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liHS been pretty good, especially as it was mostly 

 of a sort of hand-to-mouth trade, that seemed 

 always ready to drop off, but never did. The 

 \ irginla mills are always in line for more oak 

 and the like. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are getting mostly hemlock 

 lumber down by the lake now, having had a 

 targo within a few days. They are not finding 

 the hardwood trade as desirable as it used to be 

 and are holding off in that line. 



F. W. Vetter has been stirring up the New 

 England hardwood trade of late and he appears 

 to have gathered in a good lot of orders on the 

 trip, selling a pretty full list of stock, as he 

 carries a large assortment. 



Everybody was sorry that M. M. Wall was off 

 to the Pacific coast and could not attend the 

 picnic, for he always goes when he is about and 

 makes a full score in the ball game. It will be 

 some time before ho is back from British Co- 

 lumbia. 



PHILADELPHIA 



It is announced from \A'ashington that the 

 Forest Service is formulating its plans for ex- 

 perimenting with various woods to determine 

 their adaptability in the manufacture of paper, 

 iuere will be made an appropriation of $44,000 

 for conducting tests of making pulp by the 

 ground wood process. Spruce is now used for 

 making wood pulp and experiments will be made 

 with hemlock, jack pine and birch. 



Work has begun on the erection of the new 

 automobile plant of the Chadwick Engineering 

 Works at Bottstown, Pa., on the site purchased 

 from the Jonathan Keim estate for $15,000. 

 There will be three buildings, each more than 

 200 feet in length. 



George H. Tule, a carriage builder, died at 

 Haddonfleld, N. J., June 24. aged Go years. 



The Auto Piano Company, Camden, N. J., ob- 

 tained a charter under New Jersey laws on 

 June 24 ; capital $10,000. 



The Lyman Timber Company, Mt. .Vernon, 

 Wash., was incorporated on June 19 with a cap- 

 ital stock of $500,000. 



The Queen City Piano Company. Warren, Pa., 

 was chartered July 1 with a capital stock of 

 $20,000. 



The Club Car company of .■\merica, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., obtained a charter on June 29 under 

 Delaware laws; capital $750,000. 



PITTSBURO 



A. M. Kinney has been fortunate this summer 

 in getting some flrst-class orders for posts and 

 ties. He has several tracts of hardwood timber 

 in the Pittsburg district which he Is cutting off 

 for this purpose. 



The Standard Chair Company of Union City, 

 Pa., one of the thrifty hardwood concerns of 

 western Pennsylvania, is making extensive im- 

 provements to its plant. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company is not 

 rushed with orders but is doing a fair amount 

 of business considering the general apathy. Mr. 

 Craig looks for better business later in the sum- 

 mer, as Congress has adjourned, and he believes 

 business conditions will soon adjust themselves 

 to the non-political conditions. 



It. D. McCready of the Mead & Speer Lumber 

 Company is taking a needed vacation In New 

 YorK state. He has been hard at the hardwood 

 business all the year and has pushed up the 

 company's sales very noticeabl.v. 



The H. V. Curll Lumber Company is cutting 

 35,000 feet of poplar and oak daily at its plant 

 at Glenray, W. Va. Its new tramroad. eight 

 miles long, will soon be completed and this 

 will open up a large new portion of its timber. 



The McDonald Lumber Company has been 

 doing a good business all the month in poplar, 

 which is second only to white pine in its sales 



totals. President K. .\. McDonald has been down 

 in West Virginia several times and finds con- 

 ditions there fairly satisfactory. 



I. F. Balsley, sales manager of the Palmer 

 & Semans Lumber Company, spent a few days 

 in New York and Boston recently, where he 

 closed up some nice contracts. The company 

 has all its mills in full operation and is getting 

 in shape for delivering some of the finest lots of 

 stock ever offered by a Pennsylvania concern. 



President W. D. .Johnston of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company sums up the 

 situation by saying that the market is fair to 

 slow. He includes hardwoods in this summary, 

 although general demand for hardwoods has 

 been somewhat better than for other lines of 

 lumber. Railroads, he says, have not been doing 

 the liuying lately that was anticipated. 



The Monessen Box Company, whose plant is 

 located at Monessen. Pa., a few miles east of 

 Pittsburg, has applied for a dissolution of its 

 charter. It has always been a thrifty hardwood 

 concern. 



J. L. Kendall, president of the Kendall Lum- 

 ber Company, is back from an extended trip to 

 the Pacific coast, where he went to look over 

 the large property in Oregon in which the 

 Kendalls are interested. Their big powder plant 

 at that place is making good. 



John Coleman and others of Williamsport, 

 Pa., have bought a tract of some 6,000,000 feet 

 of timber in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, for 

 about $25,000. They will move their band mill 

 from Curwensville, Pa., to the tract at once. 



The Croft Railroad Company, an adjunct of 

 the Croft Lumber Company, which is controlled 

 by the Kendall interests of this city, has been 

 granted a charter to build a railroad in Upshur 

 county. West Virginia, to cost $8,000. The 

 incorporators are J. L. and S. A. Kendall, J. 

 H. and M. J. Henderson of Pittsburg ; J. Gib- 

 son Mcllvain, Sr., J. Gibson Mcllvaln, Jr., Hugh 

 and W. M. Mcllvain of Philadelphia. 



