HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Owen M. Briicer. president of the Owen M. 

 Eruner Company, recently made a trip to the 

 Idaho lumber camps, where his company is Inter- 

 ested in some attractive deals. He says the 

 lumber situation remains unchanged. 



PITTSBUROH 



The A. M. Kinney Lumber Company is start- 

 ing another hardwood mill in northeastern Ohio. 

 This makes three plants there which are cutting 

 hardwood at present for this concern. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is doing a pretty 

 fair business and thinks the situation much im- 

 proved. Its chief complaint is the tendency of 

 some buyers to break away and try out irre- 

 sponsible concerns because they quote a little 

 lower prices. 



J. M. Hastings, president of the J. II. Hast- 

 ings Lumber Company, is managing the affairs of 

 the Davison Lumber Company, Nova Scotia, Can- 

 ada. This company is shipping an enormous 

 amount of lumber by tidewater from Bridge- 

 water, Canada. 



J. B. Flint, formerly of the Flint, Frying & 

 Stoner Company, is spending the summer at his 

 country home at Beaumaris, Canada, and occa- 

 sionally puts over a nice lumber deal. 



Secretary J .H. Henderson of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company has sailed for Europe for sev- 

 eral weeks' vacation. He will have charge of 

 the sales of the Croft Lumber Company — also a 

 Kendall concern, at Clarksburg, W. Va., when he 

 returns. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has re- 

 cently bought 7,000 acres of hardwood and hem- 

 lock timber in Forest county, Fa. This, with its 

 former property, will give it nearly enough tim- 

 ber to keep it busy for twenty years. The lum- 

 ber will be shipped over its private railroad to 

 Sheffield, Pa., and from there to points east and 

 west. 



The Union Lumber Company has been formed 

 by William Hunter and H. B. Butler, formerly 

 with the Pennsylvania Lumber Company, and 



A. E. Butler, who is a large financier and oil 

 operator in Butler county, Pennsylvania. The 

 company has a capital of $63,000 and has estab- 

 lished offices at S16 Federal street, North Side. 

 It will establish a large yard for carrying high- 

 class hardwood in the near future and will also 

 cut olf a tract of oak at Emionton, Pa. 



The B. P. Lee Company has been organized by 



B. F. Lee, Charles A. Clowes, .Tohn C. McMillan 

 and others of Pittsburgh, Pa., and will establish 

 a general planing mill and lumber business at 

 once. 



W. A. Schmitt, J. E. Bane, A. J. Scott, L. H. 

 Irwin and Homer Eckstein of this city have 

 asked for a receiver for the old Flint, Erving & 

 Stoner Company in behalf of themselves 

 and of stockholders of the Thornwood Lumber 

 Company. The product of this latter concern 

 was sold by the Flint, Erving & Stoner people, 

 who own shares in the Thornwood Company. 



The wholesalers' and retailers' picnic at Key- 

 stone Park, north of the city. June 22, was a 

 great success. More than two hundred whole- 

 salers and retailers were pres^^nt, many of them 

 with customers as invited guests. Splendid 

 music was furnished by Prof. Schnitzer's German 

 band and the Hemlock Quartette. Ball games, 

 sack races, barrel races, obstacle races and all 

 kinds of tumbling stunts, in addition to a pie- 

 eating contest, filled the afternoon with ftin. 



BOSTON 



The Conway Lumber Company, Conway, N. H., 

 has opened a hardwood lumber department at 

 126 State street. Boston, under the management 

 of R. S. Maislein. 



George H. Davenport of the Davenport, Peters 

 Company, Boston, has returned from a trip to 

 Eurt)pe. Mr. Davenport was away about two 

 months. 



The Shirley Lumber Company, Foxcroft, Me., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $200,000. The organizers are Arthur W. Crafts, 

 George W. Stacy and Emmons W. Stacy. 



The S. I. Howard Company, Worcester, Mass., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000 for the purpose of buying and selling 

 building materials. 



BALTIMORE 



The Democratic National Convention was the 

 means of bringing to Baltimore quite a number 

 of lumbermen, the trade being in fact about as 

 largely represented as any other. Among the 

 delegates were men very prominent in the busi- 

 ness, one of the leading figures being Rufus 

 Vansant, president of Vansant, Kitchen & Co., 

 .4iShland, Ky. Mr. Vansant is known far and 

 wide as a large hardwood operator, and he also 

 cut a big figure at the convention, being promi- 

 nently boomed for chairman of the Democratic 

 National Committee. He has held the position 

 of chairman of the state committee in Kentucky 

 for some time and is one of the wheelhorses of 

 his party in the Blue Grass state. To him is 

 given much of the credit for electing the pres- 

 ent democratic governor by a majority approxi- 

 mating 30,000. 



The Thomas Hughes Company has been in- 

 corporated under the laws of Maryland with a 

 capital stock of $20,000 to conduct a hardwood 

 business, the corporation being in a way a suc- 

 cessor to Thomas Hughes individually. The 

 officers of the company are : W. W. Baldwin of 

 Baldwin & Frick, attorneys and real estate men, 

 president : Ernest E. Price, formerly engaged in 

 the export business on his own account, but lat- 

 terly in charge of the export department for 

 Thomas Hughes, vice-president ; W. S. Syming- 

 ton of Baltimore, secretary, and Thomas 

 Hughes, treasurer. These officers, together with 

 C. H. Reeder of a well known Baltimore firm 

 of shipbuilders, constitute the board of directors 

 for the first year. The company will have its 

 offices in the Keyser building and the business 

 will be conducted in much the same manner as 

 heretofore. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here during 

 the last two weeks was M. N. Offutt of the Rock 

 Castle Lumber Company and the C. L. Ritter 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Offutt makes his head- 

 quarters at Huntington, W. Va., and came here 

 as one of the alternates of the West Virginia 

 delegation to the Democratic convention. 



