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HARDWOOD RECORD 



burg career, having formerly been manager 

 of the hardwood department of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 



Chas. J. Kappler is rapidly settling up the 

 affairs of the Vigilant Lumber Company in 

 the Keystone building. This move was made 

 necessary by the death of President Jenkins 

 of that company a few months ago. George 

 Bartlett. the third partner in the concern, has 

 accepted a position with the Goodwin Lumber 

 Company. 



The Linehan Lumber Company reports the 

 general tone of trade better. People are be- 

 ginning to look around for good hardwood and 

 are putting more speed into their inquiries. 

 The Linehans say that the flooring trade has 

 been very fair and anticipate a big improve- 

 ment this fall in the hardwood business. 



J. T. Parsons of the Myers-Parsons Lumber 

 Company has gone to Michigan with his fam- 

 ily for a three weeks' vacation. This com- 

 pany is getting a much larger inquiry for big 

 stuff and has recently booked some very nice 

 orders for Pittsburg delivery. 



J. N. Wollett. general manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 says that the market for No. 1 and 2 common 

 poplar is strong. He has great faith in the 

 future of the poplar market and believes that 

 when the fall trade is opened there will be a 

 general resumption of operations at the mills. 

 He also reports a much better demand lately 

 for wagon hickory and for box stuff. 



According to Wm. T. Munroe, this month 

 is a banner month of the year so far for 

 figuring mill work. Industrial concerns are 

 putting projects forward rapidly and do not 

 seem afraid to let contracts. They are en- 

 couraged also by the fact that figures sub- 

 mitted are from fifteen to twenty per cent 

 lower for lumber than they were one year ago. 

 The J. C. Morehead Lumber Company's mill 

 at Shryock. W. Va., was burned July 17. The 

 power plant and all but about 40,000 feet of 

 lumber in the yard were saved. The company 

 had started its mill only three days before 

 this on a good batch of orders. Portable mills 

 have been made ready and a big new plant 

 will be erected as soon as possible. 



President Nelson Bell of the Furnace Run 

 Sawmill & Lumber Company reports a much 

 better business in box lumber, especially 

 spruce. The big fruit crop is resp,onsible for 

 much of this and the inquiry from the glass 

 companies is also bringing lots of business. 



The Railroad & Car Material Company looks 

 at the lumber m.arket at present as a rising 

 commodity in spite of the fact that there is 

 apparently no bottom to hardwood prices ex- 

 cept for white oak. The company feels sure 

 that no man Is safe in contracting to de- 

 liver any large quantity of hardwood two or 

 three months ahead at prevailing quotations. 

 The Goodwin Lumber Company was honored 

 last week by a visit from its president, C. L. 

 Goodwin of Indianapolis, and P. P. Griffin, its 

 vice-president, of Lock Haven, Pa. These 

 men hold the same office in the Blue Jay 

 Lumber Company. The Goodwin Lumber Com- 

 pany believes that the bottom in prices has 

 been reached and that there will be a marked 

 revival of buying after September 1. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company has 

 shut down its mill in southern Pennsylvania, 

 near Cumberland, Md., owing to the shortage 

 of water in the mountain streams. Its best 

 sellers now are white and rock oak, a large 

 amount of which is going to the eastern 

 market. 



One of the most interesting experiments in 

 reforestation that has ever been tried in the 

 middle states has just been started by Dr. 

 E. L. Dial of Cleveland, who has set out 

 about 40,000 Norway spruce and fir trees on 

 his farm close to the Pennsylvania line on the 

 P., y. & A. Railroad. The farm is one of 

 the worn-out patches of land on the Western 

 Reseno and has considerable swamp land on 



it. Dr. Dial has been 



experimenting with 



these trees on a small scale for years and 

 is convinced that they will grow well on the 

 light clay soil where he has planted them He 

 secured the trees from a Paris nursery and 

 had to pay $1 per box duty in addition to the 

 freight Even at this price they were much 

 cheaper than they could have been secured 

 in this country. Dr. Dial estimates that 

 m twenty years at the most the trees will 

 be in excellent shape for market and he is 

 looking forward to a big revenue from this 

 source for Christmas trees, etc. The experi- 

 ment will be watched with much interest by 

 the farmers of Western Reser\-e in Ohio who 

 have thousands of acres of similar land that 

 could be turned to forestry at once verv 

 profitably. 



CLEVELAND 



Cleveland lumbermen are interested in the dis- 

 covery at Painesville, a town a short distance 

 from this city, of a black walnut log which has 

 been buried under the bed of a river for about 

 fighty-three years. It was dug out of the Grand 

 river at Painesville by workmen who were mak- 

 ing excavations for the abutments of a new 

 bridge for the Lake Shore railroad. The trunk 

 IS four feet through at the butt and is twenty- 

 live feet long. It was brought to Cleveland, 

 w-liere it will be cut into lumber. The owners 

 of the log value It at $300. Owners of property 

 along the river are dragging the stream in hopes 

 of flndlng more black walnut logs 



Frederick B. Newton, at one time a prominent 

 Cleveland lumber dealer, died several days ago 

 at his home at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Ten years 

 ago Mr. Newton owned one of the largest lum- 

 ber plants in this city and was an extensive 

 dealer in hardwoods of all kinds. Later Mr. 

 Newton went to Idaho, where he became state 

 agent for a number of lumber concerns. A 

 stroke oC apoplexy caused his death. The body 

 was brought to Cleveland for Interment. 



