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HARDWOOD RECORD 



pany was made county treasurer at the be- 

 ginning of the year. 



It is plain that Scatchcrd & Son are not 

 yet discouraged over the snags in the timber- 

 tract business, for it is learned that a new 

 purchase is under way. At the same time, the 

 Memphis miila are as active as ever. 



There is plenty of business in the yard of 

 O. E. Yeager, no matter if there is a holiday 

 just disappearing around the corner. He is 

 not only taking in a good lot of southern stock, 

 but finds sales much better than he looked for. 



The mill of G. Elias & Bro. has been about 

 as busy all the season as it could be, till 

 the cold weather cut the building out to some 

 extent. It will get a good run of orders through 

 the winter still, in spite of all drawbacks. 



Business in the office and yard of the Buf- 

 falo Hardwood Lumber Company is quite good 

 enough to warrant the heavy buying of stock 

 that was reported a month or so ago. The book- 

 ings ahead and the orders for quick delivery 

 are all heavy. 



A. Miller gets a fine share of business in the 

 general distribution of holiday favors, and he 

 always has the lumber to meet it with. His spe- 

 cial stock of hardwoods from Canada always 

 comes in strong. 



There is a pretty good area to the office 

 and dock yards of T. Sullivan & Co., but it 

 is found that there is not a bit of space to 

 spare, though the demand for all sorts of stock 

 promises to thin it out pretty soon. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. are getting back to their 

 old lead in the cherry trade. It was quiet 

 latel.v, but the report is now that a stir is in 

 sight. In the meantime the West Virginia oak. 

 chestnut and poplar are moving. 



The purchasers of timber in British Columbia 

 say it is such a good, promising investment 

 that much more was bought than was at first 

 outlined. The Yale Company organized by the 

 Wall Brothers syndicate has been followed by a 

 much larger purchase and it is quite likely 

 that a second corporation will be set up to 

 handle it by itself. All reports agree that lumber 

 on the Pacific coast is doing much better than 

 it was. 



PITTSBURG 



J. J. and J. C. Linehan of the Lineban Lumber 

 Company are both down East this week looking 

 after 101 contracts. Things look mighty good 

 to them. 



The Central Mill & Lumber Company, capital 

 .?50,000, has been incorporated at Harrisburg, 

 Pa., by B. H. Engle of Hummellstown, Pa., and 

 others. 



The Fredonia Planing Mill Company is getting 

 a Pennsylvania charter, its incorporators being 

 E. J. Bechdel, Carl C. Conkle, William H. 

 Leischer and Jonas A. Baker of Pittsburg. 



The H. V. Curll Lumber Company will apply 

 for a Pennsylvania charter January 24. The in- 

 corporators are H. V., D. B. and H. M. Curll 

 and W. H. DeBoss. All these men are well- 

 known to the lumber trade of the central states, 

 most of them being formerly connected with the 

 old Curll & Lytle Lumber Company and later 

 associated with H. V. Curll in the concern 

 which beai's his name. The combination is one 

 of the strongest in the city and controls ex- 

 tensive timber and railroad interests in West 

 Virginia. 



John E. Dubois of Dubois, Pa., who is counted 

 the largest individual lumber operator in the 

 world, is cutting off a big tract near Dubois that 

 will probably take three years to finish. It is 

 one of the best timber tracts in central Pennsyl- 

 vania. When he is done there Mr. Dubois will 

 move to the West with his machinery where he 

 owns 3.000,000,000 feet of timber. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company, has started on another southern 

 trip which will put him in touch with some 

 splendid hardwood operations where he expects 



to contract for this year's supply of lumber. The 

 Aberdeen is coming right along, thank you, and 

 excellent reports may be expected from it before 

 April 1. 



Louis Germain of the Germain Company took 

 a vacation recently among the pine mills of 

 Michigan near his former home at Saginaw. The 

 company wound up 1909 with a very good show- 

 ing and never had better nerve to face the 

 coming year's market than at present. 



Philip Oesterling, aged seventy-four, one of 

 the oldest planing mill and lumber operators 

 iu western Pennsylvania, died at his home, De- 

 cember 26. He was born in Darmstadt, Ger- 

 many, and came to this country at the age of 

 thirteen. About 1870 he started iu the planing 

 mill business and was engaged in lumber opora- 

 Uons until he retired ten years ago. 



The plant of the Acme Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which is managed by Samuel Hough and 

 is located at Marshall and Irwin avenues, N. S.. 

 was damaged by fire January 5. The company 

 employs about twenty hands and manufactures 

 curtain stretchers, stepladders, etc. It is an- 

 nounced that the plant will be rebuilt in the 

 near future. Loss was ?15,000. 



William II. Schuette & Co., Inc^, report 

 that local yards are still buying with extreme 

 caution, as they seem to fear a repetition of 

 the overloading experience which they had last 

 winter. They are, however, buying more lum- 

 ber than three months ago, and are paying more 

 attention to straight carloads instead of mixing 

 their orders as they did last summer. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company has added 

 to its force of salesmen A. E. Emick, who will 

 do Ohio river territory in West Virginia and 

 western Pennsylvania. 



President Nelson Bell of the Furnace Run Saw- 

 mill & Lumber Company has recently returned 

 from a southern trip, where he contracte,d for a 

 large amount of lumber for 1910. He reports 

 that December was the best hardwood month 

 the company ever had, and he anticipates a 

 brisk trade in all the better grades of hardwood 

 within a very few weeks. 



