HARDWOOD RECORD 



here. He enjoys great popularity in the trade. 



Walter Sharp, the Liverpool manager of 

 Churchill & Sim, timber brokers of London, has 

 arrived in New York and will make an extended 

 trip through the T'nlted States. Among other 

 places, he is scheduled to visit Baltimore, where 

 he has many friends, made on previous Journeys, 

 lie is always a welcome caller here and Bait! 

 more exporters speak of him in tbe highest 

 terms. 



Norman A. Wright of ('. Leary & Co., Lon- 

 don, is another English lumberman touring the 

 States. He is expected in this city in a few 

 days, and will call on a number of the mills 

 throughout the hardwood timber regions. 



F. L. Winchester, a pioneer lumberman or 

 Philadelphia visited this city during the cur- 

 rent week and called on several Arms here. II, ■ 

 Is now engaged in surveying timber tracts and 

 estimating the Quantity of timber thereon, giv- 

 ing his attention rather to the deals in timber 

 properties than to actual lumbering operations. 



Among the lumbermen visiting Baltimore dur- 

 ing the past few days were Frank F. Fee of 

 Newark, O., and H. L. Bonham of Chilhowie. 

 Va. They called on various local hardwood 

 firms and spoke most encouragingly of the trade 

 outlook. 



The Virginia Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Boydton, Va., 

 with a capital stock of $50,000, to deal In and 

 manufacture lumber. John Ford is president. 

 W. W. Tuck vice president and E. E. Cockrell 

 secretary and treasurer of the company. AH 

 are Virginia men. Mr. Cockrell being from Boyd- 

 ton. 



J. H. Cranwell, hardwood dealer and manu- 

 facturer, has moved from 337 to 339 St. Paul 

 street. The location, however, is likely to be 

 only provisional, as the natural trend of the 

 trade is back toward the business section, some- 

 where near the old location of hardwood firms. 

 Mr. Cranwell reports that his company, which 

 operates a mill in Tennessee, has enough orders 

 to keep it busy. 



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Pittsburg. 



H. W. Henninger. president of the Reliance 

 Lumber Company, has just returned from an 

 extended trip through Maryland. Mr. Hennin- 

 ger was not on the vacation schedule this 

 year. He was too busy all summer filling 

 orders. 



The Bradley-Milliken Lumber Company and 

 the Emanuel Lumber Company are two new 

 retail concerns which have recently started 

 in Allegheny. Pa. 



"W. E. McMillan, of the McMillan Lumber 

 Company, who is perhaps the most unfor- 

 tunate living victim of the wreck at Harris- 

 burg, is in a sanitarium at Clifton Springs. 

 N. Y., where he hopes to regain some of 

 his former strength and energy. 



James C. McFaul of Chicago, who repre- 

 sents the Lumbermen's Credit Association, 

 spent a profitable week in Pittsburg recently. 



E. E. Gannon, Pittsburg manager for the 

 Saginaw Bay Company, has gone to Cleve- 

 land and points up the lakes for a tour of 

 the company's mills. 



O. P. Nicola of the Nicola Brothers Com- 

 pany has returned from a month's outing in 

 the Adirondacks. He and his brother, F. F. 

 Nicola, are behind the Schenley Farms Com- 

 pany, which is rapidly transforming the old 

 Schenley farm in Oakland into a splendid 

 idence district. 



W. P. Craig of William Whitmer & Sons. 

 Inc.. is in North and South Carolina, looking 

 after the firm's yellow pine interests. B. W. 

 Cross of the same firm is back from an ex- 

 tended tour in West Virginia, where he vis- 

 ited the firm's mills at Laneville and Horton. 



E. B. Hamilton of the J. M. Hastings Lum- 

 ber Company is in Jacksonburg, W. Va.. 

 where the company is getting out a big order 

 of poplar. 



Frank M. Graham, one of the leading hard- 

 wood wholesalers of Pittsburg, has returned 

 from a visit to Clearfield and Armstrong 

 ties, where he went to look up camber 

 -Mr Graham is suffering from an affliction "i 

 the eyes, the result of a hard attack of grip 

 last winter, and will shortly go to Phi 

 phia for treatment. 



Pittsburg building operations last month 

 slightly exceeded those of August. 1904, This 

 year there were 271 permits Issued for build- 

 ings to cost $1,276,301. as compared with i 

 total of SSS permits, amounting to $1,228,645 

 In August, 1904. 



The W. E. Terhune Lumber Company re 

 ports an excellent business throughout Ohio 

 Indiana and Illinois. The Arm has 

 having some trouble at Meridian, Miss., where 

 its mills arc located, on account of the yellow 

 fever quarantine. One of its members, 

 Cobb, has just returned from Meridian and 

 reports the mills piled up with orders for 

 yellow pine. The firm recently secured an 

 order lor 260,000 feel of yellow pin- timber 

 for delivery in the Pittsburg district. Sales 

 of such lumber are being made right a 

 at prices above auotations. 



F. K. Bradshaw. of the Pennsylvania Lum- 

 ber Company, Is hunting lumber in West Vir 

 ginia. His firm is doing a big business m 

 railroad orders at present. 



Fred Wilson of the W. N. Hitter Company 

 of Columbus, Ohio, spent a week In Pitts- 

 burg recently and booked some nice orders. 



