HARDWOOD RECORD 



53 



Miscellaneous Notes 



Karl, Frank and H. B. Armstrong have re- 

 cently organized the Armstrong Lumber Company 

 at Del Rio, Tex. Tlie capital stock is placed 

 at $12,000. 



Business men of Shawano, Wis., have under- 

 taken to raise $35,000 for stock in the Shawano 

 Hardwood Specialties Company, which Is plan- 

 ning to locate there. 



The plant of the Shippen Brothers Lumber 

 Company, manufacturer of poplar, white pine 

 and oak lumber at Ellijay, Ga., was destroyed 

 by fire on June 6. The loss is estimated at 

 $10,000. 



The Riverside Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is a new concern to enter business at Spo- 

 kane, Wash. It is capitalized at $1,500,000 by 

 P. H. Sherman, J. W. Thornton and A. R. E. 

 Crothers. 



On June 11 Butler Smith transferred to the 

 Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company of Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., a lot 260x488 feet in West Nash- 

 ville for $52,000. The property constitutes one 

 of the most advantageous factory sites in West 

 Nashville. 



The Keys-Fannin Lumber Company of Hern- 

 don, W. Va., will establish a band mill on Pin- 

 nacle Creek for cutting large tracts of timber, 

 etc. The mill will be thoroughly up-to-date in 

 every respect. 



Work was recently started on the hardwood 

 plant of G. Von Platen at Iron Mountain, Mien., 

 under the direction of Manager Fox. It is ex- 

 pected to have the sawmill ready for operation 

 early in the fall. 



W. S. Embrey, Inc., has recently entered the 

 lumber business at Fredericksburg. Va., with a 

 capital of from $50,000 to $100,000. A. W. 

 Embrey is president of the concern and W. S. 

 Embrey secretary and treasurer. Koth these men 

 are of Fredericksburg. 



■ A new concern to enter the lumber business at 

 Lynchburg, Va., is the Williams-McKeitham Lum- 

 ber Corporation. Its capital stock is placed at 

 from $200,000 to $400,000. Ernest Williams of 

 Lynchburg is president of the company : James 

 Mortimer of Lumber, S. C, general maua.;;er, 

 and W. B. Harris of Lynchburg, secretary. 



The Bear Brothers Lumber Company, which 

 was sold to Texas people some time ago, has 

 been reorganized and will be known as the Hemp- 

 stead Hardwood Company. J. W. Lockridge is 

 president and general manager of the concern. 

 and J. E. Dougherty will be superintendent. It 

 is expected that operations will begin about 

 July 1. 



J. W. Ogden, president of the Ogden Lumber 

 Company of Quitman, La., has disposed of his 

 Dubach plant to J. S. Woolfert of Little Rock, 

 Ark. Mr. Woolfert will operate the plant, hick- 

 ory and white oak being the main output. Th.^ 

 plant has a capacity of 15.000 feet per day. Mr. 

 Ogden is planning to reopen his Quitman plant 

 in the near future. 



It was recently announced that the 12,000 

 acres of timber land known as the "Murchison 

 boundary," owned by the heirs of the late Col. 

 E. K. Murchison of Wilmington, N. C, have 

 been sold to the Mount Mitchell Lumber Com- 

 pany, composed of West Virginia capitalists. The 

 purchase price is given as $200,000. The tract 

 is heavily timbered with spruce, oak, cherry, 

 poplar and birch, and embraces a territory seven 

 miles long and nine miles wide. 



F. II. Keelman of Centerville. Miss., has be- 

 come associated with the Ash Brothers Lumber 

 Company, and the name of that concern has been 

 cnanged to the Ash-Keelman Lumber Company. 

 'I he operations of the concern will be extended 

 materially, and the plant will be equipped at 

 once to furnish all kinds of hardwood lumber. 



The company's c-apacity is now about 80,000 feet 

 daily, including the output of its two mills at 

 Centerville and Woodville, Miss. 



The McEwen Lumber Company, manufacturer 

 of hardwood and white pine lumber at Asheville, 

 N. C, has purchased the timber rights of the 

 Connelly estate of 4,000 acres of timberland in 

 Buncombe county for $40,000. The tract con- 

 sists mostly of valuable hardwoods, chestnut, oak 

 and poplar being especially plentiful. The com- 

 pany plans to develop the property at a cost of 

 about $75,000. A spur line will be built from the 

 main line of the Southern railroad into the 

 tract, where a large sawmill will be established. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, St. 

 Lbuis, Mo., has recently taken over the hardwood 

 sawmill of the Crossett Lumber Company at 

 Crossett, Ark., and hereafter will operate it as 

 its own property. The plant is said to be par- 

 ticularly well equipped and the Garetson-Greason 

 company expects to turn out some fine stock 

 from the excellent timber tributary to the plant. 

 It will make a specialty of car oak, but other 

 hardwoods, including quartered and plain red 

 and white oak, gum and ash, will be manufac 

 tured. 



A new concern has been organized to engage 

 in the manufacture of hardwood lumber at Eu- 

 nice, La. It will be known as the Eunice Hard- 

 wood Company, and Its officers are James J. 

 Lewis, president ; E. Alexander, vice-president, 

 and J. C. Blevins, secretary and treasurer. Mr. 

 Alexander is president of the Alexander Hard- 

 wood Company, Ltd., of Eunice, which has been 

 in existence only a few weeks. The Eunice Hard- 



wood Company will erect a modern band mill, 

 which will have a daily capacity of 40,000 feet. 

