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HARDWOOD RECORD 



found liai-dwood buyers greatly discouraged over the business outlook on 

 account of the war. 



G. C. Adams, sales manager of tbe Duquesne Lumber Company, reports 

 business quiet. The company's eastern office is doing fairly well and its 

 mill at Breamer, Tenn.. is running steadil.r. 



The Foreijn Trade Commission organized lately through the efforts of 

 the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and the Pittsburgh Industrial De- 

 velopment Commission, called a meeting of -HOO manufacturers of Pitts- 

 burgh at the Hotel Schenley, October 20. when further means to secure 

 foreign orders for this district were considered. President .1. Rodgers 

 Flannery of the Commission will go to London in a few days to work up 

 English business. 



JAMES & ABBOT COMPANY 

 Lumber and Timber 



No. 165 Milk St., BOSTON, MASS. 



T^Souihern California Hardwood 



& Manufacturing Company, 



Los Angeles, California 



calls the attention of the trade to its 



''South Sea" Brand 



of Philippine Mahogany 



Directly Imported 



from a mill cutting the finest mahogany in the 

 islands. 



We were fortunate in securing a large cargo just 

 after the war was declared and are able to offer 

 this fine figured wood at prices much lower than 

 other mahoganies. 



Our SOUTH SEA MAHOGANY is rapidly 

 increasing in favor wherever it has been tried. 

 Especially fine for interior trim, show cases, 

 fixtures, and furniture. Carload prices quoted 

 and samples sent upon request. 



Southern California Hardwood & Manufacturing Co. 

 Los Angeles, California 



AT HALF PRICE 



STEAM SKIDDER 



AND LOADER COMBINED 



Clyde Modern Equipment. Used 

 about sixty days. Operations dis- 

 continued. No further use for It 



For Particulars Write 



GOGEBIC LUMBER CO. 



GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. 



The Petersens of Jamestown. N. Y., have liought the Port .\llcgany 

 Kurniture Company at Port Allegany, Pa., and are equipping the plant 

 with up-to-date maohiner.v. They will manufacture pedestals and will 

 have the plant running in full in a short time. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



The executive committee of the Interstate Association of Mantel and 

 Tile Dealers is scheduled to meet in Baltimore November 12 and 13. to 

 make arrangements for the national convention of the organization, wliich 

 will be held here February 9, 10 and 11, of next year. Between 300 and 

 400 mantel and tile dealers will be brought to this city for the conven- 

 tion, and all portions of the United States are lo be represented. 



The Marvil Package Company of Marvil, Del., has given a contract to 

 the Sharptown (Md.) Marine Railway Company for the construction of a 

 l.".rge barge lo be used in the triinsportation of gum timber from the 

 South, this vessel making the third so employed. 



There are indications that the activity in building at Baltimore will 

 be smaller than it lias been during practically the whole of the present 

 year so far. September shows a marked reduction in the value of the 

 structures for which permits were issued, due manly to the fact that the 

 banks, trust companies and building associations, are holding down on 

 loans. It is stated in this connection that one of the Iflrgest of the build- 

 ing associations was cut down in its loans by the banks to about one 

 third of its former credits, and this is having a decided effect upon new 

 construction. That the demand for lumber used in building will be affected 

 .iccordingly is likely, and the demand for hardwoods from this source 

 may consequently be expected to undergo a contraction. The total esti- 

 mated value of the buildings for last monfh was only $464,743. 



The first wooden block pavement to be put down here in some years 

 has been contracted for. It will be laid on South street, from Lombard 

 to Baltimore, and on Guilford avenue, from Baltimore to Fayette streets. 

 The George Long Contracting Company has the contract, its bid having 

 l>een .$0,478.75. or at the rate of ?2.75 per square yard. The blocks to 

 be laid are creosoted. 



M. S. Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co., was in the Middle West practically 

 all of last week, getting in touch with the firm's patrons in the section, 

 and also calling on the firm's representative at Columbus, O. He states 

 that he found business moderate, with Indications more encouraging than 

 he had expected. 



.Tohn L. Alcock & Co. are making a search for a shipment of 100 tons 

 of Circassian walnut, which was loaded on the German steamer Kerkyra 

 af Battoum, Russia, just before the war broke out. the vessel leaving 

 July oO. The shipment should have; been sent to Rotterdam, and thence 

 transshipped to one of the Holland Line steamers for Baltimore, but to 

 escape capture the Kerkyra put in at Constantinople, where the logs 

 were unloaded. What became of them afterward the firm has not so 

 far been able to ascertain. The non-arrival of the logs is all the more 

 annoying for the reason that they had been actually sold at a good 

 figure, dependent, of course, upon delivery. 



— -< INDIANAPOLIS >- 



The Island Creek Lumber Company of Peru has dissolved. 



Application for a receiver tor the Beech Grove Lumber Company, Beech 

 Grove, has been made by C. S. Eaglesfield, treasurer of the company. 



Claude Hixon, twenty-six j'ears old, manager of the True & True Lum- 

 ber Company, Bainbridgc, was killed in an automobile accident recently. 



The American I'la.vground Device and Swing Company has reorganized 

 with $50,000 capital and will move its factory from Terre Haute to 

 .Vuderson. 



Aaron J. Wolfe, with vast lumber interests in Indiana, Illinois and 

 .\rkansas, died at his home in Crawfordsville recently. He was sixty 

 years old. Burial was at Waveland, his former home. 



Showers Brothers, furniture manufacturers at Bloomington, have just 

 equipped a plant for the manufacture of kitchen cabinets in addition to 

 their other business. 



The Swain-Roach Lumber Company of Seymour, with mills at Seymour 

 and Crothersville, expects to shut down its mill at the latter place for 

 the winter. 



H. J. Schied. R. B. Wilson and J. D. Wilson have organized tbe Ameri- 

 can Wood Products Company here with an authorized capitalization of 

 $100,000. It will manufacture a large line of wood products. 



The Hoosier Veneer Company of this city, manufacturer of veneers and 

 hardwoods, states that its present production is one-third less than it was 

 at this time last year. 



Detachable wood handles for all kinds of tools, will be manufactured 

 by the Doddridge-Beck Detachable Handle Company just organizeed in 

 this city by J. C. Beck, Joseph F. Ankenbrock and George 3. Meyers. The 

 company is incorporated with an authorized capitalization of $25,000. 



< MEMPHIS > 



There has been some further curtailment of operations in the Memphis 

 territory, but. while some mills are closing down, there are others which 

 are preparing to resume operations. Resumption, in most instances, is 

 due to the fact that here are certain kinds of lumber which have been 

 sold up so closely that it is necessary to cut more to prevent stocks from 

 becoming very much broken. Among the mills which have Just started 



