HARDWOOD RECORD 



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unit men fi-om other cities ai-i." expetted to be 

 present. 



Tlio (k'ciiiins of tile case of U. 1'. liaer i& Co., 

 .Maiiiifiu-tiirers' Recoi-tl Building, tliis city, who 

 recently sued Keinle liros. i^ Salmon, manu- 

 facturers of sliowcases and interior tistures, for 

 a car of poplar lumber wbicli bad been rejected 

 on the ground that it failed to come up to 

 specilications, was of exceptional importance 

 to the trade. The decision, being in favor of 

 the lumber tirni, for one thing e.stablished the 

 National Hardwood inspection rules as govern- 

 ing all transactions between the trade, and 

 also made the inspection of the Baltimore Lum- 

 ber Kxchange decisive as to the establisliment 

 < t grades. When an order specities West Vir- 

 ginia poplar, the .seller is held in this case to 

 have complied with the terms of the order 

 when lie furnishes poplar of the same general 

 <|i.nliiy and character as that which comes 

 Irom West Virginia, although* it may not have 

 grown in that State. The order in question 

 stipulated was that the carload of lumber should 

 be as free from sap as possible, and this was 

 const rned by the sellers to mean that it must be 

 as free from sap as any lumber in local yards 

 which is commonly sold as free from sap. 

 After extensive testimony it was ruled that the 

 common practice in the trade w-as more decisive 

 even than law and that to supply lumber of the 

 general (juality sold satisBed the terms of the 

 order. The case also determined the point that 

 sales are not binding unless the prospective 

 buyer has given a written acknowledgment of 

 the order. The case has been pending one 

 year and grew out of a transaction nearly two 

 yiars old. The amount involved was compara- 

 tively small, only several hundred dollars. 



A petition was filed in the TTnited States 

 CV.urt here recently by Gellibrand. Ileywood & 

 Co. of London, John W. Storclj and George G. 

 Sapp, through their attorneys, against the 

 Stirling-West Company, asliing that the com- 

 pany be declared bankrupt. It is alleged that 

 the company is insolvent and that on Dec. 12 

 last it consented to the appointment of a re- 

 ceiver on the petition tiled by its presidenl, 

 William H. West, who alleged that he was a 

 large creditor. Gellibrand. Heywood & Co. last 

 October instituted suit against the Stirling- 

 West Company for .$.j,OliO on open account, 

 ;,verring that the Baltimore corporation was 

 indebted to them for advances on lumber. The 

 company's officers contended that while there 

 was a balance due. the London firm had stocks 

 shipped by the company in hand, on which no 

 returns had yet been made, and that it would 

 be in order to set up a number of counter- 

 claims, contending also that the firm, as the 

 foreign broker of the company, had shown poor 

 judgment in disposing of shipments, and that 

 as a result of such sales the company had sus- 

 tained serious losses. 



M. S. Baer of the hardwood Arm of K. 1'. 

 Baer & Co., Manufacturers' Eecord Building, 

 started today on an extended southern trip, 

 lie will go as far as Mobile, where the firm has 

 extensive lumbering interests, visiting also 

 Memphis, Nashville and other towns. Mr. Baer 

 may also stop in Florida to look over timber 

 land there, with a possible view to purchasing. 

 The firm some time ago started a large mill 

 and is in the market for stocks. 



Another Baltimore hardwood man on a south- 

 ern trip is D. T. Carter, of Carter, Hughes & 

 Co., Union Dock, who is going over a large 

 part of Virginia and other states looking after 

 and taking up stocks. He will be away about 

 ten days or two weeks. 



The Kirby Lumber Company announces an 

 increase of its capital stock from .?10.000 to 

 •f30,000. The concern is now engaged in ex- 

 tending its operations. 



Pittsburg. 



The Western Reserve Lumber Company of 

 Warren. Ohio, has reelected the old board of 

 directors and officers as follows : President, 



W. L). Packard ; vice president, J. M. Stull ; 

 secretary and treasurer. C. L. Wood ; directors. 

 .1. W. Packard and (i. W. Wood. 



The big Coketon lumber plant of Itumbarger 

 Brothers at Fishing Ilawk. W. Va., has been 

 sold to .1. M. Bemis & Sons of Bedford. Pa., 

 for about .fO,50,000. The plant is one of the 

 largest in West Virginia and is a big mauu- 

 facturer of hardwood lumber. 



.\n annonncement to hardwood men in Pitts- 

 hurg is that made by J. P. Stark, purchasing 

 agent of the Wabash lines east of Toledo, who 

 is asking for bids on 100,000 white oak ties. 

 Tlie ties will be used on the Wabash Pittsburg 

 terminal and (be Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad 

 tracks in this vicinity. 



The .lames I. M. Wilson Company is doing a 

 good business in oak timbers. Tliey are getting 

 satisfai'tory prices and look for a good year's 

 trade. 



K. 11. Stover of Elkins. W. Va., was a recent 

 visitor among the Pittsburg firms. Mr. Stover 

 is a big manufacturer of hardwood and s|)ruce. 

 The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is selling- 

 considerable beech and maple to manufacturers. 

 The beech is used mostly for making tin plate 

 boxes and is one dollar higher than one month 

 ago. They report a fair demand for maple 

 flooring with prices firm. 



.1. E. Mcllvain & Co. announce that they are 

 having a splendid trade in heavy oak for trestle 

 timbers as well as for car stuff. The firm sold 

 50 cars in a single day last week and reports 

 prices firm. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company is a bull 

 on cliestnut. The company's inquiries for this 

 wood are extremely good and recent large pur- 

 chases are proving profitable. R. II. Ilerbertson 

 has been in West Virginia for two weeks and 

 will close up some more timber purchases before 

 he comes home. 



n. W. Ilenuinger, president of the Reliance 

 Lumber Company, is looking for a very large 

 year in the hardwood trade. He has made some 

 extended trips through West Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky in the last few weeks with a view to 

 getting good feeders for the coming season. 



