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HARDWOOD RECORD 



J. B. Ransom, head of J. H. Hansom & Co. 

 and the XashviUe Hardwood Flooring Company, 

 accompanied b.v his «i£e and son. spent several 

 days on a visit here, making their headijuarters 

 at the Holland House. 



President R. M. Carrier and Secretary Lewis 

 Doster of the Hardwood jManufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation of the L'nited States were in town for 

 several days last weeli at the headquarters of the 

 association, I.Madison avenue, busily eugaged in 

 association affairs. Both gentlemen spoke most 

 optimistically of the general hardwood situation 

 from current and prospective standpoints, and 

 looked for a firm market for some time to come, 

 which ihey are inclined to believe will be shared 

 by low-grade as well as the high-grade hard- 

 woods. 



Other hardwood visitors of special interest 

 were N. J. G. Van Keulen, Van Keulen & Wilkin- 

 son Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; 

 F. A. Kirby, sales manager of the Cherry River 

 Doom lit Lumber Company, Scranton, Pa. ; 

 Charles H. Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind. : E. E. 

 Goodlander. Goodlander-Robertson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn., and W. M. McCormIck of 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Secretary George Wilson-Jones of the Retailers' 

 Association of the State of New York, head- 

 quarters Utica, N. Y., was also a recent visitor 

 in the interest of business. 



Edward Hines, head of the Edn^ard Hines 

 Lumber Company, Chicago, was in town during 

 the fortnight in the interest of business. 



F. B. Southgale, chief inspector of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, has been 

 spending considerable time in New York and 

 vicinity during the past fortnight in the interest 

 of association matters. 



J. V. Stimson, the prominent hardwood lum- 

 berman of Huutingburg, Ind.. devoted several 

 days during the fortnight between this city and 

 Philadelphia in the interests of business. 



The services of John McClave as treasurer and 

 a director o£ the McClave Lumber Company have 

 been discontinued and he is not now identilied 

 v;ith the Arm in any official capacity. His 

 withdrawal will not affect the corporation finan- 

 cially. In three years the company expects to 

 celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and in begin- 

 ning the last half of the century hopes to start 

 in with the same enthusiasm, the same vigor 

 that its predecessors did forty-seven yi^ars ago. 



BUFFALO 



Angus McLean, who is the Canadian member 

 of the McLean interest, is now shutting down 

 those mills for the winter, having already closed 

 the one at Cascapedia and will have the Bathurst 

 mill laid up soon. 



Lumbermen, and especially the hardwood mem- 

 bers of the trade, have bsen very much occupied 

 with the late exposition of the Manufacturers' 

 Club, so that they were ready on call at any 

 time to drop their own business to attend to 

 that. The hard work has brought success, for 

 it is said that the exposition has not only 

 helped the city very much in a general way. but 

 the profits are likely to amount to a matter of 

 $15,000. 



The next question to settle is to fix on a site 

 for next year's show. If the city does not build 

 a suitable convention hall that will also answer 

 for the exposition, the Manufacturers' Club will 

 have to do it, for it will not answer to give up 

 so good a thing. If the club does take the mat- 

 ter up there will be more work for the lumber- 

 men members to do along that line. 



Better prices in the woods handled by F. W. 

 Vetter is the report from him. especial men- 

 tion being made of maple and oak, though he is 

 quite long on all the leading hardwoods this 

 season. 



With a yard full of hardwood himbcr here 

 and another in Memphis and two or three wood- 

 working, mills in the city to look after, it is 



certain that the members of the Buffalo Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company are quite busy this fall. 



The end of the Buffalo exposition releases Pres- 

 ident Frank A. Beyer from a second hard strain 

 he has borne as the head of the Manufacturers' 

 Club, under the auspices of which it was given, 

 and now he hardly knows whether he is a lum- 

 berman again or merely a citizen who is running 

 for county treasurer, 



I. N. Stewart may truthfully be said to have 

 "done noble" as the chairman of the entertain- 

 ment committee of the exposition. He sold some 

 good lots of lumber at the same time. 



Scatcherd & Son are sure that there is reason 

 for a better price and a larger movement in the 

 lumber trade, for logs have gone up so high in 

 the Southwest that it is not always easy to get 

 a profit out of them. 



There is activity in the dock yard of T. Sulli- 

 van & Co., as it is fall of the year and the plan 

 is to put in a large lot of lake hardwoods. It is 

 hard to flud barges, for there is a big demand 

 for them in other trades. 



O. E. Yeager is looking to his mills south of 

 the Ohio to turn out some extra stock this fall, 

 some of which will be brought here to replace 

 his sales, which have been decidedly good all 

 through the fall so far. 



President A. Miller of the Hardwood Exchange 

 did not call the body together last week, and as 

 the meeting the previous week was with the 

 general exchange and the members were Invited 

 out by the Automobile Club on the week before 

 tlwt, the score is pretty clean this month so far. 



Hush McLean is always off on a two weeks' 

 trip into the eastern hardwood market, but he is 

 ably seconded at the home office while away, and 

 the reports of the mills at Memphis and south- 

 ward are favorable to good business. The Mem- 

 phis mill is again running steadily. 



The word from the Standard Hardwood Com- 

 pany is that business is all right and that there 

 is all of the usual amount of good hardwood 

 stock coming up from the Kentucky and Tennes- 

 sei- mills of the company to keep the yard well 

 stocked. 