Clarence E. Wood, assistant general manager 

 of the R, E. Wood Lumber Company, was in 

 Baltimore two weeks ago from Fontana, N, C, 

 where he makes his headquarters. Mr. Wood 

 is giving much attention to the new mill which 

 the company will erect some distance from Fon- 

 tana, in Swain county. North Carolina. The 

 material for the new plant, which is to have a 

 capacity of about 50,000 feet a day, has already 

 been delivered. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange held its monthly meeting last 

 Monda.v afternoon in the rooms on East Fay- 

 ette street, but found no business to transact 

 and adjourned in short order. 



From Bristol, Va., comes a report that O. H. 

 Viali, a lumber operator in Eastern Tennessee, 

 has formed a new corporation, with a capital 

 stock of several hundred thousand dollars, to 

 develop a large body of timber in western North 

 Carolina. Among the capitalists interested in 

 the enterprise are mentioned Stone, Hersey & 

 Gibson of Newark, N. J., and J. C. Campbell. 

 Mr. Campbell is now operating large mills at 

 Marion and Fairwood, Va., and is also building 

 eighteen miles of railroad into the mountains, 

 from Black Mountain, N. C, a station on the 

 Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway, where he 

 is erecting a band mill of a daily capacity of 

 100,000 feet. The plant in which Mr. Viali is 

 interested will be located at Waynesville, Hay- 



wood county, N. C, on the line of the Southern 

 Railway. A branch road will be run from 

 Waynesville into the heart of the timber tract 

 to be developed. 



COLUMBUS 



The Butler County Lumber Company of Hamil- 

 ton, O.. has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $10,000 by Peter Kuntz and others. 



The H. L. Dingledy Lumber Company of 

 Youngstown, 0., has filed papers with the secre- 

 tary of state increasing its capital stock from 

 $50,000 to $75,000. 



The Circleville Lumber Company of Clrcle- 

 ville, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 cf $10,000 to deal in lumber and building mate- 

 rials. The incorporators are Thomas O. Gllli- 

 land, Peter Kuntz, Jr., John J, Kuntz, J. A. 

 Payne and G, F. HiU. 



Mrs. Jennie Hayward, wife of M. A, Hay- 

 ward of the M. A. Hayward & Son Lumber Com- 

 pany, died suddenly while visiting Sherrill Hay- 

 ward, a lumberman of Cleveland, O. The body 

 was brought to Columbus, where the funeral 

 services were held. 



H. M. Rowe, of the firm of Powell & Rowe, 

 has moved his residence to 37 Locust street, 

 Dayton, O., where he will make his headquarters 

 in the future. He will spend Mondays and Fri- 

 days in the Columbus office. Mr, Rowe has 

 been working the Dayton territory for some time 

 and the move is nothing new in the policy of the 

 company. 



H. C. Buskirk, sales manager for the General 

 Lumber Company, reports the supply of dry 

 stocks scarce but says there is a good demand 

 for the light grade stuff. 



L. P. Schneider, sales manager for John R. 

 Gobey & Company, reports a good business In 

 hardwoods during the past two weeks. Prices 

 are ruling firm and have a tendency to advance : 

 stocks are scarce and broken. Mr. Schneider 

 Icoks for a continuation of the good market in 

 the next few months. 



R, W. Horton, sales manager of the central 

 division of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 says the volume of business has held up well 

 lor the time of year. There is a good demand 

 for the general Une of hardwoods, with oak and 

 chestnut especially strong. Both retailers and 

 manufacturers are buying better. Dry stocks are 

 light and will continue so for some time. Mr. 

 Horton recently returned from a vacation spent 

 at Buckeye Lake. 



The entertainment committee of the Builders' 

 Exchange has set Wednesday, July 17, as the 

 day for the outing at Glenmary Park. Spe- 

 cial cars will be used to convey the members and 

 their families to the park early in the morning. 

 There will be a ball game and many contests, 

 also music, dancing and refreshments. 



The report of the Columbus building Inspector 

 for the month of June, 1912, shows an increase 

 in the number of permits Issued and a decrease 

 in the valuation of new buildings, as com- 

 pared to June, 1911. During the month 252 

 permits were issued as compared with 222 in 

 the corresponding month in 1911. The valuation 

 of permits issued was $579,116, as compared 

 with $719,055 in June, 1911. The number of 

 permits Issued during the present year is 1401, 

 an Increase of two over the first six months 

 of 1911. The total valuation of buildings is 

 $2,601,133, an increase over the corresponding 

 period last year of $255,101. 



The Rowe & Giles Lumber Company of Chagrin 

 Falls, O., has been Incorporated with a capital 

 of $30,000 to deal in lumber, both at wholesale 

 and retail. The incorporators are George F. 

 Rowe, Charles H. Giles, John W. Carter, Willis 

 Ames and L. L. Patterson. 



The Parker Lumber Company of Findlay, C, 

 has been incorporated with a capital of $50,000 

 to deal in lumber. The incorporators are W, S. 

 Parker, Vance J. Parker, Perry W. Parker, Deane 

 Parker and Clara Vance Parker. 



