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Tbe Central Lumber Company. West Iloboken. N. J., was Incorporated 

 under New Jersey laws. Marcb liT. with a capital stock of $125,000. 



Charles lieeker. a retired cabinet maker, this city, died March 28. He 

 was sixty-eight years oid. 



.Samuel Ladd Cavls. one of the oldest carriage builders In this city. 

 died March :'.n. at the ago of seventy eight years. 



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I. V. Llalslcy. one of the bist kiiuwii liarihvood men In this scutiuii. i- 

 now manager of the Phlladelphhi onice of the Craig County Luml'er Cor 

 poratlon. This concern manufactures large quantities of oak, ehestiuii 

 and poplar and other hardwoods at Waltevlllc, W. Va., and Mr. Balsky 

 Is likely to make a big success of these stocks In the eastern market. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association recently elected 

 O. H. Babcock, of the Babcock Lumber Company, president : J. C. 

 DoDges, of the J. C. Donges Lumber Company, vice president ; John G. 

 Criste, of the Interior Lumber Company, secretary and treasurer. 



The plant of the Fort Pitt Bo.\ Company, in Etna, a north side suburb, 

 was burned .\pril 2 with a loss of about $100,000. The plant had been 

 very busy the past few months. 



The Dalley & .Mien Lumber Company is getting a fine lineup on hard- 

 wood stocks at its new office in the Farmers' Bank building and is mak- 

 ing fine headway In its tr.ide. Fred Dalley of this company recently re 

 turned from a long trip in the South. 



C. E. Breitwieser & Co., have taken on the agency for the oak and 

 hardwood stocks of the Virginia Lumber Company, manufactured at 

 Boyer, W. Va., on the C. & O. Railroad, at the rate of 100,000 feet a day. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company is mortng from the House build- 

 ing, where it has been located for thirteen years, to the Conestoga build- 

 ing, at Wood and Water streets. It will have the entire Water street 

 front of this buildipg on the second floor. 



The Joseph W. Cottrell Lumber Company is now located in fine quar- 

 ters in the First National Bank building, where it moved from the Fer- 

 guson building, in Third avenue. 



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

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

 made some nice sales in lumber while on his pleasure trip. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company has been breaking all records so far 

 this year. It regards the prospects as fair, although there is quite a 

 slump in the market at present, and collections are bad. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is doing a splendid hardwood business. 

 Its eastern trade has been developing very rapidly of late and the con- 

 cern is prosperous in all ways. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is operating its force in full and hag n.i 

 «pedal fears about the situation. President J. L. Kendall spent a few 

 weeks with his family at St. Augustine, Florida, lately. 



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The firm of .Vbbott & Cleaves of Portland, Me., has been incorporated 

 in that city under the style of the Abbott & Cleaves Company, with 

 authorized capital of $75,000. 



Walter G. Jenness, who has for man.v years conducted a lumber busi- 

 ness in Sonierville, Mass., and more recently in Brookline, Mass., on 

 March 26 filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities av 

 reported as $32,2.">2, and assets of S.'J.SOG. 



The Guernsey -Westbrook Company of Ilartford, Conn., announces that 

 on March 20, H. E. Pearsall of Providence, R. I., has been elected vici- 

 president of the corporation. Mr. Pearsall has been identified with thi^ 

 firm for some years, principally in the conduct of the company's hardwooil 

 business through New York and New England. 



The lumber trade of Boston welcomes back into the active ranks a 

 former prominent wholesaler, .V. Wendell Ilayford, who after having 

 withdrawn from the lumber business when the firm of Flayford & Chase 

 was succeeded by the Irving N. Chase Lumber Company, has recently 

 Incorporated the firm of A. W. Hayford Company, with a suite of ofliees 

 at 60 Congress street. Mr. Hayford has spent some time the past winter 

 on the Pacific coast although he will not confine his business to western 

 woods, but expects to do a general lumber business. 



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There appears to be no reason to complain of the lumber busice-- 

 locally In so far as volume is concerned, if the amounts involved In tie 

 liuildlng permits Issued are an Indication. The report for Mareli N n .w 

 available, and shows that the value of the new buildings, fer .hi h 

 permits were Issued, amounted to $679,767.2.3, with $80,000 im r ! i 

 alterations and $04,000 for additions. Included in the aggretrar i 



124 two-story brick dwellings, 15 two-story frame dwellings, :; _ r _ 

 2 stores, 2 hospitals, 1 apartment house, 1 church, alterations i . ■! 

 Polytechnic Institute and 5 factories and warehouses. Among tin 

 structures being planned, but not yet In hand, are a ten-story hotel, i 

 twelve-story office building, a $225,000 theatre, a new burlesque theatr. 

 and an extension for a third playhouse. In addition, many smaller 

 projects have been waiting for settled weather, and there Is every pros- 

 pect that numerous other undertakings not yet in shape will be brought 

 out before long. For the past three months the value of structures for 



MEMPHIS 



Whulebule .Manuracturera and Exporters 



RED GUM 



SAP GUM 



COTTONWOOD 

 CYPRESS 

 ASH 



PLAIN OAK 



All Grades and Thicknesses ^^^^^^y^^^ 

 We niak« a specialty of inixed cars SOFT ELM 



""" " SYCAMORE 



of Sap and Krd Gun 



VANDEN B001=STIMS0N LIMBER COMPANY 



Nannfactarers SoDtbern Hardwoods 



Red Qum a Specialty 



Memphis 



Tennessee 



DUGAN LUMBER CO. 



Hardwood Lumber 



TENNESSEE 



Manufacturers 

 and Shippers 



MEMPHIS 



Tschudy Lumber Co. 



M.VNVF.VCTrRERS OF 



St. Francis Basin Hardwoods 



Specials for Immediate Shipment 



BAND SAWN. DRY. 6C 14 AND 16 FEET LONG 



50,000 ft. 1" Ists & 2nds Plain White Oak 



25,000 ft. 1" Log Run Maple 



50,000 ft. 1x13 to 17" Yel. Cottonwood Box Boards 



60^000 ft. 1x6 & wider Ists and 2nds Yel. Cottonwood 



Mill » Vo.-,). ADDRESS CORRESPONDEN'CE TO GENERAL OFFICE 



Mi.MPHls 605 RepubUc Bldg. KANSAS CITY, MO. 



^ssman Lumber Co., 



Manufacturers 



plain and quartered red 

 ,atnd white oak, ash, gum 

 iind poplar. :: :: :: :: 



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