HARDWOOD RECORD 



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SBW YORK 



Gouverneur E. Smith & Co., one of the most 

 promlni.'nt and progressive lumber firms of New 

 Yorls City, are presenting to their friends an 

 interesting souvenir in the shape of a crystal 

 paper weight ineiosing a photograph of a mam- 

 moth poplar tree on the property of the Craggy 

 Lumber Company of which G. E. Smith handles 

 the output. The tree measures 9 feet 6 inches 

 in diameter. A man standing at its base, 

 roduoed to lilliputian size, shows its relative 

 dimensions. It is said to be the largest poplar 

 ti'ee in the world. 



The Lumbermen's CUib of New York took 

 possession of its fine new quarters in the Hoff- 

 man House Hotel on September 1. The first 

 event of any importance in the way of house 

 warming has been fixed for September 21, on 

 the evening of which day a fine smoker will 

 I)e given and a general evening's entertainment. 

 The entertainment committee has also gotten 

 a large number of entries for a day of golf on 

 September 20 at the- Scarsdale Links at Harts- 

 dale. N. y., as a sort of forerunner to the club 

 warming. Both events will be largely and en- 

 Ihusiastically entered into by the members. 



IL H. Salmon & Co., large wholesale hard- 

 wood house of 88 Wall street, have Just Issued 

 an interesting announcement on Nnevo Mexican 

 -Mahogany, a new line of stock which they have 

 recently become very much interested in be- 

 cause of its adaptabilit.v to many purposes of 

 lumber consumption. They are in tine shape 

 on this and are making a special drive on it. 



I>. C. Gritman, able representative of Joshua 

 Oldham & Sons, . large .saw manufacturers of 

 Krooklyn, in the Ohio, West Virginia and Ten- 

 nessee field, has been spending some time on ,t 

 visit to the home office during the fortnight. 

 The local field is now covered by H. F. Bryson. 

 .los. Oldham & Sons report a satisfactory busi- 

 ness with a steady increase in the demand for 

 iheir well-known line of saws. 



.1. M. Hastings, the prominent Pittsburg 

 Inmlwrman. who is head of the Davison Lumber 

 *'ompany. Ltd.. of Nova Scotia, recently spent 

 several days at the local office of the company 

 at 1 JIadison avenue. From here he left for 

 [ a trip to the Nova Scotia operations where he 

 ' will go over matters at that end of the line. 



Among the prominent visitors during the 

 fortnight were E. .S. Smith, of the R. McMillan 

 Lumber Company. OshUosh. Wis. : L. M. Young, 

 L. M. Y'oung Lumber Company, Boston, Mass. : 

 F. W. Crane, F. W. Crane Lumber Co.. Pitts- 

 burg ; W. Easton. Albany. N. Y. : Thomas F. 

 Sraouse. Cumberland. Md. : C. I. Millard, presi- 

 dent of the John L. Roper Lumber Company, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



E. L. Edwards, prominent hardwood whole- 

 saler and manufacturer of Dayton and Cincin- 

 nati., O.. has been spending ten days in town 

 on business and pleasure and while here has 

 been enjoying a good deal of golf with his 

 friends in the trade at nearby clubs. It is 

 rumored that Mr.' Edwards cleaned up his oppo- 

 nents all along the line. 



BUFFALO 



Most of the city lumbermen are at home, 

 waiting for the fail stir and meantime some of 

 them are interesting themselves in general mat- 

 ters, making the most of automoWling as long 

 as the weather is good and giving a boost to 

 the coming Chamber of Commerce Exposition. 

 C. W. Betts being off on a long trip to the 

 Seaboard, connecting with Imsiness in Philadel- 

 phia on the way. 



The city yards are filling up only in a mod- 

 erate way, as the plan is to hold just an assort- 

 ment here and sell from the mills direct as much 

 as possible. 



Frank A. Beyer has been in St. Louis and 



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vicinity for some time of late, looking into 

 the interests of the Pascola Lumber Company 

 and preparing to get the oak mills of the com- 

 pany running before long. 



Visitors to the old site of the office of the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company will find 

 only a big hole in the ground where the new 

 tannery is to stand. The oflJce is snugly sidled 

 off into the yard and now faces west. 



I. N. Stewart returned from an automobile 

 trip into Canada. lie is one of the time 

 keepers in the automobile contest, September 

 7-10. n. A. Stewart keeps both eyes on the 

 yard, and sells poplar and birch. 



Hugh McLean was in New York lately, trying 

 to find somebody that he had not sold any oak 

 lumber to inside of a month. All the mills of 

 the McLean companies are active and trade is 

 pretty good, with expectation of better soon. 



Tlic yard ot tho Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is full of cars with oak and other 

 hardwood lumber from the Southwest. Business 

 is called quiet, but the dry kiln and the table 

 factory are very active side issues of the 

 business. 



A. Miller i-: looking for a better trade next 

 month and is putting in a lot of all sorts of 

 hardwoods from the West and Southwest. He 

 liuds the low grades to 1« the problem of the 

 entire trade these days. 



The business of Scatclierd & Son severely 

 misses the hard and effective work of Manager 

 Hopkins. It would be very hard to fill the 

 place, so Mr. Scatcherd and his son are taking 

 it up themselves. 



The yard of G. Elias & Bro. is doing more 

 than an ordinary business in lake lumber this 

 season, hut makes large use of white pine and 

 hemlock, as the firm has always carried all 

 the woods the market afforded. 



Lumber by lake has kept the dock yard of 

 T. Sullivan & Co. very bu.sy, as it is both from 

 the Michigan hardwood district and the Pacific 

 coast, by wa.v of Duluth. 



