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HARDWOOD RECORD 



WooIIett of this company has recently secured 

 an output of gum and cottonwood from the com- 

 pany's mill in the Southwest which has a ca- 

 pacity of 12,000 feet a year. 



The A. M. Kinney Lumber Company has 

 doubled its office space in the Tarls building, 

 where it has been located several years. It 

 reports business fair and Its big contracting 

 orders Iseep the company busier than it would 

 like to be until oak rates are better. 



A. J. Breitwieser of the Breitwieser-Wilson 

 Lumber Company and other leading Pittsburg 

 lumbermen are talking of forming a lumbermen's 

 lunch club to meet several days a week at the 

 Nixon restaurant in Sixth avenue. It is be- 

 lieved that an attendance of at least fifty can 

 be secured. 



The Miller Table Company of West Farming- 

 ton, O., has decided to liquidate. M. W. Ham- 

 mon, R. P. Isant and S. C. Iddes of Warren, O., 

 have been named as a liquidating committee. 

 The company's assets are about .f;50,000 and its 

 liabilities $41,000. 



The Ifurnace Run Saw Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany is working tl>e furniture and manufactur- 

 ing trade very hard this mouth, one of its sales- 

 men being reported in Chicago and another in 

 New York City. General trade, according to 

 President Bell, is slow. The sash and door busi- 

 ness is opening up well and interior trim is in 

 great demand. 



The Palmer & Semans Lumber Company re- 

 ports a steady gain in orders over last year. 

 Sales Manager I. V. Balslcy spent a week at 

 Buffalo and Rochester recently and found things 

 there but little better than in the Pittsburg 

 district. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is selling its 

 full share of lumber from its old stand in the 

 Farmers Bank building. President George W. 

 Nicola believes that a gradual and healthy im- 

 provement will be manifested right along in the 

 lumber trade. 



The United Lumber Company of Uniontown, 

 Pa., has bought a big tract of timber near Bar- 

 ronsvale. Pa., and will shortiy establish a band 

 mill with a capacity of 50,000 feet a day. Its 

 dry-kilns will have a capacity of 5,000,000 feet. 

 The company will build a standard gauge road 

 along Laurel Hill creek to help out in its op- 

 erations. 



G. W. Dawson of Washington, Pa., and other 

 western Pennsylvania capitalists have bought 

 over 4,000 acres of timber land in Pender coun- 

 ty. North Carolina, which was owned by Will- 

 iam H. Hill of Marianua, Pa. A company 

 known as Scott's Hill Land & Development Com- 

 pany has heen formed to run the operation. 

 The officers are W. Marshall, president : AI Rob- 

 inson, secretary, and Joseph Lytic, treasurer, 

 all of Monongahela City, Pa. 



The contract has been awarded for the build- 

 ing of the Point bridge over the Allegheny river, 

 and plans are now being considered by the 

 county commissioners for the erection of an- 

 other bridge over the Ohio river at McKees 

 Uock.s, Pa. A third bridge is proposed over the 

 Monongahela river somewhere between Smith- 

 field and Tenth streets. These bridge jobs will 

 produce a big demand tor timbers and heavy 

 stock and in connection with the warehouse 

 improvements which will follow the recent free 

 ing of the Allegheny river bridges, offers much 

 encouragement to wliolesale lumber concerns 

 here. 



BOSTON 



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Charles E. White of the C. E. White Lumber 

 Compan.v. Hartford, Conn., with mills in Ten- 

 nessee, was a recent visitor in the Boston mar- 

 ket. 



Charles W. Leatherbee of tlie Leatherbee 

 Company, Boston, has returned from a southern 

 trip. 



H. M. Bickford of the H. M. Bickford Com- 

 pany, Boston, has recently returned from a 

 southern trip, 



George H. Davenport of the Davenport, P»ter 

 Company, Boston, has been spending a few 

 weeks at Hot Springs, Va. 



T. J. Christain of Maley & Wertz, Evansville, 

 Ind., was a recent visitor in Boston. 



Mr. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & Son, 

 dealers in cypress squares, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 has been calling upon the trade in this market. 

 The office building and lumber sheds being 

 erected in Attleboro, Mass., for C. A. Pullen & 

 Co. are nearly completed. A spur track from 

 the main tracks of the New York, New Haven 

 i^ Hartlord Railroad Company has been put in. 

 The Pullen compan.v was organized some time 

 ago. Mr. Pullen was formerly manager of the 

 W. J. Donnell Lumber Company at Perth 

 Amboy, N. J. 



The Bay State Moulding Company, Maiden, 

 Mass., has purchased a tract of land and a 

 large factory in that city. The company's busi- 

 ness has been growing rapidly and larger quar- 

 ters were needed. 



E. L. Hart of Greensboro, N. C, who was 

 formerly in the lumber business in that place 

 with his father, was a recent visitor in the 

 Boston market. 



BALTIMORE 



Fisher Sloan, a monaber of the lumber and 

 milling firm of Geo. F. Sloan & Brother, which 

 has been in business for many years on Light 

 street, was appointed a receiver on application 

 of George F. Sloan. The assets are said to be 

 far in excess of the liabilities, and the receiver- 

 ship is only limited to thirty days. The re- 

 ceivership, according to the common belief, is 

 designed to eliminate some complications in the - 

 business, and does not in any sense proceed from 

 financial embarrassments. The firm's operations 

 extend over a large part of the East, and it 

 ranks high in the trade. 



