HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Logan ^ Naphet 

 Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 



PINE AND 

 HARDWOOD 



Watch This Space for Stock. 



White Pine. 



30 cars 1 inch log run. 

 2 cars \yi inch No. 1, 2 and 3 com- 

 mon. 

 6 cars 1 inch No. 4 common. 



Yellow Pine. 



5 cars \% inch No. 1 and 2 clear. 

 2 cars 1 yi inch No. 3 clear. 

 7 cars \yi inch No. 1 common. 

 10 cars 1 inch log run. 



Poplar. 



2 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 18 

 inches up. 



1 car Xyi inch 1st and 2nds, width 

 18 inches up. 



2 cars \% inch 1st and 2nds, width 

 18 inches up. 



10 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 8 



to n inches. 

 10 cars \% inch 1st and 2nds, width 

 8 to n inches. 

 5 cars 1% inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 1 car each 1% inch and 2 inch No. 1 



common, including select. 

 15 cars 1 inch No. 1 common, includ- 

 ing select. 

 4 cars 1 inch clear bright sap. 

 20 cars 1 inch shipping culls. 

 10 cars 1 inch mill cull. 

 1 car each 1 ^ inch and 2 inch ship- 

 ping cull. 



Mills: Clinton (Band Mill), La Follette, 

 Pioneer and Turleys, Tenn. 



Office: IOS-107 Empire Building 

 KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



T. F. McGEE & 

 COMPANY 



Manufacturers and Dealers in 



POPLAR LUMBER 



We have the Lumber Write Us. 



ACKERMAN, HISS. 



Minneapolis. 



Chavles F. Osborne o£ Osborne & Clark. 301 

 Lumber Exchange, says they are enjoying a 

 first class line o£ trade from the retail yards, 

 which are buying mixed cars out of their 

 wholesale yard at a lively rate. The demand 

 is large for wagon stock in white oak and 

 maple, with some call for flooring and for bass- 

 wood. The retail yards seem to have become 

 well cleaned out of stock, and they are getting 

 their orders in early to supply early spring trade. 

 Osborne & Clark have just issued a full new 

 price list covering their stock held in wholesale 

 yard here. 



I. P. Lennau of I. P. Lennan & Co. reports 

 haj-dwood stocks in sight very low. with the ex- 

 ception of basswood. which is still in sufficient 

 supply for orders. Trade has been a trifle 

 quiet, but is looking up. and tie factories 

 will be on the market for considerable stock 

 before long, considering the rate at which they 

 are using hardwood in filling orders. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company has returned from a trip to Ruby, Wis., 

 where he inspected their sawing operations. 

 They are getting out oak. birch and basswood 

 this wiater, and next summer will saw some 

 pine and hemlock. Mr. Hamilton reports an 

 increased demand and inquiry, especially for 

 birch and basswood, which are selling- rapidly. 

 The factories have been receiving early spring 

 orders for interior finish, doors, etc., and some 

 are buying rather freely to supply stock for 

 this business, although it will not be needed 

 for some time yet. They are aware of the 

 condition of stocks, and are keeping on the 

 safe side. They also want to get the stock 

 in their sheds and dried out before time to 

 use it. 



Barnard & Strickland, the well-known local 

 wholesalers, say they are finding business very 

 fair, and increasing all the time. What the 

 Minneapolis market does not call for is readily 

 sold in Chicago at good prices. Stocks are 

 light, oak being almost out of the market and 

 birch scarce. Basswood stocks even are run- 

 ning low and basswood uppers are growing 

 stronger in price all the time. 



W. H. Bonnell of Hawthorne. Wis., a manu- 

 facturer of hardwood and hemlock lumber, was 

 a visitor on the Minneapolis market last week. 



F. H. Lewis, the Minneapolis wholesaler, says 

 the general features of the trade are encour- 

 aging, and stock is moving with considerable 

 activity, considering the scarcity that is now 

 true of mos^ woods. The factor.v demand is 

 not heavy, but is continuous, and stocks of oak 

 and birch will not last until new stock is readv 

 at the present rate. Operations in the woods 

 were progressing favorably at his last advices, 

 but he has not heard as to the extent of the 

 thaw. 



Pittsburg. 



For many years in fast growing importance, 

 until it has achieved the distinction of being 

 one of the chief commercial centers of lumber 

 distribution of the United States, Pittsburg is 

 progressing in that it has broadened out its 

 lines of lumber handling until it has become 

 one of the most catholic markets in the world. 

 In this development during the last few years 

 the hardwood trade is attracting a good deal 

 of attention by the local lumber merchants. 

