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paiij- "11 « record-bronklng plane for October 

 husiness. Without tills order, which Is jiractl- 

 call.v assured, the company has sold more lum- 

 ber til date than any other ttctoher for three 

 years and Is not complalulni; at existing con- 

 ditions, althouah Mr. NUola. nllh other whole- 

 .salers. recosnlzes the fact that things are not 

 moving with the same tremendous activity as 

 one year ago. 



Harherlon. Dhlo. one of the most thrifty towns 

 In the (Jhio river .section of the I'lttshurg dis- 

 trict. Is going to have a hlg woodworiiing plant. 

 It will he erected by Charles \V. Mntliic and the 

 building will be 2110 feet square. Large dry 

 Iviins will also be provided. 



Manager C. G. McCoy of the Advance Lum- 

 ber Company is fairly well satlsfled with mar- 

 ket conditions at present so far as his com- 

 pany Is concerned. Ue anticipated the slump 

 in the lumber market months ago and fortifled 

 his company with a lot of hardwood specialties 

 which are now being worked off to excellent ad- 

 vantage. 



D. L. Helman, the veteran lumberman of 

 Trumbull county. Ohio, has sold to Theodore 

 Kuniz of Cleveland all his holdings in Trum- 

 bull county. Including one of the finest tracts 

 of virgin oak to be found In Ohio or Pennsyl- 

 vania. Last year Mr. Helman. who has been 

 a large operator in ship timbers for years, be- 

 came heavily interested In southern timber prop- 

 erties and will devote all his attention to these 

 hereafter. 



The Llnehan Lumber Company is taking a 

 fair bulk of orders this month and finds the 

 market absorbing quite a variety of hardwoods. 

 Its sales of hardwood Hooring. notably maple, 

 from its plant at Catlettsburg. Ky., are pretty 

 steady and prices are firm through the list. 



The efforts which the Tennsylvanla Forestry 

 Commission Is making to reforest certain dis- 

 tricts, esiieclally the Allegheny mountain slopes, 

 are creating much interest among the lumber- 

 men of i'ittsburg. A few years ago the lumber 

 tralTic on the Allegheny river was one of the 

 mainstays of nttsburg's trade. Now there is 

 not a raft coming down the river and the ma- 

 jority of the operations have ceased. The Pitts- 

 burg Chamber of Commerce and other bodies of 

 business men in western Pennsylvania are do- 

 ing all in their power to aid the commission in 

 its work. 



A. M. l^irner. president of the A. M. Turner. 

 Lumber Company, is .spending two weeks in the 

 South. His reports Indicate that conditions at 

 the mills are slightly Improved over two weeks 

 ago. Secretary O. H. Uectauus of the same 

 company notes a decidedly better demand for 

 low-grade lumber of all kinds. 



The Schuette Lumber Company has made fair 

 progress with its liardwood department during 

 the last few months. It notes a better feeling 

 among the yards In the outlying towns the last 

 few weeks, which would seem to be caused by 

 the fact that contractors are more fortunate 

 there than in the city and have realized on their 

 projects. 



The .Mead & Specr Ccmpuny is having a good 

 trade in all lines of hardwood this fall. Its 

 mills at Strange Creek, \V. Vn., are busy and 

 will make no arrangements for a shut-down this 

 winter. Mr. Mead is on the whole optimistic 

 In regard to the lumber outlook and believes 

 that conditions will right themselves In a few 

 months to the lumbermen's advantage. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company Is In that 

 fortunate condition of being "sold up." Its or- 

 ders are large and numerous enough to keep It 

 busy with shipments until .lanuary. Its new 

 box shook plant is a great addition to Its op- 

 erations and win be one of the most profit- 

 able ventures the company ever engaged In. 



