HARDWOOD RECORD 



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John X. Scatcherd of Scatcherd & Son. Buffalo, 

 was in town last week. It Is Mr. Scatchei-d"s 

 intention to make a trip to Hot Springs. Ark., 

 within a few days, for a rest of several weeks. 



McGovern & Bowen, managers of the local 

 maple and oak flooring warehouse of the Thomas 

 Forman Company of Detroit, report a fair move- 

 ment of both maple and oak flooring. 



Max Kosse. president of the K. & P. Lumber 

 Company, hardwood manufacturer and exporter 

 of Cincinnati, was a visitor in town last week 

 preparatory to sailing for Europe on one of his 

 periodical trips. 



C. H. Swift of the wholesale hardwood house 

 of Xellis. Amos & Swift, Utica. was a visitor 

 among the local trade several days last week. 



The Buswick Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated to conduct a general hardwood yard 

 business in the borough of Brooklyn. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at $25,000 and is composed of 

 Thomas O. Perry and t;dward J. Clarry. Both 

 gentlemen were for many years associated with 

 the hardwood firm of Dennat & Pell of Brooklyn. 

 The company has leased ground at 1092-109-1 

 Grand street on which it will open a yard about 

 April 1. 



The Rice & Lockwood Lumber Company, well 

 known Springfield. Mass.. wholesaler, whose local 

 office is in charge of W. W. Lockwood, announces 

 itself as exclusive sales agents in the metropoli- 

 tan district and vicinity for the maple flooring 

 product of Mitchell Brothers, Inc., Cadillac. Mich. 



Harry S. Dewey, head of the local wholesale 

 hardwood interests of Dixon & Dewey, in the 

 Flat Iron building, reports trade as steadily im- 

 proving and is sanguine of an excellent years 

 business. 



Among the hardwood lumbermen who have vis- 

 ited the market during the past fortnight are 

 Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany of Buffalo ; John N. Scatcherd of Scatcherd 

 & Son, Buffalo : E. H. and John H. Jenks of the 

 Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company. Cleveland : 

 Charles H. Bond of E. W. Rathbum. Oswego ; 

 Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin, Bos- 

 ton : J. Watt Martin of Norfolk Hardwood Com- 

 pany. Norfolk ; Frank C. Rice of the Rice & 

 Lockwood Lumber Company. Springfield ; Max 

 Eosse of the K. & P. Lumber Company. Cincin- 

 nati : C. H. Swift of Nellis. Amos & Swift. 

 Dtica : W. B. Lance of J. C. & W, B. Lance. 

 Reading, Pa. : H. D. Billmeyer of Billmeyer Lum- 

 ber Company. Cumberland, Md. : and F. B. I'ol- 

 som. Philadelphia. 



St. Louis. 



The Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company reports that its mills at Marianna are 

 now running on full time on gum and oak and 

 that the volume of business being transacted by 

 the St. Louis office is thoroughly satisfactory. 



The Blunck Bros. Planing Mill Company of thlB 

 city has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $40,000. 



W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany is especially pleased with the way the 

 spring business is opening up, as orders received 

 thus far this month considerably exceed those of 

 the same month of last year and prices are 

 especially pleasing. 



The W. G. Rice Lumber Company has closed 

 up its offices and hardwood yard in this city 

 and retired from business. Mr. Rice has decided 

 to give his whole personal attention to zinc 

 operations, in which he has become deeply inter- 

 ested. 



Pittsburg. 



Pittsburg was visited by a disastrous flood 

 March 20 to 23. The Allegheny river first start- 

 ed on a rampage caused by the gorge ice coming 

 out at Kittanning. The river soon reached 29 

 feet. Hardly had the flood started to recede 

 when a rainfall of two inches came in the upper 

 Monongahela valley and one inch In the upi>er 

 Allegheny valley. This brought the water up 

 again to over 30 feet. The flood caused exten- 



sive damage to lumber on both rivers, some stock 

 being washed away and large quantities of boards 

 being badly water soaked and sanded. In some 

 respects the flood was a good thing, as it enabled 

 dozens of lumbermen on the tributaries of the 

 two rivers to get their logs to mill at low cost. 



The Greater Pittsburg agitaton now beard on 

 every hand and the legislation now pending in 

 Harrisburg to that effect have a great meaning 

 for hardwood lumber interests in this territory. 

 Recently Pittsburg business men have started a 

 movement to secure more small manufactories, 

 many of which, such as furniture factories, nov- 

 elty works, etc., will use large quantities of 

 hardwood lumber. When the Greater Pittsburg 

 bill is piassed. as it probably will be. the lower 

 parts of Allegheny are going to be boomed for 

 small manufacturing sites. 



Pittsburg is bound to be an enormous con- 

 sumer of hardwoods in the next two years. TUe 

 building projects for the city now eclipse any- 

 thing in its history. No city in the country., in 

 fact, has a better outlook in proportion to its 

 population than Pittsburg. Construction work to 

 cost over $28,000,000 will be under way in three 

 months. This includes no project under .$100,000 

 and includes only such of the larger one.s 

 as have been fully assured or for which contracts 

 have been awarded. The railroad work, the 

 building of the great filtration plant and other 

 projects nearly as important will require an 

 immense amount of oak and local firms are al- 

 ready getting in line for the contracts soon to 

 be let. Below is given a brief table of the most 

 important projects which will be started and 

 some of them completed during 1905 : 



Technological school buildings i 6.000,000 



Filtration plant 6,000,000 



Addition to Carnegie institute 5,000,000 



P. R. R. improvements in Duquesne way.. 2,000,000 



Wabash freight station and extensions.... 1,000,000 



B. & O. stations 1,000.000 



Frlok building annex 1,000,000 



South Side warehouses 2,000.000 



Addition to county jail 650,000 



Work on Schenley farm 800,000 



Addition to Phipps bldg. in Sixth street.. 500,000 

 Apartments of Commonwealth Realty and 



Construction Company 450,000 



Colonial hotel annex 250,000 



Synagogue 150,000 



Pittsburg Coal Company building 150.0<X> 



Grant street office bnllding 500,000 



Phipps warehouse in Penn avenue 150,000 



Irish block at Penn ave. and Eighth st , . . . lOO.OOO 



B. White buildmg in Allegheuj- 125,000 



100 houses in West Liberty by F. C. Mart- 



solf ■ 300.000 



50 houses in West Liberty by George H. 



