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near Preston, W. Va. It is estimated tliat tlie tract will cut 15,000.000 

 feet and it is understood that an operation will be started in the near 

 future. President .T. L. Kendall made a trip of inspection latel.v over the 

 company's property near Ice's Ferry, Pa. The company will start work at 

 once cutting out a large amount of big timber for railroad concerns. 



Charles E, Ruhl. Ernest Watson and other.s of Wilmont. Pa., have bought 

 the Geyer tract of about 1,300 acres of timber near Franklin county, 

 Pennsylvania. A big sawmill will be built near Shippensburg. Pa., and it 

 is expected that the lumber, some eight million feet in all, will bo shipped 

 from that place. 



The Germain Company reports things slowing down a little, especially in 

 the coastwise trade. Demand there has been very light the past two 

 weeks. C. W. Cantrell, manager of the Philadelphia office, was a recent 

 visitor in Pittsburgh. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has been very busy the past month 

 getting out and unloading at Joppa, 111., three barges of gum and cotton- 

 wood. President J. N. Woolett is going after business harder than ever 

 this month and has added J. F. Dtley, a well-known machinery man of 

 this city, to bis force of salesmen. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is doing a fine business in hardwood this 

 year and President H. F. Durahoff is not losing any sleep worrying over 

 the situation. His trade with the manufacturing and industrial con- 

 cerns has been strictly first-class. , 



The Duquesne Lumber Company is now having cut for it by the Pitts- 

 burgh Lumber Company 100,000 feet a day at the big operation at Brae- 

 mar, Tenn. A large part of this is hardwood. On a recent trip through 

 the eastern markets. Sales Manager G. C. Adams disposed of a big lot of 

 hardwood at a nice figure. 



The Pittsburgh 'O'holesale Lumber Dealers' Association is now holding 

 its weekly luncheons on Tuesdays at the Duquesne Club. This associa- 

 tion, with the Pittsburgh retailers, will enjoy the regular annual picnic 

 at Elwyn Park on the Charleroi car line on June 21. 



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The Westerly Lumber Company, Westerly, R. I., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $50,000. The incorporators are Charles P. Ec- 

 cleston, Frank Hill and Joseph Lenihan. 



George H. Snow, a well known lumber salesman connected with the 

 Ely Lumber Company, died at his home in Holyoke, Mass., late in May, 

 at the age of seventy years. He has been a salesman for this company 

 for the past twenty years. 



C. L. Goodwin & Co., Inc., Worcester, Mass., has been organized with a 

 capital stock of $3,000 for the purpose of carrying on a wood-working 

 business. The incorporators are Alfred S. Goodwin, Elizabeth Goodwin 

 and Elliot C. Goodwin. 



The preliminary certificate of dissolution of the Stiles Lumber Company 

 of New Haven, Conn., has been filed with the secretary of state of 

 Connecticut. 



The Rockland Planing Mill Company, Rockland, Ale., has recently been 

 organized by Everett Spear, Edwin H. Maxcy and Fred K. Clark, all of 

 Rockland. The new company has a capital stock of $10,000. 



The woodworking mill of H. E. Burill, Contoocook, N. H., has been 

 damaged by fire. The loss to building, machinery and stock is estimated 

 at about $7,000. 



A large tract of hardwood timberland in Bennington County, Vermont, 

 has been sold by the owner, Livingston Cushjng, of Boston, to the New 

 England Hardwood Company, whose headquarters are in Wilmington, 

 Vt. The sale provides that the new owner shall have twenty-flve years 

 in which to cut off the lumber. A year or so ago this company purchased 

 another large hardwood timber acreage from the Deerfleld Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Somerset Land Company. The latter properties are close by 

 the company's latest purchase. 



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The plant of the Charles J. F. Steiner Mantel Company at Monument 

 and Eleventh streets, Highlandtown, in the eastern suburbs, was sold 

 at public auction on May 22 to Joseph B. Dunn & Son for $25,000. 

 The company went into the hands of receivers some months ago. The 

 purchasers have been in the business of manufacturing marble and slate 

 mantels for years and will add the manufacture of wooden mantels to 

 their activities. 



Hugh L. Leary of C. Leary & Co., the well-known London lumber and 

 timber firm, stopped in Baltimore two weeks ago for three days on his 

 way to New York to take the steamer for home and was entertained 

 here by Richard P. Baer & Co., and John L. Alcock & Co. Mr. Leary 

 has been in the United States since last December, looking after various 

 business matters for his firm. He also undertook to interest American 

 dealers in a species of white pine manufactured in Siberia. Mr. Leary 

 showed a sample of the wood, which looks somewhat like California 

 white pine and has a fine grain. He conferred among others with George 

 F. M. Hauck of Thos. J. Shryock & Co., on the subject of the Siberian 

 wood. 



L. A. Poehlman & Sons. 942 Frederick avenue, yardmen, have installed 

 a most interesting exhibit of doors and other millwork at their place. 

