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petltors. especially If they could see his large 

 proporlinn of prompt returns. 



The riint. Ervlnc & Stoner Company is not 

 depresswl over the present lumber situation. It 

 has all Its operations well in hand and is roll- 

 ing up a list of hardwood orders that will make 

 lis 1007 business show up mighty well on Its 



tMH>kS. 



\V. K. MiMUlan Is getting the alfairs of his 

 ■ \v company on a good working basis and his 

 uew offices In the Schmidt building always pre- 

 sent busy scenes. The company's mill near Elk- 

 Ins. W. Va.. is running steadily. 



The Nicola Lumber (I'ompany is moving good 

 quantities of lath and shingle as well as good 

 slocks of building lumber. Its officials are 

 doubling their efforts and flndlng good customers 

 by hard work who are willing to pay first class 

 prices for the right sort of stock when it is de- 

 livered as promptly as the Nicola company do 

 It. 



■Things are moving along just as well as 



iild be expected." said J. F. Balsley, hardwood 

 manager tor the Willson Brothers Lumber Com- 

 pany, the other day. This means that the Will- 

 sons are getting enough business to make them 

 sure of a big year's total in spite of the slow 

 market the past two months. 



W. 11. Ward, who lately Joined the forces of 

 the Interior Lumber Company, is taking a 

 couple of weeks to size up the stocks in the 

 Northwest. Secretary J. G. Criste of this com- 

 pany says that the company's deals made re- 

 cently in Pennsylvania are bringing It some very 

 good results. Tresident J. R. Edgett is still in 

 the South. 



Two things are evident to the most casual 



>erver of lumber affairs and conditions in 

 • icater Pittsburg. One is that the building situ- 

 ation Is going to be easier after February 1 un- 

 less all signs fail. Labor is very much easier 

 to deal with than a year ago and is becoming 

 more pliable every day as the ranks of unem- 

 ployed men all over the country are augmented. 

 While it is not expected that the wage scales 

 will be materially reduced, it is a practical cer- 

 tainty that better men can be secured and that 

 they will do a better day's work than at any 

 time In the past three years. Architects all 

 over the city report more encouraging prospects 

 and say that many builders who shelved their 

 projects last year are ordering new estimates 

 taken. 



The other favorable omen is the certainty of 

 a Greater Pittsburg. Now that the law has been 

 declared constitutional the uniting of Pittsburg 

 and Allegheny is only a formality and a dozen 

 boroughs are already clamoring for admission. 

 Over ?15,000,000 worth of public building pro- 

 jects have been announced already. It is safe 

 to say that some of these will go ahead next 

 spring as well as many other municipal projects 

 which have been held up temporarily pending 

 the outcome of this matter. The greater city 

 will contribute not a little, it is expected, to 

 next year's business and will aid very mate- 

 rially in getting better car and switching ser- 

 vice In Allegheny county. 



Buffalo. 



Three hardwood lumber concerns were repre- 

 sented in the annual election of the Manufac- 

 turers' Club on December 2. Frank A. Beyer 

 was elected president, A. J. Ellas was made 

 first vice president, and I. N. Stewart one of 

 the trustees. This Is a large body of business 

 men and has done much good work. The city 

 Is waking up to the value of business enter- 

 prises, especially the pushing of manufacturing 

 Interests, Iron leading, 



M. M. Wall has returned from a short trip to 

 Mount Clemens and will take up the winter's 

 work of looking after his share of the numerous 

 branches of business carried on by the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company or Its individual 

 members. 



They arc still saying that A. Miller has a 



faculty for buying hardwood luml>er easy and 

 they never say that he cannot sell It, though 

 It is not to anybody's advantage to push sales 

 very eagerly Just at present. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company Is 

 as usual carrying a yard full of oak and pop- 

 lar, with more or less ash and chestnut, but 

 will let the southwestern sawmills go slow a 

 while, till it is known how the winter trade 

 will shape up. 



0. E. Ycager is finding already that his trade 

 is coming back, and he is of the opinion that 

 It will be all right in a comparatively short 

 time, especially with woods that did not go off 

 to any extent In price. 



The yard of F. W. Vettcr is showing consid- 

 erable activity for an off season, and good 

 stocks of lumber are constantly arriving to 

 make up for sales. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. arc still successful in 

 following the old course — when In doubt sell 

 cherry. The firm has done so much of that 

 right along that it is no easier said than done. 

 The yard carries other hardwoods, too. 



The dockyard of T. Sullivan & Co. Is full of 

 lately-received Michigan hardwoods, with elm 

 and black ash leading. It will be necessary 

 to go slow with Pacific coast lumber till freight 

 complications are over. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company Is keep- 

 ing all its sawmills running at a rate that will 

 bring in a good lot of stock when the demand 

 increases. The company is optimistic regard- 

 ing conditions and looks for an early resump- 

 tion of buying. 



Scatcherd & Son are always looking out for 

 oak in their eastern trade and will run their 

 Memphis mills as fast as they can to provide 

 the stock. 



The organization of the Bathurst Lumber 

 Company is announced. It has for its purpose 

 the development of a large tract of timber at 

 Bathurst, N. B., bought some time ago by a 

 syndicate composed of members of the Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company, the Haines Lumber 

 Company and C. M. Carrier of Buffalo. Mr. 

