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HARDWOOD RECORD 



at its Chicago plant. Maple flooring is also In 

 •jood demand with this firm from its Pittsburg 

 customers. Mr. Cantrell has spent considerable 

 time lately in Phlladelpbla, Baltimore and Wash- 

 ington and finds market conditions on the whole 

 satisfactory. He notes that a feature o£ the 

 hardwood trade is the big orders that are being 

 placed for car material both by the railroad and 

 street railway companies. This is true of the 

 manufacturers in the Pittsburg district who 

 have ordered more hardwood car stuff the last 

 six months than in the two year.* previous, tin- 

 Pressed Steel Car Company alone having placed 

 orders for millions of feet to be delivered to its 

 plants at McKees P.ocks and Butler. Pa. 



.T. L. Dumm & Son have moved their mill 

 from Spangler, Pa., to Gerwig's Siding. W. Va., 

 which is on a branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio 

 railroad. There it will cut out quite a tract of 

 oak and hemlock. 



W. P. Craig of William Whitmer & Sons, In- 

 corporated, has gone South to look over the 

 firm's big operations. The firm has been ship 

 ping a large amount of lumber to the Pittsburg 

 district lately from Menominee and other points 

 in Northern Michigan but this will be stopped 

 now until navigation is opened again. 



Flint. Ivrving & Stoner have organized the 

 Columbia Lumber Company of Cleartield. Pa. 

 The purpose of the new company, which will 

 have a capital of ST.I.ono. is to make it possible 

 to conduct operations in Clearfield, Cambria and 

 Indiana counties on a much larger scale than 

 heretofore. Following are the officers of the 

 Columbia company : President, n. A. Tompkins 

 of Clearfield : vice president. .1. B. Flint. IMtts- 

 burg ; secretary, E. H. Stoner. Pittsburg ; treas- 

 urer. Grant II. Thompson of Clearfield. The 

 company takes over all the timber holdings of 

 Tompkins and Thompson and their mills includ- 

 ing a good plant at New Millport and several 

 portable mills. The timber includes a consider 

 able amount of fine oak and chestnut in additiou 

 to large quantities of hemlock. It will be cut 

 and shipped as fast as possible over the New 

 York Central railroad. 



It has been fully ten years since the hub 

 cutting boom on the Western Reserve broke. 

 During the early nineties and for five years 

 previous there were hub mills by the dozen In 

 Trumbull, Ashtabula and Mahoning and the lioi- 

 dcr counties of Pennsylvania. During the last 

 ten years the Industry has dwindled down to 

 pratically nothing in these counties chieHy. as it 

 was supposed, for want of timber. This year, 

 however, a new plant has been established by 

 S. C. Reld at Warren, O.. the county seat of 

 Trumbull county, fifteen miles west of the Penn- 

 yylvania state line, which promises to make 

 farmers glad for many months. 



Mr. Rcid was a very successful hub manu- 

 facturer at Bluffton, Ind., until the lack of 

 timber forced him to move. By February 1 the 

 mill will 1)6 in operation and by that time he ex- 

 pects to have on hand 60,000 feet of timber, 

 lie has contracted for enough more to keep a 

 force of at least thirty men working steadily 

 till June ]. Mr. Reld has leased his property 

 for ten years and expects to be able to deliver 

 3,000 hubs a day. These will range In size from 

 •.;%\r, inches to 8x18 inches. lie will use only 

 second growth body elm which does not check 

 or split easily. In addition to the mill proper 

 .Mr. Reld has a warehouse for drying which will 

 store 400.000 hnbs. Here the hubs stay twelve 

 months till they are thoroughly dried and 

 shipped to the large wheel factories where they 

 have to undergo four months' more treatment 

 before being shaped and finished. 



The Nicola Brothers Company lost one of Its 

 brightest minds and the Pittsburg and Cleveland 

 lumber rrnlernltles lost one of their most popu- 

 lar members by the death of Will Wright 

 Nicola. ,Ian. 10. in Cleveland. Mr. Nicola was 

 born In Cleveland, November 16, 1865. When 

 eighteen years old, after passing through the 

 city acjiools. he entered the employ of the 

 Woodi»-.lenks Lumber Company as a tally boy. 



