HARDWOOD RECORD 



25 



J. E. Mcllvain & Co. report plenty of orders 

 but a decided scarcity of stoclt. J. T. Penney 

 is now in West Virginia on a buying expedi- 

 tion. The company reports bill lumber a little 

 stiffer in price and is buying all the oak it 

 can get along the lines of the B. & O. and its 

 branches. 



Robert Jenkins, Jr.. of the West Virginia 

 Lumber Company is at Latrona. Fla., enjoy- 

 ing automobiling. His associates find the 

 market strong and see higher prices ahead for 

 hardwoods. 



The Tennant-Richards Lumber Company of 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa., has started a Pittsburg 

 agency with G. E. H. Skinner in charge. This 

 company is a large dealer and manufacturer 

 in hardwoods and has several mills on the 

 West Virgmia Central railroad. 



The firm of Ziegler Brothers of Duquesne 

 has changed its title to the Ziegler Lumber 

 Company. 



O. H. Babcock of the Babcock Brothers 

 Company has returned from his tour through 

 the Northwest and reports prices very firm 

 and stocks badly depleted. Fred R. Babcock 

 went to Washington last week to bring to 

 Pittsburg the men who will speak at the Mer- 

 chants & Manufacturers' Association banquet 

 February 6. 



The William H. Schuette Company has added 

 to its force of salesmen William Bigge, Jr., 

 who has been in the employ of Fair & Keator. 

 The Schuette company is having an unusual 

 demand for building lumber and predicts some 

 early advances in prices. 



W. H. Mace of the A. M. Turner Lumber 

 Company, with Mr. -Turner, has returned from 

 PicajTine, Miss., where they are conducting 

 a big operation in the name of the Alliance 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company. Mr. Tur- 

 ner has gone on to the Northwest. The com- 

 pany is having a very profitable trade in car 

 lumber, which is going at much higher prices 

 than in the summer. 



The R. J. Munhall Lumber Company is 

 carrying a fine stock of hickory, walnut and 

 cherrj' at its South Side plant in Wharton 

 street. 



The Rumbarger Lumber Company has sent 

 O. J. Mann to Pittsburg to open up a branch 

 office. Mr. Mann spent five years at the Rum- 

 barger mills and ten more as a salesman and 

 is a well posted hardwood man. His brother, 

 J. R. Mann, will assist him in the Pittsburg 

 office. 



Flint, Ervlne & Stoner are doing a nice 

 business in cedar shingles, but report lath out 

 of the market as far as actual business is con- 

 cerned. J. B. Flint is still at the southern 

 office of the company and R. H. Ervine re- 

 turned last week from the Northwest. 



J. J. Linehan visited the Cincinnati trade 

 lately. He also dropped over to the com- 

 pany's plant at Wilhurst, Ky., which he found 

 a little shy of logs on account of bad weather. 

 The company reports the best grade of oak 

 very scarce with prices tending upward. 



J. I. F. Balsley, the new hardwood manager 

 of Willson Brothers Company, made a long 

 trip through Kentucky, W^est Virginia and 

 Virginia in January. The mills, he reports, 

 are sold up close, and says the general out- 

 look for trade is fine. He reports, also, a bet- 

 ter demand for ash from the Eastern manu- 

 facturers and a big call for building lumber. 



A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from his Tennessee trip, 

 and F. X. Diebold is back from West Vir- 

 ginia. They report considerable damage by 

 flood, dry stocks very low, and mill owners 

 extremely independent. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber 

 Company returned from a six weeks' stay at 

 Bayard and Wilson, W. Va., where he has 

 been superintending the company's operations. 

 It has now over 4,000.000 feet of oak, both 

 white and red, and chestnut at the mills. The 



company recently secured one order for 1,500,- 

 000 feet of oak from a big Pittsburg company. 

 The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is 

 making mine supplies a specialty this winter 

 and is finding it very profitable. J. H. Mor- 

 gan recently made an extended trip in west- 

 ern Pennsylvania and closed up some nice 

 transactions for the company. 



D. L. Gillespie & Co. have been very busy 

 at their Southern ports at Norfolk, Va., and 

 Brunswick, Ga. B. A. Landan, who has just 

 returned from those places, reports that the 

 firm is shipping two shiploads a month of 

 cypress ties and lumber to Cuba, also a large 

 amount of piling. Mr. Landan says that the 

 supply of labor is very unsatisfactory and 

 that several times they have been delayed a 

 week or more in loading vessels on that ac- 

 count. 



J. N. Woollett. hardwood manager for the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 has returned from a general trip of inspection 

 through Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and 

 West Virginia, where he went in search of 

 hardwood stocks. He bought 2.000,000 feet of 

 oak in West Virginia for future delivery in 

 the Pittsburg district. He found quartered 

 oak in fair stock but says the supply of good 

 chestnut is far below the demand. 



J. G. Christe, Pittsburg manager for the 

 Interior Lumber Company, announces that 

 this firm is going into the manufacturing busi- 

 ness at Oneida, Tenn., where it has operated 

 a planing mill for some time. It is on the 

 Cincinnati Southern railroad, where the com- 

 pany has a fine lot of oak and chestnut to 

 cut. Mr. Christe finds the local trade very 

 good with a big call for building lumber. 