PHILADELPHIA 



.T. Gibson Mcllvain. .Ir.. of J. Gibson Mclvain 

 & Co.. reports the Lovelady Lumber Company. 

 .Jasper. Va., in which the firm is interested, iu 

 full running order. This plant is equipped with 

 a band mill and all modern machinery. The 

 output, which consists of the finest chestnut 

 and poplar, long and wide stock, ever seen, will 

 average about 20.000 feet per day. It will 

 be marketed in the Ohio valley district, and be 

 handled by .7. Gibson Mcllvain. .7r.. individually. 

 Mr. Mcllvain states, that the July trading was a 

 record breaker, and that August has a stiffer 

 showing than could be logically expected for the 

 season. He thinks everything points to a steady 

 and substantial trade in the fall. 



Emil Guenther has just returned from a few 

 weeks' sojourn in Richfield. N. Y. He interprets 

 favorably the signs for good fall business. 



Robert W. Schofield of Schofield Brothers, 

 says, orders are fairly responsive, but a slowing 

 down during August, from long precedent, is 

 always to be expected. The mill of the Salt- 

 keatchie Lumber Company. Schofield, S. C.i 

 which is controlled by this house, is running 

 full capacity, preparing for a prospective in- 

 creasing business. John H. Schofield, who has 

 been summering at Ocean City, N. J., has 

 returned to the city, bronzed by the salt sea 

 air and the frequent saline dips. 



Currie & Campbell report a fair trading for 

 .\ugust and are optimistic as to a lucrative fall 

 business. Ben C. Currie has spent the week 

 ends during the summer at Ocean City, N. J., 

 with his family. 



Charles F. Felin & Co. are refreshingly inde- 

 pendent of conditions, as they report the past 

 season to have been one of the best for years, 

 with no sign of abatement up to the end of the 

 year. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody. of Fleck & Dunwoody. 

 reports things gradually swinging round to nor- 

 mal, with bright prospects for fall trade. 



Contracts for grading and dredging have been 

 let by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Com- 

 pany in connection with plans for building a big 

 timber treating plant at Port Reading, N. J., 

 near Perth Amboy. The plant in which lumber 

 is to be creosoted, principally for use as rail ties, 

 will be located near the Arthur Kill, a water- 

 way arm of New York Bay, which separates 

 Staten Island from New Jersey. A large storage 

 yard for lumber will be erected. The plan is 

 expected to bo completed in about a year and 

 the ties, when finished, will be used on the 

 Philadelphia & Reading and the New Jersey 

 Central Systems. 



Fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, 

 raged in the McFarland Lumber Company's plant 

 on Indian Creek. Pa.. August 20. with a loss, 

 according to the mill owners, of $230,000. 



Nathan Y. Landis, a. furniture manufacturer, 

 died at his home, 1023 E. Moyamensing avenue. 

 August 27, at the age of sixty-seven. Mr. 

 Landis had been a manufacturer of furniture. 

 138-40 Dock street, since 1877. He served 

 through the civil war with distinction and was 

 a member of Post 2. G. A. R. 



The Anderson .\utomobiie Compan.v, Sewick- 

 ley, was incorporated August 24, under Pensyl- 

 vania laws with a capital stock of $20,000. 



The Southern Excelsior & Wood Company, 

 Camden. N. J., received a charter August 28. 

 It will do a general lumber business and manu- 

 facture all kinds of timber. Its capital stock is 

 .flOO.OOO, and incorporators ave Francis McCauI- 

 ley. Marie McCauHey and S. M. Roberts. 



PITTSBURG 



Pittsburgers are much interested in the pur- 

 chase by the ' Kaul & Hall Lumber Company. 

 St. Marys, Pa., .of a tract of timber on Trout 

 inn, Elk county, Pennsylvania, which was se- 

 cured last week from the Goodyear Lumber 

 Company. The purchasers have had a nice trade 

 in Pittsburg for years and this will give them 

 a large operation to work on. 



The C. P.' Caughey Lumber Company has 

 bought 1)40 acres of hardwood timber in Centre 

 county, Pennsylvania. This will be cut off at 

 once, most of it to be used for mining stocks. 

 The company also has two sawmills running 

 in I he Pittsburg district. 



Iv H. Shreiner. manager of the Goodwin Lum- 

 ber Company, is down in West Virginia this week 

 taking a look at stocks. Business has been 

 fair to good the past six weeks and j\Ir. Shreiner 

 looks for a much better trade this fall. 



A. G. Breitwieser of the Breitwieser & Wilson 

 Company has gone to Wisconsin for a business 

 trip. W. W. Wilson Jr. of this concern reports 

 business "fine." He sa.vs September already 

 looks like a record-breaker for the company. 



President R. A. McDonald of the McDonald 

 Lumber Company is spending this week in New 

 York looking up eastern trade. His operations 

 and connections in West Virginia are supplying 

 the company with an excellent lot of hardwood, 

 hemlock and pino lumber. 



President F. W. Crane ot tlic F. W. Crane 

 Lumber Company spent a few days recently in 

 New York and other eastern points, where he 

 found a slight subsidence in general demand. 

 The company recently added to its force C. C. 

 Thompson, who will work the Pittsburg district, 

 and C. T. Kopcnhaver. who is covering Ohio 

 IclTllory. 



J. J. T. Penney of J. E. Mcllvain & Co. re- 

 ports a quiet trade iu timber. Very little con- 

 struction work is going ahead in the Pittsburg 

 district, which requires large orders of this kind. 

 Railroad buying, he says, is light and is con- 

 fined to orders for yard filling purposes and re- 

 pair work. 



