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in Jersey City, have incorporated as the Fox 

 Brothers Manufacturing Company witli a cap- 

 ital of $20.11(10. 



J. C. Turner, the distinguished cypress man- 

 ufacturer of 1123 Broadway, has just pur- 

 chased one and one-half miles of waterfront 

 property at Jacksonville, Fla. He has not 

 yet announced what disposition he will make 

 of it. He has also purchased an extensive 

 interest in the H. L. Jenkins Lumber Com- 

 pany of Klaine, Wash., one of the biggest lir 

 :ind cedar firms on the coast. This conreru 

 owns two billion feet of the best timber in 

 the state, and after current improvements are 

 completed will have an output of 350.000 feet 

 of lumber and half a million shingles per day. 

 the greater part of which will be distributed 

 through the J. C. Turner interests. 



White, Rider & Fi'ost announce the removal 

 of their New York offices from the Metro- 

 politan Life building to 1 Madison avenue. 



Philadelphia. 



F. D. Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lum- 

 ber Company has just returned from Nortli 

 Carolina, where he has been looking after 

 the timber interests of the firm. Mr. Rum- 

 barger speaks w^ith enthusiasm of business 

 and is optimistic for the future. 



Gerome H. Sheip of Sheip & Vandegrift. 

 Philadelphia box manufacturers. returneu 

 Monday of last week from a pleasant hunt- 

 ing trip in Tennessee. 



AV. W. Welch has taken charge of the New 

 York office of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Robert B. Horsburgh. superintendent of the 

 Coketon Lumber Company. Fishing Hawk. 

 West Virginia, a subsidiary concern of the 

 Humbarger people of this city, spent the 

 Thanksgiving holidays here with his family. 



The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company of 

 Bristol. Tenn.. has opened an ofBce in Ihis 

 city in the Real Estate Trust building. It i» 

 handling only chestnut, oak, poplar and white 

 pine. The senior member of the firm is in 

 charge of the Philadelphia business. 



J. E. Troth of the J. S. Kent Company, 

 dealers in hardwoods, white and yellow pine, 

 cypress, etc., left last week for his annual 

 tour of the lumber regions in North and 

 South Carolina. He will return in time to 

 spend Christmas with liis family. 



Eli B. Hallowell is expected back this week 

 from a business trip to Norfolk, Va. 



Charles L. Belts of C. M. Betts & Co. has 

 returned from a two weeks' trip to Maryland. 

 Virginia and Tennessee. He reports condi- 

 tions favorable to trade and says prices still 

 have an upward tendency. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange had the first 

 lively meeting of months on Thursday, Dec. 

 7. when a warm debate was precipitated 

 by the presentation of a resolution to amend 

 the by-laws governing the election of new 

 members. It was the idea of one faction of 

 the exchange to give arbitrary power in this 

 direction to the Board of Governors and the 

 membership committee, jointly. The other 

 faction has declared in favor of an open bal- 

 lot for the election of new members. 



W. B. Howard, representing the Lyon 

 Cypress Lumber Company of Garyville, La., 

 and also trading in California redwood, has 

 established himself in business in Philadel- 

 phia at 714 Witherspoon building, where he 

 trades under the name of the Sterling Lum- 

 ber Company. Mr. Howard has already met 

 with success and looks forward to building up 

 a prosperous business. 



Lumbermen in Philadelphia are threatening 

 to unite in a crusade against the railroads. 

 They declare it is time some favors were 

 shown to them, and discriminations not made 

 for tiie benefit of other items, especially as 

 lumber freight is one of the heaviest lines 

 carried by the railroads. The scarcity of 



cars this year ii; reported to be worse than 

 ever Ijefore. but could be easily remedied i£ 

 the railroads would be more just to the lum- 

 bermen and less partial to grain and cotton 

 dealers. Net only the wholesalers and manu- 

 facturers are made to suffer bat the retailers 

 as well. 



I.,ewis Thompson, who was a member of 

 the mahogany sawmill firm of T. C. L. 

 Thompson, Willow St.. near 11th, died Dec. 

 1. at his home in Germantown at the age 

 of 4S years. The firm is one of the jjioneer 

 concerns in hardwoods and veneers in Phila- 

 delphia. 



The will of the late Col. Charles M. Betts 

 has been probated. It disposes of an estate 

 valued at $150,000. The entire property is 

 apportioned between his widow and children. 



Baltimore. 



The annual meeting of the Baltimore laim- 

 ber Exchange will be held Dec. 12 at the 

 Merchants' Club. After the business meet- 

 ing, at which the retiring president, Norman 

 James, will preside, an elaborate banquet will 

 bo held, with the new president in the seat 

 of honor. The following ticket to be voted 

 for at the business meeting has no opposition, 

 so tiiat its success would seem to be assured: 

 President, William M. Burgan; vice president. 

 Edward P. Gill; treasurer, Parker D. Dix; 

 managing committee, Richard W. Piice. Sam- 

 uel P. Ryland. Jr., Norman James. Theodore 

 Mottu, Edward P. Gill. George F. Sloan. 

 George W. Eisenhauer. Luther Gwaltney. 

 George Poehlmann, Henry P. Duker and John 

 T. Galvin. The secretary is elected by the 

 managing committee, and the incumbent. 

 Theodore Mottu. will doubtless be chosen for 

 another year, he having discharged the duties 

 of the place with great fidelity. 



The blowing out of a fuse of an electric 

 generator in the big plant of the Filippo A. 

