HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Lineban Lumber Company Is baring a 

 fine month's trade in hardwoods. Both the 

 Linehans predict higher prices for some hard- 

 woods before summer, but they are not looking 

 for any sensational advances at present, as they 

 regard the condition of the market as fairly sat- 

 isfactory, barring the fact that stocks are very 

 hard to get. 



George W. Nicola of the Nicola Brothers Com- 

 pany is back from his European wedding trip 

 in which he and his bride traveled 1,600 miles. 

 Last week he spent with his brother, F. F. 

 Nicola, at Camden, S. C, and in the southern 

 mills. The company's affairs at Cleveland are 

 being looked after by O. P. Nicola and E. C. 

 Bralnerd of this city. The latter reports a 

 strong market for hardwood. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber Com- 

 pany has spent most of his time since January 1 

 at the company's plant at Bayard, W. Va., where 

 40.000 feet a day is being cut. The snow and 

 cold weather has enabled the company to hire a 

 lot of farmers to haul logs so that they now 

 have a large stock of hardwoods cutting. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company is a new whole- 

 sale lumber firm with offices in the House build- 

 ing. F. C. Hoflfman. formerly of the A. M. Tur- 

 ner Lumber Company, and C. L. Wlckensham, 

 who was Identified with the H. C. Frlck interests 

 for years, are the members. 



The Fort Pitt Lumber Company has been 

 chartered In Delaware, the incorporators being 

 C. F. Johnston, H. M. Boas and John G. Evans. 

 The capital stock is $75,000 and the concern will 

 develop lumber Interests on lands leased in 

 South Carolina. Sawmills will be built and the 

 product marketed. The nominal members are 

 attorneys In this city and Philadelphia. 



There Is less talk of a coal miners' strike 

 this week — that is, of general strike^ — and lum- 

 bermen are somewhat relieved. Most of them 

 fear still that there will be a strike of consid- 

 erable proportions, but are using all their Influ- 

 ence to avert even this calamity, for they know 

 that It would be very disastrous to the lumber 

 trade as well as other business Interests of this 

 community especially, which is In the heart of 

 the coal and iron territory. 



The Lumbermen's Bowling League has com- 

 pleted its season. The Nicola Brothers team 

 won the championship with 37 games won and 

 only five lost. President Garllng has compiled 

 the official averages which show that E. C. Braln- 

 erd of the Nicola Brothers Company Is the Indi- 

 vidual champion. R. N. Ervlng of Flint, Erv- 

 ing & Stoner beat him, but was not entitled to 

 the championship because he had not taken part 

 in two-thirds of the games scheduled. 



Ben C. Keator of Fair & Keator is making an 

 extended stay in Chicago and the Northwest. 

 His firm Is having a brisk February trade and 

 looks for some very nice business as soon as the 

 weather opens up. 



Chestnut continues to figure strongly In the 

 trade of the Cheat River Lumber Company, and 

 it has lately strengthened itself by more pur- 

 chases In Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. 

 For good hardwood the officials say they can 

 get their own prices nowadays. 



Buffalo. 



The condolences of the Haedwood Record are 

 added to those of the host of friends of Thomas 

 H. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany over the death of his wife, which occurred 

 on Feb. 7. It is a sad blow to befall the big and 

 big-hearted fellow. 



The reorganization of the Buffalo Maple 

 Flooring Company, with James A. White to 

 continue as manager with a good part of the 

 stock in his own name, is announced. F. H. 

 Loud, who Is to be secretary of the company, 

 also holds a block of stock; the Kelley Lumber 

 & Shingle Company of Michigan owns the rest. 



L N. Stewart & Bro. are paying much atten- 

 tion to oak, while not In any way neglecting 



their cherry specialty. H. A. Stewart is in 

 ■West Virginia much of the time now, shipping 

 stock to customers direct. 



T. Sullivan & Co. keep the road from the far 

 Northwest hot with shipments of Washington 

 fir and spruce this way and also hold a good 

 stock of them at the home yard, both dressed 

 and rough. 



O. E. Yeager manages to pick up a supply of 

 good oak and ash in Ohio yet and keeps an 

 assortment of it in yard in spite of the growing 

 scarcity of this sort of lumber. 



The mills on the St. Lawrence in which the 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company is interested 

 are in the frozen belt, but shingles are turned 

 out in winter, and Angus McLean Is there a 

 great part of his time of late. 



The return of J. F. Knox from his southern 

 trip has Increased the already good showing of 

 oak and other hardwoods on the yard of 

 Beyer. Knox & Co. 



A. Miller finds that the market for basswood 

 is better than it was and as his surplus of 

 that wood is disappearing he is now buying it 

 again, on the assurance that it is already doing 

 better than formerly. 



J. N. Scatcherd has lately been off on a trip 

 down the coast. Logs for the Memphis mills 

 are as hard to keep m supply as ever, yet 

 prices of the lumber do not go up as they 

 should. 



The Empire Lumber Company still reports 

 a lot of logs selling from its Arkansas tract. 

 With F. W. Vetter in North Carolina this win- 

 ter, H. S. Jaynes has to look after that trade 

 as well as the Buffalo office. 



G. Ellas & Bro. still make a specialty of 

 southern pine, with heavy timber leading. The 

 Buffalo yard is carrying a big stock this win- 

 ter, a lot of Slichigan hemlock being among 

 the good things in the list. 



The yard of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is, as usual, pretty full of oak, which 

 comes in a steady stream from the South. 

 Some good sales of gum and cottonwood of 

 late are also reported. 



