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HARDWOOD RECORD 



spending a vacation of two weeks or so at At- 

 lantic City, talviuff advantage of tlie quiet in the 

 export trade to absent liimself from tlie office. 



Daniel MacLea of the Eiseniiauer-MacLea Com- 

 pany has bouglit a large lot on Charles Street 

 avenue and will erect a fine suburban residence 

 for his own use thereon. 



Pittsburg. 

 E. B. Hamilton of Hamilton Bros, has been 

 down in West Virginia looking up stoclss at the 

 mills. He reports a good trade, with manu- 

 facturers and looks for a steady demand for 

 hardwoods this fall. 



The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company, which 

 handles the famous "Korelock" door of the 

 Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., is doing a 

 rushing summer business. Secretary J. C. 

 Scofleld says the company now has a stock of 

 $75,000 and that it is building up a splendid 

 trade in the big manufacturing towns of west- 

 ern Pennsylvania and Ohio. 



The Croft Lumber Company, recently formed 

 at Cumberland, Md.. has enlisted the cash and 

 energies of several Pittsburgers. J. H. Hender- 

 son, secretary of the Kendall Lumber Company, 

 is president of tlie new concern and J. L. and 

 S. A. Kendall are on the board of directors. 

 The other incorporators are R. A. Ravenscroft 

 of Oakland. Md. ; G. D. Browning of Friends- 

 viile, Md. : A. A. Doub and P. C. Barnes of Cum- 

 berland. The company has a capital of $100,000 

 and will establish a big mill near Pickens, 

 W. Va., which will probably be in operation by 

 Oct. 1. 



Two other new West Virginia corporations are 

 the Atlas Lumber Company of Minneapolis. 

 Minn., and the Laurel Creek Lumber Company 

 of Weston. W. Va. The former is capitalized 

 at $250,000 and has these incorporators : M. C. 

 Van Dusen. C. M. Harrington, Frank M. Mann. 

 Gustav F. Ewe and A. G. Moritz, all of Minne- 

 apolis. The latter concern has a capital of 

 $25,000 and will operate in Webster county. 

 West Virginia. It is backed by Lloyd Rinchart. 

 W. W. Brannon. Lloyd Beighley. C. W. Pinchart 

 of Weston and E. A. Rinehart of Belingon, 

 W. Va. 



The Crescent Lumber Company has had much 

 difficulty in getting enough locust posts to meet 

 its demands lately, because of the harvest sea- 

 son and the scarcity of good labor at the mills. 

 It is on the lookout constantly for desirable 

 small tracts of hardwood timber and has been 

 cutting off some choice oak in eastern Ohio. 



The Auglaize Cooperage Company of Minster, 

 Ohio, Is a new concern with a capital of 

 $10,000. Its members are W. B. Mack, D. C. 

 Dunn, H. M. Wilhelm, William H. O'Connor 

 and L. Hess. 



The Mead & Speer Company made a cut of 

 over 1,000.000 feet of lumber in July at its 

 plant at Strange Creek. W. Va. Its correspond- 

 ence indicates a better state of feeling among 

 large buyers and foreshadows a steady resump- 

 tion of buying in the fall. 



The Webster-Keasey Lumber Company is cut- 

 ting about 27,000 feet a day at its plants in 

 Indiana county, Pennsylvania. A good part of 

 this is piling and railroad stock. Recently the 

 company secured a large order for ties 3x5x5, 

 which are especially tor use in the coal mines 

 of western Pennsylvauia. 



The Buckbannon Lumber Company of Wench- 

 ton, W. Va.. will have big mills in Upshur coun- 

 ty. West Virginia. Its capital is $30,000 and its 

 members are Edward R. Buckbannon, A. A. 

 Donaldson and G. A. Kesels of Lorain. Ohio ; 

 U. G. Young of Buckbannon, W. Va., and H. B. 

 Young of Arlington, W. Va. 



