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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Pittsburg. 

 J. E. Mellvain & Co. have had a busy spring 

 I rade so far in ties. They have made some excel- 

 lent purchases in West Virginia and are having 

 no trouble in disposing of all the stock they- can 

 get for railroad use. Most of the ties arc de 

 livered in the Pittsburg district. 



Tlie J. M. Hastings Lumber Company at its 

 plant at Jacksonville, W. Va., is hustling out 

 a fine lot of hardwood lumber, principally oak. 

 it has^niade some notable improvements in its 

 mills there ami has now one of the finest plants 

 in that region. 



William Whitmer & Sons. Inc.. report slightly 

 better shipments on most railroads. Their 

 trade in spruce continues to be the predominant 

 feature of their business, although they are 

 getting some cheerful orders for other hardwoods 

 this month. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is making 

 things rustle down at its big Blackstone plant 

 in West Virginia. Its shipments during the 

 li-t three months have made new high records 

 in every line of lumber it supplies and its mills 

 are being pushed to the limit to get out stock 

 which has been sold on long contracts. 



E. H. Stoner of the Flint, Erving & Stoner 

 Lumber Company, W. W. Vosburgh of Bends & 

 Vosburgh, W. P. Craig of William Whitmer & 

 Sons, Inc.. F. E. Wilson and A. J. Diebold con 

 stituted a Pittsburg committee which went 

 down to Philadelphia last week to confer with 

 General Superintendent Patterson of the Penn- 

 sylvania railroad with reference to getting some 

 relief in the matter of more cars on the West 

 Virginia lines. A favorable result from the 

 meeting is expected soon. 



The Forest Lumber Company is doing a nice 

 business in hardwoods this month and is get- 

 ting very satisfactory prices. A. .1. Diebold of 

 this company lias just returned from quite an 

 extended sojourn in Alabama. 



The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company, 

 which was formed several months ago with the 

 l'aine Lumber Company, Ltd., as a nucleus, has 

 moved into its spacious quarters in the great 

 buildings of the Pittsburg Terminal Warehouse 

 & Transfer Company, on the South Side. It 

 will carry a stock of several hundred hardwood 

 veneer doors, most of them being birch and 

 cherry patterns. 



The Lineban Lumber Company, which was 

 lately admitted to membership in the Pittsburg 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, has 

 moved its offices to another part of the Farm- 

 ers' Bank building — rooms 2414-15 — where it 

 has a front suite, one of the most sightly in 

 the city. W. II. Ames, a well known Pittsburg 

 salesman, will be their hardwood floor sales- 

 man and they expect to push this branch of 

 their business hard. At their plant they are 

 now getting out a car of hardwood flooring a 

 day, and most of this finds a ready market in 

 the Pittsburg district. 



The Henderson Lumber Company, formerly in 

 the People's Bank building, has taken a fine 

 suite of offices -m the new Commonwealth sky- 

 scraper in Fourth avenue. It is one of the 

 leading hardwood firms of this city and handles 

 perhaps more mine stock and timbers than any 

 other concern in Pittsburg. 



Max Myers of the Cleveland office of the 

 Parsons-Cross Lumber Company was in Pitts- 

 burg recently calling on the trade. B. W. Cross 

 of the same company is back from a long trip 

 to West Virginia, where he went after hardwood 

 stocks. 



I. F, Balsley. hardwood manager of the Will- 

 son Brotlicis' Lumber Company, has been in the 

 east for a week. His reports indicate that there 

 is a first cbiss market there for the better grades 

 of hardwood used for finish: and for manufactur- 

 ing furniture. 



The Green & Higgins Lumber Company suf- 

 fered a loss ,,f $50,000 by the burning of their 

 big finishing mill at Liberty avenue and Thirty- 



third street two weeks ago. It is supposed that 

 the fire started from spontaneous combustion. 

 A large amount of finished stock was destroyed. 

 The plant is likely to be rebuilt this spring. 



The Riiskauff Lumber Company, which moved 

 a few months ago to the Lloyd building in the 

 East End, is well satisfied with its uptown 

 location and is doing a thriving trade with the 

 yards and planing mills of this city and its sub- 

 urbs. It reports hemlock sialic and high and 

 the hardwood market brisk. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company is having 

 finished to its order a suite of offices in the new 

 Union Bank Skyscraper at Fourth avenue and 

 Wood street, which will be a delight to its visi- 

 tors. The company will not try to get settled 

 in its new quarters until May 1. 



The Edward Hines Lumber Company has taken 

 a suite of offices on the seventh floor of the 

 Ferguson building. A. J. Munsall will be man- 

 ager of the company, which wholesales consider- 

 able hardwood as well as white and Norway 

 pine. It has been located in the Oakland dis- 

 trict previously. 



The Colonial Lumber Company lias placed 

 some big contracts this month for hardwood to 

 be cut in Tennessee. This is for Pittsburg and 

 New York delivery and 1,500,000 feet of it is 

 already on sticks 



II. W. Henninger of the Reliance Lumber Com- 

 pany reports much stiffer prices on oak. Four 

 and eight quarter stock in the best grades is up 

 from $1 to $2 over the price that prevailed a 

 month ago. Hardwood lumber in general is very 

 scarce. Mr. Henninger says, and there is no 

 possibility of prices breaking. 



A novelty in a sawmill is to be built by the 

 Nicola Building Company for a company of 

 Pennsylvania capitalists near Sheffield, l'a. It 

 will be a reinforced concrete structure witli 

 60-fool spans. Fur a long time the owners de- 

 clined i" consider this method of construction, 

 for they thought that the spans could not be 

 made long enough. This has now been assured 

 and they will have a strictly fireproof mill. 



