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the past month In New York and finds business 

 steadily getting better in that part o£ the 

 country. 



Secretary J. H. Henderson o£ the Kendall 

 Lumber Company says that the mills of that 

 concern were down a few days on account of 

 deep snows. They have now resumed and are 

 getting under full headway. 



J. C. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany is in the South this week, and J. J. Line- 

 han of the same company is down East, both 

 hunting 1910 contracts. 



President J. L. Lyde of the J. L. Lytle Lum- 

 ber Company has been spending considerable 

 time in West Virginia the past two weeks, 

 where he booked up some very nice connections. 

 His partner, W. H. De Voss of Greenfield, O., 

 was over to look at Pittsburg prospects one 

 day last week. 



The Mead & Speer Company is doing a very 

 steady winter's business at its Strange Creek 

 plant in West Virginia. Both members of this 

 company believe that 1910 is going to be an 

 exceedingly good year for hardwood men and 

 that the concern with dry stocks will be able 

 to name its own prices in a few months. 



W. D. Johnston, president of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, has gone 

 South for a three weeks' trip. The American 

 is pushing its red gum or American mahogany 

 which it manufactures at its "Ayden" mill. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company looks with 

 much favor upon this year's prospects so far. 

 Mr. Satler is arranging to make a larger cut at 

 I ho plant at Blackstone, Va., than ever before. 

 The Acme Manufacturing Company, whose 

 curtain stretcher and step-ladder factory on the 

 north side was burned recently, is arranging to 

 rebuild its plant as soon as possible. The pres- 

 ent addres.5 of the company is 1221 Pennsyl- 

 vania avenue. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has been 

 very busy with its operations in northern Penn- 

 slyvania and will bring down considerable lum- 

 ber on the Allegheny river as soon as weather 

 conditions are favorable. Its oflice manager. B. 

 W. Cross, reports a very brisk demand for white 

 oak. 



Bemis & Vosburgh are very hopeful of the 

 situation for this year. Their 1909 business 

 was satisfactory as business went last year, 

 and their plans are all in good shape to make 

 a record this winter. 



Albert Strouss of Ashtabula, O.. has bought 

 from the receiver of the Texas & Ohio Lumber 

 Company the entire timber holdings of that con- 

 cern in Texas for about .$35,000. The members 

 of the company are all Ashtabula county, Ohio, 

 capitalists. 



J. N. Woollett of the Aberdeen Lumber Com- 

 l)any has returneod from a long trip through 

 the South and Southwest, where he contracted 

 for the output of three band mills, which will 

 furnish him gum and Cottonwood. Xo man in 

 Pittsburg is better posted on this trade than 

 Mr. Woollett, his long experience as manager 

 of the gum and Cottonwood department of the 

 American having brought him in close touch 

 with both manufacturers and purchasers. 



The .\ltoona Lumber Company has disposed 

 of its lumber holdings in West Virginia, includ- 

 ing about S.OOO acres of timber land, a saw- 

 mill and several miles of railroad. Albert Gohn, 

 formerly of Windber, Pa.. Init now of Houston, 

 Tex., was vice-president of the company. 



The .1. C. Donges Lumber Company is a new 

 wholesale concern in the Lewis block which will 

 be located on the ninth floor of the Oliver sk.v- 

 scraper for April 1. Mr. Donges represented 

 W. W. Dempsey of Johnstown in Pittsburg for 

 more than ten years, and has a very intimate 

 knowledge of the lumber business and lumber 

 connections in this district. His concern will 

 handle hemlock, pine and hardwood, and is 

 starting off with very nice prospects. 



I. F. Balsley, sales manager of the Palmer- 

 Semans Lumber Compan.v. has been down East 



for nearly two weeks getting a good line on 

 the situation for this year. The company is 

 keeping its general business ofBces at Union- 

 town, Pa., but will establish its sales office in 

 the Oliver skyscraper at the earliest possible 

 date, and there Mr. Balsley will be located. 



The Pittsburg wholesalers who are shaping 

 up the program of entertainment for the Penn- 

 sylvania State Retailers, who meet here .Tanu- 

 ary 27 and 28 in annual convention, are L. L. 

 Satler of the L. L. Satler Lumber Company, 

 J. B. Montgomery of the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company, W. W. Wilson Jr. of 

 the Breitwieser & Wilson Company, J. P. Gar- 

 ling of the Empire Lumber Company and A. J. 

 Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company. The 

 banquet, smoker and vaudeville entertainment 

 which they will tender the Uetailers at the 

 Fort Pitt .\thletic Club January 27 is going to 

 be "some doings" and more than 500 acceptances 

 have already been secured. 



The car stake matter, in which Pittsburg 

 wholesalers have taken the foremost part from 

 the start, is again agitated in congress. Next 

 week E. V. and F. R. Babcock of E. V. Babcock 

 & Co. will be heard before the Committee on 

 Interstate Commerce. These men will make a 

 very strong argument in favor of the railroads 

 providing adequate stakes and fastenings for 

 shipping lumber. The first argument made be- 

 fore the committee in this session of Congress 

 was by Representative W. H. Graham of Alle- 

 gheny, who spoke on the matter January 18. 

 Ex-Governor William E. Stone of Pennsylvania 

 was retained some two years ago as counsel for 

 the lumber interests which had fought this fight 

 almost to a successful finish, and the march of 

 battle which the governor laid out is going to 

 bring victory very soon. Pittsburgers think. 



