THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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Oak 



We have a full line of both quar- 

 tered and plain. Red and White, 

 THOROUGHLY DRY, also some 

 fine wide POPLAR and CHEST- 

 NUT. 



JohnDulweber&Co. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



FOR SALE. 



Poplar lumber; West Virginia stock. 



SO M feet 1 in. log run or on grade. 



30 M feet 2 in. No. 1 common, 7 in. and up 

 wide. 



20 M feet 2 in. Ists and 2ads, 7 In. and np 

 wide. 



II M feet 3 in. and 4 in. Ists and 2nds, 10 in. 

 and UD wide. 



H M feet 3 in., 4 in.. 5 in. and 6 In. Ists and 

 2nds.. 10 in. and up wide. 



25 M feet 3 in., 4 in.. 5 in. and 6 In. No. 1 

 common, 10 in. and up wide. 



40 in. 3 to SxlO in. and up export poplar, 

 green. 



11 M feet 1 in. Ists and 2nds, IS in. and up. 



1 ear 2 in. log run beech. 



2 cai'S 1 in. log run bass. 



6 cars 1 in.. Ihi in., 11,2 in. and 2 In. sawed, 

 wormy chestnut. 



6 cars 1 in. log run white oak. 

 1 car 2sl2 sawed white pine. 



To the Kentucky and Ohio river mills, the 

 following logs will be for sale at Valley View. 

 Ivy., after next tide, principally common and 

 better: 

 RABT. OAK. 



No. 1. 16 and 14 ft.. 14 in. and up. 11.737 ft. 



No. 3, 14 ft.. 14 in. and up. 11.602 ft. 



No. 5. 16 ft., 14 in. and up. 14.245 ft. 



No. 6. 12 ft.. 22 in. and up. 12.500 ft. 



No. 7, 14 ft.. 22 in. and up, 13.000 ft. 

 POPLAR. 



No. 1. 16 and 14 ft.. 14 in. and up. 2,3S6 ft. 



No. 3, 14 ft.. 14 In. and up. 2,169 ft. 



No. 5. 16 ft.. 14 in. and up, 2.032 ft. 



No. 6. 12 ft., 22 in. and up. 3.500 ft. 



No. 7. 14 ft.. 22 in, and up. 3,200 ft. 



Will be glad to mail log tally sheet on each 

 raft at your request. 



MARIETTA LUMBER CO., Marietta, Ohio 



H.C. HOSSAFOUS 



Manufacturer and dealer in 



Quartered Oak, Dimension Stock Ash, 



Plain and Quartered Oak, Walnut, Cherry. 



DAYTON, OHIO 



THE GRAHAM I 

 LUMBER CO., 



=::= LTD. === I 



Manufacturers of < 



Yellow Poplar Lumber | 



AND I 



Wholesale Dealers in all Kinds of { 



Hardwood Lumber | 



OFFICE: 41 East Fourth Street, C 

 ^CINCINNATI, OHIO. I 



Boston. 



CUarles C. Batclielder of the Boston Lumber 

 (.'(impany. who has just completed his second 

 rerm as president of the Massachusetts Whole- 

 sale Lumber Association, is swinging around the 

 southern circle, and will be absent from four 

 to six weeks, during which time he will visit 

 the short leaf and long leaf yellow pine dis- 

 tricts, also the cypress, white wood and oalc 

 sections. Mr. Batcheldar is for the first time 

 traveling under the benign influence of Hoo- 

 iliio. of which all southern brethren in the 

 faith should take due notice and govern them- 

 selves accordingly. 



Horace M. Bickford of the H. M. Bickford 

 Lumber Company recently left for an extended 

 trip among his southern connections, and re- 

 ports just received from that section indicate 

 that he has secured some very desirable t>locks 

 of stock during his travels. 



E. A. Smith of E. A. Smith & Company re- 

 lumed on Saturday last .from a four weeks' trip 

 among the yellow pine and cypress manufac- 

 turers of the south. Mr. Smith reports that 

 mills are, almost without exception, supplied 

 with orders suflicient to keep them busy until 

 the close of this winter's season. 



IL D. Wiggin. the Boston Wholesale Hard- 

 wocjd specialist, has engaged Mr. Williamson, 

 formerly with the Suucook Valley Lumber Com- 

 pany. Mr. Williamson, who is well known to 

 the New England trade, will cover the territory 

 formerly worked in by M. W. Hart. 



The new private olflees of the Cypress Lum- 

 ber Company, now located in the Broad Ex- 

 change building, should be of exceptional inter- 

 est to the trade. These ofBces are finished en- 

 tirely in red gum. which presents an object les- 

 son to those who do not yet appreciate the dig- 

 nified and elegant effects to be obtained through 

 I he use of that wood. 



The Cypress Lumber Company has a great 

 amount of standing red gum included in its 

 • southern timber holdings. 



M. Walter Hart, for three years with Horace 

 M. Bickford, and for the past eight years with 

 H. D. Wiggin, has engaged in business on his 

 own account, with an oiiice in the Mason build- 

 ing. Mr. Hart is at present traveling among 

 rhe mills of the south. It Is his intention to 

 make a specialty of southern and western hard- 

 woods. 