The Henderson Lumber Company announces 

 ihat there is some trouble in moving large lots 

 of Brst-class stock. The lower grades. Mr. Hen- 

 derson says, are selling well. In fact better than 

 a month ago. The trade with coal and coke 

 companieii Is falling off a little but there Is 



still enough of this to Insure good prices for 

 some time to come. Certain lines of hardwood 

 handled by this company are In better demand 

 than for months and are netting a larger per- 

 cirntage of profit. 



.1. N. Woollett, general manager of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber and .Manufacturing Company. Is 

 "doing" the Southwest. Ills hardwood salesmen 

 are scattered over the eastern states and one 

 of thcin has lately made a thorough round-up 

 i>r the Canadian trade. When the American Is 

 not selling lumber there Is something decidedly 

 wrong, for there is a tremendous amount of 

 energy stored up In Its ofllccs in the Publica- 

 tion building which is being very ably directed. 



The Bruckman Lumber Company of Alle- 

 gheny Is this fall (ariylng the largest stock of 

 dry hardwood lumber of any firm In western 

 Pennsylvania. It has for years catered to the 

 wants of the high-grade manufacturing and 

 building trade and has worked up a business 

 with such concerns that justifies it in Us large 

 current outlay for stock. This year it has made 

 a specialty of cherry, which Is cut for It In 

 West Virginia : ash, which It gets mostly from 

 Ohio and Michigan, and real old-fashioned Ohio 

 sycamore, bone dry. Its four large storage yards 

 on the north side are full to overflowing and 

 the piles of cypress and maple are fine. This 

 concern is not worried about any cut in prices 

 or any noticeable slump in demand. It reports 

 the hardwood list very firm and prospects fair 

 for a good winter trade. 



Euffalo. 



F. W. Vetter is finding business good this 

 month In all Hues and does not have to note 

 that there is more lumber coming in than is go- 

 ing out. though that is a good feature of the 

 liardwood trade usually at this time of the year. 



The yard of 0. E. Yeager is always well 

 stocked with hardwood lumber. He is lately sell- 

 ing quite an amount of poplar that he has been 

 taking in from beyond the Ohio, which will 

 make room for more, though the new stock is 

 very hard to get. 



Scatcherd & Son are finding it just as hard 

 to get oak enough to fill orders as it the con- 

 .sumer had not got the idea that there was too 

 much of it. The oak trade is peculiar of late, 

 but will work Itself out soon. 



A. Miller finds that he can sell ash as fast 

 as it comes in and so denies that the market 

 is off in any way. He is willing to buy it 

 green as fast as he can get it, for there are 

 more buyers than sellers of it. 



The yard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is to be enlarged right away, so that 

 it will hold the lumber being rushed up from 

 the South this fall. A large stock of oak, 

 poplar and chestnut Is carried, as usual. 



Hugh -McLean has given up his hunting trip 

 for the present, as so many of the lumbermen 

 who were asked to go with him could not get 

 away for long enough time to make it pay 10 

 take the journey to the preserve in Canaila. 



Beyer. Knox & Co. are complaining of car 

 shortage, especially at their mills In .Missouri, 

 coming just as they are anxious to get the fall 

 cut east and show a solid yard of southwestern 

 hardwoods, as they always do in the fall. 



A. .1. Klias is doubly busy, as usual, never giv- 

 ing up his work at the oflice desk because there 

 are inibllc mailers to occupy his lime. He car- 

 ries on the struggle for Huffalo river Imiirove- 

 ment after every defeat and will win at last. 



I. X. Stewart *: Pro. are finding a good market 

 tor six and eight quarter sound wormy chcst- 

 nue, as well as other things outside of their 

 specialty, which is always Pennsylvania and 

 West Virginia cherry, always adding oak to that 

 list. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are looking for another lake 

 cargo of ash and elm this fall, though they 

 have a good slock of It on hand, not to mention 

 a large amount of Pacific coast fir against the 

 possible freight rate advance next month. 



