away ahead iit' past re curds and its prospects 

 now are such as In warrant cnlar^ins; ils facili- 

 ties for next years trade, as it is now doing. 

 O. H. Kectaiius spent a few days in the north- 

 west lately looking over the situation, and W. 

 II. Mate has been niakin.g a tour of the saw- 

 mills. Its new operulioii at ricayune. .Miss., 

 wiiieb is being: conducted under the naiue tif the 

 Alliance Lumber Company, is well under way 

 and tlie mill there is cutting .sti.otio feet a day. 

 A. M. Turner is president of the Alliance Lum- 

 ber Company and W. II. Mace is secretary. 



The Woodman Lumber Company, which has 

 had Pittsburg offices in the Arrott building for 

 a year or more, has moved to Cressnn. Pa., 

 wlierc its operations are located. 



.loseph W. Cottrell is one of the leading Pitts- 

 burg wholesalers who lias lately captured sev- 

 eral big orders for hardwood car stuff for tlie 

 Pressed Steel t'ar Company, to be used at its Im- 

 mense plant at McKees Kociis, Pa. This plant 

 has kept several local dealers well supplied with 

 orders most of the year and has helped very 

 materially to hold up tlie prices of .-^uch mate- 

 rial. 



The Kendall interests will have uo Cliristiaas 

 vacation this year, as they are up to their 

 ears in business. The Kendalls are now getting 

 out fifteen cars of lumber a day from the 

 new plant at Iluttou. Md., and about 60,(100 

 feet a day at Kendall. Md. Secretary ,1. II. 

 Henderson spent a few days in Haltimore and 

 Philadelphia last week, and annotinces that the 

 market, in spite of the holiday season, is in re- 

 markably good shape. 



This .year has been a record breaker in hard- 

 woods for the Nicola Brothers' Company. Man- 

 ager 'E. C. Erainard has pushed sales to a new 

 limit. CJeorge W. Nicola, who lias been touting 

 Europe, with liis bride, is expected home ver.v 

 shortly. 



The Linehau Lumber Company reports an 

 active call for all kinds of liardwoods. Oak has 

 been a strong leader W'ith this firm for several 

 weeks, at prices above list for first-class stock. 

 It has taken some nice orders for bill stuff 

 lately and is also selling maple flooring at good 

 figures, 



H. W. Henninger of I lie Iteliance laimber 

 Company took another trip through West Vir- 

 ginia ,a few days ago to size up the situation at 

 the mills. The Reliance company has done a 

 fine business in hardwoods for the short year 

 it has been in business, and Mr. Henninger is 

 now looking after some orders that will keep 

 his company busy after the first of the year, 



J. M. Hastings of the ,T. M. Hastings Lumber 

 Company and the Davison Lumber Company is 

 a busy man this winter. He spends part of his 

 time in Pittsburg and part in Nova Scotia in 

 connection with the Davison operations. From 

 that plant the company will be able to ship very 

 soon large quantities of file finest kind of lum- 

 ber to Europe as well as to the eastern cities. 



Willson Brothers have had a very prosperous 

 year. As a member of the firm remarked re- 

 cently, "We have made all quotations for weeks 

 iu many lines subject to immediate acceptance." 

 Such a condition of trade is most encouraging 

 and the firm feels that the prospects for a con- 

 tinuation of this good feeling next year are 

 the very best. 



Buffalo. 



Tlie Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 finding chestnut about as high as plain oak 

 and is malting the most of what is obtainable, 

 though the yard and southern stock of oak on 

 liand continues good. 



The McLean Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 lately organized b.v the JIcLean interests, will 

 look after the operations of the new sawmill, 

 soon to be set in operatioiA at Memphis. Local 

 yard stock is good. 



The poplar interests of Taylor & Crate will 

 undoubtedly improve greatl.v as soon as there 

 is water to bring the fine stock of logs to the 



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mills at Williamsburg. Ky. Tlieir is promise 

 of better priri^ s in poplar before loiiK. 



I. N. Stewart tSj Bro. are busy both at home 

 and in the South, getting ready for winter. 

 The cherry trade is stilt a speeialty with them 

 and the^' are selling considerable oak and some 

 walnut, though that is hard to get now. 



A. Miller reports some good sales of bass- 

 wood lately and finds the month better for 

 moving stock generally than was looked for, 

 which ought to spenk well for the winter 

 trade. 



The Empire l.iumber Company is slowly clos- 

 ing out the stock of its Buffalo yard, but has 

 enough to keep the office at the yard possibly 

 till May. F. W. Vetter is still in r.iitT:\l... bul 

 may go soutii after the holidays. 



The new stock of lumber for winter laid in 

 lately by G. Elias & Bro. includes a lot of 

 heavy yellow pine timber that is coming from 

 the South. It is hard to get such shipments 

 on account of the car shortage. 



Scatcherd it Son are looking for new lim- 

 ber tracts in ilie Memphis distrirl. and .f. N. 

 Scatcherd is down there now in the interest 

 of that special side of the trade, as well as to 

 keep the mills at their best. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumher Company 

 is also after timber, and hopes to secure more 

 than one new tract in Kentucky, which may 

 make new headtpiarters in thai (iirt'ctinn neces- 

 sary. 



O. E. Yeager somehow manages to get con- 

 siderable good lumber from the direction of 

 Ohio, both oak and birch. Trade keeps up 

 very well so far. 



T. Sullivan tt Co. still have some Iiardwood 

 stock in Michigan, but as a rule call the prices 

 high there. A lot of black ash has well 

 rounded out the home yard stock. Washing- 

 ton fir is the great seller with them. 



