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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10. 1922 



BLAIR 

 LUMBER CO. 



Hardwood 

 Manufacturers 



CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 



annually. Mr. lienils was formerly a resident of liiiffalo and movud to 

 Warren in 1891. His two daughters, Mrs. George Veateh, of Oil City, 

 and Mrs. William Haines, of Pittsburgh, are the chief beneficiaries under 

 the will, and should either die without issue the residue of the estate 

 passes to Harry C. Bemis, a son and executor, who is engaged in the lumber 

 business at Bradford. A nephew and niece are to receive $300 annually. 

 The amount of the estate is not given, but is believed to he over $1,000,000. 



The Black Rock Lumber Co., which has been engaged in the business 

 here for some time past, with office in the Fidelity building, has been in- 

 ;orporated with capital of $100,000. The directors are William K. 

 Barnhard, George li. Klaes and Herbert Brooks, all of Buffalo. The com- 

 nany carries on a wholesale and retail business. 



Fred M. Sullivan has returned from a week's business trip to Michigan in 

 tne Interest of T. Sullivan & Co. 



BALTIMORE 



The Weyerhaeuser Timber C^orporatiun. which has established a lar^^e 

 lumber depot at Fairchild. this city, will build, at a cost of $3(1.000, an 

 open crane run 72. G by 702 feet. The corporation, as was reported at the 

 time, has entered into an arrangement to bandlc hardwood flooring and 

 will also be in position to supply some of the other hardwood needs, though 

 ts main hOsiness is in Pacific coast woods. 



The Baltimore Lumber Company has acquired the property at 1123 

 •;:ist Baltimore street, this city, adjacent to its factory on Watson street, 

 iMcl contemplates a plant expansion at a cost of $70,000. The building on 

 the lot will be razed and a four-story office and mill work structure erected 

 on the site. The new place is expected to be ready for occupancy by 

 August 1. 



The Atlantic Mill and Lumber Compan.\- has taken title to the Shryock 

 nharf property at Thames and Philpot streets, where a large lumber shed 

 and other facilities are in course of erection at the present time. 



The City Club, of which John L. Alcock, of the well-known hardwood 

 exporting firm of .John L. Alcock &. Co., is president, is planning to erect 

 a ten-story club house and office building at the southwest corner of St. 

 Paul and Saratoga streets, at a cost of not less than $800,000. The club 

 Is expected shortly to invite bids. 



Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, with ofiice in the Knickerbocker Building, this city, has been ill 

 during the past week with grippe, but now appears to be on the menil. 



Meanwhile Dwight D. Hartlove, the president of the association, has been 

 giving much attention to the work of the office. 



Turner W. Isaac, in charge of the hardwood department of the Ryland 

 & Brooks Lumber Company, is expected to attend the annual meeting of 

 the American Wholesale Lumber Association in Chicago this week. Mr. 

 Isaac is one of the regional directors of the organization and has taken a 

 deep interest in it ever since it was started. 



COLUMBUS 



Timmons Harmount, head of the Harmount Tie & Lumber Co., Chilll- 

 cothe, O.. is authority for the statement that the railroads of the country 

 are planning the early rehabilitation of their lines. The Harmount Com- 

 pany is a large shipper of railroad ties. Mr. Harmount says that many of 

 the roads bought ties rather heavily last year and as a result are coming 

 into the market rather slowly this year, but indications point to an active 

 demand later on. 



The Queen City Sash & Door Co., of Cincinnati has been chartered with 

 a capital of $25,000 by Robert A. Fenton, George II. Rodefeld, .\nna Maud 

 Bodeteld, Julia Fenton and Charles M. Leslie. 



H. C. Creith, president of the H. C. Creith Lumber Co.. announces that 

 the contract for the new wholesale and retail plant at Fifth avenue and 

 the Big Four tracks, Columbus, has been awarded. There is being con- 

 structed a large warehouse of brick, concrete and steel and also an office 

 building. It is expected to have the new plant completed by some time 

 in April. 



R. W. llorton <if the W. M. Rltter Lumber Co., reports a rather steady 

 <lemand for hardwoods with prices ruling firm at former levels. Retailers 

 are now probal)ly the best buyers although quite a few orders are being 

 booked from factories, especially those making boxes, implements, fur- 

 niture and caskets. 



The Ward-Brock Sash and Door Company, who expect to be in their 

 new location, 024 McLean avenue, after March l.'». are announcing the 

 rllscontlntiance of their retail department. They are planning to confine 

 their business to the manufacturing end. 



CINCINNATI 



Ernest and Joseph Rogers, widely known in hinibiT circles here and in 

 West Virginia, have formed a partnership to conduct a wholesale and 

 commission lumber business under tlie firm name of the Rogers Brothers 

 Lumber Company. They have opened offices on the Fifth floor of the 

 First National Bank Building and for the time being will handle bard- 

 woirtls exclusively. Ernest Rogers at present is manager of the Cincinnati 

 ollice of the Finkl>ine Lumber (Vmipany and he will continue in that capacity 

 until his success<ir is chosen. During 1021. Joseph Rogers was manager 

 of the Carolina Ijiimber Company at Huntington, W. Va. 



-At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ranwrnid Lumber 

 Company, whicli was held at Parkersburg, W. Va., C. 11. Ilolden was rt^ 

 elected president. Other officers re-elected are : C. W. Sprinkle, vice- 

 president : J. B. Scnseman, secretary, and J. M. Senseman. treasurer. These 

 officers and the following were elected members of the Boanl of Directors, 

 E. M. Bonner, P. II. Vance and B. M. Nelly. The stockholders voted to 

 continue to have the Atlas Lumber Company of Cincinnati distribute the 

 output of the company's mills at Pickens, W. Va. 



W. W. S*-hupner, secretarj' of the National \\1iolesale Lumlier Dealers' As- 

 sociation with headquarters in New York City, was the guest of the Cin- 

 cinnati wholesalers at a dinner at the Cliamber of Commerce. Mr. 

 Schupner. who was introduced by J. C. West. President of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club, made an address on conditions of the lumber industry. 

 Before leaving this city, Mr. Schupner obtained several tiew members for 

 his association. 



Among the visitors in the local hardwood market during the past two 

 weeks were : O. II. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.. W. B. Ackles of the Alton Luml)er Company, Bu<-khannon, W. Va., 

 and L. O. Stelnbec_k of the L. O. Steinbeck Lumber Company, Secona, W. Va. 



Cincinnati's delegation to the annual convention of the American Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association at Louisville, Ky., consisted of J. C. West 

 of the West Lumber Co.. W. II. Hopkins of the W. O. llarter Lumber Co.. 

 Herbert Bauman of the Bauman Lumber Co.. Earl Hart of the Leland G. 

 ■ Banning Lumber Co., M. J. Byrns of the M. J. Byrns Lumber Co. ; George 

 Hand of the P.ayou Land and Luml)er Co. : J. C. Wright of the M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Co, ; J. J. Linehan and Benjamin Rubenstein of the Mow- 

 bray & Robinson Lumber Co. ; E. M. Bonner of the .\tlas Lumber Co. ; 

 George Christie of James Kennedy. Ltd., and Theodore Davis, Cincinnati 

 manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. 



EVANSVILLE 



The T. H. Kessler Lumber Company at Winslow, lud.. announced a few 

 days ago that they will build a new addition to their plant at that place 

 in the early spring and make other improvements around their premises. 

 The building of the addition is made necessary because of the increase in 

 business of the company. 



Gilbert II. Bosse, manager of the Imperial Desk Company here, has been 

 elected a director of the Chamber of Commerce of Evansville. to serve the 



