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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Bemis & Vosburgh, who have managed all their 

 business from their headquarters in the Farm- 

 ers' Bank building, this city, have opened a 

 New York offlt-e at 12 Broadway. It will be 

 looked after by ^yilliam \V. Powell. Jr.. who was 

 formerly associated with the Nicola interests in 

 Pittsburg. Hardwood will be a specialty of the 

 firm's new departure. 



The Lanbam Hardwood Flooring Company of 

 Louisville. Ky., has advised its Pittsburg cus- 

 tomers that it will build a plant for the manu- 

 facture of three-eighths inch tongue and groove 

 oak flooring and flve-sixteenths inch strips and 

 parquetry. 



The Wilburine Oil Company is preparing to 

 build a large cooperage plant at East Butler, 

 Pa., thirty miles north of Pittsburg on the 

 Pittsburg and Western railroad. The output of 

 the plant will be 8.000 finished oil barrels a 

 month. It will employ '250 men and will make 

 a market for a big lot of hardwood for the 

 small mills of western Pennsylvania and eastern_ 

 Ohio. 



The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company is 

 progressing rapidly with its concrete sawmill 

 near Williamsport. Pa., which is the cmly one in 

 the state. It will have a daily capacity of 200.000 

 feet for a single crew and will be operated by 

 electricity. Although the mill is costing the 

 company much more than the ordinary plant 

 the fact that there is a fifteen years' operation 

 here in hardwood and hemlock .iustifles the out- 

 lay in the minds of experienced lumbermen. 



The Whitmers are busy in Pittsburg. Manager 

 W. P. Craig says that it is hard to get enough 

 oak to supply the demand, especially in timbers. 

 There is quite a call for their hardwood mill 

 culls this month and beech, birch, maple and 

 oak are "going some." 



The People's Coal & Land Company has been 

 chartered in West Virginia with a capital of 

 .$1,000,000 to develop 23,000 acres of coal and 

 timber land along the Gauley river. It is re- 

 ported in this city that the timber rights have 

 been sold to the Flynn Lumber Company of 

 Charleston, W. Va., which is well prepared to 

 clear off the big tract. 



J. N. Woollett says for the American Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company that the hardwood 

 department is most active in their business. The 

 past month the railroads have been better buy- 

 ers and the only cause for the slight weakening 

 in hardwood demand seems to be a sympathetic 

 feeling based on the lower prices for white and 

 yellow pine and hemlock. 



West Virginia is getting alarmed about her 

 rapidly decreasing timber supply. Lumber has 

 been for the past ten years one of the greatest 

 revenue producers in the state and witli the 

 enormous investments of capital on the mountain 

 tracts made by Pittsburgers and other capitalists 

 this income will soon vanish. Now officials are 

 clamoring for a state forestry commission and 

 the influence that they are bringing to bear on 

 the matter may result in such a commission be- 

 ing appointed in the fall. No state is better 

 prepared to grow good timber than West Vir- 

 ginia and with a little legal help it is said that 

 the state's period of lumber producing could be 

 prolonged many years. 



The Webster-Creasey Lumber Company has a 

 mill at Emlenton, Pa., cutting hardwood and 

 another in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. Its 

 sales of ties along the Pennsylvania railroad 

 and the Pennsylvania Lines have been very sat- 

 isfactory of late and its chief difBculty has been 

 in getting enough labor of the right sort. Poles 

 are dropping off a little in current demand, it 

 reports. 



The Tabor-Harmon Lumber Company, capital 

 $25,000, has been chartered at Brownell, W. Va., 

 by A. M. Tabor and A. W. Harmon of Freeman, 

 W. Va., and Abram Witt, C. B. Witt and Wil- 

 liam Walters of Brow'nell. 



Pennsylvania lumbermen are much interested 

 in the report, which seems to be authentic, that 

 the Susquehanna boom is to go. For twenty 



years this has been regarded as the largest and 

 "strongest lumber boom in the United States. 

 Now it is said that the Susquehanna Lumber 

 Company, having not over two years' cut on 

 the mountains above the boom, will erect a 

 sawmill and cut up all the timber that was 

 used in the construction of the boom. This con- 

 sists of hundreds of thousands of feet of the 

 finest oak and white pine which went into the 

 boom sticks, piers and cribs and which will 

 require at least one year to manufacture. 



Fred K. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany spent a few days at Chicago recently in 

 the interest of the car stake conference. E. V. 

 Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co. has been at 

 Ashtola, Pa., and has moved his family there 

 for the summer. 



J. L. Kendall of the Kendall Lumber Com- 

 pany, who has moved to Ohiopyle, Pa. ; .1. B. 

 Flint and R. II. Erving of the Flint, Krving & 

 Stoner Company have moved to their summer 

 homes on Lake Simcoe, Can. 



The Pittsburg Lumber Company has arranged 

 for the building of three miles of narrow gauge 

 railroad near Redwood, N. C, to connect the 

 mills of the Pickett Lumber Company with a 

 large tract of timber. Its capacity at this point 

 is about 40,000 feet a day. 



The Lock I'ain Lumber Company of Pennsboro, 

 I'a.. is getting well started and announces that its 

 daily output will be 25.000 feet. The company 

 has a fine tract of timber and most of its lum- 

 ber will be oak, poplar and chestnut. 



R. Lamont & Sons Company is the name of 

 another new concern with a capital of $50,000 

 that has appeared in Pittsburg. Its incorpo- 

 rators are : Robert F. Milton, A. and E. J. 

