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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Philadelphia. 



William H. Fritz of William H. Fritz & Co. 

 was well pleased with the business done by 

 the company in May. The sales tor the month 

 were greater than those of any other month 

 of this vear and ahead of the corresponding 

 period of last year. 



Charles K. Parry of the Parry-Righter Lum- 

 ber Company reports business as being more 

 than fair and as showing a big improvement 

 over that of a corresponding period of last 

 year. The car shortage has been and is prov- 

 ing somewhat of a detriment to the firm in 

 making prompt shipments. Mr. Parry says 

 there is a good demand for the hardwoods 

 and maple flooring. 



Harry I. Soble of Soble Bros, has been turn- 

 ing up some good business in the western 

 part of the state and Is now looking over 

 things at Baltimore. Mr. Soble says the de- 

 mand is excellent and shows an inclination to 

 increase. He reports hardwoods as showing 

 little change during this month and stocks 

 are still small. 



The Swarthmore Lumber Company, hard- 

 wood wholesalers, report an active demand 

 among the trade since early in the year, al- 

 though the volume lessened somewhat dur- 

 ing last month. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, was a recent 

 Philadelphia visitor. He spoke favorably of 

 trade conditions throughout the country and 

 said that mills are exceedingly busy and that 

 lumber everywhere is in strong demand. 



An interesting circular from the National 

 Bureau of Forestry is going the rounds, 

 showing the relative strength of box lumber. 

 A series of tests shows that Cottonwood fur- 

 nishes greater strength in a box than New 

 England white pine, North Carolina and Ar- 

 kansas yellow pine. Michigan white pine, 

 Western spruce, Western hemlock or red gum. 

 This is due to its power of holding nails 

 without splitting. Western hemlock also 

 proves to be a valuable wood for manufactur- 

 ing boxes. 



The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Com- 

 pany, says sales manager Clem E. Lloyd. Jr., 

 who has just returned from a trip to the 

 southern hardwood mill points, has about com- 

 pleted the loading of a cargo of over 1,300,000 

 feet of spruce on the bark Norwood, now at 

 Baltimore. May was an extremely busy 

 month at the Rlchwood, W. Va., mill, Its cut 

 during that time being about 5,600,000 feet of 

 lumber. Mr. Lloyd, in speaking of his south- 

 ern trip, says that mills are well filled up with 

 orders and it is no cinch to place an order 

 for a large quantity. Although successful in 

 securing about half a million feet of hard- 

 woods a good many miles were traveled and 

 many mills visited. 



Robert R. Horsburgh of the Coketon Lum- 

 ber Company. Coketon, W. Va., was a visitor 

 here last week. He says the company is 

 rushed with orders and finds it difficult to 

 keep the mill sawing up to the demand. 



Edwin P. Slocomb of Edwin P. Slocomb & 

 Co. reports a brisk trade in hardwoods. His 

 chief complaint, like many other concerns 

 just now, is the slow shipments. Mr. Slo- 

 comb says the mills are piled up with old or- 

 ders and despite the best efforts of the mill- 

 men it appears almost impossible to get to 

 work on new bills. Besides, the mills are 

 badly handicapped by high water. Mr. Slo- 

 comb says he was able to get hold of quite 

 a good lot of stock that he wanted. 



James W. Dlfenderfer of the Frambes-Dif- 

 enderfer Lumber Company says that business 

 Is brisk and that his company experiences no 

 difficulty In placing lumber at satisfactory 

 prices. He says the mill is actively em- 

 ployed, being run both day and night. 



Samuel H. Shearer of Samuel II. Shearer 



& Son returned the latter part of last week, 

 after visiting the southern mill points. He 

 says lumber conditions are in a generally- 

 healthy state but that there is a slight lull 

 at the present time. With the shortage of 

 production and the general lightness of stocks 

 some dealers will find themselves in a rather 

 uncomfortable position before the end of the 

 season. 



John J. Little finds an increased call for 

 southern hardwood stock in this territory, 

 due, he says, to the scarcity of dry stock in 

 northern oak and other lumber. Mr. Little 

 finds the local demand fairly active, as most 

 of the retail yard stock is low. 



Archippus Strong of Strong & Meckley says 

 his firm is kept busy and prices generally 

 firm, but plain oak stock is very light. He 

 attributes much of the slowness of demand 

 from some sections to the fact that a number 

 of concerns make the end of this month their 

 stock-taking time, and consequently like to 

 have as depleted stocks as possible. 



The business difficulties involving Frank R. 

 Whiting of the Janney-Whiting Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city and the firm of N. B. Brad- 

 ley & Sons of Bay City, Mich., have been 

 compromised. The Bradley Lumber Com- 

 pany, a new corporation with a capital stock 

 of $250,000. comes into existence as a result 

 of the deal, while the Whiting' Lumber Com- 

 pany will be dissolved and its assets trans- 

 ferred to the new corporation. 



Justice P. Taylor & Co. say cypress is 

 very firm, and with a new organization re- 

 cently formed and embracing nearly all the 

 large southern plants in Louisiana, the out- 

 look Is bright for a strong and steady market 

 for some time to come. 



The Juan Diaz Mahogany Company, of 

 Philadelphia, capital, $300,000. was a cone, i n 

 chartered under the laws of Delaware last 

 week. The South Mississippi Pine Company. 

