HARDWOOD RECORD 



coast of Central America, wliicb is said to con- 

 tain 500,000,000 feet of liigtily valued varieties 

 oi hardwood. It is understood this concern will 

 import the logs to Los Angeles and saw them 

 into lumber. 



The imports of boards, deals and plank into 

 the United States for the year ended July 31 

 last amounted to 1,037,500,000 feet, an increase 

 of 164.900,000 feet over those of 1909, which 

 amounted to 872,600,000 feet. The showing for 

 the later period indicates an increase of 296,- 

 500,000 feet over the average for the period 

 1900-1909. which was 741,000,000 feet, or an 

 increase of 40 per cent. 



The Metzler Desk Factory of Herkimer, N. y., 

 was recently sold to the Majestic Furniture 

 Company, now operating a furniture manufac- 

 tory at Mexico, Oswego county. The operation 

 01 the Aletzler factory will be continued by the 

 new purchasers, who will increase the number of 

 employees to over one hundred and also increase 

 the capital stock from ,?40,000 to $120,000. The 

 directors of the Majestic company are E. E. Red- 

 head of Fulton. T. C. Sweet of Oswego, C. I. 

 Miller of Oswego. W. I. Taber, T. Harvey Ferris 



and W. T. Cantwell of Utica, and F. P. Costigan 

 of Syracuse. 



The Desha Lumber Company of Arkansas City, 

 Ark., has recently bought a tract of timber in 

 East Carroll Parish, La., which is estimated to 

 contain 40,000,000 feet of hardwood luml)er. A 

 railroad will be constructed into the property 

 and logs will be taken to the camp in Arkansas 

 City, where a band mill with a capacity of 50.- 

 000 feet is in operation. The Hyde Lumber Com- 

 pany will handle the entire product of the Desha 

 company. 



In North Carolina tiie following new concerns 

 have recently begun business : The Pittsburg 

 Lumber Manufacturing Company of Fresno, with 

 a capital of $10,000; the Carolina Lumber Com- 

 pany of Huntsdale, with a capital of $150,000 : 

 the Kinston Lumber Company of Kinston, with a 

 capital of $30,000 ; the Murchison Lumber Com- 

 pany of Murchison, with a capital of $300,000 ; 

 the Granville Lumber Company of Granville, with 

 a capital of $100,000 ; the South Creek Lumber 

 Company, South Creek, with a capital of $100,- 

 000, and the Quiett Manufacturing Company of 

 Whittier. with a capital of $12,000. 



Hardwood JWeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special CorressondentsJ 



CHIC AGO 



The first fall meeting of the Chicago Hard- 

 wood Lumber Exchange will take place Septem- 

 ber 30 at the LaSalle Hotel. The exchange 

 is in good shape, having been enlarged during 

 the past summer by the addition of several new 

 members. On Tuesday, preceding the meeting, 

 the directors and Marlcet Conditions Committee 

 will hold a regular meeting, and will be in shape 

 to report on the oOth. 



D. K. Jeffris of the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 pany is on his way to the Louisiana operations 

 of that concern, in his eighty-foot motor boat. 

 Mr. JefCris is accompanied by his family and is 

 making the trip down the Mississippi, to be gone 

 probably six weeks. 



Fred Jeffris of the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a month's Ashing trip 

 on the lakes of northern Wisconsin. 



J. J. Cochran of the Peoples Gas Building, 

 Chicago, reports having made an addition to his 

 sales force in the person of Enos Hawley, who 

 was formerly connected with Schultz Brothers. 

 Mr. Cochran is also represented by H. Brewing- 

 ton, who, with Mr. Hawley, is looking after 

 the Chicago and adjacent territory. 



Chas. H. Mears of the Mears-Slayton Lumber 

 Company has left Chicago for California with 

 his family, where he will spend the winter. 



J. P. Konzen of the Konzen, Stumpf &. Schafer 

 Company is traveling in the South on a buying 

 trip. 



T. F. Scanlon, the buyer for the McParland 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, is traveling through 

 the southern mill points and reports having 

 picked up a number of unusually good consign- 

 ments of high-grade stock, among which is a 

 large parcel of firsts and seconds red oak. 



L. W. Crow of the Mears-Slayton Lumber Com- 

 pany visited Milwaukee on a business trip last 

 week. 



C. E. Gamet, treasurer of Mears-Slayton Lum- 

 ber Company, is in the woods of northern Wis- 

 consin on a pleasure trip. 



G. D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Memphis, 

 was a Chicago visitor during the past week. 



Lamont Rowland and M. A. Goodyear of the 

 C. A. Goodyear Lumber Company, Tomah, Wis., 

 were in Chicago recently on business. 



H. S. Sackett, in charge of the Chicago branch 

 of the Forest Service, with offices in the Fisher 

 Building, has been on a vacation in New York 

 state. 



.V. G. Welmoie of the Southciu Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, stopped off at 

 Chicago recently from a trip to Canadian points. 

 A. G. Fritchey. sales manager for the Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber Company. Charleston, Miss., stopped 

 off on the way East during the past week. 



T. S. Estabrook of the local firm of EstabrooU- 

 Skeele Lumber Company spent the past couple 

 of weeks in the vicinity of Georgian Bay, Canada. 

 J. M. Attley of J. M. Attley & Co., Railway 

 Exchange, Chicago, has returned from a visit to 

 Heth, Ark., the headquarters of the Roth-Attley 

 Lumber Company. 



