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HARDWOOD RECORD 



six pel- eenl bonils ol tln' compnuy due lilS."!, of whicli there are ¥l!,4ir).iiU0 

 outstanding. 



John E. Ray has become general manager of the Annis Grain & 

 Lumber Company of Londonderry, N. H. He succeeds D. F. Perkins, who 

 IS a part owner in tlie business. 



The .1. R. Brown Company, Wallinjrford, has been incorporated, to deal 

 in lumb<M-. with a capital stock of .fS.OOO. The incorporators are J. R. 

 Itrown, lieorge S. Wiko.x and C. 11. Cheney, all of Wallingford. 



The storehouse of the IE. C. Wood Company, Westfleld, Mass., has been 

 liadly damastd by fire, causing considerable loss to building and lumber 

 stored therein. 



H. W. Eaton, well-known Maine lumberman, died at his home in St. 

 Croix. Me., a few days ago. Mr. Eaton was formerly of the firm of Eaton 

 Brothers, but retired from active business about twenty years ago. 



The Keadsboro Chair Company has been organized to manufacture and 

 sell chairs and other wooden furniture. The incorporators are William 

 H. Pritchard, North Adams, Mass. ; Charles H. Keith, Greenfield, and 

 Charles A. Boyden, Brattlelwro, Vt. 



The mill of Gilbert M. Bradford at Williamsburg, Mass., has been 

 destroyed by Are. 



A petition was filed for the dissolution of the C. H. Annable Lumber 

 Company. Springfield. Mass. The petition was signed by the president. C. 

 H. Annable. who states that the company has no liabilities and that the 

 property has been sold and divided among the shareholders. No reor- 

 ganization is planned. 



The Colonial Lumber Company, Boston, has been organized with a 

 capital stock of $350,000. The Incorporators are Grafton D. Cushing. 

 Ira G. Hersey, Walter F. Dixon, J. Randolph Coolidge, 3rd, and Jnhn 

 Butfum. 



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II. F. DomholT, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, is in .New 

 t >rleans on a business trip. The hardwood business of the Acorn com- 

 |j!iny has been very satisfactory until very recently. 



The Johnson-Davies Lumber Company started another hardwood mill 

 in Butler county. Pa., last week. Its plants there are now cutting 25,000 

 feet a day. 



G. M. Chambers, sales manager of the Kendall Lumber Company, spent 

 a few days in Donora, S. C, recently looking over the operation which 

 the Kendalls recently took over from the old Thornwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



.1. N. Woolett. president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, finds some 



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slowing down In the gum and cottouwood business. Manufacturers are 

 not inclined to figure on next year's lumber, he says. 



E. II. Shreincr, president of the E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company, made 

 quite a long trip among Canadian manufacturers this month. He finds 

 money there unusually tl^ht and lumber buying slow in consequence. 



The Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Club will give a vaudeville and moving 

 picture entertainment at the German Club House on Craft avenue, the 

 evening of December 3, at which all the wives of the members are 

 expected to be present. 



The Thorny Creek Lumber Company of this city has completed Its 

 organization with a capital of $323,000 to operate In Pocahontas county, 

 W. Va. The members are D. C. Willis. S. A. McMullen, G. W. Eisenbeis, 

 S. Bally, .Tr., H. M. Landis, all of Pittsburgh. 



The Nushaum Chemical Company of Bradford, Pa., has taken over all 

 the timbcrland of the Quintuple Oil Company amounting to about 3,700 

 acres. This will give it enough timber for its operations for eight years. 



.1. !•;. Ast of the Mutual I,uml>er Company reports no let-up in buying 

 of good hardwood. He finds manufacturing trade fair and predicts a good 

 year in 1914. 



The West Penn Lumber Company had in October by far the best month 

 in its hlslory. It has a splendid line of trade with the big corporations 

 and industral concerns of Pittsburgh. 



I. F. Balsley of the Balsley & McCracken Company spent a few days 

 in the eastern market lately. Orders are coming mighty slow but after 

 all the trade is not half bad with this concern. 



E. V. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company is being warmly con- ' 

 gratulated on all sides for the aggressive part he took in the recent 

 election of Joseph G. Armstrong as mayor of Pittsburgh. Mr. Balicock 

 is chairman of the Business Men's Committee of 100 which clinched Mr. 

 Armstrong's election. 



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George Ileintz. who was arrested several weeks ago on charges of having 

 set fire to a number of lumber yards and woodworking establishments in 

 South Baltimore, pleaded guilty when arraigned in court, and was held for 

 au examination as to his sanity. Within the period of a few months last 

 spring and summer, Heintz, it is alleged, started a number of fires, one 

 place being set ablaze not less than four or five times. 



While the Baltimore Lumber Exchange did not make an exhibit of 

 lumber and other wood products at the exposition arranged in connection 

 with the Maryland Week at the Fifth Regiment Armory last week, the 

 State Forestry' Bureau has made an interesting and instructive display of 

 the timber resources of the State, showing cross sections and veneers of 

 the different w'oods to be found in the State, and giving much other 

 valuable Information. 



The property of the Walbrook Mill and Supply Company, at Clifton 

 and Braddlsh avenues, in the northwestern section of the city, has been 

 purchased by the Independent Casket Company, heretofore located on 

 Calvert street, and will be occupied shortly by the purchaser. The affaii-s 

 of the Walbrook Company have been in process of readjustment within the 

 year. 



Railroad men to the number of 125 were in Baltimore last week to 

 attend the eighth semi-annual meeting of the Railway Development Asso- 

 ciation, an organization formed to discuss and promote the development 

 of the territory through which the railroads represented by the memhiTs 

 run. The Association represents about 200,000 miles of road, and is 

 doing much in the way of co-operation to attract settlers for vacant farm 

 lands, and to encourage the development of natural resources. A number 

 of the members made addresses on topics connected with the work of the 

 organization. 



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The report of the city building inspector tor the month of October 

 shows that there were 271 permits issued for the month, having a valua- 

 tion of .fSOO.OOo as compared with 264 permits and a valuation of 

 $341,983 in October, 1912. For the first ten months of the year 1913 

 the number of permits issued was 3,687, with a valuation of $4,667,088, 

 as compared with 2,369 permits having a valuation of $4,269,843 for the 

 first ten months of the year 1912. 



The Lowellville Lumber Company of Lowellville. O., has been incorpor- 

 ated with a capital stock of $15,000 to deal in all kinds of lumber. The 

 porators are O. L. Jacobs, M. A. McLure. B. M. Campbell, H. H. Jacobs, 

 Orrin Jacobs and Edward Jacobs. 



The Bueyrus Lumber Company, just incorporated, of Bucyrus, O., with 

 a capital of $100,000, will take over the business of the White Lumber 

 Company, Coutler & Co. and the VoUrath Mill. Seventy-five men will be 

 employed and yards will be maintained as the distributing yards of the 

 company. 



The H. R. Allen Company has employed S. M. Marks, formerly with 

 the Nicola, Stone & Myers Company of Cleveland, to travel southwestern 

 Ohio. 



There is a big building boom in the cities and towns along the Ohio 

 river in the southeastern part of the state. This is especially true at 

 Yorkville and Tiltonsville, north of Martins Ferry, 0. Included in the 

 building boom are a numlwr of large manufacturing plants. 



It is reported on good authority that Cole & Crane of Cincinnati, 

 extensive lumber dealers, have purchased the lumber mill of the Ivory & 



