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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The White Lake Lumber Co. 



Peoples G«* Bids., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Northern and Southern Hardwoods 



CAR STOCK 

 WHITE PINE YELLOW PINE 



Bigh Qualitt/^Prompt DeMvery 



WE WANT TO MOVE AT ONCE 



5 cars 1" 1st and 2nd Basswood 



3 cars 1" No. 1 Common Basswood 



„ . 3 cars 1" No. 3 Common Basswood 



Ben4 im „ 



irsar inqiUritt 15 cars 1 Oak — all grades 



WEST VIRGINIA 



HARDWOODS 



We Have Beady for trompt Shipment 



14,000' 4/4 Log Run Ash. 



5,000' 10/4 IS & 2S No. 1 Common Ash. 



12,000' 4/4 is & 2s No. 1 Common Basswood. 



9,000' 6/4 Log Run Basswood. 



35,000' 4/4 Log Run Birch. 



55,000' 4/4 IS & 2s Chestnut. 



5 5,000' 4/4 No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



300,000' 4/4 Sound Wormy & No. 2 Common Chestnut. 



100,000' 4/4 No. 3 Common Chestnut. 



26,000' 5/4 is & 2s & No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



100,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy & No. 2 Common Chestnut. 



22,000' 8/4 is & 2s & No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



75,000' 4/4 Log Run Maple. 



19,000' 6/4 IS & 2s & No. 1 Common Maple. 



45,000' 8/4 Log Run Maple. 



13,500' 4/4 ls"& 2s Poplar. 



50,000' 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar. 



150,000' 4/4 Log Run Red Oak. 



55,000' 5/4 Log Run Red Oak. 



68,000' 6/4 IS & 2s & No. 1 Common Red Oak. 



100,000' 8/4 Log Run White Oak. 



100,000' 3x4 and 3x5 Hardwood Mine Rails. 



3 cars Yz" Slack Barrel Staves, 40 & 42" long. 

 10 cars Chestnut Telephone Poles. 



Alton Lumber Company 



Bucktiannon West Virginia 



Hand Mill 

 >Iill Creek, West Virginia 



C'irriilnr >1III 

 Todd, West Mrgbiltt 



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THE FREIBERG LUMBER COMPANY 



Olli.i. and Mdl: ( IN( INNATI, OHIO 



Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 

 Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



!624-S4 COLEBAIN AVKNUE 



C. CRANE & COMPANY 



Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, Oak & Poplar especially 

 Onr location makes possible quirk delivery of anything in timbers 

 and hardwood lumber 



DAY LUMBER & COAL CO. 

 Manufacturers YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 



GENERAL OFFICE — JACKSON. KT. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company reports some oak and chestnut 

 moving, though the quantity is not so large as usual at this season. Warm 

 weather Is expected to stimulate business soon. 



T. Sullivan & Co.'s sales are largely of brown ash at present. Wliile 

 hardwood prices are somewhat unsatisfactory at present, a good deal of 

 strength to northern hardwoods is looked for about the middle of the year. 



•< PHILADELPHIA •< 



J. n. Haines, manager of the Babcocli Lumber Company, regards the 

 sudden increase in building work as an indication of a developing healthy 

 ioutr Su trnue. He repuris a slight betterment In local trading, but in the 

 suburban and smaller towns an increased activity since the first ot the 

 year. 



Warren Ross, president of the Warren Itoss Lumber Company, James- 

 town, N. Y., and Mr. Edgecomb, sales manager of the Insular Lumber Com- 

 pany, Manila, Philippine Islands, were recent visitors to the local trade. 



Ralph Souder ot Hallowell & Souder, who returned recently from a tour 

 of the southern mill districts, says that some of the mills are still shut 

 down and there is only enough stock all told to cover immediate require- 

 ments. He does not anticipate a rush of business in the near future, but 

 a gradual advance toward better times. 



