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HARDWOOD RECORD 



It is announced that the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company of Chicago 

 recently purchased the plant, docks and other property of the Sandusky 

 Lumber & Box Company of Sandusky, O. The consideration is said to 

 have been in the neighborhood of ,$1,000,000. The plant will continue 

 operations under the direction of the Chicago headquarters, with a resident 

 manager in charge. 



The Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association of the United States has 

 just issued, through its office at Detroit, a handsome pamphlet on oak 

 flooring which contains a summary of grading rules for oak flooring, 

 methods for arriving at the amount of flooring needed, standard weights, 

 methods for handling, laying, scraping, etc. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Chicago has in the last few weeks pro- 

 vided various attractive features for its membership. One of these was 

 the second Ladies' Night which took place on Saturday, Apr. 26. At 

 noon May 1 the club membership was treated to a talk by Captain Healy 

 of the mounted police of Chicago on "TraflJc Conditions of Chicago and 

 Europe." 



This office is in receipt of a handsome catalogue and handbook of saw 

 filing issued by Wm. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw. Mich. In addition 

 to changing the complete index of products of Mershon shops, the book 

 is a highly efficient handbook on saw fitting and care of saws in general. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago will hold its regular meeting 

 at the Hotel La Salle on May 20. The officers of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association will be In attendance. 



H. Pringle, superintendent of the Wisconsin Lumber Company's plant 

 at Deering, Mo., has been in Chicago for some little time in conference 

 with the head office of the company in this city. 



,Iames Okoneski, representative of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Grand Rapids. Wis., was in Chicago early in the week. 



.T. C. Henderson, president of the Cross Lumber Company, Clarksbiu'g, 

 W. Va.. recently stopped at this city on an extended business trip. 



.T. E. Rhcdes. secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, moved his offices on the first of Jlay from the twelfth floor of 

 the Stock E.xehange building to the sixteenth floor of the new Otis build- 

 ing. La Salle and Madison streets. The new quarters offer much more 

 satisfactory facilities for taking care of the business of the association. 



=-< NEW YORK >= 



The Shepard & Morse Lumber Cuuipiuiv h;is iiiuwd iis headquarters from 

 Forty-second street to 200 Fifth avenue. 



S. C. Strock, for many years identified with the -Ni'W York wholesali' 

 trade, has l)een engaged as manager for the Interstate Lumber Company, 

 wholesale hardwoods, with office at 11 Broadway and yards in ,lersey 

 City and Newark, N. ,T, Mr. Strock was formerly with Granger & Lewis, 

 yellow pine manufacturers. In addition to handling n full line of hard- 

 woods, the company will also trade in yellow pine. 



F. R. Whiting, of the Whiting Luml)er Company, rbiladi-lphia. sailed 

 from New York during the fortnight for a brief trip to Europe. He is 

 expected back about May 15. 



The annual tournament of the Lumber Trade Golf Association will 

 be held at the Salisbury links. Garden City, N, Y., on Tuesday and Wed- 

 nesday, June 10 and 11. 



Robert Sellav, lumber attorney of New Y'ork City, advises that since 

 May 1 his office has Ikiu located at No, 1 Liberty street, New York, 

 rooms IfiOl-lGO:;. 



=-< BUFFALO y- 



Buffalo is to have a new hardwood lumber concern to l>e known as the 

 Empire State Hardwood Lumber Company, capitalized at ,$10,000. The 

 office of the company will be at 1435 Marine Bank building. The di- 

 rectors are Louis A. Aekley, F. W, Marquard and Louis Hubner, all of 

 New Y^ork. 



The unloading committee of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, of which 

 Shirley G. Taylor is the hardwood member, has completed arrangements 

 for the unloading of lumlx^r vessels here this year, meeting the approval 

 of both the lumbermen and the union. The report of the committee 

 will be presented at the next meeting of the exchange. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, forest pathologist of the University of Michigan, 

 has lately been visiting the chestnut groves of Cooperstown, N. Y., and 

 surrounding sections to determine whether, as has been feared, the 

 chestnut blight Is spreading northward. He is very familiar with the 

 disease, having spent last summer working with the Department of Agri- 

 culture at Washington on this particular form of tree blight. The State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse will conduct studies of diseases of forest 

 trees in this stale and endeavor to combat the various insects and fungi. 



Hugh McLean left early this month for a trip to the southern mills 

 of the McLean Lumber Company, which is starting in at this time with 

 Its annual stock-taking. 



The .Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has been getting in good 

 stocks of oak and chestnut. The company has lately added a new 

 department to Its business and Is now in position to furnish oak bill' 

 timber, car material, ties, etc. 



B. E. Darling has been In Ohio and the South for the past few weeks, 

 making lumber purchases and looking over the mill stocks coming to the 

 yard of Blakeslce, Terrln & Darling. 



