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HARDWOOD RECORD 



expects to give the Pittsburgh district such a 

 worl5 over for lumber stoclcs as it seldom gets. 



P. II. Johnston of the John^ton-Davies Lum- 

 ber Company which makes a specialty of Wash- 

 ington county oak mine timber, spent a few 

 days last week in the eastern market. 



The Freehold Lumber Company has been 

 formed here by Robert E. Gannon and Chester 

 A. and Clifford S. McCleary to do a general lum- 

 ber business. Mr. Gannon is a well-known pine 

 and hardwood man who for years has had offices 

 in the Ferguson building. 



The Satler-.\ldrich Lumber Company will 

 undergo some changes Jan. 1. as F. N. Aldrlch 

 has withdrawn from the company. Mr. Satler 

 will continue his office in the Oliver building 

 and will have tne exclusive agency for the Stack- 

 Gibbs Lumber Company stock. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company has 

 about completed its contract for furnishing all 

 the lumber for the Western Maryland line which 

 was built this year. Mr. Hastings believes that 

 the total of lumber sold in Pittsburgh this year 

 will be considerably below that of 1910. but that 

 the prospects for next year are improving stead- 

 ily, although no boom is in sight. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company, during the 

 past twelve weeks has booked enough orders 

 for gum and Cottonwood to keep it busy for sev- 

 eral months. President J. N. WooUett believes 

 that conditions and prospects are more favorable 

 now than they have been for a long time. 



BOSTON 



George Henry Leatherbee, treasurer of the 

 Trimount Lumber Company. Boston, died at his 

 home In Brookline, Mass., Dec. 14. For the past 

 ten years Mr. Leatherbee has made his home in 

 Boston. He was a brother of C. W. Leatherbee, 

 a well-known Boston lumber dealer. He was 

 born in Boston in 1839 and upon leaving school 

 went to work in his father's lumber business. 

 A few years later he became manager of the 

 Little Kanawha Lumber Company's business at 

 Charleston, W. Va. Later he went to Chicago, 

 where he was engaged in the lumber business. 

 He returned to this city about ten years ago. 



The Brett Lumber Company, Lynn, Mass., is 

 building a large wharf on the Saugus River in 

 that city. When completed the company will be 

 able to unload schooners at its own yard, thus 

 saving hauling charges and handling. 



Henry E. Dimock, who for nearly thirty years 

 has conducted a wood-working business in New 

 Britain, Conn., has sold out to Leavitt & Rush, 

 a new concern comprised of A. P. Leavitt and 

 Clarence Rush. 



Louis P. Parker, receiver of the Essex Wood 

 Turning Company. Es.sex, Conn., has been grant- 

 ed an order by the court to continue the busi- 

 ness. 



Clifford Leatherbee of the Painting Machine 

 Company, Chicago, was a recent visitor In Bos- 

 ton. 



William E. Litchfield spoke before the stu- 

 dents of the High Scliocl of Commerce, Boston, 

 last week, his subject being the "Relation of the 

 Lumber Business to the Student." 



The .lohnson-Jordan Lumber Company, Maiden, 

 Mass.. has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000. The Incorporators are Charles II. 

 Johnson, George E. Jordan and George E. Jor- 

 dan. Jr. The new company has taken over the 

 lumber business of C. II. Johnson. 



The Allston Builders' Finish Company, Bos- 

 ton, has l>een Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $10,000. The organizers are George E. Feast, 

 Alfred J. Feast and Thomas Sbreeman. 



BALTIMORE 



he talked with a number of lumbermen of the 

 Middle West and brought back the information 

 that this section had been less affected by the 

 improved feeling than the East. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald, who went 

 to Atlantic City for Thank.sgiving week, intending 

 to stay only about seven or eight days, found it 

 advisable to remain longer and has just returned. 

 He had been consideraI»ly run down, and derfved 

 much benefit from the bracing air of the seasidi'. 



The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has recently 

 placed orders for rolling stock to cost .$7,200,000. 

 Of the .S.OOO cars not less than $252,.500 are to 

 be spent on box cars. Most of them are being 

 built by the South Baltimore Car Works at 

 Curtis Bay. 



According to the latest information in regard 

 to the overtures made by the special committee 

 i)f the National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 relative to the matter of measurement, over 

 which frequent disagreement has arisen, the for- 

 eign buyers will not take up the representations 

 of the special committee until after the return 

 of Colonel Cobbett, chairman of the hardwood 

 section of the London Timber Trades Federation, 

 who is now on a trip to the lumber sections of the 

 United States. It will not be necessary, however, 

 for the special committee to make another journey 

 to London, tor the reason that the foreign brok- 

 ers are fully informed on the subject, and Gustave 

 A. Farber, chairman of the special committee, 

 and London representative of Russe & Burgess, 

 Inc.. of Memphis, is on hand to give any informa- 

 tion on disputed points that may be desired. 



At a special meeting of the managing commit- 

 tee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, called 

 last week by Theodore Mottu, the new president, 

 the standing committees for the ensuing year 

 were announced. President Mottu desired to 

 have the personnel of the committees settled with 

 the least possible delay in order that the work of 

 the exchange might go forward without unneces- 

 sary delay. 



