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trying to Interest hont men nnd the canal Interests generally In nn enter- 

 prise to build cnnni fleets on bis premises, wliere tliere is plenty of timber 

 and plenty of other resources. Tbese boats can then be brought up safely 

 to New York and put into the canai fleet. The timber is mostly yellow 

 pine, with some oak, and the owner claims that this is the cheapest and 

 surest way of turning out canal boats for the new barge canal this season. 

 People are very slow in taking up these projects, and it looks now as if 

 the season would lie well under way before anything at all is done, much 

 as transportation facilities are needed between here and New York, 



At the annual meeting of the BufTaio Lumber Exchange Horace F. 

 Taylor was re-elected president, Clark W. Hurd vice-president nnd John 

 S. Tyler secretary-treasurer. AH were chosen unanimously. Directors 

 were elected as follows ; Horace F. Taylor, M. M. Wall. Henry I. George. 

 Clark W. Hurd. M. P. Kinseila. C. Walter Betts. William L. Biakeslee, 

 R. F. Kreinhedcr, Elmer ,T. Sturm, Hurry L. Abbott and John S. Tyler. 

 The exchange commissioned Millard S. Burns to enter complaint before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission as to the discrimination of the rail- 

 roads against Buffalo. Mr. Burns is acting in connection with the 

 Chamber of Commerce. He has made his report and received an answer 

 from the commission, agreeing to take the matter up. 



Fire caused a loss of several thousand dollars March 9 at the planing 

 mill of the J. E. Cutler Company. Welland, Ont. 'fhe portion containing 

 the machinery was saved with little loss. 



F. M. Sullivan of T. Sullivan & Co., has returned from a business trip 

 to Michigan and reports that traffic conditions are showing little relief 

 as yet. 



X PITTSBURGH >.= 



The -Vmcriciin Lumber and Manufacturing Company is rushing its big 

 operation at Lenox, Ky., in order to provide oak and other hardwood 

 to fill the government orders which it has taken for shipment on eastern 

 Seaboard points. 



The Acorn Lumber Company reports a big inquiry from manufacturing 

 and industrial concerns and says that prices on most stocks are very 

 firm so that the wholesaler can often get a nice premium for quick 

 delivery. 



A. D. Knapp of the Nicola Lumber Company expects to make a business 

 and pleasure trip to the South shortly. He reports business improving, 

 but wholesalers very cautious about what they take on. 



E. H. Schreiner Lumber Company says that oak and maple are in 

 splendid demand with every indication that present prices will be con- 

 tinued right through this year. 



J. W. Hulse, formerly manager of the old McDonald Lumber Company 

 of this city, is now making a success of drilling oil wells in Ohio. His 

 latest operations have been in Morgan and Trumbull Counties. 



J. K. Fawcett, formerly of the Kendall Lumber Company, is now a 

 lumber expert on the Pacific Coast in the employ of the United States 

 Shipping Board. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company at Coal Grove, Ohio, resumed 

 operations in full last week, and will make a big cut of lumber this 

 summer. 



R. M. McGee and George Bowers, of Big Bun, Pa., have bought a tract 

 of virgin white oak timber at Marion Center, Pa., and expect to produce 

 2,500,000 feet of lumber from the tract. 



The Frampton-Fostcr Lumber Company reports the demand for oak 

 almost phenomenal. Prices are going out of sight and anybody who can 

 deliver stock quickly has got a big "jump" on the market. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company finds business good — better In fact 

 than can be handled in the face of delayed shipments and deliveries. 

 Buyers are coming into market more frequently and are more disposed 

 to pay good prices for hardwood than a few weeks ago. 



Mayor E. V. Babcock of the city of Pittsburgh, spent two weeks lately 

 among the cantonments in the South. He is back on the job now and 

 already is making some notable improvements in showing how to run 

 Pittsburgh on a business basis. 



=•< BALTIMORE >-= 



Notification of the various changes made in the by-laws of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange at the last quarterly meeting held on March 4 have been 

 sent out to the members by Secretary L. H. Gwaltney. Perhaps the most 

 important of these changes is the increase in the charge for inspection of 

 lumber to 60 cents per 1,000 feet, of which amount the inspector gets 

 53 cents and the exchange seven cents to maintain the bureau. 



The large four-story brick factory of the Cumberland Valley' Spoke & 

 Bending Company was destroyed by fire on the night of March 16. The 

 origin of the blaze is not known, but as the company was engaged on 

 government work a suspicion of incendiarism is entertained. The loss 

 is estimated at $50,000. partly covered by insurance. Henry F. Wingert 

 Is president of the company. 



That building operations here continue to lag is shown again by the 

 statement of the building inspector for February, during which month the 

 declared value of the structures for which permits were issued did not 

 exceed $394,885, with $47,926 more for additions and $45,400 for altera- 

 tions. The structures authorized during the month included eight two- 

 story brick dwellings, valued at $18,000 ; one power house, $65,000 ; six- 

 teen manufactories and warehouses, $300,150, and eight garages, $11,735, 



a Krand tcdal of $488,210. This falls far below the aggregate for corre- 

 sponding months of other years, and shows to what extent the unsettled 

 general conditions, the high prices of materials and the scarcity ot labor 

 have operated to check construction work. The demands upon the yards 

 from the builders are very limited, and the government continues to be 

 the largest 'customer of the lumbermen, though, of course, this business Is 

 mainly in yellow pine and other soft woods. 



