HARDWOOD RECORD 



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M. Hastings Lumber Company. Xicola Brothers. 

 E. C. Bralnerd, A. M. Turner Lumber Company 

 and H. C. Kouston Lumber Company. 



The past winter has been one of the best for 

 logging in Ohio and western Pennsylvania for 

 years. Since Nov. 1 the roads have been frozen 

 nearly all the time and fully two-thirds of the 

 time there has been snow on the ground for 

 skidding in most places. Every mill yard be- 

 tween Pittsburg and Lake Erie is jammed full 

 of logs of every description and throughout 

 western Pennsylvania this year's cut will be 

 exceptionally heavy because of favorable condi- 

 tions during the winter. 



The Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Pittsburg elected the following officers at their 

 meeting Tuesday. March 7 : President. W. E. 

 Terhune ; vice president, J. L. Lytle ; secretary 

 and treasurer, J. H. Henderson ; recording sec- 

 retary, E. G. Brainerd. The officers hold for 

 one year. 



Detroit. 



BroTvnlee & Company have bought the sea- 

 son's cut of a large hardwood mill on the 

 Mackinac division of the Michigan Central. 

 This cut includes nearly a million feet of 

 brown ash. This concern has also made heavy 

 purchases of thick maple and birch, which will 

 be handled by lake. 



Dennis & Smith Lumber Company, extensive 

 local hardwood dealer who operates several 

 mills in West Virginia, has recorded a prize 

 sale in poplar, and it has just sold to one 

 of the large Detroit automobile houses 150.- 

 000 feet of this material for bodies. Tile order 

 calls for widths of from twenty-four to fifty- 

 one inches. The Messrs. Smith of the Dennis 

 & Smith Lumber Company spend nearly all 

 of their time either at the Parkersburg office 

 or at the West Virginia plants of the com- 

 pany ; while Mr. Dennis handles the Detroit 

 end of the enterprise. This company has 

 booked quite a number of large orders during 

 the past month. 



The McCIure Lumber Company reports that 

 the local hardwood trade is fairly good so far 

 as this company is concerned. However, it 

 is conceded that there is not very much to 

 be expected of March generally as a selling 

 month in Detroit. 



In the past The Thomas Forman Company, 

 large producer of hardwood flooring, has se- 

 cured its stock by lake, but now that it has 

 an alliance with Sailing, Hanson & Co. at 

 Grayling. Mich., it will get the most of its 

 maple by cars. A large portion of the Forman 

 Company's flooring output is shipped to the 

 eastern trade. The company maintains a Xew 

 York warehouse, from which it distributes 

 flooring to the metropolitan district. 



William M. Dwight. head of the great hard- 

 wood flooring house of William M. Dwight & 

 Co.. was in attendance last week upon the 

 annual meeting of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association at Philadelphia, and 

 incidentally shook hands with many of his 

 old customers in the East. 



The Detroit city hall is being remodeled at 

 an estimated cost of $150,000. It has been dis- 

 covered that no provision was made in the 

 appropriation for new floors, which are badly 

 needed. The original floors were made of soft 

 woods and by no possible chance can be util- 

 ized much longer. It is figured that new maple 

 floors will cost the city about $10,000. It is 

 thought that an appropriation to cover this 

 needed expenditure will be made and the local 

 hardwood men are getting busy with estimates 

 for the proposed floor. 



Calumet. 

 The Great Lakes Veneer & Panel Company of 

 Grand Marais has secured contracts from the 

 Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company and another large 

 concern owning lands in Alger and adjoining 

 counties for their entire cut of bird's-eye maple 

 logs, which will stock the plant for a long run. 



Repairs at the Marais Lumber Company's mill 

 are nearly completed and operations will be re- 

 sumed March 15. 



The Two Rivers Manufacturing Company of 

 Milwaukee, Wis., has sold to the I. Stephenson 

 Company of Wells all the timber on certain 

 lands located in Wells township, Marquette 

 county. The consideration named in the deed 

 is $25,479.50 and the purchaser is given until 

 June. 1920, in which to remove the timber, 

 which is mostly hardwood. 



A new planer and band resaw are being put 

 in at the sawmill of the cooperage company at 

 Gladstone. The capacity will be increased 50 

 per cent. 



e. A. Bond of Toledo. O., a son of Oliver S. 

 Bond, the well-known banker of that place, and 

 John Garvin, county clerk of Ontonagon county, 

 have purchased practically all the remaining 

 lands of the Diamond Match Company In the 

 upper peninsula. The deal involves 23,500 

 acres, 75 per cent of which are tributary to the 

 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railroad and 

 located in McMillan and Matchwood townships, 

 Ontonagon county. Part of the land is in Iron 

 and Houghton counties. Nearly all the pine 

 has been cut, but there is much hardwood re- 

 maining. Messrs. Bond and Garvin will colo- 

 nize the lands after the remaining timber has 

 been removed. 



General Manager F. J. Merriam of the Upper 

 Peninsula Land Company, Ltd., which main- 

 tains headquarters in Chicago, was in the upper 

 peninsula a few days ago and consummated a 

 deal whereby the title to 35.000 acres of timber 

 land in Schoolcraft county is transferred to the 

 Escanaba Lumber Company of Escanaba, the 

 consideration being $200,000. 



The St. Mary's Mineral Land Company of 

 Boston, Mass.. owns extensive tracts of hard- 

 wood, pine and other timber lands in Houghton, 

 Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties. An expert 

 was recently sent out to make a careful valua- 

 tion of the timber, which was placed at 

 $1,000,000. 