From Elkins, W. Va., comes information that 

 the Wilson Lumber Company has purchased from 

 the Logan estate, through C. H. Scott, 12,000 

 acres of timber land in the Mingo district of 

 Randolph county. The consideration is said to 

 have been not less than .|400,000. The Wilson 

 company has also absorbed the Keystone Manu- 

 facturing Company, and will continue to do busi- 

 ness under its old name. The capital stock has 

 been lixed at .$200,000. 



The quarterly meeting and dinner of the Bal- 

 timore T,\imber Exchange were held on the even- 

 ing of March G at the Merchants' Club. As 

 usual the business session preceded the enjoy- 

 ment of culinary delights. However, the busi- 

 ness transacted related merely to the disposal 

 of some changes in the long leaf pine inspection 

 rules proposed at a conference in Washington. 

 .\mong those present were Thos. M. Vansant 

 and II. McAuslan of the Morgan Mill Work Com- 

 pany ; Frank R. Ing of the W. Lewis Rowe Com- 

 I)any ; W. T. Lawton of .Toseph Thomas & Son : 

 George II. I'oelilman of L. A. Poehlman & Son : 

 .T. G. Creamer, chief inspector, and J. II. Manken. 

 the secretary of the exchange. First Vice-Presi- 

 dent Theodore Mottu presided, in the absence 

 of President John L. Alcock. 



Mr. Hoban, who has charge of the hardwood 

 department of R. K. Hartwell & Co., Keyser 

 building, has gone to Philadelphia to make his 

 headquarters there. He found that he could 

 cover the eastern territory better with Philadel- 

 phia as a central point, and expects to be able, 

 under the new arrangement, to get around more 

 frequently to the trade than before. 



R. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company, returned last week from a trip to 

 eastern Tennessee, where he went to look after 

 various improvements being made by the com- 

 pany. The company is extending its narrow 

 gange railroad from the operation at Rift, W. 



Va., and making other arrangements which will 

 facilitate operations. 



The Walbrook Mill & Lumber Company, which 

 went into the hands of a receiver some time ago. 

 has declared a dividend of 11 per cent, and it is 

 expected that the creditors will get 8 or 10 per 

 cent more. 



CLEVELAND 



Francis \V, Treadway, attorney, who was ap- 

 pointed a receiver for the Robert H. Jenks Lum- 

 ber Company of this city a few days ago fol- 

 lowing the death of Mr. Jenks, reports that he 

 hopes to be able to make a statement of the 

 company's affairs within the next week or two. 

 He is now fully in touch with the company's 

 affairs and is making out a statement to 

 creditors of the concern. While the investiga- 

 tion is under way the company is endeavoring 

 to fill all orders received up to the time of the 

 receivership. Mr. Treadway declares none of 

 the other companies in which Mr. Jenks was 

 interested are involved in the investigation. 



The Garford Company, manufacturers of auto- 

 mobiles, Elyria, O., has opened up a large auto- 

 mobile body factory and will be in the market 

 shortly for high-grade poplar for body making. 

 At the present time the company is advertising 

 for a number of hardwood finishers and workers. 

 The E'dgewater Lumber Company of Cleveland 

 is a new concern whicli was incorporated durinci' 

 the past week with a capital .stock of $25,000. 

 The incorporators are A. B. Teachout, 0. E. 

 Jackson, D. F. Hatch, L. J. Randall and J. A. 

 Tousley. 



The East Jordan Cooperage Company is an- 

 other new Cleveland ooncern which will use con- 

 siderable hardwoods. It has just been incor- 

 porated in Cleveland l^y A. P. Frackie, E. J. 

 Hagen, M. E. Doyle, C. L. Ballasch and M. Moore. 

 The company has .an authorized capital stock of 

 •f.jO,000 and will engage in the manufacture of 

 cooperage and other wooden iiroducts. 



A number of big lumber interests are pre- 

 paring to make exhibits at the Ideal Home Show 

 to be held in this city in May. The big south- 

 ern cypress interests will have a display of their 

 wares and several local hardwood concerns are 

 jirepa ring, interest ing exiiibits. 



E. H. Carleton of the Mills-Carleton Company 

 is back from a month's vacation in Cuba and 

 I'^lorida, where he enjoyed some fine fishing while 

 resting from business cares, 



W. L. McManus of Petosky, Mich., was !\ 

 visitor to Cleveland lumber offices during the 

 past week. 



The Lumber Club had another enjoyable enter- 

 tainment during the present week and the Enter- 

 tainment Committee is already preparing a 

 number of ontdooi' features for the coming sum- 

 mer. 



Building operations are now in full swing 

 and if the weather does not interrupt, there 

 promises to be a big movement of lumber in this 

 city in the next tw'O or three months. 



COLUMBUS 



The Simplex Window Company of Columbus. 

 O., was incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $250,000 to manufacture doors, windows, sash, 

 screens and frames. The incorporators are 

 George B. Donavin, S. S. Sargent, J. Harry 

 Zinn, Joseph Jl, Izer and David A. Watson. 



The Imperial Hoop Company of Bucyrus, O., 

 has resumed operations under the management 

 of J. J. Hewitt, who is superintendent and sec- 

 retary of a hoop company at Fort Wayne, Ind. 



The Dresden Lumber Company of Columbus. 

 O., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000. The incorporators are B. F. Rein- 

 nund, Jr., B. B. Reinnund. John H. Eagleson, 

 Joseph P. Eagleson and A. K. Overturf. 



