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HARDWOOD RECORD 



read; than it has ever booked in that month 

 before. It is pushing work to the limit at its 

 plant at Kendall, Mil. 



The Pittsburg Lumber Company is doing a fine 

 less in hemlock for house building. Most "f 

 goes up the Monongabela river to the big 

 manufacturing towns. 



William Whitmer ,fc Sons. Inc., of Philadelphia 

 will soon have a large new planing mill at Hor 

 ton, W. Va . completed. It is pushing all its 

 mills day and night and is badly in need of the 

 lumber which this new mill will cut. 



The following Pittsburg lumbermen are pre- 

 paring i" leave t he city August 15 to go to the 

 annual convention of tin- National wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association al Ottawa: A. M. 

 Turner. J. I- Kendall and \v. F Johnston with 

 their wives. .1. I!. Flint. .1. I.. Lytic. F. R. Mai. 

 cock, Edwin Eller, I: l >. Baker and I' W. Bus 

 kaufT. 



The much-hated locust, which has been of late 

 years regarded by Ohio and Pennsylvania farm 

 <-rs as a ureal nuisance, is coining into favor 

 again. Their forefathers planted locust trees 

 . thej would grow qnlck and afford shade 

 Later, when their spreading qualities be 

 b.iiei known, they were condemned. Now farm 

 i. letting them grow by the dozen t" be 



iis.il for fence posts, for which pun ■ ' 



will lasi a lifetime. 



The M. B. Fan-in Lumber Company, through 

 iis Pittsburg manager, Frank Nicholson, Is 



l i;,.,i ,,„ order for 80.000 feel i d oak 



Snoring for a hotel at Atlantic City. The Pin- 



Dn rg office of this firm is doing a rushing busl 



entury oak flooring anil also in poplar. 



Ihe Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., is selling 



more <i - than II i an turn out al its factoi 



(isbkosb. Wis. In the Pittsburg office the two 

 bin b door has much the best call The 

 company's doors are being put in all gradi 

 houses and they are commanding prices ''■ per 

 ..in higher than last year. 



.1. N. Woollen, manager of the hardw 1 de 



partmenl of the American Lumber \ Manufac- 

 turing Company, is making a thorough Inspei 

 1 1. ,ii of hardwood stocks ami conditions in West 

 Virginia and Kentucky, with a view to making 

 purchases. The company has bad one o 

 besl summers in Its history In the hardwood 

 bus ne. s. ami its bulk of orders now Indicates a 

 rousing good trade this fall. 



i w\ Ruskauff of ihe Kuskaiift' Lumber Com- 

 pany reports hemlock in very active demand 



: brisk call for oak. lb- predb ts ai usu 



allj ; I season this fall. 



Th« Cheal River Lumber Company continues 



lo have a big trade in .lieslinil. sound wormv 



being the leader w Ith most oi Its cusl rs 



.\ ,i Diebold esl Lumber i' pany 



i. on an extended trip through ihe Northwest. 



., i. Adams of the same company is off on a 



two weeks' vacation trip. 



Frank M. Graham reports a very g I 



ness in oak. mostly in the grades running from 



four to twelve quarter. The bulk Of his BBleS are 



White oak. anil mosl of li L'oes lo Ihe F.nffalo 



and New v.uk markets. His three mills al 



West Alexander, Pa., Woodland, w \ and 



Leechbnrg, Pa., are cutting ovet 50,000 feet a 



day, and mis is hardly enough to supply his 



trade, which is strong on hurry up orders. Mr. 



Graham recently bought forty-five aires of very 



in,,. „,ik limi.er in Washington county, Pennsyl 



vnnia. on the Wabash railroad, ami win pul In 



is fall. lie is getting oul a big 



quantity of mine supplies at his Wesl Virginia 



mill and recently shipped 10,000 Btreei car ties 



The l>ry Fork Lumber Company on the Dry 



Fork railroad in Wesl Virginia is making quite 



a town of Lanevllle, where it has over 500 men 



[ts big double band sawmill there Is 



,, fa 000 feel a day, a huge pari of it 



being oak and poplar. 



