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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



will develop nt once. The property eoverc 

 n liirjje part of Gnrrett coimly ami Is I'lil 

 by the West Vlr};lula tVntral & I'ltlsliurK 

 Itiillroa<I. This connects with iKitli the 

 Tennsylvanlii lines and the Italtlniore A: 

 Ohio Ilailroad, Klvlng splomlid newss to 

 the tluiber from several directlonfi. The 

 deal involves millions of feet of tlmlier. 

 most of it InMnK white oak. spruce and 

 hemlock. The company will at once es- 

 tablish several mills of lar^e capacity and 

 lose no time in gottinK into the heart of 

 the timber. It is expected that it will take 

 at. least ten years to clear oflf the tract, all 

 of it hein;; virjjin lumber. For months the 

 company has been unable to get enough 

 stock of hemlock and oak to till its or- 

 ders, and this purchase will enable it to 

 take much larger oixlers than before. 



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J. J. T. Penney, of J. K. Mcllvnin & Co., 

 has just returneil from a trip through 

 West Virginia, where he went to buy oak. 

 lie reports a large number of buyers in the 

 lield and timber on the stump very hard 

 to get. Considerable bill stuff is being 

 bought direct from the mills, owing to the 

 pressing need of it to fill rush orders. 



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The Mead & Spear Company have bought 

 the Mahan saw mill at Catlettsburg, Ky., 

 where they previously had a large planing 

 ieIII. The Mahan mill has a capacity of 

 50,000 feet daily and will be run full from 

 the start. The tirm is buying large lots 

 of logs out of the Big Sandy for Pittsburg 



shipment. 



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J. J. Linehau of the Cherry River Room 

 and Lumber Company has just returned 

 from a buying trip through West Virginia. 

 The company now has lOO.bW acres of 

 timber land in that state and all its yards 



are busy. 



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The increased use of hardwood for fin- 

 ishing in Pittsburg is rcflecte<l in the suc- 

 cess which finishing firms are having this 

 summer. Two new firms which started 



business in tlio winter arc li.aving all tin- 



work they can do and the old Arms are 

 nislu'd with orders. There Is a great dr- 

 Hand for all kinds of har<lwiu>d lloors. 

 IhiIIi In new houses and to lay over "lil 

 ib'ors. Oak, mahogany, sycamore and 

 ii'iipic have the call. Most of the jobs are 

 put In with a solid plain floor and fainy 

 l.cid.'r. 



The I'aiue L\unber Company, which has 

 lalcly renioveil from the Hamilton build- 

 ing to a handsome suite of olllces in the 

 I'armers' Itank building, is making a de- 

 cidcil hit in two hardwood specialties 

 which it has Intrcxluced this year. One is 

 a veneeivd birch door to take the place 

 111' white pine. The birch admits of a 

 liiM'r linlsh and is highly ornamental. The 

 tiim is booking a largo number of orders 

 lor doors in both high-class houses and 

 ollice buildings. The other specialty which 

 it is carrying is a white pine torch column, 

 to take the place of the poplar and cotton- 

 \v<!od column. The pine outlasts the other 

 limber, it is said, and is finding much 

 liivor among architects. lyocal dealers are 

 already carrying stocks of both tlie doors 

 and the columns and report a ready sale. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



It may not 1k' exactly a case of "out of 

 the frying pan into the fire," but it is liard 

 to see how the position of affairs in the 

 n:etropolitan district for the lumber dealer 

 has altered very much for the Ijctter. The 

 yards are open — the shutdown is over — 

 but just as the dealers get ready to ship 

 lumber in big quantities to the buildings 

 in course of erection, the builders them- 

 selves stop operations and refuse to per- 

 n'it any workmen to handle material until 

 some question of acceding to a plan of ar- 

 bitration, should squabbles arise in the fu- 

 ture, is decided. So there you are! It 

 was a victory for the New York I.,umbor 

 1 lealers' Association, true, for the Board of 

 Ituilding Trades, after splitting uj) over 

 llie (luestion of admitting miskillcd labor, 

 gave in almost unconditionally; but, just 

 till' .>i;ime, the individual Umilicr dealer ap- 



The Morton Patervt Dowrv Draft Moist Air Dry Kiln. 



