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was incorporated April 21 under New Jersey 

 laws, with a capital of $25,0ii0. 



Tlie Nortli American Timbi'i- Corporation, Wil- 

 mington. Del., obtained charier April 25 under 

 Delaware laws. Its capital is .$100,000. 



The Sweeney Automobile Company, Camden, 

 N.J., was incorporated April 27 under Penn- 

 sylvania laws, to buy, sell aud deal in all kinds 

 of automobiles. The capital is $10,000. and in- 

 corporators are Frank R. Ilansell, William F. 

 Eidell and John A. MacPeak. 



The Auto Central Compau.v. Philadelphia, in- 

 corporated .\pril 28 under Delaware laws ; capi- 

 tal ¥25,000. 



The Lancaster Auto Company. Lancaster, char- 

 tered May 3 under Pennsylvania laws with a 

 capital of $50,000. 



The Palisades Park Lumber & Supply Com- 

 pany, Palisades Park, incorporated May 2 under 

 New Jersey laws with a capital of S125,000. 



The Spring Garden Lumber Company, Cam- 

 den, obtained a charter on May 2 under New 

 Jersey laws ; capital $25,000. 



James Bell, a prominent lumberman of Car- 

 lisle, Pa., died from the effects of burns re- 

 cently, while fighting the mountain fires in that 

 section. He once owned mills on the mountain- 

 side. He was 65 years old. 



Lumber yards and mills of Glaize & Co., Win- 

 chester, Va., were destroyed by fire on April 29. 

 The loss is .$40,000. 



PITTSBURG 



The J. L. Lytle Lumber Company has in- 

 creased its force of salesmen by putting on S. 

 M. Nease, who will handle part of its Ohio and 

 western Pennsylvania trade. A. Adelman of 

 this company recently made a very successful 

 business trip to the Buckeye state. 



A. M. Kinney continues to book good orders 

 for hardwood stock for railroads and is start- 

 ing two new hardwood mills near Hickory, Pa. 

 The coal strike has cut off some trade from him, 

 but he reports railroad business good. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company is run- 

 ning steadily at Strange Creek. W. Va.. where 

 it has 5.000,000 feet on sticks. It reports a 

 splendid sale of wide poplar boards for automo- 

 bile manufacturers and has pulled down as high 

 as $140 per M for this stock. 



-According to Secretary Bettinger of the Ni- 

 cola Lumber Company, most of the Pittsburg 

 firms are doing a very fair amount of business 

 and at reasonable profits. The trouble is, he 

 says, that they are not satisfied with a com- 

 parison with fair .years in the past, but want 

 the 1907 boom records visible once more. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company has its best 

 business at present in Ohio and the Pittsburg 

 district. Yellow pine is a strong seller. The 

 company has lately taken on R. L. Kershner, 

 who will represent it in West Virginia. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company has 

 really more orders or rather a greater variety of 

 orders than it can take care of at its West Vir- 

 ginia plant. This is running full and the com- 

 pany's business at Buffalo, Philadelphia and 

 other eastern towns has been first class. 



The Henderson Lumber Company reports the 

 Industrial situation as very hopeful. Sales on 

 this account continue fairly steady at slightly 

 increasing prices, and Mr. Henderson looks for 

 better business with the coke manufacturers 

 than last summer. 



The William H. Schuette Company is ship- 

 ping largely from its stocks at Scanlon, Minn., 

 Cleveland, Ohio, and Belhaven, N. C. It bought 

 out the Georgian Bay Company's stock at Cleve- 

 land some time ago and has been very suc- 

 cessful in putting it on the market. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company Is doing a 

 fine business this month. Both A. M. Turner 

 and E. S. Dunn of this company are now In 

 the South looking for new stock. 



President F. W. Crane of the F. W. Crane 

 Lumber Company made what is considered an 

 unusually good deal last week in buying the 

 total output of the Yale Lumber Company's 

 plant at Yale, K.v. This company has now 

 5,000.000 feet, mostly poplar and oak, on sticks 

 and is cutting at the rate of 35,000 feet a da.v. 

 The Crane company maintains both New York 

 and Pittsburg oflices and has a splendid trade 

 in the East and also in Ohio and other middle 

 manufacturing states. 



It is likely that the affairs of the defunct 

 Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company will be wound 

 up this month. The receivers have only very 

 small assets to disburse so that it is probable 

 that creditors will not receive more than 10 or 

 15 per cent at most. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is doing 

 well at its Red Spring, N.C., plant and also at 

 its big newly established agency at Hatticsburg, 

 Miss. It is not unlikely that this company 

 will engage in the hardwood manufacturing 

 business here soon. 



J. N. Woollett recently made a three weeks' 

 trip through the Middle states. He found the 

 bos trade pretty slow buyers. Other manu- 

 facturers are taking considerable lumber, but 

 there is very little buoyancy in the market, ac- 

 cording to his story. 



The Goodwin Lumber Company, through its 

 manager, E. H. Shreiner, has bought 2,000,000 

 feet of Virginia stock which it will ship over 

 the N. &. W. Mr. Shreiner has been working up 

 some excellent connections in the Virginias the 

 past week, and his company is now in splendid 

 shape to ship dry stock on short notice. 



