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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Dwell -M. Bi-uuer of Owen M. linmer Company. 



I!. (J. Kan- of Bocchei- & Ban-. 



!■". I). Diiflicld of Boecher & Barr. 



Krank C. Williamson. Media. Pa. 



Henry Palmei-, Langliorue, Pa. 



(ieoi-ge P. DcWiU, DeWitt Lumber Company, 

 Ni w York. 



K. E. Bennett of .Munger & Bennett. Camden, 

 N .T. 



PITTSBURG 



The Goodyear Lumber Company has just com- 

 pleted a job of logging 8,000.000 feet of logs, 

 ]",.000 hardwood ties and 3,000 cords of bark 

 I'M Medix nun. Pa. The -work was done by 

 Magnus Clusto, a big lumber jobber of Lock 

 Haven. Pa., wuo has worked on an average 

 seventy-five men all winter. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has secured as 

 a new superintendent of its mill at Crellin, Md., 

 !•;. K. Kerrler of Friendsville, Md., who was for- 

 merly superintendent of the Damascus Lumber 

 Company at Damascus, Va. The Kendall plants 

 at both Crellin and Kendall were forced to shut 

 down a few days during the last deep snow, 

 but are now running full. 



.T. X. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen 

 Lumber Company, took a run around to Cin- 

 cinnati and Chicago a short time ago and did 

 some good business. He is bringing up a barge 

 of Cottonwood from the Soutliwest. which be is 

 selliug rapidly to box manufacturers. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company w-on a suit 

 last week against the East End Lumber Com- 

 pany of Shamokin, Pa., by which the defendant 

 will bave to pay $300 for a car of lumber which 

 was ordered from the Pittsburg firm, but which 

 was delayed in shipment. 



W. W. Dempse.T. the well-known .Tohnstow-n, 

 Pa., lumberman, has bought a large interest in 

 the planing mill biisiness of L. C. Purvis & Co. 

 nt Butler, Pa. The new firm will be known as 

 the Purvis Planing Mill Company. 



The .Allegheny Lumber Company has secured 

 i:. A. jrcDermott to cover its Ohio territory. 

 He is well known in that district and formerly 

 was with W. W. Dempsey. 



.1. M, Hastings, president of the .T. M. Hast- 

 ings Lumber Company, has gone to Hollywood, 

 Cal., where he will spend the month of March 

 with his family. The Hastings company has 

 closed out all its property and machinery at 

 .T.'icksonburg, W. Va., where it recently finished 

 its hardwood operation. 



The Fredonia Planing Mill Company, capital 

 Slo.OOO, is a new concern at Fredonia, Mercer 

 county. Pa., forty miles north of Pittsburg. It 

 was incorporated by Jonas A. Baker and W. H. 

 Kiishor of Fredonia. Pa., and C. C. Conkle of 

 Pittsburg. 



The .1. L. Lytle Lumber Company reports 

 West Virginia stocks very light and is rather 

 bullish on the poplar market. Its business with 

 I he Buckeye yards lias been increased steadily 

 this winter. 



C. H. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co. has se- 

 cured one of the finest home sites on Squirrel 

 Ilill, the most aristocratic section of Cireater 

 Pittsburg. 



'I'he Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & 

 Coke Company is preparing to move all its craft 

 building and repairing plants to McKeesport, 

 Pa., fifteen miles above Pittsburg on the Monon- 

 gahela river. The plants are at present scat- 

 tered up and down the Monongahela river and 

 the plant propo.sed will employ 800 or 1,000 men. 



H. F. Domhoff, president of the Acorn Lum- 

 ber Company, reports a big lot of figuring being 

 done down East, but says that fear of labor 

 troubles is holding up many of the contracts. 

 He is getting a nice business this spring with 

 the yards. 



C. C. Vaughn, a well-known yellow pine man. 

 Is the latest accession to the force of the 

 .American Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 



lie will handle that department at the Pittsburg 

 office. 



George W. Nicola, president of the Nicola 

 Lumber Company, has gone South to look over 

 Carolina and Mississippi operations and timber 

 tracts. lie will not return until about April 1. 



Bemis & Vosburgh are cutting over 60,000 

 feet a day of hardwood, spruce and hemlock at 

 their big West Virginia plant. H. C. Bemis 

 spent a few days at the Pittsburg office recently. 



The Flint, Erving & Stoner interests have 

 formed the Southern States Lumber Company 

 with K. II. Erving, E. H. Stoner and W. II. 

 Donner, incorporators. Mr. Erving is in the 

 South now shaping up the new proposition. 



The Corry Timber Company has been formed 

 at Corry, Pa., by Henry Kempel, W. Edward 

 Marsh and J. R. Calkins of that place and C. E. 

 Webster of Girard. Pa., to do a general timber 

 business. 



C. M. Van Meter, traffic manager of E. V. 

 Babcock & Co., died at bis home at 643 Park 

 avenue, Avalon, Pa., after a brief illness of 

 pneumonia. Mr, Van Meter had been identified 

 with the Babcock interests for five years, and 

 prior to that time w-as for a number of years 

 connected w-ith the freight claim department of 

 the Pennsylvania Company. 



The Goodyear Lumber Company has started 

 to open one of the largest remaining tracts of 

 timber on the stump in all Pennsylvania. It 

 is located at Keating Summit and to reach it a 

 branch railroad, twenty miles long, is being 

 built in from the Buffalo & Susquehanna. The 

 tract contains a large amount of hardwood and 

 this will be manufactured chiefly into staves 

 and shipped over the Shawmut railroad. It is 

 likely that a big stave mill will be moved from 

 Oswego to Keating Summit this summer. 



A. M. Kinney reports a good inquiry for 

 white oak and other heavy hardwood timbers 

 from both mining corporations and railroads. 

