HARDWOOD RECORD 



spirit and in consequence get a respectable 

 amount of business right along. 



Franlc C. Pearre, instead of worrying over 

 conditions, quietly pegs away, and so gets a 

 share of things going. He looks for a gradual 

 improvement in business from now on. 



The Emerson Company are meeting conditions 

 as they present themselves. They report that 

 though things are generally quiet they have 

 managed to hook some fair contracts, and con- 

 sidering everything have no cause to complain. 



Price & Heald report the export trade slow 

 at this time and values in hardwoods such that 

 they are not anxious to force trading. 



The Williamson Veneer Company state that 

 the trade they cater to most is closed down at 

 present ; however, they are not worryin :. They 

 are keeping their plant active, making u;i stock. 



Monroe & Co. report that business is holding 

 fairly well, -with a decided optimistic feeling as 

 to outlook. Prices are somewhat oCF, but at first 

 active demand they are sure to stiffen. 



R. P. Baer & Co. are quietly watching the 

 situation. They are not making goods ahead 

 and will wisely curtail their output until a 

 reasonably fair profit can be made. They regard 

 the prospects for future trading very fair and 

 are not inclined to force the market at this 

 time. 



Mann & Parker, though only a firm about 

 seven years old, have established a decided repu- 

 tation as hustlers. They are complacent over 

 conditions and report things brightening. The 

 outlook they think promising. They have a 

 branch business at Asheville, X. C, and report 

 their mills in western North Carolina all active. 

 It is evident that they are sanguine as to the 

 future for hardwoods, as they have recently 

 started another band mill at Anoro, S. C, where 

 they will manufacture rod gum, oak, ash, hick- 

 ory, Cottonwood and cypress, of which they will 

 turn out daily aliout .-|ii.iioO feet. 



The Dixie Manufacturing Company, makers of 

 dust collectors, at Kussell and Stockholme streets, 

 are always keen after business and get trade 

 proportionately. The Dixie dust collector, as it 

 deserves, is fact finding its way into all the 

 large woodworking concerns to the profit of the 

 introducer. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



The lumber industrj- is usually dull the lat- 

 ter part of July and the first of August, as it 

 is the period when everybody wants a vaca- 

 tion and business just about runs itself. In 

 the flooring business trade fell off about the 

 beginning of the month and it has continued 

 so to date. Some manufacturers are working 

 on contracts or large orders and keep their 

 plants busy but others are light. W. D. 

 Young & Co. are operating their plant full 

 force but they ship flooring abroad in large 

 quantities. The Bliss & Van Auken plant is 

 running right along with a good fair business, 

 and the S. L. Eastman flooring plant is do- 

 ing something, though Mr. Eastman says busi- 

 ness has been dull the last three weeks. 



The mills of the Kneeland-Bigelow Com- 

 pany and the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Com- 

 pany at Bay City are running full force, the 

 former day and night and the latter ten hours. 

 Mr. Bigelow says while the companies are 

 doing something the sales the first half of 

 July do not hold up quite as well as in May 

 and June. There is a good feeling in trade, 

 however, and it is generally expected that 

 with the opening of fall business will be 

 active. 



The Richardson Lumber Company's new mill 

 is being operated at Bay City and is cutting 

 out some fine lumber. The mill of the same 

 company at Alpeha is being operated day and 

 night. The Bay City mill is getting its stock 

 by rail from Montmorency county. 

 " The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company has 

 sold 2,000,000 feet of logs to the L. Cornwell 



estate at Saginaw and the logs will be con- 

 verted into lumber at the old Cornwell mill 

 east of Vanderbilt. 



The Nunday branch of the Mackinaw divi- 

 sion of the Michigan Central, near Wolverine, 

 is being extended four miles to reach 30,000,- 

 000 feet of timber belonging to the Wylie & 

 Buell Lumber Company. Camps have been 

 established and cutting of the timber started. 

 It is mostly hardwood with a sprinkling of 

 hemlock. The timber comes to the Saginaw 

 river. 



The Prescott-Miller Lumber Company, oper- 

 ating a sawmill near Rose City, on the Rose 

 City division of the Detroit & Mackinac Rail- 

 road in Ogemaw county, is extending its 

 branch road four miles, making it eight miles 

 in all, and reaching 12,000,000 feet more tim- 

 ber. The mill will run another month and 

 then shut down until the fall logs are avail- 

 able. The entire output of the mill for the 

 year has been sold. 



J. Robinson is running a small mill near 

 South Branch on the Rose City division of 

 the Detroit & Mackinac, cutting about 20,000. 

 feet a day. 



The Bousfleld Woodenware Works, which 

 uses some ten or twelve million feet of logs 

 a year, several million feet of which are bass- 

 wood, is running full force. 



the working force of the firm is not very small. 

 The annual outing of the lumbermen on the 

 14th was about the best on the list, being on 

 invitation of Hugh McLean at the Canoe Club. 

 Everybody wants to go again. 



PITTSBURG 



T. II. Wan of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is spending a short time at Atlantic 

 City. He runs down for a few days while on 

 his eastern sales trips and does not take his eye 

 off business for long at a time. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 selling some good thick ash which comes in from 

 Pennsylvania mills. The plan is to revamp the 

 home yard as soon as possible and put in a 

 loading dock where it will do the most good. 



