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HARDWOOD RECORD 



are employed. The Babcocks recently had all 

 their foremen In Pittsburg for a business con- 

 ference and banqueted them at the Duquesne 

 Club, besides taking them to a theater party. 

 President W. H. Herbertson of the Cheat 

 River Lumber Company is back in the harness 

 again after a two months' illness with typhoid 

 fever. The Cheat River company lias I.Ttely 

 taken on Richard G. Davis as a hardwood 

 salesman to cover the southern Ohio territory. 

 The company is getting some good orders for 

 low grade hardwood and is fishing out some 

 desirable business from the Buffalo trade. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has 

 closed its plant at Nebra.ska. Pa., for the pres- 

 ent, but is still running its mill at Mayberry, 

 Pa. Its call for switch ties is Just now the 

 hardest thing to satisfy. It announces th.at 

 collections are very much improved and that 

 the situation in all ways is very mucli brighter. 

 The Linehan I^umber Company closed its 

 plant at Catlettsburg. Ky.. to make some much 

 needed improvements over Christmas. It now 

 has accumulated enough orders to keep the 

 plant running for four months. The flooring 

 trade, which is a specialty witli tlie Linehans. 

 is excellent and prices are uniformly good. 

 The company has sold over 200.000 feet of fac- 

 tory flooring lately in addition to marketing a 

 large lot of oak and maple flooring for fine 

 work in apartment houses and office buildings. 

 So far January has turned up more orders for 

 it than the corresponding period in December. 

 The spoke, handle and chair factories of 

 western Pennsylvania are assuming a degree 

 of activity which bodes much good for the 

 hardwood trade in Pittsburg. Evidently they 

 are rushed with orders, for as fast as possible 

 several of them are adding largely to their 

 plants. Two concerns whicli were burned out 

 last year are getting ready to rebuild big plants 

 between Pittsburg and the lake. 



J. J. Mead of the Mead & Speer Company 

 pronounces the outlook much improved over 

 that of a month ago and expects a great im- 

 provement after tlie January settlements are 

 finally adjusted and the inventory season over. 

 While there is comparatively little new busi- 

 ness being booked, the character of the in- 

 quiries tliat are coming in is evidence to him 

 that better days are not far off. 



J. E. McIIvain & Co. have broken into tlie 

 Philadelphia trade pretty strong of late and 

 are getting their full share of the oak business 

 that is on hand. New trade is not coming on 

 as they would like to see it. but they anticipate 

 some good requisitions from the railroads and 

 mills before another month has rolled around. 

 The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is keep- 

 ing a very careful watch of things in the lum- 

 ber world and is governing its big operation at 

 Blackstone. Va., accordingly. Mr. Satler has 

 been fortunate in having an extra large lot of 

 orders on hand at the beginning of the slump 

 which have kept the plant busy. The quality 

 of hardwood and box shook stuff which it 

 manufactures is also a strong puller with the 

 trade and makes the best argument for their 

 salesmen. 



The Furnace Run Sawmill & Lumber Com- 

 pany is putting its men out on the road again. 

 Nelson Beil, president of the company, finds 

 that some good hardwood trade can be secured 

 by going after it hard — and this is just what 

 the company is doing. He reports collections 

 so much improved as not to cause any special 

 worry, owing chiefly to the fact that his com- 

 pany has been pounding very hard on its ac- 

 counts since the first of November by a system 

 that collects. 



Here's a stray one — a mighty cheering 

 morsel: The Acorn Lumber Company, through 

 its president. H. F. Domhoff. a few days ago 

 secured an order for twenty-five cars of oak 

 to be delivered in Ohio. Mr. Domhoff bought 

 the lumber in Kentucky at a price th.Tt leaves 

 him a very nice profit on the deal and has 

 already got his first car through inspection and 

 has the check for it in his pocket. He has also 



recently been working among the lake buyers 

 at Buffalo and Erie with good success. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company has sold 1,300.000 feet of yellow pine 

 lumber for delivery in New Tork harbor. The 

 company bought the lumber in the South and 

 had it shioped to New Orleans, where it is 

 now being loaded on to the two barges. Deni- 

 zen and Allawild. under the direction of A. S. 

 Stewart, tlie Montgomery represent.'itive of the 

 American comp.any. J. G. D.ariing, who looks 

 after the cottonwood operations of this com- 

 pany in the South and Southwest, is unloading 

 a barge of Cottonwood at Cairo, 111., and has 

 two other barges containing 500,000 feet each 

 en route from Arkansas. The American com- 

 pany's trade in cottonwood has kept up sur- 

 prisingly well in the face of the general de- 

 pression and the prospects for a brisk spring 

 business with the specialty, wagon and box 

 manufacturers are excellent, according to Gen- 

 eral Manager J. N. Woollett. 



Buffalo. 



F. A. Beyer invariably coughs when asljed 

 about business and says it has been mostly grip 

 with him of late. He is out again and grad- 

 ually improving. Beyer, Knox & Co. are run- 

 ning their Missouri mills in view of the future 

 oak demand. 



There is demand for elm and ash so that T. 

 Sullivan & Co. are quite busy, with a fair re- 

 ceipt of stock from the Pacific coast. F. T. 

 Sullivan, who has New England for territory, is 

 home for the holidays but will return there soon. 

 F. W. Vetter has gone to the Adirondacks 

 on a visit to his son, who is ill in a sani- 

 tarium there. The yard has been doing a pretty 

 good business of late and has an assortment of 

 stock to meet all demands. 



