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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(hing in special mill and cabinet work. He 

 rf-ports that he will be in the market soon for 

 hardwood lumber, especially birch. 



The Lasswcll Land & Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Hollywood, Mo., with $20,000 

 capital, by J. P. Lasswell, J. W. Crider and 

 W. A. Post. 



A charter has been granted to the Montieth 

 Tic & Timber Company at Cherryville, Va. Its 

 capital stock is .$100,000. 



The Dunbar Tie Company of Rosenberg. Tex., 

 has been succeeded by the Brazos River Cotton- 

 wood Company. 



The Guatemalan & Mahogany Company capi- 

 talized at $150,000, has been organized at 

 Jersey City, N. J., by C. O. Schroeter, E. Nelson 

 Tibbals and W. A. Tibbals. 



The Griffith Lumber Company of San An- 

 tonio, Tex., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $20,000 by John, Albert and Johnson 

 Griffith. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Heber, Ala., with a capital stock 

 of $25,000. It will establish a plant to manu- 

 facture wagon, buggy and implement stock, 

 boxes, crates and handles. R. T. Martin is 

 president of the new company. 



The Minchener Hardwood Company of Mont- 

 gomery, Ala., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $7,500. J. E. Minchener, Fred 

 S. Ball and W. H. Samford are the incorporators. 



The West-Otis Lumber Company is a new 

 concern for Little Rock, Ark. It is capitalized 

 at $75,000 and M. B. West president ; G. E. 

 Otis, A. L. West, Frank Ogden and J. T. Green 

 are the incorporators. 



The Moffett-Bowman Lumber Company, manu- 

 facturer and wholesaler of hardwood lumber at 

 Madison, Ind., is planning to move its plant ti, 

 Memphis, Tenn., about March 1. 



Another landmark disappeared recently whc"- 

 a large pin oak was cut down at New Britain 

 Pa. It was hollow inside and a swarm of bees 

 had made their winter nest in it. The tree 

 was about three feet in diameter. One hundred 

 and twenty-flve rings had been counted, which 

 with the decayed heart must have made the 

 tree at least one hundred and fifty years old. 



The Cotton Brothers Cypress Company, Ltd.. 

 v/hose plant Is located at Morgan City. La., on 

 February 13 severed its connection with the 

 Liiuisiana Red Cypress Company of New Or- 

 leans and in the future will sell its output direct. 

 Its plant has a capacity of over 50,000 feel 

 per day of rough lumber, besides shingles and 

 lath. 



A. M. Scutt has severed his connection with 

 the J. Walter Wright Lumber Company of 

 Elizabethton, Tenn., and with W. W. Lambert 

 has organized the Scutt-Lambert Lumber Com- 

 pany with head offices at Elizabethton, to 

 conduct a general manufacturing and whole- 

 saling business in hardwoods. The new com- 

 pany has purchased about two million feet of 

 dry stock and has also closed for a tract of 

 timber comprising a choice lot of oak, poplar, 

 and other hardwoods, which it will immediately 

 take steps to develop. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber Trade 

 Club of Boston, was held at the Hotel Bellevue, 

 Thursday evening, February 10 at six o'clock. 

 The reports of the various committees were 

 read and approved. The following officers were 

 elected for the coming year : 



For president, Walter E. Chamberlain of John 

 M. Woods & Co. ; first, vice-president, Edward 

 S. Tenney of the A. T. Stearns Lumber Com- 

 pany ; second vice-president, Herbert F. Hunter 

 of the Palmer & Hunter Company ; secretary and 

 treasurer, J. E. F. Downes of the Downes Lum- 

 Lur Company ; executive committee : E. D. 

 Pawyer, George W. Curtis and J. C. Murphy. 



L. F. Grames & Son, saw guard, shaper 



gi'ard and saw vise manufacturers, Allentown, 

 Pa., have erected a new factory at Jordan and 

 Union streets, where they will soon move their 

 entire works. This will enable them to con- 

 .'Jderably increase their output. Mr. Nagle of 

 this house repoit i business in satisfactory shape, 

 and wken they tee established in their new 

 works, he says they will be amply able to meet 

 all demands. 



G. H. Ingram and C. H. Goodwin recently 

 purchased the Taylorsville (N. C.) chair fac- 

 tory. They will continue the manufacture of 

 chairs and will also install machinery for dress- 

 ing lumber and for making doors, sash and 

 blinds. 



L. L. Lampton, E. W. Reid, Wm. Graham and 

 It. B. Lampton are the incorporators of the 

 New Orleans Dry Kiln and Stacker Company, 

 capitalized at $10,000. The new concern will 

 n I'.nufacture horizontal and edge lumber stack- 

 ing machinery and dry kiln and sawmill equip- 

 ment. Mississippi capital is behind the new 

 I'nterprise which has its headquarters in New 

 Orleans. 



The South Bend (Ind.) trade has recently lost 

 I he Martin Lumber Company, of South Bend, 

 from among its membership, the McErlain & 

 .larkson Company, doing business on East Tutt 

 street, having recently taken over this concern. 

 Tlie Martin Lumber Company has been en- 

 gaged in the wholesale and i;etail business for 

 several years, its yards being at 1717 to 1725 

 South Michigan street. Before the formation 

 of this concern .Tudson D. Martin was associated 

 V. ith R. G. Page under the style Martin & Page 



Lumber Company. Mr. Martin will conduct his 

 aflairs at his residence, Elkhart, Ind., where he 

 is a member of the firm of Martin & Amidon. 



