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encouragement. He made a short trip recantly 

 through the southern lumber camps to get a line 

 on the stocli situation. 



Wistar. I'nderhill & Co. report business well 

 sustained and the salesmen busy in their re- 

 spective territories. 



Samuel li. Vrooman of S. B. Vrooman & Co. 

 recently returned from an enjoyable trip to 

 Montana. 



Daniel B. Curll does not hesitate to pronounce 

 business good. He has secured some very de- 

 sirable orders of late and is consequently opti- 

 mistically disposed as to the outlook. He has 

 recently spent considerable time at the mill 

 in Glen Hay, near Alderson, \V. Va.. in which 

 he is interested. The plant there Is working full 

 capacity to get out orders, but it is difficult to 

 obtain suHicieiit cars for shipping. 



H. Billetter, manager I'hiladelphia branch of 

 the Lumber Insurers' (Jeneral Agency, has been 

 very busy in the eastern field of late. He re- 

 ports a sustained activity all along the line 

 and is much pleased with the amount of insur- 

 ance written up during the last month. 



H. B. Tomb of the Tomb Lumb r Company is 

 much encouraged over the amount of business 

 coming in. William X. Lawton, the popular 

 sales manager of this house, is touring northern 

 New Jersey and bagging good orders at satis- 

 factory prices right along. The company's mill 

 at Watoga, W. Va.. is pushed to the limit, but 

 unfortunately it is unable to obtain necessary 

 cars to till orders. W. A. Tomb, who has been 

 (juite ill during his visit to the mill, has re- 

 turned home for a time to recuperate. 



Among the recent visitors to the local trade 

 are E. H. Wilkinson, Bristol, Va. ; L. ET. Ueig- 

 hard. Swamanoa, N. C. ; James C. West of the 

 Midland Lumber Company, Parkersburg, W. Va. ; 

 A. A. Wilson, Wheeling, W. Va. ; Frederick S. 

 Pyfer of the B. B. Martin Company, Lancaster, 

 Fa. : Thomas J. Jamison and Charles W. Wain- 

 right of Norristown, I'a. : Claude S. Wetherill 

 and Joseph Buckman of Doylestown, Pa., and 

 r. S. Hepler of the Atlantic Lumber Company, 

 Atlantic City, X. J. 



H. K. Beecher of Beecher & Earr reports a 

 little slide from the usual activity of late, but 

 he looks for a quickening in all the lines soon. 



On October 2H fire visited the large sawmill 

 of the SaltUeatchie Lumber Company at Scho- 

 (ield, S. C, which is controlled by Schotield 

 Brothers of this city, destroying the entire plant 

 and causing a loss of about .$7."i,UU(J. The many 

 friends and patrons of the Schofield Brothers 

 will b,' glad to learn that the works will be im- 

 mediately rebuilt and the company in readiness 

 to ship lumber in about four months. 



The yard of tlie Charles H. O'Xeil Lumber 

 Company, Jersey, City, X. J., was destroyed by 

 lire Xovember 1. The loss is estimated at 

 floo,ut:0. 



The Continental Motor Car Company, Phila- 

 delpbia, was incorporated October 20, with a 

 capital of .$10,000. 



The Philadelphia Picture Frame & Moulding 

 Company, Camden, was incorporated under Xew 

 Jersey laws, October 2G, with a capital stock 

 of $5,0(J0. 



The Elk Garden Company, Jersey City, X. J., 

 obtained a charter under Xew Jersey laws Octo- 

 ber 26. It is capitalized at $2,000 and will deal 

 ill timber and logs. 



PITTSBURG 



Taylor & Crate, wholesale hardwoods, Buffalo, 

 have been buying considerable hardwood lumber 

 from Pittsburg wholesalers lately. The Newell 

 Bros. Lumber Company secured one of the best 

 contracts of this kind. 



E. V. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co. attended 

 the monthly meeting of the Xational Spruce 

 Manufacturers' Association at Philadelphia last 

 week. 



