HARDWOOD RECORD 



Dealers' Associatiou. The board is composed of 

 four members, each ot whom receive $100 an- 

 nually and their traveling expenses. 



Miimeapolis. 



The Lamb Hardwood Lumber Company, organ- 

 ized some weeks ago by local stockholders to own 

 and develop a tract lOf hardwood timber in 

 Mississippi, has given the contract for its mill 

 to W. A. Wilkinson of this city. The mill will 

 liave a capacity ot about 40,000,000 feet a year, 

 and will manufacture oak. gum, cypress, ash and 

 hickory lumber for domestic use and for export. 

 The mill is located about seventy-five miles from 

 Memphis, and the company owns 52,000 acres of 

 timber in easy access. The mill will have three 

 band saws and a resaw. H. E. Bacon of this 

 city will be manager of the company, and will 

 make his headquarters at Memphis. The sales 

 office will be in Chicago, in charge ot Otto Lach- 

 mund, formerly of Clinton. Iowa. L. Lamb is 

 president of the Lamb Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany ; G. E. Lamb is vice president, and C. R. 

 Lamb secretary and ti-easurer. 



W. H. .Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip to Chi- 

 cago. He reports that the mill of the Ruby 

 Lumber Company at Ruby. Wis., in which his 

 company is interested, will have a better stock 

 of logs than last year. They find the market for 

 their stock very good, with prices steady and 

 unchanged, and some stocks very scarce, par- 

 ticularly northern oak. 



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

 wholesalers, has been absent several days in 

 Chicago and Cincinnati on business. C. F. Os- 

 borne of the same firm says they have been en- 

 joying an excellent trade, especially from the 

 country yards, which have been calling for wagon 

 tongues, maple axles, basswood wagon box stock, 

 and to some extent for flooring, sending in as a 

 rule mixed car orders. Dry stock ot the sort 

 wanted is very scarce, and will be scarcer before 

 the new cut is ready for handling. 



P. W. Strickland of Barnard & Strickland says 

 there is no trouble in filling orders, and for some 

 reason prices realized for hardwood stocks are 

 no better than they were years ago. 



Local hardwood dealers were recently asked 

 to make prices on 1,000,000 feet of two-inch oak 

 and 1,000,000 feet of maple for dock purposes at 

 Port Arthur, Ont., but no one here went after 

 the order. It would have cleaned out the oak 

 stocks of any dealer, and no one was willing 

 to get rid of all stocks and then have nothing 

 to furnish regular customers. 



The Stevens Cooperage Company has com- 

 menced to manufacture cooperage stock at Dent. 

 Minn., on the line of the Soo extension, and later 

 expects to manufacture hardwood lumber, having 

 some good oak and elm timber convenient. 



Chattanooga. 



The river mills including the Loomis &. Hart 

 Manufacturing Company, the Ferd Brenner Lum- 

 ber Company, Snodgrass & Fields, the F. W. 

 Blair sawmill, the McLean Lumber Company and 

 others are now looking for better things because 

 of the splendid logging tide which has been on 

 here for the past two weeks. During this time 

 over 10.000.000 feet of oak, pine, poplar logs 

 have been floated down from the Clinch and 

 Powell rivers in sections of southwestern Vir- 

 ginia and eastern Tennessee. All of the mills 

 have taken advantage of the tide and they now 

 have a sufficient supply to run them for some 

 time. 



The Berry Stave & Lumber Company, whose 

 plant is located at East End, has a capacity of 

 about 25.000 feet ot lumber per day. The dimen- 

 sion department is now running full time. The 

 concern has recently installed an apparatus for 

 carrying oft the waste material. 



Owing to the fact that the timber is being 

 exhausted, the J. lit Card Lumber Company, one 

 of the largest export concerns in the country, 

 is removing two of its sawmills to new sites. 

 A l>ini! ■n'.vmill formci-ly I'lcntert nl Hollywood, 



Ala., is being removed to the Paint Kock valley 

 where it will saw puplar. basswood and oak tim- 

 ber. The other cme is being removed from 

 Akron, Ala., to Tuscaloosa. It will saw oak, gum, 

 cypress and pine timber. This concern recently 

 sold forty-nine cars of lumber, most of it going 

 to the export trade. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company has now 

 about 4,000,000 feet of lumber in its yards. The 

 concern has placed sawmills recently in Ala- 

 bama. Tennessee and Mississippi. 



M. W. Hart, who was recently employed by 

 a lumber concern in Boston, but who is now 

 dealing in lumber for himself, has purchased 

 considerable stock here recently. 



I. X. Stewart, of the I. X. Stewart & Bro. Lum- 

 ber Company of Buffalo, is a visitor among lum- 

 bermen here. He reports conditions very favor- 

 able throughout the country. 



J. M. Fowler, of the Vase Lumber Company of 

 this city, an officer of the Fowler-Personett Lum- 

 ber Company of Birmingham, is in Birmingham 

 where he is assisting in the work of installing 

 the new plant recently purchased from the Ten- 

 nessee Coal & Land Company, at Crab Orchard. 

 Tenn. 



A. J. Gasley, who was recently connected with 

 the F. W. Blair sawmill of this city, has ac- 

 cepted the position of lumber inspector of the 

 Ferd Brenner Lumber Company as the Cana- 

 dian representative at Toronto. 



J. S. Vernon, lumber inspector of the Williams- 

 Voorhees Lumber Company of this city, will re- 

 sign his position and run a sawmill near Macon. 

 Ga. 



M. M. Erb, traveling representative of the Case 

 Lumber Company, has just returned from a trip 

 throug^i southern Georgia and reports the con- 

 ditions very favorable in that section. He will 

 take a trip to Canada in the interests of his 

 company in the near future. 



