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discussed will be the question of liability for 

 breakage, which the steamship companies seek 

 to evade, and which has fesulted in serious loss 

 to the exporters. 



.Toiin Crow of Diuwiddie count.v, Va., a prom- 

 inent lumberman and sawmill operator, about 

 (iU .years of age. was instantly killed at Wil- 

 son's on tlie Norfolk & Western railway early 

 on the morning of June 1.5. He was driving 

 in a buggy, liaving come from Petersburg, where 

 he transacted some business, and the vehicle 

 was struck by a train at the crossing. His 

 companion was perhaps fatally injured. 



What Is considered one of the most Impor- 

 tant chancery cases to be brought up in south- 

 western Virginia was tiled in the United States 

 Court at Abingdon, Va., June 17, the plaintiff 

 being the Buchanan Company, organized under 

 the laws of West Virginia, and the defendants 

 ;i'.) residents of Buchanan county and 10 of 

 Tazewell county. The contest involves the title 

 to some lUO.tiDO acres of the finest coal and 

 timber land In the two counties, the property 

 being claimed formerly by heirs of B'rederick 

 Pearson of Boston, descendants of the late Gen. 

 Benjamin Butler. The process is made return- 

 able on the lirst Monday in September, and the 

 proceeding was instituted by the Norfolk law 

 firm of Jeffreys & Lawless. If the suit is 

 decided in favor of the plaintiff a number 

 of people will be made homeless. ^ 



The Keltz & Martin Lumber Company of Park- 

 ersburg, W. Va., has purchased 2,000 acres of 

 timber land on Burning Creek, W. Va., for 

 .i!20,000. The company owns a number of saw- 

 mills, which will be removed to the newly ac- 

 quired tract and begins operations as soon as 

 possible. 



The Roaring Creek Lumber Company of Clear- 

 field, Pa., has acquired a tract of timlier land, 

 including some 1.100 acres in Randolph county. 

 West Virginia, and will erect two sawmills 

 there. Work is being pushed as rapidly as 

 possible. 



The John Stack Lumber Company, recently 

 organized in this city, has succeeded the firm 

 of John Stack & Sons, mill and yard men, at 

 the old location. The concern is extensively 

 engaged in building and, has an establishment 

 at 2,")31 Oak street. 



S. George and E. J. Wise of Cumberland, Md.. 

 are building a planing mill at Hagerstown, 

 Md., and will also establish a yard there. 



William M. Burgan. dealer in and manufac- 

 turer of cypress, is on a trip West as far as 

 Yellowstone Park. He is traveling with Mrs. 

 Burgan, and they will meet their son, who has 

 been in the West some time. If conditions are 

 favorable, the Journey will be extended to the 

 I'acific Coast. 



John M. D. Heald of Price & Heald. Balti- 

 more, has been on a trip to Memphis, Cincin- 

 nati, and other points. Everywhere he found 

 a brisk demand for stocks and the mills busy. 



The annual tournament of the Lumber Trade 

 Golf Association at the Baltimore Country Club 

 in Roland Park, a suburb of this city, has 

 come and gone. The visitors had an enjoyable 

 time, were made the recipients of a bounteous 

 hospitality, and had an opportunity to try their 

 skill over w'hat was unanimously characterized 

 as the most difficult course they ever tackled. 

 IIow the redoubtable ■■Billy" GUI, retiring presi- 

 dent and all around good fellow, ever managed 

 it no one exactly knows, but he got there not- 

 withstanding his more than 200 pounds. The 

 match extended over two days and eleven prizes, 

 ail of them cups, were contested for. Balti- 

 more had only three contestants and these were 

 easily beaten by the cracks from a distance, 

 Philadelphia landing a majority of the honors. 

 Some excellent work was done and the Lumber 

 Trade Golfers have every reason to feel proud 

 of themselves. 



Pittsburg. 



Nearly 200 men worked for forty-eight hours 



steady last week to save .80,000 logs and a large 

 bridge in the Hooded Guyandotte river near Mld- 

 dletown, W. Va. The boom was not calculated 

 to hold over 23,000 logs and It had been greatly 

 weakened by the winters' strain. To brace it 

 from the unusual strain forty-eight cables were 

 sent by a rush order from Cincinnati and rafts 

 of logs wedge shaped were anchored to trees all 

 along the bank of (he river. Every part of the 

 bridge over the Guyandotte was fastened with 

 cables and sixty-live logs per minute were enter- 

 ing the boom. A few miles up the river the cur- 

 rent was .so swift that sixty-foot logs were 

 whirled about like Jack straws. The new bridge 

 was swept away June 13 wlien the gorge broke 

 from its moorings. 



C. H. Edwards, buying agent for T. L. Gil- 

 lespie & Co. of I'ittsburg, spent a few days 

 among the hardwood tracts of West Virginia 

 recently. lie says that the reports about the 

 scarcity of timber in that state are considerably 

 exaggerated and finds conditions very good 

 throughout liis territory. 



A true bill was found against the W. M. Hit- 

 ter Lumber Company in the West Virginia 

 courts last week. The Federal Jury of the 

 Southern district brought in indictments for 

 peonage, the charge being that the Rltter Com- 

 pany brought foreigners from the east and 

 made them work in their plants until they had 

 paid for their passage. 



The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce has gone 

 on record as being in favor of the state legis- 

 lature making a careful examination of the 

 Allegheny and Monongahela river watersheds 

 with a view to the preservation of the forests. 

 William L. Hall, who has charge of the Inves- 

 tigation of the watersheds on the Appalachian 

 and White mountains, and Prof. J. A. Holmes 

 of the geological survey, were present at a very 

 enthusiastic meeting of the chamber two weeks 

 ago and brought to light a large amount of 

 valuable data regarding the loss of timber 

 lands. 



