HARDWOOD RECORD 



R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. recently 

 returned from a trip South, in the course of 

 which he visited a large number of mills. 



The Herbertson Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Richmond. Va., with William 

 Herbertson. Sr., as president; M. L. Herbert- 

 son as vice-president. R. H. Herbertson as 

 secretary, and R. K. Herbertson as treasurer. 

 The three first-mentioned are of Pittsburg, 

 and R. K. Herbertson is of Burkeville, Va. 

 The capital stock of the company is fixed at 

 $100,000. 



Pittsburg. 



The Willson Brothers Lumber Company re- 

 ports an excellent demand for hardwoods of 

 all kinds and says that the call for oak and 

 sound wormy chestnut is one of the most 

 promising features of the Pittsburg market 

 for two years. This firm has fortified itself 

 with large stocks and is supplying the trade 

 throughout the East in a way that few 

 other concerns are able to do. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company is now 

 quartered in one of the finest suites of offices 

 in the city, in the Union Bank building. They 

 have nearly double the space which they had 

 in their old quarters in the Ferguson build- 

 ing, but the room has been badly needed for 

 a long time. In poplar. Cottonwood and bass- 

 wood the Turner Company is doing a big 

 business. 



A number of investors from Clearfield. Pa., 

 have bought 1.000 acres of hardwood timber 

 land on the Coal & Coke railroad in Randolph 

 county. West Virginia, for about $20,000. It 

 is estimated that the tract will cut 5.000,000 

 feet, most of which will be marketed through 

 the agency of W. W. Dempsey of Johnstown, 

 Pa.; several portable mills will be installed 

 at once. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is get- 

 ting out a fine lot of hardwood at its big 

 plant at Blackstone, Va. A large part of this 

 is oak and the firm finds a good market for 

 this lumber. both on the eastern coast and in 

 the Pittsburg district. Mr. Satler was one 

 of the Chamber of Commerce excursionists 

 who toured West Virginia on a business trip 

 last week. 



The big plant of J. A. HoUinger at Cham- 

 bersburg. Pa., was burned a few days ago. 

 with a total loss of $100,000. About $40,000 

 of this was covered by insurance. The fire 

 started in the engine room of the sawmill 

 and burned practically the entire plant of 

 the company. 



The Cotton Belt Timber and Manufactur- 

 ing Company has been incorporated in Ohio 

 by a number of capitalists of Norwalk. Its 

 capital is $100,000, and the members of the 

 company are Fred H. Fox. F. C. l&iUer, B. N. 

 Chikls. John Laylin and H. A. Gallup. 



J. E. Mcllvain & Co. are having a very good 

 call for railroad ties. They report most of 

 the West Virginia mills fairly busy and they 

 are putting on new men at the mills where 

 they have lumber under contract. 



The big planing mill of Dimond & Borland 

 at Oil City, Pa., was damaged by fire to the 

 extent of $50,000 on May 8. The firm carried 

 about $7,000 insurance. 



West Virginia Hoo-Hoo held a very suc- 

 cessful meeting at Weston. May 2. Nearly 

 thirty were initiated and over two hundred 

 members of the order were present at the 

 services. Among the prominent speakers were 

 H. K. Stover of Elkins, I. N. Butler of Pick- 

 ens, James H. Chapman of Sutton. John L. 

 Altizer of Baltimore and E. S. Boggess of 

 Clarksburg. 



The Babcock Lumber and Boom Company 

 has been incorporated at Davis. Tucker 

 county, West Virginia, with a capital of $500,- 

 OOO. The stock is all held by the Babcock 

 lumber interests, which have their headquar- 

 ters in Pittsburg. 



The Valley Bend Lumber Company, of Shaf- 

 fer's Run. Randolph county, W. Va., lost its 

 big mill last week by fire. Wilson Brothers 

 of Toronto were the chief owners and will 

 likely rebuild the plant. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has 

 set out more than 500,000 trees as a prelimi- 

 nary to its immense project of starting enough 

 oak forests to supply it with tie timber in 

 the future. At its new nursery at Hollidays- 

 burg, Pa.. 135 pounds of seed will be planted 

 this year. The work is being conducted by 

 E. A. Sterling, formerly of the United States 

 Bureau of Forestry. 



The Lycoming Lumber Company is a new 

 concern chartered by Wm. CoUum, S. V. 

 Brown and F. C. Zercher. It will operate 

 near Greensburg. Pa. 



Pittsburg wholesalers are greatly concerned 

 at the increase of 20 to .10 per cent in freight 

 rates whicli will go into effect June 1 on all 

 the roads of the Central Freight and Trunk 

 Association. Hitherto the rate on lumber 

 from Chicago to New York has been 20 cents 

 per hundred pounds. The increase will cause 

 a sharp advance in the price of some hard- 

 woods that are being shipped in large quanti- 

 ties to the Middle West and it is expected 

 that oak will suffer worse in this respect. 



Three new lumber companies were char- 

 tered last week in western Pennsylvania. The 

 Newell Brothers Lumber Company of Pitts- 

 burg is backed by J. A., W. A. and H. T. 

 Newell. H. A. Miller, A. C. Leslie of Pitts- 

 burg and W. E. McMillan of Wilkinsburg, Pa. 

 The capital is $100,000, of which over $40,000 

 has been paid in, The Fort Pitt Lumber 

 Company of Pittsburg has a capital of $12,- 

 500 and is promoted by H. L.. Austin, George 

 McGinnis. R. J. Hadley and T. S. Dickey of 

 Pittsburg and C. M. Konkle of New Ken- 

 sington, Pa. The other company mentioned 

 is the Stewarten Lumber Company of Con- 

 nellsvillc. Pa., capital $6,000. The incorpor- 

 ators are August Stickle. Jr.. and Otto Stickle 

 of Mill Run. Pa., and John A. Guyler of Con- 

 nellsville. 



