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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Miscellaneous Notes 



T. T. Adams, a prominent manufactui'pr of 

 niclimond. Va.. formerly of Greenville. Tenn., has 

 piirehased a larse tr.act of timber on the Caro- 

 lina. Clinclilield & Ohio railroad near JIarion, X. 

 C. which will lie developed at an early ilate. The 

 conSiideratioD for the tract is said to have been 

 more than .$100,000. Installation of mills and 

 tb.c hiiildinji" of tramroads will be begnn at once. 

 Tlic operation will b^^ one of the largest in that 

 re-iion . 



On .Tanuar.v l.S Miss (Jrace Gilchrist and Henry 

 rietcher were (|iiietly married at Detroit. Midi. 

 IVIiss tiilehrist is a daughter of V. W. (Jilehrist of 

 Alpena. Mich., and Mr. Fletcher is the son of V. 

 W. Fletcher of the same city. After the wedding 

 the couple left for a tour of the ICast. On their 

 return Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher will reside at Al- 

 pena, wher-' Mr. Fletcher is manager of the 

 I''letclier I'aper Company. 



The Danaher llardnood Lunilier Company has 

 ncenlly sold its mill at Dollarville. .Mich., to 

 \\'icks llrothers of Saginaw. The plant is being 

 wrecked and most of the emplo.ves have moved 

 to other fields. 



Fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, 

 recently destroyed the plant of the Narrows Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Compan.v at Narrows, (Mies 

 county. Va. The loss is estimated at .$'JO.0OO. 

 with .$14,000 insurance. 



The Sagola Lumber Company of ^Menominee. 

 Mich., has discontinued logging ojjeration.s at its 

 Iiardwood camp two miles west of the town, and 

 will now supply the mill from the Witheck camp. 



The S. C. Ma.1or Lumber Comjiany of Memphis, 

 Tenn.. recently increased its cajiilMl slock from 



.$:;">.ooo to .$100,000. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan. 

 Wis., is building au .$S.000 addition to its plant. 



A new concern for Bryan, Miss., is the Bryan 

 \'eneer & Lumber Company, capitalized at .$2.">,- 

 00(1. 



(In .laniuiry 2?, the dry kilns and planing mill 

 of the Kraporium Lumber Compan.v's Immense 

 Iilant at (ialeton. Pa., were entirely destroyed. 

 The tire started in the north end of one of the 

 dry kilns and within an hour the building was 

 burned to the ground. The company's loss is es- 

 timated at between $3.").000 and $t0.O0O. About 

 two-thirds of this loss is covered by insurance. 



The Indiana Veneer & I'anel Company of New 

 Albany, lud., recently entered into a contract 

 with Meimberger & Drinkard for furnishing 3.- 

 .500.000 feet of sawed oak veneer. This contract, 

 svhich is .said to be the largest of its kind ever 

 signed in Indiana, will keep the firm busy day 

 and night for the next twelve months. The plant 

 of the company is located' at East Third and 

 Main streets. 'I'his company was only recently 

 starlr'd, but has already made great headway. 



A deal has been closed whereby the Klemeyer 

 ^ Lumber Company, with headquarters at VIu- 

 cennes. Ind., became possessor of the larger lum 

 her yard formerly owned by J. C. Snapp of Oak- 

 town. This company now owns and operates 

 seven large lumber yards in various cities in 

 Indiana and Illinois. It reports a good busi- 

 ness at all of its .yards and says the indications 

 for an immense spring business are splendid. 



The Mangle Pole & Tie Company was recently 

 incorporated at Chicago, 111., to do a general lum- 

 ber and sawmill business. The capital stock is 

 placed at $100,000. 



The Kurcka Manufacturing Company, capital- 

 ized at $6,000, is a new concern to enter the 

 handle business at Jonesboro, Ark. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Townsend, Mass., with a cap- 

 ital stock of .$2.">,000. 