J. H. Henderson, secretary of the H. C. 

 Houston Lumber Company and the Yough- 

 Manor Lumber Company, is at Kendall. Md.. 

 looking over the stock at the company's 

 mills. | 



A. N. Pierce of the firm of Massi-y & Pierce 

 of Lynchburg. Va., was a recent caller in the 

 city. His firm is working up a good trade 

 among Pittsburg retailers: 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany, is in Breathitt county. Kentucky, where 

 his firm has a mill on the Louisville and 

 Eastern railroad that is cutting 50.000 feet t 

 ■ lay of hardwood. 



W. E. Berger, of the W. H. Dawkins Lum- 

 ber Company of Ashland, Ky., is making a 

 more than usually profitable stay in Pitts- 

 burg this trip. Mr. Berger Is an old-time 

 Pittsburg man and knows the Ins and outs 

 of the lumber business in this city. The 

 company he represents has a reputation in 

 Pittsburg for putting out nothing but gilt- 

 edged stock. Partly for this reason and 

 partly owing to the fact that yellow poplar. 

 the firm's specialty, has not advanced in quo- 

 tations, while almost every other wood luis 

 made two or three jumps this summer, the 

 firm's business is increasing in Pittsburg 

 very rapidly. Tiny now have 10.000.000 feet 

 of lumber in stock and in the logs which 

 they took out of the Guyandotte river. They 

 started their mill early in March and bave 

 enough logs to run till December. This year 

 they have cut nothing less than lS-lnch stock 

 for the trade and the trend of their busi- 

 ness may be judged by the fact that tln-y 

 received from one firm alone an order Cor 

 1.500.000 feet. 



Willson Brothers report nuslness almost too 

 I. risk along some lines. Prices are going up 

 at such a rapid pace that as a member of the 

 firm jocularly remarked the other day. "a 

 fellow has to have a ticker on his desk to 

 v.arn him how to bid." On all large i 

 mates submitted the firm is adding this sig- 

 nificant phrase: "These quotations subject to 

 immediate acceptance." The same schi 

 has been adopted by some other Plttsbur? 

 firms lately, as It is the only way they can 

 protect themselves In the present uncertainty 

 of prices. 



The Pittsburg Saw Mill & Lumber Company. 



which Is located out Penn avenue, has made 

 quite an Innovation in lumber dealing. It 



ses to take stock that has been shi 

 to wholesale Hrms, by mistake or 

 without being surfaced and to surface it 

 then turn it over to the regutai 

 Hitherto wholesalers hav< i- tomed 



to get rid of such stock in the rough a- 

 ould and as quickly. 



ipanj latelj 

 1 an order for 500,000 feet of chestnut. 

 i wormy chestnut is in excellent d.mand. 

 m's Inquiries, .md I-, 

 n, an. ling a little better than list price I 

 Ig verj well with this In in, - 

 dally tog run. 



I'll.- West \'n glnla I. has 



busy the last two w. eks- with estimates 

 for house lumber. Ii reports the hemlock ami 

 hardwood situation In excellent slia; 

 trade. 



The King Furiiilo ,, ,,f W., i ■ 



Ohio, has decided to Increase the capacity of 

 the plant to keep up with Us growing busl- 

 Work will be started at once on a new 

 building, 40x100 feet, three stories high, of 

 brick and tile on. The concern is 



a big use! "i hardm is and Is one of the 



most prosperous firms In the Stationing val- 

 ley. 



Frank Nicholson. Pittsburg manager for 

 the M. B. Farrln Lumber Con Cta- 



cinnati, recently got an order for J 

 of poplar sap culls for the glass houses of 

 Charleroi. Pa. He also contracted last week 

 to furnish the Wightman Glass Company 

 their poplar for one year. Mr. Nicholson has 

 ly sold ovei ."»" carloads this month. 

 showing that poplar Is winning new friends 

 every week in Pittsburg. 



R. E. Gannon, who handles the business of 

 Hi Saginaw Bay Box Company In this cits, 

 has an order for 15 cars of stock for a casket 

 company. He also ha- i ontracted to furnish 

 a large amount of "shodfl - nbenvllte, 



Ohio. firm. 



The Nicola Brothers Company bave just 



- '1 the largest contract for lumber plfl 

 this year with the Pennsylvania linn. The:.' 

 will take the entire output of J c Uoorhead 

 .v Son of Kutaiinitig. Pa,, amounting to 10, 

 000,000 feet, or $225,000. Most of Che lumber 

 will be hemlock and It will be cut from Che 

 tract of 10,000 acres of mixed timber near 

 White Sulphur Springs. W. Va.. Which 

 the firm owns. The timber Is located on the 

 i'h • sapeake and Ohio railroad and a large 

 force of men will start to cut it at once. The 

 bulk of !t will be for Pittsburg delivery. 



Buffalo. 



O. 0. laager, still places plain oak Oral on bis 



list and lives up to tbe mark, but he Is brli 

 iu a lot of birch from Canada and has a good 

 stock of such sellers as chestnut, cypreat and 

 poplar. 



G Ellas ,v I'.io. ,i., a. a forge! thai thai are 

 all round lumbermen, as well as mill owners, 

 and are bringing down a supply of white und 

 Norway rdne fox the local and eastern txadi 

 add to their stocks from the South. 



The birch interests of the Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Company In the Adirondacks are wait 

 ing for snow, when It is expected that n lot 

 of that lumber will be got out. Oak shipments 

 this way by river barge continue. 



All the southern sawmills nf the Hugh Mi 

 Lean Lumber Company are running, but there 

 is no Ion of the band mill 



projected for Memphis, it is hoped Hint it can 

 he got ready early next year. 



The oak and poplar stock coming up from 

 the South for A Miller will make a fine showing 

 for the late fall and winter trade especial!: 

 he also receives more or less Michigan hind 

 noods through the season by lake. 



