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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Simonds Build New Steel Mill 



The Simonds Manufacturing Company of Fitch- 

 burg, Mass., Chicago and Montreal, Canada, an- 

 nounce the completion of plans for the erection 

 of a new steel mill at Lockport, N. y., that 

 will double the capacity of the Chicago mill and 

 before long increase the first Lockport output. 

 The contracts call for completion of the building 

 and installation of machinery so that production 

 will begin by October 1. The initial investment 

 will be fully a quarter of a million dollars. 



This new plant will, by its central location, 

 serve as an economical distributing point to the 

 factories in the three cities first named. That 

 the existing manufacturing plants have been 

 hard pressed for room — large as they are — has 

 been appreciated by those who are in touch with 

 the trade, but it was not, perhaps, so generally 

 understood that the great Chicago steel mill was 

 not able to keep pace with the shop demand for 

 plates of the special Simonds steel that goes into 

 all their varied products and is responsible for 

 the world-wide reputation of the Simonds goods. 

 In addition to the three 'plants and the new 

 steel mill, the Simonds Manufacturing Company 

 has branch houses at New York ; Portland, Ore. ; 

 Seattle, Wash. ; New Orleans ; San Francisco ; 

 Vancouver, B. C. ; St. .John, N. B., and London, 

 England. 



There were four determining factors in the 

 choice of the Lockport location — labor, power, 

 land and water, the last two factors answering 

 the purpose, first of a site served by proper 

 manufacturing and residential opportunities, and 

 second, suitable transportation facilities. 



It is unnecessary to discuss the very evident 

 advantages Lockport oCfers for such a plant. On 

 the item of power, the electric service direct 

 from Niagara Falls assured the flexible power 

 the company desires and its adaptability to the 

 peculiar needs of a steel jilant make it still more 

 attractive and available. 



On the matter of land, there was acreage 

 enough at hand for immediate purchase and use, 

 with opportunity yet at hand for further en- 

 largement in sood lime. On the transportation 

 side, the plant will lie between the New York 

 Central and Erie railroads and will have direct 

 track connection with both, and a private siding 

 a mile long for the company's special use. 

 Furthermore, the Erie Canal runs directly along 

 the Simonds property, and delivery from its one- 

 thousand-ton barges meets another requirement 

 of selection. 



A half-hour electric schedule connects the 

 plant with all local points in Lockport, as well 

 as furnishing service to Niagara Falls and 

 Buffalo ; and the International Railway will es- 

 tablish a special Simonds station. Incidentally, 

 it is interesting to note that after the coru- 

 pletion of the new Detroit tunnel the Michigan 

 Central through trains and the New York Cen- 

 tral's Twentieth Century Limiteds will pass di- 

 rectly by the Simonds works. 



There will be built at once fifty houses for 

 the company's employes on the best lines that 

 can be found for dwellings of the type desired, 

 and the settlement will be brought up-to-date in 

 point of perfectne.ss of equipment and complete- 

 ness, and every provision made for the health 

 and pleasure of the employe-tenants. This is in 

 line with the Simonds policy, so well-known, in 

 its co-operating relations with its employes. At 

 the Fitehburg plant the company maintains a 

 club room, recreation room, baths, gym, and med- 

 ical service for its many hundred hands. The 

 company has also established a complete pen- 

 sion system for employes at its several plants, 

 office force and operatives, both. 



The first and original Simonds plant, to briefly 

 review the company's history, was organized sev- 

 enty-eight years ago at Fitehburg, Mass., then 

 a little village, but possessing that skill of artis- 

 onship that has made New England famous 

 throughout the world and which still keeps her 

 in the forefront of the procession in spite of 



the stupendous competition the Middle West has 

 developed. 



The Fitehburg plant grew and prospered, and 

 less than a decade ago a wonderful new plant 

 was erected and the old ones discarded. The 

 new plant has since been enlarged and is already 

 feeling the strain of the demand upon it. 



The Chicago plant, the steel mill, was erected 

 to take advantage of labor, coal, markets, etc., 

 and the Montreal plant was added a few years 

 ago to serve the demands for the Simonds prod- 

 ucts in the Canadian lumbering sections and in 

 other directions. But, vast as this equipment 

 all is, it has not been enough, and the Lockport 

 plant is planned on lines to meet immediate 

 demands and to provide for a long future growth. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Revolving Door & Fixture Company of 

 New York City has been incorporated with $120,- 

 000 capital stock. 



The Lawton Basket & Box Company, incorpo- 

 rat<ft with ,$50,000 capital stock, will engage in 

 business at Stonewall, Ark. 



The Garver Lumber Manufacturing Company 

 has been incorporated at Tippecanoe City, Ohio, 

 with a capital stock of $100,000. 



The Ashland Hardwood Lumber Company is a 

 new concern at Ashland, Tex., which will engage 

 in the manufacture of hardwood lumber. 



With ,$100,000 capital the Southern Land & 

 Lumber Company was recently organized at Cam- 

 den, N. J., by F. R. Hansen and others. 



The Record acknowledges receipt of an un- 

 ustially handsome calendar from the Russel 

 Wheel and Foundry Company of Detroit. Mich. 

 The show card is illustrative of one of the im- 

 proved types of logging apparatus manufactured 

 b>' this concern. 



The new flooring plant at Ishpcming. Mich., 

 which was built for the Consolidated Fuel & 

 Lumber Company, has been completed and is now 

 in operation. 



Fire on April 2G destroyed the hardwood mill 

 of the K. C. Miller Lumber Company of Shep- 

 ard, Tex. The loss is estimated at about .flO,- 

 000 without insurance. 