 Broadbent Mantel Company, this city, on 

 Nov. 2.S, caused a lire, which threatened seri- 

 ous damage, but was subdued after entailing 

 a loss of not more than $500. 



From Curtin, Nicholas county, W. , Va.. 

 come^ information that the large lumber mills 

 there owned by the Curtin Lumber Company 

 were completely destroyed by fire of unknown 

 origin on Dec. 1. The loss was considerable, 

 only about half covered by insurance. 



Pittsburg. 



H. W. Henninger. president of the Reliance 

 Lumber Company, is pushing the year's sales 

 up to a total that is very creditable. He 

 reports a splendid call for hemlock and oak. 



The Fairmount Lumber Company's planing 

 mill at Fairmount, AV. Va., was burned De- 

 cember 4. It is probable that the plant will 

 be rebuilt. 



The H. C Huston Lumber Company is set- 

 tled in its iarge suite of offices in the House 

 building. The company is rushed with orders 

 and its members are working overtime get- 

 ting things in shape for a big winter's cut 

 on the large tract of timber which the Ken- 

 dall interests lately bought in Maryland under 

 the name of the Kendall Lumber Company. 

 The Kendall Supply Company has been 

 formed as an adjunct to the lumber company 

 and both have received their charters. 



"No cars" is the abrupt response of the 

 Forest Lumber Company to all queries as to 

 how trade looks- They have the orders and 

 the lumber but they can not get the railroad 

 officials to furnish the necessary cars to get 

 stock moved with anything like promptness. 

 The efforts of one of their representatives to 

 round up a new supply of cars recently 

 availed them something so that the situation 

 is a little relieved the past week. 



The complaint of lumber shippers on the 

 Baltimore & Ohio railroad was so general a 



few weeks ago that the ofHcials of the roaa 

 have given unusual attention to the matter 

 and have met a large number of the shippers 

 to discuss ways and means of relief. It is 

 announced that after December 10 the sup- 

 ply of cars will be much larger, news which 

 is extremely welcome to the lumber dealers. 



The Bureau of Building Inspection of Pitts- 

 burg in November authorized buildings which 

 will cost $1.1S2,265 as compared with $S24.iJt)5 

 in November. 1904. The total tor October, 

 1905. was $1,427,066. November made the 

 best record of any November since 1900, 

 with the exception of 1903 which was a 

 record breaking year in building projects of 

 till kinds. 



W. P. Craig of William Whitmer & Sons. 

 Inc.. is at the West Virginia mills of the 

 company looking after the car supply. 



D. H. Morey of D. H. Morey & Co. ran 

 up to Pittsburg from Burkville, Kv.. a few 

 days ago. Mr. Morey is a welcome hardwood 

 visitor and usually gets off with some nice 

 orders from his Pittsburg bretliren. 



Although not generally known there are 52 

 wholesale lumber firms now doing business in 

 Pittsburg. This is a larger number thai\ tile 

 total of retail firms in the whole of AUeghetiy 

 county, according to the statement of a lead- 

 ing member of the Pittsburg Whole-sale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association. It is true some of 

 the wholesalers have onl.v desk room while 

 many of the retailers are rated at $100,000 or 

 more. But the desk room men are selling 

 lumber and lots of it this year. Pittsburg is 

 a wonderful lumber center in spite of the 

 general opinion to the contrary. 



Robert Herbertson of the Cheat River 

 Lumber Company is in the South again chas- 

 ing business. Last week he contracted for 

 the purchase of 1.500.000 feet of poplar, oak 

 and chestnut, most of which is for Pittsburg 

 delivery. 



J. B. Flint of Flint. Erving & Stoner has 

 headed for West Virginia again, where he is 

 after some big game in the way of lumber 

 business. His firm reports an excellent call 

 for flooring, siding and cornice stuff. 



J. C. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com 

 pany is looking over the stocks in West 

 Virginia and Kentucky. The Linehans are 

 jjutting out a lot of No. 1 oak in all thick- 

 nesses and report a splendid demand tor 

 spruce at the new high quotations. There 

 is some tendency among their customers to 

 get their books cleaned up and stocks taken 

 before the end of the year, which is naturally 

 curtailing orders a little in some lines. 



The Riverton sawmill and docks at the 

 lower end of McKeesport on the Monongahela 

 river were burned December 5, witli a loss 

 of nearly $30,000. The mill and docks were 

 owned by the Monongahela River Consoli- 

 dated Coal & Coke Company, which had 

 operated the plant for years and was en- 

 gaged in building and repairing barges and 

 flats for coal shipments. 



The old timber road that was built in 

 Clearfield county several years ago by Statti 

 Senator E. A. Irwin of CurwensviUe and 

 James Mitchell of Clearfield is likely to be 

 rebuilt and extended to connect with the 

 Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg and the Bur- 

 falo & Susquehanna railroads. Most of the 

 timber has been cut off from the mountain 

 sides where the road runs so that its original 

 purpose is destroyed. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is 

 busy. Recently the company made some nice 

 purchases of stock in Pennsylvania, although 

 the bulk of its lumber comes from its four 

 doclis at Sandusky. Mr. Hastings has just 

 returned from a two weeks' stay in Nova 

 Scotia, where the operations of the Davi.son 

 Lumber Company, of which he is president, 

 are attracting the attention of all the Prov- 

 inces as well as leading lumbermen all over 

 the United States. 



