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HARDWOOD RECORD 



burg concerns, tbey are hampered considerably 

 hy the shortage of cars In West Virginia. 



Vice I'rcsldent J. X. Woolett ot the American 

 I.unilim' & MnniifniturlnK Cnmpiiny hn« taken 

 lo the Smith nunln and Is said In lip after bin 

 Kame this trip, lie n'liirip'il nnly a .short time 

 ago frttin a lonn trip throii>fh The Southeast, 

 where he clinched the American's hold upon the 

 collonwood trade liy maklnt; some more large 

 purchases of stock. The entire hardwood force 

 of the American Is busier than It has been for 

 some time and the prices that are being re- 

 ceived for good lumber are satisfactory. 



A. A. Germain, secretary of the Germain Com- 

 pany of this city, and Miss Ann Corinne Holmes 

 of Saginaw, Mich., were married Tuesday, No- 

 vember .">, In the I'aullst fathers' Cathedral in 

 New York City. The affair was somewhat of a 

 surprise to the groom's friends In lumber circles 

 in I'lttsburg. Tlic couple will make a two weeks' 

 trip lo the Bermuda Islands and some of the 

 southern cities before returning to Pittsburg to 

 live permanently. 



.1. M Hastings, president of the Hastings 

 Lumber Company and the Davison Lumber Com- 

 pany of .Nova Scotia, Can., has returned from 

 (iuite an extended stay in the latter place. 'J'he 

 Havison company has an enormous plant — the 

 largest single operation In the Dominion — and 

 is pushing Its stock Into the foreign market. 

 Mr. Hastings is taking an active part in the dis- 

 cussions pertaining to the preservation of our 

 forests and the reforestation of parts of I*enu- 

 sylvania. 



The Ciay-Schoppe Lumber Company had a 

 splendid trade in Octoiiei- in mining stock. It 

 Is one of the leading distributors of oak in the 

 I'lttsburg market and is getting good prices.- 

 It also has been handling considerable cotton- 

 wood of late and Is branching out some into the 

 yellow pine trade. 



The .Newell liros. Lumber Company is busy 

 with Its hardwood operation at Braucher, W. Va., 

 where they are cutting about 30,()(1U feet a day. 

 They have sufficient orders to take all the prod- 

 uct of that plant from now until .lanuary 1. 

 Mr. II. T. .Newell has just returned from the 

 South, where he reports quite a good deal better 

 spirit prevailing tlian two weeks ago. 



The .Tamestown Lumlier Conijiany of Frank- 

 lin, I'a., has llnisiu'd cutting over l,oiP(i,(i(}n feet 

 of hardwood and hemlock near .Tamestown, Pa., 

 and still has about '.(Ki.OOO feet to saw. This 

 is one of the last tracts of good timber left in 

 that part of Pennsylvania. 



I'ittslairgers are much interested for personal 

 reasons in two rival surveys which have lately 

 been made in West Virginia lor a road to run 

 from Mill Creek to Welister Springs. One snr 

 vey was made under Ibi' din-clion of W. A. 

 Dromgold of York. Pa.. .1. C. lIolTman of Wheel- 

 ing. W. Va.. and 1.. !■;. Shuli of Mill Creek. 

 W. Va. 'i'be oilier survey, which paraileis the 

 former, was made by agents of Col. lOlihu Hut- 

 ton, Wirt C. Ward and Floyd .Stroder, who are 

 said 111 lie acting in tlm interest of tlie Western 

 .Maryland railroad, a Gould line. The proposed 

 roads would tap a country wondrously rich in 

 timber, much of which Is held now by Pittsburg 

 Interests. 



The Pittsburg Box Company has been organ- 

 ized under West Virginia laws with a capital 

 of ?125,0(lf) by the following well known capi- 

 talists: John W. Boileau, the coal expert of 

 Pittsburg ; John Ilerr, David C. Hechs, J. L. 

 Slerb!>rt. C. H. Bateman. K. H. Jackson, Thomas 

 DeLancey and S. C. Milligan, all of Pittsburg. 

