HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ciac. He will romaiu at Atlauta for several 

 weeks. 



Walter Sharp m' Cluu-chill & Sims, large lum- 

 ber brokers uf l-iverpool. Eug.. arrived here dur- 

 ing the fortnight for his annual trip through the 

 American markets. 



H. I'. Wilcox, the wealthy lumberman of Ham- 

 ilton, Out., Can., died suddenl.v on Mar. 14 at 

 the VanCortland licitel, in West Forty-ninth 

 street. Manhattan. 



A. Shoaf has been appointed manager of the 

 New York sales office of the Hilton & Dodge 

 Lumber Company, headriuarters 17 Rattery place, 

 (o succeed liobert W. ISrownsoii. Mr. Shoaf was 

 previously connected with the U. 51. Bickford 

 Company and Robert R. Sizcr & Co., Inc., of 

 this city. 



The Consolidated Lumber Company, headquar- 

 ters Brunswick, Ga., has opened a local sales 

 oflice at 32 Broadway. Manhattan, under tlie 

 management of H. C. Buck, Jr. 



The Tunis-Cockey Lumber Company of Phila- 

 delphia announces the appointment of E. B. 

 Skinner, 10 Park place, as its representative in 

 the local market. 



Schedules in bankruptcy of I. L. Cohen, doing 

 business as the Mott Haven I>umber Company. 

 One Hundred and- Seventy-fourth street and West 

 l'''arm.s road, Bronx, show liabilities of .fl21,12S, 

 of which $61,000 is secured, and nominal assets 

 of $72,070. 



BUFFALO 



The Buffalo Lumber Exchange has elected 

 Knowlton Mixer as president and A. W. Krein- 

 hcder as vice-president. J. S. Tyler continues to 

 nil the office of secretary. The exchange is 

 actively in evidence in connection with the hear- 

 ing to be held in W.ishington on Mar. 28 by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. The subject 

 to be discussed is the stop-over privilege on 

 railroad shipments of lumber, a matter of impor- 

 tance to the hardwood trade. The commission 

 experts have been here this month, calling on 

 hardwood dealers and other lumbermen interested 

 and have secured information to present at the 

 hearing. 



.Joseph Metz, a prominent (ierman-American 

 citizen of this city, and for aliout twenty-five 

 years engaged in tlie planing-mili trade here, died 

 on Mar. IS. aged seventy-tour years. He was 

 head of the Joseph Metz & Sons Company, and 

 also a member of the C. M. B. A. and of Blessed 

 Trinity church. He is survived by a widow and 

 ten children. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 adding to its yard space, in line with prepara- 

 tions which have been going on for some time, 

 and when plans are completed about six and 

 one-half acres will be occupie<l. 



P. M. Sullivan has returned from an eastern 

 trip and reports the hardwood trade as good at 

 the yard. Plain white oak in firsts and seconds 

 is very hard to find in good dry stock in this 

 market. 



G. Elias is the hardwood representative upon 

 the new Unloading Committee of the Buffalo 

 Lumber Exchange, which has .iust been announced 

 and which includes some of the large receivers of 

 lumber by lake. 



O. E. Yeager has been cultivating both export 

 and domestic trade in hardwoods recently, and 

 has been sending out fair stocks of elm, basswood 

 and birch for the foreign market. 



Anthony Miller states that hardwood sales are 

 about up to the average. Onk continues to lead 

 in demand. 



PHILADELPHIA 



\\ iirks has received orders aggregating .$2,.'iO0,- 

 ono during ttie last two weeks. The largest of 

 these is for seventy locomotives for tile Atchison. 

 Topeka and Santa Ee Railroad. 



The John J. Iteiily Liuuber ("iiipaiiy of I'iKs 

 ton, Pa., has been incorporaled with a capil;il 

 stock of ■li.'i.OOO. 



The Southeastern Lumber Company. \A'ihning- 

 lon. Del., has been incorporated witli a capital 

 stock of .$1,000,000. 



-Melivain's Lumber News for • Aiarch, is a.s 

 usual a welcome visitor, as it always contains 

 i>esides a full stock list for the convenience of its 

 customers, an opening article on some interest- 

 ing and instructive topic of the day. This num- 

 Iier has for its subject "Pioneer Kinanceers." and 

 dwells proudly upon Phlladi liJhi!i"s always 

 prompt response to tin? luilional call foi- niutncial 

 help. 



The Woodclilf Lumber Company, Monterey, 

 'Cerin.. <iwned by J. Gibson ^Mcllvain & Co., and 

 to which J, Gibson McIIvain. Jr.. has just made 

 an extended visit, will soon be piling up lumber 

 for shipment. Tlie company is getting out a 

 splendid (juaiity of chestnut, plain and (piartered 

 oak and poplar. The car shortage and the in- 

 terruption to shipping by the bad w-eather are 

 the only troubles it had to contend with. 



Arthur W. Kent, secretary and treasurer of 

 the J. S. Kent Company, reports a positive ad- 

 vance in trading during the last fortnight. Ship- 

 ping which has been much impeded during the 

 winter is constantly getting easier. 



Frederick S. Uudcrhill of Wistar. Inderhill & 

 Nixon, has no complaint to make regarding 

 spring business. To secure the requisite stuff 

 is often a puzzle, but the selling is an easier 

 matter. He is optimistic as to a generous trad- 

 ing when the weather becomes more settled. 



"William P. Shearer of Samuel II. Shearer & 

 Son. testifies to a prolific business. Since Jan. 

