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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Justice E. Walter has recently entered the 

 S'holesale hardwood lumber business at Shaw- 

 3ce, Okla. 



The Hawkeye Walnut Company ol Winfield, la.. 

 las recently been organized to engage in the 

 walnut business. 



The Seale-Rogers Lumber Company is a new 

 ■oncern at Mobile, Ala. It will carry on a 

 nanufacturing and wholesale business in yellow 

 )ine and hardwood lumber. 



A new concern to enter business at Liberty. 

 S'. C, is the Liberty Picker Stick & Novelty 

 Company, capitalized at $25,000. 



Application has been tiled for the appointment 

 )f a receiver for the Tennessee Hardwood & 

 Manufacturing Company of Memphis. 



The Southern Singletree Manufacturing Com- 

 )any was recently organized at Gadsden. Ala., 

 vith an authorized capitalization of $10,000. 



The Laurel Fork Lumber Company of Beech- 

 vood, N. C, has been succeeded by the Haddock- 

 trance Lumber Company. This concern is a 

 nanufacturer of hardwood and hemlock lumber. 



Eddy & Belhumer of Lake Linden, Mich., arc 

 liling up a lot of hardwood timber in their 

 rards for summer sawing. The cedar and spruce 

 viU be rafted from Misery Bay after navigation 

 )pens. 



The Walter N. Kelley Lumber Company of 



rravorse City, Mich., has been incorporated with 



;10.000 capital stock. The concern formerly op- 



■rated as the Kelley Lumber Company at the 

 lame city. 



The Bertram-Wright Lumber Company has 

 leen incorporated under Minnesota laws, its of- 

 ices to be located at Duluth. Its capital stock 

 s placed at $100,000. Walter Wright and Frank 

 Strang of Marshfleld are interested in the con- 

 •ern. 



The Colored Hardwood Manufacturing Com- 

 jany has recently organized at Uniontown, Pa., 

 vith a capital stock of $18,000. The incorpo- 

 •ators are Edwin Schimpff. Robert Dunker, 

 lesse E. Stentz, J. G. Hemmington and M. .7. 

 Sturgiss of Uniontown. 



The E. R. Newcomb Company was recently in- 

 corporated at Chicago with a $15,000 capital, 

 rhe concern will manufacture and deal in floors, 

 i-enecrs. wainscoting and other woodwork. The 

 ncorporators are E. R. Newcomb, H. S. Bowen 

 ind Philip S. Brown. 



On March 26. lire completely destroyed the 

 maple flooring plant of Welch & Kerry of Reed 

 City. Mich. All the finished product on hand 

 was consumed and si.xty men were thrown out 

 of employment. The Are originated in the dry 

 kiln. The loss is estimated at $50,000 and the 

 insurance $.30,000. It is probable that the mill 

 will be rebuilt. 



The West Helena Company was recently char- 

 tered at Little Rock, Ark., with a capital stock 

 of $100,000. The incorporators are E. C. Horner, 

 president, John S. and James T. Horner. 



Fire recently broke out in the boiler room o£ 

 the J. Kroder & H. Reubel Company's curtain 

 pole factory, located at 53 Monitor street, Brook- 

 lyn. About $1,000 worth of dani.age was done. 



The American Seating Company of Racine, 

 Wis., is making extensive improvements in Its 

 plant following the fire which recentlj^ did con- 

 siderable damage at its factory. A boiler room 

 will be constructed 46 by 50 feet, entirely of 

 concrete and steel, and containing three new 

 boilers. In addition to this a modern dry kiln, 

 about 60 by 100 feet in dimensions, will be con- 

 structed. 



The Kentucky Singletree & Spoke Company at 

 Dunnville, Ky., is erecting new buildings, now 

 almost completed, to replace those damaged by 



fire which occurred at its plant the early part 

 of February. The concern has purchased all the 

 new machinery it will need, and it is expected 

 the plant will be in operation by April 15. Busi- 

 ness has been rushing for the past six months, 

 and the fire caused the concern considerable in- 

 convenience. 



It is announced that the Cypress Point Lum- 

 ber Company, which operated a saw and planing 

 mill on Little Bayou, near Abbeyville, La., has 

 sold all its cypress stumpage, consisting of sev- 

 eral thousand acres, to the Baldwin Lumber 

 Company of Baldwin, La. The transfer does 

 not include the plant and machinery, which will 

 probably be moved to Long Island, where vuere 

 is a fine body of hardwood timber. 



Sharpe & Horn, of Nashville, Tenn.. a prom- 

 inent firm of real estate operators, announce 

 that they will shortly begin cutting on a tract 

 of 4,000 acres of hardwood which they own near 

 Atwood, Ala., on the Illinois Central railroad. 

 The timber will be sold in the log, and the cut 

 will consist of about 65 per cent oak, 25 per cent 

 poplar and the rest ash and red oak. It is esti- 

 mated that the timber now being cleared will 

 total about 10.000.000 feet. There is also consid- 

 erable hickory of good quality on this property. 



An important deal, involving a tract of S.OOO 

 acres of hardwood timber land, about thirty 

 miles from Bristol, Va., has just been closed by 

 Hon. W. Flynn of Pittsburg and associates. The 

 purchasers will install a bandmill with a daily 



capacity of 40,000 feet, and develop this prop- 

 erty. It is estimated that the tract will cut 

 100.000.000 feet of merchantable timber; it is lo- 

 cated on the East Tennessee and Western North 

 Carolina Railway, which has both narrow and 

 standard gauge tracks, and is a good logging 

 proposition. 



