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HARDWOOD RECORD 



nies in that state, has recently secured a hirge 

 conti-act to furnish the doors, windows and 

 window frames for the new Boston and Maine 

 Railroad Company's car shops, which are in 

 course of construction at Billerica, Mass. 



BALTIMORE 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has just 

 issued notice inviting the co-operation of cham- 

 bers of commerce, boards of trade and other 

 commercial organizations to locate new indus- 

 tries along the line of its road. The industrial 

 department is under the direction of the gen- 

 eral freight agent and in charge of John H. 

 Whittalser, special agent. The department car- 

 ries an active list of available buildings and 

 sites, and is prepared to furnish information 

 to any of them. It has issued a directory which 

 contains a classified list of commodities, alpha- 

 betically arranged, and gives the names of ship- 

 pers and receivers at all points along the sys- 

 tem cast of Pittsburgh. Special directories of 

 separate industries have been compiled. 



The Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Company 

 will erect a brick office at Ridgely and Scott 

 street, and will remove its lumber yard to the 

 new location. 



Holger A. Koppel, hardwood exporter and Dan- 

 ish vice-consul at this port, who has been on a 

 trip of two months to Copenhagen, his former 

 home, and who also paid considerable attention 

 to business while he was on the other side, re- 

 turned home today in fine health and spirits. 



Joseph T. Lawton of Joseph Thomas & Son, 

 manufacturers of mill work, states that his firm 

 is getting more than tlic usual mid-summer num- 

 ber of orders, and that business has kept up re- 

 markalily well this year so far. 



The Baltimore Sash & Door Company, of which 

 I. J. Miley is general manager, has erected a 

 frame office at its factory on South Howard 

 street and has recently taken possession of same. 

 The new office is much more convenient than 

 the old one. 



.T. ^IcD. Price, secretary of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, will begin this week 

 his annual tour around the country to get in 

 personal touch with the members of the organ- 

 ization, and confer with them concerning the 

 aims and purposes of the societj'. He w-ill also 

 set forth in these conferences the work being 

 done in behalf of the trade and will proceed to 

 show how the interests of the exporters have 

 been promoted in various wa.i s. The activity of 

 the foreign representative in London. Frank Tif- 

 fany, will receive special attention, and Mr. 

 Price expects to convince non-members that It 

 would be greatly to their l>enefit to join the asso- 

 ciation. He will discuss with individual ex- 

 porters matters relating especially to their busi- 

 ness, and will undertake to straighten out many 

 details that could be adjusted far less satisfac- 

 torily by an exchange of letters. Mr. Price will 

 take in nearly the whole of the country east of 

 the Mississippi river, but will not sta.v away 

 from headquarters as long as last year, coming 

 in to look after the accumulated routine and 

 making scvei'al other trips to New York, Boston 

 and other points in the East, 



The monthly meeting of the managing com- 

 mittee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange was 

 held yesterdaj- afternoon, but there was little 

 business to transact and the session was very 

 brief. 



COLUMBUS 



Tile report of the state building inspector ni" 

 rolumI>us shows continued activity in buildin.i;: 

 operations during the month of .July. Permits 

 \\-i're issued in July. 1012. to the number of 24(j 

 as compared with 224 for Jul.v, 1911. The valua- 

 tion of buildings projected in July. 1912, was 

 $42.1.88.?, as compared with S4S3,215 in July, 

 1911. The total nnmlier of permits issued since 



the first of the year were 1,647 as compared 

 with 1,623 for the same period in 1911. The 

 total valuation of buildings for the seven months 

 of 1912 is $3,02.3.005 as compared with $2,829,- 

 236 for the corresponding period of 1911. 



.\bout two hundred members and friends of 

 the Columbus Builders' & Traders' Exchange 

 held their annual outing at Glenmary park re- 

 cently. The feature of the day was a Ijall game 

 between two picked teams which was won by 

 the team captained by E. K. Hibbs. During the 

 afternoon a number of races and athletic con- 

 tests were held. 



The Republic Realty Company oi: Youngstown, 

 O.. has been incorporated with a capital of 

 .■SIO.OOO to deal in lumber and building material. 

 The incorporators are R. J. Seaman. Ralph W. 

 Hook. S. P. Williams. N. J. Myers and Ralph 

 E. Brashear. 



The Hamilton West Side Lumber Company of 

 Hamilton, O., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $25,000, to deal in lumber. The 

 incorporators are Frank K. Vaughn, Charles A, 

 Erwin, Jas. IC, .Tas. W., and William B. Cullen. 



H. M. Hayward of the firm of M. A. Hay- 

 ward & Son, says there is a good demand for all 

 grades of hardwoods especially hardwood floor- 

 ing. Stocks are generally light in all sections. 



F. B. Pryor of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip in Chi- 

 cago, where he visited the Chicago office which 

 is in charge of G. H. Ostrander. Mr. Pr.vor 

 says that business in the West is generally good, 

 and prices are well maintained. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a 

 good run o£ orders in all varieties of hardwoods 

 during the month of July. In fact the records 

 were far ahead of July, 1911. The company 

 predicts a continuation of the good business dur- 

 ing August. 



BVANSVILLB 



V. M. Cutsinger of Y'oung vt Cutsinger is the 

 proud father of a girl baby born July 24. .Mrs. 

