HARDWOOD RECORD 



Lumber Company, repoi'ts a steady business and 

 thinks the outlooli is favorable. 



Harry B. Tomb of tlic Toml) Lumber Company 

 states that the company is busy. Its mill at 

 Watoga, W. Va., is active and its new mill at 

 Xewville, Pa., is busy getting out stock. W. A. 

 Murray, vice-president and sales manager, re- 

 cently returned from a prolonged stay at Watoga 

 and is now spending a few weeks at the Ncwvillfe 

 plant. 



.Tohn W. Cob'S, one of Pliiladelpliia'.s progressive 

 hardwood men. tranquilly discusses present con- 

 ditions, lie bclii'ves that strict adherence to his 

 rule in busiuess, which is to give every man just 

 what ho orders and to live up to every promise, 

 has brought him much of his success in the 

 trade. He has recently made an excellent addi- 

 tion lo his selling siaff in the selection of T. A. 

 Updegraff. a veteran in the hardwood field, who 

 will take charge of eastern Pennsylvania and 

 New .Tersey. 



Tlie Mcllvains' Lumbei- News for February re 

 ceives its usual greeting of welcome. Besides 

 its convenient lull stock list, it contains valu- 

 able information on various sub.iects, and its 

 excerpts on tree lore are especially interesting. 



William C. Evans, foj- many years a lumber 

 dealer, died on February 10 near Lancaster, Pa 



The Eastern Wholesale Lumber Company, Har- 

 risburg, obtained a charter on February 4 under 

 Pennsylvania laws. It has a capital stock of 

 .•SIO.OOO. 



The Avella Lumber & Supply Company, Avella, 

 Pa., was incorporated February 10 with a capi- 

 tal stock of «10,000. 



The Old Colony Lumlier Company, Newark. N. 

 J., was incorporated Feliruary 1,5 with a capital 

 stock of SIOCOOO. 



PITTSBVRQ 



William Harvey Kuhu. a well-known box 

 manufacturer of Pittsburg, died at his East End 

 home February 10. For many years past he 

 had been engaged in the box manufacturing 

 I)nsiness at McKees Rocks, a .South Side suburli. 



The Pennsylvania Lumlior Company, whose 

 spli-ndid stocks of fine hardwood on the North 

 Side are bringing it some mighty good trade, 

 reports that inquiry from the furniture factories 

 is good but that planing mill men are a little 

 slow in getting into action. However, Manager 

 Hunter is well pleased with the outlook. 



Pittsburg fell back to fourteenth place in 

 building operations in January, whereas five or 

 ten years ago it ranked third or fourth for a 

 long time. The total for .lannary was only .$.594,- 

 000, being a gaiu of three per cent over Janu- 

 ary, loon. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company is cut- 

 ting about 80,000 feet a day at its mills in For- 

 est county, Pennsylvania, where it has enough 

 timber to keep it running nearly twenty years at 

 the present rale. President W. W. Dickey is so 

 well pleased with the general outlook that he 

 has recently enlarged the company's offices in 

 the House building. 



President Nehson Bell of the Furnace Uun Saw 

 Mill & Lumber Company reports business good 

 in some lines where salisfactory orders are given. 

 General business, however, is not rounding up as 

 it should at this time of the year, which he at- 

 tributes largely to the uncertainty about railroad 

 decisions and other government questions. 



The ritt.sl)urg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company is moving from the Curry 

 building to the Berger building at Fourth avenue 

 and Grant street, where it has much larger 

 offices. 



H. V. Curll. president of the II. V. Ciu-ll Lum- 

 ber Company, is feeling mighty .good this week 

 over the fact that a vein of ore has been found 

 on its 11,000 acres of timber land at Glenray, 

 W. Va. Assays have been made which showed 

 a silver valuation of .$1!).000 per ton, with a face 

 of gold. The owners are making arrangements 

 to develop the finding at once. 



A. M. Turner of the Allegheny Lumber Com- 

 pany is in the Northwest this week on a buying 

 I'.'cpedition. The company is getting a fair trade 

 for this season and looks for good business in 

 the spring. 



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

 ber Company, has been doing some good business 

 in ties lately and is also marketing a consider- 

 able amount of Cottonwood and cypress. 



The Palmer it Semans Lumber Company is 

 pushing its hardwood business with a vim and 

 expects much from its newly established office at 

 Philadelphia, which will look after all its east- 

 ern trade. Sales Manager I. ¥. Balsley made a 

 recent trip to Buffalo and brings back a little 

 better report of the condition of trade in that 

 state. 



BOSTON 



Mr. Douglas of the Douglas Lumber Company, 

 Memphis, Tenu., was a local visitor last week. 



Frank W. I^awrence of Lawrence & Wiggiu 

 and William E. Litchfield, hardwood lumber deal- 

 ers. Boston, have been appointed delegates from 

 the ilassachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association 

 to attend the convention of the National Whole- 

 sale Linul)er Dealers' Association to be held in 

 Washington March 1 and 2. Mr. Litchfield has 

 left on a trip to the mill of Litchfield Bros.. 

 Nortli Vernon, Ind., and will return by way of 

 Washington. 



Frank F. Fisli, secretary of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, with headquarters in 

 Chicago, spent several days in Boston early in 

 the month. 



At the annual meeting and banquet of the 

 Connecticut Lumber Dealers' Association, held 

 in Hartford, Conn., Februar.v S, resolutions were 

 adopted favoring the Canadian reciprocity bill. 

 The following were elected ofTieers : President, 

 Albert Schumaker, Waterbury ; vice-president, F. 

