HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ALEXANDER S. WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT 

 ASTORIA Vli.NEEU MILLS. 



The firm has two active hardwood mills 

 near Asheville, N. C, and conducts a gen- 

 eral wholesale lumber business. These mills 

 cut 125,000 feet per day and turn out oak, 

 poplar and chestnut, both in the form of 

 long lumber and in glued-up stock for wood 

 ■working. Maple, beech and birch are 

 shipped from West Virginia and Pennsyl- 

 vania, and in addition the company receives 

 basswood, cypress lumber and shingles by 

 water or rail. Hemlock and North Caro- 

 lina pine and West Virginia spruce lumber 

 and lath are also manufactured at the 

 two main mills. Of the various lines of 

 lumber Gouveneur E. Smith & Co. handle 

 upwards of 50,000,000 feet annually, ship- 

 ping chiefly to New York state. Long 

 Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New 

 England. The firm also handles the entire 

 output of the Craggy Lumber Company of 

 Swannanoa, N. C, consisting of ash, oak 



STUART D. 



WALKER. GOUyERNEUR E. 

 SMITH & CO. 



and poplar, cut at the rate of 25,000 feet 

 per day, and the entire output in dimension 

 stock and glued-up table tops of the 

 Waynesville Wood Manufacturing Company 

 of Waynesville, N. C, together with such 

 oak and other hardwoods as they have to 

 sell in the rough. Other concerns with 

 which contracts for mill cuts have been 

 made are the French Broad Lumber Com- 

 pany of Asheville, N. C, and the Glady Fork 

 Lumber Company of Glady, W. Va. 



Gouveneur E. Smith & Co. have a branch 

 office at Asheville, N. C, and one in Boston 

 at 88 Broad street. George Walker covers 

 New York City and Loud Island; H. A. 

 Savage the New England territory; George 

 Harvey looks after southern New Jersey; 

 Thomas M. Young, northern New Jersey 

 and part of Brooklyn; A. H. Piatt has 

 charge of Pennsylvania territory and F. W. 

 McGreevy takes care of New York state 

 and Canada. 



The Stevens-Eaton Company 

 One of the vigorous concerns of New 

 Y'ork is the Stevens-Eaton Company of 

 1 Madison avenue. This company was or- 

 ganized in November, 1904, to engage in 

 a general lumber business, with the fol- 

 lowing oflScers: Pendennis White, presi- 

 dent; G. A. Mitchell, vice-president; George 

 M. Stevens, treasurer; W. A. Eaton, secre- 

 tary, who, with Harry Gratwick, com- 

 posed also the board of directors. T. S. 

 Miller joined the company January 1, 1905, 

 when a hardwood department was added 

 to the business. Pendennis White was killed 

 in an automobile accident and T. S. Miller 

 succeeded him as director. In 1909 James 

 Lord was taken into the company and made 

 a director. 



The company handles about forty million 

 feet of hardwoods and soft woods, includ- 

 ing shingles and lath. A hardwood yard 

 at Oilman, W. Va., has recently been 

 opened, where a complete assortment of all 

 thicknesses and grades of hardwoods is 

 kept on hand at all times. The company 

 has 1,100 feet of side track in this yard 

 and a storage capacity for five to six mil- 

 lion feet. An average of three to four cars 

 a day is handled through the yard. 



The Seacoast Lumber Company 



The Seacoast Lumber Company, with 

 general offices at 1 Madison avenue, New 

 York City, and a branch office at Jackson- 

 viUe, Fla., was organized in 1904. Although 

 a young corporation, it is notably one of 

 rapidly increasing magnitude. 



The company in the past has specialized 

 in the manufacture and distribution of 

 cypress and spruce lumber, but lately has 

 started to handle hardwoods and yellow 

 pine. In hardwoods valuable connections 

 have just been completed, and will give the 

 concern large holdings in poplar, red and 

 white oak, chestnut, ash and gum. The 

 company distributes annually about 25,- 

 000,000 feet of cypress. It is also American 



GODVERNEUR E. SMITH, GOUVERNEUE E. 

 SMITH & CO. 



agent for Price Bros. & Co., Quebec, Can- 

 ada, manufacturers of spruce lumber, pulp 

 wood and cedar shingles. 



The officers of the company are William 

 S. Hofstra, president and treasurer; Brad- 

 ley L. Eaton, vice-president; Coleman W. 

 Brownson, secretary and general manager; 

 A. C. Wylly, Jr., hardward department man- 

 ager; Harry S. Lafond, yellow pine depart- 

 ment manager, and Martin C. Hughes, 

 cypress department manager. W. S. Hof- 

 stra, president, formerly conducted a lum- 

 ber business at Muskegon, Mich.; later he 

 went to Louisiana to manufacture cypress 

 p,nd from there came north to connect him- 

 self with the present company. His experi- 

 ence includes all phases of the business and 

 he is well known in the trade. 



Bradley L. Eaton, vice-president, has been 

 all his life a millman. He is a member 

 of the firm of Church E. Gates & Co., who 



GEORGE J. DITTMAR, GOUVERNEUR E. 

 SMITH & CO. 