Taylor & Crate have made another purchase of real estate In the 



Black Rock section, in addition to that recently made, and will have- 

 forty-four acres there for yard purposes. 



H. B. Gorsline has gone to Kentucky for a short business trip and 

 will visit several of the mills there in the interest of the National Lum- 

 ber Company. The compaiiy will soon receive lake hardwood stocks. 



O. E. Y'eager states that April was a very good month at his hardwood 

 yard. He regards the outlook as favorable and Buffalo dealers as in 

 good position to supply the needs of the market. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report that lumber Is moving well. Business is 

 mostly in elm. oak and maple. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >- 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company reports business running 

 smoothly, the total sales so far in 1913 being far ahead of same period 

 of last year. 



The S. B. Dill Company is complacent over trade conditions and, as it 

 commands a fair volume of trading right along, is optimistic as to out- 

 look. 



The B. W. Cross Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, a subsidiary com- 

 pany of the Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company, this city, reports aff.iirs 

 eminently satisfactory. Mr. Dalrymple of the Philadelphia house is not 

 inclined to quarrel with incoming business. It is a little difficult at 

 times to get certain woods, but shipments are easier and the outlook i*^ 

 encouraging. 



It is manifest that John W. Coles is exempt from serious business 

 interruptions. His only complaint is that hardwoods are hard to get 

 at times, but so far he has been able to keep his customers supplied. 



W. R. Taylor of the W. K. Taylor Lumber Company has Just returned 

 from a trip to North Carolina and Tennessee, where be closed a deal for 

 a good sized block of hardwood and white pine. He reports a well 

 sustained business activity. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & Son recently returned from 

 .\tkinson, N. C, where he has been superintending the erection of a 

 planing mill, which will be ready to turn out stuff in about a fortnight. 

 He says trade has not been quite so brisk for the last two weeks, but hi' 

 regards the lull as only temporary. 



On May 1 Augustus J. Cadwallader of George F. Craig & Co. gave a 

 planked-shad dinner for the famous Saw Dust Club, of which he is a 

 member. The dinner was given at a resort of his near Y'ardley, N, J., a 

 large contingent going down in automobiles, and a royal good time was 

 the hearty pronouncement upon their return to the city. 



Ralph Soudcr of Ilallowell & Souder says they have no reason to com- 

 plain over trading, for they arc as busy as they can be. and prices give 

 satisfaction. Mr. Souder is on a three weeks' tour of the lumber camps 

 of North and South Carolina, getting in touch with the stock situation 

 there. 



The Benson Furniture Company, Philadelphia, was chartered under 

 Pennsylvania laws, Apr. ,10, with a capital of .$l(i.OOO. 



=■< PITTSBURGH y. 



The Hamilton Lumber Company reports an unusually good inquiry for 

 chestnut, oak and poplar. Its eastern trade is growing nicely. 



The Germain Company is moving Its offices from the Keenan building 

 to the seventeenth floor of the Farmers Bank building, where it has a 

 splendid location. President Louis Germain, Jr., announces that all de- 

 partments are busy and the outlook for really good trade is first class 



Frank R. and Eugene McKelvey of Somerset, Pa., have bought a tract 

 of timber six miles long on the west slope of Lock Mountain, containing 

 several thousand acres. They will start a big force of men at work 

 at once to cut the timber off for lumber crossties and mining purposes. 



The Pittsburgh Wood Preserving Company is rushing operations at 

 its plant at Connellsville. Pa., and is also starting a new 

 plant at Orrville. O., on the main line of the Pittsburgh, Chicago & 

 Fort Wayne Railroad. The company is also arranging to build a third 

 plant in Michigan this summer. The recent floods have added much to 

 its business in the way of ties, poles and timbers to be furnished for 

 railroads and construction companies. 



The Acorn Lumber Company reports inquiries good and orders for a 

 million feet of oak which it is Impossible to supply. Its general bard- 

 wood trade is first class. President H. F. Domboff spent a week recently 

 in North Carolina and Tennessee. 



The Freehold Lumber Company has moved from the Keystone building 

 to the fourth floor of the People's Bank building. Robert Gannon of this 

 company reports general business conditions in lumber dealings better 

 than they have been for montlis. 



The Western Lumber Company announces the organization of a new 

 hardwood departiuent that will be managed by Norman W. Itice. who is 

 very favorably known to the I'ittsburgh lumber trade. He brings to his 

 new field a splendid acquaintance and a remarkably Ihorougli knowledge 

 of the hardwood business. These are sure to make the new department 

 of the Western a good success. 



The B. W. Cross Lumber Company has added another salesman, D. W. 

 Jones, to work its city and suburban trade. President Cross reports n 

 record-breaking call at present for white oak. 



The. Williams vt McKlethen Lumber Company of Lynchburg. Va., has 

 established offices in the Business Men's Exchange on Diamond street and 