The Board of Directors of the Chicago Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association got together 

 last Wednesday to go over association matters. 

 The regular monthly meeting was postponed until 

 October. 



The Kankakee Manufacturing Company of 

 Kankakee. 111., has been relieved of the receiver- 

 ship and G. M. Scott appointed manager. 



The Belmont Mill Company has recently 

 started business in Chicago. The concern will 

 do a general millworking trade. 



The A. E. Darling Lumber Company has moved 

 its headquarters from Chicago to Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. 



John S. Hurd has opened an office at 43 

 South Water street, Chicago, where he will 

 carry on a wholesale and commission lumber 

 business. 



C. L. Minier of Minier Brothers. Nebo, 111., 

 recently died at his home in that place. 



The trade will be surprised to learn of the 

 involuntary insolvency of the Hicks Locomotive 

 & Car Works of Chicago Heights. A receiver has 

 already been appointed for the concern. 



The Forest City Sash & Door Company has 

 been incorporated at Rockford, 111., having at 

 its disposal a capital of $25,000. 



The firm of Charles Dudley & Co. took out 

 incorporation papers last week at Springfield to 

 do a manufacturing and dealing business in door 

 fixtures, etc. The new concern is capitalized at 

 $15,000. 



The Pocahontas Lumber Company of Poca- 

 hontas, 111., has been incorporated by four 

 well-known lumbermen who have subscribed a 

 capital of $15,000. The company will deal in 

 lumber and general building material. 



Incorporation papers have been taken out this 

 week by the Bloomer Construction Company, a con- 

 cern capitalized at $5,000 to do a general build- 

 ing, wrecking and contracting business. 



The Stone & Building Supply Company of Chi- 

 cago has been incorporated at Springfield with a 



capital of $10,000. The new concern will do a 

 general construction business and deal in build- 

 ing materials. 



The Berlin Sash & Door Company of Chicago, 

 a recently incorporated concern, capitalized at 

 $10,000, will do a general manufacturing and 

 selling business in sash, doors, frames, cabinet 

 work and interior finish. 



The Dewend-Kuschmann Furniture Company. 

 Moline, 111., has changed its name to the Dewend 

 & Grilk Company. 



George Kerns of the Kerns-Utley Lumber 

 Company, with offices in the Fisher Building, 

 Chicago, spent the past week on a trip to Mem- 

 phis, Heth, Ark., and Milan, III. The Kerns- 

 Utley company maintains a distributing yard 

 at the latter point. ■ 



M. E. Thomas, sales manager of the big floor- 

 ing houses of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc.. and the 

 Mitchell Bros. Company, Cadillac, Mich., was in 

 Chicago. September 15, en route on a western 

 trip. Mr. Thomas reports flooring sales very 

 fair and says that his companies' stocks of lum- 

 ber are much depleted at the present time. 

 These houses have less maple, birch, elm and 

 hasswood on hand now than at any time for 

 years. Mr. Thomas is very optimistic over the 

 trade outlook. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 with headquarters at Cincinnati, was a Chicago 

 visitor on September 15, en route home, having 

 been in attendance at the meeting of the North- 

 ern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 \ssociation at Milwaukee on September 14. Mr. 

 Doster says that the members of his association 

 report an increased demand for low-grade hard- 

 woods, but no particular improvement in the call 

 for the better varieties. 



Burdis Anderson, presiding genius of the Great 

 Lakes Veneer Company, Munising, Mich., was a 

 Chicago visitor, September 14 and lo. Mr. 

 \uderson commands a large trade in veneers m 

 the Chicago market and the output of his house 

 is a specialty among the furniture door and in- 

 terior finish manufacturers. 



T R Clendinen of the Missouri Handle & 

 Manufacturing Company was a Chicago guest 

 September 14. Mr. Clendinen advises that he is 

 scon to move the general sales office of his con- 

 cern to Kansas City, Mo., regarding this city as 

 a better location than Atchison for the distribu- 

 tion of his handle product. He reports the con- 

 dition of the handle trade as improving. Prices 

 are back on a comparatively satisfactory basis 

 ■,nd the volume of business is good. 



C G Powell of the Fulierton-Powell Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company of South Bend. Ind.. 

 was a visitor at the Chicago office of his house 

 on September 14. During his visit here he had 

 a conference with his chief associate, Sam Fuller. 

 Henry Ballon, superintendent of Cobbs & 

 Mitchell, Inc., Cadillac, Mich., was a Chicago 

 visitor September 9. 



John S. Weidman of Mt, Pleasant, Mich, and 

 John Bale of Lake Buick, Mich., stopped at 

 Chicago on their way to Pueblo, Colo., where 

 they vill attend tl.e National Irrigation conven- 

 tion From there they will go to Salida, Colo., 

 where they will look over their large tract of 

 timber and mineral lands. 



NEW YORK 



C. B. McNair of McNair & Son, Jacksonville. 

 Fla., and C. C. Herlong, prominent in the Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., lumber trade, arrived in town last 

 week on an automobile trip all the way from 

 Jacksonville to New York City. They were ac- 

 companied by their wives. 



W. D. Magovern. well known flooring whole- 

 saler of 11 Broadway, has completed the stock- 

 ing up of his new Brooklyn wholesale warehouse 

 at Fortieth street and Second avenue, and now 

 has on hand a full line of hardwood and yellow 

 pine flooring for quick shipments to the trade. 

 This new warehouse, in addition to the Manhat- 

 tan warehouse, which lie has been operating 



