HARDWOOD RECORD 



of the North Carolina lumber camps and found 

 an Increasing buoyancy of feeling as to exist- 

 ing trade conditions. Trices lie says are stiffen- 

 ing all along the line. 



Charles K. Tarry reports a more ample trad- 

 ing with an outlook for future advance. lli' 

 has engaged W. M. Stouck as salesman to cover 

 the eastern Tennsylvania field. Mr. Stouck, who 

 is one of the best known young lumbermen in 

 this territory, is sending in some good orders 

 right along. " Mr. Tarry recently returned from 

 a trip to the mill of the Selma Lumber Company, 

 Selma, N. C, iu which \v is largely interested, 

 and reports a significant buzz of machinery 

 down there, but a considerable handicap iu the 

 shipping department on account of car shortage. 

 As an evidence of the energetic spirit of 

 Schofleld Brothers, it is stated that within a 

 week after the destruction by fire of the mill 

 of the Saltkeatcbie Lumber Company, which is 

 controlled by tliem, the debris was cleared away 

 and a small" sawmill purchased and set to saw- 

 ing lumber for the erection of a new mill. 

 Kobert W. SchoHeld says in ninety days they 

 will be working full blast cutting hardwoods 

 and the famous uniform color red cypress, which 

 has become so popular with the users of this 

 wood. One of the well-known Emerson Com- 

 pany dry kilns has been contracted feu-, which 

 »ill" hav'e a capacity of 700,000 feet a month. 

 Mr. Schofleld spends a large portion of his time 

 at Schofleld, S. C superintending and rushing 

 the work of rebuilding. 



Thomas Li. Hoffman of the J. S. Kent Com- 

 pany gives a willing testimony as to a quicken- 

 iugin the trade situation. He recently made a 

 lour of the southern lumber fields sizing up mat- 

 ters, and incidentally closing some desirable 



deals. 



\V. W. Tiasli. one of the well-known salesmen 

 iu the employ of Schoflekl Brothers, has severed 

 his connection with this bouse to accept the 

 management of the business of the Ilannum 

 Lumber Company, Atlantic City, N. J., recently 

 incorporated with $100,000 capital stock. 



On November 2'J nine railroad cars for the 

 passenger service of the Spokane & In- 

 land Empire System, constructed at the 

 plant of the 1. G. Brill Company, Si.xty- 

 second street and Woodland avenue, this 

 city, left for the West on their own wheels, 

 instead of the usual trucks. The coaches will 

 be used on the line between Spokane and Coeur 

 dAlene. Work on the cars was begun about 

 Ihree months ago. The order included two 

 observation cars, two combination smoking and 

 passenger cars, three regular coaches and two 

 combination smoking and baggage coaches. All 

 cars have steel underframes. 



A pronounced Improvement in trading all 

 along the line is the word of II. C. Magruder, 

 general manager of the Tatton Company. The 

 salesmen all testify to an encouraging business 

 reception in their respective territories. 



William F. Wagner, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Tooley Furniture Company, has conveyed 

 to the company the lot of ground at the south- 

 west corner of Sixteenth and Indiana avenue, 

 70 feet by 100 feet, for a nominal consideration, 

 subject to a mortgage of ,$7,000. The ground 

 adjoins the plant of the Tooley Furniture Com- 

 pany on Indiana avenue between Sixteenth and 

 Seventeenth streets. The assessed valuation is 

 iflO.OOO. The lot will be used for enlarging the 

 factory of the Pooley Furniture Company. 



Charles G. Blatchley of Wayne, a widely known 

 lumber merchant, with offices in the Drexel 

 building, died on November IG. He was sixty- 

 flve years old. 



A mountain fire, supposed of incendiary origin, 

 recently burned a mountain timber tract four 

 miles long by two wide, from Hunters' Run to 

 the Mount Ilolly Springs Dam, just south of 

 Carlisle, Pa. Damage about ,$30,000. 



