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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Gustave A. Farber, for ten years connected 

 with Trice & Heald o£ this city, has withdrawn 

 from the partnership and engaged in business on 

 his own account at Memphis, where he has 

 offices at 2257 Gaylord avenue. He will follow 

 the lines with which his previous duties have 

 made him famitiar — domestic and export trade 

 in hardwoods. Mr. Farber is now engaged in 

 closing up various matters connected with the 

 old firm and will continue to give them his 

 supervision until his successor has been named. 



Richard P. Baer of the hardwood firm of 

 R. P. Baer & Co. of this city returned last week 

 from a ten days' trip in southwestern Virginia 

 and northern North Carolina, where he visited a 

 number of mills and arranged for the delivery of 

 stocks. Everywhere he found manufacturers 

 working under pressure, with plenty of orders 

 to keep them going for some time. 



Henry B. Curtin of the Pardee-Curtin Lumber 

 Company of Sutton, W. Va., was in town re- 

 cently. He found business very brisk wherever 

 he went. Work on the new mill to take the 

 place of the one destroyed by Are several months 

 ago, he says, is progressing rapidly. It will be 

 of the double band variety, and will be operated 

 day and night to meet the heavy demand on the 

 company's product. 



The large planing mill of the United States 

 Lumber Company at Green Spring, about four- 

 teen miles east of Cumberland, Md., was de- 

 stroyed by fire April 11. A quantity of hard- 

 wood lumber was also consumed. The company 

 will undoubtedly rebuild. 



Joseph Cant of Cant & Kemp of Glasgow, Scot- 

 land, was in Baltimore last week and called on 

 a number- of firms here. He spoke encouragingly 

 of the conditions abroad. 



After a careful reading of the decision handed 

 down by Judge Morris of the United States 

 Court here in the case of John L. Alcock & Co. 

 in the matter of clean through bills of lading, 

 the trade interested has settled down to the 

 conviction that the opinion is a complete vic- 

 tory for the exporters. The only point decided 

 in favor of the transportation companies was 

 that involving the criminal charge,, with regard 

 to which the court ruled that the bill of lading 

 did not violate the Barter act. The court dis- 

 tinctly declared, however, that no clause in the 

 bill of lading could be construed as relieving the 

 companies of liability for loss or damage beyond 

 the limitations set down in the bill. The ship- 

 pers, of course, were not eager to have the 

 transportation companies convicted of a criminal 

 offense, desiring merely to have their rights de- 

 fined, and this the opinion is believed to accom- 

 plish. Hence a feeling of satisfaction prevails 

 in the trade, which will no longer be under the 

 necessity of going into a foreign court and 

 bringing action for loss or damage against the 

 steamship companies, but can institute proceed- 

 ings here. 



Pittsburg. 



The McMillan Lumber Company's sawmill near 

 Oakland, Md., was badly damaged by fire April 

 13. The big stock of lumber was damaged but 

 little, and most of the loss on the mill was cov- 

 ered by insurance. The offices of the company 

 have been moved from the Keystone building to 

 Bayard, W. Va., which is central to its opera- 

 tions. 



Frederick E. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber 

 Company was on April 6 elected president of 

 the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association. 

 This association is recognized as the most pow- 

 erful business organization in Pennsylvania, and 

 being its president is no inconsiderable honor. 



The Milliken-Bradley Lumber Company of Alle- 

 gheny has been chartered with a capital of 

 $10,000 by James E. and W. A. Milliken and 

 S. W. Bradley. The company will carry a large 

 stock of general building lumber. 



C. B. Howard & Co. of Williamsport, Pa., have 

 bought 40,000 acres of timber land on Elk river, 



near Huttonsville, Randolph county. Pa., for 

 about $1,000,000. This sum provides for the 

 building of a railroad either from Huttonsville 

 on the AVestern Maryland or from Cloud Run on 

 the Chesapeake & Ohio. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company is a new con- 

 cern at 712 House building, composed of H. C. 

 Hoffman. C. L. Wickersham and H. O. Burdette. 

 The concern is now a partnership, but expects 

 to incorporate later. It will be a wholesale 

 agency, making a specialty of hardwood lumber. 

 Mr. Hoffman was formerly with the Keystone 

 Company and the Pennsylvania Door & Sash 

 Company, and Mr. Burdett was for years a man- 

 ufacturer of hemlock and hardwood lumber. 



J. N. WooUett, hardwood manage!- for the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 spent a few days in New York last week. Re- 

 cently he booked a big contract for ties in Ohio. 

 He has added to the hardwood sales department 

 L. A. Bennett, formerly of the Stearns Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati, who will manage the 

 Chattanooga trade of the American. 



Willson Brothers are making fine headway in 

 their new hardwood department and its superin- 

 tendent. I. F. Balsley, is well satisfied with the 

 outlook. The firm, from its big hardwood con- 

 nections and splendid prestige in other lines of 

 lumber, bids fair to become a strong competitor 

 in the hardwood market. 



Among the hardwood firms which have fine 

 shows in the permanent exhibit of the Builders' 

 Exchange League in the Heeron building is the 

 Pittsburg Floor Company, whose display of hard- 

 wood and parquetry floors is attracting much at- 

 tentlAn. The offices of the firm are now in the 

 Farmers' Bank building. Another firm which has 

 a unique exhibit is the Hercules Specialties Com- 

 pany of 500 Fourth avenue. Its show of ladders 

 and scaffolding is probably the most complete 

 ever seen in Pittsburg. 



