HARDWOOD RECORD 



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year, to be planted later on its reservations, 

 wliich now include 850,000 acres "in Bedford, 

 Adams and Franklin counties. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company has se- 

 cured an order for nearly 3,000,000 feet of 

 lumber, which will keep its plant at Black- 

 stone, Va., runnmg practically all summer. 



D. B. Curll of Philadelphia and H. B. and 

 H. M. Curll of Pittsburg have secured from 

 the Commonwealth Lumber Company 64,000 

 acres of hardwood lumber for about $150,000. 

 It is estimated the tract will cut 140,000,000 

 feet of oak, poplar, hickory, chestnut and bass- 

 wood. There is on the tract a three-story mill 

 with a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, and also 

 a number of good houses and standard gauge 

 railroad and other equipment. The lumber is 

 located on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at 

 Glen Ray, W. Va., and the lumber will be sold 

 through the H. V. Curll Lumber Company. 

 The company now has about 500,000 feet of 

 sticks. 



Kimberland & Co. is the name of a new 

 firm which is opening ofHces in Pittsburg to 

 do a general wholesale lumber business. They 

 will handle the product of the Glendon Boom 

 & Lumber Company of Glendon, W. Va., which 

 is a big manufacturer of hardwood lumber. 



I. F. Balsley, hardwood manager for the 

 Willson Bros. Lumber Company, notes a slight 

 improvement in general hardwood conditions. 

 Trade is by no means what it should be. he 

 says, but collections are much better than 

 they were in April, and a larger proportion 

 of the inquiries received should develop into 

 business. 



The Whitmer lumber salesmen report a 

 better tone to the market this month and 

 say that spruce and hardwood are doing fairly 

 well. Shipments are very much better with 

 this company than in April. They do not find 

 stocks of hardwood large, but note a better 

 inquiry for good dry lumber. 



J. R. Edgett, president of the Interior 

 Lumber Company, is devoting most of his 

 time to the trade of southern Ohio and Ken- 

 tucky. The Interior is on the lookout for 

 anything good in a new timber proposition 

 and may be expected to get busy along this 

 line again before fall. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has little fault 

 to find with the general situation when it 

 compares notes with other firms. President 

 H. M. Domhoff has secured a charter for his 

 company and is making all preparations for 

 a very active campaign in the fall. 



The Linehan Lumber Company is inclined 

 to think things are getting better. Prices 

 are maintained at the present list, they sav; 

 but for good oak and chestnut lumber for 

 manufacturing purposes there is a good de- 

 mand. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association will apply for a state charter on 

 May 29. The association has twenty-nine 

 members at present and with its new charter 

 will be better equipped to conserve and pro- 

 mote the best interests of Pittsburg whole- 



The country hardwood mills throughout 

 eastern Pennsylvania. Ohio and West Virginia 

 are showing less activity than for several 

 years. Many of these plants have not started 

 up at all this spring, as their owners prefer 

 to wait until conditions are improved before 

 they invest more money in labor or timber. 

 The bad weather, heavy rains and impassable 

 roads have also helped to make the country 

 mill situation decidedly bad; as a result, stocks 

 at these mills are much smaller than usual. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company is running its plant at Hartsville, 

 Tenn., and has closed down its hardwood op- 

 eration at Baxton, Tenn. The American is 

 ploddmg right to the front in the Cottonwood 

 Dusmess and now has more than 2.000,000 feet 

 of Cottonwood on sticks at Joliet, 111. It will 



bring up long barges this month which will 

 give it 700,000 feet more. J. N. Woollett. 

 vice-president of the American, has returned 

 from a two weeks' trip in the middle West, 

 where he picked up some nice business. 



BUFFALO 



A. Miller is looking to the eastern trade for 

 an outlet, in spite of his always good trade 

 in hardwoods at home, and has spent quite a 

 little time in New York recently. 



When Manager Wright of the Memphis busi- 

 ness of Scatcherd & Son went home from his 

 business and social sojourn here he set the 

 mills going and has been turning out lumber 

 pretty rapidly ever since, with oak always 

 leading. 



T. H. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company has been in New York lately in the 

 interest of business, the home yard always 

 showing a more than average activity, with 

 good stock always coming in from the Mis- 

 sissippi valley. 



F. W. Vetter finds trade average fairly well, 

 but not always up to the promise of a month 

 ago. He is usually well supplied with ash, 

 of which he has sometimes made a specialty, 

 though always aiming to carry a full hardwood 

 assortment. 



The Pascola Lumber Company is always in 

 line for business in oak and does not stop 

 with that by any means. When the Buffalo 

 yard is established the company will fall into 

 line with the older concerns for anything in 

 hardwood. 



The Bathurst Lumber Company has broken 

 ground for the rebuilding of the burned mill 

 on the Bay of Chaleurs. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager is never allowed 

 to run down in any variety, and when he 

 finds a spare moment he picks up a stock of 

 hickory, a wood in these days that requires 

 an expert to handle. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have bought a lot of lake 

 hardwoods for spring shipment, the old spe- 

 cialty of black ash and elm leading, and will 

 add it to the stock of Pacific coast lumber 

 for the eastern trade, which has always been 

 good. , 



Hugh McLean is on the selling end of the 

 business again, finding it again worth his 

 while to spend his time in that way. The 

 numerous mills of the McLean interests are 

 always busy, for the selling activity is large. 