The J. K. Wheler Company of this city Is 



being incorporated by J. R. Wheier, Wilson II. 

 Cralle. Thornton Jeffress and Will McLain, who 

 have been identified with the firm of J. K. 

 Wheier & Co. The new concern is l)eing formed 

 to increase the business of these interests. 



Final losses estimated in the big east end 

 lumber fire which occurred October 30 have been 

 announced as follows : S. W. Means Lumber 

 Company, $90,000 ; H. W. McCall Lumber Com- 

 pany. $80,000 ; United Planing Mill Company, 

 $2.5[o00; Jones & Rodgers, $1,000. The United 

 Planing Mill Company is cleaning up its yards 

 and stocking up again with lumber to replace 

 the 400.000 feet of rough and dressed stock 

 which was burned. It is probable that the other 

 firms will resume business largely at the old 

 plant also. 



J. W. Roeves of the firm of Dean & Reeves of 

 Fairmont, W. Va., and M. Limburg of the West 

 Virginia Culvert Company are preparing to build 

 a plant at Fairmont for the manufacture of 

 spokes and handles and are ordering machinery. 

 They will be ready buyers of second growth 

 hickory or tough butts of red hickory and also 

 locust timber. 



A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company 

 made quite an extended trip through eastern 

 markets two weeks ago and returned much 

 pleased with the outlook, 



A. M. Turner of the Allegheny Lumber Com- 

 pany has been speeding around through West 

 Virginia and other southern states and looking 

 up stock and making new connections with the 

 southern mills. He is confident that the market 

 is getting in better form every day. 



H. V. Curll Lumber Company announces that 

 its mills at Glenway, W. Va., are running full 

 time and that the new Glenray railroad, which 

 will open up a big tract of timber near that 

 place, is progressing finely. Mr. Curll reports 

 the poplar market getting to a point where buy- 

 ers will have to work hard to get any assort- 

 ment of desirable stocks. 



The Mead & Speer Company is doing a nice 

 business in dimension hardwood, chiefly oak. 

 its new plant at Strange Creek, W. Va., is turn- 

 ing out a fine lot of luml)er, a considerable part 

 of which it sells in Ohio and the Middle West. 



The Croft Lumber Company, which is con- 

 trolled by the Kendall interests of this city, 

 made its first run at Alexander, W. Va., two 

 weeks ago, cutting 7,000 feet per hour. Its 

 average capacity is 70,000 feet per day. This 

 is the largest lumber plant in Upshur county, 

 \\est Virginia, and will be fed by a tweuty-mile 

 railroad known as the Alexandria & Rich Moun- 

 tain railroad. 



J. W. Hulso. Pittsburg manager of the Penn- 

 sylvania Lumber Company, reports trade im- 

 proving and stocks of lumber at the mills di- 

 minishing. The company's shipments in Sep- 

 tember and October were fine. Especially in 

 lath he notes a shortage which is going to be 

 extremely hard to satisfy. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company is cutting 

 500,000 feet a day at its West Virginia plant. 

 Its chief difficulty is to get cars to move out its 

 lumber on time. The B. & O., C. & O. and 

 Western Maryland sre all short of cars and the 

 situation is getting more aggravated in the 

 Little Mountain state every day. 



The Kinzua Lumber Company, which is oper- 

 ating at Morrison. I'a., has secured u.OOO acres 

 of the most valuable timl>er land at Morrison 

 Hun. Hemlock Run. Watsonville and other ad- 

 .iacent points in Pennsylvania. The company 

 is building a modern sawmill which will be 

 ready to operate about December 1 and will 

 have a large capacity. The principal owners 

 are A. W. Hamm and J. H. Wickham of Kane, 

 Pa., and C. A. Strong of Mt. Jewett, Pa. 



A. C. Schuyler is making things hum in the 

 newly organized hardwood department of the 

 Railroad & Car Material Company. Mr. Schuyler 

 knows the trade, hardwood and the business, and 

 his efforts are going to put this concern right up 

 to the front of hardwood wholesalers. 