 O. Lines. Ansonia ; secretary and treasurer, 

 Louis A. Mansfield: directors. William B. Buck- 

 ley. Slamford : Harold W. Damon, New Britain; 

 A. li. Pluukey, Winsted, and Frank D. Barnes, 

 Southington. 



The Ide Lumber Company of Southbridge, 

 ^lass., has petitioned the superior court for dis- 

 solution. The company has ceased to do busi- 

 ness. 



The Conway Chair Company of Conway. N. H., 

 has leased its sawmill, electric lighting plant 

 and chair factory to the H. A. Quint Chair Com- 

 pany for a term of years. 



The Brockawa.T-Smith Corporation, dealers in 

 \^'indows, blinds, mantels, columns, mouldings 

 and finish, has been fitting up a lar.ge factory in 

 Charlestown, Mass., as its main storehouse and 

 tor the manufacture of windows. The company 

 has been manufacturing in Lynn, Mass. 



CLEVELAND 



There has been a slight lull in the lumber 

 market locally during the past week or two, 

 owing to the return of cold weather. Lumber- 

 men generall.v are wishing they were in the 

 southern resorts, as indeed a number of them 

 are. W. B. Martin of ihe Martin-Barriss Com- 

 pany is preparing to go South for a trip, lo bring 

 bis family back from Florida. Arch. G. IClumph 

 of the Cuyahoga Lumber Company is in Florida 

 where he went on the same mission. E. M. 

 Carleton of the iMills-Carleton Company is send- 

 ing home post cards from Florida, whei'e he is 

 l»usy catching big fish. George S. Gynn of the 

 Willson .V venue Lumber Company is in the South 

 with his family, and J. V. O'Brien of the South- 

 (in Lumber Company is making a business trip 

 through southern states. A. M. Allyn of the 

 Fisher & Wilson Company has just returned 

 from Florida, where iie spent several weeks. 



J. G. I,aird of Ashtabula was a visitor to local 

 luiul)er olliees a few days ago. 



E. G. Fisher of the Fisher & Wilson Company, 

 who returned from a trip to Soutli America 

 and Panama a lew days ago, made an inspection 

 of some of the vast forests of hardwoods in 

 South America and says they seem practically 

 inexhaustible. 



A number of big lumber firms are preparing 

 lo make exhibits at the Ideal Home Show to be 

 held at Central armory, this city, beginning May 

 27 and continuing for eight days. It will be a 

 great exposition of home building and furnishing 

 materials and is expected to attract unusual in- 

 terest among the building fraternity as well as 

 the ])ublic generally. 



Late in June a number of Cleveland lumber- 

 men and their families will accompany the Cleve- 

 land Builders' Exchange on its summer outing 

 to Washington, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, a 

 week being spent at the three places. 



Extensions in its yard and mill space are now 

 in progress at the plant of the Cleveland City 

 Lumber Company. The storage and office 

 capacity will be doubled and large quarters fur- 

 nixbed for Ihe storage of new stock. 



The Lake Shore Saw Mill & Lumber Company 

 expects to have the fill in front of its property 

 en Ihe lalie front completed by spring, when 

 considerable extra yard space will be afforded. 

 Robert II. .Tenks of the Robert II. Jenks Lum- 

 ber Company was confined to his home for a 

 fi'W da>s recently on account of a severe cold. 



COLUMBUS 



The Youngstown Lumber Company of ^Youngs- 

 towu. 0., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $.')0.000 to deal in lumber and builders' 

 matei'ial. The incorporators are : Tliomas B. 

 Van Alstine. .L B. Bert, Winfred Greenbowi-r. 

 M. ('. Kimmel and Charles Koonce, Jr. 



The Moi'i-ow Lumber Company of Morrow, 

 Warren county, 0.. has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of .?5.000 to deal in lumber. The 

 incorpoi-ators are : C. Hammond Avery, Nelson 

 B. Crammer, I. C. Smith. E. R. Donahue and 

 E. M. Worz. 



The Delphi Lumber Company of Cowen, W. 

 Va.. has established sales offices on the eleventh 

 fioor of the Brunson building. Columbus. The 

 company bandies hardwoods and white and .vel- 

 low ))ine. It operates four mills, three of which 

 are located at Cowen and one at Bellington, W 

 Va. William Rogers is genei-ai manager and 

 W. W. Hamrick sales manager. 



George Linhan, representing the American Col- 

 umn & Lumber Company of St. Albans, W. Va.. 

 was a visitor in Columbus recently. 



H. H. Gies.v of H. H. Giesy & Brothers re- 

 cently returned from a southern trip. 



H. M. Rowe of Powell & Rowe was in Dayton 

 on a business trip the middle of the month. 



11. D. Brasher returned recently fiom a busi- 

 uess trip to Saginaw, Mich. 



H. W. Putman, president of the General Lum- 

 her Company, has returned from Louisiana, 

 where he inspected a large timber tract. A syn- 

 dicate of Columbus men may invest in Louisiana 



II. C. Buskirk, sales manager of the General 

 Lumber Company, left the middle of the month 

 for the timber tract on the Big Sandy river in 

 Kentucky. The company succeeded in rafting 

 about 1,000 logs from the tract to the mill at 

 .\shlnnd. 



M. A. I-Iayward of M. A. Ilayward & Sou spent 

 i' week on a business trip in Detroit and Cleve- 

 land the middle of the month. H. M. Hayward 

 of the same company attended the meeting of 

 the ^lichigan Retail I.umbtu* Dealers' Association 

 at Bay City, Mich. 



W. M. Ritter, head of the concern bearing his 

 name, returned recently from a month's hunting 

 trip in South Carolina and Georgia. 



R. W. Horton. sales manager for the Central 

 division of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 left recently for a trip to Pittsburg. 



The usual monthly meeting of the sales man- 