J. R. Rosem of Kane. I'a.. has bonghl several 

 hundred acres of timber land in Madison county. 

 Tennessee, and will -arrange at once for cutting 

 it tci supply the Pittsburg district. Most of the 

 timber is hardwood. 



C. B. Loveless of the Ilelman & Loveless Lum- 

 ber Company of Warren, Ohio, with William 

 Hatfield of that place, has gone to Durham. 

 N. C, to take charge of the company's opera- 

 tion on -'.4ii(i acres of timber land which it 

 recently purchased. The timber consists of 

 hickory, oak. pine and gum. It is estimated 

 that the tract will cut 4,000,000 feet of oak and 

 1,000,000 feet of hickory. It is on the line of 

 the Durham & South Carolina railroad and most 

 of the timber will be shipped to Norfolk and 

 New Yiu*k. David Ilelman, the head of the 

 company, is also president of the Ilelman Tim- 

 ber Company of Warren. Ohio, one of the best 

 known ship timber concerns in the country. 



The Shamokin Wagon Works at Shamokin. 

 l'a.. were burned April 2. With the plant there 

 was destroyed a large planing mill, making the 

 total loss about $75,000. 



The Cheat Itiver Lumber Company has just 

 bought 2,000,000 feet more of hardwood in 

 West Virginia and will begin cut ling it at once. 

 Oak is leading in its inquiry nowadays, but it 

 is also getting some good orders tor i bestnut 

 for furniture and fixtures. 



The plant of the Interior Lumber Company at 

 Oneida, Tenn.. was burned ten days ago. 

 A large amount of moulding and bevel siding 

 was consumed. The company has nearly fin- 

 ished its cut at that point and is not likely to 

 rebuild the plant. 



The Commonwealth Lumber Company of Al- 

 derson, W. Va., has bought about 5.000 acres 



of hardw 1 timber near Glencoe. W. Va., and 



will stall a big operation on the land at once. 



Vicegerent Snark O. II. Eectanus of the A. 

 M. Turner Lumber Company, with his official 

 associates, scored a great triumph at the last Pitts- 

 burg concatenation, at which twenty-eight whole- 

 sale lumbermen were initiated into the mysteries 

 of Hon Ilocdom. The affair was pulled off at the 

 Hotel Henry and in addition to the imposing 

 off at the Hotel Henry and in addition to the 

 ceremonies that were a necessary part of the 

 evening's fun there was served an elaborate ban- 

 quet with a bit of high class vaudeville mixed 

 in. Several prominent Hoo-Hoos from eastern 

 eities were present. The entertainment commit- 

 tee included I. F. Balsley, C. W. Cantrell, O. .1. 

 Mann. W. C. Brown, J. W. Hodil. R. E. Cannon, 

 R. c. Wilinartb, .1. J. Linehau and II. M. Mel- 

 eliers. 



Elk county, Pennsylvania is being overhauled 

 thoroughly in search of hardwood timber. Lot 

 after lot that was cleared ten years ago of all 

 that was supposed to be worth cutting is now- 

 being worked over again to good profit under 

 the present price regime. The old Birch Hollow 

 tract, abandoned years ago, is alive again with 

 small lumbermen whose portable mills are cut- 

 ting up second growth hardwood stumps, "down" 

 bigs and in fact everything that will make a 

 0-foot length. Thousands of feet of red and 

 white oak have been taken recently from the 

 clearings in Spring Creek township, another 

 part of the county which had been left years 

 ago for good. These operations are now yield- 

 ing quite as large a percentage of profit on the 

 investment as the original ones and are furnish- 

 ing the country dealers in that part of Penn- 

 sylvania with a large amount of marketable 

 hardwood. 



Much difficulty is reported about getting cars 

 or any kind of service on the Kanawha & Michi- 

 gan railroad in West Virginia. For a week it 

 was under water much of the way and its ship- 

 pers suffered greatly on this account. Below 

 Wheeling the entire Ohio river valley is reported 

 to be devastated and new information regarding 

 losses by local firms is coming to hand nearly 

 every day. 



Buffalo. 



Tbe tire that stopped operations at the Buf- 

 falo .Maple Flooring Company's plant, which 

 burned out the factory next door, has kept the 

 machinery from running, but three matchers 

 have been started now and will not be stopped 

 while the factory is being rebuilt. 



It is expected that the new club rooms of the 

 Lumber Exchange will be fitted up early next 

 month, when Buffalo lumbermen will have a 

 place to entertain their friends in the trade 

 who come in from other markets. With a res- 

 taurant on the floor above everything is very 

 convenient. 



It was generous of the exchange to come for- 

 ward and take charge of the club problem when 

 there was a growing doubt as to the propriety 

 of carrying any more organizations in the name 

 of the city lumbermen. An effort will be made 

 to plan the membership so that all can join who 

 wish to. 



The next concatenation of the Order of IIoo- 

 IIoo will take place on April Is. and a good 

 membership list is said to be in readiness. 



J. F. Knox has gone to southeastern Missouri. 

 where the tract of hardwood timber owned by 

 Lever, Knox & Co. is being winked up by the 

 Pascola Lumber Company, which they organ- 

 ized lately, with F. A. Beyer, president, and 

 .!. F. Knox, secretary. Two mills are running. 



A. W. Kreinheder is in Kentucky looking after 

 the timber tracts and sawmills of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, which manufac- 

 tures a great part of the oak that the Buffalo 

 yard handles. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 now running full force on making up veneer 

 work at the Montgomery factory, where a large 

 establishment has been set up. The demand for 

 the company's product is daily increasing. 



