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HARDWOOD RECORD 



'J lie frame is o£ the open box type, giving 

 easy access to all parts. It is strongly and 

 lieavily built and stands perfectly rigid under 

 operation. 



The cylinders are made from solid crucible 

 steel forgings, four-sided and slotted on each 

 side. Both are provided with take-up for end 

 motion for cutting mouldings. Upper cylinder 

 bearings are rigidly yoked together and are 

 raised and lowered on powerful square threaded 

 screws mounted on ball bearings. The lower 

 cylinder is vertically adjustable, and with the 

 bar after the cut draws out at the side of the 

 machine, a convenieuce in sharpening and set- 

 ling the knives. When desired the company 

 <-an furnish its circular safety cutter-head fitted 

 with the high duty Tungsten steel knives witb 

 grinding and truing attachment. 



The pressure bars are adjustable to allow for 

 l^a inch projection of knives beyond normal cut 

 on, upper cylinder. ^4 inch on lower cylinder and 

 1 inch on side heads. The matching spindles 

 are adjustable across the machine and may be 

 drawn clear to the side out of the way for 

 surfacing the full width of the cylinders with- 

 out removing heads or clips. The left spindle 

 is fitted with the company's improved matcher 

 •clip. 



The feed consists of six double geared rolls. 

 Only heavy pitched wide faced gears are used, 

 iind all are ke.ved to shafts. No studs are em- 

 ployed. The two upper in-feeding rows are 

 carried on a pair of side housings, and are 

 raised or lowered at the same time and are 

 never out of alignment. The out-feeding rolls 

 are driven from the in-feeding end of the ma- 

 chine by chain and pockets. 



For further information in regard to this 

 valuable machine interested parties should write 

 the J. A. Fay & Egan Company, 41i-434 West 

 Front street, Cincinnati, maker of a standard 

 line of woodworking machinery. 



A Valuable Machine 



The Virginia Box & Column Company of Alta 

 Vista, Va., recently had the Gordon Hollow Blast 

 Crate Company of Greenville, IVIich., the well- 

 known manufacturer of the Gordon Hollow Blast 

 <3rate and the Tower line of edgers and trim- 

 mers, build for them a thirtecn-saw machine for 

 tutting box boards. 



The following brief description of this ma- 

 <-liine will doubtless be of interest to many of 

 our readers. 



There are thirteen saws, all of which are ad- 

 justable. The minimum distance between them 

 is S inches. The maximum distance between 

 the outside saw-s is 16 feet. The bridgetree on 

 one end of the machine is removable, to render 

 It possible to take off any of the saws for the 

 purpose of fitting them or to increase the dis- 

 tance that in.Ty be secured between the remain- 

 ing saws. 



Tile lumber is carried against the saws by 

 endless chains provided with lugs. There is 

 one of these chains on each side of all of the 

 saws except the outside saws, which have a 

 chain on the inside only. Overhead is a system 

 of self-adjusting springs for holding the lumber 

 down on the transfer block. 



There are two feeds (rate at which the lum- 

 ber is fed to the saws) and the feed may be 

 started, stopped or changed without stopping the 

 saws. 



The machine has many ingenious and highly 

 meritorious features. Interested parties may 

 obtain photographs and fuller details by ad- 

 dressing the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Com- 

 pany at Greenville, Mich. 



Miscellaneous Notes 

 The Lake Land i: Limiber Company of Jlounie. 

 N. C, was recently organized with .lilDO.iiii"! 

 capital. 



The Pittsburg 1 lumber Company was recently 

 incorporated at Wilmington, Del., with a capital 

 of $300,000. 



A new concern at Durham, N. C, is the Whit- 

 ted Woodworking Company, which has a capital 

 of .flO0,0OO. 



Tlio Davidson Lumber Company recently began 

 the operation of a sawmill to cut hardwoods at 

 Ilillvlew, 111. 



The Marshfleld Hardwood Company of Marsh- 

 field, Wis., was recently organized with .$10,000 

 capital stock. 



A new Michigan corporation is the Longstreet 

 Lumber Company with $6.5,000 capital. It will 

 be located at Lansing. 



Reorganization of the Tessellated Floor Com- 

 pany at E'dinburg, Ind.. has been effected ; the 

 capital stock is $30,000. 



The Buell & Crocker Lumber Company was 

 recently incorporated at Bay City, Mich., with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. 



The Bailey Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 of Union. S. C, has changed its name to the 

 Bailey Furniture & Lumber Company. 



A new corporation at Charleston, S. C, is th" 

 Oak Lumber Company. It has a capital stock 

 of $500,000. C. F. Muckenfuss is president. 



The Robinson Lumber Company of Indianap- 

 olis, Ind., will hereafter operate under the style 

 of the Robinson Timber & Lumber Company. 



The Spring Garden Lumber Company of Tren- 

 ton, N, .!., has been organized with $2.j.0O0 

 capital stock by Harry L. Sterling and othn'S. 



The Lumberton Xovelt.v Company, Lnmbertou, 

 X. C, has been organized with $100,000 capital' 

 10 manufacture wood novelties of various kinds. 



Tlie American Lumber Company of Bluefield. 

 W. Va., is a new concern to deal in and de- 

 velop timber lands in that section. It is capi- 

 talized at $100,000. 



Kernersville. N. C, is the location of a new 

 furniture concern which lias a capital of $50,- 

 000. It will operate under the style of th-.> 

 Ring Furniture Company. 



