THE HARD\\"OOD RECORD. 



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York end ot ihe business, and reports 

 trade as very .satisfactory. 

 * * * 



F. R. Whiting, of the Janney-Whiting 

 Lumber Company and the Whiting Manu- 

 facturing Company. Elizabethton, Tenn.. 

 pressed through the city last week en 

 route home to Philadelphia after a trip 

 to New England points, where he reports 

 trade as very satisfactory. The Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company are making a 

 specialty of stock widths in hardwood 

 lumber, and which he states is much ap- 

 preciated l)y their customers. 



PITTSBURG PACKET. 

 (Special Correspondence.) 



Pittsburg. Pa., Dec. 2U, 1904. 

 The W. E. Terhune Lumber Company 

 has applied for a Pennsylvania charter 

 and will buy and sell at wholesale and 

 retail all kinds of lumber and mill work. 

 The incorporators are: W. E. Terhune, 

 Elliott Cobb and Frank E. Clark. 

 « * « 



A disastrous fire occurred the morning 

 of December 11 in the lumber yards of 

 Robinson & Co. at Portsmouth, Va. A 

 large amount of lumber, a planing mill, 

 lumber mill and sash and door factory 

 were for a time in imminent danger of be- 

 ing entirely destroyed and were all badly 



damaged. 



* # * 



The Clover Run Lumber Company, op- 

 erating in Tucker County, Maryland, near 

 Cumberland, has quite business. The 

 company was incorporated in Pennsyl- 

 vania and was backed by Pittsburg capi- 

 tal. It has been running two years. The 



property will be sold. 



* * * 



Telephones are coming into quite gen- 

 eral use among the lumber camps owned 

 or operated by Pittsburg firms. In West 

 Virginia, Virginia. Western Pennsylvania 

 and also in the southern states, all the 

 larger places are connected by telephone. 

 Lumbering is no longer a hiding in the 

 wilderness as it was formerly, but the 

 camps are very much in the world. 



* * * 



The Blairsville Lumber and Manufac- 

 turing Company, which has lately estab- 

 lished offices in the Washington National 

 Bank building in Pittsburg, is turning out 

 over 100 mantels and from 3.000 to 4,000 

 ballusters at its mill at Blairsville, Pa. 

 The company has been in business less 

 than a year, but it is already known as 

 one of the foremost concerns in this line 



in Pennsylvania. 



* * * 



All records for drouth for a quarter of 

 a century have been broken this fall and 

 winter around Pittsburg. There has not 

 been a satisfactory rain since October 

 and the rivers were low then. Boats have 

 ceased running, manufactories depending 

 on small streams for water have been 

 shut down and lumber firms operating in 

 western Pennsylvania, West Virginia ani 

 Kentucky have had to stop their mills 



either on account of no water to run the 

 machinery or because, as in a few cases, 

 there was no water to float the logs to 

 mill. 



MINNEAPOLIS, 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Minneapolis, Dec. 20, 1904. 

 Barnard & Strickland, the local hard- 

 wood wholesalers, have expanded their 

 quarters somewhat, adding another room 

 so as to give Mr. Barnard and Mr. Strick- 

 land each a private office. They now oc- 

 cupy No. 20C-7-S Lumber Exchange. 



# * # 



C. A. Coon, of the C. A. Coon Lumber 

 Company, hardwood manufacturers at 

 Glen Flora, Wis., was a business visitor 

 in Minneapolis last week. 



* * * 



The Ruby Lumber Company, which has 

 headquarters ai Jlinneapolis, but manu- 

 factures hardwood at Ruby. Wis., has 

 started up for another season of sawing. 

 They have been down since September 1 

 and have made some improvements in 

 machinery during the three months and 

 a half, including an endless chain for 

 hauling their logs from the yard to the 

 saw. They expect to manufacture about 

 2,500,000 feet of hardwood lumber this 

 coming year, chiefly elm, birch, ash and 

 basswood. 



PHILADELPHIA POST. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 1904. 

 The local dealers are already looking 

 forward with keen expectancy to the ses- 

 sions of the thirteenth annual meeting of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, to be held in this city on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, March 1 and 2. 

 Indications already point to an unusually 

 large gathering. The local men are pre- 

 paring to give the visitors a royal wel- 

 come. 



* * * 



S. Y. Warner has returned home after 

 a brief business trip to the southern mills. 



* * * ' 



The local Lumbermen's Exchange has 

 decided not to move from its present quar- 

 ters in the Bourse. Several months ago 

 a movement was inaugurated to remove 

 the Exchange headquarters to a locality 

 more in the heart of the city. Consider- 

 erable agitation ensued, but the executive 

 board, by a vote of six to five, reported 

 negatively on the suggestion. 



* * « 



N. D. Nettleton has engaged in the 

 wholesale lumber business. 



* * * 



The initiates at the last concatenation 

 of Hoo-Hoo in' this city were Asa W. Van- 

 degrift, of Sheip & Vandegrift: Jerome H. 

 Sheip. of Sheip & Vandegrift; William E. 

 Harrison, of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany, and Henry Wilson Neely, of the 

 Rumbarger Lumber Company. Another 

 concatenation will he held early in Janu- 

 ary, when the annual meeting of the 



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