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The newly elected officers are: President, J. B. 

 Flint; vice-president, E. H. Stoner, Ijotli of this 

 city, and secretary and treasurer, C. H. Arm- 

 brccht of Hatticsburg. Miss. 



The Brcitwiescr & Wilson Company has ap- 

 plied for a Pennsylvania charter. Its members. 

 Albert G. Breitwieser. William W. Wilson, Jr.. 

 and William J. Harrington, all of Pittsburg, have 

 been doing business since January 1 as the Breit- 

 wieser & Wilson Company. They are now located 

 in handsome offices in the new Oliver building. 



E.x-Senator William Flinn of Pittsburg and 

 sons have bought S.OOO acres of virgin forest land 

 near Hampton, Carter county, Tennessee. They 

 will install a band sawmill at once and arrange 

 to cut 50.U00 feet per day. The tract is said to 

 hold 100.000,000 feet of marketable lumber and the 

 branch lines of the E. T. and M. N. C. Uallroad 

 Company will be built from Hampton eight miles 

 into the tract. 



W. P. Craig, president of the W. P. Craig 

 Lumber Company, returned from a stay in Phila- 

 delphia, He says that plants there are running 

 nearly full and that no visible bad effects of the 

 striljo are manifest at present. 



The Bessemer & Laice Erie Railroad Company 

 is making arrangements to take care of the big- 

 gest business in its history. This is the main 

 coal and ore carrying road between Pittsburg and 

 the lakes and its plans at present show that it 

 believes there will be a big summer's business in 

 all lines. 



The Germain Company announces that export 

 trade is still pretty slow. Demand for timbers 

 in the East has been more encouraging of late 

 and the only complaint it has to make is that* 

 the margin of profit on business is very much 

 smaller than formerly. 



I. F. Balsley. sales manager of the Palmer & 

 Semans Lumber Company, is now welcoming his 

 many friends to the fourteenth floor of the new 

 Oliver building, where the company has as fine 

 offices as can be found in the city. Several sales- 

 men have been put on this month to cover Ohio 

 ,"tnd Pennsylvania territory and the prospects (or 

 the new company are very good. 



Herman and John Williams of Meadville, Pa., 

 recently bought the plant of the L. F. Smith 

 Lumber Company at that place and will continue 

 the planing and lumber mill operations on a 

 larger scale. 



The Interior Lumber Company is getting its 

 stocks of northern Pennsylvania lumber well 

 shaped up for early summer delivery. Manager 

 J, G. Criste lately paid a visit to the mills and 

 ' is well satisfied with the progress made in cut- 

 ting. 



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

 ber Company, has recovered from his recent at- 

 tack of grip and is back at his desk hustling 

 for business. He recently added to his force of 

 salesmen H. M. Jackson, who was formerly with 

 the Crescent Lumber Company of this city, who 

 will cover the Pittsburg territory. 



The active management of the A. G. Breitwie- 

 ser Lumber Compan.v, one of the largest retail 

 concerns in western Pennsylvania, has been 

 turned over by Mr. Breitwieser to W. H. Will- 

 iams and F. Keeling, who are respectively vice- 

 president and secretary. Mr. Breitwieser still 

 retains his office as president but will devote all 

 his energies to his new wholesale company. 



Pittsburg's March building report shows that 

 no permits were issued for costly structures this 

 month. Three hundred and fifty-seven permits 

 were granted for building operations to cost $S53.- 

 052. This is a decrease of about $200,000. com- 

 pared with March, 1909. This falling off is largely 

 attributed to the very bad weather which pre- 

 vailed most of the month. 



President Nelson E. Bell of the Furnace Run 

 Sawmill & Lumber Company is very hopeful of 

 the spring market. He finds a strong tone to 

 the hardwood trade in general and believes that 

 with a reasonable amount of hustling this year 

 is going to make a good record; 



President W. D. Johnston of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company Is gaining 



faith in the hardwood market every month. He 

 has started one of the American's big hardwood 

 plants in North Carolina, which is cutting him- 

 ber chiefly for the North Carolina furniture trade. 

 The H. 'V. Curll Lumber Company is very 

 strong on poplar. Mr. Curll has made several 

 recent inspections of poplar stocks in West Vir- 

 ginia and finds that everything there indicates a 

 close shortage and that the mills here are over- 

 loaded with orders. 



Tile Mead & Specr Luml>er Company is very 

 busy at its plant at Strange Creek. W. Va., where 

 it is turning out some especially fine hardwood 

 stock. The company has had a splendid trade all 

 the year in Ohio and the Middle West. Much of 

 Ihisj lumber goes to the manufacturing trade. 



This .spring the old-time Allegheny river trade 

 has been much in evidence. The cut of logs up 

 I he river was especially large last winter and 

 .several big floats have come down since JIarch 1. 

 II. T. and J. A. Newell of the Newell Brothers 

 Lumber Company have been down at their mill 

 in West Virginia the past week taking a careful 

 count of the stocks. They have all the business 

 the.v can attend to at present and are greatly en- 

 couraged over the demand from the East for 

 good hardwoods. 



J. J. I.inehan of the Linehan Lumber Company 

 is l«ck home once more after a long absence in 

 the East. He reports trade much better in that 

 locality, but says that it costs lots of money to 

 get business and that everybody is hustling to 

 the limit. 



The Railroad & Car Material Company has 

 moved from 1010 Bessemer building to larger 

 quarters on the sixth floor of the same building. 

 It is getting a nice business in hardwood timbers 

 and general railroad stock. 



