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lailinglr on the spot at the right time for orders. 

 Beecher & Barr o£ Pottsville, who are asso- 

 ciated with various lumber manufacturing con- 

 cerns, are always on the alert and so get the 

 business. George G. Barr of this house believes 

 in keeping his men constantly in touch with 

 all buyers of lumber and through his well de- 

 veloped office system manages not only to have 

 a man nearby when goods are wanted hut to 

 have also always on hand the right stuff at the 

 right price to offer, consequently it may be seen 

 Ibis Arm is better employed than in arguing over 

 ibe panic and dull times. 



BALTIMORE 



The Lumber Exchange, at the quarterly meet- 

 ing held June 1, found itself with practically 

 no business to transact beyond approving the 

 resolutions adopted a few hours earlier by the 

 managing committee, urging the National Hard- 

 wood Association at its forthcoming annual 

 meeting to reinstate the rules of 1905, adopted 

 at the Buffalo meeting. Nothing was done with 

 reference to detailing a member of the exchange 

 to act as representative at the annual meeting 

 of the National association. It is hoped that 

 someone will volunteer to make the trip. The 

 members afterward sat down to an appetizing 

 luncheon, which kept them together in social 

 intercourse for over an hour. 



James Harvey Rowland, one of the wealthiest 

 lumbermen of the East, largely interested in the 

 Bowman Lumber Company of Williamsport, Pa., 

 died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital May 24, 

 after an illne.ss of some weeks. He had not 

 been in good health for a year or more, and an 

 operation was decided upon, but his advanced 

 age was against him. Mr. Rowland was 89 

 years old. He was widely known and generally 

 popular, and a host of friends mourn his death. 

 Another death of a Baltimore lumberman Is 

 that of Charles E. Waters of the yard firm of 

 George E. Waters & Co., who passed away May 

 23. His wife, a son and two daughters sur- 

 vive. 



In order to facilitate the expansion of their 

 business and admit of more effective control of 

 assets, the hardwood firm of R. P. Baer & Co. 

 of this city has formed the Virginia Hardwood 

 Company, with headquarters at Tazewell, Va., 

 and the North Carolina Hardwood Company, 

 with headquarters at Asheville, N. C. R. P. 

 Baer is the president of both companies ; O. M. 

 Thayer of Mobile, Ala., vice-president, and M. 

 S. Baer of Baltimore, secretary and treasurer. 

 The incorporations will make no change what- 

 ever in the management of the business. Mr. 

 Thayer is in active charge of the firm's mill 

 at Mobile. 



The Philadelphia members of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association have raised the 

 question of getting relief from certain storage 

 charges assessed against them, but for the ac- 

 . ruing of which neither they nor the steamship 

 lines °vere responsible. They desire to lay the 

 matter before the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion and have the latter pass a ruling as to the 

 liability for these charges. Such a decision 

 ■would be of the utmost importance to expor- 

 ters, as similar differences have come up repeat- 

 edly at other ports. In connection with this 

 matter Secretary E. M. Terry visited Philadel- 

 phia last week. It is thought that the amended 

 steamship agreement on which the association 

 has been at work during the past two years will 

 be definitely concluded by the secretaries of the 

 various lines by the time the transportation 

 committee meets in Bsiltimore, on the 21th inst. 

 The agreement makes a number of concessions 

 to the exporters, among other things classifying 

 wood and lumber and logs as heavy and light 

 instead of hard and soft. Secretary Terry was 

 in conference with Harvey M. Dickson of the 

 Dickson Lumber Company at Norfolk, Va., and 

 chairman of the committee on transportation, 

 on May 22. 



A most picturesque delegate to the Methodist 

 Episcopal General Conference, which held Its 

 quadrennial session here during May, was T. D. 

 Collins of Nebraska, Pa., who for some time 

 managed to escape attention, but who was 

 found to be a big lumber operator, with a for- 

 tune estimated as high as $10,000,000. Mr. 

 Collins, who is 77 years old, was seen invari- 

 ably in a blue shirt, black slouch hat and boots 

 of the pattern of long ago. It was learned that, 

 although none of the" Baltimore members of the 

 trade knew him, he has extensive timber lands 

 in Pennsylvania, in the neighborhood of Wil- 

 liamsport and other sections, and also owns big 

 sawmills on the Pacific coast. Just before the 

 meeting of the conference he gave his check 

 for $100,000 in aid of mission work, and he Is 

 also said to maintain a mission school in Korea 

 for 500 children at his own expense. He is 

 very democratic in his manners, is averse to 

 society and cares only for lumbering. He said he 

 sleeps only four hours a day, retiring at midnight 

 and getting up at 4 a. m. He has kept this 

 up for years, and says he finds it entirely suffi- 

 cient. Notwithstanding his 77 years, he walks 

 with a sprightly step and is mentally very alert. 



S. S. Mann of the hardwood firm of Mann & 

 Parker has been spending about two weeks at 

 I he mill of the firm at Robins Neck, S. C, where 

 operations were commenced not long ago. The 

 plant is now turning out almost the maximum 

 (if lumber. 



Among the Baltimore visitors during the last 

 week in May was Fred. R. Righter of the 

 Itighter-Parry Lumber Company of Philadelphia. 



John L. Alcock of J. L. Alcock & Co. returned 

 last Monday from West Virginia, where he 

 .spent nearly a week looking after the getting 

 out of lumber to fill a big foreign contract. 



