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This shows the possibility of FIGURED QUARTERED RED GUM as used in our private 

 office. We specialize this wood 



Importers and 

 Manufacturers 



Mahogany 



and 



Cabinet Woods 



SAWED AND SLICED 



Quartered INDIANA 

 White Oak, Red Oak, 

 Figured Red Gum, 

 American Walnut, Etc. 



Rotary Cut Stock in 

 Poplar & Gum for Cross 

 Banding, Back Panels, 

 Drawer Bottoms & Panels. 



I The Evansville Veneer Company, Evansville, Indiana 



say that the toiulencj' of affairs is very strong and lh;it luinlicr buyers 

 are bo^omiug nioro active. 



At the recent election of the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation J. B. Montgomery of the American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, was elected president ; C. V. McCroight. Uicks-McCreight Lumber 

 Company, vice-president : J. G. Criste. Interior Lumber Company, secre- 

 tary and treasurer: and E, S. Dunn, .T. P. Garling, A. Rex Flinn, J. C. 

 Donges and F. R. Babcock, directors. 



The plant of Hubbard & Co.. shovel manufacturers, which was burned 

 down recently, is being rebuilt. This company is a large buyer of hardwood 

 for handles. 



The National Casket Company has arranged to build a $60,000 fireproof 

 factory on tho north side. The company is one of the biggest buyers of 

 lumber in the Pittsburgh district. 



March total of building showed 298 permits issued amounting to $1,767,- 

 612. This is about $760,000 more than in March. 1915. 



The Shaffer Lumber Company of Ligonler. Pa., will fit up ^ planing mill 

 and woodworking shop at once and do considerable business in hardwood 

 manufacturing. 



The M'est Penn Lumber Company is doing a fine business with manufac- 

 turing concerns and according to E. H. Stoncr finds that inquiry is keeping 

 up verj' strong. Prices are firm. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company is going right after the gum and cotton- 

 wood trade in a way that insures very large sales from its splendid stocks. 

 President J. N. Woollett reports that car shortage and embargoes hinder 

 business considerable. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Company believes that there 

 will be a strong steady trade this spring. Inquiries are fairly numerous 

 and buyers seem more inclined to pay prices asked than a few months ago. 



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Tht- in.-ronseil activity in spring business is shown by the large num- 

 Der of firms being organized all over New England for construction and 

 manufacturing, the principal companies being The Burr Lumber Com- 

 pany of Iladdam. Conn., a .$.50,000 corporation with James A. Burr of 

 Middletown. Conn., president : the Knight Lumber Company. Lewiston. 

 Me., and the Passadumkeag Lumlier Company at Passaduml^eng. Me. : 

 also the Horace A. Weeks Company. Inc.. Kittery. Me., manufacturing 

 lasts, shoe-trees, etc., and new construction companies in tho following 

 cities : A. N. Currier & Sons. Haverhill. JIass. ; Mossman Wood Turning 

 Company. Fitchburg. Mass. : The Reid-Whitcomb Company and Keller 

 Construction Company at Boston : The .\merican Building & Construction 

 Company at Augusta, Me. : The Connecticut PulUIing v4 Supply Company, 



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Milford, Conn. ; and the Standard Construction Company at New Haven, 

 Conn. 



The United States forestry reservation in New England has been ex- 

 tended by the purchase of about 25.000 acres largely in western Maine 

 adjoining previous holdings in New Hampshire. 



Contracts awarded for building and engineering operations in the New 

 England states during the first three months of 1916 amount to over 

 ••539,000,000, exceeding the next highest year of 1912 by about $2,300,000. 

 A great deal of this work being factory construction and extension, the 

 lumber trade as well as all other local industries should experience a 

 heav,v trade the coming season. 



=-< BALTIMORE >-- 



Charles yi. Buchanan, ,a .young wholesale lumberman, with offices in 

 the Equitable building, has been named Baltimore representative of 

 William Whitmer & Sons, Philadelphia. Mr. Buchanan has been for 

 years closely associated with" A. Harvey McCay, who preceded him. and 

 is entirely familiar with the company's affairs. He will, furthermore, 

 have the advice of Mr. McCay, with whom he will remain in frequent 

 touch. Mr. McCay's health has not been good for some time, and he 

 found it desirable to seek relief from some of his business cares. 



Some twenty of the furniture manufacturing concerns in Baltimore met 

 at the Emerson hotel on March 27 and organized the Baltimore Furniture 

 and Bedding Manufacturers' Association. The officers elected are : Presi- 

 dent, P. E. Graff ; vice-president, J. Hughes ; secretary, S. W. Harden, 

 and treasurer, George A. Horner. Mr. Hughes, with S. Levenson, William 

 Kemper, W. A. Korb and J. E. Deimer. make up the executive commit- 

 tee. The object of the association is to secure unity of action among 

 the membership and to promote such trade methods and customs as will 

 tend to improve the conditions of the business. 



Ben H. Johnson of the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company. New 

 Winnfield, La., recently stopped in Baltimore on his way to New York. 



The F. X. Ganter Company, manufacturer of show cases and office and 

 store fixtures, whose factory in South Baltimore was destroyed by fire 

 two weeks ago. is making arrangements to rebuild. In fact, some of the 

 preliminary w-ork to this end has already been done. Meanwhile the force 

 of draftsmen employed by the company continues with its labors, nu- 

 merous plans for fixtures being worked out and made ready for execution 

 at the factory. The company is an extensive user of hardwoods. 



The Holston River Lumber Company, Darlington, Md., recently incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of .$300,000, intends to erect large mill and 

 other equipment near Abingdon, Va., where it has acquired a big timlier 

 tract. The mill, a double band, Is to have a capacity of about 100.000 



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