Shickler 150,000 



40 houses on Mt- Washington by John F. 



Sweeny 100,000 



30 houses in Oakland by William Robin- 

 son 100,000 



20 houses in Walker place, Allegheny 150,000 



Total f2S.fi25.000 



The hardwood flooring business is increasing 

 in Pittsburg at a rate that is most satisfactory 

 to local interests. A few years ago a hardwood 

 fl< or in an old house was almost unknown. Now 

 hardly one of the older houses of any size in the 

 cit.v that has not fro^ one to a half dozen rooms 

 with the new hardwood veneer floors. There are 

 now six or eight large flrms In the city that do 

 nothing but refit these old houses with hardwood 

 floors and all are reporting a good business this 

 spring. Only two of these firms were in busi- 

 nt:ss six years ago and three of them have started 

 up in the last three years. Among the more im- 

 portant concerns are the Pittsburg Hardwood 

 1-loor Company. 923 Park building ; the Pitts- 

 burg Floor Company. Farmers' Bank building ; 

 the East End Mantel & Tile Company, Center 

 avenue. East End : C. W. Alien & Co.. 426 Penn 

 avenue, and John M. Bald, Penn building. 



.\ feature in the Pittsburg market just now la 

 the big call for oak for mill repairs. The big 

 steel plants are preparing to enlarge their output 

 sioatly and firms which make a specialty of mill 

 lumber are busy. 



J. L. Kendall of the H. C. Huston Lumber 

 Company has just returned from an extended 



trip to the company's mills at Kendall, Md. The 

 company is now very nicely located in its new- 

 quarters in the House building at Smithfield 

 and Water streets. 



Several flrms that make big cuts down the 

 Ohio river are reported to be getting in fine 

 rafts of oak at points below Wheeling. 



D. L. Gillespie & Co. report inquiry for heavy 

 oak and construction timber unusually good, but 

 say that orders are being booked slower than the 

 demand warrants. 



The Nicola Building Company Is rushing work 

 on the 300 houses which it is building at Lorain, 

 Ohio, for homes for the employes of the new 

 $10,000,000 tube plant there. 



The McMillan Lumber Company, which has 

 been shut down since January 1, will have a 

 new mill at Bayard. W. Va., ready for opera- 

 tions by April 1. The mill will cut .jO.OOO feet 

 a day. Four miles of railroad are being built 

 to connect it with the West Virginia Central 

 railroad. W. E. McMillan, who has been at 

 Bayard overseeing operations for two weeks, has 

 returned to Pittsburg and will direct the affairs 

 of the company from its office in the Keystone 

 building. 



Baltimore. 



The painful intelligence has been received by 

 the hardwood exporters here of the death in 

 London on Feb. 23 of Ernest G. Leary. a mem- 

 ber of the firm of C. Leary & Co., hardwood 

 brokers. The deceased was well known in. the 

 Baltimore market, which he had visited several 

 times, and where his firm had several corre- 

 spondents. The local dealers speak in the high- 

 est terms of Mr. Leary's ability as a business 

 man. and of his energy, charity and excellent 

 character. He had traveled extensively in this 

 country throughout the lumber regions. His 

 death was caused by a general breaking down 

 of the system. 



Eisenhauer. MacLea & Co. have recently pur- 

 chased the extensive property bounded by Cen- 

 tral. Eastern and Canton avenues and Eden 

 street, and will move their yard from West 

 Falls avenue to that place. The property will 

 be improved by the erection of a shed covering 

 about 40.000 square feet of floor space, which 

 will afford a capacity for well toward 2.000,000 

 feet of lumber. 



Information comes from Liverpool that the 

 brokers there have decided to unify their cash 

 terms on the basis of 2% per cent within seven 

 days from date of invoice. The giving of long 

 credits has been for years a topic of discussion 

 and careful consideration, and it has been real- 

 ized that the practice which obtains in Great 

 Britain of selling lumber and logs on six 

 months' time was indirectly responsible for 

 many failures. The innovation will preclude 

 the possibility of brokers with small capital ex- 

 tending their operations beyond a consistent 

 siope. and it is expected that it will exercise 

 a wholesome influence upon the business. 



A movement is on foot among the members 

 ' f the Lumber Exchange to make the local or- 

 ganization more effective than it has been in 

 the past in bringing members of the trade 

 closer together. It is proposed to follow the 

 plan of several other hardwood markets and es- 

 tablish a meeting point for lumbermen general- 

 ly, so that at certain hours in the day members 

 ff the trade can be found there. It is cited 

 that in Liverpool and other English cities, the 

 exchange is the nucleus around which the trade 

 centers and a large part of the business Is 

 actually transacted there. For the purpose of 

 studying a possible improvement, as is found 

 in several American cities. Secretary Thedore 

 Mottu and William D. Gill have recently made 

 a trip to Cleveland and conferred with the ex- 

 change offices there. The Cleveland Lumber- 

 men's Exchange, which is very largely patron- 

 ized, contains a lunch room, where the members 

 gather daily for their noonday meal. 



The Retail Lumber Dealers' Association held 



