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by his former partner, O. E. Teager, and the 

 slock will be disposed of gradually during the 

 next year. Meanwhile no new stock will be 

 bought. E. .T. Sturm, who was associated for a 

 long time with Mr. Vetter, will remain in charge 

 of the yard. 



The State Conseryation Commission estimates 

 that New York secures only one-fourth of the 

 wood it uses from the forests of the state, send- 

 ing into other states several million dollars for 

 wood that its 12,000,000 acres of forest land 

 could be made to produce easily under scientific 

 forest management. Based on this estimate, the 

 state college of forestry at Syracuse is making 

 a study of the wood-working industries of the 

 state and will issue a report on the situation 

 this winter. 



The 'Standard Hardwood Lumber Company's 

 yard sustained a loss of $300 by fire on July 14. 

 It looked for a time as though a severe fire 

 would result, but it was promptly handled by 

 the firemen. 



John N. Scatcherd and J. Newton Scatcherd 

 were among the board of directors re-elected re- 

 cently by the Batavia & New York Wood-Work- 

 ing Company, which has a large hardwood mill 

 at Batavia, N. Y. 



F. M. Sullivan will entertain his brother, W. 

 H. Sullivan, formerly of this city, and now gen- 

 eral manager of the Great Southern Lumber Com- 

 pany, Bogalusa, La., for several weeks this 

 summer. 



George Repp of the Buffalo Uardwood Lumber 

 Compan.v has returned from a business trip to 

 the Adirondacks, where the company has a stock 

 of high-grade birch, amounting to about 1,. 500, 000 

 feet. 



0. E. Yeager is giving a good deal of attention 

 to the automcbile truck business as president of 

 the Victor Motor Truck Company, which concern 

 will engage in the extensive manufacture here of 

 various styles of trucks. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. say that the hardwood 

 trade is fairly active at present and that yards 

 having jjlaii- oak have no difficulty in disposing 

 of it promptly at a good price. 



Anthony Miller is receiving a good deal of 

 stock from the South and West, including oak, 

 ash and chestnut. Trade is not what he would 

 like to have it, but it is fair for midsummer. 



President W. L. Sykes of the Emporium Lum- 

 ber' Comp.iny is busy looking after his mills in 

 I'ennsylvania and New Y'ork and has recently 

 been spending some time in the Adirondacks. 

 The office reports a good demand for maple 

 flooring. 



PITTSBUROn 



The Union Lumber Compan.v has established 

 itself at 516 Federal street, where President 

 William Hunter has already secured a good trade 

 in factory and furniture hardwoods. He will 

 make a specialty of mixed carload lots of fine 

 furniture lumber, and will shortly open a yard 

 to carry a considerable amount of this stock. 



J. W. Scull, formerly of the Railroad & Car 

 Material Company, is now located at 424 Fulton 

 building, where he represents the Union Lum- 

 ber Agency of Tacoma, Wash., the Gress Manu- 

 facturing Company of Jacksonville, Miss., and 

 the Ramsey-Wheeler Company of Bainbridge, Ga. 



The J. C. Forgie Lumber Company has been 

 making some large shipments of Washington 

 county white oak to the League Island Navy 

 Yards, and is getting splendid inspection and 

 prices for its stock. 



The Johnston-Davies Lumber Company is ship- 

 ping a large amount of oak for export trade to 

 the boat builders. It reports prices stiffening 

 right along. E. H. Johnston of this concern Is 

 down East this week looking up the general 

 trade. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company, which 

 has been in business in the Empire building for 

 several years, has discontinued its office here 

 on account of financial difficulties. J. A. Newell 



repo!-ts that the company has secured an exten- 

 sion from its creditors and will continue its hard- 

 wood operation at Frenchtown, W. Va., where 

 it lias a fine tract of timber. 



The New Castle Box Company has bought the 

 plant of the Lawrence County Lumber Company 

 at New Castle for $25,000. This does not include 

 the land, which was leased tor the buildings. 

 The superintendent ft the box company is Hugh 

 P. Mcllraith. 



Thi> Germain Company of this city has won 

 a notable decision in its suit before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission against the Atlantic Coast 

 Line Railroad Company and the Louisville & 

 Nashville Railroad Company. The matter has 

 been in the courts for some eighteen months. 

 The company complained that the railroads had 

 charged nearly three times the regular lumber 

 rate for shipping railroad ties to this point. The 

 commission ordered the railroads to refund 

 ff3,637.2.S on the shipment of thirt.v-two carloads 

 of ties, as it was shown that the railroads had 

 charged higher rates on these ties because of 

 their scarcity, and because they wanted to pre- 

 vent their shipment outside the territory con- 

 trolled by these railroads. 



BOSTON 



The partnership existing Iwtween James A. 

 and D. A. Cruikshank. lumber dealers, New Marl- 

 boro, has been dissolved by mutual consent and 

 the business will be continued by the former. 



Fire recently destroyed two large warehouses 

 belonging to the Williams Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Northampton, Mass. The loss is given as 

 $30,000, fully covered by insurance. 



Charles H. Lang, Jr.. who for several years 

 has been treasurer of the Heywood Brothers & 

 Wakefield Company, Wakefield. Mass.. has been 

 elected president of the company. The compan.v 

 has factories in Wakefield and Gardner, Mass., 

 and Chicago, 111. 