 The company proposes to erect a boi factory 

 near Wheeling. W. Va. Another factory Is to bt 

 erected near Martins Ferry, O., at Aetnaville, 

 W. Va., by a party of Investors whose Identity 

 Is so far concealed. A site has been secured 

 and It is reported that the American Steel & 

 Wire Company has already contracted for a 

 large part of the company's output. 



L. C. Thompson, until lately president of the 

 Auburn Lumber Company of .\uhurn, N. V . 



has arranged to come Into the Mead & Speer 

 Company ot this city December 1 as its vice 

 president. .Mr. Thompson has a host of friends 

 among tin" iumliermen of Pennsylvania and 

 West Virginia and his presence in their midst 

 will lie a \velcome one. The Mead & Speer (.'oni- 

 pany Is strengthening Its forces all along the 

 line and is pushing operations hard at Its plant 

 at Strange Creek, W. Va., having cut out at 

 Cntlettsburg, Ky. It Is now disposing of its 

 machinery at the latter plant. 



The hardwood department of the Whitmers 

 in Pittsburg is rolling up a good lot of fail 

 oiders. Its best cards at present are spruce and 

 chestnut, both of which are selling well and at 

 good prices. The glass factories are taking a 

 considerable quantity of the former wood. Man- 

 ager W. P. Craig of the Whitmers has returned 

 from his extended soutiiern trip, on which he 

 visited the Jamestown Kxposition several days. 



Manager S. A. Seaman of the C. P. Caughey 

 Lumber Compan.v is spending a few days in 

 Washington and Greene counties. I*ennsyivauia. 

 where ills firm has two mills of its own and 

 tile output of four more. They are all cutting 

 white oak, much ot It being heavy timbers in 

 which the company has a iirisk trade. 



The Nicola Lumber Company has been moving 

 some of Its fine Cleveland stocks pretty rapidly 

 of late. The officials ot the company are dis- 

 posed to take a very hopeful view of the sit- 

 uation and to prophesy that when the financial 

 trouliles are over the country and llie lumljer 

 iHisiness will be vastly better oiT. 



Amel Holmes and M. J. Hauiiu ot Union City, 

 Pa., have bought an old handle factory at that 

 place and will at once remodel it for a chair 

 factory. With the machinery that is left in 

 the plant they can manufacture about ;iOO chairs 

 per day. It is proposed to add largely to this 

 machinery equipment in the spring and to bring 

 up the capacity of the plant to 800 chairs per 

 day. 



January 1 will find the Miller Brothers Lum- 

 ber Company well prepared to meet trade and 

 all sorts of conditions in the lumber world. 

 This firm, whicli got its charter but a few weeks 

 ago, has been steadily rounding up stocks and 

 making connections until it is very well equipped 

 with all kinds and grades of lumber. Its heads 

 are men thoroughly experienced in the lumber 

 business and are not letting any chance slip to 

 get away with desirable orders among Ibeir old 

 friends. 



Buffalo. 



Tiio only change reporleii in lliis lieid is the 

 ilissnlution of the recently formed Trotler-Koeiii 

 l.unilier Ciinipany. H. T. Koein retiring and II. 

 T. Trotter continuing under llie olil nnnie of 

 I ill' Trotter Luinher Company. 



The lumber exdianges are si ill doing vi'ry 

 little iinsiness. tile older exchange not liaving 

 met yet this season and the hardwood exdiange 

 ineeliiig informally. 



The business of Scatdierd & Son is still bin 

 dered by the slow movement of cars at Memphis, 

 wliicli makes the firm's mills run slowly. 'J'lie 

 local yard is doing its usual inisiness. not de- 

 pending on Memphis lumber. 



J. F. Knox has gone back to the mills of Beyer, 

 Knox & Co. at Paseola, Mo., where he will re- 

 main awhile to look after the oak cut. 



F. W. Vetter finds that trade is such that it 

 is not easy to replace some of the wide poplar 

 he has been selling, but is able to keep up a 

 good assortment of other hardwoods. Poplar 

 is not to be had in much quantity. 