The Arlington Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Beulah, W. Va. Its plant will be 

 in Randolph county, W. Va., and its capital is 

 .11200,000. The incorporatoiB are : B. C. Allen, 

 C. R. Wood. J. C. Bell, A. H. Bloom, C. H. 

 Gadner, all of Wilkes Barr*, Pa. 



The Crescent Lumber Cotllinny from its new 

 offices in the Machesney building is furnishing 

 over one-half the locust posts that are sold in 

 this territory. Its agents are Just now having 

 a hard time getting farmers to leave their reg- 

 ular work to cut timber in eastern Pennsylva- 

 nia where much of its timber is secured. An- 

 other objection to the trade is that the pine 

 factories are taking so much stock that it is 

 hard to get seven loot posts. 



William M. Pownall of the Colonial Lumber 

 Company has been nursing a hard attack of 

 measles for a period of two weeks. His com- 

 pany is now established in a fine suite of offices 

 in the Ferguson building, where it has more 

 room than in its old quarters. 



D. B. Wagner, Windham, O.. who formerly 

 operated a basket factory there, has turned the 

 plant into a baseball bat . factory and has 

 shipped 14 cars of bats this year to A. G. 

 Spaulding of Chicago. He uses second growth 

 white ash for his stock and has received an- 

 other large order from Mr. Spaulding for next 

 year's business. 



The Lock Run Lumber Company of Penns- 

 boro., has been organized to acquire timber 

 lands and manufacture lumber. Its capital is 

 .$-t0.000 and its members are ; Creed Collins, 

 C. W. Sprinkle. E. M. Bonner, F. E. Smith and 

 J. M. Vates. all of Pennsboro. 



The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company reports 

 hardwood conditions first class. It is working 

 the Pittsburg district very thoroughly and has 

 Just added A. B. Gabriel to its force of sales- 

 men. Chestnut is leading its list of inquiries. 



The annual picnic of the Pittsburg Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association will be held at 



Ross Grove on the Allegheny river. June 29. 

 A ball game, aquatic sports and other events 

 that will test the physical abilities of the 200 

 or more who will be there have been planned. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company Is work- 

 ing off its old orders and reports the yards in 

 the city unable to take any large amount of 

 hardwood. Some of them have their sidings 

 full of cars and have been unable to get any of 

 the lumber out to the contractors on account 

 of the bad weather. Orders for finishing lumber 

 can not be delivered becaiLse the buildings for 

 which it is intended are hardly started. 



According to William T. Monroe the railroads 

 and manufacturing plants are once more show- 

 ing a disposition to go ahead with their projects. 

 Several Jobs have come on to the boards lately 

 for refigurlng which were announced as off two 

 months ago. Mill work men are having plenty 

 to do, he says, and the general call for lumber 

 in his line is excellent. 



George W. Havner of the Reliance Lumber 

 Company has been taking a trip through West 

 Virginia. He notes a weakening in prices in 

 some lines but says that concessions are con 

 lined mainly to the pine and hemlock people. 



The Pittsburg lumber wholesalers are hoping 

 to reap quite a liarvest In the rebates they will 

 get on freight as the result of the ruling of 

 the supreme court that the Jump in freight 

 rates on lumber from 33 to 3o cents In 1003 

 on all roads in the Central Traffic Association 

 was illegal. One firm has counted up over ^12.- 

 000 which it is to receive. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company has its 

 representative. R. E. Chapin, in the East look- 

 ing up the lath trade especially. This branch 

 of the business is much improved of late with 

 the Cheat River. It has also added another 

 salesman to its force. 



The Shaffer Lumber Company is getting ready 

 to start operations on its big tract of timl)er 

 in West Virginia August 1. Its present hold- 

 ings amount to about 12,000 acres and mills and 

 machinery are being placed. 



T. W. Raine has bought the Interests of his 

 partners in the holdings of the Raine-Andrews 

 Lumber Company on the Meadow river in West 

 Virginia for about $227,000. The timber will 

 be cut off at once. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is get- 

 ting some fine orders lor oak. It is receiving 

 the output of several mills in Westetn Penn- 

 sylvania and in this way has been able to land 

 and handle some of the best orders for oak that 

 have been placed here this year. 



Pole business is destined to get a hard blow 

 in Pittsburg. Councils are debating the prop- 

 osition of putting all telegraph and telephone 

 wires under ground and as a result several firms 

 are shivering in their shoes at the prospective 

 loss of business. 



One of the most disastrous fioods for years 

 swept mills and rafts around in bad shape in 

 the vicinity of Irwin, Pa., 20 miles above Pitts- 

 burg, last week. a"he Shaffer plant was damaged 

 most, but several plants on the Youghiogheny 

 river had bad losses. 



Secretary J. H. Henderson of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company sees no reason to feel blue 

 over the situation. Last week he sold 40 cars 

 ot lumber while on a trip to the East and he 

 finds the market lor maple and chestnut in bet- 

 ter shape than it was two months ago. Oak 

 is in "elegant call," says Mr. Henderson, which 

 is enough to make any hardwood man feel good 

 in view of the light stocks at the mills. 



J. E. Mcllvaln & Co. note a little slacker 

 inquiry in general lor hardwood but are selling 

 their full share of ties and posts. Less piling 

 Is being marketed and the railroads are appar- 

 ently holding back on projects that they ex- 

 pected to go ahead with in the spring. 



The plant of the Gallon Lumber Company at 

 Gallon, O., was burned June 7 with a total loss 

 of about $25,000. A lightning bolt did the 

 business. 