H. W. Hunt, of the Case Lumber Company, 

 is now on a trip through western Tennessee. 



S. J. Gray, of the Oscar Gardner Company ot 

 New Orleans, is a visitor among lumbermen Qf 

 this city. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Eastern Michigan is buried In snow drifts 

 again. Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, 

 the weather was moist and mild and the larger 

 portion of the snow had disappeared. In the 

 woods it had not melted but the balmy spring 

 temperature made It shed tears. Sunday the 

 wind chopped to the northeast and a regular 

 blizzard, the worst of the winter with one ex- 

 ception, stalled traffic on the roads and added 

 more than a foot ot snow to the complement for 

 the winter. It will temporarily interfere with 

 the lumber business, but isn't likely to stay long. 



Several mills in the Saginaw Valley are ru'n- 

 ning steadily, cutting hardwood. The Wylie & 

 Buell Lumber Company has recently sold 2.500.- 

 000 feet of maple lumber which is being manu- 

 factured. The mill was operated every day 

 during February and in March to date and the 

 company has been able to get logs to stock It 

 right along. The company hasn't experienced 

 any difflcult.v in finding customers for its stock. 



Kueeland-Bigelow Company is running day and 

 night and has been doing so since June last. 

 The company has sold its beech, ash, elm and 

 basswood for the season, and at better prices 

 than were obtained last year. Everything looks 

 good to this concern and the members say that 

 business Is satistatcory. The concern las 

 5,000.000 feet of hardwood logs skidded by the 

 railroad and ready to come down. 



E. C. Hargrave is cutting hardwood and run- 

 ning his mill every day. He cuts for other 

 parties. The mill will be operated through the 

 year. 



S. L. Eastman manufactured 7.000.000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber last year, it being cut for him 

 at different mills on the Saginaw river. A 

 good portion of this stock went into maple floor- 

 ing. This winter he Is handling only about 



a. (100, 000 teft of maple, which will be sawed at 

 Bay City and then moved to the Eastman plant 

 at Carrol. ton and converted into flooring. He 

 says that busiress is looking up. His plant is 

 in excellent condition for a year of activity. 



J. D. Dancer lias just shipped 28 car loads of 

 selected hard maple and rock elm logs, none 

 measuring less than 24 inches. A number or 

 these logs were 40 feet long and scaled over 

 1.000 feet each. They go to Glasgow. Scotland. 

 A good many cars of birds-eye maple are also 

 shipped from eastern Michigan to Europe. 



Some of the small operators have finished 

 operations in the woods and have broken can^. 

 It is estimated that a pretty good stock of 

 hardwood logs has been put in on the east side 

 of the state. On the Mackinaw division ot the 

 Michigan Central it is calculated more hardwood 

 will be handled than last year. 



The maple flooring factory which the Kerry 

 & Sailing Flooring Company is erecting at Gray- 

 ling, is being pushed ahead as fast as possible. 

 The plant will haudle 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 

 feet annually. 



Maple goes into many uses. The Dayton 

 Last Works at Gaylord has 3.000,000 feet of 

 fine maple logs piled up in its yard which are 

 to be converted into shoe lasts. The Berst Manu- 

 facturing Company of Saginaw handles 3.000,000 

 feet of maple and birch in the manufacture of 

 toothpicks and other specialties. 



The Gale Lumber Company at West Branch 

 cut 3,298.613 feet ot hardwood lumber last sea- 

 son and has put in about 4..'j00.000 feet of hard 

 wood logs during the winter. 



The estate of L. Cornweil is putting in 

 5,000,000 feet of hardwood logs near Wolverine. 



The Stephens Lumber Company at Waters will 

 manufacture about 8,000,000 feet ot hardwood 

 lumber this year. 



J. J, I'lood is cutting hardwood lumber foi' 

 W. D. Young & Co. 



S. G. M. Gates will cut about 2.000,000 feet 

 of hardwood lumber at his Bay City mill. 



The maple flooring business has picked up 

 materially. Prices are looking a little better. 

 The last two years the price list has been un- 

 satisfactory, manufacturers considering It too 

 low tor profit. There are several concerns 

 manufacturing maple flooring, in the Saginaw 

 valley, among them W. D. Young & Co.. Bliss 

 & Van Auken, S. L. Eastman Flooring Company, 

 and C. T. Kerry. A large portion ot the stock 

 manufactured goes abroad, one or two firms 

 shipping the larger portion of their output to 

 Europe. The conditions warrant the belief that 

 a much better condition of trade will be ex- 

 perienced, this year than last. 



Bristol, 'Va.-Temi. 



.1. W. Sproles of Johnson City, Tenn.. was in 

 Bristol last week on his return from a trip 

 over southwest Virginia In the Interest of his 

 business, 



W. R. Stone, Jr.. vice president ot the Stone- 

 Htiiiiig Lumber Company, has returned from a 

 business trip to Johnson City, Tenn. 



E, E. Bradley, president ot the Whiting Lum- 

 ber Company, of Elizabethton, Tenn., and a 

 member ot the firm of .\. B. Bradley & Sons 

 of Bay City, Mich., was a visitor in Bristol 

 last week. Mr. Bradley stated that the \\'hltlng 

 Lumber Company's business at Elizabethton had 

 very materially Improved. 



(Jongressman H. L, Maynard of Virginia and 

 several lumbermen associates left this week for 

 Havana, Cuba, where they go with a view* of 

 closing an option on 73,000 acres of timber 

 land on the Isle of Pines. They are Interested 

 In a project for the development and manufac- 

 ture ot lumber. 



J. T. Newman of Wallace, Va., has purchased 

 a tract of land from John Brogan at Benhams, 

 Washington county. Virginia, and will begin at 

 once to cut the stock. 



J, E, PIppcn, who has been connected with the 



