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HARDWOOD RECORD 



T. Sullivan & Co. are fortunate enough to 

 have a lot of black ash In stock and they find 

 that it goes much easier than more comes in, as 

 the old base of supply, either in Canada or up 

 the lakes, is about worked out. 



Angus McLean spent some time in Buffalo 

 lately, but is now back to the St. Lawrence 

 valley mills of the McLean interest, getting 

 them ready to start up as soon as the regular 

 season opens in May. The cut is mostly cedar 

 and spruce. 



The yard of F. W. Vetter is showing some new 

 southern hardwood stock. He is getting a good 

 amount of white ash from that direction, but 

 manages to ship most of it to customers direct. 



As A. Miller stayed in the Canadian hardwood 

 trade rather longer than most of the lumbermen 

 here did he was very busy lately, getting in 

 stock that might suffer from a heavy tariff, but 

 it is all easy again and business is strong. 



The yard of O. E. I'eager is always well sup- 

 plied with lumber from the Kentucky mills he 

 runs, which includes a good stock of oak, poplar 

 and chestnut, though all of them are harder to 

 get every year. 



A. J. Elias has not forgotten that, like David 

 B. Hill, he is still a Democrat, for he attended 

 the dinner in remembrance of Thomas Jefferson 

 at Albany on April 16 and was made toastmaster 

 of the affair. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company keeps 

 John W. Welsh in the West or South much of 

 the time. looking after more stock. He is lately 

 back from a trip to the lake district, but found 

 everything, especially maple, very scarce there. 



The Black Rock hardwood yards that used to 

 bring in so much maple, elm, birch and basswood 

 from Michigan are looking for a slacking off in 

 mill prices and at the same time they are look- 

 ing to the Pacific coast for relief if they re- 

 main up. 



The Chamber of Commerce is planning a 

 banquet for April HO. Many of Buffalo's lum- 

 bermen are serving on the committees. C. W. 

 Bctts is chairman and I. N. Stewart is a member 

 of the general banquet committee and others are 

 on subcommittees. The promised attendance of 

 President Tatt brings out so many people that 

 the attendance will have to be limfted to about 

 a thousand. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Jerome II. Sheip. manufacturer and wholesale 

 lumber. Land Title building, reports business 

 now fully established and good orders coming in. 

 He has engaged 11. S. Best, formerly general 

 superintendent of the manufacturing and ship- 

 ping of the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Com- 

 pany and who is at present looking after things 

 In the West Virginia lumber camps, to take charge 

 of the manufacturing and contracting for stock 

 at mill end. Harry E. Olsen is covering the 

 Philadelphia and nearby territory with attendant 

 success. 



L. Power & Co., woodworking machinery, re- 

 port a more responsive business of late with a 

 promising outlook. They recently installed the 

 box machinery in the new plant of E. G. Adkins 

 Company, Salisbury, Md., also supplied complete 

 equipment for the plant cf Trnitl i; C'oulbourn of 

 same place. 



S. Wilson Ileal on of Uoaton & Wood, par- 

 quetry flooring, says business is coming in satis- 

 factorily and prospects for the future are 

 encouraging. This firm caters always to the 

 very select trade. Their work, which is of 

 Indisputable excellence, is seen in nearly all of 

 the mansions of the East. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works is expected to 

 close a contract for fifty-five locomotives for the 

 Baltimore & Ohio railroad. 



The Lehigh Valley Transit Company has 

 ordered ten double-truck cars from the J. G. 

 Brill Company. 



Forest fires at ^L^uell Chunk. Pa., have robbed 



Mt. Pisgah, Broad mountain and the west end of 

 Flagstaff mountain of much valuable timber. 



Four hundred and fifty acres of timber, worth 

 $800, were burned over as the result of a care- 

 less smoker dropping a cigar in the woods back 

 of Caledonia Park, on the state forestry reserve, 

 Chambersburg, Pa. 



Sparks from a sawmill at Shenandoah started 

 a forest fire at Buck Glenn in the Catawissa 

 valley that wiped out an extensive timber tract 

 and did other damage to the extent of ,$10,000. 



On April 5 at Georgetown, Del., the steam 

 sawmill owned by Josiah Wilson was damaged 

 by fire. The loss is estimated at $5,000. 



The lumber yards and stair factory of the 

 Frank C. Snedaker Company, Ninth and Tioga 

 streets, this city, and the stable of the Tioga 

 Wagon Company opposite were visited by a 

 destructive fire on April 6 and $60,000 amount 

 of property was consumed. 



On April 10 at Bloomsburg. Pa., the lumber 

 camp of S. R. Dyer in Franklin township. Co- 

 lumbia, and uncut timber land were burned with 

 a loss of several thousand dollars. 



At High Bridge, N. J., the saw, planing and 

 grist mills of Isaac H. Hoffman were visited by 

 fire on April .5, with a loss of $5,000, 



Two million feet of finished lumber stored in 

 the yards of the Salmon Creek Lumber Com- 

 pany at Kellettville, Forest county. Pa., were 

 consumed by fire on April 17. Loss $60,000. 



On April 12 at Shamokin. Pa.. Dyer's lumber 

 mill suffered a loss by fire of $10,000. 



The entire drawing building of the New York 

 Shipbuilding Company. Camden. N. J., was 

 burned down April IS, destroying drawings, blue 

 prints, photographs and plans for vessels to the 

 amount of $15,000. Total loss $100,000. 



The Universal Motor Company. Washington, 

 IJ. C. was incorporated April 5 under Delaware 

 laws: capital, $5,000,000. 



The Park Automobile Company. Johnstown, 

 obtained charter under Pennsylvania laws on 

 April 6 : capital. $25,000. 



