THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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scribed. C. P. Henry is presideut: .T. A. 



Ro\vI;iii(l, vice-president: .T. L. Kiiiard, 



secretary and treasurer, and .J. H. Walsli. 



general manager. 



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O. K. Blanton, of tlie Blanton-Thurman 



Lumber Company, notes business to lie 



good in cypress lumber, -sYhicli is their 



specialty. Tlie mills of the Arm are in 



Arkansas. 



BUFFALO BITS. 

 I heard one of our prominent hardwood 

 lumbermen say a few days ago that ho had 

 shipped 2.(K 10,(100 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last month, and that he had orders, and 

 lumber to fill them, so that he could do 

 fully as well this month, provided he could 

 get the cars to load. This is doing ex- 

 tremely well with luml)er bringing the 

 prices it is to-day. 



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ilr. Hugh McLean, of Hugh McLean & 

 Co., is looking over the different mills of 

 the company in Indiana and getting a line 

 on what choice quartered oak is on sticks 

 th.ere thiTt is fit to ship. Hugh says there 

 is no oak like Indiana oali — while it lasts. 



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Mr. Frank \V. ^'etter is down South 

 again at the cypress and oak mdls of the 

 Empire Lumber Comp.my. 



Mr. C. Hy Stanton is doing good work 

 as surveyor-general for the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, although he has 

 not been able to give the work all the per- 

 sonal attention he feels it requires so far. 

 Mr. Stanton's office is 102 Law Exchange, 



Buffalo, X. Y. 



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There never was so much building going 

 on at this time of the year as there is at 

 present, and there never was a time when 

 building material and labor W(»re as high 

 as at the present time. 



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.Tohn H. f'ostello. a millionaire lumber- 

 man, whose office is on the fomth floor of 

 the Prudential building. Buffalo, was shot 

 by his wife on the fourth floor of the build- 

 ing, right near his office. Family trouble 

 is the cause of the shooting, and it is im- 

 possible to say at the present writing just 

 how it will result. Buffalo has earned for 

 itself an unenviable notoriety for tragic 

 happenings of late. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 

 August J. Lang reports tli;it he is liav- 

 ing increased receipts of oak. gum and Cot- 

 tonwood. Vint that, as the bulk of this is al- 

 ready sold, ho is merely filling old con- 

 tracts. He is of the opinion that the fu- 

 ture is very alluring. 



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W. A. Bennett of Cincinnati. ().. was in 

 the city during the early part of the week. 



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P. B. Little, of the Little Lumber Com- 

 pany, announces the imrchase. in the north- 

 orn part of the city, of a tract of land. ni>on 



which he will immediately begin the con- 

 struction of a modern saw mill. He is of 

 the opinion that this will be a paying ven- 

 ture, and will install a viMieer mill at an 



early date. 



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I'resident F. H. Smith, of the Xational 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, states that 

 all reports he has are to the effect that 

 tliiri' will be a very large attendance at 

 the Indianapolis meeting. Quite a large 

 delegation will attend from St. Louis. 



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The Willard Case Lumber Comi)any, 

 which caters to the trade in car material 

 and other oak specialties, reports a woii- 

 derful demand for such items as it handles, 

 and thinks this demand will not be sa fis- 

 hed this year. 



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The Garretson-Hilton Lumber Company 

 has been incorporated for $50,000 to suc- 

 ceed the Campbell Lumber Company of 

 Campbell, Mo. J. S. Garetson is president. 

 F A. Garetson. vice-president, and F. E. 

 Hilton, secretary and treasurer. The cut 

 of the mills which are already in opera- 

 tion will be handled through the St. Louis 

 office of the Garetson-Greasou Lumber 

 Company. 



aUAKER CITY ITEMS. 

 The local hardwood Inmlier market was 

 dealt two severe blows during the past ten 

 d.ays. in the disastrous forest fires which 

 have been raging throughout Pennsylvania, 

 and the strike of 8.0IX) carpenters, which 

 went into effect in tliis city on May 1. 



The forest fires, which began in the lat- 

 ter part of April, and have not yet been 

 extinguished, swept across the center of 

 the state destroying vast areas of timber- 

 land, wiping out small towns and villages 

 and consuming a large number of big lum- 

 ber mills. No accurate report of the losses 

 has as yet been received, but it is e.stimated 

 that the damage to lumber property will 

 reach into the millions. Among the heavy 

 losers is the Lackawanna Lumber Com- 

 pany, at Renovo, whose entire plant, con- 

 sisting of lumber, machinery and buildings, 

 and valued at .$]7."),(M)0, wc^nt up in smoke. 

 The mill was the mainstay of the town and 

 four hundred men were thrown out of em- 

 liloyment by its destruction. Tlie lumber 

 mill of .Tohn Colman. at W'illiamsport, was 

 also totally destroyed, although the mone- 

 tary loss has not been ascertained. 

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The effect of the strike of the Brother- 

 hood of Carpenters and .Joiners has already 

 been felt by lumber niercliauts and there 

 has been an appreciabh; diminution in the 

 quantity of orders received. Although the 

 carpenters are alone on strike, there is 

 every likelihood that the gravity of the 

 situation will be increased by other labor 

 organizations striking in .sympathy. There 

 seems to be no immediate prospect of a 

 settlement of the labor difficulties. The 

 carpenters' union feels confident of its 



Chicago 



Hardwood Lumber 



Dealers 



Why not place your 

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 one who makes a spe- 

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 ber yards, and who has 

 done much towards 

 securing recent reduc- 

 tions in rate? 



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INSURANCE 



IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. 



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