March 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Tne Education of Our Mills m Accord with Your 

 Needs Is Insurance of Uniform Quality 



The ability to ship overnight a ten or fifteen car order 

 of one grade and thickness of hardwoods is the result of 

 careful planning, and of careful schooling of our mills. 

 We have made that record several times. Our ability 

 is hinged on our having a comprehensive organization, 

 enabling us to ship from five different points at one time 

 on one order. 



This ability, backed by absolutely straight grade shipments, is a com- 

 bination of real value to any buyer especially under present conditions. 



Clean Dealing Is Our Business Policy 



Aberdeen Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 



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



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Virginia, show ttiat about eighty per cent of February building was private 

 work. Indications show that there will be a big gain in the amount of 

 public buildings this month. 



E. H. Schreiner of the E. H. Schreiner Lumber Company, is in the East 

 this week on a business trip. His company reports the bulk of the busi- 

 ness in manufacturing and industrial lines. 



W. W. Dickey, president of the West Virginia Lumber Company, has 

 bought a big lot in McKees Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and will estab- 

 lish a large lumber yard this spring. 



L. L. Satler of the Satler-Hamilton Lumber Company, believes that the 

 final signing of peace terms will mark the turning point in general busi- 

 ness and the beginning of a big buying movement in lumber. E, B. Hamil- 

 ton of this company is in the South this week. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, one of the big hardwood con- 

 cerns in the city, reports that its industrial trade is keeping up very 

 nicely. Railroad demand is not very encouraging, but a large amount of 

 lumber is being sold to big steel interests. 



BALTIMORE 



The probability of Pacific coast timber being brougbt bere by water 

 through the Panama canal, to be cpnverted into, lumber and distributed 

 throughout the eastern part of the country, was indicated by develop- 

 ments at a meeting of the Board of Estimates March 18, when George R. 

 Willis, an attorney, requested information from the board for his clients, 

 the Weyerhaeuser Timber Corporation of Tacoma, Wash. The company 

 purchased some eighty acres of the Old Quarantine tract from the city 

 nearly two years ago. with a view to establishing a distributing depot here 

 for Pacific coast woods, and Mr. Willis explained that the company now 

 wished to start developing the land, this step having been deferred because 

 of the war. He declared that the company wanted a channel 100 feet 

 wide out to the main channel, and sought information regarding the fran- 

 chise charges for erecting a bulkhead and pier. He also wanted to know 

 something about the methods of building a turning basin. Part of the land 

 is under water and will have to be filled in to make a suitable pier. The 

 company, he said, intended to load the cut timber on lighters, which could 

 be navigated to Baltimore, where the timber might be converted into lum- 

 ber. The board made it plain that it was disposed to put the charge as 

 low as possible in order to encourage the development, the regular charge 

 being half a cent per square foot a year. Mr. Willis is to lay the matter 

 before his client and then present more specific plans to the board. It 

 was stated about the time the purchase was made that the proposed devel- 

 opment would not be undertaken until after the war. Reports have named 



George P. M. Hauck, president of the T. J. Shryock & Co., Inc., as the 

 manager of the Weyerhaeuser depot when it is established. Prom Baltimore 

 large shipments to foreign countries would be made. 



M. L. Himmel & Son, manufacturers of office furniture, have obtained a 

 verdict for $268,200 against the city from a jury in the circuit court here 

 for the property which the municipal authorities propose condemning and 

 making a part of the civic center, near the city hall. The firm has a 

 factory fronting on Gay street and extending through to Frederick street. 

 Counsel for the city contended that the place was not worth more than 

 $135,000, but the Jury was of a different opinion. In addition to the 

 amount mentioned the firm is to retain its machinery, upon which a value 

 of $47,000 is placed. 



Among visitors here in the last week were Charles C. Morse of the Morse 

 Brothers' Lumber Company of Rochester, N. Y., and Helen, Ga., and E. C. 

 Paxton of the Paxton Lumber Company, Bristol, Tenn. Both were on 

 business trips and reported that the trade was rather quiet. 



T. B. Bledsoe of the wholesale hardwood firm of Brown, Bowman & 

 Bledsoe, Munsey building, has gone on another trip down in North Caro- 

 lina and adjacent states, and so far has met with rather encouraging 

 results. 



COLUMBUS 



A meeting of lumber dealers from Marion, Crawford, Union, Delaware, 

 Hardin, Logan and Morrow counties was held at Marion, O., last week 

 to discuss conditions and problems arising out of the war. The meeting 

 was that of a section of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers. 

 It was the consensus of opinion that lumber prices would not go lower 

 and most likely they might be higher in the near future. The meeting 

 was addressed by T. C. Callahan of Dayton and Finley Tarrence of Xenia, 

 secretary of the state association. The dealers went on record as favor- 

 ing the building campaign which has been organized in many sections of 

 the country. 



The authorized capital of the Central Lumber & Supply Company of 

 Niles. O., has been increased from $10,000 to $20,000. 



The stockholders of the Columbus Lumbermen's Club met recently In 

 annual meeting for the election of directors. Reports for the year showed 

 that the club has been unusually prosperous. A luncheon Is served each 

 noon at the club rooms at High and Chestnut streets, which is usually 

 attended by from thirty-five to fifty members. Directors elected were 

 W. L. Whitacre, Frank E. Rogers and Charles Dawson. There are four 

 holdover directors. The new board of directors will meet soon to select 

 officers for the coming year. 



