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hide Company is believed to liave been about 

 $150,000. 



Tlie Pliiladelpliia Baby Carriage Factory, man- 

 ufacturers of the Bloch go-carts and baby car- 

 riages, announces that the firm name has been 

 changed to the Bioch Go-Cart Company. The 

 personnel of the firm remains unchanged. 



Jerome H. Sheip, the wholesale lumberman 

 of this city, whose offices were formerly lo- 

 cated in the Stephen Girard building, has moved 

 to Suite 2026 Land Title building, where he 

 will have much more commodious quarters and 

 be more centrally located in the wholesale hard- 

 wood lumber community. 



The planing mill of Adam P. Reid & Son, 

 Parksburg, Pa., was recently destroyed by fire ; 

 loss, ,f5,000. 



The Woodpicker Lock Hammer Company, New 

 Castle, was incorporated under Pennsylvania 

 laws December 20 with a capital stock of 

 $20,000. 



The Ilermance Machine Company of Williams- 

 port, Pa., reports a steady advance in trading. 

 L. I'. Monks of this house is most sanguine as 

 to a record-breaking business for 1910. 



The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company, 

 Williamsport, has closed one of the best business 

 years since it started. A. \V. Mallinson, sec- 

 retary, says the usual holiday lull is on, but, 

 judging from present signs, 1910 will see a full 

 tide of business in the lumber field. This house, 

 although a leader in the hemlock market, in- 

 tends now to go strong into hardwoods. 



.Tames Mansel, a leader in hardwoods in Will- 

 iamsport, Pa., has no fault to find with recent 

 trading ; things are all moving fairly well at 

 this time. 



The Williamsport Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has been busy right along and is optimistic as 

 to a lively trading in 1910. 



A strong evidence of a settling prosperity is 

 furnished by the fact that the Baldwin Locomo- 

 tive Works is now employing 11,000 men on 

 full time ; scarcely a year ago the number ot 

 employes got down as low as 4,500. This means 

 that 0,500 more men are now working in this 

 greatest industrial establishment of its kind m 

 the world than were employed there in 190S 

 and the earlier part of 1909. Of the 11,000 

 men now employed about 8,600 are working 

 at the main plant, which stretches from Broad 

 street to Eighteenth street, and from Pennsyl- 

 vania avenue to Spring Garden street. About 

 2,500 are employed at Eddystone, near Chester. 

 Pa., where the company owns 2180 acres. At 

 Eddystone, they are getting out the raw material 

 for the big locomotives for which orders are 

 received fropj all parts of the world. The Bald- 

 win Locomotive Works may be best appreciated 

 as an economic factor when it is known that, 

 taken in the aggregate, it means to this city 

 from $200,000 to $250,000, distributed in gold 

 and silver coin every Friday night. The works 

 filed notice at Harrisburg recently of an increase 

 in capital stock to .$20,000,000. 



BOSTON 



A wholesale dealer in hardwoods, with his 

 own mill connection, says he is not anxious 

 to book orders for quartered oak at present. 

 Last week he accepted an order for shipment 

 during the first half of January and says he 

 does not care if he does not sell another car 

 until March. His mill is closely sold up and 

 will not have a great deal of salable quartered 

 oak for some time. lie states he is getting 

 top market prices for everything he sells now. 



The Osgood-Bradley Car Company of Wor- 

 cester, Mass., is planning to start erecting its 

 new buildings at Greendale soon. Plans for 

 an oflice, dryhouse and lumber sheds are being 

 figured. 



The Bingham Last Block Company has been 

 Incorporated at Portland, Me., with a capital 

 stock ot .f25,000. The incorporators are E. R 



Laird ot Brockton, Mass. ; J. J. Lander, Bing- 

 ham, Me , and William M. Aycr of Oakland, Me. 



The A. J. Jlorin Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000. 

 The incorporators are C. C. Streeter, president ; 

 .Vrthur J. Morin, Pawtucket, R. L, treasurer, 

 and M. O'Uoro. 



Brown & McColley, manufacturers of chairs, 

 Wincheudon, Mass., moved into their new fac- 

 tory the first of December. Since moving into 

 their new plant, business has been good and 

 fhey have taken on additional help, and the 

 plant has been running evenings. 



The plant of Nelson Hall Company, Mont 

 gomery Centre, Vt., was recently destroyed 

 by Ure, causing a loss of about $100,000. But- 

 lertubs, sugar pails and veneers were manufac- 

 tured. 



The Barber Line is a new line of steamers 

 10 make Boston an outgoing port of call. This 

 line runs between St. Johns, N. Y., and South 

 America. In the past, steamers have stopped 

 at Boston with cargo from South America, but 

 never have called to take on cargo. The first 

 steamer to leave here with a cargo carried 

 a large amount of lumber for South American 

 porls. There is a good export business done 

 in oak, ash and pine with South America. 

 Much of this lumber is shipped through Boston, 

 a large part of it being carried by vessel. 



Hon. William Engle of Bangor, Me., died at 

 his home in that city late in December, aged 

 lifty-nine years. Mr. Engle was one of the 

 largest lumber operators in Maine. 



The Palmer & Parker Company, large han- 

 dlers of fancy hardwoods and manufacturers of 

 veneers, reports a good business outlook for 

 the coming year. Its mill is being operated 

 steadily and trade is coming along in good 

 sliape. 



