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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Kcndnll Lumber Company had tho most enooiiraging summer in all 

 ways probably in its history. Its trade with the coal mining and railroad 

 companies, according to its sales manager. G. C. Chambers, has been 

 away beyond its average business in this line. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company reports business at present a little 

 quiet, althouglj its trade during the summer was very satisfactory. This 

 concern also notes that prices for stock used by window glass companies 

 are being cut below the margin of profit. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has added a new salesman. W. W. 

 Adams, who will represent it among the West Virginia buyers. This 

 company is doing a nice business at its mills in northern Pennsylvania, 

 but finds that hard effort is needed to get good orders. 



E. H. Shreiner of the E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company is spending this 

 week in W^est Virginia among the mills. He has made two or three very 

 successful trips to Canada this summer which resulted in some nice orders 

 from the Canadian factories. 



Joseph W. CottrcU Lumber Company, which was lately incorporated, 

 and which has its offices in the Ferguson building, has a very nice hard- 

 wood operation on the M. & K. railroad in West Virginia. It is handling 

 considerable oak bill stuff. from its branch office in LTniontown, I'a., which 

 is in charge of J. H. Rush. The company has been doing a good business 

 in mining stock all summer. 



C. E. Breitwieser & Co. are well pleastd with the outlook for hard- 

 wood business and especially with the trade they have secured the past 

 few months. Frank Smith of this concern has heen In the East quite 

 a large portion of the time the past two months, and has rounded up 

 some very satisfactory business. 



The Meyers-Parsons Lumber Company is carrying splendid stocks o" 

 lumber and is getting its full share of the business. The tendency I-- 

 cut prices, according to its officials, is confined mostly to yellow pirn- 

 people. 



Never before in tlie history of Pittsburi-'h lumber firms has their hem 

 such a demand for medium and low-grade hardwood for mining purposes. 

 The large niimber of new coal mining and coke making operations that 

 are heing opened up all over the country have stimulated this tradt: 

 greatly of late. Industrial business has also been fine the past summer. 

 So many new plants are being erected and extensive improvements have 

 been authorized in so many cases that hardwood men have thrived on this 

 business. 



=-< BOSTON y- 



David P. Page, for fifty years a member of the firm of David Pago 

 & Co., mamifacturers of biiiklcrs' fancy interior finisli. Cliarlestown, 

 Mass., died at liis iiome in Somerrillp. Mass., Sept. 18, of lieart disease. 

 Mr. Page was a cliarter member of tlie Master Builders' Association. Mr. 

 Page retired from active business about six years ago. 



Grant T. Stephenson 



Constructing Engineer 



Wood Distillation Plants for 

 Utilization of Wood Waste 



WELLS, MICHIGAN 



On the Following Stock We Will Make Special 

 Prices for Prompt Shipment: 



82.000' 2" No. 2 Common Poplar. 58,000' 



10,000' H4" No. 1 & 2 Qtd. Polilar. 36,000' 



20,000' 1x24 " & up No. 1 and Panel 28,000' 



Poplar nut 



40,000' 3" No. 1*2 Poplar 41,000' 



15,000' 4" X 18 to 30 " No. 1 & Panel nut 



Poplar 69,000' 



30,000' 4" X 7 to 25" No. 1 & 3 nut 



Poplar 12.000' 



36,000' 6/8 X 18" & up No. 1 & 19,000' 



Panel Poplar 86.000' 



117,000' 6/4 S. W. & No. 2 Common 6,000' 



Chestnut 21,000' 



38,000' 1 X 12" & up No. 1 & 2 10,000' 



Chestnut 88,000' 



68,000' 1" No. 1 Com. Chestnut 19,000' 



47,000' 6/4 No. 1 Com. Chestnut 10,000' 



6/4 No, 1 Com. Chestnut 

 8/4 No. 1 Com. Chestnut 

 4/4 No. 1 & 2 Com. Chest- 



5/4 No. 1 & 2 Com. Chest- 



6/4 No. 1 & 2 Com. Chest- 



6/4 No, 

 8/4 No. 

 3" No. 



4" No. 

 6/4 No. 

 8/4 No. 



4/4 No 

 5/4 No. 

 8/4 No. 



. 1 & 2 Red Birch 

 I & 2 Red Birch 



1 & 2 Red Birch 



1*2 Red Birch 

 1*2 Cherry 

 1*2 CherrT 



p. 1 Common Cherry 

 1 Common Cherry 

 1 Common Cherry 



The Atlantic Lumber Co. 



70 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. 



Jason liobinson. Jr.. tit' Derry. X. II., bas purchased the woodworking 

 business of Fred I. Clarli of that town. 



The plant of Kathan A. Weston, who has been operating a sash and 

 blind factory at Madison. Me., was destroyed by Are recently. The loss 

 to the shop and machinery was .$.5,000. 



A petition in banltruptcy has been filed against the Shaw Lumber 

 Company, Boston, by three creditors. 



