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HARDWOOD RECORD 



office will be in Oakland. The incorporators 

 of the company are Charles A. Ashby. Albert 

 Ashby. George M. Brown. Milton Rodamer and 

 Dr. John E. Legge. 



The Marshall Morton Lumber Company, 

 composed of business men of Midland, Alle- 

 gany county. Maryland, has applied for a 

 charter. The company is to have a capital 

 stock of $50,000, and \jill conduct lumbering 

 operjitions near Moorefield, W. Va., having 

 purchased a large timber tract near that 

 place. 



The planing mill of George Sigel, near the 

 iron bridge at Everett, Allegany county. 

 Maryland, was destroyed by fire on July H, 

 the loss being $6,000. with insurance of only 

 .?1,200. A popular subscription fund has been 

 started to rebuild the plant, which was started 

 up by Mr. Sigel only a few months ago. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here last 

 week was John Hawkes of the Burton Veneer 

 Company of Cincinnati. He stated that the 

 veneer trade is rather dull at the present 

 time. 



C. E. Lloyd, vice-president of the Abingdon 

 Lumber Company, of Abingdon, Va., was in 

 town this week, and called on a number of 

 firms here. Several days after him came O. 

 E. Dunn of the same company, who looked 

 after some legal business in connection with 

 the company. 



R. B. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, is making a round of the 

 North Carolina and Tennessee operations of 

 the company. L. H. Bowman of the same 

 company has been on the sick list for several 

 weeks, but is again regularly at his desk. 



The Valley River Lumber Company, a cor- 

 pcration organized at Piedmont. W. Va., July 

 23. will build a railroad from Mill Creek via 

 Brady's Gate. Blue Springs, Sulphur Springs 

 and along Elk river to Clover Lick, on the 

 Chesapeake & Ohio. John Alden is engineer. 



Pittsburg. 



Tho biK planing and sawmill of E. D. Beyer & 

 Co. at Tyrone. Pa., with several adjoining build- 

 ings, wore burned July Hi. 



The Broad Top Lumber Company of Clearfield. 

 Pa., has been chartered by Isaac Stage. John 

 McAllister, William P. Mahatfey. Richard Sheehe. 

 George N. Ellenbcrger. Louis Shapiro and E. O. 

 Hartshorne, all of Clearfield. Its capital is 

 .fSO.OOO. 



The Palmyra Wood Working Company, which 

 was cliMifcred recently in Ohio with a capital 

 of *10.0UO. has organized as follows: President. 

 <1. II. Moyer : vice president. H. K. Kreider : sec- 

 retary and general manager, W. II. Turby : treas- 

 urer. S. F. Engle : directors, C. S. Bachman, 

 Jacob Gibble and A. S. Stautfer. 



J. E. Mcllvain & Co. are not bothered about 

 getting orders for oak. Their business in rail- 

 road and river stock this summer has been up 

 to the average and they have had more difficulty 

 in getting good West Virginia lumber to fill the 

 orders than to get the business. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is busy 

 at its operation in western Pennsylvania and is 

 wholesaling as fine a lot of oak as has gone 

 through Pittsburg hands for a long time. Much 

 of this is cut in shij) timber sizes. 



The Lawrence County Lumber Company has 

 so far overstepped its credits that a receiver has 

 been asked. It is located at New Castle, Pa., 

 and has always been regarded as a sound con- 

 cern financially. 



The firm of M. C. Allen & Son of Delaware, 

 Pa., one of the best known hardwood concerns 

 in that part of the state, has failed for about 

 $40,000. Its assets will meet nearly one-third 

 of that amount. Judge Mont has been named 

 leceiver in bankruptcy. 



The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company has dis- 

 posed of a considerable amount of hardwood 

 lately at very good prices. B. W. Cro.ss is spend- 



ing the week in Cleveland looking over stocks. 



Since July 1 agents have ransacked Lawrence 

 county. Pennsylvania, and have bought or op- 

 tioned practicall.v every acre of hardwood timber 

 left. A few large operators there, am<mg whom 

 are some who have heavy connections with Pitts- 

 burg wholesalers, have enough timber now to 

 keep fhi'ir mills busy for two years. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, which 

 was charged a few weeks ago with peonage and 

 lonspiracy to avoid the alien labor law, was 

 convicted last week on 10 of 22 counts in the 

 courts of Charleston, W. Va. The company will 

 have to pay the minimum fine of ILOOO in each 

 case. 



The Xicola Lumber Company is doing a fine 

 trade in crating lumber this month, red gum 

 and Cottonwood being favorites with its buyers. 



By August 20 the L. L. Satler Lumber Com- 

 pany expects to have its box shook factory at 

 Blackstone. W. Va., in full operation. The ma- 

 chinery is being put in now and when the plant 

 is ready it will be the largest and most perfect 

 in its equipment in the United States. Elec- 

 tricity will furnish light and power, and the 

 plant will be taxed to its utmost capacity at 

 the start. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has .lust 

 compiled figures of interest to lumbermen. Dur- 

 ing the year 1!>06 the I'onnsylvania s.vstem used 

 nearly 8.000.000 ties and the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road Company used about half of these ou lines 

 east of Pittsburg. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company finds low- 

 grade hardwood in good demand. According to 

 its reports chestnut can be bought a little 

 cheaper than June 1. The company has taken 

 some nice orders for hickory lately, most of it 

 log run stock. 



W. M. Gillespie of the W. M. Gillespie Lumber 

 Company is spending a few days in Buffalo. 

