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HARDWOOD RECORD 



D. L. Gillespie & Co. announce that the 

 usual pre-holiday dullness is beginning to be 

 felt, as shown by the efforts of their cus- 

 tomers to close up the year and take stock 

 without placing many more orders. The Gil- 

 lespies have had a very profitable season and 

 have furnished the bulk cr the lumber for 

 the big Pittsburg filtration plant at Aspinwall. 

 on which work is about to be suspended for 

 the winter. 



Fair <fc Keator report a very good sale of 

 chestnut to manufacturers iit prices that are 

 firm and satisfactory. Sound wormy is "off" 

 a little. Oak in four quarter stock is badly 

 wanted and lath can't be purchased in this 

 market. This firm is one of the many that 

 are very cautious just now about taking big 

 orders on a rising market for quotations are 

 subject to daily change in many lines. 



George AV. Nicola of the Nicola Brothers 

 Company is whiling away the hours in Eu- 

 rope with his bride. They are expected home 

 about the first of the year. The Nicolas are 

 closing up by far the most prosperous year 

 in their history. They still have one or two 

 boat loads of lumber to come down from the 

 northwest. 



The plant of the Union Stave & Basket 

 Company at Columbiana, O.. was burned 

 November 24. The total loss was about $15,- 

 COO, of which $10,000 was covered by insur- 

 ance. 



C. W. Cantrell, local manager of the Her- 

 man H. Hettler Lumber Company, is in the 

 East looking after some big trade. His firm 

 is doing a verj' nice business in flooring lately 

 at good prices. 



L. L. Satler and J. N. McNaugher of Ihe 

 L. L. Satler Lumber Company are in the 

 South looking after their trade and keeping 

 an eye out for good timber that can be 

 bought. They report an extreme shortage of 

 cars in Western Maryland but say that 

 locally the situation is relieved. 



J. N. AN'oollett, hardwood manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, is in the South again this week. His 

 department is humping these days to make 

 December come up to the totals of the pre- 

 vious months' sales, which will put the year's 

 total at least 50 per cent above that of 1904. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company an- 

 nounces that it is having a big call for locust 

 posts, chiefly for railroad fences. Many good 

 oak orders are going the rounds, they say, 

 but some of them are being figured too cheap 

 to make it profitable to "get into the game." 

 The Caughey Company has about finished 

 cutting its tract of oak, hickory and cherry 

 near Morganza, Pa., where it has put out over 

 300,000 feet of choice lumber this fall. Most 

 of the cherry and walnut goes to local firms 

 in the furniture business. 



The Pltt.^burg Hardwood Floor Company, 

 which represents the Interior Hardwood Com- 

 pany of Indianapolis in this city, has had a 

 very satisfactory trade this fall. It uses 

 nothing but quartered oak, the floors being 

 five-sixteenths of an inch thick. Prices are 

 about ten per cent higher than a year ago. 

 All the flooring Is shipped direct from Indian- 

 apolis to the company's big drying rooms In 

 the Union Storage Company building. Here 

 the company now has 75,000 feet of flooring 

 on hand which It Is redrylng. 



I. F. Balsley of James I. M. 'Wilson & 

 Co. Is enthusiastic over the outlook for hard- 

 wood business In this city next year. Hu 

 regards present conditions as extremely fav- 

 orable and thinks that there will be a gradual 

 raising of prices Instead of a reduction. The 

 local demand for hardwood is good, especially 

 for oak. From the East comes a better In- 

 quiry than last year as the manufacturers 

 are more active. Mr. Balsley looks for pop- 

 lar to go up In the list of quotations within 

 the next sixty days and says that the manu- 



facturers and builders are taking much more 

 poplar than three months ago. Cherry is 

 going to the manufacturers in fair quantities 

 and at good figures. James I. M. Wilson 

 & Co. has recently taken some good orders 

 for plain oak and are getting their full share 

 of the hardwood business in general. 



Nash'rtlle. 



Al E. Baird has just returned fi'om a trip 

 to Mexico, where he inspected a tract of land 

 recently bought by him and his associates. 

 The property in question is situated in the 

 state of Durango. and formerly belonged to 

 the estate of Dan Murphy, the rich Cali- 

 fornia ranchman. The property was origi- 

 nally bought by Mr. Murphy for a ranch. 

 The new purchasers will put up saw mills, 

 however, and figure they will cut 6,000 feet 

 to the acre. They paid $1 an acre for the 

 property. 



The Harriman Hoe & Tool Company has 

 been destroyed by fire at Harriman, Tenn., 

 entailing a loss of $50,000. More than 300,000 

 hoes and forks were consumed and 150* men 

 were thrown out of employment. The fire 

 originated by the dropping of a match into 

 a vat of gasoline. The plant was insured 

 and will be rebuilt at once. 



The Ayer & Lord Tie Company has pur- 

 chased about 12.500 acres of timber lands in 

 Stewart county. Tenn., from the Bank of 

 Commerce, Cleveland. Ohio. The purchase 

 price was $60,000. This tract is regarded as 

 one of the finest in that section of the state. 

 The new purchasers will erect saw mills and 

 begin cutting in the near future. 



The Nashville Ti-ansportation Company has 

 sent a fleet of boats and barges up Cumber- 

 land river to bring down more than one mil- 

 lion feet waiting along the course of the 

 river from the head of navigation on down. 

