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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sidpriug- the usnal dullness of midsummer. Mi". 

 Kijrliter has taken a house at Wyncote. I'a.. for 

 the summer, and Mr. I'arry spends a eood nart 

 of liis time at one of the shore resorts in New 

 Jersey. 



H. I. Soble of Soble IJros. is taking his summer 

 vacation in the North where he contemplates 

 spending a couple of weeks Jishins. I'uring^ his 

 absence John J. Sohle of the sales department 

 is in charge of affairs. 



F. A. Underhill of Wistar, Underbill & Co. 

 lately s',>eut some time fishing at Anglesea. 

 R. W. Wistar is making a trip through North 

 Carolina and Tennessee. 



The Hrnv of Tunis & Skinner which some 

 months ago opened an office in the Girard Trust 

 building has moved its headquarters to Haiti 

 more, Md., still retaining, however, an agency 

 iiere. The firm has lately undertaken an opera- 

 tion, consisting of pine and hardwoods, in Vir- 

 ginia and finds that the location of Baltimore 

 is more convenient. 



Schofield Bros, have found the past month a 

 fair one for business when the usual conditions 

 of summer are taken into account. They have 

 lately placed considerable stock with the Penn- 

 sylvania and New York furniture people with 

 whom they deal. J. II. Schofield will start on 

 liis midsummer vacation in a few days, probably 

 at Atlantic City or some other one of the New 

 Jersey seaside resorts. 11. W. Schofield who is 

 now on a trip through New York State has sent 

 in sufficient orders to keep the home office on the 

 jump. 



Francis (Jnudhue. Jr.. secretary of the I'bila- 

 delphia Veneer & Lumber Company, rejiorts that 

 the business done by his firm is very gratifying. 

 He lately returned from an extensive trip 

 through New York and eastern Pennsylvania and 

 found business on the whole satisfactory. 



The regular meeting of the Lumbermen's l-]x- 

 cbauge of Philadelphia was held last week and 

 routine business transacted. Geo. Craig, iiresi- 

 deiit of the Kxcbange. is on an extensive trip 

 snuth and will not return to the city befnre the 

 first of September.^ 



C. IC. Lloyd. Jr.. of the Cherry Uivcr I'.ooni ^^ 

 Lumber Company returned lately from a vaca- 

 tion trip in the North. Mr. Lloyd together with 

 Alfred Hundle and Albin Pell of Emil Guenthcr, 

 and It. C. Currie. lately enjoyed a fishing triji 

 down the lielaware Pay, the whole party going 

 as guests of Mr. Cui-rie. 



W. II. Fritz v^i Co. have removed their offices 

 irnin ;:<ii to tiny. 4 Crozer building. 



.John J. liumbarger of the Iturabarger Lumber 

 <"(mipaiiy spent a portion of last week out of 

 town. The midsummer season finds Mr. lUim- 

 barger very busy, for besides his regular work, 

 lie is managing the team of the Lumbermen's 

 lOxchange which will shortly play ball with ihe 

 Puilders' Exchange. 



J. A. IloUinger & Co. of Chambersburir, Pa.. 

 have announcetl that tlie concern has been bought 

 nut by J. A. IlcUinger. who will hereafter con 

 duct the business in his own name. Mr. Ilollin- 

 grr h:is taken uver the debts of the concern and 

 all bill-s should be paid to him. 



Warren P. Hill c.f Samuel II. Shearer & Co. 

 started on his summer vacation last week. 



Visitors to the trade during the last fortni;;ht 

 included: Geo. Mitchell of White, Gratwick & 

 Mitchell. Buffalo. N. Y. : J. B. Hatch of the 

 Edward Hines Lumber Company, Pittston, I'a.. 

 and diaries Anderson of the Ohio-Pennsylvania 

 Lunilier Company. Axis. Ala. 



Baltimore. 



Among the visiting lumbermen in Baltimore 

 last week was G. W. ( urtin of the Pardee ifc 

 Curtin Lumber Company. Curtin. W. Va. Mr. 

