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December 10, lOlO 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ciation, Cadillac, and W. L. Saunders and W. E. Abbott, respectively gen- 

 eral manager and sales manager of the Cummer-Diggins Company, Cadillac, 

 passed througb Chicago on Thursday en route to Merrill, where they are 

 attending the Northern Lumbermen's Salesmanship Conference. Mr. 

 Saunders presented an address at the opening session on Friday. 



-■< BUFFALO >= 



The BuBfalo building operations for the past eleven months show an 

 excess of over $1,000,000 above the same period last year. The total so 

 far this year is $11,930,000, as against $10,903,392 in the corresponding 

 period of 1915. For November the figures were $1,042,000, as against 

 $TSS,000 in that month last year. 



Among the hardwood sportsmen who took advantage of the closing of 

 the pheasant season a few days ago were F. M. Sullivan, O. E. Teager 

 and A. W. Kreinheder. who report having had good success, though the 

 number of birds in sight was scarcely up to some former years. Pheasants 

 are beautiful birds, but not wild enough to furnish lively sport. 



The H. T. Kerr Lumber Company finds boats very scarce at the end of 

 the season and will bring in about 1,000,000 feet of northern hardwoods 

 this month by rail. 



The Yeager Lumber Company reports that business is pretty fair. Quite 

 a little plain oak and maple is being sold. The yard is receiving stocks 

 of cypress. 



C. N. Perrin has returned from the South, where he made some pur- 

 chases of hardwoods for Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, particularly in ash, 

 maple and oak. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company has been exceptionally busy of late and 

 is selling maple as a leader. A new switch has been installed on the 

 west side of the yard. 



Taylor & Crate are receiving new lumber at their yard on Elmwood 

 avenue and are getting things in good shape for occupation by spring, 

 when the new office building will be finished. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller call the hardwood trade good at present, though 

 shipments are very slow in coming forward from the mills. Low-grade 

 poplar is in good demand. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports that its hardwood mill at 

 Argenta, Ark., has been completed and was ready for starting up on 

 December 1, sawing principally oak and ash. 



T. Sullivan & Co. find elm about the most active among special hard- 

 woods just now. There is also a good market tor hemlock, in which 

 - prices show an advancing tendency. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company reports the demand for 

 various woods ou a steady basis. J. B. Wall lately returned from a busi- 

 tu'SS trip to the southern mills. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company states that the furniture 

 factories are now working on an active basis and that a large amount of 

 oak is being called for. 



:< PITTSBURGH >-. 



A. P. L. Turner, who opened an office at 5121 Jenkins Arcade lately, is 

 already getting some very nice trade lined up for his splendid stocks of 

 hardwood, especially maple flooring and oak bill stuff. 



The J. C. Cottrell Lumber Company has not yet resumed operations 

 at its hardwood plant in Virginia, owing to the scarcity of cars. Mr. 

 Cottrell reports an unusually large demand for mining stocks. 



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

 Company, and his associates will have in operation before January 1 one 

 of the finest equipped mills in the country on their Kentucky timber tract. 

 They have a five .vears' cut of splendid hardwood timber. 



The Kendall Lumber Company will start operations about January 15 

 at its new hardwood plant at Cheat Haven, I'a., where it will manufacture 

 ;1S,000 feet daily. The company's timber there is some of the finest In 

 Pennsylvania. 



The Acorn Lumber Company reports hardwood trade very good and 

 manufacturers eager to get lumber. Stocks at some mills are getting very 

 short. 



The Nufer-Cedar Company, which lately opened offices in the First 

 National Bank building, is arranging to build a large box factory at 

 Wheatland, Pa., to manufacture the boxes for the American Sheet and Tin 

 Plate Company at Farrell, Pa., and also to make a general line of boxes 

 for commercial purposes. 



McKelvey Brothers of Hollidaysburg, Pa., are busy this winter working 

 on a tract of 2,000 acres of timberland on Lock Mountain and 6,000 acres 

 of timber at Beaver Dam, in Blair county. Pa. A large part of the tim- 

 ber being cut is chestnut. The company has been lumbering in this 

 section for several years with excellent success. 



-< BOSTON >-- 



Examiner Wilbur 

 commenced hearings 

 tariffs on lumber of 

 National Wholesale 

 manufacturers and 

 Nutter of the law fi: 

 and well supported 



LaEoe, Jr., of the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 at Boston on November 23 on the suspended Increased 

 several of the northern New England railroads. The 

 Lumber Dealers' Association and a niimber of lumber 

 dealers of this territory, represented by George E. 

 rm of Brandies, Dunbar & Nutter, entered a vigorous 

 protest. James W. Parker of the Deering Lumber 



Company of Portland, Me., testified at length on the increased cost ele- 

 ments on lumber from the district involved as related to lumber from 

 other sections competitively sold in the same market, resulting, as hf 

 views it, in a way to cause a severe loss in trade for a large number of 

 producers. 



