HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The yard of A. Miller is not only well filled, 

 but carries a rather better assortment than 

 usual, former complaints of sorts and sizes not 

 being heard at present. New stoclc is coming In 

 liberally. 



It is expected that R. D. McLean will be 

 back from his trip to Europe about the first of 

 November. In his absence Hugh McLean is 

 giving more of his time to the office work. All 

 the mills are running strong. 



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

 oak, chestnut and poplar principally just now 

 and finds the demand for them very good, but 

 the movement of cherry is still rather slow. 



There is a report that J. N. Scatcherd is one 

 of the lucky people who have "struck it" in 

 Cobalt, but he is running his sawmills and door 

 mills just the same. The latter is especially 

 active. 



A. W. Krelnheder is finding his new dry kiln, 

 which he runs in connection with the yard of 

 the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company, a 

 great aid to the business. The yard is full of 

 good oak lately from the South. 



The movement of oak from flie South in the 

 trade of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has been large all the season and there are a 

 great number of cars on the way to the yard 

 now. 



The hardwood dealers are giving all their 

 spare time to the Buffalo Exposition, which 

 opened on Oct. 3, and the Lumber Exchange will 

 make its usual exhibit, though for some reason 

 the door mills and mantel manufacturers have 

 not taken as much space as usual. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Howard B. France, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Monarch Lumber Company, reports a desired 

 broadening of trade, inquiries more free, result- 

 ing in substantial orders. The Haddock-France 

 Lumber Company, in which the Monarch com- 

 pany is largely interested and whose output it 

 handles, is running its mill at Mt. Sterling, 

 N. C, full time. At present it is turning out 

 some of the best quartered oak ever seen. Mr. 

 France has just recovered from a siege of 

 typhoid fever, and his many friends will be 

 glad to hear he is at his desk and rapidly getting 

 into the business harness again. 



Thomas Power of L. Power & Co., wood- 

 working machinery, reports an increased activity. 

 The volume of business for September, he states, 

 exceeded the combined totals of June, July and 

 August. 



Chapin L. Barr, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Whiting Lumber Company, reports some ad- 

 vance in trading, but thinks there is much room 

 for improvement. Frank R. Whiting, president, 

 is on a visit to the company's mill in Ashe- 

 villc, N. C. 



Charles K. Parry testifies to a recent forward 

 movement in lumber trading, but deplores a lack 

 of brisk interest in buying. Mr. Parry, after a 

 visit to the lumber camps in Tennessee, is sizing 

 up the situation in North Carolina. 



Reports emanating from the office of Jerome H. 

 Sheip indicate a quickening of business all along 

 the line. The outlook is promising for a good 

 fall and winter trading. 



Wilmer H. Righter, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Righter Lumber Company, is not inclined 

 to quarrel with conditions, as his story Is a 

 steady increase in volume of business, no dearth 

 of inquiries, and consequent good orders. 



The Rainbow, one of the finest equipped 

 motor launches in the East, was launched at 

 Ford's Shipyards, Bordentown, N. J., and 

 brought to Burlington, N. J., on October 1, 

 under command of its owner, George A. Latta, a 

 lumberman of this place. The launch is forty 

 feet long, with nine-foot beam. The hull is of 

 cedar and oak and the cabin of solid mahogany. 

 The boat is handsomely furnished and is equipped 

 with a forty-horsepower motor. 



A big fire on September 20 swept a portion 

 of the plant of the Pooley Furniture Company, 

 Seventeenth Street, Indiana Avenue and the 

 Reading Railway, causing a loss estimated at 

 from $75,000 to $100,000. 



George Ketterer. a retired wagon builder of 

 this city, died at his home, 1422 North Twenty- 

 ninth Street, on September 27, aged seventy- 

 seven years. 



The Taylor-Duryea Lumber Company, Taylor, 

 was incorporated under Pennsylvania laws, Sep- 

 tember 21, with a capital slock of $60,000. 



The Mcrchantville Auto Company, Camden, 

 N. J., obtained a charter on September 2,'!. It is 

 capitalized at $25,000. 



The West Newark Mill & Lumber Company, 

 Newark, N. .1., was incorporated September 25, 

 with a capital stock of $50,000. 



PITTSBVRQ 



Philip Seaman, son of S. A. Seaman, manager 

 of the C. P. Caughey Luml>er Company, has 

 accepted a position with the Nicola Lumber Com- 

 pany at its Terre Haute. Ind., plant. 



Pittsburg is getting some good news lately in 

 the matter of new plants assured. The Westing- 

 house people will move their Cleveland plant 

 to Pittsburg and will spend some $3,000,000 in 

 concentrating their industries at Trafford City, 

 Pa. The Orenstein-Koppel Company is arranging 

 to double the capacity of its plant at Koppel, 

 twenty miles down the Ohio river. The A. M. 

 Byers Company has started to rebuild its South 

 Side plant and a new automobile plant will soon 

 be built at Braddock, Pa. 



Reports received by Pittsburgers from West 

 Virginia indicate that practically all of its 200 

 sawmills are now operating in full. The daily 

 cut of lumber is estimated at 8,000,000 feet and 

 the prospects are that West Virginia will pro- 

 duce more lumber this fall than any other state 

 in the Union. 



J. B. Linn, president and general manager of 

 the Preserved Timber Company of Springfield, 0., 

 is seeking a site at Portsmouth, O., for a big tie- 

 treating plant. He already has orders secured 

 for 250,000 ties for the coming year and he 

 wants a twenty-five-acre site. 