 1, it has proved the best in five years. Naturally 

 he is sanguine as to a favorable outlook. 



PITTSBURGH 



The Ohio Preserving l^'ompany. in which I'itts- 

 burgh capitalists are largely interested, has 

 bought a site of twenty-five acres at Orrville, O.. 

 and will build a plant at once. The company 

 has a capital of .$l.jO,000 and will treat Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad ties and poles. 



The Pittsburgh Hardwood Door Company ex- 

 pects to get into its new six-story warehouse 

 at Thirteenth and Pike streets early in April. 

 The building will have 64,000 feet net of floor 

 space. 



James J. .Mead, president of the .Mead & Speer 

 I'ompauy, reports that the company's operation 

 .It Strange Creek, \V. Va., is cut out and that 

 it still has some 3,000,000 feet of lumber on 

 sticks. Most of this wMll be ready to ship 

 early this spring. 



The American Fork & Hoe Company. Geneva. 

 <».. has paid farmers of that immediate vicinity 

 over $5,000 for ash timber this winter in addi- 

 tion to as much more for logging and hauling. 

 This has been the best winter for years lor 

 getting out fine hardwood stock in northeastern 

 Ohio, and the few remaining forests have been 

 sadly depleted. 



U. D. Brown, a well-known hardwood man of 

 Elwood City, Pa., has recently connected himself 

 with the Hamilton Lumber Company. 



BOSTON 



The lumber yard at lOHI and 1021 Gray's 

 Ferry road has been purchased by Emil Guenther 

 from the Hindle Lumber Compan.v for a. nominal 

 consideration, subject to a $2,'i.ooo mortgage. 



It is announced that the Baldwin I,ocomotive 



Henry Bannon & Son, general manufacturers of 

 builders' finish, Worcester, purchased from A. F. 

 <;ilbert of that town and L. D. Gilbert of St. 

 I,ouis a factory building in Worcester now oc- 

 cupied by several manufacturing concerns. It 

 is one of the largest real estate transactions 

 that has taki'n place in Worcester for a long 

 time. 



The Central Lumlii'r c% Supply Company of 

 New Bedford has been incorporated, witli $.jO,000 

 capital stock. The incorporating directors are 

 Zebina B. Davis, president : Samuel W. Beers, 

 treasurer, and Samuel W. Thorpe. 



The Riddle-Robblns Company of Boston has 

 been incorporated, with a capital of $25,000. 

 Tile directors are William II. Riddle and Warren 

 t '. I>. Robbins. 



BALTIMORE 



A special meeting of the directors of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association has been 

 called for Mar. 20, at the oflice of Secretary 

 .1. McD. Price, in the Knickerbocki-r building 

 here, when the business which has accumulated 

 since the annual meeting in January will be 

 disposed of. It is probable that some matters 

 in connection with the work of Frank 'liftany, 

 the foreign representative of the association, will 

 receive consideration. 



P.. E'. Wood, president, and G. L. Wood, gen- 

 eral manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany, are back at headquarters here after a 

 visit to the company's mills in Wesf Virginia 

 and other points. They confirm the reports of 

 otlier hardwood men that the heav.v rains have 

 interfered greatly with operations and that the 

 output of lumber has been largely curtailed 

 during the past winter. However, the outlook 

 is better and preparations are being made every- 

 where to resume work where this has not al- 

 I'l'ady been done. 



The J. S. Walker Lumber Company of Devon, 

 Mingo county, W. Va., has filed a complaint with 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission at Wash- 

 ington against the Norfolk and Western Railway, 

 (liarging tiiat while the distance from Devon 

 and stations cast to Kenova, Cincinnati and 

 other points has been shortened some twenty- 

 four miles by the completion of tlie Big Sandy 

 division, the freight rates on lumber have not 

 been correspondingly reduced. 



Some comment has been called forth in the 

 hardwood trade hero, especially among the ex- 

 I)orters. by the visit of Emil Seeker, appointed 

 on a special mission by the Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor to investigate the subject of 

 extending the markets for American lumber in 

 foreign countries. Mr. Seeker saw Secretary 

 J. McD. Price of the National Lumber Export- 

 ers' Association at the time, and secured infor- 

 mation from him as to what sources of infor- 

 mation he might go to in pursuance of his in- 

 (luir.v. He was directed to leading exporters whose 

 knowledge might be expected to prove a valu- 

 able guide. 



COLUMBUS 



J. Van R. Gardner, formerly Columbus repre- 

 sentative for the W. M. Hitter Lumber Company, 

 has opened a business of his own at 401 Colum- 

 bus Savings & Ti'ust building, where he will 

 handle all kinds of lumber. 



A serious fire occurred recently at Lima, 0., 

 which destroyed the plant of the J, R. Raude- 

 haugh Sash & Door Company, entailing a loss of 

 .$5,000. The lumber yard of J. R. Raudebaugh 

 was also destroyed. Considerable other property- 

 was burned. The plant will be rebuilt. 



The Builders' and Traders' Exchange of Lima, 

 O.. has been incorporated liy lumbermen and 

 material men of that city, without capital. The 

 object of the organization is for the mutual bene- 

 fit of its members. Tlie incorporators are J. M. 

 Morgan, Laurens Hull. W. O. Dean, W. A. Smith, 

 H. D. Campbell and S. D. Sherrlck. 



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

 & Son says trade conditions are .satisfactory in 

 this territory with every indication of advances 

 in prices on hardwoods. Prices are strong in 

 every grade and variety. Hardwood flooring 

 stocks are not large and there will be a scarcity 

 before the season is over. 



