HARDWOOD RECORD 



is nothing in the outlook suggestive of a ma- 

 terial change. Reference is made to the pros- 

 pect of a general lockout in the shipyards and 

 the probability tliat this will develop into a 

 general cessation of work. It notes that mer- 

 chants display great caution and are loth to 

 take stock beyond immediate requirements. 

 The communication indicates that lower values 

 will prevail in practically all lines, and in con- 

 clusion the following statment is given of the 

 disastrous effects of the consignment of lum- 

 ber by hardwood interests in the United 

 States: 



"Imports from the United States during this 

 month have been on an unusual and ridicu- 

 lously heavy scale, and, coming to a dull mar- 

 ket as they did. have met with a very poor 

 reception, the bulk finding its way into stock 

 unsold. The net result is that prices are 

 considerably easier and prices are far too 

 heavy. Shippers in many instances have dis- 

 played little foresight in the manner they have 

 rushed forward consignments, and it cannot 

 be too forcibly impressed upon them that a 

 total cessation of shipments is necessary it 

 an utter collapse in value is to be avoided." 



The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad 

 has under way plans for constructing several 

 new lines in the delta this season. One of 

 the most ambitious projects is a north and 

 south line through Sunflower county, passing 

 through Indianola. Survey for this has al- 

 ready been made, and it is estimated that the 

 line will be about forty miles in length. 



Active construction is now under way on the 

 .\lierdeen & Tombigbee Valley road. One of 

 the Memphis contractors has gone to the 

 scene of operation with a large force of men 

 and mules and with full camp equipage. He 

 is to construct fourteen miles of tho road. 

 The remainder of the line is under contract 

 and it is intended to have the line in opera- 

 tion over at least fifty miles be/ore the end 

 ..r the present year. 



The Rex Handle Company has filed applica- 

 tion for a charter. The capita! stock is placed 

 :il $75,000. Among the principal incorporators 

 is M. R. Grace. This gentleman has been 

 prominently identified with the handle manu- 

 facturing business in the South for a number 

 of years, operating a plant at Huntsville for 

 a long while, and coming from that point to 

 Memphis. Some time- ..t;.. h,- ram. into pr.imi- 



nence by the pii i i tha 



merger of the pi ■ ing 



lompanies in th. nder 



tlie name of tli' ' ' om- 



pany. The compani lias its iilant in new 

 South Memphis and will engage in the manu- 

 facture of ax, pick, sledge, hatchet and ham- 

 mer handles. 



K. K. 'l-ai nzfr. first vice-president of the 

 I lain. ll-Taeiizi r Lumber Company, sailed for 

 l-;iiropf- some days ago. 



R. J. Darnell, of R. J. Darnell, Inc., has 

 left Memphis for New Tork and will sail for 

 Europe in a few days, if he has not already 

 done so. 



Among the recent visitors at Memphis has 

 been John H. Murrell of J. H. Murrell & Co. 

 of Liverpool and vice-president of the Liver- 

 niiol Timber Trade Association. 



BALTIMORE 



The committee appointed by the Baltimore 

 Lumber Rxchange. to tdke under consideration 

 I lie agitation over the inspection rules of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, held 

 a meeting last week to discuss a communica- 

 iTon from the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, 

 wherein the Baltimore Exchange was asked 

 to Join in a demand for the restoration of the 

 urns Buffalo rules at the annual mci'ting of 

 the National association in Milwaukee. No 

 decision was reached by the eommittco'. but 

 an agreement will be arrived at between now 



and the next quarterly meeting of the Ex- 

 change, the first Monday in June, at which 

 time a representative of the Exchange to 

 attend the Milwaukee meeting will also likely 

 be named. The sentiment of the committee 

 is that the Cincinnati movement should be 

 supported. 



Richard Price of the Baltimore hardwood 

 firm of Price & Heald was alleged, accord- 

 ing to a report from Bristol. Tenn., to have 

 visited that city May 1 for the purpose of 

 closing up the details for the sale of 7.000 

 acres of timber land in Carter county, Ten- 

 nessee, by the Cumberland Land & Lumber 

 Company to some eastern capitalists, who 

 were to undertake the development of the 

 tr.act. Inquiry at the ofl[ice of the firm here 

 elicited the information that Mr. Price, who 

 was the president of the Cumberland com- 

 pany, did go to Bristol, but it was to correct 

 a defect in the title to the land, the sale of 

 which took place about two years ago. It 

 was found afterward that one of the heirs 

 to the land had disappeared when a girl about 

 15 years old, and that nothing had been heard 

 of her since. This was not known at the 

 time of the purchase, but made a correction 

 necessary. Hence Mr. Price went to Bristol 

 with his attorney to adjust the matter. The 

 tract was about the last asset of the Cumber- 

 land company to be disposed of, the corpora- 

 tion having practically ceased to do business 

 five years ago. 



A report published in the New Tork Herald 

 and other papers, to the effect that the United 

 States government was about to commence 

 action for the recovery of land embracing 

 practically the whole of about eight counties 

 in North Carolina, chiefly overgrown with 

 timber, which had been illegally taken pos- 

 session of. created some stir among lumber- 

 men, who were eager to know the det;ills. A 

 few days later, however, the authorities at 

 Washington gave out a statement denying 

 that any such suits were contemplated, the 

 action which gave rise to the report being 

 about a very insignificant matter. 



