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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Foreign Trade Opportunities 



The Weekly Consular and Trade Reports of the 

 Bureau of Manufactures at Washington show in- 

 quiries for wood products from foreign quarters, 

 under the numbers 4,631 and 4,646 respectively. 



An American consular officer In England re- 

 ports that he has received an inquiry from a 

 local firm for the names of manufacturers, in the 

 United States, of planks used for cooking pur- 

 poses. Interested concerns should take up the 

 matter directly with the inquirer, using the num- 

 ber here designated. 



A business man on the Pacific coast reports 

 that he has received an inquiry from South 

 America for lumber such as is shipped from 

 the eastern coast. The inquiry calls for white 

 pine, pitch pine, maple, oak and white cedar, 

 mahogany, ash and all kinds of fine woods for 

 interior finish and decoration. The inquiry is 

 listed under the second number above, at Wash- 

 ington. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Virginia Veneer Company has recently 

 gone out of business at Keezletown. Va. 



The Moody Lumber Company is a new concern 

 at Richmond, Va. It has a capital of $15,000. 



C. H. Delano & Co. have recently commenced 

 business at Adrian, Mich. They will manufac- 

 ture hayracks. 



The W. W. Cummer & Sons Company has been 

 Incorporated at .Jacksonville. Fla. The capital 

 stock is $.'500,000. 



The National Woodenwarc & Supply Company 

 of Chicago has changed its name to the Edwin 

 C. Price Company. 



Bay City, Mich., is the location of the new 

 Bay City Lumber Company, incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $15,000. 



Monroe, Wash., is the location of the new 

 Stephens Hardwood Company, incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $10,000. 



The Muskegon Auto Body Company has 

 recently been organized at Muskegon, Mich., with 

 an authorized capital of $10,000. 



The Hirsch-Doswel! JIanufacturing Company 

 is a new concern at New Orleans, La. The 

 company has a capital stcok of $50,000. 



The Highland Planing Mill & Lumber Company 

 recently reincorporated at Highland. III., and the 

 capital increased from $2,500 to $10,000. 



The Ohio Casket Company has recently been 

 incorporated at Columbus. Ohio, with a capital 

 stock of $30,000. J. A. Cheney is president. 



.7. W. Vose of Edgerton, Mass., is one of the 

 incorporators of the Vose Piano Company of 

 Yonkers. N. Y. The company is capitalized at 

 $100,000. 



L. Davis, proprietor of the Ardmore Job Shop 

 Planing Mill. Tulsa, Okla., is planning to estab- 

 lish a plant for the manufacture of mission 

 furniture and hardwood finishings. 



The Antigo Timber Holding Company was 

 recently organized at Antigo, Wis., with a cap- 

 ital stock of $20,000. The company will manu- 

 facture lumber and deal in timber lands. 



Darling Brothers of Prescott, .Vrk.. are plan- 

 ning the erection of a hardwood lumber mill. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company of Augusta, 

 Ga., with a mill at Hamburg, S. C, has recently 

 filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The 

 company is a manufacturer and wholesaler of 

 hardwood lumber. 



.\ new concern to enter business at St. Louis, 

 Mo., Is the Mound City Floor & Art Company, 

 with a capital stock of $6,000. The incorporators 

 are J. Wilmer Brady, Hugh W. Thomasson and 

 William .T. llandcock. The company will deal in 

 hardwood floors. 



Fire recently visited the shops of the Illinois 

 Barrel Company, 3Sth and Butler streets, Chi- 

 cago, causing a damage of $20,000. The engine 

 lompanies fought the blaze for twelve hours but 



were powerless to quell the flames feeding on 

 the dry lumber stored in the place. 



Nickey Brothers of Memphis, Tenn., have 

 opened a hardwood manufacturing branch at 

 Binghamton, Tenn. The plant has good railway 

 connections and will employ about fifty men. 

 It will start operations within a few days and 

 has already a number of orders on hand. 



The Galloway-Mandt Wagon Company has 

 recently commenced business at Waterloo, Iowa. 



The .\nderson Carriage Company of Detroit, 

 Mich., recently increased its capital stock to 

 $1,200,000. This concern is one of the largest 

 manufacturers of carriages and electric autos in 

 Detroit. 



Fire recently visited the lumber yards of 

 David Ott & Co. and the Johnstown Planing 

 Mill Company at Johnstown, Pa. The combined 

 loss is said to be in excess of $50,000. The loss 

 of the planing mill company is fully covered by 

 insurance but David Ott & Co. were not insured. 

 The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin. 



The Cypress Point Lumber Company of Abbe- 

 ville, La., recently sold its timber lands to the 

 Baldwin Lumber Company, Ltd. The lands are 

 largely made up of hardwoods and a good bit 

 ot the lumber will probably be manufactured into 

 cross ties. Every part of the tract is reached 

 by standard railroads so that the timber can 

 e.isily be gotten out. 



Zuelly & Sheldon, furniture manufacturers at 

 Tell City, Ind., recently closed a deal for a tract 

 of timber land in Du Bois county, Indiana, said 

 to be one of the finest pieces of property in the 

 southern part of that state. The consideration 

 was $10,000. A sawmill will be erected at once 

 on the land to cut the timber, which will be 

 shipped to Tell City to be used in the manutac- 

 lure of furniture. 



The Kimball-Willson Lumber Company of 

 Chattanooga, Tenn., has purchased 8.000 acres 

 of timber land in McMinn county for the purpose 

 of manufacturing yellow pine and hardwood 

 lumber. A three-year-old supply of lumber stands 

 upon the tract. RiceviUe will be the shipping 

 point. Machinery has been purchased and 

 preparations are being made for the outlet of 

 the company's product. 



