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railroad for the marketing of the output, for the 

 tract extends on both sides of the Saltkiaehie 

 river for a distance of twenty miles. This 

 stream, in conjunction with the Little Salt- 

 kiaehie. forms the Coinbatiee river and flows In 

 a southeasterly direction to the Atlantic. 



The usual spring outing of the Quaker City 

 Hoo-Hoo was held at Washington Park on Sat- 

 in-. lay. May 13, and Vicegerent Suark John J. 

 Rumbarger reported the success of similar occa- 

 sions. The concatenation was held at the 

 Bourse, prior to the outing, and the following 

 candidates initiated : Robert "Buckeye" Patter- 

 son. Patterson Lumber Company. Sutherland. 

 N. C. : Samuel Morton Dillon, president Wilming- 

 ton Sash, Door & Blind Company. Wilmington, 

 Del.; Harry Gillien Parker, of Bush & Rayner. 

 Wilmington, Del. ; Walter Roane Johnston, of 

 Frank F. Rambo, Philadelphia ; Walter "Safe" 

 Ryan, Philadelphia, and Louis Alexander Brei- 

 tlnger, Philadelphia. 



Baltimore. 



The project to unite all the hardwood dealers 

 of this city in an organization which shall main- 

 tain close relations with the Lumber Exchange 

 and shall, in fact, be an auxiliary body, has 

 progressed to the point of submission to the 

 exchange managing committee. If this commit- 

 tee approves of the plan it will be recommended 

 to the exchange, which is equivalent to adop- 

 tion. There is no reason why objection should 

 arise in any quarter, hardwood dealers contend, 

 since the organization does not antagonize the 

 parent body and will work together with it, the 

 idea being to have an association which shall 

 be immediately responsive to the demands of 

 the hardwood trade and deal entirely with such 

 matters as interest especially the hardwood men. 

 Under the existing arrangements much time is 

 sometimes lost in working up sentiment on any 

 one subject, the things that engage the atten- 

 tion of the hardwood men appealing to the 

 North Carolina pine dealers and others only 

 in an indirect way. It is altogether probable 

 that in shaping the proposed organization the 

 Buffalo body will be taken as a model. 



Among the questions that will likely come up 

 for consideration as soon as the organization is 

 formed is that of credits. Hardwood men say 

 they are under a great disadvantage as com- 

 pared to other branches of the lumber trade, 

 and that they have to extend far longer credits 

 than the firms that sell to builders. They de- 

 sire that they should be relieved of the burdens 

 that grow out of the practice. 



Richard W. Price, of Price & Heald, hard- 

 wood men, returned from his trip to Memphis, 

 Tenn., where he went to establish headquarters 

 and attend to other business matters for his 

 firm, greatly impressed with the importance of 

 that city as a hardwood center. He unhesitat- 

 ingly declared that it is the greatest place for 

 hardwoods in the United States and he stated 

 that he found business there in good shape. 

 As alrea-dy reported in the Hardwood Record, 

 Gustave A. Farber, the junior member, was in- 

 stalled as Memphis representative of the firm. 

 He will make his headquarters at East Mem- 

 phis at the mills of the W. B. Dickson Company. 

 in which corporation Price & Heald have ac- 

 quired a substantial interest. The company has 

 been reorganized and incorporated under the 

 laws of West Virginia, with a capital of $15,000, 

 which is, of course, hardly more than nominal. 

 Richard W. Price was elected president of the 

 new corporation and Mr. Farber secretary and 

 W. I!. Dickson, a widely known mill man, as 

 general manager. The capacity of the mill, 

 which is now 15,000 feet a day, will be increased 

 by about 50 per cent, arrangements to this 

 effect having already been made. A specialty 

 will be made of thin hardwoods. Gum and pop- 

 lar will also be manufactured, the logs being 



drawn from the region about Memphis. The 

 plant is located at 2257 Gaylord avenue, East 

 Memphis. Mr. Price returned much strength- 

 ened by his journey and the respite it gave him 

 from routine duties. 



Baltimore was represented at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Xatioual Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation in Buffalo last week by John L. Alcock, 

 of John L. Alcock & Co., and R. E. Wood, of 

 the R. E. Wood Lumber Company. Mr. Alcock 

 stayed there only one day, while Mr. Wood 

 remained two days and then continued on a trip 

 southwestward. 



It is announced by the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company that the corporation is extending the 

 Virginia and Southwestern Railway into Ten- 

 nessee two miles. At the terminal of this ex- 

 tension is to be located a 9-foot band mill of a 

 daily capacity of about 40,000 feet. Arrange- 

 ments have also been made, it is stated, for 

 the construction of a narrow gauge railroad 

 with steel rails, between the mills and the com- 

 pany's timber tract, to facilitate logging and 

 the transfer of lumber, the cutting out of the 

 tan bark and the wood for pulp. The standard 

 gauge road is to be extended through the com- 

 pany's yard by means of switches, so that lum- 

 ber can be loaded direct on the cars there. 



The statement is made that the barrel works 

 of Kimball, Tyler & Co., which were destroyed 

 by fire on May 3, at Highlandtown, a suburb, 

 will be rebuilt on a larger scale. One of the 

 buildings is to be about 100 by 225 feet, the 

 other having somewhat smaller dimensions. The 

 construction work will call for an outlay of 

 about $50,000. 



