HARDWOOD RECORD 



27 



Pittsburg. 



Five million feet of hardw 1 and hemlock a 



month is the speed which the Hancock Lumber 

 Company is maintaining at its plants at Ashtola 

 and Arrow, Pa., this Fall. They are located in 

 Somerset county and a large part of the lumber 

 goes to the eastern market. 



The L. L. Satler I. timber Company, which 

 last July bought the properties of the Black- 

 stone Lumber Company at Blackstone. Va., in- 

 cluding 9,000 acres of timber, mills, houses. 

 st. his and railroads, has recently purchased a 

 one-third interest in the Blackstone Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company. The company is now 

 installing a box shook factory with a capacity 

 of 100,000 feet a day. It will be electrically 

 equipped and the lumber will enter the mill and 

 come out as box shook without touching the 

 ground. A dry kiln will also be installed. 



Frank M. Graham is filling an order for ,9,000 

 railroad ties of red. pin and black oak. and to 

 be cut in West Virginia. lie notes a little fall- 

 ing off in the call for railroad ties, and says 

 that good sawed oak ties are very hard to get. 

 oak bill stuff is in excellent demand with his 

 customers and inquiries are turned down daily. 



William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., are having 

 "troubles of their own." At Ilorton. W. Va., 

 where they have ample facilities for loading 

 fifteen cars of lumber a day, they consider them- 

 selves fortunate to get two cars. At Dobbin, 

 W. Va., where twenty cars a day is an average 

 output, they have not received any cars for 

 several days. Manager W. P. Craig estimates 

 1 hat the company has nearly 600 cars of lumber 

 stalled in West Virginia because of car shortage. 



J. R. Edgett, president of the Interior Lum- 

 ber Company, got back to the city last week 

 after an all-summer's absence. Down at Oneida, 

 Tenn., the Interior is turning out hardwood at 

 a faster rate than ever before and is making a 

 fine showing in the Pittsburg trade. 



Some relief is promised Pittsburg wholesalers 

 next year in the matter of car shortage from 

 the fact that the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal 

 Railroad Company has announced its intention" 

 of putting on several thousand more cars, chiefly 

 on its lines in West Virginia and western Penn- 

 sylvania. As this is the territory where the 

 coal and coke shipments play such havoc with 

 the lumbermen, it should help matters consider- 

 ably. It is needless to say that if the Wabash 

 "makes good" it will mighty soon get the lum- 

 ber trade of West Virginia. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is push- 

 ing operations at its new mill at Jacksonville, 

 W. Va., where it has 30,000,000 feet of oak. 

 Mr. Hastings has spent most of his time here 

 the past two months, having left the big opera- 

 tion of the Davison Lumber Company in Nova 

 Scotia. Canada, in the hands of competent lum- 

 bermen. 



William M. Townall has secured a Pennsyl- 

 vania charter for the Colonial Lumber Company, 

 which has located at 611 Ferguson building. It 

 lias a capital of $10,000 and will handle the 

 output iif the Beulah Lumber Company at Beu- 

 lah. W. Va. This consists of oak. hemlock, 

 hardwoods and lath and shingles. Mr. Pownall 

 1^ a member of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association and has some excellent eastern con- 

 nections. 



II. E. Aust has started in business in the 

 Arrott building under the title of tin- Randolph 

 Lumber Company. He was formerly a West 

 Virginia buyer for William Whitmer & Sons, 

 Inc. 



The W. M. Gillespie Lumber Company has 

 secured C. P. Rook as its hardwood manager, 

 lie was formerly with the Licking River Lum- 

 ber Company at Farmers, Ky. "Billy" Gillespie 

 has been off his feet a few days with sickness 

 and is taking a much needed pleasure trip to 

 recuperate. 



H. Murphy, the well-known head of the H. 

 Murphy Mill & Lumber Company, has embarked 

 in business again in the Farmers' Bank building 



under the title of the Alabama Hardwood Luin- 



ber Company. This c tern has a big operation 



under way aear Mobile, Ala. and expects to be 

 a strong factor in tin' southern hardwood trail-'. 

 It has also taken over the New Kensington 

 Lumber Company, whose plant at New Kensing- 

 ton has been dismantled as well as its offices in 

 tin' Washington National Bank building In Pitts 

 burg. 



The Willson Brothers Company is cutting 

 41). tutu feet of lumber a day at its mills at Con- 

 way, N. C, and the Major & Loomis Lumber 

 Company, in which it is heavily Interested, is 

 getting mil :i like amount at Hartford. N. C. 

 Its transactions the past month show a lively 

 toiii' in tin' market for southern woods. 



J. E. Mellvain iV Co. announces that business 

 is "extra g I" This applies to their special- 

 ties on hardwood, oak mini' stocks, bridge tint 

 litis and street car railroad and street railway 

 ties. The firm is also having a big call for oak 

 for mill trestle work. 



Secretary J. II. Henderson of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company reports that their plants at 

 Kendall and Crellin, Md., are turning out a 

 splendid lot of hardwood and 'bid fair to make 

 October the banner month of the year. 



The Cherry River Boom >.v- Lumber Company 

 is concentrating its business at Scranton. Pa., 

 under 1 In' management of F. A. Kurby. The 

 Philadelphia ofhee will hereafter be only a 

 branch establishment. 



The new three-story brick plant of M. Simen's 

 Sims, in Anderson street, Allegheny, is one of 

 the finest in western Pennsylvania. The com- 

 pany is now installing its planing mill machin- 

 ery and will have a capacity of more than 

 double that of its old plant on the same site 

 which burned two years ago. 



