HARDWOOD RECORD 



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lar hours. Many improvements have been made 

 during the past few years in their equipment 

 for the use of thin saw blades, making their 

 already well-known line of high-grade tools 

 more popular than ever. 



The C. & W. Kramer Company, Kichmond. 

 Iiid., well-known hardwood manufacturer and 

 wholesaler, is putting up a nice lot of stock at 

 its Helena (Ark.) plant of the usual good man- 

 ufacture for which this concern is noted. The 

 company has not been in actual operation at 

 Ilelena very long, but is getting together a uice 

 lot of quartered oak. both red and white, gum. 

 ash, elm, etc. The concern is putting on stick 

 quite a lot of stock on orders, and believes 

 that lumber will be in good demand later in 

 the season, especially after vacation time is 

 over. While it has not a great deal of real dry 

 stock, it will be in a position to serve its 

 customers with some fine lumber before long. 



Phil Kimball of St. Louis, well-known capi- 

 talist and lumberman, has perfected the organ- 

 ization of the Kimball Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company of Laark. Morehouse I'arish. La. The 

 company has a capitalization of $G0O,OO0, Mr. 

 Kimball holding 5. 998 shares. Mr. Kimball is 

 president of the company : IL Flood Madison of 

 Bastrop. La., is vice-president, and I*^ L. Wil- 

 inoiit of Laark is secretarj' and treasurer. Mr. 



Kimball will undertake some big development 

 work in that parish, being the owner of large 

 tracts in hardwood lands. He also has big 

 railway propositions on foot, one of them being 

 the building of a line from Laark to a point 

 close to Boeuff river, which is expected to be 

 completed this fall. 



The new and modernly equipped sawmill of 

 the Chalmette Cypress Company, in St. Bernard 

 Parish, La., was started in operation July 7. 

 Sixty per cent of the single-band cutting 

 capacity was maintained for two days, when 

 the equipment was gradually speeded up to the 

 full capacity of 60,000 feet daily. E. G. West- 

 moreland, president of the company, personally 

 superintended the starting operations. It will 

 be some little time before the planing mill is 

 in operation. Five dry kilns of an improved 

 type, designed under the personal direction of 

 Mr. Westmoreland, are now in use, but the 

 process has not been tried out sufficiently for 

 Mr. Westmoreland to give out definite informa- 

 tion as to its efficiency. Electricity enters 

 largely into the power equipment of the plant. 

 The timber is logged from St. Bernard and 

 I^laquemine parishes, and is handled over the 

 I^ouisiana Southern Railway. About three hun- 

 dred workmen are employed in all the depart- 

 ments. 



Hardwood JVeWs, 



(B7 HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Corres^onde&tB.) 



CHICAOO 



R. .T. Clark of the Peninsula Bark & Lumber 

 Company of Sault Ste. Marie. .Mich., spent the 

 last of the week among his friends in the Chi- 

 cago trade. Mr. Clark's institution is a promi- 

 nent manufacturer of hemlock, maple, birch and 

 beech. 



Wood Beal of J. D. Lacey & Co., Chicago, left 

 on Friday for an extended trip to the Pacific 

 Coast, and while away will make his headquar- 

 ters at the Seattle office of the concern. Mr. 

 Beal expects to return to Chicago about Septem- 

 ber 10. 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 tile United States announces the publication 

 of its new inspection rules book, handsomely 

 bound in leather, for pocket use. 



E. V. Babcock, the prominent Pittsburg lum- 

 berman, is at Bayside, Jle., convalescing from 

 an operation for appendicitis. Reports announce 

 that he is on the rapid road to recovery. 



R. M. Carrier, Sardis, Miss., and Lewis Doster 

 of Cincinnati, O., respectively president and sec- 

 retary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, were in attendance at the semi-annual 

 meeting of the yellow piuers at the Chicago 

 Beach Hotel, July 19 and 20. 



J. F. McSweyn, manager of the Memphis Saw- 

 mill Company's operations at Memphis, Tcnn., 

 was a Chicago visitor July 19 en route to Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., on a visit to his old home. 



On July 18 among Hardwood Record callers 

 was W. H. Shippen of the Shippen Brothero 

 Lumber Company, Ellijay, Ga. Mr. Shippen is 

 engaged at the present time in the purchase of 

 fawmill and planing mill machinery with which 

 to equip a new and model operation at Ellijay 

 to take the place of the plant destroyed last 

 spring by fire. This company has upwards of 

 60.000,000 feet of hardwood stumpage in that 

 section. 



Handsome, big "Bill" Martin of the Embnry- 

 ilartin Lumber Company of Cheboygan. Mich.. 

 <lropped into Chicago for a few days' visit with 

 his friends recently. 



^V. D. Young, the forceful and enterprising 

 maple flooring and hardwood producer of Bay 

 City. Mich., visited a few of his friends in Chi- 

 cago last week. 



On July 14 F. A. Kirby, sales manager of 

 the Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company and 

 of the Hebard Cypress Company of Scranton. 

 Pa., was a Chicago visitor. Mr. Kirby was ac- 

 companied by W. P. Rolph, western representa- 

 tive of the house. The two gentlemen left Chi- 

 cago for Cincinnati to pursue their missionary 

 endeavors. 



•F. H. Beach of Batavia. 111., of the Beach 

 Lumber Company of Parma, Mo., and of the 

 Newton Wagon Company of Batavia, was a 

 Record caller on July 12. Mr. Beach is inter- 

 ested in the manufacture of a new type of 

 wagon hub made up of small sections of wood, 

 which he claims is much stronger than solid 

 wood hubs, and can be made much cheaper. 



