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lliroiigli the country next year and wltliin the 

 Inst two weeks their rotjuisitlons hullcale that 

 they see miieh brishter tiuios ahead. 



Fred I!. Ualicmk of tlie liahiock lumber In- 

 ii'resls |)Uts the himber sllualUui in ml(;hty terse 

 and sensiliK- terms. "When the bis buyers begin 

 to pet into tlie market again after January 1 

 lliev will want lumber mighty quick and mighty 

 liad. and the man who can ship them O. K. dry 

 stock right olT the reel is going to get their 

 business." 



\V. B. Enos & l"o. of Allegheny report some 



new requisitions coming in this week, chiefly 



from the casket manufacturers. This firm has 



been located in Allegheny, now the North Side, 



for more than twenty years and carries a first 



lass stock of hardwixid lumber both for build- 



I- and manufacturers. 



1. i". lialsley. hardwood manager of Ihe Will- 



•u Itrothers Lumber Company, says that the 



.'■nerai average of hardwood prices is if any- 



iiing a trifle higher than one year ago. He 



iirther makes the encouraging statement that 



ihe Wiilson company had sold more hardwood 



lumber up to November 15 than during the 



whole of 190G. 



The C. 1'. Caughey Lumber Company report a 

 ''•■w cancellations from good buyers, notably one 



I two railroads wiiich have ordered all ship- 

 ments held up until after .January 1. This com- 

 pany has been furnishing a tine lot of oak to 

 the railroad and coal companies this fall and 

 has its mills in ^^'ashingtou county running 

 full. 



The W. L. Uussell Uox & Lumber Company 

 has linaliy secured a site^at McKees Uocks. Pa., 

 and will build a lar,ge box factory to be ready 

 for operation l>y March 1. 



The plant of tlie I'arkershurg Mill Company 

 at rarkcrsburg. \V. Va.. was burned December 

 IS. The company nuinuf.ictures interior wood- 

 work and its loss will be about .$100,000. 



Cood news to Pittsburgers is the announce- 

 ment that 1". K. Longvvell, lumber buyer for the 

 .National Casket Company, who for some years 

 past has made his headquarters at the company's 

 plant at Iloboken. N. J., has transferred his 

 office to Pittsburg, where he will be located in 

 the Monongabela Bank building at Liberty ave- 

 nue and Wood street. 



The Sujierior Ilroom Company is going to 

 ■ ■rect a big broom fattory at Williamstown, W. 

 Va. Machiner.v will be installed early in Jan- 

 uary and Ihe plant will be running full by Feb- 

 ruary 1, it is announced. 



C. S. Hoftou, president of the Central Penn- 

 sylvania Lumber Company, died December 18 at 

 Willlaiusport, I'a., at the age of 45 years of 

 apoplexy. He was one of the best known lum- 

 bermen in Pennsylvania, having been formerly 

 connected witli the firm of Hoi-ion. Crary & Co. 



J. X. Woollett. vice president of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, believes that 

 the wise hardwood buyer is the man who gets his 

 nrders in now and takes advantage of the lull 



II business to get good lumber and quick ship- 

 ments. With all signs pointing to a bigger build- 

 ing activity next year Mr. Woollett is encour- 

 aged to think timt there will be quite a revival 

 of hardwood buying after February 1. 



Buffalo. 



The hardwood dealers ar-e. as a rule, staying 

 at home at present, as they do not care to urge 

 their mills to greater activity. J. B. Wall is 

 in the Southwest, but he went mostly to take 

 iuventorii»s and look after existing stock. 



T. Sidlivan & Co. have put their new office 

 site into line shape and have all the lumber that 

 ili-^ trade Is likely to want right away, especially 

 IS it is mostly asli. elm and fir, which are any- 

 ibing but plerty in tlie genei*al market. 



J. -N. Scale herd has made a trip to Memphis 

 this month to get his sawmills in line for run- 

 ning, as there were logs coming in and with a 

 short stock f-f oak on hand more will be needed 

 as soon as it can be made ready for market. 



