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HARDWOOD RECORD 



where be fouud the mills of llie JIcLciin Lum- 

 ber Company running in good shape. A feature 

 noted by the company Is stronger prices in 

 quartered oal;. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. state that oalc prices 

 have stiffened up considerably of late, especially 

 in the buying end, and both plain and quartered 

 are now holding very brm. 



G. Elias & Bro. find the hardwood trade hold- 

 ing up well, with a large demand for building 

 lumber, of which supplies are being received 

 both by rail and by the lakes. 



The National Lumber Company is selling a 

 large amount of flooring, shipping direct from 

 the mills. Quotations on oak, maple and birch 

 flooring are higher and firmer than a few weeks 

 ago. 



The A. A. Engle Lumber Company is looking 

 after shipments of hardwoods from Harriman 

 and New River, Tenn., and President G. A. Cor- 

 son is spending ten days at those two lumber 

 points. 



Jolm Mahar, one of the most prominent men 

 at Medina, died on the IGth. For thirty years 

 he bad been engaged in furniture manufacturing 

 there. He was 57 years old and left three 

 brothers and a sister. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association held its regular monthly meeting 

 preceded by a dinner at the Union League club- 

 house, Oct. 10. with President Horace A. Reeves. 

 Jr.. in the chair. As nothing of specific in- 

 terest was on the boards, after transacting the 

 routine business, the evening was devoted to a 

 social business talk. 



.John W. Coles says business is running with- 

 out serious hitch. Inquiries are increasing and 

 orders are piling up. The car shortage which 

 interferes considerably with shipping, is always 

 an incidental obstacle. 



James II. Campbell of Currie & Campbell re- 

 ports steady trading. The mill at Berner, W. 

 Va., is working full capacity getting out orders. 

 William N. Lawton of the yellow pine depart- 

 ment says that the principal difficulty now is to 

 get the goods to fill orders. 



Justin Peters, manager of the Pennsylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 

 speaks complacently of conditions. Business 

 continties as prosperous as when the semi-an- 

 nual statement was made to the stockholders 

 in July last, and from present indications the 

 company bids fair to write more new business in 

 1912 than ever before in its history. 



W. R. Taylor of the W. R. Taylor Lumber 

 Company recently purchased the interest in the 

 company of Otto Cluss, former secretary and 

 treasurer. The present officers are W. R. Tay- 

 lor, president ; M. C. Taylor, secretary and 

 treasurer. W. R. Taylor, who recently returned 

 from a tour of New York and eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania, reports business brightening up all along 

 the line. Hardwood selling is easy providin.^ 

 prompt delivery of goods can be made. Roland 

 Ferry, formerly of Mann & Parker, Baltimore. 

 Md., has been secured as salesman, to cover 

 New York and northern New Jersey. 



Thomas E. Coale of the Thomas E. Coale 

 Lumber Company says business has never been 

 better. Both Pittsburgh and local offices are 

 rushed with orders, with satisfactory prices. 



T. Deland Williams of J. Randall Williams 

 & Co. has just returned from an extensive tour 

 of the lumber camps as far down as Tennessee, 

 looking up stock. He says business with the 

 firm is fine, everything running smoothly and 

 prices holding firm. 



Frank R. Whiting of Whiting Lumber Com- 

 pany reports increased activity in every branch 

 of its extensive business. Liberal inquiries are 

 resulting in good business, and the outlook is 

 distinctly favorable for fall and winter trading. 



Horace A. Reeves, Jr.. says he is getting 

 good business right along, and all signs are 



potent for the continuance of a sound trading 

 throughout the winter. 



Joseph P. Comegys, manager of the Barker- 

 Bond Lumber Company, says business contiuues 

 brisk, car shortage being the only hitch. The 

 New York office reports live trading all along 

 the line. 



PITTSBURGH 



The Balsley & McCracken Company is now 

 well located on the twentieth floor of the new 

 First National Bank building, where that veteran. 

 I. F. Balsley, is right at home to all his hard- 

 wood acquaintances. He started business by 

 getting in a splendid order for chestnut and 

 will have a fine line of cypress and also good 

 connections in all hardwood stocks. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has increased its 

 force of salesmen by putting on Ralph B. Mc- 

 Connell of this city to work its eastern trade. 

 H. W. Henninger of this company has lately 

 been touring the West Virginia mills. 



George L. Camp, manager of the Camp Manu- 

 facturing Company's Pittsburgh office, reports 

 business strictly O. K. He took one order for 

 over 200,000 feet last week and is well satis- 

 fied with prices received. 



The Mutual Lumber Company, a new concern, 

 is doing business right off the reel from its fine 

 quarters in the First National Bank building. 



W. W. Wilson. Jr., president of the Western 

 Lumber Company, recently made a long trip 

 through the Northwest in search of stocks. 



The A. M, Kinney Lumber Company is start- 

 ing another hnrdw'ood mill, which makes six it 

 is now' running in western Pennsylvania and 

 eastern Ohio cutting oak and hardwood. Mr. 

 Kinney and D. P. Dickson o^ this company spent 

 two weeks hunting in Erie county, Pennsylvania, 

 recently. 



The Mclveesport Planing Mill Company has 

 been organized by A. W. Evans. Leonard S. 

 Jones and others of that city, and has applied 

 for a Pennsylvania charter. 



