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RAI.ril E. SUMNEU, MA.NAGEl; IIA.MU.TON 

 H. SALMON & CO. 



tended to take in the output of other mills 

 (principally spruce) has drifted into a gen- 

 eral wholesale trade. On October 30, 1909, 

 the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company 

 •was dissolved and the business taken over 

 by the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Com- 

 pany. S. E. Slaymaker & Co. -was also dis- 

 solved at the same time and reorganized 

 under the laws of the state of West yir- 

 ginia with a capital of $50,000 cash and no 

 liabilities. The individual interests of S. 

 K. Slaymaker, in both of the above con- 

 cerns, were then merged into the West Vir- 

 ginia Pulp & Paper Company, and since 

 that date the firm of S. E. Slaymaker & 

 Co. has become simply and wholly a branch 

 of the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Com 

 pany, formed for the purpose of handling 

 the output of the latter company's nulls 

 and for doing a general wholesale business. 

 Within the last two vcars the firm has taken 



IliANK T. sn.I.IVAN. MANA(;EK BfKKAI.O 

 m-KKE HAMILTON H. SALMON & CO. 



on hardwoods, and it is planned to maki a 

 considerable extension of this department 

 in the future, which will iu fact take in all 

 branches of the business. While the firm's 

 capital is only $50,000, the entire stock 

 is owned by the West Virginia Pulp & 

 Paper Company, giving it practically un- 

 limited capital, and credit sufficient to 

 handle any kind of a proposition. 



At present S. E. Slaymaker & Co. market 

 the output of the Cass operation and several 

 other outside mills, whose output they con- 

 trol, amounting to from 50,000,000 to GO,- 

 000,000 feet of spruce annually. By the 

 tei-ms of the charter, they are privileged 

 not only to do a wholesale, but an operating 

 and manufacturing business, and according- 

 ly it is their intention to branch out in the 

 near future and manufacture hardwoods as 

 well as spruce. 



R. N. Shaffer, for some time connected 

 with this house, is a practical man from the 

 ground up and popular with the trade. He 

 has recently been elected vice-president of 

 the concern. 



Hedden-Clark Lumber Company 



One of the young but very live concerns 

 of New York City is the Hedden-Clark Lum- 

 ber Company, wholesale lumber, 50 Church 

 street. Although chartered under Xew York 

 laws only about nine months ago, it has al- 

 ready reached an important status in the 

 New York hardwood ^market. The active, 

 practical men in the business are George 

 P. Hedden and J. B. Clark, both young men, 

 but men of considerable experience in their 

 line. They handle mainly hardwoods, maple 

 and oak flooring, and some spruce and hem- 

 lock on the side. They have direct mill 

 connection and since starting have handled 

 about 5,000,000 feet of lumber, principally 

 hardwoods and flooring. George P. Hedden 

 started in the lumber business with Ealph 

 E. Summer, subsequently was with Ham- 

 ilton H. Salmon & Co. From the bottom 

 rung he has climbed to the top of the lad- 

 der. J. P. Clark, also abundantly equippeil. 

 was for some years in charge of the Grand 

 Kapids, Mich., office of Hamilton II. .Salmon 

 & Co. 



Indiaua Quartered Oak Company 

 The Indiana Quartered Oak Company, 

 wholesale lumber, 5 East Forty-second street, 

 was organized in November, 1904, under the 

 laws of the state of Indiana, with Henry 

 Maley of Edinburg, Ind., president; Wil 

 lard Winslow, treasurer, and William Threl- 

 kekl, secretary. Since the death of Henry 

 Maley, Mr. Winslow has acted as president 

 as well as treasurer. The company handles 

 a general line of hardwoods, but the special 

 ties have been dimension stock, oak floor- 

 ing and Philippine mahogany. This con- 

 cern is sub-agent for the Insular Lumber 

 Company of Manila, P. I., for New Eng- 

 land, the eastern portion of New 

 York, New Jersey and Delaware for the 

 sale of its Philippine mahogany. This wood 



lllMir.KIJT E. SUMNEli, SALES MANAGER 

 HAMILTON U. SALMON & CO. 



and oak flooring are the only items carried 

 iu stock in New York City. The Indiana 

 Quartered Oak Company has handled dur- 

 ing the last year about a million and a half 

 feet of oak flooring. The Philippine ma- 

 hogany business is in its infancy, but it is 

 expected with strong foundation that it 

 will grow to a considerable volume when 

 buyers become more familiar with the wood, 

 and as the other cabinet woods grow more 

 rnd more expensive. The Insular Lumber 

 Company has twenty-five square miles of 

 this mahogany timber, which will average 

 about six thousand feet to the acre. No 

 trees are cut under 24 inches in diameter, 

 Fnd the logs will average about 36 inches. 

 It is manufactured on the island of Negros, 

 where there is a modern plant, consisting 

 of two large band mills with a capacity of 

 one hundred and fifty thousand feet a day, 

 :;nd a large fleet of steel barges and tugs. 



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