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very nice lot of birch and maple at present. 

 Tlie Fenwick, W. Va., plant has been running 

 night and day for the past year, cutting prin- 

 cipally poplar, oak and chestnut. The market 

 has been taking the output of this mill as rap- 

 idly as it was in shipping condition. Just now 

 the company is either sold up or oversold on 

 practically all items on the list, and is taking 

 no orders whatever for poplar or oak and very 

 few for chestnut. It recently secured several 

 f;ood contracts for 4 4 sound wormy chestnut for 

 Chicago delivery. Mr. Tennant speaks very op- 

 timistically of the future, and states he has 

 advised his salesmen to remain at home for the 

 balance of the year, so as not to load the com- 

 pany with orders for future delivery. He is ac- 

 cepting orders only for stock immediately in 

 sight and for prompt shipment. 



The Cunningham Piano Company of this city 

 has just completed a seven-story addition to the 

 lilant. MS a result ot which an increased output 

 to the extent of from M.SOO to over 5,000 pianos 

 annually will be possilile. 



The rhiladeTJjhia Furniture & Bedding Manu- 

 .facturers' Association held its fifth annual din- 

 ner at the Hotel Walton on Deceml>er 16. Thirty- 

 two firms were represented. It was made an 

 interesting affair with recitations and short 

 speeches. John Balbirnia is president of the 

 association and Harold U. Burke, secretary. 



It is announced that with the aid of $50,000 

 slock subscribed by citizens Frackville, Pa., is 

 to have a $100,000 saw factor.v which will he 

 established by C. W. Wilson of Williamsport. 

 It will have a daily pay-roll of $1,000. 



It is stated that Hoffman & Huyett ot Mor- 

 gantown are cutting 75,000 feet of lumber or- 

 dered b.v a I'hiladelphia company for automoliile 

 si)okes. 



The .T. G. Brill Company ot this city has re- 

 ceived orders for ten motor car bodies from 

 the Washington Power Company, Spokane, four 

 scraiconvertible cars from the Consolidated Rail- 

 ways of Charleston, S. C., and one hundred curs 

 from the Third Avenue Railroad of New Ycrk 

 City. 



Orders for sixteen locomotives from the St. 

 Louis Southwestern Railroad Company and two 

 from the Atlanta, Birmingham cS: Atlantic Rail- 

 road have been received by the Baldwin Loco- 

 motive Works of this city. 



The state forest reservation in Bedford count.v, 

 near the Maryland line, has been swept by a 

 disastrous fire for the last two weeks, in which 

 great damage has been done to young timber. 

 Nearly all the forest south of Martin mountain, 

 which is closest to Cumberland, has been burned 

 over. There are 14,000 acres in the reservation 

 and more than one-half of it has been burned. 

 Hunters are accused ot setting the woods on fire 

 to drive out deer. 



Fire destroyed the factory building of Serack 

 & Sherwood, manufacturers of coifins and under- 

 takers' supplies at lClO-18-20 Callowhill street, 

 this city, on December 16. Loss is estimated at 

 $250,000. 



The Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg Company 

 has awarded a contract for the building of a 

 timber preserving plant near Bradford. Pa., with 

 a capacity of 250,000 ties a year. The general 

 contract was placed with the Allis-Chalmers 

 Company, and work will be begun immediately 

 In order to have the new plant ready for service 

 by spring. 



.T. D. Lacey of the big timber house of J. D. 

 Lacey ,& Co., Chicago, New Orleans and Seattle, 

 was a recent visitor to Philadelphia. 



H. H. Gardner of Gardner, Lacey & Co., 

 Georgetown, S. C, cypress and hardwood manu- 

 facturers, with his wife, recently made a stop 

 in Philadelphia on his way to New York. 



Colonel H. C, Trexler of the Trexler Lumber 

 Company, Allentown, Pa., recently visited Phila- 

 delphia on special business. 



The American Mahogany Company, 871 Metro- 

 politan building. New York, has removed to 225 



Fifth avenue, where it will have better facilities 

 for conducting its rapidly increasing business. 



The R. K. Boyer Company, Irvington, was 

 incorporated under New Jersey laws on Decem- 

 ber C with a capital of $25,000. It will manu- 

 facture bars for saloons, counters, shelving, etc. 



The Keller-Dunham Piano Company, Scranton, 

 obtained charter under Pennsylvania laws on 

 December 10. Its capital stock is $75,000. 



The Standard Sanitary Couch & Chair Com- 

 pany, to manufacture folding beds and chairs, 

 was incorporated December 14 under Delaware 

 laws. Incorporators are C. S. Metcalf, G. M. 

 Skeen and G. R. Demontlord, all ot Philadel- 

 phia. The capital stock is $100,000. 



The Standard Wheel & Motor Company, Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., was incorporated December S under 

 Delaware laws with a capital stock of $500,000. 



The Standard Railway & Timber Company. 

 Everett. Wash., capitalized at $100,000 recently, 

 obtained a charter under Delaware laws. 



A meeting was held Wednesday, December 15, 

 in the office of the Pennsylvania Lumliermon's 

 Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Philadelphia, 

 those present being H. E. Stone, secretary Lum- 

 ber Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Boston, 

 Mass. : W. H. G. Kegg. secretary Lumbermen's 

 Mutual Insurance Company, iXansfield, Ohio : F. 

 B. Fowler, secretary Indiana Lumbermen's Mu- 

 tual Insurance Company, Indianapolis, Ind. ; C. 

 A. L. Purmort, secretar.v Central Manufacturers* 

 Mutual Insurance Company, Van Wert, Ohio, 

 and Justin Peters, manager Pennsylvania Lum- 

 bermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Phila- 

 delphia. The above gentlemen composed a com- 

 mittee that was appointed at the time of the 

 Indianapolis conference of the above companies 

 tor the purpose of considering matters that were 

 referred to it by that conference. 



