HARDWOOD RECORD 



Snydor. recently of tlio Host Maiuifaoturing Company, and D. N. Ciawfoi-d 

 ot the Poland Coal Company. Tlie new concei'n will do a general whole- 

 sale business and expects to handle considerable hardwood when It gets 

 ui^fler way. 



Sales Manager G. M. Chambers of the Kendall Lumber Company made a 

 trip to the Kendall plant at Hutton, .Md., last week where the company is 

 •cutting about 1)0,000 feet a day. Last month was the biggest month in 

 shipments the rompany'cver enjoyed. 



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Lumber Company has starte<i work on a large planing mill 

 at I'ortage, Pa., and will have one of the most up-to-date plants in 

 Pennsylvania. 



The Western Lumber Company is doing a very good business and its 

 shipments have been above the average this spring. President W. W. 

 Wilson, Jr., has made frequent trips to the eastern market of late with 

 good results. 



II. F. Domhoir, president ot the Acorn Lumber Company, spent a week 

 in the East recently. His trade in that section, e.specially with thi> 

 manufacturing concerns, is increa.^ing steadily and rapidly. 



.< BOSTON >= 



Bureau t.. j^-i^i in ilif development of foreign commerce was commenced 

 at a iih.iiri^ ji iih .\merican House held this week. Among those co- 

 ■Qpcratiri- in injUin- the plans were William C. Kedfield of the United 



Stales lp.|i:i:ini. I Commerce. This is a movement independent of 



.already existing trade extension factors to eslablisli by agents direct for- 

 eign connections to greatly enlarge the output ot New England industries. 

 A number of large lumber consuming factories are in the list of those 

 behind this effort to Increase business in New England. 



.\ nuuiliir of lumbermen of Boston expect to attend the ninth annual 

 tournament of the Lumber Trade Golf Association at ISichmond on May 

 Hi and 21, among them being Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin. 

 I'". B. Witherbee of the II. M. Bickford Company, and Howard C. Morse 

 of the Blacker & Shejiard Company. 



The Pratt & l''onst (Ompauy of lyowell suffered a severe loss on May 

 12. when a larse tiro destroyed a part of its planing mill. 



The Cook Lumber Company of Greenfield, Mass., is reported as having 

 likd a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. 



.•\mong the corporations organized at Boston is noticed the Xouvelle Lum- 

 ber Company with authorized capital of 151.800,000. 



-■< BALTIMORE >= 



Gen. Alfred E. Booth, formerly head or what was known as tbo 

 fisheries trust, who died in Baltimore last week, left to Gen. Thomas 

 J. Shryock, head of the firm of T. .T. Shryock & Co., on South Caroline 

 street, all of his stock in the Sherwood Lumber Company of West Virginia, 

 -which he owned, and various personal effects contained in his suite of 

 rooms at the Hotel Belvedere. The Sherwood Lumber Company has been 

 lor years engaged in the development of a tract of white pine in West 

 N'irglnia, which has proved a very profitable undertaking. 



Thomas Foulke Mattl.ews, for many years connected with the firm of 

 Thomas Matthews & Son. died recently at the age of 6S years. Mr. 

 Matthews was a native of Baltimore county, and in his early days farmed 

 In iowa. but lie returned to Maryland and engaged in the lumber trade, 

 in which be became widely acquainted. His mother and wife survive him. 



Building operations here continue to make a very attractive showing. 

 For .\pril the total value of the improvements for which building permits 

 were issued amounted to »1, 180,900, $90,000 being on account of altera- 

 tions and .?7.j,000 for additions. The grand total so far this year is now 

 «4,18B,31L'. and if this rate is kept up the total for the year will not 

 tall short of S13,000,000, a sum equalled only after the fire in 1904. As 

 the tendency is toward a larger use of hardwoods, the demand from the 

 ibuilders for oak and other wood is relatively liberal, and all the 

 indications encourage the belief that the rest of the year will see expansion 

 in the business. . ► 



Holger A. Koppel, a well-known hardwood exporter here, with offices in 

 the Carroll building, will sail for Europe on May 30, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Koppel. About six weeks will be spent in Copenhagen, his former home, 

 visiting relatives, and two or three weeks will be devoted to trips to some 

 of the lumber buying centers. 



Fred. Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 and president of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, recently 

 called on Secretary J. ilcD. Price to discuss various association matters. 

 Mr. Arn was on a business trip to Philadelphia, and took occasion to run 

 over to Baltimore for a conference. 



Fritz Hahn, representing Richard Koller & Co., of Duesseldorf, Germany, 

 large importers of American woods, was in Baltimore ten days ago and saw 

 some ot the manufacturers and shippers of lumber here. Herr Hahn had 

 lieen on a southern trip and was on his way to take the steamer at New- 

 York for home. He stated that: he found trade in the South rather quiet. 

 Speaking ot the business situation in Germany, be said that a marked 



improvement had taken place, and he thought the outlook was quite 

 promising. 



lieports about several hardwood developments of Importance In the 

 Virginias have been received here. One of them is that of J. M. Murdoch 

 & Bro., of Johnstown, Pa., who purchased 41,000 acres of hardwoods, 

 principally oak, on the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, near 

 Millboro, Va., and put the mill erected ou the tract in operation ten days 

 ago. The plant is a single nine-foot band, with a six-toot resaw. A rail- 

 road has been constructed to connect with the C. & O. The timber lies in 

 what is known as Bull Pasture river territory, about fifteen miles out 

 from Millboro. 



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