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II. s. Jones, president of tlio New Eugloml IIaiHlwoo(IT!ompnn.v, spout 

 :i few (lays In the city tills month. lie Is still netlvely connected with the 

 \Miorlcan I'orest Company, und lately attended a directors' nieetlnc. 



The Standard Hardwood Luniher Company will soon add large quantities 

 .if oak. chestnut and other hardwoods to Its stocks from the south. The 

 lonipany reports trade fair for this time of year. 



The Buflalo Hardwood Lumber Company reports business better at pres- 

 • I't than a year ago. Sales are mostly of oak. with red oak leading. Quar 

 irred in firsts and seconds are keeping up well In price. 



Jackson & Tindic have been continuing ndll operations at Jackson Bor 

 .■ugh, their new development town in Ontario, Canada, where a large tract 

 i.f whltcwood and other timber is being cut. 



U. U. McLean returned early this mouth from a vacation trip to Cuba, 

 which took him away from this city for a numl)er of weeks. The Hugh Mc- 

 Lean Lumber Company is predicting better prices for quartered oak. 



O. E. Yeager states that the hardwood trade is rather quiet, but pros- 

 pects seem favorable for better business soon. January business in hard- 

 woods Was satisfactory. 



The National Lumber Company states that business this mont'h com- 

 pares favorably with last and that there is a pretty fair demand at present 

 for oak and maple flooring. 



G. Elias & Bro. have been installing high-speed, latest pattern flooring 

 machines. This is about the only concern here now turning out maple 

 flooring for the trade. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have lately been getting In a good stock of variou.= 

 hardwoods, including ash, maple and elm, and trade is called fair for this 

 season. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company reports that it has been cutting 

 quite an amount of maple at one of the mills in Pennsylvania. Mr. Chest- 

 nut is pleased to observe that the late severe weather has not shut off the 

 work and the lumber is now ready for shipment. 



A. C. Mayer, who went to Vermont to assist in establishing the New Eng- 

 land Hardwood Company at Mountain Mills, has resigned to take a respon- 

 sible position with the Byrd & Matthews Lumber Company, Helen, Ga. 



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John H. Schofleld. of SchoSeld Brothers, owners of the Saltkatchie Lum- 

 ber Company, reports business for January and for the first three weeks 

 of February very good, but since that time comparatively quiet. They have 

 liau an excellent year's trading and believe business wilt be brisk once good 

 weather is here. Robert W. and Frank E. Schofleld, who have been on a 

 visit to their mill in Schofleld, S. C, are taking in the Honaker Lumber 

 Company and other mills in whicli they are interested. 



Hallowell & Souder report very fair trading right along and are op- 

 timistic as to outlook. Ralph Souder of this house, who is president of the 

 riiiladelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, attended the national 

 wliolesaler's convention at Buffalo. 



.Vmong the recent visitors to the local trade were B. T. Whedon, of W. D. 

 Young & Co., Bay City, Mich., and V. W. Stewart of the Colonial Pine Com- 

 pany, Inc., Wilson, N. C. 



W. A. Jackson of the Jackson-Wyatt Lumber Company, says in spite of 

 the recent severe weather the company bagged some very good orders and 

 the outlook is favorable. Mr. Jackson is attending the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' convention in Buffalo. 



As so many of its members are attending the National Wholesale Lum- 

 l)er Dealers' convention in Buffalo, the Lumbermen's E.\change has post- 

 poned its monthly meeting from March 5 to March 12, at 1 :30 p. m. 



James W. Cooper, a retired furniture manufacturer, after a protracted 

 illness, died on February 2L He was eighty-three years old. 



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

 Company, has returned from a receirt trip to the Bermudas and the Panama 

 canal. ^ 



J. C. Donges Lumber Company, which was recently incorporated, is get- 

 ting a nice trade in hardwoods. Mr. Donges has three men on the road. 



The Adelman Lumber Company reports some very good business coming, 

 and its three road men are bringing in considerable yard trade, especially 

 fiom Ohio and Indiana. 



The Babcock Lumber Company has been moving some splendid sales of 

 hasswood lately. Its stocks in this line are probably as good as any that 

 I an be had in the country. 



The West Penn Lumber Company reports a very good manufacturing in- 

 quiry. J. S. Erving of this company recently made quite a long trip through 

 the Northwest. 



The Mutual Lumber Company complains of very bad weather in West 

 Virginia, which has held up shipments considerably. Inquiry from manu- 

 facturers, according to H. E. Asht of this company, is not so good as it was 

 last month. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company reports business In gum and Cottonwood 

 fairly good. President Woollett complains, however, that prices are being 

 liadiy cut. 



The Kendall lumber plant at Crellin, Md., was practically shut down 

 last week on account of four feet of snow and 24 degrecs-bciow-zero 

 weather. 



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