Secretary Carl Van der Voort of the Pitts- 

 burg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany, announces that December was the best 

 month that they have ever had. It suffered no 

 fires in that month, and the business which it is 

 connecting with through other agencies came 

 along at the end of the year in a way that is 

 giving it a big boost toward big totals in 1910. 



The McDonald Lumber Company has added 

 threewell-known lumbermen to its staff this month. 

 J. W. Hulse of the Pennsylvania Lumljer Com- 

 pany will be sales manager. M. Thompson, also 

 of the Pennsylvania, will cover the territory 

 south and east of Pittsburg, and Edward Shew 

 of the Wlllson Brothers Lumber Company has 

 come over to Mr. McDonald to travel down East. 

 The McDonald company is especially strong on 

 stocks this winter, due to some shrewd pur- 

 chases in the early fall, and its salesmen have a 

 big advantiige when it comes to going out and 

 quoting prices. 



J. JI. Hastings, president of the J. M. Hast- 

 ings Lumber Company, is spending the week in 

 New York. The company recently finished cut- 

 ting out its oak tract at Jacksonburg, W. Va.. 

 and is giving up its charter in Wetzel county of 

 that state, where it has operated for about six 

 years. 



I. F. Balsley, who will be sales manager of 

 the newly organized Palmer-Semans Lumber 

 Company, has jumped into the harness already 

 and is down East this week among his old 

 friends, getting contracts lined up for 1910 de- 

 livery. The Palmer-Semans concern is getting 

 to be one of the big ones in Pittsburg. It has 

 abundant financial backing, large timber assets, 

 several mills, the best of lumber connections and 

 a thoroughgoing lumberman at the Pittsburg end 

 of its business. 



The Breitweiser & Wilson Company is shaking 

 hands with all its friends at its temporary 



headquarters at 315 Lewis block. After April 1 

 this latest of Pittsburg's wholesale firms will be 

 located at 445 Oliver building, the new twenty- 

 flve-story skyscraper. Its members are A. G. 

 Breitweiser. the well-known South Side lumber- 

 man, who has been engaged many years in both 

 wholesale and retail operations, and William W. 

 Wilson. Jr., who was associated with the A. G. 

 Breitweiser Company tor three years prior to his 

 recent four years' service with Bcmis & Vosburgh 

 as their sales manager. The new company is 

 lining up some splendid connections in yellow- 

 pine, hemlock and hardwood. It will make a 

 specialty of lath and maple flooring in addition 

 to giving much attention to lumber for manu- 

 facturers. 



The third annual convention of the Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association of Pennsylvania, to 

 be held January 27 and 28, in this city, is going 

 to be a hummer. A. G. Breitweiser is chair- 

 man of the entertainment committee for the re- 

 tailers and L. L. Salter holds the same position 

 for the wholesalers, who are not going to be 

 outdone in giving their old customers a royal 

 good time. In the evening of January 27 the 

 Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion will banquet a big crowd at the Fort Pitt 

 Athletic Club and also furnish high-class vaude- 

 ville entertainment. 



PHILADELPHIA 



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

 Ltd., is emphatically optimistic as to possibilities 

 for 1910. The company has been doing a rush- 

 ing business up to advent of the blizzard. 



Chapin L. Barr, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Whiting Lumber Company, reports well 

 sustained trading. The company is turning out 

 some of the best No. 1 oak flooring seen on 

 the market. It has recently added another office 

 to better accommodate the increased official work. 



Schofleld Brothers are fast recovering from tne 

 effects of the fire, which destroyed the Salt- 

 keatchie Lumber Company's mill at Schofleld, 

 S. C. which they control. The new machinery 

 is being rapidly installed, and the plant will 

 be in full w'orking order in a very short time. 



The booklet known as Mcllvain's Lumber News, 

 issued monthly by J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., de- 

 serves more than casual mention, as it not only 

 furnishes a full stock list and sets forth the best 

 of bargains in the various woods for its read- 

 ers, but devotes considerable space to excerpts 

 from the best authorities on the vital subjects 

 and interests of the day. The contents of the 

 December number will speak for its status. 



Editorial. 



Railroad Ties Purchased in inns. 



Resisting Power of Building Materials. 



Splendid Visitor from Afar (Halleys Comet). 



Bargains. 



Stock List. 



Swen Johnson. 



Sparks from the I'uletide Log. 



Chips and Sawdust. 



Ralph Souder of Eli B. Hallowell & Co. says 

 they are not pushed at this time, but have 

 every reason to be satisfied with 1900 trading. 

 He anticipates a comparative rush for the com- 

 ing year, and in order to facilitate the work 

 of the house offices have been established at 

 Pittsburg, Pa., and Raleigh, S. C. 



Charles B. Coles & Sons Company, Camden. 

 N. J., reports the recent blizzard a considerable 

 detriment to business, as it makes delivery 

 of goods uncertain. Business has been goou 

 during 1909 and prospects for 1910 are luring. 



William N. Lawton of the Tomb Lumber Com- 

 pany is complacent over last year's business. 

 Trading is running smoothly at present, and 

 the prospects point to a fat 1910. 



The large plant at Summcrdale, formerly oc- 

 cupied by the Wolff Process Leather Company, 

 has been sold to Philip S. Smith, president of the 

 recently organized Carlston Motor Vehicle Com- 

 pany. The plant cost about .$400,000 six years 

 ago ; the price paid by the Carlston Motor Ve- 



