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with an authorized capital of ?500,000 to do 

 a general lumber business at Elizabeth, N. J. 



The Fuller & Rice Lumber Company of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., has increased its capital 

 stoclJ from $i!j.000 to $200,000 and has filed 

 articles to that effect with the secretary of 

 state. 



A deed was recently closed transferring to the 

 Bond Lumber Company of Gulfport, Miss., cer- 

 tain timber lands in that section to the value of 

 almost a million dollars. 



The National Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Portland, N. Y., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $500,000 to conduct a general 

 lumbering business. C. E. Eaton is president, 

 and A. F. Jones treasurer of the new concern. 



The BatesvlUe Manufacturing Company's plant 

 at Newton, Miss., has been put into operation. 

 The new industr.y manufactures spokes and hubs, 

 having a capacity of 10.000 club turned spokes 

 per day. W. M. Price is general manager and 

 J. W. Griffin superintendent. 



The Quiet Manufacturing Company of Whit- 

 tier, N. C. has been incorporated witli a capital 

 stock of .$12,000. by William Quiet of Whittier, 

 G. E. Colvine of Bryson City, and W. T. Mason 

 of Asheville, N. C. The company will build a 

 woodworking factory at Whittier and will begin 

 operations shortly. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan. 

 Wis., has purchased 2.500 acres of timber lands 

 from the G. S. Sanburn Company of Ashland. 

 The purchase price was about .$14 per acre. The 

 Sanburn company retains the ipineral right on 

 the lands. The property is located in Houghton 

 county, Michigan, a short distance from Sidnaw. 



Forest fires in the vicinity of Yalmar. Mich., 

 spread into the lumber piles at the mill of the 

 Valmar Lumber Company and about 000,000 feet 

 of lumber, mostly birch and hemlock, were de- 

 stroyed. Only by the most strenuous effort were 

 the mill and the remaining stock of lumber, about 

 400.000 feet, saved from destruction. The lumber 

 w.is well insured. 



The Whitaker Brothers Company of Meridian, 

 Miss., with mills there and at Meehan Junction, 

 has just erected a new double circular sawmill 



at Meehan Junction, whicli will make a specialty 

 of quartered white oak. The officers of the 

 company are : W. B. Whitaker, president : J. 

 R. Whitaker. secretary, and J. T. Whitaker, 

 treasurer. The company is also an extensive 

 manufacturer of hickory. 



The saw and planing mill of the Tcnuessce 

 Lumber & Coal Company of Glen Mary. Tenn., 

 was destroyed by fire on August 13. The fire 

 is tliought to have started in a hot bos. Tlie 

 loss has not yet been estimated, but it is prob- 

 able that the plant will be rebuilt. The gen- 

 eral offices and commissary of the company are 

 located at Glen Mary in charge of C. P. Have- 

 meyer, general manager. The sales office, in 

 char.ge of Hall Havemcyer, are located at Cov- 

 ington, Ky. 



C. W. Hyde, president ot the Ilydc Lumber 

 Company, South Bend. Ind., has recently se- 

 cured an interest in the properties of the Desha 

 Lumber Compan.v, which owns large tracts in 

 the parish of East Carroll, La., the timber 

 being largely virgin oak, - ash. cottonwood, 

 cypress and red gum. The total stand of timber 

 is estimated at close to 40,000.000 feet. A rail- 

 road is being constructed into the timber. A 

 steam skidder will be installed at an early dat'.' 

 and the logs will be shipped to Arkansas City. 

 Arli., where the company lately built a fine band 

 mill with all the latest and most up-to-date 

 accessories. The capacity of the Desha com- 

 pany's plant is 50,000 feet per day. 



R. Lee Riggs, secretary of the Port Barre 

 Lumber Compan.v. of Port Barre, La., which is 

 temporarily in the hands of a receiver, has 

 opened an office at 432 Hibernia building. New 

 Orleans, where he will engage in a general 

 wholesale business, domestic and export, in red 

 and white oak. ash, red gum, tupelo and cypress. 

 Mr. Riggs has arrangements with the Port 

 Barre Lumber Company whereby he will offer 

 a portion of the product of the company's mill 

 for sale. He also has contracts with a numl>er 

 of other mills to handle their hardwood and 

 tupelo gum output. Mr. Riggs will continue his 

 office until the receivership of the Port Barro 

 Lumber Company is relieved, when he will likely 

 ostahlish sales offices of that company in New 

 Orleans. 



Hardwood J^feWs. 



(By HABD'WOOS RECORD Special CorresBondentsJ 



CHICAGO 



11. W. Baird, the lumber jobber of Memphis, 

 who has been spending several weeks in Chicago, 

 paid his respects at the Record office on August 

 10. Air. Baird will return to Memphis on Sep- 

 tember 1 to open an office in the Randolph 

 Building for the handling of several stocks of 

 southern hardwoods for which he has lately 

 contracted. 



J. F. McSweyn. manager of the Memphis Saw 

 Mill Company, was a Record caller on August 

 17. en route to Memphis from the Lake country, 

 where his family is spending the summer. Mr. 

 McSweyn will .stay but a short time in Memphis, 

 and will return to his family in the North for 

 another month's stay. 



A. P. Steele, of Sardis. Miss., with his wife 

 and sons, is spending a few weeks at the Chi- 

 cago Beach Hotel. As a matter of fact. Mr. 