Lloyd. Chalfant & Peyton have bought the 

 planing mill of Rowand & Company at Shinn- 

 ston. near Morgantown, W. Va.. for about 

 $15,000. The price includes several acres of 

 real estate. 



The Crescent Lumber Company is now lo- 

 cated in its new quarters in the Machesney 

 Building, and is doing an excellent business 

 in white oak. cypress and hardwoods. Much 

 of its trade is in lots of from 20 to 50 cars, 

 and a good portion of its lumber goes nortli 

 to the lake towns. 



W. E. Terhune of the W. E. Terhune Lum- 

 ber Company has been looking up the West 

 Virginia situation the past week. He finds 

 the hardwood business in general mucli bet- 

 ter than the yellow pine trade. 



The J. W. Pierce Lumber Company of Iron- 

 ton, O., has been shut down by the order of 

 the Pierce estate. It is expefcted that ar- 

 rangements will soon be made witli the Ad- 

 vance Lumber Company of Cleveland by 

 which the plant can be operated again. 



The Sommer & Henry Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company has taken over the plant 

 of Charles Ike at Canton. Ohio, and will 

 manufacture hardwood lumber on a large 

 scale. It has also secured several tracts of 

 timber which will be good feeders for the big 

 planing mill. The new officers of the com- 

 pany are: President, David S. Sommer; vice 

 president and treasurer, U. R. Henry; secre- 

 tary. Edward L. Smith; directors. J. M. Cozan 

 and Anna Sommer. 



The Pittsburg Pit Post Company is doing a 

 fine business in the Pittsburg field in all 

 kinds of mine timber. Its posts are selling 

 for half a cent higher than a year ago and it 

 also has a good demand for mine car stock. 



Tlie Maley, Thompson & Moffatt Lumber 



Company of Cincinnati has bought from D. F. 



Frazee tibout 500 acres of walnut timber near 

 Lexington. Ky., for $15,000. The firm will cut 

 ttff the timber at once and market most of it 

 in Cincinnati. 



The Warren Handle Company is one of the 

 busiest concerns in eastern Ohio. Last week 

 it shipped another order of 200 dozen pick 

 handles tc* the Panama Canal, this being one 

 of several consignments which it has lately 

 sold to the United States government. The 

 company also has the entire handle business 

 of the Carnegie Steel Company and the Re- 

 public Iron and Steel Company. 



The Twentieth Century Lumber Company, 

 capital $10,000, has been incorporated by 

 David Weiner, W. S. Snyder and G. M. Whit- 

 ney of Harri.sburg and Carlisle, Pa. 



Timber lands in the neighborhood of Oil 

 City, Pa., got a bad scorching last week by 

 forest fire. Nearly the entire townships of 

 President and Pine Grove were swept over, 

 badly damaging an area of about ten square 

 miles. 



The Western Lumber Company of Weston. 

 W. Va.. has increased its capital to $75,000, 

 its president, John T. Dixon of Memphis, 

 Tenn., having taken a large part of this last 

 issue. 



Tlie Baltimore & Oliio Railroad Company is 

 negotiating with the Kendall Lumber Com- 

 pany for the purchase of the latter's line 

 from Confluence. Pa., to Mountain Park, a 

 distance of about twenty miles. This is a 

 narrow gauge road, but if the B. & O. gets 

 it. it will be made into a broad gauge for ex- 

 cursion purposes. The Kendalls built it sev- 

 eral years ago to furnish an outlet for their 

 timber operations in that district. 



The Wellman Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Glen Jean. Fayette County. 

 Pa,, with a capital of $5,000. The members 

 of the company are O. F. McCoy, L. D. Mar- 

 shall. H. E. Wilson, J. R. Gunning and C. W. 

 Osenten. 



Robert Felty of Connellsville. Pa., has 

 bought from the Collins Lumber Company of 

 Pennsboro. W. Va., a tract of hardwood lum- 

 ber which it is estimated will cut 20,000,000 

 feet, besides some 4,000,000 pit posts. The 

 deal includes all the machinery, tram road, 

 logging engines, cars and other equipment 

 of the Deckers Valley Lumber Company of 

 Morgantown. W. Va.. in which Mr. Felty is 

 a large stockholder. 



The Webster-Keasey Lumber Company is a 

 new wliolesale concern at 803 Bessemer build- 

 ing. It will have its own mills, and will 

 handle poles, ties and piling on a large scale. 

 Webster Keasey, president of the company, 

 has been in the lumber business in the Pitts- 

 burg district for seventeen years. George 

 A. Cypher. Jr., of Butler, Pa., is secretary 

 and treasurer of the concern, and J. O. Har- 

 rison, who has been associated with Mr, 

 Keasey for a long time, will be general man- 

 ager. 



The Red Lick Lumber Company of Marlin- 

 ton, W. Va.. has been formed with a capital 

 of $10,000. The incorporators are M. C. Wat- 

 kins of Gassaway, W. Va., A. D. Williams 

 and N. C. McNeil of Marlinton and John 

 Peters of Ronceverte. 



The Furnace Run Saw Mill & Lumber 

 Company of Pittsburg has started a branch 

 office at Cincinnati, with William Hunter, 

 manager. The company is practically cut out 

 at Johnston City. Tenn.. and will handle 

 hardwood direct from its Cincinnati office. 



The Pittsburg Hardwood Floor Company re- 

 ports much the best business in its history. 

 Its city trade is picking up rapidly and of 

 late it has been doing a fine business in the 

 big industrial towns of western Pennsyh'ania 

 and eastern Ohio. 



The Kendall Lumber Company sold 200 

 cars of lumber and ties in two days last 



