i:. W. Voorbies & Urn.. Ilrooklyn, « :is dani.i;:. .1 

 by fire on the 13th. 



Baltimore. 



li was the ambition of I^ouis Becker, vice- 

 gen nt snark tor Maryland duping the past 

 year, to make his incumbency remarkable for 

 the number of new members added to the 

 local branch, and in this aim he has been 

 successful. Last Friday the final concatena- 

 tion of the local branch was held and four- 

 teen candidates were admitted, bringing the 

 total membership up to more than 80. More 

 than fifty members of the order assembled 

 at Darley Park last Friday evening to initiate 

 the fourteen aspirants into the mysteries of 

 the organization. The initiatory ceremonies 

 were held in the afternoon, and the other ob- 

 servances, including a supper, followed in the 

 evening. The meeting- was in the nature of 

 an ovation to Vicegerent Snark Becker, who 

 will offer his resignation at the annual meet- 

 ing of the order at Portland, September 9, ..- 

 an acknowledgment of his effective work dur- 

 ing the year. The candidates admitted on 

 Friday were: Frank Edwards, W. 11. Asen 

 dorf, John F. I'.rims J.. ha J. Lannon, Henry 

 n. Louis, I.. 11. Gwaltney, F. W. Clapp, A. F. 

 Gilbert, J. R. I. •■slier, \v. Edwin Peregoy, 

 William F Wehr, \V. G. Isaacs, Stephen S 

 Mann and R. W. S. Trader. Vicegerent Snark 

 Becker will attend tie- Portland meeting as 

 the representative of tin- Baltimore concatena- 

 tion. Whether any other members will go has 

 not yet been decided He will take in the 

 Ynseniite Valley and other sights on the way. 

 After the concatenation the journey will be 

 continued to San Francisco, Los Angeles. 

 Santa Barbara, and other points in southern 

 California, to Denver, and St. Louis. Mrs. 

 Becker will accompany her husband. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company, which 

 controls some 127,000 acres of timber land in 

 Tennessee, North Carolina and other states, 

 and is developing the property as fast as rail- 

 roads are pushed forward into what is now- 

 little more than a wilderness, has arranged for 

 thfi erection of a 36-inch band mill of the Clark 

 pattern in Swayne county, North Carolina, 

 where the company has about _'T,niin acres of 

 the finest timber land in North Carolina. The 

 Southern Railway is now constructing a stand- 

 ard gauge line from Bushnell, N. C, to May- 

 villc. Tenn.. and the erection of the mill is 

 .• result. The plant will have a capacity of 

 about 45.000 feet per day, and the machinery 

 is already being delivered. Another mill, of a 

 capacity of some 30,000 feet per day, will be 

 built as soon as practicable. Similar develop- 

 ments are held in contemplation for other por- 

 tions of the R. E. Wood Company's posses- 

 sions. 



William M. Burgan returned last week from 

 a trip to the timber scene of the Eddy Lake 

 Cypress Company's operations along the Little 

 Pee Dee River, in South Carolina. He is 

 largely interested in the company, and while 

 there conferred with other officers relative to 

 various improvements in contemplation, among 

 which is the erection of a steam power mill 

 and the construction of a logging road, de- 

 pendence upon water to float the logs to the 

 mill being too uncertain for modern methods. 



The J. S. Hoskins Lumber Company of this 

 city recently filed a claim in the United States 

 district court against James Hughes for al- 

 leged failure to comply with contract require- 

 ments to load a specified number of logs for 

 Portland, Me. The firm contends that it sus- 

 tained a loss of $857.80. 



Philadelphia. 



The demand for hardwoods is keeping up to 



a point practically unprecedented for the last 



of August. There has been more building of 



ill kinds here this season than ever before. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



d d -nt througl 

 surrou | . .,,. , . , , lh ,. 



'"ost ... lasses ol nan 



a numbei , ,. 



their vacation s back and fori 



Atlar, or two wei I 



tirely away from business. 



Owen M. Brum r al led th< i ittawa n 



ing, accompanii d bj Edwin Gar r, cashier 



of the Ridge Ai I is his guesl Mter 



the convention they took a ti Ip do? 



Law )■ i Montreal. Bu 



11 en very 1 Itli 1 his compan; 



: " M| Mr Bruni i i- wearing a -mil. 



these d a\ S. 



James W. I lifenderfer of the Frambes i ii 

 derfer Lumber Company states thai business 



ha been bej I expi ctations this season and 



ih. onlj i st thai he has had was a brief fish- 

 ing trip to Bowi i Bea. h, Del. 



Francis G Ihue, Jr., of the Philadelphia 



Veneer* Lumber Company has returned from 

 i trip through New England, where he me) a 



<<'• I old fi i. ads .ii the Hub and i ked 



1 v-erj good bunch ders for quarten d 



.I ' . ami sold some lots of poplar. 



Paul W. Fleck of Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 Company, Bristol, Tenn., was in town 

 few .lays an. i found business exceptionallj 

 good for the lasl ol the .season. 



I. b . k Walton has iusl returned from a 

 trip to Wallace, N. C . where he superintended 

 the opi ning oi a new mill for the Wallace 

 Manufacturing Company. The J. S. Kenl Com- 

 panj of w hich Mi Walton is pi esidi nt, will 

 market the cul oi this mill, amounting to 

 about a carl I a day. 



Samuel ll Shearer has just returned from a 

 two weeks' trip t.. Canada and Laki Georg. 

 accompanied by Mrs. Shearer. He was ex- 

 tremely gratified upon his return to find thai 

 the demand for their lines was keeping up so 

 well and reports this as probably their banner 



season. 



