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HARDWOOD RECORD 



feet a day. and the flrm has contracted with 

 Uk Wylie & Buell Lumber Company to stock 

 the mill with about 8,000.000 feet of logs an- 

 I'ally for something like eight years. The 

 mill will cut hard maple largely, which Bliss 

 & Van Auken will utilize in the manufacture 

 of flooring. The Wylie & Buell Company has 

 erected a .lUe office building at the mill at Bay 

 City. This company bought the old Hall mill 

 last August, put in another band outfit and is 

 sawine KiO.OnO feet a day — hemlock and hard 

 wood. The concern bought the holdings of 

 the uaakwood Lumber Company, in the north- 

 ern part of the lower peninsula, and estimated 

 to contain IT.i.OOo.OOO feet of timber, and it 

 owned some oO,)K)0 acres of timber before mak- 

 ing the last purchase. It has enough timber 

 to keen its plants in operation lo years. It 

 is getting a number of trains loaded with logs 

 < '^ry day. 



Last year there was hauled by the Michigan 

 Central Kailroad Company on its Mackinac di- 

 »ision 120. 710), 000 feet of saw logs, a good 

 portion of which was hardwood. This road has 

 been the most prolific producer of forest prod- 

 ucts in eastern Michigan for many years. 



Onlv one sawmill was operated at Saginaw 

 last .Tear, that of C. S. Bliss, and he maun 

 factured 2..S27,ri0S feet of hardwood. It is not 

 known if the mill will be operated tliis year. 

 It is reported that C. H. Prescott & Sons 

 of Tawas City have sold their timber holdings in 

 Ogemaw county to the Load's Sons Company <if 

 Au Sable, and the timber will be railed to the 

 mills of the buyer to be manufactured. There 

 is somelliiiiK like 7."i.oon.O(IO feet of timber, 



Chesbrough Bros, of Bay City own 7.-1.000 

 acres of timber land In the upper peninsula on 

 which there is a large quantity of birch. niaiHe 

 and other Viiluable hardwood timber. A. M. 

 Chesbrough. of Toledo, a member of the flrm. 

 stated recentlv that if seeking an Investment in 

 timber he believes that money iiut into hard 

 wood timber in the upper peninsula is a safei 

 and better inveslmeiit than anvtiiing he knows 

 of in tlie West. 'Hiere is no danger of siK-h 

 limber being destroyed by Are. it Is doseh- 

 accessible to market and can be handled lo ad- 

 vantage at a remunerative price. 



It is estiiiiiited that about 1 ,,-.(10,000 feet of 

 hardwood tinilier will be cut this winter along 

 Cass river". Haniel Barton of Saginaw buys 

 extensively and lias the logs manufactured at 

 Saginaw river points. 



S. L. Eastman of Saginaw will buy 2..-><io.ooii 

 feet of maple logs which will be manufactured 

 at Bav City mills, i-ast year he manufactured 

 7.500.000 feet of hardwood lumber. 



Tile winter has been exceptionally good for 

 lc>gging. not too much snow and steady cold 

 weather fcpr maintaining roads. 



Grand Rapids. 



C. If. Uugan. representing Tindle & .lackson. 

 was In Grand ItapUIs this week and reported 

 fair sales to local manufacturers. 



Tlie firm of Wagner & Angell. which hereto- 

 fore lias been handling primarily siiingles. posts 

 and hemlock hiniber. is now entering the hard- 

 wood field also, and is establishing a yard in 

 this city, located between Kleventh and Twelfth 

 streets, on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway. 

 For the presept the yard business will be han- 

 dled from the downtown offices. National CItv 

 bank building. Wagner & Angell were pioneers 

 here in handling Washington red cedar shingles, 

 having started handling red cedars in 1889. 



The Longfellow & Skillnian Lumber Company 

 will this month finish putting In tlie season's 

 cut of logs at its mill at Levering. The com- 

 iiiy's logging operations In Marquette countv 

 have been interfered with on account of the 

 deep snow, which Is about four feet on the 

 level In that section, and log-cutting has 

 reased. 



W. 0. Hughart, Jr„ is ill at his home in 

 East Fulton street. He was taken sick at Mem- 

 phis, while on a business trip in the south. 



E. E. Dennis of Dennis Bros, is out again, 

 after being confined to his home for three or 

 four w'eeks. 



Visitors at Grand Rapids during the past few 

 da.vs are surprised to see the hundreds of sleigh- 

 loads of hardwood logs of excellent quality that 

 are being hauled into that cit.y. destined for the 

 plants of the Michigan Barrel Company. Grand 

 Uapids Veneer Works, and several sawmills. The 

 good sleighing has contributed to this rejnark- 

 able winter's log output. The timber is ob- 

 tained from farmers' wood lots within ten or 

 fifteen miles of Grand Rapids. It is said on good 

 authority that this section of Michigan still 

 contains in small lots the largest quantity of 

 h'gh class hardwoods of any section of Michi- 

 gan. The timber coming in consists largely of 

 cak. basswood, elm, and hickory. 



The Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company of 

 Ti averse City has made a number of improve 

 ments at its East Bay mill. An additional 

 boiler has been installed, making three in use 

 there. In order to avoid the sand bars in the 

 bay the present dock will be extended a dis- 

 tance of 150 feet out Into the water. 



