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HARDWOOD RECORD 



stock which keeps them hustling. Hardwood 

 stocks in general are reported by the Line- 

 hans to be scarce, and the demand outside of 

 the city is fully up to expectations. 



Two hardwood men of prominence who re- 

 cently paid Pittsburg- wholesalers friendly 

 calls were J. P. Shirk of the Garrett Lumber 

 Company of Maryland and L. J. Pischel of the 

 Farmers' Lumber Company of Kentucky. Both 

 men have been taking some good Pittsburg 

 business this spring and say that hardwood 

 stocks in their respective states are down 

 pretty close to the saw. 



The Willson Bros. Lumber Company an- 

 nounces a fine call for sound wormy chestnut. 

 Most of this is coming from West Virginia, 

 where the company placed some big orders 

 under contract last year. I. F. Balsley of tills 

 company is working hard to raise a good per- 

 centage of the cash required at the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association's annual at 

 Atlantic City, May 23 and 2-1, and predicts a 

 large attendance from Pittsburg. 



R. C. Patterson, hardwood man for the Wil- 

 liam H. Schuette Company, says that oak, 

 hickory and ash are all in splendid demand. 

 The latter two woods are going to the imple- 

 ment people in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan 

 in large quantities. The Schuette company is 

 getting most of its hardwood from West Vir- 

 ginia and Kentucky and reports a tendency 

 among mill owners there to submit lists of 

 broken stocks of late at a little better prices 

 than formerly. Straight stocks, however, are 

 as firm as ever. . 



The Kendall Lumber Company has resumed 

 operations in full at its plant at Crellin, Md., 

 where its mill was shut down for four weeks 

 for repairs. 



Manager G. W. Cantrell of the Herman H. 

 Hettler Lumber Company has been stirring up 

 the Cleveland trade this week. His work at 

 the Pittsburg office shows up mighty well 

 on the company's books, for it makes an aver- 

 age of 1,500,000 feet a month. 



W. P. Craig of the firm of William Whit- 

 mer & Sons, Inc., has been taking a long 

 trip through the South. 



The Edgewood Improvement Company of 

 Charleston, W. Va., has been chartered with 

 a capital of $25,000 for the purpose of dealing 

 in lumber and building material. Its in- 

 corporators are: John A. Thayer. H. L. 

 Wehrle, A. S. Guthrie, Steele A. Hawkins and 

 • Henry Fry, all of Charleston. 



General Manager J. N. Woollett of the 

 American Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is off again on a two weeks' selling tour, 

 which is likely from his reports to result in 

 some mighty fine hardwood orders being 

 placed. 



J. E. Mellvain & Co. are making some very 

 nice advances in the tie business as well as 

 in securing orders for bridge and river tim- 

 bers. They note a scarcity of stocks in West 

 Virginia, where they get most of their lum 

 ber. "and see no reason for a belief that prices 

 will be any lower for a year at least. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has 

 recently taken an order for 190,000 feet of oak 

 timber to be used in a liig coal shaft at 

 Uniontown. Pa. This is one of several -similar 

 orders which this company has secured this 

 spring, and it is busy cutting the oak at its 

 five mills in western Pennsylvania. It also 

 reports a fine demand for railroad ties, SxSxS, 

 and for bridge timbers. 



The big plant of J. Hollinger of Chambers- 

 burg, Pa., was burned May 1. The plant em- 

 ployed seventy-five men, and every building 

 was destroyed. The total loss is estimated 

 at about $100,000 and insurance at $40,000. 



Some splendid oak timber has been cut the 

 past month in the vicinity of Washington, 

 Pa., for ship building concerns. One of the 

 best logs that has come to the notice of Pitts- 

 burg lumbermen was shipped last week and 



measured 43 feet long. It squared 20 inches 

 at one end and 19 at the other. 



The planing mill and lumber yards of E. R. 

 Dowler at Braddock, Pa., burned last week. 

 It is estimated that his loss will be $80,000. 

 The plant was an old one and employed a 

 large force of men. 



The Crescent Lumber Company is now in 

 its new quarters in the Machesney skyscraper 

 and has much larger offices than in its old 

 place in the Whitfield building. East End, 

 Telephone companies have contributed largely 

 to the business of this concern lately in the 

 way of good orders for poles and they have 

 also received some good business from tiie 

 new traction lines that are being built in 

 western Pennsylvania. The officers note a 

 slight falling off in the call for piling. 



H. F. Domhoff of the Cheat River Lumber 

 Company came back from a trip through 

 West Virginia and Kentucky last week. He 

 bought 500.000 feet of chestnut and other 

 hardwood lumber while there and is market- 

 ing it rapidly in the Pittsburg field. 



The Reitz & Martin Lumber Company of 

 Parkersburg, "\V. Va., has been organized with 

 a capital of $24,000. It will have a large plant 

 at Kermit, Mingo county, W. Va. The in- 

 corporators are: T. G. Reitz, T, G. Martin, 

 Ralph B. Martin, G. L. Dudley and W. D. 

 Camden of Parkersburg. 



The McDowell & Torrence Lumber Company 

 of Xenia. C, has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $18,000. Those interested are: T. 

 D. Torrence. A. M. Patterson, D. McD. Pat- 

 terson, W. C. Conan and T. B. Clark. 



