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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Ing, is back from a trip of several weeks in the 

 Asheville (N. C.) territory. He covered a great 

 deal of territory and came in direct contact with 

 a number of millmen. Everywbere he found 

 business quiet. 



J. G. Rouse, vice president and general man- 

 ager of the Swathmore Lumber Company, which 

 is conducting operations five miles from Hen- 

 dricks and twenty-five miles from Elkins, W. Va., 

 on the Dry Fork railroad, has gone up to the 

 mill for a week or ten days to supervise opera- 

 tions. The company owns 4.000 acres of timber. 



Pittsburg. 



The Goodwin Lumber Company, which recent- 

 ly started a Pittsburg office in the Farmers' 

 Bank buildmg. is getting shaped up well for its 

 hardwood activities and from its big mills at 

 Blue Jay, W. Va., is shipping a nice lot of hard- 

 wood. Few firms are so well prepared to take 

 care of the general hardwood trade as the Good- 

 win, and it is certain to work up a good busi- 

 ness here in the near future. 



A. E. Murphy, who was a partner of A. J. 

 Diehold's in forming the Forest Lumber Com- 

 pany eight years ago, has withdrawn from that 

 concern and is now selling lumber for himself 

 at 605 Commonwealth building. Mr. Murphy 

 is a thoroughly experienced lumber wholesaler 

 and has a list of connections which are bound 

 to make him a prominent factor in the Pitts- 

 burg district. 



W. E. Pownall, president of the Colonial Lum- 

 ber Company, reports a better call for timber 

 and in general a better spirit in the lumber 

 market. Recently the Colonial has made some 

 nice sales of cherry to yards and furniture con- 

 cerns in Cincinnati. 



Fred R. and E. V. Babcock of the Babcock 

 Lumber Company, R. H. Erving of the Flint, 

 Erving & Stoner Lumber Company, and W. P. 

 Craig, the Whitmer manager in Pittsburg, are 

 attending the convention of spruce dealers in 

 Philadelphia Ibis week. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company is run- 

 ning its two mills, in northern Pennsylvania 

 steadily with a total output of about 80,000 feet 

 jier day. W. W. Dickey, president of this com- 

 pany, announces a better trade with the country 

 yards and believes that in hardwoods a notice- 

 able improvement will be shown from this date 

 forward. 



L. L. Satler, presidmit ol: the Satlor Lumber 

 Company, has been sp.'inliiii; a i. w il:iys in 

 Mount Clemens. Micb.. takiu;: liatli- 1-r his rheu- 

 matism. The Satler upornlfs at lUackstuue, Va., 

 and is progressing well, and his box shook busi- 

 ness is taking much of its attention. 



The Railroad & Car MatcriMl Company was 

 lately formed by C. M' iin'; " formerly man- 

 ager of the Herman I i II I nliir Company, 

 and J. W. Scull, ^•, : i-d with the 

 Pressed Sttel Car <■..■ , ,,i . ,1 imports a sur- 

 prisingly good inquiry fur liiuliers. Its first 

 month of business was very eucouraging to the 

 company, and in addition to getting well 

 grounded In lumber connections it has taken 

 on several important agencies for railroad and 

 car machinery. 



William R. Cornelius has established a good 

 hardwood connection in Virginia and may now 

 be expected to get Into the liardwood business 

 with both feet. He Is well satisfied with the 

 slight upward tendency that he notes In his 

 correspondence and believes that after the presi- 

 dential nominations times will be better in the 

 Itimber business. 



H. V. Curll of the Curll Lumber Company is 

 mourning the loss of his aged mother, whose 

 death occurred at Clarion, Pa., a few days ago. 

 He has been looking up some good timber prop- 

 erties in West Virginia recently. 



The Westmoreland Coal Company of Irwin, 

 Pa., has started to plant 50,000 black locust 

 seedlings at Export, I'a. The trees are planted 

 6 and 8 feet apart and are Intended for mine 

 posts for the company's future use. The same 

 company planted 50,000 eatalpa trees last year. 



The Flint, Irving & Stoner Lumber Company 

 reports excellent shipments in April, consider- 

 ing the general trend of things. It is running 

 its plant at Dunlevie, W. Va., eleven hours a 

 day and has been getting out a large amount 

 of spruce recently. J. B. Flint says that busi- 

 ness is mighty hard to get, but persistent plug- 

 ging will bring considerable trade. 



J. X. Woollett, general manager of the Amer- 

 ican Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Is in 

 Chicago this week looking after western orders. 

 The trade of the American in hardwoods this 

 spring has been its chief hope producer and es- 

 pecially its southwestern business has been satis- 



The Willson Bros. Lumber Company is get- 

 ting a fair amount of hardwood business, accord- 

 ing to J. F. Balsley, and finds that the small 

 manufacturers are buying a little more freely 

 than last month. The yards are taking just as 

 little stock as will actually meet their immediate 

 demands. 



The Furnace Run Sawmill & Lumber Com- 

 pany has all its salesmen out and is doing its 

 best to keep things lively in its new quarters 

 in the Curry building. Poplar orders have been 

 plentiful of late and the company has also 

 taken some nice spruce business. President Bell 

 reports price conditions about the same as 

 April 1. 



Philip C. Clarke, hardwood manager for Bemis 

 & Vosburgh, has been touring New York and do- 

 ing the eastern trade in general. He reports 

 some good business to be had and finds that 

 competition is great. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company has sold 

 every bit of its hickory on a tract of 1,600 acres 

 at Jacksonsburg, W. Va., and will proceed at 

 once to cut this and other minor hardwoods on 

 the tract. The company cut off most of the oak 

 (luring the past two years or more which it 

 has been operating there. Mr. Hastings was In 

 Nova Scotia ten days or more looking after the 

 affairs of the Davidson Lumber Company, of 

 which he Is president. 