The sale of the eifects of the Buffalo Veneer & 

 Panel Company, Dec. S. to the Steiner Mantel 

 Company of Baltimore for .$7,250 insures a 

 good dividend to tlie creditors, perhaps sixty 

 per cent in all. The debts are about $28,000. 



The leading creditors of the Buffalo Maple 

 Flooring Company will need to hold another 

 meeting before they are able to announce a 

 full reorganization. The mill is still run bj' 

 James A. White in their interest. 



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Saginaw Valley. 



While conditions are fairly satisfactory in 

 the hardwood industry, this is the time of year 

 generally when business lets up a little. Dealers 

 aud manufacturers are getting ready to take 

 inventory and strike a balance of the business 

 of the year. Tliere was a slight respite of a 

 lew days in the car famine, local roads manag- 

 ing to rush into the valley a few lumdred 

 cars, but it did not last long aud the scarcity, 

 is again manifest. 



With one or two exceptions tlie hardwood 

 mills here are still in motion. The Hargrave 

 mill has been idle some weeks and is under- 

 going repairs. A stock of logs is being ac- 

 cumulated and the mill will start on the winter 

 run some time in January. The Flood mill has 

 been handicapped by reason of lack of cars 

 to move logs, but some are now coming in and 

 the mill will be started early in .lanuary. It 

 has a stock to cut for W. D. Young & Co. The 

 Hanson-Ward veneer plant is running with a 

 full force and is getting in stock by rail from 

 the north, mostly maple and birch. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow and Knee- 

 landJSigelow Companies* mills are running stead- 

 ily, tlie latter day and night. Frank Buell, who 

 is logging for the first named mill firm and for 

 other parties, is sending down about 100 cars of 

 saw logs every twenty-four hours, while the 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company is getting a train 

 load of logs every day. 



Operators in this territory have figured on 

 putting in a large stock of logs, as prices are 

 firm, and the outlook for next year roaattk 

 There has been considerable trouble with labor 



t'wiii;; In the scarcity of men. A large number 

 of lueu who work in tlu; woods have been taken 

 away from this region to Canada, tlie South and 

 to the Pacific coast, ^^'ages range from .$24 to 

 ,1!,"ii .1 nionlh. and it has been impossible to 

 gel enough men at these figures. Since the farm 

 work has let up and many sawmills shut down 

 there b.ave been more laboring men available, 

 but the quality of the help is not always as 

 gotid as wished. There is a little snow north 

 and as there has been some cold weather log 

 hauling is iu progress. Cutting and skidding is 

 reuiK'ied easier. In the valley there is no snow 

 aud there has not thus far this winter been a 

 ftill .if over two inches, and that only stayed on 

 the gi-our.'l a few hours. This has made it com- 

 fortaldf Lo handle lumher. as there has been no 

 riiiii ami stock is dry. 



.1 T. Hamilton started his mill in Providence. 

 Presque Isle county, last week, and is cutting 

 out a lot of hardwood stock. The Churchill 

 Lumber Company of .\li)ena is operating camps 

 on the Detroit & .Mackinac lailroad and is ship- 

 ping the logs by rail to Alpena. The Richardson 

 and Kimball com.panies of .-Vlpena will get a 

 stock also along the Mackinac road. 



The Grayling Dowel factory, which has been 

 idle several weeks, started last week, having 

 received a train ol logs, and it will be operated 

 steadily. 



The Haak Lumber Compan.\- of Hackwood is 

 putting in a stock of maple for its flooring 

 mill. 



Keys & Worboys have boui^hf the site of Mack 

 Dickinson & Co.'s sawmill at Tower and will 

 build a hardwood mill early in the spring. 



The sawmill plant and stave mill of the 

 Superior Veneer Company at Munising has shut 

 down for the season. This is a branch of the 

 Tindle & Jackson Company at Buffalo, and it 

 operates one of the largest stave and hardwood 

 plants in the state. The cause of the shutting 

 down was the inability to obtain mill hands 

 enough to keep the veneer and sawmill depart- 

 ments running to their capacity The firm will 

 put in 200,000 feet of elm logs and a lot of 

 veneer stock. 



At the annual meeting of the Saginaw Valley 

 Lumber Dealers' Association at Saginaw last 

 week James Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., was reelected president : A. C. White, 

 the basswood king of the valley, vice president : 

 L. H. Briggs, secretary, and J. D. Mershon, 

 treasurer. After the business meeting an in- 

 formal dinner was given at the East Saginaw 

 Club, .\bout twenty-five were in attendance. 



Grand Rapids. • 



Walter C. Winchester and C. C. Follmer have 

 reached Japan on their .journey around the 

 world. 



A. R. Longfellow has disposed of his interest 

 m the Longfellow & Skillman Lumber Company 

 to his associates, on account of ill health. J. 

 E. Keiter, the company's mill man, was in 

 Grand Kapids last week 



S. T, Wilkinson of Quincy, B. F. Foster of 

 Allegan and P. M. Furlong of Sault Ste. Marie 

 are equal stockholders in the Northern Land & 

 Lumber Company, recently incorporated, with 

 .$45,000 capital, at Trout lake, Chippewa county, 

 Michigan. 



F. Alberts & Sons of Muskegon will cut about 

 .■5,000,000 feet of timber in Missaukee cotmty 

 this winter. They have about one-half the cut 

 on skids already. 



The Chicago Lumber Company has closed its 

 mill at Manistique for the season. 



Thomas Munroe, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Thayer Lumber Company. .Muskegon, has 

 returned from the Battle Creek sanitarium 

 greatly benefited in health. 



The Macey-Wernicke Company of Grand Rap- 

 ids will be reorganized, aud a new company 

 formed the first of the year. ( 1. H. L. Wernicke 

 will continue as manager. 



Bright business prospects for the coming year 

 are reported by local dealers in hardwoods. 



