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spending their vacation at Lake George, N. Y. 

 The company recently engaged Jos. G. Wells of 

 Bloomsburg, Pa., as salesman to look after New 

 York state and the coal regions in Pennsylvania. 



The Owen M. Bruner Company reports busi- 

 ness good. Mr. Bruner states that the June 

 business has exceeded the same month of last 

 year by $14,000 and that of July also has sur- 

 passed" same month of 1906. So far this year 

 sales are ahead of 1906. Henry Whelpton, sec- 

 retary and treasurer of the company, is making 

 a visit to the mill districts, posting himself as 

 to conditions there. 



The Roanoke Uailroad and Lumber Company's 

 lumber mill at South Norfolk was visited by fire 

 recently, but the machinery fortunately was noi 

 damaged. The loss is estimated at .$75,000. 



The carriage factory and lumber yard of 

 Ranch & Hendwerk, situated on the outskirts of 

 Pleasant Corner, Pa., was destroyed by tire July 

 27. The loss is placed at about $20,000. 



Fire destroyed the sawmill of Gee & Perry at 

 Trout Kun, Pa., July 26; less about $7,000. 

 Perry and his foreman, in their efforts to save 

 property, are said to have been themselves se- 

 verely burned. 



Samuel U. Keinochl, head of the Reinoehl 

 Lumber Company at Lebanon, Pa., died on July 



30, aged 68. ,• -ib 



The Charles Bond Company, mill supplies, uis 

 and 520 Arch street, has increased its capital 

 to $125,000. 



The Dimensions Stock Lumber Company, \M1- 

 liamsport. Pa., was incorporated under Dela- 

 ware state laws July 30 ; capital stock $50,000. 

 The Grimes Furniture Company, Carnegie, 

 Pa„ obtained a charter under Pennsylvania state 

 law's July 27 ; capital $5,000. „ , ^ , 



Carl Oestereich, president of the Carl Oester- 

 eich Company, cabinet makers, this city, died 

 suddenly on July ^5. 



It is announced that T. R. llarter & Co.. Lock 

 Haven Pa., have added two more West Branch 

 timber' tracts to their holdings. Recently they 

 closed a deal for a tract of land in Chapman 

 township, Clinton county, from which it is esti- 

 mated they will be able to cut 5,000,000 feet of 

 lumber. They have also purchased the Jacob 

 Springer tract at Cammal, Lycoming county, 

 which will yield 500,000 feet, and are said to 

 be still negotiating for other tracts. 



WiUiamsport sawmills, it is reported, are get- 

 ting nearly as many logs by rail as by river 

 drives the logs being rolled from the cars into 

 the ponds over docks. On July 19 a train ot 

 about twenty cars of logs arrived in the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad yards, which it is said is the 

 average daily number of cars coming in. A 

 lew times as high as thirty have arrived. It is 

 estimated that a hundred or more carloads a 

 week are now arriving. The logs come from the 

 yAx Run section, being hauled over the low- 

 grade division of the Pennsylvania. 



Correspondents of the Commercial Museum in 

 many parts of the world are sending weekly re- 

 ports to the institution, in nearly all of which 

 attention is called to the enormous demand from 

 foreign parts for American trolley cars. From 

 the reports it is evident that several large for- 

 eign countries are virtually dependent upon 

 American sources for their supplies of rolling 

 stock. Not only 4o these inquiries come from 

 all parts of Europe, but from the interior of 

 Africa, Asia, Australia and all parts of South 

 America as well. The Brill Company of this 

 city, for instance, has just shipoed to Buenos 

 Ayres an order of seventy-flve semi-convertible 

 trolley cars and ten double-track cars having 

 the same window system. This company is 

 working now on orders for equipment which 

 will take up the entire output of its plant for 

 the next twelve months and has on hand con- 

 tracts for the shipment of cars to Italy. Spain, 

 the Congo region, the West Indies, Chile and 

 other points. To what agency this increased 

 demand (or American street cars is to be at- 

 tributed it is hard to say, but indications are 

 that the constant activity of American builders 



in the improvement of their cars and the em- 

 bodying in them of new advantages of construc- 

 tion and equipment has had much to do with 

 their popularity. 



