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HARDWOOD RECORD 



AuRUHt :ir>, 191&. 



J. Ilnwnril Ktfly, pD-siilnit of S. 8. Koily & Shiih, <II<kI iit Iiih lionii* In 

 KuxImruuKti ou AuKUiit •*>. Ill' wim itlxty-ruur yoni-H ul<l niid liiiil hern 

 •'DKaii'-tl lu (he lunilxT I>iihIiui>k bIdi-p IiIh youlli. 



Julin J. ItuiiibarRcr uf tin- kiiIph forrc n( tlip Ilnbrork I.iimluT Cnriiiuiii.v. 

 liBK r<-tiirn<-<l froiu n hu»lniiis trip to I'lilcngu. Mr. ItiiiiibiirKcr wiix iiwii.x 

 tliriM- wrcks. (Hit ciin now In- foiinil ilnlly at licnilqiiiirtcrB In thr l.iiiid 

 Tl(li> bulldlu):. 



J. M. Kk-tiiirilHon nn<l Josi'pli Ilydo Imvi' ri'tnrnt'd friini a lrl|i Sinilli 

 III till- lulcrfxld of UrNm-l & Klrliiirdson. 



Till' Ni'iBiin & llnll (.'uinpany, nmnulni'liinr of vi'nii-r iiim'k iind Imxi'i., 

 l-i bulldini: II pliint In CiiiiKli-n, N. J., ami will Ktiirt iniinnfactnrliiK wlililii 

 thriN- niontliR. 



J. \V. iUHirc, fonnorly of Hazard & Mooro, lins purL-hn.sml n iiuw yard 

 nt Twenty-Nlxth and Sii-Miuolianna nvpniir. 



Thi- Codlhm I.niiilKT Coinpany. Inc., n wholesale concern, lias Klarti'd 

 ill bn.-'Ini'.'iK at L'.'il Sontli roiirlli ■tri'ot. Frank B. CwllInK, former Kales 

 uiaiiaKiT for the I'iite t'onipany. and at one time head of the Codllni: 

 MtKwao Lumber Company, Is prraident of the new roinpany. 



Owen M. Ilruner. Ijind Title bnlldlni;. has entirely recovered from a 

 recent sleue of .ston'ach trouble, and Is on the Job every day. 



It .\. Shepherd hns rejolued the sales force of C. M. Belts & ("o., Inc.. 

 llalley bnlldlim. 



:■< PITTSBURGH >. 



Krauk K. Curler of l,opey., I'a., has OoUKlit the interests of his partners. 

 John II. Black and J. C. Iluphes, In the Stonyhrook Lumber Company 

 of that place and will continue the business under thd old llnii naim-. 

 The company has a very jioml hardwood trade In that .section, 



.VII tlirou»:h the I'ltlshuriih district. IneludinK the Malionliit- and 

 Shenango valleys, there is sri'at activity In the st>-el business, .Mills are 

 worklnK day and nlKht and are putliiiK in much larger and more fr. 

 qnent orders for repair and construction material. 



The Frampton-Koster Lumber Company, which is a reoi'Kauizatioii of 

 the Foster Lumber Company, is making excellent shipments on railroad 

 stock.s, particularly timbers. The company's hardwood mills are all busy 

 and Its outlook for continued good shipments is reported excellent. 



11. F. DomhofT, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, is on a .soutli 

 ••rn trip for two weeks. His company has been doing a very good liusi- 

 ness among manufacturing plants of the Kast. 



The Allegheny Plate (Jlass Company at Glassmcre, Pa., which Is usually 

 a large buyer of hardwood lumber. Is reorganizing. If the piisent plan 

 goes through the company will spend ^ISiJ.OOO for improvements to Its 

 iilant. 



The Monongahela Lumber Company tinds prices stiffening on yellow 

 pine and hardwoods and iielleves that when fall trade starts in there 

 will be much more activity among buyers of this lumber. Just now all 

 business is pretty quiet. 



J. C. Llneban is representing the E. H. Sbreiner Lumber Company in 

 eastern territory and is making good sales of hardwood along his way. 