R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co., the well- 

 known Baltimore hardwood firm, with offices 

 in the Keyser building, sailed last Saturday 

 from New York on the steamship Minnetonka 

 for London. He will spend the next 30 days in 

 the United Kingdom, combining business with 

 pleasure, and will cross the channel for the 

 Continent, to continue his travels. Altogether 

 he will be away about two months. 



M. Trester, a well-known lumberman of 

 Hamburg. Germany, was in Baltimore last 

 week and called on several of the exporting 

 firms hero. He was on his way back to New 

 York, after an extended trip through the 

 States which took him as far south as New 

 Orleans. The main purpose of the journey 

 was to call on the various correspondents of 

 his firm and discuss with them the prevailing 

 business conditions. 



R. E. Wood of the R. K. Wood Lumber 

 Company has just returiu .1 ri.iin a tiiii !-' 



New York, where he was i tit.iM. wiii 



various persons regarding: i ■ a • .laii'i' i 

 the company's timber holdin-'- ia .'-:\\aiii • ua 

 ty, North Carolina. The mill th.re is now in 

 operation, turning out nearly 100,000 feet of 

 hardwoods per day. The mill in West Vir- 

 ginia is likely to be shut down. 



E. B. Price, the hardwood exporter, who 

 failed some time ago and whose affairs went 

 into the hands of a receiver, has secured desk 

 room in the American building, and efforts 

 are under way to straighten out his affairs. 



J. A. Brcining & Son of Wllliamsport. Pa., 

 h,a^'e purchased a strip of land alongside tho 

 Western Maryland railroad there and intend 

 to establish on it a lumber yard and planing 

 mill. 



For the 



have been in Baltimore gathering data about 

 the lumber trade in all its phases, the pur- 

 pose being to obtain at first hand information 

 as to the cost of manufacture, rates of wages 

 paid, freight charges, selling price and profits, 

 commissary stores, and every feature of the 

 business. This information is to be collated 

 and published in the shape of a brochure for 

 the benefit of the lumber trade as a whole. 

 Similar publications have been sent out before 

 from time to time, but their authenticity and 

 the correctness of data were seriously ques- 

 tioned by many lumbermen. 



PITTSBURG 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is 

 working hard on its operations in Washing- 

 ton county, Pennsylvania, and is also buying 

 considerable oak in Armstrong and Butler 

 counties. This will be used on its contracts 

 lor Ohio river work which were secured re- 

 cently. Manager S. A. Seaman reports things 

 in general no worse, and, if anything, better 

 than two weeks ago. 



The Miller Bros. Lumber Company has 

 ■taken large offices in the House building and 

 is gradually strengthening its connections. The 

 spring business has been quite satisfactory to 

 this concern in some ways, and it has booked 

 some good orders. 



W. R. Cornelius is pushing his way into 

 the West Virginia territory and is securing 

 some hardwood connections which will make 

 him a strong factor in the Pittsburg market. 

 Mr. Cornelius is one of those wholesalers who 

 has abundant nerve to go ahead and buy lum- 

 ber whenever he finds prices right, and the 

 stocks he secured lately are proving a great 

 advantage to him in landing first-class trade. 



Pittsburg lost one of its most esteemed 

 luml" 1' d.al. is ill the death of Henry Ahlers, 

 win 11 .1 i«ay May 6. He was senior 



m. nil I III' Ahlors Lumber Company on 



tho .Nuitli Si. la and had been closely identified 

 with the business interests of Pittsburg for 

 more than fifty years. Mr. Ahlers was born 

 in Germany July 13, 1S32. 



The W. E. McMillan Company. Inc., is mar- 

 keting considerable chestnut in Baltimore and 

 the East. Its trade in poplar and oak has 

 also been fully up to standard the last two 

 weeks, and with its new stocks in West Vir- 

 ginia it is pushing ahead for a good share of 

 the Pittsburg business. 



Secretary O. H. Reotanus of the A. M, 

 Turner Lumber Company is enthusiastic over 

 the big Hoo-Hoo gathering here May 29. He 

 reports little difference in the lumber situa- 

 tion from last month, except that a larger 

 proportion of the inquiry is for yellow pine. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has 

 announced that it will begin work at once on 

 a new tunnel at Greensburg, Pa., forty miles 

 east of Pittsburg, on the main line, which 

 will cost about $1,000,000. This is one of the 

 projects which is bound to help the Pittsburg 

 111 Ilk. I as it will require a large amount of 

 ,ii, I I ither hardwoods. 



. II 1 the big jobs of the year is the water 

 u Iks i.lant being built, by the Dravo Con- 

 striirticni Company at Aliquippa, Pa., for the 

 Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. About 7,000 

 piece of timber will be used in the in-take 

 crib alone. The Jones & Laughlin plant on the 

 southern bank of the Ohio river at this point 

 will cost, when completed, fully $10,000,000. 

 and, although work is susiiended temporarily, • 

 it is expected that a large force of men will 

 be put to work In July or August, to push the 

 immen.se project. f 



The Pennsylvania State Department of For- 

 estry will set out about 400.000 trees at Mont 

 Alto, Aspah and Greenwood Furnace, Pa. 

 This will bo white pine, Norway spruce, ash, , 

 walnut and Scotch pine. The department will 

 also raise about fi.OOO.OOO seedling trees this 



