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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Bill." The association also resolved, that it is 

 tin consensus of opinion of this exchange that 

 tb. Thomas bill for the repeal of the mercantile 

 tax law be reported out of committee at the 

 earliest opportunity and passed by the House. 

 Wistar, Underhill & Co. reporl business mov- 

 ing along in excellent shape. They are glad to 

 herald a slight improvement in the ear move- 

 ment al the mill districts. This firm is in the 

 midst of an extensive deal concerning which 

 important news may 1"- expected shortly. II. W. 

 Wistar. an enthusiastic golfer, was one of the 

 expert players engaged in the recent games of 

 Hie Midwinter Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, 

 N. C, and though he was defeated by W. L. 

 Hurd Hi'' score, ."> to 4, was by no means 'me to 

 " ashamed of. 



The J. W. Difenderfer Lumber Company, in 

 addition to an extensive output at its own mills 

 in Virginia, has recently acquired the entire 

 "input of another hardwood mill in southwestern 



Virginia, which will run about In. 1,000 feet 



a year. A. E. Magargal of this concern, who 

 has just returned from their mill district, re- 

 ports everything humming 



Schofield Bros., an indefatigably busy linn. 

 report sunn' recent good connections. They have 

 increased their staff of salesmen by engaging a 

 Mr. Ashley to look alter tin: north New Jersey 

 and New York field, and .lames McNerney, for- 

 merly with Wiley, Ilarker & Camp, for the terri- 

 tories of Cumberland valley, Washington and 

 Baltimore. 



R. W. Schofield, who is the general manager 

 of the Saltkeatchie Lumber Company near 

 I Imers, S. C, in which his firm is largely inter- 

 ested, recently returned from a ' visit to this 

 center. lie reports that ' the mill There will 

 shortly be in operation. J. H. Schofield is look- 

 ing up his firm's interests in the Pennsylvania 

 mill districts. 



The Sterling Lumber Company. Philadelphia, 

 recently obtained a charter under Pennsylvania 

 laws, authorized capital $10,000. Incorporators 

 an' John IL Kendriek, Sr., Geo. II. Hassan and 

 I'. Wendell Hubbard, all of Philadelphia. 



The following are the incorporators of the 

 Lycoming Planing Mill & Lumber Company. 

 Williamsport, Pa., which recently received its 

 charter under Pennsylvania laws: W. D. Miller, 

 George F. Kidman and II. A. Miller, all of 

 Williamsport. Capitalization, $25,000. 



Wm. Queale of the Santee Liver Cypress Lum- 

 ber Company, Ferguson, S. C, was a recent 

 visitor to tb.' local trade, and C. E. Collins of 

 the Cherry River Loom & Lumber Company. 

 Si ranton, pa , was a recent caller upon the New 

 York lumbermen. 



Frederick C. Righter of the Lighter Parry 

 Lumber Company has just returned from West 

 Virginia, where he has been examining stocks 

 that are being cut for his concern on contract, 

 and while there he made considerable purchases. 

 II.' reports the mill men there complaining of 

 the constant inclement weather and the car 

 service between there and Pittsburg. 



R. M. Smith & Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va., 

 have been obliged to look to sources outside of 

 i heir territory to meet increased demands made 

 upon them. They are about closing a deal in 

 Louisiana for 25,000 acres of timber land, com- 

 prising some excellent hardwoods. Benj. C 

 Ctirric, Jr., of ibis concern recently returned 

 from a trip to New York. He reports business 

 never better, the car service and the recent 

 Hoods the only disturbing elements. 



Jacob Rettberg, formerly a carriage and wagon 

 builder of Camden. X. J., died on March 6 in his 

 sixty-fifth year, lie was an officer and member 

 of a number erf secret organizations. 



