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running full and a good stock of hardwood Is 

 being turned out. Joseph J. I.lnehan has gone 

 down to the mills tn remain two wei'Us or more. 



The llasslnger Lumber Comijuny Is building a 

 big mill at Hamaseus, Tenn. At that point llu' 

 compan.v iiwns over 1(1, (lOO acres of timber, most 

 of which is hardwood. 



The Paine Lumber t'ompany, Ltd.. sold more 

 binh veneered doors in Greater Pittsburg since 

 January 1 than In any twelve months of its 

 previous history. The new I'lttsburg manager. 

 J. W. Anderson, Is a genuine hustler. 



M. Simon's Sons, one o£ the oldesl lumber 

 nims of Crealer I'lttsburg. whose planing mill 

 at Anderson and Unblnson streets, Allegheny, 

 luu-ned last August, have awarded the contract 

 lor the erection of a Ibree-story brick planing 

 mill and lumber warehouse to cover the entire 

 lot, 811x1)0 feet. The new plant will cost about 

 .■i!20,(100. 



J. J. Mead of the Mead & Speer ('omi)any Is 

 making a tour of West Virginia and the South. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com 

 pany Is doing the best hardwood business in Its 

 history. Manager J. N. Woollett, anticipating a 

 great demand for good hardwood this season, 

 fortilieii the ciimpany by making heavy purchases 

 last fall of timber and lumber in West Virginia, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. 



I>. L. (iillespie & Co. are pulling in a busy 

 winter and spring shipping lumber from southern 

 ports to Cuba, In March they sent out three 

 cargoes of posts, piling, ties and lumber and 

 have two cargoes ready for shipment now. The 

 company Is now shipping from four ports, Nor- 

 folk, Carabella, Mobile and Jacksonville, 



Butternut is coming into use quite a little as 

 a finisiiing w'ood in some of the finest residences 

 built in (irealer Pittsburg. Lately a firm of 

 leading arcbllects specllied it as tlie finishing 

 wooil for the library and several other rooms of 

 an lOngllsh renaissance residence which will cost 

 ¥100. out). Other instances of Its u.se are known 

 and both architects and owners are well sat- 

 isfied with the effects obtained. 



Flint. Krving & Stoner are well pleased with 

 the spring outlook in the hardwood line. They 

 note no special feature of the trade just now, 

 but a good volume of business considering the 

 ver.y wet weather which has prevailed for weeks. 



Jay and Warren Dodge are cutting a fine tract 

 of hardwood timber near Slippery Rock, Pa. 

 Much of the timber Is oak. which Is being sold 

 chiefly to the railroad companies whose lines tap 

 that territory. 



The Reliance Lumber Company will shortly 

 establish a branch ofllce In Detroit, Mich., where 

 its address will be ,'!T9 Harrison avenue. W. H. 

 Ward, formerly Pittsburg representative of the 

 Bradley Miller Company, of Bay City, Mich., 

 will be Detroit manager. The Reliance expects 

 to make the new office a general distributing 

 point for Michigan hardwoods. President George 

 Ilavner of the Reliance Company is now at the 

 West Virginia mills. 



The Breon Lumber Company of Wllliamsport. 

 Pa., has bought from Jonathan C. Gardner of 

 Westmont, Pa., a tract of 4.000 acres of timber 

 land in Yoder township, uear Wllliamsport, and 

 In Conemaugh and Jeuner townships in Somerset 

 county, for about .$jO,000. The Breon company 

 will at once buUd a railroad to the tract. 



Scbaffer Brothers of Sharon, Pa., have the dis- 

 tinction of cutting the largest poplar tree ever 

 out in that locality. It was taken recently from 

 the Burns farm near Sharon and measured four 

 feet through at the butt end. Over 5,000 feet 

 of lumber, board measure, was cut from the tree, 

 for which .$100 was paid. 



