HARDWOOD RECORD 



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will be another big year. Inquiries are coming 

 iu well and are more than satisfactory. The 

 demand for gum, one of the specialties of the 

 company, is heavy and good prices are being 

 obtained and there is indication that they will 

 go higher. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is 

 having a good trade and this state of affairs is 

 quite pleasing to W. L. .Tones, sales manager of 

 the company. Car material, one of the special- 

 ties of the company, is in good demand and some 

 nice orders are being booked. W. W. Dings, who 

 is in charge of the Chicago office of the company, 

 is sending down his usual big orders of this 

 class of material. 



George E. Cottrill, secretary of the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, reports a good num- 

 ber of orders coming in. Prices, he says, are 

 stiffening up. 



The K. C. Moore Lumber Company will vacate 

 the office it has been occupying in the Wright 

 building, about the first of February, and move 

 to its new yard in the north end. The yard is 

 in the lumber district and has good shipping 

 facilities. 



A. R. Stevens has severed his connection as the 

 representative in this city and the northern 

 territory for the Bluff City Lumber Company of 

 Pine Bluff. Ark., and gone to his home at Deca- 

 tur, 111. His plans for the future have not yet 

 been announced. 



Nicholas Steber, secretary of the Grand Val- 

 ley Lumber Company of this city, died suddenly 

 at his home a few days ago. 



LITTLE ROCK 



The Arkansas Itetail Lumbermen's Association 

 were guests of the Board of Trade at a smoker 

 on the evening of .January 22. 



Xho Grant Lumber Company of Indianapolis, 

 Ind.. has paid its charter fees and entered the 

 state, naming Martin Braschercr of Leola as 

 state agent. The company will operate in the 

 vicinity of Leola. It has about. $40,000 of its 

 capital invested in Arkansas. 



The Lucas E. Jloore Stave Company has en- 

 tered the state and will locate a plant at Junc- 

 tion City, with Thomas Robertson as state 

 agent. The company is a New Orleans concern, 

 but has important hardwood holdings in this 

 state. 



Another mammoth hardwood concern to enter 

 the state is the Chess-Wymond Cooperage Com- 

 pany of Louisville, Ky. The company is now 

 erecting a plant at Mountain View, where it 

 recently purchased 10,000 acres of hardwood. 

 Savage Mabray of Mountain View is to manage 

 the plant, it is said. 



An interesting fact in lumber circles was the 

 marriage of E. W. Frost, the millionaire Texar- 

 kana lumberman, to Miss Beatrice Walters of 

 Atlanta, Ga., the wedding taking place last 

 Wednesday at the home of the bride's sister in 

 Atlanta. Colonel Frost is one of the best known 

 lumbermen in the Southwest, having extensive 

 interests not only in Louisiana and Arkansas, 

 but recently connected with St. Louis lumber 

 enterprises. _ 



According to A. V. Alexander of Fort Smith, 

 the lumber conditions are now better than they 

 have been in Arkansas at any time since the 

 panic. Prices are stiflrer and the demand, for 

 the first time, has e.xceedcd the supply. He is 

 very sanguine as to the prospect for Ihe lumber 

 interests, both in hardwood products and in pine. 



NBW ORLEANS 



and stave mill of the Dalton-Clarke Stave Com- 

 pany at Colfax, La., is rapidly nearing comple- 

 tion and will soon be ready for operation. The 

 plant is one of the largest of its kind in this 

 state. Verne J. Blow of Tennessee, E. L. Morgan 

 of Alexandria, La., and the Dalton-Clarke people 

 arc behind the project. They control large tracts 

 of hardwood timber in the vicinity of the mill. 



The Erath Carriage Company has been incorpo- 

 ratea at Erath, La., to manufacture carriages, 

 wagons, spokes and other products of hardwood. 

 J. E. Kibbe, A. C. DeRouen, Leonce R. Landry 

 and others are the incorporators. 



It is announced that W. E. Leeds of Camden, 

 Ark., will establish a heading mill at Delhi, La. 



The Southern Crosstie Company and the Bryan 

 Black Lumber Company are among the newest 

 institutions incorporated here to do a general 

 lumber business. Each has ,f50.000 capital. One 

 will devote most of its attention to crossties 

 while the Black company will export lumber 

 and timber. Louis R. Hoover, E. H. Wharton- 

 Davies and Douglas W. Davies are the incorpo- 

 rators of the Southern Crosstie Comp.nny. while 

 Bryan Black, Charles Hamlin Black and Graham 

 Sinclair Black are behind the other project. 



MILWAUKEE 



Several hardwood men will atteud the meet- 

 ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion at Cincinnati February 1, 2 and 3. Ex- 

 porters of this section are much concerned in 

 the deliberations of the meeting and a number 

 of the leading local exporters will be on hand. 



Announcement is made that the new hardwood 



The reports that Charles U. Van Hise, 

 president of the University of Wisconsin, criti- 

 cized the present administration at Washing- 

 ton in his recent St. Louis speech on conser- 

 vation have been denied by the well known 

 authority. He believes that President Taft is 

 adhering to his declarations made on conserva- 

 tion. 



The Wisconsin Furniture Company of Mil- 

 waukee has increased its capital stock from 

 ?75,000 to ?1.'')0,000. 



The Boutin Timber Company of Superior has 

 increased its capital stock from $100,000 to 

 .$200,000. 