The Germain Company, under the manage- 

 ment of Louis Germain, is building up a fine 

 clientele for a young firm. No lumber company 

 in the city has made more rapid strides in get- 

 ting trade of the right kind than this concern, 

 which is located in the new Fulton building. 



The James I. M. Wilson Company say that 

 oak is much the firmest hardwood in the mar- 

 ket. The company is furnishing the maple 

 Hi eiiirjg for the twenty-story Union Bank build- 

 ing. 



The Reliance Lumber Company is getting a 

 line lot of lumber this Fall from West Virginia 

 mills under contract and is shipping much of it 

 to the lake ports. 



"Southwestern hardwoods are fast coming up 

 to the point of being leaders in our trade," said 

 J. N. Woollen, general manager of the American 

 Lumber i: Manufacturing Company. Mr. Wool- 

 let t's large purchases of timber and lumber in 

 Arkansas. Louisiana and the Indian Territory, 

 besides the stocks acquired last summer in Ten- 

 nessee, have put the American in position to 

 gel anything that comes along in the hardwood 

 business. 



Buffalo. 



.1. F. Knox ol Beyer, Knox & Co. is making 

 an extended trip through the middle west look- 

 ing after oak and other hardwood lumber. 



u. 1: Yeager lias lately been on a trip south 

 of the uhio and set a large amount of oak and 

 poplar coming this way. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 taking on additional office space, so that when 

 M. M. Wall returns from Mt. Clemens he will 

 have :i verj commodious private office. Yard 

 trade is fine. 



The receipts of oak and other southern hard- 

 woods at the yard of A. Miller are heavy, but 



it is not easy to keep a g 1 assortment of it, 



as the demand is very active. 



The yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is to be ex- 

 tended to Niagara street, thus providing space 

 for a much larger stock of lumber. So much 

 birch and ash is being received by lake that 

 more room had to be taken. 



The mill trade of G. Elias & Bro. is taking 

 much of the time of the firm, as there are a 



great many builders trying bard to enclose their 

 buildings before cold weather. 



\. W. Kreinhi'der is lia.k from his trip to 



Kentucky and Tenness 1 Col Standard Hard 



w 1 Lumber Company. lb- secured large sup 



plies of oak and poplar. 



F. W. Vetter, win. lately returned from a 

 short trip to the North far.. linn timber holdings 

 of the Empire Lumber Company, has had a 

 slight attack of grip. 



It is for I. N. Stewart >v Bro. to reporl almost 



alone that they have up to ibis time never I n 



out of an assortment of chestnut. II. A. Stew- 

 art is south again for more of the same lum- 

 ber, besides eherrj and oak. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company has not 



yet filled tl Bice of vice president, mad' vo 



cant by the retirement of W. A. McLean. The 

 withdrawal of the Louisville mill will make no 

 difference in the amount of oak lumber that 

 ihe company will handle. 



At its meeting of November 3 the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Exchange passed resolutions 

 on the death of Charles D. Strode, which ...- 

 curred recently in Chicago. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Conditions in the hardwood trade are improv- 

 ing. During the early (.art .-f th. season maple 

 lumber particularly tagged owing to a somewhat 

 light demand and the large qnanties placed 

 upon the market. Bui during tin- last thirty 

 days not only has maple developed better form, 

 but there has been a better demand and a slight 

 advance in most other hardwoods. The output 



of ash has not 1 11 large the last three or four 



years and that c modity has been firm, and all 



that was manufactured placed in the hands of 

 customers without trouble and at good prices. 

 Beech and basswood are higher. The former is 

 used foi- pulleys, screen doors and windows, and 

 quite a lot of it goes Into flooring. It takes a 

 good polish, wears smoothly and makes desir- 

 able flooring. Beech culls are utilized in the 

 manufacture of box material, and the Kneeland. 

 Buell & Bigelow Company have a contract for 

 their entire output for five years, which goes 

 to a boxmaking firm in Hay City. Basswood 

 culls are also used largely in boxmaking. and 

 tiny have sold for sir, 1,, sn; a thousand. Large 

 quantities of basswood an- used in tin- manu- 

 facture of wooden ware, and the Bouseti.-bl 

 Woodenware Works take a number of million 

 feet of basswood every year from the concerns 

 in which Frank Buell is interested, they cutting 

 the logs and shipping them by rail to the la. 

 tory. Bousefield & Co. also operate quite ex 

 tensively on their own account. 



This season some large contracts have been 

 taken by local concerns fur maple timbers for 

 bridge and other railroad work. The II. M 

 1. 1. ud's Sons Company has also disposed of a 

 number of million feet of maple for harbor im 

 provement work. The flooring output is moving 

 a little inure briskly. W. D. Young states that 

 business is good and his plant is running day 

 and night. He is spending a week at the log- 

 gihg camps of the tirm in tin- northern pari of 

 tin- lower peninsula. The stock comes to the 

 mill by rail. The eapacitj ol the plant has 

 been increased by the installing of a Garland 

 resaw and other Improvements. The firm is 

 manufacturing about 20,000,000 feet of lumber 

 the current year and is calculating an active 

 wint.-r in the woods. Outside of maple the 



stocks of hardw 1 have not been large em 



to cause tiny accuinulat i luring tin- year, and 



this has tended I.. strengthen the market. 



Walter McCormlck of tin- McCormlck Hay 

 Lumber Company, who was on the brink of the 

 grave two years ago. has entirely recovered 

 and is now in excellent health. lie says the 

 business of the firm is good. They handle hard 

 wood exclusively, buying .-i considerable quantity 

 of stock at outside points, which is sold direct 

 I., customers wlthoul coming through th-' Sagl 

 naw yard. 



F.iiss & Van Aiikeii have experienced a busj 



