HARDWOOD REQORD 



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as stocks -are short and badly broken and the 

 shortage of cars is even worse than here. 



Oliver R. Nicola of the Nicola Brothers 

 Company is -back from a short trip to the 

 firm's yellow pine connections in Mississippi, 

 where the mill is o\'orIoaded with orders. The 

 Nicola Brothers Company is makingr a record 

 in hardwoods this year. 



Among: the prominent I'etailers wiio latel.v 

 visited Pittsburg: were: Frank Glenn of the 

 Glenn Lumber Company of Washington. Pa., 

 and D. B. McCons-ille of Tarentnm, Pa. Both 

 are having excellent sales of hardwoods for 

 building and mining purposes. 



Manufacturers are beginning' to buy hard- 

 wood earlier this year than usual for next 

 year's consumption. The experience they have 

 had the last few months in trying to get work- 

 able stock has made them wary, and it is 

 likely that more hardwood will be sold to 

 manufacturers between now and February 1 

 than for several years. The general prosperity 

 over the country has doubled their retail ti-ade 

 and the scarcity of lumber has brought them 

 down to rock bottom, and not a few of them 

 exhausted their dry stock in the yards some 

 time ago and have been buying here and there 

 wherever they could get a lot to suit. 



Paul W. Fair of Fair & Keator has gone to 

 the firm's mill at Hohenwald, Tenn., to hurrj' 

 up railroad shipments. The firm has plenty 

 of good stock in most lines of poplar and 

 chestnut and is also cutting a large ciuantity 

 of oak. Its supply of timber at Hohenwald 

 is nearly gone as it has been cutting 3,5OU,O00 

 feet a year. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has 

 started a force of 100 men to planting trees 

 at and near Huntingdon. The company ex- 

 pects to plant 200.000 small trees this year 

 and tp increase this number to 1,000,000 in 

 the next few years. Hundreds of thousands 

 of trees have been planted along its lines in 

 Pennsylvania and other states this year, for 

 the officials are recognizing the fact that tim- 

 ber cross ties are still the best in existence 

 and are trying to provide an adequate future 

 supply. 



The H. C. Frick Coke Company, which pro- 

 poses to plant 1,500 acres of sunken coal lands 

 in Westmoreland county. Pa., with trees has 

 lately secured the services of S. N. Spring, 

 an agent of the agricultural department at 

 Washington to make a thorough examination 

 of the field and decide what kinds of trees 

 will be likely to thrive there, as the atmo- 

 sphere, owing to the fact that the coal lias all 

 been taken our, is peculiar 



W. E. Terhune of the Terhune Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from the East where he found 

 the mills badly congested and no dry stock. 

 The company's trade in hardwoods is very 

 satisfactory. 



E. B. Hamilton of the J. M. Hastings Lum- 

 ber Company is at Red Springs, N. C. plac- 

 ing some large contracts for pine and poplar. 

 The company is busy all along the line and 

 Mr. Hastings with his associates in the big 

 Nova Scotia deal are getting under way prob- 

 ably the largest lumber operation in the 

 United States or Canada. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company has un- 

 dergone a complete reorganization. W. H. 

 Herbertson, secretary and treasurer of the old 

 company, has bought all the stock of that con- 

 cern, amounting to $50,000. and ha^ increased 

 the capital of the company to $75,000. It will 

 still retain the old name, but may be incor- 

 porated shortly. The new officers are: Presi- 

 dent, W. H. Herbertson; vice president, J. W. 

 Davies; treasurer, M. L. Herbertson; secre- 

 tary, H. F. DomhofC ; general manager, K. IC. 

 Chapin. Mr. Davies is the only officer who 

 was not formerly connected with the company. 

 The new company has bought 1,200 acres of 

 oak, chestnut and poplar near Pickens, W. 

 Va., on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, where 



it will put in a new mill. It also owns an- 

 other tract of 2,500 acres at Pt. Marion, W. 

 Va., where from 15,000 to 20,000 feet a day 

 will be cut this winter. The company will 

 establish an office in the South with Robert 

 K. Herbertson in charge. 



D. L. Gillespie & Co. are making big ship- 

 ments of lumber to Cuba by steamers from 

 Norfolk. Va.. Brunswick, Ga., and Mobile, 

 Ala. Much of this is trolley poles, cross ties 

 and railroad construction timbers. Over 

 38,000 ties went over on the last steamer. 

 The firm reports the supply of labor in the 

 South as smaller than last year and the car 

 shortage even worse than in the North. 



Harding Kimberland of Pittsburg and 

 Thomas Skinner, formerly of Baltimore, have 

 formed a partnership to be known as the 

 Harding Kimberland Lumber Company. Mr. 

 Kimberland is an old timer in the lumber 

 business in Pittsburg. The new firm is located 

 at 711 House building and has already made 

 a number of good sales, among them 30,000 

 ties to the Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway 

 Company and over 2,000,000 feet of oak to the 

 Pressed Steel Car Company at McKees Rocks, 

 Pa. 



■■Booming" is the word that fitly expresses 

 conditions in the hardwood department of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company. .J 

 N. Wollett recently secured an order for 1,500.- 

 000 feet of poplar for Pennsylvania delivery 

 for box stuff This will be cut in Kentucky. 

 It is the largest order of its kind placed here 

 for several years. He also secured an order 

 last week for 250,000 feet of poplar and ash 

 for delivery in New York. G. W. Gates, vice- 

 president and secretary, is back from Mobile, 

 Ala., where he reports the mills badly con- 

 gested. The company has just put on a new- 

 salesman in its hardwood department, A. D. 

