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New York, there has been no social organiza- 

 tion among metropolitan lumbermen. In lieu 

 of the former enterprise, there has just been 

 organized by Charles Milne and Herbert E. 

 Sumner a Lumbermen's Luncheon Club, which 

 meets for luncheon every second and fourth 

 J'riday in the month, on the tenth floor of the 

 Mills building. Broad street below Wall street. 

 This club is organized for wholesalers and mill- 

 men only. The club has no red tape or par- 

 liamentary proceedings, but just meets for a 

 little social luncheon at 12 :30. Wholesalers 

 wishing to join should notify Charles Milne, 

 telephone Broad 3929, on the morning of the 

 dates of the meeting, so that the caterer will 

 know how many to provide for. The club has 

 secured a large private dining room, and it is 

 believed will be a successful venture. 



BUFFALO 



Secretary .T. S. Tyler's figures for shipments 

 of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange have been added 

 to by the following : Shipped by Buffalo deal 

 €rp from points of supply direct to customers, 

 year ending Dec. 31, 1911, a total of 3,53,802, 

 OOO feet, which is a decrease of 4,47-1. .jOO feet. 



The Denniston Company, manufacturer of autu 

 <ops and bodies, has filed a voluntary petition 

 in bankruptcy. The debits are $65,745.94 and 

 assets, $99,636.27. Edward J. Barcalo has been 

 appointed receiver. The largest creditor is the 

 Marine National Bank, whose claim is .^30,000, 

 unsecured. 



The sawmill of Scatcherd & Son at Memphis. 

 V hich has been idle for some time for lack of 

 logs, has just started up, and it is expected that 

 tlu're will be a very good demand for all the 

 oak the mill can turn out. 



Anthony Miller is getting in fair stocks of 

 oak, ash and basswood at present and finds 

 trade about up to the average, but hopes to see 

 it more brisk before ver.v long. 



G. Elias & Bro. are furnishing some of the 

 lumber for the new office buildings going up in 

 Buffalo, including a contract of about 15,000 

 feet of oak for the interior of the New York 

 telephone building. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling are in receipt of 

 fair hardwood stocks from the South, including 

 poplar, which is stronger in price, but not to the 

 same extent as shown by plain oak. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports 

 its southern mills as running again, after some 

 trouble from lack of logs. The yard is in re- 

 ceipt of hardwoods in fair quantity, including 

 oak and maple. 



Business is reported very fair at the office of 

 F. W. Vetter and distributed over a number of 

 hardwoods, although maple and oak continue 

 to lead in demand. 



A large part of the lumber at the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company's yard has been re- 

 moved to the new quarters on Baitz avenue, in 

 order to accommodate the tanning plant, which 

 has leased the premises. 



PHILADELPHIA 



J. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., of J. Gibson Mcll- 

 vain & Co., owners of the WoodclitE Lumber 

 Company, Monterey, Putnam county, Tenn., has 

 JiTst returned from the company's mills in Ten- . 

 nessee and other localities, and reports stock 

 low at all the mills. Consequently a jump 

 in prices is expected. J. Gibson Mcllvain & 

 Co. have engaged P. C. Curtis, as agent at 

 Nashville, to succeed C. T. Dews, who becomes 

 general manager of the Woodcliff Lumber Com- 

 pany. Air. Mcllvain states that the Woodcliff 

 tract abounds in an exceptionally fine quality of 

 timber, a very large proportion of which consists 

 of excellent quartered oak and poplar, and some 

 fine chestnut. 



G. M. Chambers, sales agent of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company says, that owing to the un- 



siltled weather, trading has been more or less 

 interrupted. He has just returned from a visit 

 to the company's mills at Bluefleld and Button, 

 W. Va., and reports a shortage of stock at all 

 mill centers. 



Daniel B. Curll, has little complaint to make 

 of business, and looks forward to reasonable 

 trading during the summer. His salesmen in 

 the New England territory report increased 

 sales. 



J. C. Tennant of the Summitt Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports diminished trading in the strike 

 regions of Pennsylvania, but believes that when 

 the labor troubles are settled and the weather 

 improves, business will pick up. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works closed con- 

 tracts with the St. Louis Southwestern Kail- 

 road, for twenty-two locomotives ; the Missouri 

 and Gulf, for nine : the Carolina and North- 

 western, for two, and the Ilayden Machinery 

 & Supply Company, New York, two. 



The Baltimore and Ohio Itailroad will erect 

 one of the most complete and modern timber- 

 treating plants in America, on its line at Green 

 Spring, W. Va., for the preservation of ties and 

 other lumber used in railroad construction. The 

 plant, including the storage yards for seasoning 

 timber, which will cover sixty acres, will be close 

 til large areas of timber land along the south 

 branch valley of the Potomac river. The tim- 

 ber-treating plant will include two treating 

 cylinders with a maximum capacity of 1,000,000 

 ties a year. 



BOSTON 



The Bryning Shelf Company, Boston, has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of .$5,000. The 

 incorporators are Ernest h. Brown, Percy L. 

 Bryning and Frederick W. Mowatt. 



The capital stock of the American Mahogany 

 Compan.v, has been increased from $1,500,000 to 

 ,?1. 550,000. 



Fire recently visited the plant of the Calvin 

 Putnam Lumber Company, at Danversport, 

 Mass., entailing a loss estimated at $75,000. 



