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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The lies Box Company, tliiougli its president. 

 D. J. Rex. has bought a large site at Boyd and 

 Locust streets in the hill district and will shortly 

 build a box factory there. 



I. F. Balsley of the J. I. M. Wilson Lumber 

 Company says that there is a stiff demand for 

 interior work. 



A suggestion from the Cheat River Lumber 

 Company is worthy of mention, namely, that 

 there should be a readjustment of prices for oak 

 timbers. Members of the firm state that the ad- 

 vance in prices in hardwoods has not been pro- 

 portionate to that in other woods, notably hem- 

 lock and yellow pine, and that the market witli 

 stocks as iow as they are now and the demand 

 increasing steadily would stand better figures for 

 oak especkilly. The Cheat River Company has 

 had more orders for good hardwood the last six 

 months than it could fill and is fortifying itself 

 by purchasing some fine timber tracts in West 

 Virginia and Kentucky. 



The Diebold Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 is making a specialty of plain and quartered oak 

 and red birch. 



I''red Katon. a very popular lumber dealer who 

 is manager of the Pleasant Run Lumber Com- 

 pany near Elkins. W. Va., was married January 

 3 to Miss Jeannette Fuller Hoyer of Titusville, 

 Pa. 



The S. W. Frazer Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company of Lynch's Station, Va., is putting out 

 one of the most artistic calendars that has 

 reached Pittsburg ofHces. 



The Empire Lumber Company, which probably 

 bandies as much maple flooring as any other 

 concern in Pittsburg, reports prices very firm 

 and that the market would apparently stand an 

 advance of $1 on maple flooring unless labor 

 troubles occur to stop building. 



The demand for good elm for hubs is increas- 

 ing steadily owing to the fact that the big elm 

 forests in this territory have been rapidly cut 

 down the last few years. Where there were 

 formerly a dozen hub mills there is now but one. 

 The scarcity is shown by the constant advertis- 

 ing to get timber. 



J. R. Wheeler & Co. are putting in a new 

 plant at Warfield, Va,, on the Seaboard Air line, 

 which will cut about 10,000,000 feet a year. 



The Coraopolis Lumber Company iuis been or- 

 ganized by H. H. Hill. J. W. Heck. C. F. Ross, 

 Frank Pearson and George E. Pearson and pro- 

 poses to do a general lumber business at Coraopo- 

 lis, twenty miles below Pittsburg on the Ohio 

 river. 



The plant of the Diebold Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company in Wabash avenue was dam- 

 aged by Are January 4. The blaze was started 

 in the dry kiln. This building was two stories 

 high and was soon consumed. The flames spread 

 to the store room, where a large quantity of 

 valuable lumber was stored. This, too, was de- 

 stroyed. The main building of the plant is a 

 brick structure and was saved by hard work. 



C. H. Merriman of Burton Station, Ohio, has 

 purchased a large tract of maple and hardwood 

 timber In Portage county forty miles east of 

 Cleveland, and will proceed at once to cut oft the 

 lumber. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company will 

 shortly move one of Its mills from Hastings, 

 Forest county, Pa., to a point near .Tacksonburg, 

 W. Va., where the company will cut another sec- 

 tion of Its big timber tract. Mr. Hastings is 

 spending the holidays In Pittsburg, having di- 

 vided bis time the last six months between this 

 city and Nova Scotia, where the Immense opera- 

 tions of the Davison Lumber Company are being 

 pushed ahead rapidly. 



The freight congestion in the Pittsburg district 

 Is very much relieved. Both the Pennsylvania 

 and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads have made 

 strenuous elTorts to get a larger supply of cars 

 In motion for the wholesalers and have succeed- 

 ed In helping them very materially since Decem- 

 ber 1. It Is expected that now the holiday trade 



is over and the wheat has been moved there will 

 be more cars on all lines. 



The Nicola Brothers Company is inclined to 

 take a very conservative view of the lumber 

 situation just now. E. C. Brainerd, hardwood 

 manager, is not at all alarmed at the present 

 boom in lumber, but thinks that a due amount 

 of caution among the wholesalers may prevent 

 possibly a break in prices or a let-up in demand. 



.1. B. Flint of Flint, Erviug & Stoner has just 

 returned from a trip through Indiana. R. H. 

 Stoner of the same firm has gone to the North- 

 west on business. This firm made three very 

 large purchases of lumber early in the year 1905, 

 which enabled it to do a land ofllce business the 

 past three months at extremely satisfactory 

 I)rices. 



Buffalo. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report a fine stock of black 

 ash, which the firm has for a long time made 

 one of Its specialties. 



The city house-supply business of G. Ellas & 

 r.ro. is doing much better this winter than was 

 expected. For the last two years the first few 

 weeks cf winter were so cold and snowy that 

 building was suspended at once. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumlier Company is 

 getting some good three-inch elm from Ohio. 

 which appears to sell better than thinner cuts. 

 The company keeps an agent in that state look- 

 ing after lumber. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is getting 

 out a large supply of logs on its new tract in the 

 St. Lawrence district and will make a fine show- 

 ing In that trade next season. Angus McLean 

 looks after it for the most part. 



Scatcherd & Son are making all possible effort 

 to increase both the immediate log supply and 

 the timber holdings in the Memphis district, al- 

 though the showing is not very large owing to 

 bad weather. 



F. W. Vetter, who lately returned from the 

 Southwest, reports much delay in lumbering there 

 on account of rain. The Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany's office here will be kept open through the 

 winter, as it has considerable lumber to dis- 

 pose of. 



