Jilsn ilisposed ot After thu business hi Imnd nad 

 lieen disposed of a fine luncheon was served, and 

 a number of impromptu addresses were made on 

 trade matters. 



Tlie R. E. Wood Lumber Company of this city 

 is maliinft lapid progress witli the construction 

 nf its mill in Cherokee county. North Carolina, 

 and in the Dry Fori; section of West Virginia.' 

 Tlu' Cherokee county plant is so far advanced 

 that operations can be commenced shortly, the 

 ■capacity of the mill being relatively small be- 

 cause the body of standing timber there is re- 

 stricted. That in West Virginia is larger, and 

 while most of the material is on the ground, 

 perhaps two montlis will elapse before the ma 

 chinery is started up. The company has in view 

 oiher developments, which will not be under- 

 i-iUen, however, until the railroad construction 

 is sufficiently advanced to make delivery of ma- 

 iirial certain. 



.Fohn L. Alcoek of .John L. Alcock & Co. left 

 rather hurriedly for Asheville, N. C. on Tuesday 

 evening of last week, having received news of 

 ihe illness ot Mrs. Alcock with diphtheria. She 

 was there at tlie resort nursing one of her chil- 

 ilren, who was taken with tonsilitis. when she 

 was taken ill. 



M. S. Baer of Richard I'. Eaer & Co. returned 

 lercntly from a protracted southern trip, in the 

 cruirse of which be visited many mill men. clos- 

 ins contracts for delivery of stocks, and also 

 went to tbe Arms mill at Mobile. Mr. Baer 

 ^nys he found prices everywhere very high. Be- 

 tween his flrst visit to Atlanta and his second 

 (■all there, an interval which did not e.vceed three 

 weeks, prices hod advanced S:i per 1,000 feet, and 

 he c-ould have obtained that much more for his 

 lumber. He fcund that the mills were all sold 

 out. with contracts ahead, and competition for 

 slocks most active. Baer & Co.'s mill at Mo- 

 bile has been shut down for about two weeks 

 pending repairs. A new boiler has been in- 

 ^italled. and othj^r changes have been made, which 

 will greatly increase the capacity of the plant. 

 The death of .Tames W. Knowles, Sr., having 

 dissolved the well-known lumber Arm of .1. W. 

 Knnwles & Son. West trails avenue. .Tames W. 

 Knowles. Jr., and Edwin W. ICnowles, the sons, 

 have formed a partnership under the name of 

 .Tames W. Ivnowles' Sons, which will be located 

 at the old place and continue the business 

 founded by the father. 



Tbe Filippe A. Broadbent Mantel Cumpany. 

 I'resident and Aliceanna streets, has extensively 

 renovated its large place, and has made a num- 

 ber .if improvements tluit will augment tbe etB- 

 •ciency of the factory. 



A large factory is to be erected by S. II. Tin- 

 ley 4c Co.. manufacturers of doors and sashes, 

 at Rush. Sassafras and Xanticoke streets. The 

 new location affords ample space for the mill 

 building and other structures, and the necessary 

 buildings will be erected as rapidly as possible. 

 Another sash and door manufacturing concern 

 which has outgrown its present ynarters is 

 -Tohn C. Scherer & Co. To obtain additbinal 

 I'acilities a contract has been awarded for the 

 vrection of a three-story warehouse at S1.3 and 

 ■Mo Raborg street, in the rear of the present 

 lilace. ■ Tbe new building will be 2S feet by 7o 

 j'cet. 



Pittsburg. 



Building operation in fittsburg for tbe mouth 

 <if February showed a falling oft of $42,000, 

 compared with February, 1!)05. The total 

 .1 mount of work authorized last mouth was 

 ■<268,S83, eighty-eight of the permits being for 

 new buildings. Duriug February. IOC'S, a few 

 large buildings were authorized, which accounts 

 in part for the loss in the total this year. It is 

 to be noted, however, that building activity in 

 I'ittsburg as measured by the permits being taken 

 out daily and by the contracts awarded or fig- 

 ured by architects is not what was expected 

 earlier in the season. The fear of a coal strike 

 lias, no doubt, acted as a check upon building 

 operations and the decidedly bad weather that 

 lias prevailed since March 1 has made it impos- 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



^il'b- I" SCI liuildiiigs c.>nli'niplaled iiiidci- way. 

