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Westmoreland, Greene and Fayett nties with 



oak and other w Is tha( are known to thrive 



well in this section where formerly there were 

 prosperous coal mines. This timber will be used 

 for pit posts and ties and it is estimated that 

 within fifty years the saving t" the company 

 will he enormous. No company in the United 



states is a chisel observer of nomies and no 



concern is hetter able to carry ou1 such a gigan- 

 tic experiment which will be watched with the 

 est interest hy Lumbermen all over the coun- 

 try. The coal atol coke companies of the Pitts- 

 burg district have i ii greatly worried for peat 



over the rapid depletion of the timber which they 

 use most, and if this experiment proves SUCi 

 ini oilier companies an- sure to follow. 



HARDWOOD RE7CKD 



Buffalo. 

 A very enjoyable Hoo-Hoo concatenation 

 was held here bj Vicegerent Snark A. .1 

 Chestnut on tin 15th followed next day bj a 

 river party. The following new meal 

 wen admitted: Charles C. Slaght, .1. Leo 

 r,i. Jarvls s. McCrea, Lee A. Gelintlan, 

 Frank M. Jobson, Ned II. Walcott, all of 

 Buffalo; l'i. ili rick II. Loud of Au Sable. Mich.: 

 George II Hufford of Philadelphia About a 

 hundred members and their v uded. 



Tli, nine of I. N Stewart heat that of M. M. 



Wall in Hie ball game 



A. W. Kreinheder of the Standard Hard- 

 wood Lumber Compans made a shorl trip to 

 the company's Tennessee mills lately, as he 



options on timber tracts there, but • 

 horn.- lo wait until the yellow fever scare is 

 over. 



F W Vetti r Is anxious to -• t bai k to the 

 Arkansas mills of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany. He finds sufficient work for him here 

 until the quarantine is rati ed 



Scatcherd & Son have one mill running in 

 Memphis, on some new timber recently bought. 



This Is by no means all that is wauled, as 



ii. ii> r 1 1 . , r . . i | " ictlve thai it is Im- 



bli in k'-tp much "f it on hand. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company will 

 begin the building ol the new sawmill in 



.Memphis as soon as travel is unrestricted. 

 Meanwhile tie ..nun member of the m-m 

 is taking a much-needed vacation in Canada. 

 G. Ellas & Bro ne just starting up theii 

 in w gas engine in the all-round mill at head 

 quarters, when they will be much better 

 oped for handling their house-supply b 



II. A. Stewart has been southward lately. 

 mainly in Pennsylvania, shipping in a lot ol 

 cherry for his Arm, which is keeping up Its 



: - i stoek and excellent reputation for 



that special sort of lumber. 



Southern hardw i . oak, poplar ami i I 



inn. are coming up hy rail to take the place 

 • it stock sold lately by A. Miller, who is look- 

 Ing for a good fail trade in all departments ol 

 his business. 



.1 B. Wail has not returned from the Ottawa 

 meeting of the National Wholesale Lumbei 

 Dealei i m la i inn, inn js taking a short 



outing in the viclnit} ot Montreal. 



II K. Taylor of Taylor & I 'rate has g to 



i-hirop ■ for two ..] line, months. Tim office 



rts i - I run of oak from Mis I sippi, 



the ft not havil hed the com- 



pany's mill there. 

 i ' E, Feager finds this month Letter than 

 illy all his hardwood sales and 

 will expect still better business as the fall 



the company will begin active operations at 



New River this season. Mr. Snyder was for- 



S with tin- McGraws in Bay City. 



Edward Germain, the Saginaw piano builder. 



says business is good. He imports quantities 



• it mahogany from South Africa and has it 

 sawed a( May City. Michigan hardwoods also 



• nt.r largely into the construction of his in- 

 struments. It is only a few years ago that 

 he embarked in the manufacture of pianos 

 Recognizing the fact that the pine of the 

 Northwest was rapidly being exhausted, he 

 felt that, with the ample supply of hardwoods 

 available, he could make m y in the manu- 

 facture ..f pianos, and he says that he was 

 not mistaken. 



Walter I >. V ig, W. I >, Young .v.- Co., 



Baj City, is on the road much of the time. 

 He has just returned from Cleveland, and is 

 more than pleased with conditions in the 

 maple flooring business. Mis concern is manu- 

 facturing 7". Let of flooring a day, running 



two shifts, and puts out a large quantity of 

 hardwood lumber besides. This year they are 

 cutting til. considerable oak, for which there 

 is an active demand. There is a good demand 

 for flooring, both for the domestic and tin 

 foreign trad. \V. I> Young .v.- Co. will stlpph 



the ti Ing tor the factory to be erected by 



Myers & Co., at Albany, x. Y.. which will 

 ,;.|ing that r.-eeiith collapsed, 

 Ing the death and injury of a number of 

 persons. 



Sidney I.. Eastman, of the S. L. Eastmai 

 Flooring Company, Saginaw, sa>s that the 



• t. m. in, t re flooring continues good and prices 



• ii factory. This concern will handle about 



8, P . i ol hai.lw 1 this year. 



lie r.pair work on the plant of the lvnee- 

 land-Blgelow Company ii Bay City is pro- 

 ,ng rapidly ami the mill will resume 

 ii ti.- beginning of next month, 

 t rank Buell, ,.t the Wylie & Buell Lumbei 

 Company, Baj i recently purchased ol thi 



It ..ii Works of Duluth a McGlfford 

 i in log loader, which has been put in opera- 

 te. u m the woods Meal Wolverine. Where he is 



itlng camps. The company receives two 



and flu,, tram loads of logs every day. 



