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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 1921 



Cable Address: SAPERSTONE, NEW YORK 



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LIVERPOOL HARDWOOD COMPANY, Inc. 



Branch Office, Memphis, Tenn. 



NEW YORK CITY 



business in the west. Mr. Letterman lias only recently retmned from a 

 trip to the Inland Empire. 



The Interstate Will Work Company has been organized and incor- 

 porated by P. A. Russell, E. P. Eckert and Walter H. Eckert to conduct a 

 general manufacturing, merchandising and sales business in lumber. The 

 offices of the firm will be at 30 North La Salle street. 



John Swain of the Walter A. Kelley Company, Detroit, Mich., was 

 recently in Chicago. He is sales manager for the Kelley company. 



W. B. Sabin, Michigan representative of the Cha.s. W. Fish Lumber 

 Company, was in Chicago a few days during the holiday season. 



The officers and directors of the American Wholesale Lumber Associa- 

 tion met in Chicago for their mid-winter session on Jan. S. 



BUFFALO 



There are reports of reviving the Panama Canal route before long. If 

 so, it will affect the Eastern trade considerably. The markets here have 

 always wanted more Pacific Coast lumber, but have been unable to get it 

 and after the advance in rail rates it seemed to be pretty nearly cut out 

 from this market, except for flie highest grades. If the rate reported on 

 the proposed revival of the shingle trade over that route is as low as it is 

 expected to be other rates will be low accordingly, and this will bring an 

 additional amount of Pacific Coast lumber to this side of the country. 



Buffalo building costs for 1920 were $13,141,000, or only slightly dif- 

 ferent from those of 1919, which were .$13,033,000. The largest month 

 last year was May, which totaled $2,110,000, and the smallest month was 

 February, which was only $401,000. 



The Buffalo lumber wholesalers held a party at the Iroquois Hotel on 

 Jan. 4, not to celebrate the big profits lately realized, but to fittingly 

 mark the start of another year, with its prospects for better things. The 

 "deviltry" committee was in charge of the affair, with Fred M. Sullivan as 

 chairman and Charles N. Perrin vice-chairman. 



The prize for the biggest tree in Xew York state has been awarded to 

 Charle.s J. Richards, editor of the Gowanda News, for an elm tree which is 

 nearly thirty feet in circumference at 4V2 feet from the ground. Gowanda 

 is only thirty-three miles from Buffalo, on the Erie Railroad, and is 

 located partly in Erie county and partly in Cattaraugus county. The tree 

 has no branches for fifty feet from the ground and the circumference at 

 that point is twenty feet. The height is over 100 feet. 



The contest for the biggest tree was started by the New York ^tate 

 College of Forestry. 



The receipts of lumber by lake for the past season were 10,786.372 

 feet, which is only about one-fourth as much as was received in 191S. 

 Hardwood receipts made up but a small part of the total, which was 



nearly all white-pine box lumber. The number of shingles by lake was 

 also small, being 35,611,000, or about 70 per cent of the receipts of 1919. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Philadelphia Lumbermen's Golf Club held the last tournament of 

 the season at the Torresdale Country Club. Mr. Thos. E. Coale, president 

 of the organization, was the genial host, and took care of every little 

 detail as only he knows how. The first prize was won by Horace G. 

 Hazard, second by William Henry Smedley, third by Fred A. Benson, and 

 fourth by Volney G. Bennett. The new president. William L. Rice, pre- 

 sided. 



James M. Hamilton, yard and planing mill operator of Chester, Pa., 

 suffered a slight loss by fire, recently. 



L. H. Farris, of the Farri.s Hardwood Lumber Company, Nashville. Tenn., 

 manufacturers of hardwoods, was up during the middle of December 

 looking over trade conditions at consuming points. 



George W. Butz, Jr.. of the Butz Lumber Company, hustling whole- 

 salers of Wilmington. Delaware, has just returned after spending two 

 weeks at mill points through West Virginia. 



M. N. Wilson of the Wilson Lumber Company, manufacturers. Elkins, 

 West Va., spent a few days in Philadelphia. Mrs. Wilson accompanied him. 

 He reports that the several mills of the company are running in good 

 order, producing the best grades of hardwoods, and that prospects are 

 good for a fine trade in the near future. 



J. R. Taylor, manager of the Kelsey Hardwood Lumber Company, Maple 

 specialists of North Touawanda. has been visiting his friends in Philadel-* 

 phia. He reports that business is good considering general conditions. 



PITTSBURGH 



Several fares of well known Pittsburgh wholesalers were missing at the 

 annual Christmas party at the William Penn Hotel, the Monday before 

 Christmas. Among these were A. J. Fisher, president of the Myers-Parson 

 Lumber Company, who died several months ago at his home in this city, 

 after having made a hard fight for life in the mountains of New England. 

 Also R. D. Baker, president of the Empire Lumber Company, and A. G. 

 Breitweiser of the Merchants and Manufacturers Lumber Company, both 

 of whom are in the lumber business in California. 



James L. Linehan, formerly president of the Linehan Lumber Company 

 of this city, has .lust arrived in Cincinnati from a trip to England which 

 he made in the interest of the Mowbray & Robinson Lumber Company, 

 with whom he has been connected for several years. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company finds business very quiet at present 



