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HARDWOOD RECORD 



SPECIAL PRICE 



FOR QUICK SALE: 



No. 1 Com. Hickory : No. 2 Plain Oak : 



Scars l^"to4" 



No. 1 Com. Poplar: 

 15 cars ^" to4" 



No. 1 Plain Oak : 

 20 cars l"to4" 



5 cars 1" 



No. 1 Common Ash: 

 3 cars 2" 

 1 car 2>4" 



Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



Yards and Oiiice: 



Kansas Avenue Memphis, Tenn. 



Kentucky Hardwoods 



1 car 

 ag 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 

 cars 



1" Is and 2s Chestnut, 25% 14-16' lengths, aver- 

 16 14" wide. 



1" No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



1" Sound Wormy Chestnut, W,- 14-16' lengths, 



1'/," Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50^,1 14-16' lengths. 



1' 2" Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50''o 14-16' lengths. 



1' 2" Log Run Hard Maple. 60'"o 14-16' lengths. 



2" Log Run Beech, SOTo 14-16' lengths. 



1" No. 1 Common Poplar. 40';'r 14-16' lengths. 



I'i" No. 1 Common Poplar, 60''r 14-16' lengths. 



1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak. 



1" No. 2 Common Plain Red Oak. 



1" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 



1" No. 2 Common Plain White Oak. 



^'A" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 



Duskirk-Kutledge Lumber Co. 



BAND MILLS: 



LEXINGTON, KY. 



Quicksand, Ky., Straight Creek, Ky. 



in London. Its agent, J. Rogers I'lannery, has opened offices at 64 Victoria 

 street and is lining up some big European orders for Pittsburgh firms. 



It is reported that the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company has sold the 

 entire output of its Ford City, Pa., plant for the coming year. It is now 

 making extensive additions to its plant. The company is one of the 

 largest nujers of lumber in Pittsburgh. 



The ttreenvllle Steel Car Company of Greenvillo, Pa., which is a big 

 buyer of lumber from Pittsburgh firms, has started work on an addition 

 90i400 feet to Its plant. 



Fisher & BesnccUer are starting a new carriage works at Bvans City, 

 Pa., to replace the old Laderer factory which was lately moved to 

 Zelienoplp, Pa. 



The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company now has 2.'?,000,000 feet of 

 lumber in its yards at Sheffield, Pa., as compared with 3S,000,Ono feet, 

 which is a high water mark. 



\V. B. Wagner of Ileshbon, Pa., has bought a tract of hardwood timber 

 in .Tackson township. Cambria county. Pa., which is estimated to cut 

 l.,"iOO,000 feet of lumber and 125 cars of mine posts. Operations will be 

 started at once. 



The Babcock Lumber & Land Company, of this city, has been granted 

 full title to 10,000 acres of the finest timl>erland in Tennessee and North 

 Carolina, after twenty years' litigation in city and federal courts. The 

 property is valued at $300,000. 



,1. (J. Marks of -Vltoona, Pa., has bought the planing iiiill and lumber 

 yard of Edward O'Brien at Cresson, Pa., for $2,'),000. 



The Whites Creek Lumber Company of Somerset, Pa., has applied for 

 decree of dissoUitlon and Ileceniber 7 is sot as the day for hearing the case. 



'I'he Kller Lumber & Mill Ciunpany. southside. Pittsbur.iib. Pa., whose 

 plant was burned a few weeks ago with loss of .$7,"».00O. is stocking up a 

 big yard with a splendid lot of hardwood and pine lumber and will he 

 fully equipped to take care of its old trade by December 1. 



The Wise Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, has lieon organized by, Leslie 

 W. M. Wise, rharles L. Reisensteln and Eugene B. Strassburger of this 

 city to do a general lumber business. 



,1. X. Woollett, president of the .Vberdcen Lumber Company, traveled 

 through the South recently on a two weeks' trip. lie found manufacturers 

 then* in very low spirits. 



,1. E. Ilouck of Watsontown, Pa., has bought a valuable tract here of 

 virgin hardwood timberlands near Markesl>urg. Pa., and will cut It off 

 at once. 



.< BOSTON >= 



Till' fwrnty-fifth aniiiitil iiUM'ling of the Massachusetts Wholesale 

 LumhiT Association was held at Younp's Hotel. Boston, on December 2, 

 and two wll-known hardwood men were elected to principal offices, viz: 

 William K. Litchfield, president, and Charles S. Wentworth. vice-presi- 

 dent. K. C. Hammond was elected secretary and treasurer, with Arthur 

 M. Monro assistant secretary and treasurer. The new charge for stop- 

 over service by the railroads, which api)lies on so much lumber shipped 

 from the South and West to New Rn^'Iand was considered, with some 

 difference of opinion as to whether it was proper or excessive or oven 

 railed for at all. The growinp policy of consideration for the railroads 

 was noticeable. After discussion and action on a number of other 

 iiialtrrs. the committee on incorporation reported as not favoring any 

 change in the form of the association, but continuing as heretofore for 

 till- transaction of .such business as the association might undertake. 

 Afier adjournment, however, nearly every member remained for an in- 

 lormal meeting for the construction and incorporation of a new lumber 

 association, laid down on different lines and designed to handle more 

 effectively the now conditions and problems fn the local trade. A com- 

 niittt-e was appointed to apply for a charter from the state of Massachu- 

 setts, and arrange matters for an organization meeting and election of 

 oflflcers. This will be held in the near future. 



The sympathy of the entire trade Is accorded Hon. John M. Woods 

 in (ho death of his wife, Almlra J. Woods. She passed away on December 

 '•'>, after a long illness, and the funeral was held at their residence in 

 Sonicrville on December r». the interment being at Mt. Auburn. 



Two new hardwood using industries are noted in the incorporations 

 this week : The Warren flock Company, with capital of $50,000 at 

 Portland, Me., and the Oakville Wagon Works at Watertown. Conn., with 

 capital of ?25.000. 



The Korest City Lumber Company has 'leen organized at Portland. 

 Me., with a capital of i?10,n0(!. 



=-< BALTIMORE >■= 



.liibn T. I)i.\on. head of the well known firm of ,Tohn T. Dixon Lumber 

 • "oinpany. Elizabetbton, Tenn.. who died In Itochester. Minn., on .November 

 20, was buried December 1 from tiie borne of his brother, William E. 

 I'ixon, 1.S23 West Saratoga street. Baltimore. Interment was in Loudon 

 Park cemetery. Mr. Dixon was sixty-six years old and Is survived by his 

 wife, two sons, Harlow S. and Hunter L. Dixon, two sisters and two 

 brothers. 



Clarence Cochran, a popular salesman who has been for years connected 

 with the R. E. Wood Luml)er Tonipany, was married recently to Mrs. 

 Florence A. Lcydon. a widow of Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Cochran has been 

 a widower for some years. lie was showered with congratulations by the 



