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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sIkkI. valiu'il lit yHo.OOO, bnlli mily " ii« vims 

 ago. In llie .vuril wtMO a nmiibor iif inis, waitlut; 

 to l>e unloaded, and tlii'so, loo, were destroyed. 

 The entire loss Is estlnuiled at about $:WO.OUO, 

 generally covered by Insurame. 



.1. <;ibson Mellvain & Co. Is one of the oldest. 

 If not tile oldest, lumber tlriu In the I'nited 

 States, having a eonlinuous eilstenee for 109 

 years. The yards are the most extensive In 

 Philadelphia and the roneern carried the hoav- 

 i(st stock of any of the local lirms. The loss 

 Is es|ieclally disastrous at this time of the year, 

 as the concern was expecting a heavy trade in 

 barilwoods. and the tuemliers of the Hrm fear 

 that II will be Impossible lo stock the yards 

 again In lime to 1111 their orders. This Is the 

 llrst time In Ihe history of the concern that It 

 has been forced to call on the Insurance com- 

 panies. 



Itenjnmln Ketcham. .Ir.. has his ynid on North 

 Hroad street well slocked with hardwood In 

 preparation for a brisk season. He has found 

 It necessary to acipilre more space, and has 

 secured a capacious yard on Thirtieth street 

 below Walnut. It adjoins the I'ennsylvanla 

 iHllroad and has excellent shipping fncilllles. 



11. Humphreys A: Co.. whose present licadipiar 

 teis are In riilladel|ihla. will move their ollice 

 about May 1 to Iheir Caniilen distributing y:ird, 

 which Is much larger and offers better facilities 

 for trade. 



C. .). .lobson of Ihe rrodiicers' Lumber Com- 

 jMiny Is making an extensive trip through Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and the .South on 

 the IcHikout for good slocks of hardwoods. Ad- 

 vlies from him report the market very firm. 

 lie will return about Ihe second week of April, 

 rrnnklln II. Smith. .Ir.. seiretary of the com- 

 pany, has been conlined lo his home for two 

 weeks, tlirenlened wllh pneumonia. 



C. K. Lloyd, .Ir., of the Cherry Ulver Boom 

 & Lumber Company, Is im a trip through New 

 Kngland. Tills llrni has been receiving orders 

 for hardwood at better prices than ever before. 

 The mill at Camden-on-liaiilcy will be started on 

 diMible time In a few days. 



Ilcnry Whelpton of the U\yen M. Kruner Com- 

 pany, recently returned from a trip to the 

 South, where he lm>ked over the mills that are 

 working out the contracts of Ihe Hrm. Owen M. 

 Hruner is now making a trip through that local- 

 ity and reports Ihe nuirket very active. 



Frank CiKlUng. for twenty years a salesman 

 nllh Charles Ksic and widely known to the 

 local trade, has severed his conneclion with 

 thai llrni and will engage In business for him- 

 self. 



Ailvlcea from K. \V. Wlstar of WIstar, Under- 

 hlU k Co., who Is traveling In the South, state 

 Ihe oiilloiik at Ihe mills very hopeful. Mr. WIs- 

 tar will return to I'hlladelidiln abotil April I'J. 

 1. It. Miller left on .Manh :tl for a trip 

 Ihroiigh Tennessee and ileorgia lo oversee stock 

 al Ihe mills. He will be gone Iwo weeks. This 

 flrin Is iirejiarlng lo handle more hardwood this 

 year than at any other time In Us history. 



Ilobert C. LIpplncoll has moved his olllces 

 from Ihe North American building to a more 

 comiuodloiiK unite 'if'H Crozer bnlldlng. 



.lohn .1. Sobic of Soble Ilros. Is down nt their 

 mill nl Clench Vnlley, Va., hnslllng out shlp- 

 ii:enls. This llrm has lately bought a million 

 leet of hemlock, mostly •Jx4 ami lUx'JO, which 

 they are disposing of rnphlly. They llnd the 

 market good. 



Lewis Thompson has lately relurneil from a 

 plensure trip In Klorldn much benellled In health. 

 Marl In Trlngs. one of Ihe nirmi widely known 

 hnrilwoisl door men In Ihe city, prophesies a 

 splenillil year for hardwoods, lie has made more 

 esllnuiles In Ihe three months than he did dur 

 Ing Ihe whole of last year. 



Till- annual election of Ihe hoard of dlreilors 

 i.f Ihe Ili>yertown Itnrlnl Casket Company was 

 lo'ld on March H'. and the fidlowlng olhcers were 

 elected for llie ensuific -•'" >' I! M'.n ori" 



I. lent ; J. W. Bnuman. vice president ; D. B. 

 Bower, secretary, and W. M. Leaver, treasurer. 