 Cutsinger is a daughter of the late Henry Maley. 

 the well-known pioneer lumberman of Indiana. 



T. 1. Niehois of th.' Nichols & Cox Lumlu-r 

 Company, tirand Rapids. Mich., was in the city 

 visiting the mills last week. The company's 

 mill recently installed at Metropolis is now in 

 operation. 



Maley & Wrrti. are building a two-room addi- 

 tion to their office, necessitated to take care of 

 their increasing business. 



The Evansville Manufacturers' Association 

 recently asked the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion on behalf of the lumber manufacturers here 

 to suspend the milling-in-transit tariff which thf 

 Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company issued, 

 and which went into effect June 16. The com- 

 plaint stated that the corresponding tarilTs at 

 Nashvilli' and Jlemphis were suspended, and 

 Evansville was being discriminated against. An 

 answer was received stating that rules objected 

 to in tariffs were being investigated by the com- 

 mission, and a decision would doubtless he had 

 in the fall. The tariffs referred to provide tor a 

 complete dailv report of all shipments in and 

 out and a time limit of one year for reshipping 

 i.ud other objectionable features. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



W. ^\■. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 comp.-iny has returned from a two weeks' fish- 

 ing tri]i in Canada. 



The Talgc Mahogany Company is running 

 night anrl da.w and reports that business is ex- 

 cellent. The company is ntiw receiving fifty 

 car loads of inahogau.\' logs from Europe. 



The engagement of Jliss Helen Miriam Talge. 

 daughter of Mr. and Jlrs. John H. Talge, to 

 Paul t^wen Brown has been announced, and the 

 wedding will take place in October. 



A new factory building is being erected for 



the National Casket Company at Capitol avenue 

 and Pratt street. It will he a three story build- 

 ing, 80x195 feet, of brick construction, and will 

 cost $40,000. 



The South Bend Auto Body Company of South 

 Bend has been organized and incorporated with 

 a capitalization of $20,000, and will manufac- 

 ture automobile bodies. Those interested in the 

 company are S. W. Nicholson, J. C. Paxson and 

 V. E. Paxson. 



As the result of an informal dinner held in 

 this city on the evening of July 30. an asso- 

 ciation of manufacturers of quartered oak veneer 

 of the United States will be organized. The 

 dinner was held at the Denison hotel and repre- 

 sentatives of twenty-five manufacturers, repre- 

 senting sixty per cent of the quartered oak 

 veneer manufacturers of the country attended. 

 .\ committee was appointed to formulate a plan 

 of organization. Those at the meeting re- 

 ported that prices are steady and that enough 

 orders are on hand to keep manufacturers busy 

 for three months. It was also reported that 

 there has been no increase in the amount of 

 stock on hand since Februar.v and that the 

 amount of stock on liand is not one-fourth what 

 it was this time last year. 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions in this territory during the 

 past fortnight have been very favorable for the 

 production of hardwood lumber, and for the 

 bringing in of timber. As a result there has 

 been steady operation on the part of practically 

 all leading manufacturers here. There i's com- 

 plaint now and then as to the inability of the 

 railroads t^i furnisli the cars needed for the 

 prompt transportation of timber, but this is by 

 no means a general condition. As a rule, manu- 

 facturers are well supplied with timber, and in- 

 dications point to continued operations on a 

 normal scale. 



The supply of lumber is larger now than a 

 short time ago. However, there has been no 

 accumulation sufficient to prove a v.'cight on the 

 market. The amount of stock on sticks has 

 shown the greatest increase, but this has not 

 necessarily resulted in a large gain in the 

 amount of lumber available for immediate ship- 

 ment. The demand has been reasonably active. 

 There has been a good run of orders and lum- 

 ber is being deliven^d with considerable free- 

 dom to bu.xcrs bolh in this country and in 

 Europe. 



The committee of the National Lumber Ex- 

 porters .Association, ajipointed for the purpose 

 of closing contracts with steamship companies 

 to Antwerp. Rotterdam. Liverpool, London and 

 other foreign markets has ^arranged rates for 

 -Antwerp and Rotterdam. The contracts which 

 have been signed i-eeently represent an advance 

 of six to seven cents per hundreti pounds be 

 tween New Orleans and the ports in question. 

 The rates were so high to Liverpool and Lon- 

 don that the committee asked to !»> excused 

 from formulating contracts with the steamship 

 companies. The members of the committee 

 deemed it best that the rates in case of these 

 two points should be made by individual lum- 

 bermen and lumber firms connected with the 

 association. Among the members e)f the com- 

 mittee were F. B. Robertson of the .\ndersou- 

 Tully Company. George 1 >. Burgess of Russe & 

 Iturgess. Inc.. Frank F. Fee. Little Rock, and 

 .1. J. Bruner of the E. Sondheiraer Company. 

 The committee has asked its discharge b.v the 

 National Lumber Exporters' A.ssociation, but has 

 been continued. 



The plant of Scateherd & Son, at Menipbis. 

 v.-ill he moved in the near future as a result of 

 the sale of the property on which the present 

 factory is located. Several sites are under con- 

 sideration but no location has been decided upon 

 as yet. 



The iilant of the McDaniel-Baughman Lumber 



