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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1919 



Jackson & Tindle 



ELM and BIRCH 



4/4 to 12/4 All Grade* 



Well assorted stock 



4/4, 5/4, 6/4, & 8/4 No. 3 

 Hardwood 



MUls at PELLSTON, MICH. 

 MUNISING, MICH. 

 JACKSONBORO, ONT. 



Main Office 



BUFFALO, N, Y 



your inquiries to 



SALES OFFICE: 303-304 Murray Building 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Here's Something 

 Unusually Caood 



12/4' 

 10/4' 



6/4' 



8/4' 



12/4' 



4/4' 



MAPLE 



2 & Better 24,000 feet 



2 & Better 150,000 feet 



ELM 



3 & Better 30,000 feet 



3 & Better 40,000 feet 



3 & Better 25,000 feet 



BIRCH 



3 & Better 80,000 feet 



The above stock is of a fine quality, — the 

 best in the land. We also carry a complete 

 stock of Hemlock of all sizes and lengths 

 up to 20 ft., in good shipping condition. 



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lino: 1 lanson v^ompany 



GRAYLING. MICHIGAN 



The Tegge Lumber Co: 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,/Wisconsin 



by the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company and found prices everywhere _ 

 strong. 



Hugh McLean has returned from a business trip to Montreal. He re- 

 ports hardwoods strong, with a little lull in the demand. The southern 

 mills, however, are well sold up on plain and quartered oak. 



KImer J. Sturm has returned from an eastern trip in the interest of 

 Miller, Sturm & Miller, finding buyers with small stocks, but not inclined 

 to take lumber far ahead. 



PITTSBURGH 



John McCuUough, member of the Mouutain Lick Lumber Company, a ■ 

 big hardwood concern at Mountain Licit, W. Va., spent a few days with the 

 Pittsburgh trade the first of the month. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has secured Thomas S. Dissler, formerly 

 traffic manager and purchasing agent of the Ft. Pitt Steel Castings Com- 

 pany, as its sales manager. George H. Young, who held that position with 

 the Kendall Company several years, has gone to the J. C. Donges Lumber 

 Company in the Oliver building. 



The Universal Lumber Company, which started a new yard in the East 

 End, on Ellsworth avenue, lately, has already overrun the capacity of 

 that yard and is now seeking more room and a railroad switch. The com- 

 pany has a splendid contracting trade this fall. 



E. B. Hamilton of the Satler-Hamilton Lumber Company has gone South 

 to make a thorough inspection of business at the mills. 



The Waynesboro Lumber Company, capital $25,000, is a new manufac- 

 turing concern at Waynesboro, Pa., which has been organized by J. Frank 

 Highland and William A. Saugar of Hagerstown, Md., and Charles P. 

 Mann of Philadelphia, Pa. 



The building report for Pittsburgh in August showed a total of over 

 600 operations to cost $2,402,000. This is nearly four times the amount 

 of building in August of last year and is $1,300,000 more than was done 

 in July of last year. 



The State Forestry Commission of Pennsylvania is going to erect six 

 more fire towers on the western slope-s of tiie Allegheny mountains for 

 future forest protection. 



The E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company is driving in a good bulk of indus- 

 trial business this year. Mr. Shreiner has been down in Maryland several 

 times lately investigating operations at the mills, and he finds the hard- 

 wood business suffering very much from lack of production. 



The window glass and plate glass companies of tri-state territory are 

 taking more lumber now than for a long time. Business is good and the 

 companies are paying the prices that are asked with less reluctance than 

 in the summer. 



COLUMBUS 



The Oak Lumber Company, Steuben villo. has been chartered with a 

 capital of $50,000 to sell lumber. The incorporators are John A. Ryan, 

 George W. Conuell. Ralph B. Cohen, G. Papus and Dio Rogers. 



J. W. Taylor has been appointed receiver for the Dodson Sawmill and 

 Lumber Company, upon the application of Charles W. Seaman, secretary 

 and treasurer, Annie L. Seaman and Carl B. Seaman, stockholders. They 

 claim that the assets of the company are being dissipated. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods with prices ruling higher in most varieties. Buy- 

 ing is about equally divided between factories and retailers. Shipments 

 are slow because of the growing car shortage. 



Building operations in Columbus continue to show up actively accord- 

 ing to the report of the city Iniikling inspector. Of the construction work 

 a large part is the erection of dwellings and apartments. This class of 

 work is expected to continue for some time. 



EVANSVILLE 



William H. McCurdy, head of the Ilerculos Buggy Company. John D. 

 Craft of the same company ; A. V. Burch of the Blount Plow Company, 

 and several other prominent manufacturers of this city held a meeting a 

 few days ago at the Chamber of Commerce building and guaranteed the 

 money with which to build a large number of houses in Evansville this 

 year and next for working people. There has been a great scarcity of 

 houses in Evansville for the past year and as a result rents are going up 

 rapidly and recently a move was started by tenants to start an organiza- 

 tion that will combat high rents. It is the purpose of Mr. McCurdy and 

 the other men back of the move to make no profit in their investment. 

 The houses will be turned over to working people as fast as they are 

 completed and the occupants will be permitted to pay for them on the 

 installment plan. Several of the houses will be completed this year and 

 a larger number will be built next year. Building corporations have 

 boon formed in many of the cities of Indiana this year to build houses 

 in order to relieve the building (Shortage. 



Through the agitation of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, a big mass 

 meetin,g of local manufacturers and retail merchants was held at the 

 Chamber of Commerce biailding here' on Wednesday, September 17, at 

 which a resolution was 'unanimously passed calling upon the railroads to 

 install through sleeper service between Evansville and Cincinnati, also 

 between Evansville and Memphis. Representatives of the six railroads 

 entering the city attended the meeting and promised that they would do 

 all in their power to give Evansville better Pullman facilities. 



J. C. Greer, head of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, returned a few 

 days ago from a business trip through the South and reported that trade 



