HARDWOOD RECORD 



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C. J. Slielburne. president of the Shelburne 

 Lumber Company of Oi'oen Bay, Va.. and A. P. 

 Irish, vice-president of tbe Fuller & Rice Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company of (jrand Rapids, 

 Mich., \\ere recent visitors in this city. 



According to the Linehan Luml)er Company, 

 the marl<et for oalt and maple flooring has 

 taken on a very much better tone tlie past two 

 weelts. There is every indication that this 

 stock will be selling at new record prices af- 

 ter January i. Buildintr operations liave been 

 going ahead in a satisfactory way on account 

 of the fine weather and with a little easier 

 money market tbe prospects for plenty of buy- 

 ers of fine hardwood lumber in lillO would be 

 Al. 



A fire which caused damage estimated at 

 $20.0(10 in all consumed the plant of the 

 Cochran Brothers Lumber Company at Aliquip- 

 pa, 20 miles below I'ittsburg on the Ohio river, 

 November 28. The himlier mill was only partly 

 insured. 



David Archibald, R. J. Gardner and H. A. 

 Burg of Denver Falls. Pa., have formed the firm 

 of David Archibald & Co. and will open a yard 

 in that place and deal in lumber and build- 

 ing materials. 



The Boswell Lumber Company of Somerset, 

 I'a., has bought for $160,000 all the timber 

 rights of A. C. Woodman in a big tract of hard- 

 wood timber in tbe Laurel mountains of Somer- 

 set and Westmoreland counties. 40 miles east 

 of Pittsburg. One or more railroad branches 

 will lie run into the tract shortly and opera- 

 linns starti'd this fall. 



The Ivendall Lumber Company has increased 

 Ibe capacity of its Crellin. Md.. plant nearly 

 100 per cent by installing an American log 

 loller. Its Croft mills are now cutting 50.000 

 feet a day. and its liardnood business is com- 

 ing along line. 



Railroads in the Pittsburg district have al- 

 ready announced that they will spend $25,000,- 

 000 next .year in track extensions, larger termi- 

 nals and other improvements. This does not 

 include expenditures for locomotives and cars. 

 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad officials state 

 positively that they will not Ijegin work on 

 their contemplated improvements before spring 

 and that there w'ill be something doing right 

 along when these are started, all of which is 

 good news to the hardwood lumber people. 



A narrow gauge bridge belonging to the Tri- 

 State Lumber Company of Dniontown. Pa., and 

 located near Dunbar. Pa., was nearly wrecked 

 by supposed vandals about ten days ago. It ex- 

 tended over a ravine 100 feet wide and its 

 stringers and supports had been chopped off 

 just before a heavy train of lumber was to be 

 shot down the grade onto the bridge. County 

 detectives are working on the case, as it is sup- 

 posed the crime was committed by discharged 

 employes of the company. 



The Fredonia Planing Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Greenville. Pa., has lately put in three 

 new machines and a veneer press. The com- 

 pany employs 10 hands night and day and has 

 the contract for furnishing 150,000 feet of 

 hardwood finish for Pittsburg residences. 



The Pennsylvania retailers are going to have 

 a rousing good time when they come to Pitts- 

 burg January 27 and 28 for their semi-annual 

 convention. To insure this the Pittsburg Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association has appointed 

 John B. Montgomery of the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company. .John Garling of the 

 Empire Lumber Company, A. J. DIeboId of the 

 Forest Lumber Company and L, L. Satler of 

 the L. L. Salter Lumber Company a committee 

 to arrange a banquet to be tendered the state 

 retailers by the Pittsburg wholesalers on the 

 evening of January 27 at the Fort Pitt Hotel. 

 The speakers so far secured for the evening 

 Include A. F. Sheldon of Chicago, president of 

 the Sheldon Schools of Salesmanship : Carrol 

 F. Sweet of Grand Rapids, president of the 



Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association : 

 Arthur L. Holmes of Detroit and George M. 

 Hotchkiss of Chicago, secretary of tbe Illinois 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. 



BOSTON 



Gardiner I. Jones of tbe Jones Hardwood 

 Company, Boston, spent part of last mouth on a 

 business trip through the South and West. 



Mr. Appleby of the Appleby Lumber Company. 

 Jamestown, X. V., was a recent visitor in this 

 market. 



By an order issued the first of tbe month by 

 W. F. Berry, the general traffic manager of the 

 Boston & Maine Railroad Company, the positions 

 of assistant freight traffic manager and export 

 freight traffic manager are abolished. Amos S. 

 Crane is appointed freight tratiic manager to 

 succeed the late M. T. Donovan. 



n, O. Hawthorne of New London, Conn., has 

 started manufacturing wardrobes for the Fold- 

 ing Wardrobe Company of New York. These 

 are something new in the furniture line. 



L. H. Tourtellotta has become manager of tbe 

 Howe Lumber Company of Marlboro. Mass. 



The warehouse of the Andrews & Peck Com- 

 pany, Hartford, Conn., was recently destroyed 

 by fire, causing a loss of fully $30,000 of lum- 

 ber, finished stock and models. The company 

 carried $18,000 insurance. 



The Cumberland Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Hartford, Conn., with Charles E. 

 White. Andover, president ; Levitt C. Hayes. 

 White Plains, N. Y., vice-president ; C. T. Roe. 

 nhitestone, N. Y^, treasurer; F. J. Allen, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., assistant treasurer, and Edward JI. 

 Yeomans of Andover. secretary. 



The lumber mill formerly the property of tbe 

 Alderbrook Lumber Company, near Littleton. 

