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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Babcock Lumber Company reports a big 

 demand for maple flooring. The firm is having 

 a busy season and is not after the big orders, 

 which have to be taken often by cutting prices. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company la cutting 

 50,000 feet of oak, poplar and chestnut at its 

 mill at Point Marion, Pa. It reports a big de- 

 mand for sound wormy chestnut, and a scarcity 

 of hickory. R. H. Herbertson has returned 

 from a long trip through the South, where he 

 arranged for the output of several mills. 



C. D. Woollett, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company, has contracted for the output 

 of two mills in West Virginia. They will fur- 

 nish a total of 3,000.000 feet of white oak. The 

 ' company in the last ten days has sold over 

 2,500,000 feet of oak dimension stuff. Business 

 In hardwoods is reported 50 per cent better 

 than a month ago. 



Buffalo. 



The local lumbermen were so busy before and 

 during the convention of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association that they almost for- 

 got business for the time being. The visitors 

 found Buffalo suffering from bad weather and a 

 backward season, but in the best possible con- 

 dition industrially. All business is active and 

 generally satisfactory. 



Anthony Miller is getting a nice lot of cherry 

 from Pennsylvania to add to some good ship- 

 ments from the South. These will all be rounded 

 out by lake cargoes in a short time. 



Scatcherd & Son are again located uptown, 

 having moved the entire office force and equip- 

 ment to Ellicott square. The yard is receiving 

 oak from Ohio and other hardwoods from 

 Pennsylvania. 



Tlir friends of C. II. Stanton welcome the 

 news that he is now well on the road to recov- 

 ery, though the pneumonia attack that fol- 

 lowed his accident appears to have done its 

 worst. 



A. J. Elias is again- moving in the navigable 

 river project and believes more than ever that 

 he will yet see lake vessels at his yard front. 

 The mill is very active. 



The good business In the yard of O. I Sfi 

 turns on oak and poplar largely, with a good 

 ing of ash, scarce as it is. The monthly 

 footing has been large right al 



A. \Y. Kiciuheder is moving into his new 

 house in the I'arkside district, and lie will 

 shortly take up the matter of a trip south In 

 the special interest of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company. 



There is a good report made of the move- 

 ment of oak by Taylor & Crate, who are doing 

 a large amount of shipping direct from the 

 southern mills, and are as active as ever at 

 home. 



The cherry stock of I. N. Stewart & Bro. 

 is still the strong point in that yard, but the 

 late arrival of plain oak has been distributed, 

 so great is the demand for stock. 



I'. W. Vetter made a flying visit to the Arkan- 

 sas mills of the Empire Lumber Company, and 

 was bar], I,, the convention. With all the extra 

 work projected tl , i unning i he nulls and add- 

 ing to road, he will be busier than ever. 



Detroit. 

 Those well posted on conditions say that this 

 year's build ild show an In- 



ear, when about 

 $6,00O,UMi i «as put into new buildings. These 

 operal been conilned to no special 



section inn have been general throughout the 

 city. 



A. M Salliotte,. one of the most prominent 

 lumb> i the Detroit river, ami first 



citizen of ' L9 at the Detroit 



an operation to 

 the base of the brain. Mr. 



Salliotte was born in August, 1S37, in what 

 was then Grandpointe, but now known as 

 Ecorse. He entered the general lumber busi- 

 ness in 1S83 and became senior member of the 

 Arm of Salliotte & Furgason, accumulating an 

 estate valued at $200,000. He also became head 

 of the firms of Salliotte & Roup, and of Chit- 

 tenden, Salliotte & Ormsby. all with interests 

 extending over the entire state. 



Land Commissioner Rose of Michigan on May 

 10 sold all the state lands in one township of 

 Crawford county to Sailing, Hanson & Co. of 

 Grayling for about $5,000. The tow-nship is 

 that which includes Portage Lake. 



The Central Lumber Company of Detroit has 

 filed articles of association with an authorized 

 capital of $15,000 and a paid-in capital of 

 $9,000. The stockholders are Michael J. Thie- 

 son, Richard J. Matheson and Herbert C. Hitch- 

 cock. 



Members of the Detroit Retail Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association are keen on competition, but 

 they also know how to nut aside business mat- 

 ters and enjoy a good time. Last week forty 

 of them gathered at the Russell House, where 

 a complimentary dinner was tendered Edwin L. 

 Thompson, president of the Detroit Lumber 

 Company, for bis work in advancing the inter- 

 ests of the association. After the dinner a 

 surprise was sprung on J. J. Comerford, presi- 

 dent of the association, who was presented with 

 a beautiful silver service. 



The Thomas Formau Lumber Company is 

 getting in a large amount of maple by vessel 

 and the flooring factory Is running at its full 

 capacity. 



The Dwlght Lumber Company will hereafter 

 receive all its hardwood lumber by rail, having 

 leased Its docks to another company. 



Brownlee & Co. report an excellent eastern 

 demand, especially I'm' thick maple, of which this 

 Arm makes a specialty. The company is also put- 

 ting in a heavy stock of soft elm and is placing 

 considerable three-inch in Hie New England 

 mark' i Phexe Is great activity on the Brown- 

 aocks, six large cargoes having already ar- 

 rive.] this season. 



C. W. Worcester, "i Chicago, who has heavy 



hardw I luml 'i interests in the Oppi c I 



sula, was a recent visitor, 



Saginaw Valley. 



