HARDWOOD RECORD 



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T. F. McGEE & 

 COMPANY 



Manufacturers and Dealers in 



POPLAR LU/VIBER 



We have the Lumber Write Us. 



ACKERMAN, HISS. 



The Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Co. 



CHATTANOOGA, - - TENN. 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers of 



HARDWOOD 

 LUMBER 



For Home and Export 

 Trade. 



(^We are in the market to buy 

 all Southern Hardwoods. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



GEORGE L. HUNT 



713 E. 4th Street, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 



Wholesale Dealer in 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



TheF.J.BIackwellCo. 



INCORPORATED 



BROWNSVILLE, - TENNESSEE 



Write us for Pricaa on 



HARDWOODS 



OAK, POPLAR AND GUM LUM- 

 BER AND DIMENSION STOCK 



railroads are crippled f.j- car shortage. Money 

 to finance building operations is easier to get 

 than it has been fpr two years and there is a 

 lorrespoudingly large amount of cash ayailable 

 for big lumber operations. 



The E. 11. Diebold Lumber Company has been 

 organized to deal in hardwood lumber especial- 

 ly. The incorporators are C. J., A. J., E. M.. 

 V. X. and Elizabeth Diebold. The company 

 conducts an extensive wholesale business in the 

 east end. 



Capitalists from Latrobe and .Johnstown have 

 bought 5.000 acres of timber land in Somerset 

 county and formed the Anderson Lumber Com- 

 pany. The tract is along the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroad. 



William Forgie. whose lumber plant at Wash- 

 ington. Pa., burned a few weeks ago with a 

 loss o£ nearly $100,000, uninsured, has formed 

 a company, heavily capitalized, and will estab- 

 lish the largest lumber plant in Washington 

 county. 



Black & Baird. wholesale dealers at Martiiig- 

 ton. W. Va., have been succeeded by Tressel 

 & Co., who will make a specialty of manufac- 

 turing white oak. 



J. D. Bolton, one of the most familiar figures 

 in Pittsburg lumber circles, as well as one of 

 the most successful salesmen in the country, 

 has shifted his work with the American Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company from the posi- 

 tion of hardwood manager to that of special 

 traveling salesman in the West. His former 

 iwsition has been taken by J. X. Woollett. Mr. 

 Woollett has been with the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company for five years. Three 

 years of this time he was manager of its offices 

 at TS'orfoIk, Va., and two years he was in the 

 Baltimore office. He is thoroughly familiar 

 with hardwood conditions and has a big ac- 

 quaintance in the leading hardwood markets. 



Frank Gundling has succeeded H. W. Hen- 

 ninger as secretary of the Ruskauft Lumber 

 Company. 



The firm of Breitwiaser Bros. & Co. has been 

 changed to the A. G. Breltwieser Company. The 

 company does a large retail business on the 

 south side. 



It is not an easy matter to fill all the orders 

 that come in nowadays. The biggest firms in 

 the city, including the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company and others, report re- 

 ceiving orders every few days for which they 

 cannot find suitable stock. It is hard to get 

 large size oak timber for bridge work. Sizes 

 12x10 inches and 34 feet long are wanted badly, 

 one firm alone having an order for 000 pieces. 

 Washington red cedar shingles are hard to 

 get and prices are very firm at the last advance. 

 There is some trouble also in getting good hem- 

 lock shipped that is dry. The heavy storms 

 have not only soaked the timber through and 

 through, but are adding considerably to the 

 freight because of the enormous increase of 

 weight. 



The Reynoldsvllle Lumber Company of Reyn- 

 oldsville. Pa., has been incorporated at Dover. 

 Del., with a capital of .$25,000. Incorporators 

 are J. B. Young. Lewis Weaver and G. M. Mc- 

 Donald. 



The planing mill and yards of the Alexander 

 McClure Box Company. 931 Beaver avenue, 

 Allegheny, Pa., were damaged .$15,000 by fire. 

 The Ingram Lumber .«: Supply Company of 

 Pittsburg has been organized by Gilbert Martin, 

 Francis E. Miller and George M. Glass. The 

 company will deal in all kinds of lumber and 

 mill work, builders' supplies and structural ma- 

 terials. 