The Nicola Brothers Company has been suc- 

 ceeded by the Nicola dumber Company, incorpo- 

 rated under the laws of Pennsylvania. The 

 officers are : President, George AV. Nicola ; vice 

 president, A. D. Knapp ; secretary, T. N. Bettin- 

 ger ; treasurer, Herbert L. Seaman. The new 

 company will have the advantage of the splendid 

 lake connections which the Nicolas established in 

 Cleveland several years ago. It will also profit 

 much by the old company's affiliations in the 

 South, especially the 20,000 acres of yellow pine 

 and hardwood timber in Mississippi. All 

 the contracts and the good will of the 

 company are turned over to the Nicola Lumber 

 Company, which retains the old offices in the 

 Farmers' Bank, building. The Nicola Brothers 

 Company was the oldest wholesale firm in Pitts- 

 burg, having been started by F. F. Nicola in 

 1S85. 



Fair & Keator and H. W. Melchers & Co. are 

 now located in the House building. 



W. P. Craig, of Wm. Whltmer & Sons, Inc., 

 just returned from a trip through the South, 

 where he says most of the mills are running 

 night and day, and have comparatively small 

 stocks on hand. 



Among the recent visitors to Pittsburg whole- 

 salers was Dr. W. Williams of the Pocahontas 

 Lumber Company, Burner, W. Va. His firm has 

 a good trade here in hemlock and hardwood. 



The fear that Pittsburg building would be tied 

 up by a carpenters' strike May 1 is rapidly sub- 

 siding. The 8,000 carpenters in the Pittsburg 

 district want ?4 a day after May 1, this being 

 an advance of 50 cents over the present union 

 scale. Several of the largest contractors in the 

 city are paying practically this rate now and 

 have expressed their willingness to grant the 

 general advance. The Master Builders' Associa- 

 tion is favorable to the advance and the Brother- 

 hood of Carpenters and Joiners has given pretty 

 substantial assurance that they will not attempt 

 to enforce their demands with a strike. 



The Red Cliff Lumber Company is a new con- 

 cern at 239 Fourth avenue. Its principals are 

 L. R. Hawes and W. M. Cox. 



Buffalo. 



F. M. Sullivan has the site cleared for his 

 addition to yard storage sheds tor Pacific coast 

 lumber, but dropped proceedings lately to make 

 a trip through the eastern markets to keep them 

 in sight. 



J. N. Scatcherd has at length concluded his 

 term of service on the grand jury, which sat sev- 

 eral weeks and caused a great sensation by in- 

 dicting a number of well-known citizens in the 

 armory graft matter. 



A. Miller somehow manages to get hold of 

 some good ash lumber these days when it is so 

 scarce, and he is making elm and basswood go, 

 which is good evidence that the yard is a live 

 one and finds what it needs. 



The new oak sawmill of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company at Memphis is in running order 

 and will soon be turning out more lumber to 

 make good the claim of the company to lead the 

 country in quartered oak. 



A. J. Elias is in a way to come out best in his 

 negotiation for a saie of the old Hamburg canal 

 strip for a railroad station, as he usually does, 

 for he never lets go. The yard is headquarter.:! 

 as usual for heavy timber. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 getting so much lumber in from the South that 

 piles of it are appearing along the railroad 

 switches into the yard, most of it being oak. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 getting its usual big supply of oak in from the 

 South, though late reports from its mill at Ben- 

 ton, Ark., stated that there was so much water 

 about the mill that sawing was stopped. 



F. W. Vetter went to St. Louis lately to look 

 after some land sales, a good price being offered 

 for a large tract of cut-over territory, after 

 which he will prepare to drop off south and 

 southwest for a longer stay. 



J. F. Knox has gone south again after more 

 oak and other hardwood lumber for Beyer, Knox 

 & Co., not stopping short of Arkansas this time. 

 Business at the Buffalo yard has been fine of 

 late and is increasing. 



O. E. Yeager has been hustling lately, and the 

 result is a good lot of white ash, though ash is 

 very hard to find now. Sales are so good that 

 it is anything but easy to keep up the general 

 stock. 



II. A. Stewart has also gone south again and 

 is picking up a lot of oak, cherry, poplar and 

 the like for the trade of I. N. Stewart & Bro. 

 He has been very successful in these trips and 

 keeps the yard well supplied. 



Buffalo lumbermen are planning some of the 

 trips they are noted for. The Hoo-Hoos have 

 made a river date for June 20 and the Lumber 

 Exchange will picnic by automobile possibly 

 sooner than that, as there will be a still later 

 . outing during the season. 



Saginaw 'Valley. 



The sawmills are now all In operation with 

 the exception of the Hargreave mill at Bay City, 

 and that has steamed up and goes into commis- 

 sion this week. The mills running are all well 

 taken care of in the matter of logs. Three mill 

 plants. W. D. Young & Co., Bliss & Van Auken 

 and Kueeland-Bigelow Company, are operated day 

 and night. Two of these plants will run through 

 the year with two shifts, and Bliss & Van Auken 

 will run double shifts until September. Only one 

 saw mill on the river is cutting pine exclusively, 

 and eight are cutting hardwood with some hem- 

 lock on the side. 



The S. G. M. Gates sawmill began sawing for 

 the season last week. This plant has about 

 7,000,000 feet to cut. 



Phillips & Seeley of Saginaw will operate the 

 sawmill at Logan which the Yuill Brothers pur- 

 chased from the Rodgers-Allison Company last 

 fall. It will cut out 4,000,000 feet. 



The Gale Lumber Company's mill at West 

 Branch will finish its operations there and will 

 be sold as soon as the cut is exhausted. The 

 plant will probably be dismantled and the ma- 

 chinery taken out. 