The Union Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized at Donora, Pa., with a capital of 

 $10,000. George M. Seaman of Allegheny, Pa. ; 

 Edward B. Hamilton of Hamilton Bros, of Pitts- 

 burg and Leetsdaie, Pa. ; William Herbert, Jr., 

 of Pittsburg. Charles S. McCloskey of Charleroi, 

 Pa., and Erastus E. Brainerd of Wilkinsburg, 

 Pa., are the promotors. 



The Markel Timber and Land Company of 

 Chicago has been chartered in West Virginia 

 with a capital of $100,000. of which $25,000 

 has been paid in. The incorporators are C. T. 

 Cornfield, G. W. Smart, H. B. Meeks and L. L. 

 Fowler of Chicago. 



W. A. Clay of the Clay-Schoppe Lumber Com- 

 pany was quite badly injured last week by his 

 horse taking fright at an automobile and tramp- 

 ing him. The company is putting on a larger 

 crew at Ligonier, Pa., and is preparing to do a 

 big business this fall in hardwood and piling. 

 Over twenty cars of the latter have already 

 been sold this month. 



J. S. McNaugher of the L. L. Satler Lumber 

 Company is back from quite an extended stay 

 at the company's big operation at Blackstone, 

 Va. It is cutting 1,250,000 feet of lumber a 

 month. This comes to Ohio and Pennsylvania 

 points mostly, freight rate there giving the 

 company a decided advantage over the eastern 

 market. This concern is an exception to the 

 general rule this summer, for it has been three 

 months behind with its orders most of the time. 



President W. D. Johnston and General Man- 

 ager J. N. Wooliett of the American Lumber 

 and Manufacturing Company are both out of 

 the city, combining pleasure and business. Its 

 hardwood force is as well organized as any in 

 the city and is making a big record in sales of 

 southwestern stocks this month. 



Things look encouraging to the J. C. Moor- 

 head Lumber Company, whose operations in 

 western Pennsylvania keep it pretty busy in 

 spite of the midsummer season. Mr. Moorhead 

 is getting his force thoroughly organized for 

 the fall campaign and has made some notable 

 advances in his field of operations since moving 

 his general offices to the Farmers' Bank building 

 in Pittsburg. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is getting rooted 

 in a way that leads one to believe it will de- 

 velop in keeping with its hardy name. H. F. 

 Domhoff is president of the concern, which has 

 offices at 519 Park building, in the midst of 

 the "Ininch" in Pittsburg. Mr. DomhoCE is no 

 amateur in the lumber business, although he 

 can not show any gray hairs. He served a 

 long apprenticeship with the American Lum- 

 l)er and Manufacturing Company and then went 

 to the old Nicola Bros. Company, now the Nicola 

 Lumber Company, where he was assistant pur- 

 chasing agent for two years. The past three 

 years he was in the employ of the Cheat River 

 Lumber Company and there gained a thorough 

 knowledge of the "road." He will represent in 

 Pittsburg the Brooks-Scanlon Company of Kent- 

 wood, La., and he has also lined up some 

 splendid hardwood connections. 



Buffalo. 



The death on Aug. 9 of James W. Drynan. 

 purchasing agent for the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company and at one time correspondent for the 

 H.iRDWooD Record, was a shock to his friends 

 and family. Mr. Drynan had dropped his duties 

 at the office to take a short rest and was prepar- 

 ing to spend a little time on his farm in the 

 soutlicrn part of the county and was cut off in 

 the midst of his activities. He was a hard worker 

 and was an authority on hardwood lumber, hav- 

 ing had a long experience in this line. For 

 eleven years he had been with the McLean's and 

 previous to that time had been in the employ of 

 John M. Scatchcrd & Son for a long term of 

 years. Mr. Drynan was 55 years old and leaves 

 a wife and daughter. His position as purchas- 

 ing agent for the McLean Lumber Company has 

 been temporarily taken by Mark Cummings of 

 the office force of the concern. 