Stuart D. Walker, of Gouverneur E. Smith & 

 Co.. wholesale lumber dealers at 17 Battery 

 place, New York, was in town last week. He 

 had been to West Virginia after hardwoods, and 

 it was his intention to go south from here. He 

 stated that he found the millmen busy and ex- 

 pectant of an excellent year. 



E. F. Perry, secretary of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, accompanied 

 by Lewis Dill of the Board of Trustees, was in 

 Washington yesterday looking after matters of 

 interest to the association. 



BALTIMORE 



Robert McLean, general manager of the Norva 

 Land & Lumber Company, which operates a mill 

 at Wallaceton, Va., states that business so far 

 this year has been quite active. Inquiries are 

 decidedly greater. Recently he placed white 

 gum at a higher price than he ever before re- 

 ceived in his business experience — an advance of 

 not less than $2 per thousand feet in the past 

 three weeks being quoted. The interest in oak 

 and other hardwoods is also decidedly on the 

 increase. 



R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. has gone on 

 a business trip to the South. While away he 

 will get in touch with millmen and study trade 

 conditions at first hand. 



-Vnother Baltimore hardwood man who is out 

 in the woods is David T. Carter, a wholesale 

 dealer in the Calvert building. Mr. Carter 

 started last Tuesday to take in western North 

 Carolina, eastern Tennessee and parts of Vir- 

 ginia, lie went with the desire to place orders 

 for stocks, and expects to see a number of the 

 millmen. 



George G. Barr of Belcher & Barr, Pottsvllle, 

 Pa., and Ben May of Adler, May & Co., Atlanta, 

 Ga., were among the visitors here the past week. 

 They stated that business was gradually picking 

 up. 



A petition was filed on January 5 in the cir- 

 cuit court at Hagerstown. Md.. asking that a 

 receiver be appointed for the Hagerstown Spoke 

 & Bending Company. The petitioners allege that 

 the factory is mortgaged to the Mechanics' Loan 

 & Savings Institute for $6,000, and that banks 

 and individuals hold notes and open accounts 

 against the concern for $40,000 more. 



The large sawmill of the Juniata Lumber Com- 

 pany at Midlothian, Allegheny county, Maryland, 

 has been put in operation within the past ten 

 days. The plant draws its timber from a tract 

 estimated to contain about 15,000.000 feet, and 

 several miles of tram road will be built so as 

 to bring the logs to the mill, which is almost 

 in the heart of the little town. 



BOSTON 



Jonas P. Sawin, purchasing agent for the 

 Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company, Gardiner, 

 Mass., for the past thirty-eight years, has re- 

 signed his position and has been succeeded by 

 his assistant, Lewis A. Wright. Mr. Sawin has 

 applied himself closely to business for the past 

 forty-five years and will now take a long needed 

 rest abroad. 



Carl F. Vail of the Miltimore Lumber Com- 

 pany has opened an olfice in Boston at 70 Kilby 

 street. The company's mill is at Asheville, 

 N. C, where it manufactures hardwood lumber. 



George Stone of the Stone Lumber Company, 

 Boston, is expected home from an extended Euro- 

 pean trip during February. He has been away 

 tor several months. 



H. W. Blanchilrd of the Blanchard Lumber 

 Company states that the company has removed 

 its Now York office to, the Bowling Green buihl 

 ing. where it has larger quarters. 



R. D. Redfern of the Owen Bearse & Son Com- 

 pany, dealers in mahogany, is in the West at- 

 tending the exposition of furniture manufactur- 

 ers in the different cities. 



A report from New London, Conn., says that 

 the boat building industry in that section has 

 been rather quiet this season. Orders for new 

 bolts have come forward rather slowly, but 

 there has been considerable repair work done. 



M. J. Gibbud, wlio operates a woodworking 

 plant in Hartford, Conn., has purchased a piece 

 of property in that city and will build a new 

 plant. It is estimated that the cost will he 

 about $30,000. 



H. M. Bickford and Frank B. Wetherbee of 

 the H. M. Bickford Company, Boston, returned 

 early this month from a southern trip. 



The woodworking plant at North Carver, Mass., 

 was recently sold at auction. It was purchased 

 by Melvin L. Fuller, who will continue the 

 business. 



CLEVELAND 



The Miller-Wells Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new lumber concern in Cleveland. It 

 has been organized by C. W. Miller, formerly 

 with the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company, and 

 Daniel Wells of Detroit, who is the son of J. 

 W. Wells, a prominent Michigan lumber manu- 

 facturer. The new company will engage in a 

 general wholesale lumber business throughout 

 this territory. 



The Martin-Barriss Company reports an unus- 

 ually active trade in hardwoods for this time 

 of the year. Considerable hardwood finish is 

 being furnished for use in big vessels now in 

 dry dock here. The call for hardwood panels 

 for cabinet and car work is al.so quite active. 

 The concern looks for a big year's business. 



Mrs. Mary S. Jenks, mother of Owen, John 

 and Benjamin Jenks and a sister-in-law of Rob- 

 ert H. Jenks. recently died at the home of her 

 daughter in Ypsilanti, Mich. 



The Peters Millwork Company has leased the 

 second floor of the large mill of the Mills-Carle- 

 ton Company, containing nearly 18.000 square 

 feet of space. It adjoins the present factory of 

 ihe concern and is to be fitted up for service 

 as rapidly as possible. It will double the capac- 



