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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Chicago Lumber Company is a new con 

 cern for Hammond, Ind., with an authorized 

 capital stoeli of $25,000. 



The Newton-McArthur Lumber Company was 

 recently organized at Elizabethtown, N. C. It 

 has a capital stock of $100,000. 



Oscar Gai'tner, well-linown exporter of New 

 Orleans, has been succeeded by Herbert Gartner, 

 who will continue along the same lines. 



The HoUiday Lumber & Furniture Company of 

 Holliday, Tex., was recently capitalized at $20,000 

 by E. E. Neale, W. M. Brown and W. T. Finley. 



A new Arkansas corporation is the John M. 

 Davis Lumber Company with $50,000 capital. It 

 will be located at Helena. John M. Davis is 

 president. 



The factory of the Hawkeye Cabinet Company 

 of Davenport, la., was almost completely de- 

 stroyed by fire on May 14. The loss is estimated 

 at $5,000. 



A new concern for Seattle, Wash., is the In- 

 ternational Lumber Company, capitalized at 

 $50,000 by Thomas F. Lee, J. D. Miller and 

 Joseph Griffin. 



The Leatherwood Lumber Company, manufac- 

 turer of oak and poplar lumber, has recently re- 

 moved its business from Morocco, W. Va., to 

 Aultman, ifill P. 0., W. Va. 



The Haverty Furniture Company of Dallas, 

 i'ex., has been organized with v25,000 capital 

 stock by J. J. Haverty, Clarence Haverty, T. J. 

 Frazier and Ben T. Stanford. 



The Rugg-Hayward Lumber Company, manu- 

 facturer and wholesaler of hardwood lumber at 

 Marietta, O., has incorporated under the same 

 came with a capital .stock of $50,000. 



The Wilmington Lumber Company was re- 

 cently organized at Wilmington, N. C, with 

 $50,000 capital stock The incorporators are 

 L. B. Orrell, Alex. Boone and T. R. Orrell. 



Articles of incorporation were recently filed by 

 the Jaeger Lumber Company of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 The capital stock is $100,000 and Edmund J. 

 Jaeger and others are interested in the concern. 



The Fall Lumber & Coal Company was re- 

 cently incorporated at Port Clinton, O., by B. H. 

 Fall, H. B. Magruder, E. R. Sorenson, Louis T. 

 Johnson and .Scott Staul. Its capital stock is 

 $10,000. 



On May 21 fire destroyed the woodworking 

 plant of Hall Brothers & Wood at Philadelphia, 

 Pa. The loss is estimated at about $50,000. 

 Some valuable machinery and a number of blue 

 prints and papers in the office were destroyed. 



Trenton, Tenn., has an addition to its lumber 

 fraternity in the Dodd Lumber Company, capi- 

 talized at $10,000. The incorporators are T. K 

 Happel, E. W. Heaton, W. A. Jones, R. R. Col 

 lins, W. H. Dodd, B. F. Lemon and M. H. 

 Taylor. 



The Ohio River Lumber Company of Ironton 

 recently increased its capital from $15,000 to 

 $50,000. The company has been enjoying a 

 growing business of late and the increase in Its 

 capital will enable it to operate with greater 

 facility. 



The Judson Lumber Corporation is a new 

 company at Franklin, Va., to enter the lumber 

 business. The company is capitalized at $100.- 

 000 and has for its president and treasurer R. J. 

 Camp ; vice-president, E. D. Camp, and secretary, 

 R. C. Camp, all of Franklin. 



Ground has been broken for a fine new factory 

 building for the Gray Furniture Company, which 

 for the past two years has been operating in 

 quarters most too small for its requirements. 

 The working capacity of the concern will ba 

 greatly enlarged by this building. 



The Virginia-Carolina Lumber Company, an 

 organization under the laws of the state of 



South Carolina, has recently taken out a license 

 to do business in Virginia. The capital ts 

 $60,000 and Richard T. Yates of Lynchburg will 

 represent the company in Virginia. 



The plant of the International Lumber & Cre- 

 osote Company at Texarkana, Ark., with 125,000 

 gallons of creosote, twenty-eight loads of creo- 

 soted cross ties and a large quantity of raw 

 material was recently destroyed by fire. The 

 loss is said to be in the neighborhood of $750,000. 



The Wisconsin Chair Company's plant at Ev- 

 ansville, Ind., is being dismantled and the ma- 

 ciiinery moved to Mound City, Iil., where the 

 company's plant was recently burned. The Er- 

 ansville branch had been shut down for about 

 six months owing to the company's uncertainty 

 as to the advisability of continuing operations 

 at that point. 



Involuntary petition in bankruptcy was re- 

 cently tilod against the Albert Haas Lumber 

 Company of Atlanta, Ga. The petitioners aud 

 their claims are Reid & Bean of Rutherfordton, 

 N. C, $502.56 ; Hawkinsville Stave & Lumber 

 Company, Hawkinsville, Ga., $92.31. and the 

 Campbell & Damm Manufacturing Company of 

 Tennessee, $74.64. 



A recent storm caused the destruction of the 

 historic Blunston oak at Darby, Pa. The tree 

 was about 400 years old and was of large size. 

 Its history dates back to the days when Wash- 

 ington and his soldiers rested under its branches 

 in 1777. Several years ago the hollows in the 

 tree were filled with cement and great care was 

 taken to prolong its life. 



