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leased to a wholesale coal company for twenty years and will be occupied 

 entirely by a large coal handling plant. John B. Bugbee. the dean of 

 the Boston hardwood trade, is still active in handling the policies of 

 this long established business. 



Damage amounting to about $30,000 was caused by a fire on May 19 

 in the yard of Geo. E. Keith Company of Brockton. The lumber was 

 piled in open sheds on three sides ot the yard and the fire which started 

 from some unknown cause spread so rapidly that only the heavy stock 

 on baud was saved. 



A special commission is to be appointed upon recommendation of the 

 corporation counsel and chairman of the industrial devohipment l)oard 

 to consider the urgent need of improvement in freight and terminal facil- 

 ities in Boston. 



The business of C. V. Sanders at Taunton has been taken over by the 

 Sanders Lumber Company ; capital .f70,000, C. V. Sanders holding the 

 position of president, and having associated with him, among others, 

 rrancis Boggs, who is also a member of a Boston whoIe>^ale firm. 



A new organization among the local woodworking plants is the Brett- 

 Baynor-Boyer Company of Cambridgeport, with capital of .f20,000., O. D. 

 Brett and his associates as appear in the firm's style having been pre- 

 viously engaged in a similar lousiness in Lynn, Mass. 



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Suit was instituted May 11 in the Federal Court at I.ynchliurg, \'a., 

 by the Virginia Lumber and E.vtraet Company of Wilmington, Del.. 

 against the O. D. McHenry Lumber Company of Clifton Forgo, Va., ask- 

 ing for an order to compel specific performance of an agreement to 

 sell to the plaintllf 20,000 acres ot timber land in Botetourt county, 

 Virginia. The complainant alleges that it leased the timber from the 

 O. D. McIIenry company with right to purchase within five years, and 

 that it now seeks to take advantage ot the option, but that tue defendant 

 refuses to soli. An injunction is asked to restrain the McHenry com- 

 pany from selling the land to others. 



The Skinner Shipbuilding Company of this city, which went into the 

 hands of receivers some time ago, has been reorganized as the Balti- 

 more Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, with a capital stock of 

 .$1,100,000, .f500,000 being preferred seven percent stock and the rest 

 common stock. None of the stock is offered for sale, all of it being 

 taken by the bondholders of the old company. The incorporators are 

 three Baltimore attorneys, who are of course acting for others. The 

 Skinner company succeeded the old Columbian Iron Works, which built 

 some of the first constituents of the new United States Navy, but after- 

 ward became involved in difliculties. There are docks and yards at 

 two points in the harbor here, and much of the work done has been the 

 construction of wooden vessels. 



.1. E. Morgan of the Morgan Company ot Oshkosh, Wis., and H. A. 

 Sellen of the Morgan Sash & Door Company of Chicago, were in 

 Baltimore this week and conferred with C. .V. Ilanscom of the Morgan 

 Millwork Company, West North avenue, an affiliated corporation, about 

 various business matters. Both were handsomely entertained and their 

 stay proved to be most pleasant. Mr. Sellen, in discussing the business 

 outlook, expressed himself as greatly encouraged, and said he expected 

 good results to follow the settlement of the strike in the building trades 

 of Chicago. Work had been held up very mijch by the strike, and the 

 resumption of activities would serve to stimulate the demand for lumber 

 and mill work of all kinds. 



The value of the structures for which building permits were issued 

 here in April was not quite as large as for the two previous months, 

 somewhat of a reaction having set in after the first spurt, but there 

 is nothing to be dissatisfied over, and continued progress is assured. 

 The total on accounts of new buildings was .$7."'>5,522, with .'f.'SO.SOO more 

 for 50 additions and .$54,000 for alterations, a grand total of $849,322. 

 For the two previous months the aggregate was over a million each 

 month, so that a slight Ict-up is to be noted. But various large struc- 

 tures are in prospect, and the showing is to be regarded as very fair 

 in view of the prevailing conditions and the uncertainty created by 

 the war. 



J. C. Banton, a saw mill man of Big Island, Bedford county, Virginia, 

 has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the Federal court at 

 Lynchburg, giving his liabilities as $2,062.89 and his assets as $1,569, 

 $599 of this amount being exempt under the law. 



Richard P. Baer & Co., located in the tower of the Maryland Casualty 

 building, are showing some fine samples of tupelo gum, which have been 

 perfectly dressed by Joseph Thomas & Son of this city. The samples are 

 sent out to customers in foot lengths and have not a single flaw. The 

 wood is used especially for enameling. 



The death of Gen. William D. Gill, senior member of the firm of Wm. 

 D. Gill & Son, necessitated some change in the nature of the firm, and 

 the business has been incorporated with a capital stock of $420,000. 

 Edward P. Gill, brother of the deceased, has been elected president. 

 The firm deals chiefly in long leaf pine, having a big yard and wharves, 

 together with planing and resaw plant, on Philpot street, but also 

 handles hardwoods to some extent. It has long l>een very successful 

 in bidding on big government contracts, and enjoys great prominence. 

