HARDWbOD RECORD 



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another order for 130.000 feet for I'emisylvauia 

 delivery. The company lately bought 500,- 

 000 feet of oak iu West Virginia. It reports 

 maple a little weak, but a very strong chestnut 

 market and is buying all that lumber it can 

 get. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company reports 

 all sorts of trouble with car shortage. Its cbief 

 difficulty is in the Northwest, where shipments 

 for Wisconsin and ilichigau are rerouted or 

 transferred and the cars sent back home. This 

 causes great confusion at points of delivery, for 

 much stock is reported lost or stolen. 



James I. M. Wilson & (.'0. are kept busy fill- 

 ing orders for hardwood of all grades, oak and 

 maple leading the list. Manager I. F. BaLsley 

 of this department has been taking an enforced 

 vacation of a few days on account of sickness. 



The C. 1'. Caughey Lumber Company is getting 

 out some very fine white oak timber on its tract 

 in Washington county, Pennsylvania, which it 

 bought last spring. Most of this is for govern- 

 ment work, sheet piling, etc., on the Ohio and 

 Monongahela rivers and is cut either in 10 by 

 12 squares or in two and three inch plank. Good 

 white oak is very scarce, and the Caughey com- 

 pany is getting the benefit of conditions. 



George W. Nicola of the Nicola Brothers Com- 

 pany is a very happy man these days. Miss 

 Gladys Lonsdale Painter, youngest daughter of 

 Park Painter, one of Pittsburg's most prominent 

 residents, will be wedded to him on October 30. 

 Both Miss Painter and Mr. Nicola are familiar 

 figures in Pittsburg's wealthy social circles and 

 n host of friends are wishing George all kinds 

 of happiness. 



F. F. Nicola, president of the Nicola Brothers 

 Company, has returned from a four months' so- 

 journ in Europe. E. C. Braiuerd, hardwood 

 manager of the same company, is back from a 

 Jour weeks' trip through Pennsylvania, West 

 Virginia and the South. He reports low grade 

 hardwood fairly plenty, but first-class stuff very 

 scarce. 



H. H. Erving of Flint, Erving & Stoner is 

 making a business trip through Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota. J. B. Flint of the same company 

 will be one of the party of the Merchants' & 

 Manufacturers' Association of Pittsburg, which 

 will make an extended tour of Central Penn- 

 sylvania in the interests of the Pittsburg trade. 



Local lumber dealers were more or less in- 

 terested in the talks which H. M. Melchers of 

 Pittsburg lately made to the members of a 

 leading club on the subject of "The Tariff and 

 Our Forests" and "The Injury Caused by the 

 Duty on Canadian Lumber." Mr. Meichei-s 

 claimed that the United States government, by 

 imposing a tax of $2 per thousand on Canadian 

 lumber, had injured the lumber business in this 

 country because the Canadian government had 

 retaliated by placing an embargo on the ex- 

 portation of logs to the United States. Before 

 this tax was imposed, he said, large rafts were 

 towed from Ontario to Michigan and converted 

 into lumber there, but since then these mills 

 have been dismantled and the country has lost 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars that would 

 otherwise have been paid for labor. 



The Milliken-Bradley Lumber Company, Alle- 

 gheny. Pa., is one of the latest concerns in the 

 business and is getting well established. J. E. 

 Milliken was formerly identified with the inter- 

 ests of the Union Supply Company, Allegheny. 

 His partner is H. W. Bradley, an experienced 

 lumberman. The firm has ample room for the 

 storage of lumber and shedding to carry a large 

 stock of millwork, which will be its specialty. 



A very interesting experiment in lumber is 

 that recently made by Frank Thornburg, whose 

 suburb of Thornburg just outside of Pittsburg 

 is in point of architectural beauty a rival of any 

 outlying high-class residence district in the 

 country. In several of the suburban homes he 

 has built lately he has used yellow pine instead 

 of hardwood for finishing. First he tried it in 

 the green shade, but latterly he has stuck to 

 the rich brown color which gives the finest lus- 



ter. He simply stains the pine to give it a 

 darker shade and after it is dry rubs it off with 

 cotton waste. Two coats of varnish complete 

 the task and leave the finish with the natural 

 grain of the pine standing out clear, as no imi- 

 tation of a hardwood grain is attempted. Other 

 dealers are taking to the practice also and re- 

 port excellent results. 



The Kendall Lumber Company, formed with 

 a capital of $1,000,000 to take over the 24,000 

 acres formerly owned by the Preston Lumber 

 & Coal Company of Wilkesbarre, will take for- 

 mal possession of the tract Nov. 1, although 

 it is already handling some of the shipments 

 from there. The mill on the Maryland tract 

 is one of the finest in that section, having a 

 band saw on one side and a circular saw on the 

 other. To accommodate the rush of business 

 that will inevitably follow this purchase, the 

 company has taken two additional large office 

 rooms in the House Building, Pittsburg, making 

 a suite of five offices. 



J. C. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany recently spent two weeks along the lakes. 

 He reports business excellent and says many re- 

 tailers have a tendency to stock up a little with 

 hardwoods in spite of the fact that the in- 

 ventory season is near by. The firm is shipping 

 considerable chestnut on contracts and is also 

 marketing quite an amount of red birch which 

 they get from Virginia and the Adirondacks and 

 which brings big money. 



Buffalo. 



Some of tlie Buffalo hardwood dealers are 

 creditors of the Buffalo Veneer Panel Company 

 which has just been forced into bankruptcy. 

 This is the company organized by J. F. Stengel 

 not long ago. It has a mill at Main street and 

 llertel avenue. Most of the claims are held 

 outside. H. E. Roberts of Pennsylvania has 

 been made receiver. The company has liabilities 

 of $28,000 and has furnished a schedule of $27,- 

 000 assets. 