 This has caused a decided slump in the local 

 lumber trade. 



The lumbermen up the .\llcgheny river are 

 happy over the big fall of snow the last ten 

 days. Millions of feet of timber was cut during 

 the winter on the Allegheny river and its tribu- 

 taries, but because of the mild weather it was 

 impossible to haul it out on account ot the 

 deep mud. The recent snow has caused a greai 

 demand for extra teams and every farmer in tbr 

 country has rushed his horses into tbe woods 

 at big wages. Skidding has been hard liecau.se 

 of the soft ground underneath the snow, but 

 lumbermen have made tbe best iif il and are 

 getting in most of their winter logs. 



The D. L. Helman Lumber Company of War 

 ten, IX. has the distinction of cutting the largest 

 tree ever taken out in Trumbull county. It was 

 a great white oak with l.o.jO rings that has 

 stood in Gnstavus township, twenty miles north 

 of Warren. One ot Mr. Ilelmau's buyers bought 

 it for .$100. The log was sixty-nine feet long 

 and seven feet through at the stump. It was 

 scaled down to sixty-two feet and contained 

 7,3Go feet of lumber, board measure, or l.ooo 

 feet more than the largest tree ever bandied by 

 the Helman company. It weighed thirty-eight 

 tons and to load it the company had the Lake 

 Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company 

 back cars into the woods one-eighth of a mile 

 from where the big stick laid. Ten teams and 

 three tackle blocks Anally got it to the cars in 

 the presence ot the officials of the Lake Shore & 

 Michigan Sourhern. The size of the tree can 

 be shown by the fact that the average run of 

 white oak trees in Trumbull county yield less 

 than 800 feet to the tree, board measure. 



The experiment which is to be tried of refor- 

 esting portions of Wayne county. Bennsylvania. 

 will be watched with great interest by Pittsburg 

 lumbermen inasmuch as they expect it to lead 

 to similar experiments in other portions of the 

 state where the mountain land can thus be re- 

 claimed and made to grow valuable timber. The 

 plan proposed recommends tbe planting of com- 

 mercially valuable trees on 1,.-|00 acres of de- 

 nuded land. The young growth ot timber now 

 cm the ground will be protected. There is a sec- 

 ond growth forest of 700 acres adjacent to the 

 land to be planted, and the scheme will include 

 lules for the proper management ot this tract also. 

 Chestnut, red pine, red oak, European larch and 

 black waluut are the trees that will be planted. 

 The nursery stock needed for the experiment will 

 be grown on the tract, and seedlings will be 

 planted in a nursery capable of rearing 200,000 

 plants annually. Tlie demand for hardwood tim- 

 ber of all kinds in northeastern Pennsylavnia is 

 excessive, and hitherto the original forest growth 

 as well as the second growth timber has been cut 

 and slashed with no apparent regard to future 

 needs. 



The Henry Ahlers Lumber Company has 

 bought 71x111 feet on Second street. Allegheny, 

 tor $10,000 and will use the ground for a stor- 

 age yard. The company is having much the best 

 trade in its history and is carrying a splendid 

 line of hardwoods, especially for house building 

 purposes. 



The Nicola Brothers C<jmpany has sold its 

 wholesale lumber yard on the Cuyahoga river at 

 Cleveland. O.. to C. A. Krauss. .Tr.. E. A. Krauss 

 of the Lake Shore Saw Mill & Lumber Company. 

