THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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look, transportation, yellow pine exbiliit 

 at tbe St. Louis Exposition next year, the 

 labor problem and other interesting topics 



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The Plummer-Benedict Lumber Com- 

 pany have recently purchased a big tract 

 of timber in Louisiana, estimated to cut 

 20,000,000 feet of cypress and hardwoods. 



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The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company 

 are making provision against future inva- 

 sions of high -n-ater by filling in their 

 grounds and raising their office buildinir 

 They were not damaged to any great ex- 

 tent by the late flood, but say they -nere 

 seriously inconvenienced. 



PHILADELPHIA POST. 



The semi-annual convention of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Protective As- 

 sociation was held at Williamsport on July 

 9. More than a hundred members were 

 present. President W. N. James of Steel- 

 ton, in his opening address, congratulated 

 the members on the progress made by the 

 organization within recent months and he 

 also alluded to the prosperous condition 

 of the lumber trade. In the report of 

 Secretary B. F. Laudig of Scranton it was 

 announced that ten complaints had been 

 received against wholesalers for irregular 

 shipments and quoting to customers. The 

 secretary stated that six of the complaints 

 had been adjusted, one had been reported 

 and two are still unadjusted. Thirty-seven 

 new members were admitted during the 

 past term, six resigned and three were 

 •dropped from the rolls of the organization. 

 The most important business transacted 

 was the revision of the constitution and 

 by-laws in order to conform with the laws 

 of the state under which the association 

 has recently been incorporated. The fol- 

 lowing officers and directors were elected 

 to take charge of the organization's affairs: 

 W. N. James of Steelton, president; T. J. 

 Snowden of Scranton, vice-president; O. M. 

 Brandon of Wilkesbarre, treasurer; B. F. 

 Laudig, secretary. Directors, \V. N. James, 

 T. J. Snowden, O. M. Brandon, C. F. 

 Brown of Bethlehem, S. Y. Frederick of 

 Hazleton, A. G. Grater of Norristown, C. 

 P. Maule of Philadelphia, W. Z. Sener of 

 Lancaster, S. L. Ityman of Wilkesbarre. 

 President James appointed the following 

 committees: 



Credentials — O. M. Brandon, T. J. Snow- 

 den and W. N. James. 



Enlargement and Organization — W. Z. 

 Sener, George F. Lee of Wilkesbarre, H. ~ 

 K. Baumgardner of Lancaster, H. Hum- 

 phries of I'hiladelphia, S. 0. Creasy of 

 Bloomsburg. 



Constitution and By-Laws — O. M. Bran- 

 don, S. h. Ryman, Richard Torpin of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Railroads and Transportation — Richard 

 Torpin. O. M. Brandon, Emil Gunther of 

 Philadelphia, Hugh Mcllwain of Philadel- 

 phia, W. S. Goffi and W. P. Kirkondall, 



both of Wilkesbarre, G. W. Finn, J. W. 

 Howarth and M. P. Judge, all of Scranton. 

 At the close of the business session the 

 delegates visited the Susquehanna boom 

 and witnessed the operation of thousands 

 of feet of logs. The convention closed 

 with a banquet at the Park Hotel in the 

 evening. Joseph C. Righter acted a's toast- 

 master and the address of welcome was 

 delivered by Mayor John F. Laedlin of 

 Williamsport. President James and Secre- 

 tary Laudig responded on behalf of the 

 organization. Among the others who spoke 

 were Superintendent J. E. Turk of the 

 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, S. L. 

 Rvman and Captain W. C. King. 



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A number of Pennsylvania capitalists 

 have purchased 500,000 acres of forest in 

 Mexico on the Rancho San Esteban. The 

 timber is located near Crianacivo, in the 

 state of Durango and operations will 

 shortly be begun with the erection of ex- 

 tensive saw mills. 



The Island Lick Lumber Company will 

 shortly start business at Seebert, Poca- 

 hontas County, West Virginia, where 0,000 

 acres of timberland has been secured. The 

 officers of the company are Robert G. Kay 

 of Philadelphia, president; Robert B. Ray- 

 ner of Wilmington, Del., treasurer; John 

 Rowlands of Aberdeen, N. C, general man- 

 ager. The lumber consists chiefly of hem- 

 lock, white pine and hardwoods. 