.1. W. Cornell reports an excellent call for 

 limber and bill stuff, much of which he Is 



selling on speeial contract work. Since I stab 



Ished offices in the Ferguson building Mi Co 



trell has worked up a good business in hard- 

 woods, especially building lumber. 



Buffalo. 



The Lumber Exchange on August 3 made the 

 well-worn but popular trip around Grand Island. 

 Buffalo lumbermen get together in this capacity 

 two or three times a season, and they are better 

 neighbors for it. The hardwood interests were 

 nearly all represented. Among the proprietors 

 present were : O. E. Yeager. I. N. Stewart. Hugh 

 Stewart, A. Miller. F. N. Sullivan. S. G. Taylor, 

 R. F Kreinheder. A. W. Kreinbeder, J. B. Wall. 

 F. W. Vetter, II. s. James. 



Timber tracts in the Memphis district that 

 are rich in oak are what Scatcherd .V Son are 

 looking for ; some good purchases have lately 

 been made. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company will soon 

 be established in Memphis, with a new sawmill 

 turning onl oak lumber. Angus McLean has 

 been giving much time to the Canadian business 

 of the company of late. 



Taylor ,y Crate are rilling up their dock yard 

 on the Niagara side of the city, finding it very 



convenient to ship lake hardw Is from that 



point. 



I. N. stew in a Pro. are finding cherry so 

 much mote active than It was early in the year 

 that they are giving special attention to locat- 

 ing it. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 brought up an unusual ainounl of oak and other 



bardw Is from the southern -ale of the Ohio 



river this yi 



A. Miller depends largely on West Virginia for 

 his oak and has a good lo! of n coming up from 

 there this summer, 



The poplar Hade is one of the specialties thai 

 ii. E. Yeager has always made much of since he 

 established Ids Flk street yard, A full line Is 

 always kept. 



F. W. Vetter goes back to Arkansas to look 

 after the Empire Lumber Company's business al 

 The location of the new in. lis is not yet 

 fixed. 



A W. Kreinheder is preparing lo make a trip 



I.. Tennes for Ihe Standard Hardwood Lumber 



Company, to close a deal for a lol of bardw I 



A. .1. CheStDUt, vicegerent sliark, holds ills 



• ■nation August 11. In Bplte of conflicting 

 and gives his Hoo Hoo people a river 

 party ihe next day. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Waller D. Young of Pay i LtJ has returned 

 from a business trip to Philadelphia and comes 

 back brim full of enthusiasm as to trade pros 



pectS He thinks thai the next lew nlhs will 



be busy ones in ihe hardwood business. He says 

 building operations are extensive and there is an 

 active demand for flooring, while prices are sat 

 Isfactory, Thej certainly/ should be. as the stuff 

 brings ale, in s:; a thousand more than It did 

 last year, and the trade Is taking nil that Is 

 produced. VV. I'. Young & Co.'s plant Is run- 

 ning day and night handling a large amount of 

 oak and ash. 



The Bliss A \ an Auken plant ,- L-etting a 

 train of logs a daj over '!»■ Michigan Central, 

 and the sawmill and flooring plant are actively 

 employed. Trade with the firm i-^ very good. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company will shut 

 down its sawmill next Saturda.v tor i wo weeks 

 tor repair- The mill lias been running day and 

 night nearly a year. It is proposed to put in a 

 new steel carriage and make some other needed 

 Improvements^ 



ihe Corn well Estate of Saginaw ami sailing, 

 Blanson & Co are reported to have a deal on for 



the formation of a pany t" take the Com 



well hardwood lands and mill up near Ihe 

 snails. The estale in question has some 12,000 



seres or more of what is Included in tin sf 



oi.- hardwood timber In the thern part 



of the stale. The Cornwell estale has I n cut- 

 ting several million feel annually, stly mixed 



timber, but the new proposition is strictly a 

 hardwood deal. 



