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HARDWOOD RECORD 



started from brush lieing burned by wniKTmen. 



W. M. ileCormick has returned from the 

 eompany's mills at Townseud. Tenn.. where he 

 inspected the rebuilding of me mills recently 

 destroyed by Are. The operations are in such 

 state that the concern will be able to start 

 about June 1. 



J. R. Lesher, the well-known salesman of 

 Soble Bros., who was confined for some time in 

 Providence Hospital at Washington, D. C. has 

 now recovered, although he is still nervous and 

 considerably reduced in weight. 



Baltimore. 



Maryland has joined the States that are en- 

 deavoring to increase their timber wealth by a 

 system of encouraging arboriculture, and in 

 .pursuance of this aim the legislature at its 

 last session passed a law creating a forest com- 

 mission. This commission includes in its mem- 

 bership two practical lumbermen, former Gov- 

 ernor E. E. Jackson of the E. E. .Tackson Com- 

 pany and Xorman James of N. W. James & Co. 

 The other members are Governor Wariield, State 

 Comptroller Atkinson, President Ira Ramsen of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, President R. W. 

 Sylvester of the JIaryland Agricultural College, 

 and Prof. William Bullock Clark of the Mary- 

 land Geological Survey. Provision was made for 

 the appointment b.v the board of a state for- 

 ester, whose salary shall not exceed $2,000 a 

 year and traveling and field expenses. The 

 board is authorized to purchase lands favorable 

 for forest culture and reserves. Upon the 

 recommendation of the state forester the gov- 

 ernor is to appoint such forest wardens as are 

 necessary to serve for two years without salary, 

 but who shall receive such compensation as 

 the forester shall allow for services actually 

 rendered. An appropriation of ,$3,,"i00 annually 

 is made to carry out the provisions of the 

 law. One of the objects aimed at by the statute 

 is to prevent the spread of forest fires. 



The big sawmill at the Mount Clare shops 

 of the Baltimore & Ohio which was destroyed 

 by fire is to be rebuilt on the same extensive 

 scale. The building is to be of brick and con- 

 crete and will cover a lot 247x70 feet. It will 

 be equipped with every improvement, including 

 an elevator. 



L, Methitdy, a well-known lumberman of St. 

 Louis, Mo., is recovering at the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital from an operation for some internal 

 trouble. He came here especially to get the 

 benefit of the skill possessed by the staff of the 

 Hopkins Hospital. 



Charles Bruening, a representative of Henry 

 Bruening. a lumber and timber dealer of Rotter- 

 dam and Bremen, stopped here last week in the 

 <!Ourse of a trip through the lumber centers and 

 the milling sections of the United States. 



The J. J. Kidd Lumber Company has moved 

 from the National Marine Bank building to its 

 new yard on South Sharp street, where it is 

 ■doing a retail as W'ell as a wholesale busi- 

 ness. 



The only representative from Baltimore at 

 the annual meeting of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association in Memphis was John Heald 

 of Price & Heald. Mr. Heald gave some at- 

 tention to business while in Memphis, but found 

 prices so high that he felt little disposed to 

 place orders. 



Pittsburg. 



J. J. Lineban of the I.iuelKui Lumber Com- 

 pany is at Willhurst, Ky., this week, seeing that 

 everybody is doing double turn at the mills. 

 From this company comes the encouraging as- 

 surance that the hardwood market is in excellent 

 shape and that the prices of oak are steadily 

 creeping up. 



The Nicola Lumber Company has its forces 

 fully organized and is taking on business with 

 the same zest and energy which characterized 

 its predecessor, the Nicola Brothers Company. 

 F. F. Nicola is devoting bis entire time to his 

 a-eal estate interests, chief of which in point of 



attention is the development of the Schenley 

 farm in the Bellefleld district. O. P. Nicola will 

 confine his attention chiefly to building projects 

 this .year, although he is also largely interested 

 in the Schenley Farm. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has made changes in its line-up since 

 the resignation of its secretary and treasurer, 

 G. W. Gates, who has gone to Portland to en- 

 gage in the pine and fir business. J. N. Wool- 

 lett. manager of the hardwood department, now 

 has charge of the hardwood and pine depart- 

 ments. His assistant in the former will be A. 

 W. Smenner of the Blackburn & Smenner Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati. B. P. Mackie of the J. J. 

 Newman Lumber Company of Hattiesburg, Miss., 

 will be assistant manage.r of the pine depart- 

 ment. The company is strengthening its forces 

 along all lines, and W. D. Johnston, its presi- 

 dent, has gone south to look up new stocks. 



The Babcock Lumber Company cut 6,300.000 

 feet of lumber during April at its Ashtola mills. 

 It is keeping tlie wheels buzzing at all of its 

 plants and is satisfied that this will be a banner 

 year in the Pitts'.jurg lumber trade. 



William H. Schuette & Co., who are now 

 located in a fine suite of offices in the new 

 Machesney skj-scraper on Fourth avenue, were 

 unfortunate in being dependent to some extent 

 on the mills at Belhaven, N. C, which burned 

 recently. The Hre caused a shifting of some of 

 the Schuette orders pending the erection of new 

 mills. 



D. L. Gillespie & Co. will ship 4,000,000 feet 

 of lumber this month to Havana, Cuba, for use 

 in government improvements. They are troubled 

 considerably by shortage of cars in North 

 Carolina and report that in some parts of the 

 state lumber firms are threatening suits against 

 the railroads. 



