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HARDWOOD RECORD 



=-< PITTSBURGH y. 



The Aforu Liimbf-r I'omijany roports IjuttiT business in July than it 

 pxpected. H. W. Ilenningev of this company recently spent two weeks 

 in the Xorlhwcst Inlying stocli. 



The Pennsylvania State Forestry Department has received $1,264,000 

 to be spent this year and next year in its work. This is more than six 

 times what it was originally allowed in 1907 and 1908. 



Harry T. Holt, age forty-nine, of J. P. Holt & Co., Ohiopyle, Pa., died 

 July 15 at the Cottage Hospital in Connellsville, Pa., where an operation 

 was performed. He had been a lumberman in Ohiopyle for a quarter 

 of a century. 



The Foster L\imber Company has bought another tract of 200 acres 

 of hardwood in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and also a tract of w-hite oak 

 on the Western Allegheny railroad, which will produce about 500,000 

 feet. Both Iracts will be cut off at once. 



Frank Smith of C. E. Breitwieser & Co., has gotten some very nice 

 contracts from manufacturing concerns in the East. The company's 

 hardwood business is in splendid shape. 



A. D. Knapp of the Xlcola Lumber Company has been among the 

 southern plants of the company the past two weeks hurrying up ship- 

 ments. He reports the mills all busy and prices in hardwood pretty 

 firm. 



President Kex Flinn of the Duquesnc Lumber Company has returned 

 from a short stay at its big plant at Braemer, Tenn., where a splendid 

 cut of hardwood lumber is being made. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company is booking some nice orders for 

 chestnut for use by the glass companies during their next fire. The 

 Allegheny business the past three months has been exceptionally good. 



The Pittsb-.irgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association has adjourned 

 its regular weekly meetlnss until September. 



=-< BALTIMORE >-= 



Joseph B. Dunn & Sons, who purchased the plant of the Charles J. F. 

 Steiner Mantel Company; which went into the hands of receivers some 

 months ago, have incorporated the Maryland Mantel and Manutaeturitfg 

 Company to carry on the business. The new corporation has a capital 

 stock of .f25.000, wi(h Joseph B. Dunn, James J. McGrath, James P. 

 Dunn, Charles C. Sebeidt and Joseph C. Dunn as incorporators. 



Among thi' visiting lumbermen here within the past two weeks were 

 V. L. Hammond of the Laurel River Logging Company of Staekhouse, 

 N. C. ; Robert Frazer ut K. K. Frazer, Lemoyne, Pa., and G. C. Buck- 

 holder of the J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company, Philadelphia. All stated 

 that the hardwood business was keeping up fairly well, and that at least 

 as far as quantity was concerned there was little cause for complaint. 



=-< COLUMBUS >-= 



The report of the city building insiicctor for the month of June and 

 also for the first six months of 1913 Is very encouraging to the lumber 

 trade. During the mouth of June the department issued 373 permits 

 having a valuation of |567,791 as compared with 252 permits and a 

 valuation of .$579,110 in June of 1912. Since the first of the year the 

 department has issued 2543 permits having a valuation of $2,090,000 

 as compared with 1401 permits and a valuation of .$2,601,000 for the 

 corresponding period in 1912. 



W. .M. Kilter, head of the concern bearing his name, sailed July 17 for 

 his annual inspection trip of the branches of the Hitter company at 

 Liverpool and London, England. He will also visit the continent. 



Roy Lovell of the Reliance Lumber Company has returned from a 

 business trip through the hardwood section of West Virginia. 



Ernest M. Kenna of 55 Hoffman avenue, Columbus, formerly a lumber 

 dealer in England, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in the 

 federal court at Columbus. He gives his liabilities as $72,448.14 and 

 his assets at $1,910. The heaviest creditor is the Edward B. Kenna Com- 

 liany of England, which he ow^s $:il,000. The Stratford Ship Company 

 of Glasgow is a creditor to the amount of $22,000. 



nie recently organized Jobbers' and Manufacturers' Association of 

 Columbus has refused to merge with the reorganized Columbus Chamber 

 of Commerce and will maintain a separate organization for the purpose 

 of boosting Columbus-made goods. 



The sawmill belonging to Howard Wilson at South Bazetta, O. was 

 destroyed by fire recently causing a total loss. 



The American Box company of Cleveland, O., manufacturer of packing 

 cases, is looking for a site at Fremont, O., upon which to erect a large 

 plant. 



Edward J. Goulet, a well-known lumber dealer of Toledo, C, died at 

 his late home at that city recently at the age of sixty-eight years. He 

 leaves a wife and three children. 



The Crcstview Lumber Company of Columbus has been lncori<orated 

 with a capital of $10,000 to deal in lumber in a suburb of Columbus. 

 The Incorporator.s are William B. Norton, J. Ridley Smith, Jennie B. 

 Smith, Mary J. Norton and Russell D. Smith. 