On December 1 the sawmill and over 7.000,000 

 feet of seasoned walnut lumber l)elnnging to 

 F. M. Waring, a prominent contractor of 'I'yrone, 



Ta., were destroyed by fire. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $12,000, with no insurance. 



11. E. Wooford of the Emerson Company, 

 Caither building, Baltimore. Md., was a recent 

 visitor to Thiladelphia. He reports the company 

 rushed with orders. 



Currie & Campbell, wholesale lumber dealers, 

 810 Ccuumonwealtli liiiilding. is the latest entry 

 iuto the lumber Held. The firm is composed of 

 Hen C. Currie, who recently resigned as manager 

 of Halfpenny & Hamilton, and ,Iames II. Camp- 

 bell, formerly with the Pocahontas Lumber Com- 

 pany, Brookville. Pa. They are regarded a well 

 voked team with phenomenal pulling (pialities. 

 Mr. Currie is one of the best known lumlK-rmeu 

 in the East, and bears also the weighty honor 

 of being chosen vicegerent snark of the eastern 

 district of Pennsylvania, Hoo-Hoo. The Arm will 

 represent the Pocahontas Lumber Company, 

 Burner, W, Va., and will handle spruce, hemlock 

 and hardwoods, of which they state they will 

 have from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 feet at their 

 command and ready for prompt shipment at all 

 limes. They will also deal in shortleaf and 

 other pine woods. 



W. A. Hindle of the Ilindle Lumber Company, 

 who has been ill. has just returned from a five 

 weeks' triii with his wife much improved in 

 health. 



Settlement was effected November 30 for the 

 purchase of the old Bellevue Hotel property, 

 northwest corner of Broad and Walnut streets, 

 by the Manufacturers' Club, of which a large 

 number of lumbermen are members, for $1,230,- 

 000. The club will erect on this site a large 

 l-.all, 100 feet by 100 feet, with a seating capac- 

 ity of 1,000. The first floor of the Walnut street 

 side will l» devoted to a dining-room for men ; 

 the first floor. Broad street side, will be a recep- 

 tion and reading room. The second floor of the 

 Walnut street side will be a dining-room for 

 women. The third and fourth floors will be taken 

 up by the large hall. The fifth, sixth and seventh 

 floors will contain seventy-two bedrooms and 

 seventy-two bathrooms, and to this all will be 

 added a splendid roof garden. In addition to lic- 

 ing a great clubhouse, the Manufacturers' build- 

 ing will be the home of nearly every great indus- 

 trial enterprise in the state of Pennsylvania. 

 New ,Iersey and Delaware. It is to lie the great 

 exchange or mart for all classes of trade. 



The Funi-ton Moulding Company, Camden, N. 

 ,1., obtained a charter under New Jersey laws 

 November 19. Its capital stock is $50,000. 



The Domotocar Company is the name of a 

 new concern for Trenton, N. J. It was incor- 

 porated under New .Jersey laws November 23, 

 with a capital of $1,000,000. 



The I. W. Scott Company has recently been 

 (Jiganized in I'ittsburg, Pa., to manufacture 

 agricultural implements. It is capitalized at 

 S5,000. 



The Union Saw Company, Camden, was incor- 

 porated uuder New Jersey laws November 23 

 with a capital stock of $250,000, 



The WUkes-Barre Automobile Company was 

 recently organized in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with a 

 capital stock of $5,000. 



PITTSBURG 



The sawmill and a quantity of walnut lum- 

 ber belonging to F. M. Warring of Tyrone, Pa., 

 were burned December 2. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $12,000, with no insurance. It was 

 the finest stock of walnut lumber in the state. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pauy, according to President W. D. Johnston, 

 wound up November with the Ijest showing on 

 its books of any month this year. December 

 is going to beat it, and Mr, Johnston is con- 

 fident that business will be active in 1910 and 

 that the hardwood men are .going to get a big 

 share of it. 