The Hermance Machine Company of Williams- 

 ixirt. Pa., has recently filled some important or- 

 ders for its tools. Three new concerns, which 

 begin operations during the month of April, 

 have purchased planing mill equipment from 

 this concern. C. H. Broscious & Co. of Sun- 

 berry, Pa., have purchased six Hermance ma- 

 chines. Charles E. Lewis bought an outfit of 

 ten machines, and the Spencer Lumber Company 

 purchased twenty-five machines. Such large 

 sales as these speak well for the quality of the 

 Hermance line. 



The Highland Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized at Ironton, 0., and the following officers 

 elected; C. A. Ilutsinpillar, president; W. J. 

 Massie. vice-president; Dr. Lester Keller, treas- 

 urer; E. F. Myers, secretary, and Jesse L. Corn, 

 general manager. The company has purchased 

 a fine tract of timberland in Arkansas, on the 

 Mississippi river, and having access to the Iron 

 Mountain division of the Union Pacific railw*ay. 

 The timber is of good quality and consists prin- 

 cipally of Cottonwood, oak and gum. The com- 

 pany will purchase a sawmill and about Septem- 

 ber 1. it is expected. Manager Corn will take up 

 active operations. 



Hardwood JVeWs, 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special CorrespondentsJ 



CHICAGO 



Announcement is made that George Wilson- 

 Jones, a young and aggressive association worker, 

 who has been the secretary of the Retail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association of New York during the past 

 ten years, will come to Chicago on May 1 as chief 

 assistant of Secretary Geo. W. Hotchkiss of the 

 Illinois Lumber Dealers' Association, ilr. Jones' 

 long experience in retail association work and 

 ills energy and forcefulness. will assist Mr. Hotch- 

 kiss materially in the strenuous work in which 

 he has been engaged for so many years. 



Owing to the resignation of Harry S. Adams 

 of Chillicothe, who for ten years past has been 

 secretary of the Ohio Association of Retail Lum- 

 ber Dealers, M. A. Ilayward of Columbus, O., has 

 been appointed his successor, and has already 

 assumed the duties of his new position. Mr. 

 Ilayward is a man of ability and will undoubt- 

 edly fill the position acceptably and with distinc- 

 tion to both himself and the organization. 



R. S. Kellogg, who for seven years past has 

 been assistant forester of the Forest Service, has 

 resigned that position to accept tlie secretary- 

 ship of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 .Manufacturers' Association. This position was 

 provided for at the recent meeting of the North- 

 western Hemlock Manufacturers' Association and 

 the Hardwood ^lanufacturers of Wisconsin, held 

 at Milwaukee January 21, when a consolidation 

 of the two associations was formulated. Mr. 

 Kellogg should prove an acceptable secretary for 

 this association, as he has had wide experience 

 in his former work as statistician, and this will 

 be an important feature of his duties in con- 

 nection with the Wisconsin organization. Mr. 

 Kellogg's office will be located at Wausau where 

 President W. C. Landon resides. 



W. E. Iloshall of Hoshall & McDonald Broth- 

 ers. New Orleans, La., was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



Will Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 C'onipany, Chicago, has been taking a rest at 

 West Baden, Ind., and is now back on his Job. 



Chas. A. Goodman of the Goodman Lumber 



Company of Marinette was a recent Chicago vis- 

 itor. 



E. E. Skeele of the Estabrook-Skeele Lumber 

 Company, this city, has just moved into a hand- 

 some new residence he has built at Beverly Hills. 

 One of the chief features of Mr. Skeele's new 

 home is an inter-communicating telephone sys- 

 tem, by means of which he is enabled to order 

 his breakfast from the kitchen before he gets 

 out of bed in the morning. Mr. Skeele thinks he 

 is going to like the game. 



Billy Grehle, sales manager of the Three States 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., was a recent 

 Chicago visitor. 



Tom Wall, the well-known lumtierman of Osh- 

 kosh, was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, ac- 

 companied by his wife, enroute to West Baden, 

 Ind. 



Frank B. Robertson, sales manager of the An- 

 derson-Tully Company, Memphis, Tenn., dropped 

 into Chicago for a few days' hustling the latter 

 part of March. The result of his visit was the 

 placing of some very good contracts for cotton- 

 wood, oak and gum. 



C. L. Willey. tlie big mahogany veneer man of 

 Chicago, and large manufacturer of oak, gum 

 and veneer at Memphis, with headquarters at 

 Robey and Blue Island Avenue, is just back from 

 an extended European trip. Mr. Willey was ac- 

 companied by his wife and the trip was one of 

 combined business and pleasure. While in Liver- 

 pool Mr. Willey attended the mahogany auction 

 sales and purchased upwards of 1,300 African and 

 Cuban mahogany logs, which he says range higher 

 in class than any purchases he has succeeded in 

 making for several years. Among the quantity 

 is a good portion of highly figured wood. He 

 also made a considerable purchase of Circassian 

 walnut and English oak. This stock was shipped 

 via New Orleans and is now arriving at the big 

 Chicago plant, and within a short time Mr. Wil- 

 ley will have a line of veneers in mahogany, Cir- 

 cassian and English oak that will be an eye 

 opener for the piano and furniture trade. 



J. S. Weidman, Jr.. of Mount Pleasant. Mich.. 

 was a Record caller on March 30. Mr. Weidman 

 has just made a shipment of the last car of lum- 



