HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Union League of this city, ot' which nearly 

 all the prominent lumbermen here are members. 

 have decided to build a large addition to their 

 clubhouse ; it will consist of a hand.some struc- 

 ture seven stories high, of pressed brick, witli 

 gray stone trimmings, and will cost about 

 .$GoO,000. 



Among the recent visitors to the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange rooms were Frank X. Loughery of 

 Santa Rosa. Cal. : Mr. Galloway of Galloway & 

 P>ase, Johnson City, Tenn. ; F. Pyler of B. B. 

 Martin Company. Lancaster, Pa., and J. B. Mur- 

 phree of N':w York. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 iibtained a charter under Delaware laws on Sep- 

 tember 14 ; capital, 130,000. 



To manufacture automobiles and all parts and 

 accessories thereof, the Auto Accessories Com- 

 pany, capital $10,000, has been organized at 

 Camden, N. J., by F. K. Hansell, William F. 

 Kidell and I. C. Clow. 



S. John Pyle of Lansdowne, Pa., a member of 

 the lumber firm of Pyle & Mitchell, died sud- 

 denly in the West Philadelphia station as he was 

 about to start on a trip through Canada. He 

 was sixty-RPven years old. 



The I'ouus.vlvauia i'uicstry Commission has 

 bought 7,000 acres of land in Coganbouse, Mc- 

 Intyre and Louis townships near Williamsport, 

 Pa., which will be immediately added to the state 

 reserves. This tract lies on the watershed of 

 Gray's ^Run and is heavily timbered. 



The Weisjimier stave factory at West Mans- 

 field, O., was burned last Friday with a loss of 

 Sp2,000 and very little Insurance. 



E. H. Stoner ot the Flint, Ervlng & Stoner 

 Company and A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lum- 

 ber Company are two of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce parties which arc on a trade booming ex- 

 cursion this week in Ohio and West Virginia. 



Robert A. McDonald, president of the .McDon- 

 ald Lumber Company, reports a very slow in- 

 (luiry for hardwoods and has not yet started up 

 his West Virginia" mill. Mr. McDonald spent 

 his vacation at the Cambridge Springs summer 

 resort. 



•Manager S. A. Seaman announces that the 

 C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is getting orders 

 with a commendable regularity, although they 

 are not so large or frequent as he would like. 

 The company's trade in river stocks has been 

 especially good for this season. 



The A. L. Sheaffer Lumber Company, which 

 usually does a large amount of estimating on 

 bill stuff, is taking It quiet at present. Outside 

 of a few big contracts which have been lately 

 awarded Mr. Sheaffer says that there is prac- 

 tically nothing in the market to ligure on and 

 that even when a job is estimated it is usually 

 held up. 



• J. E. Mcllvaln & Co. have just finished filling 

 an order for 10,000 white oak ties, part of which 

 weut to Cleveland and part into the Pittsburg 

 district. Tne concern has also taken an order 

 for 200,000 feet of oak bill stuff. Manager J. J. 

 T. Penney says that prices are still soft and 

 that the inquiry is coming from a better class 

 of buyers. 



William U. Cornelius is doing a nice business 

 with good, well-established trade and manages to 

 keep lumber on the road most of the time. A 

 large portion of the small mills in West Virginia 

 are down, according to his information. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company is doing 

 much better In a hardwood way and reports a 

 good Inquiry for both oak and poplar. The fur- 

 niture trade is coming into market again and 

 things are so encouraging all around that the 

 company will put on two new salesmen October 

 1. B. W. Cross, who was a member of the Par- 

 sons-Cross Lumber Company, is now established 

 as office manager for the West Virginia. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company is running 

 two mills at Coalmont, Pa., and Dudley, Pa., on 

 hardwood. It sold twenty cars of four-quarter 

 red and white oak this week and has a good 

 stock ot dry lumber on hand. The company will 

 rut about 500,000 feet of hickory this winter and 

 also a large amount of ash. It reports more 

 inquiry for 35 and 40-foot white oak timbers 

 than for anything else on the oak list. 



The Reliance Lumber Company is mighty weil 

 pleased with September trade to date, and finds 

 the market for poplar rapidly coming back to 

 old-time form. Most of the inquiry is for house 

 building lumber and comes from Ohio and states 

 farther west. H. VV. Henninger, secretary of this 

 company, sajs that the lath business is Improved 

 a little also, and that he looks for a gradual 

 increase in all lines of hardwood business from 

 now on. 



W. W. Vosburg of Bemis & Vosburg has re- 

 turned from a long trip through the South. The 

 company, in sounding the September situation,' 

 finds that inquiry is uniformly better and that 

 orders are coming more easily. Trade, however, 

 has not reached the point where it can be com- 

 pared with 1900, nor two years previous to that 

 date, but all indications point to steady improve- 



The Nicola Lumber Company is convinced that 

 both inquiry and sales are improving at a fairly 

 steady rate. While price advances have resulted 

 in some hesitation on the part of buyers, this 

 only lasts for a short time and the buying public 

 is finding that these prices are coming up to 

 stay. The company has had an excellent trade 

 in building lumber of late, most of which goes 

 to places outside of I'ittsburg. 



I. F. Balsley, hardwood manager for the Will- 

 son Brothers Lumber Company, will represent the 

 Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 at the convention of eastern associations to be 

 held in Philadelphia, September 24. This Is the 

 fourth meeting called of these associations to try 

 to devise a new method of grading hardwoods 

 that would be satisfactory to the individual as- 

 sociations and also to the National Hardwood 

 Association. Mr. Balsley reports a better out- 

 look in the factory trade and says that white 

 oak is in excellent demand. 



