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HARDWOOD RECORD 



pany, a large Coiliss engine and high pressure 

 boiler equipped with Gordon biast grates used In 

 forced draft systems. They have purchased a 

 Lidgerwood slildding machine costing .$!i.OOO. 

 use the American log loaders made by the Ameri- 

 can Hoist & Derrick Company. New York ; the 

 Shay geared locomotive from the Lima Locomo- 

 tive & Machine Company, and lhi> Kusseil log- 

 ging ears of 60.000 pound.s capacity from the 

 Russell Wheel & Foundry I'ompany. Detroit, 

 Mich. Nothing is omitted in the way of latest 

 equipments to render the plant thoroughly com- 

 plete and up-to-date. The machinery is the 

 heaviest ever installed in the South and they are 

 beginning to build six miles of railroad through 

 their timber. This tract comprises aliout IDO.- 

 000.000 feet of cypress, poplar, walnut, long and 

 short leaf pine, gum and ash. U. W. Scholield 

 is now at the mill superiuteuding the work. 

 This firm has also contracted for the entire out- 

 put of Hoover Lumber Company, Cash, S. C, 

 running about 12,000.000 white oak. short leaf 

 pine. ash. poplar and some gum ; the white oak 

 especially, they claim, is the best grade ever 

 placed on the market. The mil! is equipped with 

 the latest band saw. dry kiln and up-to-date 

 planing mill. .Tohn H. ,Sclio(ield is touring Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota contracting for a block of 

 white pine. K. P. Ashley of this lirm recentl.v 

 spent a week at the West Virginia mills famil- 

 iarizing himself with stocks. 



George F. Craig of George F. Craig c& Co.. this 

 <;ity. and Lewis Dill of Lewis Dill & Co. of Bal- 

 timore, Md.. sailed for Europe on May 20. Mr. 

 Craig will remain about a month. Mr. Dill joins 

 his wife, who preceded him on the trip. 



Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company reports busy ; 

 has no fault to find with conditions. Their mill 

 i3 working right along filling orders. Many in- 

 <juirii's are coming in and they are looking for- 

 ward to good summer trading. 



Haney-IIenson & Co.. lumber and milUvork, 

 consider last month the best in the year for 

 them, all departments k^-pt busy. Mr. Hauey 

 asserts they have excellent orders on hand and 

 that business is coming in every day. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son report May a very 

 fair month, considering that the labor troubles 

 have interfered more or less with work in the 

 various trading centers. The.v are receiving good 

 orders right along and have no doubt as to pros- 

 pects for summer business. 



The prosperous firm of W. H. Fritz & Co. has 

 felt the necessity of increasing its staff and ex- 

 tending its territory. Their hardwood depart- 

 ment is doing well and they are going more ex- 

 tensively into the maple flooring line. They 

 have also added North Carolina and yellow pine. 

 They recently engaged E. D. Wood, well known 

 in New York and Pennsylvania, to look after this 

 territory for them, and B. T. Bethune, formerly 

 an operator in the South, to look aftir Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore and Washington. The frL^nds of 

 E. B. Huyman of this firm will be glad to learn 

 that he is able to be around again. 



The Lycoming Lumber Company, Greensburg, 

 Pa,, was incorporated under Pennsylvania laws 

 on May iO. Authorized capital .$10,000. 



Hummer & York Lumber Company, Blooms- 

 burg, I'a.. was granted a charter under Dela- 

 ware laws on May 20. capitalization $100,000. 



Babcock Lumber & Boom Company. Davis, 

 W. Va., a recently chartered company, purchased 

 all the lumber interests of A. Thompson, Thomp- 

 son Lumber Company and Blackwater Lumber 

 Company of Davis, W. Va. The sale of the 

 lumber will be made by E. V. Babcock & Co. of 

 Pittsburg, Pa. They will retain the Philadelphia 

 office. 003 Betz Building, formerly occupied by 

 A, Thompson, of which Charles G. Blake, man- 

 ager, will have charge. The capitalization of 

 the new company is $500,000. No details are 

 given out. however, by the officers fiir publica- 

 tion concerning money considerations. The deal 

 was consummated on May 21. 