Isaac Stephenson, Col. and Mrs. I. Watson 

 Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown and 

 Howai-d George of Marinette, Wis., attended the 

 inauguration of President Roosevelt. Grant Ste- 

 phenson, who is attending Princeton university, 

 joined the party in Washington to witness the 

 ceremonies. 



Memphis. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis held a 

 meeting at the Hotel Gayoso Sattu-day after- 

 noon, March 4. with the following members 

 present : K. J. Darnell, W. R. Barksdale. John 

 W. McClure, B. Braughton. J. W. Dickson, L. 

 P. Arthur, James E. Starke, W. C. Dewey. E. 

 E. Taenzer. George C. Ehemann. The principal 

 feature of the gathering, which was presided 

 over by President Darnell, was the considera- 

 tion of the compromise delayage and demurrage 

 bill drawn by the Memphis freight bureau to 

 be iubstituted for the two measures dealing with 

 the same subject, which have been reported for 

 rejection by the senate committee. There was 

 considerable discussion regarding this bill, but 

 no action was taken at this meeting. 



The bill in question is in the shape of an 

 amendment to the act creating the railroad com- 

 mission of Tennessee and seeks to confer upon 

 that body the power to name certain regulations 

 covering the receipt, transportation and delivery 

 of freight promptly by the railroads and the 

 unloading of same promptly by the shipper 

 when notified of its arrival, and it I'kewise 

 seeks to clothe this body with the riglit to 

 enforce such reasonable regulations as will safe- 

 guard the best interests of the shippers and 

 receivers of freight. The bill becomes effective 

 just as soon as it is placed on the statute books. 



The following new members were favorably 

 reported upon by the executive board : W, E. 

 Smith of the Three States Lumber Company 

 and the W. E, Smith Lumber Company ; W. H. 



Greble, W. B. Burke. M. R. Perkins, S. C. Ma- 

 jor of the S. C. Major Lumber Company and 

 George C. Burgess, representing L. Methudy of 

 St. Louis. Letters of resignation, based on re- 

 moval from this city, were received from W. S, 

 Denning, connected with the J. O. Nesson Lum- 

 ber Company for some time with headquarters 

 in this city, and Harold Petri, who for a long 

 time had headquarters in the Randolph build- 

 ing, but who returned to his home in Belgium 

 some time last summer. These were accepted. 

 The membership of the club is now 53, every 

 single man in the number now being actively 

 engaged in the lumber business in this city or 

 territory. 



A communication was received from the Nash- 

 ville chamber of commerce, requesting assist- 

 ance in raising funds for the purchase of a sil- 

 ver service to be presented to the armored 

 cruiser ''Tennessee." Secretary George Ehemann 

 was instructed to take the matter up and re- 

 port further. 



Mr. Sullivan, manager of the local office of 

 E. Sondheimer Company, is authority for the 

 statement that the timber is now being cut for 

 the new mill to be erected at Humphrey, Ark., 

 where the company, through recent purchase, 

 has increased its timber holdings to 31,000 

 acres. 'The plant is to contain both a band and 

 circular saw and is to have a daily capacity of 

 about 75,000 feet. A portion of the mill is to 

 be removed from Missouri, while the other part 

 is to be installed new. 



Mr. Sullivan further reports that his com- 

 pany is interested in three new mills which are 

 being erected in Louisiana. The E. Sondheimer 

 Company proposed to advance the necessary 

 money for the operation of the plants and to 

 handle the output of the mills. The style of the 

 firm in each case and the location of the plant 

 follow : Henry & Curtis, Newilton, La. ; Miller 

 Brothers, Enoka. La. ; and W. F. Forbes, Ta- 

 lulah. La. The timber held by the three firms 

 is 3j700. 3,000 and 7,000 acres, respectively. 

 The mill at Newilton will be in readiness for 

 operation within a month, while work is being 

 rushed on the other two as rapidly as possible. 



The Franklin Lumber Company, which en- 

 tered this field a short time ago as wholesaler, 

 is beginning to acquire timber holdings. It 

 has bought S.OOO.UOO to 10,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood timber at Helm. Miss., where it has a 

 mill in readiness for operation, and it has also 

 acquired about 2,000 acres of timber land at 

 Randolph, on Old river, in west Tennessee, 

 where there is also a mill owned by the com- 

 pany. Neither of these mills is doing anything 

 at present, but both will be operated as soon 

 jjs weather conditions are more favorable. The 

 company is negotiating for more timber land 

 and is likewise seeking a site for yards, which 

 are to be established in Memphis. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, ex- 

 porters, has just returned from New Orleans, 

 whither he went because of the large quantities 

 of hardwood lumber in process of shipment to 

 Europe burned in the big fire which destroyed 

 the dock of the Illinois Central. He made the 

 trip in an eflfort to find out something about 

 what loss his firm sustained, but. owing to the 

 fact that the records were burned and that there 

 was so much confusion, he came back without 

 having learned very much. Other exporters 

 made similar efforts, but were likewise uusuc- 

 cessful. 



Some of th« firms engaged in the export busi- 

 ness are now routing their shipments via Mo- 

 bile, Ala., despite the fact that the officials of 

 the Illinois Central have declared their inten- 

 tion of caring for all the business entrusted 

 to them. 



Weather conditions are rather more favor- 

 able, with springlike temperature prevailing. 

 This is greatly facilitating the operation of 

 sawmills in this city and section, though it is 

 still a fact that the mills which are not well 

 supplied with timber are not able to do any- 