The Maxson Lumber Company, recently in- 

 corijoratod at Milwaukee with a capital stock 

 of $.''i0,O00, has elected the following officers : 

 President, George M. Maxson, Milwaukee ; vice- 

 president, Leverett C. Wheeler, Milwaukee ; sec- 

 retary, E. H. Maxson, Stratford. Wis. ; treas- 

 urer, C. L. Stephens, Milwaukee. George M. 

 Maxson, president, is secretary of the Cooper 

 & Maxson Lumber Company, now being dis- 

 solved. A general wholesale lumber business 

 will be carried on by the new- company. 



The Hackner Altar Company of La Crosse 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 .$50,000 by Egid Hackner, J. W. Hackner and 

 J. M. Hackner. 



The railroads running through the Wiscon- 

 sin lumber country are making record breaking 

 log shipments at the present time and have 

 been forced to operate special logging trains. 

 Mills in general arc receiving a heavy log sup- 

 ply this winter. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furnishing Company 

 of Fond du Lac has increased its capital stock 

 from $:iO,000 to $00,000. The following officers 

 were elected at the recent annual meeting : 

 President, M. O. Pillsbury ; vice-president, C. B. 

 Miller ; secretary and treasurer, N. W. Sallade. 



The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company's 

 sawmill at Wausau has been placed in operation 

 and the management expects to cut at least 

 30,000.000 feet this season. The company has 

 secured its logs from Glandon and the cut will 

 consist largely of hardwood and hemlock. 



The former Thompson sawmill at Washburn, 

 cow owned by the Stearns Lumber Company, 

 is being repaired and remodeled preparatory to 

 a busy sawing season next spring. 



The Brooks & Ross Lumber Company's saw- 

 mill at Schoficld has been placed in operation. 

 The company expects to cut at least 30,000,000 

 feet. 



The annual meeting of the Stevens Point Com- 

 pany, a well known boom concern at Stevens 



Point, resulted in the election of the following 

 officers : President, W. J. Clifford ; vice-presi- 

 dent. N. A. Week ; secretary and treasurer. \. K. 

 Week ; boom master, D. C. Whitney. 



The large sawmill of the Northwestern Lum- 

 ber Company at Stanley is again in operation 

 after a short closedown to permit necessary 

 repairs to be made. 



The Racine Manufacturing Company, manu- 

 facturers of automobile bodies, whose plant at 

 Racine was destroyed by fire some weeks ago, 

 is installing new equipment in a temporary 

 plant. Work on the new plant w-ill begin next 

 spring. Announcement has been made that the 

 company may take up the manufacture of the 

 finished automobile. 



Charles H. Law of Menominee, Mich., has 

 disposed of his drug business and will accept 

 an executive position with the J. W. Wells 

 Company at its proposed hardwood flooring plant 

 at Menominee, Wis. Mr. Law- is a son-in-law 

 of J. W. Wells. 



Alexander Stewart, well-known lumber manu- 

 facturer of Wausau, accompanied by bis two 

 daughters and his son-in-law, is making a 

 three months' tour of Egypt, France and Eng- 

 land. 



Negotiations were in progress in Milwaukee 

 recently in regard to another large timber deal 

 by which Walter Alexander and several busi- 

 ness associates of Wausau, Wis., will acquire 

 a large tract of southern timber lands now 

 owned by Minneapolis parties. 



The Badger Box & Lumber Company of Grand 

 Rapids is securing logs taken from land in the 

 vicinity that only forty years ago was a wet 

 hay marsh. Lumbermen say that this shows 

 what is possible in practical reforestation. 



The plants of the Fond du Lac Church Goods 

 Furnishing Company and the Pope Boat Com- 

 pany are operating at full capacity. 



J. T. Phillips, general manager of the Dia- 

 mond Lumber Company's sawmill at Green Bay, 

 Wis., has returned from the annual meeting 

 of the company held at Saginaw, Mich., and 

 from the annual meeting of the United Lumber 

 Company at Ruston, La., of which he is the 

 president. 



Frank Young, connected with the Barker- 

 Stewart Lumber Company for the past four 

 years, has resigned to accept the general man- 

 agement of the Loewenthal & New Company, 

 formerly the Wausau Excelsior Company, of 

 Wausau. 



The Racine-Sattley Company, well-known im- 

 plement manufacturers of Racine, has taken up 

 the manufacture of automobile bodies and within 

 a short time will be ready to turn out a com- 

 plete automobile. A. L. Folk of Reading, Pa., 

 has been placed in charge of the new- depart- 

 ment. 



The Walter Alexander Timber Company of 

 Wausau has purchased from the E. J. Anderson 

 & Son Timber Company, also of Wausau, a 

 large tract of hardwood and hemlock timber, 

 located in northern Wisconsin and Michigan. 



The plant of the Webster Chair Company at 

 Superior is again in operation after a close- 

 down pending the completion of the annual in- 

 ventory and the installation of repairs. 



The Wisconsin Handle Company, recently or- 

 ganized for the purpose of manufacturing han- 

 dles of .all kinds, is remodeling the Pankratz 

 mill at Sturgeon Bay and installing new ma- 

 chinery. 



The Turpentine Syndicate, recently incorpo- 

 rated at Grand Rapids, Mich., for the purpose 

 of manufacturing turpentine from stumps from 

 cutover lands, is endeavoring to secure ."lO.OOO 

 acres of land near Wausaukec, Wis., in order 

 to erect a plant at the latter place. 



The Layton Park Woodwork Company of 

 Milwaukee has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $2,'>.000 by George O. Francke, August 

 F. Knoll. Fred A. Knoll. Fred Drews and Will- 

 iam .Tens. 



