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visited the city after the annual meeting of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, and since then the matter has received 

 consideration on the part of the lumbermen 

 here. Last Monday J. H. O'Brien, secretary of 

 the Cleveland Lumbermen's Club, was here, ac- 

 companied by Mrs. O'Brien, and was entertained 

 by the exchange, a special meeting being held. 

 at which the methods employed in Cleveland 

 were explained by him. A number of the re- 

 tailers of this city were present at the meet- 

 ing. 



While final arrangements have not yet been 

 concluded, there is every prospect that this 

 city will shortly have a storage place for hard- 

 wood lumber and logs intended for export. 

 The need of such a depot has long been felt, 

 and was to have been obviated years ago by the 

 formation of the Locust Point Terminal and 

 Forwarding Company, which purchased water 

 front property at Locust Point and began the 

 construction of a pier, but before this improve- 

 ment could be completed the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad Company came along and pur- 

 chased the wharf for an extension of the im- 

 migrant piers. The terminal company was after- 

 ward disbanded, but recently the enterprise was 

 revived and negotiations for property eligibly 

 situated near the docks has so far advanced 

 as to promise a favorable outcome. It is likely 

 that arrangements for a yard with track con- 

 nection may be completed in the near future. 



George M. Speigle, chairman of the trans- 

 portation committee of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, was here on April 6 in 

 connection with the movement to secure clean 

 through bills of lading, a subject which has 

 been before the association for some time past 

 He met several other members of the commit- 

 tee and discussed with them the steps to be 

 taken to render the movement effective. 



Nothing definite has yet been done with re- 

 spect to the movement started by George W. 

 Eisenhauer, E. P. Baer and David T. Carter 

 to affect an organization of the hardwood firms 

 in this city as an auxiliary to the lumber ex- 

 change. The matter has been discussed and 

 has been generally received with favor. As 

 has been explained, there is no feeling of an- 

 tagonism toward the exchange, the idea having 

 its inspiration in the belief that a separate 

 organization, made up exclusively of hardwood 

 men, will be able to deal more effectively with 

 the questions relating to that particular branch 

 of the trade than a general body. 



The new plant of the Broadbent & Davis 

 Mantel Company has been put in operation and 

 is running at its full capacity. The factory is 

 to be numbered among the most complete in- 

 dustrial establishments of this city and is 

 equipped with all the latest machinery. It 

 is of brick and five stories high, with a boiler 

 house, dry kiln and other additions, that enable 

 the company to conduct operations under the 

 most advantageous conditions. It is convenient 

 to railroads and to the wharves, and especially 

 at the present time its output is in strong 

 request. Besides mantels the company turns 

 out interior woodwork, consuming annually 

 large quantities of oak, ash, mahogany and 

 other woods. 



J. W. Dixon of the J. W. Dixon Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis, Tenn., was a visitor in the 

 city last week. Mr. Dixon is on a tour through 

 the East, looking after business for his com- 

 pany, and called on a number of hardwood men 

 here. 



Baltimore hardwood men entertained this 

 week two visitors from abroad, F. W. Barth of the 

 well known firm of F. W. Barth & Co., Dussel- 

 dorf, Germany, and W. H. Ashton of Duncan, 

 Ewing & Co., Liverpool. Both of these firms 

 are widely known and their representatives 

 now in this country will visit the lumbering 

 regions and otherwise strengthen their busi- 

 ness connections. 



Gustave Farber of Trice & Heald was at home 



for a week recently, but has again returned to 

 North Carolina, where he is superintending the 

 development of a timber tract in the interest 

 of his firm. 



David T. Carter of Carter, Hughes & Co. 

 has gone on a business trip to Pennsylvania. 



Rudolph Mottu of Mottu & Buckingham has 

 returned from a trip to Virginia, south of 

 Staunton, where he went to see the mill of his 

 firm put in operation, and last week he left 

 for Europe, to be gone about two months. 



Buffalo. 



The hardwood dealers here have completed the 

 preliminary arrangements for the National Con- 

 vention next month, and will now look for the 

 outside members to do their part by a big at- 

 tendance. 



Vicegerent Snark Chestnut has issued a call 

 for a concatenation of the Order of Hoo-Hoo 

 on April 25, with prospect of a good class to 

 take into membership. 



G. Elias & Brother, having considerably en- 

 larged their mill, will soon be receiving a good 

 lot of hardwood lumber by lake. 



0. E. Yeager reports an improvement in the 

 demand for chestnut and a rather reduced stock 

 of southern hardwoods. As to plain oak, the 

 way to get It is to bring it in "dead green" and 

 wait for it. 



The Empire Lumber Company reports the best 

 business during the past ten days that it has 

 had in a long time. F. W. Vetter is at the 

 Arkansas mills of the company, which he keeps 

 buzzing. 



1. N. Stewart & Brother find that their old 

 specialty, cherry, is doing well and they are 

 putting in more, along with an assortment of 

 other hardwoods, as one helps sell another. 



Taylor & Crate report the sale of quite a 

 block of basswood, though as a rule it is not 

 selling quite as readily as other woods. The 

 oak production at the company's southern mills 

 is quite satisfactory. 



A. Miller will soon be looking southward for 

 more hardwood lumber. His stock is still good, 

 though it has moved off quite satisfactorily 

 through the winter, so that new supplies have 

 been needed right along. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 begun the movement of lumber northward by 

 river barges in order to add to the dispatch. 

