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for fall shipment to Pennsylvania points. Last 

 week Mr. Seaman secured a big order for fir 

 to be used in steel barges. The company is ex- 

 tending its business rapidly and has lately made 

 some splendid connections in the South, which 

 will enable it to be a live competitor in the 

 yellow pine marltet. 



F. W. Vetter found time at the last moment 

 to attend the Iloo-IIoo convention at Atlantic 

 City, having l>rought up his yard stoclt of late 

 to a standard not always reached by a dealer 

 80 lately embarked on his own account. 



The operations of T. Sullivan & Co. were so 

 active early this month that F. M. Sullivan 

 gave up the Atlantic City trip after having 

 made arrangements to go. Lake and rail re- 

 ceipts are botii active. 



J. F. Knox is off to look after .the Missouri 

 mills of Peyer, Knox & Co., satisfied that the 

 malarial mosquito has gone out of business for 

 the season. A new mill has lately been added 

 to the list. 



A. Miller has a stock of hardwood lumber 

 that will be the envy of the trade for .some time, 

 as it contains plenty of such scarce woods as 

 ash. basswood and elm, which have been arriv- 

 ing from all directions lately. 



The yard of L X. Stewart & Brother Is still 

 linding place for a good assortment of chestnut 

 without admitting any falling off in the old 

 specialt.y. cherry. 



Scatcherd & Son are keeping their mills in 

 .VIemphis turning out oak lumber, but there is 

 always room for it in the eastern and foreign 

 markets, without bringing it into the Buffalo 

 yard for storing. 



A. W. Kreinheder is booked for a month at 

 the mills of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company in Kentucky and Tennessee, and in 

 the meantime the roads are kept busy bringing 

 shipments this way, fearing car shortage later 

 on. 



O. E. Yeager has not relaxed his hold on the 

 buying trade, though he does not find it easy 

 to get hold of everything in poplar that the 

 consumer would like. 



G. Ellas lately paid a visit to the Jamestown 

 Exposition, but is now back at his desk, look- 

 ing after the many-sided trade of the firm, 

 which is reported as fairly active, with a good 

 season ahead. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 carrying a heavy stock of lumber, especially 

 oak, which is finding a ready sale. Car short- 

 age is already developing in the Southwest, 

 which makes a full stock especially valuable. 



Hugh McLean returned lately from his annual 

 Bunting trip to Canada, and resumed his old 

 stunt of making a big hole in the oak and 

 other stock of his comi)anies. He is quite 

 equal to the activity of all his mills. 



Frank M. Graham reports an encouraging in- 

 erease in inquiry for ties. He has Just filled an 

 order for 2.200 hardwood ties which go to one 

 concern for 75 cents each. 



The Nicola Lumber Company has little fault 

 to find with the hardwood market. Its sales so 

 far this season have been very encouraging and 

 It is putting out perhaps as much building lum- 

 ber as any company in Pittsburg. 



The J. C. Moorhead Lumber Company has 

 added to its force of salesmen G. 11. Trump, who 

 has been in the employ of the Kendall Lumber 

 Company for a long time and is a thoroughly 

 versed lumber .seller. Fie will handle the Penn- 

 sylvania and New York trade for the Moorheads. 

 The Acorn Lumber Company, under the guid- 

 ance of President Domhoff, is booking orders 

 with a regularity that speaks well for its profltH 

 at the end of the year. It has some of the best 

 connections at lioth ends of the line to be found 

 In Pittsburg, and hardwood is its specialty. 



The Willson Brothers Lumber Company note 

 no diminution in the demand for hardw»ood. Their 

 Inquiries show that the fall trade will be better, 

 if anything, than the late spring trade, and they 

 look for a satisfactory business season from now 

 until Feb. 1. 



The Curll & Lytic Lumber Company heads the 

 list in the poplar trade. Its order books have 

 enough business to keep it busy for two months 

 in advance. Its mills are all in the best condi- 

 tion, and every arrangement has been made to 

 get out a big winter's cut. 



William M. Pownall of the Colonial Lumber 

 Company has been stirring up the wilds of West 

 Virginia lately in search of new trade. He has 

 found it, too, for he got some tine lots of hard- 

 wood which he is disposing of rapidly at first- 

 class prices. 



Members of the Western Lumber Company 

 have bought 2.500 acres of hardwood timber on 

 the Gauley river, in West Virginia, and will de- 

 velop the operation at once. The land Is on the 

 B. & O. railroad and will cut at least 20,000,000 

 feet of lumber. 



W. E. McMillan is getting the newly organized 

 W. E. McMillan Lumber Company swung into the 

 current in good shape, and will roll up a total of 

 hardwood sales for the last four months of this 

 year that will put the firm squarely on its feet. 

 He has secured some splendid West Virginia con- 

 nections, in addition to the firm's large mill of 

 its own near Elkins, W. Va., and is hustling the 

 Pittsburg trade with his old time energy. 



The West Virginia State Board of Trade, In- 

 cluding twenty-one affiliated county and city 

 boards and commercial bodies, has called a meet- 

 in.g to be held at Elkins in October, when West 

 Virginia's forest resources and timber interests 

 will be fully considered. This will be the first 

 meeting of the kind ever held In the state, and 

 promises to attract much attention from lumber- 

 men all over the country, especially from the 

 hardwood interests. 



Pittsburg firms are well satisfied with the de- 

 cision of Judge A. M. Cochran of Kentucky, mak- 

 ing Herbert Jackson of Cincinnati temporary 

 receiver of the Boice-Grogan Lumber Compan.v 

 of Lexington, K.v.. which failed recently, and of 

 the Cypress Lumber and Veneer Company, an 

 allied corporation. All the mills will continue 

 work. 