It will be interesting to all lumbermen to 

 learn that the minimum amount of freight al- 

 lowed in carload lots of lumber, which formerly 

 was 30,000 pounds, will now be advanced to 

 34,000 pounds. This advance is to take effect 

 on August 1 and will cover freight in Ohio east 

 of the Mississippi river, the lower part ot Michi- 

 gan and the whole of New York and I'ennsyl- 



vania. ^_^ 



Baltimore. 

 W. D. Floyd, chief inspector (or John L. Al- 

 ciK'k & Co.. hardwood exporters of this city, 

 died July 27 ot cholera morbus after an Illness 

 of only a few days. Mr. Floyd bad represented 

 Jchn L. Alcock & Co. in the West Virginia field 

 for about ten years. Mr. Floyd was a Mason 

 and also belonged to the Odd Fellows, Elks. 

 Red Men and Hoo Hoo, being at the time of 

 his death vicegerent snark of the Northern Dis- 

 trict of West Virginia. He is survived by his 

 wife and a son and daughter, the son, Oron L. 

 l''loyd, has succeeded to his position with John 

 L. Alcock & Co. 



The Chattanooga Lumber Company, which 

 was organized last January with Baltimore in- 

 terests predominant and has since purchased an 

 extensive tract of timber near Madison. S. C. 

 is erecting an eight foot band mill on the tract 

 and expects to be ready for operation in about 

 ninety days. The mil! will be on the main line 

 of the Southern Railway and will have a ca- 

 pacity of about 40,000 feet per day. A short 

 end of track is to be built and when this is 

 completed the work of putting up the machin- 

 ery will be pushed as rapidly as possible. A 

 planing mill is also to be erected, and will be 

 run in connection with the sawmill. The com- 

 pany has a capital stock of $100,000 and its 

 ofBcers are : John Lochrie, Windber. Pa., 

 president and treasurer ; D. T. Price. Baltimore, 

 vice president, and Winfleld S. Price, Balti- 

 more, secretary. The Messrs. Price are mem- 

 bers of the Price Hardwood Company of Balti- 

 more, which concern will act as selling agents 

 for the output of the plant. The latter is to 

 be of the Allis-Chalmers pattern. About 40 

 per cent of the timber on the company's tract 

 is of yellow pine. 10 per cent white pine and 

 the balance poplar and hardwoods. 



J. II. Baird. scrivenoter of the Supreme Nine 

 of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, was in 

 Baltimore July 23 to confer with various mem- 

 bers of the order relative to the forthcoming 

 concatenation in Atlantic City. Sentiment here 

 appears to be crystallizing in favor of John L. 

 Alcock as the next supreme snark of the uni- 

 verse. Mr. Alcock is immensely popular, and 

 has taken an active interest in the order eve' 

 since it found a foothold in Baltimore. 



The Eisenhauer-MacLea Company is now fuH" 

 settled in its new location at the northeast 

 corner of Eastern and Central avenues. For 

 the office force a comfortable two-story frame 

 building has been erected. The interior ot the 

 lirst floor is 13nished in ash, while the second 

 story, which is chiefly taken up by a big apart- 

 ment, that can be used as a board room, is 

 done in mahogany. The work is a good adver- 

 tisement for two of the principal woods han- 

 dled by the company. In the yard is a spacious 

 shed with room for several million feet of lum- 

 ber, and the company has storage room else- 

 where. 



Another concern which will have to vacate 

 the wharf district included in the territory re- 

 served by the city for its dock improvements 

 will be Carter. Hughes & Co., dealers in hard- 

 woods. This firm has discontinued its yard 

 business and will in the future confine itself 

 to the car lot trade, and it is the reported in- 

 tention of the members to get offices up town. 

 Nearly all the lumber at present in the yard 



belongs to the Reliable Furniture Company. 