Fry Brothers have built a new hardwood saw- 

 mill about two miles from Atkins, Ark., on the 

 Iron Mountain railroad. The mill recently 

 started to cut from the supply of timber which 

 the iirm has secured aud which, it is said, will 

 last for six or seven j-ears. The factory is 



about two miles from the main line of the Iron 

 Mountain and a spur is being constructed to 

 the factory site. 



Fire on May 30 damaged the plant and yard 

 of the East Peoria Hardwood Lumber Company 

 at East Peoria, 111., badly. The origin of the 

 fire is unknown and as yet the loss has not been 

 definitely ascertained. The plant was worth 

 about $20,000, and only recently some fine new 

 machinery was installed, the loss upon which 

 will be heavy. M. PfeifiEer of Peoria, owner of 

 the yards, estimated the loss at about $10,000. 



The growing demand for its product has neces- 

 sitated the erection of additional storage room 

 by the Spencer Table Company of Marion, Ind. 

 An immense warehouse of brick has been erected 

 which will be used for the shipping department 

 and as storage room for the large stock of 

 tables which the company always carries on 

 hand ready for delivery. The company recently 

 increased its capital stock to $100,000 and it is 

 now one of the largest table factories in the 

 country. 



The Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Mansfield, La., has recently formed a contract 

 with the Tremont & Gun Lumber Company, large 

 yellow pine operator, to cut thtr hardwood from 

 its holdings. The concern will build a seven-fooi 

 band mill at a convi-nient point, the selection 

 being between Winfieid, Jonesboro or Rochelle. 

 The Tremont & Gulf company operates large 

 mills at each of these places and will supply 

 the hardwood mill in connection with its pine 

 legging operations. The stumpage holdings from 

 whicli the Mansfield concern will cut amounts 

 to about 190,000 acres, and it has been esti- 

 mated will yield about 100.000,000 feet. The 

 president of this company, A. S. Johnson, who 

 will have active charge of the operations, is an 

 experienced hardwood man, having operated a 

 sawmill at Stamps, Ark., for a number of years. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(B7 HABD'WOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents^ 



CHICAGO 



Alexander L. Howard of W. W. Howard & 

 Bro., London dealers in mahogany logs, was a 

 visitor in the Chicago market last week and left 

 on Sunday for Memphis. 



W. H. Bower, the hardwood lumberman of 

 Kurtz, Ind., was a Chicago visitor last week and 

 called on his customers in this city. Mr. Bower 

 states that he has nearly exhausted the oak tim- 

 ber from his part of Indiana, and also is well 

 nigh cut out on his Kentucky holdings, but ex- 

 pects soon to make another timber purchase and 

 operate further in the South. 



Max L. Pease of the Galloway -Pease Company. 

 Saginaw, Mich., was a Recobd caller on May 26. 

 The Galloway-Pease Company operates several 

 sawmills near Johnson City. Tenn., and also has 

 a large sawmill plant at Poplar Bluff, Mo., the 

 latter of which is in Mr. Pease's direct charge. 

 Mr. Pease reports having had a very satisfac- 

 tory trade in poplar, oak and chestnut, and the 

 quality of his stock makes it a prime favorite. 



W. B. Morgan, secretary of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, Memphis, Tenn., was a Chicago 

 visitor the first of the week and left Wednesday 

 night on the Monon special with the Chicago 

 contingent for the National Association annual 

 at Louisville. 



Charles Willey, manager of the big hardwood 

 sawmill and veneer plant of bis father at Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., was a visitor at the home institu- 

 tion in Chicago last week. The big Willey 

 plants at Memphis are running on full time and 

 in addition to a daily lumber output of about 

 80,000 feet are manufacturing sixteen to twenty 

 cars of gum, oak an ash veneers monthly. 



The Jlonarch Lumber Company of the Harrison 

 building, Philadelphia, Pa., is sending out postal 

 card pictures of its new band mill at Beechwood, 

 N. C. This mill is engaged in tlie production of 

 oak, poplar, chestnut and other hardwoods. 



C. L. Willey is on a trip to Memphis, inspect- 

 ing his big sawmill and veneer plant there. 



R. M. Carrier, president of the Carrier Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company at Sardis, Miss., 

 and of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States, was a Chicago visitor on 

 Monday. 



J. D. Lacey and son-in-law, Victor Thrane, of 

 the big timber house of J. D. Lacey & Co., Chi- 

 cago, New Orleans and Seattle, arrived in Chi- 

 cago last week for their summer stay at head- 

 quarters in the Old Colony building. Messr.s. 

 Lacey and Thrane and their families traveled 

 via Mr. Lacey's handsome yacht Tonopah from 

 New Orleans, up the Mississippi and Illinois 

 rivers and the Illinois canal. The big yacht is 

 now in the harbor of the Chicago Yacht Club, of 

 which Mr. Lacey is a member. 



It has just come to light that H. S. Sackett, 

 assistant forester in charge of the Chicago head- 

 quarters of the Forest Service, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, in the Fisher build- 

 ing, is a benedict, having been married at Ba- 

 tavia. III., on May 4, to Miss Louise Christy 

 Dreier. Mr. Sackett is well known for his effi- 

 cient work in connection with the Forest Service, 

 and his bride is almost equally as well known as 

 a magazine writer. Here is happiness and long 

 life to the newly wedded pair ! 



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

 Company, Chicago, has left for a trip to the 

 northern woods, where he is interested in lum- 

 ber properties. 



F. B. McMuIiin. Chicago representative of the 