O. E. Yeager reports one of the best Octo- 

 bers In the history of his trade. His local 

 yard Is always well stocked and there has been 

 a steady movement of lumber to customers that 

 did not come from the Buffalo yard. 



Hugh McLean is out on the road again and 

 the office is run without any of the heads 

 present, as It. D. McLean is looking after the 

 southern niilis and .-\ni,'us McLean, as usual, is 

 in Canaihi. 



A. Miller has a good-sized stock of all bard- 

 woods, always being able to furnish such woods 

 as elm and basswood, which is not always the 

 case. Ash, he reports, is hard to keep in stock. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 selling a large amount of oak this fail, which 

 Is its leading stock. Much time is given to the 

 management of the furniture factories managed 

 by the members of the company, the demand be- 

 ing line. 



I. -N. Stewart & Bro. are still specializing In 

 cherry, which Is always a good seller, though 

 of lute the handling of oak has been made a 

 close second In the business. 



A. W. Krelnheder Is hard at work on the 

 southern mill problem of the Standard Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, and In the meantime 

 the iiome stock is spreading over Into a new yard 

 added recently. 



T. Sullivan & Co. will bring down another 

 cargo of ash and elm by lake this month and 

 will then liave a fine stock of these special 

 woods. Washington Or is in good stock, but 

 siiipments from the coast now wait for freight 

 cars. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are still extensive white pine 

 dealers along with other specialties, having 

 lirought down a lake cargo a short time ago. 

 The good building movement keeps the mills 

 very active. 



Detroit. 



AnolhcT effort is to be made, through the 

 Detroit Board of Commerce, to better freight 

 shipping facilities at Detroit. It has long been 

 known that cities like Saginaw and Bay Clty^ 

 and even Toledo have better rates and l>etter 

 shipping facilities than Detroit. The Browniee- 

 Keiley Lumber Company and o'.her prominent 

 concerns hero will take up the matter with the 

 railroads soon. The building of the great Michi- 

 gan Central tunnel under the Detroit River Is 

 expected to alleviate the trouble. 



Just at present there is another shortage of 

 cars in Mcliigan. Shippers in the state are com- 

 plaining liitteriy. and the Detroit wholesale deal- 

 ers are faring .lust about as bad. 



The wholesale hardwood firm known as the 

 J. M. Clifford Lumber Company has been in the 

 hands of a receiver for the last ten days, and he 

 is now disposing of the stock. 



J. C. McCaul, who was secretary to the late 

 Senator Russell M. Alger, is dead at his home 

 in Detroit. Mr. JlcCaul was a widely known 

 .Michigan lumberman. 



The hardwood firm of Leech, Kockc & Co., at 

 Twentieth street and tlie railroad, has gone out 

 of liusiness. The expected profits were not 

 forllicoming and the partners decided to dis- 

 solve. 



The Thomas Forman Company and the Dwigiii 

 Lumiier Company are both doing a healthy busi- 

 ness in iiardwood flooring, the activity being a 

 little better at this time than it has lieen for 

 some time past. 



Albert T. Allan, a local hardwood dealer, who 

 lias been very ill of typhoid pneumonia, has 

 fully recovered and is back at his desk in the 

 Majestic Building. 



Saginaw and Bay City. 



The troubles tliat have affected the financial 

 and stock markets in the East, as well as many 

 industrial concerns, does not appear to have af- 

 fected the lumber industry in the least. The 

 dealers have had a steady and seasonable trade, 

 the mills have been operated right along and 

 l-rlces maintained at the old figure. This is 

 very satisfactory to the trade and the hope is 

 indulged in that It will continue sp. Stocks 

 have moved along fairly well. The output this 

 season will average up with that of last year, -^l 

 though the scarcity of labor, high wages and 

 cost of supplies may exert a tendency on the 

 liarl ot operators to go along more conservatively 

 I be coming w'inter. 



Tliere is a world of limber noilh of Bay Ciiy 