George D. Emery, the head of the mahogany 

 manufacturing firm of George D. Emery Com- 

 pany of Chelsea, Mass., sailed from London 

 recently, where he had been for over three weeks 

 inspecting his new London mahogany plant. 



George L. Cade, the treasurer of the George 

 D. Emery Company, reports a favorable outlook 

 for mahogany during the coming season, as 

 there have been a number of inquiries and also 

 some large orders in the market placed by the 

 manufacturers of passenger cars. Of these or- 

 ders the George D. Emery Company has received 

 some of the most important. 



The Masaachnsetts Wholesale Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, which held its annual meeting in De- 

 cember last, has recently appointed its standing 

 committees for the year. The following are 

 members of the hardwood committee : H. L. 

 Grogan. E. A. Smith and H. B. Fiske. chairman. 



It is now expected, that the annual meeting 

 (if the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Association 

 will be held at Worcester, Mass.. on Feb.- IS. al- 

 though this date is not officially settled on. 



William Bacon of Davenport, Peters & Co. 

 recently emphasized the falling off in the de- 

 maud for quartered wtilte oaki and white wood, 

 and the comparative increase in demand for 

 lower cost or substitute woods over the two 

 woods referred to. Ash and cypres.s especially 

 having had an increased demand as substitutes. 



It is understood that the hardwood end of the 

 business of the H. M. Beckford Company is now 

 being handled in the name of F. B. Witherbee. 

 who succeeded to the business of Jones & With- 

 erbee. Mr. Bickford continues a stockholder In 



the Jones Hard Wood Lumber Comeany, while 

 Jones & Witherbee are still stockholders in the 

 H. M. Bickford Company. The arrangement will 

 facilitate the conduct of the business of the 

 various companies. The management is un- 

 changed. 



Detroit. 



In August last the Wylie & Buell Manu- 

 facturing Company bought the old Detroit mill, 

 put another band saw into it and began manu- 

 facturing hardwood and hemlock. The company 

 bought 175.000,001) feet of timber and had many 

 thousand acres prior to that. The mill is to run 

 the year through. The company also stock a new 

 hardwood mill erected this last fall at Saginaw 

 by Bliss & Van Auken, which is to cut hard 

 maple exclusively, the product to be used in 

 the flooring factory of the firm. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company of 

 CarroUton is putting in a new boiler and will 

 buy 2,500,000 feet of maple logs this winter, 

 which will be converted into lumber at Bay 

 City for the flooring factory at Carrollton. Last 

 year the Eastman plant manufactured 7,500.000 

 feet of hardwood lumber. 



W. D. Young & Co. at West Bay City manu- 

 factured 19.000,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last year and are carrying now a stock of 12,- 

 000,000 feet. The firm is putting in 12,000,000 

 feet of harawood logs this winter. 



J. J. Flood, who operates a sawmill at West 

 Bay City, is going to cut 10,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber for other parties. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company at Bay City 

 manufactured 5,281,481 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber last year. This concern is running day and 

 night cutting hemlock and hardwood, and has 

 12,000 acres of land In Montmorency county, 

 and besides it buys large quantities of logs. 



Sailing, Hanson & Co. of Grayling have be- 

 come large stockholders in the Thomas Forman 

 Compaqy of Detroit and will stock the maple 

 flooring plant of the latter concern in Detroit 

 with 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 feet of maple an- 

 nually. The plant was built two years ago. 

 Sailing, Hanson & Co. have a vast tract of fine 

 hardwood timber. 



Chesbrouglr Bros, of Toledo and Bay City own 

 75.000 acres of timber land in upper Michigan, 

 which contain a world of the finest hardwood 

 timber on the continent. The firm is manufac- 

 turing pine exclusively, having several years' 

 supply at their mill at Emerson. 



Briggs & Cooper Lumber Company of Sagi- 

 naw handled 25,000,000 feet of lumber last year. 

 a good portion of which was hardwood. 



Sailing, Hanson & Co. manufactured at Gray- 

 ling last year 9,980,771 feet of hardwood lumber 

 and at the end of the year had on hand 4,986,- 

 435 feet 



The Stephens Lumber Company at Waters, on 

 the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central, 

 manufactured 7,275,000 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber last year and at the end of the year had on 

 hand 8.100,000 feet. 



The sawmill of Frank Buell at Gaylord cut 

 3.000,000 feet of hardwood lumber last season. 

 The mill went out of commission in August. 



C. H. Prescott & Sons of Tawas City manu- 

 factured 1,400.000 feet of hardwood. The mill 

 burned last September and the firm has bought 

 and is operating the Miller sawmill two miles 

 from Rose City. 



At Miliersburg S. F. Derry & Co. cut 6,000,- 

 000 feet of hardwood lumber last season and 

 the mill is being stocked for next season with 

 7.000,000 feet of logs. 



W. B. Mershou, president of Mershon. Schuette. 

 Parker & Co., and George B. Morley of Saglnaw 

 have bought over 30.000 acres of fine hardwood 

 timber lands In upper Michigan. lying in two 

 solid groups. The groups are not so far apart 

 but what they might be considered as one after 

 all. This purchase was made as an investment 

 and not for immediate cutting. 



