HARDWOOD RECORD 



advantage of a good harbor and ample trans- 

 portation facilities l)oth by rail and steam. 



Jerome 11. Slieip of Sheip cjc Vandegrlft made 

 an extensive trip last mouth through the West 

 and South. 



The measures proposed against the Tenns.vl- 

 vania Kailroad (.'ompany to compel it to aban- 

 don its rebate eharge of .flO for mileage books 

 are still in an undelinable state. It is now a 

 ipiestion for the lawyers, and lumbermen must 

 wait until they are prepared. 



Baltimore. 



Fifteen kiiicns were taken into the fold un 

 the evening of l-'ebruary -4. when a cnncateua 

 tion of IIoo-IIoo was held at the -Merchants' 

 Club. At the same time the boom for Balti- 

 more as the place for the national gatlieriug in 

 1907 was gotten under way. The ceremonies 

 of the evening were in charge of Vicegerent 

 Snark George E. Waters. 



James W. Knowles, the oldest member of the 

 Italtimore Lumber Exchange and the last charter 

 member of the Chamber of Commerce, died at 

 his home on February 26 of uremic poisoning, 

 after an illness of only two days. He was 82 

 years old. In 1891 Mr. Knowles engaged in 

 (he lumber business, his two sons, Edwin W. 

 and James W. Knowles. Jr., having become 

 associated with him in the course of time. 

 The funeral was largely attended, among those 

 present being a delegation from the Lumber 

 Exchange. Besides the two sons mentioned, a 

 third, Clarence C. Knowles, lives in New York. 



Three cars of, yellow poplar logs on the Balti- 

 more & Ohio pier last week attracted much 

 attention. There were only twelve logs on the 

 three cars, and they measured from 48 to 63 

 inches in diameter, the average being 55 inches, 

 and the entire consignment containing 12,000 

 feet, Scrihner's measurement. Tlie logs were 

 from 7 to 8 feet long and had all been cut from 

 one tree in southwestern Virginia. They were 

 consigned to John L. Alcock & Co. of this 

 city, who are shipping them to Paris, where they 

 will be cut up into veneer. The logs are said 

 liy Iunil>ci'men to be the largest ever seen here. 



Pittsburg. 



The Keliance Lumber Company is preparing 

 for a big summer's trade in hardwoods. Its 

 president. Ceorge W. Havner, has been on an 

 extended tour of West Virginia contracting with 

 the mills there for their cut of oak, chestnut, 

 etc., for several months ahead. The Reliance 

 now has the output of one mill in Upshur 

 ronnty, one mill in Pocahontas county, and has 

 in all several million feet contracted for to be 

 delivered during the next six months. 



H. Gildehaus, local manager for the Farriu- 

 Korn Lumljer Company, is in Ohio on business. 

 His firm, which recently established a Pitts- 

 burg office, is already deep In the oak trade 

 of this territory. 



A syndicate of Pittsburgers headed by W. B. 

 Brush of Washington, Pa., has bought 11,000 

 acres of timber land in West 'Virginia. The 

 price is said to have been about .1200,000. A 

 portion of the tract will be cut off, but most of 

 it will be held for speculation. 



Louis W. Fitchett, who has an extensive 

 lumber acijuaintance as the result of his long 

 term of service for the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati, has accepted a position 

 as salesman for the American Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company and will cover the (Jhio 

 and Indiana territory. 



Bemis & "V'osbtirgh is the title of a new 

 Pittsburg liini. it has secured offices in the 

 Larmers Bank building and will handle a full 

 line of hardwoods in addition to hemlock and 

 pine. The company succeeds to the business of 

 J. M. Bemis & Son of Bradford, Pa., which was 

 (ine of the oldest firms in the state. It will 

 have the output of all the latter's mills in 

 Forest and McKeau counties, Pennsylvania, and 

 Itandolph county. West Virginia. J. M. Bemis, 

 II. C. Bemis and W. W. Vosburgh constitute the 

 company. 



