HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ration to Hagerstown, a factory building being 

 in course of erection there to accommodate 

 the plant. The Hagerstown Company has in- 

 creased its captial stock from $100,000 to 

 $150,000. 



John Kahl, Sr., for many years engaged in 

 the cooperage business in South Baltimore, 

 died on October 29 of the infirmities of ad- 

 vanced age after an illness of five weeks. 



O. C. Crane and James S. Lakin of Terre 

 Alta, W. Va., have concluded negotiations for 

 the sale to a number of Morgantown, W. Va., 

 and Pennsylvania capitalists of 5.000 acres of 

 timber land on Roaring creek. West Virginia, 

 the consideration mentioned being $68,000. 

 The property, according to report, was ac- 

 quired by Messrs. Crane and Lakin not long 

 ago and includes the old Preston tannery tract 

 together with several others. The expecta- 

 tion is that a mill will be erected on the 

 tract. 



The Blaekstone Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company of Blaekstone, Va., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $50,000 to op- 

 erate a woodworking and ire plant. The erec- 

 tion of a box factory with a capacity of 25,000 

 feet of lumber per day is also under considera- 

 tion. All the other buildings are completed. 

 J. M. Harris is president of the company; 

 E. H. Ward, secretary-treasurer; L. D. Strauss, 

 general manager of plants and architect in 

 charge, and J. W. Hoover, engineer in charge. 



The Randolph Lumber Company of Beulah. 

 W. Va., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000 to operate sawmills. The in- 

 corporators are: H. E. Ast and F. W. .Kirby 

 of Elkins. W. Va. ; J. W. Powell and J. J. 

 Linderman of Canisteo, N. Y.. and Clare Wil- 

 ley of Allegany, X. Y. 



"The Krebs Lumber Company of Morgan- 

 town. W. Va., has purchased the timber rights 

 on a tract of 5.000 acres in Preston county. 

 \\ • si Virginia, and the intention is to erect 

 and operate sawmills. 



Pittsburg. 



The Glassport Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased from the Glassport Land Company 550 

 feet of frontage in Allegheny avenue. Glass- 

 port, for $20,000 and will use the ground as a 

 site for a big extension to its plant. At least 

 $50,000 will be spent on the improvement. 



The L. N. Hoover Company of Camden. N. 

 J., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $250,000. Its members are: W. J. Slaven, ■ 

 N. L. Hoover of DuBois, Pa.; H. Gass of Glen 

 Campbell, Pa.; S. W. Fox of Clearfield, Pa.; 

 J. H. Hoenberger of Ligonier, Pa., and W. M. 

 Slouck of Pittsburg. The company has an 

 extensive hardwood operation in the south. 



S. C. Reid is filling up his big yards at 

 Warren. O.. with the finest lot of elm timber 

 that lias been shipped to that city for several 

 years. It is second growth stock cut 4% 

 inches and over and three feel and over long. 

 The poles are being used for hubs which go 

 chiefly to the eastern market. 



The Linehan Lumber Company notes a 

 strong hardwood market. Within the past 

 month it has taken some very good orders 

 for oak at $2 over former list price, most of 

 the stock being grade lumber. 



Pittsburg made a fair showing in October 

 In building, but not so good as architects and 

 contractors had reason to expect. The fear 

 of more labor troubles after the first of the 

 year is given as the reason for the lack of 

 more building projects being started. In all 

 there were authorized 229 new projects which 

 are estimated to cost $1,099,523. The average 

 total for a month is about $1,500,000 in Pitts- 

 burg. 



The Krebs Lumber Company of Kingwood, 

 W. Va., has bought 5,000 acres of land in 

 Preston county, W. Va. The tract, which is 

 largely hardwood timber, will be developed at 

 once. 



Attorney T. M. Gailey has been named re- 



ceiver of the Carroll Lumber Company of 

 Clairton, Pa., replacing A. J. Diebold, the first 

 receiver, who resigned when the Pittsburg 

 Plate Glass Company asked that the company 

 go into the hands of a receiver. It is expected 

 that the assets will be sufficient to nearlj 

 paj off the indebtedn. ss. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company is push- 

 ing things hard at its plant :,i Burkeville, Va. 

 One member of the company is constantly at 

 the plant, and the Pittsburg office force has 

 been putting in a very busy two months tak- 

 ing care of its hardwood trade. The com- 

 pany has been one of the largest handlers of 

 .le.stnut the past year in this market and 

 has lately placed some very satisfactory 

 orders. 



The Ward & Hutton Company of Swain 

 county. North Carolina, has purchased several 

 thousand acres of timber land in eastern 

 North Carolina, and expects to develop the 

 tract very shortly. B. M. Yeager of Malinton, 

 W. Va.. is one of the chief promoters. 



'I'll.' M. B. Farrin Lumber Company is hav- 

 ing a brisk fall trade in poplar and southern 

 hardwoods from its Pittsburg office in the 

 Ferguson building. 



George Warren of Franklin, O., has bought 

 4,000 acres of hardwood timberland in Knott 

 county, Kentucky. A company will be formed 

 soon to develop the tract and a large mill 

 will be installed. 



J. B. Hart of Clarksburg. W. Va.. and other 

 capitalists from Wheeling and vicinity have 

 bought the stumpage and mills of the North 

 Carolina Lumber Company at Mt. Sterling, 

 N. C. The plant to be installed has a capacity 

 of 30,000.000 feet a year. The operation will 

 be 'arried on under the name of the Pidgeon 

 Lumber Company. 



The Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Com- 

 pany has installed two new planers and two 

 double cylinder planers and matchers at its 

 big plant at Dunlevie. W. Va. It cut 2.000.000 

 feet of lumber there last month, the larger 

 part of it hardwood. J. B. Flint, president of 

 the company, recently took a trip through the 

 Ohio river towns, where he found affairs in 

 very flourishing condition. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company reports 

 a remarkably active business this fall. It has 

 had a big trade in mine rails and pit props 

 lately. The company has cut a lot of good 

 hardwood at Mercer. Indiana and Washington 

 counties, Pennsylvania, and has just con- 

 nected for 100 ears more to be cut at the 

 country mills. It has also bought another 

 tract of 300,000 feet of choice white oak tim- 

 ber in Washington county, on the Panhandle, 

 which will be cut off as fast as possible by a 

 portable mill and shipped to Pittsburg and 

 vicinity. 



Sales Manager J. N. Wollett of the Amer- 

 ican Lumber & Manufacturing Company is 

 keeping a steady stream of big orders coming 

 his way this tall. Charles Cruikshank, assist- 

 ant in the hardwood department, is in Arkan- 

 sas and Tennessee on a business trip. The 

 American recentlj bought from O. Edwards of 

 the Audrey-Edwards Company of Hartsville, 

 Tcnn.. 6,000.000 feet of oak. poplar, chestnut. 

 ash and hickory to be cut under contract. 

 Mr. Woollett has just booked another order 

 for 1.400,000 feet of cottonwood firsts and sec- 

 onds to be cut in Arkansas. 



Buffalo. 



H. A. Stewart is planning a trip to Pennsyl- 

 vania. A lot of good cherry and chestnut 

 was recently brought from that state by the 

 firm. 



O. E. Yeager lias again on hand a fine as- 

 sortment of cypress, including all thicknesses 

 of tank stock. The wood is a good seller and 

 seems to give the dealers less trouble than 

 most sorts. 



A. W. Kreinheder is making a trip to Ken- 

 tucky. 



The Empire Lumber Company is busy tak- 

 ing a cargo or two of birch, black ash and 

 maple off lake barges. As much of it is al- 

 ready sold it easily goes on cars direct and 

 is soon out of the way. 



Considerable business is being done on the 

 docks of T. Sullivan & Co.. as an effort is 

 making to fill them up with lake hardwoods, 

 mostly ash and birch, before the end of the 

 lake season. 



A. Miller is doing a good business in poplar 

 ami chestnut, both coming in and going out. 

 finding that there is great demand for these 

 woods. 



Angus McLean is on mm< of his periodical 

 visits to the southwestern mills of the Hugh 

 McLean Company. The company is trying to 

 run the mills night and day now, to incn a 

 the oak supply. 



Buffalo hardwood lumbermen, with extensive 

 timber interests in the south and southwest 

 appreciate the secondary value of their prop- 

 erty as farm land. The easiest way, of course, 

 is to sell cut-over land outright and let the 

 purchaser decide on his side of its develop- 

 ment. The Empire Lumber Company, how- 

 ever, is more far-sighted and disposes of its 

 lands with a view to their immediate im- 

 provement so as to create business for the 

 railroad which the company built in Arkansas, 

 primarily for logging purposes, but which is 

 now to be continued as a permanent line. 

 The company intends extending the road far- 

 ther south, into Louisiana. 



Taylor & Crate take a step further and 

 under another firm name are doing practical 

 farming — raising crops, mostly cotton, on their 

 cut-over lands in the Yazoo delta in Missis- 

 sippi. They have several hundred acres un- 

 der cultivation, and have been engaged in this 

 work for several years, meeting with pro- 

 nounced success. 



E. J. Fulghum has become associated with 

 the Buffalo Maple Flooring Company as man- 

 ager. Mr. Fulghum has had a long experience 

 in the manufacture of maple flooring both at 

 Reed City and Traverse City, Mich. He is 

 also a mechanical expert of high ability and 

 will be a valuable addition to the forces of 

 the Buffalo Maple Flooring Company. 



Saginaw Valley. 



diaries A. Bigelow, manager of the Knee- 

 land-Bigelow Company and the Kneeland, 

 Buell & Bigelow Company at Bay City, says 

 there is considerably more inquiry for hard- 

 wood lumber ami that prices are improving, 

 several woods having advanced a dollar a 

 thousand. There is a much better feeling in 

 regard to maple. The only handicap to busi- 

 ness is the lack of transportation, the rail- 

 roads being unable to furnish more than one- 

 quarter of the cars wanted. In fact, the strin- 

 gency has been so acute that the Saginaw 

 Valley Lumber Dealers' Association held a 

 meeting October 30 at which resolutions were 

 adopted alleging that unless they have prompt 

 relief they will lie forced to close down their 

 plants; that merchandise shippers have been 

 favored at the expense of the lumbermen, and 

 they recommend thai warehouse shipments 

 less than car lots lie discontinued two days a 

 week in order that lumber shippers may be 

 furnished with cars. 



W. C. Sterling and son of Monroe and W. C. 

 Beck and H. C. Slocum of Bay City have 

 organized the Sterling Cedar & Lumber Com- 

 pany at Bay City with a paid-in capital of 



$100,000. The company has purchased 1. 



Mi.s of land along Carp river. 15 miles north 

 of St. Ignace. containing 25,000.000 feet of 

 hardwood and a large quantity of cedar, and 

 a saw mill plant and docks on St. Martin's 

 i>i>. The consider.i t ion is reported to be 

 $104,000. About 6,000,000 feet of hardwood 

 logs will be put in this winter. W. C. Ster- 

 ling is president, W. C. Sterling jr.. vice presi- 