 Lumber dealers are hopeful that the rise will 

 continue long enough to get down the tim- 

 ber they need. A rise at this season of the 

 year is rather unusual as the high water gen- 

 erally begins after the first of the year; 



The American Pencil Company has begun 

 operations at Shelbyville, Tenn.. employing a 

 large force of men. The company is buying 

 every stick of cedar timber offered, in addi- 

 tion to having purchased large tracts of cedar 

 timber. Shelbyville now has two pencil stock 

 factories and they are I'apidly denuding the 

 country of cedar. 



The R. T. Moore Lumber Company of Bir- 

 mingh.ani has been placed in the hands of a 

 receiver pending an investigation of the peti- 

 tion filed in the Federal Court to place it in 

 involuntar.v bankruptcy. The Standard Oil 

 Company is among the petitioning creditors. 

 The company has an expensive plant and 

 employs a number of men. 



A freak of nature has been discovered in 

 Glasgow, Ky.. by Dave Buckner. Recently he 

 cut down a rsd oak about eighteen inches in 

 diameter and after splitting it open he found 

 a horseshoe embedded in the heart of the 

 solid trunk. A portion of the timber con- 

 taining the embedded shoe was cut and 

 placed on exhibition. Much speculation nas 

 been indulged in to figure out how the shoe 

 got in the heart of a solid tree. The tree is 

 estimated to be forty or fifty years of age. 



Askin & DIocko's saw and planing mill 

 has been destroyed at I'nion City. Tenn. 

 Sparks from a passing engine are said to be 

 responsible for the fire. The loss Is about 

 J9.000, with $2,000 Insurance. 



J. A. Wilkinson of Bristol has just closed 

 a deal for 17,000,000 feet of timber along the 

 Southern Hallway. The purchase price was 

 1600,000. 



Buffalo. 



Scfitcher<l & Son iir.- trnuMt-d b>' reports of 

 a return of continued rains at Memphis, when 

 they were eager to get thoir sawmills up to 



their best work in order to keep well sup- 

 plied with oak lumber. 



A. Miller is finding help scarce, as he is 

 trying to get his stock of lumber into good 

 shape for winter and at the same time take 

 care of his cars of oak and poplar coming up 

 from the South. 



Manager Taylor of the Crosby & Beckley 

 Company of Columbus, Ohio, is here looking 

 after the old trade he enjoyed as a Buffalo- 

 nlan. He has a fine lot of lake hardwood.-?, 

 especially birch, just landed at Tonawanda. 



II. S. Janes of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone south to look after affairs, 

 mainly in Arkansas, where the company :» 

 selling both lumber and logs at satisfactory 

 prices. F. W. 'Vetter will remain at the 

 Buffalo office for a short time. 



G. Ellas & Bro. have been biinging down 

 quite an amount of hemlock by lake and ap- 

 pear to have been fortunate in the venture, 

 as there is talk of another advance in the 

 price of Pennsylvania hemlock. 



An inspection of the southern situation was 

 lately made by H. F. and G. S. Taylor, who 

 are anxious to see that the oak mill of Tay- 

 lor & Crate in Mississippi should keep up its 

 fcputation of turning out only first class stuff. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company finds 

 that the demand for most hardwood lumber 

 is better in the South just now than in the 

 East, and is therefore pushing sales in that 

 direction very actively. 



0. E. Yeager is still getting cars of blnh 

 from Canada, which sells fast, along with 

 chestnut and ash. which are coming in right 

 along from the South. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. have a good stock of 

 walnut as part of their yard stock, and are 

 keeping up a -supply of cherry, which sells 

 as readily as ever. 



A. W. Kreinheder lately made a short trip 

 to the South, where he set in motion in thi.s 

 direction a lot of oak and chestnut from the 

 company's Tennessee mills. He has looked 

 over some new timber tracts on which he has 

 options. 



The handsome and convenient new office at 

 the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company adds 

 much to the completeness of the plant. The 

 yard has been enlarged lately. The yard spe- 

 cialty is oak and it goes fast. 



The Michigan lumbermen interested in the 

 Buff,alo Maple Flooring Company are getting 

 together in a plan of handling the business on 

 their own account. They announce that thej' 

 have paid up all the other creditors. The 

 factory is running strong and there .is a good 

 stock of lumber on hand. 



Saginaw Valley, 



Tills is the time of the year when the lumher- 

 man begins to think of winding up the year's 

 liusiness. take an Inventory and see where he Is 

 at by striking a balance. On the whole the year 

 I'as been a fairly satisfactory one to the hard- 

 V ood men. 01 course, no one is entirely happy 

 jtnd the scarcity of cars has crippled dealers and 

 manufacturers not a little. An Idea of this car 

 famine ma.^- he grained by the fart that one firm. 

 W. 1). Young & Co., has been as hlsh as 100 cars 

 short of enough to fill their shipping orders for 

 the Inst month. 



The maple flooring men have been very busy 

 since last spring and the demand for that com- 

 modity has been exceptloiuilly brisk and prh'es 

 tnr better than they were In 1004. The outlook 

 for continued ncllvlty In this commodity Is also 

 Hfod. This will work olT the IniKc supplies nf 

 mnple liimbor that have been aoiunuilated dur- 

 ing the senson. Log run nn»ple has been some- 

 what unsatisfactory, yet manutaetnrers and di'ni- 

 ers have been able to dispose of n good stock of 

 A, and If the prices were not as good In propor- 

 tion to Ihe mnnnfactured flooring as they should 

 be, still they wire not bad. 