The A. A. Engle Lumber Company of Buffalo 

 has bought about 3.000 acres of timberland in 

 the Ligonier valley of Pennsylvania for .$52,000. 

 It will cut off the timber and market the lum- 

 ber at once. 



Joseph T. Reininger and M. L. Reimaun of 

 this city have bought from Somerset county 

 parties several large tracts of timberland and 

 propose to cut them off shortly. 



The Green & Evans Company sold its lumber 

 yard at Swissvale. Pa., to Harry E'., William J. 

 and Clarence McBride of Rankin, Pa. Hereafter 

 it will be known as the Swissvale Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



E. V. Babcock of the Bahcock Lumber Com- 

 pany was last week elected vice-president of the 

 Columbia National Bank of Pittsburgh, of which 

 he has been a director for a long time. 



The Meyers-Parsons Lumber Company reports 

 it vei'y bard to get shipments through. Yards 

 are still furnishing a good lot of orders and as 

 a rule wholesalers can name their own prices. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has bought 

 20,000 acres of coal and timberland in Preston 

 and Monongalia counties. West Virginia. It will 

 operate a mill with a capacity of 50,000 feet 

 daily and will also have two coal mines that 

 will produce 500 tons per day each. 



BOSTON 



Arthur M. Moore of W. E. Litchfield, Boston, 

 and assistant secretary and treasurer of the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association, 

 has returned from a trip to Washington. 



The Merrill Chair & Manufacturing Company. 

 Boston, Mass., and Stoddard, N. H., has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of .$200,000. 

 The incorporators are .Vndrew Case, Henry R. 

 French and Charles H. Merrill. 



Tlie John II. Bryant Lumber Company, Jef- 



ferson, Mass,, has been organized with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The incorporators are Moses 

 Erskine of South Jefferson and John H. Bryant 

 of Everett, Mass. 



The Neuvo Mahogany Company, Hartford, 

 Conn., has recently filed ,i final certificate of dis- 

 solution. 



The business of the late Harry E. Baker is be- 

 ing liquidated. Mr. Baker was killed a few 

 weeks ago in an automobile accident. He was 

 well known in the Boston lumber trade, being 

 organizer of the H. E. Baker Company. 



BALTIMORE 



Fire of unknown origin recently resulted in 

 the destruction of the lumber yard of George 

 Helfrich & Sons, Columbia avenue and Bayard 

 streets. The loss is estimated at more than 

 $40,000, partly covered by insurance. 



Thirty-one mahogany logs were among the 

 cargo of the steamer Ulstermore which arrived 

 here recently from Liverpool. The logs were 

 consigned to the Williamson Veneer Company of 

 Ilighlandtown, a suburb of Baltimore, and will 

 be cut up into veneer. They came from Africa. 

 being transshipped at Liverpool, and are of fine 

 grain. The Williamson company has been mak- 

 ing a number of such importations. 



The Pioneer Hardwood Flooring Compan.v, re- 

 cently organized, began operations at its plant 

 on President and Fleet streets, Oct. G. The 

 company will turn out oak flooring exclusively. 

 All of the machinery will be electrically driven. 

 The president of the company is Walter T. 

 Startzman, vice-president and treasurer, Johil- 

 Ryan, and secretary, Feliiipe A. Broadbent, who 

 is also president of the Felippe A. Broadbent 

 Mantel Company. 



The Champion Lumber Company, which some 

 time ago purchased the timber and other assets 

 of the Pigeon River Lumber Company along the 

 Pigeon river in North Carolina, is constructing 

 a mill at Sunburst, on the tract. The plant 

 will have a capacity of about 125,000 feet pSr 

 day, and will be equipped with all modern fa- 

 cilities. It will be connected by railroad with 

 Canton, N. C, and with other points later on. 

 It is expected operations will be commenced in 

 a short time. 



Richard P. Baer & Co. have moved their office 

 from the Keyser building. Calvert and German 

 streets, to the tower of the Maryland Casualty 

 (.'ompany. Baltimore street and Guilford avenue, 

 where they occupy the eleventh floor. The new 

 location gives them more than twice the space 

 of the old offices, and various additional con- 

 veniences. The suite of rooms has been 

 equipped with entirely ni'w furniture, and every 

 device calculated to facilitate the work of the 

 office force is being installed. 



J. E. Morgan, president of the Morgan Com- 

 pany, of Oshkosh. was a recent visitor in Balti- 

 more. 



S. Robb Eccles. a popular lumberman of this 

 city, has been named as viccrgerent snark of the 

 Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo for another 

 year. Mr. Eccles is planning to hold a con- 

 < atenatiou about the time of the annual meet- 

 ing of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, the 

 lirst week in December. 



COLUMBUS 



The Imperial Lumber Company of Columbus, 

 ( I., has purchased the plant of the Butler Furni- 

 ture and Equipment Company of Butler, O. 



Owing to heavy traffic demands on the Toledo 

 & Ohio Central Railwa.v. orders have been is- 

 sued to increase the switching facilities between 

 Columbus and Toledo. This is being done in 

 order to avoid congestion. .\11 the switching 

 facilities between the two cities will be en- 

 larged to accommodate at least eighty cars. 



Joseph Ramsey, Jr., formerly with the Wa- 

 bash Railroad Company, has opened another 



