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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



and C. O. .Shepanl. 1 Madison avenue ; Robert 

 \V. Iligbic, 45 Broadway ; G. E. Smitli, 17 Bat- 

 tery place : George M. Stevens, Stevens-Eaton 

 Company. 1 Madison avenue, and C. F. Fischer, 

 192S Park avenue. 



Dixon & Dewey, tlie latest addition to the 

 local wholesale hardwood contingent, with office 

 in llie I<'l:it Iron building, report business as 

 opening up very satisfactorily. They are fast 

 getting into shape and H. S. Dewey reports that 

 they are already getting their share of what is 

 ■going. They handle the entire output of the 

 several mills controlled by the J. T. Dixon 

 Lumber Company in West Virginia and North 

 Carolina, in addition to a full line of maple and 

 oak flooring which brings them in on the ground 

 floor with as choice a line of hardwood lumber 

 tor the trade as is enjoyed by any of the local 

 houses. 



Samuel E. Barr of the Barr & Mills Company, 

 Flat Iron building, has just returned from an 

 extended trip to West Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina, where he reports having closed for 

 1,000,000 feet of very choice southern Ohio 

 white oali and a large block of Tennessee and 

 West Virginia poplar, which together with the 

 output of the Beaver Creek Lumber Company, 

 at Davis, W. Va., which includes a full line of 

 oak and hardwood flooring, makes its list com- 

 plete. While away Mr. Barr also opened two 

 branch buying offices, one at Asheville. N. C. In 

 cliarge of H. B. Thomas, and at Knoxville. 

 Tenn., in charge of J. M. Miller. These gentle- 

 men will devote their attention to keeping the 

 firm's stock list complete and in looking after 

 shipments. Mr. Barr also states that A. P. 

 DeWitt. who has been representing them in tlie 

 South, will move about April 1 to Philadelphia 

 where he will open an oflice to look after the 

 trade In that territory. Mr. Barr is a hustler 

 from the word go and since his advent into the 

 local district has made many friends among the 

 buying trade and is thoroughly alive to their 

 wants and requirements in tie matter of slock. 



Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin, 

 Boston, familiarly known in hardwood circles as 

 "the man from Boston," was a visitor this week 

 in the interest of business, making his head- 

 quarters at tlie Hotel Wolcott. From here he 

 went to the annual convention of the National 

 Wholesalers at Philadelphia, where he was 

 elected a trustee tor 3 years, 



W. A. Powell of the Reeves-Powell Company. 

 large exporters of hardwoods. New Orleans, was 

 a visitor last week on business matters, making 

 his headijuarters at the Hotel Imperial. 



E. C. Scatcherd of the Batavia-Xew York 

 Wood Working Company, Batavia. N. Y„ which 

 is owned by John N. Scatcherd, the well-known 

 BuBalo hardwood man. was In town last week 

 superintending the assembling of the interior 

 wood work of the new Trinity building. All 

 the interior wood work of this structure is be- 

 ing furnished by his company and included in 

 it is some of the finest mahogany finish and 

 trim that has ever been installed and Mr. 

 Scatcherd is exceedingly pleased with it. 



C. C. Mengel. vice-president of the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, the large mahogany 

 and hardwood house of Louisville, Ky., was in 

 town recently, stopping at the Grenoble. While 

 here he was visited by his son C. C. Mengel, Jr., 

 who ran down from Yale for a visit. 



Horace A. Reeves of R. B. Wheeler & Co., 

 rhiladelphla, was in town last week for a day 

 or two on business and reports everything In 

 the hardwood and cyi^ress trade as being very 

 satisfactory with them. J. W. Difenderfer of 

 the Frambes-Ditenderfer Lumber Company, 

 Philadelphia, w'as also a visitor. 