The H. C. Huston Lumber Company, through 

 its secretary. J. H. Henderson, last week 

 booked the biggest order for pit posts that 

 has been announced by a Pittsburg firm in 

 months, 200 carloads to be delivered in the 

 next three months. The posts will be cut at 

 the company's plants at Emme and Ohio 

 Pyle, Pa., and are for one of Pittsburg's big- 

 gest coke companies. The January business 

 of the Kendall interests broke all records, as 

 did their cut of lumber at the Kendall, Md., 

 plant last month. 



J. W. McCullough, of Friendsville, Md., and 

 H. J. Wilmuth, of Meyersdale. Pa., have 

 bought a large tract of West Virginia timber 

 and will commence cutting it in the spring. 



T. W. Justus, of the Justus-Murphy Com- 

 pany of Parkersburg, W. Va., was a recent 

 caller on the Pittsburg trade. He was for- 

 merly the lumber agent of the Baltimore & 

 Ohio Railroad Company. 



Frank M. Graham has bought 75 acres of 

 very choice hardwood timber in West Vir- 

 ginia, making the last of a rather long chain 

 of small purchases which he has consum- 

 mated the last year. He is having a good in- 

 quiry for ties and poles for railroad and street 

 railway uses. 



S. English of Toungstown, O., has decided 

 to start a mill in West Virginia. Mr. English 

 has operated a mill at Claysville, O., for sev- 

 eral years and is quite a dealer in oak and 

 hardwood bill stuff. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company is hav- 

 ing a nice trade in hardwoods, chestnut lead- 

 ing in demand. It finds a steady call for the 

 best gr.ades of oak also, and predicts higher 

 prices before spring. W. H. Herbertson has 

 been in Ohio for a week looking over the re- 

 tail trade. 



E. C. Brainerd, hardwood manager for the 

 Nicola Brothers Company, makes some in- 

 teresting comments on the local situation and 

 on stocks in Cleveland, where he has spent 

 half his time since the death of Will Wright 

 Nicola, on January 10. At the Cleveland yards 

 the company is liaving all it can do in orders 

 for mixed cars. Oak bill stuff, Mr. Brainerd 

 says, is in excellent demand. 



H. W. Henninger, president of the Reliance 

 Lumber Company, is in the Northwest. The 

 company announces a strong call for oak and 

 a stiff market in all lines of West Virginia 

 hardwoods. 



The Pennsylvania Lumber Company has got 

 fairly under way at Marion, Va., where its 

 Pittsburg manager. F. K. Bradshaw, recently 

 went to look after its new operation. Mr. 

 Bradshaw was in Pittsburg a few days ago 

 and announced a fine state of affairs at the 

 Southern mill of the company. L. A. Buzard 

 takes his place in this office. 



Buffalo. 



M. M. Wall has been to that favorite Michi- 

 gan resort, Mt. Clemens, spending a week or 

 two taking a general rest. Adirondack birch 

 is now one of the specialties of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company. 



A local newspaper is running J. N. Scatch- 

 erd for Congress, in place of Col. Alexander, 

 who has been in the place for several terras. 

 There is no doubt of his ability, but there is 

 doubt about his having the time and of his 

 wanting the place. 



O. E. Yeager reports a good lot of oak and 

 poplar coming in from the South and a trade 

 that demands all sorts of effort to get stock 

 to meet it. 



The root is going on the new mill of the 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company in Memphis, 

 and when the mill is done the promise is that 

 it will run every day and not once in a while, 

 which seems to be the case with some mills. 

 A. W. Kreinheder is back from Tennessee 

 with a good report of his trip. He has under 

 option for the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company a lot of good hardwood land and 

 is now proving title. 



H. A. Stewart is South again and when 

 he comes home will have dug out for the 

 firm of I. N. Stewart & Bro. a beautiful lot 

 of 400.000 feet of cherry in assortment. 



J. F. Knox has been south for several 

 weeks, but is expected back soon with a fine 

 lot of all sorts of southern hardwoods to fol- 

 low him into the yard of Beyer, Knox & Co. 

 The yard of A. Mfiler is always full of good 

 things in the hardwood line, which means 

 that good sales are always backed by hard 

 work in digging out new stock, mostly of 

 southern hardwood, to take its place. 



H. S. Janes has returned from his trip to 

 the Mississippi valley in the interest of the 

 Empire Lumber Company. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are getting a lot of 

 good birch in from Michigan this winter, of 

 which they are making a specialty in place 

 of some other hardwoods from that direction 

 that have run rather slow of late. 



G. Elias & Brother are so anxious to keep 

 their stock of southern pine and other woods 

 in that Une up that they keep three buyers 

 busy in the gulf states looking it up all the 

 time. 



Detroit. 



Aid. William Moehler believes that a lum- 

 ber combine threatens the city. He calls at- 

 tention to the fact that only one firm bid on 

 material to be furnished the department of 

 public works. Prosecutor Hunt may take 

 some action in the matter. 



M. J. Thieson has bought near Sibley Quar- 

 ry, below Wyandotte, Mich., a tract of tim- 

 ber land covering 260 acres for $48,000. This 

 land contains about 17,000,000 feet of elm, ash 

 and hickorj-, and about 1,500,000 feet of white 

 oak. The land was purchased from the Ham- 

 mond estate. Mr. Thieson is a trunk and 

 box manufacturer. 



George McCIure of the McClure Lumber 

 Company, who has just returned from his 

 mill at Eutaw, Ala., says there is a heavy 

 demand for thick white oak all over the 

 country, and thick maple and thick white 

 ash are also popular. He says there is a 



