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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Henderson Lumbei- Company says ship- 

 ments of hardwoods are hard to get. It cannot 

 get enough posts and mine stuff to supply the 

 general demand, for all coal mining companies 

 are buying heavily. Oak bill stock, according 

 to President J. F. Henderson, is extremely 

 scarce. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company says this is 

 the sawmill man's market and that the whole- 

 saler needs to use great caution in quoting 

 on future deliveries. The company's officials 

 note a pretty strong call for all kinds of good 

 hardwood stock, Iiut complain much of a car 

 shortage. 



The Northwest Lumber Company of Humboldt, 

 Cal., which is composed principally of capitalists 

 of Kane, Pa., has sold its holdings to the Red- 

 wood Lumber Company of Eureka. Cal., for 

 about ,$500,000. The officials of the company 

 are as follows ; President, W. Campbell of War- 

 ren ; vice-president, David Howclls : treasurer. 

 Dr. E. J. Sweeny ; secretary. Franklin E. Ulf, 

 all of Kane, Pa. 



I. F. Balsley, president of the Balsley & Mc- 

 Cracken Company, the new hardwood firm in the 

 First National Bank building, announces a fine 

 business. He recently booked a big order for 

 chestnut at a good price. 



The Mutual Lumber Company is another new 

 hardwood firm in the First National Bank build- 

 ing which is coming right to the front. Their 

 trade with the industrial concerns and factories 

 is starting off very nicely. 



Manager Brown, of the hardwood department 

 of the American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, reports a little dropping off in demand, 

 due chiefly to election time, lie believes that 

 trade will be uniformly good all winter and 

 feels that the scale of prices must be advanced 

 if stocks do not increase any more than at 

 present. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association held a very successful bachelor din- 

 ner at the Fort Pitt hotel the evening of Oct. 

 29. President Louis Germain, Jr., was in the 

 chair. More than that, he was in his element. 

 Every member of the association — and there are 

 now twenty-nine — had to make a speech. The 

 worst of it was that most of them had to sing 

 a song. Other really good music was provided, 

 but the general hilarity caused by the efforts 

 of the members themselves was the big asset of 

 the meeting. 



The .ioint quarterly meeting of the Pitts- 

 burgh Retail Lumber Dealers' Association and 

 the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held the evening of Nov. 11 at 

 the Hotel Henry. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon have recently or- 

 ganized the Penn-Sumter Lumber Company. The 

 ofljcers are : R. Wyatt Wistar, president ; Samuel 

 Roberts, vice-president ; Frederick S, Underhill, 

 treasurer ; Jacob Eisenberger, secretary. The 

 company has acquired 4.000 acres of timberland 

 in Clarendon county. South Carolina, with a 

 probable yield of 30,000,000 feet of excellent 

 short and long leaf yellow pine. Mr. Wistar has 

 recently returned from South Carolina, where 

 he has been superintending the erection of the 

 firm's mill which is expected to commence opera- 

 tion about the middle of November. Wistar, 

 Underhill & Nixon promise prompt filling of or- 

 ders as they have excellent facilities at this 

 point for quick shipments. Frederick S. iDnder- 

 hill reports good incoming business. He says 

 their hardwood yard at Basic City, Va., which 

 will soon be in proper shape, will enable them 

 to carry a stock of about 2,000,000 feet of oak, 

 poplar, chestnut, maple and basswood". 



Schofield Brothers report a humming business. 

 Robert W. Sehofleld, who recently returned from 

 Scbofleld, S. C, where the manufacture of their 

 lumber is carried on under the name of the 

 Saltkeatchie Lumber Company, says the mill is 



pushed to the limit. As there is very little com- 

 petition in their immediate neighborhood, they 

 have not been hampered by the car shortage and 

 consequently are in a position to make prompt 

 shipments. 



Harry Sayer of the Walterboro Lumber Com- 

 pany, Walterboro, S. C, made a short stay in 

 I'hiladelpbia recently, calling on his old friends. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., of J. Gibson Mcllvain 

 & Co., says except for the protracted difficulty 

 in obtaining cars at shipping points, business is 

 running smoothly. Mills are running full capac- 

 ity and prices are firm. The firm recently en- 

 gaged Walter W. Kelley. formerly of the Rock 

 Island Railroad, as traffic manager. 



George F. J^anco of the Schofield-Lance Com- 

 pany, Reading, Pa., recently paid a visit to the 

 Philadelphia office. He says trade conditions are 

 eminently satisfactory. The car shortage does 

 not affect the company in Reading, goods being 

 shipped as fast as orders are booked. 



Howard B. France, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Monarch Lumber Company and of the Had- 

 dock-France Lumber Company, has returned from 

 the company's mill at Sterling, N. C, and reports 

 that the plant is rushed filling orders, but it is 

 next to impossible to obtain adequate cars to 

 ship stock. Inquiries are increasing, resulting 

 in good orders, and the outlook is bright for 

 continued prosperity. 



Edwin B. Malone and Augustus J. Cadw-allader 

 have returned from their annual moose hunting 

 trip through the Maine woods. It is to be in- 

 ferred that the inconspicuous moose saw these 

 brave nimrods first and, objecting to a closer 

 interview, wisely took to their heels. The sports- 

 men, however, brought back seven fine deer and 

 lots of pheasants. 



Jerome H. Sheip, who is well known in lum- 

 ber circles, and Mrs, Sheip recently celebrated 

 the twenty-flfth anniversary of their marriage 

 and incidentally the fiftieth birthday of Mr. 