An effort is being made to have the Atlantic 

 City, N. J., authorities use a wooden stave pipe 

 in the construction of a_42-iuch water main, to 

 extend across the five miles of meadow to the 

 pumping station, instead of a metal one. It is 

 argued that the wood pipe would resist better 

 the effects of the salt air and cost $173,000, 



while the cost of the metal pipe would be 

 $300,000. 



Some of the furniture factories are hunting 

 for hardwoods left on farm lands in Pennsyl- 

 vania. A representative of an Ohio furniture 

 house is said to have been making offers for 

 one hundred trees, if they are located within a 

 day's journey of a shipping point. The figures 

 given are $60 per thousand for walnut. $40 for 

 whitewood and $20 for oak; this for wood in 

 the log. 



A jovial group composed of Thomas B. Ham- 

 mer and the eight Hoo-Hoo, John J. Rumbarger. 

 Frank T. Rumbarger, Daniel Adams, St. Geo. 

 Pond, Horace G. Hazard, B. C. Currie. Jr., Wm. 

 It. Gardy, all of Philadelphia, and a Mr. Brown 

 of Pittsburg, of A. M. Turner Lumber Company, 

 held a meeting in the parlor car "Virgilius" on 

 their return from Washington, D. C, on the 

 morning of March S, where they had attended 

 the convention of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Healers' Association. The meeting was called 

 by Kx-Vicegerent Snark John J. Rumbarger for 

 ihe purpose of considering a special concatena- 

 tion for the' initiation of Thomas B. Hammer. 

 The gentleman was accordingly waited on by a 

 committee of eight, who requested him to stand 

 for ,the initiation. But Mr. Hammer, having 

 be.n up late the night before and obliged to 

 rise early that morning, decided he did not 

 possess ibe nerve to face the ordeal, so this 

 novel committee dissolved amiably to resume 

 later under more auspicious circumstances. On 

 motion of John J. Rumbarger the parlor car 

 group, insatiable for business, then organized 

 and held a special session, Thomas B. Hammer 

 acting as chairman, in which a committee ,,t 

 three was appointed to draft resolution, which 

 was unanimously adopted, that the banquet .-i 

 tin:' National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asm. 

 eiation. provided by the New Willard hotel at 

 the rate of nine dollars per plate, was a very 

 ordinary affair, and calling upon the nine mem- 

 bers present to refuse to attend the banquet next 

 year unless one more commensurate with price 

 be assured. Various minor topics were discussed 

 by this ambulatory group, after which it was 

 voted to give the porter of the parlor car ninety- 

 nine cents: then the meeting adjourned to meet 

 at tic Hotel Rudolf, Atlantic City, N. J., on 

 May 1'::, at 9 :09 p. m. 



Baltimore. 



There is a movement on' foot among the mem- 

 bers of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso 

 eiation here to organize a mutual marine insur- 

 ance company to carry especially the risks of 

 the hardwood exporters and, in fact, of till ship- 

 pers of lumber to foreign countries. The sug- 

 gestion found expression at the annual meeting 

 of the association in Norfolk and since then 

 some preliminary work has been done. A num- 

 ber of the local firms have been approached on 

 Hie siibjeet and the prevailing sentiment seems 

 I.. be favorable. One of the arguments used 

 in favor of the proposed company is that it 

 would be the means of cutting down the cost 

 of insurance materially. 



Some active work is being done to arouse 

 interest among lumbermen here in the annual 

 tournament of the Lumbermen's Golf Associa- 

 tion, which will take place June 12 and 13 on 

 the links of the Baltimore Country Club and 

 will bring together representatives of the trade 

 from a number of cities. The East in particu- 

 lar will be strongly represented, and the tourna- 

 ment is expected to be the occasion for the 

 exercise of that hospitality for which Baltimore 

 is justly famous. The president of the associa- 

 tion is William D. Gill of this city. 