 Steele, who is secretary and sales manager of 

 the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 

 fs simply making the hotel his headquarters 

 while making a sales tour of the North and 

 East. 



T. B. McCormick, general manager of the 

 Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, spent 

 a day or two in Chicago a fortniglit ago. 



C. R. Lamb, chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, of 



Charleston, Miss., who resides at Minneapolis, 

 spent a day in Chicago last week in consultation 

 with General .Manager Burke, of that institution 



W. B. Burke, general manager of the Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber Company, of Charleston. Miss., 

 accompanied by his wife and son, are sojourning 

 at the Chicago Beach Hotel, for a little sur- 

 cease from the hot weather of Mississippi. Mr. 

 Burke reports that his house has recently booked 

 several orders which are the largest they have 

 handled for fully a year. 



The Recoud acknowledges a call from J. .\. 

 Minuick, ot Indianapolis, on August l.'i. Mr. 

 Minnick is general sales manager of the National 

 Dry Kiln Company, of Indianapolis. 



J. S. Wcidman. the banker-lumberman of Mt. 

 Pleasant. Mich., was a Chicago visitor August 12. 



The Recoi!d had the pleasure of a call on 

 August 11 from A. Hawley, secretary of the 

 St. Louis Lumberman. 



N. A. Gladding, vice-president and general 

 sales manager of E. C. Atkins & Co., the big 

 saw house of Indianapolis, spent a day in Chi- 

 cago last week en route to visit the company's 

 liranch sales office between this point and the 

 I'acific Coast. 



J. P. Ileuss. flooring factory superintendent 

 of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., of Cadillac, Mich., 

 was a Chicago visitor on August 9. Mr. Heuss 

 investigated the Kraetzer steaming process for 

 preparing lumber for seasoning. 



II. B. Leavitt, of this city, president of the 

 Leavitt Land & Lumber Company at Dermott. 

 Ark., has been called to the mill point of that 

 company owing to difficulties in operation caused 

 by the heavy rains. 



The Record acknowledges receipt of the 

 August number of the Red Book, published by 

 the Lumbermen's Credit Association of Chicago 

 and New York, and containing the rating of 

 many new firms associated with the lumber and 

 manufacturing business ; a publication called the 

 20th Century Sheet Metal Worker, written by 

 A. E. Osborne, and published by the American 

 Artisan. Mr. Osborne's book is a brief practical 

 explanation of the various short cuts and proli- 

 lems employed b.v metal workers, and is a vol- 

 ume invaluable both to the artisan and the 

 apprentice. 



The newly oiganized Konzen. Stumpf & 

 Schafcr Lumber Company, of Chicago, has 

 bought out the hardwood yard, office and full 

 equipment of the F. W. Black Lumber Company, 

 Robey street and Blue Island avenue. 



W. T. Bayliss, Waynesville, 111., has been 

 succeeded by the Alexander Lumber Company 

 Willi headquarters in Chicago. 



II. C. Kofoid Lumber Company, of Minier, 111., 

 has sold out to the S. R. Cornish Lumber Com- 

 pany, which will be located in Chicago. 



The L'nion Furniture Company, of Rockford. 

 III., is rushing work on its new factory to take 

 ilie place of the building recently burned. It is 

 ixi)ected that the new plant will be ready for 

 occupancy by September 1. 



The Langton Lumber Company, of Peoria. III., 

 is erecting a large hardwood mill in southern 

 Arkansas to supply material for the local plant. 

 It is stated that the new structure will cost in 

 the neighborhood of $30,000. 



S. & T. Johnson, of Princeton, 111., have pur- 

 chased the Larson Furniture Company. 



A. H. Ruth, of the G. W. Jones Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Appleton, Wis., has been making an ex- 

 tended business trip through the Wisconsin mill 

 plants. 



J. (i. Marsh, of the Huddleston-Marsh Lumber 

 Company, of Chicago, mahogany specialists, has 

 returned from Europe and reports having had a 

 satisfactory and pleasant trip. 



Leonard Bronson. manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, is back from 

 an extended Pacific Coast trip, where he ad- 

 dressed 'various meetings of W^estern lumber 

 associations. 



Fred J. Jeffris, of the Chicago Car Lumlier 

 Company, has left for a three weeks' vacation 

 trip in upper ilichigan. 



.T. \. Stimson, the well-known hardwood oper- 

 ator of Huntingburg. Ind., Oweusboro, Ky.. and 

 Memphis, Tenn., gladdened the hearts of his 

 Chicago friends on August 24 with a call. This 

 is Mr. Stimson's first visit to Chicago in eight 

 months. He says that trade is so satisfactory 

 with him that he has not been obliged to urge 

 sales during the year, and that even now he is 

 just on a tour shaking hands with his customers. 



NEW YORK 



The Interstate Commerce Commission began a 

 tlirec days' hearing in this city on the 15th for 

 I lie purpose of collecting information as to the 

 jusliflability of the proposed general increase in 

 freight rates as announced by the railroads, 

 effective November 10, at which the opportunity 

 was given to merchant interests in all classes 

 of freiglit to be heard. The session opened at 

 the Custom House, and immediately C. C. Mc- 

 Cain, secretary of the Eastern Trunk Line Asso- 

 ciation, acting on behalf of over twenty roads 

 who had cited their appearance, moved that the 

 hearing be postponed for a few days additional 

 in order that the large amount of data which 

 the railroads had accumulated in support of the 

 justice of such an advance might be gotten into 