An interesting example of how well the tim- 

 ber bridges have stood the strain of years is 

 seen in the razing of the old Union bridge 

 at the intersection of the Ohio and Allegheny 

 rivers in Pittsburg, which has been ordered 

 down by the government engineers to make 

 navigation better on the three Pittsburg 

 rivers. The bridge is thirty-five years old, 

 but the timbers are coming out of it with 

 hardly a wormhole visible and very little rot 

 except where the nails and bolts were in- 

 serted. Engineers who have examined the 

 structure say that it was good for at least 

 ten years more and maintain that a timber 

 bridge of this sort is much more durable than 

 the new style steel structures, which are 

 liable to rust out rapidly. 



The Parkersburg Tie and Timber Company 

 has been formed to take over 3,700 acres of 

 timber land in Clay county. Kentucky. The 

 timber is twelve miles back from the Ken- 

 tucky river and to bring it down to a point 

 where it can he rafted down to the Ohio river 

 a narrow-gauge railroad has been built and 

 equipped with a twelve-ton engine. Over 

 20,000 logs are already cut. The members of 

 the company are: John W. Dudley, Jr., 

 Lysander Dudley, G. W. Carney and G. W. 

 Brown of Ritchie county. W. G. Stout, who 

 was for years in the employ of the Standard 

 Oil Company in that territory, has been en- 

 gaged as general superintendent of the 

 operation. 



Buffalo. 



Vicegerent Snark Blumenstein will hold a 

 Hoo-Hoo concatenation May 11. The attend- 

 ance at the last meeting, April IS, gives 

 promise of a very large turnout next time. 



There is still much complaint of car shortage 

 • in the West and South, although the situa- 

 tion is easier here. Shortage has not been the 

 real difficulty here — it was easier to get the 

 car than it was to get it to destination after 

 it was loaded. 



H. S. Janes, manager of the Empire Lumber 

 Company, toured through the South very ex- 

 tensively on his late visit there. He looked up 

 the Arkansas mills and then went to the Gulf 

 states, returning through Georgia and North 

 r'arolina. 



J. N. Scatcherd has returned from his late 

 visit to his Memphis mills, where he found 

 conditions much improved, though it would 

 be very pleasant if oak logs were more 

 plentiful than they are. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are now getting some cars 

 of Washington fir and hope that the long em- 

 bargo is raised for good, though it is not 

 likely that the movement will be very active 

 right away. The lumber sells well. 



Beyer, Knox & Co, again hear that there is 

 going to be grade crossing work on their 

 street this year, but will not worry till they 

 are notified to move. Business is too good to 

 be dropped for side issues. 



F. W. Vetter is filling up his yard with 

 good hardwood lumber and will go to North 

 Carolina as soon as he can be spared. His 

 son, George Vetter. is still in North Carolina 

 buying oak and other hardwoods for him. 



A. Miller is off on a trip to Pennsylvania 

 and will no doubt return with a further addi- 

 tion to his hardwood stock, which is moving 

 out fast enougli to keep the office force busy. 

 A. J. Ellas is still the watchdog of the Buf- 

 falo river improvement project and does not 

 mean to give it up till the work is done. He 

 lately helped block a scheme to build station- 

 ary bridges on the river. 



Angus McLean has so far recovered from 

 his late severe illness that he has gone to the 

 sanitarium at St. Catherines, beyond Niagara 

 Falls, to complete his convalescence. 



O. E. Yeager keeps his Buffalo yard very 

 full of lumber and is constantly receiving more 

 from southern points, especially oak. poplar 

 and chestnut from his headquarters in 

 Kentucky. 



M. M. Wall, as president of the Manufac- 

 turers' Club, took charge of a meeting of that 

 body on May 2, assembled to listen to an 

 address of W. T. Stead, the London journalist 

 and diplomat. 



The cherry stock of 1. N. Miller & Bro. goes 

 out in bunches at times and is always the 

 very best stock to handle, for it is never 

 thrust aside when a fine material is wanted. 

 A. W. Kreinheder came back from the mills 

 of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 in Kentucky and Tennessee very well pleased 

 with the lot of oak, poplar and chestnut that 

 he got started this way. 



Detroit. 



An important move which was interesting 

 to the car manufacturers and hardwood men 

 of Detroit was told in a dispatch from St. 

 Louis last week to the effect that W. J. Mc- 

 Bride, fir-st vice-president of the American 

 Car & Foundry Company, had resigned and 

 accepted the position of general manager and 

 president of the Haskell -Barker Car Company 

 of Michigan City, Ind., at the princely salary 

 of $50,000 per year. Mr. McBride was 

 originally a Detroit man. He began at the 

 bottom with the old Peninsular Car Company 

 of Detroit and is now at the height of his 

 career, though only 46 years old. 



After winning a lawsuit against W. E. D. 

 Stokes in three New York courts, one being 

 in the highest court in the state, and getting 

 judgments that now amount to $89,000, the 

 Vinton Company of Detroit was called on early 

 this week to fight before Supreme Court Jus- 

 tice Thomas in New York Stokes' efforts to 

 get a new trial of the case. The Vinton Com- 

 pany did the hardwood interior finish a few 

 years ago in Stokes' large Ansonia apartment 

 house in New York, over which the trouble arose. 



The Detroit Board of Review, composed of a 

 committee of aldermen and the three city 

 assessors, have made several startling boosts 

 in the valuation of the local lumber com- 

 panies. The Detroit Lumber Company's as- 

 sessment was raised from ,$123,000 to $150,000, 

 It was planned at first to fix the assessment of 



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