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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The City Lumber Company, lir)4 Soiioea street, bns started Into tbe 

 general lumber business, both wholesale and retail. A stock of hard- 

 woods and oak flooring will be carried. Manager Charles H. Shepard 

 states that a pretty good local trade In lumber has been developed since 

 the start several weeks ago. The yard adjoins that o£ the National 

 Lumber Company. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report a good demand for brown ash as crating 

 lumber. The yard has bSen receiving good supplies of hardwoods lately 

 and the available piling space Is well taken up. 



Frank T. Stillivan. manager of the yard of II. II. Salmon & Co., has 



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W' GUM AND COTTONWOOD 



lately been at lliirbur lifauli. near Port Ilurun. to look afd-r tlie com- 

 pany's barge Pcndell, wliich went ashore there. 



The Batavla door mill in which the Scatcherds are interested is tilling 

 a large rush order for mahogany and other hardwoods tor tbe interior 

 work of the new Lord & Taylor building in New York. 



B. P. Ridley of Davenport & Ridley, has been spending considerable 

 time in the South lately, looking after hardwood stocks which are being 

 shipped to the Buffalo yard. 



Blakeslee, Terrln & Darling report the hardwood trade as fair and 

 better than it was two mouths ago. Plain oak and poplar are among 

 the woods selling fairly well. 



R. D. McLean has returned from a week's business trip to Canada. 

 The office reports the hardwood trade fair, but sales are not expected 

 to be at all active until after inventory taking among bu.vers. 



Homer T. Kerr reports that the sawmill at St. Mary's, Pa., with 

 which he Is connected has shut down for the present in order to put 

 all the activities into cutting logs, preparatory to starting up about 

 February. 



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Frank R. Whiting, president of the Whiting Lumber Company, reports 

 a varying activity. Buying is only from hand to mouth. He looks for 

 comparative quiet until after stock-taking. The hardwood situation he 

 pronounces well controlled. There will be a scramble for stock, he thinks, 

 with the first advance in buying. 



The Croft Lumber Company of Alexander, Va., announced recently that 

 J. Gibson Mcllvain. of J. Gibson Alcllvain & Co., Philadelphia, had been 

 elected president of the company to succeed J. H. Henderson, who with 

 his brother, Milton J. Henderson, has formed a wholesale lumber firm 

 which will occupy the old Croft quarters in Clarksburg, W. Va The 

 Croft concern has moved its sales office, which will be under the direct 

 supervision of J. W. Sullivan, general manager of the mill, to Alexander. 



Eugene W. Fry, lumberman, and president of the Philadelphia Lumber- 

 men's Goll Club, has been recently appointed a delegate by Governor 

 Tener, to represent Pennsylvania at the National Rivers and Harbors 

 Congress. Mr. Fry was also elected a vice president of the Atlantic 

 Deeper Waterways Association, at their recent convention in Jacksonville. 



Horace A. Reeves, Jr., says he is getting a few orders right along, and 

 last months' sales totaled up fairly well. Sharper hustling Is necessary 

 now, he says, and there is nothing on the surface at this time to deter- 

 mine tbe outlook. 



J. U. Holloway of the Imperial Lumber Company says business is spotty 

 and hard to get. -\s to outlook they simply are hopeful. 



It is announced that A. B. Adams of the Brown-Bates Company will 

 look after sales in the mining region hereafter. 



F. A. Dudley of the Sterling Lumber Company confirms the general 

 trade report of a strained activity. There is nothing new from a fort- 

 night ago, and no improvement looked for until after January 1. 



Nathan B. Gaskill of Nathan B. Gaskill and Sons, Inc., in regard to 

 the lumber situation, says we are simply marking time, waiting patiently 

 for a sign to go ahead. 



W. H. Fritz of W. H. Fritz & Co. says there has been very little 

 change if any in trading for the last two weeks and that none Is antici- 

 pated before the end of winter. 



The Federal Clay, Coal and Lumber Company, Wilmington. Del., ob- 

 tained a charter under Delaware laws November 22, capitalized at 

 $200,000. 



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The Marquette-Kerr Lumber Company, capital $25,000, has been organ- 

 ized at Toungstown, O., by H. L. Marquette, Willis E. Kerr, Carry Kerr, 

 Grace D. Williams, and ElizalMth Marquette. 



The Henderson Brothers Lumber Company is a new concern with offices 

 in the Empire building at Clarksburg, W. Va., which is of much Interest 

 to Pittsburgh wholesalers. The president is J. H. Henderson, for many 

 years with tbe Kendall Lumber Company of this city, and lately presi- 

 dent of the Croft Lumber Company of Clarksburg. 



William Schuette & Co. report a fair volume of business. Yard buying 

 Is, of course, pretty slow at present. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is cutting a large amount of 

 mine stock and railroad ties from its hardwood timber tract in Centre 

 county, Pennsylvania. Manager S. A. Seaman of this company, announces 

 that business in both these lines is good. 



J. M. Bemis & Son, of the old lumber firm of Bemis & Vosburg, have 

 sold their big timber holdings in Texas and other western states for 

 about $1,000,000. They were bought by Mr. Bemis fifty years ago for 

 $10,000. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has established a cypress department 

 which is bound to be a winner. President J. N. Woollett has secured for 

 manager of this department Fred J. Davenport, formerly of the Cypress 

 Selling Association of New Orleans. President Woollett is in the South 

 this week on business. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has made a change in its Philadelphia 

 office putting Otto C. CIuss in charge in the Real Estate Trust building 

 in that city. At its branch office at Columbus, O., Wade Heimrich is now 

 manager. 



W. D. Johnston, president of the American Lumber & Manufacturing 



