HARDWOOD RECORD 



in Cleveland 



of Buffalo, N. Y., was a visito 

 several days ago. 



W. P. Hilton, foi- several years in charge 

 of the hardwood flooring department of the 

 Advance Lumber Company, with headquarters in 



the Rockefeller building, this city, has 



severed 

 that connection and is now in charge of offices 

 on the ninth floor of the Citizens' building, 

 j-epresenting Peter Kuntz of Dayton, prominent 

 hardwfwd manufacturer, with a string of hard- 

 wood yards throughout Ohio. Mr. Hilton made 

 the change June 1. 



The \V. B. McAUistci- c.imiiany i~ |.r..paring 



the display of li.u'lv ■ '1 in 



the Builders' Ex.lin _ "'*'*' 



Company. The di-i i '""^ 



valuable woods ainl i- r. . i -iing. 



It will be installed within a sliml timn. 



W. W. Stone of the T. B. Stone Lumber Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati called on a number of Cleve- 

 land dealers recently. 



The two new public library branches, to be 

 erected in Cleveland, will be finished in hard- 

 woods. Andrew Carnegie has provided the 

 money, and work will be proceeded with this 

 sumnier. Contracts will be let early in June 

 for the $110,000 West Side branch and the 

 South Side building to cost .$40,000. 



The Lake Erie Lumber Company has increased 

 its capital from $-2o.000 to $.-.(J.000 for the 

 purpose of increasing the scope of its opera- 

 tions. It carries a large stock of hardwood. 

 Robert Jenks is president, B. L. Jenks vice 

 president and J. H. Anmich secretary and treas- 

 urer. Its headquarters are at Hamilton avenue, 

 near Marquette street. 



W. A. Cool is back from an extended trip 

 through New York and the East. 



A numbi-r of local hardwood men will attend 

 both tbi- . ,,n\.T,ii..ii if tlip National Hardwood 



Lumber A i ' i^ I ■■ held at .Milwaukee. 



.Tune 11 Mr: \- III ! gathering of the Na- 

 tional l.iii 'I Hirers' .Association at 



Minneapnli- -n i m '•'■■ IV and IS- 



The Tli'i"! ;- Imihi i ..mpany is going quite 

 extensively mm • Hi- m miiiacture of school desks. 

 Special iii:i' liiiiii.\ l^i^ been installed and a 

 large flve-story building has been erected at the 

 Kuntz plant for manufacturing auto bodies for 

 the White automobiles. The regular line of 

 sewing-machine cabinets will be continued. The 

 Kuntz Company has one of the largest lumber 

 yards, in connection with its plant, to be founi. 

 in Ohio. Logs are received in the rough cut 

 and finished right on the ground. 



J. W. McGraw of Bay City is running a large 

 portable mill on the south branch of the Au 

 Sable cutting out hardwood from a tract of 

 several thousand acres which he owns. Mr. 

 McGraw Ijelieves that good times are at hand, 

 that the depression has been discounted, and 

 that within sixty days there will be an im- 

 provement manifest to everybody. 



The old Welch mill recently burned will not 

 be rebuilt This takes one mill out of Bay 

 City's quota, but the Richardson Lumber Com- 

 pany's mill takes its place. 



The flooring plants in the valley are doing as 

 well as could be expected under the circum- 



Co- 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The 



ill machinery plant is one of the in- 

 stitutions hex that is running full force with a 

 full crew and has orders booked to keep the 

 plant busy during the season. 



James Grimore & Son of Au Gres are having 

 1 ,■250.000 feet of logs manufactured at that place 

 and two other mills in the vicinity. 



The interior mills are fairly busy. Lobdell & 

 Churchill at Onaway will install two new boilers 

 in their plant and make other improvements as 

 soon as the company finishes cutting out ."J.SOO.- 

 000 feet of logs in the yard. This plant manu- 

 factured 12.000.000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last year and are making a gi>od record this 

 season. 



Bliss & Van Auken are doing a fairly good 

 business at their plant. 



Lumber in this section is feeling the blight 

 that has fallen upon business in all branches. 

 The last three years were phenomenal, and hence 

 the dullness this .vear is more keenly felt. It 

 is hard to make comparisons, as the contrast 

 is so marked. Manufacturers are disposed to 

 compare with the past two years, and even a 

 moderately fair business now looks bad set 

 against these record seasons. 



Some lumber is changing hands all the time, 

 and the consensus of opinion Is that the fall 

 trade will show improvement. The mills are 

 running and lumber is being manufactured, but 

 conditions are slow in getting on anything like 

 a basis comparative with last year. It does 

 not appear to be so much the price as the lack 

 of demand for lumber at any price. Hardwood 

 is not isolated by any means : existing condi- 

 tions apply equally to pine and hemlock. 



Log run maple or No. 2 and better is hold- 

 ing steadily at $17 and $19: beech at $16 and 

 $18: elm is rather slow at $22 and $24: birch 

 at $18 and $20. and basswood, which usually 

 moves readily, is selling at $23 and $2.5. Ash is 

 always salable here at about $30 and red oak 

 iit .$:}3. 



W. D. Young & Co. are running a portion ot 

 their plant nights and a portion days. They are 

 filling orders, the firm having exceptional advan- 

 tages by reason of its export business. It has 

 an ample supply of logs, and its splendid plant 

 in all departments is giving excellent satisfac- 

 tion. If any trade is to be had. Walter Young 

 will "dig" it up. 



