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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ganizatiou here with regard to the demands to 

 be made upon the trans-Atlantic lines. The 

 matter is in the hands of the transportation 

 committee, but it is deemed desirable to get the 

 opinions of the membership in order that the 

 committee will have something deflnite to work 

 on. It is considered likely that the next meet- 

 ing of the association will be held in this city. 



Lightning set fire to the large planing mill 

 of the Norfolk & Western railroad at Roanoke. 

 Va.. August 9, and the plant was completely 

 destroyed. The loss is estimated at not less 

 than .$100,000, and 100 men are thrown out of 

 employment until the mill can be rebuilt. 



D. W. Simmons of Detroit, Mich., has sold to 

 A. M. Nevin & Co. of Philadelphia the Sellwood 

 tract of timber land in Stafford county, Virginia, 

 near Fredericksburg, for .$7,000. The tract em- 

 braces some 1,300 acres and it is said that 

 nearly two years will be required to cut the 



timber. 



Pittsburg. 

 The Cheat River Lumber Company is negoti- 

 ating for a large tract of hardwood timber land 

 adjoining its plant at Burkevllle, Va. Its de- 

 mand for oak and hickory is such that one of 

 its mills will be put to cutting these woods ex- 

 clusively after September 1. The company's 

 hickory customers are mostly the wagon and 

 agricultural implement manufacturers of Uhio, 

 Indiana and Jlichigan. who are lively bidders 

 this month tor good stock. 



The Blairsville Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which has offices in the Washington Na- 

 tional Bank building in this city, is going out 

 of business at Blairsville, Pa., and for this rea- 

 son is selling its stock and machinery at that 

 point. It has been cpiite a large manufacturer 

 of hardwood railings, balustrades and ornamental 

 woodwork. The Pittsburg offices will be retained 

 for the present. 



The Germain Lumber Company is having a 

 good trade in oak and poplar. Louis Germain. 

 Jr., president of the company, has taken a large 

 block of stock in the newly organized Lewis Land 

 & Lumber Company, with headquarters at Mo- 

 bile, Ala. This company has a good tract of 

 timber in that locality and will push an exten- 

 sive operation this fall. 



The Warland Luraljer Company has been 

 formed by C. D. Armstrong, M. K. Salisbury and 

 J. E. Quigley. It has a capital of .1!2.j.O00 and 

 will enter tlie Pittsburg field as quite an exten- 

 sive dealer in hartlwoods. 



W. P. Craig, local manager for William Whit- 

 mer & Sons, Inc., has gone South again. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company has put 

 in a new circular saw at its mill at Jacksonburg, 

 W. Va., on the. West Virginia Short Line rail- 

 road. This mill cuts nothing but oak and at 

 its present rate of 20,000 feet a day has enough 

 timber around it to last three years. The stock 

 comes to the Pittsburg market largely. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from an extensive stay at the 

 company's mills in Kentucky and Tennessee. 

 Very few of the hardwood mills there are down 

 for "repairs, he reports, although a few of the 

 river mills have shut down temporarily the last 

 few days. Stocks are not large and the mill 

 owners in those states seem determined to keep 

 prices up to a profitable working notch. 



W. D. Johnston, president of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, is in the 

 South for two weeks. 



Charles 11. and Gustave A. Bruckman and 

 Louis 11. Baer have applied for a Pennsylvania 

 charter for the Bruckman Lumber Company. 

 The concern is well and favorably known in 

 Greater Pittsburg and carries a big stock of 

 hardwood building lumber. 



F. W. RuskaufE, president of the RuskauK 

 Lumber Company, has gone west, and will visit 

 the Pacific coast. His intention is to make some 

 desirable connections with the big lumber firms 

 in that district preparatory to pushing out his 

 company's trade this fall and winter. 



The Raleigh Lumber Company is going to build 

 a railway up Piney creek, near Uinton, W. Va. 

 Its cost, according to the contract awarded, will 

 be fully !i;22D,000, and it will tap some of the 

 richest timber and coal lands in the southern 

 part of the state. 



George W. Nicola, president of the Nicola 

 Lumber Company, has become interested in the 

 beautiful Sewickley Heights district, where he 

 recently purchased a GO-acre farm. Its location 

 is about 1,300 feet above sea level, and Mr. 

 Nicola intends to improve it next year. 



Fred R. Babcock of the firm of E. V. Babcock 

 & Co.. is planning an aggressive campaign when 

 he returns from his summer's vacation. He is 

 president of the Merchants' & Manufacturers' 

 Association, which will make a week's tour 

 through West Virginia in October, and is also 

 chairman of the rapid transit commission which 

 was appointed by Mayor George W. Guthrie some 

 lime ago to analyze the subway and overhead 

 traction propositions as they are submitted to 

 the city by ambitious promoters. 



Buffalo. 



Scatcherd & Son find that the demand covers 

 the list of hardwoods pretty generally, though 

 they are as usual making efforts to meet the 

 demand for oak. which is always good and active 

 with them. 



The receipts of the Standard Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company from its Kentucky mills are al- 

 ready liberal in oak and poplar, though when 

 A. W. Kreinheder gets down there on his belated 

 trip the flow will increase. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are doing the usual rushing 

 yard business in ash and birch, also in Washing- 

 ton fir, in which they are pioneers here. 



The yard of A. Miller is always well filled 

 with general hardwood lumber from various 

 points, as he lays under contribution the South 

 as well as all his old districts in Pennsylvania. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 its office in its new yard at Memphis built and 

 is putting in a stock of oak and other hardwoods 

 found in that section and further south to aid 

 in the company's general trade. 