 Terhune. who will handle the Ohio and In- 

 diana trade. 



Buffalo. 



The settlement of the affairs of the Buf- 

 falo. Veneer & Panel Company is proceeding 

 slowly. The creditors are not disposed to ac- 

 cept the 50 cents offered, so the receiver will 

 probably wind up the affairs of the company. 



The reorganization meeting of the heavier 

 creditors of the Buffalo Maple Flooring Com- 

 pany has been postponed until the 27th. Mean- 

 while James A. White is running the mill. 



Car shortage greatly handicaps trade, es- 

 pecially in some parts of the South, where 

 it is almost impossible to get enough cars to 

 do a fair amount of shipping. The Buffalo 

 hardwood yards are as well off as the average, 

 as there are so many loaded cars coming in. 



President M. S. Tremaine is launching his 

 new National Fire Insurance Company and 

 already has business on the books. C. M. 

 Smitli is vice-president; George B. Montgom- 

 ery, treasurer; W. P. Haines, secretary, and 

 W. C. Betts. manager. 



Since Taylor & Crate sold their box factory 

 at Chattanooga they have not been running 

 their sawmill there. H. F. and S. G. Taylor 

 are both south at present looking after busi- 

 ness. Oak is coming in from there in good 

 shape. 



A. W. Kreinheder of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company has gone south to locate 

 more timber. He will start a new lot of chest- 

 nut up this way from the company's Tennes- 

 see mills. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 now occupying its new oflice extension and is 

 very comfortable. Meanwhile the road is fuU 

 of oak shipments started from the South by 

 liver barge to save time. 



F. W. Vetter is west of the Mississippi 

 again, looking after lumber and logs for the 

 Empire Lumber Company. It is predicted that 

 logs are very good sellers and he will not rebuild 

 the burned mill right away. 



Scatcherd & Son are looking closely to the 

 Memphis district for logs to run their mills 

 there. Home demand is good enough to make 

 the yard stock run pretty low at times. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Compan5 will not 

 got its Memphis mill running as soon as was 

 hoped, but stock is being turned out at a good 

 rate from the other mills and the home yard 

 is kept well stocked in spite of good sales. 



The plan of G. Elias & Bro. to provide mate- 

 rial for the woodworlc of a house complete has 

 been a great card in the city trade of late, as 

 so many frame houses are now going up. 



A, Miller is filling up his Buffalo yard with 

 his usual fall supply of hardwood lumber from 

 Penns.vlvania and the South, always adding 

 enough by lake to keep the stock well as- 

 sorted. 



F. T. Sullivan of T. Sullivan & Co.. who has 

 been here some time visiting and taking a 

 hand at outside selling, returns now to Tacoma 

 to look after fir and spruce shipments from 

 the Pacific coast. 



O.. E. Yeager continues to get good qu.-iiiti- 

 ties of birch from Canada, but would make 

 better progress if the cars were plentier. The 

 rule is good sales of all sorts of hardwood. 



The cherry stock of I. N. Stewart & Bro. 

 is receiving a big addition of late and will 

 make a satisfactory showing along with the 

 oak that is now also made a specialty in the 

 yard. 



Detroit. 



The Dennis & Smith Lumber Company is 

 doing a rushing fall trade in oak. poplar and 

 cypress. Its five mills in West Virginia are 

 all running full blast. Its latest enterprise 

 is a band sawmill which has been only one 

 month in operation. 



The Thomas Forman Company has just re- 

 ceived its last cargo of maple from the upper 

 Superior ports. This firm has suffered no 

 losses from wrecks this year, and its busi- 

 ness has increased twenty-five per cent over 

 last year. 



Walter Sharpe of the Liverpool, Eng., firm 

 of Churchill & Sim was a visitor in netroit 

 this month. His firm holds a contract with 

 the Thomas Forman Company of this city. 

 He is on a tour of inspection of American buy- 

 ing points. 



The Russell Wheel & Foundry Company has 

 been putting out many logging cars for hard- 

 wood shippers. This month it sent 200 cars 

 to Minnesota, part of which were purchased 

 by the Minnesota Land & Construction Com- 

 pany of Duluth, also 25 cars for California 

 parties and 33 cars for Oregon— part of which 

 were for the Eastern & Western Lumber Com- 

 pany of Portland. The Russell people are 

 building cars and material regularly for .\lger. 

 Smith & Co. They also sent' cars during the 

 past month to the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber 

 Company at Williams, Ariz. 



The Acme Box Company with a capitaliza- 

 tion of $40,000, of which $2,000 has been paid 

 in cash and $3S,000 in property, has filed 

 articles of association with the Wayne county 

 clerk. The stockholders are Henry W. Reeves. 

 Douglas D. Flanner and Arthur Yeomans. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Basswood which has been very unfavorable 

 as regards both demand and price during the 

 season is looking better, and manufacturers 

 and dealers state that there is now a fair 

 inquiry for it. A. C. White, who enjoys the 

 appellation of "Basswood King" in the Valley, 

 handles five or six million feet every year, 

 always having an assortment of the goods 

 ready for delivery or to show customers. 



Walter J. McCormick of the McCormick- 

 Hay Lumber Company picked up 300.000 feet 

 of ash and elm last week in Bay City, mostly 

 ash. He states that there is a good call for 



