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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 191" 



Company, Bridgewater, Mass., capital .fir). 000 ; the Danlelson Manufactur- 

 ing Company, capitalized at ,f25,000, at Independence, Mo., to manufac- 

 ture farm implements ; tbe S. S. Ricard Company, Toledo, O., with a capi- 

 talization of .f 200.000 succeeding S. S. Ricard & Co. ; the Hart Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company, Martinsville, Va.. $25,000 capital, and the Farm- 

 ville Manufacturing Company, Farmville, Va., incorporated at .$50,000 

 imder same name. 



The capital stock of the Kellogg Brothers Lumber Company, Grand 

 Rapids, Wis., has been increased to $120,000. 



At Gulfport. Miss., the Gulfport Shipbuilding Company has been incor- 

 porated. 



The style of the Pelican Cooperage & Lumber Company, Mound. La., has 

 been changed to tbe Pelican Lumber Company. 



-< CHICAGO >• 



The Old Colony Chair Company. Roekford, III., has increased its capital 

 from $1.5,000 to $100,000. 



The H. P. Nelson & Son Piano Company, Chicago, lias filed an involuntary 

 petition in banliruptcy. 



G. Von Platen, witli office and interests at Grand Rapids, ilich., and 

 mills at Iron Mountain, Mich., spent a busy day in Chicago last week on 

 business. 



The e.\eciitive committc<' of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 was in session at Chicago on May 3. The members of the committee wlio 

 met with Secretary Fish at the association headquarters were: F. R. Bab- 

 cock, C. H. Barnaby, T. M. Brown and Theodore Fathauer. 



Among prominent lumbermen who have gone to Washington to confer 

 witli government officials as members of the lumber and for.est products 

 commission of the National defense arc : C. H, Worcester of the C. H. 

 Worcester Company, Chicago ; W. E. DeLaney, president of the Kentucky 

 Lumber Company, Lexington, Ky., and W. M. Ritter of the W. M. Rittcr 

 Lumber Company, Columbus. O. Other members of the committee arc : 

 W. IT. Sullivan, Bogalusa. La.; R. II. Downman, New Orleans; Henry 

 Graves, chief forester, Washington ; Charles S. Keith. Kansas City : E. T. 

 Allen, Portland, Ore. ; J. T. Ciregory, Tacoma, Wash. ; W. R. Brown. Berlin ; 

 N. H. and George S. Long, Tacoma, Wash. 



H. W. Baker, Jr., of the Baker-JIatthews Lumber Company, SiUeston. 

 Mo., spent most of last week in Chicago in conference with tbe nortliern 

 representative, J. H. Staanard. who has offices in the Fisher l)uilding. 



J. A. Faust, vice-president of the Faust Brothers Lumber Company. 

 Vicksburg, Miss., who handles tbe northern end of that firm's business, has 

 gone south for a mouth's trip. Jlrs. Faust accompanies him to New Or- 

 leans and other large southern cities. 



H.\RDWO0D Record is in receipt of a letter from the Boner-Mills Company, 

 formerly of Ashevllle, N. C, stating that its office has been moved from 

 that point to Sumter, S. C, where its mill is manufacturing poplar ex- 

 clusively. The move was made liecause with the office closi-r to the mill 

 the company will be in better position to give quick and efficient service. 



P.. W. Lord of the Chicago Veneer Compan.v, Chicago and Danville, Ky., 

 said that his company has 7,000,000 I'ect of gum logs at its plant in 

 Brinkley, Ark., which would probably go into veneers this year, and i;j.- 

 000,000 feet of timber will be cut into veneer at Mr. Lord's plants. They 

 are well supplied with orders of all kinds and are pleased with pros- 

 pects. 



Hardwood Rkcord desires to correct a statement made in its last issue 

 relative to the Sterling Lumber and Supply Company of Lima. O. That 

 issue contained an announcement of the purchase by the Slagle Lumber 

 Company of Lima of tlie Lima and Tiffin yards from the Sterling company. 

 Init stated that the headquarters of the Slagle cbmpany are at Newark, O. 

 This is incorrect. 



W. R. Edwards. B. K. Edwards and C. II. Bradford have incorporated 

 the O. G. Leach Hardwood Lumber Company, city, with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. 



The Enterprise Lumber and .Mill Work Comiiany with a capitalization 

 of $20,000 has been incorporated here by Bessie G. Knox, Duncan G. Dcwar, 

 Ethel Dewar aud George T. Knox. 



< BUFFALO > 



April is the first montli so far this year to show an increase in the cost 

 of building permits in Buffalo. The total cost for the month is $939,000, 

 as compared with .f80:i,000 in that month last year, a gain of about seven- 

 teen per cent. The total costs for the first four months of 1917 were 

 $2,317,000, as compared with $2,890,000 in that period last year. This is a 

 decline of twenty per cent. Whether the decline will be made up later is a 

 matter of doubt, though business so far this month has been on a fairly 

 liberal scale. Interviews with a number of retail lumbermen show that 

 the disposition to build' houses is not .so great as it sometimes is. The 

 wcatlii'r may have something to do with this, for very few warm days have 

 thus far been enjoyed. 



Taylor & Crate have this montli removed tlieir main office from the Pru- 

 dential building, where they have been for a dozen years or more, and are 

 now located at the new yard at Elmwood and llertel avenui's. They are 

 not yet settled in 'their new office, but are using temporary quarters for a 

 couple of weeks. They were about the last of the downtown wholesalers 

 whose main (iffice was away from the yard. 



