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HARDWOOD RECORD 



their boyhood in Indiana and started business 

 there. About ten years ago the principal office 

 of the concern was moved to Philadelphia. The 

 call for a "home coming," therefore, appealed 

 Strongly to all members of the company, and 

 an enjoyable time is anticipated when they re- 

 new their old friendship with the present Boos 

 ier lumbermen. 



Baltimore. 



Local lloo IIoo will assemble for the initia- 

 tion of about a dozen candidates on the 16th 

 inst. The concatenation will be the first one 

 under the direction of the present vice-gerent 

 snark of Maryland. Maurice M. Wiley, and he 

 will aim to make it a gala occasion. 



The John J. Kidd Lumber Company, with 

 office and yards on South Sharp street, has been 

 succeeded by the Kidd & Buckingham Lumber 

 Company. Emory G. Buckingham being the new 

 partner. Mr. Buckingham acquired an interest 

 in the company some time last year, the affairs 

 of Mottu & Buckingham, in which he was junior 

 partner, being gradually wound up. Both Messrs. 

 Kidd and Buckingham are young men and full 

 of energy and they are determined to conduct 

 business on a larger scale than was previously 

 the case. They do a yard trade and also look 

 after other branches. 



M. S. Baer of the hardwood firm of R. 1'. 

 Baer & Co.. Keyser Building, returned from a 

 trip to North Carolina and other states just be- 

 fore the holidays. He reports that he found 

 stocks low everywhere and that the greatest con- 

 fidence in the future prevailed. The business 

 of the firm was very satisfactory during the 

 past year. ; They entertain the most optimistic 

 views for the future, being, of the opinion that 

 values will keep up and that a brisk demand 

 for hardwoods will continue to prevail. 



John Stoppel. for years engaged in the cooper- 

 age business at Port Deposit, Md., died at the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital on December 21 of 

 diabetes. Since his retirement several years ago 

 he had lived in Baltimore. 



The firm of John S. Helfrich, lumber commis- 

 sioners, has removed from the Union Trust 

 Building to the Law Building. 



The Edge View Realty Company, a corpora- 

 tion formed to do a general real estate and'Ium- 

 ber business, has been incorporated at Salisbury. 

 Md.. with a capital stock of $30,000, which may 

 be increased to sen, it will have head- 

 quarters at Delmar, on the eastern shore of 

 Mania nd, and its incorporators are : Elijah 

 Freeny, Matilda M. Freeny, Mary E. Hickey, J. 

 William Freeny, Henry E. Freeny and Edwin 

 Freeny, who an' also named as directors for the 

 first year. 



Pittsburg. 



The rdaning mill of John Davis & Co. a1 

 McKee's Rocks, tivc miles west of Pittsburg, 

 was burned recently, emailing a loss of $10,- 

 000, of which $5,000 was covered by insurance. 

 Tlir plant will probably lie rebuilt. 



The Ravenscroft Lumber Company of < >ak- 

 land. Md., has been incorporated with a capital 

 of $25,000 and has taken options on extensive 

 tracts "i timber in West Virginia and Mary- 

 land. 



William Whinner & Sons. Inc.. are fitting up 

 a fine Mii- of Offices on the ninth floor of the 

 Empire building, which will afford much better 

 quarters than those previously occupied. E, R. 

 Loehr, a well known railroad man. has been 

 added to the office force, and George Whitehead, 

 late of the Flint, Erving & Stoner Company, 

 will be a new salesman on the road. ■ E. H. 

 Shreiner. who lias been traveling for tin- Whit 

 mers several years, has come to Pittsburg to 

 he office manager in place of B. W. Cross, re- 

 signed. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber "Company shut down 

 its big mills Christmas week to take stock. 

 Tt reports a splendid outlook for oak and the 

 genera] inquiry for hardwoods very pleasing. 



Louis Germain. Jr., and A. A. Germain spent 

 the holiday week at their old home in Sagi- 

 naw, Mich. 



'1 he Lamb-Davis Lumber Company of Leaven- 

 worth. Wash., and the Lamb-Eish Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis. Tenn.. have established 

 agencies at 111<» Machesney building, with II. 

 C. Morris as local representative. 



The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company started 

 in business January 1 on the fifteenth floor of 

 the Farmers* Bank building. John T. Parsons 

 has been in the employ of Nicola, Stone & 

 Myers of Cleveland for eleven years and B. W. 

 I'mss with the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company two years, and a like period 

 with William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., as office 

 manager. Charles A. Nicola is president of the 

 company and Mr. Parsons vice-president; A. 

 L. Stone is treasurer ; Mr. Cross, secretary, 

 and Max Myers, general manager. 



I. E. Balsley. hardwood manager for the 

 Willson Brothers Lumber Company, has just re- 

 tcrnad from an extended trip through the 

 southern hardwood mills, where he found a 

 very busy state of affairs. Late in December 

 he mad' 1 a lour of the New England states 

 and drummed up a line line of business for his 

 company. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company reports 

 an enormous call for white oak, especially tim- 

 bers. Prices are thirty per cent higher than a 

 year ago in many lines and the market is in 

 much better shape. The Hastings mill at Jack- 

 son, W. Ya., is now running full time and gets 

 out 30.000 feet of oak a day. 



General manager .1. N. Wollett, of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber & Manufacturing Company, started 

 the new vear right by contract inn for l..VH>.int<( 

 feet more of cottonwood to he cut in the Indian 

 Territory and shipped to points throughout the 

 middle west. The American has made a signal 

 success of its cottonwood and gum trade the 

 last six months and now has under contract 

 7,000,000 feci f.,r 11(07 delivery. Incidentally 

 the company is sending out one of the finest 

 holiday souvenirs that ever was mailed by a 

 Pittsburg firm in the shape of a large combina- 

 tion pearl handled knife, which is a most ac- 

 cep table gift to. any busy man. 