The Knceland-Bigelow Company Is cutting 

 from G5,000 to 90,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 on a double shift. This is one of the perma- 

 nent industries of Bay City, as the Arm has 

 enough timber in sight to run the mill twelve 

 years. Twenty cars of logs reach the mill daily 

 Montmorency county, where the company 

 is running two camps. The company is cuttl 

 a block of maple for the S. L. Eastman Floor- 

 ing Company, having sold something like 2,500,- 

 000 feet to the latter concern, and the basswi 6 

 cut goes to A. C. While, the "basswood king." 

 who is handling about .'..miO.OOO feet this year. 

 The company also cuts up a lot of beech which 

 is used for screen doors, wood pulleys and 

 flooring. 



W. D. Young & Co. is said to be the 

 largest maple flooring manufacturer in Mich- 

 igan. This concern cuts about 10,000, feet 



annually, 75 per cent i which goes to Europe. 

 The Thomas Forman Company of Detroit has 

 teen cutting a little less than Young & Co.. 

 but the plant of the former is to be increased 

 to about 12,000,000 rapacity, Sailing, Hanson & 

 Co. having become Identified in the concern to 

 the extent of stocking it. 



The Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company is 

 building a maple flooring plant at Grayling 

 which will be in operation in July, with a 

 iiy of lO.Oiiii. lo 12,000,000 feet. 



White Bros, at Boyne City are erecting a 

 maple flooring plant with a yearly capacity of 



in. feet, anil bue mi, oiii) a.res of hard- 



w I limber in draw supplies from. 



Bliss & Van Auken are manufacturing about 



5,000,000 feet a year at Saginaw, and the S. 

 L. Eastman Flooring Company is making about 

 7,500,000 feet. The Haak Lumber Company at 

 Haakwood, en the Mackinaw division of the 

 Michigan Central, is also manufacturing maple 

 flooring. 



J. J. Flood is cutting hardwood lumber for 

 W. D. Young & Co. and has a contract to 

 cut a few million feet for Sailing, Hanson & 

 Co. Mr. Flood manufactured 3,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood during the winter for Sailing, Hanson 

 & Co., which is now being shipped by rail to 

 customers in the east. 



The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company plant 

 Is cutting hardwood stock, some of which has 

 been sold. The mili is cutting about 50,000 

 feet a day. 



The Campbell-Brown Lumber Company is cut- 

 ting hardwood stock for S. L. Eastman and is 

 running steadily. 



The McCormiek-IIay Lumber Company, com- 

 posed of W. J. McCormick and Will Hay, estab- 

 lished a hardwood yard at Saginaw last De- 

 cember. This concern had been operating at 

 Little Rock but concluded to return to Sag- 

 inaw, although maintaining interests In the 

 south. Mr. McCormick stated the other day 

 that the company is doing fully as good as 

 expected and that there is a very satisfactory 

 trade. 



The Gale Lumber Company at West Branch 

 has enough timber to run Its plant this year 

 and about live months another year. This com- 

 pany has had a very successful run. It bought 

 several thousand acres of hardwood timber a 

 few years ago of D. Wright & Co., the con- 

 sideration being something like $35,000. The 

 company will sell the land after the timber is 

 removed for as much as it paid for the entire 

 tract al the outset, and Is taking off something 

 like 10,000,1 feel of limber annually. 



Lasl year C. S. IUiss cut 2.S27.000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber at the Saginaw mill and 3,000.- 

 i on feel during the winter at a large portable 

 mill in Gladwin county. 



Peters a s as are erecting a small hardwood 

 mill at Smith Siding. Gladwin county, where 

 ibey have bought 2 I ;htcs of hardwood tim- 

 ber land. 



I.. I'. Hale Is to build a hardwood mill of 



20, feet daily capacity at Chatham. Alger 



mi. « here he has acquired timber holdings. 



If conditions work out favorably Mr. Hale will 

 develop his Industry Into a more extensive hard- 

 wood manufacturing plant. 



Grand Rapids. 



A. Gibbs of Gibbs & Hall, wholesale dealers 

 in Michigan hardwoods, was here last week. 

 lie reports having finished the hardwood cut 

 f.ir .Mis. J. C. Gibbs at MayAeld. 



W. O. Hughart, Jr., will spend the summer 

 in Europe. 



Walter Tillotson of Tillotson & Hobler, a 

 hardwood lumber inspector of Petoskey, spent 

 a day in the market last week. He was on his 

 mi in attend the Buffalo convention. 



E. E. Dennis of Dennis Bros, has returned 

 from an eastern trip and reports that business 

 prospects are pleasing at Buffalo. Boston and 

 throughout the east. He says that sales have 

 been large at the Arm's Tonawanda yards. 



Grand Rapids was represented by the follow- 

 ing dealers at the Buffalo meeting : A. L. 

 Dennis of Dennis Bros., B. R. Thompson of the 

 Thompson Lumber Company, George Engel of 

 the Ene/el Lumber Company, George Wilkinson of 

 the Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Company 

 and H. Schneider of the Dudley Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Walter C. Winchester has returned from an 

 ■ \ii oiled trip abroad. 



The Central Paper Company of Muskegon Is 



installing a mill at Delf, In Mackinac county. 



with a daily capacity of 50,000 feet. It will 



ini oil about July 15, cutting hardwood, pine, 



hemlock, spruce and tamarack. 