PITTSBURO 



I'lTTSBLRU GuSPEL OF lyOU 



Retailers loaded to the guards early and 

 couldn't get out. • 



Tariff tinkering kept them all thinking till 

 midsummer. 



House building made a bad record all the year. 



Mills had too much stock and put it out at any 

 old price. 



Low-grade lumber was a drug on the market 

 all the year. 



Hardwoods headed the procession from start 

 to finish. 



Poplar and oak were general favorites at all 

 times. 



Manufacturing trade woke up in August and 

 has been buying freely since. 



Railroads held their cash till fall, but then 

 got a tremendous buying move on. 



Small sales to mines and mills the first half 

 of the year ; big sales since October. 



Pittsburg market prices have beeu much lower 

 than eastern quotations. 



Hardwood prices average from ten to twenty 

 per cent higher for high-grade stocks than one 

 year ago. 



High-grade stock in all hardwoods is very hard 

 to find, and low-grade lumber will be normal in 

 stocks by January 1. 



Everybody says that 1910 will be a hummer. 

 Lighter stocks, better prices, larger orders and 

 more satisfactory business conditions. 

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W. P. Craig, president of the W. P. Craig 

 Lumber Company, says that it is hard to get 

 cars on many lines. The company is making 

 big shipments of spruce. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany is down East this week. The company's 

 plant at Catlettsburg, Ky., is grinding away at 

 full speed and things begin to look like old times 

 in the flooring business. 



E. H. Shreiner, manager o£ the Goodwin Lum- 

 ber Company, has been down at its mills at Blue 

 Jay, W. Va., which are running night and day. 



He is doing a nice business from the Pittsburg 

 office this month. 



The Marietta Chair Company ot Marietta, O., 

 whose big warehouse and sales quarters are on 

 Liberty avenue, this city, reports twenty-five per 

 cent more business during 1001) than in lOOS. 



The R. A. McCall Lumber Cimipany, whose 

 plant in the East End was Ijurned October 20, 

 has erected a two-story planing mill and iron- 

 clad warehouse, 48x102 feet, on Putnam street, 

 and is busily at work again. 



C. W. Wilson of Williamsport. Pa., and other 

 Penns.vlvania capitalists are about to start the 

 erection of a large saw factory at Frackville, 

 I"3., to cost $100,000. 



The Acorn Lumlx-r Company is breaking off 

 some very good orders these days. Its presi- 

 dent. II. F. Domhoff, left recently on a business 

 trip to Michigan. 



The Penn.sylvania Lines West are about to 

 purchase the w"ell-known cooperage plant of Ken- 

 nedy Brothers at New Brighton, Pa., forty miles 

 below Pittsburg on the Ohio river, for $300,000, 

 for additional trackage room. 



Th? sawmill and over 7.000,000 feet of sea- 

 soned walnut lumber owned by F. il. Waring at 

 Tyrone. Pa., were hurned Decemljer 10. It was 

 the finest lot ot walnut in the state. 



The Traffic Club of I'ittsburg held an inter- 

 esting meeting at the Fort I'itt hotel, December 

 1.3, It was addressed by William II. Stevenson 

 ot the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, who 

 spoke on "The Relation of (_'ommercial Organi- 

 zations to the Railroads." The American Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, the Willson 

 Brothers Lumber Company, the Furnace Run 

 Sawmill li Lumljer Company, and the Flint, 

 Erving & Stoner Comijany wi-re represented. 



The Hyde-Murphy Lumber Company has about 

 concluded to move its large woodworking plant 

 from Ridgway. Pa., to Dubois, I'a. It is prepar- 

 ing plans for a building 80x420 feet and three 

 stories high. 



The Empire Flooring Compan.v has l)een 

 formed at Pittsburg by A. S. Morrow, Ira F. 

 Keith and George M. Buttle to manufacture and 

 deal in flooring. 



Porter Haskell. Sr., the oldest living repre- 

 sentative of old-time Pennsylvania lumbering, 

 celebrated his ninetieth birthday at the home 

 of his daughter in Clarion, Pa., December 9. He 

 broke into the lumber business in western Penn- 

 sylvania in 1840 and for more than sixty years 

 was one of the "boys."' Few men know as much 

 about rafting luml)er down the Allegheny river 

 as he. 



The Webb Manufacturing Company of Pitts- 

 burg has be?n formed by W. I. N. Lofland of 

 Dover. Del. ; 1. H. Webb of Emlenton, Pa., and 

 George D. Voce of Pittsburg, to manufacture 

 curtain poles. 



C. A. Shreve of Bowling Green, Ky., has been 

 appointed Pittsburg inspector for the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association to succeed In- 

 spector Thompson, who has joined the ranks of 

 the Furnace Run Sawmill & Lumber Company. 



H. V. Curll of the II. V. Curll Lumber Com- 

 pany says that Nos. 1 and 2 poplar will be 

 worth $60 at the mills before May 1. Auto- 

 mobile demand is largely responsible for the 

 sharp advances. 



The Mead & Spear Company is cutting steadily 

 on chestnut and poplar at its plant at Strange 

 Creek, W. Va. It looks for a fine iKiplar market 

 in the spring. Just now beech flooring is quite 

 a favorite on its Iwoks. 



J. L. Lytle is a bull on the 1910 market. 

 "Look out for a car shortage and higher price 

 for all good hardwoods," he says. Uis com- 

 pany's sales have been very good in Ohio of late. 



President W. W. Dickey of the West Virginia 

 Lumber Company says spruce is selling better 

 and that oak and poplar are doing well. He 

 has lately been bringing down some fine rafts 

 of lumber from the mills in northern Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