 Lamont. The company will make a specialty of 

 hardwood lumber. 



The State Forest Academy at Mont Alto has 

 announced conditions for admission September 



I next. All candidates must be not less than 

 IS and not more than 25 years of age. Exami- 

 nations will be held at Harrisburg July 10 and 



II in all the common school branches and a 

 bond will be required of every applicant condi- 

 tioned to his carrying out faithfully the terms 

 of his contract with the state. 



The well known stave mill of J. C. Parsons 

 at Cortland, Ohio, burned two weeks ago. For 

 two years past it has been used as a nail keg 

 factory by Sample Bros. It was for many years 

 the largest mill of its kind in that section and 

 has always been a big consumer of hardwood 

 from the Western Reserve mills. 



According to statistics from the bureau of 

 manufactures at Washington, D. C, Pennsyl- 

 vania lumber mills last year increased from 

 714 to 1.482 and their output increased from 

 1.397.104 feet to 1.620,881 feet. 



Fred Wilmarth & Sons, who are Pittsburg 

 agents lor the Kaul & Hall Lumber Company, 

 are doing a good business in dimension stock. 

 They have a fine lot of mine lumber on hand at 

 their mills at St. Mary's, Pa., where they cut 

 about 140.000 feet a day. 



The tie market is brisk enough to keep J. J. 

 T. Penney of the firm of J. E. Mcllvain & Co. 

 on the road most of the time hunting stock. He 

 has been in West Virginia for two weeks. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company has three 

 mills operating at Ligonier, Pa., cutting oak 

 and chestnut. The prices on the latter are oft 

 about $1 compared with two weeks ago. The 

 company recently filled one of the best hard- 

 wood orders of the season in record time, ship- 

 ping to the eastern market 200,000 feet of firsts 

 and seconds in .iust twenty days from the time 

 the order was landed. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation held its annual picnic at Ross Grove 

 June 29. The national game was foremost in 

 the program. Four separate games were played, 

 varying from the initial "lobster ball game" to 

 the final base ball game of three Innings be- 

 tween the winners of the preceding two of two 

 innings each. Lunch and dinner were served 



on the ground and the crowd of over 100 re- 

 turned late in the evening to hunt drug stores 

 and pliysicians to mend the sore spots and re- 

 lieve the prospective aches. 



Buffalo. 



The Lumber Exchange is prolimging its meet- 

 ings into the summer in order to take possession 

 of its new- club rooms in regular session. The 

 rooms are now promised by July 15. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 still getting oak and other southern lumber 

 from Mississippi by river barge, and adds to it 

 by shipments down the lakes of birch, basswood 

 and the like. 



The development of the business of the Em- 

 pire Lumber Company iu-the Southwest seems to 

 demand the presence of Manager Janes in that 

 territory much of the time this season. He re- 

 ports plenty of oak and ash going through the 

 mills there. 



O. E. Yeager is still able to get a good lot of 

 oak lumber from his headquarters in Ohio and 

 Kentucky, and his yard is always well rounded 

 out with cypress and poplar. 



When I. N. Stewart & Bro. add a new spe- 

 cialty to their old standby — cherry — they make 

 it just as complete as possible. They first added 

 oak and later took up chestnut, making it one of 

 their leading yard stocks in spite of its scar- 

 city. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company will not 

 fail to keep the shingle situation in mind and if 

 the Pacific coast carries out its plan of a further 

 advance it will be easy to ship in some of the 

 company's white cedars from the St. Lawrence. 

 G. Ellas & Bro. are carrying a large assort- 

 ment of heavy timbers along with their general 

 assortment of woods and are getting an addition 

 to their yellow pine stock by canal from Vir- 

 ginia. 



The new milling center of Beyer, Knox & Co. 

 in Missouri is doing all that was expected of it 

 by way of turning out a supply of oak. most of 

 which is sold in markets not dependent on the 

 Buffalo yard. 



A. Miller now^ has a good lead on basswood 

 and is finding it one of the really good sellers in 

 hardwood. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 one of its own good customers this year, by way 

 of supplying its new table factory with stock. 

 The orders for work at once ran far ahead of 

 the production. 



The lake fleets keep the dock yard of T. Sulli- 

 van & Co. overflowing with stock, bringing first a 

 full cargo of black ash and then of birch, most 

 of which is sold before it arrives. 



Scatcherd & Son are casting about for stock 

 with which to fill their oak orders, a great part 

 of which come from abroad. The Memphis mills 

 of the firm are active, but logs are often very 

 scarce. 



When F. W. Vetter took up business on his 

 own account he set out to fill his yard with an 

 all round stock and the fact that he has ash in 

 assortment shows how well he succeeded. 



Sagina'w 'Valley. 



The Richardson lumber mill and chemical 

 plant at the lower end of Bay City is now above 

 the second story and progressing rapidly. The 

 company expects to have the plant finished and 

 ready for operation in November. The machin- 

 ery is furnished by the M. Garland Company of 

 Bay City. This company shipped a complete 

 machinery outfit last week to Tower. Mich., for 

 the Keys & Warboys sawmill being constructed 

 at that place. 



S. L. Eastman of the S. L. Eastman Flooring 

 Company states that the flooring business is 

 fairly good now and prices are satisfactory. 

 His company is carrying about 1.500,000 feet or 

 more of the finished product in its warehouses, 

 and some 8,000,000 feet of unfinished lumber in 

 the yard. It is also carrying 8,000,000 feet of 

 rough lumber at Bay City. 