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Isaac Lesher of Williamson, Pa., has 

 sold out his lumber business to Samuel F. 

 Peckman. 



McXees; secretary, W. R. Moorhead; direct- 

 ors, H. .\. Colwell, G. W. McNees, W. R. 

 Moorhead, G. E. Grier, George H. Huber 

 and II. E. Aehenbach. 



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The study of forestry from a scientific 

 standpoint with a view to preventing a re- 

 currence of the disasters which destroy 

 large areas of the country's timberland 

 every year is being pursued this summer 

 for the first time at the summer school of 

 forestry, which recently opened at Milford, 

 Pa. The school is conducted under the 

 auspices of the Yale Forest School, and 

 Professor J. W. Toomey of Yale Uni- 

 versity is in charge of the institution. Spe- 

 cial attention is given to the meteorological 

 conditions which lead to the ravages of 

 forest fires, the floods that wreak such 

 dreadful havoc in the Mississippi valley 

 and the cloudbursts and cyclones which 

 have carried destruction to all parts of the 



country. 



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Charles M. Betts, of Charles M. Betts 

 & Co., left recently for Europe with his 

 family. He w-ill bo gone about four 



months. 



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E. E. Fargus has started in business at 

 Centeroak, Pa. 



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The Hot Springs Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company has been incorporated 

 at KSltanning, Pa.y with a capital of 

 .'i;r>00,000. The officers are as follows: 

 President, II. A. Colwell; treasurer, G. W. 



PITTSBURG PACKET. 



One thing has been noticed in the local 

 market this year, the dropping out of lum- 

 ber yards. At least three concerns discon- 

 tinued their yards last spring or early in 

 the summer. In Pittsburg it costs from $3 

 to $4 per M to handle lumber in and out 

 of the yards. Some of the largest firms in 

 the city are doing business on a profit 

 basis of only about ^-l or $1.50 per M, 

 so that dealers who sold from the yards 

 at the prices they had to charge to make 

 good foimd it impossible to compete with 

 the carload sellers. Besides, the specula- 

 tive builders and the large contractors are 

 buying almost entirely on the track and 

 business for the yards fell off accordingly. 

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Another feature of the local market is 

 the changed demand for specified stuff in- 

 stead of stock lumber. A few years ago 

 contractors put in stock lumber into houses 

 and small business blocks about as they 

 pleased. Now in houses costing over 

 !f5,000 or even in speculative houses cost- 

 ing less the architects are specifying win- 

 dows, doors, mantels, etc., and contractors 

 have to come up with the material re- 

 quired. Few local factories make a spe- 

 cialty of getting out specified stuff and as 

 a result one firm here has been doing a 

 thriving business this year in this line. 

 This is the Kirk Lumber & Mill Wood 

 Company, which figures only first-class 

 jobs where much detailed lumber is re- 

 quired. In oak and mahogany finish, maple 

 and thin oak flooring, mantels, fancy win- 

 dows and doors, etc., the firm has a steady 

 and rapidly increasing business. It buys 

 from any mills where it can obtain the 

 lumber on short notice and is interested in 

 a number of mills that turn out first-class 



work of this kind. 



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The Keystone Lumber Company has 

 bought from the Philadelphia Company a 

 plot 241x221 feet, at the corner of Merri- 

 man and Seventeenth streets, south side, 

 for $05,000. The site has a frontage of 

 about 250 feet on the Pittsburg & Lake 

 Erie railroad. The company will tear down 

 the old buildings on the land and use it 

 for yards and offices. 



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The Babcock Bros. Lumber Company 

 has recently installed a mill at Babcock, 

 Ga., which is culling 00,000 feet a day. 

 The company report themselves oversold 

 on all high grades of pine and a steady 

 demand, in spite of the hot weather. 



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The I'ittsburg Parquet Floor Company 

 has received the conlraot for the floors in 

 the Bessemer building being erected by 

 Henry Phipps at the corner of Sixth street 