 .Vpart from incorporating, no other modification in the method of con- 

 ducting operations is contemplated. 



J. J. Weisand has leased a tract of laud at the corner of Erie and 

 Pennsylvania avenues, East Liverpool, Ohio, upon which he will erect 

 a lumber plant. 



At Bryan, the Lytle Lumber Company has gone out of business. The 

 plant was sold to the Campbell Lumber Company, which was recently 

 incorporated under the laws of Ohio with a capital of $10,000. The 

 backers of the company come from Evanston. 111., where a lumber con- 

 cern under the same name is operated. The incorporators are J. F. 

 Campbell, Charles E. Wertz, L. B. Davis, C. W. Nester and H. V. Barstow. 

 Mr. Lytle will locate at Dashler, Ohio. 



The Taylor Lumber Company has recently started the wholesale lum- 

 l>er business at Portsmouth. 



A disastrous fire recently occurred at the plants of the M. J. Borgin 

 Lumber Company and the Nelson Lumber Company at Columbus. It is 

 believed the fire originated from tramps sleeping in a lumber shed. The 

 fire caused a loss of approximately $G,000 to the M. J. Bcrgin Lumber 

 Company and $30,000 to the Nelson Lumber Company. 



It is announced that the plant of the Bloomville Lumber Company 

 of Bloomville, Ohio, acquired recently by Columbus men and which suf- 

 fered a fire loss of $10,000, will be rebuilt. The storage building, barn 

 .■ind null was destroyed. K. S. Miller is secretary. Gasoline engine and 

 planing mill machinery must be replaced. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio, has approved a recom- 

 mendation of its committee on canal development that the legislature 

 lie requested to pass a resolution petitioning Congress to have the United 

 States army make a survey for a deep-water canal from Lake Erie to 

 the Ohio river along the route of the Miami and Erie canal. The army 

 is to survey that part of the canal from Toledo to Defiance as part of 

 the proposed deep-water canal from Chicago to Lake Erie. The chamber 

 wants the survey extended from Defiance south to Cincinnati. 



The Everett Lumber & Supply Company of North Baltimore has filed 

 papers with the .secretary of state increasing its capital stock from 

 $15,000 to $50,000. 



The Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company of Piqua has filed papers with 

 the secretary of state reducing its capital stock from $3,000,000 to 

 $1,875,000. 



R. W. Morton of the W. M. Bitter Lumber Company reports a slightly 

 better demand for hardwoods ic central Ohio territory. Most of the 

 buying is being done by dealers, although some factories are also buying 

 hardwood stocks. Factories making vehicles and furniture are the best 

 customers. Prices are generally well maintained at the levels which 

 have prevailed for some time. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a better demand 

 for hardwoods since the spring building season has opened. 



H. M. Hayward. who has been the central Ohio representative of the 

 Kansas City Hardwood Flooring Company, has given up his ofiBce to 

 accept a responsible position in the hardwood department ot the Long- 

 Bell Lumber Company ot Kansas City. He took up his new duties May 24. 



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W. H. Weller. secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States, with oflSces in Cincinnati, left Wednesday on a short 

 business trip to St. Louis, Mo., and Evansville, Ind., in the interest of 

 association work. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati met in an informal social session 

 May 19, at the Metropole hotel. The meeting was more for fellowship 

 than business, and other than a resolution to make these noonday 

 luncheons a weekly affair, as many varied Cincinnati business clubs now 

 are doing, no business was transacted. The next regular meeting of the 

 club will take place early in June, when the annual outing will be held. 

 The committee on arrangements for the outing, appointed some time ago, 

 is expected soon to make its report as to the date of the picnic, the place 

 and entertainment to be offered the members. At the outing a business 

 session will be held, as is done each month. As in former years, a deter- 

 mined effort will be made toi make this year's affair excel all others and 

 hints dropped by the arrangement committee give basis for the prediction 

 that their efforts will not have been in vain. 



Cincinnati lumber dealers in some quarters are considerably concerned 

 regarding the probable action of the department of agriculture at Wash- 

 ington on the agitation for a quarantine on chestnut nursery stock and 

 chestnut lumber retaining the natural bark in certain states. Early in 

 the week a public hearing was held by the department of agriculture to 

 discuss this proposed quarantine. The states to be put under the ban 

 would be Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, 

 Virginia and West Virginia and some portions of Ohio, North Carolina, 

 Iowa and Nebraska. The failure of Congress to appropriate funds for the 

 further control ot the chestnut bark disease after July 1, 1915, was the 

 cause of hearing in Washington. 



J. A. Bolser. president of the Globe Lumber Company, reports the 

 recent completion of a deal for 100,000 feet of yellow pine timber from 

 the South. Mr. Bolser is one of the most optimistic lumbermen in the 

 city at present and while admitting business is not what it should be, 

 still he appears well satisfied with conditions. 



