The buildings will all be of brick unci will l)e 

 equipped witli the latest machineiy. 



The contract for the erection of the new saw 

 and planing mill for the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- 

 road Company at Mount Clare has been awarded 

 to l':dward Brady & Son. The building will be of 

 liricl< and steel and will have every modern 

 facility. 



Thomas Hughes of the hardwood lirm of Car 

 ler, llngbes & Co.. Cnion Dock, is on a trip to 

 Truuldale, Va., where the Iron Mountain Lumber 

 Cmupany. an allied concern, is conducting saw- 

 mill operations under the personal supervision of 

 David T. Carter, another member of the firm. 

 i;n route Mr. Tlughes stopped at a number of 

 mills, with which the firm has business relations, 

 and made arrangements for the shipment of 

 stocks. 



James II. Cranwell of the .7. II. Cranwell 

 Company. United States Fidelity Huiiding. has 

 been on a trip to West Virginia and Tennessee, 

 wliere his company operates a sawmill. 



•lohn L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co. speni 

 a week or .so the early part of this month in 

 West Virginia, in the cour.se of which lie visited 

 the firm's offices in Clarksburg and other places 

 and looked over the trade situation, lie found 

 the mills busy and stocks, especially of oak, 

 liard to get. 



The stockholders of the Cunpowder Lumber 

 Company filed a petition in the Circuit Court at 

 Towson, Baltimore county, asking tliat the com- 

 pany be dissolved, as it has stopped business. 

 Attorney John Mays Little was appointed re- 

 ceiver to wind up the affairs of the company. 

 The assets and liabilfties are small. 



Pittsburg. 



The regular weekly dinner at llic I'nion Clul) 

 July 17, the Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association unanimously reported a most 

 enjoyable occasion. The association is saving 

 its members nice sums of money this year by 

 putting them "wise" to the financial frailties of 

 several seemingly prosperous retail concerns in 

 llie Creater I'ittsburg district, some of which 

 have already "gone to the wall." 



The genial countenance of S. 1''.. ('oons is 

 missing from the otlice of William Whitmer & 

 Sons, Inc.. in the Kmpire Building. In two 

 weeks he will be back from an extended vacation 

 trip. The firm has made all sorts of new rec- 

 ords since January 1 in the sales of spruce and 

 had a semi-yearly report to submit that would 

 have brought smiles to a veteran lumberman. 



rittsburgers have lately had an object lesson 

 in the cost of foundation work tliat has been 

 exceedingly profitable for Uindjcr dealers. The 

 .\. & S. Wilson Company, which is erecting the 

 two 20-story skyscrapers of the I'nion National 

 I'.ank and the Commonwealth Trust Company 

 at Fourth avenue and Wood street, had to go 

 down 65 feet for a solid bed. Skyscrapers stand 

 'on the other three corners and there are prob- 

 ably more street cars rounding that corner than 

 any other in I'ittsburg. Before tlie workmen 

 were down to the rock the streets began to cave 

 and the most serious results were threatening. 

 To ward off the peril the contractors literally 

 tilled the big fi.T-foot excavation with .veliow pine 

 and oak timbers, over ,'i()0,O()(i feet. in all, shoring 

 and bracing and wedging them in evei'y direc- 

 tion to ijrevent the streets caving In. Between 

 these sticks the great steel girders and posts 

 liavc been let down one liy one and as fast as 

 one" section is completed the timbers arc re- 

 moved. 



The L. L. Satlcr Lumber Company is getting 

 affairs shaped up for a big campaign this fall in 

 Nottoway and adjoining counties in Virginia, 

 where it recently acquired an immense tract of 

 timber. It is estimated that the tract will give 

 the company a ten year's cut, and its facilities 

 tor getting the lumber to tidewater by way of 

 the James river and other streams are such as 

 to warrant the assumption that it will be a most 

 I'ormidable competitor in all the seaboard cities. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



.\nl a little of the himl>er will be cut for export 

 trade. 



The .\nibridge Lumber Company, wliich has 

 been doing business at the new town of Am- 

 liridge, sixteen miles down the Ohio river from 

 I'ittsburg, has gone into the hands of a re- 

 ceiver — the International Savings & Trust Com- 

 liany of I'ittsburg. The liabilities are reported 

 at .1; 12,0(111. 



