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low pine flooring, siding and finish, and 

 cypress and gum. They represent the Wacca- 

 maw Lumber Company, manufacturer of Wae- 

 camaw shingles and North Carolina pine and 

 cypress; the Hammond Lumber Company, 

 manufacturer of California redwood; O. S. 

 Good, operator in Oregon white pine, and the 

 Jackson Lumber Company, manufacturer of 

 Dixie longleaf yellow pine flooring. They also 

 handle extensively Louisiana red cypress, Mis- 

 sissippi red gum, Arkansas soft yellow pine 

 and West Virginia hemlock and spruce. 



Aside from the principals in the concern, 

 all of whom are men of experience and per- 

 ception, the firm is well represented over a 

 large territory by the following salesmen : 

 .Tames W. Anderson, W. J. Anderson, Ellis C. 

 Guilford, E. Eoy Coble. Arthur T. Wistar, 

 Allan E. Eaton and William C. Boss. The 

 inspectors are Olin White, who is manager of 



FRED e. RIGHTEi:, PKESIDENT RIGHTER 

 LUMBER COMPANY. 



the Nashville branch; F. D. Moon, inspector 

 and superintendent at Warrior, N. C, and 

 M. C. Arnold, W. S. Waddell and John Black. 



Franklin Lumber Company 



The Franklin Lumber Company, a growing 

 wholesale concern with ofBee at 619 Real 

 Estate Trust building, has been before the 

 public only a year and a half. Its president, 

 C O. Maus, however, has been known for some 

 time as the Philadelphia representative of 

 concerns in the West. The company has good 

 southern mill connections and handles hard- 

 woods and white and yellow pine. The busi- 

 ness is showing satisfactory development and 

 will undoubtedly soon become a conspicuous 

 success. 



<r. Randall Williams & Co. 

 The business of J. Randall Williams & Co., 

 wholesalers at 514 and 515 Arcade building, 

 was started by J. Randall Williams in 1901. 

 Subsequently his sons, J. Randall Williams, 

 Jr., and T. Deland Williams, were admitted, 

 forming the present firm. The senior partner. 



prior to starting this business, was for over 

 thirty-five years connected with the Thomas 

 Williams, Jr., Company of Philadelphia. It 

 is interesting to note that for over a century 

 members of the Williams family have been 

 engaged in the lumber business. 



J. Randall Williams & Co. are strictly 

 wholesalers. They have a distributing yard 

 at Salisbury, N. C, with a capacity of about 

 1,000,000 feet. They have excellent southern 



WILMER H. RICUTEI!, SECRETARY 

 TRE.\SITRER RIGHTER LUMBER 

 COMI'.VNY. 



AND 



\VM. A .TACKSOX, VICE-PRESIDENT JACK- 

 SOX-WYATT LUMBER COMPANY. 



hardwood mill connections and handle all 

 standard hardwoods and yellow pine. 

 Samuel H. Shearer & Son 

 The business of Samuel H. Shearer & Son, 

 wholesalers with offices in the Crozer building, 

 was started about twelve years ago by Samuel 

 H. Shearer. Six months later he admitted his 

 son, William P. Shearer, forming the present 

 firm of Samuel H. Shearer & Son. The busi- 



ness prospered from the beginning and now 

 stands among the successful lumber houses 

 of the day. 



William P. Shearer, into whose capable 

 hands the management has now fallen, started 

 as a mere boy with the William M. Lloyd 

 Company; subsequently he gathered much val- 

 uable experience in the capacity of salesman 

 with other reputable concerns. The firm has 

 co)inections with some of the best mills in the 

 South, also has a distributing yard at Marion, 

 N. C, where it manufactures poplar squares 

 as a specialty. It handles all kinds of hard- 

 woods, spruce, white, yellow and North Caro- 

 lina pines. It has now a branch otfice in the 

 Granite building, Rochester, N. T., which is 

 in charge of John J. Soble. 



William Whitmer & Sons, Inc. 



William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., manufac- 

 turers and wholesalers, with offices at 200 



J. RANDALL WILLIAMS, J. RANDALL WILL- 

 IAMS & CO. 



Fi-anklin Bank building, are known to the 

 lumber industry from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. The concern was started by William 

 Whitmer between forty and fifty years ago, 

 at Sunbury, Pa. In 1889 he opened an office 

 in Philadelphia, operating as William Whit- 

 mer & Sons. In 1895 the business was incor- 

 porated under the present style, with William 

 Whitmer president. After the death of 

 Will;am Whitmer, in 1896, his son, Robert F. 

 Whitmer, the present head of the concern, 

 became president. 



About the time of the removal of the busi- 

 ness to Philadelphia a controlling interest in 

 the Buffalo Lumber Company, operating at 

 Bayard, W. Va., was acquired. Wien they 

 incorporated they assumed control of the 

 Condon-Lane Boom & Lumber Company of 

 Horton, W. Va. This operation necessitated 

 the building of the Dry Fork railroad to con- 

 nect with the Western Maryland railroad at 

 Hendricks, W. Va. The steady growth of the 

 business compelled further extension, and in 