A. Miller finds that there is good lumber in 

 his line to be had in some parts of Canada, 

 though he has a pretty good stock in yard right 

 along. He keeps keen watch on the eastern sea- 

 board trade and is quite busy. 



F. M. Sullivan is suffering from throat trouble, 

 so that he did not attend the picnic. He was 

 represented by his brother, F. T. Sullivan. Busi- 

 ness at the dock yard has started up lately, as 

 cargoes are coming in. 



O. E. Yeager showed his athletic training this 

 year by pitching the ball in the outing game 

 and feeling the strain only slightly the ne^ 

 day. He does not report the demand for lumber 

 very active. 



The sales of cherry by I. N. Stewart & Bro. 

 have been good jo£ late and some 'four-inch ash 

 has been on the list, with other woods moving 

 at a fair rate. H. A. Stewart took a trip to 

 Canada for a short rest lately. 



F. W. Vetter keeps up his usual good assort- 

 ment of hardwood lumber through the summer 

 and is selling all along the line, but he is not 

 trying to add much to the old stock just now, 

 as the sorts are all in. 



Scatcberd & Sou still report mill activity, both 

 at log sawing in Memphis and in the door trade 

 in Batavia, the latter mill taking in a large 

 amount of stock this summer, considering the 

 state of trade. 



President Beyer of the Pascola Lumber Com- 

 pany is preparing to visit the Missouri mills of 

 the company right away, as he wants to keep 

 up the oak production just as much as possible, 

 lie held a Hoo-Hoo smoker July 11. 



The McLean interests are keeping all their 

 sawmills running except that In Memphis, but 

 quartered oak is none too plenty and is not 

 likely to be right away. Not much new stock is 

 coming in here now. 



The employees of G. Elias & Bro. go on their 

 regular summer picnic on July 25, and it is 

 estimated that, with families and all, the party 

 will number about 400 people, which shows that 



The Carnegie Steel Company has issued 

 requisitions for more than 1.000.000 feet of 

 lumber, to be used in its plants in and near 

 Pittsburg. Some excellent contracts are 

 likely to be closed this week on these bills. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company hae. 

 had a fairly busy season at its mill in West 

 Virginia and manages to keep its stock down 

 pretty well. It is doing very little jobbing 

 in hardwood but is having a good success in 

 marketing its own oak. 



The Babcock Lumber Company, which shut 

 down its big operations at Ashtola, Pa., a few- 

 weeks ago, has resumed in full, with 150 

 men employed. The present condition of the 

 market seems to indicate that this concern 

 will not have to lay oft again this year. 



The H. V. Curll Lumber Company is feeling 

 mighty good over the prospect for a big pop- 

 lar market this fall. Its inquiries show that 

 the demand is strong and stocks at West 

 Virginia and Kentucky mills are not accumu- 

 lating to any extent. 



The Reliance Lumber Company notes that 

 the demand for bill stuff is improving but 

 says that the call for timbers is not so heavy 

 as it was two weeks ago. Along a few lines 

 of lumber this company finds an inclination 

 to advance prices. 



J. R. Edgett, president of the Interior Lum 

 ber Company, has been stopping in Pittsburg 

 for a week or more. The observations of this 

 company show that the call for good lumber 

 for factory uses is improving considerably. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company is figuring 

 close and hard on some very nice bills of oak. 

 It is a strong competitor in the market this 

 summer because of the fact that it has more 

 than L'. 000, 000 feet of choice oak timber under 

 contract, all on the Pittsburg freight rate. 



Congressman Wheeler of Endeavor, Pa., lost 

 about J150.000 two weeks ago by reason of 

 the break in the dam at that place. Over 4.- 

 000,000 feet of timber was turned loose and a 

 large portion of it was not recovered. 



Indications point to a good trade in box 

 lumber this fall. The window glass people 

 have advanced their prices and the trade has 

 been so extremely slow this summer that they 

 have allowed their stocks of lumber to get 

 down to the lowest possible point. If the 

 plants start up in the fall in full as is ex- 

 pected the glass companies will have to buy a 

 large amount of crate and box lumber before 

 November 1. This is looked to as the chief 

 hope for the chestnut -market. 



Capitalists of Pittsburg and Buffalo have 

 started nine camps of To men each to cut 

 off a tract of 2.000 acres of timber on Upper 

 Medix Run in Elk county, Pennsylvania. There 

 is more than 20,000,000 feet of liardwood on 

 the tract. A tramway 20 miles long is being 

 built to bring the lumber down to the low 

 grade division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

 All the hardwood has been sold under contract 

 to a New England firm. 



The Flint, Irving & Stoner Company is 

 keeping things mighty busy at its plant at 

 Dunlevie, W. Va. It lias lost little time this 

 summer and has been making a big iot of 

 hardw-ood lumber. J. B. Flint of the com- 

 pany, with his family, has gone to his sum- 

 mer home in Canada. 



Philip C. Clarke, who has been managing 

 the liardwood business of Bemis & Vosburgli 

 for several months, resigned that position to 

 become sales manager for the R. E. Wood 

 Lumbf^r Company of Baltimore. Md. Mr. 

 Clarke haa bf -i -•— ■■ .= .,..r.o«..f,,i ,;„ i,j^ Pitfo- 



