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from Joppa, 111., for distribution. These will contain about 2^000,000 feet. 



The Johnstown Folding Crate and Box Company will start operations 

 this week in the seventh ward of Johnstown, Pa., with the following 

 omcers : C. W. Hurl, president : R. A. Long, secretary : J. H. Mos- 

 holder, treasurer ; Henry I. Blough, R. A. Long and J. S. Mosholder, di- 

 rectors. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company reports that its trade to May 1 amounted 

 to more thtm tor the entire year of 1909. It is well satisfied with the 

 outlook in general. 



The Kendall Lumber Company will start work June 1 on a new opera- 

 tion near Ohiopyle, Pa., where it has bouf;ht another large tract of 

 hardwood timber. Its trade with the coal mining companies and the 

 railroads is especially good. 



The Adelman Lumber Company reports trade holdin',- up well and says 

 that hardwood stocks are getting so that there is considerable scrambling 

 for good lumber. 



The Freehold Lumber Company is doing a nice business and reports 

 prices good. Piobert Gannon of this company will make a trip among the 

 North Carolina and Virginia mills shortly. 



M. AV. Chapin and G. F. Wolcott of Jefferson, O.. will build a basket 

 factory there this summer to employ forty hands. It will have a pay roll 

 of about $300 per week. 



B. V. Hull, Charles Xorton and J. W. Root of Garrettsville. O.. have 

 sold the Garrettsville pail factory to H. W. Fobes & Son of Itock Creek, 

 O. The plant will be remodeled and used as a basket factory. 



Allegheny county and the city of Pittsburgb are having plans prepared 

 for an immense joint administration building on Grant street, for which 

 contracts will be let in the near future. The contract has already been 

 awarded for the Kaufmann-Baer Company's department store, twelve 

 stories high, and to cost $3,000,000. Contracts will be awarded within 

 a week or two for the Masonic Temple on Schenley farms to cost ?l,o00- 

 000. A syndicate of New Yorkers under the direction of M. B. Bates of 

 this city has secured options on an entire square of property at Fifth and 

 Wylie avenues and will build a twenty-story hotel there. Six or eight 

 school houses costing from S;i.">0.noo to $300,000 each are now in tli'^ 

 hands of architects for early letting. Other public building projects are 

 coming forward. These will call for a large amount of fine hardwood 

 lumber in the late summer and fall. 



-< BOSTON >= 



The yard and holdings of the Export Lumber Company. Mystic Wharf. 

 Charlestown, Mass., were destroyed by fire recently. This company lost 

 eight sheds, which were well stocked with lumber ready for shipment. 

 The office building was damaged also. The Export Lumber Company 

 does a very extensive business with South America. The company had 

 between 5,000.000 and 6,000,000 feet of Canadian white pine and southeri 

 cypress ready for shipment, which was destroyed. W. A. Taft is presi- 

 dent of the company. The loss is estimated at about $'2riO,000 on the 

 lumber and at least §10.000 on the buildings. 



The extensive lumber mill of the Berlin Mills Company, Berlin, N. II.. 

 has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at .$.j00,000. A 

 thousand men have been thrown out of employment. The plant was cov- 

 ered by insur.ance and will be rebuilt. 



The Rhode Island Lumber Dealers' Association will hold its annual mid- 

 summer outing on June 7 at the Pomham club, Narragansett Bay. 



The Longwell-Holbrook Lumber Company. Springfield, Mass., has be:^u 

 incorporated with a capital stock of -$50,000. The incorporators are 

 Floyd E. Longwell, Fred A. Holbrook, Edith S. Holbrook and Jcannie L. 

 Holbrook. 



The George J. Barker Lumber Company of Waltham, Mass., has pu;- 

 chased a tract of land adjoining its yard, which it will use for the future 

 development of its business. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



Robert McLean, a hardwood exporter, whose affairs were placed into 

 the bands of a receiver about six weeks ago. is in Scotland to attend tlie 

 funeral of his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Stewart McLean, who died there a 

 oouple of weeks ago. after a prolonged illness. 



R. '\V. S. Trader, one of the oldest men in the lumber business here, 

 died May 14 at the age of seventy-eight years. He had for some yean 

 occupied offices at 740 Eastern avenue, dealing in hardwoods and yellow 

 pine. 



The plant of the Clarksburg Lumber and Planing Mill Company a1 

 Clarksburg, \\'. Va., was completely wrecked by fire on May 12, with a 

 loss placed at $80,000. The cause of the blaze is unknown. 



On May 13 the factory of the Delmar Lumber Company at Havre De 

 Grace, Md., on the Susquehanna river, was laid in ruins b.v flames, with 

 a loss of about ,$15,000. The company went into the hands of receivers 

 several months ago and negotiations were in progress to reopen the fac- 

 tory under a new management. 



The steamer Templemore of the Johnston Line from Liverpool, which 

 arrived here May S. carried among other freight, 100 mahogany logs, 

 which had been shipped from Africa and transferred to the Baltimore 

 vessel at Liverpool. They were destined for Grand Rapids. Mich. Thi": 

 is one of the heaviest shipments of mahogany logs ever recorded in the 

 import trade at this port. 



