HARDWOOD RECORD 



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hridge, Mass., has recently purchased a large 

 r.otomobile truck for the carrying of lumber. The 

 company is planning to purchase two more and 

 do away with the carrying of lumber by horses. 



The Arm of L. O. & E. S. Davis, Meriden, 

 Conn., is to dissolve partnership. E. S. Davis 

 will dispose of his interests to his brother, Lewis 

 0. Davis. 



The W. A. Fuller Lumber Company, Leominster, 

 Mass., has purchased a tract of vacant land near 

 its present yard and will use the new property in 

 connection with its business. 



I. P. Fears' Sons have opened an office in the 

 Savage block, Eockport. Miss., for the sale of 

 lumber. The company has a yard in another sec- 

 lion of that place. 



The Taylor & Goodwin Company. Haverhill, 

 Mass., is building a large shed tor the storage 

 of lumber at its yard in that city. 



BALTIMORE 



K. E. Wood and H. L. Bowman, of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company, have returned from an 

 extended trip in the South, where they visited 

 a number of mills and made a study of trade 

 conditions at close range. The journey was 

 made in the interests of business as well as for 

 recreation. They found that the mills have had 

 a good run this winter, being very little inter- 

 fered with by the weather in the South. In 

 spite of this steadiness of operation, however, 

 there were no large accumulations of stocks, 

 and prices, as a rule, were Qrm. Lots of lumber 

 were taken up here and there, but in numerous 

 instances Messrs. Wood and Bowman concluded 

 that the prevailing hardwood trade conditions 

 hardly justified them in meeting the figures of 

 I he producers. (4| 



The Eisenhauer-MacLca Company, a large part 

 of whose fine stock of hardwoods and yard was 

 destroyed by fire on February 2, has opened a 

 temporary oflJce on the southeast corner of Cen- 

 tral and Eastern avenues, and is going right 

 ahead to assemble a new stock. The wreckiige 

 will be cleaned up as soon as the insurance can 

 be adjusted, and the yard buildings will be re- 

 placed. 



Albert Wagenmann of Luschka & Wagenmann, 

 Ltd., Mannheim, Germany, was a recent visitor 

 here. He was looking for poplar logs and white 

 oak lumber, and called on several of the local 

 exporters. 



State Forester F. W. Besley has submitted his 

 report to Governor Crothers. In it he states 

 that the work of surveying Maryland's timber 

 resources has been completed in eighteen out of 

 the twenty-three counties, and that forest con- 

 ditions in eight counties have been carefully 

 studied, and detailed forest maps and working 

 plans made. Observations as to bettering the 

 methods of forest management are added. Mr. 

 Besley reports : "Under present conditions, 

 through wasteful and iuj\idicious methods, ot 

 cutting and as a result of repeated forest fires, 

 our woodlands are deteriorating, so that they 

 are producing hut one-third to one-fourth of what 

 they are capable of doing under proper and 

 reasonable management." The state owns four 

 forest reserves aggregating 1,0.57 acres, which 

 have been placed uuder systematic management 

 as an object lesson. 



E. P. Gill of Wm. D. Gill & Son : Theodore 

 Mottu of Theodore Mottu & Co.. and Rufus K. 

 Goodenow of the Canton Box Company, have been 

 appointed delegates to represent the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange at the annual meeting of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 in Cincinnati. 



CLEVELAND 



Several Cleveland hardwood lumber dealers 

 take exception to the action of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association's new rate list, which 

 raises the prices on grades of poplar used in 



manufacturing. One of those to criticise the 

 new schedule is E. L. French of W. A. Cool & 

 Son, who says that it does not seem warranted 

 at this time and that the increase will do more 

 to injure business than to improve it. 



Henry R. Cool is at present traveling in Mis- 

 sissippi looking over the lumber lands in that 

 -state. His father, W. A. Cool, is at Southport, 

 N. C, where the company owns 13,000 acres of 

 timber lands, which are rapidly being developed. 



Samuel E. Barr of the Lilly Lumber Company 

 of New York City and B. W. Ackles, secretary ot 

 the Alton Lumber Company of Buckhannon, W. 

 Va., were among this week's visitors to Cleve- 

 land. 



H. A. Hulburt, who has filed a petition in 

 bankruptcy, has been connected with a number 

 of lumber ventures here. He first appeared with 

 a concern known as the Lumber & Timber Manu- 

 facturers' Agency and later headed a firm which 

 bore his own name. More recently still he 

 merged with F. W. Wiggins as the Forest City 

 Lumber Company and took over the yards of the 

 Richardson Lumber Company in the Bast End. 

 Now he is asking to be adjudged a bankrupt by 

 the courts. 



George E. Meier, manager of (he Interstate 

 Lumber Company, has been named as receiver 

 for the Lakeview Lumber Company. Euclid ave- 

 nue and East Eleventh street. The liabilities of 

 the concern are about .$0,000. The concern was 

 started about a year ago by E. W. Hatch and 

 has never done a very vigorous business. 



The hardwood yard ot C. N. Boyce at Somer- 

 set, Ky.. has been taken over by the C. H. Foote 

 Lumber Company of Cleveland. Mr. Boyce is 

 now- engaged In the lumber business at .lefferson, 

 O. The Foote company intends to enlarge the 

 plant and extend the business as rapidly as con- 

 sistent with the output. The stock which is 

 l)eing carried at present consists of oak, poplar, 

 ash and chestnut. 



OflScers of the recently organized Putnam Lum- 

 ber Company have been chosen as follows : .1. 

 W. Wagner, president ; J. M. Diver, vice-presi- 

 dent ; S. E. Putnam, manager and treasurer ; E. 