In a short time he was promoted to in- 

 spector for his company on the docks. After 

 a few years with this concern Mr. Nicola spent 

 a year in learning the grading of lumber espe- 

 cially hardwoods and yellow pine, in which he 

 was a recognized expert. N^Tien the Nicola & 

 Stone Lumber Company of Cleveland was formed 

 Mr. Nicola was taken on as a traveling sales- 

 man in ISSG, and he spent the next five years 

 in the middle west where he learned every 

 detail of the retail trade. In 1S9S he was 

 elected vice president of the Nicola & Stone 

 Lumber Company and a few years later sold 

 bis interest to become a member of the Nicola 

 Brothers Company of Pittsburg which had been 

 formed by F. F. Nicola in 1885 as Nicola 

 Brothers. Mr. Nicola had direct charge of the 

 Cleveland end of the company's business. He 

 was a prominent club man, a Mason and was 

 well known in the social circles of both Cleve- 

 land and Pittsburg. 



Buffalo. 



Tlu' linrdwoocl dealers and uUicr UuH'uIo 

 lumbermen took in the New York automobile 

 show on the week of the loth. The list included 

 .1. B. Wall, M. M, Wall, I. N. Stewart, H. A. 

 Stewart, A. Miller, L. P. Graves, C. W. Betts, 

 O. E, Yeager and F. M. Sullivan. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report the prettiest lot of 

 live-quarter birch that they have had in a long 

 lime; also a host of Washington fir on the 

 way to fill a big order. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 a yard full of oak, and a good showing in the 

 gum trade, not to mention a cut of fine Penn- 

 sylvania maple coming this way. 



Messrs. Vetter and Janes are both south, but 

 ibc Empire office is making a good record, as 

 there is still im a.ssortment ol hardwoods in 

 stock there, 



O. E. Yeager has a lot of chestnut and some 

 oak coming in now. finding that they are the 

 most active and satisfactory on the general hard- 

 wood list. 



II. A. Stew.-iii lias been south some time, bag- 

 ging cherry luinLer for I. N. Stewart & Bro. The 

 Buffalo yard has a large stock of it in assort- 

 ment and reports good sales. 



(i, Ellas & Bro. have some tupelo gum for 

 inside finish, which is excellent stuff and should 

 move rapidly. A stock of sycamore has also 

 come in, lliough the wood has become very scari'c 

 of late. 



It is a bard thing to do, tnit A. .Miller is able 

 to report the carrying of a good stock of cherry 

 along with bis all-round stock of hardwood 

 lumber, lie reports a better movement of bass 

 wood lately. 



When .1. 1". Knox is back from his soutliorn 

 trip he will be able to herald a lot of oak and 

 other hardw<iods coming this way for the firm 

 • it Beyer, Knox & Co., which has a good stock 

 of general liardwoods in yard now. 



J. N. Scatcherd has abo\it given up the Idea 

 of buying southern oak lands of late, as the ask- 

 ing price Is away out of line with the prices of 

 lumber, which he considers too low. 



A. W. Kreiuheder is south In quest of (-ak, 

 chestnut and the like lor Ihe Standard IlardwiHul 

 Lumber Company, wllb new mills for eullliig It 

 In the reckoning. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports 

 oak and poplar as lis long suit, with the Cana- 

 dian mills innnlug strong on white cedar shin- 

 gles tor the Eastern trade. 



Buffalo and Tonawanda lumbermen will give 

 a smoker to the State Retail Association on 

 Feb. 0. The meeting of Ibis association will i>e 

 bold In llnffalo I'eh. (I and 7. 



Detroit, 



The McClnre Lumber Conqiany has been clos 

 Ing out Its Detroit stocks as rapidly as possible 

 and will soon devote Its whole attention to car- 

 load shipments from Its southern plant. 



Hrownlee Hi Company are operating extensive, 

 iv In Mlcblgan hardwoods at their River Rouge 



yard and, while they are shipping right aloug. 

 state that there is no boom in prices of any 

 of the northern woods. 



