January 25. 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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UR Wide SKipping Facilities 

 -y Are of Great Benefit 



^;^ The manufacture and shipment of lumber are subject 



to many retarding influences. Frequently, though, trouble 

 in one region will not affect another. Therefore, in building our organization we were 

 mindful of the question of lOO'f service to our customers and carefully selected our 

 manufacturing points so that if there were disturbances at one mill we would be free 

 to handle your orders from others. 



Our five mills, situated in three principal producing states in the South, 

 are your guarantee of prompt, orderly handling of your business, and 

 their location in the heart of the choicest timber regions is your in- 

 surance of its quality as our unvarying 

 policy is shipments with absolutely no deviation from 

 straight National grades. 



Clean Dealing Is Our Business Policy 



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Aberdeen Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 



FIVE MILLS: Ten Million Feet on Sticks, Oak, Gum, Cypress, Cottonwood, Sycamore, Elm. 



The Universal Lumber Company is getting some gooa contracts this 

 winter for industrial building. Its connections make it one of the hard 

 competitors to beat in this line and its officials look for a very good spring 

 business. 



Pittsburgh whole-salers are much pleased to learn that the window glass 

 plants will be run on a two-period operation this year. Wage matters 

 have been adjusted and the chances are that a large amount of chestnut 

 and other hardwoods will be sold to the glass concerns soon. 



A new concern in Pittsburgh is the George Dubarry Lumber Company, 

 which has been organized with the following incorporators : Elma E. 

 Murphy, Bert L. Murphy and Hugh Murphy, to do a general wholesale 

 business in this city. 



West Penn Lumber Company, according to Manager E. H. Stoner, finds 

 business in hardwoods pretty quiet this month. The manufacturing and 

 industrial trade is not getting into the market so fast as usual, but Is 

 expected to produce a large amount of business in the early spring. 



The Ricks-McCreight Lumber Company has added to its force of sales- 

 men W. C. Brown, who has been for several years past with the Monon- 

 gahela Lumber Company of this city. He will work the city trade for this 

 company. 



The Kendall Lumber Company reports general business very quiet this 

 month. Even the mining trade is not producing as many inquiries and 

 orders as usual, although this is showing more activity than most other 

 industrial lines. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is looking for quite an uplift in hardwood 

 trade, but reports that it is very hard to make a guess as to just when 

 this will start. The tendency of everything now is to hold purchases down 

 tight until prices readjust themselves more to the liking of the buyer. 



President J. N. Woollett of the Aberdeen Lumber Company is confident 

 that there will be a good market this year for gum and Cottonwood. In 

 fact, he looks for much more business along this line than last year, as so 

 many manufacturers are low on stocks. 



Mayor E. V. Babcock. Babeock Lumber Company, was in Harrisburg 

 recently, acting as chief marshal in the big parade at the inauguration 

 of Senator William C. Sprou! as governor of Pennsylvania. 



A recent fire at Worcester, Mass., destroyed nearly all of the property 

 of the P. W. Wood Lumber Company. The fire occurred at a location 

 adjoining that of the Sawyer Lumber Company and like the two large 

 flres in the latter yard the circumstances point to incendiarism. 



Wm. A. Gregg of Gregg & Son, Nashua, N. H., was recently killed in 

 an automobile accident while returning with the firm's payroll funds. In 

 addition to serious injury, he was caught In the wreck of the car and 

 his charred body was found after an ensuing fire. 



In the great Massachusetts chair-town of Gardner, several factories 

 have found it necessary to discharge a considerable portion of the help on 

 account of the small volume of business available. 



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The Young Lumber Company of Boston has been incorporated under the 

 style of the Young Lumber Corporation, L. M. Young, president and treas- 

 urer, the other incorporators being M. E. Young and C. R. Mcintosh ; 

 capital. i!;25,000. 



The only change which was made in the lumber trade here with the 

 beginning of the year, as far as is known, is the disappearance of the 

 name of Amos Bright & Co., wholesale dealers in and exporters of hard- 

 woods, oak staves, walnut logs and other forest products, and the suc- 

 cession to the business of Thos. P. Christopher & Co. The change is one 

 in name merely, Mr. Christopher having controlled the old firm, as he 

 does the new one. He was for years with Amos Bright & Co., and when 

 Mr. Bright, who Is from West Virginia, desired to curtail his activities 

 and concentrate his interests, Mr. Christopher acquired his share. 



A new bidder for exports is to enter this field in the near future and 

 make Baltimore the center of its activities as far as foreign trade is con- 

 cerned. The newcomer is the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Columbus, 

 O., which has just closed a lease with the city for some property at Key 

 Highway and Hughes street in South Baltimore, and intends to establish 

 a yard there. The company, it is said, has been looking for a site in the 

 East on which to locate a depot, and finally decided that Baltimore 

 offered greater advantages than other cities on the Atlantic seaboard. 

 Shipments are to be made from here to other American ports, the local 

 yard becoming in reality a distributing center for the company's products 

 in the East as well as abroad. The lot has connection with all of the 

 railroads and affords facilities for direct shipment by water. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, at its first 

 monthly meeting held this year on the afternoon of January 6, reelected 

 L. H. Gwaltney secretary and J. H. Manken assistant secretary. Both 

 have held these positions for some years. The committee also discussed 

 various matters of general interest to the lumber trade, but took no formal 

 action. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here ten days ago were J. Crosby Fort 



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