The Curll & Lytle Lumber Company has 75 

 men working at its mill at Ilolcomb, W. Va.. 

 where it is turning out 50,000 feet a day. The 

 company shipped 730.000 feet of lumber from 

 this mill in .January. It now has over 5,000.- 

 000 feet of lumber in sticks at the mill. Last 

 year the company In order to provide for an 

 all winter's cut made a big steam mill pond so 

 that it has an abundant supply of water the 



year round and is not hindered by the severe 

 winter weather as are most of the West Vir- 

 ginia mills. 



John K. Skelly and Dr. T. L. White of Mc- 

 Keesport, Pa., have bought the Kelleher-Skelly 

 Lumber Company's Interest in Oregon and formed 

 a new company with a capital of ?150,000. 

 The property includes 5,000 acres of very valu- 

 able timber and mills will be installed at once. 

 The officers of the company are : President. 

 J. K. Skelly ; first vice president, F. G. Macilji 

 of Roseburg, Ore. ; second vice president. Dr. 

 T. L. White, McKeesport. Pa. ; treasurer, J. P. 

 Sheridan, Roseburg, Ore. : secretary and general 

 manager, W, H. Sykes, McKeesport, Pa. 



Lumber dealers in the Middle West will be 

 interested to know that the will of the late 

 Frederick Hoffman shkws him to have been 

 worth ?i5,000. Mr. Iftffman was a big dealer 

 at Youngstown, Ohio, and was one of the best 

 known men in the trade. 



Columbus. 



F. A. Kirby, salesman for the Cherry River 

 Boom & Lumber Company, spent a day or two 

 in town this week. 



United States Judge Benjamin F. Keller of 

 West Virginia was in tue city this week on 

 a short business trip. 



J. S. Garetson of Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis, Mo., was in attendance at 

 the Association of Canners held here this week. 



S. B. Taylor, formerly traveling for the 

 Crosby-Beckley Comnany of New Haven. Conn., 

 in New York State for six or seven yeai-s makes 

 his headquarters in Columbus, and will have 

 charge of the sales aepartment of that con- 

 cern, from this point ; he will also have charge 

 of the same department of the Douglass & 

 Walkley Company, in the new Hayden build- 



Los Angeles. 



The latest development in the hardwood busi- 

 ness is the organization of the Western Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, Fifteenth and Alameda 

 streets. This company was organized some- 

 where along in April, 1904, with W. K. Gilbert, 

 formerly in the lumber business at Colorado 

 .t'luiugs. Col., as president, George H. Cot- 

 treli, secretary, and Joseph Ringlemanu. man- 

 ager. 



Mr. Ringlemann will be remembered by many 

 readers of the Hardwood Record as formerly 

 well known in the hardwood lumber business 

 in Cincinnati. O., where he made a reputation 

 as a square-toed, energetic man and a jolly good 

 fellow. 



'iue Western Hardwood Lumber Company car- 

 ries a full stock of everything in the best 

 grades of hardwood lumber, making a specialt.v 

 of quarter sawed cak of both species, plain oak, 

 mahogany, hickory, poplar, birch, ash, etc. In 

 addition the company carries some heavy oak 

 timber for special purposes and a special line of 

 oak, ash and hickory wagon and carriage stock. 

 It also carries a full line of hardwood flooring: 

 ready to lay. handling the best eastern makes, 

 both in oak and maple. 



The use of hardwoods in southern California 

 in finishing and furniture-making has probably 

 doubled within the last year, to say nothing of 

 the increase in the demand for wagon and car- 

 nage stock. There is no hardwood lumben 

 grown in this state to amount to anything <ir 

 that is to be compared with eastern stock, es- 

 pecially where strength is concerned. There is 

 a little grown up north but it seldom reaches 

 here. A little oak, of a somewhat scrubby bod- 

 ied nature, is cut in Washington and Oregon 

 and made into staves for smail wine, brandy and 

 whisky kegs, with heading to match. But very 

 few staves can be made longer than for five, 

 ten and fifteen gallon kegs, only a few^ of suffi- 

 cent length for barrels. 



This stock is almost entirely gotten out by the 



