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HARDWOOD RECORD 



1217 Arch street, Philadelphia, purchased sev- 

 eral months ago for $250,000. The new build- 

 in- will be ten stories and basement, covering 

 80 by 120 feet, and will cost about $250,000. 



William M. McCormick has sold to the Henry 

 C. Patterson Company the "Id lumber yard at 

 Dauphin street, Glenwood avenue and the Penn- 

 sylvania railroad, an area of about '-!'.I2 by 418 

 feet. 



The Potter-Graham Timber Company lias been 

 organized with a capital stock of $25,000, to 

 be located at Philadelphia. The incorporators 

 are James R. Potter, Philadelphia; W. M. Gra- 

 ham, Malvern, Pa., and Frederick W. Focht, 

 Norristown, Pa. 



Schofleld Bros, have engaged James McNerney 

 as salesman. He entered upon bis duties Febru- 

 ary l and will cover eastern Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and neighboring states. Mr. McNer- 

 ney «as formerly with the Wiley. Harker & 

 Camp Company. 



Baltimore. 

 Much gratification is expressed here over the 

 election of John I.. Alcock to the presidency 

 of the National Hardwood Exporters' Assoeia- 

 toin at the annual meeting in Norfolk. The 

 new lead of the organization lias many warm 

 friends and his popularity is by no means eon 

 lined !■> the export trade. He has been for 

 years active in all endeavors to promote the in 

 terests of the lumber business, being a member 

 of the Lumber Exchange and having served as 

 chairman of the Hardwood inspection Commit- 

 tee of the National Wholesale Lumber Healers' 

 Association, besides tilling other positions that 

 called for the expenditure of much time and en- 

 ergy in the pursuit of unselfish aims. Mr. Al- 

 cock also stands high in ' the councils of Hoo- 

 doo, having been Vicegerent Snarl;', and being 

 at the present time one of the officers, lie is 

 engaged in the export business under the firm 

 name of John L. Alcock & Co.. maintains exten- 

 sive connections with different foreign bouses 

 and is unusually well posted on the export trade. 

 Though an Englishman by birth be married an 

 American and has become thoroughly identified 

 with Baltimore institutions. 



The Exporters' Association at the Norfolk 



a ting resolved to transfer headquarters from 



Memphis to Baltimore. Tin- transfer has been 

 made' with great alacrity by Secretary E. M. 

 Terry, who was busy last week securing quar- 

 ters and making arrangements necessitated by 

 the change. lie lias secured offices in the 

 Equitable building, Calvert and Fayette streets, 

 and is now ready for business. Mr. Terry has 

 also brought bis family to Baltimore, He is not 

 a stranger, having lived here for a number of 

 years and attended the local schools. 



One of the reasons that dictated the transfer 

 of the office of secretary was the fact that the 

 president lives here, and the change will make 

 it possible to consult him frequently, which is 

 necessary. Furthermore, the leading steamship 

 and other transportation lines with which bard- 

 wood men maintain relations can be more easily 

 reached from an eastern point. It is especially 

 important now, when hardwood men have under 

 consideration various questions, among them 

 clean through bills of lading, the car shortage, 

 and oilier matters affecting transportation, that 

 the secretary be in close touch with the common 

 carriers over which the members of the associa- 

 tion ship most of the lumber. 



Norman James of the N. W. James Lumber 

 Company, who is largely interested in the 

 Pigeon Lumber Company, on the Pigeon river, 

 North Carolina, made a trip to the scene of the 

 company's operations last week. 



Lewis Dill, president of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, was in Buffalo 

 last week on business and also conferred with 

 Mr. Sc.it chard concerning the Washington meet- 

 ing. 



A number of Baltimore Hoo-Hoo will go over 

 to Philadelphia on the 8th to meet members 

 of the order from all the other eastern jurisdic- 



tions and make arrangements for the next an- 

 nual coueatenation of the national body at At- 

 lantic City in September. 



During a fire which broke nut on January 23 

 in the building of the Williams Slate Company 

 in Richmond, Va., the Whiteburst dry kilns were 

 destroyed among other property. The loss on 

 the kilns is $18,000, with no insurance. 



Pittsburg. 



Tin- Pennsylvania Railroad Company has ap- 

 pointed A. A. Sterling, formerly assistant fores- 

 ter in the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington, as forester of its great properties. He 

 will be the first railroad forester in America. 

 During the last live years the Pennsylvania has 

 plained 1,. ".oii.tiiiti trees to furnish a supply of 

 cross ties in the future. Now it proposes to 

 plant 680 acres of land near Altoona. Pa., with 

 chestnut and red oak seedlings this spring and 

 next. The Pennsylvania is now using 5,500,000 

 ties a year and the price has risen steadily Hie 

 last few years until some first class ties have 

 been sold lately for 70 cents each. 



Among the last week's visitors to Pittsburg 

 wholesalers were J. Natwick, lumber agent lor 

 the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; George N. Com 

 fort, secretary of the Central Lumber Company 

 of Cleveland; W. B. Ingram of Ingram & Gibson, 

 wholesale lumber dealers at Uniontown, Pa. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com 

 pan.v sold over $150,000 worth of hardwood 

 Lumber in January, according to its general 

 manager. J. .V Woollen, who was last week 

 elected vice president. 



John M. Hastings, president of the Davison 

 I. umber Company of Nova Scotia, Can., is con- 

 fident that by spring the company will have 

 25,000,000 feel oi logs ready for cutting at ils 

 mill. The company uses nothing but horses in 

 its operation, having discarded all the "Canuck" 

 oxen, and had over 1,000 men on its pay roll 

 in January. It is shipping enormous quantities 

 of lumber to England and other European coun- 

 tries. 