It is the general opinion of the lumber trade that the temporary slid- 

 ing scale demurrage rates to apply until May 1, 1917, will prove ver.\- 

 unsatisfactory and will not operate to remedy congestion and car shortage 

 on which basis the carriers had strongly urged the principle, although thi' 

 retention of the weather and average arrangements are especially desira- 

 ble in New England in the winter season. It is not definitely known 

 whether the special extension of sixty days on the N. T., N. H. & H. E. E.'s 

 existing tariff from December 1 will be set aside by the compromise scab- 

 ordered by the commission. 



O. Bearse & Son Company, Boston mahogany dealer, in arranging for a 

 less extensive future business, has taken offices on the eleventh floor of the 

 Postoffice Square building. 



The announcements of two forthcoming annual meetings of interest 

 to lumbermen have been made, that of the Massachusetts Forestry Asso- 

 ciation at Boston, on December 14, and that of the Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation of Connecticut at the Hotel Taft, New Haven, Conn., February 20. 

 1917. Elaborate plans for the latter event are being made, it being thi' 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization. 



The Boston hardwood dealer, Wm. E. Litchfield, has been suggested as 

 candidate for mayor of Newton, Mass., his home city. The honors of the 

 office would be worthily bestowed, but it is probable that the attention re- 

 quired by his commercial and other activities will influence him not to 

 enter the political field. 



=-< SALT/MORE >■= 



Among visitors of the last two weeks in Baltimore was John M. Nelson, 

 Jr., head of the John M. Nelson Lumber Company of Pottstown, Pa. Mr. 

 Nelson went to the Forestry School of Tale, and after graduation entered 

 Ine Forest Service, where he became familiar with wood preserving 

 processes and also gained a comprehensive knowledge of the special re- 

 quirements of the railroads and other large corporations. In course of 

 time he decided to devote himself to supplying the special needs of these 

 corporations and to engage in business. Since then he has expanded far 

 beyond the limits originally contemplated. He has had a gratifying meas- 

 ure of success, is devoted to his business and maintains branch offices in 

 New York and elsewhere. 



The steamship Rowanmore of the Johnston Line, which was sunk by a 

 Germau submarine on her way from Baltimore to Liverpool in October, 

 carried only a comparatively small quantity of lumber. She had aboard 

 21,926 feet of spruce, 12,316 feet of poplar and 26,562 feet of oak. 



Harry J. Strong, who is in chage of the New York office of the John 

 D. Mershon Lumber Company of Saginaw, Mich., was in Baltimore ten 

 days ago and saw some of the hardwood men here. He reported business 

 as quite good. 



The Canton Lumber Company, which operates a yard, wharf and planing 

 mill on Boston streeet, has purchased the yard occupied by It on the other 

 side of Boston street, betweeen Luzerne and Lakewood avenues and O'Don- 

 nell street. The yard takes up about a city block and has been used by 

 the Canton company for the last five years. In acquiring the land out- 

 right it makes certain of a most convenient location, within a stone's 

 throw of deep water and with railroad track connection. The company 

 has also lately completed a commodious office fronting on Boston street. 

 The declared value of the new buildings, permits for the erection of which 

 were issued in October and November, amounted to $709,833, with $165,- 

 600 more for alterations and $118,355 for additions, a total of $993,788. 

 This is far in excess of recent months and indicates a very decided im- 

 provement in the building trade. The aggregate for the eleven months 

 of the current year is not more than $7,463,237 for new buildings. 



=-< COLUMBUS > 



Building operations in Columbus for the eleven months just ended 

 showed a large increase over the corresponding month in 1915. During 

 the eleven months the building department issued 3,030 permits, having a 

 valuation of $6,951,900, as compared with 2,737 permits and a valuation 

 of $4,778,085 in all the eleven months of 1915. The excess in 1916 is 

 $2,183,815. During 1914 the total for twelve months was $6,885,065. 



The Alliance Builders' Exchange of Alliance, O., was formally organized 

 recently, when some thirty representatives of the various crafts assembled 

 at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the city building and took the 

 necessary action to effect the organization. The selection of officers, by 

 popular vote, resulted as follows : President, J. F. Sharp : vice-president, 

 E. B. Silver ; secretary, J. Y. Gamble ; treasurer, J. O. Ellis. 



John L. Vance of Columbus was re-elected president of the Ohio Valley 

 Improvement Association at the annual meeting of the organization, 

 held at Huntington, W. Va., recently. The association has for its objective 

 the canalization of the Ohio river in order to afford a 9-foot stage the year 

 around between Pittsburgh and Cairo. Eesolutions were adopted demand- 

 ing that Congress adopt a continuous contract system in order to carry 

 forward the Improvements. Construction of more locks and dams in the 

 lower river was urged. Petitions will be forwarded to the War Depart- 

 ment asking for alterations on a number of bridges to secure free and 