The Franklin Woodworking Company is a 

 new hardwood manufacturing concern with a 

 capital of ,$10,000, at Franklin. Pa., in the cen- 

 ter of the oil belt. Its members are Elisha W. 

 Criswell, Henry W. Smith and Joseph Theobald. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is driv- 

 ing hard at its trade in oak and keeps its mills 

 busy supplying timbers and railroad and con- 

 tracting stock. Manager Seaman has his opera- 

 tions well in hand this summer and is not kick- 

 ing about hard times or slow business. 



The Shreve Chair Company of Union City, 

 Pa., has started work on a large new power 

 plant. This will nearly double the capacity of 

 the plant. 



The Wilkinshurg Stair & JIanufacturing Com- 

 pany has been formed by Joseph A. Beck, Albert 

 M. McNameo and others to manufacture stairs, 

 mantels, etc. 



The Linehan Lumber Company is getting 

 pretty good prices for its stuff and has seemed 

 to hit the eastern market fairly well all the 

 year. J. J. Linehan has spent much of his 

 time in New York and other eastern cities, 

 w'here he was in close touch with big buyers. 



According to H. T. Lincoln of Bemis & Vos- 

 btirgh, that firm is getting a scattering business 

 all the time and has its mills at Bemis, W. Va., 

 and Petersburg, Va., running steadily. The 

 market, Mr. Lincoln says, is slightly backward 

 in general, but this does not interfere with 

 carrying off some nice orders occasionally. 



Manager E. H. Shreiner of the Goodwin 

 Lumber Company felt good last week over au 

 order for 300,000 feet of log run lumber. He 

 reports the better grades of hardwood in first- 

 class demand, but says the low-grade lumber is 

 hard to handle. 



President J. M. Hastings of the J. M. Hastings 

 Lumber Company of Pittsburg and the Davison 

 Lumber Company of Nova Scotia, Canada, has 

 been in the latter country for several weeks 

 keeping track of the operations of the Davison 

 company. He is expected back this week. 



J. X. Woolletf, president of the Aberdeen 

 Lumber Company, has been hitting up some 

 good business by hard plugging the past few 

 weeks. He is getting a good foothold among 

 Pittsburg buyers and for years has had a close 

 and profitable acquaintance with Cottonwood 

 and pine users all over the country. 



Pittsburg's failure to put up a legal bond 

 issue, as decided by the State Supreme Court 

 last week, is a knockout blow to nearly $7,000,- 

 000 worth of municipal improvements which 

 would have been under way late this summer 

 and means a great deal to the wholesale lum- 

 ber interests in this city. Even the Point 

 bridge project, for which plans were nearly 

 matured, will have to be laid aside pending a 

 more definite solution of the difficulty. It is 

 likely that Mayor Magee will try to work 

 through another vote on the bond proposition 

 next November. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumbermen's an- 

 nual outing at Keystone Park, June 25, was 

 a success in every way. Everybody knew it 

 would be, for the committee in charge was com- 

 posed of J. B. Montgomery of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, L. L. Salter 

 of the L. L. Salter Lumber Company, J. II. 

 Henderson of the Kendall Lumber Company, J. 

 P. Garling of the Empire Lumber Company and 

 A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company. 

 The two big prizes awarded for the first and 

 second highest number of points scored, a gold 

 watch donated by the Forest Lumber Company 

 and a silver cup given by B. V. Eabcock & Co., 

 were won by members of the liabcock concerns. 

 The program included a lobster ball game, a 

 two-inning ball game, a hundred-yard dash, 

 three-legged race, running broad jump, sack race, 

 another ball game, egg race, shot putting, stilt 

 race, tug of war, obstacle race, relay race, and 

 the final ball game, with the usually important 

 feature — lunch. 



BOSTON 



The annual tournament of the Lumber Trade 

 Golf Association was held at Springfield, Mass., 

 June 21 and 22 on the grounds of the Country 

 Club. A number of Boston players were In at- 

 tendance. 



Hon. John M. Woods of John M. Woods & Co., 

 Somerville. Mass., entertained President Taft on 

 July 4 as the mayor of Somerville. The visit of 

 the President to Somerville was part of the day's 

 celebration. Everything went off smoothly and 

 Mayor Woods has been busy receiving the con- 

 gratul.itions of his many friends in the lumber 

 trade. 



The Armstrong Lumber Company of Worcester 

 and Providence has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. James C. Armstrong 

 of Providence, R. L. is president and treasurer : 

 Lodowick C. Shippee, of East Greenwich, Conn., 

 vice-president, and George A. Eastman of 

 Worcester, Mass., clerk. 



The trustees of the Clark & Cole Company of 

 Middleboro, Mass., have been granted leave to 

 sell the property at public auction. A special 

 meeting of the creditors and trustees was held 

 before Referee Clifford B. Sherman at Brockton, 

 Mass. Another meeting is called for July 12. 

 The large tracts of timberland belonging to the 

 company will not be sold at this time. 



BALTIMORE 



Efforts are being made to bring the members 

 of (he Wagon Oak Plank Exporters' Association 

 together at a meeting to take place in Cincin- 

 nati on July 14. Though President Harvey M. 

 Dickson has not specified what business is to 

 come up for consideration, it is thought that 

 some action with regard to the inspection and 

 grading rules at Liverpool and London will be 

 taken. Cincinnati was selected for the meetin? 



