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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Ijer Company lias returned from southern Penn- 

 sylvania, where the company now has seven 

 mills in operation. These mills are cutting oak 

 largely and the company finds a good place for 

 it in Philadelphia and Baltimore and is selling 

 considerable to the export trade. 



Mr. Clay says that the Xo. 1 stocks of white. 

 red and rock oak are in much better demand 

 than they were two weeks ago and that the pros- 

 pects are good for a gradual stiffening in pi-ices 

 this summer. 



O. A. Sibley of the Pennsylvania Lumber Com- 

 pany is down in Alabama this week looking over 

 the watermelon crop and the operations of his 

 company there. The company also has a big 

 mill at Sheffield, Pa., where it is manufacturing 

 a large amount of hardwood. 



R. W. Moorhead of the J. C. Moorhead Lum- 

 ber Company has been taking a few days off in 

 Potter county, Pennsylvania, where he has large 

 property interests. The Moorhead Company is 

 cutting some stock to order at its West Vir- 

 ginia plant, but is not rushing matters at pres- 



The Goodwin Lumber Company, which located 

 in the Farmers' Bank building a few months 

 ago. Is getting well grounded in the Pittsburg 

 trade under the direction of S. Mills, Jr., Its 

 sales manager. Mr. Mills has two salesmen on 

 the road and recently made a successful trip to 



BUFFALO 



A. Miller is still in evidence as a Buffalo lum- 

 berman in New York, where he has seemed to 

 find a new market, or an extension of the old 

 one, and he is of course warranted in sticking 

 to anything in that line. 



O. E. Yeager claims distinction on account of 

 making sales of birch lately as well as other 

 things and does not complain of poor trade, 

 though it is not what it used to be. 



L N. Stewart & Bro. are in the walnut trade 

 along with their cherry specialty and are sell- 

 ing it some, though it is not very active, the 

 cftmmon going slower than the rest. It is 

 about $10 higher than cherry. 



The mills of the Hugh McLean interest are 

 always going, and it appears that they have 

 faith in spruce as well as oak, for they are 

 piling one up in the St. Lawrence Valley and 

 the other in the Southwest. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 now received the last of its shipment of about 

 110 cars of mostly oak from the Southwest by 

 river to Cincinnati and now is prepared to meet 

 any demand in that direction. 



Oak is one of the things that Scatcherd & 

 Sou are always in quest of, as their trade seems 

 to absorb that sort of lumber much as a sponge 

 does water, while at the same time other hard- 

 woods are not neglected. 



The stock of T. Sullivan & Co. will come in 

 by lake more than ever twfore now, as the plan 

 is to stop off Pacific coast shipments at Duluth 

 and load on vessels. There will also soon be 

 ash and elm coming down from ^lichigan. 



G. Ellas & Bro. have had in three lake car- 

 goes and will brin^ down some more later on, 

 so that the yard is 'well stocked. The door mill 

 is always busy, arid boxes are picking up some, 

 though they have been guiet a long time. 



A. "W". Kreinlieder held over from the lumber 

 convention to the political one, going to St. 

 Paul In the meantime to visit his brother. The 

 yard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany is unloading oak from the South. 



Everybody looks on F. W. A'etter as one of 

 the steady ones in the hardwood trade, with an 

 assortment of lumber that meets the demand 

 and a trade that keeps the yard busy. 



President F. A. Beyer of the Pascola Lumber 

 Company stayed a second week to keep tab on 

 lhe Chicago convention and came home well sat- 

 isilid with the choice made. Business is good 

 1 lhe .Missouri mills of the company. 



the hardwood dealers appear to be satisfied 



with the work of the Milwaukee convention and 

 say that the eastern seaboard is not likely to 

 make any more trouble, as they obtained about 

 all they asked for without hitting the West to 

 any extent. It was not an easy thing to do, but 

 it had to be done if the body was to go on. 

 Buffalo was well remembered with Mr. Yeager 

 as vice-president and Mr. Beyer on the board. 



The Hardwood Exchange will probably hold 

 one more meeting and suspend for the summer. 

 It is a very active body, but does not pretend 

 to do very much business. The general Lumber 

 Exchange will bold a July meeting. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Those who ought to know say that there is 

 more hardwood lumber moving at present than 

 at any time since last summer. This looks good 

 and, moreover, it has the merit of being true. 

 There is more call for cars and more lumber is 

 being shipped by firms engaged in the business. 

 Mr. Bigelow of the Kneeland-Bigelow Company 

 says his concerns shipped 2.884,000 feet of lum- 

 ber in May, and the June shipments thus far are 

 ahead of last year. Their stock is all distributed 

 by rail. 



John Watkins, who operates a small mill at 

 Battle Creek, saws more or less lumber for home 

 people and has just contracted to saw 1,500,000 

 feet of hardwood lumber for the Advance 

 Thresher Company. He manufactured 900,000 

 feet for the same company last year. 



The Richardson Lumber Company lost L.'iOO.- 

 000 feet of logs near Tower by fire on June 20, 

 involving a loss of $15,000. A large amount of 

 timber has been destroyed the last four days in 

 the northern part of the lower peninsula b.v 

 forest fires. The damage done will approximate 

 $100,000, mostly in Cheboygan and Presque Isle 

 counties. 