The sawmill of the Connecticut Valley Lum- 

 ber Company, at Mt. Tom, Mass., has been 

 closed for several weeks owing to a shortage of 

 legs. 



The Smith & Bent Lumber Company, New 

 Haven, Conn., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $50,000 by J. Gibb Smith and 

 Ella Smith of New Haven, and William E. Bent 

 of West Haven, Conn. 



The Lumber Dealers' Golf Association has 

 held its first tournament at the Wollaston Golf 

 Club. In the morning round F. S. Arend had 

 the best net, S9-7-S2 and tied for the best gross 

 with n. A. Stiles. In the afternoon Mr. Arend 

 tied with L. F. McAJeer for the best net, 87, 

 while the gross was won by F. B. Witherbee who 

 covered the course in 90, nine strokes better than 

 he did in the morning. Mr. Stiles took 93 for 

 the afternoon. 



BALTIMORE 



l''rom Cumberland. Md., comes the report that 

 the Kendall Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, 

 has filed tor record at Morgantown. W. Va., a 

 deed for the Chess tract of timber land on the 

 Cheat river, involving several thousand acres 

 of virgin timber in Preston and Monongahela 

 counties. The purchase price is said to have 

 been $206,355,86, one third of which was cash, 

 and the balance to be paid in two equal instal- 

 n;cnts on Aug. 1 of the present year and Aug. 1. 

 1913. The work of developing the tract has 

 already begun. 



The United States Government is negotiating 

 for 1.000,000 acres of mountain land in Page, 

 Shenandoah, Rockingham and Warren counties. 

 West Virginia, as an addition to the Forest Re- 

 serve for the protection of the headwaters of 

 the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. Forest 



Agent E. C. Volkmar is conducting negotiations 

 v.'ith the aid of field assistant, E. L. Lindsay. 



G. L. Wood, general manager of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company, who has just returned 

 from Fontana, the company's operation in North 

 Carolina, and who also visited South Carolina 

 on business for the corporation, gave special 

 attention to the preliminaries for the erection of 

 a new mill on the Eagle Creek tract of timber, 

 in Swain county. North Carolina, near Fontana. 

 The projected plant will be a band mill of up- 

 wards of 50,000 feet capacity, the construction 

 of which will begin within the next two weeks. 

 'I'ho company has had much difficulty in getting 

 dry stocks in sufficient qu.antities to meet the 

 riquirements of its trade, and officers state that 

 with supplies more adequate business should 

 prove very good. 



There has been a change in the Ilcise & 

 Bruns Lumber Company, which operates a plan- 

 ing mill on South Caroline street, .-^t a meeting 

 of the stockholders held on May 10. ,Tohn F. 

 Bruns was elected president to succeed William 

 Heise, who has held the position for some time. 



COLUMBUS 



H. W. Putnam of the General Lumber Com- 

 pany says that business is about all that could 

 be desired at this time. The demand is good, 

 prices are firm and there is active inquiry all 

 along the line. 



The W. M. Hitter Lumber Company has made 

 the following changes tn its office force : K. C 

 Willis, who has been assistant to the general 

 sales maniiger during the past three years, left 

 several days ago for the West, where he will 

 engage in the real estate business ; F. B. Pryor. 

 who has been sales manager of the western 

 division, has been made assistant to the general 

 sales manager, with headquarters in Columbus ; 

 A. C. Gosten, who has been in Canada in the 

 interest of his company during the past few 

 years, has been transferred to Chicago to assist 

 the manager at that place. John Hall, a well- 

 known lumberman, will handle the Ontario, 

 Canada, lumber trade svith headquarters at Tor- 

 onto. 



CINCINNATI 



At the regular meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati, held at the Business Men's 

 Club, May 6, the following were elected for the 

 ensuing year : 



Charles F. Shiels, president ; J. S. Zoller, first 

 vice-president ; H. L. Mickle, second vice-presi- 

 dent ; Jos. Bolser, secretary; R. L. Gilbert, treas- 

 urer ; Ralph McCracken, chairman arbitration 

 committee ; Cliff S. Walker, chairman press and 

 publicity committee : S. W. Richcy, chairman 

 credit and terms committee : J. A. Bolser, chair- 

 man entertainment committee ; Alex Schmidt, 

 chairman inspection committee : Geo, Littleford, 

 chairman law and insurance committee : Geo. M. 

 Morgan, chairman membership committee ; Dwight 

 Hinckley, chairman river and rail committee ; 

 Geo. W. Hand, chairman statistics committee ; 

 C. M. Clark, chairman transportation committee. 



W, A. Bennett, who has been in the South 

 looking after his interests during the flood, has 

 returned to Cincinnati, and is making his pres- 

 ence felt among the manufacturers. 



John J. Mertz, who is in charge of the Green- 

 fleld, O., office of Bennett & Witte, was married 

 M.ay 22 to Miss Hartke of that city. 



E. J. Thoman, resident manager of Bennett & 

 Witte, reports that trade is better and that 

 prices on some items have advanced. 



W. J. Thom & Co, now at 1215-25 West 

 Eighth street, have purchased a lot at Price 

 Hill, on a line with Westwood, on which they 

 will erect a planing mill, and a complete set 

 of buildings for a builders' yard. It will be 

 the only plant in that vicinity. 



The Southern Lumber Company, through its 



