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goods is meeting witli the approval of the trade 



there. 



The Reuter Hub & Spolse Company of Dexter, 

 Mo., has .iust completed the rebuilding of its fac- 

 tory, which was destroyed by fire last September. 

 The new structure is larger than the old one and 

 is equipped with a splendid line of now machin- 

 ery. The concern is one of the largest manufac- 

 turers of spokes and hubs in the country, and is 

 located so that it has acess to excellent oak and 

 hickory timber. 



Work has been started on a new factory for 

 the Leathers Handle Factory at Dickson, Tenn. 

 The new plant will be ready for operation shortly. 



The Federal Tool & Supply Company, manu- 

 facturer of handles, woodenware and tools at 

 Alton, HI., recently remodeled its factory and is 

 now operating full force. Its present output is 

 500 iozen handles per day. 



The LaPierre-Sawyer Handle Company of Kan- 

 sas City, Mo., has increased its capital stock 

 tr.;m .$12,000 to $25,000. 



The Van Buren Lumber & Tie Company, re- 

 cently incorporated with $50,000 capital, will 

 be located at Van Buren, Mo. 



It is reported that Fanny M. Zearing has been 

 appointed receiver of the Stoneman-Zearing Lum- 

 oer Company of De Vails Bluff, Ark. 



The Uendersonville Column Company is a new 

 concern at Uendersonville, N. C. It has $10,000 

 capital. 



The Hale-McAdams Wheel Company has been 

 organized at Cleveland, O., with $50,000 capital. 



The Press-Wells Company has been organized 

 at Streator, 111., to manufacture washing ma- 

 chines. The company has a capital stock of 

 $10,000. 



The Mount Kisco Woodworking Company has 

 been incorporated at Mount Kisco, N. Y., with 

 $25,000 capital stock. 



The Holly Lumber Company's mill at Pickens, 

 W. Va., turning out band-sawed oak, poplar, bass- 

 wood, etc., was started up last week for the 

 season's run, and will cut 40,000 feet of lumber 

 daily. The company's main selling office is lo- 

 cated at New Haven, Conn. 



D. L. Arnold of D. L. Arnold & Co., Jane Lew, 

 W. Va., announces that he has assumed control 

 of the Elkhurst Planing Mill plant, formerly 

 operated by D. S. Collins. His address in the 

 future aviU be Yankee Dam, Clay county, W. Va. 



Two deeds, filed in St. Louis, Mo., March 10, 

 which convey to C. F. Liebke, president of the 



C. F. Liebke Hardwood Mill & Lumber Company, 

 two large parcels of North St. Louis real estate, 

 are missing links to a large tract of some of the 

 most valuable switching property in that city, 

 and the deal marks the culmination of ten years 

 of effort on the part of Mr. Liebke, who is one 

 of the prominent lumbermen of St. Louis, to 

 acquire this property. The real estate just 

 bought is contiguous to that already owned by 

 Mr. Liebke about his large mill in North St. 

 Louis, and the purchase will give him greater 

 facilities in the operation of his mill. 



At a meeting of the stockholders and directors 

 of the Prescott Company, held at the offices in 

 Menominee, Mich., a reorganization of the com- 

 pany was effected and new officers and directors 

 were elected. The capital stock of the concern 

 \vas increased from $150,000 to $450,000, fully 

 paid in. Edward L. Prescott and Sumner T. 

 I'rescott, vice-president and treasurer respec- 

 tively, have withdrawn from the company. Loren 

 Prescott resigned as secretary and was elected 

 vice-president. E. B. Cottrill of Milwaukee, for- 

 mer general manager of the Wisconsin Telephone 

 Company, was elected secretary and treasurer. 



D. Clint Prescott was elected president. Di- 

 rectors : D. Clint Prescott, Chicago ; Loren Pres- 

 cott, Menominee ; G. A. Blesch, Menominee ; E. 

 B.. Cottrill, Milwaukee, and P. M. Tallen, Mil- 

 waukee. 



Goodman & Kennedy, a new lumber firm at 



Cincinnati, O., recently purchased land fronting 

 on L'Hommedleu street and the C, H. & D. rail- 

 road tracks for mill and yard purposes. The 

 firm will manufacture chair dimension stock 

 and also have a hardwood lumber yard. Mr. 

 Goodman formerly was with the Licking Lumber 

 Company and his partner until recently operated 

 at Williamsburg, O. The improvements will cost 

 about $5,000. 



As a result of the suit against the St. Louis 

 Southwestern I?ailway Company, in which the 

 St. Louis Walnut Company was the complainant, 

 the rates on waluut logt in carload lots from 



Weiner and St. Francis, Ark., and Intermediate 

 points to St. Louis, HI., were found unreason- 

 iibie and consequently reduced. 



Moses Grey of Pokagon township, Cass county, 

 Mich., evidently believes in reforestation and is 

 enthusiastic enough to practice his belief. Last 

 fall he set out two fields consisting of seventeen 

 acres to young walnut trees. This is undoubt- 

 edly the first work of the kind of any preten- 

 tions that has ever been done in the county. 

 Mr. Grey is almost seventy-five years old and 

 has been a resident of Pokagon township for 

 forty years. 



Hardwood JVeWs, 



(Bj HARDWOOD BECOBD Special CorrespondentaJ 



CHIC AGO 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors 

 of the Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange, 

 President Brown appointed a committee com- 

 posed of F. B. McMullen, chairman, J. S. Bene- 

 dict and W. E. Trainer to meet with similar com- 

 mittees from the two other Chicago organizations, 

 which are considered in the negotiations for con- 

 solidation. A conference will be arranged at 

 the earliest possible date and a report will prob- 

 ably be submitted at the annual meeting to be 

 held Saturday, March 26, at the La Salle hotel. 