Charles E. Rogers of C. E. Rogers & Co., ex- 

 porters of American lumber and Importers of 

 mahogany, with offices at 88 Wall street, was 

 instantly killed on Feb. 18 by falling through 

 the hatchway of a vessel in the Erie basin, 

 while he was inspecting the cargo, which con- 

 sisted of South American hardwoods consigned 

 to the firm. He was well known in the local 



lumber trade for many years and Ills death is 

 regretted by a large number of friends. 



Isaac I. Cole & Sons, large handlers of domes- 

 tic and foreign hardwood logs, foot of East 

 Eighth street, have in their yard at present a 

 mahogany log which is thought to be one of 

 I he most valuable pieces of timber ever handled. 

 It was .sold to Knabe & Co., the piano manufac- 

 (urers, who will have it manufactured into 

 veneer. It is estimated to contain about 40,000 

 feet of veneer 1/lC inch in thickness. The log 

 measures seven feet and six inches at the butt. 

 It was cut on the east coast of Africa and was 

 obipped by way of England, and is valued at 

 ,'{;ll,ooo. 



The following hardwood lumbermen were vis- 

 itors : C. E. Couch, Cumberland, Md. ; F. 

 Goodline, Philadelphia Lumber & Veneer Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia; M. II. Wolcott. L. H. Gage 

 Lumber Company. Providence ; G. I. Jones. 

 Jones Hardwood Company, Boston. 



C. M. Carrier & Son. large hardwood oper- 

 ators of Sardls. Miss., have appointed the Barr 

 & Mills Company, Flat Iroii building, exclusive 

 sales agents in New York, New Jersey and New 

 England for the output of their celebrated 

 ■Delta" brand of oak flooring, one of the finest 

 in the country. 



Minneapolis. 



E. Payson Smith, prominent in the hardwood 

 trade here for several years, who removed his 

 offices to Chicago in December, is back in Min- 

 neapolis and intends to reopen headquarters in 

 this city in the near future. He will retain the 

 Chicago office and keep some one in charge, 

 making frequent visits, but will spend most of 

 the time in Minneapolis, which he still makes 

 his home. He found his business up in this 

 section not only good but growing, and decided 

 tliat it needed his pci-sonal attention more than 

 that farther east. Mr. Smith reports a very 

 good business of late in southern hardwood, 

 which has been selling readily up here on ac- 

 count of the scarcity of northern oak. 



W. C. Stanton of St. Paul, a veteran hard- 

 wood wholesaler, has gone into a new corpora- 

 tion known as the Stanton De Long Lumber 

 Company, of which Mr. Stanton becomes presi- 

 dent. It has a capital stock of $50,000 and 

 will handle a general line of lumber. Although 

 active In the hardwood trade Mr. Stan'.on haa 

 dealt extensively in the last few years In west 

 coast lumber, and the new company will handle 

 west coast lumber and products, northern pine, 

 white cedar and hardwood. George P. De I.ong, 

 fiirmorly of De Long & Clinmberlain. sawmill 

 men at Nlckerson, Minn., is vice president and 

 secretary of the new company. The Nlckerson 

 mill has gone out of commission. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, says their trade has increased rap- 

 idly in the last few days. The retail yards are 

 taking considerable stock, both in straight and 

 mixed cars. Oak stocks are very light and as 

 an illustration of the situation Mr. Osborne 

 tells of shipping a car of red oak from Minne- 

 apolis to a Wisconsin point that has long been 

 a center for the production of hardwood. Oak 

 was cleaned out of that section and the car went 

 from a market that was already short of oak. 



I. P. Lennan of I. P. Lennan & Co. is back 

 at work after an enforced lay off caused by a 

 fall, which wrenched some tendons in his left 

 leg. He says demand has picked up somewhat 

 and there is a good outlook for the future. 



A. II. Barnard and P. W. Strickland of Bar- 

 nard & Strickland have returned from a week's 

 trip over in Wisconsin. They report business 

 good, the factory trade being In the market for 

 considerable stock, and every sort of hardwood 

 is moving. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com. 

 pany, who has been in the Wisconsin hardwood 

 territoi-y for several days, found less stock in 

 sight than lie had expected, and he says the log 

 supply has been very materially curtailed by the 



early break up of the season, so that northern 

 hardwood promises to be scarce all the year. 