K. C. Brainerd, formerly hardwood manager 

 of the Nicola Brothers Company, is having a busy 

 time closing the sale of the Cleveland yard to a 

 parly of Cleveland lumbermen. lie will shortly 

 start In the real estate business in Pittsburg and 

 will also handle timber lands. 



Vicegerent Snark O. H. Rectanus of the A. M. 



Turner Lumber Company last week Initiated sev- 

 enteen kittens into the fearful mysteries of the 

 llcMi Ilc.o order. 



Buffalo. 



0. IC. Yeager Is still getting a gmid lul of 

 high-grade birch from Canada and keeps up his 

 assortment of poplar, which he has always 

 made a specialty. He Is getting hold of white 

 ash, too, In good qtumtilies. 



G. Ellas & Bro, have made arrangeinenis with 

 tlie .New England Bnx Ciunpany of Boston by 

 which they can furidsh all sorts of small-sized 

 tioxes, as an addition to their regular output. 

 Heavy spruce timber is the latest stock added. 



The P.uffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 able to report nearly 4,000,000 feet of oak in the 

 home yard, and more Is steadily coming up from 

 the South. The concern's assortnuuil of pop- 

 lar and cypress Is good. 



T. Stdlivan & Co. will ln'giu work on their 

 new storage shed as soon as good weather ar- 

 rives and will make an effort to keep their 

 lead In ^^'ashInglon lir and spruce. In which 

 trade they were pioneers in this market. 



Chestnut and plain oak are among the good 

 things that A. Miller continues to bring up 

 from the Soulli. aiul he buys Iiasswood besides, 

 finding that it is not lU'arly as slow of sale as 

 it usi'd to be. 



J. N. Scatcherd has had a long siege on the 

 grand jury and is still on the list. The re- 

 turn of Manager Hopkins friun Cuba has re- 

 lieved him of the office work iu^ had to do at 

 the same time. Mr. Hopkins finds the btislness 

 decidedly improved since he went away. 



1. N. Stewart Is making his eastern trip 

 longer than was at first Intended, and was In 

 Pluladelphla at last accounts. He will return 

 about the middle of April. 



A. W. Kreinheder Is at work cui his summer 

 concatenation of IIoo-IIoo. which is now set 

 for June 20, with a river parly next day. This 

 arrangement has always been found very sat- 

 isfactory. The Standard Hardwood I^umber 

 Company will get hold of a larger Buffalo yard 

 as soon as possible. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. are covering both Pennsyl- 

 vania and the South for hardwood lumber and 

 are getting excellent results for their hard work. 

 J. 1'^. Knox has been traveling In that Interest 

 most of the time for some months. 



The ■ old division of work In the Hugh Mc- 

 Lean Limiber Company continues to tiring re- 

 sults. In ioersou they cover office, mills, the 

 eastern sales trade and their producing cen- 

 ters. 



James A. White Is now president of the Buf- 

 falo Maple Flooring Company as reorganized 

 and is already Improving the plant, putting 

 in new dry kilns and machinery. 



The burning of the mills of the Empire 

 Lunil)fr Company in Arkansas made such a 

 difference with the business that It is quite 

 likely the Buffalo yard will be kept up. A mill 

 has been secured uear the timlier tract and b'lth 

 lumber and logs are sold. 



Saginaw. 



The snow has about disappeared up in the 

 logging district of the state, camps have broken 

 tq), except where they are operated the year 

 through, and operators are falrl.y well satisfied 

 with the winter work. The usual stock of logs 

 has been secured, and if the market conditions 

 continue favorable there will be no cause for 

 complaint. There was produced In Michigan 

 last year 672, G2:{. 3:14 feet of hardwood lumber 

 compared with an output in 11)04 of (il8,03S,.3.'!.'J 

 feel. The trade conditions last year were much 

 tietter than they were during the presidential 

 year, and this year oiiened with fair stocks, 

 jilthough not excessive, and inqiroved conditions 

 both as to the prospective volume of business 

 and prices. 