The Webster-Keasey Lumber Company, which 

 has been cutting a large amount of hardwood in 

 Butler and Indiana counties this year, has re- 

 cently bought another tract of oak in the former 

 county and will put in a mill to cut it off at 

 once. It has made some excellent sales to trolley 

 companies this spring and also has sold a large 

 amount of lumber for government contracting 

 work. 



William R. Cornelius, a well-known young hard- 

 wood dealer of 713 Bessemer building, is pulling 

 out stakes in Pittsburg and will move his busi- 

 ness in Cincinnati May 1. He is at present quar- 

 tered temporarily in the First National Bank 

 building in that city, but is building a fine office 

 for his business at Bridgetown. 



Secretary J. H. Henderson of the Kendall Lum- 

 ber Company announces that trade is booming. 

 The company's mining business is especially good. 

 All its mills are running full and it is likely that 

 a night shift will be put on at Crullin, Md., and 

 also at its Croft plant very soon. 



A. B. Neill of the McDonald Lumber Company 

 recently came up from May, W. Va.. for a look" 

 at Pittsburg. Ills company is cutting 60,000 feet 

 a day and shipping much of this lumber to the 

 East. 



Lumber dealers of Alliance and Youngstown, 

 Oliio, predict the biggest business for those two 

 cities this summer of any year in their history. 

 Robert Jacobs of the Jacobs Lumber Company 

 of Youngstown is especially enthused over the 

 prospects in his city where the steel Industries 

 arc spending millions this summer for new plants. 

 Pittsburg is showing a great improvement In 

 house building the past month. The yards are 

 beginning to feel this increase in contracting 

 trade, but still have good stocks of lumber on 

 hand. 



The Emporium Lumber Company, whose plant 

 at Galeton, Pa., was recently burned, has started 

 to rebuild and will soon have a larger plant 

 than before, which will be devoted cliiefly to the 

 flooring business. 



N. H., on March 18, the following officers were 

 elected for the coming year: Warren Tripp, 

 president; Charles A. Robie, vice-president, and 

 L. Ashton Thorpe, secretary and treasurer. The 

 board of din'ctors includes: James B. Tennant. 

 S. D. Felker, Milton Read, Frank R. Clark and 

 Charles A. Bailey. 



The committee on mercantile affairs of the 

 Massachusetts state legislature recently mailed 

 notices to several lumber dealers calling atten- 

 tion to a bill entitled "An act to provide for 

 additional surveyors of lumber and to define and 

 extend tlieir duties." This caused considerable 

 comment among dealers and resulted in a Joint 

 meeting of the executive committee of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association and 

 the Lumber Trade Club of Boston, representing 

 the retail dealers of this city and vicinity. At 

 this meeting resolutions were framed up pro- 

 testing against the passing of the proposed. bill. 

 The quick action taken by the lumbermen re- 

 sulted in the committee recommending that the 

 originator of the act be allowed to withdraw the 

 same. 



Benjamin 0. Brown, of the firm of Ballou & 

 -McColIey, chair manufacturers, Winchendon, 

 .Mass., recently stated that his concern will build 

 another shop at its plant. The present bulld- 

 . ings are not large enough to accommodate its 

 business. About sixty hands are now employed, 

 but it is planned to increase this number. The 

 new shop will be a wooden structure. 120x40 feet, 

 two stories high, with all modern equipment and 

 conveniences. 



The Southern Railway has withdrawn its or- 

 der which practically prohibited the diverting 

 of cars at stopover points, which had passed 

 over the entire line of the road or over It in 

 part. This ruling on the railroad's part was 

 considered very unfair and unjust, and when 

 the matter was brought plainly before the offi- 

 cials they evidently saw the error of their judg- 

 ment and withdrew it. 



C. E. Wliite of the Tennessee Lumber Com- 

 pany has recently returned to Hartford, Conn., 

 from a trip to Tennessee. The company is busy 

 constructing a railroad from its timber lands to 

 the main line. At the present time about 100 

 men are employed. 



The Blair Veneer Company at North Troy, Vt., 

 has been installing a new hot air blast drying 

 apparatus. Because of this an extension tower 

 Iiad to be erected. 



The Simonds Manufacturing Company, one of 

 the largest saw manufacturing concerns in the 

 world, has purchased the buildings of the Si- 

 monds Rolling Machine Company, adjoining its 

 present plant in FItchburg, Mass. The company 

 proposes to manufacture all of its handles and 

 frames in the new property. The handle and 

 frame business which has been conducted at 

 Arlington, Vt., will be removed to FItchburg.- 



Frederic McQuesten of the George McQueslen 

 Company, lumber dealers, Boston, is making a 

 trip around the world accompanied by his wife. 

 They have been spending some time in Ceylon 

 and are now on their way to Naples. 



Miss Dorothea Davenport, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. George Davenport of Boston, was united 

 in marriage Monday, March 28, at noon, to Will- 

 iam Truman Aklrich, son of Senator Aldrlch. 

 The ceremony was performed at Trinity Church 

 and a wedding breakfast was served at the home 

 of the bride. Mr. Davenport is of the Daven- 

 port-Peters Company, a prominent lumber con- 

 cern of this city. Among the distinguished 

 guests present were U. S. Senator Aldrich, John 

 D. Rockefeller. Jr., and Governor and .Mrs. 

 Draper. 



BALTIMORE 



BOSTON 



At the annual meeting of the New Hampshire 

 Lumbermen's Association, held at Manchester, 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange, at its monthly meeting April 

 •1, received a report from the committee named 

 at the annual meeting in December to take up 

 llie relations between the wholesalers and the 



