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and Glrard. Pa., have bought a ehoico tract of 

 hardwood timber a few miles from Edinborough. 

 Pa., and will start to cut it off shortly. These 

 &mall tracts of hardwood in western Pennsyl- 

 vania are being sought out eagerly this winter, 

 as they are also in eastern Ohio, where even 

 the highly prized maple groves are being sacri- 

 ficed to greedy timber buyers. 



The special car of Pittsburg wholesalers who 

 went to Washington for the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' convention was a success, 

 judged by the number of Pittsburgers who were 

 named on the 1911 list of oflicers and directors 

 of the association. It was expected that Fred 

 R. Babcock would be elected president and 

 enough Pittsburgers went along with him to 

 make a healthy bunch of rooters. 



The Erie Railroad Company has announced 

 extensive improvements, including double track- 

 ing all of its line throughout most of Ohio and 

 also big additions to its facilities at Youngstown, 

 O., where it connects with the P. & L. E. Rail- 

 road. The latter road and also the Western 

 Maryland Railroad are having plans prepared 

 (or big terminals at Connellsville, Pa. The Penn- 

 sylvania and B. & O. lines have also decided 

 on a liberal policy of expenditure in Tri-State 

 territory this year for improvements, and alto- 

 gether the situation looks extremely favorable 

 for a large amount of lumber to be sold to these 

 roads for construction purposes. 



BOSTON 



Mr. Dudley, of the Dudley Lumber Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn., was a recent visitor in the 

 Boston market. 



The Woodman Lumber Company has recently 

 opened an office in the Old South building, Bos- 

 ton. The firm was incorporated a few weeks 

 ago. Mr. Woodman of the company is well- 

 known in the New England trade. 



The Springfield Manufacturing Company, 

 Springfield, Mass., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $20,000 to carry on a wood- 

 working business. The incorporators are Her- 

 bert D. Collins, Arthur G. Burbee and Stuart 

 M. Robson. 



James Stanton Kenyon, of the well-known 

 lumber firm of Burrows & Kenyon, Providence, 

 R. I., died at his home February 21, after a 

 short Illness. Mr. Kenyon was born in 1841 and 

 entered the lumber business as a boy. He was 

 admitted as a partner in the firm of Burrows 

 & Kenyon and became sole owner of this busi- 

 ness upon the death of Mr. Burrows. Besides 

 being prominent in the lumber trade Mr. Kenyon 

 was a member of the Providence Board of Trade, 

 the Rhode Island Business Men's Association, 

 vice-president of the Atlantic National Bank, and 

 a director of the Citizens' Savings Bank. He 

 was also prominent in Masonic circles. Two 

 daughters survive him. 



C. P. Chase, of the C. P. Chase Lumber Com- 

 pany, Springfield ; W. II. Sears and L. A. 

 Williston of Holyoke, and E. N. Bagg of Spring- 

 field were in Washington early iu the month, 

 attending the convention. 



John M. Woods and E. D. Walker, of John 

 M. Woods & Co., extensive hardwood dealers, 

 will sail on March 14 for Europe; where for 

 six weeks or more they will combine business 

 with pleasure. 



BALTIMORE 



The well-known hardwood firm of Richard P. 

 Baer & Co., Keyser building, this city, will be 

 represented in the Asheville (N. C.) section by 

 N. J. Warner, who has been with the firm for 

 five years. Mr. Warner will have charge of 

 the firm's inspectors in the territory looked after 

 by him, making his headquarters at Ashe- 

 ville and keeping in close touch with millmen 

 In western North Carolina and southwestern 

 Virginia. 



M. S. Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co. returned 



the latter part of last week from a trip to 

 West Virginia and the middle West. lie went as 

 ' far as Toledo and other cities in that section, 

 seeing many lumber dealers and consumers, and 

 the impression he brought back with him was 

 that business had undergone a decided improve- 

 ment. He said that most of the buyers were 

 disposed to place orders on a more liberal scale 

 and that a feeling of confidence prevailed in 

 the trade. 



The Lumber Exchange will take an active 

 part in the work of raising the .?100,000 guaran- 

 tee fund required to secure the national Demo- 

 cratic convention. Determined efforts will be 

 made to get the convention, the various trades 

 being asked to contribute in view of the great 

 benefits that are expected to accrue. 



Christopher Kelly, president of the Cumber- 

 land Lumber Company, banker and man of af- 

 fairs generally, died at Cumberland, Md., Febru- 

 ary 21, after an illness of just one week. He 

 was 84 years old and is survived by his wife, 

 a son, John R. Kelly, and four daughters. 



G. L. Wood, general manager of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company. Continental building, 

 left for Rift, W. Va., this week, where the com- 

 pany is building a logging road and making 

 oiher improvements to its plant. Already 

 eleven miles of the road, a narrow-gauge line, 

 is completed, and five miles more remain to 

 bo constructed. The equipment will be up to 

 date in every respect. The road is expected to 

 prove an important factor in the operations of 

 the company. 



F. L. Winchester of Cambridge Springs, Pa., 

 manager of the wood department of the Cham- 

 pion Fibre Company, was a local visitor last 

 week, being en route to Asheville, N. C. He is 

 mourning the death of his father, Francis Ward 

 Winchester, who died at the age of S3 years. 



The G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Apple- 

 ton, Wis., has been elected a member of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Exporters' Association, being 

 probabl.y the first concern in the Northwest to 

 become affiliated with the organization. 



