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the old location it occupied space on both sides 

 of Concord street. The Central avenue yard 

 will be connected with a railroad track, so as 

 to afiford direct facilities for shipment. It was 

 the intention o£ the firm to get track facilities 

 on Concord street, but the fire and subsequent 

 reservation of the place for dock purposes inter- 

 fered with the project. 



Among the visitors in Baltimore last week 

 were E. D. Galloway of the Galloway-Pease 

 Company, .Johnson City, Tenn.. and William 

 Abbott of the Rumbarger Lumber Company, 

 New York. They came here to see the leading 

 firms and get a close view of local conditions. 

 In the course of conversation they stated that 

 there was little lumber at the mills and that 

 an advance in prices was by no means un- 

 likely. 



One log worth $11,000 and too big to be cut 

 into sizes in Baltimore is being converted into 

 veneer strips in the yard of Isaac I. Cole & 

 Sons, Xew York, for the purchasers. William 

 Knabe & Co., manufacturers of the piano of the 

 same name. The strips, ready for use, will 

 be shipped to Baltimore in a few days and 

 will be used in the construction of pianos. The 

 log is mahogany, and, according to Ernest 

 Knabe, one of the largest pieces of the wood 

 ever put on the market. It comes from the 

 East coast of Africa, Is of a fine hard grain 

 and shows a waxy texture, which makes the 

 wood especially valuable for the purpose to 

 which it is to be devoted. The log measured 

 7 feet 6 inches across the butt and six men 

 worked four days to cross-cut and open one 

 length by hand in order to get it through the 

 mill door. The veneering, of which there will 

 be approximately 40.000 feet, will run one- 

 sixteenth of an inch in thickness. 



The Price Hardwood Company, which occu- 

 pied quarters in the Continental Trust building 

 before the fire, and was burnt out with the 

 other tenants, afterward moving to North Cal- 

 vert street, near Lexington, has made another 

 change of location, this time to St. I'aul street. 

 near Pleasant. 



Detioit. 



The maple flooring factory of C. T. Kerry 

 is to be removed from Saginaw to Grayling. 

 where it is to be operated by the Kerry & 

 Hanson Manufacturing Company, a business 

 arrangement of that nature having been receutlv 

 perfected. Some months ago the Kerry & 

 Schultz Manufacturing Company sustained a loss 

 of $12,000 by fire at Its factory and it has not 

 been operated since that date. Meantime Mr. 

 Kerry purchased the interest of his business 

 associates. He received also several tentative 

 propositions to move his plant and the announce- 

 ment of the organization of a new concern is 

 the outcome. The company will erect a flooring 

 factory of 12,000.000 capacity at Grayling. 

 Sailing. Hanson & Co. have some 70,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber lands and will be able to 

 furnish stuck for the new plant a number of 

 years. C. T. Kerry will manage the business 

 of the new company. He has had wide experi- 

 ence in this department of the hardwood busi- 

 ness and is a gentleman of pleasing address. 



John J. Flood, who operates a mill at West 

 Ba,v City, which is engaged in cutting hardwood 

 lumber for W. D. Young & Co., has contracted 

 to saw 300,000 feet of mahogany logs which 

 Edward Germain of Saginaw is importing from 

 Africa, and the lumber manufactured will be 

 utilized by the owner in the manufacture of 

 pianos. This is not the first importation of 

 mahogany by Ed Germain. Two years ago he 

 imported about a quarter of a million feet from 

 Africa. He believes the grain of the African 

 growth to be superior for his purposes to the 

 timber of the same quality grown In the West 

 Indies and Central America. 



Detroit is becoming a center of a no inconsid- 

 erable wholesale hardwood trade. Dealers of 

 this city carry large and well assorted stocks 

 of both northern and southern hardwoods, and 

 In addition to an excellent local trade distribute 



their lumber merchandise throughout Michigan, 

 Indiana. Ohio. Canada and the East. 



