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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



PIERCE LUMBER CO. 



Manufacturers and 

 Wholesale Dealers in 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



^"We will saw Red and White Oak 



exclusively for the next year 



OFFICE and MILLS, OLYPHANT. ARK. 



THE 



CrltteDdeB tnier Co. 



MANUFACTURERS 



Oak, Ash, 

 Cypress 

 and Gum 



MILLS: 

 BARLE, ARK. 



OPFICB : 

 a36>337 Scimitar Buildinf . 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

 LUMBER CO., 



MAIN OFP1CE8. 



LINCOLN TRUST BLDQ.. SAINT LOUIS. 



KRANCHES; 



Cairo, 111.. Caruthersvllle, Mo. 

 and Memphis, Tenn.! 



Cash buyers of Cypress, Cottonwood, Oum and 

 Oak and solicit Inquiries from the con- 

 suming trade for the .following : 



COTTONWOOD: 



2,000,000 feet 1-lnch, log run or on grade. 



GUM: 



2,500,000 feet 1-Inch No. 2 and shipping cull. 

 600.000 " 1 and W inch furniture comraon. 

 390,000 •■ 1, IM and I'/j inch sap clear. 



OAK: 



650,000 feet 1, 1!4 and 2 inch Red and White 

 plain and quarter sawed Ists and 2nds, No. 1 

 and No. '_' I'ommon. 



BUFFALO BITS. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1904. 

 T. Sullivan & Co., who are making a 

 drive on Washington fir as a substitute 

 for ash, claim the.v are meeting with great 

 success in their new venture. Mr. Fred 

 Sullivan, who has been devoting his per- 

 sonal attention to both ends of the fir 

 business — seeing that it was manufactured 

 just as he wanted it, and pushing the 

 selling of it — -/eels greatly elated over the 



results. 



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The H. M. Loud Company evidently 

 think Buffalo is a pretty good place to do 

 business, as they have again located at 

 their old quarters on Louisiana street, 

 where they have a yard and docking facili- 

 ties. They have at the present time a 

 large stock of inch maple on hand in 



this yard. 



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Expressions of sympathy are heard on 

 every side for Mr. J. B. Wall, who has 

 just been bereaved of an infant son. Such 

 events seem all the more sad at this time 

 of the year, when the rest of the world 

 is in a joyful mood. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



New York. Dec. 19, 1904. 

 The following hardwood lumbermen 

 were visitors during the fortnight; L. M. 

 .Morageus, National Mahogany Company, 

 .Mobile, Ala.: C. L. Meckley, Strong & 

 .Meckley. Philadelphia. Pa.: F. W. Law- 

 rence, Lawrence & Wiggin, Boston. Mass.: 

 M. C. Burns. Palen & Burns, Buffalo, N. 

 Y.; R. T. Price. Price & Heald, Baltimore, 

 Md.; F. C. Rice, Rice & Lockwood Lum- 

 ber Company, Springfield, Mass.; W. E. 

 Litchfield, Litchfield Bros., Boston, Mass.; 

 F. E. Stone, Stone Lumber Company, 

 Boston, Mass.; F. R. Whiting, Janney- 

 Whiting Lumber Company. Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; H. I. Soble, W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, Colimibus, O.; R. L. Walkley, 

 Crosby & Beckley Company, New Haven, 

 Conn.; S. L. Eastman, S. L. Eastman 

 Flooring Company, Saginaw, Mich. 



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C. C. Mengel, head of the C. C. Mengel 

 & Bro. Company,- Louisville, Ky., large 

 hardwood and mahogany operators, was 

 a distinguished visitor to the Metropolis 

 last week, stopping at the new Hotel As- 



tor. 



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Allen W. Adams, a partner of the large 

 retail firm of Willson. Adams & Co., one 

 of the biggest houses in that district, has 

 resigned from that company and has pur- 

 chased the company's branch yard at Mt. 

 Vernon, N. Y., which he will conduct on 



his own account. 



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Philadelphia. Pa., has been definitely 

 decided upon as the place of meeting for 

 the annual convention of the National 

 Wholesale Lvimber Dealers' Association, 

 on March 1 aud 2 next, an event in which 

 all the wholesale interests of the country 



take pleasure and profit in. The head- 

 quarters will be at the new Bellevue- 

 Stratford Hotel, one of the finest in the 

 country, and complete program will doubt- 

 less soon be issued. From preliminary 

 interest expressed it is evident that the 

 convention this year will be the biggest 

 and best yet, while the Philadelphia lum- 

 bermen may be depended upon to do the 

 elegant in their part of the affair. 



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Alfred Dobell, of Alfred Dobell & Co., 

 large lumber brokerage house of Liver- 

 pool, Eng., and W. C. Davie, of Wright, 

 Graham & Co., hardwood brokers of Glas- 

 gow. Scotland, were among the foreign 

 visitors to the Metropolis on business dur- 

 ing the fortnight. 



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C. G. Ellis, who for several years past 

 has conducted a retail hardwood busi- 

 ness at Sandwich, Mass.. has incorpocated 

 the C. G. Ellis Company in Brooklyn, and 

 has, opened a yard at Sixth avenue and 

 Seventy-first street. He will . handle a 

 general line of hardwoods. 



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E. .VI. Price, of Price & Hart, IS Broad- 

 way, selling agents of the large hardwood 

 output of the Gauley Company, Camden- 

 on-Gauley. W. Va.. has just returned from 

 Camden, where he went to look over mat- 

 ters at that end, which he reports as very 

 satisfactory. The new mill is turning out 

 about 100,000 feet of choice hardwoods 

 daily, and their output is well known in 

 the eastern markets. 



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May, Thompson & Thayer, large manu- 

 facturers and wholesalers of hardwood at 

 Evansville, Ind., are contemplating open- 

 ing a New York office under the manage- 

 ment of Mr. P. C. Clarke, who is spend- 

 ing some time at present looking over the 

 local district with that end in view. This 

 firm would be a valuable addition to the 

 wholesale hardwood interests of the me- 

 tropolis should they definitely decide to 

 act, and as Mr. Clarke is thoroughly well 

 posted on hardwood matters and the re- 

 quirements of the local district, the ad- 

 vent of this company in the local tract 



would be welcomed. 



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O. H. Williams, vice-president of the 

 Southern Saw Mill Company, Ltd., New 

 Orleans, La., large handlers of cypress and 

 hardwood, has arrived in town and opened 

 an office at 1 Madison avenue, for that 

 company, who will pay closer attention 

 than in the past to the metropolitan trade. 

 They have a very choice line of hardwoods 

 and cypress, and having shipped consider- 

 able material to this district in the past, 

 the opening of this local oflice means big- 

 ger efforts in that direction. 



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R. L. Walkley, of the Crosby & Beckley 

 Company, large hardwood manufacturers, 

 with headquarters at New Haven. Conn.. 

 is spending considerable time each fort- 

 night at the local office of the company, 

 1 Madison avenue, looking after the New 