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

 Rltter Lumber Company reports a good demand for all grades and vari- 

 eties of hardwoods. He says both factories and yards are good buyers 



since the mid-year inventories are completed. All grades are moving 

 fairly well and there is no accumulation of stocks in any place. Ship- 

 ments are coming out promptly. 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager of John R. Gobey & Co. says trade in 

 hardwoods is holding up well under the circumstances with bright pros- 

 pects for the future. 



F. Everson Powell of the Powell Lumber Company reports a fairly 

 good demand for all grades and kinds of hardwoods with prices well 

 maintained. 



=■< TOLEDO y 



W. S. Bootli, head of the Booth Column Company, reports a good line 

 of business, orders coming heaviest from Massachusetts and other eastern 

 points. There are no specially large orders but the volume of smaller 

 business is lieavy. Both interior and exterior columns are in good 

 demand for residence work. The factory is running full time and at 

 full capacity in an effort to keep up with orders. Some trouble is 

 being experienced in securing sufficient labor to meet the requirements. 



Edward C. Frank, president of the Frank-Clapp Furniture Company, 

 recently left for Chicago and Grand Rapids to attend the furniture ex- 

 positions. 



Edward J. Goulet of Goulet & Co., prominent lumber dealers and man- 

 ufacturers, died recently at St. Vincent's hospital from pleurisy. He 

 leaves a wife and three children, three brothers and two sisters. 



The Toledo Bending CoEupany reports a slight cessation in the extraor- 

 dinary demand which has been flooding the office. This allows the fac- 

 tory to catch up on its orders which have been far behind. Stock Is 

 reported as coming in well. "Prices are still holding up on the raw 

 material we buy," said the manager of the concern. "We haven't profited 

 any by the talked-of drop in prices. However we have to have only the 

 best of good dry stocks, which probably accounts for the prices we are 

 compelled to pay." 



The Toledo Carriage Woodwork Company reports a good line of orders 

 with the factory runnin-j at full capacity to turn them out. 



■< INDIANAPOLIS >=— 



H. B. Burnet of the Burnet-Lewis Lumlx-r Company and Mrs. Burnet 

 are spending several weeks in the mountains of Virginia. 



William C. Goble. Nashville, has been appointed to the state forestry 

 board by Governor Ralston to succeed W. W. Waltman, who died re- 

 cently. 



The Dodge Manufacturing Company of Mishawaka has opened a local 

 sales branch at 1512 Merchants Bank building, with IMwin M. Carver 

 as branch manager. 



With an authorized capitalization of $15,00ii. the Hardwood Lumber 

 Company has been organized and incorporati'd at Wabash and will con- 

 duct a hardwood lumber business. Those Interested in the company are 

 S. A. Carr, W. C. Bright and J. I. Robertson. 



A joint committee is working out plans for the consolidation of the 

 Indiana Manufacturers' and Shippers' Bureau and the Indiana Manu- 

 facturers' Bureau. The interests of the associations are so similar it is 

 deemed best to merge them. 



A large veneer mill will be established in Arkansas by the Roberts & 

 Conner Comjiany of New Albany, which has recently acquired a large 

 tract of timber in Arkansas. The equipment for the new mill is being 

 bought and installed by J. W. Conner of the company. 



Within the next month, all hardwood lumlter c'oncerns employing five 

 or more people will have to make an extensive report to the state in- 

 spection department, accompanied 'oy a tec of from $1 to $10 according 

 to the number of employes. The report is reciuired under a law passed 

 a few months ago and must include a report of the number of male 

 and female employes, their compensation and hours of employment. 

 There must be a similar report relative to ibildren from fourteen to 

 sixteen years old employed. 



Striking employes of local planing mills have agreed to drop their 

 contention for a closed shop at present, if the employers will grant a 

 minimum wage scale of thirty-five cents an hour and a nine-hour day. 

 The strike began May 1. The employers have recently appointed a 

 committee to negotiate with the strikers. 



=■< MEMPHIS >= 



The Tennessee Hoop Company has begun the removal of its machinery 

 from the old elm coil hoop plant to the new plant recently erected by the 

 company for the manufacture of hoops, heading and staves in North 

 Memphis. Heretofore it has confined its attention altogether to the 

 manufacture of hoops but it is now equipped to manufacture all the 

 essentials of the slack barrel. The company increased its capital stock 

 from $25,000 to $100,000 some months ago to provide funds for financ- 

 ing its larger operations. The new plant Is locat<>d high and dry so 

 that there will be no interference from high water in Mississippi and 

 Wolf rivers. This represents a distinct advantage over the old location. 



The box manufacturing plants here are working on pretty full time 

 and. while there is not a great deal of new business coming in, there 

 is enough already on the books to keep local plants going at something 

 like full capacity in the immediate future. One of the largest firms en- 

 gaged in this line reports all of Its plants here, at VIcksburg, Miss., 