At the meeting of the Lumber Manufacturers' Association of southern 

 New l^ngland, recently held at Rocky Point, the following ofliccrs were 

 elected : President, C. E. Child, Putnam, Conn. ; vice-president, C. M. Ely, 

 Manchester. Conn. ; secretary and treasurer, C. A. Tillinghast, Davidson ; 

 directors for throe years, O. P. Hallbourg, Westfleld, Mass. : P. L. 

 Lathrop. Rockville ; director tor one year. Thomas H. Barber, Arcadia, R. I. 



The three-story wooden factory building in Portland, Me., occupied by 

 W. A. Allen & Co.. manufacturers of wood mantels, etc.. bas been prac- 

 tically destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about $25,000. 



=■< BALTIMORE >- 



Another large shipment of mahogany logs from South Africa arrived 

 in Baltimore aboard the steamer Templemore of the Johnston Line on 

 Sept. IS. One consignment consisted of 114 logs and another of 160 

 logs. All of them were destined for western points, presumably being 

 intended for use in the manufacture of furniture. The logs were trans- 

 shipped at Liverpool. 



With an allowance of twenty per cent for under valuation, the cost of 

 real estate improvements for which permits were issued during August 

 in Baltimore amounted to not less than .$1,176.1, S3. CO. This total, which 

 is the third largest for the present year and is held to make a very 

 encouraging exhibit. eonsi,sted of $74.5.153 on account of new buildings, 

 .<7.').000 for alterations and $160,000 for additions. The aggregate for 

 the eight months oi the current year is not less than $9,710,610.60, which 

 is well up to the record and compares favorably with the building activity 

 that prevailed shortly after the great fire of 1904. 



The Levinson & Zenitz Company, manufacturer of furniture on Gay 

 street, near Baltimore, is vflbout to replace the old buildings at 10 

 to 16 Frederick street with a new five-story concrete structure. The im- 

 provement is one of a number there contemplated in connection with the 

 expansion of the company. 



Secretary J. McD. Price of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, Knickerbocker building, was in New York recently to confer with 

 various steamship line representatives in regard to freight rates and other 

 matters in the interest of members of the organization. He expressed 

 himself as well pleased with the result of his work. 



M. S. Baer of Richard P. Bner & Co., in the tower of the Maryland 

 Casualty building, is spending week-ends at .Atlantic City, where his family 

 is taking an outing. 



A meeting of creditors of the Broadbenf Brothers Compan.v, manufac- 

 turers of mantels and taVdes. which went into the hands of a receiver 

 some weeks ago, was held Seijt. 19. when i\ proposition was made by the 

 company to pay a dividend. The creditors are disposed to accept the offer, 

 but insist upon a guarantee that the dividend will be paid. It appears 

 that the company has been carrying on operations at a loss, the deficit 

 so far for the present year being put at $21,000. Much of the increase 

 in cost is chargeable to the higher outlay for material and the greater 

 wages demanded. Thus, to turn out tables to the value of $],000 more 

 than last year, entailed an increase in expenditure of not less than 

 $1S,000. The affairs of the company appear to have been conducted 

 with scrupulous exactness. 



One of the visiting lumbermen here during the last ten days was F. X. 

 Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Diebold 

 stated that the hardwood trade situation was in the main quite encour- 

 aging and that he had taken a considerable number of orders. 



="< COLUMBUS y 



The offices and main warehouse of the Stine & Ervin Lumber Company 

 of Bryan, 0., were destroyed by fire recently causing a loss of $18,000, 

 partially covered by insurance. The fire burned 300,000 feet of lumber. 



The plant of the Pilliod Lumber and Box Company, of Swanton, O., 

 was destroyed by fire recently causing a loss of $25,000. One-fourth of 

 the loss is covered by insurance. 



J. W. Kitchen of the J. W. Kitchen Lumber Ciuupany of Ashland, Ky., 

 was a visitor in Columbus recently. 



J. R. Smith, formerly assistant manager of the Rumely Products Colum- 

 bus branch, and W. D. Norton of the Columbus Sawmill Company have 

 organized the Crestview Lumber Company to open a retail yard in Crest- 

 view, a suburb of Columbus. The location for the yard has not yet been 

 selected. W. D. Norton has been elected president and general manager 

 and J. R. .Smith, secretary of the concern. Hardwoods will be the prin- 

 cipal product handled. 



The city council of Columbus has taken steps for the submission to the 

 voters at the fall election the proposition to issue $8,500,000 bonds to 

 carry out a plan of flood prevention and thus protect the west side of 

 Columbus. Engineer Alvord submitted ten plans for fiood prevention 

 which range in cost from $6,000,000 to $23,000,000. Plan No. 7, provid- 

 ing for an expenditure of $12,000,000 has been accepted and the city's 

 share of the cost is $8,500,000. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager for the central division of the W. M. 