It may be that some of the local lumber deal- 

 ers are carrying a light stock into winter, but it 

 is not G. Elias & Bro., for the report is that the 

 yard is fully stocked with all sorts of the many 

 varielies they have formerly carried. 



PHILADELPHIA 



It i.s reported that fiom $300,000,000 to $400,- 

 000,000 worth of railroad equipment is now in 

 use in this country, which was idle in the dullest 

 period for railroad traffic last year. 



The De Soto Lumber Company, Jersey City, 

 N. J., was incorporated under New Jersey laws 

 on Oct. 4 with a capital stock of $50,000. 



The Granville Lumber Company, Philadelphia, 

 was recently chartered under Delaware laws with 

 a capital of $100,000. 



The Reamer Handle Company, capitalized at 

 $25,000, is a new concern for Manor, Pa. 



The United Furniture Company started busi- 

 ness in South Bethlehem on Oct. IG with a 

 capital stock of $50,000. 



Willard S. Paden of the Northampton Emery 

 Wheel Company, extensive manufacturers of 

 emery wheels and emery wheel machinery, Leeds, 

 Mass., says that some sections are a little slow 

 in their recuperation from the effects of the 

 panic, but the general tone is much improved 

 and the company is getting substantial orders 

 from the eastern and western fields. Indications 

 are favorable for a normal activity in the near 

 future. The Chicago office of this company is 

 located at 100 South Clinton street. 



Francis J. Snow of the Francis J. Snow Com- 

 pany, wholesale hardwoods, etc., Greenfield. 

 Mass., maintains an easy tranquillity as to con- 

 ditions, as some very desirable orders are being 

 booked. The company is the most extensive 

 handler of hardwoods in this section and its 

 trade reputation is one to be proud of. 



Emil Guenther, wholesale lumber dealer, re- 

 ports business touching normal with prices 

 sirenglhening. He spent a week recently at his 

 nulls in Bristol. Tenn. 



Harry R. Humphreys of the Hardentine Lum- 

 ber Company states that in spite of the relaxed 

 activity during tlie summer the company has 

 kept mills running and carried on an extensive 

 export trade. Discarding all inferior lumber, it 

 secured good prices. 



Charles M. Betts of Charles M. Belts & Co. 

 nports a magnified trading. He has great con- 

 fidence in the future outlook. 



A. W. Smenner, representative of the Fenwick 

 Lumber Company, reports expanded business. 

 Prices are stronger and the outlook inspires con- 

 fidence. 



The D. G. Courtney Company of Charleston, 

 W. Va., with which Jerome H. Sheip, formerly 

 of Sheip & Vandegrift, Inc., has recently become 

 y.ssociated, and of which the Big Four Hard, 

 wood Company is an auxiliary company, is being 

 incorporated for $1,000,000 with surplus of 

 $420,000. It owns 30,000 acres of the finest 

 poplar timber in West Virginia. The land also 

 contains some of the finest veins of soft coal, 

 oil and gas. 



John P. Cline, individually and trading as the 

 Cline Wagon Company of this city, was adjudged 

 an involuntary bankrupt in the United States 

 district court Oct. 4 : referee, Theodore M. 

 Etting. 



PITTSBURG 



E. H. Shreiner, local manager of the Goodwin 

 Lumber Company, made a week-end trip to New 

 York recently with good results. He says trade 

 is coming up right along, the only difficulty being 

 to get cars for his daily shipments. 



The I'ennsylvania State Forestry Commission 

 last week bought 12,300 acres of forest land in 

 Clinton, Cameron, Perry and Franklin counties 

 at an average cost of $150 per acre. This makes 

 the total forest area of 940,000 acres now under 

 the control of the state. 



J. G. Criste, secretary of the Interior Lumber 

 Company and also of the Pittsburg Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, is mourning the 

 death of his four-year-old daughter Edna, who 

 died recently from the effects of diphtheria. 



The Railroad & Car Material Company is push- 

 ing right into the hardwood business with a vim 

 under the direction of A. C. Schuyler, who re- 

 cently assumed charge of its hardwood depart- 

 ment. This concern has some of the very best 

 connections out of Pittsburg and its members 

 are thoroughgoing lumbermen in every sense of 

 the word. 



The Broadford Cooperage Company has been 

 formed at Pittsburg by G. F. Kober, Jr., and 

 F. W. Kober and H. T. Holllngshead of this 

 city. It will manufacture both from wood, metal 

 and pulp, and will have a plant near Pittsburg. 



J. R. Wheler & Co. are setting their stakes 

 for selling 20,000,000 feet of lumber in 1910. 

 Their box business is looking fine and Mr. 

 Wheler anticipates a very steady and rapid 

 gain in business the rest of the year. 



J. N. Wooliett, who recently organized the 

 Aberdeen Lumber Company, spent the first part 

 of the month on a 4,000-mile trip down the 

 .Mlantic coast. He built up his fences all along 

 the line in good shape and came back greatly 

 enthused over the prospects for a good hardwood 

 lumber business. 



A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company 

 has returned from a business trip to the East, 

 as has also F. X. Diebold from a trip to the 

 southern states. 



The Ashtola plant of E. V. Babcock & Co. was 

 slightly crippled last week by an accident to one 

 of its main power engines. The company is run- 

 ning at full speed at that plant. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company through 