The Warren Ross Lumber Company of James- 

 town, N. Y., was chartered recently with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. The directors are 

 Warren Ross, Howard R. Black and Margaret 

 L. Ross, all ot Jamestown. This concern is a 

 large manufacturer and wholesale dealer in hard- 

 wood lumber of all kinds, including the many 

 high-class cabinet woods, both domestic and 

 imported, and makes a specialty of cherry and 

 mahogany. 



J. W. Johnson, Dr. W. A. Williams and others 

 connected with the .Johnson Lumber Company of 

 Huntington, W. Va.. recently secured 27,000 

 acres of timberland in Breathitt county, Ken- 

 tucky, a few miles from Jackson, the county 

 seat. It is covered with virgin forest containing 

 the finest oak, poplar and other woods, which it 

 will require fifteen years to cut. Operations will 

 oegin as soon as possible and a number of saw 

 mills have been placed on the land for business. 



The Webster Lumber Company, manufacturer 

 and wholesaler of northern and southern lumber, 

 with hardwood a specialty, announces that N. 

 B. Morris, the company's New Y'ork representa- 

 tive, with ofiice at 1 Madison avenue, has re- 

 signed that position and hereafter all corre- 

 siiondence should be addressed to the company 

 at Swanton, Vt. The Webster Lumber Company 

 is in position to furnish a particularly well 

 assorted lino of lumber to its trade as it has a 

 number of mills in the East. 



The newly organized Dickson Lumbermen's 

 Club, composed of the Irade at Dickson and one 

 or two adjacent Tennessee towns, held its reg- 

 ular semi-monthly meeting April 9 with a full 

 attendance. President F. L. Brown of the Chi- 

 cago Hardwood Lumber Exchange, was the guest 



of the evening and talked on club activity. 

 Three new members were admitted to the organi- 

 zation, which bids fair to become one of the 

 most active and valuable local clubs In the 

 country. 



Tindle & Jackson, manufacturers and dealers 

 in cooperage stock and a general line of timber 

 products at Buffalo, N. T., have changed their 

 name to Jackson & Tindle. Several additions 

 made to the firm recently are Frank T. Tindle, 

 a son of the late Thomas Tindle, formerly senior 

 member of the firm, and George A. Jackson, a 

 brother of Willis K. Jackson, the junior member. 

 Both of (hcse men have been interested in and 

 associated with the concern in its home ofllce for 

 a number of years. The copartnership is now 

 made up of W. R. Jackson, G. A. Jackson, F. T. 

 Tindle and A. T. Jackson. 



The Leatherwood Lumber Company, which has 

 been operating at Leatherwood, W. Va., on the 

 Elk river, has purchased from D. G. Courtney 

 of Charleston 13.000 acres of timber land in 

 lioone and nearby counties, and has reorganized 

 Iiy the election of the following officers ; James 

 M. Flynn, president ; R. M. Matson, vice-presi- 

 dent : Wm. Hamilton, treasurer and general 

 manager ; Charles Hedrick, secretary. The con- 

 cern will saw oak and poplar principally and it 

 is estimated that there is enough timber on the 

 property to keep the mill in operation at least 

 twelve years. For a while the headquarters of 

 the company will be located at Charleston but 

 later they will be transferred to the new town, 

 which will be established at the location of the 

 plant. 



Following the resignation of E. M. Terry, 

 secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association, there was some talk of closing the 

 New Orleans branch of the organization and 

 transferring L. Palmer, assistant secretary of 

 the association and head of the New Orleans 

 office, to Baltimore and making him secretary of 

 the organization. This was discussed at a recent 

 conference of the New Orleans members of the 

 association, and President H. M. Dickson of 

 Norfolk, Va.. Vice-President Fred Arn, Chatta- 

 nooga, and C. D. Burgess and W. H. Russe of 

 Memphis constituting the Executive Board of 

 Ihe association. The matter was discussed in all 

 its phases, and it was determined that no change 

 be made in the policy of the organization, as it 

 was argued that the importance of New Orleans 

 and contiguous territory requires the services of 

 the assistant secretary. The Executive Board 

 will, therefore, have to appoint a successor for 

 Mr. Terry. 



It is reported that a number of stockholders 

 in the firm of Thomas W. Troy & Co. of Tampa, 

 Fla., have been making an inspection of the 

 hardwood forests (principally mahogany) in 

 Honduras. These men contemplate the erection 

 ot a sawmill at Tampa for cutting mahogany 

 timber to operate under the name of the Amer- 

 ican Mahogany Company, which was recently 

 incorporated with a large capital stock. To 

 reach the forests, which are under consideration 

 in Honduras, a railway was needed and a 

 number of men interested in the concern visited 

 the spot to look over the ground with the idea 

 of building this road. Already a preliminary 

 survey has been made and seven miles of the 

 roadbed has been constructed. The road will be 

 seventy miles long and it is planned to build 

 thirty-five miles of it immediately. Interested in 

 this project are L. A. Mitchell of Macon. Ga., 

 who is heavily interested in timber in that 

 section, and Charles A. Dewing of Kalamazoo, 

 Mich. 



A recently organized concern at Atlanta. Ga., 

 is the Adlcr-May Company, which has head- 

 quarters In the Adler building, that city. The 

 company will engage in a general wholesale 

 business in hardwoods, making a specialty of 

 cypress lumber. The concern operates three 

 small mills on- the Tombigbee river north of 

 Mobile, and is building some SOO feet of loading 