The Linehan Lumber Company is getting a 

 better inquiry from the factory trade and espe- 

 cially from furniture and implement concerns. 

 While buying has not been resumed on the scale 

 that present low stocks would seem to warrant, 

 yet it is sufficient to show that confidence is 

 steadily being regained and that by the first of 

 the year with favorable political results business 

 will be going ahead In good shape. 



The Furnace Run Lumber Company does not 

 feel jubilant over things yet, but is satisfied that 

 the situation is Improving. President Nelson 

 Bell has kept very close tab on the line up of 

 mills and stocks, and finds that present condi- 

 tions point to slightly higher prices even before 

 January 1. 



The J. C. Moorhead Lumber Company is doing 

 the best it can with portable mills on its opera- 

 tions at Shryock, W. Va., pending the erection of 

 a large planing mill to take the place of the plant 

 which was recently burned. Mr. Moorhead's 

 trade has been largely in hardwood and his com- 

 pany is in excellent shape to supply standard 

 hardwood lumber. 



The Bradford Hardwood & Rubber Company of 

 Bradford, Pa., will shortly begin the complete 

 manufacture of cot beds. For some time it has 

 been supplying the hardwood parts of these beds 

 to wholesalers all over the country. Us new 

 scheme of assembling the parts and shipping the 

 beds complete will make necessary a much larger 

 force of employes. 



The Crescent Lumber Company recently took 

 an order for forty cars of hardwood piling. It 

 has been getting some good orders for chestnut 

 poles to be cut in Ohio and delivered In the 

 Pittsburg district. The demand for tics is slight, 

 according to its inquiries. 



Selling timber by the pound is something 

 rather unique in Pennsylvania lumber history. 

 This was virtually what was done last week 

 when J. P. Frederick of Bloomsburg. Pa., let the 

 contr.tct to W. A. McWilliams of Danville, Pa., 

 for clearing a large tract of woodland on his 

 farm at the rate of $1 for every thousand pounds 

 of timber. 



H. T. Lincoln, receiver of the Cheat River 

 Lumber Company, is not handing out any big 

 lu.-nps of encouragement to the creditors of that 

 concern. Reports of auditors so far go to show 

 that it was nearly a "clean-up" and if present 

 ratios hold out, a ten per cent dividend will be 

 a mighty lucky find lor those who are left "hold- 

 ing the bag." 



The Henderson Lumber Company reports a 

 very fair business during .\ugust with a good 

 increase in demand this month. Although buy- 

 ers are hunting bargains and seem determined to 

 keep prices at the lowest possible level, President 

 J. F. Henderson says that conditions are going 

 to force better quotations soon. The coal mining 

 trade is taking more lumber and with the small 

 stocks at the country mills it is soon going to 

 bo diflScult to pick up bargains at the plants. 



The Neuse River Lumber Company, which was 

 recently established at 407-409 Ferguson build- 

 ing. Is running its mills only part time. The 

 company is preparing to build four miles of rail- 

 road to reach the heart of its tract of 4,000 acres 

 ot timber at Redwood, N. C, on the Seaboard 

 Air Line railroad. For this reason its plant 

 will not be started in full for sixty days. W. W. 

 Wood is president of this company, Newton 

 Shaver is vice-president, F. W. Siebert is secrc- 

 lary and John P. Stang is treasurer. 



The F. W. Crane Lumber Company Is now well 

 established on the fourth floor of the Ferguson 

 building with F. E. Smith in charge of Its sales 

 department. R. E. McQuay holds a like position 

 in the Philadelphia office of this company. An- 

 other Pennsylvania salesman and a salesman in 

 New York and Philadelphia are also hustling 

 hard for business under the direction of Presi- 

 dent F. W. Crane, whose headquarters are at the 

 Pittsburg office. The company's plant at Clover 

 Lake, W. Va., on the C. & O. railroad, is cutting 

 about 40,000 feet a daj-. This is choice stock 

 and in birch and beech the company has an ex- 

 ceptionally fine lot of lumber, with 200,000 feet 

 of twelve-quarter hard maple that is hard to 

 beat. It is also carrying a big stock of four- 

 quarter No. 2 quartered oak and 500,000 feet of 

 eight-quarter sound square edge oak. Its trade 

 is coming up right along and quite a nice inquiry 

 is now coming through railroad courses. 



Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio suf- 

 fered badly the past week on account of forest 

 fires. A large area near Greenville, Pa., was 

 burned over and the l.SOO-acre tract of young 

 timber belonging to the Dorset Cooperage Com- 

 pany, which is over the line in Ashtabula county, 

 Ohio, was almost entirely destroyed. Bad fires 

 also raged on the Blue and Green mountains near 

 Shenandoah, Pa., and along the Maryland line. 



The Bauer combination rolling shutter, awning 

 and fly screen is the magic wand which Is likely 

 to make a large amount of money for a $300,000 

 company being formed in Pittsburg which inter- 

 ests several prominent lumbermen of this city. 

 The shutter is made of wooden slats fastened 

 with aluminum clips and strung on a bronze 

 tape. It has been gaining favor very rapidly 

 and it is proposed to erect a $50,000 plant this 

 fall in the Pittsburg district. 



The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company is making a rr.-ord of which 

 it may well be proud, undci .; inin -li of 



Carl S. Van Dcr Voort. ii ibe 



eighteen monlhs of its e.\i ; to 



only .$1,100 net. While the <_ , .. . _-ta 

 considerable number of deal-is ou account of 

 low stocks being carried, it has secured more 

 than enough business from other insurance com- 

 panies to offset this. Its strong point is that it 



