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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10, 1916 



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-•< MISCELLANEOUS >. 



At Shelbyville. Ind., the style of the Excel Furniture Company has been 

 changed to the Tlnciall Dorsey Furniture Company. 



The Consolidated Package Box c& Lumber Company has been incorporated 

 at New York City, while the Empire Woodworking Company, that city, 

 has become an involuntary bankrupt. 



The Maxson Lumber Company of Milwaukee, Wis., has increased its 

 capital stock to $65,000. 



At North Milwaukee, Wis., the Schneider Furniture Company has be- 

 come an involuntary bankrupt. 



The Brown-Colburn Lumber Company has started a wholesale hardwood 

 lumber business at Green Bay, Wis. 



It is announced from Keyser, W. Va., that H. G. Fisher has been ap- 

 pointed receiver for the Richardson Furniture Company. 



The Moeke Planing Mill at Zeeland. Mich., recently suffered a .$16,000 

 Are loss. « 



The Clement Veneer & Lumber Company witb $50,000 capital has been 

 organized at Pamlico, S. C. The company will build a plant with 30,000 

 feet daily capacity and will specialize In poplar veneer for the furniture 

 trade. 



The Aroostook Moulding Company has been incorporated at Presque 

 Isle, Me. 



The Hice Manufacturing Company has started a wholesale lumber busi- 

 ness at West Jefferson, N. C. 



=■< CHICAGO >■ 



E. M. Vestal, vice-president and secretary of the live southern manu- 

 facturing concern, the Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Company. Knox- 

 vllle, Tenn., was In the city November 9. 



H. B. Sale of the Hoffman Brothers Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind.. spent 

 Wednesday in Chicago on his way north. Mr. Sale managed while in the 

 city to sell a fine bunch of walnut. 



Dan Baird of the D. W. Baird Lumber Company, city, returned this week 

 from a little business trip to New York. He found the big cltv had a lot 

 of money and everybody seems to be trading with all parts of the world 

 Including Mississippi, Missouri and Oklahoma. He successfully intro- 

 duced the Kraetzer preparators in several foreign countries. Uv reports 

 the retail hardwood lumber business is very active— the wholesale business 

 not as aggressive as it was thirty or forty days ago. 



The Cartler-Holland Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., announces 

 the removal of Its offices on .Xovember 1 to Suite 804 Grand Rapids 

 Savings building. 



Hans Dlerks of the Dierks Lumber & Coal Company. Kansas City, Mo., 

 spent a busy day in Chicago last week on his way to .\ew York. He put 

 In considerable of his time discussing a new band mill outflt for the new 

 mill at Dlerks, Ark. It is likely that a Filer & Stowell outflt will be 

 Installed, driven by Allls-Chalmers' motors. 



Among the recent prominent visitors to Chicago were : John M. Woods 

 East Cambridge, Mass., president of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation ; C. H. Barnaby. Greencastle. Ind.; E. V. Kabcock, Pitlshurgh, Pa.: 

 T. M. Brown, Louisville, Ky., these gentlemen attending the meeting of 

 the executive committee of the organization of which Mr. Woods Is the 

 head. 



Senator Hatten, who runs the Hatten Lumber Company at New London, 

 Wis., told a short time ago of the resignation of J. S. I.an.ion. who had 

 been sales manager of the Hatten Lumber Company, and before that was 

 In charge of sales for the Barker-Stewart Lumber Company, New 

 London, Wis. 



O. T. Swan, secretary of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwo.id Manufac- 

 turers' Association, Oshkosh. Wis., and his assistant, Roger E. Simmons, 

 spent a few days In Chicago last week. 



Charles Dregge of the Nichols & Cox Lumber Company. (Jrand Rapids, 

 Mich., was in the city recently and appeared well satisfleil with lumber 

 conditions. 



George D. Griffith of George D. Griffith & Co., Lumber Exchange build- 

 ing, returned to the city about a week ago after visiting some of the hard- 

 wood mills In northern Wisconsin. 



=-< BUFFALO >= 



Buffalo building work is going ahead at a more active pace than in 

 1915 and the month of October showed total costs of permits of $972,000, 

 as compared with $S5fi,000 a year ago, a gain of nearly 20 per cent! 

 The year as a whole is ahead of last year. 



M. M. Wall, O. E. Yeager and II. P. Taylor were in Washington late 

 last month In attendance at a hearing on the transit privilege before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. 



The new Buffalo Lumber Dealers' Association is now located at 616 

 Prudential building, where Secretary K. C. Evarts is busily emplo.ved 

 looking after the Interests of the members. The association plans to 

 do quite a little missionary work In educating the public as to the 



superiority of lumber for many uses, and this educational campaign Is 

 bound to assist in the popularizing of hardwoods. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company is quite busy, but finds the car shortage 

 growing acute in the South. A new lumber storage shed is to be built 

 at the yards this fall. 



