HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The F. M. Groves Lumber Company, manufac- 

 turer of and dealer in hardwood lumber, recently 

 started business in Mitchellsville, Tenn. 



The G. W. Mueller Interior Company was re- 

 cently incorporated at Rome. Ga., with a lapilal 

 stock of S500.000 to manufacture interior finish. 



A new concern to start ousiness in Newark, 

 N. y., is the Newark Wagon Company. It was 

 Incorporated with an authorized capital of 

 $100,000. 



The entire winter cut of logs of the Flanner- 

 Steger Land & Lumber Company at Marinette, 

 Wis., was burned in the rollways on Friday 

 afternoon, July 1. 



Bascom, Ohio, is the location of the new 

 Monarch Manufacturing Company, incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000 to manufacture 

 ladders and woodenware. 



The Haughton Column Company is the name 

 of a new concern at Florence, Ala., engaged in 

 the manufacture of colonial and square columns 

 with a capacity of three hundred per week. 



The Consolidated Fuel & Lumber Company has 

 Installed another end matcher in its plant at 

 Negaunee, Mich., which was put in operation 

 several weeks ago and bus been running smoothly 

 ever since. An excellent grade of flooring is 

 being turned out. 



On July 4 the circular sawmill belonging to 

 Relcher & Eisaraau of Peru, Ind.. was burned. 

 Reicher & Eisaman recently purchased this mill 

 from the Peabody Bros. Company. The latter 

 concern has also sold its mill at Rochester, Ind. 

 The purchaser will remove it to Ohio. 



The Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Grand Rapids. Wis., won a decision before the 

 Wisconsin State Railroad Commission on Satur- 

 day, July 2, against the Omaha railroad. The 

 old rate of four cents on saw logs from Radisson 

 to Birchwood was found excessive and reduced to 

 two cents per hundred pounds. 



A transfer of timber lands of large propor- 

 tions has l>een made recently by the Heineman 

 Lumber Company, of Heineman, Wis., over 3,000,- 

 000 feet of standing limber having been pur- 

 chased from Dr. T. J. Metcalf of Merrill, Wis. 

 This is the third large deal which has been 

 made by this company during the past few 

 weeks. 



Frank B. Hayne of Winnsboro, La., recently 

 sold to J. W. Kesterson of Arkansas about 22,000 

 acres of fine white and red oak and pine timber, 

 known as the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific 

 railroad lands in Franklin parish. The price 

 paid is something over $350,000. Mr. Kester- 

 son is erecting a sawmill at Baskin and will lay 

 a tram road through the timber, which it will 

 take twenty years or more to remove. 



The R. E. Pickrell Lumber Company of 

 Chandlerville, 111., whose government order for 

 70,000 walnut gun stocks was recently announced, 

 has received another similar order from Uncle 

 Sam and also orders for about twenty carloads 

 of small rifle and gun stocks from different fac- 

 tories in the United States and from foreign 

 dealers and factories. The company expects to 

 get all its material within a radius of 150 miles 

 of its plant. 



The Perrine-Armstrong Company of Fort 

 Wayne and Adams Brothers of Huntington, Ind., 

 recently purchased of David Funderburg all the 

 timber, five inches or more in diameter, on the 

 fifty acres of the Golvin .Summers land, which 

 became Mr. Funderburg's property a short time 

 ago. The whole tract is covered with native 

 forest trees, including large oak, poplar, elm, 

 hickory, ash and basswood. The price paid for 

 the timber is said to be $4,500. 



The W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Company of 

 Nashville recently filed application for a 

 charter changing its capital stock from $250,000 



to $150,000. The incorporators are W. J. Cude, 

 A. B. Ransom, John W. Love, Alex Perry and 

 Luke Lea. The decrease in the capital stock is 

 due to the desire to retire a portion of the 

 former stock as the corporation has sold some 

 of its timber land. Business will be conducted 

 on the same lines as heretofore. 



Tlie Selma Spoke Factory was recently char- 

 tered at Selma, Ala., with a capital stock of 

 $10,000. The company will engage in the manu- 

 laiture of spokes and other hardwood parts of 

 automobiles. Work has already been started on 

 the erection of its plant and it is expected to 

 commence operations within a few weeks. About 

 one hundred men will be employed. The incor- 

 porators of the concern are : H. E. Masters, 

 president; John F. Breeoe. vice-president, and 

 A. L. Brown, secretary. 



F. T. and T. S. Buckley have recently taken 

 over the business of the New York & Georgia 

 Lumber Company, Midville, Ga.. under lease to 

 I he company. These men hold about bait the 

 stock of the concern, and are doing a profitable 

 business. They devote their energies to sawing 

 lor the northern market only, producing chiefly 

 hardwoods and making a specialty of oak. Near- 

 ly the entire output of their mills is used by 

 the New York Central, the Boston & Alliany and 

 other smaller roads. 



B. N. Ward of Vicksburg, Miss., who recently 

 bought the hardwood plant of Samuel Kapper & 

 Son at Baton Rouge. La., is remodeling and re- 

 ei|uipping the property, placing new machinery 

 and accessories throughout. The plant will have 

 a daily capacity of from 40.000 to .50,000 feet. 

 Cottonwood and other hardwoods will be utilized. 

 A supply of timber, practically an indefinite cut. 

 has ijeen secured within easy reach by rail and 

 water, and the Mississippi river will be used to 

 a great extent in bringing logs to the mill. 