One of the principal wholesale concerns of 

 Detroit is Brownlee & Company, whose attractive 

 oflSces are located in the Telegraph building, and 

 whose docks, yards and planing mills are in the 

 River Rouge district. This concern has built 

 up a large jobbing business in hardwoods and 

 Its yards on the Rouge, South Detroit, comprise 

 some twenty-eight acres, giving it the largest 

 yard space of any of the Detroit dealers. Its 

 fine planing mill enables it to supply dressed 

 stock of all descriptions. This concern makes 

 a specialty of thick hard maple, black ash, soft 

 maple, birch and soft elm. This house reports 

 an excellent trade locally throughout the East 

 and In export. 



Another large jobbing house is that of the 

 McCIure Lumber Company, whose office, yards 

 and docks are at the foot of St. Aubln avenue. 

 This company carries a stock of upward of 

 3,000.000 feet of nortliem and southern hard 

 wcods, and enjoys an excellent trade over a 

 wide field In the United States and Canada. It 

 Is also a considerable factor In the handling of 

 mahogany and other foreign woods. During the 

 last few months this concern has concluded a 

 deal by means of which It comes into possession 

 of more than 50,000.000 feet of choice standing 

 hardwood timber on the Black Warrior river in 

 Green and Hale counties, Alabama. This hold- 

 ing Is said to contain large quantities of high 

 Class oak and considerable gum, hickory and 

 cypress. The company Is now engaged In tlie 

 erection of a band sawmill, which detail of its 

 operations will be handled by Charles F. Mc- 

 CIure. one of Its directors. 



An important wholesale hardwood enterprise 

 of Detroit is that of the Dennis & Smith Lum- 

 ber Company, whose office and yards are at 

 Kourth street and Ilolden avenue. This com- 

 pany is under the management of A. S. Dennis 

 and is allied with R. M. Smith & Co. of I'arkers- 

 burg, W. Va. The company handles high class 

 West Virginia <iak and poplar largely, and also 

 makes a specialty of cypress. 



The adjoining well-equipped yard Is that of 

 the Sicklesteel Company, which in addition to 

 handling a full line of northern and southern 

 liardwoods makes a specialty of <'ar materials. 



Another Important wholesale hardwood yard 

 which carries a general line of northern and 

 southern hardwoods is that of Ix'ech. Roche & 

 Co., whose spacious yards are at Twenty fuurtb 

 street and tlie Michigan Central railroad tracks. 



In the manufacture of maple and oak floor- 

 ing Detroit stands very high, and Us product is 

 favorably known in all sections consuming hard- 

 wood flooring. The Thomas Forman Company 

 and the Dwight Lumber Company are the local 

 large and well known pr<iducers of these high- 

 class American wouds into exceptionally excel- 

 lent flooring material. 



Fred A, Wilson, superintendent of traveling 

 salesmen of the W. M. Kltter Lumber Company 

 of Columbus, Ohio., was in the city last week 

 Introducing C. N. Grelner to the trade. Mr. 

 Greiner will represent the big poplar and oak 

 concern In Michigan, northern Indiana and north' 

 ern Ohio In the future. 



Last week the hardwood sawmill erected at 

 Saginaw by Bliss & Van Auken began operations 

 with a stock assured for a fifteen years' run. 

 The capacity of the plant is 30,000 feet every 

 ten hours, and maple for the flooring factory 

 operated by the firm will be the long suit. 

 The machinery for this plant was manufactured 

 by the M. Garland Manufacturing Company of 

 Bay City, and consists of a Garland band 

 saw, edgers, cutoff and carriage equipped with 

 steam set works. The entire plant of Bliss & 

 Van Auken is to be furnished with the Van 

 Auken vacuum heating systems. In the spring 

 a 350-horsepower upright water tube boiler will 

 be installed. This is an industry that will be 

 of large value to the Saginaw valley. 



The plant of W. D. Young & Co., at West 

 Bay City, Is running day and night. The firm 

 manufactures a large quantity of m'aple floor- 

 lug, the greater portion of which goes to Europe. 



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