THE HARD W OOD RECORD. 



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ii fine liiip of dry stocks in their yards 



at HtiffaUi ami at different points in tlie 

 cciuntry luul at tlieir mills in tlie North 

 and South, iuchiding nearly every kind of 

 hardwood that grows in the United States. 

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W'c are in receipt of a novelty in the 

 shai)e of a booklet from E. C. Atkins & 

 Co., Indianapolis, Ind.. mentioning some 

 of the good points of the Atkins inserted 

 tooth saw. The novelt.v is in the design 

 of the hook, same being printed on snb- 

 stantial paper, cut into tlie shape of a cir- 

 cular saw. Inside is descriptive matter 

 and what some of their friends say of their 

 l)rodnct. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



New York is ciijoyinf; .iust tlic liind of 

 sharp, frosty weather that mal<es labor not 

 alone easy but desirable, and if it were 

 not for the strike conditions, for building 

 has by no means been resumed generally. 

 a condition of activity would be presented 

 there that has seldom if ever been 

 equaled. Even as it is there are not many 

 complaints, for trade is not bad as a 

 whole. Still, local activity and conditions 

 that would make life in the retail yards 

 more strenuous would be gladly welcomed. 



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The first step toward the oi-ganizing of 

 the yellow pine wholesalers in tMs dis- 

 trict was taken on the 0th inst. Every big 

 house was represented and a committiH> 

 appointed to attend to the details of organ- 

 ization and set a date for the second 



gathering. 



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A prominent visitor here during the 

 month was John B. Ransom, head of J. B. 

 Ritnsom & Co. and president of the Nash- 

 ville Hardwood Flooring Company. Mr. 

 Hansom was accompanied by his family 

 and with him was R. T. Wilson, assistant 

 general manager of the flooring company. 

 While here Mr. Ransom appointed S. E. 

 Kellar of No. 18 Broadway, the exclusive 

 selling agent for the wares of the company, 

 which consists of beach and oak flooring — 

 the latter in all thicknesses — thin, % and 



t^-inch stock. 



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The Boothnian Mill Supply Company has 

 Iieen inconiorated with a capital of $.'j(l,(IOl» 

 111 ileal In Inmlier in this cit.v. 

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.\. W. Curtis has purchased the stock 

 of the late Isaac H. Curtis in the Curtis 

 Bros. Lumber Company, Vista and Liberty 

 avenues, Brooklyn, thus becoming solo 

 ownier of the big retail establishment. 



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W. E. Williams, of the Reed City Liun- 

 ber vV; Shingle Company, Reed City, Mich., 

 n;aple flooring, was a recent visitor in 

 town, so also weri' Mr. Lobdell. of the 

 Lobdell & Baile.v JIanufacturing Company, 

 Onaway, Mich., Samuel Burkholder, Craw- 

 fcrdsville. Ind., J. W. Freck. of Ilnrd & 

 llauenstein, Buffalo. W. (). King, of W. O. 

 King \- Co.. Chicago, and .John Welsh, of 



the Tennessee Lumber & Manufaetiu'ing 

 Company, I'ottsville, Pa., and J. F. Cam- 

 eron. Milwaukee. 



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Lucien L. Bonheur lias been appointed 

 receiver of the assets of the Plumbers' 

 \\ oodwork Company. Nos. 02 and (U Eliz- 

 abeth street, this city. 



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William 1,. Willich, who has been abroad 

 lor three months on a business trip for 

 .Tohn Cathcart. the hardwood wholesaler of 

 No. 11.5 Franklin .street, has returned to 

 this couutr.v well satisfied with the results 



of tlie trii). 



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I. T. Williams & Sons, Isaac I. Cole & 

 Son and Wm. L. JIarshall have secured 

 three African mahogany logs, all part of 

 the same tree, which brought at the auc- 

 tion sale in Liverpool the unprecedented 

 sum of !fl5,728. The logs are remarkable, 

 not alone for their size but for their length. 

 The first log measured 21 feet long, Ti.s 

 inches deep at the butt and contained l.;j8ti 

 sijuare feet; the second was 2314 feet, 

 depth at the butt 44 inches, and it con- 

 tained 2,441 feet; the length of the third 

 was 25% feet, 4G inches deep at the butt, 

 and contained 3,02.5; square feet. These 

 logs are said to have produced the finest 

 .\frican mahogany veneers the United 

 States has seen. 