 He views the hardwood situation with a hopeful 

 e.ve, 



J. Schoppe has severed his connection with 

 the Clay-Schopi)e Lumber Company, although the 

 firm name will not be changed at present. The 

 company is now getting out a big order for 

 85 and 40-foot piling to be delivered in the 

 Pittsburg district and in Chicago. This month 

 it has also booked orders for 600,000 feet of 

 hardwood bill stuff and seventeen cars of sound 

 wormy chestnut and other hardwoods for deliv- 

 ery in the Pittsburg district. 



F. G. Lillo of the W. E. Terhune Lumber 

 Company is spending his two weeks' vacation 

 among his old haunts in Michigan. The com- 

 pany notes a slightly better call locally for hard- 

 wood. It has booked two orders for 300.000 

 feet each this month to date. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is feeling good 

 over an order for 8.000 ties to be delivered in 

 the Pittsburg district ifrom its Maryland plants. 

 J. L. Kendall is spending much of his time at 

 the mills. 



The Pittsburgh Hardwood Floor Company re- 

 ports that up to date this year it has done more 

 than double the business of the first six months 

 of 1906. 



"Hardwood is O. K." This terse comment 

 from the Curll & Lytic Lumber Company tells 

 considerable about the state of affairs in Pitts- 

 burg and West Virginia. The company's mills 

 are busy and It has been able to keep the price 

 of poplar fully abreast of quotations all sum- 

 mer. 



The Willson Brothers Lumber Company finds 

 the poplar market steady to strong. There is no 

 diminution in the demand for oak and it is 

 bringing as good prices as ever. Most of the 

 stock of this firm is sold on grade and they 

 have a line of customers who take its product 

 close up to the saw. 



The Ralston-Wilson Lumber Company of Par- 

 kersburg. W. Va., has received the contract for 

 furnishing 200.000 cross ties for the South & 

 Western railroad, which runs from Kingsport, 

 Tenn., to Dante, Va. The company operates 



three mills on the Chinch river and is getting 

 out 700 ties a day, the timber being white oak, 

 chestnut, oak, locust and walnut. It has opened 

 offices in the I'hipps building in Bristol. Va. 



The Curry & Bittner Lumber Company of Ma- 

 bie. W. Va., is building a railroad up the south 

 branch of the Roaring Creek to the summit of 

 the watershed between Cascade and Roaring 

 Creek, about six miles. Heavy rains have inter- 

 fered with its work seriously, but it will soon 

 have the road ready to open up a large addition 

 to its timber holdings. 



The Ashby Lumber Company of Garrett 

 count.v, Maryland, has been chartered under 

 West Virginia laws with a capital of $50,000. 

 Its incorporators are: Charles A. and Albert 

 Ashby. George M. Brown, Milton Rodamer and 

 Dr. John E. Leege. The company has 5.000.000 

 feet of timber near Bellington. W. Va.. and will 

 build a mill to have a capacity of aO.OOO feet 

 a day. Its main offices will be at Oakland, Md. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is put- 

 ting in a busy summer at its hardwood plant 

 at Jacksonville. W. Va. Its chief output there 

 is oak and it finds a steady market at top-notch 

 prices for all the dry stock it can load. J. M. 

 Hastings, president of the company, is spend- 

 ing a few days in N'ova Scotia, Can., at the im- 

 mense plants of the Davison Lumber Company 

 in which he is heavily interested. 



The H. R. Walter Lumber Company is carry- 

 ing at its yards at Fayette and Manhattan 

 streets. Allegheny, Pa., the largest stock of high 

 grade hardwoods to be found in western Penn- 

 sylvania. It has been hard pushed all summer 

 to supply its needs in some lines, notably ash 

 and maple. Its trade in hickory and oak has 

 also been excellent. Just now it is moving a 

 large lot of inch oak in firsts and seconds, some 

 of the choicest stock coming from Arkansas. 



J. J. Mead, president of the Mead & Speer 

 Company, has much encouraging news to relate 

 from the company's operation at Strange Creek, 

 W. Va. Its mills there are cutting 40.000 feet 

 a day each, poplar leading in the output as well 

 as lu the sales. The price of poplar, Mr. Mead 

 says, has not only held its own all .summer but 

 has actually advanced a few points for the best 

 stocks, as is cited by several companies recently 

 which have made good sales. Basswood is one 

 of the woods that is getting a good share of 

 the company's attention just now owing to an 

 influx of orders from the planing mill men of 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio. In his opinion the 

 hardwood market is in good shape in spite of 

 the current summer dullness and he looks for a 

 brisk trade in the leading woods in . the fall, 

 judging by present inquiries and the disposition 

 of the large buyers. 



BuflfaJo. 



Some of the yards find that it is hard to 

 get men whenever they want them. All sorts 

 of work is so easy to find that a workman 

 is not a permanent fixture any more. 



The oak mills of Scateherd & Son are run- 

 ning strong in Memphis, with a good lot of 

 logs ahead of them, so that the complaint of 

 shortage in that direction ought not to last 

 \ery long. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are not forgetting to keep 

 an eye out for the Buffalo river improvement, 

 though the people seem to favor it now quite 

 as much as the authorities. The east-side 

 lumbermen need the work as much as the 

 residents. 



Manager Janes of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany has put the lumber affairs of the com- 

 pany in such good shape in the southwest and 

 south that he will not need to do much pa- 

 troling of the territory for some time. Stock 

 moves well. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company will 

 stock up its new hardwood yard in Cincin- 

 nati as soon as possible, some of the mills in 

 that direction having been run night and day 

 to some extent of late. 