 Carrier and M. E. Preisch have gone to Bathurst 

 to perfect the organization and look over the 

 operations. The election of officers will be held 

 when they return. Work on quite a large cut 

 of timber, mostly spruce and cedar. Is in prog- 



Detroit. 



The Acme Box Company has reorganized and 

 elected new officers. Douglas D. Flanner and 

 Henry W. Reeves of Flanner & Reeves, who for 

 the past two years have been heavy stockholders 

 and president and secretary-treasurer respec- 

 tively of the company, have withdrawn from the 

 concern altogether. The business was formerly 

 conducted by Arthur Yeomans and run under 

 the name of the Yeomans Box Company. Finan- 

 cial difficulties, due to the failure of the Ameri- 

 can Box & Lumber Company, placed Mr. Yeo- 

 mans under obligation to Flanner & Reeves. 

 Pending the payment of these obligations the 

 capital stock and obligations of the company 

 were turned over to Flanner & Reeves, who were 

 to reconvey the stock to Mr. Yeomans upon pay- 

 ment of the Indebtedness. All the Indebtedness 

 has now been paid off and the Yeomans are 

 again in complete control. The officers of the 

 company now are : President, Arthur Yeomans : 

 vice president, E. J. Marshall ; secretary-treas- 

 urer, Fred U. Yeomans. The business of the 

 company has been advancing rapidly of late. 



The -McClurc Lumber Company la In a rather 

 unsettled condition at present, the company's 

 affairs being in •the hands of ex-Gov. John T, 

 Rich, acting as trustee. G. Jay Vinton of the 

 Vinton Company, contractors and builders, was 

 heavily Interested In the enterprise, which In- 

 cluded hardwood yards In Detroit and extensive 

 pine mills In Alabama. It Is understood that 

 the McClure brothers are out of the firm alto- 

 gether. George McClure, one of the members of 



the company, has opened an ofllc« at T23 Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, where he has already taken 

 large orders for hardwood lumber. 



An order for hardwood flmirlng for the entire 

 new IS-story Ford building was furnished by 

 the retail (Irm of Iloldcn. Miller i Murray, from 

 the factory of the Thomas Forman Company at 

 the Rouge. 



The affairs of the Kellcy Lumber & Shingle 

 Company of Traverse City, Mich., arc now Id 

 the hands of a receiver. A Detroit firm of law- 

 .vers are trying to settle up the affairs of the 

 company. 



"I believe that the price of lumber will be 

 away up out of sight next spring and that busi- 

 ness will be better than it has ever been be- 

 fore," said George McClure, upon bis return from 

 Cincinnati and the East recently. "The mills In 

 many places are shutting down now for various 

 reasons, which will mean that when the rush of 

 the building season starts next there will not 

 be near enough lumber on hand. " 



The Brownloe-Kclley Company, with offices In 

 the Telegraph Building, report the hardwood 

 trade is in satisfactory condition at present. Al- 

 though operations are not altogether active, Mr. 

 Kellcy looks for the real rush to start about the 

 middle of January. 



A noticeable improvement In the shipping fa- 

 cilities at Detroit have been made during the 

 past month, as a result of the officials of the 

 Board of Commerce and the Wholesalers' .\8so- 

 clation having stirred up the railroads. 



Bay City and Sagina'w. 



The hardwood industry in this section has 

 fared as well as any other industry since the 

 financial upset. It has fared better in fact thaa 

 some. Just now there Is not much stock moving 

 and It is not expected that trade will pick up 

 until after the new year. Manufacturers arc 

 going to adjust the balances of the year and 

 take an account of stock before squaring away 

 for another year's business. One feature of the 

 situation is that stocks are greatly reduced and 

 hence the trade is not confronted with an excess 

 in production. 



Figures showing production have not yet been 

 compiled, but Saginaw and Bay City mills will 

 not make as good a showing, it is expected, as 

 last year. The mill of W. D. Young & Co., 

 which has been cutting 17,000,000 to 20,000,000 

 feet annually for years, was burned September 

 2, and thus three months' run was cut out. 

 The new mill will shortly be ready to begin 

 sawing. The new Richardson Lumber Company's 

 mill Is also about ready to run. It Is modern 

 throughout and one of the best equipped in its 

 line. The company will bring logs down from 

 Montmorency county. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company mill Is run- 

 ning day and night. Mr. Blgelow says that 

 trade Is In healthy tone In so far as the outlook 

 for the next season Is concerned. This concern 

 cats largely on yearly contracts and he says the 

 people to whom he has furnished stocks right 

 along have advised him they will be In the field 

 to figure for another year. The present year he 

 furnished about 15,000,000 feet to the S. L. 

 Eastman Flooring Company. A large portion of 

 this was maple. The company Is operating four 

 logging camps In Montmorency county, a train- 

 load of logs coming to the mill every day. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Blgelow Company mill 

 is running ten hours a day and will continue 

 during the winter. This mill Is stocked by 

 Frank Buell. The manager says that the output 

 of both of these mills the ensuing year will be 

 as large as that of the present ye.nr. it being 

 the intention to cut about •12,000,000 feet. Mr. 

 Buell Is operating eight logging camps and is 

 now sending 100 cars loaded with saw logs to 

 the Saginaw river every twenty-four hours, hav- 

 ing Increased the output thirty cars the last 

 week. A portion of these logs go to Bliss & 

 Van Auken, who have experienced a successful 

 season. 