The Kelscy-Dennis Lumlier Company of Xortli 

 Tonawanda, N. Y., has changed its name and 

 will hereafter operate under the style of the 

 Kels"y Hardwood Company at the same place. 



The Kirkland Lumber Company. Pittsburg, Pa., 

 which has been operating sawmills near Ren 

 Station for several months, has moved its plant 

 to a tract of hardwood timber near Hickory. 

 I'a., wliich will be cut off at once. 



With $200,000 capital the Maryland Lum- 

 ber Company of Hagerstown to operate chieUy 

 in Pocahontas county was recently organized. 

 .Tohn A. Dennison of Hagerstown, with others, 

 is interested in the new concern. 



The Hanson-Ward Veneering Company, Bay 

 City, Mich., has recently installed another ma- 

 chine for making hard maple flooring. This is 

 an up-to-date flooring machine and planer, and 

 will considerably increase the company's ca- 

 pacity. 



A branch Of the Breeze Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Company at Portsmouth, 0.. will be created 

 ;it Selnia, • Ala. This will be devoted to tiie 

 manufacture of hardwood parts used in automo- 

 bile construction, and about fifty men will bo 

 employed. 



>Iinneapolis has an addition to its lumber 

 fraternity in the Yellowstone Lumber Company, 

 capitalized' at $100,000. The incorporators are 

 C. E. JIcGregor, Granite Falls ; H. M. Roberts, 

 K. N. McGregor, C. D. .Tones, Wichita, Kas., and 

 Burt Winter of Minneapolis. 



George W. Faulkner announces the iucorpcv 

 ration of the Faulkner Lumber Company of l."i 

 Clapp avenue, Pittsfield, Mass. This company 

 will tMtntinue tlie business establislied in 1S9S by 

 :\Ir. Faulkner, which involves a wholesale and 

 retail lumber business and general woodworking, 

 inchiding cabinet work. 



George W. Hoffman, manufacturer of lumber, 

 boxes and bent wood at Wellington, O., has ac- 

 fl.ulred the property of the Shiloh Milling Com- 

 pany at Shiloh, O., and after making extensive 

 improvements in the operation will conduct it 

 as a branch to his Wellington business. 



The Ivey & Hice Company of Hickory, N. C, 

 succeeds the firm of Ivey & Hice. The same 

 line of manufacture will be followed by the 

 succeeding concern, the production of picker 

 sticks, loom specialties, bent rims, etc. George 

 F. Ivey is president of the company. 



Only through the valiant work of firemen 

 was serious damage at the yards of Moore & 

 McFerren at Memphis averted recently. A spark 

 from a passing engine set fire to lumber In the 

 company's yard and for a time the destruction 

 of the entire stock was threatened. The Ios5 is 

 slight. 



The Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company at 

 Grayling. Mich., has increased its capital stock 

 to $100,000. The company is experiencing an 

 active season of trade and this increase is made 

 necessary to take care of the business which has 

 been growing rapidly during the past few 

 months. 



David Weiner of Chicago, formerly of ,Joliet,, 

 recently purchased 600 acres of oak timber 

 laul near Crete, III., which he will c it for 

 railroad ties. Mr. Weiner has a contract (or 

 furnishing the Joliet & Southern with ties for 

 all Ibe i.ew construction work now coniem- 

 ! Intcd. 



Because of the rapidly increasing business 

 which has been enjo.ved by the Naples Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company during the past year, It 

 has found it necessary to move its office and 

 yard from its former location at Naples, Tex., 

 to Texarkana, Ark. The company expects soon 

 to erect a fine hardwood flooring factory at this 

 new operation. 



Operations at the new flooring plant of the 

 Consolidated Fuel & Lumber Company at Ne- 

 gaunee, Mich., are now going on smoothly. The 

 machines are turning out an exceptionally fine 

 grade of flooring and the management is en- 

 tirely satisfied with the way the plant is work- 

 ing. It is exceptionally gratifying that a new 

 plant of this sort could have been operated from 

 the beginning without a single delay of any 

 consequence. 



When James J. Jeffries takes his morning ex- 

 ercise at his training camp in California 'ne 

 makes use of various mediums for physical de- 

 velopment. Often he pulls a cross-cut saw for 

 several cuts of a large log. He likes the sport 

 and likes his saw. It's a Simonds Crescent 

 Ground Cross-cut Saw and as the man who uses 

 it is an "Undefeated Champion," so it is also 

 in its particular field, the "Undefeated Cham- 

 pion" saw of the world. 



The extensive plant of J. A. Brittian at Jack- 

 son, Tenn., was badly damaged by fire on May 

 ,',. It is stated that the yards contained about 

 a million feet of oak, ash, poplar and walnut 

 lumber. The larger portion of this material had 

 already been sold to eastern and northern lum- 

 bermen. It is estimated that the damage on the 

 property will amount to about $20,000. while 

 the insurance is only $15,000. The offices at the 

 operation were completely destroyed. 



The Commercial Agency Company, manufac- 

 turers, agents and importers, at 144 Moray 

 place, Dunedin, New Zealand, are specialists in 

 importing plain and quartered oak, ash, hickory, 

 chestnut, walnut, mahogany, white and yellow 

 pine, cedar, Douglas fir, etc., in square bew:i 

 logs and sawn planks, veneers and of all kinds, 

 more especially glued-up stock ; chair seats, per- 

 forated and embossed, of two or more ply ; em- 

 bossed moldings and ornaments in various 

 woods : dowels in birch and maple, and tools and 

 other handles of all descriptions. Correspond- 

 once with American producers of these itinds 

 of stock would be appreciated. 