It has been reported the Armour interests of 

 Chicago have recently purchased a hardwood 

 timber tract covering several thousand acres in 

 the vicinity of Hill City, Minn. They will erect 

 a factory for the manufacture of lard pails and 

 other packages which they require in marketing 

 their product. This new tract will take the 

 place of the tracts formerly owned at Ithaca and 

 Marble, Mich., where the timber is now en- 

 tirely cut off. 



Following the exhaustion of the timber supply 

 in Wise county. Virginia, the Tug River Lumber 

 Company, Rockcastle Lumber Company and the 

 C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, allied corpora- 

 tions, will move their head offices from Bristol, 

 Tenn., to Huntington, W. Va., the change to be 

 effected early in March. The C. L. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company will operate lands in southwestern 

 Virginia, having there purchased a large tim- 

 ber tract and sawmill. The Rockcastle concern 

 owns a $2.50,000 stand near Meek, Ky., and will 

 continue on that site, while the Tug River Lum- 

 ber Company will also be located in Virginia. 



The Tallahatchie Lumber Company, the hard- 

 wood manufacturer of Philipp, Miss., expects to 

 have its new mill in operation about March 15. 

 Thif. equipment will be one of the model plants 

 of the Mississippi delta hardwood region. 



A new concern to enter the lumber business 

 at Albany, N. Y., is the F. F. Crannell Lumber 

 Company, capitalized at $80,000. The directors 

 are Francis F., Charles R., and Wilbur H. 

 Crannell. 



Hardwood JVeWs, 



(By HASDWOOD RECOBD Special CorrespondentBj 



CHIC AGO 



The Entertainment Committee of the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club, after a conference with 

 (he Board of Directors of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, has decided upon 

 Thursday and Friday, June and 10, as the 

 dates for the thirteenth annual convention of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association, and 

 the headquarters will be the Hotel Seelbach. 

 Louisville. Frank F. Fish, the secretary, re- 

 ports the committee is actively at work on a 

 very interesting program, details of which will 

 be printed later. 



The St. James Cedar Company, wholesalers of 

 lumber and ties, Union Trust building, Cincin- 

 nati, O.. and Detroit, Mich., announces that it 

 has purchased the interest of Omar Farrell, and 

 that he is no longer connected with the concern. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, Tenn., 

 held its annual banquet at the Hotel Gayoso. 

 Fel)ruary 21. and everyone present had a most 

 enjoyable time. 



The Sargent Lumber Company, wholesale lum- 

 ber dealer, this city, announces that after March 

 1 its offices will be located in 812 Great North- 

 ern building, where it will have even better 

 facilities to take prompt care of all orders than 

 heretofore. 



D. C. Thickston. lumber retailer of Cassopolis, 

 Mich., was in town last week for a few days. 



The Record was favored with a call on 

 Fel)ruary 16 from H. P. Wiborg and W. C. 

 Bartlett of the Wiborg & Hanna Company, the 

 well-known hardwood house of Cincinnati, O. 



George T. Mickle of George T. Mickle & Co., 

 city, returned from sojourn at French Lick. Ind., 

 on February 21. 



The Northfield Lumber Company is a new 

 concern incorporated under Indiana state laws 

 to engage in the dimension stock and lumber 

 business, with headquarters at Chicago Heights, 



III. H. C. Snyder, who for some time was with 

 the Flanner-Steger Land & Lumber Company, is 

 president of the institution. 



Two welcome Indiana lumbermen callers at 

 the Hardwood Record office on February 11 

 were J. V. Stimson of Huntingburg, and James 

 Downs of Rochester. 



Gouvenour E. Smith & Co.. wholesalers, of 

 New York City, announce that they have just 

 closed a contract with the Craggy Lumber Com- 

 pany of Swannanoa, N. C, to handle its entire 

 output of hardwood lumber, which will consist 

 of ash, oak. basswood and poplar. The lumber 

 the North Carolina concern manufactures is all 

 band-sawed and it has an output of about five 

 million feet annually. 



Prouty & Miller, of Newport, Vt, proprietors 

 of the Taunton Lumber Company of Brockton. 

 Mass., advise that Alfred H. Wilbur has been 

 appointed manager of the latter concern to suc- 

 ceed William H. Lewis, who died on January 23. 

 Mr. Wilbur was associated with Mr. Lewis dur- 

 ing his entire term of service for the Taunton 

 Lumber Company, and under his direction the 

 business will undoubtedly be carried on in the 

 same manner as in the past. 



John S. Weidman, well-known lumberman of 

 Weidman, Mich., made the Record a call on 

 February 15, en route to the South on a timber- 

 purchasing expedition. 



Among the welcome REConD callers on Febru- 

 ary 14 was J. L. Strickland, of Starnes & 

 Strickland, Greenville, Miss. 



The Stone Mountain Lumber Company, Inc., 

 at Keokee. Va., manufacturer and wholesale 

 dealer in poplar and hardwoods, advises that it 

 has a tract of 3.000 acres of hardwood timber, 

 consisting of oak, chestnut, poplar, birch and 

 hemlock, and that it has just commenced operat- 

 ing its circular mill, which has a daily capacity 

 of 20,000 feet. This concern i.s located ten 

 miles from Appalachia, Va., on the Virginia and 

 Southwestern Railroad. 



A. P. Anderson, well-known lumberman of 