Bemis & ■\'osburgb are cutting from 150.000 



to 200,000 feet of lumber daily at their plants 

 at Roanoke Rapids, N. C, Bemis, W. Va., Peters- 

 burg, Va.. and Victoria, Va. Their reports 

 show that prices are edging up, although com- 

 petition is still pretty fierce in some lines. 



The Germain Company is still hoping for 

 better conditions to prevail in the export trade. 

 In other respects its business is showing much 

 better. Yard trade has been especially im- 

 proved and conditions in the eastern markets 

 look a great deal brighter. 



C. A. Shreve. formerly of Bowling Green, Ky., 

 has been appointed inspector at Pittsburg by 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association and 

 will locate here permanently in a few weeks. 

 Former Inspector Thompson is expected to Join 

 the ranks of a local lumber company the first 

 of the year. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company has cut 

 out its hardwood operation at Jacksonburg, 

 W. Va., but has not moved its mill, as it Is 

 looking for more timber in that vicinity. The 

 big Canadian operations in which Mr. Hastings 

 is largely Interested arc moving along steadily. 

 Both sales and shipments are reported good. 



The Willson Brothers Lumber Company is 

 keeping its liardwood busines well in hand and 

 flnds the increase in inquiries and orders very 

 gratifying for this season. Manager I. F. 

 Balsley of this department has been making 

 frequent trips to the East with decidedly good . 

 results to show. 



The McNitt, Iluyett Lumber Company of 

 Center Hall. Pa., will start work shortly cut- 

 ting on 4,000 acres of hardwood timber near 

 Waddell Station. This is the tract which was 

 recently purchased for $45,000 from the D. M. 

 Bare Paper Company, and is one of the best 

 lots of timber in Pennsylvania. 



State Forester John R. Williams of Franklin 

 county. Pa., has been put in charge of Penn- 

 sylvania's newest forest reserve, located on the 

 Ohio watershed in Westmoreland and Somer- 

 set counties. The State Forestry Commission 

 secured this tract a few months ago from the 

 Byers-Allen Lumber Company. It consists of 

 9.000 acres of young oak and chestnut, which 

 will be very valuable in a few years. 



Lumber matters are once more getting busy 

 on the Allegheny river. . Recent rises have 

 made it possible to float down a large amount 

 of logs and lumber, and $25,000 worth of lum- 

 ber was loaded one day last week on flat boats 

 and barges at Tionesta. This will be scat- 

 tered all through the Tittsburg district. 



The A. & S. Wilson Company, the largest 

 contracting firm in this city, has just com- 

 pleted and put in operation a three-story wood- 

 working plant on the North Side. Every ma- 

 chine in the plant is operated by an individual 

 motor. Modern machinery for planing, sawing 

 and cutting all kinds of building lumber, to- 

 gether with a blacksmith shop, wagon shop, 

 storaso building and lumber yard are provided. 

 Rlefler & Sons of Tanners Falls, Pa., have 

 just purchased from Kreitner Brothers of Hones- 

 dale Pa.. 400 acres of timber land in Mt. Pleas- 

 ant township, Wayne county. Pa. They expect 

 to cut 1.500.000 feet of hardwood and hem- 

 lock and 6,000 cords of acid wood. 



L B. Shreve, president of the Shreve Chair 

 Company of rnion City, Pa., recently an- 

 nounced that he has secured a seven-acre site 

 just east of that factory, on which there will 

 at once he erected a modern table factory, to 

 employ at least 50 men. This will be a large 

 consumer of hardwood and will add much to the 

 fame of Union City as a lumber manufacturing 

 center. 



The new Shade Gap branch of the East Broad 

 Top Railroad, which has just been completed, 

 has opened up one of the most important timber 

 tracts in Pennsylvania. The road extends from 

 Mt. Union, Pa., into the northern end of Frank- 

 lin county and penetrates a vast area of hard- 

 wood timber. 