 Curtin \/as on his way to Atlantic City for a 

 .short staj" with his family, who are summering 

 tliere. Speaking of business, he stated that a 

 brisk demand prevails generally for every kind 

 uf stock, and prices remain attractive. Mr. Cur- 

 tin stated that the mill which his company is 

 building at Curl in to take the place of the 



one destroyed by fire some months ago i,s near- 

 ing completion and will likely be in operation 

 by the first week in September. It will have a 

 daily capacity of PJO.OOO feet of hardwoods and 

 will be run day and night. The mill is of the 

 df'uble band variety. 



(in the petition of the National I.'nion Bank 

 of Baltimore, the (iailatin National Bank of 

 New York and Ferdinand C. Fisher, receivers 

 have been appointed for the Hiss Company, 

 dealer in and manufacturer of interior woodwork 

 and high-class furniture, with a factory at 2 to 

 10 East North avenue, this city. According to 

 the statement filed, the Hiss Company is in- 

 debted to the National I'nion Bank in the sum 

 of $o»i.50o, ehietly on promissory notes, and to 

 the New York bank in the amount of ?2rp.00n. 



Information has been received iu this city 

 from Ilagerstowri. Md.. that' the Bear Pond Lum- 

 ber Company of Washington county. Maryland, 

 has leased 1,000 acres of manganese land in 

 Shenandoah county, Virginia, to Oluey McCor- 

 mack of I'hiladelphia, which will pay to the 

 lessees $loo.oon and one-half of the profits from 

 the working of the (U-e deposits. P. M. Mishler, 

 president of the Bear Pond Company, has sold 

 to the firm of Mowel & Bro. of Hanover, I'a.. 

 0.000 acres of timber land adjoining the man- 

 ganese property for $4(J,000. The timber tract 

 is estimated to contain l.l.iiou.ooo feet of white 

 oak besides other timber. 



Thomas Hughes of Carter, Hughes & Co. re- 

 turned last week from a trip to Troutdale, Va., 

 where the Irin Mountain Lumber Company, an 

 .illied concern, is operating a lartie sawmill. Mr. 

 Hughes also visited a number of lumber mills 

 en route and found them all active. 



R. ]•:. Wood of the U. K. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany is nil a western trip. He will be away 

 about two weeks, and will go as" far as Chicago, 

 probably returning by way of Toledo. (>., and 

 Williamsport. Pa. 



The Virginia Iron &, Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,- 

 ooo. John M. Bley, an attorney of Fifteenth 

 and Chestnut streets. I'hiladelphia, can give de- 

 tailed information about the new enterprise. 



John L. Alcock of J. L. Aicock & Co. returned 

 last week from a trip to West Virginia. He 

 visited the firm's offices at Clarksbnig and other 

 places. ^ 



Pittsburg. 



Loral lumberuieTi to tlie number of six or eight 

 will accompany the Merchants' & Manufacturers' 

 Association on its next trip for trade extensions, 

 which occurs Octobei' 2'2-'2it. President Fred K. 

 Babcock has outlined a unique purpose for this 

 excursion into the mountains, namely, to make 

 the coal and lumber interests of West Virginia 

 become better act pi a in ted with Pittsburg's won- 

 derful importance as a maiiiifaciurer of machin- 

 ery. 



AVithin the last week there have been several 

 good iniiuiries for hard maple among big local 

 firms. Very little is offering and this is not 

 the sort of lumber that is salable to furniture 

 firms or other manufacturers of high-class prod 

 ucts. U'he small lots cut in western Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio have been picked u]) as fast as 

 di-y, and the portable mills are being shifted to 

 other fields. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company, which sraited 

 in business a few months ago in the Mouse 

 building, under the direction of c. L. Wi<'ker- 

 sham. is working np a fine trade in white and 

 red oak. This is obtained largely from West 

 Virginia, and is sold chiefly in Indiana and the 

 Middle West. 



Wii rehouse building is again on the spurt in 

 Pittsburg. Some eight or ten buildings are pro- 

 posed for fall building in addition to a dozen or 

 more big warehouses which are now in course 

 of erecti(m. Oi'ders are also being placed now 

 for the hardwood finish of various kinds which 

 will be used on the twenty-story skyscraper be 

 ing erected by the Pnion National Bank and the 

 Commonwealth Trust Company, and the sixteen- 

 storv Bei'ger building. 