 The ."<hreiner company has been hitting up the Canadian business to quite 

 an extent this summer. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company reports genera! business in hardwoods 

 pretty slow the past few wei'ks so far as new demand Is concerned. How- 

 ever, its shipments of gum and Cottonwood on contract have been enongb 

 to keep the company fairly busy. 



The Duquesnc Lumber Company believes that business conditions ar.' 

 so much improved as to warrant the belief that in the near future tin- 

 lumber business will be considerably better also. President .\. Rex Flinn 

 ■ •r this company is taking a month's vacation at the military cam|i at 

 riattsburg, N. Y., whi-re h.- is l.-nrning about war. 



^■< BOSTON >.= 



Among the lumber-using industries recently organized are noted ; 

 Cameron Car Company at Orange. Conn ; capital, $200,000 ; United States 

 -Manufacturing Company, Pawtucket, R. ].: capital, $1,000,000 (for manu- 

 facture of military supplies) ; Eastern Timberland Company at Ellsworth. 

 Me.; capital. Jl.lo.OOO (for manufacturing, construction and timber busi- 

 ness); Rendlo-Stoddard Company. Boston. Mass.; capital, ?oO.OOO i bridge 

 and wharf construction and building). 



Geo. L. Dow of Lynn, Mass., has Oled a petition in bankniplcv, schedul- 

 ing liahllities of $13,810. 



Walter O. Jenncss of Melrose. Mass., died suddenly at .Stowe. Vt., on 

 -Vugust I.".. He was widely known in the lumber trade here, having been 

 engaged in this business in Poslon and vicinity for a numl)er of years. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



Much interest Is manifested among lumbermen here in the discussion 

 over the advisability of adopting a classification of lumber and forest 

 products, with varying freight rates according to grade. The matter, 

 as is generally known, came up in the way of a suggestion during the 

 investigation of the general subject of lumber rates by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission recently, when the railroads mdintained that 

 lumber rates were so low as to be unprofitable to the transportation lines, 

 and argued for an advance. This brought out the tentative proposition 

 that lumber be divided into various classifications, the high and ex- 

 pensive grades carrying a higher freight than the lower ones, whlcli were 



already paying an iiiueh aH they could or even more, the rate friniiieiitly 

 amoiiiitlng lo 2.'i |ier cent of (he value-. To put up the rates on theso 

 low grnile stocks would he n great hBrdsldp, while the addition on the 

 ■ oKtIy stocks would be comparatively incoiiHldi'rable. The Hubject linH 

 been before the inanaKliiK >-oiiiiiilttee of the KuKlmore Lumber Exchange. 



but no action has been taken, tl iniinltt<-e deeuilng It exiiedlenl to «nl( 



lor the nntlonni orgiinlzations lo asaiimi' the lead, 



John Chaplin has leasiil the old llauer mill at llagerstowii, Md„ and 

 will equl|> till' |iro|ierty for the mnnul'aciiii'e of building Kupplles chemically 

 treated. The machinery has already been orilereil. 



James Ihier of llleh.ird I", llaer & Co., wh.i spent a wis-k or more in 

 t'annda, reports (ha( he found the liMidwood bnslneHs decldiilly quiet 

 there. Ilu.verH were placing orders wllli great caution, and the requlri'- 

 ments wen' limited. Factories niakliii: iiiiinltlonH of war were busy, 

 but the liidiistrli's otherwise lagged, and there was general c<implaliit of 

 |ioor trade. 



H. L. Bowninn, general sales manager for the II, E. Wood Lumber 

 Company, who has been on the sick list for months and has spent most 

 of his time at bis former home In Lymbbiirg. Is back In Italtlinore and 

 making siieh satisfactory progress that there Is every expectation of his 

 getting back to his desk in a short tlini*. 



H. T. Snyder of Mann & Parker has gone on a trip to North Carolina 

 to take up sonic stocks there, 



Charles .\. Miller of the lliilclilii'-on Lumber Company, Huntington, 

 W. Va., called on some of the hardwood mi'U here last week In the course 

 of a business trip. He reported conditions rather quiet. 