A. W. Kreinheder has a new venture on 

 southern oak and chestnut timber up his sleeve 

 since returning from his last trip south 

 Good business is reported at the office of the 

 Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 



Detroit. 



F. E. Creelman, manager of the Creelman 

 Lumber Company, of Cairo, 111., the millionaire 

 hardwood lumberman, who wrecked the Bank 

 of America of Chicago, was formerly a grocery 

 clerk In Tpsilantl, Mich. Guy Creelman of De- 

 troit is his brother. 



Brownlee & Co. report an active New York 

 and New England trade in thick maple, soft 

 elm, especially 2 inch and 3 inch, and brown 

 ash. 



Vinton & Co. has the contract for the Interior 

 finishing of the new Partridge and Blackwell 

 store, which is to cover half a city block. 

 Birch wood will probably be used. 



The Russell Wheel Foundry Company is man- 

 ufacturing and selling many logging cars since 

 the first of the year. The company has just 

 shipped 275 general logging cars to a firm In 

 northern Minnesota ; 100 cars to West Virginia, 

 where many small mills for spruce and oak 

 lumber are being erected, and about 20 cars to 

 Kentucky, where there is lots of hard oak and 

 chestnut, the company Is putting out a 60,000 

 to 70,000 pounds capacity car, with 33 Inch 

 wheels and automatic coupler. C. W. Russell 

 says the tendency is to build much larger cars 

 than formerly. The Russell company is putting 

 out a new patented trip-stake — or spike for its 

 cars, which operates opposite the loading side, 

 thus reducing the dangerous features of the 

 old system of having a trip stake on the load- 

 ing side. 



Saginaw 'Valley. 



The flooring business has improved greatly 

 during the past few weeks. W. D. Young says 

 his firm Is running day and night and expe- 

 riences no difficulty in selling all the stuff put 

 out, and besides it is stocking the Flood mill. 

 W. D. Young & Co. buy some logs and are 

 operating five camps of their own. 



It has been cold the last two weeks and con- 

 ditions for handling saw logs are fine. Operat- 

 ors are making the most of it and some are run- 

 ning day and night. 



Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company has closed 

 a deal for 15,000,000 feet of timber adjacent 

 to one of Its tracts north, and between the two 

 firms now has considerably over 200,000,000 

 feet. They figure on a cut of 40,000,000 feet an- 

 nually for ten years, besides stocking the Bliss & 

 Van Auken plant with 8,000,000 feet annually 

 for eight or ten years. 



The demand for hardwood timber has been 

 so active that In the lower peninsula it is get- 

 ting Into the hands of a comparatively few large 

 firms. Ten years ago any quantity of hardwood 

 timber could have been picked up at $5 and 

 $10 an acre that is now held at $35 and $40. 

 Among the largest holders in the lower part of 

 the state are the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow 

 Company, Wylie & Buell Lumber Company, 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company, Sailing, Hanson & 

 Co., Johannesburg Manufacturing Company, W. 

 H. White Company and F. W. Gilchrist. 



The estate of L. Cornwell of Saginaw is put- 

 ting in about 8,000,000 feet, mostly hardwood, 

 to be manufactured at Its mill at Wolverine. 



The maple flooring business in Michigan Is 

 developing rapidly. Aside from the firms of 

 Bliss & Van Auken, W. D. Young & Co., and the 

 Eastman Flooring Company on the Saginaw 

 River, the Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company 

 erected a new plant at Grayling last season 

 with a capacity of 12,000,000. feet. Sailing, 

 Hanson & Co. furnish 12,000,000 feet of stock 

 annually to the Thomas Forman Company at 

 Detroit. The W. H. White Company at Boyne 

 City erected a large plant last season, and the 

 Johannesburg Manufacturing Company expects to 

 erect an up-to-date flooring plant this year. F. 

 W. Gilchrist Is turning out a lot of maple 

 flooring at Alpena, and the Haak Lumber Com- 

 pany operates a small plant at Haakwood. 



The Gilchrist sawmill at Alpena has been 

 getting a train load of hardwood logs a day, 

 mostly maple, for some time past. The logs 

 are cut on land owned by F. W. Gilchrist on the 

 line of the Detroit & Mackinac, north of Alpena 



Woodworth & O'Malley of Bay City will bring 

 4,000,000 feet of hardwood logs to Bay City 

 from near St. Ignace, which will be manufac- 

 tured at the Campbell-Brown Lumber Company's 

 mill. 



The .sawmill of the Embury-Martin Lumber 

 Company- at Cheboygan started sawing for the 

 winter last week cutting hardwood lumber. 



The W. H. White Company of Boyne City, pro- 

 moters of the railroad from Boyne City to Gay- 

 lord, which Is to be extended to Alpena, now 

 owns 80,000 acres of hardwood timber and is 

 picking up every available tract along the line 

 of the road. 



D. M. Kneeland of the Kneeland-Buell & 

 Blgelcw concerns has only recently recovered 

 from a severe siege of typhoid fever and has 

 gone to California to recuperate. 



P. E. Bousfield, head of the big woodenware 

 plant of Bousfield & Co. at Bay City, has gone 

 to Europe on a pleasure trip. He will be absent 

 four months. 



Grand Bapids. 



O. H. L. Wernicke, general manager of the 

 Macey-Wernicke Company, has been elected 

 president of the Lakeside Club. Charles E. 

 Belknap of the Belknap Wagon Company Is 

 the new vice president of that organization. 



Kent county now has enrolled more than 200 

 members of the Michigan Forestry Association, 

 and a local organization has been formed wltli 