 X. H., has been destroyed by fire. The mill was 

 purchased a few months ago by the George 

 W. Blanchard Sons Company of Cortland, Me. 

 The loss is estimated at $25,000. 



The Frank Miller Lumber Company of Bridge- 

 port, Conn., has purchased the stock of the 

 Livermore Lumber Company of that city. The 

 latter company was organized about four years 

 ago. 



The Sargent & Davis Lumber Company's mill 

 at Lowell, Mass., was recently destroyed by fire, 

 causing a loss of about $50,000. 



At the first meeting q£ the creditors of the 

 Mitchell & Harding Lumber Company of Law- 

 rence, Mass., a settlement was made whereby 

 they will receive what is due them in full with 

 interest. 



A good export lumber business is reported. 

 Large lots are being shipped from Boston each 

 month to South America. Pine, oak and ash 

 are the principal woods exported from this 

 port. 



BALTIMORE 



G. L. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany says things are looking much better of 

 late ; some lines are still a little slow in mend- 

 ing, but others counterbalance in activity. Mills 

 are active, lumber is moving more freely than 

 for some time and the company so far has been 

 able to secure sufficient cars for shipments. 



F. A, Parker of Mann & Parker recently re- 

 turned from a trip to New York and Philadel- 

 phia. He has no difficulty, he says in placing 

 goods with satisfactory prices. Tbe company is 

 having a big run on the famous gum it manu- 

 factures and is receiving numerous orders from 

 houses which have been heretofore buying en- 

 tirely in Missouri. He states that business is 

 gaining every day. 



The Williamson Veneer Company reports sat- 

 isfactory improvement in business. It is at 

 present engaged, .so to speak, in cleaning house, 

 working up all the old log stock and cutting out 



some of the old lines. It is the declared inten- 

 tion, of the management to select some high- 

 grade veneer and make it a specialty. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association has succeeded, after pro- 

 longed negotiations, in obtaining from the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio railroad the concession of clean 

 bills of lading. Other roads have been issuing 

 clean bills for some years. The case of the 

 association against the car service lines at Xew 

 Orleans over the free time to be allotted at that 

 port will come up for a hearing before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission at Washington as 

 the Record goes to press. The car service lines 

 last spring gave notice that the free time would 

 be reduced from twenty to ten days, which the 

 shippers regard as a discrimination against New 

 Orleans, other ports having enjoyed the benefit 

 of a longer free time. The shippers asked for 

 thirty days, but were willing to let it go at the 

 old twenty days. The reduction of the free 

 time, they contend, is a grievous burden upon the 

 export business and puts New Orleans at a seri- 

 ous disadvantage. The association has also taken 

 up tbe matter of the change in regulations as to 

 the use of code words ordered by the Postal 

 Tele.,'raph Company. Under the new regulation 

 which took effect December 1, the use of arbi- 

 trary words is prohibited, only the ordinary En- 

 glish words, not to exceed a certain number of 

 letters, being allowed. This in effect is a doub- 

 ling of the telegraph tolls for firms or corpora- 

 tions, and will be felt as a heavy tax. The as- 

 sociation has filed a protest against tbe change 

 and will .join with other organizations in a 

 movement to induce a rescinding of the order. 



From Keyser, W. Va.. the report has beeii 

 received that the Altoona Lumber Company has 

 sold to the Alta Lumber Company, consisting of 

 F. O. Havener and E. J. McGee of Parkersburg 

 and E. Stringer Boggess of Clarksburg, W. Va., 

 9,000 acres of timber lands, mostly hardwoods 

 and white pine, near Pulaski, Va. There is a 

 railroad and several sawmills on the tract, and 

 operations will be carried on with energy. 



John S. Helfrich, wholesale lumber dealer, 

 with offices in the Law building, reports a grow- 

 ing demand for maple flooring in this city and 

 surrounding territory. A decided increase In 

 the use of oak flooring is also reported, some of 

 the .yards having lately felt impelled to lay in 

 stocks to meet the wants of the builders. 



In this connection it is to be stated that the 

 Maple Flooring Association has within the past 

 few weeks advanced the list of maple flooring $2 

 per 1,000 feet on clear stocks, and $1 on factory 

 No. 1, the advance being dictated, it is explained, 

 by the growing demand. All previous lists have 

 been canceled and the new prices are firmly 

 adhered to. 



The Norva Land & Lumber Company, of which 

 Robert McLean, Stewart building, is general 

 manager, held its annual meeting December 1 

 at Norfolk, the headquarters of the company, 

 when the yearly reports were submitted and the 

 present officers re-elected. The annual reports 

 showed tbe company to be in excellent condition, 

 and represented the prospects as highly encour- 

 aging. Tbe company's foreign business in staves 

 and headings, for which gum is being used, is 

 rapidly on the increase and a growing business 

 in hardwoods has also been done. The company 

 is still at work on the experiments to convert 

 gum and other low-grade stocks into a good 

 grade of lumber by a process in accordance with 

 which lumber is first put into a tank and 

 stiamed, so as to draw out the moisture, and 

 then exposed to a dry heat. It is claimed for 

 the process that it prolongs the life of the wood, 

 toughens the fiber and prevents cracking and 

 splitting, as well as warping, the latter one of 

 the greatest drawbacks to gum, which takes on 

 a high polish and could lie used for a variety of 

 purposes to great advantage but for this defect. 



The plans of the Laurel River Lumber Com- 

 pany, the I'ygarts River Lumber Company and 

 another allied corporation, owned by interests 



