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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. L. Saunders, president and g**neral manager of the Cummer-Diggjns 

 Company, has returned from a month's trip to Panama, Costa Rica, etc 



W. C. Hull of the Smith & Hull Company and Oyal Wood Dish Com- 

 pany. Traverse City, Mich., is expected home snou from a six weeks' 

 trip to Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico. 



Navigation on Lalie Michigan has opened and hoats are being loaded 

 with lumber for the lake ports. 



The Loud interests of Au Sable have purchased the holdings of the 

 Sterling Cedar & Lumber Company at Charles, Mackinac county, and will 

 operate the mill at that point. They have sufBcient timber to keep the 

 mill in operation for several years. 



The new dock at Petoskey has been completed and is ready for the 

 season of navigation. The ice has left Little Traverse Bay, so the boats 

 may land at Harbor Springs. 



The R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Company, Manistee, through its re- 

 ceiver, the Michigan Trust Company, has purchased 1,000 acres of land in 



Kentucky Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS 



POPLAR, PLAIN AND QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, RED AND SAP 

 GUM, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS- 

 WOOD, HEMLOCK, WHITE PINE 



Mills at 



Burnside, Ky. Williamsburg, Kj . 



Isola, Miss. 



Sales Office 

 Cincinnati, O. 



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! Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers [ 



Richey, Halsted & Quick 



HIGH GRADE SOUTHERN LUMBER 



E. C. BRADLEY LUMBER CO. 



HIGH GRADE WEST VIRGINA HARDWOODS 



GOERKE BUILDING 



Johns, Mowbray, Nelson Company 



OAK, ASH, POPLAR & CHESTNUT 



GUM AND COTTONWOOD 



C. CRANE & CO. 



MANUFACTURERS HARDWOOD LUMBER 



1739 EASTERN AVENCE 



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CONASAUGA LUMBER CO. 



MANUFACTURERS HARDWOOD AND PINE 



FOURTH NATION.^!. B.\NK BUILDING 



KILIN DRIED OAK 



AIND OTHER HARDWOODS 



are one of our many "specialties" which are 

 so satisfactory to others. Why not you? 



Might pay you to get in 

 touch with us. It has others 



THE M. B. FARRIN LUMBER CO. ^ 



Wexford county, estimated to contain 12.000.000 feet of hai-dwoods. in 

 order to fill out its season's cut, which will be the last for that company. 

 The Mitchell Brothers Company's chemical plant at Jennings has been 

 closed for several weeks to make extensive repairs. 



=■< DETROIT y- 



The Thomas Forman Company reports that the flooring trade has opened 

 for the year and is now in full bloom. Owing to the number of buildings 

 started last fall and the number of building permits taken out during the 

 winter, the Forman company anticipated a big rush in the flooring trade 

 early in the spring and during the winter prepared for it. It is in a posi- 

 tion to supply the trade without a moment's delay, and while it is receiv- 

 ing orders in great quantities each day for hardwood flooring, it is not 

 keeping anyone waiting to be supplied. 



George I. McClure reports that business in all lines of hardwoods is 

 very satisfactor.v and that the prices are still very high, with no pros- 

 pect of a reduction for some time, to come. "I have sold 250.000 feet of 

 dry ash this last week and I haven't a foot left." said Mr. MoClure. 

 ■"While I have several cars on the way to our yards from the South, I do 

 not know when to expect them and cannot receive orders calling for im- 

 mediate delivery. I think the railroads are doing their utmost to patch 

 up the damage caused by the floods and expect that within a week or ten 

 days we will be well supplied, but as tliis is a mere supposition on my 

 part I cannot promise my customers anything definite." 



In another week or so Mr. McClure expects that the Iwats will bring 

 down some large cargoes of mixed stock which will benefit the hardwood 

 lumber market materially. The new- dry shed which has been under con- 

 struction for the past two weeks in Mr. McClure's yards is completed and 

 this will enable him to get new dry lumber on the market in large quan- 

 tities at an early date. 



The Brownlee-Kelly Company reports that business is very brisk with 

 no change in price of any kind of hardwood. Its yards are completely 

 cleared of all grades of one-inch birch, one- and two-inch maple and all 

 low grades of hardwoods. However, by this time next week tlie company 

 expects to have at least two boat loads of mixed hardwoods in its yards 

 in Detroit. It has a goodi.v supply of orders on its books for all kinds 

 of hardwoods, and especially for crating lumber. 



F. T. Sullivan, manager of H. II. Salmon & Co., of BufTalo, was a 

 visitor in I)etroit this week. 



W. D. :Magovorn of New Vnrk city was in lielroit this wei'k in the 

 interests of his company. 



.Tohn Lodge, secretary of the Dwlght I.uml)er Company, reports the 

 hardwood flooring trade in a booming condition. Orders and inquiries are 

 coming In in very satisfactory volume and the company looks for an 

 extremel.v bus.v spring. Uough stock has been rather scarce, but It is 

 hoped that relief for this condition will be obtained when navigation 

 opens up. 



S. Ij. Eastman of the S. I-. Kaslman I'^looring Company has returned 

 from New York and reports that the floor business is good, prices having 

 increased. Mr. Eastman Is a heavy stockholder in the S. A. Robinson 

 Lumber Co.. which operates a band sawmill at Goodar. Ogemaw county. 

 The company is building six lines of railroa(> to reach more timber with 

 which to stock the mill. 



A. .1. Borkman will soon etimmence sawing logs at his mill on the 

 Gladstone road near Kscanaba and when the logs on hand are used up 

 will move his mill elsewhere. Mr. Borkman Is negotiating for a tract 

 of hardwood limber and if smcessful will havi' work for several years. 



The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO y 



Conditions in Chicago at present are about on a parity with the con- 

 dition of trade in most of the large distributing points of the country. A 

 slightly noticeable slowness has been manifested locally for a week or 

 two, but in no case is there reported a recession of values nor will the 

 local trade admit that there is any fundamental reason why it should take 

 less for Its stock than It has been getting. It unquestionably is Justified 

 in this belief, as business with almost all of the local consuming factors 

 is brisk and where buyers are showing any hesitancy about placing large 

 orders this hesitancy is not because they cannot use the stock, but because 

 they still believe' that with the Influx of dry nothern wood the market 

 will break. It appears, nowever. an Indisputable fact that the present 

 demand which cannot now lie filled will more than take care of any 

 surplus coming from the North during the next month. 



Building of all kinds is opening up actively all over the city. It is 

 generally conceded that the oflice building district of Chicago is over 

 supplied with oflice space. This fact should result favorably to the 

 lumber trade as Investors In building operations will umiuestlonably turn 

 their at|fention to the erection of speculative flal building and dwelling 

 houses of various kinds. This line of construction consumes a vastly 

 greater amount of hardwoids than do the modern oflice buildings, and 

 it Is lo be hoped that the Inclination toward Investments of these kinds 