The Dennis & Smith Lumber Company is push- 

 ing the sale of oak, poplar and cypress, and 

 report an active business at the Detroit yard. 



A number of northern Michigan manufactur- 

 ers, noting the boom in vvliite, Norway and yel 

 low pine, hemlock and other structural woods, 

 are endeavoring to bring about an improvement 

 in hardwood conditions. To Ibis end a meet- 

 ing was held iu Detroit during the past week, 

 but nothing definite was acAompiished. 



W. P.. Ransom, manager of the Big Bay 

 Lumber Company, Big Bay, was a recent De- 

 ti'Olt visitor. 



C. II. Dutton of the Worcester Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chassell, Mich., was another recent vis- 

 itor. He stated that manufacturers in bis sec- 

 tion are having great difliculty owing to the 

 mild weather which leaves a soft bottom under 

 the snow. 



riie mill of the Baraga Lumber Company. 

 Baraga, .Mich., will not be operated the coming 

 season. 



The estate of Tlios. Nester, with offices in 

 Detroit and mills at Baraga and Duluth, will 

 cut at Baraga during tlie winter a quantity of 

 hardwoods, especially beech and maple. 



Saginaw Valley. 



The hardwood lumber output of t 

 river mills last .year makes a very 

 ing. The cut of the respective firms 



S.4GINAW. 



Feet. 

 I'.liss & Van .\uken 4,485,09t; 



U\Y CITY. 



W. D. Young & Co. .... . .17,344,35.-. 



Kneeland, Uuell & Bige- 



Com- 



7,119,0.'>ii 



low Co. 

 Kneeland - Bigelow 



panv 9,123,9211 



Tohn J. Flood 3,800.000 



Campbell - Brown Lumber 



ber Company 4,24S.00ii 



E. C. Hargrave 3.100,000 



S. (i. M. Gates 1,500,000 



he Saginaw 

 good show- 

 was : 



On Hand. 

 2,416,490 



1,-1,000.000 



2,500,000 



.■1.022.796 

 800,000 



1,800,000 

 1,500,000 



Total 50,720.430 27,039.202 



The outlook for the present year as regards 

 tlie output is that it will exceed that of last 

 year, since jirices are good and the demand Is 

 expected to hold up better, if anything, tlinn It 

 did last season. 



Bliss & Vaa .4uken expect to manufacture 

 i;, 000,000 feet of liardwood lumber this year. 

 The logs are furnished by the Wylle & BucII 

 Lumber Company under contract. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company and Kneeland, 

 P.ttell & Bigelow Company, operaling two mills 

 at Bay City, expect to cut over 20.iiiiii.(i00 feet 

 of hardwood lumber, and have contracted for 

 delivery during the year 15.000.000 feet, of 

 wiilch 10,000,000 feet in one block of maple 

 goes to the Eastman Flooring Company. 



W. D. Young & Co. will cut as much this 

 year as last, and the plant is now running stead- 

 ily. The firm always carries a large quantity 

 of lumber In stock and has experienced a very 

 satisfactory trade the last year. 



The i:'State of L. Cornwell of Sa'iinaw operates 

 a sawnilll at Wolverine and manufactured 1,500,- 

 1100 feet of liardwood lumber last sea.sou. The 

 mill will cut out about li.OOO.iioo feet this 

 year. 



The Michigan Central Railroad hauled on Us 

 Mackinaw division last year about 70.000,000 

 feel ol' hardwood logs, besides a large quantity 

 of mnnufactured lumber. 



The Gale Lumber Company at West Brnncb 

 Is putting in 2.000,000 feet of logs. It is ex- 

 pected the mill of this company will be moved 

 In the near future to upper Michigan, where 

 Mr. Gale and other valley luiubermeii have 

 bought a large tract of timber. 



The .\thens Hardwood Lnmher Conipaiiy of 

 Battle Creek has filed articles of Incorporation, 

 with a capitalization of .$50,000. 



The Prescott-Mlller Company, operating a mill 

 at Rose City, manufnctured I.Oilii.oiio feel of 