Taylor & Crate have lately bought a number of Pierce-Arrow motor 

 trucks, which will be used in connection with the yard on Elmwood' 

 avenue. Several new buildings are soon to be put up at the yard. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling report that the demand for hardwoods Is 

 led by oak at present to a larger extent than for some time, and prices 

 are growing firmer. 



T. Sullivan & Co. state that hardwood trade slowed up to some extent 

 just before election, but the retail demand for lumber is good and 

 prices are very firm. 



B. F. Ridley has been in Canada lately in the Interest of Davenport 

 & Ridley, wbo have bought a million feet of white pine crating lumber, 

 for which there is an excellent sale. 



G. Ellas & Bro. state that business is fairly good in hardwoods and 

 about as active as a month ago. A. J. Ellas has returned from a short 

 business trip to the West. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller are finding business a little more active. It Is- 

 distributed fairly well over a number of hardwoods, with a good part of 

 it in plain oak. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports that ash Is especially 

 strong at present and the demand for it is on the increase. Plain and 

 quartered oak is holding Its own. 



The Yeager Lumber Company states that the hardwood trade has not 

 been showing the snap of some months ago, but is fair at present. Car 

 shortage Is not causing the trouble here that is reported elsewhere. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company looks for a strong market In 

 hardwoods this fall on account of the growing car shortage at the 

 South, The yard has a good general assortment on hand. 



:< PITTSBURGH >.= 



W. D, Johnston, president of the American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, and his associates will start their big hardwood operation at 

 Lenox, Ky., about December 1. They are building an electrically equipped 

 mill there and have a 20-years' cut of hardwood ahead. 



The Duque.sne Lumber Company Is getting a very good business largely 

 from the manufacturing trade. Its one complaint Is that cars are ex- 

 tremely hard to get. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company reports that It has 500 cars of gum 

 and Cottonwood ready for shipment, but that It can not get one car 

 where It should have five. Its agent has been In the Southwest for sev- 

 eral weeks, trying to stir up activity at shipping centers, but Is having 

 little success. 



The Mutual Lumber Company finds the automobile and furniture busi- 

 ness excellent. Prices on these woods are advancing steadily, according 

 to Manager II. E. Ast. Maple Is up $5.00 per M, and ash and hickory 

 are very scarce and going higher in price. 



The C. E. Breltwelser Lumber Company Is getting a very fair trade In 

 hardwoods, and finds that the eastern market is Improving somewhat and 

 Its business with manufacturing concerns is gradually getting better. 



The J. C. Cottrell Lumber Company would be happy were it not for 

 the labor troubles and the car shortage. It has shut down its hardwood 

 mill In Virginia for a short time because it could not get cars on the 

 N. & W. U. R. to move out Its lumber. 



Two new lumber firms were announced in Pittsburgh the first of the 

 month. .\. P. L. Turner, a well-known wholesale lumber salesman, Is 

 now in the wholesale business for himself at 5121 Jenkins Arcade. For 

 the past two .vears, Mr. Turner has been an official of the Acorn Lumber 

 Company of this city. Previous to that time, he was connected with the 

 Babcock Lumber Company for two years, and before that was, for sev- 

 eral years, identified with the Witmer & Craig interests here. Mr. Turner 

 will handle the interests of the Burton-Schwartz Cypress Company of 

 Perry, Fla.. the Albion Lumber Company of Sun Francisco, Cal., the 

 Consolidated Sawmill Company of St. Louis, the J. W. Wells Lumber 

 Company at Menominee, Mich., the Central Warehouse Lumber Company 

 of Transfer, Mlnu.. W. T. Ferguson Lumber Company of St. liOuis, and 

 the Stillwell Lumber Company of Chicago. 



The Tionesta Lumber Company, the other new concern, is located at 

 Suite No. 1112 First National Bank building. Its members are all e.x- 

 perlenced lumbermen. William Smearbaugh Is president. He has been 

 for many years engaged in the lumber business and the manufacture of 

 boats and barges In northern Pennsylvania. Secretary H. E. Kelly is 

 of the third generation of the well-known Kelly family. The stockholders 

 are large owners of mills In Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia and 

 on the Pacific coast. This makes the company especially well prepared 

 to take care of any line of wholesale lumber business. 



-< BOSTON >.= 



M. Walter Hart of Boston died November 1, after long conflnemeut Id 

 the hospital. Although only forty-one, he was an active factor in the 

 trade of New England, having been Identified with large hardwood Inter- 

 ests in this city prior to entering business on his own account nearly 

 fifteen years ago. Coincident with the first Indications of failing health 



