HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Delawaro laws oq October 26: capKal $10,- 

 000,000. 



The Norwich Lumber Comp:i!i.v, Ilai-risbun;, 

 Pa., was chartered under PenDs.vlvania laws on 

 October 27, with a capital stoclf of .$.'i,000. 



The regular monthly meetin;; of the liUniher- 

 mcn's Exchange of Philadelphia was held on 

 November 3, with Franklin A. Smith. .Tr.. presi- 

 dent, in the chair. The usual luncheon was 

 served and a goodly number of members were 

 present. No business except current matters was 

 transacted. 



PITTSBURQ 



The C. F. Caughey Lumber I'onipau.v has 

 bought a tract of 900 acres of hardwood timber 

 In Centre county, Pennsylvania, and will at once 

 put in a mill to cut oft the timber into poles, 

 ties and mining stocli. Several hundred lar.s of 

 lumber will l>e shipped from its plant duriuy: the 

 coining year. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is growing right 

 along, as its name would indicate. President 

 Harry P. Domhoff has put another salesman on 

 the road and now has all the ofBce work ho can 

 attend to. 



The State Forestry Department has just about 

 completed setting out 175.000 young trees from 

 the state nursery at Mont Alto, Pa. The trees 

 were taken from Perry. Huntingdon, Potter. 

 Clinton, Centre and Union counties, and are 

 white and red ash, white and red oak. chestnut. 

 sugar maple and walnut. 



The J. W. Willis Lumber Company of Wash- 

 ington Court House, Ohio, is shipping a large 

 quantity of fine walnut timber to Hamburg. Gei'- 

 many. Last month it loaded 111 logs, measur- 

 ing from IS to 40 inches in diameter. They 

 were the selects taken from hundreds of walnut 

 logs shipped to this point from all parts of 

 southeastern and southern Ohio. 



The J. C. Donges Lumber Company has se- 

 cured the output of another plant on the South- 

 ern Railroad at Amelia. Va. Mr. Donges reports 

 prices stiff and the general demaud improving. 

 The plant of the Jacob Haney Stair Company, 

 on Lincoln avenue. East End, was burned October 

 28 with a loss of $.30,000. The firm carried 

 about $14,000 insurance and will probably re- 

 build. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aljerdeen Lum- 

 ber Company, recently made a trip through 

 Louisiana, Arkansas and otlior southern states. 

 He bought a consid'-rable quantity of gum and 

 Cottonwood, and finds it easier to deal with mill 

 owners than a few weeks ago. 



The Willson Bros. Lumber Company reports a 

 good trade and plenty of business, but too much 

 competition of the wrong sort. They say that 

 continued efforts are being made to keep down 

 prices by concerns that might .iust as well get 

 full list quotations if they would practice a little 

 nerve. 



The Breitwieser & Wilson Lumber Company 

 had the best month of the year in October. Its 

 hardwood business is developing rapidly, and 

 W. W. Wilson, ,7i*., Ijelieves that winter trade 

 will be good. 



John W. Russell and Elmer Williams of In- 

 diana, Pa., have bought the Ii. 1". Itinn timber 

 holdings near Lewisville. Pa., consisting of 50.- 

 000 feet of oak timber. The tract is one of the 

 best in that part of the state and a mill will 

 be put in shortly to cut it off. 



The I>inehan Lumber Company reports a bet- 

 ter business among the hardwood manufacturers, 

 who seem to bo realizing that tlieir stocks will 

 not last forever and that prices are not going 

 to be any lower. J. J. Linehan was down l^ast 

 last week looking up business. 



Manager E. II. Shreiner of the Goodwin Lum- 

 ber Company reports a good trade for Octol)er 

 in both hardwood and white pine. The com- 

 pany's mill at Bluejay, W. Va.. is cutting 7."), 000 

 feet a day, and If cars were not so scarce com- 

 plaints would he few. 



The Palmer & Si-mans Lumber Company gives 

 a good report for October. Its mills are all busy. 

 Sales Manager I. F. P.aisley made a recent Hy- 

 ing trip to Buffalo and reports conditions In 

 general better. 



BALTIMORE 



Robert McLean, general mnnager of the .Norva 

 Land & Lumber Company, slates that his com- 

 pany's mill is running full time and that the 

 demand is fairly good, though no special activity 

 is to be noted. Little change is shown in 

 prices in the domestic market. An increased 

 interest, however, is noted among the foreign 

 btiyers, who send in frequent inquiries. Stocks 

 on the other side of tlie Atlantic have bcM-n still 

 further reduced, and the movement might be 

 expected to quicken decidedly but for the high 

 prices which the exporters must pay for lum- 

 ber. Naturally, the price to the foreign buyer 

 must be put up correspondingly, and this tends 

 to check the movement at least temporarily. 

 There is again much competition among export- 

 ers for suitable lumber, and the grades desired 

 ale commanding advanced figures. 



Morley Wat kins, branch manager for the 

 well-known lumber and log importing firm of 

 Colibett & Co. of London and Liverpool, was a 

 visitor here two weeks ago, calling on several 

 of the hardwood firms. He was on a tour of 

 the United States, having come from New York 

 and Philadelphia. 



The Western Maryland Railroad Company, 

 which is building an extension from Cumberland 

 to Pittsburg, has just awarded a contract for 

 250,000 cross ties. Deliveries are to begin at 

 once and it is thought that the last of the 

 contract will be filled by next April. The grad- 

 ing for the greater part of the way is completed. 