The addition of cherry to the stock of Beyer, 

 Knox & Co. is right in their line of running an 

 all round yard, and they carry a large stock as 

 well as a finely assorted one. 



There is always plenty of stock in the Buffalo 

 yard of the Empire Lumber Company, which is 

 still receiving from the Atlantic coast and Ar- 

 kansas quantities of oak, ash, poplar and the 

 like. 



'i'he Hugh McLean Lumber Company is still 

 holding to its specialty of quartered oak. of 

 which it produces, through branch companies, 

 perhaps more than any other concern in the 

 country. 



H. A. Stewart went into oak mainly on his 

 last trip to West Virginia, his firm making a 

 specialty of that of late, along with cherry, so 

 that high-priced lumber is the rule in that yard. 

 Quite a good lot of southern hardwoods, in- 

 cluding oak and poplar, liave come up of late 

 from Campbellsville, Ky., for O. E. Yeagcr. who 

 has long made that point one of his producing 

 centers. 



The only general occurrences in the local lum- 

 ber trade of late are in the line of picnics, the 

 Lumber Exchange going to I^ckport on the 9th 

 for its final outing, making the trip by boat by 

 river and canal. The hardwood interests are 

 always best represented in these outings, as the 

 members are more closely united than the gen- 

 i-ral trade is. The chief incident of the trip 

 was the ball game, in which I. N. Stewart's nine 

 took a fall out of the nine of A. W. Kreinheder 

 to tlie score of 2M to S. 



Grand Rapids. 



The latest catalogue i.ssued by the St. Johns 

 Table Company of Cadillac shows that the com- 

 pany is making 111 different patterns of tables. 

 This multiplicity of patterns reduces the profits 

 of the furniture manufacturers everywhere. 



J. II. Robbins of the Robbins Table Company, 

 Owosso, reports that business this summer is the 

 best that it has ever been. The factory is sixty 

 days behind orders. This condition is true of 

 nearly all the furniture concerns of the state. 



W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac made the trip from 

 Northville to Traverse City recently in»his White 

 steamer in an hour and fifty-five minutes. 



O. A. Ward of this city, dealer in hardwood 

 lumber, entertained a party of distinguished 

 guests at his summer home at Northport Point, 

 August 16. The party included Congressmen 

 William Alden Smith and R. P. Bishop, State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction P. H. Kelly. 

 Representative A. F. Bunting and II. E. Gill, 

 president of the Northport village. 



The Holland Veneering Company, recently or- 

 ganized at Holland, has bought a brick factory, 

 and land has been secured for a large addition 

 to the plant. 



C. S. Bacon & Co. have started suit in the 

 superior court against the Crawford Chair Com- 

 pany, claiming damages to the amount of .$.5,000 

 on the sale of lumber. 



The Grand Rapids Herald in a recent issue 

 pays a deserved tribute to J. F. Quigley for the 

 enterprise and x^ublic spirit he has shown in 

 helping to build up South Grand Rapids, in the 

 Oakdale Park district. 



C. P. Limbert & Co.. furniture manufacturers 

 of Holland, have been incorporated; cajital. 

 $1011,000. The Limbert company recently re- 

 moved from Grand Rapids and employs loO 

 men. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rap- 

 ids will hold its monthly meeting .\ugust 28 at 

 the Lakeside Club. It is expected that F. F. 

 Fish of Chicago, secretary of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, will be present. 



Asheville. N. C. 



An important meeting of the Asheville Lum- 

 ber I'lxchange was held in the offices of the 

 I'nagusta Lumber Company here August 11 to 

 consider plans for the more speedy collection of 

 freight claims and the more prompt placing of 

 cars for the loading of lumber, and the removal 

 of these cars. The exchange, after some dis- 

 cussion, decided to appoint a committee to in- 

 vestigate further the propositions and report at 

 a meeting of the exchange to be held early In 

 September. The plans under consideration were 

 not given out, the members deeming it wise not 

 to take the public into their confidence until 

 some definite action had been taken. The com 

 mifiee is composed of W. B. McEwen, C. A. 

 Schenck and C. H. Hobbs. The lumbering inter- 

 est in this section has been badly interfered 

 with at times 'by the inability to have cars 

 placed and removed proipplly. Among those at 

 the meeting were ; W. T. Mason, president of 

 the exchange; J. M. Burns, vice president: 

 George A. Murray. C. II. Hobbs, E. E. Quintan. 

 C. E. Quinlan, Dr. C. A. Schenck, F. L. Win 

 Chester. W. B. McEwen. E. II. Hall. A. J. 

 Coumbe, H. W. Fry. J. M. English. A. II. Win- 

 chester and Zeb Curtis. 



The boundary of the Whittier Lumber Com- 

 pany, lying in Swain county, and containing 

 78.000 acres of finely timbered lands, was sold 

 at public auction this month for $449,000. The 

 Harris-Woodbury Company of Bryson City was 

 the highest bidder. The lands were sold to sat- 

 isfy outstanding notes and bonds held by the 

 Morton Trust Company of New York. 



The trade remains quiet in this territory and 

 lumber dealers are shipping little lumber. Prices 

 are slightly off and the dealers say that they 

 are waiting for an increase that is sure to come. 



Briston, 'Va.-Tenn. 



William F. Rapp and A. A. Koop. represent- 

 ing the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove. O.. were visitors in Bristol this week, 

 making heavy purchases of hardwoods for their 

 company. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody of Joseph P. Dunwoody 