Tile Lesher Lumber & Supply Company has 

 applied for a I'ennsylvania charter. It is a 

 family <'on< ern, lieing comiiosed of Frank, Jani(>s 

 .M.. I'Mgar J. and i'.Ii/abelh Lesher. and will do 

 business ffoui I'ittslnirg offices. 



The W. M. (iiliespie Lumber Company, of 

 which the well-known "Biiiy" (Jiiiespie is tlie 

 lu'ad, is getting into the hardwood market Willi 

 :i vim lidm lis fine suite of offices in tlie Farmers' 

 U;iid^ I'.nilding. Mr. (_iillespie has some of the 

 JM'st ctuinectious out of Pittsburg and his inti- 

 mate acquaintance with the local market makes 

 the success of tile lirm practically assured. 



o.scar Il.Iiaijcock of the firm of K. V. Bahcock 

 iV; Co, i-: in tlie Northwest looking up tlie situa- 

 lioti :is bearing on next year's trade. Tlie tirni 

 will liavc srnue very large contracts placeii there 

 shortly. 



I!. A. Allen snrpri-^ed his friends in June by 

 Inking unto himself for a life partner Miss 

 .Martha Avery, a well known society young lady 

 of tills city. The couple spent their two weeks' 

 lioneymoon on the lakes, Mr. Alien is connect e.l 

 with tile firm of Willson Brothers, which is get- 

 ting to be known as one of the most luistling 

 and successful concerns that goes after liardwnod 

 orders in tliis market. 



The Liiielian Lumber (.'onipany is liaviiig ;i 

 splendid trade in hardw'ood in tlie manufacturing 

 towns of the Middle West. J. J. Linehan notes 

 :ilso a disiiiKi improvement in the tone of tlie 

 local iiiarkcl. due cliiefly to the break in tlie 

 carpenters' strike. There is much more impiiry 

 tile last week, he says, and more of a disposition 

 among yard men to replenish stocks. The ctuii- 

 pany is getting most of its oak from its Ken- 

 tucky mills and finds that tliere is a go;id de- 

 mand loi- "shorts" among tlie mills as well as 

 lor file best grades of lumber. 



The l-'lint. Krving & Stoner Company is ]uisli- 

 iiig ci|iei-ations at its small mills in .Northern 

 I'ennsylvania which are cutting hardwood mostly'. 

 A large part of tliis lumber finds a market in 

 BulTalo and file lake towns where building is 

 active tills sunimei-. The company's liig opera 

 lion in West \'irgiiiia is being organized in good 

 sliafie and liy fall it will be in a position to sup 

 ply much larger lots of lumber on short notice 

 tliaii the great niaj<u-ity of tlic I'musylvaiiia 

 fi rms. 



Frank W. Willsiui of tlie Willson Brothers 

 Lumber Company is at Conway. S. C.. wliere (lie 

 firm is getting out fifty ears of luiiiliei- a iiionili. 

 I'red C. Daley, head traveling iii.m fur itie Will 

 sons, is cooling off for a coujile of weeks up the 

 lakes. 



Tile Cl:eal Uiver Lumber Coiu|iany rejiorts that 

 mill cull cliestnut is gelting plenty but is selling 

 in large quantities. Last week tlie company 

 booked lu'dei-s for twenty-five cars of this luiii 

 her at an averjige of .fiLS per thousand. Tlie 

 (omiiany's Ohio trade is picking up fast tills 

 month and from thi-; sectinn it is .getting soiih' 

 clioice orders ftr hardwood for fiirnitiiie and 

 liandie manufactories. 



J. M. IListings. piesident of tlie J. M. Hastings 

 Lumber Company,, is back again from Nova 

 Scotia, where lie sjicnds a good i:arl rf his time 

 o\erseeing the enormous operation of the D,tvid- 

 soii Lumber Company, tif which he "s also the 

 bead. Over "on men are now employed by this 

 company and the monthly output of lumber runs 

 from ."i.lioo.iilio to (i,(ioO,000 feet, of this ah ut 

 2."> per cent goes down to Newf York. Agents (f 

 the company are working up a fine trade for its 

 lumber In South American ports, and from Hie 

 first it has had a good market in ICnglan.l. .Mr. 

