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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sent a man to Wildell, W. Va., to arrange for 

 cutting the lumber on its 12,000-acre tract. The 

 order will be delivered in New York. 



J. J. Linehan of the Lim-hau Lumber Com- 

 pany will spend a week in Kentucky and West 

 Virginia contracting hardwood from various 

 mills. 



A recent visitor in Pittsburg was Lewis Dos- 



ter, secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 



iation, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Doster was 



sizing up conditions in Pittsburs while enroute 



to points east. 



A. M. Turner Lumber Company reports a 

 brisk trade in hardwoods. Its chief complaint, 

 which by the way is common to many firms 

 just now, is slow shipments. The Turners say 

 that the mills are piled up with old orders and 

 in spite of their best efforts cannot get to work 

 on new bills. 



II. \Y. Ilenninger of the Reliance Lumber 

 Company is doing his share of the business in 

 oak and maple. He reports an advance of $2 

 per thousand on the best grade of dry oak and 

 says maple flooring is selling strong at pre- 

 vailing quotations. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber 

 Company is likely to lose the use of one hand 

 and possibly both from injuries in the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad wreck at Harrisburg. Ilis hands 

 were literally smashed, and, although they are 

 mending nicely, he may be a permanent cripple. 

 His limbs were also badly injured and he has 

 n piece of steel embedded in his forearm. 



large stock of maple in yard and is adding white 

 pine to it just now. 



The moving of the office of Scatcherd & Son 

 to Ellicott Square adds one more to the hard- 

 wood offices in the business district. The yard 

 is to be kept up as before and reports some 

 good Pennsylvania stock on hand. 



C. H. Stanton is now so far recovered from 

 his late illness that he has made short visits 

 to the office lately, though he will not be able 

 to return to business right away. 



Buffalo. 

 Taylor & Crate are just beginning to ship 

 oak this way from their new mill in Mississippi. 

 It appears to be good stuff, for a single car 

 so took the eye of the buyer that half a dozen 

 more cars were sold on it. 



II a Stewart found the mills on his late 

 southern trip pretty badly handicapped by high 

 water, but was able to get hold of quite a good 

 lot of stock that he wanted, most of it oak. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company always 

 buys large quantities of logs in the Ohio river 

 district and has lately set up a tally system 

 that shows every buyer's purchase, so it i> 

 to find who buys the best logs. 



G. Elias & I!ro. arc taking care of a lot of 

 yellow pine that came up by canal, but was 

 delayed a long time by the break. The firm's 

 timber yard is kept up as usual. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 still strong on oak, thanks to the company's 

 Tennessee mills, which will have still more busi- 

 ness to do if the negotiation for another timber 

 tract goes through. 



A. Miller has gone into cherry considerably of 

 late, but still 'finds room and time to take care 

 of the regular hardwood list that he carries as an 

 all-round stock. 



H. S. Janes is apparently to be the Buffalo 

 authority in the Empire Lumber Company, as 

 I'. W. Vetter goes back to the Arkansas mills 

 of the company as soon as he disposes of any 

 urgent business that may need his attention 

 here. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are handling a lot of Oregon 

 fir and spruce along with their lake hardwoods 

 and find that there is a ready sale for it. 



O. E. Yeager has a new and very speedy 

 automobile this season and is able to sell hard- 

 1 lumber easily enough to make up the extra 

 draft the "machine" makes on him. 



M. M. Wall is just back from the Adirondacks, 

 where the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company 

 Is beginning to load out its first dry cut of 

 birch, which is of very fine quality. 



The three hardwood yards at North Tona- 

 wanda are all very active. W. II White & Co. 

 are sending an extra amount of maple and 

 hemlock to the yard. L. A. Kelsey is just back 

 from his trip to bis Indian Territory oil fields 

 and has : < argoes of elm, maple and 



basswood. The Lewis Sands Company has a 



Detroit. 

 Detroit hardwood lumber shippers are expe- 

 riencing softer vessel rates, which has been an 

 advantage to the larger dealers who have their 

 own docks. The early opening of the season 

 with more lumber moved has caused a skirmish- 

 ing for cargoes by the vessel owners. 



W. W. Kelly of Brownlee & Co. is visiting the 



sawmill points on Lake Superior, from which 



firm obtains much of its products. He 



touches Munlsing, Marquette and Duluth. He 



will take ten days for the trip. 



The Yeomans Lumber & Box Company, oper- 

 ating two box factories in this city, has sold 

 their Milwaukee Junction plant to W. H. Grigg, 

 also a boxmaker, who formerly operated a small 

 plant. The consideration was about tfS.iKiu. 

 The box factories of Detroit use a large quan- 

 tity Of basswood and other low grade hardwoods. 

 <,rlgg will operate the Milwaukee Junction 

 plant on independent i 



The raising of the hull of the old steamer 

 Greyhound at the foot of Orleans street will 

 restore certain valuable docking privileges to 

 the Detroit Lumber Company. 



The Humphrey Bookcase Company is now oc- 

 cupying the quarters recently vacated by J. C. 

 Wldman & Co. Their Chicago headquarters are 

 at 1319 Michigan avenue. They are large users 

 ardwood. 

 Hardwood floors, oak and maple, are to be 

 1 In the city hall at a cost of $3,000. This 

 building is now being remodeled. 



A $2,000 loss covered by insurance was occa- 

 sioned by fire in the planing mill of the Nlchol- 

 3on Manufacturing Company. June 2. 



