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several banks and a shipbuilding company 

 which are creditors. The liabilities are placed 

 at $200,000, and the assets are valued at half 

 that sum. The chair manufacturing: business 

 appears to have been profitable, but Mr. Chip- 

 !nan engaged in outside ventures which 

 proved unsuccessful. A movement is on foot 

 among the lumbermen, several of whom are 

 creditors, to continue the factory in opera- 

 tion, as it has been using a grade of lum- 

 J)er for which another market is not easily 

 available. 



L. Methudy, a well-known lumlierman of 

 St. Louis, who was at the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital here for some weeks to undergo 

 an operation, has entirely recovered and re- 

 turned home. 



Sidney iiubenstein, managing director of the 

 Gi-eat Eastern Timber Company, ltd., Lon- 

 don, was here ses'enil weeks ago on the way 

 Soutn in search of prime poplar, this being 

 the main object of his trip, which will cover 

 a considerable part of the United States. 



Luther Berry of Sutton, W. Va., who was 

 among the recent visitors to Baltimore, stated 

 that he was negotiating for a tract of timber 

 ni-ar Piedmont, on the West Virginia Central 

 llaiU'oad. and if successful, intended to estab- 

 lish a mill and manufacture staves for ex- 

 jiort. 



Pittsburg. 



The Warlaud Lumber Conipauy has been 

 formed by C D. Armstrong, J. E. Quigley and 

 M. K. Salisbury. It will operate under a Penn- 

 sylania charter and will open office.s in Pitts- 

 burg shortly. 



II. F. Domhoff of the Cheat Uiver Lumber 

 Company took as his life partner last week Miss 

 Harriet Grundisch. a well known society woman 

 of the East End. The couple went to Canada 

 lor their wedding tnur, and will reside in Pitts- 

 lini'g on their return, ilr. Domhoff is a hustler 

 in the sales field. 



1!. II. Erving of the Flint. Erving & Stoner 

 Lumber Company has had plans prepared for a 

 .$411,11(10 residence which lie will build at Point 

 Hreeze. East End, on a site recently bought. 

 Mr. Erving with his family is now at his 

 summer home at Muscoca Lake, Canada. 



Fred K. Babcock has been appointed by Mayor 

 <;eorge W. Guthrie a member of the I'ittsburg 

 .Subways Commission, which will have a general 

 oversight of the municipal interests concerned 

 with the plans of the I'ittsburg Subways Com- 

 pany, which proposes to build subways to the 

 main residence localities in the East End. 



E. V. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., is 

 summering at his country residence at Ashtola, 

 Pa., where the firm is making things hum in a 

 lumber way. 



F. X. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company 

 is on another long tour of inspection among the 

 West Virginia mills. 



George W. Nicola, president of the Nicola 

 Lumber Comimny, has bought the well-known 

 .Miller and McVay tracts on Sewickley Heights 

 for .^00,00(1, or .$1,000 an acre. The two farms 

 comprise one of the most beautiful country 

 building sites in the entire Tuxedo district and 

 are within five minutes' walk of the palace of 

 the Allegheny Country Club and surrounded by 

 Hie country homes of some of Pittsburg's best 

 known millionaires. 



\V. Li. .lohnston, president of the American 

 Lumber *; Manufacturing Company, is one of 

 Hie I'ittsburg lumbermen who look for a first- 

 class trade along all lines this fall. The Ameri- 

 can is having a very busy summer in liardwood 

 and is finding the big lots of hardwood timber 

 which were bought through its hardwood man- 

 ager. J. N. Woollett, last fall and winter, mighty 

 acceptable in filling its orders. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 ■^o'lation held its annual picnic at Boss Grove 

 on Saturday, June 23, the affair being strictly 

 of the "skidoo" type, owing to the fact that 



there are but twenty-three firms in the associa- 

 tion. An excellent time was reported. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company, which was 

 recently organized and has offices in the Fergu- 

 son building, is pushing right to the front under 

 the direction of Manager Wickersham. This 

 concern has some splendid New York connec- 

 tions and is going to make a mark in the hard- 

 wood field. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company, of which 

 W. A. Clay is president and Julius Schoppe sec- 

 retary, is a new firm at .S03 House building. 

 Both men are from Ligonier. Pa., where they 

 own 1,200 acres of fine hardwood timber in 

 addition to a good sized tract of hardwood at 

 Bolivar, Pa., on the main line of the I'ennsy!- 

 vania railroad. The former tract is now cut- 

 ting 100,000 feet a month, which will lie mar- 

 keted in the Pittsburg territory. 



The firm of Flyte & Mackey are starting a 

 big hardwood operation at Darlington, Pa., on 

 the Ligonier Valley railroad. They have about 

 3,000.000 feet of hardwood in that locality 

 which will be cut off as soon as possible. 



Iteports from the West Virginia Lumber Com- 

 pany show that its hardwood business, especially 

 in chestnut, was better by 20 per cent in June 

 than in May. Most of its stock was cut at its 

 plant at Johnson City, Tenn., where it is now 

 sold up close to the saw. 



The mills of the A. M. Turner Lumber Com- 

 pany are putting in a busy summer. It keeps 

 Hie company busy to keep its stock list ahead 

 of its order books and in Its southern plants 

 it has very small accumulation of lumber at 

 present. 



The Linehan Lumber Company says that there 

 is a considerable call for beech and maple to be 

 used in false work in river dam construction 

 instead of the usual oak timbers. Where these 

 woods are under water and not exposed to the 

 action of the atmosphere they serve the pur- 

 pose veyy well and this summer are much easier 

 lo get. From the west and southwest .1. J. 

