HARDWOOD RECORD 



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its managei-, B. W. Cross, announces that busi- 

 ness is picliing up daily in oalj l>iil stuff. Tliis 

 is wanted cliiefiy for tlie manufacturing trade, 

 as the yards so tar are not buying heavily. 



The Germain Company announces some im- 

 provement in heavj' timber business and a little 

 tendency to get into the export trade again. The 

 latter has been disappointing most of the year 

 to date. 



The Henderson Lumber Company is buying 

 large quantities of lumber from the country 

 mills to cover its trade with the coal and coke 

 interests. Its business is decidedly satisfactory 

 ■at present and Mr. Henderson believes that the 

 ■coming six montlis will be a record-breaking 

 period in this line. 



The W. P. Craig I^umber Company reports 

 increasing shipments, especially of spruce. Both 

 merchant and box lumber are selling in larger 

 <juantities than a few months ago, and much 

 ■better prices are being secured. 



The H. V. Curil Lumber Company is very 

 strong on the poplar market and bases its judg- 

 ment on a frequent inspection of stocks at the 

 West Virginia mills. Although poplar has been 

 a. rapid seller all the year, Mr. Curll believes 

 that this winter it is going to be an exception- 

 ally scarce article in the better grades, and he is 

 beeping his connections well built up, in addition 

 to putting forth all efforts for making a good 

 •cut at their own plant. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is market- 

 ing a nice lot of lumber from its new hardwood 

 ■operation near Blackstone, W. Va. Mr. Satler 

 says prices are getting "ripe" very rapidly. 



J. L. Kendall, president of the Kendall Lum- 

 ber Company, goes to Oregon this week for a -sis 

 ■weeks' stay, to look over the timber and power 

 interests of the Kendalls in that state. J. F. 

 Henderson, secretary of the company, spent a 

 ■week with the eastern trade recently. The Ken- 

 ■dall concerns are sold ahead in many lines and 

 could do more business if there were cars suf- 

 ficient to take care of shipments from the large 

 manufacturing points. 



H. C. Bemis of Bemis & Vosburgh has just 

 returned from the West Virginia plants and re- 

 ports them all very busy. W. W. Wilson. Jr., of 

 the same company, has been over in Ohio work- 

 ing the Buckeye trade. This firm notes a very 

 lair tone in the market in all respects, with 

 prices holding their own well. 



The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad 

 Company, following the example of the Pennsyl- 

 ■vania Railroad Company, is arranging to build a 

 ■large creosoting plant at Cloe, Pa. Its agents 

 bave been instructed to buy all the ties they 

 •could get, and one contract for 10,000 was signed 

 last week. 



The largest white oak tree which has been 

 <ut in Trumbull county, Ohio, for more than 

 fifty years, was delivered to the Helman Ship 

 Timber Company in Warren, Ohio, recently. It 

 was 62 feet long, 7 feet in diameter, and con- 

 tained 7,560 feet of lumber, board measure. The 

 tree was cut in Gustavus township and was 

 sold for .$100. The Helman company will dress 

 the stick down to 30 inches square and 62 feet 

 long and then ship it to New York to be used 

 as a dredge anchor. 



J. B. Flint, president of the Flint, Erving & 

 ■Stoner Lumber Company, says that the company 

 shipped 260 cars of lumber in September. It is 

 ■now drying a large amount of hardwood from 

 its new operation in Dunlevie, W. Va.. and will 

 "be ready to make sJiipments of this about Decem- 

 l)er 1. By that time he anticipates that prices 

 for hardwood will range quite a little higher 

 than now. Mr. Flint last week made a flying 

 trip to Canada and took in the world's series 

 l)aseball games at Detroit on the way. 



A very suggestive note of warning comes from 

 J. B. Johnston, president of the American Lum- 

 "ber & Manufacturing Company, who says ; "The 

 demand for lumber is increasing and prospects 

 are fine, but a very serious car shortage threat- 

 •ens within the next forty days. We are noticing 



it very much in different spots and are advising 

 all our customers to get their orders in early so 

 that we can figure on splitting up the shipments 

 and satisfying their needs. The Floralo plant of 

 the American is busy cutting .vellow pine and 

 there is now some activity at the hardwood 

 operation at Paxton, Tenn." 



Pittsburg wholesalers and retailers are consid- 

 erably agitated over the question, "Who shall 

 receive the rebates in freight ordered by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission from certain 

 railroads?" The wholesaler naturally expects 

 to get these rebates, which are going to amount 

 to a large sum to Pittsburg firms. Lately, how- 

 ever, retailers have awakened to the fact that 

 perhaps some of this money belonged to them, 

 especially as some of them paid the freight 

 direct, while others claim that they paid the 

 freight in higher charges asked l>y the whole- 

 salers for stock. The decision is iwing awaited 

 with great interest and will mean hundreds of 

 dollars to many Arms. 



BOSTON 



The Robbins Lumber Company, representing 

 several hardwood lumber manufacturers, has re- 

 moved its Boston office from 79 Milk street to 

 the Broad Exchange building, S8 Broad street. 

 Mr. Bobbins sells the "Acorn" brand of oak 

 flooring and reports a good demand. He has 

 placed several very good contracts within a few 

 weeks. 



H. \V. Blanchard of the Bianchard Lumber 

 Company has been appointed a delegate to the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Trade from the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, of which he is president. Mr. Blanchard 

 is also a member of the Boston Chamber of 

 Commerce. This body has succeeded in interest- 

 ing the Clyde line to establish direct sailing be- 

 tween Boston and Galveston, Texas. It is re- 

 ported that this line of steamers will be started 

 before long. 



