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strwt for about twenty years, formerly as a member of Mead & Stewart, 

 and latterly as a member of I. N. Stewart & Bro., has sold out his yard 

 to O. E. Yeager, whose yard adjoins on the east. This Is one of the 

 most important business changes In the hardwood line in some time and 

 by It Mr. YcaKcr acquires a good sized general stocis of different hard- 

 woods, including oak. poplar and cherry. Mr. Stewart is now building an 

 apartment house In South Buffalo and may continue in this line of busi- 

 ness in future. 



The planing mill formerly owned by the Joseph Metz & Sons' Company 

 which went Into bankruptcy, has been sold to 11. C. Tucker, a local 

 broker, who has not yet made known his Intention regarding the property. 



O. K. Yeager will attend the meeting of the trustees of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber .Association in Chicago on January 15 and will carfy 

 an Invitation from Buffalo for the holding of the annual convention here 

 next June. 



J. W. Welch, who is now in the hardwood business in Memphis with 

 his brother, is expected to spend the holidays in this city. "Jack" Wall, 

 son of J. B. Wall, Is also coming home from Alabama, where be has 

 been for several months. 



James .\. White, president of the National Lumber Company, has been 

 looking after lumber business in Michigan, spending several days recently 

 in Muskegon and Boyne City. 



Miller. Strum & Miller state that the hardwood trade is as good as it 

 was a month ago, though not active. The yard is selling fair hardwood 

 stocks, especially oak and maple. 



Davenport & Ridley were elected members of the Buffalo Lumber Ex- 

 change at the last meeting of that organization. Mr. Ridley lately spent 

 a week in Tennsylvania on lumber business. 



The last lumber cargo to arrive by lake this year was 450,000 feet of 

 maple for the yard of II. H. Salmon & Co. The vessel was detained 

 several days at Port Colborne by storms. 



Hugh McLean is planning to visit the southern mills of his lumber 

 company in January. The Memphis mill is as usual closed down for 

 about a week over the holidays. 



W. L. Blakeslee. of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, has returned from an 

 eastern business trip and reports the sale of a fair amount of different 

 hardwoods while away. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company reports that business Is 

 quiet, but it expects an early revival and a big year. The company is 

 bringing down hardwood lumber from its mills on the Cumberland by 

 barge and landing it at Burnside for shipment this way. 



Taylor & Crate will carry out the improvement of their hardwood yard 

 at Black Rock in the spring, when they expect to put in a large amount 

 of stock. 



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Geoi-gi^ I). Dul^arry. aged sixty-throe, for over thirty ypars leading 

 lumber dealer in Pittsburgh, died at his home at 5o21 Ponn avenue, 

 December 17. 



The United States Steel Corporation has started work on shops and 

 also improvements at Oreenville, Pa., to cost $400,000. These are on 

 account of the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad which is owned by this 

 company. 



The Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Pennsylvania is working 

 hard on the program for its annual convention to be held at the 

 Monongahela House in this city February 11 .^nd 12. Secretary H. V. S. 

 Lord announces that the attendance at this convention already assured 

 will make it much the largest convention of its kind ever held in Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



I. F. Balsley of the Balsley & McCracken Lumber Company finds some 

 very good manufacturing trade going around, although there is sharp 

 competition to get it. He has made several successful trips down East 

 this fall. 



W. W. M'allaco. head of W. W. Wallace & Co., a well known lumberman 

 of Apollo. Pa., died December 15 at his home in that town. He was one 

 of the best known dealers in the Allegheny Valley and was a prominent 

 member of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Penns.vlvania which 

 was represented at the funeral by Paul McCracken of Leechburg, Pa. 



The steel concerns in the Pittsburgh district last week for the first 

 time in a long period reported an increase in inquiries. Many plants 

 and furnaces are starting up now and there is a general feeling that the 

 bottom has been touched and that business Is going ahead in good shape 

 after January 1. 



The Pittsburgh-Buffalo Company, one of the biggest lumber buyers in 

 Pennsylvania, together with Its affiliated concerns, was placed in the 

 hands of receivers December 6. Fred R. Babcock of the Rabcock 

 Lumber Company was named receiver for the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Company. 

 It Is stated that in all probability creditors will be paid in full as the 

 members of the companies are estimated to be worth $11,000,000 more 

 than its liabilities. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company, with a smaller sales force than last 

 year, has done $150,000 worth more business. It has paid eighteen per 

 cent in cash dividends besides adding largely to the cash surplus. The 

 company regards the outlook for 1914 as very promising. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Company has had a very good 

 year In business, reporting about the same amount of lumber sold as in 

 1912. President W. D. Johnston is Inclined to believe that next year 

 will show a better all-around business. 



J. N. Woolletl, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, has added 

 a new cypres^ department to his business and expects henceforth to make 

 cypress one of the leading lines In his trade. He has so successfully 

 bandied the gum and Cottonwood business the past few years that bis 

 dealings in cypress are already nssnred on a large scale. 



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The Carroll & O'Kelly Company, Boston, has been incorporated to deal 

 in lumber. The capital stock is $10,000. J. P. Carroll is president and 

 John F. O'Kelly of Chelsea, Mass., is treasurer. 



The tramp steamer Norhelm has arrived at Boston with a cargo of 

 656 logs of mahogany measuring ."iig.OOO board feet. This shipment 

 was unloaded at the yard of the Palmer & Parker Company, fancy hard- 

 wood dealers, Charlestown. 



The plant of the Essex Wood Turning Company, Essex, Conn., which 

 has been operated for a long time by a receiver has been purchased by 

 Daniel T. Doane, who plans to operate it. 



The table factory of David R. Jones, Merrimac, N. H., has been de- 

 stroyed by fire together with a large amount of lumber. The loss is 

 estimated at $10,000 with insurance of $2,000. Mr. Jones hopes to 

 rebuild. 



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The annual meeting of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, 

 which will take place in Chicago on January 22 and 23, 1914, is to be 

 held at the Sherman Hotel, which will be headquarters. Secretary J. 

 McD. Price is now engaged in making preparations for the gathering, 

 getting reports in order and otherwise mapping out the program. It Is 

 yet too early to say just who will go from Baltimore, though John L. 



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