A. W. Cook of Brooktield. Pa., who was for- 



merly of the Cook & Graham Company, has 

 botight the lands and mill of the Droney Lum- 

 ber Company at Unamis, Pa. The properly is 

 cm tile While Creek and a branch of the Baltl- 

 inure & Ohio railroad and work of cutting will 

 be pushed hard. 



W. E. Mcftlillan of the McJIillau Lumber 

 Company is beginning to look quite like himself 

 again, after an eight months' siege with sur- 

 geons, resulting from serious Injuries received 

 in the I'ennsylvauia railroad wreck at Ilarris- 

 linrg. His company is running its mill at Wil- 

 son. W. Va., day and night. 



c. H. Merriman of Burton, Ohio, has hoiisjlit 

 from S. J. Mann of Warren, Ohio, the last 

 nact of hardwood timber of any size left in 

 Ashtabula county, Ohio. It is located near 

 Wayne, on the L.ake Shore, and will afford the 

 buyer a fine lot of maple, oak and beech tim- 

 ber, some of which will be used for ship tim- 

 bers. 



The J. II. West Lumber Company of Warren, 

 Pa., has been chartered at Ilarrisburg with a 

 i-apital of ."foO.OOO. The company will have 

 lLcad(|Uarters at Warren and will handle oak 

 and hemlock chiefly. 



E. C. Brainerd, hardwood manager of the 

 Nicola Brothers Company, is in Cleveland for 

 a short business trip. The Nicolas are looking 

 carefully ahead for signs of a rising market 

 in hardwoods and are husbanding their stocks 

 of some woods carefully. 



Willson Brothers are well established in the 

 hardwood business now, and their hardwood 

 manager, J. I. F. Balsley, is making frequent 

 trips to West Virginia in search of stocks. The 

 company is having some complaint on account 

 of slow shipments. It is getting a fine lot of 

 hardwood from Catlettsburg, Ky.. and from its 

 two mills on the West Virginia Central rail- 

 road. Oak is the leader in its hardwood trade 

 at present. 



Flint. Erving & Stoner are preparing to de- 

 velop the property they are interested in 

 throughout Indiana, Clearfield and Armstrong 

 counties, Pennsylvania. It is probable that sev- 

 eral portable mills will be put in shortly 'and 

 that a considerable amount of oak will be cut 

 ofjf this summer. 



L. A. Buzard of the Pennsylvania Lumber 

 Company is in Sheffield, Pa., on a business trip. 

 Mr. Buzard recently returned from the South, 

 where his company, under the direction of F. K. 

 Bradshaw, its former Pittsburg manager, ie 

 cutting a splendid lot of oak and chestnut at 

 Marion, Va. 



J. H. Morgan of the C. P. Caughey Lumber 

 Company is back from a trip through West Vir- 

 ginia. Stocks of hardwoods are very short, he 

 says, and for No. 1 lumber high prices are being 

 asked by the mill owners. He succeeded in pick- 

 ing up several small lots of good oak and cliest- 

 iiut, which will be delivered in the Pittsburg 

 district this spring. 



J. N. "WooUett, hardwood manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 has lately bought 5,000,000 feet of oak, poplar 

 and chestnut in Tennessee for delivery during 

 the next twelve months. This is one of several 

 deals which Mr. Woollett has made withiu the 

 last six months to strengthen the position of 

 the American in the hardwood trade. He looks 

 for a record-breaking year. The American is 

 already sold out practically on chestnut, most 

 of which goes to the New York market. 



The Lineban Lumber Company is holding up 

 its rank as one of the foremost hardwood firms 

 of Pennsylvania. Its spring trade is very sat- 

 isfactory and it is broadening the field of its 

 operations steadily. Oak, maple and chestnut 

 are all selling well \^'ith this firm at present 

 and the members look for higher prices before 

 summer. 



The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Bowling League, 

 which has been one of the most successful 

 means ever tried of promoting acquaintance and 

 good fellowship among Pittsburg ' dealers and 

 their office forces, has closed its season of games. 