Bert McClurc of the MeClure Lumber Com- 

 pany goes to Eutaw, Ala., for ten days to super- 

 intend the erection of a new sawmill at that 

 point. The mill will cost about $25,000. The 

 company recently acquired a large tract of hard- 

 wood in that part of Alabama. The McClure 

 Lumber Company has recently sold one of its 

 lumber yards to George Moreley, who has an- 

 other yard just opposite this one. The McClures 

 say it will be their policy to sell more hardwood 

 lumber direct from the mill. 



The Vint ny, large hardwood interior 



finishers and decorators, have so much business 

 under way that they were compelled to turn 

 down a $14,000 job on a fourteen story office 

 building in Pittsburg. The work which they 

 nave on hand or which has just been com- 

 pleted follows : 



New York Telephone building, fifteen stories. 



of the hardwood lumber came 



from M. E. Stark & Co., Memphis, Tenn. ; a 



$250, apartment house, for W. E. D. Stokes 



in New York ' east wing of new addition 

 to Detroit post (10,841; Pasadena apart- 

 ments, now half finished, at $140,000 for ln- 

 r finish; Detroit Stove Company, new offices 

 and storeroom. $40,000; Henry Stephens' resi- 

 dence, si:,. tor hardwood finish; Arithometer 



Company's new offices, $41,000; North Wood- 



i m E. ' ' si ii.OOO; art studio for 



Charles L. Freer, fine hardwood finish in oak, 



in rear of his residence, 33 Ferry ave- 



nue; school a: Grosse Polnte, $16,000; three 

 500-foot frelghtei e, "tie at the Great Lakes En- 

 gineering Company and two at the Detroit Ship- 

 building Company. The Vinton Company placed 

 mahogany cabins on the steamer Amasa E. Stone 

 at a cost of $25,000. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 The street railway strike in Bay City and 

 Saginaw has temporarily unsettled business and 

 there is apprehension that if it is continued 

 other interests v. ill be affected and trade de- 

 moralized. 



Building operations here on an extensive scale 

 call for a large quantity of hardwood lumber. 

 W. D. Young stated today that his eastern rep- 

 resentative reports an increased demand for 

 hardwoods of all kinds and the conditions are 

 very satisfactory. Mr. Young is running his 

 plant day and night and the sawmill of 

 J. J. Flood is also cutting maple for W. D. 

 Young 4: Co. Later Mr. Flood has contracted 

 to do some sawing for Sailing, Hanson & Co. 

 of Grayling. 



S. G. M. Gates says that while maple flooring 

 is bringing s;; a thousand more than last year 

 manufacturers are indisposed to pay as much 

 for the rough maple lumber as last year, and 

 that sales have been made at $1 below last 

 year's prices. On the other hand, there is a very 

 good demand tor maple and some firms report 

 doing a satisfactory business and getting as 

 good prices as prevailed last year. 



Frank Buell, of the Wylle & Buell Lumber 



Company, says that business is brisk and his 



D experieni es no difficulty in placing the 



goods at satisfactory prices. The company is 



cutting out a lot of line maple. 



Work is progressing rapidly on the new maple 



ng factor] of the Kerry & Hanson Flooring 



ny at Grayling, and it is expected that 



it will be ready t" operate in July. Mr. Kerry, 



wn0 : ile stock at Saginaw, bad it 



manufactured bj Bliss .Y Van Auken in order 



ipply his trade until the new plant at Gray- 



in position to take care of business. The 



latter plaut has a fine stock of maple on hand 



and will have a steady run the year through. 



\ c. White Is carrying a line stock of bass- 

 wood. The Km and-Bigelovi Company is cut- 

 ting basswood for Mr. White, who will take 



about all the good stock th mpanj cuts out. 



M. I'. Gale of the Gale Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, hardwood manufacturers at West Branch, 

 has been in uppei Michigan looking over a large 

 tract of hardwood timber with the view of pur- 

 chasing, as the company has only another sea- 

 sous cut on its lands in Ogemaw county. 



The S. L. Eastman flooring factory at Carroll- 

 ton has had a very satisfactory business thus 

 far this season. The company is having some 

 maple manufactured ai Baj I ny sawmills and 

 will handle several milliou feet this year. 



The Bliss & Van Auken hardwood sawmill 

 aad maple flooring plant have been actively em- 

 ployed, the sawmill being operated day and 

 night. The firm is enjoying a satisfactory trade. 

 The Mei ■■iriuiek Hay Lumber Company reports 

 a reasonably g 1 business. This concern han- 

 dles bardv. lively and although it estab- 

 lished a yard and business at Saginaw last 

 year it has done much more business than could 

 been expected under the conditions. The 

 volume of business is steadily increasing. 



The BrigL-s ,V Cooper Lumber Company is do- 

 ing a good local business in hardwoods and is 

 also handling a large quantity of southern oak, 

 having contracts with large eastern furniture 

 firms which call for oak. The company is also 

 handling a large quantity of maple, elm, ash 

 and other hardwood stock. 



The Stephens Lumber Company at Waters, on 

 the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central, 

 which is cutting about 10,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber this season, Is having a new band 

 saw outfit put In, manufactured by the Garland 

 Manufacturing c.mpany of Bay City. 



Grand Rapids. 

 The state has been deluged with rains during 

 the past week, causing washouts innumerable 

 on all railroads and paralyzing freight and pas- 

 senger traffic for several days. This condition 