A. Miller has a fine stock of lumber, as he 

 u.sually has, but he will not put in any more 

 till there is a better demand. He is selling 

 quite an amount about the city, having some 

 good stock that his neighbor dealers want. 



The business of I. N. Stewart & Bro. is al- 

 ways active ; if not in cherry, in oak or chest- 

 nut. The w.atch for good stock in the South is 

 kept up. but new supplies are dependent on 

 sales mostly, as the yard assortment is good. 



The Buifalo Hardwood Lumber Company had 

 a really good December trade and it would be 

 odd if the demand should run down now, after 

 the worst is over. The yard assortment was 

 never better. 



All the McLean brothers paid a visit to their 

 old home in Canada for the holiday season. 

 Their sawmills are all in operation, showing 

 that they have confidence in the future of the 

 trade. 



O. Elias & Bro. are enjoying a fair trade 

 and keeping their mill running strong, as the 

 city building continues good and the mill is 

 rigged for anything in that line. It looks as 

 if building would continue brisk all winter. 



O. E. Yeager is receiving quite a lot of oak 

 and other lumber from the South, and does not 

 complain of the demand, thougli he does not 

 look for it to be active right away. 



The table factory of the Standard Hardwooil 

 Lumber Company is to be made larger this year. 

 It has business enough ahead to bridge over 

 quite a period of slow general trade, if that is 

 to come. 



The oak trade of Scatcherd & Son is good 

 enough to keep the accumulation of logs up in 

 Memphis and the mills will soon be at work on 

 them. The export trade is one of the long suits 

 of this firm. 



The Hardwood Exchange is preparing to send 

 a delegation to New York with the National 

 inspection committee to attend the conference 

 on inspection differences, the meeting being set 

 for Jan. 29. President Stewart will go and O. 

 E. Y'eager, with possibly one other member of 

 the Exchange. The idea seems to be conciliation 

 rather than war, so far as Bulfaio is concerned. 



Detroit. 



James A. White, general sales agent of the 

 W. H. White Company of lioyne City, Mich., 

 with general offices In the Majestic building, 

 Detroit, Is in Chicago on business. 



(leorge L. llenrlon. for many j'cars manager 

 of the Michigan department of the American 

 Car and Foundry Company, died recently at the 

 age of forty-nine yeans. He was recently 

 assistant general manager at the Pittsburg 

 plant. He asked to be brought back to Detroit 

 that he miglit die in the city where he was 

 born. He was one of the best Informed car 

 builders in this country. 



"We have sold about 15.000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood hiiulier since December 1, 1907," Bald 

 Manager King of the Detroit office of the W. 

 n. White Company of lioyne City, Mich. "We 

 did no lumbering through December, but kept 

 bonking orders all the time. We ordinarily 

 lumber more than 50,000,000 feet a year, but 

 that is all we will turn out this year as the 

 demand will probably fall off, making curtail- 

 ment of production advisable. We have three 

 mills running and would have installed another 

 had not this financial trouble came along. We 

 are booking many orders Just now and business 

 prospects are very bright. We are preparing to 

 open a new shingle mill." 



11. Allen Brothers, lumber brokers in the 

 Majestic building, will increase their hardwood 

 operations during the coming year. 



Every manufacturing concern in Detroit on 

 January 6 increased their number of employees, 

 the Wolverine Manufacturing Company and the 

 C. D. Widman Company, furniture manufactur- 

 ers, putting on nearly a thousand men. 



Bay City and Sagiaaw. 



Walter J. McCormick of Saginaw, member of 

 the McCormick-Hay Lumber Company, died at 

 his home Monday, January 6, after an Illness 

 of some duration. As a matter of fact he has 

 not been well the last three years. At the out- 

 set his Illness was diagnosed as Bright's dis- 

 ease and there was supposed to be no help for 

 him. but two years ago he picked up and it 

 was thought he had practically recovered his 

 usual health. But five months ago he began to 

 decline. He was born in Saginaw in 1864, and 

 was the son of the late James L. McCormick, 

 the well known lumberman. He was reared In 

 the lumber industry and it has been his lifelong 

 pursuit. Some years ago he operated in Arkan- 

 sas hardwood, residing at Little Rock, but the 

 climate did not agree with him and he returned 

 home and the McCormick-Hay Company was 

 organized. The company handled Michigan 

 hardwood extensively and also southern oak, 

 and carried on a large and successful business. 

 Mr. McCormick was a member of the Michigan 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and was 

 highly respected in this section. He is survived 

 by a widow, five daughters and two sons. 



A number of operators between Bay City and 

 the straits who closed down in October have 

 gone into the woods and are cutting timber and 

 operating portable mills. 



Bliss & Van Aukcn had a good year in 190C. 

 They manufactured 9.534,914 feet of hardwood 

 lumber and 4.029,922 feet of hemlock. The firm 

 has 3.831,000 feet of hardwood on hand in 

 stock and is consequently in good form to take 

 care of what business is offered. The firm has 

 made a large success in hardwood flooring. 



The Campbell-Brown Lumber Company at 

 Bay City manufactured 1,760,000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber last year, and is carrying in stock 

 700,000 feet. The firm has a lot of logs to cut 

 out during the winter. 



The extensive hardwood plant of W. D. Young 

 & Co. at Bay City on Saturday, January 5, 

 began cutting logs. Monday day and night 

 crews were put on. The mill is first-class and 

 up-to-date. The flooring plant is not yet fin- 

 ished. This plant when fully completed will 

 be much finer than the one burned and will cost 

 considerably more than .1il50,000. It will have 