The Western Reserve Land Company of War- 

 ren, O., one of the oldest bardw 1 concerns in 



the Pittsburg district, lias elected officers for 

 11IH7 as follows: President. W. I). Packard: 

 vice president, S. A.'Corbin; secretary and treas- 

 urer. C. L. Wood. Tbc company declared a 

 per cent dividend. 



A tract of 2,o00 acres of timber near Titus- 

 ville, Pa., forty miles from Pittsburg, has been 

 bought by Thomas McCabe of Kinzum. Pa., and 

 C. W. Stone of Warren, Pa. The price is $75,- 

 000. The timber consists of oak. chestnut, Yir 

 ginia pine and hemlock, and will be cut oil at 

 once. 



James I. M. Wilson & Co. report that bin b is 

 playing some part in their business this winter, 

 as it is coming to be used considerably for fine 

 interior finish, a mahogany stain adding greatly 

 to its attractiveness. 



Manager Craig of William Whitmer & Sons. 

 Inc., has gone to West Virginia and Virginia for 

 a general survey trip. 



Frank M. Willson of Willson Brothers says 

 there is a noticeable scarcity of good labor at 

 the hardwood mills of the South. He lias just 

 returned from a long trip among the West Vir- 

 ginia mills. 



A. D. Knapp of the Nicola Lumber Company 

 has gone to the Northwest for an extended trip. 



The W. E. Tcrhnne Lumber Company has 

 moved to a very desirable suite of offices on the 

 ninth floor of the House building. F. (.1. Lillo 

 of Ibis firm is making quite an extended trip 

 through West Virginia in search of new stocks 

 of hardwood. 



The mill and tract of timber land of J. S. Bell 

 at Moore. W. Va.. near Elkins, has been sold to 

 a capitalist from Baltimore, Md. There are 

 about 4.000 acres of hemlock and hardwood on 

 the tract aud Hie price is said to have been 

 nearly $200,000. 



Louis liermaln of the Germain Company has 



gone to Mobile, Ala., to attend the annual Mardi 

 Gras there in company with fellow officers in 

 Hie Lewis Land & Lumber Company, . which sup- 

 plies the Germain Company with its southern 

 woods. 



Buffalo. 



Report from the Batavia Woodworking Fac- 

 tory, of which concern J. N. Scatchard is presi- 

 dent, says that it has never employed so large 

 a force as now. It eaters entirely to the east- 

 ern hardwood door and finish trade. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is able 

 to report a very satisfactory supply of logs at 

 Memphis, considering the general scarcity in 

 that section, and a prospect of a fair run of 

 them for at least a while yet. 



A. Miller is now drawing his supplies of plain 

 oak and poplar from West Virginia and other 

 points south, and getting enough of it to give 

 bis yard all of the former appearance of full 

 stocks. 



0. E. Yeager will be in the market early with 

 a supply of oak ami poplar from the other side 

 of the Ohio. 



This month will see A. W. Kreinheder off 

 lo the Kentucky and Tennessee mills of the 

 Standard Hardwood Lumber Company, press of 

 business at home having prevented his going 

 sooner. 



The Empire Lumber Company's yard has sev- 

 eral limes the amount of stock that it carried 

 a year ago, as the plan is now to keep it filled 

 up and not go out of the yard business, as was 

 contemplated. 



J. F. Knox will soon make another of his long 

 southern raids after oak for the yard of Beyer, 

 Knox & Co. 



1. N'. Stewart i Bro. are' still able to show a 

 fine assortment of cherry and are in line for 

 more when wanted. No lumber has such an 

 "air" in yard as cherry. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company ex- 

 pects to open a factory for its new Plus & 

 Minus Desk business in the city soon, but for 

 tic present it builds the desks at the Blasdell 

 factory. A good trade has already set in. 



Saginaw Valley. 



The week has been marked by the coldest 

 weather of the winter. In the woods condi- 

 tions are favorable for logging and there is just 

 snow enough for hauling. Not in years have 

 conditions been better. The output of hardwood 

 will be probably a little larger than last winter 

 because the trade is in much better form than 

 ii was a year ago. The demand Is much better 

 and prices are more of an inducement to oper- 

 ators than they were a year ago. 



Between Bay city and the straits there are 

 some thirty portable sawmills in operation, some 

 located in patches of timber where the haul is 

 quite lengthy. For instance. Wolf Brothers have 

 a mill in operation in Iverness township, Che- 

 boygan county, cutting hardwood lumber and 

 they liinc five teams hauling the lumber to Che- 

 boygan, where It will be shipped out to market 

 by rail. 



The Embury-Martin Lumber Company, at Che- 

 boygan, started its sawmill Monday on hard- 

 wood logs and has a number of million feet to 

 cut. The mill will run through the year. 



Bliss & Van Auken have installed a large 

 Wiekes tubular boiler in their plant, which is 

 running day and night, with business in sight 

 to keep the saws humming. 



Robert Larkins of St. Louis, Mich., is buying 

 lumber for the Ranhey Refrigerator Company of 

 Greenville; has 700.000 feet at St. Louis ready 

 to ship and 400,000 feet of logs ready to be 

 hauled to the railroad. 



A. P. Bertram has had the Schadig sawmill 

 at \loltke, Presque Isle county, cutting several 

 hundred thousand feet of hardwood lumber, 

 which is being hauled to the dock at Rogers City 

 for shipment when navigation opens. 



The Ottawa Hardwood Lumber Company at 