Used exclusively by : The HiiUmiin H .vick-BalkeCollcnder Co.. Skandla Furniture Co., 



Canadian Pacific Rail«aj Cu.. Lake f-hore and Michigan Southern Railwav Co., 

 C. li. .M y. Ky Co . and. in fact, by all sclentltic lumber driers. 



The only up-to-date kiln on the fL,- i u AriHfdwrc Cn 174-176 



market. Write lor catalogue. I IIC /\ . I I . /AllUrCWS ^O. Monroe Street. 



Chicago. 



penrs nt the vresont moment but little bet- 

 ter off than he was a few wivks ago. 



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The olll r .M. S. llc-geman, exporter. 



has been lemoveil from .No. -'.t llroadwa.v 

 to the Produce Kxchange Annex, .\o. 0- 

 Stone slrct'l. 



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The .1. < '. TuriK-r Cypress Lumber Com- 

 pany of tills city has added Harold Varcoe, 

 feinierly wilh .John W. Hussey, hard- 

 woods, til l(s local sales staff. 



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Aft(>r having been lumber agent of the 

 Ilrie Kallroad for sev<'ral years, Mr. Wm. 

 It. Collins has been advanced to the post 

 of assislaiil purchasing agent. Mr. Collins 

 is popular willi the lumlier salesmen. 



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Among I'ccent visitors to the metropolis 

 laa.v be mentioned: Lewis Dill, Baltimore; 

 W. K. Terhune of W. E. Terhune & Co., 

 Pittsburg: !•". L. Peck, Lackawanna Lum- 

 ber Conip.iiiy. Scranton. Pa.; C. H. Bond 

 of K. H. Itathbnn & Co., Oswego, N. Y.; 

 .T. W. Trounce, Goodyear Lumber Com- 

 pany, Buffalo: E. P. Bacon, chairman of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission; R. 

 .1. Camp, Franklin, Va.; D. D. Planner of 

 lli(- Reb Kiver Lumber Company. Toledo, 

 ().; W. M. Dwiglit of the Dwight Lumber 

 Company, Detroit, Mich., and J. JI. Hast- 

 ings of the J. M. Hastings Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburg, Pa. 



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Mr. Hastings, by tlie way, left this city 

 to go to Nova Scotia and put the final 

 touches to something like a million dollar- 

 deal in timber lands up in that Canadian 

 province. Tlie tracts compri.se many thou- 

 .sand feet of choice timber, and Mr. Ilast- 

 ii'gs will have enough on hand to keep the 

 majority of his salesmen busy for a year or 

 two. 



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At present in ('anada, after passing 

 thnuigh this cit.v a week or so ago. are 

 '1'. and N. W. .Mackerelle, London tiiiiber 

 brokers. 



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The members of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of I'hiladelphia had a great time 

 :it Coney Island the latter part of last 

 NM'ck (17th to ]!»th). They were met here 

 • ■11 Wednesday by a delegation of the New 

 ^■|■l•k lumber dealers, who accompanied 

 ilieni to .Manhattan Beach. Then, on 

 Tliursday, they entertained the New Y'ork- 

 irs at the famous hostelr.y, and from there 

 went to the Sheepshead Bay race track 

 and "blew in" some (Juaker money on the 

 Suburban. On Friday and Saturday the 

 I'l parture for home began. 



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Willard Wiiislow. who is manager of the 

 v.iiolesale hardwood business of George M. 

 Grant & Co., No. 29 Broadway, was mar- 

 ried on the 10th inst. at St. Bartholomew's 

 I liurch. to Miss Josephine Valentine. 



