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HARDWOOD RECORD 



total capacity of its plants tliere up to 100,000 

 tVt't a day. Recently the company loaded a cat" 

 Willi poplai- lor wliicb it received $100 per tliou- 

 saiul. The lumber was cut 32 feet long and 10 

 inches wide and was for the use of a large dis- 

 tillery. 



Surveys are being talicu for a branch railroad 

 to reach from the Brookville branch of the 

 I'ennsylvauia railroad at Brookville, Pa., to the 

 timber tract formerly owned by the Marvin 

 Itulofson heirs in Clarion county. I'ennsylvania. 

 which was recently bought by A. W. Cook of 

 Hrookvillc. The new road will be twenty miles 

 long and will make it possible to bring the logs 

 from this big tract, which is estimated to cut 

 ."iO,000,000 feet of lumber, to Mr. Cook's mill at 

 lU'ookville for sawing. 



The Cheat liiver Lumber Company is now lo- 

 lated at 22-M Farmers' Bank' building, where 

 it has a suite of live offices. It. K. Chapin of 

 the company has been in the East for two weeks 

 looking after the company's interests. Its trade 

 in chestnut and oak is first-class in every respect 

 and It sees nothing ahead but an era of high 

 prices for good hardwood lumber. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As 

 sociation has elected these oHicers for this year ; 

 I'resident, .1. L. Lytic of Curll & Lytic ; vice 

 president. Alexander Willson of Willson Broth- 

 ers; secretary and treasurer, J. G. Christe of the 

 Interior Lumber Company. The association now 

 has twenty-two members with a good waiting 

 list of applicants from representative wholesale 

 tirms in (Jreater Pittsburg. 



O. II. Ucctanus. Vicegerent Snark of western 

 Pennsylvania, will hold a concatenation of Hoo- 

 lloo at Uotel Henry, Pittsburg, on the evening of 

 March 30. 



BttSalO. 



Buffalo dealers are preparing tu attend the 

 furthcoming Memphis convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. Present pros- 

 pects indicate a largo representation from this 

 city. 



A. J. Ellas is tlie active head of the ilelegatiim 

 in the interest of South Buffalo Hood abatement 

 to make a second trip to Albany this week. The 

 lumber interest is a unit in favor of a ship 

 1 anal, he says. 



A. Miller reports that letters from his hard- 

 wood lumber buyers in Tennessee now contain 

 spring flowers, while one of his men in from 

 Canada has his face frozen, so far-reaching are 

 the Miller interests. 



Angus McLean was scarcely back from his 

 second round of the southern and southwestern 

 mills of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company this 

 winter, before he was off to Canada again to 

 keep up the close connection at Gaspe. 



The effort of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company to increase its timber holdings in the 

 South is to be furthered by the present trip of 

 A. W. Krelnheder to Tennessee, where he has 

 some good tracts in view. 



11. S. Janes of the Empire Lumber Company 

 Is in Arkansas, looking after oak and cypress 

 lumber. Some logs arc still sold, but a mill 

 has been secured, so that there is lumber also 

 on the sales list. 



U. A. Stewart dug out a lot of oak, chestnut 

 and cherry on his last visit to West Virginia. 

 and Is ready for another visit there as soon as 

 the firm Is In need of a further supply. Business 

 is good. 



Birch from Canada Is one of the hardwoods 

 that O. i;. Yeager manages to keep In sight right 

 along. Uc Is of the opionon that the advance In 

 poplar will help hasswood soon. 



J. B. Wall has been suffering from lameness 

 somewhat of late, but Is not badly off. The 

 Buffalo Hardwood Company Is of the opinion 

 that we must go back again to oak, as chestnut 

 has given out .o completely. 



At Its annual meeting this mouth the Buffalo 

 Lumber E.xchange elected O. E. Vcnger, presi- 

 dent ; James Kenton, vice president, and Knowl- 

 ton Mixer, accrelary and treasurer. M. S. Burns 



and James Fenton were made a committee to at- 

 tend the flood bill hearing in Albany. 



When J. I'. Knox returns from his trip south 

 he is expected to have a long list of general 

 hardwoods for the yard and general business of 

 Beyer, Knox & Co. He has been south much 

 of the winter. 