Ambridge, I'a., the hustling industrial town 

 20 miles below Pittsburg on the Ohio river, has 

 a very thrifty lumber concern, the American 

 Lumber & Building Company, which makes a 

 specialty of mill work. The company has not 

 only furnished a big proportion of the lumber 

 used in the hundreds of houses and store build- 

 ings which have grown up there since the erec- 

 tion of the immense plants of the American 

 Bridge Company three years ago, but has done 

 much building on its account. 



The Liberty Lumber & Planing Mill Company 

 has succeeded the J. W. Gallagher Lumber & 

 Planing Mill Company. Charles N. Burtt, who 

 was for 3.3 years associated with the Murphy 

 Mill & Lumber Company, is manager of the new 

 concern. It has a capital of $50,000 and has 

 taken over the big yard and planing mill of 

 the Gallagher Company in Braddock avenue. 

 East End. 



According to James I. M. Wilson & Co. there 

 is a big increase in activity this month among 

 the small hardwood mills throughout the coun- 

 try districts. They are getting out a good lot 

 of oak, birch, maple, cherry and hickory, much 

 of which is coming to the Pittsburg market. 

 The Wilson company notes a much better de- 

 mand for oak and a tendency to "make good" 

 in all lines. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company is having 

 a very busy season and notes but a slight lull 

 in the general demand for lumber. Its southern 

 projects are progressing finely and its sales will 

 reach a record breaking point for tlie first half 

 of 1906. 



F. X. Diebold, of the Forest Lumber Company, 

 is spending the week in West Virginia hurrying 

 up operations at the mills and looking up some 

 new stocks. The company is sold up to the saw 

 tor new woods and is having a fine trade in oak 

 and chestnut. 



William T. Munroe, who makes a specialty of 

 figuring mill work for manufacturing plants, has 

 been taking estimates on the immense planing 

 mill, car repair shops and storage house which 

 the Pennsylvania Railroad will build at Enola 

 near Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Munroe says that the 



strike of the structural steel erectors is delaying 

 some projects which. he has to figure and which 

 will require a large amount of hardwood to fill. 



Willson Bros, have so much confidence in the 

 general situation that they are taking all the 

 lumber they can get. Tbey see no slump in the 

 demand for hardwods and are steadily pushing 

 out that department of their business which was 

 made more of a specialty this year. I. F. Bals- 

 ley. hardwood manager for the company, is at 

 Atlantic City and the East this week. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has bought 

 from the Mackie Lumber Company of Piedmont, 

 Va., the timber rights on 800 acres of land in 

 Garrett county, Maryland, for about $10,000. 

 The purchase will give the Kendalls a nice addi- 

 tion to their hardwood supply in this vicinity. 



Buffalo. 



F. C. Beyer's visit to the Memphis convention 

 lasted till the 19th. his trip through the South 

 after the meeting being made with a determined 

 effort to locate some good lumber, in which he 

 succeeded very well. 



Hugh McLean paid a visit to the Louisville 

 mill of the company before coming home from 

 Memphis, as he is anxious to see all the oak 

 going through it that can be cut. Everybody 

 says the company's new Memphis mill is fine. 



The West Virginia cherry supply is lighter 

 than it used to be since H. A. Stewart made his 

 ^late long trip down there. 



The new Kentucky venture of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company is a very promising 

 one and it looks as though It would continue to 

 be a great source of supply for some years. A 

 mill is to be set up later on. 



F. W. Vetter is looking carefully after his 

 purchases of oak and ash at Halley. N. C, and 

 will be occupied with that end of the trade some 

 time, while II. S. Janes is occupied with the de- 

 velopments of the Empire Lumber Company in 

 Arkansas. 



A. Jliller returned from his southern trip fol- 

 lowing the Memphis convention on the 21st. well 

 pleased with the progress he made in locating 

 oak and other hardwoods. 



The Memphis convention was made a strictly 

 business matter by a number of Buffalo hard- 

 wood dealers, who scattered through the various 

 parts of the South in search of stock. 



Detroit. 



The Whitney Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Baker and the Michigan Central Rail- 

 road has filed a trust mortgage, naming the 

 Detrou Trust Company as trustee. The mort- 

 gage covers the company's plant. The schedule 

 of the company's liabilities names seventy cred- 

 itors, the various amounts aggregating $10,000. 



The Russel Wheel & Foundry Company has 

 received several rush orders for logging machin- 

 ery from the northern Michigan district devas- 

 tated by fire. An area of some 400 square miles 

 in the vicinity of Menominee was ruined by the 

 flames. The Russel people are also sending large 

 shipments of machinery into North and South 

 Carolina this week. 



Clayton Gibson of the Wolverine Box Com- 

 pany has gone to Connecticut on business. He 

 will also visit Maine and go up into Canada to 

 investigate large tracts of unclaimed timber. 



The C. W. Kotcher Lumber Company will en- 

 large its mills and increase its capital stock 

 to a large degree. 



Saglna-w Valley. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company Is 

 experimenting in the manufacture of maple lath, 

 the first time in the state, so far as is known. 

 Maple makes very fine lath, having a smooth 

 appearance, compared with pine and hemlock, 

 and has greater strength. Mr. Bigelow, manager 

 of the concern, says that, while it is an experi- 

 ment as to the reception this commodity will 

 receive from the trade, he is confident the lath 

 will speak for itself, and the extraordinary de- 

 mand for lath ought to assist It in gaining a 

 foothold at the price at which it will be placed 