The Noyes & Knowles Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated in Kittery, Me., with a capital 

 stock of $50,000. The organizers are C. E. 

 Smothers and Horace Mitchell of Kittery, Me. : 

 Walter D. Noyes and William Clark of Boston 

 and George F. Knowles of Barnstead, N. H. 



The Crown Lumber Company. Springfield, 

 Mass.. has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $40,000. The incorporators are William W. 

 Gowen, M. A. Ward and Thomas H, Kirkland. 



The Paine Furniture Company of Boston will 

 soon erect a new plant in Boston. The new 

 building will be ten stories high, of fireproof con- 

 struction, and will cost about $1,100,000, in- 

 cluding the land. The company is a large manu- 

 facturer and seller of furniture and has been in 

 business in Boston for seventy-three .years. 



BALTmORE 



The strike of the stevedores, which has con- 

 tinued for weeks, was formally ended Saturday, 

 July 13, when the stevedores agreed to go back 

 to work at an advance in pay as demanded by 

 them, but without recognition of the union which 

 they had formed to make the demands. One of 

 the results of the settlement has been a heavy 

 movement of export stocks, which suggests the 

 possibility of congestion on the other side if the 

 forwardings keep up. 



Largely through the efforts of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, a signal victory 

 has been achieved over the railroads with termi- 

 nals at Norfolk, "N'a., in the matter of through 

 bills of lading. Some time ago the railroads 

 served notice on the lumber and log exporters 

 that after Aug. 1 they would refuse to issue 

 through bills of lading or exchange local bills for 

 through documents. The N. L. E. A., with other 

 organizations, promptly went to work to combat 

 the order, and made out such a strong case that 

 the Southern Railwa.v has now informed the ex- 

 porters that the order has been indefinitely post- 



poned. The Seaboard Air Line has also virtually 

 nullified the order, specifying only that the rail- 

 road shall be informed as to the time of the 

 probable departure of the steamer for which a 

 shipment is intended. As this has always been 

 the practice of the port, the matter is settled in- 

 so-far as that railroad is concerned. No answer 

 has yet been received from the Atlantic Coast 

 Line, but difficulty with the company is not 

 apprehended. 



The National Lumber Exporters' Association is 

 interested in efforts being made by the exporters 

 who ship through New Orleans to enable these 

 shippers to secure contracts with the steamship 

 companies on what might be termed reasonable 

 rates. There have been sharp and repeated ad- 

 vances in the rates, until the exporters do not 

 know where they stand. Some of the shippers, 

 tiring of the wait, have made individual con- 

 tracts, but many of them find themselves subject 

 to the variations in the rates that may be 

 adopted from time to time. So far the special 

 committee intrusted with the handling of the 

 sub.iect has not been able to accomplish anything. 



Thomas Hughes, who has been operating three 

 sawmills at Troutdale, Va., and other nearby 

 places in southwestern Virginia, and who re- 

 cently became treasurer of the Thomas Hughes 

 Lumber Company, incorporated under the laws of 

 Maryland to carry on the wholesale business, has, 

 owing to differences with some of his connections 

 in southwestern Virginia, made a deed of trust 

 with Attorney Buchanan of Marion, Va., as trus- 

 tee. The assets are put at $87,000 and the 

 liabilities at $62,000. With proper handling of 

 the assets, it is estimated that all creditors will 

 be paid dollar for dollar, with a handsome bal- 

 ance remaining. 



The Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Company, 

 dealer in hardwoods on South Sharp street, 

 which recently leased a large lot at Scott and 

 Ridgely streets from the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad Company, with the privilege of buying 

 at any time during the life of the lease, will 

 erect a brick ofl3ce building on the lot and will 

 move its yard there as soon as possible. 



COLUMBUS 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bus has made a number of changes in its sales 

 force. L. L. Farnham, who was under James 

 Patton in New York city, has been placed in cen- 

 tral and western Pennsylvania territory. W. L. 

 Worley. formerly located at Indianapolis, with 

 Indiana as his territory, has been placed at Buf- 

 falo in charge of northern New I'ork territory. 

 H. L. Albaugh, who was connected with the Rit- 

 ter company up until a few years ago, has 

 returned to the compan.v and will cover Indiana 

 with headquarters at Cincinnati. G. W. Humph- 

 rey and M. H. Welch, both of whom covered the 

 northern part of New York state, have left the 

 employ of the company. .1. W. Mayhew was 

 called to northern Pennsylvania on business 

 about the middle of July. W. M. Ritter, head of 

 the company, left recently for his annual vaca- 

 tion trip to the White mountains. 



F. B. Pryor. connected with the sales force of 

 the W. M. Ritter I,umber (^'ompany, reports the 

 hardwood trade holding up well. He says that 

 July, 1912, is ahead of July. 1911 or 1910, which 

 is unusual. Orders from retailers and manufac- 

 turers are coming in better, while many are 

 asking for immediate shipment. Mr. Pryor says 

 one of the features of the trade is the line of 

 poplar orders which are coming In, panel No. 1 

 being especially strong. 



The Taylor County Lumber Company of Day- 

 ton, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000 to operate a sawmill. The in- 

 corporators are Peter Kuntz, Jr., J. A. Payne, 

 W. L. Roach and J. W. Roach. 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager of the John R. 

 Gobey Lumber Company, says business is very 

 active in nearly all lines of hardwoods, prices 

 are holding up firm and there Is no falling off 