The Hope I'laning Mill Company has placed 

 its business in the hands of trustees and will 

 abandon its south side plant. A meeting of the 

 creditors was held this week and it is thought 

 that all ciebts can be paid. No statement has 

 been made formally. The company did a large 

 business for a time but recently the poor health 

 of its manager. F. Schmolze, has crippled it 

 seriously with the above result. The principal 

 stockholders are D. O. and J. S. Cunningham, 

 the glass manufacturers. 



The Interior Lumber Company is getting off 

 in fine shape at the start of the year and 

 Manager Christe looks for some reciu-d breaking 

 business in hardwood. 



The Linehan Lumber Company is putting out 

 some nice orders of ash most of which goes to 

 manufacturers in the Pittsburg district. It re- 

 ports a good demand for all kinds of hardwood 

 with the inquiry for the best grades leading the 

 call of last .January by a long way. .7. C. 

 Linehan has been at Cleveland this week at- 

 tending the meeting of the Retail Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber Com- 

 pany will be at the company's West Virginia 

 plant for a week yet to assist his brother in 

 rushing out a big lot of lumber. Mr. McMillan 

 took advantage of the few days of sleighing to 

 hire twenty-five extra teams from the farmers 

 and bring in a fine lot of logs to the mills that 

 have been waiting for high water. 



The Marding-Klmberland Lumber Company. 

 House building, is bu.sy filling big orders for the 

 Pressed Steel Car Compan.y. Most of the lumber 

 will be delivered at the McKees Rocks, Pa., 

 plant of the company. 



The Kimball Company is furnishing 3. 000 

 chestnut poles 3o feet long and 28,000 chestnut 

 ties to the Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway 

 Company. Most of this order will be cut in 



West Virginia where Mr. Kimball has some 

 excellent hardwood connections. 



Willson Brothers are going into the hardwood 

 business in earnest. They have organized a new 

 hardwood department which is under the able 

 management of I. F. Paisley of the firm of 

 James I. M. Wilson & (.'o. .Mr. Balsley left the 

 Mead & Spear Company about a .year ago to 

 become a member of the Willsmi firm, but finds 

 .■I much broader field for his energies in his 

 present position. Willson Brothers own some 

 good tracts of hardwood timber and will here- 

 after see that their hardwood trade is on a par 

 with their sales in pine, hemlock and poplar. 

 Mr. Balsley is recognized as one of the very 

 best hardwood men in Pennsylvania and com- 

 mands a big line of custom. 



Willson Brothers have secured entire control 

 of the Conway Lumber Company of Conway, 

 S. C in which they have been large stock- 

 holders for .years and whose product they have 

 sold. They have bought the interest of the 

 president, J. W. Raper of Norfolk, Va., and the 

 secretary and treasurer. A. M. Burroughs of 

 Conway, S. C. The company has a fine single 

 hand mill in operation which is cutting 12,000,- 

 OOO feet of short leafed pine. Recently Willson 

 Brothers bought a tract of timber adjoining the 

 plant which is good for 20,((00,0()0 feet, giving 

 them a total of 100,000,000 feet yet to cut. 



J. U. Henderson, secretary of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company, has been spending some time 

 lately at the company's plant at Kendall. Md. 

 This year the Kendalls are going to make some 

 long strides in the hardwood business. Their 

 new tract in Maryland will afford them an 

 abundance of the finest kind of oak and chestnut 

 and the firm will also get into the poplar mar- 

 ket with a vim. Its main market for the 

 product of the Maryland plants will be in the 

 East. 



The P.uskauff Lumber Company is handling 

 considerable oak. Its correspondence shows a 

 great call for shingles which can not be filled. 

 Lath are harder to get than ever and there is 

 little prospect of any relief in this phase of the 

 situation. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing ('om- 

 pany through its hardwood manager. J. N. Wool- 

 lett. is making some big deals in hardwood now- 

 adays. It recently bought 500.000 feet of white 

 oak. inch and a half and two inches, and 500,000 

 feet of sound wormy chestnut. It has also 

 secured 4,000.000 feet of oak to be cut in West 

 Virginia. This will be No. 1 common and bet- 

 ter and over 1.500,000 feet of it is now on 

 sticks. Among its other recent large purchases 

 was that of 500,000 feet of cottonwood which 

 will be cut in Louisiana and Arkansas. The 

 company is sold up close on chestnut and is 

 having a big ti'ade In oak that warrants all its 

 late investments. Two more buyers have lately 

 been added to the company's staff in West Vir- 

 ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and Mr. Woollett 

 has an extra assistant in his office to help liim 

 out of the hardwood troubles. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Comiiany feels 

 good this month over some nice oak business 

 that it has booked. The company has just sold 

 200.000 feet of white oak in one contract. This 

 will be cut into timbers and will be delivered 

 in the Pittsburg district much of it being big 

 sticks. The prices received indicate that heavy 

 oak is in splendid demand. The Caughey com- 

 pany also reports a fine call for maple with 

 prices tending upward. It has about finished 

 its operation near i\Iorganza but has otiier tim- 

 ber that will be used for these orders. 



The Forest Lumber Company is handling all 

 the hardwood it can get and is making a 

 special spurt in the chestnut market. It finds 

 a Very strong inquiry for the latter wood, par, 

 ticularly sound wormy, in both firsts and sec- 

 onds. 



C. W. Cantrell, who looks after the Pittsburg 

 business of the Hermann H. Hettler Lumber 

 Compan.y, says that his company is having a 

 big trade in oak flooring which It manufactures 



