward and his bride 

 have the Recokd's heartiest congratulations. 



T. J. Christian of Indianapolis. Ind., sales 

 manager of Maley & Wertz. was a welcome 

 Record caller on December 17. Mr. Christian 

 reports having taken a hardwood order of no 

 inconsiderable size during his Chicago visit. 



E. D. Galloway, president of the Galloway- 

 Pease Company, Cincinnati, O.. was a Chicago 

 visitor last week. Mr. Galloway reports a sat- 

 isfactory trade in the Chicago district. 



D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills of Louis- 

 ville, Ky.. was a welcome Record caller last 

 w'eek. 



Burdis Anderson, retiring president of the 

 National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, dropped into the Rixord office to pay 

 liis respects a few days ago. Mr. Anderson 

 reports decidedly improved conditions in the 

 veneer industry. 



J. V. Stimson. well-known hardwood lumber- 

 man of Huntingburg, Ind., and Memphis, Tenn., 

 made the Record a pleasant call on December 

 10. Mr. Stimson says that the trade of his in- 

 stitution is entirely satisfactory and that his 

 stocks are in good balance. He has no surplus 

 of coarse end to market, as is complained of by 

 numerous other hardwood manufacturers. 



Ira B. Bennett of the big Bennett-Hume Lum- 

 ber Company of Sanger, Cal., spent several days 

 in Chicago recently on one of his periodical 

 trips to the East. Mr. Bennett reports that 

 trade in redwood and sugar pine in the sales 

 section in which his product is marketed is en- 

 tii'ely satisfactory. Mr. Bennett is making ex- 

 tensive improvements at the Sanger operations 

 at the present time, and expects to increase 

 his company's output next year. 



W. A. Kettering, secretary of the Defiance 

 Machine Works, Defiance, O., spent several days 

 in Chicago on business last week. Mr. Kettering 

 reports that both the domestic and export trade 

 in Defiance tools is increasing every day and 

 that they now have orders on hand to keep the 

 plant going full force for six months. 



Schultz Bros. & Cowen report a splendid busi- 

 ness for this period of the year on railroad 

 orders. Factory trade, they say, is exceedingly 

 quiet. W. W. Schultz returned this week from 

 a trip through Wisconsin and Minnesota. 



A. W. Wylie of the Fisher building and a 

 great game enthusiast, has been in the South 

 for a week past. He returns for Christmas. 



T. J. Roys, sales manager for the F^iierton- 

 Powell Hardwood Lumber Company of South 

 Bend, Ind., was in Chicago last week, but hustled 

 back after spending a few hours with the Chi- 

 cago manager, F. B. McMullen. Mr. McMuilen 

 will go to South Bend the coming week for a 

 two-day stay, finishing up the old year and get- 

 ting ready for the new. G. H. Halloway, for 

 three years connected with the car and dimen- 

 sion stock department of the company at South 

 Bend, has been made manager of that depart- 

 ment. This is a deserved recognition of the 

 faithful and efficient work of a mighty good man. 



R. C. Slioltz, sales manager of the Qoodman 

 Lumber Company of Goodman, Wis., was here 

 last week. 