A recent shipment from Belize, British Hon- 

 duras, brought to the George D, Emery Company 

 of Chelsea. Mass., 1,312 mahogany logs of ex- 

 ceptionally fine quality. 



The .T. T. Kerlin Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Arcadia. La., to manufacture lum- 

 ber on an extensive scale. The company has a 

 capital stock of .fl50,000. 



The manufacture of washing machines and 

 Ironing boards will be undertalien by the En- 

 terprise Manufacturing Company, a new organ- 

 ization at Leavenworth, Kas. 



The Monon Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at Monon, Ind., with a capital stock of 

 $15,000. Edwin R. Dye, B. H. Thompson and 

 Rexford S. Barnes are interested. 



A new coucern at Greenwood. S. C, is the 

 Greenwood Lumber & Bobbin Manufacturing 

 Company, which will engage in the manufacture 

 of bobbins and will also operate a sawmill. 



C. E. Bell, secretar.v, and W. Beik, president 

 of the LaFontaine Handle Company, now located 

 at LaFontaine, Ind.. will establish a handle fac- 

 tory at Decatur. Ind.. about the first of June. 



The Mansfield Hardwood Company. Lewisville. 

 Ark., recently filed an amendment to its charter 

 increasing its capital stock from $25,000 to 

 $100,000, A. J. Johnson is president of the com- 

 pany. 



A new Chicago concern is the Raubold & Lam- 

 bin Company, which will engage in the manu- 

 facture and sale of picture frames, moldings, 

 fancy furniture, etc. The concern has a capital 

 of $30,000. 



The Ohio River Lumber Company of Ironton, 

 O., is planning to increase its capital stock from 

 $10,000 to $50,000. It is also about to erect a 



large band sawmill on the border line between 

 Virginia and West Virginia. 



The Eucalyptus Mahogany Growers, Inc.. of 

 New Y'ork City was recently incorporated to 

 plant and handle all kinds of trees. The organ- 

 ization has a capital stock of $1,500,000. Har- 

 ris U. Ely of New York City is one of the dl- 

 lectors of the concern. 



The Alexander Hardwood Company has been 

 organized at Eunice, La., with $5,000 capital 

 stock to manufacture hardwood products. The 

 company will erect a new mill and will start 

 building at once. Ed Alexander is president of 

 the company. 



A local paper announces that Osborne & Clark, 

 the prominent wholesale concern of Minneapolis, 

 has bought two lumber yards at Rice Lake, Wis., 

 those of the Crisler-Everts Lumber Company and 

 the J. S. Crisler Lumber Company. These, the 

 report states, will be consolidated with the Min- 

 neapolis business. 



Laycash. Chatman & Chesley of Buffalo, N.Y., 

 have recently purchased 4,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood timber, the stand on 1.700 acres of land 

 between Clifty Creek and Oakdale. They will 

 begin at once the erection of a large sawmill 

 near Oakdale and will cut the timber and will 

 market it as rapidly as possible. 



The big mill of the Memphis Stave Manufac- 

 turing Company, located in North Memphis, was 

 completely destroyed by fire April 24, the blaze 

 originating in the boiler room of the plant. The 

 principal stockholders are S. B. Anderson and 

 C. J. TuU.v. of the Anderson-TuUy Company. 

 The company's loss will amount to $7,000, but 

 it is fully covered by insurance. 



The Timpsou Handle Company, manufacturer 

 of high grade handles, Timpson, Texas, has pur- 

 chased the machinery of the handle plant at 

 Emory, Texas, that factory having ceased opera- 

 tions. This purchase was made fo* the purpose 

 of increasing the size of its present works, mak- 

 ing it a six-lathe plant instead of four as here- 

 tofore. The company reports business good. 



The Dodd Lumber Company is a new institu- 

 tion at Trenton, Tenn. There are twenty stock- 

 holders, and the stock subscribed is $10,000. The 

 president is R. K. Collins, and E. R. Hearn is 

 secretary and manager. The incorporators are 

 M. H. Taylor. W. A. Jones, T. K. Happel, B. F. 

 Lemond, W. H. Dodd. A charter has been ap- 

 plied for, and the company expects to be ready 

 for business in thirty days. 



After nineteen years of faithful service as su- 

 perintendent of the plant of Eggers Veneer Seat- 

 ing Company at Two River, Wis., Frank Selbel 

 has tendered his resignation. He has purchased 

 an interest in the Plumbers' Woodwork Com- 

 pany at Algoma and assumed the management 

 of that company's plant May 1. This company 

 was established about four years ago by S. H. 

 Neiman and has been very successful. 



The Ward Lumber Company of Lynchburg, 

 Va.. has just closed a deal with the Monroe 

 Lumber Company of Brookmeal. involving the 

 timber holdings of the latter company, near 

 Brookmeal, on about 1,000 acres of land in 

 Campbell and Charlotte counties, also the saw- 

 mill, dry kiln, mules, etc., and a large stock of 

 manufactured lumber. This is said to be one 

 of the best equipped plants and one of the fin- 

 est timber propositions in that section of the 

 country. It consists of original growth white 

 oak, poplar and pine, and it is estimated that 

 there is about 4,000,000 feet of timber on the 

 property. It is understood that the purchase 

 price was $20,000. The Ward Lumber Company 

 has taken possession of the plant, which is un- 

 der the management of M. L. Booth. This sale 

 does not embrace all of the timber holdings 

 of the Monroe Lumber Company, which owns 

 valuable timber in other sections in Virginia. 



Ar.gument has been heard in the United States 

 Circuit Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 