 They are having an excellent trade and feel en- 

 couraged to nope for a still better, according 

 to the report coming in. 



F. H. Lewis, the local wholesaler of hard- 

 woods, says the supply of stock from now on will 

 be limite<i, while the trade seems anxious to 

 buy. Tlie outlook for trade is first rate and If 

 stock was only in sufficient supply to fill all 

 orders easily the hardwood man would have an 

 easy time. 



Fred Straw, who has been with Barnard & 

 Strickland for three or four years as bookkeeper 

 and salesman, has accepted a position with the 

 Minneapolis Bridge & Iron Company and is rep- 

 resenting them on the road. His place with 

 Barnard & Strickland has been taken by H. R. 

 McDonald, formerly with the Northwest Lum- 

 ber Company. 



Saginaw Valley. 



There are a large number of small portable 

 mills scattered about the lower peninsula of 

 Michigan engaged in cutting hardwood lumber. 

 Their capacity runs from 10,000 to 25,000 feet 

 a day and while specifically they do not cut 

 much ice in the aggregate they contribute a large 

 quantity of lumber to the quota of the state. 

 E. J. Hopkins operates three portable sawmills. 

 one located at Hastings, one at Cassopolis and 

 one at Silver Creek. The Hastings mill has fin- 

 ished the season cut and has manufactured 

 about 1,000,000 feet of hardwood, a considerable 

 portion of which is oak. There are also a large 

 number of small sawmills located in small towns 

 which cut up considerable hardwood lumber as 

 well as sawing logs for farmers and others. In 

 fact there is scarcely a small town that is not 

 possessed of one or more of these mills. Some 

 of them do not manufacture more than a hun- 

 dred thousand feet in a year while others work 

 up quantities that run into the hundreds of 

 thousands of feet. The larger portion of this 

 product is consumed at the point of manufac- 

 ture and vicinity. At Frankenmulh Hubinger 

 Bros, have a hardwood mill that cuts about a 

 (juarter of a million feet. There is also a bald- 

 wood mill at Caro and one at Flushing. The 

 winter has been favorable for putting in logs 

 and the greater number of these small plants 

 are pretty well slocked w^lth logs. 



Holmes & Nicholson are operating a portable 

 hardwood mill four miles from Rogers City 

 which cuts hardwood logs as fast as they are 

 taken from the trees and the lumber is hauled 

 to Rogers City for shipment. 



S. F. Derry & Co. operate three mills at 

 Millersburg and vicinity and have a stock of 

 5,.">00,000 hardwood logs to be converted into 

 lumber. 



Oswald Voight has put in about 700,000 feet 

 of basswood, elm and birch logs two and a half 

 miles from Rogers City, besides 1,000 cords of 

 hardwood stave and heading bolts. 



A basswood tree sialing 3.000 feet was hauled 

 into West Branch last week and it will be 

 converted into lumber there. 



The Gale Lumber Company at West Branch 

 has put in a good stock of hardwood for Its mill 

 at that point. The company operates a sawmill 

 and logging road. 



M'. D. Young & Co. of West Bay City are 

 running day and night cutting maple logs and 

 manufacturing maple flooring. Mr. Young states 

 that the market for flooring is looking better 

 and prices are stronger. The firm is shipping 

 about 75 per cent of its output to Europe. 



The Brlggs & Cooper Company at Saginaw 1» 

 buying hardwood at the small interior mills and 

 is having a fair trade in hardwood products. 

 Mr. Cooper says that the conditions are quite 

 favorable, as there is a good stock at the mills 

 to select from. He Says that prices are quite 

 generally firm. This concern handles a number 

 of million feet of hardwood, 



A. C. White of Saginaw, the basswood king 