Cherry is stiU the big seller with I. N. Stew- 

 art & Bro., who have just bought about 200,000 

 feet of it to meet the requirements of the 

 trade, for cherry is one of the woods that did 

 not stand still as long as most others did. 



A. J. Elias is as active as ever in city mat- 

 ters, being chairman of the Civic Conference, 

 which is made up of delegates from leading 

 business bodies. The yard is busy taking in 

 lake cargoes of hemlock and pine, and all 

 trade is fair. 



Since A. W. Kreinheder came back from the 

 Kentucky mills of the Standard company, the 

 receipts of oak and other hardwoods have been 

 large, which means large sales also, as the 

 yard is alwa\-s full of lumlier of that class. 



DETROIT 



The consensus of opinion here is that while 

 at present the hardwood trade is dull, It is 

 Iwund to show improvement before long. 



"Business now is about 75 per cent of what 

 it was last year at this time," reports the 

 Thomas Forman Company. "We have no spe- 

 cial complaint. The only trouble with business 

 now is that we are not getting as many future 

 orders as formerly. The orders now are mostly 

 from day to day. We expect trade to pick up. 



by E. W. Leech. "While business is only nor- 

 mal now," said he. "there has been a progressive 

 tendency since the first of the year and sales 

 now are fairly good." 



The hardwood trade is very quiet, is the re- 

 port of the Brownlee & Kelly Company The 

 volume of business, they say, is much less thah 

 a year ago. The W. H. White Company makes 

 a similar report. 



William Brownlee of the Brownlee & Kelly 

 Company is out of the city on business this 

 week. 



Many of the local dealers are planning to take 

 m the convention at Milwaukee, and from indi- 

 cations It will be a profitable outing, both for 

 pleasure and business. 



A new mill is to be built at Menominee that 

 will be a novel one in the way of furnishing 

 of its running power. The mill will have no 

 fire holes, boiler or engines, but will be run 

 by a powerful electric motor. The mill will be 

 equipped to cut about 30,000 to 40,000 feet of 

 lumber a day. It is understood that the owner 

 of the mill has enough lumber in sight to keep 

 the mill running for a number of years. 



CLEVELAND 



sidtrablv 



however.' 



hopeful view of the situation is taken 



Cleveland lumbermen « 

 terested during the past 

 tion of John M. Bachert of this city on a 

 charge of fraud. Bachert pulled oft several 

 alleged swindles by which he secured quanti- 

 ties of lumber without pa.ving for it. His 

 scheme was to write to a concern and sug- 

 gest that a deal be made whereby a quantity 

 of lumber would be shipped to him in return 

 for lubricating oil, in which Bachert claimed 

 to deal. The victim would reply that he 

 would be glad to send the stuff but wanted 

 cash. Bachert would then write back to send 

 on the lumber according to his first letter. 

 The unsuspecting lumberman, seeing a good 

 contract, would send on the material. A 

 m.onth later his bill would be returned by 

 Bachert, who would claim that the dealer 

 agreed to take oil in return. Litigation 

 would follow, but Bachert invariably won on 

 a technicality. At last the federal authori- 

 ties decided to take a hand in the matter and 

 Bachert was arrested for using the mails to 

 defraud. A good case was made aginst him 

 and he was fined $500 and sentenced to six 

 months in the workhouse. Pending his trial 

 Bachert tried to commit suicide, but failed. 

 After three months in a hospital his trial was 

 pressed and his conviction followed. 



Cleveland has been the center of a finan- 

 cial flurry during the past two or three 

 weeks, three banks having gone under. All 

 were sa\ings and trust concerns and no lum- 

 bermen were affected by their suspension. It 

 is said that all three institutions have been 

 in bad shape, owing to speculation, since the 

 panic of last tall, and that the other banks 

 stood calmly by and let them go to pieces, 

 hoping that the financial atmosphere would 

 clear somewhat by that operation. 



James Miller, for five j-ears with William 

 Whitmer & Son of Pittsburg, has accepted a 

 position as salr-m.in for W. A. Cool & Son of 

 Clevclaii.l, .Ml Miller will continue to reside 

 in Pitt-liiai; ainl will cover Ohio. Pennsyl- 



E. C. Groesbeck of the Stearns Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati called upon the trade 

 during the past week. He reported business 

 in hardwoods good. 



Fred Kimball of the Churchill Lumber Com- 

 pany of Alpena, Mich., visited the city a few 

 days ago. He is a prominent hardwood man- 

 ufacturer in Michigan. 



George Meier, manager of the Interstate 

 Lumber Company of Cleveland, is at Oconee, 

 Ga., for a week or two, where he is interested 

 in the development of a large tract of hard- 

 wood land recently acquired. 