Henry W. Mosby of Mosby & Denison. big 

 manufacturers at Helena, Ark., and J. C. Ling- 

 Lam and J. Nelson of t^ie Long-Bell Lumber 

 Company of Cleveland, were recent visitors in 

 the city. 



The H. V. Curll Lumber Company has put in 

 three miles more of railroad at Glenray, W. Va., 

 and is arranging to build two miles further into 

 its big tract of timber. It closed a contract 

 this week for 20.000 cords of bark, for which it 

 receives a considerably better price than last 

 year. Mr. Curll says the hickory market is 

 strong and that manufacturing trade in gen- 

 eral is very good. 



The recent coal strike cut off quite an amount 

 of hardwood business, chiefly in mixed stocks. 

 This is over now and 50,000 men have returned 

 to work. All reports seem to indicate that min- 

 ing developments this summer will go ahead 

 rapidly and the lumber Interests are confident 

 that good sales will be made in this quarter. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has been 

 booking a good lot of business the past six weeks 

 and is shipping largely from its Virginia and 

 northern Pennsylvania stocks. President W. W. 

 Dickey returned some time ago from a western 

 trip and is now at the helm. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is sold up on 

 several lines of stock and reports general de- 

 mand much the best that it has been for a year. 

 A distinct advance is noted in birch, maple and 

 basswood. The poplar and oak market is also 

 much improved and prices are recovering stead- 

 ily. 



The Colonial Lumber Company recently booked 

 an order for 100,000 oak and chestnut ties, 

 which were furnished from West Virginia tim- 

 ber. Its president, W. E. Pownall, is highly sat- 

 isfied with this year's trade to date and his 

 company has booked a full two years' business 

 up to May 1. 



BOSTON 



W. I. Palmer of the Palmer & Parker Com- 

 pany reports a fair progress in business, having 



just received a cargo of Honduras logs of ex- 

 cellent quality. Harrison Parker recently made 

 a visit to Europe, combining business with 

 pleasure. 



Charles Holyoke says that although business 

 is not rushed, it is steady. He feels that things 

 are stiffening gradually. 



C. O. Skinner of the C. O. Skinner Company 

 testifies to an unrelaxed activity up to a few 

 weeks ago, and although trading of late has 

 been somewhat erratic, the volume of business 

 has been satisfactory. Mr. Skinner recently 

 returned from a business trip through New Eng- 

 land. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co., admits a recent hiatus in trad- 

 ing, but prospects for the rest of the year are 

 promising. 



G. H. Davenport, president of the Davenport, 

 Peters Company, reports an uninterrupted win- 

 ter's business. Active trading at the present 

 time is confined to certain lines, but the gen- 

 eral outlook for 1010 is distinctly encouraging. 



William E. Litchfield regrets the political, 

 commercial and labor agitations, which have a 

 more or less bad effect on business. Lumber 

 trading, however, has been fairly steady and of 

 good character, and he is optimistic enough to 

 predict a respectable showing for 1910. 



E. L. Glbbs, president of the Owen Bearse & 

 Son Company, reports spasmodic trading, but 

 has confidence in the outlook. 



Gardner I. Jones of Jones Hardwood Com- 

 pany, Inc.. says business is inclined to be spotty, 

 but that the average is holding up well. 



F. W. Lawrence of Lawrence ,S: Wiggin, testi- 

 fies to a copious trading. 



W. R. Butler of W. R. Butler & Co. says 

 goods orders are arriving, but as they are sold 

 close up on certain lines, it is difficult to sup- 

 ply the demand. 



George E. French, treasurer of the Atlantic 

 Lumber Company, speaks encouragingly of trad- 

 ing. He admits there are some fears of a de- 

 pression, owing to political clouds, but is hope- 

 ful that everything will be settled satisfactorily. 



A prominent dealer in mahogany reports busi- 

 ness during the past month as much better than 

 it has been for some time. In his case he has 

 orders enough to keep him busy for the next 

 three months. Veneers are selling much better 

 than they have, and there does not appear 

 to be as much price-cutting as a few months ago. 

 This dealer, in speaking of the outlook for prices, 

 says he does not see how anyone can afford to 

 make any further cut in prices as the supply of 

 mahogany logs the world over is below normal. 

 The cut last year was materially curtailed and 

 this is being felt at this time by the smaller of- 

 ferings. This dealer's trade appears to be more 

 favorable to the use of mahogany than a few 

 months ago. 



A large wholesale lumber dealer w-ho has re- 

 cently returned from a western trip, says that 

 he found nothing while away favorable to a 

 lower level of prices for hardwood lumber. Man- 

 ufacturers had smaller stocks than usual and 

 logs were very firmly held. Dry lumber, he says, 

 was scarce. 



The Union Lumber Company, of Springfield, 

 Mass., has recently filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. The liabilities are given as $2,773.88, 

 with assets of about $1,700. 



The Brazilian Hardwood Corporation has been 

 organized at Berwick, Me., with a capital stock 

 of $1,500,000 for the purpose of carrying on a 

 general lumber business. The president of the 

 company is Pierre Paul Demers of New York, 

 and the treasurer, William F. Russell of Somers- 

 worth. N. H. 



John T. Avery, who has held a responsible po- 

 sition in the Connecticut Valley Lumber Com- 

 pany, severed his connections with that company 

 May 1 and became vice president and general 

 manager of i^e North American Spruce and Lum- 