The maple flooring business has manifested 

 indications of sluggishness the last two weeks 

 to a greater extent than at any previous time 

 this season. This of course does not affect firms 

 having contracts, and it is regarded as only 

 temporary. This is the dull season usually in 

 trade, and yet it is safe to state that the volume 

 of trade now is not over thirty per cent below 

 what it was a year ago. It is believed the out- 

 put of the mills in the valley this season will 

 approximate that of last year. At the yards 

 there is a fair inquiry for lumber and dealers 

 feel much encouraged. Quite a number of mil- 

 lion feet are being sawed at various points in 

 the woods by portable mills. Quotations remain 

 unchanged. 



A motor machinery company at Bay City has 

 devised an equipment for sawing down trees with 

 a saw driven by a gasoline engine. It not only 

 saws the trees off close to the ground, but saws 

 them into logs after they have been cut down. 



The Cook. Miller & Curtis hardwood mill at 

 Grand Marais is running day and night shifts. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow and the Knecland. Buell 

 & Bigelow companies' mills will be operated right 

 through the season. 



A. C. White, who has been styled the "Bass- 

 wood King" in this section, is operating his 

 plant with a full force. 



^—^— GRAND RAPIDS ^^—^— 



N. J. G. Van Kculen of the Van Keulen & 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company left this week on a 

 short business trip up the lakes and to Chicago. 



About a dozen of the largest furniture buyers 

 In the country were in the market June 22. two 

 days before the opening of the furniture sales. 

 Indications point to a large attendance of buyers 

 and to good fesults from the standpoint of orders 

 placed. 



Some of the local furniture manufacturers 

 have been recently placing orders for lumber in 

 an encouraging way. Prospects for fall business 

 are looking brighter. 



Reports from upper Michigan state that mil- 

 lions of feet of timber and in some cases mills 

 and small villages have been destroyed by recent 

 forest fires. The novelty works of the Tubbs 

 Manufacturing Company, Tower, were burned, 

 also a million and a half feet of logs belonging 

 to the Richardson Lumber Company. The little 

 village of Kentucky, southeast of Boyne City, 

 was wiped out and several skidways of logs and 

 much standing timber damaged. Much property 

 in Cheboygan county was destroyed. Fire has 

 also done great damage in Gannet's lumber 

 camps, near Fouch, in Leelanau county, and in 

 other sections. 



John Watkins, who operates a sawmill at 

 Battle Creek, has cut this year 852,000 feet of 

 lumber for the Advance Thresher Company of 

 that city. He has contracted to furnish the 

 company with 1.450,000 feet of hardwood for 

 the coming year. 



W. S. Pullen, formerly of Allegan, is building 

 a mill at Hillsdale for sawing apple wood. After 

 being cut the wood is steamed for about thirty- 

 six hours, when it is corded and allowed to 

 season for about a year. For this timber Mr. 

 Pullen pays at the rate of $10 per cord, or 

 3 cents a foot for the scaled. He also contracts 

 for standing orchards. 



W. W. Mitchell and F. S. Cobbs, Cadillac lum- 

 bermen, passed through this city last week in 

 their motor cars, accompanied by friends. They 

 are on their way to Boston, via Detroit, Buffalo 

 and Albany, and will spend the summer touring 

 in the East. 



The Bennett Handle Company, capital $30,000. 

 has been incorporated and will manufacture 

 handles and other products at East Jordan. 



CLEVELAND 



Considerable interest is centered in the lake 

 shipping situation. Cleveland gets considerable 

 quantities of western hardwoods by water, while 

 practically all the stock imported from Canada 

 comes l)y that route. This year to date there 

 is not 25 per cent of the movement of lumber 

 that there was a year ago. The condition Is 

 steadily improving, however, and by the begin- 

 ning of next month will more nearly reach nor- 

 mal than for any period this season. With 

 strikes threatened by many of tlie cargo han- 

 dlers, the lumber carriers expect to come through 

 unscathed, agreements existing between both 

 sides which will ward off trouble. 



Lumber dealers in the flats, and there are a 

 score of them, are seeking substantial Improve- 

 ment in the roads and bridges by means of 

 which they reach the various freight depots as 

 well as for the local deliveries. Among these 

 the lumbermen want a new swing or lift bridge 

 over the river at Scranton Road. The present 

 bridge is an antiquated affair which is run by 

 hand. Many times lumber loads are lined up 

 for several hundred feet waiting to cross after 

 a boat has passed on. The lumber dealers held 

 a conference with the city authorities, who 

 promise a new bridge and other improvements 

 of a substantial character in the near future. 



J. L. Lyttle of the Lyttle Lumber Company 

 of Pittsburg was a local visitor during the past 

 week. He reports business as steadily Improv- 

 ing in all lines. 



The Martin-Barlss Company of this city has 

 received a line shipment of African mahogany 

 veneer logs and is already cutting a number for 

 the market. They are splendidly grained. 



The Cleveland Builders' Exchange, of which 

 most of the Cleveland lumbermen are members, 

 will hold Its annual outing on July 13, going to 

 the Brant House, on L.ake Ontario, midway be- 

 tween Hamilton and Toronto. The party will 

 number fifty or sixty and will visit Niagara 

 Falls en route. The return will be made on 

 Friday, July 17. A number of lumbermen arc 

 planning to take In the trip. 



Fire did considerable damage to the plant of 