Angus McLean is secretary of the new Bnth- 



Ufst Lumber Company of New Brunswi k. 

 which Senator W. C. Fdwards of Ottawa Is pres- 

 ident. C. M. Carrier vice president, M. F. Preisch 

 treasurer and general manager and B. F. Jack- 

 son assistant secretary and treasurer. Spruce 

 and pine arc the principal products of the con- 

 cern. 



O. i:. Yeager finds trade not very slack. He 

 seems to have lumber that Is wanted and he be- 

 lieves the slack season is limited and prices 

 will rtsume former standard shortly. 



The Hardwood Fxchange has been talking 

 inspection rules some of late, but I'resldent 

 Stewart does not find that much action has been 

 taken, so It may be said that the hardwood 

 interests here are not ready to move in the 

 matter yet. 



The big mill of C. Ellas & Bro. is about as 

 active as ever. The yard may go slow if it 

 must, as there will be plenty to do with all the 

 building operations that have to he taken care 

 of now. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. are finding business slow, 

 but will need oak lumber by the time it is 

 marketable and so are keeping their Missouri 

 mills running at something of a pace against 

 that time. 



F. W. Tetter is keeping up trade, selling 

 something from each variety, and as he did 

 not have a heavy stock to begin with. Just an 

 assortment, he has been adding some oak and 

 ash to it lately. 



A. Miller is away on business, and having a 

 fine assortment of lumber, such as he always 

 carries, he is not anxious to pick up any more 

 just now, though he will want some more later 

 on when business is business again. 



The table mill of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is running strong and con- 

 tinues to prove the good move that It promised 

 to be when it was set up. The market may 

 be slow awhile, but the company expects an 

 early change and will be ready to take care of 

 trade when it returns. 



Detroit. 



M. .1- Tlu'iscu. prominent in Delroil and Michi- 

 gan lumber circles, has filed a trust mortgage 

 for a large amount. U is said he has outstand- 

 ing obiigatbms of about $250,000. Charles W. 

 Warren of the Dime Savings bank. Charles W. 

 Leach, late of the Leach-Koach Company, and 

 ' Paul Moody, attorney, have been appointed as a 

 board of trustees until -Mr. Tlieiseus business 

 affairs can be straightened out. Some years ago 

 .Mr. 'J'heisen purchased from Frederick Sibley a 

 tract of 240 acres of hardwood near Trenton. 

 Mich., which he has been lumbering. He had 

 Just about finished the work and tlie deal was 

 fairly successful. However, Mr. Theisen was 

 interested in a southern lumber concern known 

 as Ihe Bigsbec Theisen Company, which was not 

 so successful as other ventures. 



William L. Brownlee of the nrownleeKelley 

 Company, hardwood dealers in the Telegraph 

 building, has just returned from Mayvllle, Mich., 

 where he has been superintending the. lumbering 

 of a large tract of hardwood which his company 

 purchased last year. Mr. Brownlcc says his com- 

 pany is going right ahead with its lumbering 

 operations, despite the presi'nt condition of the 

 money market, in the lirm belief that nuitters 

 will be easier very soon. 



■•This financial strlngen<y was a good thing 

 for a lot of firms who were in the habit of hav- 

 ing tludr obligations habitually extended,'" said 

 a well-known bardwwid lumberman recently. "No 

 one has failed In Detroit but should have failed. 

 They were not doing business right, and this 

 finaiicial flurry Just skimmed them to the surface 

 and showed them up. Why. some operators or 

 dealers were In the habit of giving a note even if 

 they bought a shirt. Now that Is no way to do 

 business. They have no right to think that busi- 

 ness will always continue good: they should 

 allow for a little slack. Then when a little tight- 

 ness comes they are prepared fin- It. I do not 

 blame President Koosevelt for this trouble, but 



am rather Inclined to agree with Assistant Sec- 

 retary of the Navy Newberry, who said It was 

 engineered by the Standard Oil crowd. At the 

 same time I think it was done to get rid of 

 these fellows who extend their credit too far 

 and who ask loo muih credit themselves." 