 Linehan writes that trade conditions in hard- 

 woods are remarkably good and that prospects 

 for a busy six months the remainder of this 

 year are strictly No. 1. 



The Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Company 

 is cutting about 75,000 feet a day at its new 

 plant at Dtinlevie, W. Va., which it bought two 

 months ago. Most of this is spruce, but there 

 is a good sprinkling of hardwood in the stock. 

 The company's mills in northern I'ennsylvania 

 are getting out a fine lot of hemlock and hard- 

 wood. The company will run all summer its 

 new mill at Millport. Pa., which is the best in 

 that section. 



Wilson Brothers, through their hardwood man- 

 ager, I. F. Balsley, are hustling for hardwood 

 business this summer in a way that keeps an 

 energetic bookkeeper up to his ears in work. 



The I.,. L. Satler Lumber Company has finished 

 inlying all the holdings of the Blacksfone Lum- 

 ber Company at Blackstone. Va.. a part of 

 which, including 9,300 acres near Lunenberg. 

 Va.. It secured a short time ago. The last 

 purchase was made by L. L. Satler and J. S. 

 McNaughter, respectively president and secre- 

 tary of the company, and gives the firm 10,000 

 acres of choice timber land with all machinery, 

 cars, live stock and buildings belonging to the 

 old compan,v. The branch ofllce recently estab- 

 lished at Blackstone will be managed by Benham 

 Marshall, who was connected with the Black- 

 stone company for several years. A large part 

 of the lumber will be taken direct to tidewater 

 by way of the James, Nottoway, Blackwater and 

 Southampton rivers, thus greatly reducing the 

 cost of transportation. The company expects to 

 cut 15.000,(100 feet -a year from the two tracts. 

 The first one will be run under the name of the 

 Noltoway Lumber Company and the last one by 

 Hie L. L. Satler Lumber Company. 



mand for it is as good as ever. He also gets 

 birch from other sources and keeps a good as- 

 sortment of it. 



The yard men of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company are more perplexed than ever 

 In their effort to pile up oak and other hard- 

 woods high enough to keep the tracks and alleys 

 free, which means that business is brisk. 



The new yard of the Buffalo Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company in Memphis is beginning to blossom 

 out with stock, and an all-round stock is to be 

 put in as soon as possible. The Buffalo yard is 

 carrying a big line, with a fine supply of oak. 



There is much complaint of oak shortage from 

 the office of Scatcherd & Son, though the firm 

 appears to get enough of it somehow to keep 

 up its regular trade. AH grades and sizes are 

 in demand. 



Angus McLean is off again on one of his regu- 

 lar trips of inspection, being in Louisville at 

 last accounts. He will also visit the Chatta- 

 nooga and Bedford, Ind., mills of the company. 

 All are in active operation. 



H. A. Stewart will tour West Virginia soon 

 in search of oak and cherry. Tlie yard here is 

 in good shape, having had a big run on chest- 

 nut this season, when everybody else was finding 

 it so hard to get. 



A. J. Elias has the satisfaction of carrying 

 through all the Buffalo river improvement 

 schemes he has had in mind so long — has se- 

 cured a big steel plant on it and will soon see 

 other ind\istries coming his way. 



F. W. Vefter is back from North Carolina, 

 where he went to continue the operations in 

 oak and ash for the Empire Lumber Company. 

 He finds that the export demand for ash is very 

 fine and at top prices. 



The trade of O. E. Yeager has been good 

 enough lately to make it hard to keep certain 

 scarce woods in full assortinent. He, is getting 

 good prices, especially for ash, of late. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. find that trade is good 

 for this season, and will see that their southern 

 connections turn out oak, ash and the like 

 enough to meet all their wants in that line. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Exchange, at 

 Its last meeting elected the following officers : 

 G. Ellas, president ; L N. Stewart, vice-president, 

 and F. A. Beyer, secretary and treasurer. The 

 plan has been to hold meetings weekly, but as 

 this will not be kept up through the summer, the 

 meeting adjourned subject to the call of the presi- 

 dent. The first outing of the Lumber Exchange, 

 an automobile trip on June 20, was an entire 

 success, about sixty members and their guests at- 

 tending. Supper at Clarence and a run home 

 by moonlight concluded the day. 



Buffalo. 



A. Miller has received about thirty cars of 

 birch from Canada and is finding that the de- 



Detroit. 



Charles R. Koche, Detroit inspector for the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, has 

 resigned, to devote more time to his private 

 interests in connection with the hardwood firm 

 of Leech, Roche & Co. 



George L. Smith, surveyor-general of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, Chicago, 

 has been in Detroit the past few days looking 

 over the field with a view to selecting a suc- 

 cessor for Mr. Roche. 



H. P. Dutton, salesman for the Worcester 

 Lumber t^ompany. of Chassell, Mich., was in 

 Detroit this past week on business, leaving for 

 Buffalo. 



('harles McClellan. of the Simmons Lumber 

 Company, of Simmons, Mich., was in Detroit 

 recently. 



H. W. Russell, representing the Fenwood 

 Lumlier ('ompany and the Ingram Lumber Com- 

 pany of Wausau, Wis., was another Detroit 

 visitor. 



The Russel Wheel & Foundry Company has 

 been so busy the past month that it has 

 actually had to turn down several orders, but 

 now has the rush well in hand so it can take 

 care of all future business. 



Brownlee & Co. are receiving much basswood 

 at their Detroit docks. They report a greatly 

 improved demand for that wood. 