The big woodenware works of Bousfield & 

 Co., which has been running low, resumed opera- 

 tions recently on full time, giving work to over 

 200 hands. This plant works up several million 

 feet of basswood and other hardwoods a year. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company's plant is still 

 running day and night, and Manager Bigelow 

 is quite optimistic as to the future of trade. 

 Several contracts for large lots of lumber for 

 flooring and other purposes have enabled the 

 company to keep the plant in operation. The 

 Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow mill is running ten 

 hours a day. It is cutting out a large quantity 

 of hardwood stock. 



Manufacturers arc much concerned In the 

 question of inspection rules, which will come 

 up at the Milwaukee meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, and they are ex- 

 erting every effort to have the manufacturing 

 interests of the state put up a solid front at the 

 ueeting, June 11. 



pany, which does a wholesale busin 

 lumbus, has just returned from a trip through 

 Michigan, where he sold a number of good-sized 

 lots of plain oak. Mr. Schleyer says that quar- 

 tered oak is very firm, but that there is but 

 little in the market. He is optimistic regarding 

 the future and firmly believes that in time con- 

 ditions will become normal. 



W. H. Putman. president and general man- 

 ager of the General Lumber Company, says that 

 financial conditions arc all right, but business 

 men have gotten into a rut and now need a 

 leader to get them started in the right direction. 

 Ho is optimistic regarding the future and firmly 

 believes that after the presidential nomination.s 

 have been disposed of business conditions will 

 gradually become normal. Mr. Putman says 

 that the lumber trade in Columbus is very quiet, 

 but does not hesitate to say that he expects 

 much better conditions during the fall and win- 

 ter months. 



For the first time since December last sales- 

 men are beginning to call upon the Columbus 

 dealers, and during the past week a large number 

 were on hand. Some ot the best lumbermen ot 

 this city state that it was a big mistake to take 

 salesmen off the road ; they should have been 

 kept at work throughout the panic, whether they 

 made expenses or not. It is believed that had 

 all companies kept their men at work, even in a 

 small wa.v, bu^ness conditions would be much 

 better than they are now. 



Among the retailers it is figured that the per 

 cent of business now being handled is much bet- 

 ter than it was in January and February, but 

 not so good as it was a year ago at this time. 

 The volume of business is now figured at from GO 

 to 70 per cent of what it was a year ago, and 

 in January it was only 30 per cent of what it 

 was at the same time in 1907. 



T. J. Dundon of T. J. Dundon & Co., who is 

 making his annual pilgrimage to Ireland, has 

 written his company that he will sail for Amer- 

 ica June 24 and will arrive in Columbus about 

 July 1. 



The contract for the new building of the 

 Columbus Lithograph Company has been let, 

 aiso that for the new music hall to be built at 

 Delaware, Ohio. Columbus lumber companies 

 will furnish the lumber for both buildings. A 

 number of other large contracts are pending in 

 this city and as soon as they are closed it is 

 believed that the lumber business will show 

 greater activity. 



COLUMBUS 



H. M. Hayward of the M. .\ II:MH;nil .mi..™, 



which does principally a i "i i--i .n | n-in -- ;n 



the hardwoods, returned ilii- " ' k n ""i ■' '"" 

 months' trip to Michigan ;in.I re'ith. m In. liana. 

 He says that manufacturing establisliments in 

 those localities are all running, but not on full 

 time. Only one plant was idle and that was 

 shut down for the purpose of making repairs and 

 taking the annual inventory. According to Mr. 

 Hayward, the situation in Michigan is quiet, but 

 dealers arc hopeful relative to the future and 

 firmly believe that the turn for improvement is 

 near at hand. 



C. G. McLaughlin of the McLaughlin-Holfman 

 Lumber Company returned last week from an ex- 

 tensive trip through Virginia, West Virginia and 

 eastern Tennessee. Ue says that only about half 

 the mills are running and that the lumbermen In 

 those districts are not cxpectiug much improve- 

 ment in business until afbi .Im 1. li"''.'. Al- 

 though the market for haul : i ; at this 



time. Mr. McLaughlin se. iini -hat the 



pendulum is swinging in tie ri.^lii •linii'in and 

 that in due time conditions will become normal 

 throughout the country. 



W. H. Schleyer of the Powell Lumber Com- 



INDIANAPOLIS 



and picnic at the Idle Wild Club, north of the 

 eity. June 9. A large number of lumbermen ami 

 their families attended. 



.\ lirnnch office of the Klemyer Lumber Com- 

 1 in, I Missouri, with J. L. Klenieyer in charge. 

 hi 1 ren opened at Vincennes. The company 

 1- i apiiMlized at $50,000. about half' ot which 

 I. I,, i,-.iii.il in Indiana. 



w I r I iiniber Company has bought the 

 1 i es^i of the National Veneer ami 



I lie -I I ,ii,|aii\ and the two yards and plants 

 have I.eeu consolidated at the location of the 

 latter company. Walter Bass, formerly with 

 the National Veneer and Lumber Company is ' 

 with the consolidated company. 



John J. Valdenaire of Valdenaire Lumber Com- 

 pany is attending to business again after about 

 four weeks' service as a juror in the trial of one 

 ot the city graft cases. 



G. .M. Ragains. H. Bowles and E. L. Trinklc 

 have organized the Hardinsburg Lumber Com- 

 pany at Hardinsburg, and in addition to con- 

 ducting a general lumber business will manu- 

 facture spokes. 



Miss Stella Mossman. daughter of the senior 

 member ot the firm of Mossman & Yarnell of 

 Port Wayne was married on June 4 to George- 

 A. Phllbrick, who is connected with that com- 

 pany. They will reside In Fort Wayne. 