 Hastings, make.-;., .the intcj-esting aniirauicemeni 



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tliat l':nglisli capital is seeking investment largely 

 ill ilie Canadian provinces, chiefly in tlie pur- 

 chase of comiiaratively small tracts of timber 

 laud, whidi are rapidly increasing in value. Such 

 tracts are now sold at $.j per acre or less, de- 

 jiending on their accessibility, but the work of 

 Hie Davidson Lumber Company and one or two 

 other big concerns is opening the eyes of the 

 land owners to tlie value of Hieir holdings, and 

 prices are going up. 



•i'aiking of orders, .1. .\. Wo^dlett. sales man 

 ager of the American Lumljer & Manufacturing 

 Conifiany. lias just got on his books an order for 

 Tiid.iMiii fi'et of oak to Ije cut in Arkansas, Louis- 

 i:iua and 'I'euuessee and shipped to New Orleans 

 for exiioil. This is one of the many big con- 

 tracts ih.-it ihe American has lately secured for 

 I'anlwoiid and is very satisfactory, as it opens 

 up a (oinparalively new field for work. J. P. 

 .Montgomery, secretary i f the American, is tak- 

 ing his two weeks "off" in the wilds of Wis- 



C(UlSill. 



Buffalo. 



I'he iKirdwood yards this summer are closing 

 lui Saturday afternoon during July and August. 

 Half an hour is added to the usual ten-hour 

 day during the first five days of the week and 

 I lie ..filer two and a half hours are given to 



1 1 mployees. for no < hange is made in the 



p;i,\- .HI tliat aci oi'iit. 



'I'he di'alli of Franklin Lee .Inly 11 removes 

 a luemlier of the Buffalo iumiier, and especially 

 111.' w.Hidworking, trade of long standing, though 

 he was not at the time of his d.'atli in active 

 business. Ihe old firm of Lee. Holland & Co. 

 having merged in to tliat of Montgomery Bros. 

 & Co. several years ago. He was an uncle of 

 (ieorge B. and II. F,. Montgomery and was 80 

 y.-ars olil. 



Scat, herd & Son. having their .Memphis- mills 

 running in good form now, hope to keep them 

 supplied Willi logs file rest of the season. There 

 will 1..- 11. .II.' t<... iiiiicli oak to supply the trade 



ll.II llli'Tt, 



Beyr. Knox & Co. are going quite heavily 

 iiilo .■lierry of late, considering the scarcity and 

 111., high pric of iliis wood, and will carry an 

 assi.ri nieiit ot' ii ri^lit along hereafter. 



11. \. Sti'wart is off to West Virginia again 

 aii.l will II. .t i-.'iiirn till he digs out a lot of oak 

 :iu.l 1 li.'rr\' Iniiiber. He seems to know the spot 

 where good sfutV III lliose lines is t.t be found. 



I'he southern trip of A. Miller is more arid 



I e produi'tive of good stock, especially oak 



and poplar, though it was made in May. There 

 is nothing like doing iiusiness on the spot. 



'i'he old specialty ot ash and elm from the up 

 per lakes is again making the docks of T. Sulli- 

 \aii oi Co. active. A big lot of birch is now also 

 adiled. so that Hie force is large in tlie handling 

 line just now. 



(1. I'Mias & Br... make two water routes meet 

 II. .w in their .yard, tlie lake and the canal, and 

 when III.' Buffalo river is deepened on the plan 

 for wliicli Hie city is indebted to A. .1. Flias 

 there will be no rail transfer between. 



Canipbi'llsville. Ky., Is one of the supply ecu 

 lers of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 laiiy. whiili will get several million feet from 

 tiler." this ye.'ir. in. hiding oak, asli, chestnut and 

 top:ar. 



J. B. Wall is off to the New York Furniture 

 l';xposition in the interest of the talile factory 

 ...ntroiled by mi'inbi'is ..f the Biiffal.. Hardivo...] 

 Lumber Company. 



The yard of O. K. Veager is receiving a new- 

 supply . r plain oak and a.s usual is carrying a 

 go(;d assi rtnient of everything, tliough trade is 

 g(od cnnugli to make it hard to keep large stocks 

 of all varieties. 



'tlie anioiint i f new lumber In the yard of the 

 I'iinpire lumber c..mpany shows that the old 

 pan of giving up tlie yard is not to be carried 

 .10 rieht away: Some very fine oak is coming 

 i-i f"om file Arkansas mills now.' 



.\.'einliers of the Ilu'jh McLean Lumber Con'- 