J. N. Scatcherd is a busy man those days 

 as he is sole head of the oflice, while Manager 

 Hopkins is in Cuba, as well as serving on the 

 jury. 



When T. Sullivan & Co. get their second stor- 

 age shed up they will be by far the best equipped 

 concern for handling Washington lir in this sec- 

 tion — which means that their trade in fir is 

 large and increasing. 



Saginaw 'Valley. 



What is known as northeastern Michigan, thai 

 portion of the lower peninsula lying north iil' 

 Saginaw river, stretcliiug along the Lake Huron 

 shore and traversed by the Michigan Central. 

 Mackinaw divi.^ion and Detroit & Mackinac rail- 

 roads, has always been a large lumber producer. 

 It has not only fed numerous sawmills along the 

 shoi-e and Hues of railrnail. liut it has furnished 

 a large portion of the twenty-four billion feet of 

 iuinber that has been manufactured liy the Sag- 

 inaw river sawmills in the last iifty-six years. 

 While it no longer holds the palm as a pine 

 ])roducer it contains vast areas of the finest 

 hardwood timber, and is being cut off every 

 year, while stumpage values have gi'eatly in- 

 creased. A few years ago good timber land in 

 this territory could be bought at $3 to .$7 an 

 acre. An old lumberman at Cheboygan said 

 the other day that a few years ago he was 

 offered a fine hardwood tract at $10 an acre, 

 but he was afraid to tackle it at that price. 

 .Subsequently he paid .$2'2 an acre for the same 

 timber and resold it at $37. And the purchaser 

 at the latter tigure regarded it as an excellonl. 

 investment. 



The mills of Bliss & Van AuUen. W. D. Youug 

 & Co.. Campbell-Brown Lumber Comi)any, J. J. 

 I'lood, Kneeland-Bigelow Company, and Knee- 

 land, Buell & Bigelow Company are running 

 steadily. The Kneeland-Iligclow mill is run 

 ning day and night and the other mill in which 

 the firm is intere?,ted wouhl also be opcrateil 

 nights if logs could be brought along fast enough 

 These two firms are getting fifty carloads ol' 

 logs every twenty-four Iiours. A good deal of 

 the stock cut by these mills has already been 

 sold. W. D. Young & Co. arc also running 

 day and night and bringing in logs by rail. 

 This firm puts about seventy per cent of its 

 hardwood stoci^ into nmple flooring and the re- 

 mainder goes into hardwood lumber. It manu- 

 factures some oak, as now and then an oak 

 tree Is found up north where this company is 

 getting its timber supply. Mr. Young expresses 

 himself as well pleased with business conditions. 



The Kimball Lumber Company's sawmill at 

 .Mpena is sawing hardwood lumber, the mill hav- 

 ing started some time ago. Alpena Is becoming 

 quite an extensive hardwood manufacturing 

 point. 



Bliss & Van Auken are calculating to manu- 

 facture fully 0,000,000 feet of hardwood this 

 season, mostly maple, which will go into fioor- 

 ing. This concern has built up an enviable repu- 

 tation for Its brand of flooring and It has always 

 found a ready market. 



Recently J. W. McGraw of Bay City bought 

 3,000 acres of hardwood timber land from the 

 state In Oscoda county. He will put In a band 

 mill of about 30,000 to to. 000 feet dally capac 

 Ity and convert the stock into lumber. The tim- 

 ber Is maple, beech, basswood and elm, with 

 some ash, and It Is of flue quality. .Mr. McGraw 

 Is also cutting about I.OIIO.OOO feet of hardwond 

 limber on another tract on the Rose City division 

 of the Detroit >V .Mackinac railroad, the lumber 

 coming to Day City by rail. 



Bcntly & Co. have moved their sawmill from 

 Bentlcy, fjladwin county, to An Grca, .\renac 

 county, where they have a large body of hard 

 wood timber available. 



Logging conditions since February 1 have been 

 exceptionally good. The weather has been cold 

 enough north of Bay City to enable operators 

 to haul logs and there has not been enough 

 snow to hinder. Nearly if not every small job- 

 ber has secureil a stock and farmers have put 

 in a large quantity of logs for the market. 