 George S. (Jynn of the Cleveland City Lumber 

 Company and J. A. Melcher of the Lorain Street 

 tank of Cleveland. The consideration was about 

 $27.-,. 000. Included in the purchase are the plan- 

 ing mill, dry kilns, shed and all equipment of 

 the yard, which is one ot the largest in Cleve- 

 land and has been used for several years as 

 the main distributing point by the Nicola Broth- 

 ers Company tor all their lumber brought down 

 from tbe lakes. This included millions of feet 

 of white pine. Norway pine, hemlock and hard- 

 wood. The sale was thought advisable on ac- 

 count ot the death in .January nf Will Wright 



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Nicola, who bad managed the Cleveland end of 

 the business lor several years. The large real 

 estate interests of the other Nicola brothers in 

 Pittsburg made it impossible for them ,o move 



The purchasers are well known in Cleveland lum- 

 ber crcles and will cntinue to carry a vc iv 

 large stock of lumber a, the Nicola yards. ' 



U.llsou Brothers report a very thrifty condi- 

 .;;" ot allairs in the hardwood department. In 

 ef, they are bu.sy. and that with this arm 

 . Iways means a stack of ,u-ders that keeps the 

 timber buyers on the jump to ti„. They a e 

 got ing excellen, prices for their stock and p^ 

 d..-t an early advance in the price ot oak. which 

 cont.,>nes to be a leader in the hardwood mar 

 Ut The firm has been enlarging its office space 



of the most commodious and best arranged suites 

 01 any lumber rtrm in the citv. 



Tlie Linebau Lumber Compauy. „f the Farm 

 ers- Bank building, ,s kept busy much of the 

 :ZV\?', '"rr -^'^'"^ -»•- -•"«'•« for hard 



aid It IS hlhng some very nice orders for other 

 Wholesale concerns which are unable to 4 

 enough stock to meet their demands. The Lin', 

 hans look for an increase in prices as the buil.l 

 mg season opens. 



Charles W. Simon of Simon's Sons has sold 

 o .Tohn H. William and Harry E. Simon h 

 hve-fourteenths interest in. the Arm's planin" 

 m.ll property m Allegheny for $23,000. LasT 



and' the' CT ""' "" '''' ^'^^ ^^ '~' 

 and the brothers contemplate building a new 



one this spring. Charles Simon, „-ho has jut 

 sold out, will, it is under.stood. locate in the 

 Pennsylvania building i„ rittsburg as a whole 

 sale lumber dealer. wnoie 



The Somerset Door & Column Company has 

 been incorporated at Somerset, Pa., with a ca ' 



ser, J. M. cook. K. Pullen. A. W. Knepper and 

 George M. Brant, all of Somerset. 



W. H. Mace of the A. M. Turner Lumbe,' 



-ompany. recently made another extended trip 

 .iu'ough the South. The Turner company 

 pushed to the limit with orders and it Ld 

 conditions at the mills not conducive to lower 

 prices. This year bids fair to break all the! 

 previous records m the sales line and for this 

 purpose the company has strengthened its out 

 posts in every direction. 



The M. P Bock Lumber Company of Boyer, W 

 ^n.. has sold out to Wilmoth & McCuUough of 



he same place. The latter firm is a large dealer 

 m haulwood and spruce and gets one good mill 

 in the transaction in addition to a large tract 

 of hardwood timber. 



Edward Germain, who was for several years 

 manager of tbe mill work department of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 has gone into the wholesale lumber business f,',i' 

 himself in the Bessemer building. He will have 

 some excellent hardwood connections, and will 

 make this a strong feature of his trade M- 

 Germain has a wide acquaintance in the Greate'r 

 Pittsburg territory, and a host of friends whu 

 wish him well in his new undertaking. 



\V. E. Hamner, formerly with the firm of N 

 B. Mccarty of Bnckhannon. Pa., has accepted "a 

 position as traveling salesman for tbe James I 

 M ^\llson ('ompany and is now stationed at 

 Clarksburg, W. Va., where he is looking after 

 the company's trade in hemlock and hard 

 woods. 



Flint, Erving & Stoner have their new mill at 

 Millport, Pa., nearly done and will shortly be 

 cutting a big lot of oak and other hardwoods 

 there under the title of the Columbia Lumber 

 Company, in which they are largely interested 

 The company is Iiaviug an active trade in most 

 lines in spite of the bad weather, which has 

 taken off some of the local yard orders. 



Tlie Ivendall Lumber Company is putting in a 

 new mill at Crellin. Md.. which will brin- the 