 .M. I{. Strunk, widely and favorably known to 

 the local trade, was api)ol»ted superlntcinlciu 

 of the company's mill nt Boyerton, I'a. 



.1. 11. Sheip of Shelp & Vandegrlft Is spend 

 ing the week nt Ihe company's mills at Knox- 

 vllle. Tenn. Mr. Stuntz, for twelve years with 

 the veneer depnrlmeni of the K. I). Albro Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati. Is now In charge of the 

 veneer department of this concern. 



W. 11. Lear has lately sold a lot of cypress. 

 He linds the demand good for all I'lasses of 

 hardwoods. Besides n well stocked yard, he has 

 a great ipiantity of lumber at Ihe mills waiting 

 delivery for him. Recently he had forty-two 

 cars In his yards waiting to be unloaded. 



Baltimore. 



Tiie case of .Joliii 1.. .\icock vV Co. against lili- 

 iierl II. Cobb, foreign freight agent of the I'enn- 

 sylvanla railroad and the Hamburg .\merican 

 line of slenmers, and It. B. Ways, freight agent 

 of Ihe Baltimore & Ohio and tiie ,lohnson line of 

 steamers, cliarging conspiracy to vioiale Ihe 

 Harler act, wliich re(iulres Iransportntion com- 

 panies to Issue clean tliroiigh bills of lading, 

 was decided Inst Saturday against the complain- 

 ant. What step will lie taken next by the ium- 

 bermen has not yet been determined. It Is not 

 likely that they will allow Hie matter lo rest as 

 it stands, since under existing conditions they 

 are left completely nt the mercy of the Irans- 

 liortalion companies. 



A delegation of Uichmoiui liinilicrrncn arrived 

 here on Maivh 'M to study Hie organization of 

 the Ketaii Lumber Dealers' Association and of 

 the lumber exchange witli a view In (Uganizing 

 the trade in Kichmund. 



The Baltimore members of Hie order of the 

 Hoo-lloo held a conference on Hie evening of 

 Marcli li'.i to discuss ways and means for bringing 

 Ihe concalenallon of Hie national body to Baill- 

 raore next year. A committee was apiiolnled to 

 prevail upon Mayor TInianus to extend a formal 

 invitnlion on the part of the city. 



E. (i. Buckingham of the hardwood exporting 

 Hrm of MoHu & Buckingham, lias acquired a 

 half interest in Hie .loiin ,L Kidd I.umiier Com- 

 pany, dealers In hardwoods. wlHi odices in tlie 

 National Marine Bank building, succeeding Wii- 

 Jiam C. Kldd. The company has purchased a 

 yard al ]r.;ti South Sharp street and Is building 

 an olHce there. As soon as this structure Is 

 linlshed the corpornlion will make Its headipiar- 

 ters there. 



W. Lewis Uowe of liii> iviiiilii'f firm of W. L. 

 Uowe & Co. has purcliased the yard on the 

 southeast corner of Canton and Kast Kails 

 avenues, and the (Irm will by means tliereof ex- 

 tend Its faciilth>s. The eonslderathm is said 

 lo have been ?1'J..")00. 



The o'Kcefe Show Case & Klxlure Company 

 has been Incorporated with a capllnl of J.'iO.noO. 

 divided Into "iIKi shares, by .lames T>. Hughes, 

 Milton B. Wiillnms, Samuel 11. Itoberts, F. M. 

 nice, Kdward V. Burke, Klelcher It. Speed, 1*. 11. 

 .lessnllzer. .lames W. O'Keefe, ,Tohn 10. Thursby 

 and William ,1. Harrelt. 



.lames Caul of the widely known Hlasgow lum- 

 ber imiiorllng llrm of Caul & Kemp arrived In New 

 ■^ ork last Saliii'day on an extended trip of the 

 I'nlled Slates. He will visit lumber centers, 

 and Is expected In Baltimore. 



Wausan. 



Milwaukee parlies have seleclcti a site In the 

 village of Ladysmllh for a chair factory which 

 will employ ."iiKI hands. They will build the 

 coming summer. 



The Athens Mnnufactiirlng Company w|ll oper- 

 ate Its phinl night and day for the remainder of 

 Hie season. Ihe llrst time In several years. This 

 Is line lo an overstock of Iiialerlal on hand and 

 numerous orders t'> till. 