It is expected that the usual quantltj ol 



liinlw I logs will I ut during the fall ami 



i months ' !has Woods, a vi teran log. 



ti 'ti • ut about 6, feci in Gladwin 



and Ogemaw counties for Bay Cltj parties 

 The dale Lumbei Company at West Branch 

 will clean up its lumber operations In that 

 vicinity In anoth, t t ai 



Stephen F Derrj ,v Co. of Millersburg havi 

 I ii ..perilling three sawmills In thai vicinity. 



' have manul tured 1,600,0 'eel of hard- 

 wood fins s.as. .ii, and have finished the CUt. 

 Mi Derrj says the tiriii has enough hardwood 



m Alpena, Cheboygan, Presque Isle, and othet 

 northern countie! to keep the mills busy the 

 next twenty years. They have sold their out- 

 put ol hardw t «nii He exception of bass- 

 wood, which is ralher slow for log run. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 I W. Snyder, manager of the New River 

 Lumber Company, New River, Tenn., which 



build a sawmill and logging operations 



fifteen miles from New River, was in 



last week, and from here wont on i" 



the Pacini coast tor the purpose of Inspecting 



handling device. It is expected that 



Grand Eapids. 

 login young farmers of Salem township. 

 All.gan county, are interested in growing 

 hardwood timber on waste pine lands in that 

 section. The LOCUSt Forestry Company has 

 been formed, with Norman P.ond as president 

 and Silas I.owe as secretary and manager. 

 Forty acres of pine land has- been secured, 

 from which tie limber was removed about 

 years ago. It has since been burned 

 over, but in places oak, hickory, cherry and 

 other varieties of trees have sprung up and 

 growing rapidly. In the deeply charred 

 places black locust will be planted for post 

 timber. Three thousand locust seedlings were 

 Planted last spring and the majority of them 

 have made over eight inches growth already. 

 Black cherry and other varieties will be 

 planted. 



I'll, new maple II -ing mill of Ward Bros. 



Big Rapids started operations Aug. 22. 

 The buildings cover an acre of land, and are 

 so arranged that the log enters at one end 

 of the plant, makes a circuit, and comes out 

 .11 the same side, finished flooring. The ca- 

 pacity is 25,000 feet every ten hours, and tin 

 warehouses will store 2,000.000 feet. Dixon Ai 

 Dewey of New- York have contracted for a 

 portion of the output. 



Mrs. Julia E. Hackley, widow of the late 

 i 'uas. H. Hackley, Muskegon's great philan- 

 thropist, died Aug. 21 at her home in that 

 city, after a long illness. Through the pro- 

 visions of her husband's will Mrs. Hackley was 

 hit about one-half an estate valued at $7.- 



100, though only about one-half this sum. 



i .000, was left her absolutely to will or 



dispose of as she saw fit. Mr. and Mrs. Hack- 

 I \ were married in 1S64 and an adopted son 

 ami daughter survive them. 



The plant of the l.inderman Manufacturing 

 Company ai .Muskegon is being enlarged and 

 improved. The company turns out dovetail- 

 ing machines 



Minneapolis. 



An addition has been made to the ranks of 

 the hardwood dealers here in the person of A. S 

 Bliss, who lor some years has been located at 

 Indianapolis as representative of the Advance 

 Lumber Company of Cleveland, O. Mr. Bliss 

 becomes associated with K. I'ayson Smith, local 

 wholesaler of southern pine and hardwoods. The 

 two were boyhood comrades. -Mr. Bliss' father. 

 G. W. Bliss, was i he partner ,,l' M. I'uyson Smith, 

 Sr., in the Southern Pump Company at Nashville. 

 '1'enti.. for some years and the younger generation 

 were thrown together much, and have always 

 kepi up the acquaintance. Mr. Bliss shares Mi'. 

 Smith's office at -417 Andrus Building, and will 

 handle a line of Wisconsin hardwoods, Tennessee 

 red cedar, white pine, Idaho and Montana pine. 



As far as names are concerned, there are now 

 two Dromios in the hardwood trade at Minne- 

 apolis. For two years past A. S. Bliss has been 

 located here as representative of the R. Connor 

 Company of Marshllehl. Wis., and the arrival of 

 another A. S. Bliss has rather complicated 

 things. The two have been exchanging mail for 

 Bevera] days and getting on a working basis, and 

 it will he easier when the correspondents of 

 A. S. I'.liss, No. '2. have secured his office an 

 dress. 



( '. I'. Osborne of Osborne & Clark. Minneapolis 

 wholesalers, reports au improvement in demand 

 'I he retail yards are taking considerabe hard 

 v\..,.,i, especially maple flooring, which is moving 

 well, ii'" imal factories are in the market since 



new oak he- i a offered, and are buying it 



freely. The supply of northern oak is light, how 

 ever, and at the present rate will not last many 

 months. The factories are taking considerable 

 birch, as the time has come when city building 

 i demanding dellverj of interior finish con- 

 t racted for. 



1. 1'. l.eniian of I. 1'. I.ennan & Co. reports au 

 Improved demand, but a scarcity of stock, which 

 hampers operations in northern woods. Oak 

 mill birch are selling readily, but basswood is 

 noi as iiiiuli wanted here as In the past and is 



1 :if her weak 



W. II. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany is absent on an extended business trip 

 through Illinois, Indiana and Iowa and will visit 

 St. Louis before his return. P. R. Hamilton of 

 the same company has just returned from Wis 

 consln, where he found the general condition one 

 of light stocks, especially with regard to oak. In 

 tact, northern oak stocks do not amount to any 

 thing and will soon go, as there Is a good de- 

 mand from the factories. The general demand 

 for hardwood Is somewhat better thnn It has 

 been for some weeks, and the Inquiry indicates 

 that it Is going to continue to improve. 



A II Barnard and I'. W Strickland of Bar- 