 The rank of the companies in the contests was 



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as follows: Nicohi Brothers Company, J. M. 

 Hastings Lumber Company, Forest Lumber Com- 

 pany, Empire Lumber Company, Commercial 

 r.timber Company, L. L. Satler Lumlier Company, 

 Willson Bnilbcrs, Mead & Speer (.'oinpaiiy. E. C. 

 Ihalnerd of I he Nicola Brothers Company was 

 I be iruiividual champion. 



Local wholesalers are somewhat worried just 

 now over ilu; prospect of a carpenters' strike 

 •May 1. The existing agreement, calling for 

 •S.'!.."!!! a (lay, expires on that date and the car- 

 pcnlers are sending out letters to the contractors 

 asking for a raise of M cents a day. A curious 

 anomaly in this letter is that the carijenters ask 

 lor the aid of the contractors and property 

 owners and prospective builders in securing this 

 demand, a request which will not likely be met 

 with, as the building interests are agreed that 

 wages are high enough now. Should a strike 

 occur it would check the call for building lum- 

 licr very greatly, but the matter will pivihably 

 I'c settled amicably. 



Buffalo. 



A. Miller sells elm and basswood readily and 

 is now finding it necessary to bring in more of 

 these woods to add to his general stock. 



The Buffalo creek flood problem is still taking 

 much of the time and talent of A. J. Elias, who 

 never acknowledges defeat .and will probably 

 gain his point in the end, as he finds the city 

 lumbermen are all on his side. > 



The Hugh McLean Lumlwr Company is. if 

 possible, more active than ever and finds all 

 woods moving. Even basswood -is looked on as 

 sure to return to activity, if only on account 

 of the high price of pine and poplar. 



Some very wide oak and pcjplar are coming 

 into the yard of O. E. Yeager from the South 

 and West, being needed to replace active sales. 

 Mr. Yeager is just back from a trip to Mt. 

 Clemens, where he went for a short rest. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are keeping the roads busy 

 bringing in Washington fir and -spruce. The 

 [jlau now is to enlarge the storage sheds at 

 the office yard, to take care of the dressed stuff 

 that is carried in stock. 



H. A. Stewart is now studying the oak and. 

 cherry situation on the spot in West Virginia 

 a great part of the time, coming home now and 

 then for a breathing spell. The firm's busi- 

 ness shows that he makes his trips pay. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is. 

 still making chestnut, next to oak, its active 

 wood. All that is needed is to get the stock,, 

 as it sells on sight as it comes from the com- 

 pany's Tennessee mills. 



The location of Beyer. Knox & Co. gives them, 

 a special home field to themselves and their 

 rail shipping facilities are of the best. Their 

 hardwood receipts from the South have been, 

 especially good of late. 



F. W. Vetter is spending some time at home. 

 The death of his wife, which occurred at Ashe 

 ville, N. C, on li'ebruary 21, was a sad blow to. 

 him and his large family and the sympathy of 

 all goes out to them. 



The reorganization of the Buffalo Maple- 

 Flooring Company, which has occupied the time 

 of James A. White almost a year, is so nearly 

 accomplished that he has taken a short vacation, 

 going to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras. He 

 is to be manager and part owner of. the com- 

 pany's stock. 



Manager R. H. M. Hopkins of Scatcherd & 

 Son has gone to the Isle of Pines on a short 

 vacation and will look after some of his in- 

 terests there in the meantime. W'ith steady 

 olfice duties before him Mr. Scatcherd is drawn 

 on a jury. 



'I'he Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company joins 

 I he others in predicting a fine year and there 

 is a big lot of oak and other hardwoods coming 

 up from the South to help make it so at the 

 yard. 



Grand Kapids. 



The Square Clothespin Company, recently or- 

 ganized in Chicago, with .$100,000 capital, has 

 purchased the property of the Diamond Clothes- 



