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take up tlip matter aud see what could be done 

 to afford relief. The following officers were 

 elected : 



. President — K. E. Wheeler i>£ tlie Wheeler 

 Lumber Company. Glady. 



Fii;st Viee-President — I'. T. P.rowii of KIkins 

 & Durliin. 



Second Vice-PresldentM. M. Hrown of 

 Brown & Hill. Montes. 



Secretary and Treasurer -M. N. Wilson, of 

 the Wilson Lumber Company. 



Hoard of Directors — W. O. Howard of liuruer ; 

 Mr. Hirtner of the Cnrry-Bittner Company : 

 .Tuli\is Hadeker. It. .T. Clifford, of Ilambleton. and 

 C. IL Williams of llazelwood. 



Practically all the mills in West Virginia are 

 represented at the meeting. 

 ' Tlie (iouley and ISirrh Itiv.'r Ilaiiroad lias 

 been iiicorporaled with a capital stock of .f.'ioc).- 

 000 to cimstrucl n timber aud coal road frimi 

 the mouth of the Muddlety creek. In Nicholas 

 county, by way of Hookersville. to a point near 

 the mouth of the Big Birch river, in Braxton 

 county. Tlie principal office will be at Summer 

 ville. The road will further the development 

 of a large area of virsin timber and coal land 

 in Nicholas aud Braxton counties. 



Determined efforts are lieing made to in- 

 crease the demand for Louisiana red cypress in 

 this market, the special incentive to the move- 

 ment lieinK the opening of the direct line by 

 water from Baltimore to New Drleans by the 

 Southern Pacific Company. 'I'lir all-rail rate is 

 too higii I" .■Hiiiiif of ilic wood r'ntering into 

 competition wiih "tlur kinds of cypress, but 

 the taritf by steamer makes this iiossilile. Iience 

 the endeavors to extend the trade here. Sev- 

 eral manufacturing companies have had repre- 

 sentatives here for some time past, and a num- 

 ber of orders have been placed. Tf a demand is 

 established, it is not unlikely tliat a full cargo 

 will be sent bi'rc. 



Mann & i'arker. who are erecting a mill in 

 South Carolina, state that rapid progress is now 

 being made on the work. It is now thought that 

 ihe mill, which will have a capacity of about 

 :i0.i oil feel per day. will lie put in operation 

 by November 1. Prac-tic-M lly all llir luacliiiiery 

 has arrived at tlie site. 



Charles K. Williamson, chief salesman for 

 Carter. Hughes & Co., returned ten days ago 

 from an extended trip through southern Penn- 

 sylvauia, and also called at a number of western 

 Maryland towns. Wherever he went he found 

 gratifying activity and he succeeded in placing 

 a large yuantity cd' lumber. Among the places 

 touched at were York, (ilenn Kock. Shrewsbury. 

 Hanover and ILirrisburg 



The list of visiting lumbermen during the past 

 two weeks included E. D. Beckley of the Crosby 

 & Beckley Company of New Haven. Conn., and 

 T. W. Fugate of the H. Fngate Company of 

 Uichlands. Va. Both gave favorable reports 

 of trade conditions and expressed the opinion 

 that business would keep up. The.v also stated 

 that ther<' bad lieru some improvement in bibor 

 conditituis. 



Pittsburg. 



The Buskautf Lumber Company is having an 

 exclusive trade among several of the best plan- 

 ing mills and yards in the P'ittsburg district. 

 Fred W. Kuskauff. president of the comjiany. is 

 very optimistic over the lumber situation and 

 believes that higher prices may prevail within 

 a few months in several lines. 



One of the biggest tracts of virgin hardwood 

 timber ni*ar I)u Bois. Pa., is to be cut off at 

 once by .loliu .Minns under contract. It is esti- 

 mated that the tract will I'ut nearly T.OOU.OOii 

 feet, a large part of which is oak. chestnut and 

 beech. 