\ few davH auo while a hardwood luu was 



being run through the W. W. Mitchell mill In 

 Stevens I'oint evidence of a former crime came 

 to light. Tiie log was cut live years ago on the 

 farm of .Joseph Hailon, north of the city, and 

 liad been on skids ever since. II was hollow and 

 when the saws passed through Hie log the broken 

 and twisted remains of a gold watch wei'e found. 



About seventy car loads of hub timber have 

 been slilpped from Athens this spring by Henry 

 Kreutzer. The timber Is mostly birch and was 

 purchased of farmers. 



The .laube & Weisc Manufacluring Company 

 of Wausnu lias broken groiiioi I'nr ilie erection 

 of two large factory buildings. It Is expected 

 that the same will be completed by midsummer 

 and the plant be in operation before fail. The 

 company manufactures hardwood llxtnres, furni- 

 ture and cabinet work, dealing princl|iaily wlHi 

 two extremes — churches and sahious. 



W. A. Itideout of Eland .luuctlon on his recent 

 trip south pnrdiased J2,"i,000,(l(10 feet of oak tliii 

 ber near Monroe, La. He, with K. .1. Conant ni 

 Milwaukee, has organized the Oak Lumlier Coin 

 pany. They liavi' also purchased the mill m 

 the Eland Traltic Company, situated in Elderon, 

 and this they are dlsiiuiulling and moving i.. 

 Monroe. The mill's capacity in its new ioc;ili.iii 

 w-iil be increased to 40.(1(10 feet per day. It will 

 be a double feed, one side for ipiarter-sawln); 

 The timber is, according to the terms of sale, 

 to be delivered in Monroe. Tims the (Irm is 

 insured of thirty yeai's' sawing, calculating on 

 the basis of the capacity of the mill. Mr. Hide 

 out will divide his time between his southern 

 and northern interests. Many of his old em 

 ployees will go south to work in the new mill. 



The U. Connor Company of Marshlieid liaim^ 

 Hie distinction of having hauled the lai'gest loail 

 of hardwood logs In this section during the jires 

 ent logging season. The load scaled i:!.2(;o feci 

 weighed sixty tons and was liauied liy foin 

 iior.ses over an ice road a distance of nine miii - 

 to Ihe company's mill In Stratford. 



Pittsburg. 



'J'he liarding-Klmiierliiiid Lumber Compan.v lias 

 moved from tiie House building to the .Mercantile 

 b'.illding at Kirst avenue and Wood street, when 

 it lias a commodious suite of otilces. 



The L. L. Sailer Lumber Company of I'ltls 

 burg, w'lth other lumber capitalists of this local 

 ilj. have purchased a ti'act of !l,2U0 acres nl 

 limber land in Lunenburg, Nottoway and Uruns 

 wick counties. West Virginia, for about $,'100,000. 

 The purchase meaijs that Hie Sailer company 

 has a ten years' operation on Its hands and that 

 it has secured one of the lincst tracts of hard 

 wood limber in the country. The timber Is on 

 the Noltoway river, and It Is eslimated will cut 

 at least 100,000.000 feet of lumber. The Nov 

 folk Western Italiroad Company is now biilldlnL 

 a railroad to tap the tract and a mill is iicin^ 

 built which will have a capacity of 70,000 feet 

 a day. The enlire operation will be condiicleil 

 under the name of the Nottoway Lumber Com 

 pany. which has these Incorporators : L. L. Sai 

 ler, .1. S. McNaugher, T. M. Ci'iilcy, W. A. Sipi 

 ,lr., and W. L. McKay. 



The hardwood departmcnl of Wlllsmi Brollici 

 under the managenienl of 1. 1'. Ilalsley is coiiiIml 

 to the front wllh a rush. .Mr. Ilalsley has mail> 

 several trips lo the hnidwood mills In West Vii 

 ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee lately and lois 

 secured a line of No. 1 slock for the spring mid 

 summer tiade. The river mills, Mr. Balsley 

 says, have a few million feet of logs to cut. but 

 Hie mills baik In the country are handicapped by 

 Hie bad roads, and a smaller cut of hai'dwoods 

 Ihan lasl year Is looked for as a result. 



W. II. Mace of the A. M. Turner Lumber Com 

 jiauy Is al ricayune, .Miss., wlicre Ihe coinpanx 

 big operation Is jirogressing llnely. 



The Llnehiin Lumber Conii>any has reason i 

 complain of the bad wcalher which has held back 

 operallons In Keiiiutky and Tennessee hardwood 

 i.iiniis i,ii.i> \..« 1 1 mpany's mills arc all 