On July 15 suit was filed in the Federal 

 Court on behalf of the government for .$12,- 

 0G4 damages against the defunct Rumpf-Frudtlon 

 Lumber Company, alleging that in 1902 timber 

 cut by this company on government Iftnds was 

 not paid for. 



Chicago lumber receipts are declining a little. 

 Week before last they totaled 51,21.5,000 feet 

 as compared with 61.253,000 feet for the cor- 

 responding week in 1909. 



The Dewitt Lumber Company recently located 

 at No. 1 ftladison avenue. New York City, an- 

 nounces its removal to the Drexel building, Phila- 

 delphia. 



J. \. Beardsley of Elysian, Minn., has re. 

 cently bought a tract of hardwood timber in 

 Bayfield County, Wis., and Is putting in a mill 

 to cut it. The timber also includes a million 

 feet of hemlock. 



R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the Northern Hem- 

 lock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of Wisconsin, was a Chicago visitor on July 

 19 and 20, in attendance at the yellow pine 

 meeting. 



J. D. Lacey, the head of the big timber house 

 of J. D. Lacey & Co. of Chicago, is in the East 

 on business connected with his timber sales. 



The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of Chicago recently increased its capital stock 

 from $30,000 to $80,000. 



The Now Kra Furniture Company of this 

 city has changed its name to the Murphy Fur- 

 niture Company. 



The A. H. Hill Lumber Company, a concern 

 formerly operating in Wenona, 111., has dis- 

 solved. 



A new concern incorporated under Illinois 

 laws is the John A. Sherer Company, which 

 corporation will do a business in manufacturing 

 furniture and other similar articles. The capi- 

 tal stock is $15,000 and the incorporators are 

 J. G. Sherer, Wm. E. McCoy and F. A. Zim- 

 merman. 



Isaac D. Budd, Cyrus W. Hoyt and A. J. 

 Parker have organized the Budd Construction 

 Company at Summit. III. The capital is $25,000. 



J. A. Roper, W. C. Durkes and H. S. Dixon 

 are the incorporators of the Roper Furniture 

 Company of Dixon, III., which concern is capi- 

 talized at $100,000 and will manufacture fur- 

 niture and kindred articles. 



The Meister Piano Company of Chicago has 

 increased its capital stock from $2,500 to 

 $100,00(1. 



The Rockford Novelty Works is the name of 

 a new company at Rockford. 111., organized, 

 with $5,000 capital, to manufacture furnitnre, 

 woodwork, etc. 



The Athey Sanitary Equipment Company has 

 organized in Chicago to manufacture and deal 

 in window and door equipments, furniture and 

 building material. The subscribed capital is 

 $50,000 and the incorporators are E. D. Weary, 

 I. H. Athey. W. H. Alford and E. IL Ladd. 



The Commercial Furniture Company of Chi- 

 cago has increased its capital from $20,000 to 

 $50,000. 



The Central Illinois Construction Company 

 of Springfield. 111., has dissolved. 



The Frank Porter Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in Chicago with a capital stock of 

 $25,000. The concern will manufacture and 

 deal in timber, logs and lumber and its prod- 

 ucts. The incorporators are Frank Porter, 

 Mark Porter and Arthur M. Cox. 



C. E. Curtis & Bro.. manufacturers of special 

 veneered panels, are getting well settled in their 

 new quarters. Western avenue and Twenty-sixth 

 street, Chicago, and are beginning to get the 

 upper hand over orders that have been piling 

 up while the concern was moving. The new 

 quarters afford ample room and will greatly 

 facilitate the concern in taking care of its 

 growing business. 



A new factor in the ranks of the reliable 

 wholesale trade of Chicago is the E. H. Dalbey 

 Lumber Company, organized by Ernest H. Dal- 

 bey, and located in the Hoyworth building. 



.7. S. Weidman, Jr., cf Weidman. jlich.. ac- 

 companied by his wife, was a Chicago vLi^itor 

 early last week. He and Mrs. Weidman are 

 en route to Portland. Ore., and other Pacific 

 Coast points. It is very likely that this efficient 

 young lumberman will engage in the lumber 

 business with a well-known Oregon house 

 V, ithin a short time. 



C. L. Harrison, secretary of the Himmel- 

 borger-Harrison Lumber Company of Morehouse. 

 Mo., was in Chicago on July 21. 



George E. Foster, president of the JToster- 

 Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen, Wis., was 

 a Chicago visitor July 21. 



The Hickory Handle Manufacturers" Associa- 

 tion of the United States was in session at the 

 I'lanters' Hotel, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 

 July 21. 22 and 23. The adoption of a stand- 

 ard iiandle was among the matters to be con- 

 sidered. A river trip with a dinner at AUon. 

 111., was planned for the delegates Thursday 

 evening. Meetings have been held every ninety 

 days to promote close cooperation among the 

 manufacturers. The next issue of the Record 

 will contain a more detailed account of the 

 meeting. 



J. J. Cochran, who for many years has been 

 intimately associated with the southern lumber 

 trade, has broken into the ranks of Chicago 

 lumbermen and without a doubt has come to 

 stay. His first action, after opening up an 

 office in room 961 Peoples Gas Building, was to 

 .ioin both the Wholesalers' and the Hardwood 

 associations, Mr. Cochran is a man of wide 



