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number o( in-ominent visiting lumbermen. Most 

 of the session was executive, but the general 

 reports were that the committee was very well 

 satisUed with the progress of things and will be 

 better prepared than ever lor the final fight. 

 Expert witnesses have beeu arranged for, to- 

 gether with associate counsel to assist W. W. 

 Ross, who has' so ably conducted the case to 

 date. 



The Araho Lumber and Storage Company has 

 been incorporated here with a capital of $50,000 

 to conduct a general lumber and storage busi- 

 ness. Its yards will be in Brooklyn, the exact 

 location to be decided next week. F. Burke of 

 Boston and F. D. Folsom and L. H. Strouse of 

 Williams. Folsom & Strouse, lawyers of Man- 

 hattan, are the incorporators. 



W. B. Mershon, the distinguished Saginaw 

 lumberman and head of W. B. Mershon & Co., 

 manufactinors of the celebrated "Mershon Re- 

 saws," was here last week for the purpose of 

 placing his son in college. Mr. Mershon had not 

 been east for some time and bis friends were 

 glad to renew acquaintance. 



The annual meeting of the Xew York Lumber 

 Trade Association will be held at its head- 

 quarters, l.S Broadway, Oct. 9, preceded by a 

 Delmonico luncheon. A large attendance is 

 anticipated to hear the results of the past year's 

 work, which lias been very satisfactory. Presi- 

 dent J. S. Davis of Brooklyn is slated for re- 

 election, 



Wilson Godfrey, for many years prominent in 

 the wholesale lumber trade of the metropolitan 

 district, died at Ridgefield, Conn., Oct. 2, in the 

 seventy-first year of his age. 



Harry S. Dewey, formerly of the firm of 

 Dixon & Dewey, Flatiron Building, is about to 

 enter business with his brother — the new con- 

 cern to be incorporated as Harry S. & .Tames 

 Dewey. They will do a general lumber business. 



Philadelphia. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange, after the usual 

 attractive luncheon, held its regular monthly 

 meeting on Oct. 3, Pj-esident William L. Rice 

 in the chair. There was a goodly attendance at 

 this meeting, but with the exception of a reso- 

 lution, unanimously carried, and of which a 

 copy was immediately forwarded to select and 

 common councils, requesting these bodies to 

 report favorably on the appropriation of $5,000,- 

 000 for public schools out of the $10,000,000 

 loan, only current business was transacted. The 

 autumnal excursion of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change came off on Sept. 24, 25 and 26. It com- 

 prised a visit to the Gettysburg battle field and 

 Buena Vista Spring — baseball games, concert and 

 dance were all indulged in at the latter place — 

 and the outing altogether was voted the most en- 

 .ioyable ever arranged by this body. 



Schofield Brothers report business exception- 

 ally good. The month of August proved the 

 best they have ever had. The completion of the 

 mill of the Saltkatchie Lumber Company at 

 Ulmer.s, S. C, in which they are largely inter- 

 ested, is being pushed and it is expected that 

 by Jan. 1 the plant will be in full working 

 order. In sinking an artesian well on the 

 grounds the company fortunately struck water 

 at 3G8 feet, which gives them a yield on an 

 average of 100 gallons a minute. They have 

 built a hotel and so far have completed three 

 and a half miles of railroad. R. W. Schofield 

 is now at the mill looking after affairs there, 

 .lohn II. Schofield has .iust returned from a trip 

 through the Pennsylvania lumber regions, where 

 lie secured quite a large block of excellent white 

 pine. R. P. Ashley of the same house is making 

 a selling trip through New Jersey. The firm 

 recently engaged R. W. Kernochan, formerly of 

 Buffalo and the West, as salesman to look after 

 Pennsylvania territory as far west as Pittsburg. 



Wistar, Underhill & Co. are satLsfled with 

 trade conditions for the time of year, and are 

 looking forward to a good fall trade. T. N. 

 Nixon of this firm is in Tennessee looking up 



the stock situation and making some desirable 

 contracts. Arthur T. Wistar, brother of R. W. 

 Wistar and who was formerly in charge of the 

 shipping department for this firm in Tennessee, 

 is being show^n over the coal region in Pennsyl- 

 vania and the southern New Jersey territory by 

 H. E. Bates of this house, in which fields Mr. 

 Wistar will hereafter act as the firm's sales- 

 man. Mr. Bates will locate probably in Cin- 

 cinnati. Ohio, and look after his firm's interests 

 in that state. James W. Anderson has just 

 returned from a successful selling trip through 

 Canada. 



W. H. Lear is rushing the completion of his 

 new yard at East Girard avenue and Fletcher 

 street. lie reports business very good in every 

 line and states that he has on hand 2,000,000 

 feet of the finest cypress, running from 4/4 up 

 to 16/4, ever placed on the market and of which 

 be can make quick delivery. William F. ,Stroud 

 of this house has just returued from a very 

 successful selling trip through eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



It is announced that the copartnership here- 

 tofore existing between Joseph P. Dunw^oody and 

 Seymour Y. Warner, trading as Joseph P. Dun- 

 woody & Co., was dissolved on Sept. 30 by mu- 

 tual consent. The affairs of the firm will be 

 liquidated by Seymour Y. Warner at 1010 With- 

 erspoon Building. 



The Forrest Lumber Company, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 has opened an eastern office at 938 Real Estate 

 Trust Building, which will be in charge of 

 Joseph P. Dunwoody, formerly of Joseph P. 