The final concatenation of the eastern Penn- 



sylvania Hoo-Hoo before the Annual was held 

 at the Hotel Walton on May 31. Owing to the 

 necessary absence from the city of a number of 

 prospective kittens only three frisky felines were 

 received into Hoo-Hoo. Frank Carlton Snedaker 

 of F. C. Snedaker & Co., Horace Kent Walton 

 of Coppock-Warner Lumber Company and Benja- 

 min Thomas Bethune of W. IL- Fritz & Co. The 

 convention on the roof, though not so largely at- 

 tended as was at first promised, proved a most 

 interesting and enjoyable affair. Addresses were 

 made by Vicegerent Jerome H. Sheip and Benja- 

 min C. Currie, Jr., on matters pertaining to the 

 coming Annual to be held on September 0, 10 

 and 11 at Atlantic City, N, J. Judging from the 

 reports coming in from the various committees 

 there can be no doubt of its being a tn'mi'niious 

 success. Hundreds of letters have been rfceived 

 from cities between here and Texas and from the 

 far Northwest requesting details and notifying 

 the chairman ex-officio, Jerome H. Sheip. that 

 the boys from these sections are coming on in 

 crowds. B. C. Mason of Mason-Featherstone 

 Lumber Company, Asheville, N. C. and 11. G. 

 Barrlngton of Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, New York, were guests at the concatena- 

 tion. 



A. Lincoln, the old established furniture manu- 

 facturing concern, will slicu'tly I'tect another 

 large factory. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., Fifty-eightli street 

 and Woodland avenue, have their main office now 

 in the Crozer Building, 501-2-3-4. -This firm is 

 one of the oldest and best known houses in this 

 city. They report business a little slow of late, 

 but on the whole satisfactory. They carry an 

 immense stock of hardwoods in their large yards 

 at Fifty-eighth street and have Just received 

 mO.OOO feet of dry 5, and 8/4 cherry. 



Wistar, Vnderhill & Co. report good orders 

 coming in right along. K. W. Wistar is on a 

 trip to Evergreen, N. C. ; will also go to (Jeorgia 

 to look after the firm's interests. H. E. Bates 

 of this house is on a selling trip in New York 

 and James W. Anderson, who has just r.covered 

 from a slight illness, is traveling through the 

 New Jersey section. Perc.v H. Jarratt is their 

 southern representative and looks :iftcr the l>uy- 

 ing and shipping in tieorgia. 



Among the many recent visitors lo llie trade 

 were Albert Haas of Albert Haas Lumber Com- 

 pany. Atlanta, Ga. ; Nelson H. Wolcott of L. II. 

 Gage Lumber Company, I'rovidence. K. I. ; Fred 

 Pyfer of B. B. Martin Company, Lancaster, I'a. : 

 Harry J. Myers of Brown-Borhek Lumber Com- 

 pany. Bethlehem. Pa. : J. IL Chapman of Chap 

 man & Hoover, Diana, W. Va. : Stephen S. .Mann 

 of Mann & Parker. Baltimore. Md. : Frank F. 

 Fish, secretary National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation, Chicago ; Lewis Doster, secretary 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Chicago ; 

 W. W. Rellley of W. W. Reilley & Bro.. Buffalo. 

 N, Y. ; the popular sales agent of Bowman Lum- 

 ber Company, St. Albans, W. Va. ; Van B. Per- 

 rine of Perrine, Armstrong & Co., Fort Wayne, 

 Ind.. who with his wife is visiting friends in 

 New York City : E. J. Hoover of K. J. IIoovi r & 

 Bro., Durbin, W. Va., and B, W, Bowden of Mt. 

 Sterling, N. C. 



Pittsljurg, 



The Linehan Lumber Company is pounding 

 away at the hardwood market and keeps up a 

 steady fire of orders. Its stock, secured from 

 the International Hardwood Floor Company, 

 is proving first class goods for a high class 

 of customers. The Linehans are also handling 

 a fine lot of mixed hardwoods, much of which 

 go to eastern plants. 



The E. T. Lippert Saw Company has been 

 chartered in Pittsburg. Its members are E. T. 

