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HARDWOOD RECORD 



as the settlement of controversies as to grading 

 and other business affecting the relations be- 

 tween members. 



James H. Cranweii, president of the J. C. 

 Cranweii Lumber Company, which is developing 

 a tract of timber land near Pikeville, Tenn., 

 having erected a mill there, has gone on one of 

 his periodical trips to the place to confer with 

 other members of the company on var'ous mat- 

 ters. He will then go to Pennsylvania and 

 . Kew York on business, and will be away from 

 his office on St. Paul street, this city, for nbout 

 one month. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company is iooving 

 into its handsome and comfortable new offices 

 on the sixth floor of the Continental Trust 

 building. The interior woodwork is mahogany, 

 and the office furnUure will be in keeping v.lth 

 it. Among the other lumbermen in the build- 

 ing are E. E. Price and W. O. Price. The latter 

 has been away a considerable part of the time 

 of late. After returning from a trip to North 

 Carolina and other states last week he left 

 again Tuesday for West Virginia, looking up 

 stocks and observing inspection. He is keeping 

 a close watch on trade developments. 



Price & Heald have received word from 

 Thomas H. Griffin of Price & Pierce, London 

 brokers, that he will very shortly visit the 

 United States and spend a tew days in Balti- 

 more. Mr. Griffin will cover a large part of the 

 United States on his trip, visiting hardwood 

 sections and carefully studying the conditions 

 that now prevail in the trade. 



There is a movement on foot among some of 

 the hardwood firms here to form an organization 

 exclusively for hardwood men, which shall act 

 as an auxiliary to the Lumber Exchange and 

 co-operate with it. Active in pushing the move- 

 ment are G. W. Eisenhauer of Eisenhauer, 

 MacLea & Co., David T. Carter of Carter, Hughes 

 & Co. and Richard P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. 

 The new body would of course be closely affil- 

 iated with the Exchange and work in harmony 

 with it, as the Retail Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion does at the present time. It Is felt that 

 in this way matters of special Interest to hard- 

 wood men will receive more thorough considera- 

 tion and that the entire trade will be beuelited 

 by the division of work. 



G. W. Eisenhauer of Eisenhauer, MacLea & 

 Co. has gone to Ashevllle, N. C, on business for 

 the tirm. He will be gone about two weeks. 

 Xorman James, president of the Lumber Ex- 

 change, accompanied him. In about two weeks 

 the firm Eisenhauer, MacLea & Co. will begin 

 the work of demolishing the buildings on the 

 property purchased by them fronting on East- 

 ern, Canton and Central avenues and Eden 

 street. A large lumber shed of the latest de- 

 sign is to be one of the structures to occupy 

 the lot, and to make way for it the present 

 houses must be removed. The firm will remain 

 in its old location on West Falls avenue until 

 the dock improvement work necessitates a 

 change of base. 



George M. Speigle, chairman of the special 

 Association, which has charge of the movement 

 to secure clean through bills of lading, If neces- 

 sary prosecuting those transportation companies 

 that refuse to comply with the Harter act, is 

 expected here today to meet other members of 

 the committee and discuss the latest develop- 

 commlttee of the National Hardwood Exporters' 

 ments. 



Pittsburg. 



John H. McCord and J. M. Shlviey of East 

 Liverpool, Ohio, have bought 9,320 acres of 

 timber land no the Greenbrier river In West Vir- 

 ginia for $300,000. The land Is sixty miles 

 below Huntington and is heavily wooded with 

 oak, hemlock, poplar and ash. 



Bids are now being taken for a large amount 

 of hemlock and oak — chiefly ties and two-inch 

 stuff — for Immediate lumber use on the flitratifln 

 plant at Aspinwail. The contractors, T. A. 

 Gillespie Company, will have the schedule for 



frames, etc., ready in about a month, when 

 an enormous amount of heavy construction tim- 

 ber will be needed. 



The Forest Lumber Company has moved from 

 the Phipps-Power building to the Diamond 

 National Bank building, which was opened April 

 1. The J. H. Lindsay Lumber Company has also 

 moved to the Diamond building from the Farm- 

 ers' Bank building. 



There is a general complaint among firms 

 whose mills are in West Virginia and along the 

 Ohio river about the difficulty of getting cars 

 on the Baltimore & Ohio, the Chesapeake & 

 Ohio, and the West Virginia Central railroads. 

 This shortage coming so early forecasts a very 

 serious impediment to business later on, when 

 all kinds .of freight are in full swing. 



The American Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company has the contract for 2.000.000 feet 

 of white oak near Burgettstown, Washington 

 county. Pa. Two mills with a capacity of 15,000 

 feet each daily will start at once to cut off the 

 tract, which is intended for the Pittsburg mar- 

 ket. 



J. N. WooIIett. hardwood man of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber and Manufacturing Company, has 

 been making extensive trips through Western 

 Pennsylvania and West Virginia, buying stock. 

 The company now has some big deals on hand 

 and Is in the market for 150,000 feet of brown 

 ash — firsts and seconds — for interlot finish. Mr. 

 Woollett also reports the supply of poplar box 

 board lumber very scarce. 



The American Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company last week sold 500,000 feet of white 

 oak In two orders. Most of It was for mine 

 purposes. 



The R. J. Munhall Lumber Company is doing 

 a fine business in hardwood flooring and fine 

 cabinet woods at Its South Side yards on 

 Twenty-second street. 