An order was recently delivered in Chicago for 

 600,000 feet of Balm of Gilead, a variety of 

 balsam poplar, to be used as boxboards in place 

 of Cottonwood. The shipment came from the 

 northern hardwood forests and brought $16 per 

 thousand feet. 



The Sargent Lumber Company reports an ex- 

 cellent business at its new quarters, 812 Great 

 Northern building. This concern was established 

 in 1895, and incorporated in 1899, to engage in 

 a wholesale hardwood and yellow pine business. 

 The officers are Paul B. Hamlin, president, and 

 Edward Browne, vice-president and general man- 

 ager. 



W. D. Walker, who does a mahogany and gen- 

 eral hardwood business at 133 La Salle street, 

 is back from a pleasure trip in the Black Hills 

 of Dakota. Mr. Walker reports excellent fishing 

 and hunting, but says he knows of but two 

 planing mills in the entire country which he 

 visited. 



F. B. Sprague of the F. B. Sprague Lumber 

 Company, First National Bank building, recently 

 took a trip to Memphis. He speaks very highly 

 of trade conditions in that city, and of the work 

 being accomplished by the local lumber associa- 

 tions, but says that he found prices almost pro- 

 hibitive. 



Edwin D. Johnson of the Old Colony building, 

 formerly- a dealer in pine and hardwood, has 

 changed his organization, which will henceforth 

 be known as the Edwin D. Johnson Lumber Com- 

 pany. Under this name, the concern will cut out 

 the yellow pine business and go in only for 

 northern pine and hardwood. The incorporators 

 are L. E. Brown, Edwin D. Johnson and D. L. 

 Johnson. The capital stock is $10,000. 



G. C. Pratt of the G. C. Pratt Lumber & Tie 

 Company, Fort Dearborn building, is at present 

 on a business trip through the lumber section of 

 the South. 



D. K. Jeffris of the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 pany, which has offices in the Pullman building, 

 reports favorable news from his brother, who is 

 enjoying a European tour. Mr. Jeffris states 

 that the manufacture of steel cars is becoming 

 a serious question with the dealers in wood car 

 stock. 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 Company has left for a trip to West Baden, 

 where he will enjoy the baths for a week or ten 

 days. 



O. R. Menefee, head of the Menefee Brothers 



Lumber Company, Fort Worth, Tex., was a re- 

 cent visitor and reports that the yellow pine 

 movement in his section is slow and prices, espe- 

 cially on dimension stock, are weakening. 



W. W. Dings, secretary and treasurer of the 

 Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, has given up 

 his temporary office in the Fisher building, and 

 will discontinue, for the present at least, the 

 Chicago branch of his concern. This action is 

 the result of successful efforts on the part of 

 this company to dispose of its surplus stock of 

 dry lumber. 



W. L. Hall, assistant forester of the United 

 States Forest Service, stopped off at Chicago on 

 .March 12, on his way to Washington from the 

 Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis. 

 In describing this new building Mr. Hall said 

 that it will cost approximately $60,000, and will 

 .soon be ready for occupancy. The laboratory 

 will be equipped with modern machinery for 

 timber testing and wood preservation, and also 

 for testing the adaptability of the various woods 

 for the manufacture of paper pulp and for any 

 other uses which might be suggested. 



Shortly after midnight of March 23, fire 

 started in an overheated dry kiln in the veneer 

 room of the P. A. Starck Piano Company's fac- 

 tory at West Lake street and Forty-ninth ave- 

 nue, Chicago, and destroyed the factory building 

 and the adjacent lumber yards. Loss is esti- 

 mated at $400,000. The flames spread to the lum- 

 ber yards of the Edward Hines Lumber Company 

 to the north and west of the factory, but the Are 

 was checked in the big yards and no serious 

 damage was done there. The fire tied up traffic 

 on the Oak Park elevated lines for several hours. 



The editor of Hardwood Riscobd will deliver a 

 lecture on Forest Conservation and Lumbering 

 illustrated by stereopticon views, at the First 

 Presbyterian church, Oak Park, on the erenljig 

 of Monday, April 11. 



T. S. Estabrook, president of the Estabrook- 

 Skeele Lumber Company, Fisher building, Chi- 

 cago, is just back from an extended trip in the 

 southern country, where he has visited his sev- 

 eral sawmills. Mr. Estabrook says the entire 

 South is overrun with lumber buyers and that 

 little good stock is obtainable. 



Victor Thrane and Wood Beal, junior partners 

 of the big timber land house of J. D. Lacey & 

 Co., Chicago, have been sojourning for some days 

 at French Lick Springs, Ind. Both these gen- 

 tlemen had a busy and strenuous winter's work, 

 and this is the first opportunity they have bad 

 for a few days' rest. 



The Uecoed was favored with a call on March 

 10 by K. S. Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., of Saginaw, Mich. 



Grace M. Corwin, recently trading in lumber 

 business locally under the name of the Corwin 

 Lumber Company, is an applicant for discbarge 

 in bankruptcy, and the court orders that a bear- 

 ing be bad on the same on April 4 in the United 

 States court rooms. Government bulldlDg. 



L. B. Cheatham, dealer in timber lands, Jack- 

 son, Miss., was a Chicago visitor during the week. 



Since March 1 the general offices of the Tug 