Norman James, a prominent lumberman, is 

 receiving the condolences of numerous friends 

 on the death of his wife, Mrs. Margie Macgill 

 James, who passed away suddenly at her home 

 in Catonsville, a suburb Qf Baltimore, last Sat- 

 urday. She leaves two daughters and a son, 

 besides her husband, and w-as prominent in 

 church and charitable work. Mr. James is a 



member of the N. W. James Lumber Company 

 of this city and is largely interested in the 

 Pigeon River Lumber Company, which is carry- 

 ing on a big hardwood development along the 

 Pigeon River in North Carolina. 



E. L. Davidson of the Parkersburg Mill Com- 

 pany of Parkersburg, W. Va., has purchased a 

 555-acre tract of hardwood timber in Ritchie 

 County, West Virginia, for $37.50 an acre, and 

 will proceed to develop it. 



The work of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany in starting the development of its Swayne 

 County timber holdings in North Carolina is 

 still retarded by the slowness of the Southern 

 railway. The railroad company is to construct a 

 branch road into the tract. The grading has 

 been almost completed, but no actual construc- 

 tion work on the track itself has been done. 



Richard P. Baer. of the hardwood firm of 

 It. P. Baer & Co.. last week returned from a 

 ten days' trip into southwestern Virginia ami 

 North Carolina. He visited a number of the 

 mill men and studied tin' situation at different 

 points in detail. Everywhere he found a scarcity 

 of stocks and an active inquiry. The feeling 

 throughout the region visited by him was that 

 the present slate of business would keep up and 

 that values could be expected to hold their own. 



F. A.- Kirhy, sales manager of the Cherry 

 Liver Boom & Lumber Company of Scranton. 

 Pa., was in town recently and called on a number 

 01 firms here. He stated that all the mills in 

 bis sod ion were low on stocks and could sell 

 much more lumber if they had it. He repre- 

 sented the whole situation as very strong. 



J. II. Heald & Co. of Lynchburg. Va., have 

 just closed negotiations for the sale of the 

 timber on a tract of some 22. .".on acres of timber 

 land in Botetourt County in southwestern Vir- 

 ginia to persons in Pennsylvania, who will use 

 the timber for cross tics. The bark will be 

 taken by Ileald & Co., who bought the timber 

 years ago for that purpose and who are ex- 

 tensively interested in tanneries and manufac- 

 ture bark extract. The purchase price was 

 $150,000 and it is believed that the I'ennsyl 

 vania Railroad Company is behind the deal. 



Pittsburg. 



J. i:, ('list.'. Pittsburg manager of the 

 Interior Lumber Company, has gone to Cin- 

 cinnati on a business trip. He reports very 

 little damage done by the floods at the firm's 

 mills. 



L. L. Satler looks for very much better car 

 shipments from this time forth. Poor car 

 service has for four months been the chief 

 drawback to the L. L. Satler Lumber Com- 

 pany doing a rushing business at its big 

 plant at Blackstone, Va., where it has nearly 

 doubled the output since it got possession of 

 the Blackstone properties last summer. 



T. C. Tipper & Co. have opened a whole- 

 sale lumber office at 131 Farmers' Bank 

 building and will hustle for the trade in hard- 

 woods in Greater Pittsburg. 



F. P. Avey of Tunkhannock, Pa., has de- 

 . i.l. .1 to abandon the lumber business in 

 which he has been engaged in that part of 

 the state for years and will devote all his 

 time to other business connections after 

 April 1. 



Architect T. J. Schaub of Pittsburg has 

 prepared plans for a large brick factory at 

 Etna, a suburb of Allegheny, Pa., for the 

 American Box Company. The concern has a 

 large business in this district and badly needs 

 the new quarters. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company is mak- 

 ing this a hummer in its sales of chestnut 

 lumber. This is one of the specialties of this 

 firm and at its plant at Burkeville, Va.. it is 

 prepared to compete with any firm of its 

 size in the state. 



The Shaw Land & Timber Company will 

 soon have in operation at Ivor, W. Va., a big 

 saw and planing mill which will have a daily 