 Harrisburg. capital, $10,000, and the Cotton 

 Belt Lumber Company of Harrisburg, capi- 

 tal. $10,000, were two companies given char- 

 ters in this state last week. 



George \\ . Comerer, a prominent McCon- 

 nellsburg, Pa., lumberman was instantly 

 killed, June 13, at his sawmill, near Burnt 

 Cabins, Fulton county. A pulley burst and 

 knocked him against the revolving saw, cut- 

 ting his body in two. 



The farmers of Burlington county. New 

 Jersey, are considering the idea of planting 

 walnut trees on their spare lands as an in- 

 vestment. During the past ten years the 

 price of walnut timber has more than doubled. 

 Governor Stokes is strongly in favor of the 

 scheme, and it is likely that the movement 

 will receive state aid. 



Baltimore. 



This city was somewhat slow in developing 

 interest in Hoo-Hoo affairs, but now that the 

 ball has been set rolling, lumbermen here are 

 among the most active in promoting the wel- 

 fare of the order. At a concatenation held 

 not long ago in Darley Park a dozen candi- 

 dates were initiated into the mysteries of the 

 organization, hut the list of applicants was so 

 far from being exhausted that, at a concate- 

 nation called for last Wednesday night at the 

 former meeting place, not less than twenty- 

 three lumbermen were added to the member- 

 ship. The officers of the local concatenation 

 were in their several places, and the exem- 

 plification of the solemn rites was admirable. 

 This formality over, a vaudeville entertain- 

 ment was given by local talent and followed 

 by a banquet, which was voted most enjoya- 

 ble. The concatenation was called by Louis 

 Becker, the popular vicegerent snark for 

 Maryland. It is thought that concatenations 

 will I" orrangi at Frederick and Hagers- 

 town, t(i Kit the lumbermen there lined up. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company, which 

 has occupied temporary offices on Park ave- 

 nue since the fire, is back once more in the 

 old rooms in the Continental Trust Building, 

 tenanted before the conflagration. The fur- 

 nishings are in keeping with the rest of the 

 building, being of mahogany, and every de- 

 vice calculated to expedite the conduct of 

 business is provided. 



W. H. Ashton. the representative of Dun- 

 can, Ewing & Co., Liverpool timber brokers, 

 who was taken with an attack of appendici- 

 tis on his arrival at Knoxville. Tenn., while 

 on a trip through the United States in the 

 interest of his firm and had to undergo an 

 operation, has recovered sufficiently to return 

 home. He sailed a week ago from New 

 York. 



The work of tearing down the old buildings 

 on the property purchased by Eisenhauer. 

 MacLea & Co. continues, and the lot will 

 soon be ready for the big lumber shed which 

 the new owners intend to erect there. No 

 arrangements have yet been made, however, 

 to move, and the firm will probably stay at 

 its old quarters as long as possible. The 

 present yard is within the area reserved by 

 the city for the construction of wharves, and 

 must be vacated, but this necessity will not 

 arise for some time because several persons 

 mi' rested have entered suit to test the con- 

 stitutionality of the proceeding under which 

 the ground was taken for wharf purposes. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here last 

 week were H. B. Curtin of the Pardee-Curtin 

 Lumber Company of Sutton, W. Va. ; E. D. 

 Galloway of the Galloway-Pease Company. 

 Johnson City. Tenn., and E. B. Beckley of 

 Crosby-Beckley Company. New Haven. Conn. 

 Mr. geckli J -aid that all the mills were run- 

 ning t" the full limit of their capacity and 

 that even then they were behind in filling or- 

 ders. He gave it as his opinion that prices 

 would continue to rule high and that busi- 

 ness would remain very active. Of similar 

 import was the Information which Mr. Gal- 

 loway had tn impart. He declared that the 

 demand for lumber was almost unprecedented, 

 and that there was no indication of any weak- 

 ness in the market, but that, on the contrary, 

 values appear to be getting stronger. 



David T. Carter of Carter, Hughes & Co., 

 hardwood dealers at Union Dock, has just 

 returned from a trip to the hardwood region 

 south and to New York. He took in sections 

 of Virginia and called at a number of mills. 

 Everywhere he found the greatest aetivitv 

 prevailing. Thomas Hughes, of the same 

 firm, is confined to the house with an attack 

 of tonsil I tls. 



Buffalo. 



Taylor & Crate find their southern mills 

 are doing a large business. They are receiv- 

 ing lake cargoes at their Niagara river yard, 

 where they sold a large amount of lake hard- 

 woods last season. 



C. H. Stanton is recovering his health slow- 

 ly but will not try to come down to solid 

 huslness right away. 



A. Miller finds national inspection especially 

 valuable to him in his business, as it enables 

 him to buy lumber anywhere. All he needs 

 to say is that national inspection must settle 

 all differences. Business is fair. 



The work of extending the new railroad on 

 the property of the Empire Lumber Company 

 in Arkansas, now divides the time of F. W. 

 Vetter with the mills. The road is to be a 

 permanent one. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has a yard full of oak as usual and is adding 

 to it wherever any land adjoining can be had. 

 Chestnut is always a specialty of the yard 

 also. 



