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In their pxleuslve yards at l-'itty-slxih lo I'ifty- 

 cigbtli sticets and Woodland avenue, wlilcli tUey 

 arc forcing off below rejiular market value owing 

 to their Intention of glvlug up the yard entirely. 



Soholleld IJros. report the mill of the 

 Saltkeatchle Lumlier Company at Ulmcrs, S. C, 

 doing linely, business holding up fairly well, 

 but the oar service poor. 1!. W. Scholleld Is un- 

 fortuualoly laid np with blood poisoning which 

 he contracted some years ago and which unfor- 

 tunately returns periodically. 



K. HI. Smith & Co. are receiving some fair 

 orders. Benj. C. Curric Jr.. manager, admits 

 that there is a lack of snap in trading, but this 

 gentleman Is ever on the scent for business and 

 invariably bags his share. 



Owen M. Bruuer Toinpauy is evidently pros- 

 perous. It has outgrown the old oflice quarters 

 and so recently has added the adjoining rooms, 

 now occupying l.'jOS and l.")00 Land Title build- 

 ing. 



The I'aul W. Flcrk Lumber Company is fairly 

 busy. Mr. Fleck states that he has no fault to 

 And with trading, but that the car service Is 

 giving them a good deal of trouble. He is at 

 present on a visit to the mills looking up stock 

 conditions. 



The Canada Westcoast Lumber Company, New 

 York City, obtained a charter under Delaware 

 state laws on November 4. Capitalized at $1.- 

 200,000. 



The Columbia Timber Company, New York 

 City, was incorporated under Delaware state 

 laws on November 4. Authorized capital, .$1,- 

 000,000. 



The Standard Chair Company, of Union City, 

 Pa., is putting in a mill on its timber tract on 

 the Spencer farm, about two and one-half miles 

 west of Corry. It has 300 acres of hardwood 

 timber, mostly beach and maple. 



It is announced that the belated drive of 12,- 

 000,000 feet of logs, which have been bleaching 

 all summer along the banks of the west branch 

 of the Susquehanna river, has reached the Wil- 

 liamsport boom, and that the sawmills of that 

 busy town will have some winter work in conse- 

 quence. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Baltimore. 



Lumber exporters who ship stocks to Europe 

 by way of Baltimore and other Atlantic ports 

 and who are making a flght against the increase 

 in ocean freight rates have received aid from 

 an unexpected quarter. Wlien the special com- 

 mittee named at a previous meeting to make an 

 effort to have the steamship lines continue the 

 current rates mot two weeks ago to discuss the 

 reply of the steamship companies sent in 

 response to the representations made, represen- 

 tatives of several railroads put in an appear- 

 ance at the Chamber of Commerce, the meeting 

 place. The railroad men listened to the views 

 of the committee members as reflecting the 

 opinions of the exporters, and then suggested 

 that the committee formulate the demands of 

 the exporters, naming the highest rates which 

 tiiey feel they can afford to pay, and then let 

 them (the railroad men) take the matter before 

 the steamship representatives and see what can 

 be done. The interest of the railroad men is 

 attributable to the fact that if the exporters 

 carried out their threat of making contracts 

 with steamship lines willing to grant the cur- 

 rent rates, even if it became necessary to divert 

 the lumber export movement to some other port, 

 it would involve a considerable loss to the land 

 transportation lines. It is considered likely 

 that the railroad men will make such conces- 

 sions as will enable the steamship lines to make 

 acceptable through rates. The committee, of 

 course, has no authority to bind the exporters. 



F. W. Besley, state forester for Maryland, has 

 just given out figures collected by his office 

 based upon the returns of fire wardens from 

 the various counties of the damage caused 

 annually in this state by forest fires. Though 

 Maryland is not counted among the states with 



great forest wealth, tlie extent of the standing 

 timber contained within its boundaries Is Indi- 

 cated by the returns of the losses. Statistics 

 are available only from half a dozen counties, 

 but tlic total of damage for last year foots up 

 over .?200,000, so that if the same ratio holds 

 good for all of the twenty-three counties In the 

 state the annual loss, even under the present 

 system of partial supervision and lessened 

 destruction, cannot fall short of $o00,000. 



The absorption of the New Orleans F.xporters' 

 Association by the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association has been effected. A week ago 

 Secretary E. M. Terry of the National associa- 

 tion sent a telegram to J. O. Elmer, secretary 

 of the New Orleans association, informing him 

 that the fifteen members of his organization luid 

 accepted membership, in the older body under 

 the conditions agreed \ipon. One of these is 

 that the National association shall maintain at 

 New Orleans an assistant secretary, with a 

 permanent oflico, to look after matters of special 

 interest to the exporters there, and Mr. Elmer 

 has been appointed to that office. The next 

 annual ineeting of the National Lumber Ex- 

 porters' Association will take place at New 

 Orleans in January next. 



Among recent visitors in Baltimore was N. A. 

 Dunne of the Boice Lumber Company of Abing- 

 don, Va. He called on a number of hardwood 

 firms hero and reported that inquiries were few 

 and the trade generally quiet, though none of 

 the mills had large stocks on hand. 



Norman Wright of C. Leary & Co.. Loudon, 

 stopped in Baltimore about ten days ago in the 

 course of a trip to the timber sections of the 

 southern states. He said that stocks abroad 

 were quite large, and advised against promis- 

 cuous shipments, saying that it would not be 

 difficult to get the buyers abroad to meet the 

 terms of the exporters with the supplies held 

 down to moderate proportions and careful 

 account taken of the needs of the foreign 

 market. 