As the mill which the Buffalo Maple Flooring 

 Company has been building to replace the one 

 recently destroyed by fire is about completed the 

 offices of the company will be removed from the 

 location with Montgomery Bros, on Elk street 

 hack to the mill. The mill has been operated 

 in part right along, out it will be in condition 

 to run at full capacity very soon. 



A. Miller is finding a good field for basswood 

 and brown ash in Canada and is filling up his 

 .yard from that and other sources as fast as pos- 

 sible, always carrying everything in the hard- 

 wood line. 



The working force of Beyer, Knox & Co. has 

 been lessened a good deal of late by the illness 

 of J. F. Knox, with ague. He is much better 

 now and the wheels go round again with full 

 vigor. 



H. S. Janes is staying out of the south coun- 

 try this summer and breathing the air of Lake 

 Ontario. It is reported that it is awfully hot 

 in the Mississippi valley this summer, but the 

 mills of the Empire Company down there are 

 active. 



The new table factory of the Standard Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company is already so nearly 

 swamped with orders that an addition is being 

 put on to increase its capacity. It was startad 

 this season. 



Scatcherd & Son are doing pretty good work 

 turning out oak lumber at the Memphis mills, but 

 Manager Hopkins always speaks of the supply as 

 much short of the demand. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have moved their oflnces from 

 50 Arthur street to Niagara and Arthur streets. 

 Business was not interrupted by the moving. 



G. Elias & Bro. have quite a number of con- 

 tracts for supplying timber, mostly oak, to the 

 builders of the Erie barge canal, and generally 

 find the season's business, yard as well as mill 

 and box factory, very good. 



0. E. Y'eager has gone to Atlantic City to look 

 over the ground before the Hoo-Hoo annual there 

 next month. His yard is always well stocked, as 

 Mr. Yeager has a knack of finding enough of all 

 hardwoods to keep up a full assortment. 



J. B. Wall is liack from his automobile trip to 

 Pittsburg. The Journey was a fine one, though, 

 he says, it seems that the Pennsylvania hills 

 always go up and never go down. The yard of 

 the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is well 

 stocked. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is in- 

 clined to complain of a shortage of oak in yard, 

 though quite the usual amount has been sold 

 this season. All the oak mills of the company 

 are doing good work. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. are getting hold of some 

 good walnut as well as cherry and oak and are 

 always a trifle long on chestnut these days, which 

 does not always mean an assortment, but a fair 

 showing. Chestnut is hard to get and it goes 

 fast. 



F. W. Vetter reports a big trade in ash. He 

 has always been pretty close to the supply of 

 that lumber and buying means selling in that 

 wood these days. 



The Buffalo lumbermen may be trusted to 

 choose a fine day whenever they go out a-pleasur- 

 iug, whether as an exchange or a Hoo-Hoo party, 

 but there were two excursions badly disappointed 

 on the 20th by a bad shower that came up 

 shortly after noon. The White Pine Association 

 struck it at the Country Club and the Hoo-Hoos 

 were driven off the field at Eagle Park on the 

 regulation trip around Grand Island. Two at- 

 tempts were made by the Hoo-Hoo to play the 

 game, but three half innings, with a run in 

 each half, ended all but Indoor sport. The day 

 was made good so far as completing the trip was 

 concerned, but it was a great disappointment, 

 for everybody was ripe for a scrimmage on the 

 diamond. Usually the HooHoos play two games 

 on their round and they felt like an heir cheated 

 of his inheritance, but they danced, sang and 

 bowled just as if they had never heard of base- 

 ball or a sunny day for the annual trip. O. E. 

 Yeager and M. M. Wall, who are regular at- 

 tendants, were occupied at their offices, while 

 others in their employ took in the outing, and 

 the songs went a trifle lame because M. S. Burns 

 was not there. Still it was a good outing to 

 enable J. B. Wall at the second meal to inquire 

 in his usual tone of voice : "Are we down- 

 hearted?" 