B. F. Jackson of the Haines Lumber Com- 

 pany, who was so seriously injured lately by 

 being run over, is doing well and will be out 

 of tile hospital soon. 



The new fire insurance company organized 

 in the main by M. S. Tremaine, who is to be 

 its president, will be ready for full announce- 

 ment in a few days. 



The reorganization of the Buffalo Maple 

 Flooring Company proceeds slowly, but is likely 

 to be completed, at least so far as the satisfy- 

 ing of tile smaller creditors is concerned, before 

 long. It is said that no very exact plan of 

 procedure has been perfected by the larger 

 creditors. James A. White is giving it his whole 

 time now. 



The prospective i-aising of the southwestern 

 quarantine sends F. W. Vetter that way at once. 

 He will proceed to pick up the thread of busi- 

 ness which has not been allowed to ravel much. 

 The new mill is not to be built at Empire. 



Scatcherd & Son are also looking to the 

 Southwest for a chance to increase operations. 

 Logs are waiting for the Memphis mills in 

 Mississippi and more timber is to be bought. 



A. Miller sticks pretty close to West Virginia 

 for most of his best hardwoods and has not 

 been troubled by the quarantine. He will get 

 enougli oak, ash, poplar, chestnut and the like 

 to keep the yard full. 



A. W. Kreiuheder has not gone South yet, but 

 is getting ready. He wants the leaves off the 

 trees when he gets there, so that he can make 

 some estimates on the timber he is after. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 still crowding the Ohio river with the oak-laden 

 barges it is sending this way from Mississippi. 

 J. B. Wall has recovered from his late fall. 



In his effort to cover the country from the 

 office direct, using the mail for messenger, O. E. 

 Yeager succeeds In getting all the hardwood lum- 

 ber he needs, and he is doing a fine business 

 without further outlay. 



Taylor & Crate are still among the few who 



were able to operate their southwestern mill 

 without much delay on account of the quaran- 

 tine. Lake liardwood has not been received 

 largely, but a big southern stock has been. 



With plenty of plain oak and a stock of ma- 

 hogany to supplement a full assortment of 

 cherry, net to mention other hardwoods, I. N. 

 Stewart & Bro. are finding trade very satis- 

 factory. 



Angus McLean is still giving much of his 

 time to the lower St. Lawrence spruce and 

 cedar interests of the Hugh McLean Company. 

 As the stock is in demand for export and at 

 home also, the trade will be good. 



G. Elias & Bro. are among the rather few 

 dealers who are able to add to their southern 

 pine connections. They will receive consider- 

 able of this stock yet this fall, both by rail and 

 canal. 



Saginaw 'Valley. 



The feature of local interest is the scarcity 

 of cars. The business is here, the trade wants 

 the lumber, but the railroads are unable to fur- 

 nish the transportation. Hundreds of cars are 

 wanted and dealers and manufacturers of hard- 

 wood products are going to be badly cramped 

 during the winter. W. D. Youug & Co. were 

 104 cars short Monday, and other firms are in 

 the same boat. The famine appears to be more 

 acute than it was last year, despite the large 

 number of cars built during the year. This is 

 also likely to affect the log hauling business. A 

 couple of hundred or more cars loaded with 

 hardwood are brought down every day from the 

 Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central, and 

 should these cars be diverted elsewhere it would 

 cripple the industry of the valley. 



The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company, which 

 purchased the Hall sawmill in Bay City eighteen 

 months ago and 23,000 acres of land in the 

 vicinity of Haakwood, and has been operating 

 the sawmill steadily since, has sold its entire 

 Bay City interest, sawmill, lumber, unsold wood, 

 etc., to the Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow Company, 

 which was organized to take over the property. 

 The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company will con- 

 tinue to lumber its lands, and will sell a stipu- 

 lated quantity of logs every year to the new- 

 company. The company also has contracts to 

 furnish a stipulated quantity of logs to Bliss & 

 Van Auken and other parties. Frank Buell 

 owns 80,000,000 feel of timber which goes into 

 the new concern and will be lumbered and cut 

 at the mill. The company also owns timber, 

 and altogether it has a cut of 20,000,000 feet 

 in sight for fifteen years. The mill is a double 

 band with a capacity of 100,000 feet every ten 

 hours, and will be operated continuously. Charles 

 A. Bigelow, secretary and treasurer of the Knee- 

 land-Bigelow Company of Bay City, will be the 

 manager of the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Com- 

 pany. The logging for the two mills will be 

 in charge of Frank Buell, who is now operating 

 seven camps and has a steam skidder and load- 

 er in active operation. 



J. J. Flood will start his sawmill at Bay 

 City about Nov. 15. cutting hardwood logs re- 

 ceived from W. D. Young & Co., and expects to 

 continue operations all winter. 



The Hay-McCormick Lumber Company has 

 picked up quite a lot of ash during the summer, 

 which has been handled at the yard in Saginaw. 

 The Briggs & Cooper Company. Ltd., of Sagi- 

 naw is handling about 25,000,000 feet of lumber 

 this season. A considerable quantity of south- 

 ern oak is bought by the company and handled 

 direct to the customers of the company in the 

 East. 



The J. T. Wylie & Co. and Jackson & Wylie, 

 operating three large stave, hoop and heading 

 mills, will put in a lot of basswood and elm 

 during the winter. The trade in these commodi- 

 ties, which has been extremely dull during the 

 year to date, is picking up some. 



Sailing, Hanson & Co. will cut about 12,000.- 

 000 feet of logs for stock for the Kerry & Han- 

 son Flooring Company's plant at Grayling, and 