J. W. Cotlrell is putting out a splendid lot of 

 orders for oak. He has recently made some en- 

 viable connections in West Virginia and the 

 South which give him special advantages in tak- 

 ing care fit tile hardwood trade. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Tlu' Prospect Lumbt-r & Supply Company is 

 tlio laiest Pittsburg concern to ask for a Pcnn- 

 sylvanin charter. Its members are J. K. Wal- 

 liicr. II. (J. Sample and <'. U. norland and its 

 offices will he in IMttsburg:. 



The Johnstown Water t.'ompauy is Iryin;; a 

 lot of tree planting with a view to increasing 

 and maitins better the municipal water supply 

 111" that city. It has used white pine, Scotch 

 pine, red oak and chestnut largely in its ex- 

 periments, which Iiavc so far liecn very satis- 

 factciry. 



The .Mux ha III l.uadn-i' < '(iinpan,\ lias been 

 formed at .lohustown. Pa., with a paid-up capital 

 tif yiio.nno. It will operati- quite extensively in 

 that i)arl nt Iho state and has these officers: 

 Pi-esiih-nt and treasurer. 'I'. W. IlanuM" ; vice 

 (uesidenl. Jacob Klleuberger; secretary, John E. 

 I'^llenberger : director, Henry C. Smith. 



James M. .Miller, secretary of the recently 

 formed Miller brothers Lumber Company, lias 

 just returned froni West Virginia, where he has 

 been three weeks making lumber cimnections. 

 This concern will furnish lumber for boxiug and 

 crating. Hoth J. C. Milh'r, its president, and 

 J. M. .Miller are thoroughly experienced lumber 

 men and they have a very large circle of busi- 

 ness and social acquaintances in Greater Pitts- 

 burg who are coming to tlieir support witli an 

 encouraging lot of orders to start with. 



The Pittsburg Mutual Pire Insurance Coui- 

 pan.v has had the rare good fortune not lo have 

 had a loss this year. Secretary Carl C. Vander- 

 voort is not anticipating any such good luck for 

 an i^xtended period, but he is nm'erthcless super- 

 stititms enough to hope that the off year in tires 

 will be next .year, which will give his associa- 

 tion another twelve moutiis' period to get more 

 firmly rooted in the middle states. 



The Maust Lumber Company has contracted 

 to build two miles of standard gauge railroad 

 up the Pine Run from Findlay, I'a.. to a tract 

 of timber which it owns and which will cut 

 about :^.no(».()(iO feet of lumber. This is mostly 

 white piue iind oak. 'I'he tract is fuie of the 

 largest A'irgin bolding^ in central Pennsylvania. 

 The lumber will be marketed from Salisbury. 



Holly & Stephenson of Charleston, \V. Xn.. 

 have bought, about 0.000 acres of poplar aud 

 oak timber on the ileartow river in (Jreenbrier 

 and Payette counties. West Virginia. An opera- 

 tion will be started very soon. 



I'resident W. I). Johnston of tlie .\nievieau 

 lAuuber & Manufacturing (^ompan>' has gone to 

 Paxtfin. Kla., for a month. iMjr the past six 

 days the total of orders received at the com- 

 pany's offices in Publication Building has been 

 over o.(Hi((.000 feet. Vic President J. N. Wool- 

 left is not sati.sfied with this showing and will 

 depart next week for the Southwest to be gone 

 three weeks on a business trip. 



The hardwood trade of the Willsou Brothers 

 Lumber I'ompany is emineutl.v satisfactory this 

 luoutli. according to Maiuiger I. F. Balsley. De- 

 mand keeps very steady and prices are firm all 

 along the lino. Mr. Balsley sees no reason for 

 fearing a decline in prices this year. 



The L. I... Satler Lumber Company is very 

 busy at its big operation at Blackstone, Va., and 

 will have one of the best month's records in its 

 history to show for September. Its box shook 

 factory is going to bring it a largo amount of 

 new business and it is leaving no stone unturned 

 to get the larg»'st possible iiroductiou out of its 

 l)laut. 



The Curll i!fc Lytic Lundier Company lias taken 

 the It^ad in the poplar market for the past two 

 years and now has enough orders ahead to keep 

 its iilants busy until Cliristmas. This concern 

 has the advantage of 'a big steam pouil which 

 makes cutting at its llolcomh plant possible all 

 winter. 



