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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 191T 



The Atlantic Lumber Company reports that both maple and birch are 

 making a good showing in the demand and the yard is finding it necessary 

 to add to its stocks o( these woods extensively. 



:< PITTSBURGH >-= 



L. S. Lincoln, receiver for the Tri-State Lumber Company of Union- 

 town, Pa., is winding up the affairs of that company. At the latest meet- 

 ing of the corporation it was decided to discontinue business entirely. 



•J. G. Wier & Co., wagon manufacturers, now located at 1325 Liberty 

 avenue, have bought a plot at Pike and Fourteenth streets, and will 

 build a wagon factery at once. 



J. F. Henderson, president of the Henderson Lumber Company,- says 

 that business is very fair and likely to continue good throughout the 

 year. Coal companies are buying an unusually large amount of mixed 

 hardwoods for mine and railroad purposes. 



The Ellwood Lumber Company, which opened offices in the Farmers 

 Bank building, this city, last year, has secured location on the P. R. R. 

 just east of Hamilton avenue, East End. Here it will carry much stock 

 of all kinds of lumber and do a general wholesale and retail business. 



The C. E. Breitweiser Lumber Company pulled out of 1916 with a 

 very nice year's total of business. -4s it is essentially a hardwood con- 

 cern, its trade was worked up mostly among manufacturing concerns, 

 especially in the East. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company in 1916 had the best year In 

 its history. Its sales of white oak and other hardwoods to railroad and 

 big industrial corporations were very large, and this year is opening up 

 in splendid shape along these lines. 



The West Penn Lumber Company believes that 1917 will be a good 

 year in business right through the hardwood list. The scale of prices 

 is bound to be high according to Manager E. H. Stoner, but the demands 

 of the manufacturing and industrial trade will have to be filled In spite 

 of high quotations. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is heading away in 1917 very nicely. Its 

 hardwood business last year was pretty satisfactory except as to the high 

 price which may seem a hard proposition. President H. F. Donihofl' 

 looks for a nice year's business in 1917, especially from manufacturing 



-< BOSTON >= 



Receivers have been appointed for the Buttrick Lumber Company of 

 Waltham, Mass., as a result of proceedings against this company before 

 Judge Dodge in the United States district court brought by the Savannah 

 River Sales Company of Portland, Me. Liabilities are estimated at $175,- 

 000 and assets at $218,000. The Buttrick Lumber Company offered no 

 denial to the allegations of the complainant, and consented to the ap- 

 pointment of the receivers, William F. Mooers of Boston and Charles S. 

 Stone of Waltham. This company has stood for years in the highest 

 regard of the trade, and, although there had been local adverse opin- 

 ions recently mentioned, it was generally considered that the favorable 

 situation of the business, its long, clear record and active management 

 would overcome its diflSculties. 



The P. Q. Lumber Company has been incorporated at Boston with 

 authorized capital of $150.000 ; the Ansonia Lumber Company at An- 

 sonia. Conn., capitalized at $35,000 : and the New Brunswick Lumber 

 Company at Augusta, Me., with capital of $200,000. 



Frank E. Swain has retired from the H. M. Bickford Company of 

 Boston, with whom ho had been connected for many .years, and has 

 become part of the oraanization of the Stevens Lumber Company of 

 Boston. The Stevens company commenced business soon after the death 

 of the late Charles O. Skinner, and was substantially an outgrowth of 

 the C. 0. Skinner Company, which had been aflSIIated with the Stone 

 Lumber Company, which has just been incorporated at Boston with capi- 

 tal of $00,000. Frank Schumaker being president and Geo. W. Stone 

 treasurer. The offices of both companies are located at 50 Congress street. 



< BALTIMORE >•- 



The wholesale hardwood firm of David T. Carter & Co., which has been 

 located for several years in the Law building, has acquired a yard on 

 Paca street, uear West, and will move there as soon as various improve- 

 ments have been made. The yard has a frontage of upsvards of 80 feet 

 in part, and e.vtends back perhaps 135 feet. An office will be erected, 

 and shedding put up to keep stocks under cover. 



It is announced that C. A. Hertenstein, Wesley Hertenstein and 

 Schuyler Singer of Ohio, who bought a 12,000 acre tract recently from 

 the Greif family, manufacturers of clothing in Baltimore, will erect a 

 saw mill on the tract and undertake development. The timber is located 

 in Wythe and Bland counties, Virginia, and has been held by the Greif 

 syndicate since 1890. The price received is said to have been very satis- 

 factory, although no figures are stated. 



The Biltmore Lumber Company, Asheville, N. C, has leased four acres 

 of land at Portsmouth, "^^a., and will erect a hardwood lumber and plan- 

 ing mill on the tract. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, at the 

 monthly meeting here on January 8 at the rooms on Fayette street, 

 found little business to transact, about the only thing done being accept- 

 ance of the resignation of Thomas Barnes, a lumber inspector, who has 

 become a city wharfinger. 