Major G. L. Wood, who prior to entering the service of the United States 

 with the Forestry Regiment assembled at Washington, was vice-president 

 and general manager 'of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Continental 

 buililing. Is back from France on a visit and has been renewing acquaint- 

 ances during the last week. 



A cargo of 2,000,000 ot spruce shingles arrived here from Nova Scotia 

 in the British schooner E. E. Armstrong about March 8 for William M. 

 Burgan. It was expected that commencement of construction work on 

 several hundred houses for the government to accommodate the increase 

 in the number of ship workers at the plant ot the Bethlehem Steel Com- 

 pany and other corporations here might cause an urgent demand for the 

 shingles, but the project in question has not yet been started, though there 

 can be no doubt that a good demand for the shingles will be found. 



Recent visitors here include J. W. Haigh of the Engineering & Lumber 

 Company. Ltd., ot London, who came to the United States to see about 

 opportunities for getting hardwood stocks shipped to the United Kingdom. 

 .Vmong others he called upon Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association. 



William H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. Memphis, was here on 

 March 8 and also saw Mr. Dickson, going with him the following Monday 

 to Washington, where Mr. Russe had business with government officials. 



The special committees include the following : 



Auditing — Holger A. Koppel, Baltimore. 



Marine Insurance — Joiin L. Alcock, John L, 

 Edward Barber, Howard & Barber, Cincinnati: 

 & Burgess, Inc., London. 



Importation of Hardwoods and Other Woods — W. J. Eckman, M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Company. Cincinnati ; W. B. Burke, Lamb-Fish Lumber 

 Company, Charleston, Miss.: R. C. Whitbeck. Ferd Brenner Lumber Com- 

 pany, Alexandria, La. ; R. S. Huddleston, Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany 

 Company. 



Merchant Marine — John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co. ; Richard P. 

 Baer, Richard P. Baer & Co., Baltimore, and Holger A. Koppel, Baltimore. 



Liverpool Measurements — Gustave A. Farber, Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 Memphis, London, and two others to be appointed at the discretion of 

 the president. 



National Councillor U. S. Chamber of Commerce — John L. Alcock. 



Alternate National Councillor of U. S. Chamber of Commerce — W. J. 

 Eckman, M. B. Farrin Lumber Company. 



Alcock & Co., Baltimore ; 

 Gustave A. Farber, Russe 



-^ COLUMBUS >• 



The death of Peter Kuntz, Sr., March 3, at his home in Dayton. Ohio, 

 removes from the industry in this state the largest retail lumber yard 

 owner in Ohio, and one of the largest line yard owners in the country. 

 He was one ot the first men in the country to undertake co-operative pur- 

 chasing, and the collective direction in the line yard system which has 

 since become an almost dominant factor in the industry, especially in the 

 thinly populated sections of the West. Mr. Kuntz was born in Germany 

 seventy-nine years ago, and came to America when he was but two and 

 one-half years old. 



The work of rebuilding the planing mill of the Lyman Hawkins Lumber 

 Company of Akron, which was destroyed by fire February 2. will be started 

 at once. A loss of about $30,000 entailed the further loss of interruption 

 in work connected with government contract. 



The Lockland Lumber Company of Cincinnati has wired a protest to 

 Washington against the proposed elimination of the jobber from the coal 

 trade, by which Fuel Administrator Garfield considers he can bring about 

 a more equitable distribution of fuel. 



The Washington Court House Lumber Company has recently purchased 

 from L. B. Banks the Uillsboro Lumber Company of Hillsboro, Ohio. L. G. 

 Barger has been made manager of the concern under the new management. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports an increas- 

 ing demand for hardwoods as the spring advances. This is especially true 

 of the retail demand, which is becoming stronger. Factories, especially 

 those making boxes and implements, are also good customers. Prices have 

 recently been advanced. 



The Imperial Lumber Company, of which J. A. Ford is at the head, is 

 having a good hardwood trade with prices strong in every particular. 



Plans for new storage plant and garage have been completed by the 

 Black River Lumber Company of Lorain, Ohio, which firm is controlled by 

 the Peter Kuntz Company. The warehouse will occupy a plot 600 feet 

 long, and will be of frame construction with concrete floor. Officers of 

 the company are : President, Peter Kuntz, Jr. ; vice-president, Joseph 

 Murphy ; secretary, Martin Kuntz ; treasurer, J. I. Murphy, who also, is 

 general manager. 



The West Liberty Lumber Company of West Liberty, Ohio, has been 

 incorporated with a capital ot $20,000 to deal in lumber. The incor- 

 porators are Peter Kuntz. Jr., Martin Kuntz, J. A. Payne, Joseph Murphy 

 and E. R. Aibaugh. 