Unofficial advices have been received here 

 concerning a meeting held the latter part of 

 October at the office of Alfred Dobell & Co.. 

 Liverpool, of the merchants and brokers of that 

 port to formulate a system of measurement to 

 govern the export trade from the United States. 

 Various rules were adopted, but it appears that 

 all of them are based upon the old rules of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, known 

 as the 1903 rules, and which have since been 

 superseded by the rules adopted at the last 

 annual meeting in Cincinnati. Evidently the 

 Liverpool merchants and brokers are not dis- 

 posed to make concessions, since they knew of 

 the now rules and yet disregarded them in 

 formulating their terms. It seems now as 

 though the whole question would have to be 

 gone over again, and that the progress pre- 

 viously made in the direction of reaching an 

 .agreement is offset. No action will be taken by 

 the exporters on the subject until thoy get 

 official advices from Liverpool. 



Pittsburg. 



K. E. Chapin of the Cheat Uiver Lumber Com- 

 pany made a ten days' trip through the eastern 

 cities early in the month. He found the big 

 towns "donm east" in much worse shape finan- 

 cially than the Pittsburg district and collections 

 pretty slow. He reports a good inquiry for 

 certain lines of hardwood and a disposition 

 among some good customers to want their lum- 

 ber at the earliest possible date. 



William M. Pownall, president of the Colonial 

 Lumber Company, also rounded up the eastern 

 trade last week. He had quite a profitable trip 

 and since his return has taken some nice orders 

 for yellow pine. He reports prices cut badly in 

 some stock, but says that it is possible still to 

 sell some stock of all grades to advantage. 



J. R. Mann, who took charge of the New 

 York office of Bemis & Vosburgh Nov. 1, is push- 

 ing trade there with a vengeance. Mr. Mann is 



from West Virginia and is known to the Pills 

 burg wholesalers as one of the most thoroujibly 

 experienced men in the lumber business. He nut 

 only knows slock and mill operations, but ho U 

 very familiar with grading and conditions and 

 prospects at the retailers' end of the line. Ih- 

 was formerly with the Kumbarger Lumber Com 

 pany and for the past few years has been oper 

 .•iling indopondently on a commission basis. 



J. N. Woollott. general manager of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber & Manufacturing Company, has re- 

 turned from a three weeks' trip through the 

 South and Soulliwost. He found conditions in 

 the yellow pine country mudi worse than in 

 the hardwood districts and more mills shutting 

 down. Tho southwestern operations of the 

 .\morlcan arc at present the most encouraging 

 features of their business, for with an almost 

 unlimited supply of Cottonwood at their disposal 

 they are bucking the center of their competi- 

 tors' force in a way that counts In winning the 

 goal. The American now has two cargoes of 

 Cottonwood nearly loaded, which will be shipped 

 up the Mississippi for distribution through the 

 middle states. Unlike a few weak-kneed firms, 

 the American is crowding on all steam at pres- 

 ent and is taking every possible way to get 

 business. 



The Willson Brothers Lumber Company finds 

 the hardwood market in mudi better shape than 

 general financial conditions would seem to war- 

 rant. Their sales of liardwoods are going to be 

 big this year and tho best thing aboiit the busi- 

 ness is that with the exception of oak they find 

 that dealers have not cut prices. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is figuring some 

 fine hardwood bills and has a good lot of orderti 

 on its books for early shipment. It has made a 

 very successful season in the shingle and lath 

 business, its stocks from the North unloaded at 

 Cleveland being such as to practically sell^ them- 

 selves. President George W. Nicola of this com- 

 pany is now in the South taking a two weeks' 

 survey of the situation. 



The J. C. Moorhead Lumber Company is cut- 

 ting 30,000 feet a day at its plants at Shryock. 

 W. Va., and has some tine stocks of both hard- 

 wood and white pine. Poor car service on the 

 Chesapeake & Ohio railroad is the worst thing 

 it finds to complain about. This is delaying its 

 shipments like those of many other operators in 

 that section. G. H. Trump, the new salesman 

 for the company, is doing good work over in 

 New York. 



Lumbermen are especially interested in tho 

 experiments which the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & 

 Chicago Railroad Company has been making witli 

 steel ties lately. A few days ago it ordered the 

 steel ties removed from a section of track at 

 Ecnsworth, a suburb of Pittsburg, eight miles 

 down the Ohio river. This is in one of the prize 

 parts of the Fort Wayne, where there are four 

 through tracks and where the utmost care is 

 taken with the roadbed, etc. The steel ties have 

 been a signal disappointment to the railroad 

 officials and it is now a return to the good old 

 oak ties. 



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

 Lumber Company keeps things very busy around 

 his offices and operations, the latter being in 

 Washington county, Pennsylvania. He is well 

 fortified with shipping facilities, for he can 

 either get his stock out on the Wabash or the 

 Pennsylvania railroads. He is cutting a large 

 amount of very choice white oak and until very 

 recently has found a good market for all his 

 product. 



President J. L. Kendall of the Kendall Lum- 

 ber Company reports trade far from stagnant 

 and says that the hardwood operations of this 

 concern are progressing finely. At Ohlopyle the 

 plants of the Ohlopyle Company are being pushed 

 hard and are turning out a splendid lot of lum- 

 ber. The Ivendalls look for much better business 

 after Jan. 1. 



J. F. Henderson of the Henderson Lumber 

 Company reports a very good business up to 