The Memphis yard of the Buffalo Hardwood 



Lumber Company Is filling up this fall and there 

 Is n very fine stock of oak and the like In the 

 home yard, though the sales have been good 

 right along, with fair prospects for the winter. 

 The State Public Service Commission did not 

 ask lumbermen many (luestlons on Its second 

 visit here, but examined railroad men. trying 

 to discover how they view the situation and how 

 to correct abuses. Both the New York Central 

 and Erie authorities declared that much work 

 was being tlune looking toward better eftlclency 

 and that Improvement would follow. A new 

 Central freight yard next year would do great 

 things In Ihat line. 



Bay City and Saginaw. 



One thing characterizes the hardwood Indus- 

 try In the Saginaw valley, and that Is that all 

 season every plant and factory has been stead- 

 ily In oijeratlon and every one now Is up to 

 capacity In the matter of orders, a most hopeful 

 condition of the industrial activity and health 

 in this portion of the country. 



W. D. Y'oung Sc Co. have a large force of 

 men clearing up its premises for the new plant 

 which Is I0 replace the one destroyed. The M. 

 (jarland Company has the contract for a new 

 band mill for this plant, which will be up-to- 

 date In every particular. The Garland company 

 has also taken an order for a single band mill 

 lor \\ . 11. While Company of Boyne City, and 

 is putting in a l)and mill outfit for S. F. Derry 

 & Co. at Millersburg, Mich. It also furnished 

 the band and resaw machinery for the Itichard- 

 son Lumber Company's new sawmill at Bay 

 City, the machinery In which Is Installed, and 

 the mill will be ready for operations early In 

 December. 



' The Kneeland-Blgelow Company of Bay City 

 last week purchased l.SSO acres of mixed tim- 

 ber land in Montmorency county from the W. H. 

 White Company. This timber adjoins 2.L'U(i 

 acres bought by this company from the White 

 company a few weeks ago. The deal last week 

 takes in land estimated to contain nearly 2.3.- 

 I iiii.iiiiii liet of timber. Since the licginuing of the 

 year the Kneeland-Blgelow Company has bought 

 between six and seven thousand acres of timber 

 land estimated to cut over 100.000,000 feet of 

 timber, all of which will be taken to Bay City 

 to be manufactured. The company is running 

 four logging camps in Montmorency county. The 

 W. H. White Company still owns nearly 40.000 

 acres of hardwood limber east of the line of 

 the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central, 

 all of which Is on the market, and it is expected 

 that a lot more of it will he bought by Saginaw 

 valley lumbermen. 



The Strable Manufacturing Company's itew 

 hardwood flooring mill at Saginaw Is meeting 

 the expectations of Its owners and has plenty 

 of business offerlngi with flattering prospects 

 lor the winter. 



Willis U. Van Aukcn of the firm of Bliss ft 

 Van Auken, who has been In poor health the 

 hist two years. Is reported to be considerably 

 Improved. The firm Is having all the business 

 Its Saginaw |ilant can handle, and the season 

 has been satisfactory. 



The Flege Desk Company at Saginaw con- 

 sumes a large quantity of Michigan hardwood 

 timber in the mahufacture of lis products, the 

 greater portion of which goes abroad. It has 

 n<iw orders for $40,(1(10 worth of imanufactured 

 goods, all for foreign markets, and It has more 

 orders booked than It can fill this year. In 

 the packing rooms arc now ?4.0II0 worth of 

 desks in "knockdown" sliape. crated for Carte- 

 gena. South America. A lar^te amount of addi- 

 tional machinery Is being Installed In the plant, 

 which will materially Increase Its capacity. In 

 I III' iiiaKIng of the desks, oak, walnut and 

 mahogany Is extensively utilized. 



The .Michigan 'Wagnii Works and Manufaclur 

 Ing Comiiany began work at St. .lohns, Clinton 

 county, last week with a force of fifty iinMi. 

 which will shorlly be doubled. The capital -Im k 

 is $50,000. 



