HARDWOOD RECORD 



part of that time had been superintendent of the 

 mechanical department. He was an active mem- 

 ber of the Masonic and Odd Fellows organiza- 

 tions. 



Samuel B. Stetser, aged 49, of Fernwood, Pa., 

 died suddenly on July 20. He was proprietor 

 of the wagon works at this place. 



The, State Forestry Commission has closed the 

 deal for 7,000 acres of land along Shade moun- 

 tain. Snyder county, buying the same from the 

 Kichard Budd estate and from Monroe H. Kulp 

 & Co. of Shamokin. This state buys the land 

 for the preservation of timber. 



BALTIMORE 



The inspection (juestion <i.niiii' h-.i^ 



the attention of Baltimore hiu.l i "I 



the conference to be held Sept. n, 

 delphia is being widely discus-..! in l;iiii 

 more contingent, as a rule, are fav.jral>le to the 

 endorsement of the rules adopted by the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association at its re- 

 cent annual meeting at Milwaukee, and it is 

 thought the Baltimore Exchange will take sides 

 with the national association at the forthcoming 

 meeting. 



K. P. Baer. senior member of the hardwood 

 firm of E. P. Baer & Co., returned last week 

 from a two months' trip abroad with his bricle. 

 .Mr. Baer visited the principal lumber centers 

 of England, Scotland. Germany and Ilollau.l. 

 conferring with the foreign brokers of his irtiii 

 and obtained a very accurate insight int.. ...n 

 ditions abroad. As a result he advises sironL;l.v 

 against shipping on consignment, as nearly all 

 the foreign markets are greatly congested. Prices 

 were very low, and oak planks, he stated, were 

 bringing actually less than the standing timber 

 is worth in America. In reviewing the English 

 situation Mr. Baer stated that he believed they 

 are only waiting for conditions in the United 

 States to become better before they make any 

 preparations for active times. The decline in 

 American business has hurt trade generally, and 

 it is felt that as soon as American money cir- 

 culates freely again there will be a revival in 

 business. Mr. Baer was able to report a slight 

 improvement in the foreign situation generally. 

 He had an enjoyable visit with J. Van Hall, a 

 former Baltimorcan, at Twolle, Holland, and 

 altogether he reports a most enjoyable and prof- 

 itable trip. 



The offi<es in the United States Fidelity and 

 Guaranty Building occupied for several years by 

 J. H. Cranwell & Co.. wholesale hardwood deal- 

 ers, whose affairs went into the hands of receiv- 

 ers June 26, have been leased by Turner W. 

 Isaac & Co.. hardwood dealers. The new firm 

 is made up of Turner M. Isaac only, there being 

 no company. Mr. Isaac is a Baltimorcan and 

 has been for three years engaged in business on 

 his own account, occupying offices in the Stew- 

 art building. He does a wholesale business, al- 

 most entirely out of town, and makes a specialty 

 of poplar and oak. Business with him, he 

 states, has been very fair, the volume of lumber 

 handled in July exceeding that for the corre- 

 sponding month of 1907. 



The W. H. Bailey Lumber Company of Graf- 

 ton, W. Va., has passed into the hands of receiv- 

 ers, W. H. Bailey, a member of the corporation, 

 having been named by Judge Holt. There are 

 judgments for ?9,000, besides other debts. 



The Croft Lumber Company of Cumberland, 

 Md., in which Dr. R. A. Ravenscroft, deputy 

 surveyor of the port of Baltimore, is largely in- 

 terested, holding the office of president, had a 

 meeting last week and authorized the erection 

 of a $40,000 sawmill, with a capacity of more 

 than 100,000 feet per day, at Pickens, W. Va., 

 near where the company owns an extensive tim- 

 ber tract. 



An Interesting vacation trip has Just Iwen 

 completed by G. W. Elsenhauer and Daniel Mac- 

 Lea, of the Eisenhauer-MacLca Company, deal- 

 ers In hardwoods on Central avenue. In the 



former's automobile the two partners started 

 from Baltimore for the Catskill mountains, and 

 the entire journey both ways was made in the 

 car. They report a fair business at this time, 

 though the demand does not exceed moderate 

 proportions. The feeling in the trade, they 

 state, is decidedly better. 



A concatenation of Baltimore Hoo-Hoo was to 

 have be.'H held July 25 at the Hotel Belvedere 

 under the guidauce of Vicegerent Snark John A. 

 Berryman. bat owing to the absence of many 

 lumbermen from the city it was decided to post- 

 pone the event until a more favorable time for 

 a large attendance. Five candidates were ready 



Xiiliiiiii. 1 W. .Tames of the X. W. James Lum- 

 .1 1 '..iii|.aiiy of this city, and also interested in 

 till' I'igcon River Lumber Company of North 

 Carolina, will start on an extended European 

 lour this week. 



Holger A. Koppel, Danish vice-consul and 

 hardwood exporter, with offices in the Carroll 

 building, sailed last Saturday for Europe, to be 

 gone about two months. He will visit London, 

 Liverpool. Bristol and other foreign markets, 

 and will spend some time at his former home 

 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He expects to give 

 the foreign situation close attention and hopes 

 to gain much valuable information as to the feel- 

 ing in the trade abroad. 



\. M. Offutt of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany of Bristol, Va., was in Baltimore last week 

 :ni(i called on a number ^f liar.l\v"o.l firms 



PITTSBL'RQ 



The Diebold Lumber Company had a narrow 

 escape from losing its entire plant in Brushton 

 avenue, East End, last week. Fire caught in 

 the office and had not the firm been weH. sup- 

 plied with Babcock extinguishers the loss 

 would have been heavy. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is pushing itself 

 right ahe.id in the hardwood market, and Pres- 

 ident H. v. Domhoff manifests no uneasiness 

 about the ultimate future of the hardwood 

 bislness. His trade this year has been steady 

 and with thoroughly reliable firms. 