 The mill will bo located on the Rock Island or 

 Frisco railroad, and will thus have excellent 

 shipping facilities. 



Following his purchrse of 8,000 acres of hard- 

 wood stumpage two miles east of Oak Grove,, 

 East Carroll parish. La., E. J. Hamley will put 

 in a mill at that place and build a railroad from 

 the plant to Lake Providence. Frauk James has 

 purchased 920 acres of hardwood land, which 

 gives him S,000 acres in the vicinity of Oak 

 Grove, and he plans to build a standard gauge- 

 road in a westerly direction six miles to Boeff 

 River. This will connect with a line Phil Kim- 

 ball is building from LaArk, La., to Boeff Riveiv 

 and these two lines will join the road Hamley 

 V. Ul build, thus affording communication across- 

 the two parishps of \\ est and East Carroll. 



The JarratL Lumber Corporation of Marianna, 

 Fla., has taken over the business formerly con- 

 ducted by Jarratt Brothers. The capital stock 

 of the old concern has been increased to $50,0001 

 and its business will be extended greatly. The- 

 company will take over the old concern's mill at 

 Marianna, which is a well equipped plant wJtli 

 a daily capacity of -lO.ooO feet, and a complete 

 logging equipment. The concern has a large area; 

 of timberland, and a railroad eight miles long, 

 now being built to reach this tract, will he 

 ready for operation about the middle of July. 

 Auout 50,000 feet of fine cypress and the same 

 quantity of gum and oak will be taken from thi* 

 property, and the concern will begin to cut imme- 

 diately. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



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CHIC AGO 



Chas. H. Stotz, formerly connected with the 

 Louisville Lumber Company, is now the general 

 manager of the A. Z. Haas Lumber Company :n 

 the wholesale hardwood trade of Louisville. 



Roy C. Hook, formerly associated with the 

 American Lumberman and the Southern Lumber- 

 man, has joined forces with the Manufacturing 

 Woodworkers' Underwriters of Chicago, and will 

 hereafter be engaged in lumber insurance worlt. 

 The Record had a call on June 23 from Chas. 

 R- Duggan, manager of Jackson & Tindle, whose 

 general sales headquarters are in Detroit, and 

 mills at Pellston and Munising, Mich. 



Wm. N. Gunton, formerly prominently identified 

 with the building wood trade of Chicago, and who 

 spent the last seven years on the Pacific coast, 

 has returned to Chicago and is about to embark 

 in the lumber business, and will probably be 

 identified with the hardwood trade. 



Tlie Record had a call on June 20 from Wm. 

 Threlkeld, Jr., son of Wm. Threlkeld, of the In- 

 diana Quartered Oak Company of Now York City. 

 Young Threlkeld is en route to Madeira, Mexico, 

 where he will engage in the lumber business. 



The Record had the pleasure of a call on 

 June 17 from Burdis Anderson, manager of the 

 Great Lakes Veneer Company of Munising, Mich. 

 Max L. Pease, vice-president of the Galloway- 

 Pease Company of Saginaw, Mich., who makes 

 his headquarters at Poplar Bluff. Mo., in charge 

 of the company's hardwood mill there, was a 

 Chicago visitor last week on his way home from 

 a visit to the company's general office and a 

 sales tour of Michigan. 



The Record acknowledges a call on June 13 

 from James Boyd, editor of the Lumber Trade 

 Journal of New Orleans. 



Geo. S. Fry, hardwood lumberman of Dubois, 

 Ind., was a Chicago visitor on June 10. 



E. W. Ackles, secretary of the Alton Lumber 



Company, manufacturer of poplar, oak and ash,, 

 of Buckhannon, W. Va., was a Record caller 

 June 10. 



F. E. Stevens of the Phoenix Sprinkling & 

 Heating Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., manu- 

 facturer of sprinkling equipments for sawmill 

 and wodworking factories, was a Chicago visitor 

 last week. 



F. A. Dudley, Philadelphia representative of 

 the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, was a 

 welcome caller at the Record office a few days 

 ago. 



William L. Hall, assistant forester In the 

 United States Forest Service, in charge of the- 

 new wood testing laboratory at Madison, Wis., 

 was a Chicago visitor on June 22. Mr. Hall 

 was en route to Washington, and will return to- 

 Chicago on June 30. Some very important ex- 

 periments are about to be undertaken by Mr. 

 Ilall and his assistants in the drying of woods. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Pittsburg, Pa., is sending out to the- 

 trade a card entitled "Eulogy on the Dog," which 

 is reproduced in the panel on the second editorial 

 page of this issue of the Record. 



Schmitt & Schultz, manufacturers of bank 

 and store fixtures in Chicago, were recently 

 succeeded by the United Bank & Store Fixture 

 Company. 



Francis Beidler, a prominent lumberman of 

 Chicago, is president of the recently Incorpo- 

 rated Santee Cypress Lumber Company, Fergu- 

 son, S. C. The company has just been formed- 

 with a capital of $1,500,000, most of which was 

 supplied by Chicago capitalists. Mr. Beidler and 

 other Chicago interests have for a long time 

 controlled the enterprise as it formerly existed. 

 J. P. McParland, president of McParland & 

 Konzen Lumber Company, recently bought out 

 the other interests in this concern and now 

 holds practically the entire control. The busi- 

 ness of the firm will in no way be affected by the 

 new state of affairs, Mr. Konzen probably con- 

 tinuing with Mr, McParland as heretofore. The- 