The Thad-Moody -Lumber Company is erecting 

 a sawmill four miles south of Kingston. Okla., 

 for the purpose of sawing cross ties and hard- 

 wood timber. Mr. Moody, in charge of the erec- 

 tion, has orders for several hundred thousand 

 lies from the Santa Fe railroad. The mill will 

 saw walnut and pecan timber and ship it in the 

 rough. Overy sixty men will be employed in 

 the mill and thirty or forty teams will be used 

 on the road. The Thad-Moody company owns 

 and controls sixteen mills in Oklahoma and 

 Arkansas. 



Maley & Wertz of Evansville. Ind.. have placed 

 in operation their new sawmill, built lo take the 



place of the one destroyed by fire several months 

 ago. For two or three weeks the plant will be 

 operated on a night and day schedule, as the 

 company has a good'many logs it wishes to saw 

 up. The new mill has a daily capacity of about 

 25,000 feet and will employ regularly from thirty- 

 five to fifty men. The company has recently be- 

 come interested in a big flooring plant at Edin- 

 burg, Ind., which is running on full time and 

 doing a nice business. Its sawmills at Grammer 

 and Vincennes, Ind., are also being operated on 

 full time. Besides these interests. Maley & Wertz 

 have a large yard and office at Memphis, Tenn., 

 and have an extensive business in that territory. 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Com- 

 pany, which operates a number of mills at 

 (iladstone, Mich., is preparing to take up the 

 manufacture of hardwood flooring at that city. 

 The construction of a factory 70x280 feet has 

 been started. The mill will have five machines 

 and will be operated by electricity. The power 

 house will be 70x80 feet, will contain three 

 boilers and a 640-horsepower engine belted to 

 a big generator which will supply the elec- 

 tricity. There will be a battery of four kilns 

 124x18 feet, housed in a concrete building with 

 cval concrete roof. The warehouse will bo oOx 

 ;;00 feet. The mill will have no openings in 

 I he walls for windows, the light being furnished 

 through a large skylight. All the equipment of 

 thi- plant will be of the latest design. 



One of the largest lumber transactions in St. 

 Louis in some time was the recent organization 

 of the Graysunia-Nashville Lumber Company, 

 formed to take o^er the immense properties of 

 the Grayson-McLeod Lumber Company of St. 

 Louis and the Nashville Lumber Company of 

 Nashville, Ark. The concern has a capital of 

 $2,500,000. All the property and mills of the 

 (Uayson-McLeod and the Nashville concerns will 

 be taken over by the new corporation, but the 

 Grayson-McLeod Lumber Company will continue 

 in existence as a selling company for the new 

 organizatiou. The president of the new cor- 

 poration is W. W. Brown of Camden. Ark., who- 

 was president of the Nashville Lumber Company. 

 W. E. Grayson of the Grayson-McLeod Lumber 

 Company will be vice-president, and A. C. Ram- 

 sey of Nashville will be general manager. While 

 this big corporation will devote most of its 

 attention to yellow pine, there is a great deal 

 of hardwood on its timber property which will 

 be worked up at the Nashville plant and dis- 

 posed of. The Nashville Lumber Company's 

 Mlling office in St. Louis has been abandoned. 



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CHIC AGO 



D. K. Myers & Co. of the American Trust 

 building, Chicago, announce that they are clos- 

 iug out their veneer and panel business. 



A. J. Webb, treasurer of the Advance Lumber 

 Company, Cleveland, O.. was a Chicago visitor 

 on Saturday, calling on the company's local rep- 

 resentative, S. P. C. Hostler. 



William L. Hall, assistant forester. United 

 States Department of Agriculture, in charge of 

 the new testing laboratory at Madison, Wis., 

 spent June 30 in Chicago in consultation with the 

 representatives in charge of the local office of 

 the Forest Service. 



"Hickory" Pratt of the Pratt-Worthington 

 Company, Crofton, Ky., was a welcome Record 

 caller June 27. Mr. Pratt reports very good 

 business in wagon and carriage woodwork parts 

 which he is engaged in manufacturing. 



A. C. Opperman of William Schuette & Co., 

 inc., Pittsburg, spent Sunday, June 26. in Chi- 

 lago en route on a buying trip to the North- 

 west. 



Special CorrespondentO 



S. Burkholder of Crawfordsville. Ind., the vet- 

 . I an hardwood man of that state, paid his re- 

 spects at the Recc5hd office June 2i). He spent 

 siveral days in Chicago visiting his trade. Mr. 

 IJurkliolder has recently purchased two thousand 

 acres of hardwood timber land at Homer. Clai- 

 borne parish, northern Louisiana, and expects 

 soon to erect a sawmill and manufacture the oak 

 and gum timber on his boundary. Uncle Sam 

 regrets exceedingly to be obliged to leave Indiana 

 to continue the hardwood business, but he says 

 his holdings of Indiana timber are pretty nearly 

 exhausted and no more is available. 



Rothschild & Co., the well-known Chicago 

 State street general merchants, have purchased 

 the piano manufacturing plant of Burdette & 

 Co. at Monroeville, O. This institution was es- 

 tablished in 1875 and the present output of the 

 plant is now 5.000 instruments a year, but the 

 new owners plan to double the capacity. 



C. L. Willey. the well-known Chicago mahogany 

 and hardwood lumber and veneer magnate. Is 

 l-.ome from a business trip to Pittsburg, Pa. 



A report from D. K. Jeffris & Co. states that 

 their new enterprise in the South is progressing 