The S. G. M. Gates mill at Bay City will start 

 as soon as the ice is out of the river and will 

 have a lot of about 4,000,000 feet of ash. maple 

 and other hardwoods to work up. 



Youill Bros, of Vanderbilt are to ship 3,000,- 

 000 feet of hardwood logs to Bay City to be 

 manufactured and will cut 2,000,000 feet at their 

 mill at Logan. 



Jas. Norn has put in about 500,000 feet of 

 logs near Standish, which will be manufactured 

 there. 



Grand Baplds. 



A trust mortgage has been filed by the Long 

 fellow & Skillman Lumber Company, with Mil- 

 ton Hincklej' of Benton Harbor named as trus- 

 tee. A statement of assets cannot be made until 

 after inventory Is taken, and the liabilities ap- 

 proximate .$24,000. The Old National bank, the 

 largest creditor, has a claim for $13,000, made 

 secure by personal notes signed by oflicers. The 

 mortgage is signed by C. D. Stuart, acting presi- 

 dent, and W. 1!. Kussel, acting secretary. J. E. 

 iteilcr and L. L. Skillman. A full list of cred- 

 itors Is as follows: Old National bank. Grand 

 Rapids, .fl3,000; F. A. Luther, Ilart, $103.60; 

 Grand Rapids »t Indiana Railway. $007.70 ; 

 Chocolay Land Company, Marquette, $910 ; 

 Frank Mack, Stanton, $200.10; O. D. Stuart. 

 Riverside, $3, 3,'.)]. 07 ; Tliompson Lumber Com 

 pany, (Jrand Rapids. $.")0S.44 ; Dalton Lumber 

 Company, Skandia, $213. 8S ; Walker Bros., Lev- 

 ering, $0.49 ; Colby Hinkley Company, Benton 

 Harbor, $1,G4S..").5 ; Edward C. Allen, Levering. 

 $1,104.92 ; Simmons I,umber Company, Simmons. 

 $1,174.71; Geo. S. Wilson, Levering, $5.24; Jo- 

 seph Kane, Carp Lake, $28.89 ; Jerry Sullivan. 

 Cedar, $499.08. The company was formed aboui 

 tour years ago and was reorganized a year agip. 

 The Levering mill was destroyed by fire six 

 mouths ago. witli in-actically no insurance, and 

 tills fire is stated to be tile cause of the failure, 

 .\cting Secrelaiy Kussel has started suit in clr 

 cult court against the company, claiming $3.00ii 

 damages for alleged misrepresentation in inn 

 chase of the company's stock. 



Recent snows and colder wcatlier have given 

 logging operations In upper .Michigan a great 

 boost. Sleighing In the woods is reported better 

 than at any previous time during the winter. .\t 

 Nadeau, in Menominee county, the camps m 

 Nadeavi Bros, are in full operation, with nearl> 

 a nilllion feet of timber on skids. The Arm lia- 

 about two million feet decked in the mill yanl. 

 the timber Including, besides hemlock, basswood. 

 elm and other hardwoods. A planing mill has 

 been added to Ihe equipment at Nadeau. 



John Wood, secretary of the Fuller ^^ Rice 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, has returned 

 from a busiuess trl]) to the upper peninsula. 



Edward C. Allei* of Leroy, the new member of 

 the GIbbs. Hall & Allen t^ompany. Grand Rap 

 ids, win cut about a million feet, half hemlock 

 and the rest hardwood, at his mill near Lerov 

 this season. His cutting operations arc just 

 beginning. 



Harry Wlddlconib. manager of the Hallada.\ 

 Lumber Company, was qulelly married to .^ll^- 

 Gertrude Sherwood on March 14. The young couple 

 are spendlug their honeymoon in California. 



The llalladay Lumber Company Is not buy 

 ing any logs this season and the mill Is run 

 Intermittently on mahogany and custom sawing 



The mills and factories at Boyne City are est! 

 mated to cut close to 250,000 feet of lumber a 

 day. 



Suit has been started In the circuit court ai 

 Muskegon by R. K. Mann and W. G. Watson 

 against the S. B. Ardls Laud & I.uiuber t'ouipan.v 

 for $15,000 damages, alleging nonfullUlnient m 

 contract. Plaintiffs claim to have purchased tln' 

 .\rdls cut of half a million feet of hardwood 