Herbert P. Robinson ot Miller, Robinson & Co., with wife and son John, 

 have just returned from a pleasure trip to Florida. 



E. M. Bechtel, sales manager for William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., says 

 there has been no appreciable change in trading since the first of the year. 

 Collections are fair. 



W. H. Wyatt of the Jackson-Wyatt Lumber Company says there Is 

 always a modicum of business to be obtained by hard hustling, but so far 

 this year there has been a lack of ginger in buying. He is looking for a 

 steady advance as the year grows older. 



Currie & Campbell have moved from the eighth to the sixth floor ot the 

 Commonwealth building, where they have more room to conduct their 

 increased business. 



Schofleld Bros, have secured E. B. Bartlesou to succeed George Huganlr 

 as salesman. 



The Smith Lumber Company, Boston, Mass., has opened an office In the 

 Real Estate Trust building, this city. 



Among the recent charters are the Continental Land and Lumber Com- 

 pany, capitalized at .$2,000,000, and the Cherokee Timber Company, 

 ?300,000 — botli under Delaware laws. 



Paul Ross Wcitzcl, father of P. Elmer, Herbert E, and E. Boyd Weitzel, 

 who established the lumber business now known as the Weitzel Lumber 

 Company, died on March 2, aged eighty-two years. 



The steamship William O'Brien, built exclusively for the lumber trade 

 for the Carpenter-O'Brien Company, Jacksonville, Fla., was launched at 

 the New York Ship Building Company yard, Camden, N. J., on February 

 27. The vessel will ply Ix>tween Jacksonville and New York, and will have 

 a capacity ot over .'i.OOO.OOO board feet of lumber. 



The Keystone Planing Mill, I-ancastcr, Pa., owned by Himsworth & Son, 

 formerly of Philadelphia, was visited by fire on February 27, causing a loss 

 of $25,000. 



.< PITTSBURGH >-. 



Tb,: IKiidersuu l.tiiiilMr Conipjiny regards the outlook for mixed hard- 

 woods as somewhat lietter and says that considerable good business is 

 likely to be placed between now and .\pril 1. 



J. N. Wollett, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, thinks the 

 sitimtlon has not improved since February 15. The spurt which was on 

 (hiring January and Feljruary has suddenly sulreided. 



James Miller of .Miller Brothers Lumber Company is down East on a 

 long trip among hardwood consuming plants. 



G. C. .\dams, sales manager of the Duqucsne Lumber Company, reports 

 that its business during January and February was very satisfactory 

 indeed. Both months ma<le big gains over 1914. 



The Federal Lumber Company has been organized with E. E. Gregg, 

 president and treasurer : J. K. Fawcett, vice-president : A. M. Bangert. 

 tecrctary, and Charles A. Jamison of New York and C. P. Caughey of 

 Ilttslmrgh as directors. The company has a capital of ?25,000 and has 

 taken over the business of the old C. P. Caughey Lumber Company. It has 

 offices at 704 Oliver building and mills in six counties ot Pennsylvania 

 with splendid mill connections in West Virginia and North Carolina also. 



The Bartlett-Shotls-Wilson Company is a new wholesale concern at the 

 foot of South Eighteenth street which will deal in doors, sash and millwork 

 chiefly. The members are A. C. Bartlott, treasurer; T. R. Shotts, presi- 

 dent, and U. H. Wilson, secretary. .411 of them have been connected for 

 years with door and sash concerns in tliis city. 



The Warren Axe & Tool Company at Warren, Pa., has lot the contract 

 for an addition 75x75 feet to its plant to cost about $15,000. 



=-< BOSTON y- 



Tlie Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc., will hold a 

 meeting March 18 at the City Club, Boston. Some important business 

 matters will come up. The association filed a brief on March 1 with the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission on docket No. 5518 in line with the 

 principles advocate<l by other wholesale associations on the suliject of 

 freight receipts issued to receivers of lumber l)y railroads. The question 



