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Street From the beginning the business of Orson E. Ycager has 

 rapidly and steadiJy grown and represents at this time one of the 

 largest in the lumber trade. The corporation now known as Ycager 

 Lumber Company, Inc., was organized in the early part of 1914. 

 The ofEoers of the corporation are: Orson E. Ycager, president; 

 Frank G. Yeager, vice-president; Charles A. Ycager, secretary; 

 i'eter N. Yeager, treasurer. The company recently purchased the 

 large stock of dry lumber, including yard site and entire equipment 

 previously owned anil operated by I. N. Stewart & Bro., 892 Elk 

 street, which provides yard and shipping facilities second to none. 

 Falen and Burns 

 The firm name has not changed since the business was started 

 in 1875 by Bobert Palen and Millard S. Bums. The partner- 

 ship continued until 1906 when Mr. Palen died. The following year 

 Mr. Bums associated with him .Tacob F. Hirsehmiller, of Buffalo, 

 who had had considerable experience as a salesman on the road and 

 as a retail yard man. They are handling j-ellow pine, short leaf pine 

 and hemlock extensively, also deal in hardwoods. They represent 

 several of the leading Pacific coast shippers of red cedar shingles 

 and siding in which th.-ir sjilos .irc heavy. Their offices arc at 720 

 and 721 Mutual LilV tiuildiii),'. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company 



The offices of this comjiaiiy arc at WTm Sciicia street, near the 

 yards where is assembled lumber from its mills in Tennessee, Pennsyl- 

 vania, West Virginia and el.sewherc. The Atlantic Lumlicr Company 

 commenced business at Boston, Mass., in I.S94. Xashville, Tonn., was 

 the site of the first sawmill, followed by additional mills at Fayctte- 

 ville, Baxter and Knoxville, Tenn., the output being oak, poplar, 

 chestnut, white ash, and red cedar. In the vicinity of Raleigh, N. C, 

 four mills are kept busy cutting North Carolina pine from timber 

 tracts purchased within the past twelve years. A large tract of tim- 

 ber was purchased several years ago in central Tennessee from which 

 the mills in that vicinity are supplied. The company's export busi- 

 ness is managed by Robert Vestal of the Toronto office. H. L. Abbott 

 has been Buffalo manager since 1904 and vice president slu.f ■•.irlv 

 this year. 



Dean of Buifalo Lumbermen 



Major John S. Noyes is dean of the Buffalo lumber ir.ior :ind 

 the oldest lumberman in the city. He has retired from active busi- 

 ness but still takes keen interest in lumber affairs. It was he who 

 originated the system of towing barges on the l.-ikc;. and this has 

 greatly innncn.c.l the lake lumber trade. 