D. J. Itex & Co.. manufacturers of boxes, will 

 build a large box factory in Locust street, 

 doubling their present capacity. 



John Lochrie of Windber, Pa., has invested 

 about .$0o,000 in timber land in South <;arolina 

 and Georgia. He gets 7..")00 acres of land which, 

 it is estimated, will cut 85.000.000 feet of hard- 

 wood, poplar and yellow pine. Operations will 

 lie started there at once. 



Considerable interest is being taken by big 

 local firms which have operations in Canadian 

 territory over the proposed appointment of a 

 commission to settle disputes in that country. 

 The Pritish ambassador at Washington has in- 

 formed the Dominion government that the 

 Fnited States will name a commission to act 

 with one from Canada in going fully into all 

 matters in dispute over rights on the St. John 

 river in New Brunswick. Rival interests clashed 

 frequently there last winter and local concerns 

 were very much interested in the troubles. 



L F. Balsiey of the Willsou Brothers Company 

 is again in the South. He is on the scout for 

 more hardwood stocks and is taking a careful 

 survey of the hardwood situation at the com- 

 pany's mills and their other sources of sup- 

 pl.v. 



The Farrin-Korn Lumber Company of Cincin- 

 nati, O., announces that it is having a trade 

 that fully justifies it in establishing a Pittsburg 

 office. In cypress, gum and Cottonwood it is get- 

 ting a reputation in Pittsburg that is putting it 

 in the front rank among local firms. 



Mowel & Brother of Hanover. I'a., have bought 

 a large tract of hardwood timber land iu Shen- 

 andoah county. West Virginia, for $40.oo(}. They 

 will develop the property this fall. 



The J. L. Kendall Lumber Company has bought 

 an additional tract of 200 acres in Garrett 

 county, Jlaryland, making a total of 30,000 acres 

 near Crellin. Md., which it now owns. To cut 

 off the hardwood on this tract the company will 

 at once extend its railroad, and bring the logs 

 down to the Crellin mill, where it is now cutting 

 7.'.. 000 feet a day. 



The J. P. Caughey Lumber Company is pound- 

 ing away on its oak orders jvith a vengeance. 

 Not a few of these are placed with the river 

 contractors, who are putting in new dams, etc. 

 I Uiring the last sixty days the firm has sold 

 over 800 pieces of oak to these contractors. It 

 bought another small tract of very choice oak 

 timber in Washinglr»n county. Pennsylvania, last 

 week and will start an operation there in Sep- 

 tember. 



J. N. Woollett, sales manager of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, says that 

 hardwoods are leading all stocks In demand. Ac- 

 cording to this company not over haff of the 

 planing mills in Allegheny county are working, a 

 result which may be attributed directly to the 

 carpenters* strike. 



Pittsburg made an exceptionally good show- 

 ing in building in July. New operations involv- 

 ing an estimated expenditure of $1,58G.,1.50 were 

 authorized. This compares well with a total of 

 .1;l:^O0.7:i4 in July. lOi 5. Considering the fact 

 that the carpenters' strike was not settled till 

 about the middle of July, the showing is very 

 euct.ui-aging to lumbermen. 



PirtsburK lumber firms, hardwood concerns in 

 particular, are getting very wary of the so-called 

 timber broker. Too often within the last two 

 years they have found him to be a "shyster" 

 of the deepest hue. Not a hardwood firm in the 

 city but that is visited by these sharks. They 

 are profuse in their offerings of timber any- 

 where and everywhere in the Pittsburg freight 

 radius. But when their propositions are sifted 

 down it is usually found that they are offei'ing 

 "worn out" operations, small and inaccessible 

 tracts, second growth timber that has not at 

 tained marketable size, or land to which a clear 

 title cannot be obtained. Itecently local firms 

 have investigated thoroughly several tracts that 

 were tstimated by brokers to cut several million 

 feet, and which, on examination, were found 

 to be good for a bare half million feet of infiTior 

 timber. 