A fire which will mean the loss of thousands 

 of dollars' worth of valuable oak and hickory 

 occurred near Clevelajid on July 18, when a ten- 

 acre bush, composed of unusually large oak and 

 hickory trees, was burned in a the which threat- 

 ened to wipe out ncniy .v, n ,,,,. i„ ,be county. 

 It started on the. N..,K K„i„ , ..„i several miles 

 west of Cleveland ami ~^,.^., ,i,:,,„^i, a number 

 ot n-iuts of timber, i iv,.. ion mm fought the 

 ''''•■ '■' '"" '''■■- l''iore it was extinguished. It 

 "* " ' ' ' ' '' ' I ' consumed some of the largest 



'■'''■ I rtbern Ohio. 



■^ ' " ' '" -'J carved walnut and stairway 

 waiuscuting is to be installed In a handsome 

 new residence, 108 feet square, to be built in 

 Wade Park for Mrs. John Hay. widow of the 

 secretary of state during the MrKini.x aiimiu- 

 Istratlon, and at one time sec i ,, v i„ r, '-i.iont 

 Lincoln. The old woodwork hi, i. ,„ Allien 

 from the Uuy residence on Eii. Ii.l .iv,„n.- .nul is 

 splendidly cai-ved. 



W. G. Ward of the Ward Lumber Company of 

 Ironton, O., was a visitor to Cleveland several 

 days ago. He reports business looking up, espe- 

 cially the hardwood end. He proceeded on his 

 way to New York City on a business trip. 



K. G. Page of the R. G. Page Lumber Com- 

 pany of Ashland, Ky., was in the city a few 

 days ago looking up orders for his concern. He 

 says that business Is gradually resuming normal 

 conditions. 



J. L. Sands, in charge of the hardwood de- 

 partment ot the H. H. Jenks Lumber Company of 

 this city, spent two weeks this month on the 

 coast of Maine, in company with his wife, as a 

 little vacation. K. H. Jenks of the concern was 

 In Chicago during the week attending a meeting 

 of lumbermen. 



J. D. Hitchcock o£ Ashtabula was In Cleveland 

 during the past week looking up stock. He says 

 the small towns are calling for normal quanti- 

 ties of hardwoods and that they seem in better 

 condition than the cities. 



The Guy & Ralph Gray Lumber Company 

 pulled down one of the biggest flooring orders 

 of the season during the past week when they 

 contracted to supply 280.000 feet of maple floor- 

 ing for the new Sterling-Welch building which is 

 being erected on Euclid avenue adjoining the 

 Euclid Club. The same company also got the 

 order for the large bill of lumber to be u.sed in 

 the structure. 



COLUMBUS 



The North Columbus Lumber Company of 

 Clinton township, a new corporation with a 

 capital stock of $25,000, was lamnched several 

 days ago and has already opened for business, 

 its offices and yards being located on the 

 Mock road east of the Pennsylvania railroad 

 tracks. The officers ot the company are F. M. 

 Koons, president; F. Bishop, vice president: 

 E. H. Chandler, secretary and treasurer. All 

 the officers and directors are well known to 

 the lumber trade of this city, and have had 

 considerable experience in this business. The 

 company will make and deal in all kinds ot 

 lumber, own timber lands and real estate for 

 yards, etc., and buy and sell coal. All kinds 

 of lumber will be handled. 



John R. Gobey & Co. report trade as much 

 better since the first of June than at any 

 time since January 1. They say that busi- 

 ness is well maintained, there being no signs 

 ot any let up. The company has a good mar- 

 ket for hardwoods and prices are slightly high- 

 er on an average than they were two weeks 

 ago. 



W. H. Wells of the Kanawha Planing Com- 

 pany and Peter Carroll of the Clay Lumber 

 Company, l.-ili of r\, ni, su.n, W. Va., were in 



Columbus l.i .'.I, illed upon a number 



of the luiiii h.rc. Both are op- 



timistic rei:i'liii:^ 11.. future of the lumber 

 business and say that normal conditions are 

 near at hand. 



The W. M. Ritler Lumber Company reports 

 a big increase in business since the first of 

 July, the volume exceeding that ot last year 

 by a large margin. Most ot the orders were 

 for Immediate shipment, indicating that stocks 

 are low and must be replenished at once. So 

 far this month the company has received but 

 few contract orders and its officers expect 

 that business will continue active from this 

 on. 



The Crosby & Beckley Company say that 

 prices are low and that there is practically 

 no local demand. It does not expect much im- 

 provement until after the first of the year, 

 and a normal condition probably not before 

 next May. 



H. W. Putman, manager of the General 

 Lumber Company, returned the first of this 

 week from a ten-days' vacation spent at Gra- 

 tiot Beach, near Port Huron. 



M. A. Ha>'ward says that business is slow, 

 but good prices are obtained for all sales 

 made. The company expects a good business 

 this fall and says that the situation is grad- 

 ually improving. 



The McDonnell Lumber Company started Its 

 mills in Tennessee this week, but It docs not 

 expect to run them full time until after Sep- 

 tember 1. Mr. McDonnell, president of the 

 company, says that business is picking up 

 and that the outlook is good. 



H. C. Creith & Co. report the ouUook for 

 business better and say that dealers In west- 

 ern Ohio are manifesting greater interest in 

 the market. The company is now receiving 

 fair orders to replenish depleted stocks and 

 expects steady Improvement from this on. 



The Columbus Saw Mill Company says that 

 marked Improvement has taken place in its 

 business the past month and that things are 

 going along much better than at any time 

 since last October. Trade Is much better 

 with thi? company and many new orders have 