The Babcock Lumber Company is I'unning its 

 plant at Ashtola, Pa., under full swing and 

 along with the other Babcock interests has suf- 

 ficient orders and prospects to guarantee it a 

 good business for the remainder of the year. 

 F. R. Babcock is prominently identified with 

 the leading municipal Improvements this sum- 

 mer, including the Improving of Pittsburg's 

 waterways : E. V. Babcock spends much of 

 bis spare time looking after the Interests of the 

 Pltt-sburg Country Club, of which he is presi- 

 dent. 



D. A. Smith of the Trl-State Lumber Com- 

 pany of Uniontown, Pa., was a recent caller in 

 the city. The Increase in activity in the coal 

 and coke district is bringing new prosperity to 

 this concern. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has 

 been filling its contracts for timbers for river 

 work from mills in Washington and Butler 

 counties, Pa. The company has used a large 

 amount of oak this summer and has two con- 

 tracts now for work on timbers in dams in 

 the Ohio river which will keep it busy up into 

 the fail. 



According to J. J. T. Penney of J. G. Mcll- 

 vain & Co., there Is a gradual Improvement to be 

 seen all along the lumber horizon. He finds 

 I hat there Is much more doing in West Virginia 

 limber lands and believes that by fall condi- 

 tions will be in fairly good shape. 



Secretary O. H. Rectanus of the A. M. Tur- 

 ner Lumber Company announces that this com- 

 pany is doing an exceptionally large amount of 

 quoting for this season of the year. The dis- 

 appointing feature of this Is that so little of 

 the quoting results In actual orders, as pros- 

 pective buyers seem to hang off until the last 

 minute before signing up contracts. 



A. C. Opperman of the William H. Schuette 

 Company is putting in a few days in the surf at 

 Atlantic City. He made a recent visit to North 

 Carolina .nnd believes tnat the lumber business 

 is improving considerably. 



J. L. Lytic, president of the J. L. Lytle 

 Lumber Company, has been out on the road the 

 past week hustling in business. The company 

 has recently taken some very nice orders for 

 worked stock to be delivered in the western 

 market. 



I. F. Balsley, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Willson Brothers Lumber Com- 

 pany, is out of the city taking a new turn 

 around the trade. This company finds condi- 

 tions in general looking toward better times. 



W. R. Cornelius has been figuring on some 

 very nice contracts for hardwood and is likely 

 soon to pull some excellent business out of his 

 calculations. During the past three weeks he 

 has made some fine hardwood connections in 

 West Virginia and Kentucky, and is returning 

 to get right onto the hardwood stage with 

 both feet when the fall trade opens. 



The Railroad & Car Material Company is lin- 

 ing up a splendid lot of prospects, especially 

 in malntenance-of-way lumber. The intimate ac- 

 quaintance which its members have with the 

 needs and methods of the leading railroad cor- 

 porations In the country is one of the most 

 forcible aids which any 'company could ask for. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company cut 

 750,000 feet of lumber at its plant at Braucher. 

 W. Va., last month. This was by far the best 

 record that the company ever made. It has 

 been very successful this summer in marketing 

 its own .stocks. 



Manager W. A. Clay of the Clay-Schoppe 

 Lumber Company has returned to the scene of 

 the company's operations in southern Pennsyl- 

 \ania, near Cumberland, Md. The company 

 has been able to resume operations in all its 

 portable mills as the heavy rains of the past 

 ten days have provided sufficient water in the 

 mountain streams, which were until recently 

 very dry. 



J. C. Parsons of the newly organized Myers- 

 I'arsons Lumber Company has returned from 

 bis Michigan vacation. Like other firms this 

 concern Is very busy quoting prices and fully 

 expects that a fair proportion of these inquiries 

 will develop Into business after the usual mid- 

 summer dullness is over. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company is keeping up 

 Its prices in the eastern markets, and according 

 to Manager Wlckersham finds general conditions 

 quite a little better. Oak has been its main 

 stand-by in trade this summer. 



The Henderson Lumber Company has been 

 fortunate this summer in getting some good 

 contracts for coal mining stocks. Mr. Hender- 

 son Is convinced that with slightly lower prices 

 and a liberal degree of hustling, a large amount 

 of lumber can still be sold, and no firm in this 

 district Is so well prepared to furnish coal 

 companies what they want on short notice as 

 this concern. 



The Croft Lumber Company, which is largely 

 controlled by the Kendall interests of this city, 

 elected the following officers recently : Presi- 

 dent, J. L. Kendall : directors, J. H. Henderson 

 and S. A. Kendall of Pittsburg, George Brown- 

 ing, R. A. Ravenscroft, N. U. Bond, A. A. Doub, 

 P. C. Barnes, D. J. Blacklston and J. W. Thom- 

 as, 'rhe company will build a steam sawmill 

 to have a capacity of 100,000 feet per day, and 

 also several miles of standard gauge railway 

 at Pickens. W. Va. 



The State Reforestation Bureau of Pennsyl- 

 vania has bought 7,000 acres of timber land in 

 Snyder county from capitalists of Shamokin. 

 Negotiations for this land have been in progress 

 tor several years and its final purchase by the 

 state insures a large area for Immediate re- 

 forestation. There Is a considerable amount of 

 timber on the tract, which will be carefully pre- 

 served. 