The Liberty Lumber & Planing Mill Company. 

 which acquired the business of J. W. Galla- 

 gher last spring, has moved into the Lloyd 

 building in the east end. Its new officers are: 

 I'. W. Ruskauff. president : Charles N. Burt, 

 vice president; Frank Gundling, secretary. The 

 company has a large planing mill and yards at 

 Braddoek avenue and the Pennsylvania rail- 

 road. 



The Linehan Lumber Company notes no cessa- 

 tion in hardwood inquiry except the natural 

 few days' relaxation due to the holiday season. 

 <>ak is a strong leader on its list of woods and 

 members of the firm predict a still larger sale 

 of oak than last year. 



The Nicola Lumber Company starts the new 

 year with an unprecedented call for hardwoods, 

 especially oak. Both timbers and railroad 

 stock arc in splendid call with this firm. The 

 outlook for building lumber is also, according 

 to them, improving very fast and they look for a 

 big year in hardwood specialties, 



The mills of the Cheat River Lumber Com 

 pany ai Burkeville, Va., were closed down Christ- 

 ma sr week to permit of stock taking. R. H. 

 ' rerbertson has been at the plant for several 

 days getting things organized for the new year. 

 1 i' company is getting out some splendid stock 

 and lately sold a few orders of chestnut and 

 oak in New York at fancy prices. 



The state of Pennsylvania lately secured sev- 

 i ral thousand acres of valuable timber land in 

 Union, Lycoming, Clinton and Center counties. 

 Pennsylvania, as parr of the forest reservation. 

 Most of the land was bought from Munroe H. 

 Kulu & Co.. of Shamokin, for about $30,000. 

 one of The besl lots of timber in tie' tract is in 



Union county and is still thickly wooded with 

 virgin trees. 



The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company has been organized as the re- 

 sult of efforts of the Greater Pittsburg Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association and will start in 

 business Feb. 1 in the Fulton building. The 

 company is formed along the lines of the Mans- 

 field Mutual, of Mansfield. < *., which has paid 

 dividends of thirty and thirty-five per cent the 

 last few years. Its promoters have found that 

 during the last ten years only twenty-eight per 

 cent of the money paid in to lumber fire insur- 

 ance companies by retailers in the Greater Pitts- 

 burg district as premiums has been paid out 

 again for fire losses, there having been only two 

 fires of over $18,000 in that time. The new 

 company charges stock company rates and will 

 declare a dividend annually under ordinary con- 

 ditions. Following are the officers of the com- 

 pany : President. J. C. Parsons ; vice presi- 

 dent, Nathaniel Green: treasurer, George N. 

 GlasK : secretary. A. C. Rightor. 



The Hardwood Door Company has been or- 

 ganized in Pittsburg, with the Paine Lumber 

 Company, Ltd., of Oshkosh. Wis., as a prin- 

 cipal and several well known Pittsburg firms 

 as allies. For three years the Paine company 

 has had an agency in the Farmers Bank build- 

 ing, with J. W. Anderson in charge, and has 

 made a great hit with its birch veneered doors. 

 The new company has leased two of the largest 

 warehouses in the terminal system on the south 

 side and will carry a stock of 20,000 hardwood 

 doors in addition to a big stock of window 

 frames, balusters and stair work and hardwood 

 trim. J. C- Scofield will be manager of the new 

 plant and Mr. Anderson will go to New York to 

 lake an important position in the office of the 

 Paine company there. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Associat ion. through its railroad committee, of 

 which J. L. Kendall is chairman, is taking up 

 the matter of equitable rates for freight trans- 

 fers within tii'- switching limit of Greater Pitts- 

 burg. This has been a subject of great annoy- 

 ance and considerable extra cost to Pittsburg 

 firms for years and they are determined to make 

 the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 

 roads come to a more just basis of dealing. At 

 presenl neither of these roads will deliver cars 

 in the city consigned over the other road with 

 out an extra charge of 60 and 70 cents a ton 

 for transferring them. The distance is never 

 but five or six miles and the extra charge makes 

 the lumber cost the wholesaler from $1 to $1.50 

 per M more, thus taking off his profit in many 

 cases. The Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg & 

 Lake Erie railroads have a better working agree- 

 ment and the latter road and the B. & O. have 

 i"> trouble. The main transfer points are East 

 Pittsburg and Allegheny and local wholesalers 

 are subjected to endless delays if they object 

 at all to the hdld-up charge for transfer, where- 

 as in other large cities where an inter-switch- 

 ing agreement is in force, deliveries are prompt 

 and cheap. 



Buffalo. 



The effort to organize a lumbermen's club is 

 si ill being considered by a committee, hut it 

 will be known soon whether such a thing is 

 desired. Some dealers say that there are or- 

 ganizations enough now. with the hardwood men 

 meeting every week when the Lumber Exchange 

 does not bring them together as a whole. 



IT. S. Janes of the Empire Lumber Company 

 came home from the Arkansas plant of the 

 company for Christmas, but will return again 

 soon, as the operations there seem to require 

 special attention. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. report less trouble from 

 car shortage in their West Virginia oak and 

 cherry operations than last year, as they have 

 bought at points more convenient to the trunk 

 lines. Their yard shows a well assorted line. 



The enlargement of the home yard of the 