The Williams Brothers Company, large manu- 

 facturers of lumber, shingles and last blocks at 

 M.anton, Mich., has increased its capital stock to 

 $130,000. 



The Novelty Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at Klkins, W. Va.. to specialize in dimension 

 and furniture stock. The incorporators are Alf. 

 A. Ituily. an I-.lkins lumberman, and T. G. ITos- 



terman. The plant will be located on (he C. & 1. 

 railroad. 



A new chair concern for CTiattanooga, Tenn.. is 

 the Chattanooga Manufacturing Company, capi- 

 talized at $10,000. 



The Montezum.) llnbbin Cnini)any of Monli'- 

 zuma, N. C, has b'-en incoriiorated with a capital 

 stock of $2."i,00o. 



G. A. Farber. London representative of Russe & 

 Burgess. Inc.. Mempliis, Tenn.. states that three- 

 ply wood from Russia is being sold all over Great 

 Britain and the continent, and is beginning to 

 supplant thin poplar, sap gum. oak and ash. He 

 cinitends that it will hurt the sale of thin lum- 

 ber manufactured in the T'nited St.ates for the 

 i:uropeau market and is therefore inclined to look 

 for a decrease in the number of ordei-s for this 

 stock from Europe. 



Tile new alo.xitc wheel manufactured by the 

 ("■arbonindum ("'ompany. Niagara Falls. N. V.. is 

 esiiecially adajited to grinding saws and mnuldint; 



bits. Aloxite is a j)roduct of the electric furnace, 

 being manufactured at a temperature of 7,000 de- 

 grees Fahrenheit. Tests have proven that this 

 is the coolest cutting wheel in existence. Since 

 its discovery a .year ago the Carborundum Com- 

 ]iany has had more sawmill orders for gumming 

 wheels made of this product than it can fill, an(L 

 it has been obliged to add seven new ovens for 

 their production alone. 



The Consumers' Lumber Company, with offices 

 at 0(59 73d street, Brooklyn, and mills at Alvon. 

 W. Va., has been organized to conduct a hard- 

 wood business. It is capitalized at $11,000. 



Henry Disston i Sons, Inc.. Philadelphia, Pa., 

 have recently started manufacturing in their new 

 Toronto plant at Frazer avenue and the Grand 

 'trunk Railway. W. E. RadelifCe is their Toronto 

 manager and S. Horace Disston is superintendent 

 in charge of the works. (Jther branch houses re- 

 cently opened b.v the Disston people are at Seat- 

 lb-. \^■:lsh. ; Portland, (Jre.. and A'ancouver, B. C. 



Hardwood J^eWs, 



(By HARDWOOD SECOBD Special Correspondents.! 



CHICAGO 



David W. Walker, sales manager for .Marklt'.v &: 

 Miller before they closed their ("hioago yard, has 

 opened an offiee for himself at l^i;^ La Salle 

 street. Mr. Walker will do a hardwood and 

 Youpor business and will specialize in mahogany. 



Through an error of the engraver, the splen- 

 did supplement showing the banquet tendered I)y 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati to the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers" Association of the rnitccl 

 States at the Hotel Sinton. Cincinnati. Kr]) 

 ruary 2. shows the dating February !h It is not 

 a serioiis error, but one that is humiliating to a 

 newspaper which attempts accuracy. 



The Wood-Mosaic Flooring & Lumber Company 

 of Xew Albany. Ind.. and Ilochester. X. Y., has 

 sent out an announcement to the effect that at 

 the last annual meeting of the directors of the 

 company it was decided to .shorten Ihe official 

 name to the Wood-Mosaic Company, thus re- 

 suming the original title as used when the busi- 

 ness was established at Kochesler. X. Y., in iss:i. 



R. IL Kiann of the F. S. Ilendricksou Lumber 

 Company, Masonic Temple, this city, for the past 

 few weeks has been down at the company's mills 

 at Harris. Okla.. and is at present looking ovev 

 the company's timlx-r lands in Texas. 