R. O. McCall, who formerly had charge of the 

 mill work department of the H. Murphy Lumber 

 Company, and Albert J. Bartlett have formed the 

 McCall Lumber Company, and will do a general 

 wholesale business from Penn and Shady ave- 

 nues, East End. Both men are well known to 

 the Pittsburg trade and have an Intimate knowl- 

 edge of the hardwood lumber business. 



H. E. Ast, sales. manager of the J. R. Droney 

 Lumber Company of Watoga, W. Va., has been 

 calling on Pittsburg firms for ten days or more 

 looking up orders for his company. The Droney 

 Lumber Company has built up a big trade not 

 only with the yards but the wholesalers here, 

 and last year shipped a large stock to this 

 city. 



The Webster & Keasey Lumber Company Is 

 still running its mill In Indiana county, and 

 will shortly start to cut hardwoods. It is giv- 

 ing much attention to oak and chestnut, as the 

 inquiry from manufacturers for this slock is 

 more urgent the last few weeks. 



Joseph Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany made quite an extensive trip through the 

 East recently and brought back some good busi- 

 ness. In maple and oak the Linchans have been 

 having a nice trade all spring. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has secured a 

 Pennsylvania charter, its capital being $5,000. 

 H. F. Domholl formed the company nearly a 

 year ago, and he with H. A. Domhoff and K. L. 

 Grundlsh compose the present directorship. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company has added a 

 splendid connection the past week by contract- 

 ing for 2,000,000 feet of lumber to be cut in 

 Pennsylvania. This stock will be largely hard- 

 wood and will be used to supply the eastern 

 trade of the company. 



The Stover Lumber Company has been mak- 

 ing some good sales of spruce lately, most of It 

 being surface stock. Mr. Stover also sold last 

 week 30,000 mixed oak ties for trolley pur- 

 poses. The company has recently secured a new 



West Virginia connection, which will put it in 

 still better shape to handle the hardwood trade 

 of Greater Pittsburg. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is feel- 

 ing justly proud of an order for 300,000 feet 

 of oak to be used in the wickets of dams Nos. 

 S and 11 in the Ohio river. This stock will be 

 white oak, and most of it will be cut 12x12x15. 

 It will be taken from Washington and Lawrence 

 counties, Pennsylvania. This concern has been 

 very fortunate in getting river contracts the 

 past two years, and last year furnished all the 

 timbers at Glenfield and Glen Osborne in the 

 Ohio river below Pittsburg. 



Buffalo, 



Hardwood lumbermen are taking a leading 

 part in the establishment of a lumbermen's club, 

 which is expected to be made an auxiliary of 

 the Manufacturers' Club, now opening rooms In 

 the Coal & Iron Exchange. 



At the annual me.tinu of tin? Ilarilwood Ex- 

 change on May 2 l-iank A. I'.c .\ i' was ilected 

 president; Anthony .Miii.r. vii. in.^HlLiif. and 

 Fred M. Sullivan, socrotary and tioasnr.r. 



The proposition of D. Y. Leslie to settle with 

 his creditors at 40 cents on the dollar to wipe 

 out some long time accounts has been accepted 

 by nearly all and business, which has not been 

 interrupted, will proceed as before. 



Beyer, Knox & Co.'s city yard is not likely to 

 be disturbed very soon, as the grade crossing 

 operations at that point are proceeding slowly. 

 Trade is reported quiet. 



0. E. Yeager has finished the task of revising 

 the National Inspection rules and is now ready 

 to present his list to the National association. 

 Business has been good with him, but runs un- 

 steady. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. have lately sold a good 

 block of cherry and will not fall to get enough 

 more to make good their stock, though It is not 

 an easy matter to find it. Quartered oak is 

 making a pretty good run also. 



The lake trade of T. Sullivan & Co. Is coming 

 In strong, with plenty of stock in sight hy that 

 route. The estimate is that business Is two- 

 thirds what it was a year ago and the firm is 

 satisfied, considering business in general. 



The office of the ButTalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company Is always busy and able to report a 

 good trade. There is a large proportion of mixed 

 car orders though, which shows that the buy- 

 ers are proceeding with caution. 



A. W. Krelnheder is on the other side of the 

 Ohio looking after the Interests of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company and shipping quite 

 an amount of oak and other hardwoods in this 

 direction, though the home yard is always well 

 stocked. 



The Memphis mills of Scatcherd & Son are 

 running now and will turn out a good amount 

 of stock, mostly oak lumber. Business seems 

 to have taken a quiet turn of late. 



The lake trade of G. Ellas & Bro. is always 

 a prominent feature and there are already two 

 barges loading for Buffalo, so the amount to 

 be taken this season ought to be large. The 

 door mill is also very busy now. 



A. Miller Is back from his eastern trip and 

 Is looking after people who need good hardwood 

 lumber. He finds trade when he goes after It, 

 but does not think It is improving very fast at 

 present. His elm and basswood specialties al- 

 ways go. 



The mills of the McLean companies are run- 

 ning, Angus McLean still spending much of his 

 time at the two at New Richmond and Bona- 

 venture on the St. Lawrence. The burned mill 

 at Balhurst in that district will be rebuilt this 

 summer. 



The yard of F. W. Vetter Is well supplied with 

 the hardwood lumber that sells, the plan being 

 to keep a complete assortment always on hand. 

 Sales are fairly good and are expected to be 

 better before long. 