=-< COLUMBUS >•-- 



Hetibeii Kimball, president of the Starr .\venue Lumber Cnmpany of 

 Toledo, ri'ci'Utly died at .Saginaw, Mli-h.. where lie and his family were 

 visiting with relatives. He had hei'U falling In health but his death was 

 unexpected. He came to Toledo In iso.'f and was connected with the 

 East Side I.umlier Company which was later reorganized Into the Snirr 

 -Vvenue Lumber Company. He was a veteran of the Civil war. 



The I'eti'r Kuntz Lumber Company of Haytoii has been Incorporated 

 with a cajiltal of .$.-,0.iiOO to handle all kinds of lumber, by Peter Kuntz, 

 Peter Kuntz Jr.. .Martin Kuntz. .\. J. Kiiiitz and .Vnna Kuntz. 



The State Barrel Company of Clivebind has been incorporateil with a 

 capital of $."i,000 to manufacture liarrels, by Joseph Morganstein. J. 

 llorwitz, .M,ver Ilorwitz, I. Ilorwitz and Levi Landsman. 



E. It. .Stover, formerly connected with a Memphis lumber concern, has 

 become associated with liiiinett & Wlttc of Cincinnati. He will cover the 

 .Middle West. 



.\t Bradner, ()., the planing mill of O. J. Piatt & Co., was totally de- 

 stroyed by Hri', entailing a loss of $7,000. 



F. II. Pryor of the W. M. Hitter Lumber Conipany says trade In hard- 

 woods is holding up remarkably well at this time, considering business 

 conditions. He says prices are fairly well maintained and cutting is not 

 as general as formerly. Bu.vlng on the part of factories is increasing 

 since the first of the month. This is especially true of concerns making 

 vehicles. Implements and furniture. On the whole the tone of the market 

 is fair and future prospects are brighter. 



Concerns manufacturing hor.se-drawn vehicli's liave closed down recently 

 for Jlie semi-annual Inventories and are preparing to open their plants 

 soon afttr September 1. While the past si asoii has not been an active 

 one in the vehicle trad<:, prospects for the future are much brighter. 



.Manufacturers of doors, sash and uiillwork have been having a fair 

 demand for their product. Building oiierations are still active and as a 

 eonsequeiK-, there is a fair di-iuand for suc-b '-hiss of lumber. 



=-< CINCINNATI y- 



The monthly sales report recenll.v Issued by .Secretary Weller of the 

 Hardwood .Mannfa<'turers' .\ssiiclatlon of tln' rnited States, arupl.v hears 

 out the talk along the street regai'iling the tiig boom now being enjoyed 

 in the eastern market and in wlilch the local hardwood men place much 

 confidence in a sympathetic movement being felt here. Many sales run- 

 ning from OQ.OOO up to 40.000 and .''lO.OOO feet are recorded in the report, 

 all bi-arlng upon eastern mills ami dealers, while in reports from tlie 

 western (I. 'Ids the figures take a most di>eldedty discoiiraglng drop com- 

 pai'ed with the iiusiness transactions in Buffalo. Baltimore. l'hlladeli>hi.i 

 and New York. Oddly enough in tbe.se centers poplar is moving at a very 

 brisk rate, while Just at this time poplar In the ITIncinnatl district Is 

 reiiorted in some places as being almost a drug on the market. Other 

 lumber shown in the report to be en.toying good trade is walnut, which 

 also is commanding a slightly better price, and gum and oak, 



.Mr, Weller. secretary of the association, lias Just returned from a short 

 trip South, where he reports condilions no worse than a month or so 

 back, but not gaining streiigtii in any decidedly encouraging degree. 



J. A. Bolser. president of the Olobe Lumber Company, llmls business 

 improving quite steadily and states that business in the hardwood line 

 may I'Ujoy still more activity in the late summer and early autunm. 



Mr. Bonner of the Atlas Lumber and Manufacturing CoTO|>any, with 

 ofllces In the Union Trust skyscraper on Fourth street, who has been quite 

 ill for the past few weeks, is now back at his desk, resuming active work. 

 Mr. West of the same concern at prc'sent is on a business trip in the 

 East, intending to put In some little time at Philadelphia and New York. 



All branches of the lumber business In Cincinnati are exhibiting mMch 