David T. Carter, formerly of the hardwood 

 firm of Carter, Hughes & Co. and of the Iron 

 Mountain Lumber Company, who retired from 

 both concerns a month or more ago, has opened 

 offices in the Calvert building, Fayette and St. 

 Paul streets, and engaged in the wholesale hard- 

 wood business on his own account. 



PITTSBURG 



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

 ber Company, made a short tour of West Vir- 

 ginia last week, winding up at Charleston. He 

 found a good proportion of the hardwood mills 

 running and stocks rather larger than the situ- 

 ation would seem to warrant. 



W. D. Smith, of Parkersburg, W. Va., who Is 

 one of the best known wholesalers of hardwood 

 in this part of the country, was calling on 

 friends In town Monday. He reports the whole- 

 s,ale business to the England and Scotland yards 

 very poor and does not believe that there wiU 

 be any perceptible improvement until trade in 

 this country has gene ahead to near its old point. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company Is dis- 

 posed to think things are getting better slowly, 

 and looks for some good orders to be placed this 

 month. Its inquiry shows that many concerns 

 are put out of lumber and will have to replenish 

 their stocks as soon as they start up their 

 plants. 



The Crescent Lumber Company has handled 

 some nice sales of poles lately, but find that 

 ties are very slow sellers. In spite of the In- 

 crease of Inquiry this company notices that 

 actual orders placed are not coming much faster 

 than last month. 



Eleven "kittens" were Initiated at the last 

 Pittsburg concatenation, which was held at the 

 Hotel Henry In Fifth avenue, May 29. The 

 exercises were more than unusually interesting 

 and a royal welcome was given to the new mem- 

 bers, all of whom were from the Pittsburg dis- 

 trict. 



The William H. Schuette Lumber Company 

 says that there is a better demand for celling, 

 siding, etc. Prices, Mr. Schuette says, are very 



badly cut and wholesalers seem to show no dis- 

 position to get together on this subject. 



G. H. Balme, who represents the Byers-Allen 

 Lumber Company of Ligonier, Pa., was calling 

 on Pittsburg friends this week. This company 

 turns out about 15,000,000 feet a year and at 

 present has its mill shut down, like many other 

 plants of that sort in Pennsylvania. "Big 

 stocks and no orders" is the cry, according to 

 Mr. Balme. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company is author- 

 ity for the statement that most of the country 

 mills are holding up well on oak prices, espe- 

 cially white oak. These mill owners paid $10 

 per thousand for their stumpage in many cases 

 and must get $20 to $23 per thousand for their 

 lumber to break even. Mr. Mead says that the 

 general feeling is much better than thirty days 

 ago and that there is quite a call for mining 

 and bridge stock from Buffalo and vicinity. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company is fortunate in 

 having secured under contract about 200,000 feet 

 of nice white oak, which will be cut at once 

 for its Pittsburg trade. The tract Is where 

 the compauy will have the benefit of the Pitts- 

 burg freight rate and this will help it much 

 in lining up good customers. 



A. M. Kinney, who has been conducting sev- 

 eral small hardwood operations at the Panhandle, 

 will start another mill near McDonald, Pa., In 

 about two weeks. This is to cut about 250,000 

 feet of choice oak timber, which is suitable for 

 most any kind of lumber. 



H. V. Curll, president of the H. Y. Curll 

 Lumber Company, says that his company will 

 start its mill in West Virginia about June 15. 

 The plant will have a capacity of about 20,000,- 

 000 feet a year. This will be marketed in from 

 Philadelphia and Pittsburg, D. B. Curll having 

 charge of the former and H. V. of the latter 

 office. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company will have 

 by June 15 five portable mills and one stationary 

 mill working on its tract near Coalmont, Pa., 

 close to the Maryland line. Most of the com- 

 pany's timber there Is hardwood and arrange- 

 ments have already been made for marketing a 

 large proportion of this in the Pittsburg dis- 

 trict. 



President W. D. Johnston of the American 

 Lumber and ilanufacturing Company spent a 

 few days in Florida recently. The American 

 has filed a suit with the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission against the Southern Pacific Rail- 

 road Company, the Oregon Railroad and Navi- 

 gation Company, the Oregon Short Line Railroad 

 Company, the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 

 the Chicago and Northern Railroad Company, 

 the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad 

 Company and the Bessemer and Lake Erie Ball- 

 road Company. The complaint alleges that the 

 American in 1906 had shipped to it 13,400 feet 

 of fir lumber from Paper Mills, Ore., to Queen 

 Junction, Pa. 



H. T. Newell of the Newell Brothers' Lumber 

 Company Is in the East this week looking up 

 the New York trade. This company has enough 

 orders ahead to keep its plant in West Virginia 

 running for two months, which is a decidedly 

 unusual thing this year. 



The Miller Brothers' Lumber Company an- 

 nounces a larger call for building material In 

 small lots from the country yards. J. C. Mil- 

 ler, who has recently returned from Ohio, re- 

 ports the situation firmer in that state, hut 

 st.ates that there is too much cutting of prices. 



William Whltmer & Sons, Inc., announce that 

 the spruce market Is held up well. They have 

 recently made a deal to furnish a large amount 

 of lumber for concerns In the Pittsburg district, 

 nrH this ,it,i,M will help greatly on the early 



I Lumber Company, which la 

 i; ii Its trade In mining lumber. 



ri-i-Hiri;^ laai i\Liy resumption of work In the 

 mines means more business for the lumber whole- 

 salers. J. F. Henderson, president of this com- 

 pany, does not look for any big Increase In lum- 