The Hertzler Lumber Company has been 

 formed by Harry Hcrtzler, W. H. Crider and 

 Peter Geesaman, all of Carlisle. Pa., and will 

 have its headquarters in that city. 



The McXitt, Hewitt Lumber Company of Belle- 

 fonte, Pa., has closed a deal with the Pennsyl- 

 vania Match Company by which it agrees to 

 deliver more than 4,000,000 feet of iumlwr to 

 that concern in the next three years. The total 

 amount involved in the deal is over $100,000. 



William R. Cornelius, one of the best known 

 individual hardwood wholesalers in Pittsburg, 

 assisted his frieud, Floyd E. Longwell, man- 

 ager of the Oneida (X. Y. 1 office of the Xational 

 Casket Company, at his wedding to Miss Edith 

 Snell. a popular young lady of Kenwood, N. Y. 

 Mr. Cornelius has been picking up some excel- 

 lent stocks in West Virginia and Kentucky re- 

 cently and finds the hardwood business on the 

 gain. 



The Kendall Lumber Company shipped 712 

 cars of lumber from its plant at Crellin. Md., 

 (hiring the months of July, August and Septem- 

 ber. Its October shipments from this point 

 practically made new records. The company is 

 oversold along several lines and is doing a boom- 

 ing business. 



Manager Brewster of the Sun Lumber Com- 

 pany of Weston, W. Va., called on the Pittsburg 

 trade last week. His company operates a big 

 planing mill at that point. 



J. L. Kendall has been touring West Virginia 

 recently in the interests of the Kendall Lumber 

 Company, of which he is president. He finds 

 high-grade poplar scarce, but plentiful in the low 

 grades. All stocks are much depleted, he says. 



A. M. Kinney recently booked an order for 

 400.1)00 feet of oak car stuff and also 127,000 

 leet of mine tipple stock, both to be delivered in 

 the Pittsburg district. Mr. Kendall is starting 

 a new mill this week down the P. & L. E., which 

 will give him four plants cutting hardwood — 

 •.aostly oak — within easy shipping distance of 

 Pittsburg. 



Frederick Siebcrt. one of the b?st known 

 v.aBon manufacturers of Pittsburg, died at his 

 home, 1301 Meyran avenue, on October 26. He 

 came to I'itt.slmrg in 1S59 and for more than 

 Ihirty-Uve years bad been id.^ntified with the 

 wagon business. 



The Union Lumb:'r Company of Warten, I'a., 

 has sold to the Clear Lake Lumber Company 

 and the Day Lumber Company of Seattle, Wash., 

 300,000,000 of standing timber in Skagia county, 

 Washington, and a big operation will be started 

 very soon. The timljcr is in one tract covering 

 about 3, .500 acres. 



The R. J. Munhall Lumber Company announces 

 Ihat business is considerably improved and Mr. 

 Munhall looks for prosperous conditions to pre- 

 vail by the ' first of the year. The company 

 do.^s not anticipate auy great gain in local 

 building before spring. 



The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company an- 

 I'ounces that business is the best it has been for 

 many months. Manager Schoville says that the 

 (irm is not working new Ijuslness hard at present, 

 as the sliortage of lumber in the hardwood mar- 

 ket makes it difficult to get stock. Many coun- 

 try consumers have lately doubled their usual 

 orders, showing that building is coming up right 

 plong in the outside districts. Mr. Schoville 

 says that the company has at present enough 

 orders in its office to run its entire plant stead- 

 ily for the next thre.= months, and adds that 

 "Hard business is not thought of in our oflice." 

 The car shortage Is becoming every day more 

 of a reality. The I'ennsylvania lines have been 

 away behind of cars enough to satisfy the lum- 

 ber shippers. The B. & O.. the C. & O., Norfolk 

 & Western and Western Maryland have been 

 especially backward, according to reports, in fur- 

 nishing cars for West Virginia and Kentucky 

 points and shipments there have been greatly 

 delayed on this account. Wholesalers in this 

 city complain that it is almost impossible to 