Fred M. Sullivan has been spending some days on a fishing and business 



trip in Michigan, looking after stocks of lumber at the mills. T. Sullivan & 

 Co. will have one of the earliest cargoes to arrive here this season. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company reports that the furniture 

 demand has fallen off to some extent lately due partly to the tendency of 

 housekeepers to put their money into food in anticipation of higher prices. 

 .Much stocking of high-priced foodstuffs is being done here and in other 

 cities. 



R. D. McLean has returned from a business trip to Michigan and Indiana. 

 He reports that mahogany prices are very strong and a further advance 

 of from $.50 to $60 is predicted by some people unless a larger amount of 

 tonnage is furnished to bring lumber from abroad. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company is returning to New England terri- 

 tory for lumber and lately bought a large block of high-grade birch in New 

 Hampshire, which is good stock at any tiiiic. 



:< PITTSBURGH >-. 



II. L. llehnan of Warren, 0., one of the biggest buyers and shippers of 

 ship timber in tbe I'nited States, recently underwent a very serious opera- 

 tion at a Boston hospital and is now improving rapidly. Mr. Helman has 

 bought proliably two-thirds of all the big oak that was sold on the Western 

 Reserve in the last twenty-five years. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, which is confining its business 

 this year chiefly to oak and hardwoods, had the largest shipments in April 

 of any month in its history. Mr. Frampton believes that prices on hard- 

 woods are going to increase steadily during the war and that good bill oak 

 will hit the $50 mark within the next two years. 



Tbe Bradley Lumber Company made a record-breaking month in April 

 in its lumber shipments, due to the fact that a large number of ears which 

 bad been embargoed were released. Mr. Bradley says tliat it is almost a 

 problem to know what to ask for good lumber now. Me recently made a 

 trip among the West Virginia mills and found that mills considerably 

 removed from lumber centers there had fairly good stocks to sell. 



The Garling & Splane Lumber Company is now being inC(>rporated under 

 Pennsylvania laws by .Tohn T. Garling and G. R. Splane, (J. L. .lahn, A. N. 

 Stanim and E. B. Shew. The company has been a leading wholesaler here 

 for several years operating under the same name. 



The Kendall Lumber Company will shortly have its new hardwood opera- 

 tion at Cheat Haven, Pa., fully under way. Its officials report an excellent 

 ilemand for hardwood from the mines and also from corporations and the 

 railroads. 



The Acorn Lumber Company sees nothing but high prices lor lumber this 

 summer and in fact all the year. Stocks at the mills are badly broken and 

 the man who can pick up good lumber anywhere is pretty sure to find a 

 desirable market for it within a short time, according to H. F. Itomhofif. 



The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company lias bought all the lumber 

 properties of State Senator Charles W. Stone for about $1. 000, 000. The 

 properties are located in L.\i-oming and Siilli\an ntuiilirs, I';i. 



^■< BALTIMORE >•- 



CharU'S M. Buohnyan. a yuuiig liarilwuiHl man. with dfflcos in tlio Equitable 

 liuilding, is expecting every day that liattcry A, Light Artillery, which was 

 organized last year and of whioli ho is a member, will Ix- called into active 

 service. In that case he will close his otiicos. and the hardwood business 

 which he has been looking after here for William Wliilnicr & Sous will 

 have to bo taken care ol' in some other way. It is thought (he business 

 will in such an event be managed bj- the rhiladelpliia office of the company, 

 as A. Ilarvey McCay. who previously had charf^c of this md of the trade, is 

 in poor health .-md has had to seek t r*';il mcni at tln' .Inhns Hopkins 

 hospital. 



A report has been received here froih Winchester, Va., to the effect that 

 the big mill of the Deerfield Lumber Company eight miles south of Staun- 

 ton, Va., was blown up on April 2."! by a bomb placed near the engine room. 

 Alien enemies are suspected, as the company has been at work on a large 

 tioveniment contract. Two c<pmpanips of state militia were sent to the 

 plant. 



l)aniel MacLe-a. of the Daniel MacLea Lumber Compnny, a hirge dealer 

 in hardwoods here, was in New York tins week conferring with railroad 

 iifficials and getting in touch with others in a position to afford some 

 relief for the breakdown in transportation. Mr. MacLm says that he is 

 exiieriencing more trouble than at any previous time in liis business career 

 with regard to the shipment or the receipt of stocks, Uis company has 

 numerous orders on its books, but finds itself so l)adly hampered in sending 

 lumber forward that the actual movement amounts to only a small pro- 

 portion of the volume that couUl bo handled with perfect niilroad facilities. 



=-< COLUMBUS >= 



The high price of building materials is stopping some forms of building 

 but on the whole the effect is not so marked as one might suppose under 

 tbe circumstances. The high price of steel has stopjied some business 

 liiocks and the high price of bricks anil lumber has stopped some specula- 

 tive building. But on tbe whole dwellings and apartments are going right 

 along and tbe total result will be quite satisfactory. No strikes of couse 

 quence have distui-bed building in Columlnis. but both Cinciunati and 

 Cleveland have suft.n-ed from labor troubles. The records of the Columbus 

 building department shows that many new projects are being carried out. 