Charles I. James, who is largely interested 

 in the Pigeon River Lumber Company, at Crest 

 Mont, N. C, is on another visit to the plant 

 to see how operations are progressing. The mill 

 is reported to be running full time and the 

 company states that stocks are being moved 

 ,as fast as they are turned out. 



Clarence Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company of this city, who got a black eye and 

 was bruised and badly shaken up several weeks 

 ago in an accident on the Murphy branch of 

 the Southern Railway, has fully recovered and 

 left on another trip in the interest of the firm 

 last week. 



I'lans have been completed for the recon- 

 struction of the box factory of Becker Bros. & 

 Son, at Frederick and Lexington streets, which 

 was almost entirely destroyed by fire In Sep- 

 tember. The plans provide for a structure with 

 a front of 170 feet and equipped with the most 

 modern facilities. The cost of the new plant 

 is estimated at $100,000. 



CLEVELAND 



Business with the lumbermen in this terri- 

 tory is reflected in the heavy volume of build- 

 ing permits which are iieing issued for opera- 

 tions here. Records to date for this year eclipse 

 all former years and indications point to tlie 

 fact that the year will be the largest in the 

 history of the city. A satisfactory feature is 

 that the heaviest business seems to he in the 

 erection of residences, the large majority of 

 which are of timber construction throughout, 

 requiring large amounts of hardwood trim and 

 flooring in addition to the usual lumber bills. 



Members of the new social organization whicli 

 was first called the Saw Log Club, have deter- 

 mined to rename it the Lumber Club. Arrange- 

 ments have been made for a series of meetings 

 to be held during the winter. The first took 

 place on November 8, when returns were re- 

 ceived from county and state elections and an 

 enjoyable social session held. 



The Clark County Lumber Company of Spring- 



field. O.. has been incorporated l)y Peter Kunt:r 

 and otliers with a capital of $10,000. It is 

 understood that it is just one of a string of 

 such companies in different Ohio towns which 

 are controlled by Mr. Kuntz and his associates. 



Dealers in many parts of the state who 

 have let their hardwood stocks run low are 

 busy replenishing them, according to F. T. 

 I'eitch of the F. T. Peilch Company, who says 

 that a large number of orders have come to 

 his firm during the past month from small 

 dealers throughout the rural districts. 



The recently incorporated Cray Lumber Com 

 pany reports a good line of fall business In 

 Cleveland, particularly in the hardwood line. 



The yard of the C. II. Foote Lumber Com- 

 pany of Cleveland, which is loi-ated at Somer- 

 set. Ky.. has been recently receiving some ex- 

 ceptionally fine hardwood stock. C. H. Foote 

 says that the middle grades of poplar and oak 

 are moving unusually well for this season of 

 the year. The call for high-grade chestnut 

 and other lines of hardwoods is also firmer 

 ihnn for some time. 



C. i:. Duggan. well-known representative of 

 Jackson & Tindle. hardwood manufacturers of 

 liulTalo and Detroit, was a caller on the Cleve- 

 laml trade this week. 



C. W. Manning, wholesaler in hardwoods, 

 dropped off in Cleveland while on his way from 

 New York to Chicago and paid his respects to 

 some of tile local dealers. 



Max .Myers and A. L. Stone of the Nicola, 

 Stone & Myers Co. are back from a three weeks' 

 absence in southern stales, where they visited 

 several hardwood and cypress plants near New 

 Orleans. 



COLUMBUS 



The Valley Furniture Company of Marietta, 

 I)., was incorporated witli an authorized capital 

 of $40,000 to operate a furniture factory and 

 to make wooden articles. (Jeorge P. and Jacob 

 Reelman, Joseph P. and Asa E. Ward and Reman 

 A. Plummer are the incorporators. 



The Scioto Box Company of Columbus, O., was 

 incorporated with a capital of $20,000 by John 

 A. Ford. G. S. Ferguson, M. A. Church, John K. 

 Kennedy and L. F. Safer to manufacture and 

 sell boxes, crates, cases and flies. 



The McKenzie Lumber Company of Delaware, 

 ().. has leased the land upon which the Hale 

 Handle Factory at Ashley, O., is located, and the 

 Delaware concern will erect a mill and operate 

 a lumiier yard. The machinery for the new mill 

 is now being removed to the new site. E. Cryder 

 will be general manager of the operation. 



Statistics collected from Ohio. West Virginia 

 and western I'ennsylvania for the week ending 

 (ictober 26, show that contracts were awarded 

 amounting to .$0'.I9,000, as compared with 

 $1,142,000 for the corresponding week in ItlOO. 

 Since January 1 contracts awarded in the three 

 slates total $n3..')l 4.000. 



11. W. Putnam, president of the General Lum- 

 lier Company, reports an improved demand from 

 factories, making hardwoods stifTer in this 

 V1-. inity. He says that furniture, impiement and 

 \c.n(le factories generally are buying more lib- 

 (■rally and that prices are firm. The General 

 l.nmlier Company is busy at its limber tract on 

 the Big Sandy river in Kentucky, but its mill at 

 .\shland. Ky.. is idle because no logs are avail- 

 abb-. 



R. W. Morton, .sales manager of the central 

 division for the W. M. Rltter Lumber Company, 

 reports a good demand for all varities of hard- 

 woe (is. One of the features of the trade is an 

 advance which was announced recenllv In tlie 

 lower grades of plain oak. The yard traJe Is 

 L-ood and the same is true of llie demand from 

 manufacturing establishments. Mr. Horton ex- 

 pects a continuation of the good trade for the 

 remainder of the year. 



The B. A. Leach Lumlji'r Company, which re- 



