July 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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capacity he lias an opportunity to contribute to a patriotic public service 

 the qualities which have aciiieved an enviable record in private busi- 

 ness. Mr. Hitter's business career has been most unusual. He was born 

 near Hughesville, Ta., in 1804 and in ISOO entered the lumber busi- 

 ness in West Virginia. Since that time he has been the president and 

 directing head of a number of companies. Mr. Ritter is the managing 

 director of the Hitter Lumber Company, Ltd.. of Liverpool Eng., and 

 his other companies operate in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North 

 Carolina and South Carolina. The mills have a capacity of 128.000,000 

 feet annually. The company owns stumpage assuring a timber supply 

 for fifteen years. 



Columbus building operations in June were fairly active and did not 

 sliow^ so much falling off from the previous years as' some recent reports. 

 Lumbermen are generally optimistic and believe that building projects will 

 show- an increase. According to the report tlie department issued 197 

 permits for a valuation of $470. .510 in June, 1917 as compared with 

 289 permits and a valuation of $.5,"i7,o70 for June, 1916. For the first 

 six months of tlie year the department issued 1235 permits having a 

 valuation of $2,434,730 as compared with 1082 permits and a valuation 

 of $4,161,435 for the corresponding period in 1916. 



F. E. Gadd, assistant to the president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States, has forwarded to all members o£ the 

 association copies of the revised issue of the association's grading rule 

 book, effective March 1, 1917, The book includes all rules adopted at the 

 . past annual convention covering plain sawed red gum figured wood ; 

 quartersawed red gum figured wood-selects oak ; fas wormy oak : No, 1 

 common wormy oak and core stock. 



The Dover Woodface & Lumber Company, Dover, has been organized 

 taking over the independent lusiness of John II. Garber. It will operate 

 as a subsidiary company of the Garber-Marsh Lumber Company, which 

 has been conducting a separate woodface business. The parent company 

 will continue in business at its regular quarters on Cherry street, while 

 the newly organized firm began operations July 1, in the yard formerly 

 used by the Baer Lumber & Coal Company, which was taken over two 

 months ago, Charles Garber of Strasburg, is severing his connection 

 with the Garver Bros., Company, to come to the new firm as secretary. 

 Other officers will probably be J. H. Garber, A, C, Marsh, F. J. Huff and 

 W. P. Marsh. 



The Piqua Handle and Manufacturing Company, Piqua, increased its 

 xiapital from $350,000 to $900,000. 



The Mahoning Lumber Company, Youngstown, has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $100,000 to deal in hiniljer. The incorporators are 

 M'. L. Gailey. Etta Boj'd, H. H. Wickham, E. Maiden, Jr., and Louise M. 

 Strahls. 



The membership campaign of the Columbus Luml)ermen's Club, under 

 John R. Gobey and W. L. Whitacre is progressing satisfactorily. Many new 

 members have been secured and it now appears that there will be sufficient 

 support to maintain a lunch department at the club rooms. Much interest 

 is manifested in the affairs of the club. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good de- 

 mand for hardwoods and prices contiuue high in every regard. Buying 

 on the part of manufacturing establishments is one of the best features 

 of the trade. Shipments are coining out better because of a better car 

 supply, Mr. Horton looks for a good business throughout the summer 

 months. 



H. D. Brasher of the H. D. Brasher Lumlier Company w'as callecl to 

 Alabama last week on business. He is negotiating for the purchase of a 

 large mill and planing business, 



Edward Abel Hildreth, sixty-two, retired lundierman, died recently at 



his late home, 442 East Broad street. He had been in poor health for 



several years. Mr. Hildreth was born in Columbus Feb. 14, 1S55, and 



had been a life-long resident of Columbus. While still a young man he 



• became a member of the Hildreth & Martin Lumber Company. 