.lohn Torrent, an old-time lumberman of 

 ^.uskegon. is logging on Cedar Creek, three 

 miles up the Muskegon river, this winter, the 

 operations being in charge of his s»n. I'red 

 Torrent. About a million feet of logs will be 

 put In from this tract and will form a part 

 of next sea.son's supply at the Torrent mill. In 

 tills mill the log carriage is driven by electric- 

 ity, furnished by the Traction Company, which 

 operates the street cars of Muskegon. 



The Grand Rapids Lumber Company, capital 

 .•^•0.000. has filed articles of Incorporation with 

 the secretary of state at Lansing. An up-to- 

 dale interior finish plant has been completed 

 and Is already in operation, the sash and door 

 department being In charge of C. E. Sanborn, 

 officers are as follows: President. W. B. Stiles: 

 vice president. C. E. Sanborn : secretary and 

 treasurer. Merton Stiles. 



r. Alberts & Son will start their sawmill at 

 .Muskegon In the spring, with a cut of three 

 years or more ahead. The company recently 

 bougut a tract of 1.000 acres of hardwood, pine 

 and hemlock located In the northwestern corner 

 of Missaukee county, and two logging camps, 

 with crews of 75 men each, have been oneratlr" 

 there all winter. The Muskegon mill will be 

 equipped with a handsaw outfit, with dally ca- 

 pacity of .->i).000 feet, and the lath and shingle 

 mills will be refitted. 



William II. White & Co.. who are the largest 

 producers of maple lumber In the United States, 

 have already sold l.'i.OOO.OOO feet of maple for 

 spring delivery and about 5,000,000 feet of other 

 hardwoods. This sale will make a big hole In 

 the White hardwood output for 1905, 



Evansville. 



Eor the past two weeks all logging opera- 

 tions have been at a standstill, and few logs 

 arc coming into Evansville. The Ohio river 

 is frozen over and the Ice flow will be so great 

 that all river operations will be at a standitJII 

 for several weeks to come. 



Articles of incorporation of the Indiana 

 Quartered Oak Company have been filed In the 

 county recorder's offlce. The incorporators are 

 C. E. Maley. Daniel Wertz. Bedna Young and 

 William Threlkeld of Evansville, and Wlllard 

 Wlnslow of .Scrasdale, West Chester county, 

 N, Y. The caiiltal stock Is ?lo,000, divided Into 

 one hundred and Hftv shares. The head offlce 

 will be at New York, with branch offlce at 

 Evansville. 



W. C. Davie of Glasgow, Scotland, repre- 

 senting Wright. Graham & Co,, wood brokers of 

 Tiondon, England, was In Evansville a few days 



ago in the interest of his company. He Is 

 calling on the leading lumber merchants In 

 this country and Canada, but expects to return 

 to Europe the middle of February. 



Air. Grace, buyer of the Paine Lumber Com- 

 ■any of Oshkosh, Wis., was in this market 

 last week, 



J. E. Kelley. lumber bu.yer for the Pullman 

 Car Company, is a guest at the St, George, 

 He formerly was a resident of this city but 

 now claims Cincinnati, 0„ his home, having 

 headquarters there. He is A. J. Perry's succes- 

 sor in this territory. "Business in every line 

 has been dull since last summer," said he, 

 "Every sawmill along the Ohio has been shut 

 down all the winter and the only lumber to 

 be h,i„ was fit only for freight cars, and very 

 little of that. From the present outlook it 

 will be weeks before sawmills are again able 

 to resume, and hence little work can be done 

 in the car building line." 



Buffalo. 



T. Sullivan, who left here about a month 

 ago (or a look at his lumber interests on the 

 Pacific coast, is seriously 111 at Tacoma. Wash., 

 and his recovery is hardly expected. Of late 

 years his firm has added Oregon fir and Wash- 

 ington spruce to its regular hardwood carry- 

 ings, and so much interest was taken In It 

 that F. T. Sullivan was located at Tacoma, 

 last fall as purchasing and shipping agent. 

 F. M. Sullivan of the flrm has been to the 

 Pacific sometime ago and established the trade, 

 so that all were much interested In It. Mr. 

 Sullivan is accompanied by his wife. 



George J. Kennedy still reports the Tennessee 

 Lumber & Coal Company as chiefly a coal pro- 

 ducer of lale. though there is some lumber 

 coming from the tract. He is handling white 

 pine as well as hardwoods and calls trade pretty 

 fair. 



President Taylor of Taylor & Crate Is back 

 from his southern trip, having looked over the 

 operations of the company's three milling cen- 

 ters and found them ail in promising condi- 

 tion, 



F, W. Vetter is preparing to remain at the 

 Arkansas mills of the Empire Lumber Company 

 long enough to bring everything into line, as 

 to shipments and mill work. Home business 

 Is good, 



A. Miller calls the winter trade good and Is 

 now bringing up considerable oak and other 

 hardwoods from the South to keep up stock. 



The operations of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company are such that it Is found 

 necessary to secure more timber and A. W. 

 Kreinheder will look after a new tract while 

 in Tennessee on his present trip. 



The business of I. N. Stewart & Bro. is Im- 

 proving right alone on ail sides as cherry sells 

 more readily and the assortment of hardwoods 

 carried has been Increased lately. • 



J. N. Scateherd has recovered from his sprain 

 and win now look to the purchase of more 

 timber South. Manager Hopkins lately made a 

 special trip to Memphis on that errand. 



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pirrsBURO, PA. 

 HARDWOODS, 



PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, 



POPLAR AND CHESTNUT. 



ALL GRADES READY FOR SHIPMENT, 



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We are always in the market for 

 Hardwoods of All Kinds. 