 C. Barro, secretary, and P. H. Wagner, assistant 

 .secretary. The company has taken over the busi- 

 ness of the late firm of Putnam & Savidge. 



The Peerless Motor Car Company, one of the 

 biggest manufacturers of automobiles in the 

 county, has announced that it will build a body- 

 shop this summer, thereby increasing its facili- 

 ties for turning out auto bodies. This will 

 create another depot for wide, clear poplar, 

 which is in such keen demand by the auto manu- 

 facturers here. 



The Big Four railroad is contemplating the 

 erection of an immense freight depot in the 

 flats this summer, and some of the big lumber 

 yards in the neighborhood are wondering just 

 what the outcome will be. Unsuccessful at- 

 tempts have been made to buy some of this prop- 

 erty, as the lumber concerns do not desire (o 

 move. The railroads threaten to condemn, but 

 this is unlikely. If the big freight yards and 

 depots are a reality it will assist materially in 

 the shipment of lumber, much of which is now 

 coming from southern points by rail instead of 

 by the old lake routes. 



The hardwood business of the .\dvance Lumber 

 Company is reported by that concern as being 

 in good shape. The total output of its mills is 

 being marketed with but little trouble. The 

 ' hardwood business, in fact, shows the best tone 

 of any branch of the market in this territory, 

 according to Manager Christy. 



Extensive remodeling is being done at the 

 plant of the Mills-Carleton Company. New ma- 

 chinery, including several new matchers, is being 

 installed and various other changes are being 

 made. E. G. Carleton of the Mills-Carleton Com- 

 liauy at present is spending his vacation fishing 

 in Florida. 



Clyde Klumph, salesman for the F. T. Peitch 

 Lumber Compan.v, who is a sergeant in the 

 Cleveland Grays, left during the past week with 



that organization on its trip to Mexico. He will 

 be off his regular beat for several weeks. 



There is at present being waged in Cleveland 

 a campaign to raise $500,000 for a new Y. M. 

 C. A. building. ,Iohn D. Rockefeller started the 

 list with .$100,000. Prominent among the mem- 

 bers of the commit tec in charge of the movement 

 are C. H. Prescott of the Saginaw Bay Lumber 

 Company and J. .T. Wemple of the Ohio Sash & 

 Door Company. The Saginaw Bay Company con- 

 tributed .$1,000 to the fund. A similar sum was 

 given by A. and A. R. Teachout, sash and door 

 manufacturers. Little difficulty is expected in 

 raising the entire sum. 



K. V. Hobart of the Ilobart Lumber Company 

 of Boston, Mass., called on the local trade dur- 

 ing the past week. He left here for a trip to 

 Michigan, after which he will tour the South. 



COLUMBUS 



Upon tlie application of the .1. J. Newman 

 Lumber Company of St. Louis the Holly-Mathews 

 Manufacturing Company of Sikeston, Mo., and 

 • the C. T. Nelson Company ot Columbus, Albert 

 II. Colland was appointed a receiver for the 

 Columbus Wire-Bound Box Company. The re- 

 ceiver gave bond and continued to operate the 

 factory. 



E. Doddington reports a fair run of orders, in 

 spite of the unfavorable weather conditions, 

 r.hich have prevailed for some time. 



A. C. Davis, president of the A. C. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company, reports a steady market with sev- 

 eral lines ot hardwoods showing considerable 

 sn-ength. He says that railroads are caring for 

 lumber shipments better and that the movement 

 is freer. He reports a general disposition on 

 the part of factories to buy if they are in need 

 of stock while the yard trade is slow. Prices 

 show a disposition to stiffen. 



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

 Lumber Company, returned recently from a two 

 weeks' business trip through a number of south- 

 ern states. 



J. G. Hughes of the P. Smith Sons' Lumber 

 Company of Newark, Ohio, was a caller on a 

 number of wholesalers last week. 



The executive committee of the Ohio Shippers' 

 Association is fighting to oppose the enactment 

 of the Woods bill, which provides for the merg- 

 ing of the present Ohio Railway Commission 

 with the proposed Public Utilities Commission. 

 Lumbermen of the state which affiliate with the 

 Obio Shippers' Association believe that the laws 

 governing the Ohio Railway Commission as it is 

 now organized should not be changed. The ship- 

 [■ers are supporting the Ervin bill, providing for 

 enlarged powers of the Ohio Railway Commission. 



L. B. Schnieder of the .lohn R. Gobey Lumber 

 Company reports an unchanged market in hard- 

 woods. He says prices are holding their own 

 j'ud that demand is good when the condition of 

 the weather is taken into account. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Acorn Lumber Company, A. B. McKean was 

 elected president and general manager and C. A. 

 Beckett secretary-treasurer. The office of the 

 company was recently moved from East Rich 

 street to Rich street and the Hocking Valley 

 tracks, where two offices were merged. 



Daniel Snider was elected president of the .T. 

 .T. Snider Lumber Company at the annual stock- 

 holders' meeting held recently. .Tames Detmeyer 

 was elected vice-president and .Tamos E. McNally 

 secretary-treasurer. These officers, with J. W. 

 Reynolds and .Tohn Sowers, constitute the board 

 of directors. 



The General Lumber Company will soon install 

 a 1.50-horsepowei' engine and two new boilers at 

 ils mill at Ashland. Ky. Formerly the plant w-as 

 lun by four boilers and engines, but now greater 

 economy can be secured by combining several of 

 the engines. The company has been bus.v during 

 the winter cutting logs on the timber tract on 

 the Big Sandy river and as soon as it is con- 