The contractors employed by Eisenhauer, Mac- 

 Lea & Co., hardwood dealers on West Falls ave- 

 nue, to demolish the old buildings on the site 

 of the barrel factory formerly occupied by Kim- 

 ball, Tyler & Co., began operations last week. 

 and will finish the work in 60 days. The place 

 has been bought by the firm for a lumber yard, 

 and a big storage shed, together with other 

 buildings, is to be erected there. The removal 

 was made necessary by the reservation of the 

 place at present occupied by the firm for wharf 

 improvements. The plans for the big shed have 

 not yet been entirely settled upon. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company has re- 

 moved its offices from 605 Park avenue to the 

 reconstructed Continental building, where it will 

 occupy a handsome suite, No. 609 to 613, in- 

 clusive, on the sixth floor of the building, being 

 identically the same location that it had before 

 the great Baltimore fire. The quarters are ar- 

 ranged with special reference to the require- 

 ments of the business of the company, and are 

 handsomely finished and furnished in mahogany. 

 R. E. Wood, the president of the company, has 

 refitted the handsome house on Park avenue, 

 formerly occupied as a general office, into a 

 club house, for the pleasure and comfort of his 

 office employees. The house, beside containing 

 bedroom accommodations for the force, also has 

 handsome parlors, billiard room, card and read- 

 ing rooms. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company has recently 

 purchased about 6,000 acres of high class pop- 

 lar, oak and white pine timber land at To- 

 motla, N. C, near Murphy, on the Murphy- 

 branch of the Southern railway. This property 

 will be under operation within a very short time 

 and will add another to the long string of saw- 

 mill plants owned by the corporation. 



Pittsburg. 



The E. M. Diebold Lumber Company has 

 moved its East End offices to the new Lloyd 

 building. 



S. M. Bradley of Moorehead. Ky.. has been 

 in the city and carried off some good orders 

 for hardwoods. 



The Nicola Lumber Company, which recently 



built 200 frame houses for the Sheffield Land 

 Company at Lorain. Ohio, and contracted Eoi 

 300 for the Lake Shore Land Company at 

 ( !ollingvi oo i. ■ i..i i, has taken the contra* 

 400 more for the former company at Lorain. 



The J. II. Lindsa; Lumber Company reports 

 a busy trade with contractors who are taking 

 big jobs all over the country. The orders are 

 secured through ils Pittsburg office and shipped 

 from their mills. 



W. C. Mansfield, of the firm of Sanford & 

 Treadway, Menominee, Mich., started up a nice 

 trade in hardwoods and basswood upon his 

 recent visit here. 



John Trump, for many years a salesman for 

 the J. M. Hastings Lumber Company, has 

 with the Empire Lumber Company. 



J. P. Bolton, a prince of good fellows among 

 hardwood salesmen, who managed the hard- 

 wood department of the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company for many years, has 

 taken a position with the Lombard Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago. His many friends in Pitts- 

 burg will miss him greatly. 



The Paine Lumber Company, Limited, is meet- 

 ing an increase in its door trade this season. 

 Recently the company put in an agency with 

 the A. G. Breitweiser Company, South Side, 

 which will put in a stock at once of 4,000 

 select and unselected birch doors. 



The Ingram Lumber & Supply Company, 

 formerly Martin & Miller, at Ingram. Pa., also 

 carries a stock of 1,000 Paine doors. The Paine 

 agency includes all territory between Lake Erie 

 and the Ohio river. 



The Pittsburg Floor Company reports nearly 

 double the business in hardwood floors that it 

 had last year. The big increase is in store and 

 office buildings, dozens of which are being re- 

 modeled or enlarged to keep pace with the 

 rapid increase in business. 



A large retail hardwood lumber yard has been 

 started in East Ohio street. Allegheny, by W. B. 

 Enos & Co. 



R. H. Erring of Flint, Erving & Stoner. is 

 touring the Northwest and writes that stocks 

 are badly broken. In Mississippi and North 

 Carolina, where his firm has large mill in- 

 terests, he reported most of the mills filled up 

 with orders. 



The Forest Lumber Company is having the 

 best call for hardwood outside the city. -Most 

 of this is for building lumber, although the firm 

 has a big trade among the small factories and 

 shops. 



The J. H. Lindsay Lumber Company has been 

 awarded the contract for all the mill work in 

 the round house being built by the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad Company at Atlantic City. 



The Linehan Lumber Company, which handles 

 hardwood almost exclusively, reports its trade 

 increasing at a most satisfactory rate. Just 

 now the best demand is for quarter-sawed oak. 

 Ash is in good call for furniture and door con- 

 cerns. The firm is sold up on hickory, a large 

 quantity of which lias gone to small factories 

 in the surrounding towns lately. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber 

 Company who was one of the wreck victims in 

 the recent Harrisburg disaster on the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad, is reported improving. His 

 legs were badly mangled and his hands smashed 

 so that he will be iu the Harrisburg hospital 

 until June. 



The Ohio Pyle Company has recently put in 

 i g mill at Ohio Pyle, making 



which ai.- now cutting 28, feel eai b a 



The company will also put in an electric light 

 plant to supply its mills and the two big 



which il bOUghi will! the - 



acres of land, and which it hs re- 



modeled ai 1: use. J. L. and S. A. Ken- 



dall "f the Houston Lumber Company are 

 [cholders in the Ohio Pyle Company. 

 Pi : & Warnick now have a big retail yard 

 at Cadiz, Ohio, where they will carry a full line 

 of hardwoods^ 