0. E. Yeager, who has always made a specialty 

 of poplar, has a supply of extra wide for spe- 

 cial customers, some of it running thirty-seven 

 inches. He finds the poplar trade doing very 

 well, with prices likel.v to advance soon. 



1. N. Stewart & Brother are continuing to 

 add walnut to their cherry specialty and some- 

 how know where to find both woods after the 

 trade generally had given them up as regular 

 supplies. 



A. Miller is getting some good prices for three- 

 inch basswood, which seems to move more freely 

 than thinner cuts, .\ddltlons to the stock of oak. 

 poplar and chestnut are coming up from West 

 Virginia. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. are going further south 

 right along for hardwood lumber. Their already 

 good assortment here will be considerably in- 

 creased from the purchases of Mr. Knox, who 

 Is now in the South. 



Saginaw Valley. 



A number of hardwood manufacturers have 

 contracted for large blocks of lumber to be cut. 

 The S. h. Eastman Flooring Company has bought 

 10,000,000 feet of maple from the Kneelnnd, 

 Bucl! & Blgelow Company and Knepland-Blgelow 

 Company, all of which Is to be cut at the mills 

 of the two concerns at Bay City. These two 

 companies have also sold 5,000,000 feet of mixed 

 hardwood lumber yet to be sawed to other par- 

 ties. The Kneeland-Blgelow Company's mill 

 manufactured i).];;.3,029 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last year, and at the close of the year had on 

 hand 3,022, 7!)(i feet. 



The H. M. Loud Sons' Company of Au Sable 

 has purchased the sawmill and 12,000 acres of 

 hardwood timber land in Presque Isle county of 

 Paul Hoeft of Rogers City. The latter will op- 

 crate the mill this season cutting out a stock of 



logs not included in the deal. The consideration 

 is reported to be $150,000. Tlie timber on the 

 lands is of exceptionally good quality. 



A crew of thirty-five men left Bay City Friday 

 for Stearns, Ky., where they are to be employed 

 by a hardwood lumbering concern. 



Men are now quite plentiful for work in the 

 woods and $26 is the average wage. The excel- 

 lent prices for lumber have given an impetus to 

 logging operations in the northeastern part of 

 the state and the outiiut will be as large as 

 conditions will permit. .V great many small 

 lots of logs are being put in by farmers and 

 small Jobbers which are either contracted for 

 by large firms or arc put on the market, and 

 logs bring a good price and ready sale. Buyers 

 are all the winter scouring the logging district 

 for stock. 



The new hardwood sawmill of Cook. Curtis & 

 Miller at Grand Marais befean sawing the week 

 before Christmas. It has a fifteen year cut In 

 sight. 



A. G. Wall, formerly of Wall & Webber of 

 Saginaw, is looking after the outside operations 

 of the Chicot Lumber Company, a big hardwood 

 concern at Bllssville, Ark. 



The manufacturers of the valley all report an 

 exceptionally prosperous year just closed and 

 predict more active times for 1906. W. D. Young 

 & Co. manufactured 17,344,3.'i5 feet of hardwood 

 last year and have 15.000,000 feet on hand; the 

 firm expects to manufacture as much this year, 

 and is putting in 15.000.000 feet of logs. The 

 Campbell-Brown Lumber Company manufactured 

 4,248,000 feet, and has 1,800,0(10 feet on hand : 

 S. F. Derry & Co., 3.775,000 feet, with 1,000,000 

 feet now on hand. They started their mill at 

 Ocqueoc last Friday and the Millersburg mill 

 begins sawing on Monday. E. C. Hargrave 

 leached a total of 3,100,000 feet last year, and 

 has 1.500.000 feet on hand. The Hargrave mill 

 is being repaired and will start on a winter 

 run in a few days. The Gale Lumber Company 

 at West Branch manufactured 4,725.000 feel of 

 hardwood lumber last year and has 2.849,000 

 feet on hand ; the Ottawa Hardwood Company 

 at East Tawas manufactured 1,(100,000 feet and 

 has 225,000 feet on hand ; the Hichardson Lum- 

 ber Company, Alpena, 500,000, and F. W. Gil- 

 christ of the same place 6,008,000 feet, with 

 2,869,000 feet on hand. 



Grand Bapids. 



The Thomas McBride Lumber Company of this 

 city has nearly completed its mill at Wexford. 

 The company has over 4.000.0U0 feet of hard- 

 wood engaged, a large sliare of which is now 

 skidded in the woods. 



Anderson & Swanslon of Cadillac have bought 

 the Daniel Dake mill and timber at Wexford and 

 will put in a big stock of logs for next summer's 

 cut. The mill will be rebuilt and operations 

 started In the spring. 



The Forestry Commission, is mailing broadcast 

 through the state an attractive brochure, entitled, 

 "The Advance Movement in Michigan Forestry." 

 The publication Includes a report of the initial 

 meeting of the association in (irand Rapids, the 

 opinion of prominent Michigan men on the move- 

 ment and the annual report of Fllibei't Roth, 

 .state forest warden. The commission Invites 

 correspondence and otters assistance to either 

 corporations or Individuals who contemplate ex- 

 perimenting in forestry or the planting of large 

 areas of cheap lands to forest trees, having In 

 view commercial results. 



The local custom house recently cleared seven- 

 ty-Hve mahogany logs for the Stow & Davis 

 Table Company. Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 

 and the Neisoti-Malter Furniture Company. 



The Engel Land & Lumber Company has put In 

 a side track at lis new yards in this city and an 

 ofllce building and sheds will be erected In the 

 spring. 



The state inheritance tax on tlic estate of 

 Charles H. Ilackley of Muskegon has been fixed 

 upon as $60,480.19. 



