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HARDWOOD RECORD 



lional nraendmciils were considereiJ and adopted, 

 and general i-o\itine business transacted. 



The Edwards Lumber Compan.v, large Cincin- 

 nati and Dayton, O.. bardwood bouse at tbt 

 head of which is E. L. Edwards, has just ap- 

 pointed W. O. C'awley as s.iles representative 

 in Ibe Meli-opolitan district and vicinity. Mr. 

 (!fiwley has been associated with the local hard- 

 wood and cypress trade tor the past ten years 

 or more and will make his headquarters at 160 

 West lOGth street. 



C. W. Manning, G6 Broad street, is on a two 

 weeks' trip to Virginia and North Carolina 

 among the mills which he represents in that 

 territory. 



Walter T. Hart ol Trice & Hart is just back 

 from a trip among the hardwood mills in West 

 Virginia. lie reports stocks at mills strong 

 with good-grade lumber limited and well sold up. 



Amons; the visitors during the fortnight were 

 E. A. Bennett, Bennett & Witte, Cincinnati, O. ; 

 G. S. Phelps, C. 15. Howard Company, Emporium, 

 Pa., and T. \\'. Lewis, Paxton Lumber Company, 

 I'dstol, Va. 



The Georpe 1). Emery Con.pauy. big mahogany 

 house, 17 West 42d street, has just received a 

 consignment of 2,100 mahogany logs and 300 

 cedar logs of very choice stock which will be 

 immediately manufactured at the local mills for 

 distribution 



J. C Turner, prominent cypress manufacturer 

 and wholesaler, 1123 Broadway, returned last 

 Meek from a lliree weeks' business trip to the 

 South and West. 



C. E. Kennedy, wholesaler of IS Broadway, 

 will remove his offices on .Jane 1 to room 8072. 

 One. Madison avenue, where he has larger fa- 

 cilities for taking care of his increased business. 



A. W. Dunn, principal in the firm of Thomas 

 Stephensou & Co., large lumber dealers of Lon- 

 don, England, arrived recently in this city from 

 Europe, and in company with their American 

 representative, W. D. Smith, left for Mobile, 

 A'a., on business, after which they will visit the 

 British Columbia territory and thence return 

 East through Canada. 



BUFFALO 



The syndicate headed by members of the Buf- 

 falo Hardwood Lumber Company that last year 

 bought a big tract of timber in British Colum- 

 bia has now added a new purchase and will send 

 T. H. Wall there soon to prepare for putting in 

 saw mills. 



The I'ascola Lumber Company is putting lum- 

 ber on the market liberally now and hopes to be 

 running its saw mills soon enough this season 

 to provide new stock ready to ship as soon as 

 that is disposed of. 



F. II. Sullivan is on the road a good deal of 

 the time and tinds that he is able to move stock 

 pretty fast in that way. The incoming supply 

 now comes largely from Canada and the South. 



The yard of G. Elias & Bro, is getting new 

 stock by lake right along, having begun with 

 hemlock and preparing to continue all the way 

 through the lake list, as it has always been the 

 rule to handle all kinds of lumber. 



Seatcherd & Son are pushing the repairs on 

 their Memphis mills as fast as they can, for 

 Manager Hopkins finds that his oak supply is 

 getting close down to the end of the very dry 

 stock, even if the demand is slacking off some. 



Sales of hardwood lumber in the yard of 

 F. W. Vettcr are still very miscellaneous, which 

 are what is w-anted, as the stock covers a wide 

 as.sortment, though if a specialty is carried it 

 must be white ash, which is a pretty good seller. 



A. Miller has received a large amount of bard- 

 wood from Canada of late. He was one of the 

 leading buyers up to the time wh*n the tariff 

 situation was getting uncertain. Buying in the 

 South is also liberal. 



Putting in a stock of California redwood, with 

 a specialty of siding, is one of the latest moves 



of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 

 Carrying of red cedar shingles will also add to 

 the company's interest in the Pacific coast. 



O. 10. Yeager finds that the demand for hard- 

 wood lumber is about as good in the territory of 

 liis mills soulh of the Ohio as it is here, so he 

 will not find it easy to bring it all this way. He 

 is getting out a large amount there. 



Hugh McLean still sticks to the road, knowing 

 that there are few men who can sell as much 

 hardwood stock in that way as he can. All the 

 mills in which the McLean interests are found 

 arc running strong now. 



The yard of I. N. Stewart & Bro. is shipping 

 out cherry and oak. with chestnut and poplar 

 doing as well as the supply will admit. As often 

 as there is a shortage of anything in sight the 

 junior member makes a break southward. 



The death on May 17 of Charles P. Forbush. as 

 a result of pneumonia, removes a very active and 

 valuable man from the lumber trade. He bad 

 for several years been mill superintendent for 

 Montgomery Brothers, and was widely known, 

 lie was also secretary of the local retail lumber 

 association, one of the founders of the Canoe 

 Club anil a man who made everything move that 

 he took up. 



M. M. Wall has been appointed chairman of 

 the lumber committee of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, with Hugh McLean, I. N. Stewart, A. 

 W. Kreinheder, L. P. Graves, Peter McNeil and 

 W, H. Gratwick members. In an address twfore 

 the members on the 18th Mr. Wall gave some in- 

 teresting and valuable points on the trade. 



PITTSBURQ 



The Franklin Wood Working Company has been 

 organized at B'ranklin, Pa., by Henry Walter 

 Smith, Elisha W. Criswell, Samuel G. Philip and 

 .Joseph Theobald. 



