HARDWOOD RECORD 



William K. Cnrnelius seems to find biisiuoss 

 when lie goes after it hard, and with his fine 

 West Virginia connections has been piling up 

 a good lot of orders considering the season, lie 

 is optimistic on futures and sees no reason why 

 there is not money to be made in speculating 

 in lumber. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company has been 

 pounding away at its operations in southern 

 Pennsylvania, but shut down for a few days 

 over the Fourth. Manager W. A. Clay is spend- 

 ing a short time In the city and reports a gen- 

 eral increase in railroad business. 



The H. Curll Lumber Company contends that 

 poplar is strong in the hardwood market, both 

 in point of demand and prices actually secured 

 for it. The company is getting its West Vir- 

 ginia prices shaped up well and will be one of 

 the heaviest manufacturers in that district this 



atenation before long and then the Ho 

 take themselves and their wives dow 

 1- for a good day off. 



CLEVELAND 



n. Ellas & Bro. are among those who speak 

 of trade as doing better wltli them, a little 

 stir being noticed in all of the many branches 

 they carry. They have not j^et brought up any 

 yellow pine by canal, but are active in the lake 



F. W. Vetter is able to report some good white 

 ash orders of late, but does not call business 

 very good as a rule. He is carrying a good 

 assortment of hardwoods, with white ash and 

 oak leading, and maple well represented. 



Dynamiters wrecked the Lehigh Valley rail- 

 road tracks just back of the yard of I. X. Stew- 

 art & Bro. on June ,30, but they are not sus- 

 pected of the job. The firm is active in the 

 cherry trade, which has Ijcen pretty good this 

 season. 



The Hugh McLean interests are running four 

 of their sawmills, the two in Canada and all 

 but that in Memphis in the Southwest, where 

 logs have given out. The demand for most 

 woods is as good as the times will warrant. 



President Beyer of the Pascola Lumber Com- 

 pany has not yet found a lumber yard site in 

 BuSFnIo, but he is keeping the Missouri mills 

 going and the stock moving, with the yard not 

 so much a necessity as some other things are. 

 .The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 already sold quite an amount of the big lot of 

 hardwood stock that came up from Mississippi, 

 but is carrying a fine assortment In their yard 

 here, as the demand ought to spring up in the 

 fall. 



Scatcherd & Son are very actively engaged in 

 their sawmills at Memphis. They waited till 

 they had a big lot of logs before starting up 

 and now they appear to be going through them 

 at a good rate. Sales are not very active. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 looking to the furniture expositions for lumber 

 outlets and is running the table mill about as 

 usual, with a fair amount of orders ahead and 

 a good fall business in prospect. 



T. Sullivan & Co. will now drop right back 

 into the Pacific coast fir trade, as the freight 

 rate is settled and there is plenty of need of 

 that lumber here, for it is already reported that 

 the mills are meeting the o-cent rate advance. 



O. E. Yeagcr is still getting oak and some 

 other lumber out of Ohio, but tries not to bring 

 It here, as he has a good assortment and ship- 

 ment direct means a better show of profit. Not 

 much stock is coming up from Kentucky just 



The yard of A. Miller is good to look at, for it 

 always has a good lot of stock, being so well 

 supplied uow that not much effort needs to be 

 made to get more right away, though the fall 

 trade is likely to carry it off at a good rate. 



The work of the lumber exchanges for the 

 season is about over and the annual picnic is 

 set down for July 14th at the Canoe Club up 

 the Canadian shore of the lake, a new stopplng- 

 olT place for the luml^rmen. There will be a 



AVorkmen have completed the installation of 

 the exhibit of hardwoods of tbe Martin-Barriss 

 Lumber Company, in the main room of the 

 Builders" E.vchange. in the Chamber of Commerce 

 building. Since its completion a day or two 

 ago It has attracted general admiration. The 

 exhibit occupies a space about ten by fifteen 

 feet in size. The floor has been laid with plank 

 teakwood from Eurma. This makes a rather 

 expensive flooring, but It is very attractive 

 after it has been laid and polished. The exhibit 

 is set in panels, four large ones, two at each 

 end, with the smaller ones banked up in the 

 center. There are some splendid pieces of 

 hardwoods, most of them imported. There are 

 specimens of ^ifrican, Mexican and Cuban ma- 

 hoganies, brown English quartered oak and white 

 mahogany. There are also samples of Circassian 

 walnut and satinwood. It is expected that the 

 exhibit will well repay the Martin-Barriss com- 

 pany, for the woods are shown up in a very 

 convincing manner. 



The Guy & Kalph Gray Lumber Company has 

 established uptown ofllces on the sixth floor of 

 the American Trust building, which faces the 

 Public Square. The company will continue the 

 ofiices which have been operated in connection 

 with the yards at 2183 West Third street. 



ii. H. Jenks of the Rolwrt H. Jenks Lumber 

 Company is in Duluth, having made the trip 

 by way of the steamer Northland, stopping off at 

 Mackinac island en route. He Is combining 

 business with pleasure. 



One of the interesting displays of the great 

 N. E. A. convention, held In Cleveland from 

 June 29 to July 3, was the exhibit of the King 

 Furniture Company, which is manufacturing a 

 flue line of hardwood desks. One of the new 

 things the company has been booming is an 

 individual chemical desk. Each desk Is a labo- 

 ratory in itself. The body of the desk is paneled 

 and all exposed parts are made of selected white 

 oak. The drawers are dovetailed, while the 

 top is ■•built up"' of thirty-one strips of hard 

 white maple dovetailed together and protected 

 with a chemical proof black finish. 



