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N. C, has been chartered with $50,000 capital 

 stock by J. C. Pass, J. A. Long and others of 

 Eoxboro. 



The Montezuma Bobbin Company of Monte- 

 zuma, X. C. has been chartered with $25,000 

 capital by E. Harris and others. 



A new concern from Raleigh, N. C, is R. D. 

 Goodwin, Inc., with a capital of $25,000. R. D. 

 Goodwin and others are the incorporators and 

 they will do a general lumber business. 



The Tilghman Lumber Company of Dunn. 

 N. C, has been chartered with $50,000 capital 

 to operate sawmills, planing mills, woodworking 

 plants, etc. G. M. Tilghman and others are the 

 incorporators. 



NORFOLK 



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Among the lumbermen visiting Norfolk this 

 month were C. L. Hutchins. secretary of the 

 Gay Manufacturing Company, Suffolk, Va. ; W. 

 H. Vincent. Caperon, Va., who has just pur- 

 chased a large tract of timber land and will 

 start operation the first of the year : and Guy 

 L. Buel!, president of the Montgomery Lumber 

 Company, Spring Hope, N. C. 



Mr. Kelly of the Clyde Iron Wo'rks was in 

 .Norfolk a few days ago. He had been on a 

 visit to T. Raine, president of the Meadow Creek 

 Lumber Company. Meadow Creek, W. Va., which 

 he states is one of the largest lumber concerns 

 in West Virginia. This company expects to 

 use three 70-ton Shay locomotives in this opera- 

 tion. 



The entire plant of the Kingsdale Lumber 

 Company situated at Kingsdale, N. C, was de- 

 stroyed by fire a few days ago. The loss is 

 estimated at about $50,000. 



Harvey M. Dickson, president of the Dickson 

 Lumber Company of this cit.v, one of the largest 

 hardwood firms here, states that he has no 

 Idea of running for a public office and that re- 

 ports to that effect are erroneous. 



F. O. Havener, president of the Atla Lumber 

 Company of Pulaski, Va., has purchased about 

 8,000 acres of timber land, including hardwood 

 and pine growth. The company's plant will be 

 thoroughly equipped with up-to-date machinery 

 to cut this timber. 



Nichols Bros., Inc., have organized here with 

 $50,000 capital stock. C. K. Nichols is presi- 

 dent and A. D. Nichols, vice-president. Both 

 of these men are from New York, but have been 

 in this city for some time. The company's 

 head office is in the National Bank of Commerce 

 building : it will handle hardwoods and pine. 



CLEVELAND 



The building outlook in Cleveland for the 

 next year is unusually bright, indicating an in- 

 creased use of hardwood for finishing purposes. 

 A fifteen-story hotel, a sixteen-story office build- 

 ing, a $1,000,000 Y. M. C. A. building, several 

 big stores and many other projects have already 

 been announced, plans for all of which call for 

 the starting of operations during the winter or 

 early next spring. This year will see a total of 

 $13,000,000 in building permits, which exceeds 

 all former records except 1007. 



\V. A. Cool & .Son say there is great activity 



in most lines of hardwoods, the call for oak 



lic'ing exceedingly lively. They are trying to 



lili all their orders for choice wide poplar, which 



in great demand here for automobile bodies. 



llie F. T. Peitch Company reports a good gen- 

 :.il business in hardwoods, though it looks for 

 a slack period about the holiday season. Mr. 

 I'eitch says that there has been an unprecedented. 

 call for good cypress, which promises to become 

 ai: important factor in the trade in this locality. 



U. H. Jenks of the R. H. Jenks Lumber Com- 

 [lany is back at the office again after an illness 

 Hhich confined him to his home for a couple 

 of weeks. 



One of the interesting visitors in Cleveland 

 recently was Max Peterson of Hamburg, Ger- 

 many, manager for J. Bach, large hardwood and 

 timber dealers of Europe. With him was ,1. B. 

 Lauer of Semon Bache & Co. of New York. 

 They report unusual activity in the hardwood 

 business at present. 



John Raine, a prominent hardwood manufac- 

 turer of Mill Point. W. Va., was in Cleveland 

 during the past week on a business trip. 



Charles Haywood of the Georgian Bay Com- 

 pany has been confined to his home by pneumonia 

 the past two or three weeks. Recently he un- 

 derwent an operation from which he is slowly 

 recovering. 



Among the visitors to the local market during 

 the past fortnight were C. E. Mead of Jefferson, 

 O. ; W. T. Parsch of Elyria. O. ; F. H. Weeks of 

 the Weeks Lumber Company, Akron, and I. C. 

 Harris of the South End Lumber Company, 

 Youngstown, O. 



COLUMBUS 



Herbert M. Hayward, a member of the whole- 

 sale lumber firm of M. A. Hayward & Son. was 

 recently united in marriage to Miss Muriel Davis, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Q. Davis. 

 The ceremony took place at the Chittenden hotel 

 with Bishop Earl Cranston of Washington, D. 

 C, officiating. The couple will reside in the 

 King-Neil apartment. 



The John R. Gobey Lumber Company an- 

 nounced the appointment of W. H. Morris as 

 traveling representative in the Detroit territory 

 to succeed J. W. Urban. Mr. Morris was for- 

 merly connected with the Gobey company, but 

 had other connections in the past few years. 

 Mr. Gobey left recently for a business trip in 

 the upper part of Michigan. He reports a good 

 demand in that section, but that everything is 

 snowbound. He says that hardwoods are getting 

 stronger. 