 Lippert. E. W. B. Pflschner, Fred J. Pflschner, 

 William F. Pfischner, John G. Pfischner and 

 Oscar T. Dittrich. The company will have a 

 plant in the Pittsburg district. 



The demand for ash is increasing steadily 

 in local offices. The railroads are again enter- 



ing the market and seem to be anxious to secure 

 considerable quantities of ash for baggage car 

 building. White ash is very scarce and is com- 

 manding the best of prices. Eastern Ohio is 

 furnishing much of the stock that goes to the 

 liandle factories. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company reports 

 that it is necessary to keep on the lookout for 

 business continually if you want it. Chestnut 

 and oak are selling with less effort than the 

 other woods, but there is a disposition among 

 big buyers to hedge their orders, preferring to 

 wait apparently for better prices for fall de- 

 livery. 



The C. P. C'aughey Lumber Company has two 

 mills in western Penusylvania cutting oak. A 

 large part of this is heavy timbers for railroad 

 use. The firm has be6n very successful in bid- 

 ding on large jobs this spring and is doing a 

 fine business in all sorts of oak lumber. 



The Nicholasville Lumber Company, which 

 has recently been incorporated, has decided to 

 build a planing mill, 50 by 60 feet, at Nicholas- 

 ville. Ky. It will make a specialty of dressed 

 lumber for the retail trade, tobacco hogsheads 

 and cases. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is capturing its 

 full share of the hardwood trade this summer 

 and has had a good season in all lines so far. 

 Its stocks of hardwood are quite complete and 

 it is a hard competitor in bidding for large bills 

 in the Pittsburg district and its traveling men 

 are taking a splendid lot of orders for oak 

 outside this territor.v. 



George Grim of Richmond, Ohio, has secured 

 the contract for cutting a large amount of hard- 

 wood timber near Foliansbee, W. Va. The lum- 

 ber will be shipped to Pittsburg. 



The Pittsburg schools are taking an excep- 

 tional interest this year in the planting of 

 trees. In this they are receiving more than the 

 customary encouragement from the daily press, 

 which is stimulated to talk more of the need of 

 forest trees by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany and some of the big coal and coke com- 

 panies, which have set out immense forests dur- 

 ing the past two years. 



Two lumbermen of Bradford. Pa., are receiv- 

 ing the congratulations of their friends on one 

 of the best timber deals that has fallen to the 

 lot of Pennsylvania capitalists for years. About 

 a year ago S. A. Holbrook and P. C. Blaisdell, 

 both members of the Tennessee Luml)er Company, 

 bought a tract of timber in the South and about 

 a month ago sold it at a price which brought 

 them a very handsome profit. 



The Ironton Lumber Company is l)uilding a 

 large new planing mill at Ironton, O. The ma- 

 chinery is being installed and by July 1 it is ex- 

 pected that the plant will be in full operation. 



The Juniata Lumber Company of Pennsylvania 

 has been incorporated by G. S. Grove and B. 



F. Grove, A. I. Harris, W. B. Hicks and Levi 

 Sparr. It will operate in the neighborhood of 

 .\ltoona and ship its stock to the eastern mar- 

 kets. 



The Hood Lumber Company of Parkersburg, 

 W. Va.. has opened offices in the Schulbach 

 building in Wheeling, where it will handle most 

 of its product. It recently bought 5,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber in Wetzel county, West 

 Virginia, for $50,000. For this tract it has 

 since been offered $75,000. It is estimated that 

 it will cut about 50,000,000 feet of lumber. 



The Reitz & Martin Lumber Company has 

 bought 2,000 acres of timber land along Burn- 

 ing Creek, Mingo county, W, Va., from Philadel- 

 phia owners for $25,000. Among those in- 

 terested in the deal are : Thomas G. Reitz, H. 



G. Martin, G. L. Dudley, G. B. Collins, James 

 Creighton, W. D. Camden. The tract is on the 

 Norfolk & Western railroad and will be cut off 

 at once. 



John A. Crawford, who is known throughout 

 Pennsylvania as an old and successful lumber- 

 man, and the inventor of many appliances for 