Tite Haak Lumber Company of Ilaakwood 

 sold the bulk of its lands to the Wylie & 

 Ituell Lumber Company of Bay City, hut it kept 

 a few acres and has bought more, and is doing 

 a fine business in maple flooring. 



Sailing. Hanson & Co. of Grayling are ship- 

 ping hardwood logs to the Flood mill at Bay 

 city, where they are being manufactured. Prob- 

 ably 3.000,000 to 4. .into feet will be cut at 



this mill. 



C. II. Prescott & Sons of Tawas City are 

 operating a hardwood plant near Hose City, 

 cutting about 35,000 feet a day. 



The Gates sawmill at Bay City has been cut- 

 ting about 500.000 feet of ash for the McCor- 

 mick-Hay Lumber Company of Saginaw. Mr. 

 n.iies has also a lot of maple to manufacture. 

 His output altogether this season will approxi- 

 mate 7. '"III. 'Mill feel. 



Charles Woods is shipping hardwood logs from 

 Gladwin county to parties in Bay City, lie has 

 something over sixty train loads to move. 



Bousefield & Co of Saginaw take all the bass- 

 wood timber cut by the Wylie & Buell Lumber 

 Company It goes into woodenware. Tite Bouse- 

 field plant is said to be the most extensive in 

 the I niied Slates, employing about 350 hands 

 and turning oul an immense quantity of wooden- 

 ware The firm put in about 4,000,000 feet of 

 logs of their own last winter, which are railed 

 io Bay City, and they buy large quantities of 



Other parlies. 



The Ber-l Manufacturing Company of Sagi- 

 naw is getting maple and birch logs down over 

 Ihe Maekinaw division of the Michigan Central 

 by lb,- ira ii load and converting them into 

 toothpicks ami oilier specialties 



Grand Eapids. 



Thornton A. Green of Ontonagon, Professor 



Roth of Ann Arbor. Charles W. Garfield of this 

 city and other prominent friends of forestry in 

 the stale are working hard to secure a rousing 

 meeting in Grand Rapids, August L".i and 30, 

 when tin- Michigan Forestry Association will be 



h.rii, e,|. The organization of this body is as- 

 sured, for a charter membership of more than 

 a hundred representative men in this city and 

 of between 300 and 400 in the state has already 

 i a secured. Hon Gilford Plnchot, head of the 



national for. -si service, has been urged to be 

 present. Congressmen, senators. Governor War- 

 ner and other stale officials, members of the 

 State legislature, educators from the state uni- 

 versity and the agricultural college, lumbermen 

 and politicians have been invited. It Is intended 

 to cram the sessions full of business. The sub- 

 jects I" he considered will be, first, proper busi- 

 ness like action oi ihe state with regard to its 

 holdings oi unproductive land; second, bet- 

 ter protection of all kinds of forest property, 

 especially protection from fire: third, a reason- 

 able method of taxation of forest property, which 

 shall make investment in lands for the produc- 

 tion of timber attractive to capital. It Is esti- 

 mated that $100,000,000 of Michigan capital has 

 been invested outside of the state in the past 

 luicen years, simply because Michigan has been 

 Short of its timber. At the same time millions 

 of acres have been stripped of their forest cover 

 and remain in a denuded state, swept by con- 

 i bilious conflagrations and now an unproductive 

 waste. Hardly one third of Michigan laud is im- 

 proved and less than one-balf is actually set- 

 tled. The loss lo the state resulting from this 

 lack of Intelligent management amounts to at 



least sin. lain. From the front rank of the 



lumber producing districts of the world Michi- 

 uau has I, .-en removed, perhaps forever. Over 

 one half Ihe capital invested in lumbering has 

 left the slate in ihe past fifteen years. Today 

 we Import pine from California, cedar from 

 Washington, cypress and pine from the South. 

 Our furniture men have to go as far its Arkan- 

 sas. Tennessee and Mississippi for material that 

 should be grown at home. 