 Doors are shown in many styles and of all prices, while different kinds 

 of hardwood finish in construction work are also to be seen, the collection 

 making a most instructive display. 



Mrs. Rosella Berger and Miss Bertie Berger, wife and daughter of 

 William S. Berger, a retired lumber operator of West Virginia, who now 

 lives in Cumberland, Md., were killed recently when their auto skidded at 

 the Narrows, just west of Cumberland, and ran into a telegraph pole. 

 Mr. Berger and another daughter were thrown out of the vehicle and 

 injured. 



The Baltimore lumber trade has lost another old member by the death of 

 George N. C. Sack, founder of the firm of George Sack & Sons, lumber 

 dealers at Lauraville, in the northeastern suburbs, who passed away on 

 May 24. Mr. Sack was seventy-nine years old and came to the United 

 States in 1854, working for a time as a cabinet maker and then drifting 

 into the lumber trade, in which he was very successful. For some years 

 he had not been active. 



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The Whitacre Lumber Company, which formerly had offices at 451 West 

 Broad street, has moved its offices to rooms 521 and 522 Columbus 

 Savings and Trust building. The cpmpany's wholesale yard on Mc- 

 Dowell street is also being closed out. The former offices of the company 

 are now occupied by the Doddington Company, lumber dealer and mill 

 worker. 



The Mittenford Box Company of Ironton, O., has closed a deal for the 

 purchase of the buildings and grounds formerly occupied by the Disk 

 Plow Company on South Third street. The company will remodel the 

 plant and install new machinery for the manufacture of boxes. 



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

 reports a fair demand for all hardwoods with prices well maintained in 

 every particular. 



F. Everson Powell of the Powell Lumber Company says trade is a 

 little quiet, although no great weakness in hardwoods has appeared as 

 yet. 



At McConnellsville and other towns in the Muskingum valley, "building 

 bees" have become the rule. This is done to replace the dwellings 

 destroyed by the recent flood. The Red Cross furnishes the lumber, and 

 neighbors for miles around come in and erect the dwelling. 



Mrs. Mary A. Bachtel, aged seventy-eight, mother of O. H. Bachtel 

 and L. M. Bachtel of the Bachtel Lumber Company, Canton, O., died 

 recentl.v at her late residence, 304 Blaine street, from a complication of 

 diseases. 



The business men of Springfield, O. have raised a fund of $100,000 to 

 be used in attracting manufacturing establishments to that city. The 

 money will be expended under the auspices of the Industrial Bureau which 

 was instrumental in raising tlie amount. 



Committees have been formed by the Columbus Builders' and Traders' 

 Exchange and the Columbus Society of Architects for the preparation of 

 forms of specifications and methods of awarding contracts In the future. 

 A number of other questions of interest to both organizations will be 

 taken up. 



The N. A. Curtis Manufacturing Company of Columbus has been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $15,000 for the purpose of erecting a 

 plant for the manufacture of show cases, carpet sweepers and like articles. 

 The incorporators are N. A. Curtis, M. E. Swanson, C. R. Millikcn. E. W. 

 Martendale and L. M. Seiller. 



Reports from the offices of architects and contractors of this city show 

 that residence building in Columbus has entered upon a season of 

 record activity. Contracts have been awarded for a large number of 

 residences of all kinds, but there is yet much work to award, .\partment 

 houses and flat buildings are becoming more popular than ever. 



John R. Gobey of John R. Gobey & Co.. says there is a good demand 

 for hardwoods all along the line. Prices have not shown any weakness 

 and firmness is the rule. 



W. W. Reilley of the firm of W. W. Reilley & Bro.. Buffalo. N. Y., was a 

 visitor among Columbus wholesalers recently. 



D. L. Webb of Portsmouth, O., is considering the question of erecting 

 a modern planing mill. His concern recently sold its plant to the 

 Excelsior Shoe Company and in turn took over the plant of the Williams 

 Lumber Company which has proven inadequate to the needs of the Webb 

 Company. A site of five acres has been optioned and the deal will 

 probably be closed soon. 



The Celina Furniture Company of Celina, O.. has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000 by Alfred Querinjean and others. 



The Schweickart Lumber Company at Ironton, O.. has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $15,000 to deal in lumber. The incorporators are 

 L. W. Ault, W. L. Schweickart, Edward Kuriz, Millard -Adams, John 

 Hortel, J. L. Brothers and C. W. Disterdick. 



F. B. Pryor of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 steady demand for all grades and varieties of hardwoods. Prices are 

 ruling firm and there is no inclination to weaken in any quarter. Dry 

 stocks are not very large. Shipments are coming out fairly promptly. 

 Mr. Pryor has Just returned from a business trip to Toronto and other 

 Canadian points. 



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Manager Roberts of the Big Four Hardwood Company is spending a 

 few da.vs in New York City. This concern reports business good especially 

 in its piano case industry. 