BALTIMORE 



wood men here in the question of a revision of 

 inspection rules and the action of the Hardwood 

 .Manufacturers' Association in inviting consumers 

 to its forthcoming annual. Frequent revisions 

 of the rules are regarded as detrimental to the 

 trade, but the opinion seems to prevail among 

 hardwood men who are not manufacturers that 

 changes should now be made. 



I'reparations for the next annual meeting of 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association, 

 which will be held here January 19 and 20, are 

 progressing. Programs and invitations have 

 been sent out and there is every indication that 

 the attendance will be large. The headquarters 

 will be at the Hotel Belvedere, where most of 

 the visiting members of the association will 

 probably occupy rooms, and where the sessions 

 will be held. Among the social features is a 

 banquet, and the desirability of taking the visit- 

 ors down to the Naval Academy at Annapolis is 

 being discussed. 



The I^igeon River Lumber Company's plant 

 at Mt. Sterling, N. C, which shut down before 

 the holidays, is about to resume, after some re- 

 pairs, and the Messrs. James of this city, who 

 nre large stockholders, say the prospects are very 

 promising. 



Thomas Hughes, formerly of the hardwood 

 Urm of Carter, Hughes & Co. of this city, which 

 was dissolved, and since then in charge of the 

 mill operations of the Iron Mountain Lumber 

 Company, at Troutdale, Va., and vicinity, was in 

 Baltimore, his old home, on a visit for the 

 holidays. 



Mr, Hoaly, who has been representing John L. 

 Alcock & Co. in the hardwood regions of West 

 Virginia, spent the holidays in Baltimore. 



Joseph Steinaclcer of the Joseph Steinacker 

 Lumber Company, and his son, Joseph, Jr., are 

 I'&nvalescing after attacks of typhoid fever. 

 Both were stricken about the same time, and the 

 father's condition for a time was serious. 



.\bout the only statistics available regarding 

 I III' lumber trade here are the records kept by 

 the custom house, which shows the volume of 

 I'xports. The December returns have not yet 

 lieeu added up, but they can be approximated, 

 and the total thus secured supplies conclusive 

 4'vidence of what has of course been known 

 by shippers — that exporters have had a hard 

 row to hoe during the past year. The slack 

 demand and indifferent inquiry, together with 

 Ihe wagon oak difficulty during a large part of 

 the year, served to keep down the custom house 

 totals, though, as the figures show, there was no 

 important retrogression either in volume or in 

 prices, except with respect to logs, which are 

 mostly hardwoods, and which dropped from $61,- 

 s08 in 1008 to $26,687 last year. In timbers 

 hewn and sawed there was also a shrinkage, 

 while staves showed an increase in number but 

 a loss in value, which is probably attributable 

 to the fact that gum staves in considerable 

 (|uantities were sent abroad, the demand for 

 them being on the increase. Boards, deals and 

 lilanks also show a loss, which amounts to nearly 

 $500,000 in value, and in this item the falling 

 off in oak plank shipments probably changed the 

 (ount. Exports, with the exception of items 

 wherein hardwoods have no place at all or only 

 a very small one, were as follows for the past 

 two years : 

 Lumber Exports from Baltimore, 1908-1909 



1008 lOii'.i 



Logs and round timber... $ 61,808 $ 26,687 

 Timbers hewn and sawed. 57,581 40,181 



Staves 49,943 44,704 



Doors 6,632 .32.350 



Furniture 96,826 70,233 



Other manufactures 244,215 247.823 



Boards, deals and planks. 1,317,939 847,839 



Totals $1,835,944 $1,318,817 



.Much interest is being manifested among hard- 



CHARLOTTE 



Encouraging reports are made in the annual 

 statement of the commissioner of labor of South 

 Carolina. This report shows eighty-six mills in 

 operation, with an aggregate amount of capital 

 invested of over $9,000,000. The sum of $4,750,- 

 000 was paid out in wages by these mills to the 

 9,000 people employed. Value of the product 

 of these factories for 1909 was $9,000,000, or 

 an increase of $600,000 over the year 1905. 



A hearing regarding lumber rates charged by 

 the railroads of South Carolina will be held in 

 Columbia, S. C, on January 12. Lumbermen of 

 South Carolina will make a strong fight for 

 the same rates as are charged lumbermen in 

 Georgia. 



The sawmill and entire timber lands of the 

 late Joseph E. Hawks have been sold at auction 

 at New Bern, N. C. H. S. Hancock took the 

 property over tor $7,000. Property consists of 

 a new mill on Trent river and 2,300 acres of 

 timber lands. 



The Cothran-Harrison Company of Green- 

 wood, S. C, has just been chartered to do a 

 general sawmill business ; capital, $10,000. 



The Virginia-Carolina Timber Company of 

 Sumpter, S. C, has been chartered with $75,000 

 capital, to do a general lumber business. Officers 

 are : President, R. T. Gates ; vice-president, L. T. 

 George ; secretary and treasurer, L. T. Blizzard. 



The Hutton & Bourbonnais Company, with 

 headquaiters at Hickory, N. C, report a splendid 

 business for the past year and good prospects. 

 This concern manufactures building materials, 

 boxes, hardwoods, bottle crates, fancy woods for 

 decorating, etc. In the course of a year it 

 handles abouc 20,000,000 feet of lumber. 

 Branches are maintained at Morgantown, Lenoir 

 and other points in western North Carolina. 

 Tlie concern carries, it is said, as large, if not 

 a larger stock of oak, chestnut and hardwoods 

 than any concern in this section. 