 Dunwoody & Co. : they will handle hardwoods, 

 spruce and hemlock. Their mill is located at 

 Konnorock, Va., which they report is being 

 worked to full capacity. They have on hand 

 5,000,000 feet of excellent poplar, chestnut and 

 oak, ready for prompt delivery. All eastern 

 business will be handled through the Philadel- 

 phia office. Mr. Dunwoody remains treasurer 

 of the Norva Land and Lumber Company, Wal- 

 laceton, Va., the main office of which is at 100 

 South Gay street, Baltimore, Md. 



Horace G. Hazard & Co. are busy and report 

 a decided improvement in the eastern field dur- 

 ing the last few weeks. J. H. Hillman of this 

 firm has just returned from a selling trip in 

 Baltimore and Washington. This firm on Oct. 

 1 obtained a foreign attachment in common 

 pleas court against the West Florida Hardwood 

 Company, with bail fixed at $2,000. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company continues prosperous. Jus- 

 tin Peters, manage*', states the company has 

 never done such a business as is the record to 

 date and the outlook for the rest of the year 

 is most promising. 



Watson Malone & Sons do not quarrel with 

 the trade situation. The year's sales so far are 

 ahead of 1906, and they consider the outlook 

 very fair. Although the car service is begin- 

 ning to give trouble they have managed to keep 

 their stock in good shape and are in a position 

 to supply quick demands in all building lumber. 

 The S. B. Vrooman Company reports that 

 trading has kept up remarkably well for the 

 time of year and that indications are favorable 

 for fall business. S. B. Vrooman has just re- 

 turned from a trip abroad looking the picture 

 of health. 



The Boice Lumber Company is among the 

 busy concerns. C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. vice president, 

 states that they are doing a good business, but 

 have to go after it ; they are confident the fall 

 season will be good. Mr. Lloyd is on a selling 

 trip through New York and the New England 

 states, and J. W. Floyd of this house is making 

 a business trip through southern New Jersey. 



Charles L. Meckley reports' August and Sep- 

 tember business very good and the present out- 

 look favorable. His hardwood department is 

 progressing. He makes a specialty of ash, oak 

 and elm squares. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany reports business picking up and the out- 



look pleasing. H. N. Pattison of this concern 

 is on a selling trip through Pennsylvania as far 

 as Williamsport, where he will look up stock as 

 well. 



The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company is receiv- 

 ing many inquiries, also good orders are coming 

 in. Mr. Fleck states that they have no fault 

 to find with trading, but that the car service 

 is giving trouble. They are placing some excel- 

 lent 4/4 to 12/4 chestnut on the market at this 

 time. 



Emil Guenther, the popular lumberman of 

 this city, was a passenger on the Southern 

 Railway Limited, which was wrecked at day- 

 break near Ryans Siding about thirty miles 

 south of Charlottesville, Va., Sept. 22. The 

 train was going at the rate of forty miles an 

 hour when it was derailed. The gas tank under 

 one of the cars broke and the escaping gas 

 ignited from a torch carried by the engineer, 

 exploded and set fire to the cars. The passen- 

 gers were thrown violently from their berths 

 when the cars left the tracks, but fortunately 

 no one was killed. Mr. Guenther sustained some 

 slight bruises, but was not seriou.sly hurt. 



The J. G. Brill Company of this city has 

 received an order for twenty-one railroad cars 

 for Argentina. The cars will be built at the 

 company's Wason plant at Springfield, Mass. 



The local ship building plants have been for- 

 tunate in obtaining some of the contracts from 

 the government for the building of torpedo boat 

 destroyers. The William Cramp Ship Building 

 Company will build two, each to cost $585,000, 

 and the New York Ship Building Company in 

 Camden has contract for one, to cost $624,000. 



The Grand River Lumber Company, Pittsburg, 

 Pa., obtained a charter under Delaware state 

 laws on Oct. 4 ; capitalization $3,500,000. 



Among the recent visitors to the local trade 

 were W. H. Harding, secretary and treasurer 

 United Lumber Company, Maxton, N. C. ; George 

 W. Irish of the Fuller & Rice Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; B. B. 

 Burns of the Monger Lumber Company, Asbe- 

 ville, N. C. : John B. Case, Flemington, N. J., 

 and Henry M. Canby, Wilmington, Del. 



Baltimore. 



The inspection rules adopted at the last meet- 

 ing of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, the exporters here believe, will prove a seri- 

 ous handicap in negotiating an agreement with 

 foreign brokers and buyers. It is pointed out 

 that these negotiations were about to be satis- 

 factorily concluded, the American claims being 

 in the main acceptable to the Liverpool receivers 

 of lumber. The latter were to have held a 

 meeting in September to take what would have 

 amounted to final action, but the many changes 

 in the rules made by the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association have served to cloud the 

 outlook. The changes are so numerous that the 

 Liverpool buyers and brokers feel the previous 

 basis of negotiations has been removed and 

 that it will ^e necessary to begin all over again. 

 The hardwood exporters here state that at least 

 some of the changes mean a considerable de- 

 parture from old practices, and will call for new 

 adjustments, and more or less confusion is ex- 

 pected for some time to come. That in the 

 long run they may be found entirely acceptable 

 and equitable is altogether likely, but for the 

 present they will cause the exporters in par- 

 ticular extra work. The shippers take the view 

 that it makes no difference in the end what the 

 rules are, but that if they are to buy according 

 to the regulations they must also be able to sell 

 under them, and this will require that the re- 

 ceivers of lumber on the other side of the At- 

 lantic recognize the changes. 



The West Virginia Saw Mill Association held 

 its annual meeting at Elkins September 20, and 

 discussed a number of matters of interest to the 

 trade, among them the car shortage, which occu- 

 pied a prominent place in the deliberations. The 

 association appointed a railroad committee to 