Fred R. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber 

 Company last week bought a two-acre site on 

 Woodland road, Squirrel Hill, for $50,000. The 

 place is one of the most beautiful residence 

 sites In Greater Pittsburg, and Mr. Babcock 

 will Improve It at once with a $00,000 resi- 

 dence and a $10,000 stable. 



F. F., O. P. and A. G. Nicola of the Nicola 

 Lumber Company are very busy with plans and 

 prospects for the Sccniey farm, which they 

 lately bought for $3,000,000. They will spend 

 $400,000 this summer on streets and a large 

 amount of building is to be done later on. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company has been 

 organized with W. A. Clay, president ; Julius 

 Schoppe, vice president, and Albert Breitwelser, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



The Pittsburg Lumber Company, which se- 

 cured a charter some time ago, has a very 

 comfortable suite of offices In the Ferguson 

 building on Fourth avenue. 



The Ohio Pyle Company has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital of $150,000. James Mc- 

 Keivey of Somerset, Pa., is president ; D. H. 

 Horton of Confluence, Pa., Is secretary, and J. 

 A. Guiler of ConnelisvIIle, Pa., Is treasurer. 

 The company lately bought 27,000 acres of 

 land at Ohio Pyle for $125,000, and estimates 

 that it has on the tract at least 20,000,000 

 feet of oak and other hardwoods. J. L. and 

 S. A. Kendall are the controlling members of 

 the company. The tract is located on the Bal- 

 timore & Ohio railroad, and the company will 

 at once put in two large mills. 



The Xough-Manor Lumber Company Is run- 

 ning Its mills at Kendall, Md., to their full 

 capacity, handling about 75,000 feet a day. 

 The company now has between 2,000,000 and 

 3.000,000 feet of oak and hemlock In stock at 

 its mills and reports business as excellent. 



The Meadow Mountain Lumber Company, 

 with offices at Wilmington, Del., has sold Its 

 property at Friendsvllie, Md., to a syndicate. 

 The tract Is located on the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroad, and has on It one mill cutting spruce, 

 hemlock and oak. It Is reported that the 



buyers will finish cutting off the timber at 

 once. 



At the last meeting of the Pittsburg Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association a report from 

 all the large firms represented showed that busi- 

 ness In the Pittsburg district Is picking up 

 very rapidly. The gist of opinion was that the 

 present year will surpass any previous season 

 in the sale of hardwoods. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company, House 

 building. Pittsburg, is cutting a large amount 

 of oak. poplar and chestnut In Eastern Tennes- 

 see. It has a branch office at Johnson City, 

 Tenn. 



Buffalo. 



The settlement of the various bankruptcy 

 cases that have come up In the hardwood trade 

 during the winter goes on rather slowly. In' 

 the case of the Queen City Lumber Company 

 President George W. Shepard has been released 

 from further liability on the payment of $700. 

 TiiC claim on the company made by Fail & 

 Company, another of the bani£;-upt concerns, 

 is still pending. 



J N. Scatcherd has spent consideiable time 

 at his Memphis mills of late, as lie Is n.it only 

 ai.iklous to keep them running activelj but has 

 a;i oak timber tract in view, which he hopes 

 to secure. 



Horace F. Taylor, president of Taylor & Crate, 

 Is the hardwood member of the stevedore com- 

 mittee of the Lumber Exchange, as the company 

 is one of the leading receivers of hardwood 

 lumber by lake.* 



A full line of cherry is still reported by 

 I. N. Stewart & Bro., just as if it was the 

 easiest thing in the world to go out and pick 

 up that sort of lumber. It sells, too, as well 

 as the other hardwoods on tlie firm's list. 



F. W. Vetter is off again to the Arkansas 

 mills of the Empire Lumber Company and when 

 the Buffalo yard Is closed out next year he 

 will be a resident of the Southwest most of the 

 time. 



Oak, ash and cypress are on the list of good 

 things that are coming into the yard of the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, the move- 

 ment being hastened by barge loads coming 

 from Mississippi points. 



A. Miller mentions maple as one of the strong 

 points of the stock in his Buffalo yard, with 

 plenty of other hardwoods coming in from Ihe 

 South. His laree stock of last fall has sold 

 well, but the assortment Is good yet. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is tax- 

 ing all Its sawmills in the West and South for 

 oak, making that the leader in all Its opera- 

 tions, though ail other hardwoods are kept In 

 assortment. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 had a big list of cars In from the South last 

 month, mostly -loaded with oak, and will rei>eat 

 the operation this month. However, it goes 

 out about as fast as it comes in. 



The hardwood dealers are making some pre- 

 liminary preparations for the entertalument of 

 the convention of the National Hardwood Asso- 

 ciation. It is expected that the banquet will 

 be held on the 19th of May, the second d.-'y of 

 the meeting, although there is still some effort 

 to set It down for the first evening. Everything 

 seems to be In line for a good time and It Is 

 certain that the local committee under C. E. 

 Yeager will do Its duty. 



The Buffalo hardwood lumber fraternity are 

 laying out a great program for the entertain- 

 ment of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, whose annual meeting takes place In 

 this city on Thursday and Friday, May 18 and 

 19. The Buffalo hardwood dealers are to be 

 the hosts of the occasion, and It is fully In- 

 tended that the hospitality of the Queen City 

 of the Lakes shall in no wise be found wanting. 

 The headquarters of the visitors will be at the 

 Iroquois Hotel, where the banquet will also be 

 served on the evening of May 19. The meetings 

 will be held in the auditorium of this hostelry. 