F. T. I'l ii'h of ihc .Vdvance Lumber Company 

 sp^nt il. hi-i i>\\ days of this month in New 

 York I ii> ill iiii-iri.^s. Mr. I'eitch reports busi- 

 ness Willi 111.' .V.lvancc company quite active. 



Mrs. I". W. Gilchrist, wife of the well-known 

 lumberman, who was operated upon for cancer 

 in a Cleveland hospital several weeks ago, 

 passed through the operation successfully and is 

 well on the way to recovery. 



The .$2,000,000 Hippodrome building Is to be 

 finished at once, creditors having agreed to 

 waive their claims for two years. The great 

 theater has been finished, but the interiors of 

 the twelve-story oflice building facing Euclid 

 avenue and the seven-story structure facing 

 Prospect avenue were not finished for lack of 

 funds. An Immense amount of hardwood will 

 be required for the work and dealers are hot on 

 the trail, as the promoters of the great enter- 

 prise have announced that the structure will be 

 whipped into shape at once. 



George Meier, president of the Oconee Lum- 

 ber Company, with a large preserve and mill in 

 Georgia, reports that the cut of oak at present 

 is very heavy. A good deal of it will be quar- 

 tered. A good cut of ash and hickory is also 

 reported. Although both these are far from 

 active the company proposes to get a good stock 

 on hand for tht time when they do come into 

 demand again. 



Following the disastrous fire of a few weeks 

 ago the Lake Erie Lumber Company, with oflJce 

 and yard on Hamilton avenue N. E. near Mar- 

 quette avenue, is making extensive repairs. Both 

 the stable and main lumber shed were destroyed 



by the flames and are lieiug renewed. The lum- 

 ber shed will be 130 by 04 feet In size and two 

 stories in height. The hardwood dry kiln, which 

 was badly damaged, is being repaired and a sec- 

 tion of the oflice building which was scorched Is 

 being put in shape again. A railroad track will 

 run the length of the main lumber shed. The 

 loss of the company was fully covered by insur- 

 ance. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The lumber Industry is not characterized at 

 present by any noteworthy features. Mills are 

 being operated steadily and lumber is being piled 

 up. Some lumber is being sold right along, but 

 the movement In June was scarcely as large as 

 In May. For Instance, C. A. BIgelow of the 

 ICneeland, BIgelow & Kneeland, Buell & BIgelow 

 plants says during May he sold and shipped 

 3,000,000 feet in car lots. In the first half of 

 June the movement was a little better than In 

 May, but in the last half of the month business 

 fell off some. Both mills of this concern are 

 operated right along, one day and night and 

 the other ten hours a day. The Kneeland-BIg- 

 elow Company is operating only one camp, look- 

 ing after logs in the woods that have been 

 decked for shipment to the mill. The company 

 has logs enough skidded at the railroad to run 

 the mill into September. Frank Buell is load- 

 ing and shipping logs to the Kneeland, Buell & 

 BIgelow mill. 



S. L. Eastman states that the flooring busi- 

 ness dropped off some during the latter part of 

 June, being apparently affected by momentary 

 weakness. He is confident that It is only a mid- 

 summer lull and of short duration. This refers 

 largely to the domestic trade. Local plants 

 quite generally have foreign contracts which 

 ena'ole them to do business without closing 

 down. Foreign business has been good until 

 recently, but just now the Inquiry is slower. 



The Bay City Board of Trade paid a visit to 

 the extensive plant of W. D. Young & Co. re- 

 cently. This plant, it will be remembered, was 

 totally wiped out by fire September 2, last, 

 while Walter U. Young, the guiding genius of 

 the concern, was in Europe. Shortly thereafter 

 arrangements were perfected and the site is 

 occupied today with a plant in every particular 

 comparable with the one destroyed. It Is within 

 hounds to say that It is perhaps the finest plant 

 of the kind in the world. It Is modern and 

 up-to-date in every essential. Power is gener- 

 ated from a 1,000-horsepower Corliss engine for 

 the flooring plant and a 300-horsepower Bates- 

 Corliss engine furnishes power for the sawmill, 

 which has a capacity of 75,000 feet of lumber 

 a day. This will shortly be doubled by the in- 

 stallation of another band saw outfit. The floor- 

 ing plant has a capacity of 50,000 feet dally. 

 Nothing is wasted at this plant that can be 

 utilized. Thirty-six cords of refuse wood are 

 turned over every day to the I. E. Dupont de 

 Nemours wood alcohol plant, located adjacent 

 to the Young plant, which is converted into 

 wood alcohol, charcoal and acetate of lime. 

 One carload of firewood is shipped every day 

 to Chicago. The plant is now rniinim; ."lOO 



hands. The SllWInill i, (i|ir|;||,,l .].; , .m,- ::.;|,| 



and the flom i , i i 



Young has a ; : : ' i 



'.I'he market c-n i^v id ii\ iiu- i i ;i i 



globe. Last week cars wcri- loadi'il Imi- l,i\-,r 



pool, Glasgow. Hamburg, Dresden, Uotterdam 



and an order for 300,000 feet was booked f.ir 



Los Angeles. B. P. Whedon Is the strong right 



arm of the concern and gives the practical opcr 



ation of the plant as well as the bookkeepin:. 



end of it close attention. In a word, he Is chiei 



of staff, and a very efficient one at that. 



The KIcliardson Lumber Company at Alpena 

 began running a night crew the present week. 



Tlip P.onian Lumber Company, operating a 

 Jlnall mill at Bomanville, Gladwin county, has 

 shut down for the season, having cut up all ils 