The Otterman Manufacturing Company has 

 been organized at Morgantown, W. Va., with a 

 capita] of $25,000. It lias purchased the plant 

 of the Valley Woodworking Company, and also 

 a tract of hardwood timber near Morgantown. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumljer Company is cut- 

 ting 20,000 feet of oak a day at its mill at Jack- 

 sonville, W. Va. It now has over half a million 

 feet on sticks at that plant and is getting out 

 its orders in a way that is eminently satisfactory 

 to Its customers. Mr. Hastings has been at the 

 plant for a week looking over operations. 



J. C. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany has bought a handsome home in the East 

 End for .|14,000. This firm is putting out a 

 bunch of business that keeps its bookkeepers 

 busy, and every bit of it is hardwood. Its hard- 

 wood flooring trade is creeping up rapidly and 

 its plant at Catlettsburg, Ky., is now loading a 

 car a day. 



During the month of August the Babcock Lum 

 ber Company shipped from its plant at Ashtola. 

 Pa., over 2,000,000 feet of lumber, mostly hard- 

 wood. This was 70O.OO0 feet more than it man- 

 ufactured at this point, indicating the strong 

 tone of its trade. The total shipments for the 

 month of the Babcock Interests were over 5,000,- 

 000 feet, or 1,000,000 feet more than they manu- 

 factured. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company has 

 succeeded in getting some very good West Vir- 

 ginia connections since the first of the month and 

 is now prepared to get out all sorts of hardwood 

 on short notice. Its own mill, on the Western 

 Maryland railroad, is cutting 30.000 feet a day. 

 The company has three salesmen and is pushing 

 right to the front as a hardwood distributor. 



A happy man is T. C. Tipper of the wholesale 

 lumber firm of T. C. Tipper & Co. He is on a 

 month's honeymoon trip through the east and his 

 start on this journey was not altogether lacking 

 in surprise for his friends. The joyous event, 



which preceded the journey, occurred Tuesday 

 evening, Sept. 17, when Miss Etta Florence 

 Muehlbronner, daughter of former Senator 

 Charles A. Muehlbronner, became the wife of 

 Mr. Tipper. They were married by the groom's 

 brother. Rev. William Tipper, and will reside in 

 the Hiawatha apartments in Allegheny. Mr. 

 Tipper has scores of friends in the hardwood 

 trade and bis auspicious venture into this new 

 field is welcomed by them as another chapter in 

 his successful career. 



The Miller Brothers Lumber Company has fin- 

 ally perfected its organization with these offi- 

 cers: I'resident, J. C. Miller; secretary. James 

 Miller; treasurer, F. E. McGillick. J. C. Miller 

 managed the Pittsburg end of the Jenks business 

 for five years and is well known throughout this 

 territory. His brother James has served ten 

 years with William Schuette Company and Wil- 

 liam Whitmer & Sons, Inc. Mr. McGillick is a 

 thorough-going builder and contractor and a 

 large real estate owner in Pittsburg. The Miller 

 family have been lumbermen for several genera- 

 tions and know every phase of the business, from 

 the stump to the details of oflice work. The 

 company has offices in the House building and 

 has made some connections In West Virginia 

 which will enable it to compete very successfully 

 with the hardwood trade in Greater Pittsburg. 



Buffalo. 



Lumbermen have been much interested in the 

 hearing given on freight matters by the State 

 Utilities Commission, which began September 

 16 and lasted three days. Complaints from 

 shippers in many lines had been sent in to the 

 commission and the attendance showed a deep 

 interest in the subject. The commission con- 

 ducted the hearing in a manner that won the 

 good opinion of all, even the railroad attorneys, 

 though they had to listen to some very serious 

 cases of abuse. There were many lumbermen 

 at the hearing and A. J. Elias, M. M. Wall and 

 M. S. Burns took an active part In presenting 

 cases. Mr. Elias also submitted an elaborate 

 plan which he believed would correct the abuses 

 he complained of. It took up such different 

 points as reciprocal demurrage and the fixing 

 of a minimum speed at which freight should 

 move. He claimed that the roads have cars 

 enough and at his urgent request the commis- 

 sion took a trip along the water front and 

 through the railroad yards to see the great 

 number of cars always standing there. It was 

 claimed, both by the commission and by ship- 

 pers, that there was no desire to punish the 

 roads, but rather to assist them In solving the 

 transportation problem, which seemed to them 

 to have batlied the efforts of the present oper- 

 ating departments of the roads, the commis- 

 sion will return October 14 to resume the hear- 

 ing, leaving its railroad expert, Frank P. Barry, 

 here to look into the complaints made by the 

 shippers, giving the roads opportunity to ex 

 plain them as they see fit. 



Bay City and Saginaw. 



Walter 1>. Young, who has been in Europe 

 some weeks and was absent at the time his plant 

 was burned, is expected home about Sept. 24, 

 when the matter of rebuilding the plant will 

 be taken up. While the old plant was one of 

 the most extensive of Its kind in the world, it 

 is believed It will be rebuilt on a still larger 

 scale. The firm lias unlimited timber resources 

 behind it and the location is one of the best. 

 The plant was also well insured and the firm 

 has a large amount of property that will be 

 available In the construction of the new plant. 



The Kneeiand-Bigeiow Company sawmill, 

 which shut down the last of August for an, over- 

 haul, after a steady run of a year, day and 

 night, has been placed in commission and has 

 resumed business again. This piapt turns out 

 20,000,000 feet annually, and it takes, a train- 

 load of logs every twenty-four hours to keep 

 the saws moving. Under the management of 