The Vigilant Lumber Company is quietly but 

 steadily working its way into some mighty good 

 business. It has remarkably strong backing for 

 a young firm and as Its members are experi- 

 enced lumbermen with a wide knowledge of con- 

 ditions the firm seems bound to succeed in the 

 fullest seus(> of the word. 



The McDonald Lumber *'ompany is booking 

 some very nice business in hardwoods from its 

 oftices in tin* Bessemer Building. Mr. McDonald 

 spends much of his time at his plant near 

 Plkins, W. Va., and reports conditions there 

 vi'i-y favorable, with the exception of the car 

 shin-tage. which is getting worse every day. 



The Henderson Lnnil>er Company is going 

 after the trade in mining lumber in a strenuous 

 way. Its manager, J. F. Henderson, is young 

 in years, but very "wise" in good, sound lumber 

 sense. He has instilled his spirit of hustle aud 

 determination into his salesmen and few firms 

 are better provided with lumliei- and lumber 

 sellers than this one. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has made some 

 more connections in hardwood that will give it 

 additional prestige with large Pittsburg firms. 

 It means to take care of a good proportion of 

 the hardwood trade that is booked from Pitts- 

 burg and its early efforts are meeting wiih 

 genuine success. 



The J. C Moorhead Lumber Conipany spent 

 the last few days of September in booking simie 

 very nice orders for hardwood. Its plants are 

 running full and are turning out a lot of oak 

 and chestnut that is hard lo heat. Another 

 .salesman has been added to the force, which will 

 make the company well equipped this winter. 



Within a few days the W. E. McMillan Lum 

 lier Company expects to he located in permanent 

 quarters in Pittsburg. Mr. McMillan divides 

 his time between this city and KIkins, W. Va.. 

 where his mill is located. The latter is all 

 ready for a big winter's cut. and from the way 

 the i-ompany is booking orders in Pittsburg it 

 will be needed. 



Buifalo. 



Scntcherd & Son are reminding the trade that 

 the name has been before Ilie Buffalo and out- 

 side public fifty years as lumber shippers. There 

 need be no statement as to the firm's square 

 dealing during its half century. 



T. Sullivan & Co. will wait for the settlement 

 of freight rates from the I'acific coast before 

 ordering any more lumber from there. It is 

 hoped that future prices can be made on a de 

 livered basis if the advance holds. 



F. W. Vetter is able to report an improvement 

 in his trade all along the line, with quartered 

 oak "'out of sight." the only difficulty with it 

 being that the deab'r is not able to replace it 

 f<ir the mtmey unless he is very lucky. 



The car shortage is one of the drawbacks in 

 the trade of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, which is shipping luml)er east from 

 .Missouri as well as other points. The home 

 yard is pretty well stocked, thougli. and is ready 

 for the eastern customer. 



A. Miller has been taking in a lot of various 

 hardwoods from Canada along with southern 

 receipts, till his yard is well stocked with all 

 the woods that the trade will want right away, 

 in si)iti' of the good demand in almost all lines. 



I. .\. Stewart & Brother are still deep in the 

 cherry trade and are handling a lot of very 

 dry stock that the eastern trade is always after. 

 It is well that the home .supply is good, for 

 there is complaint of ciii- shortage from the 

 South. 



Beyer. Knox & Co. are getting oak out of 

 their Missouri tract in spite of the slow move- 

 ment of cars and finding good trade for it. F. A. 

 Beyer is on the recommended list for Hoo-Iloo 

 Vicegerent and he will no doubt take the office. 



Angus McLean is back to his special work of 

 taking care of the St. Lawrence river lumber 

 interest of the McLean companies, but will be 

 careful to go slow aud not repeat his former ex- 

 peru-nce. as illness from overwork is lasting. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 will also Ix* one of the yard owners that is 

 ahead of the car shortage for the most part. 

 as it has kept the road hot between its southern 

 mills and the yard here for a long time on oak. 

 chestnut and poplar. 



