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desigu. It will bave a Berlin twin band rcsaw, and a steam preparatoi- 

 witb transmission ot live roll, chain and conveyor belts, by wbich devices 

 tbe work of eighteen men and boys will be saved. Two Corliss engines 

 will be installed of 350 and 200 horsepower, both equipped with Dodds 

 Manufacturing Company's latest type rope drives. Drying arrangement 

 will be provided with Whitney's latest ballbearing four-and-a-half cylin- 

 ders. Tbe planing mill and veneering departments will bave the latest 

 type of veneering, gluing and staining machinery and veneer sUcer. The 

 new plant will be so equipped that it can if desired do some cutting in 

 hardwoods. 



The B. W. Cross Lumber Company reports fair business, but does not 

 anticipate a magnified improvement until the constant agitation in com- 

 mercial legislation comes to an end. 



J. W. Bowers of the S. P. Bowers Company, reports very little buying 

 by the railroads at this time. The company recently engaged A. L. 

 Richardson, 00 West street, New York, as its representative to cover that 

 city and surrounding territory. Mr. Richardson was formerly in business 

 for himself but retired on account of ill health. He Is one of the most 

 popular hardwood men in the eastern field. 



Isaac W. Coles, lather of the well-known wholesale lumberman, John 

 W. Coles, this city, died suddenly .^pri! 21, aged sixty-nine years. The 

 heartfelt sympathy of the local trade is extended to his son. 



William F. lieggs, bead of tile firm of John Beggs' Sons, wagon builders, 

 died suddenly on .-iprii 25. He was seventy-si-t years old. 



The Lumber Trade (Jolf Association will hold its ninth annual tourna- 

 ment on the links of the Country Club of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on 

 May 2G and 27. A considerable number of the Philadelphia golfers arc 

 preparing to attend the games. 



The Pbiiadelpbia Lumbermen's Golf Club will play its second game of 

 the season ou the links of the Old York Road Country Club, Jenkintowu, 

 Pa., May 14. They will be the guests of H. Wlnfleld Allen. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works secured a contract with the Norfolk & 

 Western Railway Company recently for the construction of forty loco- 

 motives of the mallet type, to cost about .$1,000,000. 



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Manager Brown of the liardwodd i|.i.;iiliu'iit of the American Lumber 

 ^ Manufacturing Company, spent a I'l-w diiys in the eastern market 

 recently. He found business dull as a rule and prices inclined to be 

 weak. 



E. H. Schreiner Lumber Company, which has been doing business in 

 the House building for about two years, is incorporating with E. II. 

 Schreiner, Solomon George and Stillman E. Steele as members. 



A. D. Knapp of the Nicola Lumber Company, spent last week among 

 the mills of West Virginia where he was trying to hurry up much belated 

 shipments. 



The Warren Handle Company has broken ground at Cortland, O., on 

 the main line of the Erie railroad for a handle factory. B. F. Parsons 

 is head of tbe concern. 



The Standard Wood Company's big kindling wood factory at St. Marys, 

 Pa., was burned May 2 with loss of $125,000. It will likely be rebuilt. 



The Western Lumber Company has moved to the sixteenth floor of the 

 Oliver building where it has better quarters. President W. W. Wilson, Jr., 

 has been pushing business hard and finds that a fair amount of trade 

 can be secured by hard plugging. 



The West Penn Lumber Company announces from its offices in the 

 Farmers Bank building that trade is not half bad and a good stock of 

 shipments can be depended on if salesmen hustle hard enough for them. 



The Joseph W. Cottrell Company is now nicely established on the 

 seventeenth floor of the First National Bank building where it has 

 attractive offices. 



The Freehold Lumber Company has moved to the seventh floor of 

 the Peoples Bank building and has united with the John H. Noble Lumber 

 Company which was formerly in the Union Bank building. 



Harry T. Lincoln, formerly of the Bemls & Vosburgh Lumber Company 

 of this city, came up from West Virginia for a visit among his friends 

 last week. He is now a lumber manufacturer in that state and is doing 

 a fine business. 



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-Application will soon be made for a charter for tbe Virginia Blue 

 Ridge Railway, which is to run from the Tye river, on the main line 

 of the Southern Railway, to Massie's Mills, a distance of twenty-five 

 miles, in Virginia. The railroad vrill follow the Tye and Piny rivers, 

 in Nelson county, and will open some 25,000 acres of timber, among other 

 natural resources. The road will be constructed by a syndicate which 

 owns the timber rights on 25,000 acres. Local and New Y'ork capital 

 Is said to be interested in the project. Surveys have been completed 

 and contractors have been invited to submit bids for the construction of 

 the road, according to a report received here from Lynchburg, Va. The 

 bids are to be opened May S. 



Campbell V. Helfrich, of the lumber firm of George Helfrieh & Son, 

 West Baltimore street, is mourning the loss of his wife, Anna B. Hel- 

 frich, who died .April 22 at the home of her father, Henry H. Head, at 

 Catonsville, a suburb. 



The Hughes Lumber Company, wholesale dealers in and exporters of 

 hardwoods, which succeeded Thomas Hughes & Co., on the fourth floor 



(Leading Manufacturers) 



BUSS-COOK OAK CO. 



BLISSVILLE, ARK. 



MANLFACTURERS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK, ASH and CUM LUMBER 



Can furnish aiiytliing in Oak, air dried 

 or kiln dried, rougli or dressed 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



Quartered Red Gum 



Plain and Quartered Gum, Two Years on Sticks 

 4/4", 5/4", 6/4" and 8/4" Thicknesses 



3" No. 1 Commo 

 ' and Bette 



Soft Elm 



Mark H. Brown Lumber Company 



Hardwood Manufacturers Mounds, Ark. 



Baker-Matthews Manufacturing Co. 



Sikeston, Mo. 



Band Sawn 

 Southern Hardwoods 



SPECIALTIES 



RED GUM, PLAIN OAK 



END US YOUR INQUIRIES 

 WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



Band Sawn Stock 



4 4 Com. & Better Sap Gum 



4 4 Com. & Better Red Gum 

 6 4 Com. & Better Red Gum 



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Quartered and Plain Red and White Oak 



This stock contains a good percentage of 14' 

 and 16' lengths and is of excellent widths 



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