 Among the chief handlers of hardwoods at Pitts- 

 burg may be mentioned the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company ; Flint. Erving & 

 Stoner ; the J. H>. Lindsay Lumber Company : 

 the Nicola Bros. Company ; the Linehan Lumber 

 Company ; the A. M. Turner Lumber Company : 

 the Cheat River I,umber Company ; the West 

 Virginia Lumber Company : Willson Brother.? ; 

 the J. R. Munhall Lumber Company, and the 

 Interior Lumber Company. 



E. V. Babcock & Co.. through its allied con- 

 cern, the Babcock Lumber Company of Ashtola. 

 Pa., manufactures about 15.000.000 feet of Penn- 

 sylvania hardwood annually, which is sold by 

 the Ashtola office. 



The house of D. L. Gillespie & Co. is also 

 extensive handlers of oak, notably in sizes for 

 structural purposes. 



T. B. Cook of A. Cook's Sons Company, 

 Cooksburg, Pa., the well-known hardwood con- 

 cern, was a local visitor last week. 



Pittsburg is making rapid strides toward be- 

 coming a big hardwood market. A few years 

 ago this city had little claim on the attention of 

 the hardwood public. Today hardwood dealers 

 from all over the country are glad to keep in 

 close touch with conditions in the Iron City. 

 Pittsburg is an enormous consumer of hardwood 

 for railroad construction work. This year prom- 

 ises to be a record breaker in this line. The big 

 steel plants such as those of the Carnegie Steel 

 Company are also requiring hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollar.?' worth of hardwood every year 

 for mill work and as Pittsburg is now on the 

 eve of a mighty industrial movement it is safe 

 to say that this ti-ade will not lag any. The 

 Pittsburg Coal Company as well as the dozens 

 of smaller coal concerns is getting ready to use 

 an immense amount of oak and hemlock for min- 

 ing timbers and for river barges. The market 

 for finer hardwood stuff for house finish is 

 broadening very rapidly. It Is only within a 

 comparatively short time that houses costing 

 less than $20,000 have been finished in hard- 

 wood. Now the modern house costing from 

 $8,000 to $15,000 is hardly complete unless it 

 has a hardwood finish and one hardwood floor at 

 least on the first floor. The era of building big 

 warehouses which is now on in Pittsburg is also 

 creating a demand for a large amount of oak 

 to be used in the so-called slow burning struct- 

 ures. Witli anything like favorable financial 

 conditions 1905 promises to show nearly double 

 the amount of hardwood sold in Pittsburg of any 

 previous year. 



The Rumbarger Lumber Company of Philadel- 

 phia will open an office in Pittsburg soon. The 

 concern Is a very large dealer in hemlock and 

 has its own mills in West Virginia. 



Pittsburg wholesalers are complaining not a 

 little about the car shortage. The main lines of 

 the Pennsylvania railroad company are in fairly 

 good shape, but many of the branches tapping the 

 big lumber districts are badly crippled by lack 

 of cars. The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has 

 been unable to furnish cars to local concerns 

 even for delivery three weeks ahead and similar 

 complaints are heard about other roads. The 

 river traffic is practically tied up which adds to 

 the inconvenience of the situation. 



The Central Mantel and Tile Company, which 

 deals largely in hardwood mantels and is located 

 at 1211 Carson street, will soon establish offices 

 in the Park building. 



The Wilkinsburg Stair Company is now equipped 

 with one of the best plants in Western 

 Pennsylvania located at Wilkinsburg. Pa., a sub- 

 Uib of Pittsburg. Their premises occupy a 

 100x150 feet floor space and are equipped with 

 the latest improved working machiner.v operated 

 by adequate motor power. Thirty skilled hands 

 are employed to do work in connection with 

 stair building, wood turning and hand carving 

 and also the manufacture of balustrades and 

 newel post-s. The company uses a large 

 amount of fine hardwood and has lately equipped 

 some of the best houses and apartment 

 buildings in Greater Pittsburg. J. M. Barnett is 

 president and J. M. Walthour treasurer of the 

 company. 



The Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Deal- 

 ers Credit Association of Western Pennsylvania 

 has been organized to encourage trade by ad- 

 justing differences among the members, spread- 

 ing reliable commercial intelligence and furnish- 

 ing information to enable them to regulate cred- 

 its and collect debts. The incorporaters are 

 James .T. Munn. J. C. Scofield. George C. 

 Strouss, Charles Bruckman, Nathan Jones, E. 

 M. Diebold. G. P. Texter and George Lanz. 



The planing mill of Murphy and Diebold in 

 Enterprise street was recently damaged $3,000 