PHILADELPHIA POST. 



Considerable interest is being manifested 

 by local dealers in the exploitation of 

 North Carolina pine. Man.v saw mills are 

 being erected by Philadelphia firms 

 throughout the eastern section of that 

 state. Some of the firms have regular 

 chains of mills and the product is shipped 

 dii-ect to this city for distribution. 



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A decided stand was taken by the local 

 builders against the aggi-ession of the labor 

 unions on September 9, when emphatic 

 resolutions were adopted by the Master 

 Builders' Exchange. The main portion of 

 the resolutions was as follows: 



"Resolved, On and after January 1, 1904, 

 no workman shall be employed on any of 

 our buildings in Philadelphia unless he is 

 willing to agree not to engage in any .sym- 

 liatlietic strike and to arbitrate any differ- 

 once that may arise, work to continue 

 meanwhile." 



The inevitable result of such a stand 

 will bo a number of lockouts on tlie first 

 of the new year, for it is unlikely that the 

 workmen will abandon their unions and 



their prindiiles. 



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The local lumber dealers have felt a 

 great loss in the death of William S. Tay- 

 lor, one of the oldest wholesal(> merchants 

 in the city, who died on Seiitember 17, at 

 Bryn Mawr. lie was the founder of the 

 firms of Taylor & Betts and William S. 

 Taylor iV Co.. and was actively engaged in 

 business for forty-six years. He took a 

 great interest in all matters pertaining to 

 the linanci.-il and hnnber world and p;irlic- 



ularly in the development of the river 

 front. Mr. Taylor was born at Taylors- 

 ville, Bucks county. Pa., in 1831, and came 

 to Philadelphia in 18.5(j. He was one of 

 the founders of the Lumberman's Insur- 

 ance Company and the oldest director of 

 the National Bank of Northern Liberties, 

 retaining his directorship in both corpora- 

 tions until the time of his death. He is 

 survived by a daughter, Mrs. Joseph C. 



Poulterei-. 



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The force of salesmen of Samuel H. 

 Shearer & Son has recently been aug- 

 mented by the addition of two well-known 

 lumbermen. Charles A. Bartlett, for- 

 merly of the Otto Creek Boom & Lumber 

 Company, will look after the firm's inter- 

 ests in New York and New England, and 

 0(orge E. McNermey of Lo<'k Haven. Pa., 

 will attend to the business in the South. 



PITTSBXTRG PACKET. 



Lumber dealers in Pittsbui-g have been 

 liut to no little trouble the past year by the 

 tactics of "slick" real estate men who had 

 alluring propositions to make them. There 

 has been a very great increase since 1902 

 in the number and size of the deals in both 

 timber and coal lands and a large amount 

 of Pittsburg capital has been invested in 

 these lines. This has led real estate bro- 

 kers into these channels under the impres- 

 sion that big lumber dealers were ripe for 

 anything that looked "good." Hardly a 

 week passes that several of the big lum- 

 ber firms are not visited by some smooth- 

 tongued agent who represents that his 

 tract of several thousand acres in a virgin 

 localit.v in the South or Southw-est will cut 

 on an average 12,000 feet of hemlock to the 

 acre, or 15,000 feet of white pine, or 8,000 

 to lltt.OOO feet of oak. Often where the 

 lumbermen or their representatives have 

 Uiade a personal examination of the land 

 they Inne found that it would not cut one- 

 fourth the amovmt claimed. This has had 

 a tendency to make them unusually wary 

 oC the real estate sharks and very few 

 deals are made now until after months 

 have been .spent in looking up the tracts 

 and getting a guaranteed title, which in 

 many cases has been tlie cause of endless 

 litigation after the timt)er was partly cut. 



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.V syndicate of eastern capitalists has 

 bought from Mrs. Hannah Harmon timber- 

 lands in McDow-cU county near Hunting- 

 ton, W. Ya.. valued at .$.500,000. The pur- 

 chasers will begin at once to develop the 

 tract, having organized a stock company in 

 which Mrs. Harmon has a large amount 



of stock. 



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The lumber firm of E. I). Davis & Sons. 

 Limited, which created a considerable stir 

 List spring l).v the purchase of 200,iM)il 

 acres of coal and timber laud in Nova 

 Scotia, has been reorganized as the Davis 

 Lumber Company, Limited, of which J. M. 

 Hastings of this city is president. The 

 company alieaily has one mill at work cut- 