Horaci A. Reeves, Jr.. of R. B Wheeler & 



Co. has I n away "down east" for a vacs 



lion. 



Robert E. Wheeler is at Atlantic Citv resl 

 , ing from the heavj business that thes have 

 handled this year. 



Clem E. Lloyd, Jr., of the cherry River B i 



,\:- Lumber Company reports business as bet- 

 ter than was to be hoped for, and the demand 

 for all his line as very satisfactory. He 

 thinks poplar fs on the mend and thai from 

 now on prices for all grades will be better. 



Eugene B. Nettleton is doing a g I deal of 



valuable missionary work for the Pacific coast 



manufacturers in introducing their Lumber In 



in- market. He reports progress on shingles 



and Washington fir, in both of which he has 



established a g i trade, From some of the 



figures he quotes i,j s line is a mighty Inti i 

 esting one to the yard man. 



J. Wistar Evans of Goodhue .V Evans has 

 .inst returned from a visii to their mill 

 Knoxville. when they are working a double 



shift. The [iii i oak vei rs shown 



bj them is cert high testlmonj to their 

 up-to-date machinery and met] 



Pittsburg. 



George W. Breen of Wllllamsport, I'a., reports 

 a stock of over 2,000,000 feel of oak, hemlock 

 and chestnut on hand. Il<- makes a specialty of 

 telephone poles and ties. 



George B. Dohertj ... Mlllvale. Pa., bas filed 

 a petition In bankruptcy at Pittsburg, wherein 

 l„, gives Ul ." v| and his liabilities 



.171. Mr. Dohertj is well known in 1 

 burg I. les. 



The ' 'I"' •'■ " 



Lindsay Lumbei rap- 



idly as possible. The latest reports based on 

 the best Infoi 

 that the creditors wll 

 the dollar. 



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iin- 



uniqm ,, fl |, 



' orders thin summer than io gel them." Thej 



ilj IMttsbu 

 found the 

 grams and extra trai i i. lln 



her delivered In,- | „ i, ,|,. M1 



keeping theli sales 



the best orders have come prnctlcall) unsoll 



Tl "' Satler panj is having n brisk trad 



hardwoods and ., ,„. 



li. L. Gillespii ., ,|,,. 



"'•" filtration plat i hairiness •_• i 



■ ill alone the line and saj thai kIiI| 

 much easier than a m 



I". Wabash Rail 



sylvnnla Railroad C panj are expected to be In 



Ij for large quantities ol yellon 



pine and oak i aged in finishing their lm 



mense freight u \ 



now going up. 



■I M. Hastings .a n„. j. \i. g ,,,|„. 



Company is still in Nova Scotia superintending 

 the development ol the immense lumber trad 

 which he and others bought lasl year 



The Pittsburg Railway Compan] bas i n a 



buyer of t ies all summer. Ii bas a! 



purchased over 50.000 lies stlj o\s and 8 



iin: win. b were cul in Wesl Virginia. 



Harrison, Packard & O'Connor, who own a 



tract of 25, acres of ..ak, hemlock and p 



timber in Wetzel connty, West Virginia. 

 Camden-on-Gauley, are putting in a double hand 



saw mill. They will cul al least 100.01 i a 



daj when th- plant is in full operation \h 

 Harrison and O'Connor are well-known lam 

 "'en ..I i Hi [vanla, and booght 



the West Virginia trai ago. 



The Clark Lumber ,y Fixture Company, 

 merly the Clark Lumber Company, baa di 

 to leave Barberton, 0., and will move Its big 

 plan! to Ft. Wayne, 1ml. The members ..i tin 



firm are G 'ge ll. dark ... Barberton and 8 i 



Eastman of Saginaw, Mich. They are archil 

 contractors and Jobbers and have a lumber mill 

 a planing mill and a dry kiln in operation. For 

 two years they have been liberal dealers in hard 

 « l- tor furniture and finishing purpc 



.1. P. Shirk of the Garrett Lumber Compan 

 Jennings, Md., was in Pittsburg lasl week look- 

 ing up his many friends, llis firm Is largely In 



terested in hardwoods and has a > I mill In 



operation. 



F. W. Crane, who has been tor years with tie 

 Decker & Valley Lumber Company, has embarked 

 in the lumber b himself ai Morgan 



town. w. Va. ii i ..ak will be hi- spe 



claltfes. 



There is area) activity on il ailed B .v. 



0. tract of 100, acres of limber al Cam. 



inley, W. Va . ibis summer. The timber Is 

 owned by ..ili.iais of the Baltimore ,\. Ohio Rail- 

 road Company and is pernapa the lineal tract In 

 the state. Three bind saws are now making 

 great headway in the tracl cutting all kino 

 hardwood lumber ai the rate of l57 t <M>o.fei 

 day. 



The most Impo p og I'iitsburg 



lumber firms for i tha I 



1. 1". Balse] Mead .\ Si r Lumber 



Company and hi- acceptance "i a position wllb 

 .lames I. M. Wilson .v Co Mr. Balse] is a hard 



n i man of national reputation and Mis going 



to the Wilson company meana that this concern 

 will branch out in hardwood dealing as 



i tin 

 .Mead ,v Sneer Lumbei I I 



Ills mat 

 wish hlin gri In his new field. 



of the t- 

 Pennsylvania state law providing for ■ rebat 



en all timber lands and land set with tint 



her trees is the announcement thai the n i 

 Crick Coke Company will plant n 

 future use. Tb. -ins formula 



for ii 