A new lumber company for Baltimore is the 

 Furst Lumber Company, composed of Max Nus- 

 bauni and W. H. Grannis. The new company 

 will work in connection with Furst Broth- 

 ers & Co., manufacturers of picture frames, and 

 will do a wholesale as well as a yard business, 

 furnishing also the material needed for the 

 manufacture of picture frames. Mr. Nusbaum 

 is the general manager of Furst Brothers & Co., 

 and his associate has been for some years the 

 local representative of the W. M. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company of Columbus. O., and is well-known 

 in the trade. The office of the new company 

 will be at 38 Hopkins place. 



W. N. Cooper of the Asheville Lumber Com- 

 pany of Asheville, N. C, who attended the meet- 

 ing of the National Wholesale Luml)er Dealers' 

 Association at Washington, D. C, March 1 and 

 2, stopped over in Baltimore, visiting the of- 

 fice of Mann & Parker. 



CLEVELAND 



Robert H. Jenks of the Robert H. Jenks 

 Lumber Company, and one of Cleveland's 

 best known lumber dealers, died during the 

 past week after an illness of about four weeks' 

 duration. Mr. Jenks came to Cleveland at 

 the age of 16 years and soon became con- 

 nected with the lumber business. The first 

 firm he served with was the Woods, Perry 

 & Co., the name being changed later to the 

 Woods, Jenks & Co. In 1S93 the firm dis- 

 solved and Mr. Jenks then headed his own 

 firm, which has been one of the largest deal- 

 ers in hardwoods in this section. Besides the 

 R. H. Jenks Lumber Company the deceased 

 was interested in the Cleveland Land & Lum- 

 ber Company; the Conneaut Lumber Com- 

 pany; the Cuyahoga Lumber Company; the 

 Lake Erie Lumber Company; the Norris Lum- 



ber Company; the South Cleveland Lumber 

 Company; the Tremont Lumber Company of 

 Tremont. La., and the Tremont & Gulf rail- 

 road. Mr. Jenks is survived by his wife, two 

 daughters and three brothers. 



On March 7 the Commercial and Savings 

 bank of Detroit asked Federal Judge Killits 

 at Toledo to appoint a receiver tor the Rob- 

 ert H. Jenks Lumber Company. The action 

 was a purely friendly one and was taken to 

 protect stockholders and creditors alike as 

 Mr. Jenks had signed much outstanding paper 

 with his personal indorsement. Francis W. 

 Treadway was named receiver. It Is esti- 

 mated that the assets are a third greater than 

 the liabilities. The assets are close to $500,000. 



After a month's trip through Arkansas 

 W. H. Teare of Potter, Teare & Co., Is back 

 at his desk again. 



John Simon, a member of the firm of Simon 

 Brothers Lumber Company, has been ill for 

 some days but is now recovering. 



C. H. Prescott attended the meeting of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion at Washington during the past week. He 

 was a former president of the organization. 



George S. Gynn of the Willson Avenue Lum- 

 ber Company, who has been having a vacation 

 with his family in Florida, is back at his 

 duties here again, much improved in health. 



COLUMBUS 



The principal happening in lumber circles in 

 Columbus recently was the consolidation of the 

 Sowers-Leach Lumber Company, which has a 

 yard and office on Neilson street, and the B. A. 

 Leach Lumber Company, which has offices on the 

 tenth floor of the Columbus Savings & Trust 

 building. The B. A. Leach Lumber Company 

 was organized several months ago with a capital 

 of $35,000, all of which was paid in. B. A. 

 Leach was president, and associated with him 

 were Oscar A. Leach, a brother, and B. F. Kerr, 

 a furniture dealer. B. A. Leach was secretary 

 and treasurer of the Sowers-Leach Lumber Com- 

 pany and never took his interests from that con- 

 cern, although he was not actively connected 

 with it. Recently negotiations were carried to a 

 successful conclusion for a consolidation of the 

 two companies. The name will be the Sowers- 

 Leach Lumber Company and the B. A. Leach 

 Lumber Company will surrender its charter. John 

 K. Sowers will be president and B. A. Leach, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. The offices of the new con- 

 cern will be in the Columbus Savings and Trust 

 building. 



The M. Brown Company of Wapakoneta, O., 

 has amended its charter to permit it to manu- 

 facture and sell lumber and mill work in addi- 

 tion to making churns and other household 

 specialties. 



Charles C. Lakin, representing Look & Marlon 

 of Lincoln, Va., was a caller on the local trade 

 the first of the month. 



Wm. M. Ritter and J. W. Mayhew of the W. 

 M. Ritter Lumber Company loft for an extended 

 inspection trip of the mills of the company in 

 the South early in the month. 



J. W. Mayhew of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company. M. A. Hayward of M. A. Hayward & 

 Sons, and J. W. Taylor of the Domestic Lumber 

 Company attended the meeting of lumber sales- 

 men at Chicago the latter part of B'ebruary. 



E. B. Galloway of the Galloway & Pease Com- 

 pany, Johnson City, Tenn., was a caller upon 

 Columbus wholesalers recently. 



John M. Peel and Pearl Mcllroy of Marysvllle, 

 O.. have been added to the board of directors of 

 the Clear Creek Coal & Lumber Company, which 

 has headquarters in Columbus and which holds a 

 large timber tract near Isoline, Tenn. 



The L. A. Marshall Company of Cleveland, O., 

 has been chartered with a capital of $10,000 to 

 operate a saw and planing mill and to manufac- 

 ture lumber. The incorporators are L. A. Mar- 