The Baltimore Wholesale Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting 

 on January 9 and elected W. Hunter Edwards of B. W. Edwards & Sons^ 

 president ; J. H. Zouck, vice-president, and Carroll Stow of the Tuck 

 & Stow Company, treasurer. It was shown that the activities of the club 

 bad been very advantageous to the interests of the wholesalers, aiid that 

 the work undertaken in the way of raising business ethics and abolish- 

 ing trade abuses was proving highly beneficial. The business session 

 was followed by an excellent dinner. 



The contract for the new pier to be erected at Locust Point for the 

 Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which was awarded this week, calls for tlie 

 use of not less than 250,000 feet of maple flooring, to be laid over yellow 

 pine flooring. The flooring will be furnished by John S. Helfrich, who 

 represents W. D. Young & Co. of Saginaw, Mich. 



Among visiting lumbermen here within the last ten days or two weeks 

 was W. D. Harrigan of the Scotch Lumber Company. Fulton, Ala., who 

 expressed himself as enthusiastic about the prospects for the trade. 

 Mr. Harrigan had come East largely to see the railroads about the car 

 shortage, which, he said, was proving decidedly embarrassing for his 

 company, and it was his intention to go on to St. Mary's, Idaho, where 

 the company operates a white pine mill. At Washington he conferred 

 with Capt. J. B. White of Kansas City, Mo., who was recently ap- 

 pointed a member of the Federal Shipping Board. 



George S. Billmeyer, president of the Billmeyer & Small Company, car 

 builder at York, Pa., and one of the pioneers in the business, died there 

 suddenly, January 13, of heart trouble. Mr. Billmeyer was sixty-five 

 years old and succeeded his father in the enterprise, which was founded 

 by the elder man and constructed the cars used on the first railroad in 

 Japan. The son was graduated from Princeton University in 1871, and 

 was active in church and benevolent work, along with his other under- 

 takings. 



-< CLEVELAND >■- 



Promise for speedy relief from the slow deliveries of hardwood from 

 the South to Cleveland is seen in the report of President Oeorge E, 

 Breece of the We^^t Virginia Timber Company at the meetlnjr of the di- 

 rectors of the company here. Mr. Breece told the members tlint efforts 

 of producers to induce the railroads to increase the number of cars In 

 use had already bcine fruit, and that shipments to other points north, 

 aside from Cleveland, had been improved already. Prospects for better 

 facilities for making shipments has caused the hastening to completion 

 of the company's new flooring and finishinng plant, at Charleston, W. Va., 

 Mr. Breece said. 



Appointment of a permanent committee to look after legislative mat- 

 ters has been completed here. The committee Is headed by Arch C. 

 Klumph. president of the Cuyahoga Lumber Company. The ob.iect will 

 be to prepare new legislation looking to the improvement of the busi- 

 ness, as well as the protection of laws already enacted. The committee 

 first proposes to have made law in the present Ohio assembly a measure 

 designed to provide a uniform bond to be used in the cases of public 

 buildings and at the same time give material men and builders a lien 

 against public property where the contractors' bills are not paid either 

 )>y thorn or the bonding companies. 



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R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company says trade In 

 hardwoods Is holding up well In every way. The volume of business Is 

 about equally divided between retailers and factories. Prices are strong 

 at the levels which have maintained for some time. Prospects for the 

 future are rather bright. 



Bernard Coffin, a pioneer In the export lumber business of the United 

 States, died at Cincinnati recently, at the age of eighty-four years. His 

 activities lay in South America, where he represented .\merican con- 

 corns in Argentina and Paraguay. 



The Probst Lumber Company of Cincinnati will increase its capital 

 stock $15,000, of the 8 per cent preferred stock, which will take $30,000 

 outstanding of a total authorized issue of $40,000. The company 'will 

 expend its operations in hardwoods and yellow pine. 



Richey, Halsted & Quick, Cincinnati, have been Incorporated with a 

 capital of $150,000, to deal in lumber. The Incorporators are Samuel 

 W. Richey, Lynn D. Halsted, Walter Quick, Luella O'Kane and Rosemary 

 Cowen. 



The O'Connor-Scbraegle Lumber Company of Cuyahoga Falls has 

 been incorporated with a capital of $25,000, to deal in lumber. The 

 Incorporators are Joseph V. O'Connor, Wm. A. Schraegle, Carl M. Myers, 

 Isabelle R. Donaldson, E. I. Schraegle 



---< CINCINNATI y. 



J. Watt Graham, head of the Graham Lumber Company, and active 

 in Lumber Club and Lumber Exchange affairs, was honored recently 

 with an appointment as a niemb((r of the nominating committee of the 

 Chamber of Commerce, of which the Cincinnati Lumber Exchange Is a 

 subsidiary. 



A meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago Mill and Box Company 

 will be held here January 30 for the purpose of dissolving the corpora- 

 tion. The business was taken over last July by the Cincinnati Wire 

 Bound Box Company. The Webster street plant of the latter company 