=■< CLEVELAND y 



Anson R. Singletary, pioneer lumber dealer and president of the Single- 

 tary Lumber Company of Cleveland, died Wednesday. June 20, at his home, 

 at the age of eighty-eight years. At the age of twenty-one he came to 

 Cleveland, and in 1860 established a planing mill on Merwin street, on the 

 present site of the Singletary Lumber Company. At the time of his death 

 the company was capitalized at $50,000. Mr. Singletary is survived by 

 two daughters, Mrs. Laura S. Goodhue, a director of the company, and 

 Mrs. Benjamin C. Hinig, wife of the treasurer of the company. 



The barge Thomas Gawn, owned by the Smeed Box Company, arrived 

 July 4 with a cargo of material for this company. .\ cargo of shook 

 lumber for the Cleveland Box Company arrived recently on the steamer 

 Ogemaw from Munising. 



Directors of the West Virginia Timber Company met in Cleveland 

 June 28. President George E. Breece was in Cleveland for the meeting. 

 According to Abner G. Webb, secretary, the matter of deliveries is the 

 principal w'orry at present, that of price being secondary. On the whole, 

 however, a slight betterment of the car situation is noticeable. 



That the transit privilege is being largely used for speculating pur- 

 poses is the contention of some prominent Cleveland retailers. The antics 

 of the shingle market for the past thirty days are pointed to as an 

 example. Shingle prices have tumbled 25 per cent recently and railroads 



75' in this 

 vhite oak 



Lenox SawMillCo. 



Mills: Lenox, Kentucky 



Sales Office 



American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 

 PITTSBURGH, PA, 



Soft Texture 



KENTUCKY 



WHITE OAK 

 & POPLAR 



Chestnut, Beech, etc. 



Band Sawn on our new Electric 

 mill out of the be^ timber ever 

 grown anywhere. 



are having difficulty handling the large amounts which have been put 

 in transit at the new prices. The fall is said to be due to a running up 

 of the market previously on speculative account. 



Outgoing shipments have been greatly improved by the removal of prac- 

 tically all embargoes, but incoming shipping is still slow. The congested 

 condition of the Cleveland yard is largely accountable, it being estimated 

 that 12,000 loaded cars are waiting to get on team tracks and unloading 

 spurs. Many of them are said to be held by consignees and to be lised as 

 warehouses for goods which are increasing in price so rapidly that owners 

 are willing to pay demurrage. 



=-< CINCINNATI y- 



The Weigle Machine Tool Company has organized in this city with a 

 capital stock of $115,000. Harry B. Fox is president ; C, E. Meek, 

 secretary and treasurer, and A. P. Weigle, general manager. The other 

 directors are M. F. Gartland and Thomas Ryder. The company has pur- 

 chased a building of the Otis Elevator Company and will begin work at 

 once. 



Mrs. Bertha Weliand, 909 East McMillian street, widow of Harry 

 Welland who was president of the Weliand Company, carriage and automo- 

 bile manufacturer, died last week at pethesda Hospital. Mrs. Weliand is 

 survived by a daughter and one son, H. W. Weliand, who is president of the 

 concern. 



Members of the Cincinnati Furniture Exchange fasted until Saturday 

 in anticipation of the fried chicken dinner to be served at the annual 

 outing on Cody's farm, Erlanger, Ky,, on that day. Headed by a police 

 escort and military band a parade W'as given from Music Hall to Suspen- 

 sion bridge, where automobiles entered and the journey to the farm re- 

 sumed. Baseball games, golf tournaments and other athletic sports 

 followed the chicken dinner. 



< INDIANAPOLIS > ■ ■■ 



The Marion county board of review which fixes the values for taxation 

 purposes of property in Indianapolis last week added about 60,000 to the 

 valuation of Indianapolis lumber yards and plants. O. D. Haskett, presi- 

 dent of the lumber company bearing his name, and C. J. Shirk of the 

 Gansberg & Shirk Lumber Company, appeared before the board as repre- 

 sentatives of all the lumbermen in an attempt to have the appraisements 

 harmonized, but they refused to stand responsible for some of the increased 

 valuations given some of the properties. As a result, the board decided 

 to call in representatives of the companies individually. 



A heavy bolt of lightning struck the yards of the Krudop Lumber Com- 



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