 Mr. Hughes recently returned from a trip to 

 Troutdale. Va., where the Iron Mountain Lum- . 

 ber Company, the manufacturing end of the 

 firm, has several saw mills in operation under 

 the personal supervision of David T. Carter, 

 the senior member. Mr. Hughes paid his part- 

 ner a visit to confer with him on various busi- 

 ness matters, and also arranged to take the 

 cuts of several mills. After a brief stay at 

 Atlantic City he has taken up the routine of 

 the home office once more. 



William M. Burgan, president ot the Balti- 

 more Lumber Exchange and a widely known 

 dealer in cypress, has returned from a trip of 

 some weeks to Yellowstone Park and various 

 other points of interest in the far West. Ho 

 was accompanied by his wife and son. 



E. A. Beckley of Crosby & Beckley. the well- 

 known hardwood Arm of New Haven, Conn., 

 was in Baltimore last week. 



Norman James about ten days ago visited 

 the plant of the Pigeon River I,umber Com- 

 pany in western North Carolina, it being one of 

 his regular inspection trips. 



Mann & I'arker of this city are at present 

 working on the construction of their new mill 

 at Robbins Neck, S. C, on the Atlantic Coast 

 Line. The company expects to put the mill in 

 operation early in September. The mill, which 

 will be one of the most thoroughly equipped 

 and up-to-date lumber mills in the state, will 

 have a capacity of from 30,000 to 40.000 feet 

 per day. Ash, red gum, oak, cottonwood, 

 cypress, hickory and rosemary pine will be 

 manufactured. The facilities for preserving the 

 wood in the yards are of the very latest. The 

 company will install a steam house, where the red 

 gum will be steamed on leaving the saw before 

 being taken to the yards, thus preventing stain. 

 The yard foundations for piling lumber are such 

 that ami)le room is given underneath for the 

 circulation of air, and are especially arranged 

 for convenience and rapidity of loading. Five 

 miles of railroad track have already been con- 

 structed. 



Pittsburg. 



The McCabe Lumber Company of Warren. 

 Pa., has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $140,000 by Thomas McCabe, C. W. Stone, R, G. 

 Chapel, J. P. Jecerson and A. J. Hezelture, all of 

 Warren. It will have a hardwood operation in 

 northern I'ennsylvania. 



The Crescent Lumber Company announces a 

 better call (or white oak ties, 6x8x8, than for 

 months. Its inquiry for mixed stock is not so 

 flattering. The company has lately made quite 

 a hit in this market with its stocks of cypress 

 poles and ties and now has over 25,000 in stock. 



The Windber Lumber Company of Windber, 

 Pa., is building a plant to manufacture insulating 

 pins for use on cross arms of telegraph and 

 telephone poles. Ten men will be employed. 



The Meredith-Miller Lumber Company of Da- 

 vis, W. Va., with a capital of $10,000, has just 

 been incorporated by E. N. Miller of New Ken- 

 sington, Pa. ; H. F. Miller. J. J. Miller of Tar- 

 entum, Pa. ; W. R. Meredith of Punxsutawney, 

 Pa., and E. W. Meredith of Fuller, Pa. 



A. Germain of the Germain Company is taking 

 a two weeks' trip through the South. This com- 

 pany expects to bestir itself a little more this 

 fall in the hardwood business. 



William R. Cornelius, sales manager of J. C. 

 Moorhead Lumber Company for the past four 

 years, has resigned that position and expects 

 to go into business for himself. The Moorhead 

 Company is running three mills near Kittanning, 

 Pa., and is getting its full share of the local 

 hardwood trade since moving its general offices 

 to Pittsburg. 



The C. H. Knapp Lumber Company, capital 

 $50,000. is a new concern formed under Penn- 

 sylvania laws by C. H. Ivnapp, Lester B. Hart- 

 man and H. W. Pyles, all of WiUiamsport, I>a. 



J. C. Hall of Batons, W. Va.. has bought 2II0 