Representatives of practically all of the railroads east of the Missis- 

 sippi river and agents of steamship lines are in session at Hot Springs. 

 Va., 10 discuss, among other things, the question of liabilitv for de- 

 murrage on cars held after a certain length of time. Tlie railroads taks 

 the view that they should be paid tor cars not unloaded within a rea- 

 sonable period, while the steamship companies have steadily refused to 

 meet this charge, although the responsibility for the delay really rested 

 upon them. Various ofuer transportation problems are to be taken up 

 at the conference, but the demurrage problem will be one of the most 

 important. It affects the exporters of lumber and logs especially through 

 the Gulf ports, the insistence of the railroads on the payment of de- 

 murrage having resulted in the refusal of steamship companies to grant 

 through bills of lading. The exporters are further inconvenienced and 

 embarrassed by the action of the railroads in simply putting an embargo 

 upon the movement of freight when the congestion at ports becomes too 

 great. The exporters here are deeply interested in the outcome of the Hot 

 Springs conference, taking the view that the matter of through bills of 

 lading must necessarily come up for adjustment in the near future. 



President R. E. Vi'ood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company and H. J. 

 Bowman, sales manager of the same corporation, have been at the new 

 mill of the company at Fontana. Swain county. X. C.. which was put in 

 operation about a month ago and has since turned out upwards of 

 1,000,000 feet of hardwoods. Mr. Bowman states that practically every 

 stick of this lumber is sold and that more could be disposed of if it 

 were available. The plant is now running regularly and the output is 

 somewhere around the actual capacity of the mill. G. L. Wood, gen- 

 eral manager of the compan.v. has been paying a visit to the company's 

 mill in West Virginia to see that everything is in good shape. 



=~< COLUMBUS >•- 



The J. J. Newman Lumber Company has opened an office in the new 

 First National Bank building, with E. H. Hammond in charge of central 

 Ohio territory. 



W. B. Sissons. sales manager of the Sowers-Leach Lumber Compan.v, 

 hps returned from a business trip in the South. He reports an improve- 

 ment in the hardwood trade. Prices are well maintained in every way. 

 Stocks at the mills are not very large. 



The Sowers-Leach Lumber Company has employed Charles W. H. 

 Needbam to cover northeastern and southeastern Ohio, with headquarters 

 at Columbus. 



Albert Franklinberg of the Brooke Lumber Company of Pataskala, O , 

 was a visitor among Columbus wholesalers recently. 



John R. Goliey of John R. Gobey & Co. says trade is improving. Prices 

 are steady and no weakness has appeared. Not much trouble with cars 

 is experienced at this time. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company has placed Frank Lehman, formerly 

 connected with the Jobson Lumber Company of this city in Buffalo ter- 

 ritory, to succeed W. L. Morely. 



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

 Ritter Lumber Company, says the hardwood trade is very active and 

 prices arc strong in every particular. He says there is a good demand, 

 both from manufacturing establishments and retailers. Dry stocks ar" 

 still scarce. No especial trouble is nott- experienced from a lack of car.s. 



Ray Lovell of the Reliance Lumber & Manufacturing Company has 

 returned from a business trip to Arkansas, Tennessee and other southern 

 states. 



The Urbana Lumber and Land Company of Urbana, O., has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 to deal in lumber and to 

 acquire land in Arkansas. The incorporators are W. W. Wilson, J. P 

 Xcer. C. E. Russell, W. B. Marvin and J. C. Thackery. 



The Sterling Lumber Company of Columbus, C, has been Incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $25,000 to deal in lumber and building materials. 

 The incorporators are M. C. Brandenburg. Harry T. Griffith. William 

 C. Critchell, M. C. Dillenbcrg and John H. Mahon. 



■< INDIANAPOLIS >• 



The name of the Harry Heimberger Veneering ilills. New Albany, has 

 been changed 1o the H. E. Ileimburger Veneer and Lumber Company. 



Notice has been tiled with the Indiana secretary of state that the 

 Capital Cooperage Company of Fort Wayne has increased its capitaliza 

 tion $25,000. 



The New Albany Veneering Company of New Albany has increased iN 

 capital stock $200,000, according to notice filed with the secretary of 

 state. 



A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the federal court 

 here by Calvin H. Shaiday, a sawmill operator of Ripley county, whose 

 liabilities are $4.C7S and assets $1,500. 



L'nder the United States government plan, the 2,500 lots in the new 

 Mars Hill industrial suburb have been distributed. Among those who 

 drew valuable corner lots were Thomas Madden .Son & Co., Dynes Lumber 

 Company and American Box Ball Compan.v. 



The Co-Operative Building Company and the Forest Building Compan.v 

 have been organized here and each have bought tracts of ground whe?e 

 they will build twenty-five modern frame bungalows. 



Manufacturers and shippers met here May 21 with representatives of 

 railway companies to discuss a petition filed by the railroads with the 