President Carrier and Secretary Doster of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 T'nited States, were welcome callers at the Rec- 

 (iitD office this week. 



0. C. Pratt of the O. C. Pratt Lumber & Tie 

 Company has returned from a business trip in 

 the South. 



I). E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills. 

 Louisville, Ky., was a recent Chicago visitor. 



I*resident .7. H. P. Smith of the Iiardwood 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, was a recent busi- 

 ness visitor in the city. 



<). H. Bannister of Muncie. Jnd., was in the 

 city on February S. 



F. W. Mowbray of the Cincinnati llrm of Mow- 

 bray & Robinson, recently visited the local trade. 



Omar Farrell of the St. James Cedar Company. 

 Cincinnati, visited Chicago on February 7 on his 

 way to Detroit, where he has extensive business 

 connections. 



T. M. Stack of the Escanaba Lumber Com- 

 pany, Masonville. Mich., vLsited the city recently 

 with his two sisters. His concern has com- 

 menced the erection, of a new maple flooring 

 plant at Escanaba, which it expects to have 

 ready for operation by July 1. 



Frederick Gustorf of Frederick Gustorf & Com- 

 pany, states that since he entered the Chicago 

 trade in 1805 he has not seen transportation 

 blocked the way it is at present. 



The Contineniai I'iling & Lumber Company, 

 large dealers in heavy timber, piling, etc.. com- 

 plains that the railroads seem to have exhausted 

 Iheir resources in booming their stock and do 

 not want to buy material for improvements or 

 repairs. It reports that figures quoted on piling 

 are considerably above the present local market 

 prices. 



Allen E. Hunt, general salesman nf the Lyon 

 Cypress Lumber Company. Garyville. La., reports 

 satisfactory pi-ices and an excellent trade in 

 cypress lumber. He says there is no difficulty in 

 nioving stock. Mr. Hunt has an office in the 

 .Alarquette building. 



A new member of the Chicago trade is the 

 ( bristiansen Lumber Company, with main sales 

 offices in the Xiector building. This concern is 

 composed of Xels <.'hristiansen of the Hawkins 

 I and & Lumber Company, Hawkins, Wis., presi- 

 dent, and C. K. Ellingson of the E'liingson Lum- 

 l-er Company. Hawkins. Wis., vice-president. It 

 will do a business in northern and southern 

 hardwoods, hemlock and pine, and will specialize 

 in crating lumber. 



M. F. niltenhouse of the Kittenhouse & Em- 

 bree Company. Chicago. witH his wife and son. 

 have been visiting the plant of the Arkansas 

 Lumber Company at Warren. Ark. They were 

 en route to Kichton Lumber Company, Richton. 

 Miss., in which concem Mr. liirienhouse is in- 

 terested. 



Tom A. ;Moore of T. A. :\Ioore & Co., Monad- 

 nock block. Chicago, was married on Wednes- 

 day. February 2. to Elinor Marion Chase, charm- 

 ing daughter of Mi-, and Mrs. Ira, It. Chase, 

 also of this city. Mr. Moore has a wide ac- 

 quaintanca among the local lumber fraternity 

 and his many friends will .loin in heartiest 

 congratulations. 



John Dicksim. president of the J. W. Dickson 

 Lumber < ompany, Memphis. Tenn., on a recent 

 trip to Chicago expressed himself very optimisti- 

 cally relative to the future of the lumber busi- 

 ness. Mr. Dickson is naturally of a genial dis- 

 position, but gives assurance that there is every 

 reason this year to be pleased with the condition 

 ol business. 



E. D. Galloway, president of the Galloway- 

 IVase Company. Cincinnati, recently made a visit 

 to Chicago in the interests of his business. He 

 tells of good business in Cincinnati, and prophe- 

 sies a bright year. 



The Miller Iiardwood Company, formerly lo- 

 cated at 6 Madison street, this city, has removed 

 its offices to the Rector building. 3 22 Monroe 

 street, where it has convenient and roomy quar- 

 ters. 