The wholesalers and representatives of out- 

 side lumber, concerns of Columbus are preparing 

 to entertain the members of the Union Associa- 

 tion of Lumber Dealers which will meet in their 

 annual session in Columbus January IS to 20. 

 The Great Southern theater has been rented and 

 a vaudeville entertainment will be given one 

 evening for the association members. It is be- 

 lieved that the attendance will be larger than 

 ever before. 



C. T. Nelson, manufacturer of columns, reports 

 a nice run of orders, despite the lateness of the 

 season. He predicts a busy season during 1010. 



At Canton the Brown & Bush Lumber Com- 

 pany was incorporated with an authorized capital 

 of $20,000. 



The M. D. Francher Lumber Company of Mans- 

 field was incorporated recently with a capital 

 stock of $10,000 by M. D. Francher, A. A. 

 Pearce, H. E. Speaks, C. B. Winegarten, Frank 

 C. Lewis and Howard Lewis, to do a general 

 lumber business. 



The J. J. Snider Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently purchased the land formerly used by the 

 Columbus branch of the Crosby & Beckly 

 Company at Long street and the Norfolk & 

 Western Railroad tracks, announces that it will 

 open a retail yard at that place in the spring. 

 The last of the stock of the Crosby & Beckley 

 Company has been removed. The concern will 

 continue to operate the two retail yards from 

 one office. 



Active work in the development of the 54.000 

 acre tract of limber land recently purchased 

 by a Columbus and New York syndicate in the 

 lower part of Vancouver Island has been started. 

 Several mills will be erected which will be in 

 operation early in the spring. E. B. Kurtz of 

 New York was in Columbus recently in consulta- 

 tion with his brother, Charles L. Kurtz. Both 

 are heavily interested in the syndicate. 



W. E. Hyde, receiver for the Rood Lumber 

 Company, a box factory on Buttles avenue, re- 



ports that the plant is being operated on full 

 time and that a nice profit is being made for 

 the creditors. No order of sale at auction has 

 been issued as yet by the court. 



Ralph Ely, a Columbus man traveling for W. 

 A. Cool & Son, Cleveland, has returned to 

 Columbus after a severe illness in a Chicago 

 hotel. 



At Eaton, Ohio, the Eaton Lumber Company 

 has broken ground for a modem planing mill to 

 be operated in connection with the yard. 



The J. W. McLaughlin Lumber Company of 

 Fremont was recently incorporated with a capital 

 slock of $25,000 to conduct a general lumber 

 business. J. W. McLaughlin is at the head of 

 the company. 



Samuel Barr, representing the Lilly Lumber 

 Company of New York, was a caller at the office 

 of the A. C. Davis Lumber Company recently. 



The General Lumber Company is placing its 

 large mill at Ashland. Ky., in repair for opera- 

 tion as soon as the spring freshets will float the 

 large number of logs now awaiting transporta- 

 tion down the Big Sandy river. The company 

 is operating the mill on the timber tract on the 

 Big Sandy. President H. W. Putnam reports 

 a steady run of orders and a better demand from 

 manufacturing establishments. He says that a 

 number of the southern mills have withdrawn 

 stock from the market, waiting for higher prices. 

 He believes that advances will be made soon. 



H. W. Collins, sales manager of the central 

 division for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 said : "Prices are well maintained in all sec- 

 tions and for all grades and varieties of woods. 

 The demand is holding up well right up to the 

 holidays and we look for considerable activity 

 after the first of the year. It is the general 

 opinion that advances will be made some time 

 in January." 



Many of the traveling salesmen of the W. M. 

 Ritter Lumber Company will remain in the field 

 between Christmas and New Years, while others 

 will seek their homes. J. W. Mayhew of the 

 company recently returned from a business trip 

 to Chicago. W. M. Ritter returned December 

 18 from a ten-days' trip through the mill region 

 and among eastern markets. 



H. R. Allen of the H. R. Allen Company re- 

 turned recently from a buying trip through 

 Jlississippi and Alabama. 



W. V. Smith, treasurer of the Clear Creek 

 Coal & Lumber Company, left recently on an 

 inspection trip of the company's property located 

 at Isoline, Tenn. 



W. F. Felton of Columbus and Dr. Gooding 

 of Tiffin have left for San Domingo for an in- 

 spection trip of a tract of 150,000 acres of 

 timber land on the island which has been op- 

 tioned. In case the option is closed the tract 

 will be developed. 



George B. Jobson, secretary of the A. C. Davis 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a selling 

 trip through the Northwest. He reports a good 

 demand and that many concerns are buying for 

 future delivery. 



A. P. Waterfleld, formerly with the Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Company, has accepted a posi- 

 tion as traveling salesman for the Domestic 

 Lumber Company of Columbus. He will travel 

 Ohio and western Pennsylvania. 



The Brooks Lumber Company of Pataskala. 

 0., of which J. K. Sowers of the Sowers-Leach 

 Lumber Company of Columbus is a director, has 

 increased its capital stock from $25,000 to 

 $.50,000 to take care of the rapidly increasing 

 business. 



K. E. Elmer of the Fearson Lumber Company 

 of Ironton, C, has returned from a trip to 

 the mountains. lie reports business satisfactory 

 in wholesale lines. 



C. G. McLaughlin, general manager of the 

 McLaughlin-HolTman Lumber Company, has re- 

 turned from a week's business trip in Chicago, 

 where he found a good demand from factories. 

 He says that railroads are still buying freely 

 and that the prospects are very bright. 