 He has just started another mill at Sbannopin. 

 Pa., on the P. & L. E. railroad and is running 

 his other country mills full blast. 



A. G. Breitwieser of the Breitw-ieser & Wil- 

 son Compan.y has gone away for a two weeks' 

 pleasure trip. Office Manager Wilson of this 

 company reports inquiry increasing right along 

 and says that February business was very good 

 considering weather conditions. 



I. F. Balsley is preparing to have a formal 

 cpening of ihe new offices of the Palmcr-Semans 

 Lumber Company in tlie Oliver building Monday. 

 March 14. They will be among the finest lumber 

 quarters in the city. 



The I!. V. Curll Lumber Company is now 

 making good shipments from Alderson, W. Va., 

 where the new Glenray railroad there reaches 

 its big tract of hardwood lands. H. V. Curll is 

 back from a stay in .Atlantic City and feels 

 good over the hardwood outlook for spring. 



The Soutu Greensburg Lumber Company has 

 sold its plant at Greensburg, Pa., to C. E. 

 Rohland of Mill street, Greensburg, who will 

 enlarge the business at once. 



Pittsburg shippers h,ave been complaining more 

 the past two weeks of a car shortage and are 

 taking the matter up with the railroad officials 

 here. The trouble has been chiefly on the short 

 lines and the mountain cuts where deep snows 

 practically held up all traffic. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company reports 

 collections hard but general conditions fairly 

 good. Its hardwood operations at Strange 

 Creek, W. Va.. are going ahead very nicely. 



President Nelson Bell of the Furnace Run 

 Sawmill & Lumber Company says, "We're busy." 

 and says it with lots of force and confidence. 

 This company booked an order for fifteen cars 

 of timber about tw-o weeks ago. It has added 

 AVilliam Hunter to its force of salesmen, to 

 cover Ohio territory. F. H. Thompson is doing 

 good work for the company at the rhiladelpliia 

 end. 



S. C. Ewing, formerly office manager for the 

 McDonald Lumber Company, has accepted a po- 

 sition with the Interior Lumber Company as 

 salesman. The Interior is getting a better lot 

 of inquiries this month and believes that spring 

 trade is going to open up well. 



Mayor William A. JIagee has appointed as a 

 tree commission to help beautify Greater Pitts- 

 burg, Edward M. Blgelow, former director of 

 public works ; W. D. Grimes and City Con- 

 troller E. S. Morrow. They can levy one-tenth 

 of the mill taxes for their use, which will give 

 them about $7.5 to spend. The commission is 

 going to work right away and will have the 

 assistance of the Pittsburg Civic Commission, 

 w-hich is doing an immense w-ork for the general 

 uplifting of the Smoky City. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has just 

 issued its report of forestry operations in Penn- 

 sylvania, which shows that 3,482,186 trees have 

 been planted since 1002. These have been 

 I'laced at Pomroy, Vandyke, Eyer, Denholm, 

 Connewago and Morrisville, Pa., Parkton, Md.. 

 and New Brunswick, N. J. A total of more than 

 1,000,000 were planted last year. In 1000 a 

 special cfl'ort .was made to grow ornamental 

 shrubbery for use in parking, station lawns, etc., 

 and 6,000 plants were imported from France. 

 The big pressure treating plant at Mt. Union, 

 Pa., is now in full operation and a small non- 

 pressure plant has been established at Green- 

 wich Point, where the second one will be built 

 this spring. This plant will have a capacity of 

 1.000,.500 ties per year or a total of 7,861,000 

 teet of lumber at Mt. Union alone. The Green- 

 wich Point plant turns out 432,000 feet of 

 lumber. 5,000 fence posts and 25,000 paving 

 blocks a year. 



The recent annual convention of the Natipnal 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association at Cin- 

 cinnati drew quite a number of Pittsburg whole- 

 salers who gave their able support to F. R. 

 Babcock, who was elected first vice-president of 

 the association. Those who went from this city 

 are as follows : .7. G. Criste, manager of the 

 Interior Lumber Company ; W. D. Jonhston. 

 president of the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company ; E. V., F. R, and C. L. Bab- 

 cock of the Babcock interests ; Carl Van der 

 \'oort, secretary of the Pittsburg Lumbermen's 

 Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; R. A. Mc- 

 Donald, president of the McDonald Lumber Com- 

 pany : Alexander Willson of Willsou Brothers 

 Lumber Company ; J. II. Henderson, secretary 

 of the Kendall Lumber Company : A. J. Diebold 

 and Mr. Mnrphy of the Forest Lumber Company ; 

 W. ,T. T. Saint of Sharpsburg ; I. F. Balsle.v. 

 sales manager of the Palmer & Semans Lumber 

 Company ; Capt. Diver and W. W. Dempsey. 



BOSTON 



William E. Litchfield, Wendell M. Weston of 

 the W. M. Weston Company and Frank W. Law- 

 rence of Lawrence & Wiggin were the delegates 

 from the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association to attend the convention of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 at Cincinnati March 2 and 3. Mr. Litchfield is 

 a member of the board of trustees of the Na- 

 tional association. 



The Keith Car & Manufacturing Company has 

 been organized in Portland, Me., with a capital 

 stock of $2,000,000. The president and treasurer 

 is James F. Bacon of Boston. 



L. O. Davis of L. O. & E. S. Davis plans to 

 take over the business. The firm will be dis- 

 solved. It is reported that four months from 

 February 21 has been fixed for creditors to pre- 

 sent their claims. 



The Hon. John M. Woods of John M. Woods 

 & Co. attended the convention of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association at Cin- 

 cinnati last week. 



At the recent annual meeting and banquet of 

 the Lumber Dealers' Association of Connecticut, 