The Henderson Lumber Company is looking for 

 much better trade in mining stocks from now on, 

 and is tied up with some of the best hardwood 

 connections out of Pittsburg, Mr, Hendetson 

 makes a specialty of coal mining business and 

 has been very successful the past few years in 

 driving in good trade. 



Harry Domhoff, president of the Acorn Lumber 

 Company, lately captured some nice orders in the 

 territory east of Buffalo. He is spending this 

 week among his old customers in Ohio. 



Louis Dunker & Co.. capital $.50,000. have in- 

 corporated at Pittsburg and have a surplus of 

 .f3o,000. The company will also incorporate 

 under North Carolina laws and develop several 

 big tracts of timber. 



The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company, under the direction of Secre- 

 tary Carl Van der Voort, is having a very 

 prosperous year. It has been particularly for- 

 tunate in missing big flros, and its stockholders 

 are accordingly well satisfied. 



President J. L. Lytic of the .1. L. Lytle Lumber 

 Company is down in West Virginia this week 

 picking up some good hardwood stocks. This 

 company can truthfully say it is busy, for its 

 trade the past two weeks has savored very much 

 of old times. 



Fred It. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany will be the next president of the Chamber 

 of Commerce. He has been first vice-president 

 of that organization for some lime, and was 

 formerly president of the Merchants & Manufac- 

 turers' Association of Pittsburg, which was 

 merged with the Chamber in 1907. 



C. W. Cantrell of the Railroad & Car Material 

 Company made a successful trip down East re- 

 cently. He found things there considerably better 

 than in the Pittsburg district. 



H. C. Bemis of Bemis & Vosburgh dropped off 

 for a few days in I'ittsburg last week on his way 

 back to his Bradford, Pa., home from the West Vir- 

 ginia plants. The firm is doing a splendid busi- 

 ness, but does not report a boom in any line. 



President J. B. Flint of the Flint, Erving & 

 Stoner Lumber Company has gone to look over 

 operations at its big plant at Dunlevie, W. Va., 

 this week. Its output and stock shipped are both 

 much larger than at this time last year. 



.1. B. Montgomery of the American Lumber & 

 JIanufacturing Company reports a very strong 

 market for chestnut lath. He says the hardwood 

 market in general is good, the chief difliculty 

 being its irregularity. Prices in Pittsburg rule, 

 he says, somewhat lower than any other big 

 buying center. President W. D. Johnston of the 

 American has gone to the Northland in search of 

 more stock. 



Scott Ward of Lynchburg, Va.. a manufacturer 

 who has a big trade in Pittsburg, dropped off to 

 see his customers a few days ago. 



The Shippensburg Table & Manufacturing 

 Company has been organized at Shippensburg, 

 I'a., by John L. Barner, E. J. and S. M. Kiiz- 

 miller and H. W. Geesaman to manufacture fur- 

 niture, millwork and wooden novelties. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is busy 

 cutting bill stuff at its plant at Blackstone. 

 W. Va. Mr. Satler, like many other lumbermen, 

 is somewhat disappointed at the way the market 

 has failed to open up this spring, but the com- 

 pany is doing a very fair business, nevertheless. 



The Palmer & Semans Lumber Company, whose 

 sales end is guided by the experienced hand of 

 1. F. Balsley, has lately closed a deal for 

 10,000,000 feet of poplar, oak and chestnut, 

 which will he shipped out over the Southern 

 railroad. It is located near Johnston City, 

 Tenn., on the C, C. & 0., and has one of the 

 finest lots of dry lumber that has ever been 

 secured by a Pittsburg firm. 



The Gillespie Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at Jacksonville, Fla., by D. L. Gillespie of 

 I'ittsburg, head of D. L. Gillespie & Co., who will 

 be its president. Associated with him are E. J. 

 I'.urdett as secretary, E. L. Wolff as treasurer, 

 and H. Devenney and Harold Weston as direct- 

 ors. The company will have a capital of 550,000 

 and will have its principal office in Jacksonville. 



The J. C. Dongcs Lumber Company is shipping 

 considerable hardwood to Detroit automobile and 

 furniture concerns. It is now well located in the 

 nc'w Oliver skyscraper and has some fine hard- 

 wood connections. 



Fred R. Babcock led the discussion at the regu- 

 lar bimonthly meeting of the Engineers' Society 

 D)' Pennsylvania last wek, the subject being "Lum- 

 ber and Timber." The association is taking a 

 Ucen interest in conservation work. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is get- 

 ting some nice orders for contracting and river 

 and harbor work. Its business in oak has been 

 very good all the spring. 



The Willson Brothers Lumber Company reports 

 April business very good. It says there is no 

 glut of stocks at the mills and that for some 

 woods it is getting better prices than at any time 

 in the past fifteen months. 



The McDonald Lumber Company has its mills 

 in West Virginia very busy and reports a ver.v 

 fair market all around. President K. A. McDon- 

 ald has been sticking close to the office the past 

 few weeks, but expects to get out (or a trip 

 among his old customers soon. 



A, M. Kinney is not kicking aboat lack of 

 hardwood business. His trade fell off somewhat 

 during the coal strike, but inquiry from that 

 source is getting better now and he believes 

 higher prices will be paid soon. He reports an 

 excellent call for ties and also a much better 

 demand for railroad stocks in general. 



President Nelson Bell of the Furnace Run 

 Sawmill & Lumber Company has been complain- 

 ing somewhat lately that he cannot get stock dry 

 enough to keep customers supplied. There is 

 plenty of cheap lumber, he found on his recent 

 trip South, but really good stocks are badly 

 broken. 



George H. Huganir of Schofield Brothers, Phil- 

 adelphia, made a successful trip to Pittsburg last 