 The Buffalo yard Is doing its usual good business, 

 especially in ash. 



Scatcherd & Son will add to their timber holding 

 in the Memphis district as soon as possible, 

 as their oak mills there will need it all, though 

 pretty well supplied with logs at present. 



Hugh McLean is in New York, still too good 

 a salesman to do much office work. The various 

 companies in his list are very active, and lum- 

 ber moves out from the mills in a steady stream, 

 oak taking the lead always. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 reports that oak goes out at the rate of twenty 

 miles an hour, and of course it is doing all 

 it can to bring in enough to keep up the average 

 in other woods also. 



Grand Rapids. 



L. L. Skillman of the Longfellow & Skillman 

 Lumber Company is spending a few days in 

 northern Michigan, where the company is oper- 

 ating. 



H. C. Angell of Wagner & Angell reports an 

 excellent trade for his firm this year. 



W. O. Hughart. Jr., is still at the Alma sani- 

 tarium seeking relief from rheumatic troubles, 

 and in tha meantime his brother, O. O. P. 

 Hughart, is in charge of the offices here. 



A. W. Bloomer of Kalkaska, a buyer of bird's- 

 eye maple, was instantly killed recently by a 

 falling tree, while looking after the cutting of 

 some timber about twenty miles from his home. 



D. A. Stratton, formerly in the handle man- 

 ufacturing business at Onaway, was in Grand 

 Rapids April 20 and states that he will put In 



a handle plant at Tower this spring. He Is 

 planning to erect a building 60x120 feet, costing 

 about $12,000, and giving employment to thirty 

 men the year round. Mr. Stratton Is an ex- 

 perienced handle man. 



It is probable that Tustin will have a planing 

 mill this year, as the result of negotiations be- 

 tween the Tustin Manufacturing Company and 

 Dennis Brothers of this city. It is proposed to 

 remove the machinery from a plant now at 

 Stronach, near Manistee, and to handle the cut 

 of Dennis Brothers, in the vicinity of Dlghton, 

 in Osceola county. 



Saginaw Valley. 



C. S. Bliss of Saginaw isn't going to operate 

 his mill this season. Last year he manufac- 

 tured 2,827,000 feet of hardwood lumber at the 

 mill. During the winter he operated a large 

 portable sawmill at Butman, Gladwin county, 

 cutting out 3,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 which will come out by rail to market. Mr. Bliss 

 does not think the hardwood market is just what 

 it should be and concluded not to pile up any 

 more stock until he has disposed of what he has 

 on hand. 



The Bliss & Van Auken sawmill started last 

 week running day and night. The company is 

 getting logs by rail from the Mackinaw division 

 of the Michigan Central. 



The Wyfie & Buell Lumber Company is being 

 overwhelmed with logs. The firm report busi- 

 ness good. They have sold a lot of maple to 

 be cut and say that dry hardwood is all out of 

 the hands of manufacturers while green stock 

 is being called for. 



W. D. Young says that business is good and 

 prices of maple flooring have brightened up. He 

 is not only keeping his own plant in operation 

 but is furnishing logs for the Flood mill. Young 

 & Co. are shipping maple abroad right along. 



Walter McCormick of the McCormick & Hay 

 Lumber Company, which deals in hardwood ex- 

 clusively, reports business just fair in their 

 line. A year ago Mr. McCormick was dying 

 with Bright's disease, but he is now practically 

 well. The firm has a yard at Saginaw. 



S. L. Eastman has bought a big block of maple 

 lumber from the Kneeland-Bigelow Company of 

 Bay City, to be utilized for flooring purposes. 

 The latter firm are well satisfied with the con- 

 dition of the hardwood trade and report a good 

 demand for maple, beech and ash. There is 

 some birch manufactured on this river and it 

 is selling fairly well. 



The mill of the Ottawa Hardwood Company at 

 Tawas City is being overhauled and some needed 

 repairs are being made. The mill will start 

 next week, it is expected, with a full stock for 

 the season run. 



The mill of the Gale Lumber Company at 

 West Branch has shut down for temporary re- 

 pairs. It will resume operations in about two 

 weeks. 



S. S. Wilhelm returned to Saginaw Saturday 

 from a trip in the Southwest, mostly Arkansas 

 and Mississippi, where he bought a lot of white 

 oak for the export trade. He says he is having 

 an active demand for white oak and that prices 

 asked by manufacturers are high. 



The Superior Veneer & Cooperage Company of 

 Munising recently purchased of Detroit parties 

 the basswood and elm timber on eight townships 

 in Alger and Schoolcraft counties, the considera- 

 lion being $2S.O0O. It is planned to manufac- 

 ture the stock at Munising. 



Ross, Robinson & Co. of Bay City, who operate 

 a sawmill at Posen, have bought over 1,000,000 

 feet of logs in addition to the hardwood stock 

 they put in. 



Gardener, Peterman & Co. of Saginaw are to 

 erect a large stave and heading mill at Posen 

 this summer. It will be operated the year round 

 and the firm has enough stock to operate the 

 mill twenty years. 



Phillips & Seeley of Saginaw, extensive hard- 

 wood dealers, report trade just fair. Mr. Phil- 