Bay City and Saginaw. 



Save In stoppage of buying an<l selling, condi- 

 tions here have not been so bad. .Most of the 

 mills have been running right along and the 

 regular operatius have their woods crews at 

 work. The .Michigan Central has increased the 

 obtained at $22 to $30 a month. There is 

 good sleighing from the Saginaw river to the 

 Straits of Mackinac and loggers are doing good 

 work. Tile Michigan Central has increased the 

 logging trains and 150 cars of logs come to the 

 river every twenty four hours. . During the pres- 

 ent year this roa<i has hauled over its .Mackinaw- 

 division l.'io.uoo.ooo feet of saw logs. 



The Kneeland lilgelow mill is running day and 

 night and it is the expectation that it w-ill con- 

 tinue so during the winter unless market condi- 

 tions should materially change. The Kneeland. 

 Buell & Bigelow mill is running ten hours a day. 



The new Uichardson Lumber Company mill is 

 practically finished and ready for business. Its 

 stock will come from Montmorency county. 



Walter D. Young & Co.s sawmill will be in 

 shape to begin sawing some time in January it 

 is now expected and work on other departments 

 of the plant is progressing favorably. 



Negotiations are on for a deal which will ab- 

 sorb the Flood sawmill at Bay City and stock 

 it for a number of years by rail. It Is very 

 conveniently located. 



N. B. Bradley & Sons have suspended opera- 

 tions at Elizabeth, Ky., where they have 

 been operating a number of years, and the 

 property is on the market. There is some Go.- 

 iioii.ooo to .SO.OOO.OOO feet of fine hardwood tim- 

 ber in connection with the mill property. 



Buyers north of .-Vlpena on the Detroit & 

 Mackinac railway are picking up all the hee;-h 

 and birch logs they can find and are offering $8 

 and $0 a thousand. The money panic has cui- 

 taiied operations to some extent In all the coun- 

 tr.v north of the Saginaw river. There are not 

 quite so many logs being put in and the output 

 of lumber will be less. 



White & WlLson are putting in 0.000.000 feet 

 of logs in Ogemaw county fur the Gates estate 

 of Bay City and they will be railed to the mill. 



The failure of Boss Bros, of Beaverton has 

 hit some people a severe blow-. Among those 

 who are feeling the shock is Charles Keuhle of 

 Saginaw, an active operator In hardwood lumber 

 a number of years, who has done a prosperous 

 business and had extensive dealings w-lth Boss 

 Bros. It is thought 50 cents on the dollar w-111 

 lie realized by the creditors. 



Last week the Saginaw- Valley Lumber Deal- 

 er.s" .\ssociatlon held its annual meeting and 

 feed at Saginaw at the Club. There was a full 

 attendance and the event was enjoyable. Oflicers 

 elected were : President, A. W. Seeiey, Saginaw ; 

 vice president, John Miller, Bay City; secretary, 

 II. C. Hyde, Saginaw : treasurer, B. C. Bingham, 

 Saginaw. 



Illchard Jones of Bay City recently bought 

 the site of the old Mackinac Lumber Company's 

 plant at St. Ignace and has erected a san-mlll. 

 lie will build a refuse burner and run a shingle 

 mill in connection. . 



The Stephens Lumber Company will run one 

 of lis mills at Waters, on the Mackinaw division 

 of Ihe Michigan Central, during the w-lnter. The 

 ■ company manufactui-es mixed timber. 



Grand Bapids. 



The annual meeting of sio<;kholders of the 

 Boyne City Lumber Company »-as held In this 

 city December 18, result Ing In reelection of the 

 following officers and directors: President, W. H. 

 White : vice presment, Thomas White : treasurer. 

 Henry Idema : secretary. W. L. Martin; board 



