November 25. 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Nuter-Cedar Company has established offices in the First National 

 bank In this city, and will shortly build a big box factory at Farrell, Pa., 

 where the immense plant of the American Sheet and Tinplate Company 

 is located. It will make boxes for the steel companies and also for 

 general use. 



C. D. Justice, of Huntington, W. Va., has bought from T. B. Palmer 

 of Uniontown, Pa., 7,000,000 feet of oak and poplar timber on the Buf- 

 falo Creek in the New river territory of West Virginia for $50,000. He 

 expects to manufacture it this winter. 



The West Penn Lumber Company reports a very strong and steady 

 demand for lumber. Prices are going up and the situation is very much 

 to the wholesalers' liking, except as to cars. 



The Henderson Lumber Company announces a much better demand 

 from mining and industrial concerns for hardwood than it has noted 

 for several years. This Is due largely to the fact that steel oompanies 

 are not now making mine equipment to any extent, and mine owners are 

 falling back on the lumbermen for their needs. 



The American Lumber and Manufacturing Company is getting ready 

 to start its big operations at Lennox, Ky., about December 1. The com- 

 pany has fully five years' cut at that place, and will have one of the 

 best equipped plants in the country. 



The Mutual Lumber Company reports a fine demand with stocks very 

 short. Bill stuff, according to Manager H. E. Ast, has advanced from 

 $1 to $2 in special sizes during the past two weeks. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



Information has been received in Baltimore of the formation of a 

 cypress organization which is expected to be an important factor in the 

 trade. The Pine Plume Lumber Company, which has hitherto main- 

 tained offices for the distribution of cypress and yellow pine at Mont- 

 gomery, Ala., has decided to concentrate the cypress business at Savan- 

 nah, Ga., with the Montgomery office devoting itself entirely to yellow 

 pine. The company will handle the output of five large mills, among 

 them those of the Black Eiver Cypress Company, Gable, S. C. ; the He- 

 bard Cypress Company, Waycross, Ga., and the Big Salkehatchie Cypress 

 Company, Varnville, S. C. The president of the Pine Plume company 

 is W. S. Hollister, with D. L. Whetstone as secretary. Mr. Halley, for- 

 merly sales manager for the Standard Lumber Company of Live Oak, 

 Fla., has associated himself with the Pine Plume company to look after 

 the cypress end, and he has been succeeded with the Standard company 

 by T. G. Loggins, who formerly covered the territory including Baltimore 

 and Philadelphia for the Standard company. 



Several changes in the ownership of shipbuilding plants here and at 

 Norfolk are expected to be of importance to the hardwood trade. One of 

 them is the purchase of the old Spedden Shipbuilding Company's plant 

 at Baltimore by Alfred W. Gieske. Mr. Gieske expects to modernize the 

 establishment which is located on Boston street and engage extensively 

 in the construction as well as repair of vessels. Harry G. Skinner, of 

 the well-known Baltimore shipbuilding family of that name, has organ- 

 ized the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Company with a capital stock 

 of $1,500,000 and will build a plant on the Berkely side of the river. 



The Virginia Timber Corporation has been chartered at Richmond 

 with a capital stock of $100,000 and with J. Pope Nash as president, 

 Jonathan Bryan as vice-president, and George J. Benson as secretary- 

 treasurer. The company has purchased from the Virginia Apple Lands 

 Corporation 10,000 acres in Botetourt and Craig counties, Virginia, con- 

 taining 750,000 feet of railroad ties, and 15,000,000 feet of sa%v timber, 

 besides dogwood and other wood, but will not engage in manufacturing 

 operations, holding the property for development. 



The Etheridge Lumber Company, Norfolk, Va., whose plant was de- 

 stroyed by fire in September, has arranged to rebuild. Preparations have 

 been made for a mill 100 by 132 feet, most of the machinery having 

 already been contracted for with the P. B. Yates Machine Company of 

 Beloit, Wis. All of the plant will be driven electrically. 



Among recent visitors in Baltimore were Mr. Boner of the Boner Mills 

 Lumber Company, Asheville, N. C. ; W. A. Dolph, sales manager of the 

 Macon Hardwood Lumber Company, Macon, Ga., and G. G. Barr of New- 

 York. The two former were on their way north on business trips, while 

 Mr. Barr was canvassing his southern trade. 



Negotiations have been completed for the removal of the Ebert furni- 

 ture factory from Philadelphia to York, Pa. The corporation, which is 

 to have C. S. Lamonte for president, T. E. Brooks for secretary and Fred 

 J. Ebert of Philadelphia for treasurer, will be known as the Ebert Fur- 

 niture Company. The capital stock of the company is $150,000, and em- 

 ployment is to be given to 300 men. 



=-< COLUMBUS > 



The annual meeting of the Ohio Builders' Supply Association will be 

 held at the Gibson hotel, Cincinnati, January 25, 26 and 27. Elaborate 

 arrangements are being made for the meeting. According to G. S. Gaines, 

 assistant to the president, who has headquarters In Columbus, it is the 

 expectation to have 500 members enrolled by the time of the convention. 

 Mr. Gaines is busy organizing the various districts of the state into 



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