COLUMBUS 



R. K. Ilartwell of It. K. Ilartwell & Co. re- 

 turned last week from a trip to Chicago, where 

 he spent Thanksgiving with members of his 

 family. He did not give much attention to busi- 

 ness, being bent In the main on recreation, but 



The Constance Lumber Company of Manstield, 

 O., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $100,000 to manufacture and deal in lumber 

 and handle all kinds of building materials. The 

 incorporators are John D. Constance, Sr., John 

 D. Constance, Jr., Clyde C. Constance, Williain 

 A. Constance and I. E. Constance. 



C. G. McLaughlin, formerly connected with 

 the McLaughlin-Huffman Lumber Company, has 

 accepted a position with the Imperial Lumber 

 Company and will travel in western Ohio and a 

 portion of Indiana. 



The secretary of state has given authorization 

 to the Theodore Franke Heirs Company, a Ger- 

 man lumber Importing corporation with a cap- 

 ital of $373,000, (o do business In the state of 

 Ohio. 



The C. T. Nelson Company, column manufac- 

 turer. Is preparing to shut down its mills on 

 West Dublin avenue for the usual layoff when 

 the machinery will be overhauled. Mr. Nelson 

 reports a rather (juiet trade at this time owing 

 to the excessive rains which have been falling 

 In all parts of central Ohio, and the approach of 

 the holiday season. 



John li. Gobey of the concern bearing his 

 name says trade shows signs of Improvement. 

 He looks for a good demand both from yards 

 and factories early In January. 



B. A. Leach of the Sowers-Leach Lumber 

 Company Is on a business trip to Charleston 

 and other polnis In West Virginia. 



Charles C. Lincoln of the Jobbing Drm of Luke 

 & Lincoln of Marlon. Va., was a ricenl caller 

 upon Columbus wholesalers. 



The ofllces of the General Lumlici' inmijany 

 have been removed from the eli^vrntli lloor of 

 the Columbus Savings & Trust building to the 

 fifth lloor of the llartman building. II. W. 

 Putnam, president of the company, snys trade 



is quiet at this time, and dealers are waiting 

 for their annual inventories before placing 

 orders. Prices are holding up well. 



II. M. Hayward of the firm of M. A. Hayward 

 & Son left for the mountains of Kentucky to 

 look over a coal property in that state. 



W. Granville Taylor of the W. M. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company declared that trade was good for 

 the season of the year, and that the company 

 was getting all of the business that was ex- 

 pected. He says there is a fair demand for 

 quartered oak, especially No. 1 common. Chest- 

 nut is a little quiet at this time. Kill oak is 

 in good demand. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company was called to New York state on busi- 

 ness about the middle of the month. 



CINCINNATI 



Captain J. F. Ellison, ex-secretary of the Ohio 

 Valley Improvement Association and the Rivers 

 & Harbors Congress, and known to all lumber- 

 men of the Ohio Valley as a river captain, has 

 been selected to have charge of all the boats of 

 the Port of Para Navigation Company, capital- 

 ized at .$23,000,000. Boats to the number 

 of thirty are being built at Pittsburgh, Pa., and 

 in Holland. Captain Ellison was suddenly 

 stricken down with pneumonia on Dec. 5, while 

 in attendance at the Rivers & Harbors Congress. 

 On Dec. 16, it was stated that the captain had 

 passed the crisis and would recover. He was 

 to have sailed to Para on Dec. 12. 



At the December meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati, the river and rail committee 

 was instructed to formulate a protest to the 

 trustees of the Southern railroad against the 

 rate discrimination practiced against Cincinnati. 

 Chairman B. F. Dulweber has drafted and for- 

 warded to the trustees and lessees a very strong 

 protest in the form of resolutions. The com- 

 mittee was also instructed to draft resolutions 

 and forward the same to Commissioner E. E. 

 Williamson of the Receivers' & Shippers' Asso- 

 ciation, who has withdrawn to enter other busi- 

 ness in Washington, D. C. Tue resolutions 

 adopted eulogized the work of Mr. Williamson 

 in behalf of the lumber trade, and wished him 

 every success in his new field of endeavor. 



S. A. Conn, manager of the mill plant of The 

 Tensas River Lumber Company of Louisiana, has 

 been ill for several weeks with malarial trouble, 

 and Vlce-Presldenf C. S. Walker says that it Is 

 not at all probable that Mr. Conn will be able 

 to again take charge of the plant. 



Cincinnati capital will be interested in a mill 

 plant to he located on the Kentucky river, in 

 the oak regions of the mountains of Kentucky. 

 Tlinbermen familiiir with that section report 

 that there is plenty of good oak standing, and 

 that a mill plant in that section will be a pay- 

 ing proposition. 



All efforts are now being bent to bring about 

 the construction of Dam No. 40 on the Ohio 

 river. This dam is located two miles below 

 the mouth of the Kentucky river, and will, when 

 completed, in conjunction with the series of 

 dams just completed in the Kentucky river, give 

 navigable water the year round between Ken- 

 tucky river points and Louisville and Clncln- 

 i:«tl on the Ohio river. 



A letter received here says that Robert F. 

 Whltmer, a Philadelphia lumber operator, who 

 owns mills In West Virginia, last week pur- 

 chased from the Iinvis & Elklns Interests the 

 timber rights (it a lO.OOOaere tract In Randolph, 

 Webster and Pocahontas counties. West Virginia, 

 for $000,000, This is said to be the best tract 

 of spruce in the state. The surface and mineral 

 rights are reserved. The holdings were sold 

 under the corporate title of the Upper Elk Coal 

 Company. Railroads will be run Into the tract 

 and work commenced at once. 



T. J. Moffetl, president of the Maley, Thomp- 

 son & Miiffett Compan.v, Is enthusiastic over the 