Charles M. Hamlin of Wistar, Underbill & Co. 

 of Philadelphia, Pa., was a recent visitor in this 

 market. 



A representative of Hoar & Brown, timber, 

 team and mahogany merchants, London. Eng- 

 land, is visiting this country in the interests 

 of his firm. He made a call upon the Boston 

 trade about ten days ago. 



William E. Litchfield of this city is an expert 

 on hardwood lumber and has given a great deal 

 of study to the various kinds of hardwoods and 

 the growth of the same. He has always been 

 willing to impart to others what it has taken 

 him many years to learn. He recently gave a 

 lecture on forestry at Braintree. Mass., using 

 lantern slides to illustrate his talk. 



Mr. Barclay, representing the William B. 

 Morse Lumber Company of Rochester, N. Y., was 

 a recent visitor in this market. Mr. Barclay 

 leports business as improving. 



The Tiffany & Pickett Company of Winchester. 

 Conn., has been incorporated to deal in lumber 

 and other building materials, with a capital 

 stock of $75,000. The incorporators are Dwight 

 E. Tiffany and Frederick B. Pickett of Winsted 

 and Alexander Plumley of Waterbury. 



There has been a large gain in the building 

 contracts awarded in New England since the 

 first of January as compared with those of the 

 same period last jcar. The gain this year is 

 almost $10,000,000. 



The Metropolitan Chair Company is the style 

 of a new corporation formed to do business in 

 New Haven, Conn. C. F. Walker is president 

 and n. S. Munhall is secretary and treasurer. 



The C. H. Aunable Lumber Company is now 

 located in its new office at 41 Court street, 

 Springfield, Mass. The company has large yards 

 adjoining. 



The Winchendon Bobbin Company, Winchen- 

 don, Mass., plans to materially increase its out- 

 put. For a number of years the business has 



been conducted in a part of the Wilder P. Clark 

 Company's plant, which was recently purchased 

 by William M. Whitney. 



The Ellsworth Hardwood Company, Ellsworth, 

 Me., is having a new storehouse erected. The 

 business of this company is on the increase. 



George H. Clark, manager of the A. V. Clark 

 Lumber Company, Peabody, Mass., died recently. 

 He leaves a son, who was associated with him 

 in business, and a widow and two daughters. 



From a preliminary description recently filed 

 in the Office of Public Buildings, Worcester. 

 Mass., it is learned that the new plant to be 

 built at Greendale by Osgood Bradley & Sons 

 will comprise six separate buildings, emljracing 

 a working iioor space of approximately 175,000 

 square feet and which will eventually employ 

 1,000 skilled workmen. The six buildings will 

 consist of an erecting or constructing shop, a 

 paint shop, powerhouse, lumber kiln, lumber 

 shed and a two-story office building. All but 

 the lumber shed and oflSce will be of steel and 

 concrete construction. Steel frame passenger 

 coaches, passenger coaches of wood, and trolley 

 cars will be built in the new plant. Freight 

 csrs will rot be built there. 



BALTIMORE 



-i big revival in the lumber business is re- 

 ported from Cumberland, Md., concerning the 

 operations of the Kendall Lumber Company at 

 Crellin, Garrett county, Maryland. It is stated 

 that this company during the months of July, 

 August and September sent out not less than 

 712 cars of lumber from its mills. Counting 

 each car as forty feet long, the shipments for 

 the three months made a train five and two-flfths 

 miles in length. Crellin is about ten miles from 

 Oakland. Garrett county, and practically all the 

 inhabitants of the town are employed by the 

 Kendall company. A branch road connects 

 Crellin with the Baltimore & Ohio main line at 

 Hutton, Md., and there is a logging road which 

 extends twelve miles back into the mountains. 



The Croft Lumber Company, which takes its 

 name from the last syllable of the name of Dr. 

 Robert A. Ravenscroft of Garrett county, Mary- 

 land, and surveyor of the port of Baltimore, 

 has opened its new lumber plant at Alexander, 

 W. Va., and is now turning out large quantities 

 of lumber there. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, started last week on a 

 tour of several weeks, to do some missionary 

 work among members of the organization and 

 make efforts to get new members. He went 

 first to New York and Buffalo, and it was his 

 purpose afterward to take in Cincinnati, Pitts- 

 burg, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, 

 Mobile and other cities. Mr. Terry expects to 

 be away about three weeks. 



Among the visitors here in the past two 

 weeks were Irvine Whaley of the Whaley-Warren 

 Lumber Company, Bristol, Tenn. : F. D. Duf- 

 field of Beecher & Barr, Pottsville, Pa., and 

 Oscar Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co. of Pitts- 

 burg. The latter concern is one of the largest 

 of its kind in the country, and handles all of 

 the hardwoods, as well as some softwood. It 

 makes a specially of spruce. Mr. Babcock reported 

 that business in his section of the country was 

 improving and that not only the demand was 

 better but that prices were moving up. 



A similar report was made by Mr. Fassett, 

 the representative of the George D. Emery Com- 

 pany of Chelsea, Mass., extensive dealers in ma- 

 hogany. Mr. Fassett was here this week and 

 called 00 some of the local dealers in mahogany, 

 also placing several orders. He stated that busi- 

 ness everywhere was picking up. 



Information has been received by hardwood 

 exporters here that John Cant of the Glasgow 

 firm of Cant & Kemp will shortly come on a 

 visit. Mr. Cant came over on the Caronia, land- 

 ing in New Y'ork, and starting from there on a 



