HARDWOOD RECORD 



JOHN N. SCATCHERD. DIRECTOR, SCATCH- 

 ERD & SON, BUFFALO. 



old lead in east bound water traffic and add 

 .; ag mii to the « astern bu i lake. 



When the lumbei of the vicinity which was 

 Used for the building Of the early town 

 exhausted, small craft brought it from the 

 shores of Lake Eric, in Canada, Ohio and 

 Michigan. Oak dealers depended for awhile 

 largely on the excellent -tock to be had from 

 Sandusky, and though that source of supplj 

 out some time ago, there is more coming 

 in from Michigan of the cheaper grades of 

 oak and "i ash, elm, birch maple anil bass 

 wood than ever before. As the white pini 

 disappeared, there u;^ usually a considerable 

 amount nf hanlw I left that have been over- 

 looked bj the pine cutters. Buffalo, being 

 the lower end of the water route, became the 

 natural depot oi this hardwood, as it had 

 long been of white pine. 



When it was 11 that there must be more 



hardwood to make the city the eastern 

 quarters of all varieties of hardwood, there 



O. E. JEAGER, TREASURER, BUFFALO. 



was enterprise and capital ei gh in the city 



to lay tin south and thi southwest under 

 direct • ont i ibut ion. It w as as a pioneer in 

 this undertaking that F. \\ Taylor of I ' 

 lor & Crate spent his last .lays, going down 

 the Ohio and not stopping short of the 

 Gulf state-. He was sonn followed by others, 

 Seatcherd & Son located at Memphis, and 

 afterwards bought great tract- of timberland 

 wesi oi the Mississippi. Young lumbermen, 

 who had been connected with the latter firm, 

 pushed out mi their own account, and 

 we i" iii Hugh McLean and his brothers 

 setting up mills in several southwestern 

 states. The Empire Lumber Company and 



the Buffalo Hardw 1 Lumber Company are 



operating their own mills west of the Mis- 

 pi and have (or some time controlled or 

 operated mill- south of the Tennessee. No 

 sooner had it. K. Veager established his own 

 yard than he formed a company in Kentiek\ 

 for inning hardwoods. The Standard Hard- 



J. B. WALL. BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER 

 COMPANY, BUFFALO. 



wood Lumber Company has its own mills in 

 Tennessee. I. X. Stewart & Bro., though for 

 .1 time routining their operations mainly to 

 Pi nn-ylvania cherry, are now boa-ting also of 

 oak from the far south, and A. Miller i- 

 no longer content to buy southern hardwood, 

 but will soon have a tract of his own. G. 

 Elias >v Bro. air best known a- jobbers, but 

 they handle a wide range of lumber from all 

 pa it.- of the countrj . 



And so it happens that while Buffalo is 

 the greatest eastern hardwood lumber depot, 

 entering last winter's season with a stork oi 

 75,000,000 feet, its dealers naturally find that 

 there i- in in merely laying down 



lumber here to be handled again. They 

 -ell a- much as possible 1 for direel 

 delivery and handled 400,000,000 feet in that 

 way la-t year. 



First Session, Thursday, May 18. 



The opening session of the convention was 

 held in Hie convention hall of the Iroquois 



\1 M WALL, BUFFALO HARDWOOD 1,1'MIIER 

 [PANY, BUFFALO. 



THOMAS H. WALL, BUFFALO HARDWOUD 

 LUMBEI) COMPANY, BUFFALO. 



I ACE C. MILLS. TAYLOR & CRATE, 



BUFFALO. 