Bliss & Van Auken are running their saw 

 mill day and night, and will continue to do so 

 until fall. The maple flooring plant Is operat- 



ing with two crews and the firm has large or- 

 ders booked with every Indication of an excep- 

 tionally busy season. The firm gets Its logs 

 fr(HU (be Wylie & Buell Lumber Company, and 

 they are broughl <lown over the Mackinaw divi 

 slon of the .Michigan Central. 



The portable saw mill will be an important 

 leal on' in the sawdng of northeastern Michigan, 

 north of Bay City, this season. There will be 

 more than a score of them in operation, and In 

 the aggregate they will produce probably 30,000,- 

 1100 feet of hardwood lumber. There are also 

 a number of small sawmills with circular rigs, 

 capable of cutting 10.000 to 20.000 feet a day. 

 These have been stocked up and will do a good 

 business. C. S. Bliss Is operating one at But- 

 num, Gladwin county, where he will cut some 

 I. .-,0(1. 000 t'ect of lumber: Smith & Williams are 

 operating a portable mill In Ogemaw county 

 ni'ar West Branch : J. B. Redhead has moved his 

 mill from Rosciunmon to Crawford county, where 

 be has puri'ha.sed a few hardw'ood forties, and 

 there are many others. The slock cut by these 

 plants Is mostly purchased by Saginaw and Bay 

 City dealers and goes Into yards here. 



Frank Buell, who is cutting logs for Knee- 

 latul, Buell & BIgelow Company, has started a 

 summer logging camp in Cheho.ygan county, and 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company will operate two 

 camps all through the summer. During the win- 

 ter tliey operated four camps. 



The ('ampi)ell-Brown Lumber Company mill is 

 cutting out hardwood stock, having started some 

 weeks ago. 



J. J. Flood is cutting hardwood stock for W. 

 11. Young & Co., and the latter firm is operating 

 its own plant day and night. Mr. Young says 

 the maple flooring trade has been a little quiet 

 the last few weeks, as usual at this season, but 

 about the first of May there is every indication 

 of a pick up and exceptional acttvlty. as build- 

 ing operations are expected to be active during 

 the summer. 



The Eastman Flooring Company has a busy 

 season scheduled, having secured a full stock 

 of maple lumber for the entire season run. The 

 company bought one block of 10.000.000 feet to 

 be delivered during the season from the Knee- 

 land & BIgelow and Buell mills In Bay City. 



The F. W. Gilchrist sawmill at Alpena began 

 sawing April 5, and has a large stock of fine 

 maple and other hardwood logs. 



The Churchill Lumber Company mill will start 

 next .Monday and it has a lot of hardwood stock 

 to convert into lumber. 



The sawmill of M, D. Olds at Cheboygan 

 started last week and will cut a few million feet 

 of hardwood. The Embury-Martin Lumber Com- 

 pany mill at the same place started sawing 

 hardwood In February. 



The flooring plant of the Haak Lumber Com- 

 I)any at Haakwood is well stocked. 



The Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company at 

 Grayling has had a very good run during the 

 winter and Is running steadily now. The com- 

 pany Is stocked by the Salllng-Hansou Company, 

 and will put out about 12,000,000 feet of maple 

 flooring this year. 



It is not yet definitely known if a new floor- 

 ing plant will be erected this season by the 

 .lobaiuiesburg Manufacturing Company. 



Grand Bapids, 



Milton Hinkley of Benton Harbor, trustee tor 

 the Longfellow & Sklllman Lumber Company, 

 has closed out the yards of the company to the 

 Nichols & Cox Lumber Company. The yards 

 c(uitalned hardwood stock reaching about half 

 a million feet. About all the assets of the old 

 concern have now been cleaned up and the trus- 

 tee estimates that creditors will receive close 

 to 70 cents on the dollar. 



The Overton Company, a copartnership, has 

 been 1 formed liy M. Herman Frledrich of this 

 city and Albert Xuecbterlcin of Saginaw for the 

 manufacture of piano stools, benches, cabinets 

 and other similar articles. The firm will start 

 operations about May 1. 