The Forbes Motor Car Company. Pittsburg, 

 Pa., was incorporated on April 6 under Penn- 

 sylvania laws with a capital of $10,000. 



The Times Square Automobile Company, New- 

 nrk. obtained charter under New Jersey laws on 

 April 7 : capital. $125,000. 



The Automobile Company of Philadelphia, to 

 make and sell all kinds of vehicles, motors, 

 engines and propelled cars, was incorporated 

 .\pril 7 under Delaware laws ; capital, .$50,000. 



Articles of incorporation were filed April 15 

 in the Camden county clerk's office for the 

 Southern I^and & Lumber Company, which is 

 capitalized at $100,000. 



PITTSBURG 



Pennsylvania has been visited by some very 

 bad forest fires during the past week, as this is 

 the driest April on record in most parts of the 

 state. In the Bradford. Pa., district fires have 

 been raging almost continuously for several 

 days, and much damage is reported. 



The Acorn Lumber Company is now nicely 

 quartered at 1401 Oliver building, where its 

 president, Harry M. Domhoff. is busy getting 

 out shipments to Ohio and the Middle West. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has tour 

 mills cutting hardwood, mostly oak. This has 

 been sold for use in the government river con- 

 tracts, and Manager S. A. Seaman has been out 

 of the city this week capturing another similar 

 order. 



The .7. C. Donges Lumber Company has moved 

 into the new Oliver building and reports a fair 

 trade. Mr. Donges is a member of the Warren 

 Lumber Company of Siebert, W. Va., and his 

 concern is handling considerable of its stock. 



W. W. Dempsey, the well-known wholesaler 

 of Johnstown, Pa., Is being represented in this 

 city this spring by C. V. McCreight of Indiana. 

 Pa., who drops into town often enough to offer 

 up some very nice business. 



The McDonald Lumber Company reports a 

 good business In flooring and says that the 

 hardwood trade is picking up steadily. Prices 

 are good and the prospects are that summer 

 business will be larger than at present. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company had an ex- 

 cellent month in March and reports a higher 

 scale of prices prevailing. Its new quarters In 

 the Ferguson building Is the meeting place of 

 many an old-time friend of A, M. Turner's and 

 other officials who make this Pittsburg head- 

 quarters. 



E. H. Shrelner, manager of the Goodwin 

 Lumber Company, is down in Virginia, West Vir- 

 ginia and Kentucky getting a line on some new 

 stocks of hardwood. The company's trade has 

 been fair all the spring, and there seems to be a 

 better call for most grades of hardwood. 



The F. W. Crane Lumber Company has added 

 to Its force of salesmen J. F. Devore, formerly 

 of Columbus, Ohio. Oak and poplar are leading 

 on its sales hooks at the present time. Mr. 

 Crane reports some scarcity of cars on the 

 branch lines. 



The Nicola Lumber Company announces that 

 husiness is fair but that trade could stand much 

 more without any particular exertion. It Is 

 getting a good call for oak bill stuff, largely for 

 contract purposes. 



Bemis & Vosburgh say that there is no big 

 volume of business but that a decent price can 

 be secured for such orders as are coming along, 

 and meantime the market is reviving. Their 

 trade east of Pittsburg has slacked up a little 

 this month, and the tendency seems to be toward 

 larger orders west of Pittsburg. 



The Railroad & Car Material Company says 

 that some good requisitions for car stuff have 

 resulted in nice orders lately, although some 

 purchasing agents have had a large proportion 

 of their requisitions blue-penciled since April 1. 

 Timbers and car stuff seem to have the greatest 

 call. 



President Nelson Bell of the Furnace Run 

 Sawmill & Lumber Company says that hardwood 

 buyers are a little afraid to stock up, largely 

 because they fear that lower prices may come a 

 little later on. Mills with which this company 

 deals are apparently looking for business In 

 spite of the tact that their stocks of hardwood 

 are pretty well cut down. 



William K. Hugus, auditor, is receiving the 

 final account cf J. J. Dean, receiver of the 

 Lawrence County Lumber Company at New 

 Castle, Pa. This concern has been in financial 

 difficulties for several months. 



Christian L. Stoner died at the age of eighty- 

 six at his residence at 1101 Allegheny avenue, 

 I'ittsburg, April 5. He came to the Steel City In 

 1S67 and for many years engaged in the manufac- 

 ture of carriages and later in the lumber busi- 

 ness as senior member of the firm of Stoner & 

 McClure. 



The Kingwood Lumber Company at its recent 

 annual meeting at Beaver. Pa., elected these 

 officers: President, W. Caddell of Caddell, W. 

 Va.; vice-president, W. H. Witherspoon of Bea- 

 ver; treasurer, C. M. Hughes of Beaver; secre- 

 tary, W. H. Cover of Connellsville. Pa. The 

 company owns about 3,000 acres of hardwood 

 timber near Kingwood, W. Va. 



Pittsburg building fell off about 19 per cent In 

 March. This loss was about the same as shown 

 in New York. It looks rather bad compared 

 with the gain of 39 per cent in Philadelphia, but 

 this latter is accounted for by the enormous 

 amount of house building going on in the Quaker 

 City this spring. 



The Wiilson Brothers Lumber Company has 

 fitted up one of the finest suites of offices in all 

 of Pittsburg in the new Oliver skyscraper. Its 

 office force was never so well arranged and or- 

 ganized as now, and the company is going to 

 make a big push for business this spring. 



The J. L. Lytle Lumber Company has been 

 capturing a nice share of the Ohio trade all tne 

 .vear. This Is evidently Its stronghold, for it 

 reports yard sales much better there than in the 

 East. 