J. N. Wooiiett, president of the Aberdeen 

 Lumber Company, last week secured an order for 

 2,000,000 feet of railroad stock to be delivered 

 in the eastern market. The price he received was 

 good and Mr. Wooiiett feels greatly encouraged 

 over the prospects of securing another similar 

 order soon. 



Probably double the number of locust trees 

 are now being cultivated in western Pennsyl- 

 vania and eastern Ohio that were to be seen 

 two years ago. Farmers are realizing more and 

 more the profits to be taken from this culture 

 and are allowing their fence rows and locust 

 groves to stand in order to produce posts for 

 their own use and also for sale. 



The sawmill and power plant of Alva Rigbee 

 at Brooman, near Titusvllle, Pa., was burned 

 September 30, with a loss of $3,000. Fire also 

 consumed about 20,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 belonging to Ambrose Alcorn, 



H. C. Bemis of Bemis & Vosburgh has com- 

 pleted his purchase of 8,800 acres of land near 

 Norlina, N. C, having just closed the deal for 

 the last 1,000 acres. About one-third of this 

 land is covered with a desirable growth of timber 

 which Mr. Bemis estimates will yield about 

 5,000.000 feet of lumber. The balance of the 

 tract is leased out to southern planters to raise 

 peanuts, cotton and tobacco. 



The American Window Chair Company of 

 Pittsburg, capital $10,000, has received its char- 

 ter, its president being H. J. Frey. 



E. H. Shreiner, manager of the Goodwin I.uni 

 ber Company, has been getting in some good 

 business lately. The company reports the mar- 

 ket unsteady and hard to estimate, but the total 

 of orders much better than two months ago. 



The Linehan Lumber Company notices that 

 things are coming up slowly and that demand 

 with the vehicle and implement people is not 

 what it should be at this season. ■ Old dry stocks 

 are pretty well shipped out, they say. 



Sales Manager I. F. Balsley of the Palmer & 

 Semans Lumber Company says that concern had 

 n good business in September and has no accu- 

 mulation of good dry hardwood at its mills. The 

 latter are running full and the company Is able 

 to got stiff prices in all the better grades. 



H. T. Newell of the NewoU Brothers Lumber 

 Company is making another trip this week 

 through Pennsylvania territory and, if he has 

 his usual success, will bring back some very good 

 orders. J. A. Newell of the same firm is at the 

 company's plant at Braucher, W. Va. 



Pittsburg common councils have passed finally 

 the ten submission ordinances necessary for sub- 

 mitting a $10,305,000 bond issue to the people 

 for another vote. Select councils have also 

 ])as.sed these on first reading, and it is expected 

 that the bond issue will be brought to a popular 

 vote very soon. It is further expected that it 

 will carry this time, as many of the objection- 

 able features, especially the hump removal, have 

 been removed. 



BOSTON 



The Palmer & Parker Company, importer of 

 fancy hardwoods and manufacturers of veneers, 

 met with a loss by fire at its yard and plant 

 on Jledford street, Charlestown, September 27. 

 The fire started in the mill early in the morning. 

 This building was a total loss. The flames were 

 confined to the mill, and the other property of 

 the company, including the large stock of ex- 

 pensive hardwoods piled throughout the yard, 

 escaped without damage. The only veneers lost 

 were those that had been manufactured the day 

 of the fire. Mr. Sawyer of the company says 

 that the mill will be rebuilt at once and that 

 arrangements have been made with other mills 

 to manufacture its product until the new struc- 

 ture is completed. The fire will in no way hin- 

 der the company from filling its orders and in 

 taking care of new business. The loss is placed 

 between $40,000 and $30,000, fully covered by 

 insurance. 



Judge Clarence Hale of the United States 

 District Court has been selected as arbitrator la 

 the case of the estate of the late George Van- 

 dyke against the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany. The case grew out of destruction of 

 growing limber by fire which it is claimed was 

 started by a spark from a locomotive of the 

 defendant company. The case involves $150,000, 

 and indirectly, as a test case, $1,000,000. The 

 outcome will be watched with a great deal of 

 interest by timber land owners and railroad 

 companies whose tracks pass through timber 

 growing sections. 



The Chamberlain Lake Lumber Company of 

 Bangor, Me., has been Incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $10,000, for the purpose of dealing In 

 and operating timber lands. Nathan C. Ayer Is 

 president and Fred R. Ayer is treasurer. Both 

 gentlemen are of Bangor. 



Among the recent Maine corporations was the 

 Mohawk- .Mexico Lumber Company, with a capi- 

 tal stock of $250,000. The promoters are W. J. 

 Brown, Louis A. Young, S. A. Jones, O. A. Curry, 

 George D. Winter, W. W. Young, M. D. Young 

 and W. H. Jones of Chicago ; C. H. Backus of 

 Hampshire, III. : E. M. Leavitt, Winthrop, Me. ; 

 Lewis A. Burleigh, M. F. Sheehan, Ernest L. 

 McLean, R. S. Buzzell and Joseph Williamson 

 of Augusta, Me. 



Walter C. Brown of the Novelty Turning Com- 

 pany died recently at Norway, Me. Until 1905 

 be carried on a general woodturning and wood- 

 working business in Fitchburg, Mass., but re- 

 moved the business to Norway, Me., in that year. 



H. R. Black of the Warren Ross Lumber 