 Sheip. A goodly number of friends gathered at 

 their home to tender their congratulations. It 

 goes without saying that it was a big time, for 

 wherever "Jerry" Sheip is host one may look 

 for an entertainment long to be remembered. 

 Mr. Sheip is about to make a visit to his cigar 

 box plant at Mobile, Ala., which he reports 

 rushed with orders. He expects soon to get back 

 in the hardwood lumber business. 



Samuel H. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son says business keeps lively. There is no 

 trouble selling goods, hut delivering the stuff at 

 this time is another proposition. William P. 

 Shearer is traveling through North and South 

 Carolina, looking after shipments and incident- 

 ally closing some contracts. 



W. J. Mingus of Mingus & Rutter says there 

 is nothing the matter with business at this 

 time. They can sell all the stuff they can cut, 

 but the car shortage is greatly interfering with 

 prompt delivery. 



George P. DeWitt of the Maris-DeWitt Lum- 

 ber Company says the fall trading is excellent 

 and the winter business promises to be good. 

 All that is lacking now is adequate car service. 



Thomas B. Hammer of the Hammer Lumber 

 Company rei)orts mills pushed to the extreme on 

 orders. A large portion of the product is 

 shipped by water, and as the company is dispos- 

 ing of a vast amount of stuff it has trouble ob- 

 taining vessels. 



The Foster Creek Lumber Company, New 

 York, was recently incorporated with a capital 

 of $500,000. 



Tlie Wilkinson Timber Company, New York, 

 was recently incorporated under Delaware laws 

 with a capital stock of ,$400,000. 



BALTIMORE 



Secretary J. McD. Price and J. Craig McLana- 

 han in behalf of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association, last week filed with the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission at Washington a com- 

 plaint against thirty-two railroads both east 



and west of the Mississippi river because of 

 their refusal to issue through bills of lading 

 on export lumber and logs except under condi- 

 tions that are practically prohibitory. The com- 

 mission is asked in the petition to issue an order 

 requiring the railroads named to issue through 

 bills of lading as is done on other commodities, 

 and charging that lumber and logs are being 

 unfairly discriminated against. 



Among foreign representatives who have vis- 

 ited this market recently are A. Temple Dobell 

 and Robert Lyle Dobell of Alfred Dobell & Com- 

 pany. London and Liverpool. They visited a 

 number of the hardwood exporters here, then 

 went on to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, from 

 whence they plan to go to New Orleans. Mr. A. 

 Temple Dobell stated that trade conditions on 

 the other side were very encouraging and that 

 an excellent inquiry was in progress. 



G. Mertens, representing F. W. Earth & Co.. 

 Hamburg, Germany, was another visitor in 

 search of suitable stocks. He reported that the 

 outlook in Germany was most promising, with 

 an active demand prevailing. 



Gearhart Knapp, representing Richard Koller 

 of Hamburg, Germany, recently came to Balti- 

 more for the purpose of establishing American 

 connections with his firm. He was especially 

 after walnut, poplar and oak logs, and intended 

 to visit a large part of the country. 



Robert McLean, a well-known Baltimore lum- 

 ber exporter, returned last week from a trip 

 abroad, which was unusually protracted by 

 reason of the illness of his wife. Mrs. McLean's 

 condition, however, has now greatly improved. 

 Mr. McLean arrived in New York on Monday of 

 last week. While abroad he visited a number of 

 ports, getting in touch with buyers and obtain- 

 ing information about the state of the lumber 

 trade which confirmed his former impression, 

 that the inquiry is active and that the future 

 looks bright. 



J. Taliaferro Bridges, a lumber dealer at Han- 

 cock, and his wife, Sarah 1. Bridges, made a 

 deed of trust last week to J. Augustine Mason 

 and F. Wilbur Bridges, attorneys, for the bene 

 fit of the creditors of Mr. Bridges. The trustees 

 were required to give a bond of $100,000, about 

 half the estimated value of the assets. 



Norman J. Warner, who is in charge of the 

 Asheville office of Richard P. Baer & Co., Mary- 

 land Trust building. Baltimore, was here for 

 several days last week, having come up to con- 

 fer with the members of the firm, 



Joseph T. Steinacker. Jr., only son of Joseph 

 T. Steinacker of the J. T. Steinacker Lumber 

 Company. Baltimore, died at his home here re- 

 cently. He was born in Baltimore twenty-six 

 years ago, and after finishing his education en- 

 tered the business of his father, being made 

 secretary-treasurer of the company. His health 

 gave way, however, and he had been traveling 

 extensively in Switzerland and other parts of 

 Europe in the hope of regaining his physical 

 vigor. 



COLUMBUS 



Innis Creighton, general sales manager for the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company (Limited) of 

 England, is a visitor at the Columbus office of 

 the concern. Mr. Creighton spent a considerable 

 lime in the lumber business in the state, al- 

 though he is an Englishman by birth. He is at 

 present located at Liverpool and also has a 

 branch office In London. Mr. Creighton says 

 trade conditions in England show good improve- 

 ment and he expects a big year in the export 

 trade. 



According to the report of city building in- 

 spector, there were 265 permits issued during 

 October, as compared with 283 for October, lOll. 

 The valuation of the buildings projected in Oc- 

 tober, 1912, was $341,000, as compared with 

 $421,000 for October, 1911. Since January 1 

 building permits to the number of 2.370 have 

 been issued for a valuation of $4,200,000, as 



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